So you'd think that a business would research and develop a phone to give to it's employees to come up with great ways of using it, and then not sell that phone to comsumers, just the software?
I'm still not convinced that Google did much research and development on this phone. My guess is that they went to HTC and said "if we give you some money, can you create a version of the Android phones that you've already made that also has features X and Y, and give us the first 20,000 that you manufacture?" I doubt it would cost HTC much to do a slightly-custom device (I heard someone else mention that that's actually how HTC started their business).
The biggest problem with PHP is that anyone can use it. That is also why a lot of PHP is messy, imo.
I do hope PHP goes out of style and Python or Scala take its place. PERL is more or less dead but I'd rather see that come back than see PHP stick around.
You honestly think that the idiots out there writing horrible PHP code won't write equally horrible code in whatever other language you put in front of them?
Wrong - the language makes a huge difference. Try using the c api and CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS and CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS and concatenating 10,000 queries into one request, then using mysql_next_result() to get the next result set (no, not the next row, the next result set - 0 or more rows).
One connection. Not 10,000. A BIG difference in execution time.
Are you trying to imply that PHP establishes an entirely new connection to the database for every query? If so, you basically lose all credibility you might otherwise have.
If you release under GPL (NOT LGPL) you will get bug fixes and improvements because anyone who makes bug fixes or improvements, and intends to distribute them, must give them back to you.
I don't think that's necessarily true. If I remember correctly, the GPL only requires making the source code available to those that you distribute the software to. The GPL doesn't require making source code available to the general public. Of course, someone that's distributing modified GPL software can't stop one of their customers from sending the source code to you, but you can't just demand the modified source code.
I think my wording just wasn't clear. My original intent was essentially to argue against the advertisement using proof by contradiction. There are only two possibile ways that an average worker could earn money from a movie: straight salary and roaylties. If workers can't make enough money from salary, it would be because there's less work for them. The only way that people illegally obtaining movies could lead to less work is because the studios aren't making enough money to continue creating new movies. The box office record contradicts that premise, though. Since there isn't a decrease in work resulting to less salary, the only other way people would be losing money from the movies is because of decreased royalties, which the workers don't receive. Therefore, if I've covered all the relevent branches of this logic tree, there's no reason for the workers to be losing money, and the advertisement is a blatant lie.
The logic employed by the MPAA is that piracy reduces sales, which in turn leads to cost cutting in the industry, which in turn leads to fewer films being made (ie. studios taking fewer chances on risky, smaller productions) or cutting costs by employing fewer people or moving productions to other countries.
I'm sure that would be the logic that they use, but the main point of this news item is that it's completely false.
And since I'm not an expert in philosophy and logic, I'd be curious to know what part of my statement is a straw man. The initial statement (assuming the person posting it is correct) was that the manual labor workers weren't getting paid enough money because of people illegally obtaining copies of the movies that they worked on. My response was that it doesn't matter how many people pay to see a movie and how many obtain it illegally, because the workers have already been paid the only salary that they would ever get from that movie. Of course you could try to argue that reduced sales would lead to less work for them, but the report of record income seems to counter that pretty well.
Back in college I saw an ad before a movie where a stunt double, key grip and other low paid stagehands were filmed in front of their families, eating and doing things with them. Then they would look up and say something to effect of, "I can't feed my family. Because thieves steal my work online."
If I remember correctly, the amusing part of that is that the only ones that get paid royalties are the big-name groups, like the writer, director (I think), and actors. I don't think any of the construction workers, camera operators, or costume designers get anything other than a straight salary.
Why is it that news stories about movie revenues never take inflation into account?
From the summary: "With an estimated $10.6 billion in consumer spending at the US and Canadian box office, the movie industry will break the 2008 record by nearly a billion dollars."
If inflation were somewhere around 10%, I would imagine that we'd have bigger problems to deal with.
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
Not only that, but unused bandwidth is essentially wasted. Water that isn't used can be saved for later, as can fuel that's used to generate electricity. You can't have a 1 Mbps line idle for a day and then get 2 Mbps from it the next day.
A computer is going to be more accurate and faster than a person with the same data.
If you've actually got the algorithms to back that up, you'd be a pioneer in AI.
Want to prove it? Dial Goog-411. That's right, that's Google doing voice-recognition. And their massive cluster still sometimes has to make you wait a few seconds while they try to figure out what the hell you said.
I would think that there's a slight difference between determining the vector from one known object (the local player) to another known object (an enemy in the local player's viewport) and doing voice recognition.
That would be mostly correct if you follow a literal reading of the Torah (except for the Joseph/priesthood part; the priests were the descendants of Aaron, who was a Levite several generations removed from Levi. Joseph's tribe actually ends up getting split between his sons Ephraim and Menasseh). While there was most likely some religious aspects to the society, as there was in pretty much every society of the time, the civil laws would have existed long before anything recognizable as an organized religion.
I would add that, unlike Christianity and (as far as I know, and it's quite possible that I'm wrong) Islam, Jews as a political and cultural unit existed before the religious aspects. With Christianity, it started as a religious movement and didn't become associated with a political unit until its adoption by the Romans. The Torah actually has long, boring sections of very mundane civil law. Most people complain about the supernatural aspects of the text without realizing that there's more about how to handle an ox mauling the neighbor than there is about burning bushes.
The idea is ammusing and having the money donated to a open source project is cool but the prices are a tad high for my blood...
At the risk of being whooshed, I hope you noticed that it's basically just a donation in pretty much whatever amount you want. The lowest amount they have right now is $1.50, though I would understand if they made it $5.00 or $10.00.
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So you'd think that a business would research and develop a phone to give to it's employees to come up with great ways of using it, and then not sell that phone to comsumers, just the software?
I'm still not convinced that Google did much research and development on this phone. My guess is that they went to HTC and said "if we give you some money, can you create a version of the Android phones that you've already made that also has features X and Y, and give us the first 20,000 that you manufacture?" I doubt it would cost HTC much to do a slightly-custom device (I heard someone else mention that that's actually how HTC started their business).
Barely a mention about Android not actually being Linux at all
I don't think I've seen this before. Could you explain exactly why Android isn't "at all" Linux?
The details involved having his IT department's budget gutted to buy a penthouse for the CFO.
I hope it was a really good issue.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
The biggest problem with PHP is that anyone can use it. That is also why a lot of PHP is messy, imo. I do hope PHP goes out of style and Python or Scala take its place. PERL is more or less dead but I'd rather see that come back than see PHP stick around.
You honestly think that the idiots out there writing horrible PHP code won't write equally horrible code in whatever other language you put in front of them?
Wrong - the language makes a huge difference. Try using the c api and CLIENT_MULTI_RESULTS and CLIENT_MULTI_STATEMENTS and concatenating 10,000 queries into one request, then using mysql_next_result() to get the next result set (no, not the next row, the next result set - 0 or more rows).
One connection. Not 10,000. A BIG difference in execution time.
Are you trying to imply that PHP establishes an entirely new connection to the database for every query? If so, you basically lose all credibility you might otherwise have.
A PXE-booted Atom board has neither drives nor fans.
Discuss.
More people. (3,999,999 + 1) * $100 = $400,000,000, which is the cost mentioned in the summary.
I would seriously be interested in donating maybe a hundred dollars toward something like this, and I can't be the only one.
Find just 3,999,999 more, and you'll have enough for this mission.
Are you trying to say that 71% of people in the U.S. are assholes?
Haven't been paying attention, have you? You could change that from United States to worldwide, of course. I'd also say that 71% is a low estimate.
Proof is for mathematics and alcohol.
Definitely stealing this line.
You're confusing unilateral action against another nation with solitary defense from a group of other nations acting against your own nation.
YOUR MOTHER IS A CLBUTTY LADY!
Fixed that for you.
Now if only I could fix the stupid caps filter...
If you release under GPL (NOT LGPL) you will get bug fixes and improvements because anyone who makes bug fixes or improvements, and intends to distribute them, must give them back to you.
I don't think that's necessarily true. If I remember correctly, the GPL only requires making the source code available to those that you distribute the software to. The GPL doesn't require making source code available to the general public. Of course, someone that's distributing modified GPL software can't stop one of their customers from sending the source code to you, but you can't just demand the modified source code.
I think my wording just wasn't clear. My original intent was essentially to argue against the advertisement using proof by contradiction. There are only two possibile ways that an average worker could earn money from a movie: straight salary and roaylties. If workers can't make enough money from salary, it would be because there's less work for them. The only way that people illegally obtaining movies could lead to less work is because the studios aren't making enough money to continue creating new movies. The box office record contradicts that premise, though. Since there isn't a decrease in work resulting to less salary, the only other way people would be losing money from the movies is because of decreased royalties, which the workers don't receive. Therefore, if I've covered all the relevent branches of this logic tree, there's no reason for the workers to be losing money, and the advertisement is a blatant lie.
The logic employed by the MPAA is that piracy reduces sales, which in turn leads to cost cutting in the industry, which in turn leads to fewer films being made (ie. studios taking fewer chances on risky, smaller productions) or cutting costs by employing fewer people or moving productions to other countries.
I'm sure that would be the logic that they use, but the main point of this news item is that it's completely false.
And since I'm not an expert in philosophy and logic, I'd be curious to know what part of my statement is a straw man. The initial statement (assuming the person posting it is correct) was that the manual labor workers weren't getting paid enough money because of people illegally obtaining copies of the movies that they worked on. My response was that it doesn't matter how many people pay to see a movie and how many obtain it illegally, because the workers have already been paid the only salary that they would ever get from that movie. Of course you could try to argue that reduced sales would lead to less work for them, but the report of record income seems to counter that pretty well.
Back in college I saw an ad before a movie where a stunt double, key grip and other low paid stagehands were filmed in front of their families, eating and doing things with them. Then they would look up and say something to effect of, "I can't feed my family. Because thieves steal my work online."
If I remember correctly, the amusing part of that is that the only ones that get paid royalties are the big-name groups, like the writer, director (I think), and actors. I don't think any of the construction workers, camera operators, or costume designers get anything other than a straight salary.
Why is it that news stories about movie revenues never take inflation into account?
From the summary: "With an estimated $10.6 billion in consumer spending at the US and Canadian box office, the movie industry will break the 2008 record by nearly a billion dollars."
If inflation were somewhere around 10%, I would imagine that we'd have bigger problems to deal with.
And Ballmer can go fork himself!
Isn't one Ballmer enough?
To quote Babylon 5:
"Truth is a three-edged sword. One side is your truth, the other side is their truth, and the third side is the truth."
You mean paraphrase. To quote would be "Understanding is a three-edged sword; your side, their side, and the truth".
If you use more water, or more electricity, you're consuming finite resources that wouldn't be used otherwise. The same isn't true of bandwidth--the ISP is paying for a certain amount on their outgoing connections, regardless of whether or not uses are actively using it.
Not only that, but unused bandwidth is essentially wasted. Water that isn't used can be saved for later, as can fuel that's used to generate electricity. You can't have a 1 Mbps line idle for a day and then get 2 Mbps from it the next day.
A computer is going to be more accurate and faster than a person with the same data.
If you've actually got the algorithms to back that up, you'd be a pioneer in AI.
Want to prove it? Dial Goog-411. That's right, that's Google doing voice-recognition. And their massive cluster still sometimes has to make you wait a few seconds while they try to figure out what the hell you said.
I would think that there's a slight difference between determining the vector from one known object (the local player) to another known object (an enemy in the local player's viewport) and doing voice recognition.
That would be mostly correct if you follow a literal reading of the Torah (except for the Joseph/priesthood part; the priests were the descendants of Aaron, who was a Levite several generations removed from Levi. Joseph's tribe actually ends up getting split between his sons Ephraim and Menasseh). While there was most likely some religious aspects to the society, as there was in pretty much every society of the time, the civil laws would have existed long before anything recognizable as an organized religion.
I would add that, unlike Christianity and (as far as I know, and it's quite possible that I'm wrong) Islam, Jews as a political and cultural unit existed before the religious aspects. With Christianity, it started as a religious movement and didn't become associated with a political unit until its adoption by the Romans. The Torah actually has long, boring sections of very mundane civil law. Most people complain about the supernatural aspects of the text without realizing that there's more about how to handle an ox mauling the neighbor than there is about burning bushes.
Yeah, I did. What I saw is a bunch of links to other sites that define related phrases.
You mean all Google did was give you a bunch of links to other sites when you asked it about something? Say it ain't so!
The idea is ammusing and having the money donated to a open source project is cool but the prices are a tad high for my blood...
At the risk of being whooshed, I hope you noticed that it's basically just a donation in pretty much whatever amount you want. The lowest amount they have right now is $1.50, though I would understand if they made it $5.00 or $10.00.