I dunno, anyone who's managed to con their way into making $5.7 mil / year probably isn't an idiot.
A slimy, greedy jackass, perhaps, but probably not an idiot.
The advantage of Diablo was how long Blizz supported it with patches. What are the odds Bethesda will fix any balance issues discovered 6 months after release?
Agreed. I have a few professors that have tried this stunt and I'll let them have it if their class is super-interesting, but if I'm ever bored or have to sit through material I already understand for an hour while I could be working, I lower their rating at the end.
God, I wish my university would do this. We have 40MB account limits and professors routinely send out 10MB worth of attachments. Sure, you can forward it all to gmail (and who doesn't), but don't forget to delete your mail off the university's shitty server once a week or you'll get everything bounced!
I don't expect nerds to be excited about this one so of course we're going to see these "LOL CHROME IS LMAO" comments like below. But Chrome OS really is sufficient for what many people want to do with their computers. I don't think my mother could really tell the difference between a netbook with Chrome OS and one with Windows, except that the one with Chrome OS gets her to what she wants to do faster.
Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (from discarded circumcisions), that, when applied to chronic wounds (particularly nasty problems like diabetic sores), can seed healing and regeneration.
Yep. Most of the advantages Flash previously had (animation, real client-side programming) for making rich navigation interfaces are now possible in a more open way with Javascript. The libraries are still a bit of a mess and browser support is always iffy, but dynamic, animated HTML looks amazing in the latest versions of webkit.
It's hard to say. I think you could make an argument that for SMART, RESPONSIBLE people, they end up bearing most of the cost of raising children but society reaps most of the benefits. Part of the problem is that it's not easy to measure how much benefit a productive member of society adds, so you can't quantify any of the benefits but you CAN quantify all of the costs.
I don't really want to go through the hard work of making the argument, but I can say that when I look at raising kids, I see a lot of work and cost for me, and at the end there would be another productive member of society contributing economically or producing research or whatever he/she decides. Or I can just skip that whole thing, and spend the many hours and tens of thousands of dollars having fun.
If I just follow my incentives, I probably will never have children and society will never have another productive member. But is this the best outcome for society?
I'm not sure piracy is a good thing: the costs to society, especially in terms of legal enforcement, are immense. I hope it becomes irrelevant over time. Frankly I dunno why people are still so enamored of pirating music when there is so much GOOD stuff out there that's 100% free, legal, and sanctioned by the artists that you could listen to new music every moment of your life without spending a dime.
Music, like other types of creativity, is in a race to the bottom because there's so much more content available than people can possibly listen to in their entire lives. I guess the only reason the music industry hangs on while the newspaper and publishing industries are dying is because music is harder for people to substitute... they hear a song on the radio or whatever and become enamored with particular artists, but the same doesn't really happen for particular writers.
The obvious coming trend is for a larger and larger proportion of game code to be controlled by larger entities. Instead of buying games, you'll just buy a license to play which will connect via low-latency pipe to your local game company where they stream game content to you online via video or some other medium. Or much like WoW, you'll get a game client but the majority of the game code will remain on servers controlled by the distributor.
It's just easier to control piracy when you never actually release the game code.
What's really impressive about it is that it's able to make any sense at all out of the terrible obscenely band-limited quality most phone messages are. I'm sure they have to use a bunch of statistical techniques based on their observations of common english text (eg, was "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" really what that person was probably saying?) to have any hope of producing something close to the correct answer.
The current major cloud providers (Google and Amazon) both replicate your permanent data to multiple hard disks (Google: 3, not sure about Amazon) in multiple areas of the datacenter, and I know Google is looking at providing replication to different datacenters (which is more complex than replication in the same datacenter because of the time delay).
the community of people who read the paper were the organizations true main asset
Bingo. The same is true of many types of businesses including big blogs and sites like Slashdot. Marketers usually understand this, but it's an easy point to miss.
Most of the Dell and IBM servers I've used will let you get to the BIOS/GRUB over a serial console with some configuration, but I've never seen a desktop motherboard that would do it. If you really care about power consumption the easiest route is probably to buy a cheap, low-power itx board that has VGA built in and skip the console altogether. Plus, that way you don't need a laptop to talk to the box, just an old monitor.
Anyone know some tricks to get serial console to work with grub on a desktop mobo?
Well, trading speed for cost. Many supercomputers are about maximum performance and damn the expense, so it may be a reasonable tradeoff. With proper redundancy SSDs and hard disks are equally capable of long-term data integrity.
My perception has been that the cloud services (Amazon, Google, slicehost, mosso, etc) have realistic, sustainable per-unit costs whereas shared hosting outfits tend to have completely unrealistic cost assessments. They count on the fact that most people won't use their full quota because there's no way they could deliver what they promise to every user without ending up WAY in the red.
For my money, I'll stick with cloud services that are metered honestly and transparently.
I have been using gmail for years and it's still far more useful and reliable than any other competing service I've tried (including paid services!). When they lose some of my email or are totally down for a week, then I will start complaining. But I probably still wouldn't switch.
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Calculus is a foundational skill for analysis of algorithms, which is a bare minimum requirement if you want to work with Google-sized datasets.
I dunno, anyone who's managed to con their way into making $5.7 mil / year probably isn't an idiot. A slimy, greedy jackass, perhaps, but probably not an idiot.
The advantage of Diablo was how long Blizz supported it with patches. What are the odds Bethesda will fix any balance issues discovered 6 months after release?
Agreed. I have a few professors that have tried this stunt and I'll let them have it if their class is super-interesting, but if I'm ever bored or have to sit through material I already understand for an hour while I could be working, I lower their rating at the end.
God, I wish my university would do this. We have 40MB account limits and professors routinely send out 10MB worth of attachments. Sure, you can forward it all to gmail (and who doesn't), but don't forget to delete your mail off the university's shitty server once a week or you'll get everything bounced!
I don't expect nerds to be excited about this one so of course we're going to see these "LOL CHROME IS LMAO" comments like below. But Chrome OS really is sufficient for what many people want to do with their computers. I don't think my mother could really tell the difference between a netbook with Chrome OS and one with Windows, except that the one with Chrome OS gets her to what she wants to do faster.
Apligraf is a matrix of cow collagen, human fibroblasts and keratinocyte stem cells (from discarded circumcisions), that, when applied to chronic wounds (particularly nasty problems like diabetic sores), can seed healing and regeneration.
Finally, a band-aid made out of human penises!
Can't believe I didn't think of it.
Yep. Most of the advantages Flash previously had (animation, real client-side programming) for making rich navigation interfaces are now possible in a more open way with Javascript. The libraries are still a bit of a mess and browser support is always iffy, but dynamic, animated HTML looks amazing in the latest versions of webkit.
Truer words are rarely spoken.
Reverse the polarity? Good god, next you'll be wanting to cross the streams.
It's hard to say. I think you could make an argument that for SMART, RESPONSIBLE people, they end up bearing most of the cost of raising children but society reaps most of the benefits. Part of the problem is that it's not easy to measure how much benefit a productive member of society adds, so you can't quantify any of the benefits but you CAN quantify all of the costs.
I don't really want to go through the hard work of making the argument, but I can say that when I look at raising kids, I see a lot of work and cost for me, and at the end there would be another productive member of society contributing economically or producing research or whatever he/she decides. Or I can just skip that whole thing, and spend the many hours and tens of thousands of dollars having fun.
If I just follow my incentives, I probably will never have children and society will never have another productive member. But is this the best outcome for society?
I get a full-up kernel panic when trying to resume from suspend and have some troubles with VirtualBox too, but everything else is working ok.
I'm not sure piracy is a good thing: the costs to society, especially in terms of legal enforcement, are immense. I hope it becomes irrelevant over time. Frankly I dunno why people are still so enamored of pirating music when there is so much GOOD stuff out there that's 100% free, legal, and sanctioned by the artists that you could listen to new music every moment of your life without spending a dime.
Music, like other types of creativity, is in a race to the bottom because there's so much more content available than people can possibly listen to in their entire lives. I guess the only reason the music industry hangs on while the newspaper and publishing industries are dying is because music is harder for people to substitute... they hear a song on the radio or whatever and become enamored with particular artists, but the same doesn't really happen for particular writers.
i can get my girl to take off every zig when i flex my muscle, you insensitive clod!
Fixed that for you.
People respond to their actual incentives, not what you pretend the incentives are.
If people were held personally liable for damages caused by security breaches that they enabled, they would get smarter about security.
I'm not arguing that they should be held liable, just that it's going to be hard to make them care when they aren't.
The obvious coming trend is for a larger and larger proportion of game code to be controlled by larger entities. Instead of buying games, you'll just buy a license to play which will connect via low-latency pipe to your local game company where they stream game content to you online via video or some other medium. Or much like WoW, you'll get a game client but the majority of the game code will remain on servers controlled by the distributor.
It's just easier to control piracy when you never actually release the game code.
What's really impressive about it is that it's able to make any sense at all out of the terrible obscenely band-limited quality most phone messages are. I'm sure they have to use a bunch of statistical techniques based on their observations of common english text (eg, was "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" really what that person was probably saying?) to have any hope of producing something close to the correct answer.
The current major cloud providers (Google and Amazon) both replicate your permanent data to multiple hard disks (Google: 3, not sure about Amazon) in multiple areas of the datacenter, and I know Google is looking at providing replication to different datacenters (which is more complex than replication in the same datacenter because of the time delay).
the community of people who read the paper were the organizations true main asset
Bingo. The same is true of many types of businesses including big blogs and sites like Slashdot. Marketers usually understand this, but it's an easy point to miss.
Worse, to get on the wi-fi you need to use some kind of Java applet that I haven't gotten to work correctly in linux yet.
Most of the Dell and IBM servers I've used will let you get to the BIOS/GRUB over a serial console with some configuration, but I've never seen a desktop motherboard that would do it. If you really care about power consumption the easiest route is probably to buy a cheap, low-power itx board that has VGA built in and skip the console altogether. Plus, that way you don't need a laptop to talk to the box, just an old monitor.
Anyone know some tricks to get serial console to work with grub on a desktop mobo?
Well, trading speed for cost. Many supercomputers are about maximum performance and damn the expense, so it may be a reasonable tradeoff. With proper redundancy SSDs and hard disks are equally capable of long-term data integrity.
My perception has been that the cloud services (Amazon, Google, slicehost, mosso, etc) have realistic, sustainable per-unit costs whereas shared hosting outfits tend to have completely unrealistic cost assessments. They count on the fact that most people won't use their full quota because there's no way they could deliver what they promise to every user without ending up WAY in the red.
For my money, I'll stick with cloud services that are metered honestly and transparently.
100% uptime is ridiculously hard to achieve.
I have been using gmail for years and it's still far more useful and reliable than any other competing service I've tried (including paid services!). When they lose some of my email or are totally down for a week, then I will start complaining. But I probably still wouldn't switch.
But then I read this story and got to thinking... Why not make a gigantic net and scoop up all that garbage?
And put it where? Texas?