Needless to say, the opportunity to make a fortune off of VoIP users is being lost. If you are a mobile operator, you just charge per packet. If you are a telco, you just charge a data traffic fee. If you are a cable operator, you just charge people more to get the channels that they really want by splitting them up into "packages" that contain one good channel and 50 crap channels.
Seriously, who the fuck is watching the Lifetime channel?
It's not the intent of the technology that I'm fretting about here. Rather, it is the presentation of the technology.
If we were discovering nuclear power today, we'd be touting its role as a weapon whereas it is vastly more interesting and useful as a form of energy.
The media may be said to shape our perceptions, but it is also a reflection of our collective mindset. Talk of weapons sells newspapers. Giving nurses the ability to perform their job in physically demanding scenarios doesn't.
I like to think it began with our deification of paramilitary groups like the police and firefighters after 9/11. Then with the rising body count in Iraq, people just became enamored with the military and military spending. Now, when new technology comes along, it isn't "wow, what can we do with this?", rather it is "wow, how can this help our troops?"
Technology is what it is. It's use defines whether it is good or bad. But its presentation provides a vivid picture of how the general populace is likely to consider it.
No, I'm suggesting that in a time where much of the country has been stirred into anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-intellectual sentiment, an all or nothing mindset, a with us or against mindset, and a government with policies to match, that people were able to elect someone who speaks clearly in full sentences instead of jingos and soundbites, who has a background living in many different parts of this great country and experiences exceeding that of most Americans, and who is progressive thinking, inclusionist, and open-minded.
Maybe you think he's special because he's black. I don't know what that says about you. You can figure that out yourself.
But it says a lot about the American people at that one brief moment in time to have chosen someone so at odds with the general zeitgeist. I'm not talking about Obama as President here. I'm talking about the opportunity to change and grow as Americans. The article and video showing off this technology as a military tool leaves me less hopeful.
I don't hate America, I love it. I wish only the best things for this country.
But I hate articles like this, and I hate the truly American values it reveals.
Why is it that when Americans think of powered exoskeletons, the first thing they think of is soldiers? It's really sad that militaristic thinking has pervaded almost every facet of our society.
Compare that to Japan's take on exoskeletons. Over there, they think of how these things can be used in day-to-day activities to help people. It's a far cry from a fat-ass soldier lugging around a giant backpack and a gun.
I can only hope that the wisdom of the American people that was so on display when Obama was elected will bring an end to our fascination and worship of our military.
These sensors use trace amounts of rare metals which may be harmful to the environment in which they are used. Sensors, in the volumes given in the article, will bring large amounts of these metals with them when considered in aggregate.
You can't measure the environment without also impacting it in some way. Nature has its own "wave function" which is collapsed when we start trying to measure it in any statistically significant manner.
Satellite tracking is a much better idea, but one that won't make any money for Cisco.
There is a price that is lower than free: negative cost. Users would actually be paid to receive the goods. Now if you really want to put the pirates out of business, you only have to force them to pay their customers, which they will never do.
If life begins at conception, then even the harvesting of zygotic embryos is antithetical for anti-abortionists.
If the fertilized eggs are rejected naturally after implantation, that is one thing. If they are separated and destroyed deliberately, that is no longer natural and can only be considered abortion.
Anti-abortionists are going to have a field day with this. If stem cells can be harvested from aborted fetuses, and stem cells actually fulfill their promise as everyone expects they will, then getting an abortion suddenly becomes not so much the destruction of one life but the preservation of many.
If Star Trek has taught me anything, it's that neither "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" nor "the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many" provide a solid foundation to base morality upon. It's sad that babies have to die to save lives, and it's sad that lives have to be sacrificed because of unwillingness to kill a baby. However, this dilemma can't be resolved at this level. But this latest policy move certainly gives some ammunition to one side.
Don't be ridiculously short-sighted. In an open-source scenario as you've explained, it would be difficult to make money on the development of the game, sure. But consider that there is money to be made in the support of the product.
Just because the first guys to develop a product see no immediate profit, it doesn't mean that there can't be an entire ecosystem of support developers who make a good living helping users with the game.
The question is whether the traditional models of marketing always apply to such small game producers.
If you take the very dubious example of Nigerian scammers, you can see how a very small group of people, given essentially an infinite market and near-zero costs, can make a profit even considering that most people reject out of hand.
Word of mouth is the best marketing you can ask for. Whether that is grassroots-led or astroturfed, the mere fact that people can spread the word for very little cost means that today's game publishers have a much more powerful marketing medium than ever before.
There was a time a while back when Axl Rose was such a huge star that even when he bailed out of concert tours at the last minute, people would still line up to buy their latest albums.
Nowadays he's essentially a parody of the coolness that G'nR once was. His latest outing, Chinese Democracy, is nothing to write home about, unfortunately.
Um...really? You can't make a click track gradually change rate over time? Or follow whatever kind of variation you program it to? That's news to me. I thought computers wuz like all smart 'n' stuff.
The Maryland Supreme Court justices are all gay and have orgies after the last case of the day. I've seen them ship in goats and pigs to add spice to these events.
It's true. They are all perverts and touch themselves in public.
Everyone is so hot for Facebook these days, but a year or two ago it was all anyone could do to not jizz themselves over MySpace. These things come and go, websites get hot, then fade away.
I just got a message from MSN groups that some group I had subscribed to a few years ago was going to be deleted. No big deal, I've moved on and found other places where I can post intelligent comments and engage in lively banter.
There is so little that is static about the Web. Facebook is right to strike now and make as much money as they can while the sun shines, because a year or two from now they will be a bad memory.
Consider that C is shrinking, so in order to balance Y, G must be increased. However, one side effect of G is that such spending becomes a longterm part of the equation. However, if we consider the G to be at least in part I in this case, we can see that there will be positive feedback due to the return on I.
I'd even go so far as to say that the entire stimulus is a massive increase in I masquerading as an increase in G. If this is true, then we may be out of the woods in just a few years.
That really isn't what Hirai said, though. If I'm interpreting his comment correctly, he is saying that he wants to see a progression in quality over the 10 year lifespan of the PS3. The first games will take little advantage of the HW, but as time goes on and developers become more acquainted with the platform they create games that take more advantage of those HW features.
It sounds like a post-release justification for a massive blunder.
Essentially, the guy says he was taken out of context, but if you read the note he fired off to correct the error, he also goes on to explain that the iPhone is simply not selling well in Japan. He claims this is Softbank's marketing problem, but it points to a larger problem that the demand for the product has already been filled in the first few months after release.
Those who want it have it. Everyone else is indifferent.
It is instinctive that people want to feel that they are making the right decisions. So when other people act similarly they receive validation that their choices are correct, even in minor lifestyle choices like buying Apple products.
So when a whole country (well, not really) rejects a lifestyle choice that an iPhone user made, it makes them uncomfortable and they try to find reasons why their choice is different from the foreign norm. In this case, either they try to invalidate the data (which is hard to do) or they try to explain away the problem by diminishing the importance of the data.
It is just a phone, but for many people it is also an expression of their personality. They don't want to be diminished, so they seek out those who are like-minded. This is the same type of behavior that can be seen at comic book conventions, furry conventions, and Star Trek conventions. Those of us who have no horse in this race should probably just stay as far away from the commotion as possible.
Yes, it may be true that languages are essentially equivalent, but that doesn't mean that some languages don't make some tasks easier for the programmer than the other.
If you had a task that had serious text processing, surely you would use C++ over Haskell or Lisp. On the other hand, if you needed to do AI, you would use Forth instead of Pascal. Graphics means using a well supported library, so Perl/Tk is the better choice than Java/Swing.
So while programming languages may be equivalent at some theoretical baseline, they are designed to address specific issues and often provide better support for some tasks and worse support for others. Using a combination of languages is a very good idea, but it also takes a lot of discipline to keep interfaces well defined.
Slashdot Mirror
The past tense of "arise" is "arose". Like rice.
Needless to say, the opportunity to make a fortune off of VoIP users is being lost. If you are a mobile operator, you just charge per packet. If you are a telco, you just charge a data traffic fee. If you are a cable operator, you just charge people more to get the channels that they really want by splitting them up into "packages" that contain one good channel and 50 crap channels.
Seriously, who the fuck is watching the Lifetime channel?
Whether it fell off a couch or a cement wall, isn't it more important what it is falling onto instead of what it is falling off of?
It's not the intent of the technology that I'm fretting about here. Rather, it is the presentation of the technology.
If we were discovering nuclear power today, we'd be touting its role as a weapon whereas it is vastly more interesting and useful as a form of energy.
The media may be said to shape our perceptions, but it is also a reflection of our collective mindset. Talk of weapons sells newspapers. Giving nurses the ability to perform their job in physically demanding scenarios doesn't.
I like to think it began with our deification of paramilitary groups like the police and firefighters after 9/11. Then with the rising body count in Iraq, people just became enamored with the military and military spending. Now, when new technology comes along, it isn't "wow, what can we do with this?", rather it is "wow, how can this help our troops?"
Technology is what it is. It's use defines whether it is good or bad. But its presentation provides a vivid picture of how the general populace is likely to consider it.
Unwanted Americans tromping through foreign countries desecrating everything they see and bringing their rude and obnoxious culture with them?
I think we have a company that supplies exactly the kind of personal, portable carrying case.
American Tourister
No, I'm suggesting that in a time where much of the country has been stirred into anti-immigrant sentiment, anti-intellectual sentiment, an all or nothing mindset, a with us or against mindset, and a government with policies to match, that people were able to elect someone who speaks clearly in full sentences instead of jingos and soundbites, who has a background living in many different parts of this great country and experiences exceeding that of most Americans, and who is progressive thinking, inclusionist, and open-minded.
Maybe you think he's special because he's black. I don't know what that says about you. You can figure that out yourself.
But it says a lot about the American people at that one brief moment in time to have chosen someone so at odds with the general zeitgeist. I'm not talking about Obama as President here. I'm talking about the opportunity to change and grow as Americans. The article and video showing off this technology as a military tool leaves me less hopeful.
I don't hate America, I love it. I wish only the best things for this country.
But I hate articles like this, and I hate the truly American values it reveals.
Why is it that when Americans think of powered exoskeletons, the first thing they think of is soldiers? It's really sad that militaristic thinking has pervaded almost every facet of our society.
Compare that to Japan's take on exoskeletons. Over there, they think of how these things can be used in day-to-day activities to help people. It's a far cry from a fat-ass soldier lugging around a giant backpack and a gun.
I can only hope that the wisdom of the American people that was so on display when Obama was elected will bring an end to our fascination and worship of our military.
These sensors use trace amounts of rare metals which may be harmful to the environment in which they are used. Sensors, in the volumes given in the article, will bring large amounts of these metals with them when considered in aggregate.
You can't measure the environment without also impacting it in some way. Nature has its own "wave function" which is collapsed when we start trying to measure it in any statistically significant manner.
Satellite tracking is a much better idea, but one that won't make any money for Cisco.
Your post is pure schlock.
There is a price that is lower than free: negative cost. Users would actually be paid to receive the goods. Now if you really want to put the pirates out of business, you only have to force them to pay their customers, which they will never do.
If life begins at conception, then even the harvesting of zygotic embryos is antithetical for anti-abortionists.
If the fertilized eggs are rejected naturally after implantation, that is one thing. If they are separated and destroyed deliberately, that is no longer natural and can only be considered abortion.
Anti-abortionists are going to have a field day with this. If stem cells can be harvested from aborted fetuses, and stem cells actually fulfill their promise as everyone expects they will, then getting an abortion suddenly becomes not so much the destruction of one life but the preservation of many.
If Star Trek has taught me anything, it's that neither "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one" nor "the needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many" provide a solid foundation to base morality upon. It's sad that babies have to die to save lives, and it's sad that lives have to be sacrificed because of unwillingness to kill a baby. However, this dilemma can't be resolved at this level. But this latest policy move certainly gives some ammunition to one side.
Don't be ridiculously short-sighted. In an open-source scenario as you've explained, it would be difficult to make money on the development of the game, sure. But consider that there is money to be made in the support of the product.
Just because the first guys to develop a product see no immediate profit, it doesn't mean that there can't be an entire ecosystem of support developers who make a good living helping users with the game.
The question is whether the traditional models of marketing always apply to such small game producers.
If you take the very dubious example of Nigerian scammers, you can see how a very small group of people, given essentially an infinite market and near-zero costs, can make a profit even considering that most people reject out of hand.
Word of mouth is the best marketing you can ask for. Whether that is grassroots-led or astroturfed, the mere fact that people can spread the word for very little cost means that today's game publishers have a much more powerful marketing medium than ever before.
If we consider Hollywood -- the model to which the video game industry is always compared ...
Sure it is...
You fanbois can keep your Jolene Blalock and Jeri Ryan.
Give me Kate Mulgrew any day. I'd pilot my shuttle into her delta quadrant any day.
There was a time a while back when Axl Rose was such a huge star that even when he bailed out of concert tours at the last minute, people would still line up to buy their latest albums.
Nowadays he's essentially a parody of the coolness that G'nR once was. His latest outing, Chinese Democracy, is nothing to write home about, unfortunately.
Um...really? You can't make a click track gradually change rate over time? Or follow whatever kind of variation you program it to? That's news to me. I thought computers wuz like all smart 'n' stuff.
GIGO. Which explains a lot of today's music, too.
The Maryland Supreme Court justices are all gay and have orgies after the last case of the day. I've seen them ship in goats and pigs to add spice to these events.
It's true. They are all perverts and touch themselves in public.
Everyone is so hot for Facebook these days, but a year or two ago it was all anyone could do to not jizz themselves over MySpace. These things come and go, websites get hot, then fade away.
I just got a message from MSN groups that some group I had subscribed to a few years ago was going to be deleted. No big deal, I've moved on and found other places where I can post intelligent comments and engage in lively banter.
There is so little that is static about the Web. Facebook is right to strike now and make as much money as they can while the sun shines, because a year or two from now they will be a bad memory.
Consider that C is shrinking, so in order to balance Y, G must be increased. However, one side effect of G is that such spending becomes a longterm part of the equation. However, if we consider the G to be at least in part I in this case, we can see that there will be positive feedback due to the return on I.
I'd even go so far as to say that the entire stimulus is a massive increase in I masquerading as an increase in G. If this is true, then we may be out of the woods in just a few years.
That really isn't what Hirai said, though. If I'm interpreting his comment correctly, he is saying that he wants to see a progression in quality over the 10 year lifespan of the PS3. The first games will take little advantage of the HW, but as time goes on and developers become more acquainted with the platform they create games that take more advantage of those HW features.
It sounds like a post-release justification for a massive blunder.
Ballmer was absolutely correct in emphasizing the one thing that really matters for any platform.
Developers, Developers, Developers
Read the first blog response link.
Essentially, the guy says he was taken out of context, but if you read the note he fired off to correct the error, he also goes on to explain that the iPhone is simply not selling well in Japan. He claims this is Softbank's marketing problem, but it points to a larger problem that the demand for the product has already been filled in the first few months after release.
Those who want it have it. Everyone else is indifferent.
It is instinctive that people want to feel that they are making the right decisions. So when other people act similarly they receive validation that their choices are correct, even in minor lifestyle choices like buying Apple products.
So when a whole country (well, not really) rejects a lifestyle choice that an iPhone user made, it makes them uncomfortable and they try to find reasons why their choice is different from the foreign norm. In this case, either they try to invalidate the data (which is hard to do) or they try to explain away the problem by diminishing the importance of the data.
It is just a phone, but for many people it is also an expression of their personality. They don't want to be diminished, so they seek out those who are like-minded. This is the same type of behavior that can be seen at comic book conventions, furry conventions, and Star Trek conventions. Those of us who have no horse in this race should probably just stay as far away from the commotion as possible.
How do you like F#?
Yes, it may be true that languages are essentially equivalent, but that doesn't mean that some languages don't make some tasks easier for the programmer than the other.
If you had a task that had serious text processing, surely you would use C++ over Haskell or Lisp. On the other hand, if you needed to do AI, you would use Forth instead of Pascal. Graphics means using a well supported library, so Perl/Tk is the better choice than Java/Swing.
So while programming languages may be equivalent at some theoretical baseline, they are designed to address specific issues and often provide better support for some tasks and worse support for others. Using a combination of languages is a very good idea, but it also takes a lot of discipline to keep interfaces well defined.