"The moral of this story is clear. Even a smart twenty-two-year-old is not a reliable guide to the future of science. And the twenty-two-year-old has become even less reliable now that he is eighty-two."
Ultimately what he attacks is being stuck in an ideology, and that heresies are essential for science. He isn't claiming that his heresies are true - just that scientists are too stuck in an ideology to even give them proper attention.
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However, what I would really like though is some kind of "summary judgment" on the fact that Linux is clean, i.e., it doesn't include any UNIX code.
... is that the developer gets only a relative small fraction. Because of licenses for engines and console manufacturer, large chunks for the publisher and retailer, the actual developer barely gets 1/4->1/3 of the money.
To summarize, a big problem with game prices is the "leeches" on the side.
... are the two main ways to fight the finite write cycles.
Wear leveling essentially distributes writes to a frequently-accessed logical sector to multiple physical sectors. Without it, cheap flash cards would barely survive ~10K pictures (they use the FAT filesystem, btw). Redundancy - it simply means that there are more physical sectors than logical ones, to transparently replace dead sectors.
I didn't claim that Xen didn't take ideas from previous work (research doesn't happen in a vacuum, after all), just that Xen's paravirtualization isn't a ripoff of an existing system.
Ok, I admit, I really don't know much about pHype, but I'm pretty sure that Xen is quite different from Denali. Denali's purpose is to run a myriad of small services, each in its own little sandbox. Xen runs full-scale OSes with conventional services. There are many other differences, it's a good idea check the paper. Perhaps for this reasons Denali is just a research prototype, whereas Xen is production-quality.
After all, the United States have some of the best schools in the entire world (take a look at the top 100 schools in the world, and count how many are in the States).
Problem is - check how many people in the CS PhD programs are actually Americans. We're not talking here about a mom-and-pop visual basic shop (where almost any entry level would probably do), but about a research lab.
Minimum wage? Are you freakin' serious? There's no such thing as minimum wage for researchers. In the industry, they're almost always very highly paid. Usually, that starts with 6 digits. And it doesn't change much if you go to Canada (in fact, the actual cost per employee might be even higher).
The existing, time-"proven" cryptographic methods are too expensive, from a power standpoint, to implement on cheap RFID systems. (between secure and cheap, cheap seems to always win). So manufacturers use proprietary hacks to allegedly achieve the same type of operations (e.g., authentication via challenge/response). However, these hacks are nothing more than security via obscurity.
According to Nobel prize laureate Stieglitz: "Whenever there are "externalities"--where the actions of an individual have impacts on others for which they do not pay or for which they are not compensated--markets will not work well. But recent research has shown that these externalities are pervasive, whenever there is imperfect information or imperfect risk markets--that is always."
Honestly, the perfect market argument is just as good as any "in a perfect world" arguments.
Yes, I won't deny that Wii is fun to play, has a great controller and a few games which make excellent use of it. OTOH, the graphics is clearly behind. Keep in mind that these systems are supposed to last for ~5 years until the next gen. It kinda' sucks to start behind the curve.
Sure, it's a matter of opinion, but I generally have no problem with game iterations. Games are so complex that it's difficult to get them right the first time. Most of the games I love are at least version/iteration 2.
Is one dead pixel per screen such a big deal?? I have a dead pixel on mine and only notice it on completely white backgrounds.
4. Really limited games (no legacy library to pull from)
Are you talking about PSP from 2 years ago? There are quite a few high quality games for the PSP (8.5+ score on gamespot.com/psp). My favorites: Daxter, Burnout Revenge, Metal Gear Acid I and II. I can also argue that DS games are graphics-limited (yes I know, gameplay is more important)
5. Big shiny screen, totally exposed for the scratching when put in a bag
So get a screen protector. Big deal...
6. Costs more than a DS
30$. For which you get a considerably more powerful CPU & 3D accelerator. Look at screenshots from DS and PSP games.
Ideology aside (Sony is teh evil, Nintendo rocks, graphics is not important), PSP is a pretty decent portable. Sure, it has its issues (e.g., UMD), but it's far from being the failure that the mass media portrays it to be.
They started making them in 68! I wouldn't be too surprised if the old models used analog signaling (much more susceptible to noise than digital stuff). Anyway for people who don't believe that cellphones are noisy, there's a simple test - just place call with a GSM phone near a radio...
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Ultimately what he attacks is being stuck in an ideology, and that heresies are essential for science. He isn't claiming that his heresies are true - just that scientists are too stuck in an ideology to even give them proper attention.
However, what I would really like though is some kind of "summary judgment" on the fact that Linux is clean, i.e., it doesn't include any UNIX code.
(not an exact quote)
Anyway, what about publisher and retailer? If each get another quarter ... I don't see how the developers are left with 50%.
To summarize, a big problem with game prices is the "leeches" on the side.
Wear leveling essentially distributes writes to a frequently-accessed logical sector to multiple physical sectors. Without it, cheap flash cards would barely survive ~10K pictures (they use the FAT filesystem, btw). Redundancy - it simply means that there are more physical sectors than logical ones, to transparently replace dead sectors.
Ok, I admit, I really don't know much about pHype, but I'm pretty sure that Xen is quite different from Denali. Denali's purpose is to run a myriad of small services, each in its own little sandbox. Xen runs full-scale OSes with conventional services. There are many other differences, it's a good idea check the paper. Perhaps for this reasons Denali is just a research prototype, whereas Xen is production-quality.
Yes, I realize you're not saying that Xen copied, but that Open Source in general copies. Xen is a great counterexample.
Let's face it ... CUPS is a bit cumbersome and counterintuitive.
I'm aware of it :) I usually consume a lot of proper yogurt after a treatment.
Do you think that your colon bacteria (which is E. coli, btw) survives a treatment with antibiotics? I don't see how this is any different.
Problem is - check how many people in the CS PhD programs are actually Americans. We're not talking here about a mom-and-pop visual basic shop (where almost any entry level would probably do), but about a research lab.
Minimum wage? Are you freakin' serious? There's no such thing as minimum wage for researchers. In the industry, they're almost always very highly paid. Usually, that starts with 6 digits. And it doesn't change much if you go to Canada (in fact, the actual cost per employee might be even higher).
Interesting!! Can you provide a link to a spec page?
The existing, time-"proven" cryptographic methods are too expensive, from a power standpoint, to implement on cheap RFID systems. (between secure and cheap, cheap seems to always win). So manufacturers use proprietary hacks to allegedly achieve the same type of operations (e.g., authentication via challenge/response). However, these hacks are nothing more than security via obscurity.
In the States you can't really sue yourself.
Honestly, the perfect market argument is just as good as any "in a perfect world" arguments.
Yes, I won't deny that Wii is fun to play, has a great controller and a few games which make excellent use of it. OTOH, the graphics is clearly behind. Keep in mind that these systems are supposed to last for ~5 years until the next gen. It kinda' sucks to start behind the curve.
Not all scientific predictions are made equal.
Sure, it's a matter of opinion, but I generally have no problem with game iterations. Games are so complex that it's difficult to get them right the first time. Most of the games I love are at least version/iteration 2.
Is one dead pixel per screen such a big deal?? I have a dead pixel on mine and only notice it on completely white backgrounds.
4. Really limited games (no legacy library to pull from)
Are you talking about PSP from 2 years ago? There are quite a few high quality games for the PSP (8.5+ score on gamespot.com/psp). My favorites: Daxter, Burnout Revenge, Metal Gear Acid I and II. I can also argue that DS games are graphics-limited (yes I know, gameplay is more important)
5. Big shiny screen, totally exposed for the scratching when put in a bag
So get a screen protector. Big deal ...
6. Costs more than a DS
30$. For which you get a considerably more powerful CPU & 3D accelerator. Look at screenshots from DS and PSP games.
Ideology aside (Sony is teh evil, Nintendo rocks, graphics is not important), PSP is a pretty decent portable. Sure, it has its issues (e.g., UMD), but it's far from being the failure that the mass media portrays it to be.
Did that erase me :)?
They started making them in 68! I wouldn't be too surprised if the old models used analog signaling (much more susceptible to noise than digital stuff). Anyway for people who don't believe that cellphones are noisy, there's a simple test - just place call with a GSM phone near a radio...
Religion is just one particular type of ideology.
It doesn't cheat, and manages to beat the cr*p out of you on the higher level (where AI economies aren't penalized ... to make the game easier).
IANAAP either, but a planet could perhaps stay in a Lagrangian point. That would ensure the stability of the trajectory and distance.