Well, if production only equals costs, you're not making a profit. If you cut costs by $30 million, and only lose out on $20 million because the rest of the store picks up the slack (or a new employee is hired for a lower wage that produces at much) you're now making a net profit of $10 million and are doing better than before as a company.
aye, I was thinking they had created a bacteriophage that was safe to the body but would be able to adapt along with the bad bacteria, preventing us from needing newer and newer antibiotics.
I agree that console programmers probably aren't pushing their hardware as hard as possible- unlike PC programmers, they have the luxury of having the same equipment in every unit, so they really don't have an excuse not to learn the system's assembly at least enough to squeeze a few extra cycles out.
Out of curiosity (i'm not trying to troll here), what about the PS3 makes programmers understand the hardware better than they need to understand the 360 or Wii hardware? I know they have the Cell Processor, but IIRC they're just writing to Sony-provided APIs that thread the processes automatically.
I'd actually expect programmers would have to know the Wii hardware much more inimately in order to not only obtain more finesse with gesture-based controls, but also squeeze the Wii for all it's worth to produce graphics that can garner people's attention once the 360 and PS3 start pumping out even more advanced graphics. In fact I think that if programmers don't invest the time needed to learn the Wii completely (even though it's very similar to the gamecube in architecture), the system may not be able to hold its momentum for too long. Of course Nintendo may have had this in mind, and will introduce another gen before the normal 5-year cycle is over.
What about the Anglo Saxons, who had no conventional religion to speak of? Yet Each tribe had a scop (the equivalent of a resident bard) who sang epic songs that told stories of their ancestors and battles to pass the cold nights. Their culture was very honor based, so it could be considered religious music, but the songs weren't to worship ancestors, just to tell of great deeds and to entertain the villagers. This culture existed between 597 and 1066 AD, so it pushes back the date of the proffesional singer at least to that period.
And I honestly doubt that there was not some form of nonreligious musical performance amongst the lower classes for several centuries- something has to pass the time out in the field and in the house during winter months. Shepherds also sang to their flocks as a way of keeping them calm (one example would be the biblical story of young David). The records of such things are just hard to come by, because the only written records that reach that far back would be from royal courts- where the king would hire the best of every tradesman, craftsman, and artisan- not just musicians.
you must be a pedal slammer or something, or just never checked your oil between services (smaller motors do in fact tend to eat oil a little faster). Hondas are well known for their lifespan; I know of several Hondas that have lasted past the 300k mark. Of course there's more to maintenance than oil/filter changes- what exactly went bad on your cars? My parents had a '91 Civic that lasted over 200k before the timing belt repeatedly broke and was replaced in a matter of months.
well, in Texas at least I don't think it'd result so much in lost jobs as much as a less desperate need for new teachers. We're kind of hurting out here, and yet our governor and Congress keep cutting teachers' salaries and benefits... it's pretty sad.
...maybe because they don't want to traumatize the poor first-graders who don't have an extensive enough background in Organic Chemistry to properly identify a poison and its andidotes before the fish turn belly-up?
Actually, North and South America combined have a population of over 890 million people. North and Central America have about 511 Million people. So any way you look at it, the GGP's number is wrong
I think he's referring to the Bible Code that revealed eerie modern words and names from the Torah. Several words involving an event such as 9/11 would show up within a close proximity to each other, resembling a kind of crossword. Pretty spooky stuff, and a lot of world events were found in there before the hubbub died out.
well, once you've convinced yourself of the reasons behind following a certain rule or guideline, it becomes much easier to follow that rule. For instance, you don't have sex outside of marriage because you don't want to risk STDs, pregnancy, and the psychological efects sex can have. That makes avoiding sex a whole lot easier than a simple command from a book does, as even the most faithful have limits to their faith, especially when "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
yeah, but think about it- the guy's never sued Wikipedia in the past, therefore his lawsuit count against Wikipedia before this past six-month period is zero. Tripling the lawsuit count in this six month period is 3(0), which of course equals 0. The GP is quite valid:)
And I do agree that Mr. Zoeller is going about this lawsuit in the correct way- Wikipedia can't fully police all of their poster's comments, and the comments are the responsibilites of the posters.
Yeah, for a single prgram- the vast majority of programs out there don't hit that limit. What the GP is saying is that the limit of total system RAM is 4 GB on a 32-bit OS. So if the article was talking about 32-bit windows, the headline could read "max out your RAM" rather than "4 GB is the sweet spot."
Aye, the King James version of the Bible does have some inaccuracies in the translation, but they have been corrected in more recent versions translated from the original Gree, Aramaic, hebrew, etc. and because the original texts in the original languages are much more available to common people than in the 1600's (I believe that's the right century...), they can't exactly hide any intentional mistranslations anymore- there are enough (though not a whole lot) of people who learn the old languages that could call them out.
And I'd have to disagree with your thesis that the Red Sea scrolls would be more accurate gospels than the ones we have today, since the scrolls contained only copies of the Torah and other books which are now part of the Old Testament, and make absolutely no mention in Christ, as they were for the most part written before his ministry. They do, however confirm the accuracy of Old Testament texts to at least Jesus' time, which was heartening for Christians and Jews.
As for the Gospel of Barnabus, I have no first-hand knowledge of the text, but from what I understand it was removed because its authorship is under scrutiny, and because it goes against the whole rest of the New testament in the basic tenets of the faith- basically the equivalent of Jesus saying to love your neighbor, then turning around and commanding his disciples to stone the prostitute, a practice which although unfortunately practiced by a lot of Christians, is not really in keeping with the faith.
Oh, and I was not under the impression that Allah would have told Jesus to tell everyone he was the son of God, if he were only a prophet secondary in importance to Mohammed who would come later. Of course I also don't understand why Mohammed's followers would want to destroy those who follow another of Allah's prophets as infidels. I know the Christians haven't exactly been nice to the Muslims, what with the Crusades and all, but certain leaders inn the Muslim community do more than reciprocate- something that I'm sure is as much out of keeping with the Quran as the Crusades were with the Bible.
Yeah, but all those PS2 sales this christmas won't pay off as much as the other system sales- God of War 2 is pretty much the console's last great game, and after that there will mainly be only used games available, which bring no new profit to Sony or developers. The Guitar Hero series is now on 360 and will be coming to Wii shortly (as one of Activision's leaders alluded to today). And of course some of the top selling games were from the PS2- It saturated the market the most last gen and this gen won't be fully adopted for another several months. But you have to remember that Nintendo produces the majority of their most popular games, Sony does not, which means Nintendo will make a bigger margin per game than Sony will.
I think what the GP is saying is that you can't simply upload songs to your ipod by dragging and dropping them to the iPod as you would a USB drive. The iPod won't show any of its uploaded songs as files, and will only allow songs added via iTunes to be playable. Anything you add via USB MSD functionality can only be accessed in the same way. It's basically like two seperate partitions on the iPod, where the iPod can only use one, and Windows can only use the other. It'd be much nicer if I could access my songs on any computer I plug my iPod into, without having to duplicate the files. Apple will never allow this however, as it just makes piracy too convenient. Like I said, however, the simple workaround is just to put your friend's music folder onto your iPod as data, then copy it into your iTunes and put it right back on your iPod. It's just annoying. Also, if the iPod simply treated songs as files, the device would always be a backup of your library, in case something happens to your hard drive. I think there are one or two programs that will let you pull songs from the iPod, but I don't know anything about their quality.
What about all those applications that you can only use on one chipset/operating system? I could've sued game developes years ago for not making a mac version of their games, therefore forcing me to spend my money on PC, because I like to game. And what about those proprietary file formats? I should be able to open whatever file I want with whatever program and have it work!
Although I agree that I should have the ability to play my iTunes music on whatever I want, I'm not sure making it illegal to limit proprietary files to a certain proprietary device sets a good precedence.
Aye, the AP and SAT won't let you use anything with a full keyboard, mainly because anything with a full keyboard helps the student to the point that he/she only needs calculator skills, not mathematical skills (in the eyes of the administrators). Plus, if you think about it, all computers are just really fast calculators.
And I don't think they'd let you use a Palm or PDA of any kind, as it has a full (albeit virtual keyboard). I'd say that the 89 is probably your best bet, as it's the best calculator of its kind that I've seen so far.
Right, because the Declaration of Independance is totally a part of our legal system, and is revised everytime one of our civil liberties is limited by law or policy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Global Warming accounts not only for warmer temperatures, but wider temperature swings resulting in colder winters (due to the change in the ocean's convection currents. The warming is also melting our ice caps, until it reaches a critical point where the waters flood the area, and then refreeze, creating another ice age. At least that's the theory I've heard- any climatologists out there, feel free to let me know if our knowledge has changed at all.
Actually, this is (almost) intentional. I want people to be able to learn about the languages they're using. I think your logic's a bit faulty here- even though a given page may translate from language A to language B, someone learning language B could just read the entry in "reverse" so to speak- that is looking at Language B's code in relation to what language A's users had to change to get there. It's just like a dictionary- sure, I'm learning spanish and know english, but it doesn't always work to look up a Spanish word and figure out what it means in English- sometimes I need to look up English to translate to Spanish.
All you'd need to do is have the satelite able to fire an impulse once it reaches the apex of the trajectory the rail gun gives it. And concerning the sudden acceleration concerns, I know there are preliminary designs for a much longer gun that uses a series of magnets in synchronized delay (a process developed by Disney for their PeopleMovers- see the Tommorowland Transit Authority in WDW) to provide a reasonable amount of constant acceleration, rather than the sudden acceleration of traditional guns. IIRC, this tech may also be used in the naval rail guns, albeit in a shorter barrel with each magnet providing more force, although I don't think so, based on TFA.
It seems to me that the obvious solution to this problem is to simply apply an arbitrary value, but give it away as a reward for registering the computer (or some other really simple requirement). Say that the update or software upgrade or whatever it is "worth" $4.99, but that Apple will deliver the upgrade to all previously built Macs free of charge, as part of a "Customer Loyalty program." And of course the only Macs not covered by the "customer loyalty" upgrade are those that came with it preinstalled.
Of course whether or not Apple will want to give up $4.99 per customer (especially on this particular promotion, if they've already started it) is another story. I imagine if anyone has already paid for it, it could be an accounting-related mess to pay the customers back.
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Well, if production only equals costs, you're not making a profit. If you cut costs by $30 million, and only lose out on $20 million because the rest of the store picks up the slack (or a new employee is hired for a lower wage that produces at much) you're now making a net profit of $10 million and are doing better than before as a company.
aye, I was thinking they had created a bacteriophage that was safe to the body but would be able to adapt along with the bad bacteria, preventing us from needing newer and newer antibiotics.
I agree that console programmers probably aren't pushing their hardware as hard as possible- unlike PC programmers, they have the luxury of having the same equipment in every unit, so they really don't have an excuse not to learn the system's assembly at least enough to squeeze a few extra cycles out.
Out of curiosity (i'm not trying to troll here), what about the PS3 makes programmers understand the hardware better than they need to understand the 360 or Wii hardware? I know they have the Cell Processor, but IIRC they're just writing to Sony-provided APIs that thread the processes automatically.
I'd actually expect programmers would have to know the Wii hardware much more inimately in order to not only obtain more finesse with gesture-based controls, but also squeeze the Wii for all it's worth to produce graphics that can garner people's attention once the 360 and PS3 start pumping out even more advanced graphics. In fact I think that if programmers don't invest the time needed to learn the Wii completely (even though it's very similar to the gamecube in architecture), the system may not be able to hold its momentum for too long. Of course Nintendo may have had this in mind, and will introduce another gen before the normal 5-year cycle is over.
What about the Anglo Saxons, who had no conventional religion to speak of? Yet Each tribe had a scop (the equivalent of a resident bard) who sang epic songs that told stories of their ancestors and battles to pass the cold nights. Their culture was very honor based, so it could be considered religious music, but the songs weren't to worship ancestors, just to tell of great deeds and to entertain the villagers. This culture existed between 597 and 1066 AD, so it pushes back the date of the proffesional singer at least to that period. And I honestly doubt that there was not some form of nonreligious musical performance amongst the lower classes for several centuries- something has to pass the time out in the field and in the house during winter months. Shepherds also sang to their flocks as a way of keeping them calm (one example would be the biblical story of young David). The records of such things are just hard to come by, because the only written records that reach that far back would be from royal courts- where the king would hire the best of every tradesman, craftsman, and artisan- not just musicians.
you must be a pedal slammer or something, or just never checked your oil between services (smaller motors do in fact tend to eat oil a little faster). Hondas are well known for their lifespan; I know of several Hondas that have lasted past the 300k mark. Of course there's more to maintenance than oil/filter changes- what exactly went bad on your cars? My parents had a '91 Civic that lasted over 200k before the timing belt repeatedly broke and was replaced in a matter of months.
well, in Texas at least I don't think it'd result so much in lost jobs as much as a less desperate need for new teachers. We're kind of hurting out here, and yet our governor and Congress keep cutting teachers' salaries and benefits... it's pretty sad.
...maybe because they don't want to traumatize the poor first-graders who don't have an extensive enough background in Organic Chemistry to properly identify a poison and its andidotes before the fish turn belly-up?
Actually, North and South America combined have a population of over 890 million people. North and Central America have about 511 Million people. So any way you look at it, the GGP's number is wrong
I think he's referring to the Bible Code that revealed eerie modern words and names from the Torah. Several words involving an event such as 9/11 would show up within a close proximity to each other, resembling a kind of crossword. Pretty spooky stuff, and a lot of world events were found in there before the hubbub died out.
well, once you've convinced yourself of the reasons behind following a certain rule or guideline, it becomes much easier to follow that rule. For instance, you don't have sex outside of marriage because you don't want to risk STDs, pregnancy, and the psychological efects sex can have. That makes avoiding sex a whole lot easier than a simple command from a book does, as even the most faithful have limits to their faith, especially when "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
yeah, but think about it- the guy's never sued Wikipedia in the past, therefore his lawsuit count against Wikipedia before this past six-month period is zero. Tripling the lawsuit count in this six month period is 3(0), which of course equals 0. The GP is quite valid :)
And I do agree that Mr. Zoeller is going about this lawsuit in the correct way- Wikipedia can't fully police all of their poster's comments, and the comments are the responsibilites of the posters.
Yeah, for a single prgram- the vast majority of programs out there don't hit that limit. What the GP is saying is that the limit of total system RAM is 4 GB on a 32-bit OS. So if the article was talking about 32-bit windows, the headline could read "max out your RAM" rather than "4 GB is the sweet spot."
Aye, the King James version of the Bible does have some inaccuracies in the translation, but they have been corrected in more recent versions translated from the original Gree, Aramaic, hebrew, etc. and because the original texts in the original languages are much more available to common people than in the 1600's (I believe that's the right century...), they can't exactly hide any intentional mistranslations anymore- there are enough (though not a whole lot) of people who learn the old languages that could call them out. And I'd have to disagree with your thesis that the Red Sea scrolls would be more accurate gospels than the ones we have today, since the scrolls contained only copies of the Torah and other books which are now part of the Old Testament, and make absolutely no mention in Christ, as they were for the most part written before his ministry. They do, however confirm the accuracy of Old Testament texts to at least Jesus' time, which was heartening for Christians and Jews. As for the Gospel of Barnabus, I have no first-hand knowledge of the text, but from what I understand it was removed because its authorship is under scrutiny, and because it goes against the whole rest of the New testament in the basic tenets of the faith- basically the equivalent of Jesus saying to love your neighbor, then turning around and commanding his disciples to stone the prostitute, a practice which although unfortunately practiced by a lot of Christians, is not really in keeping with the faith. Oh, and I was not under the impression that Allah would have told Jesus to tell everyone he was the son of God, if he were only a prophet secondary in importance to Mohammed who would come later. Of course I also don't understand why Mohammed's followers would want to destroy those who follow another of Allah's prophets as infidels. I know the Christians haven't exactly been nice to the Muslims, what with the Crusades and all, but certain leaders inn the Muslim community do more than reciprocate- something that I'm sure is as much out of keeping with the Quran as the Crusades were with the Bible.
Yeah, but all those PS2 sales this christmas won't pay off as much as the other system sales- God of War 2 is pretty much the console's last great game, and after that there will mainly be only used games available, which bring no new profit to Sony or developers. The Guitar Hero series is now on 360 and will be coming to Wii shortly (as one of Activision's leaders alluded to today). And of course some of the top selling games were from the PS2- It saturated the market the most last gen and this gen won't be fully adopted for another several months. But you have to remember that Nintendo produces the majority of their most popular games, Sony does not, which means Nintendo will make a bigger margin per game than Sony will.
(insert tasteless joke). you're welcome.
I think what the GP is saying is that you can't simply upload songs to your ipod by dragging and dropping them to the iPod as you would a USB drive. The iPod won't show any of its uploaded songs as files, and will only allow songs added via iTunes to be playable. Anything you add via USB MSD functionality can only be accessed in the same way. It's basically like two seperate partitions on the iPod, where the iPod can only use one, and Windows can only use the other. It'd be much nicer if I could access my songs on any computer I plug my iPod into, without having to duplicate the files. Apple will never allow this however, as it just makes piracy too convenient. Like I said, however, the simple workaround is just to put your friend's music folder onto your iPod as data, then copy it into your iTunes and put it right back on your iPod. It's just annoying. Also, if the iPod simply treated songs as files, the device would always be a backup of your library, in case something happens to your hard drive. I think there are one or two programs that will let you pull songs from the iPod, but I don't know anything about their quality.
I don't think he's making this suit in direct defense of his actions, but rather just as a strikeback at the record companies.
aye, they exchange haploids: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygote.
What about all those applications that you can only use on one chipset/operating system? I could've sued game developes years ago for not making a mac version of their games, therefore forcing me to spend my money on PC, because I like to game. And what about those proprietary file formats? I should be able to open whatever file I want with whatever program and have it work! Although I agree that I should have the ability to play my iTunes music on whatever I want, I'm not sure making it illegal to limit proprietary files to a certain proprietary device sets a good precedence.
Aye, the AP and SAT won't let you use anything with a full keyboard, mainly because anything with a full keyboard helps the student to the point that he/she only needs calculator skills, not mathematical skills (in the eyes of the administrators). Plus, if you think about it, all computers are just really fast calculators. And I don't think they'd let you use a Palm or PDA of any kind, as it has a full (albeit virtual keyboard). I'd say that the 89 is probably your best bet, as it's the best calculator of its kind that I've seen so far.
Right, because the Declaration of Independance is totally a part of our legal system, and is revised everytime one of our civil liberties is limited by law or policy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Global Warming accounts not only for warmer temperatures, but wider temperature swings resulting in colder winters (due to the change in the ocean's convection currents. The warming is also melting our ice caps, until it reaches a critical point where the waters flood the area, and then refreeze, creating another ice age. At least that's the theory I've heard- any climatologists out there, feel free to let me know if our knowledge has changed at all.
All you'd need to do is have the satelite able to fire an impulse once it reaches the apex of the trajectory the rail gun gives it. And concerning the sudden acceleration concerns, I know there are preliminary designs for a much longer gun that uses a series of magnets in synchronized delay (a process developed by Disney for their PeopleMovers- see the Tommorowland Transit Authority in WDW) to provide a reasonable amount of constant acceleration, rather than the sudden acceleration of traditional guns. IIRC, this tech may also be used in the naval rail guns, albeit in a shorter barrel with each magnet providing more force, although I don't think so, based on TFA.
It seems to me that the obvious solution to this problem is to simply apply an arbitrary value, but give it away as a reward for registering the computer (or some other really simple requirement). Say that the update or software upgrade or whatever it is "worth" $4.99, but that Apple will deliver the upgrade to all previously built Macs free of charge, as part of a "Customer Loyalty program." And of course the only Macs not covered by the "customer loyalty" upgrade are those that came with it preinstalled. Of course whether or not Apple will want to give up $4.99 per customer (especially on this particular promotion, if they've already started it) is another story. I imagine if anyone has already paid for it, it could be an accounting-related mess to pay the customers back.