It just isn't funny when there is an obvious path to profit. The whole running gag came about from gnomes stealing underpants in pursuit of profit. It was a social comment on all of the dot coms of the day holding to blind faith that what they were doing would lead to profit. Applying the joke to fraud is like.. oh I don't know... talking about gross pictures and then linking to goatse.
> Do I feel deceived Jennifer C.'s tears were fake? Hmmmmm.... had she "acted" them, what would have made them any more real?
Maybe the director "accidentially" allowing her to overhear him tell some crew members that her mother had died but not to let Jennifer know until the shoot was over as the cameraman discreetly rolls film.
I have heard that is a true story about how a director once got a tearful performance out of a female actor.
So someone threatens to kill your family (or some other similar threat) if you do not confess in court to a crime, and later when that person is no longer available to threaten your family you cannot go back to the court and claim coersion?
That seems like a loophole in the law. What if the police you are dealing with are corrupt and make this threat?
Now add a bunch of connections between all of those neurons. As you approach fully connecting the network, the time complexity to compute one time-step approaches O(N^2) where N is the number of neurons.
2^20 * 2^20 == 2^40. Ignore memory cache constraints for a moment and say each update takes 1 clock cycle. Since we are dual core we can get 2 updates per cycle. Each clock cycles takes 500pS. 2^40*500ps/2 means each complete brain update takes 274s on your computer.
I have no idea which one I meant. My history is not as sharp as it could be. I have vague memories about learning that some very old company call the East India Trading Company was one of the most powerful organizations on the planet at one point so I decided to shoot from the hip (so to speak) in a slashdot reply.
I think Bill Gates is driven by a desire to change the world for a better place. There is no way he would have stayed at Microsoft for as long as he has if making money was his primary drive.
Scientists go to the North Pole build a doomsday vault so that they will have food in case of a global catastrophe. They discover that a hidden chamber with alien hieroglyphics on the seal. Through careful study and in-depth analysis they decipher the code and learn that WE are the doomsday vault that an ancient race prepared in case of a global catastrophe. The seal is broken. The Old Ones begin to return from the deep unknown to feed.
Expectation is not a binary state. I can have different levels of confidence in my expectation.
Say that I am observing one feature of a physical system (say the level of tank of water that is filling up). I know what my last depth measurement was and I know how much water is entering the tank so I can build an expectation of what my next measurement will be. That expectation will have a confidence that is based on my confidence of my previous readings, the accuracy of my sensor, and the amount of noise in the system. If the error in those factors is very high, I may have a very vague expectation of future sensor readings.
In the case of the article, there may have a few information leaks that made people think those titles might be coming, but nothing definite -- thus a vague expectation.
Most of those workers receive union wages and are not entitled to a cut of the profits anyway. They are only screwing a few big names and they probably feel just as justified about that as 25 million Americans do about screwing the fat cat executives.
Copyright law says that you may not copy an artist's work without the permission of the copyright owner. By living in a society which has copyright law you implicitly agree to those rules. If you do not want to follow them you have three options: 1. Violate the law and accept the risk of consequences. 2. Work to change the laws. 3. Leave the society for another society.
Let's extend this analogy to work/money. The law says it is illegal to steal and that you have to engage in commerce to make money. If you do not like this, you have three options: 1. Steal from rich people and hope you do not get caught. 2. Work to change the law so that your society becomes communist/socialist/monarchist (where you are the monarch) or whatever other social system allows you to get something for nothing. 3. Leave the society to join a commune or found a cult or something.
The people who are already pirating do not care and higher prices just encourage more people to pirate. If your statement is true then the studios are run by morons.
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Hasn't fission already been invented? Heck, I am pretty sure that even *controlled* fission has already been invented.
I think Albert Einstein might have had something to do with thinking up fission. I do not know who is responsible for the first nuclear reactor.
So, I guess in answer to your question: the person who thought it up.
It just isn't funny when there is an obvious path to profit. The whole running gag came about from gnomes stealing underpants in pursuit of profit. It was a social comment on all of the dot coms of the day holding to blind faith that what they were doing would lead to profit. Applying the joke to fraud is like.. oh I don't know... talking about gross pictures and then linking to goatse.
> Do I feel deceived Jennifer C.'s tears were fake? Hmmmmm.... had she "acted" them, what would have made them any more real?
Maybe the director "accidentially" allowing her to overhear him tell some crew members that her mother had died but not to let Jennifer know until the shoot was over as the cameraman discreetly rolls film.
I have heard that is a true story about how a director once got a tearful performance out of a female actor.
#2 is very easy to fill in in this case.
1. Produce fraudulent recordings
2. Sell the fraudulent recordings
3. Profit!
So someone threatens to kill your family (or some other similar threat) if you do not confess in court to a crime, and later when that person is no longer available to threaten your family you cannot go back to the court and claim coersion?
That seems like a loophole in the law. What if the police you are dealing with are corrupt and make this threat?
Really? A convicted criminal couldn't appeal on the grounds that his confession was coerced? What are appeals then?
Now add a bunch of connections between all of those neurons. As you approach fully connecting the network, the time complexity to compute one time-step approaches O(N^2) where N is the number of neurons.
2^20 * 2^20 == 2^40. Ignore memory cache constraints for a moment and say each update takes 1 clock cycle. Since we are dual core we can get 2 updates per cycle. Each clock cycles takes 500pS. 2^40*500ps/2 means each complete brain update takes 274s on your computer.
I have no idea which one I meant. My history is not as sharp as it could be. I have vague memories about learning that some very old company call the East India Trading Company was one of the most powerful organizations on the planet at one point so I decided to shoot from the hip (so to speak) in a slashdot reply.
I think Bill Gates is driven by a desire to change the world for a better place. There is no way he would have stayed at Microsoft for as long as he has if making money was his primary drive.
Don't forget the East India Trading Company.
Or a twilight zone episode.
Or maybe an H. P. Lovecraft story...
Scientists go to the North Pole build a doomsday vault so that they will have food in case of a global catastrophe. They discover that a hidden chamber with alien hieroglyphics on the seal. Through careful study and in-depth analysis they decipher the code and learn that WE are the doomsday vault that an ancient race prepared in case of a global catastrophe. The seal is broken. The Old Ones begin to return from the deep unknown to feed.
I wonder what CDs should cost the record companies to manufacture given that they were more expensive to produce in 1985.
How are they able to "require" three months notice?
Or maybe the VP at the company posted this pretending to be the fired employee so that his lawsuit would do better in court.
It is not a joke. My wife and I are really upset about it. Why is everyone laughing at me? My poor cat may or may not be dead.
My cat didn't come home last week and might be dead right now, you insensitive clod!
Expectation is not a binary state. I can have different levels of confidence in my expectation.
Say that I am observing one feature of a physical system (say the level of tank of water that is filling up). I know what my last depth measurement was and I know how much water is entering the tank so I can build an expectation of what my next measurement will be. That expectation will have a confidence that is based on my confidence of my previous readings, the accuracy of my sensor, and the amount of noise in the system. If the error in those factors is very high, I may have a very vague expectation of future sensor readings.
In the case of the article, there may have a few information leaks that made people think those titles might be coming, but nothing definite -- thus a vague expectation.
The article set off my internal scam detector too.
So you choose option #1. Fair enough.
I agree that it is wrong. And it would be wrong even if they were only screwing other rich people.
Most of those workers receive union wages and are not entitled to a cut of the profits anyway. They are only screwing a few big names and they probably feel just as justified about that as 25 million Americans do about screwing the fat cat executives.
Copyright law says that you may not copy an artist's work without the permission of the copyright owner. By living in a society which has copyright law you implicitly agree to those rules. If you do not want to follow them you have three options:
1. Violate the law and accept the risk of consequences.
2. Work to change the laws.
3. Leave the society for another society.
Let's extend this analogy to work/money. The law says it is illegal to steal and that you have to engage in commerce to make money. If you do not like this, you have three options:
1. Steal from rich people and hope you do not get caught.
2. Work to change the law so that your society becomes communist/socialist/monarchist (where you are the monarch) or whatever other social system allows you to get something for nothing.
3. Leave the society to join a commune or found a cult or something.
The people who are already pirating do not care and higher prices just encourage more people to pirate. If your statement is true then the studios are run by morons.
Just adding my vote.
Maybe there should be a poll or something.
> Doing something that is perceived as "criminal" and getting away with it is also very attractive.
Really? Is that actually a motivating factor in most people?
Man, am I out of touch with the world.