When you look back in time, the only pattern I've ever seen is access to implements and free time. Admittedly, that's highly unscientific, but having free time in which to do nothing and where one doesn't have to produce as a portion of the day is really important if one wishes to create anything.
Shocking, who'd've thought that standardized testing, eliminating recess and general free time would have consequences. Perhaps actually letting kids play would help that.
That depends, I'm not sure how prevalent the practice is, but I do know that some software outfits will damage their own software so that if it gets pirated chances are it won't run completely properly. I'm not personally sure that doing so does anything other than damage their reputation, but I do know that it's something which happens.
I'm sure that during the 80s and early 90s that the figure is pretty accurate. In those days commercial software was just starting, whereas previously, the dominant thinking was that you paid for the hardware, not the software. Also since most of the DRM was pretty impotent, you had the sneakernet running software all over the place. Chances are that if you got a computer in that era, you'd have friends come over and load it up with software gratis.
Average density isn't a useful measure. If you've been out west where things are significantly less dense than on back east, you'd see what I mean. Around here, you might only be 20 miles from another town, but that 20 miles could very easily be through a mountain and often is. And a lot of these communities got to be where they are due to mining. Consequently, you're stuck running wires between them.
Probably the fact that it makes the Chinese government look like inept morons. A lot of the disease transmission was due to incompetence by their health authorities in terms of blood transfusion techniques.
It never got off the ground because there was a bad reaction to it. It's not that the blog was necessarily going to be biased, it's that there was a very clear conflict of interest going on. It would've been very different had Pepsi not paid for the space and it was clearly disclosed who was writing it. That's how journalists have handled such things in the past, it would still have to be as unbiased as possible, but disclosure goes a long way.
Unless it turns out to be an easy suit, I think it would be far more likely that Apple would just pay a licensing fee to use it. I don't think they pulled it over IP concerns, I think it was pulled because it wasn't ready for prime time.
I thought that was IR, but I suppose just due to the irregularity and imprecision of what exactly constitutes the visible spectrum, it wouldn't be constrained to one side. I noticed years ago that in the dark I'd see these clouds which would mysteriously take the form of items in the room. The color would be this unnatural white purple or golden green. Eventually I noticed that it could be used to see even when there was no meaningful difference of color in the items.
I'm guessing for emulation. Personally, I've been using my XBox 360 controller with xpadder for basic play and it does a fair job. Well for games that use a gamepad. I doubt that such a solution would work well for games that were designed for play with an analog joystick.
With Google offering up Chrome, it's virtually assured that they won't pull the plug shy of going out of business. It's just not worth the cost of the antitrust defense. As long as Firefox and IE are major players Google doesn't have to worry a whole lot about being seen as controlling the browser market. Plus since Mozilla already has a meaningful interest in HTML5 and much of what Google wants, it's strategically helpful to them anyways.
That's always puzzled me, even if you do manage to transform the memories, all you get is a situation like the 6th day. A clone that has your memories, but isn't really you.
Indeed, $10 million isn't really enough to do any of those completely. But it would be a start, and for some of those ideas, that money would go quite some way, to at least some sort of pilot program.
Yes, but only because those with excessively high IQs are punished. At least in the US, if you perform ahead of your grade level, there's basically no chance of being skipped ahead. And unless you score into special classes when you're six or seven good luck getting into them later on. Nevermind that it's too early to make those determinations as it's common for people to not hit their stride for a few years into education. Chances are that you'll be stuck doing the work that the teacher is supposed to do by way of group work. And good luck actually getting to do anything interesting because you'll be too busy with homework or failing to get the grades necessary to go on to a first rates college.
I remember being bored out of my mind for most of the last 6 years or so of my pre-college schooling. I'd almost certainly have dropped out if I didn't get to go to college a couple years early. Had I not been milking the funding I would've been able to graduate by 20 easily. Even taking a year off and losing a couple quarters due to illness, I still made it out by 22.
IQ isn't culturally dependent. To be valid the test is supposed to be normed to the population to which it is being given. As in it isn't a valid score if it doesn't place the individual at the correct place on the bell curve, well, excluding cheating. This is the sort of bullshit that social darwinists and progressives argue about, without any clue as to what they're talking about.
Not necessarily. Environmental contamination, particularly with heavy metals has an IQ lowering effect on the populace. Additionally since IQ is set relatively early, and brain damage later on will take off the total score. But more than that having a high IQ really isn't all it's cracked up to be. When you hit a point around 120 or so you more or less maximize it, there isn't really any particular reason to require more than that, and realistically you then have to deal with other problems. It's really hard at times for those of us up in the 140s to conceive of why a lot of this stuff isn't common sense. And hence end up spending a lot of time being misunderstood or explaining what ought to be perfectly obvious.
Well, the reason is that they've signed on, but they don't enforce. It's illegal for them to process in any other manner, it's just not particularly well enforced. Here in WA we've got a law on the books which puts manufacturers on the hook for the cost of recycling the items after they're broken. It works well, all the customer has to do is drop it off at a drop site and the items are recycled. Most of it is done in the US, with only a couple portions being shipped over seas.
I'm not familiar with how other parts of the country handle it, but I do know that CA has a similar measure which charges the end user for recycling when the item is purchased.
Yes, I am serious. That was a serious antitrust violation. And had we had a DoJ that took such things seriously they would've been smacked for it. Using ones dominant market position to harm others or artificially lock other players out is definitely a violation of antitrust regulations in the US.
Not really, if that's the case then it's even more wrong. If you pay attention to their message it's that people should be thinking differently. That Macs are for those that dance to the beat of a different drum, not just hipsters that are buying into something because it's different.
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When you look back in time, the only pattern I've ever seen is access to implements and free time. Admittedly, that's highly unscientific, but having free time in which to do nothing and where one doesn't have to produce as a portion of the day is really important if one wishes to create anything.
Shocking, who'd've thought that standardized testing, eliminating recess and general free time would have consequences. Perhaps actually letting kids play would help that.
That depends, I'm not sure how prevalent the practice is, but I do know that some software outfits will damage their own software so that if it gets pirated chances are it won't run completely properly. I'm not personally sure that doing so does anything other than damage their reputation, but I do know that it's something which happens.
Well to be fair, after X-Men 2 and 3, people pirated X-Men: Origins just to get their refund from having wasted money on the previous two films.
I'm sure that during the 80s and early 90s that the figure is pretty accurate. In those days commercial software was just starting, whereas previously, the dominant thinking was that you paid for the hardware, not the software. Also since most of the DRM was pretty impotent, you had the sneakernet running software all over the place. Chances are that if you got a computer in that era, you'd have friends come over and load it up with software gratis.
I thought they usually solved that problem by selling the rights to MST3K?
Average density isn't a useful measure. If you've been out west where things are significantly less dense than on back east, you'd see what I mean. Around here, you might only be 20 miles from another town, but that 20 miles could very easily be through a mountain and often is. And a lot of these communities got to be where they are due to mining. Consequently, you're stuck running wires between them.
Probably the fact that it makes the Chinese government look like inept morons. A lot of the disease transmission was due to incompetence by their health authorities in terms of blood transfusion techniques.
It never got off the ground because there was a bad reaction to it. It's not that the blog was necessarily going to be biased, it's that there was a very clear conflict of interest going on. It would've been very different had Pepsi not paid for the space and it was clearly disclosed who was writing it. That's how journalists have handled such things in the past, it would still have to be as unbiased as possible, but disclosure goes a long way.
They probably canceled that one so they could have a huge party and sell 503 kin. Note the lack of a unit, that's 503 units, not thousand or million.
Unless it turns out to be an easy suit, I think it would be far more likely that Apple would just pay a licensing fee to use it. I don't think they pulled it over IP concerns, I think it was pulled because it wasn't ready for prime time.
I thought that was IR, but I suppose just due to the irregularity and imprecision of what exactly constitutes the visible spectrum, it wouldn't be constrained to one side. I noticed years ago that in the dark I'd see these clouds which would mysteriously take the form of items in the room. The color would be this unnatural white purple or golden green. Eventually I noticed that it could be used to see even when there was no meaningful difference of color in the items.
I'm guessing for emulation. Personally, I've been using my XBox 360 controller with xpadder for basic play and it does a fair job. Well for games that use a gamepad. I doubt that such a solution would work well for games that were designed for play with an analog joystick.
Umm, you do know what it is that bottom feeders feed upon, right?
With Google offering up Chrome, it's virtually assured that they won't pull the plug shy of going out of business. It's just not worth the cost of the antitrust defense. As long as Firefox and IE are major players Google doesn't have to worry a whole lot about being seen as controlling the browser market. Plus since Mozilla already has a meaningful interest in HTML5 and much of what Google wants, it's strategically helpful to them anyways.
That's always puzzled me, even if you do manage to transform the memories, all you get is a situation like the 6th day. A clone that has your memories, but isn't really you.
Indeed, $10 million isn't really enough to do any of those completely. But it would be a start, and for some of those ideas, that money would go quite some way, to at least some sort of pilot program.
That's basically acid rain you're talking about. And according to the caption to the picture, yes in a way this is intended to help with that.
Yes, but only because those with excessively high IQs are punished. At least in the US, if you perform ahead of your grade level, there's basically no chance of being skipped ahead. And unless you score into special classes when you're six or seven good luck getting into them later on. Nevermind that it's too early to make those determinations as it's common for people to not hit their stride for a few years into education. Chances are that you'll be stuck doing the work that the teacher is supposed to do by way of group work. And good luck actually getting to do anything interesting because you'll be too busy with homework or failing to get the grades necessary to go on to a first rates college.
I remember being bored out of my mind for most of the last 6 years or so of my pre-college schooling. I'd almost certainly have dropped out if I didn't get to go to college a couple years early. Had I not been milking the funding I would've been able to graduate by 20 easily. Even taking a year off and losing a couple quarters due to illness, I still made it out by 22.
IQ isn't culturally dependent. To be valid the test is supposed to be normed to the population to which it is being given. As in it isn't a valid score if it doesn't place the individual at the correct place on the bell curve, well, excluding cheating. This is the sort of bullshit that social darwinists and progressives argue about, without any clue as to what they're talking about.
Not necessarily. Environmental contamination, particularly with heavy metals has an IQ lowering effect on the populace. Additionally since IQ is set relatively early, and brain damage later on will take off the total score. But more than that having a high IQ really isn't all it's cracked up to be. When you hit a point around 120 or so you more or less maximize it, there isn't really any particular reason to require more than that, and realistically you then have to deal with other problems. It's really hard at times for those of us up in the 140s to conceive of why a lot of this stuff isn't common sense. And hence end up spending a lot of time being misunderstood or explaining what ought to be perfectly obvious.
Isn't that what kids are for?
Well, the reason is that they've signed on, but they don't enforce. It's illegal for them to process in any other manner, it's just not particularly well enforced. Here in WA we've got a law on the books which puts manufacturers on the hook for the cost of recycling the items after they're broken. It works well, all the customer has to do is drop it off at a drop site and the items are recycled. Most of it is done in the US, with only a couple portions being shipped over seas.
I'm not familiar with how other parts of the country handle it, but I do know that CA has a similar measure which charges the end user for recycling when the item is purchased.
Yes, I am serious. That was a serious antitrust violation. And had we had a DoJ that took such things seriously they would've been smacked for it. Using ones dominant market position to harm others or artificially lock other players out is definitely a violation of antitrust regulations in the US.
Not really, if that's the case then it's even more wrong. If you pay attention to their message it's that people should be thinking differently. That Macs are for those that dance to the beat of a different drum, not just hipsters that are buying into something because it's different.