Maybe I'm being petulant, but at least I'm not contributing to Windows 8.
There are a lot of opinions on slashdot, but one of the most common is "A inhibits innovation." Where A is Microsoft, patents, copyrights, or a variety of other things.
I never thought I see someone on slashdot encouraging inhibiting innovation.
It does reflect the value of the company. Fairly accurately. The value of something is what people are willing to pay for it, not what you think it is worth. If I have a $100 bill, and I've got people willing to pay me $150 for it, guess what? That bill is worth $150. It doesn't really matter what the company assets are, or how much money it makes or can makes. Its value is what people are willing to pay for it.
If you said "50% of the global population has never heard of the MAFIAA or the BPI" I'd be more willing to accept your made up statistic. Shoot, if you had said 50% of the American population has never heard of the MAFIAA or the BPI, I'd consider you right.
But to even ATTEMPT to claim that 50% of the global population cannot stand the MAFIAA is, utterly wrong. I don't even know if 50% of slashdot can make that claim.
You do understand that the 3.99 has nothing to do with the cost of the source code distribution. You aren't being charged for the source code. You are being charged for the binary, which he is well within his rights to charge. I don't see anything in the GPL that says he has to give anyone who requests it, a copy of the source. He only has to give a copy of the source to those who also have the binary.
I may not have a "right" to drive in the US. But I do have a right to my privacy. If the government wants to know how fast I am driving they can measure my speed as I drive down the road. But that doesn't give them the right to figure out where I am, where I am going, where I've been. Whether I rev my engine while I'm waiting for the light. Whether I have passengers or any other information the can get from this box.
i would say that is pretty low. Even in British Pounds, 16ish K isn't a lot of development effort. Toss in the fact that they probably need to spend some money on equipment, that is insanely low. Must be paying their developers peanuts.
Also 52 pounds is low, but didn't we just hear there are only like a million Surfaces? And some of those might be Christmas presents, as in still sitting under the tree. And a bunch of others are probably development machines.
I think you are misunderstanding how it works. Give it a year (or two) when several hundred million people are using win 8 on their desktop at home and work. Then notice they can have the exact same interface on a tablet or phone...
The iPad (iOS is software, so it can't have a hardware button) does NOT have a hardware back button. It DOES have a button that returns you to the "desktop" The Surface has one of these things too. Can't say what other hardware devices do though.
YES, the back button is always visible. It doesn't scroll.
My ONLY issue with the app store, is there is no search. Instead it relies on the search charm.
But then again, Apple is on iOs 6 and its store is just starting to get usable (well actually it seems to have taken a turn for the worse in 6) Except for the search issue, the Microsoft App store is significantly better than Apples.
About the only time I get sick is when I fly transcontinental, or spend time with those that do. For a few years I was getting sick roughly half the time I flew. A couple of times I got sick, because my roommate flew.
Really you get sick from being around other people who are sick.
What were you hoping for? Elves? Faires? Pixel dust?
I find it fascinating that the heat from the electrical circuits is slowing this thing down. AND that they figured it out! Absolutely amazing.
The article is titled "Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly", and the article goes on to tell you how the found the source of the anomaly. This isn't about science and theory and conclusions. It was about detective work. Astounding that it reads like a detective novel. The whole point of the article was to ramble about the history.
These spacecraft accomplished something that isn’t likely to be repeated anytime soon: They completed a high-precision validation of Einstein’s theory of how gravity works, out to twice the distance between Pluto and the sun
Is the facebook profile set to "friends only" (doubt it with 200K views of the post) therefore wouldnt making the post BE making it public?
No
Consider that you have to be a member of Facebook, AND you pretty much have to check the page, or subscribe to it. Posts aren't easy to find, once they scroll to far.
If I hang up something on the billboard at the local coffeeshop, is it a public post? What if I hang it up somewhere where only members are only allowed to enter?
There might be some use in this if it led to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention, but I see nothing about that in TFA
TFA says
..so that police might potentially identify problem areas as they are emerging—or perhaps, one imagines, before they emerge.
I never said that it was a scientific conclusion. But it sounds like this stud could, potentially, lead to an accurate predictive formula. Of course it might not. But it seems to warrant further study. My point was TFA indicates it could lead to a prediction, something the OP fails to see in TFA.
Slashdot Mirror
Maybe I'm being petulant, but at least I'm not contributing to Windows 8.
There are a lot of opinions on slashdot, but one of the most common is "A inhibits innovation." Where A is Microsoft, patents, copyrights, or a variety of other things.
I never thought I see someone on slashdot encouraging inhibiting innovation.
I don't understand your point. How does 3 data points prove your point?
It does reflect the value of the company. Fairly accurately. The value of something is what people are willing to pay for it, not what you think it is worth. If I have a $100 bill, and I've got people willing to pay me $150 for it, guess what? That bill is worth $150. It doesn't really matter what the company assets are, or how much money it makes or can makes. Its value is what people are willing to pay for it.
If you said "50% of the global population has never heard of the MAFIAA or the BPI" I'd be more willing to accept your made up statistic. Shoot, if you had said 50% of the American population has never heard of the MAFIAA or the BPI, I'd consider you right. But to even ATTEMPT to claim that 50% of the global population cannot stand the MAFIAA is, utterly wrong. I don't even know if 50% of slashdot can make that claim.
Well, I discourage getting me gifts, because I'm an adult male.
I think you discourage getting gifts because you are a humbug. Has nothing to do with your being an adult, nor a male.
You do understand that the 3.99 has nothing to do with the cost of the source code distribution. You aren't being charged for the source code. You are being charged for the binary, which he is well within his rights to charge. I don't see anything in the GPL that says he has to give anyone who requests it, a copy of the source. He only has to give a copy of the source to those who also have the binary.
I may not have a "right" to drive in the US. But I do have a right to my privacy. If the government wants to know how fast I am driving they can measure my speed as I drive down the road. But that doesn't give them the right to figure out where I am, where I am going, where I've been. Whether I rev my engine while I'm waiting for the light. Whether I have passengers or any other information the can get from this box.
Or maybe the government will require the black boxes? In fact, isn't that what TFS is saying is going to happen?
i would say that is pretty low. Even in British Pounds, 16ish K isn't a lot of development effort. Toss in the fact that they probably need to spend some money on equipment, that is insanely low. Must be paying their developers peanuts.
Also 52 pounds is low, but didn't we just hear there are only like a million Surfaces? And some of those might be Christmas presents, as in still sitting under the tree. And a bunch of others are probably development machines.
I think you are misunderstanding how it works. Give it a year (or two) when several hundred million people are using win 8 on their desktop at home and work. Then notice they can have the exact same interface on a tablet or phone...
The iPad (iOS is software, so it can't have a hardware button) does NOT have a hardware back button. It DOES have a button that returns you to the "desktop" The Surface has one of these things too. Can't say what other hardware devices do though.
YES, the back button is always visible. It doesn't scroll.
My ONLY issue with the app store, is there is no search. Instead it relies on the search charm.
But then again, Apple is on iOs 6 and its store is just starting to get usable (well actually it seems to have taken a turn for the worse in 6) Except for the search issue, the Microsoft App store is significantly better than Apples.
Note that they can't fire you for being sick too often....That said, they can fire you for any reason - at least in work-at-will states.
So which is it? "any reason" includes "being sick too often"
I've known people to get bad yearly reviews because they used too much sick time.
This is the main reason that people at my old job didn't take sick time.
About the only time I get sick is when I fly transcontinental, or spend time with those that do. For a few years I was getting sick roughly half the time I flew. A couple of times I got sick, because my roommate flew.
Really you get sick from being around other people who are sick.
What were you hoping for? Elves? Faires? Pixel dust?
I find it fascinating that the heat from the electrical circuits is slowing this thing down. AND that they figured it out! Absolutely amazing.
The article is titled "Finding the Source of the Pioneer Anomaly", and the article goes on to tell you how the found the source of the anomaly. This isn't about science and theory and conclusions. It was about detective work. Astounding that it reads like a detective novel. The whole point of the article was to ramble about the history.
Quick summary for all the people who know the background, full story underneath for those who don't (or just like to re-read it...)
But... this IS the full story. The story is about how they found the source.
These spacecraft accomplished something that isn’t likely to be repeated anytime soon: They completed a high-precision validation of Einstein’s theory of how gravity works, out to twice the distance between Pluto and the sun
The article was about HOW they discovered and verified the theory. VERY interesting read.
The company's obligation is to make sure that the information is available to the public, not that it is noticed by every single member of the public.
But posting it to Facebook is not making it available to the public. It is making it available to the members of Facebook.
no, i was genuinely serious. I dont know how the rules work, but if you can only make public by specific channels, I find issue with that.
Not "specific channels" just public ones.
Is the facebook profile set to "friends only" (doubt it with 200K views of the post) therefore wouldnt making the post BE making it public?
No
Consider that you have to be a member of Facebook, AND you pretty much have to check the page, or subscribe to it. Posts aren't easy to find, once they scroll to far.
If I hang up something on the billboard at the local coffeeshop, is it a public post? What if I hang it up somewhere where only members are only allowed to enter?
Great, so here is a study that backs that assertion.
There might be some use in this if it led to an accurate predictive formula for preemptive intervention, but I see nothing about that in TFA
TFA says
..so that police might potentially identify problem areas as they are emerging—or perhaps, one imagines, before they emerge.
I never said that it was a scientific conclusion. But it sounds like this stud could, potentially, lead to an accurate predictive formula. Of course it might not. But it seems to warrant further study. My point was TFA indicates it could lead to a prediction, something the OP fails to see in TFA.