While I realize that this doesn't have nearly the trolling potential,
they really should have gone for something a little more ironic choice of religion like
"Fuck the Ordo Templi Orientis".
The US economy will lose 71,060 jobs due to piracy, with almost 38 percent of those (26,860) in the recording industry.
So the other 44200 come from what exactly?
I took a look at the study and discovered that the math behind this was well... interesting. All of the formulas are of the form:
(Final Demand in $) * (Allocation factor for a State) * (Category Y Final Demand multiplier for a State [Where Y =Output, Earnings or Employment]).
This is then done over a bunch of states to get a Total figure for each Category.
This really sounds like a bunch of baloohey to me (come on straight up multiplication using shadowy figures to model complex interactions),
but I don't really have an economics background.
Any armchair economists want to explain why this is/isn't a completely bullshit approach?
Instruction Set for The Ramones Edition
GO r - Unconditional jumps to the value stored in register r
IO x,r1,r2 - Performs memory IO. Reads from the memory location x and stores the result in register r1 and writes r2 to x
LETS r1,r2,r3 - Performs a Less or Equal to Signed comparison between r1 and r2 and stores a 1 in r3 if true and a 0 in r3 if false
The instructions for the program of a blitzkrieg of NOP goes like this:
IO LETS GO IO LETS GO IO LETS GO IO LETS GO
If you have read this far and you still don't get it, here you go.
Public education is far from an obvious choice of the "failure" of social government programs. It has issues out the wahzoo, but just quickly imagine going back to the days of fully private education. Disenfranchisement and degradation of modern society here we come.
Now to be fairer to your original point, does this example illustrate the danger of knee jerk assholes in positions of power who do not do a better job of thinking these policies out before they implement them? Yes.
A) Scientists prefer to think of morality from utilitarian perspective as the future utility of their results MIGHT overweight what they did to get there. Now we all know that the ends don't justify the means expect when they do. This is about the point at which everyone throws up their hands and makes a personal decision about a morality question they can not answer.
B)
vehicles that produce no pollution . I am not sure exactly what you mean by this but I am fairly sure it is ridiculous any which way it is taken. The proper answer probably comes from the set {It is called a bicycle/horse and no one gives a shit, See laws of thermodynamics}.
I have this sneaking hunch Elton John doesn't have a very normal outlook on reality. From TFA:
We're talking about things that are going to change the world and change the way people listen to music and that's not going to happen with people blogging on the internet.
Hopefully the next movement in music will tear down the internet.
Let's get out in the streets and march and protest instead of sitting at home and blogging.
I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that span.
You know that old quotation "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail". Well I guess when your life is devoted to ridiculous sunglasses, Disney soundtracks, outrageous/silly costumes and mediocre pop music, you start to get an overinflated sense of music's role in society.
Next week on slashdot: sculptors suggest we rip out highways so that people can better appreciate sculptures and fountains.
Yeah the patent office really missed the boat that go around. Come on, I mean missing all of the prior art found in apes.
The gorillas didn't have the money to fund a law suit. The chimps at least tried taking this court, but would you know it, Alberto Gonzales refused to prosecute God. (And you had no clue his crappy memory was just the result of him being over 5k years old.)
And while the farm is an urban vision, the dynamo-floor principle can also be applied to capturing energy at places like rock concerts, too. "Greater movement of people could make the music louder," suggests Jurcyzk.
Truly visionary. I can see it now. [dreamlike swirling effect]
Concert Goer A - "I still can't hear the band"
Concert Goer B - "Mosh Harder!"...
70 minutes goes by...
Concert Goes A - "Oh god I can't feel my legs anymore. I need to take a break."
Concert Goer B - "I paid 60 dollars for this ticket and drove 200 miles. You are going to mosh whether you like it or not!"
When IEEE 802.3ba was originally proposed [there] were multiple possible speeds that were being discussed, including 40, 80, 100, and 120Gbps. While there options were eventually narrowed down to just two, 40 and 100Gbps, the HSSG had difficulties [deciding] on the one specific speed they wanted to become the new standard...
Slashdot editors and their homonyms have a wonderful relationship. There may be "there"s in the summary, but they're subject their edits.
[rant] I swear every single time microsoft does some form of asshatery someone on slashdot makes some form of the same idealistic knee-jerk response "Wow finally this is going to be the last straw. Everyone will stop using Microsoft. Hurray!". And it gets modded +4-5 Insightful. This has been happening since at least 1999 (when I started reading/.). Please stop it. Stop posting these comments (or at least be funny while you do it). Microsoft is around to stay for a long time. There is an entrenched application, user and developer base and this isn't changing overnight despite our best wishes and hard work. [/rant]
If you have not been paying attention since the telephone, most modern major technology breakthroughs for consumers are also breakthroughs in advertising. I am not being entirely cynical either.
Think of radio, TV, and internet. These are huge society changing information technologies. Sure this technology is great and all to consumers, but the supply doesn't really take off until someone foots the bill. So far what has footed the bill is Phillip Morris, Kellogs, GM and Viagra.
You could argue one doesn't want to be the politician with his black and white picture on top of pictures of people on fire, but burn victims don't get telethons and specials on 20/20.
Hmmm... this is exactly what I thought at first. But I figured "What if I just gave him the benefit of the doubt? Assuming he isn't just an attention grabbing whore, why in the world would this possibly matter or help over NaN?"
So lets go out on a couple of limbs and see what in the world nullity gives you over NaN.
In the examples, either x or y is equal to NaN and w = % (% = nullity) and v is a real number.
So for summation:
x + y returns NaN
w + v = 0/0 + v/1 = ((0*1)/(0*1)) + ((v * 0)/(1*0)) = (0*1 + v*0)/(1*0) = (0+0)/0 = 0/0 = %
Damn it! That is the same. How about multiplication?
x * y returns NaN
w * v = (0/0) * v = (0*v)/0 = 0/0 = %
Darn, same under multiplication. Alrighty, division by nullity?
v / w = v/(0/0) = v * %^-1 = v * % = %
Maybe nullity divided by nullity?
w / w = w * w^-1 = % * % ^-1 = % * % = %
Crap. Fine whip out the exponents.
x ^ y returns NaN
w ^ v = (0/0) ^ v = (0 ^ v)/(0 ^ v)
If v!=0 => 0 ^ v = 0 and 0/0 = % so return %;
Else => v = 0 and 0 ^ 0 = % so %/% = % return %;
That didn't work. What is a real number raised to nullity?
(Note this works in both directions)
v ^ w = v ^ (0/0) = v ^ (1 * 0/0) = v ^ ((0*1)/0) = v ^ (0*(1/0)) = (v ^ 0) ^ (1/0)
If v = 0 =>
(v ^ 0 )= % and % ^ +inf = % so return %
Else =>
v !=0 and v ^ 0 = 1, and as 1 ^ (+/-inf) = 1 so return 1
Wait what? ... ... ...
So v != 0 => v ^ % = 1 while all operations involving NaN return NaN.....
So I guess % and NaN are not the same.......
I have no clue how this helps anything though.
Maybe it helps with logarithms?
1 = v ^ %
take the log of both sides
log 1 = log v ^ %
log 1 = 0
% * log v = %
so 0 = %
Huh?
Oh screw this!
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On a related note, examples of cycles of genetic information have been known since 1822. For a proof of concept see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0s5Kn9QXtU
And the people without cell phones are disenfranchised. It is all going according to plan.
While I realize that this doesn't have nearly the trolling potential, they really should have gone for something a little more ironic choice of religion like "Fuck the Ordo Templi Orientis".
So the other 44200 come from what exactly?
I took a look at the study and discovered that the math behind this was well... interesting. All of the formulas are of the form:
(Final Demand in $) * (Allocation factor for a State) * (Category Y Final Demand multiplier for a State [Where Y =Output, Earnings or Employment]).
This is then done over a bunch of states to get a Total figure for each Category.
This really sounds like a bunch of baloohey to me (come on straight up multiplication using shadowy figures to model complex interactions), but I don't really have an economics background.
Any armchair economists want to explain why this is/isn't a completely bullshit approach?
GO r - Unconditional jumps to the value stored in register r
IO x,r1,r2 - Performs memory IO. Reads from the memory location x and stores the result in register r1 and writes r2 to x
LETS r1,r2,r3 - Performs a Less or Equal to Signed comparison between r1 and r2 and stores a 1 in r3 if true and a 0 in r3 if false
The instructions for the program of a blitzkrieg of NOP goes like this: IO LETS GO IO LETS GO IO LETS GO IO LETS GO
If you have read this far and you still don't get it, here you go.
Public education is far from an obvious choice of the "failure" of social government programs. It has issues out the wahzoo, but just quickly imagine going back to the days of fully private education. Disenfranchisement and degradation of modern society here we come.
Now to be fairer to your original point, does this example illustrate the danger of knee jerk assholes in positions of power who do not do a better job of thinking these policies out before they implement them? Yes.
Next week on slashdot: sculptors suggest we rip out highways so that people can better appreciate sculptures and fountains.
Yeah the patent office really missed the boat that go around. Come on, I mean missing all of the prior art found in apes.
The gorillas didn't have the money to fund a law suit. The chimps at least tried taking this court, but would you know it, Alberto Gonzales refused to prosecute God. (And you had no clue his crappy memory was just the result of him being over 5k years old.)
Then do I have a brand new product for you . Its really new so I thought I'd tell you about it. Wave of the future man.
[rant] /.). Please stop it. Stop posting these comments (or at least be funny while you do it). Microsoft is around to stay for a long time. There is an entrenched application, user and developer base and this isn't changing overnight despite our best wishes and hard work.
I swear every single time microsoft does some form of asshatery someone on slashdot makes some form of the same idealistic knee-jerk response "Wow finally this is going to be the last straw. Everyone will stop using Microsoft. Hurray!". And it gets modded +4-5 Insightful. This has been happening since at least 1999 (when I started reading
[/rant]
If you have not been paying attention since the telephone, most modern major technology breakthroughs for consumers are also breakthroughs in advertising. I am not being entirely cynical either.
Think of radio, TV, and internet. These are huge society changing information technologies. Sure this technology is great and all to consumers, but the supply doesn't really take off until someone foots the bill. So far what has footed the bill is Phillip Morris, Kellogs, GM and Viagra.
Hmmm... this is exactly what I thought at first. But I figured "What if I just gave him the benefit of the doubt? Assuming he isn't just an attention grabbing whore, why in the world would this possibly matter or help over NaN?"
...
...
... .....
So lets go out on a couple of limbs and see what in the world nullity gives you over NaN.
In the examples, either x or y is equal to NaN and w = % (% = nullity) and v is a real number.
So for summation:
x + y returns NaN
w + v = 0/0 + v/1 = ((0*1)/(0*1)) + ((v * 0)/(1*0)) = (0*1 + v*0)/(1*0) = (0+0)/0 = 0/0 = %
Damn it! That is the same. How about multiplication?
x * y returns NaN
w * v = (0/0) * v = (0*v)/0 = 0/0 = %
Darn, same under multiplication. Alrighty, division by nullity?
v / w = v/(0/0) = v * %^-1 = v * % = %
Maybe nullity divided by nullity?
w / w = w * w^-1 = % * % ^-1 = % * % = %
Crap. Fine whip out the exponents.
x ^ y returns NaN
w ^ v = (0/0) ^ v = (0 ^ v)/(0 ^ v)
If v!=0 => 0 ^ v = 0 and 0/0 = % so return %;
Else => v = 0 and 0 ^ 0 = % so %/% = % return %;
That didn't work. What is a real number raised to nullity?
(Note this works in both directions)
v ^ w = v ^ (0/0) = v ^ (1 * 0/0) = v ^ ((0*1)/0) = v ^ (0*(1/0)) = (v ^ 0) ^ (1/0)
If v = 0 =>
(v ^ 0 )= % and % ^ +inf = % so return %
Else =>
v !=0 and v ^ 0 = 1, and as 1 ^ (+/-inf) = 1 so return 1
Wait what?
So v != 0 => v ^ % = 1 while all operations involving NaN return NaN
So I guess % and NaN are not the same.......
I have no clue how this helps anything though.
Maybe it helps with logarithms?
1 = v ^ %
take the log of both sides
log 1 = log v ^ %
log 1 = 0
% * log v = %
so 0 = %
Huh?
Oh screw this!