I am not a serious gamer, so it comes as a surprise or even a shock to me.
30 years ago I used to play the console game "The Digger" by Windmill Software. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard was so painful, I wished for a joystick. After being a Rip van Winkle for this long, I see the claim keyboard has an unfair advantage and am shocked by it.
Informed customers making rational choices is the foundation of the rational markets theory. There was a Nobel Prize in Economics for the impact of asymmetric information between the buyer and the seller. Once the seller has more information than the customer their pricing power increases. It is already true even without Big Data. They do lots of focus group study and small experiments in the store lay out or product placement, media advertisement, same product in different packages and prices etc. But all of that was done in an aggregate/average sense. But with Big Data the producers know a lot more about you individually, and your power to negotiate will drop.
The article talks only about start-ups vs established players, comparing it to the cable TV operations in 1980s to the current situation in internet companies.
But there is a more insidious, a more disconcerting tilting of the playing field is happening. Before big-data and this level of data consolidation, commerce/trade happened between large mass of anonymous consumers and service/goods providers. The price information was public, and a few diligent consumers who compare prices, the informed consumers were mixed up with general public. Now the companies are able to cherry pick diligent informed consumers and give them special coupons, special deals and then raise the rack rate, the posted prices. So much of the consumer behavior is being captured, analyzed and the power of the general consumer is getting increasingly diluted.
So the established big companies are not only able to keep competition away by giving away most common services people want, they are also able to find the consumers who are likely to look for alternatives and keep them in the fold too.
This kind of power is not similar to cable tv operator vs giants in 1980s. It is more like 19th century London traders who had information about rainfall and estimated harvests from all over the world, and were dealing with uninformed local farmers in various parts of the world. Especially cotton and sugarcane. Say a bumper crop of cotton in South India might be happening while Egypt and south USA were hit by drought. But the Indian farmers might be selling to the agents of London traders at pennies instead of pounds. Today the companies can price products knowing exactly how much they can push you individually not as part of a large collective mass. The implications should frighten people.
But the entire modern GUI API is based on "event driven" programming. Replete with "OnRightButtonDown()" , "OnWindowClose()"... . These are nothing but COMEFROM statements. COMEFROM could be as harmful or even more harmful than GOTO. With a good design based on a valid state machines and object oriented code we not only handle these with east, we are successfully developing incredibly complex code.
So, no. We did not forget GOTO just because some authority figure railed against it. We replaced it with a better concepts like event loop, event dispatching, object orientation.
Even before it went commercial and public, some fora were completely burnt down waste land. soc.men and soc.women flame wars were the ones that probably coined the term. The caste wars in soc.culture.indian and the Sriankan civil war reverberating in soc.culture.tamil, it was not pretty.
But ages before Yelp and Amazon review, there was this "Indian Travel Agents Survery" circulating in soc.culture.indian.*
You could always post, "Would some kind soul point to me some code about circumsphere calculation of tetrahedrons?" and get some help in comp.lang.c
Courts have repeatedly ruled that aliens have constitutional rights, wherever US government has jurisdiction. The Law of the United States will treat all fairly, with due process. Even traitors, even people who have actively worked to undermine the very constitution that promises to give them due process. It also holds that where USA has jurisdiction, our constitution will trump override any other law. Thus a Mexican illegal immigrant in USA will be tried under US laws, not Mexican laws.
Then some court interpreted "where the United States have jurisdiction" to mean the "land of the United States". Thus came the famous, wet-foot / dry-foot issue with Cuban illegal immigrants. If Coast Guard catches them in the sea, they can be sent back to Cuba without any due process or hearing. But if they set foot on land, they suddenly acquire rights to due process and hearings!
Brain is one of the most complex organs we have, we have not fully understood many deep functions and mechanisms of it. And suddenly you want to pump electrons across this organ which seems to be mostly working on electro-chemistry?
The platform and the OS will be so securely locked down, all the worms and viruses must be signed by a Microsoft approved malware certificate authority.
We should add warning labels to all our physics books that Relativity is "just a theory" and give equal time to alternative explanations,like the "Intelligent-falling-ism"
This is the difference between humans and other advanced civilizations.
If humans want to build a highway, they just build it and don't bother too much about the disruptions and dislocations caused. Despite what you might have heard about them sneakily filing a redevelopment plan and filing it in a dark basement guarded by leopards, in reality they move the entire galaxy away before embarking on such a project. We are just beginning to understand them.
Once you size the powerplant big enough to produce X amount of power/thrust, it consumes more energy even when you run it at 10% of maximum thrust.
Now I have to take back this statement:
I do not see how changing the energy source from combustion to electro chemistry is going the change the physics of the problem.
Now I see how. Electric motors are very efficient. A 100kW gas turbine running at 10 kW would still consume too much fuel compared a gas turbine rated just for 10kW. But a 100 kW electric motor would still be as efficient at 10 kW or at least could be made that much efficient. Further electric motors are very compact, it might even be possible to have two motors one tuned for peak efficiency at 10 kW and another at 90 kW, and the heavier motor could be entirely shut off after take off. Except for the dead load of lugging around a heavier motor for 98% of the flight time... How about a heavy take off motor module, the rotor, electri motor and battery pack as a detachable independently flyable drone? Take off,. detach and fly back to base to lift the next aircraft. So many possibilities...
But still, if electric motor driven rotary wing aircraft become practical, the fixed wing aircraft driven by electric motors would become practical sooner. So they are still looking for a niche. The VTOL ability to compensate for limited range? Then electric-helicopter shuttles between suburban airports and urban hubs woule become viable before electric helicopter single rider uber thing.
[I am leaving auto gyros out, though they are technically rotary wing a/c]
In fixed wing aircraft the thrust from the jet or propeller equals the drag, and the lift produced by the wings. The lift to drag ratio for most aircraft will exceed 10. Thus the plane needs to produce one tenth of its weight as thrust. There are specialized aircraft gliders/sailplanes etc that can push this ratio up to 20. I vaguely recall something called Eppler airfoil that has a lift/drag ratio of 40 for a narrow range of Reynolds number.
But a helicoper needs to produce thrust equal to weight. Thus it can hover and take off and land vertically. But it consumes a lot more fuel than fixed wing aircraft. So much so that it is uneconomical even to serve as air taxis between a metro hub and the suburban airport.
People with deep pockets, military, has been trying various formats to get vertical take off and fixed wing efficiency. The tilt wing aircraft like the Osprey (C22?) have lots of stability issues during the transition. Vectored thrust aircraft like Harrier also suffers from fuel efficiency issues. I do not see how changing the energy source from combustion to electro chemistry is going the change the physics of the problem.
It can plant its two for arms a few steps up and roll the wheel up, move one arm up a step, then the other arm, haul the wheels up a step... I see this thing climbing stars with ease.
Amazon needs a whole department to think up castles in the sky, ahem sorry, warehouses in the sky, projects.
Musk beats them all single handedly. Expecting an announcement for a battery powered personal aircraft. "A souped up drone most likely. 120 miles range, 20 minutes to recharge. Just 50K USD. But before we ship that we will introduce a luxury version to pay for the factory and to amortize the R&D. 10 mile range, 12 hours to recharge, 1.2 million dollars. The model-3 will ship for 50K in 2045. Luxury plane in 2024"
Original Tesla too had very good ability to persuade people to give him money for grand projects. It is uncanny.
A Rolex - lasts for generations, holds and even increases in value with time. The next generation will value it.
Don't be so sure. Value of a thing is simply what someone would pay for it. The stockmarket has millions of trades on the same stock. Even with that level of track record, you can't be sure what someone would pay for some stock you own. Rolex? after several generations? You can't be sure
The younger generation these days don't value car ownership as much as the previous generations did. The uber like apps has changed the attitude. It would percolate to real estate next. Live in a dense area, sure to get uber fast. Live in the boondocks, you would own half an acre to mow and uber does not show up fast. Values will shift and change. Difficult to predict what will hold value over one or two generations.
Smart companies do it. For a reason. Yes it creates downtime. But yes it can save your company
You make the assumption they CXO want to save the company. Downtime costs happen this quarter. Benefit accrues to whoever is the CXO five years down the line. Why should current CEO save the a** of the next CEO. Squeeze the company dry, show as much revenue/profit as possible, cash the stock options and skip town. By the time they discover the shoddy backup vendor you hired to cut costs, had been saving the data in the "1TB" thumbdrives bought in some flea market in outer Mongolia, you are already well into wrecking the next company.
I have 2FA key fob from Schwab and Vanguard for my account with decent balance. If I lose it, I need to call the 800 number and go through some verification and then a new key fob will arrive by mail, or so they promise me. I might not be able trade during part of that period but otherwise why would one eschew 2FA itself for the fear of losing the key fob.
My concern was not losing it, but how to make it work with Quicken.
Only when hyperthreading is turned on, it runs two threads on each processor. When it is not turned on, each processor runs only one thread.
Looks like Oracle was not checking this flag and was counting it as half a cpu even hyperthreading is off. They corrected this. People who turn on hyperthreading will see their virtual processor be counted as half a cpu.
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30 years ago I used to play the console game "The Digger" by Windmill Software. Using the arrow keys on the keyboard was so painful, I wished for a joystick. After being a Rip van Winkle for this long, I see the claim keyboard has an unfair advantage and am shocked by it.
Informed customers making rational choices is the foundation of the rational markets theory. There was a Nobel Prize in Economics for the impact of asymmetric information between the buyer and the seller. Once the seller has more information than the customer their pricing power increases. It is already true even without Big Data. They do lots of focus group study and small experiments in the store lay out or product placement, media advertisement, same product in different packages and prices etc. But all of that was done in an aggregate/average sense. But with Big Data the producers know a lot more about you individually, and your power to negotiate will drop.
But there is a more insidious, a more disconcerting tilting of the playing field is happening. Before big-data and this level of data consolidation, commerce/trade happened between large mass of anonymous consumers and service/goods providers. The price information was public, and a few diligent consumers who compare prices, the informed consumers were mixed up with general public. Now the companies are able to cherry pick diligent informed consumers and give them special coupons, special deals and then raise the rack rate, the posted prices. So much of the consumer behavior is being captured, analyzed and the power of the general consumer is getting increasingly diluted.
So the established big companies are not only able to keep competition away by giving away most common services people want, they are also able to find the consumers who are likely to look for alternatives and keep them in the fold too.
This kind of power is not similar to cable tv operator vs giants in 1980s. It is more like 19th century London traders who had information about rainfall and estimated harvests from all over the world, and were dealing with uninformed local farmers in various parts of the world. Especially cotton and sugarcane. Say a bumper crop of cotton in South India might be happening while Egypt and south USA were hit by drought. But the Indian farmers might be selling to the agents of London traders at pennies instead of pounds. Today the companies can price products knowing exactly how much they can push you individually not as part of a large collective mass. The implications should frighten people.
Were you in comp.land.c back in the day? They would ask for all sorts of things, from obvious cs101 home work problems to esoteric things.
But the entire modern GUI API is based on "event driven" programming. Replete with "OnRightButtonDown()" , "OnWindowClose()" ... . These are nothing but COMEFROM statements. COMEFROM could be as harmful or even more harmful than GOTO. With a good design based on a valid state machines and object oriented code we not only handle these with east, we are successfully developing incredibly complex code.
So, no. We did not forget GOTO just because some authority figure railed against it. We replaced it with a better concepts like event loop, event dispatching, object orientation.
But ages before Yelp and Amazon review, there was this "Indian Travel Agents Survery" circulating in soc.culture.indian.*
You could always post, "Would some kind soul point to me some code about circumsphere calculation of tetrahedrons?" and get some help in comp.lang.c
Now get off my lawn.
Similarly Trump also did not really ban people from the seven countries right? Green card holders can come in, people already en-route are allowed.
Then some court interpreted "where the United States have jurisdiction" to mean the "land of the United States". Thus came the famous, wet-foot / dry-foot issue with Cuban illegal immigrants. If Coast Guard catches them in the sea, they can be sent back to Cuba without any due process or hearing. But if they set foot on land, they suddenly acquire rights to due process and hearings!
What if the night janitor is bribed to plug in an usb dongle to some exposed usb port in some machine?
Brain is one of the most complex organs we have, we have not fully understood many deep functions and mechanisms of it. And suddenly you want to pump electrons across this organ which seems to be mostly working on electro-chemistry?
The platform and the OS will be so securely locked down, all the worms and viruses must be signed by a Microsoft approved malware certificate authority.
So as well protected as the nuclear facility in Qum, Iran, right?
They can lock/brake the wheels too. Then both fore arms can move up simultaneously.
We should add warning labels to all our physics books that Relativity is "just a theory" and give equal time to alternative explanations,like the "Intelligent-falling-ism"
If humans want to build a highway, they just build it and don't bother too much about the disruptions and dislocations caused. Despite what you might have heard about them sneakily filing a redevelopment plan and filing it in a dark basement guarded by leopards, in reality they move the entire galaxy away before embarking on such a project. We are just beginning to understand them.
Now I have to take back this statement:
I do not see how changing the energy source from combustion to electro chemistry is going the change the physics of the problem.
Now I see how. Electric motors are very efficient. A 100kW gas turbine running at 10 kW would still consume too much fuel compared a gas turbine rated just for 10kW. But a 100 kW electric motor would still be as efficient at 10 kW or at least could be made that much efficient. Further electric motors are very compact, it might even be possible to have two motors one tuned for peak efficiency at 10 kW and another at 90 kW, and the heavier motor could be entirely shut off after take off. Except for the dead load of lugging around a heavier motor for 98% of the flight time... How about a heavy take off motor module, the rotor, electri motor and battery pack as a detachable independently flyable drone? Take off,. detach and fly back to base to lift the next aircraft. So many possibilities...
But still, if electric motor driven rotary wing aircraft become practical, the fixed wing aircraft driven by electric motors would become practical sooner. So they are still looking for a niche. The VTOL ability to compensate for limited range? Then electric-helicopter shuttles between suburban airports and urban hubs woule become viable before electric helicopter single rider uber thing.
In fixed wing aircraft the thrust from the jet or propeller equals the drag, and the lift produced by the wings. The lift to drag ratio for most aircraft will exceed 10. Thus the plane needs to produce one tenth of its weight as thrust. There are specialized aircraft gliders/sailplanes etc that can push this ratio up to 20. I vaguely recall something called Eppler airfoil that has a lift/drag ratio of 40 for a narrow range of Reynolds number.
But a helicoper needs to produce thrust equal to weight. Thus it can hover and take off and land vertically. But it consumes a lot more fuel than fixed wing aircraft. So much so that it is uneconomical even to serve as air taxis between a metro hub and the suburban airport.
People with deep pockets, military, has been trying various formats to get vertical take off and fixed wing efficiency. The tilt wing aircraft like the Osprey (C22?) have lots of stability issues during the transition. Vectored thrust aircraft like Harrier also suffers from fuel efficiency issues. I do not see how changing the energy source from combustion to electro chemistry is going the change the physics of the problem.
It can plant its two for arms a few steps up and roll the wheel up, move one arm up a step, then the other arm, haul the wheels up a step ... I see this thing climbing stars with ease.
Musk beats them all single handedly. Expecting an announcement for a battery powered personal aircraft. "A souped up drone most likely. 120 miles range, 20 minutes to recharge. Just 50K USD. But before we ship that we will introduce a luxury version to pay for the factory and to amortize the R&D. 10 mile range, 12 hours to recharge, 1.2 million dollars. The model-3 will ship for 50K in 2045. Luxury plane in 2024"
Original Tesla too had very good ability to persuade people to give him money for grand projects. It is uncanny.
A Rolex - lasts for generations, holds and even increases in value with time. The next generation will value it.
Don't be so sure. Value of a thing is simply what someone would pay for it. The stockmarket has millions of trades on the same stock. Even with that level of track record, you can't be sure what someone would pay for some stock you own. Rolex? after several generations? You can't be sure
The younger generation these days don't value car ownership as much as the previous generations did. The uber like apps has changed the attitude. It would percolate to real estate next. Live in a dense area, sure to get uber fast. Live in the boondocks, you would own half an acre to mow and uber does not show up fast. Values will shift and change. Difficult to predict what will hold value over one or two generations.
Smart companies do it. For a reason. Yes it creates downtime. But yes it can save your company
You make the assumption they CXO want to save the company. Downtime costs happen this quarter. Benefit accrues to whoever is the CXO five years down the line. Why should current CEO save the a** of the next CEO. Squeeze the company dry, show as much revenue/profit as possible, cash the stock options and skip town. By the time they discover the shoddy backup vendor you hired to cut costs, had been saving the data in the "1TB" thumbdrives bought in some flea market in outer Mongolia, you are already well into wrecking the next company.
This. I do this.
My concern was not losing it, but how to make it work with Quicken.
Looks like Oracle was not checking this flag and was counting it as half a cpu even hyperthreading is off. They corrected this. People who turn on hyperthreading will see their virtual processor be counted as half a cpu.
Installing root kits on computers that play their CD, DVD etc and pissing off the customer base. That was A-OK.