Comment Re:So long (Score 1) 159
That exclamation censorship thing is pretty strange.
That exclamation censorship thing is pretty strange.
The main difference are that when private enterprise raises money, the investment is voluntary, and when a private enterprise fails, they go away.
Life is harsh in the private sector. A moment of silence, please, for the following companies that failed and are presumably no longer in business:
General Motors
AIG
Bank of America
Citigroup
JPMorgan Chase
Wells Fargo
Chrysler
Goldman Sachs
Morgan Stanley
PNC Financial Services
I would imagine that most people would take a job and a roof over their heads, and a higher crime rate, than a low crime rate and to be living on the streets or jobless. So I would imagine that many would take the training and "leg up" for themselves over convicted criminals any day, even if it meant a riskier street.
And why are these things mutually exclusive. As noted by others, the United States spends a lot of money incarcerating people. Spending money to reduce recidivism doesn't necessarily mean spending more overall. Even having an additional tax payer who isn't out nicking stuff is better than spending a few grand a week to keep them locked-up.
No argument from me - people should be rewarded based on effort. I don't see that providing adequate resources to rehabilitation and appropriate welfare would be mutually exclusive.
Sure, law abiding people deserve better. They deserve education, healthcare, housing and food. The fact that prisons provide these free of charge to prisoners is irrelevant.
They also deserve lower crime rates, and hopefully schemes of this kind will mean these offenders are less likely to re-offend. It's going to depend on the numbers. It's an unfortunate reality that justice isn't necessarily fair for people who do the right thing.
Console games are fun to play because you sit on the couch in your living room. computer games you play at a desk, facing a wall. i spend all day at work facing a wall. why would I want to do it again at home?
You have no wall behind your TV?
Apple could buy Intel, at least in theory. They have cash reserves of $147 Billion - Intel's market cap is only $118 Billion.
That's exactly how it works.
Scene 1: The stockbroker's office
Tim Cook enters the office of his stockbroker, carrying a briefcase and looking determined.
Cook: Good morrow, old chap.
Stockbroker: Ah, Mr. Cook. Do please take a seat and explain how I may be of service?
Cook: I'd like to buy Intel shares.
Stockbroker: Excellent choice, sir. What quantity did you have in mind?
Cook: All of them
Stockbroker: Right away, Mr. Cook. Cash or credit?
Cook opens a suitcase to reveal $118 billion in billion dollar notes.
Cook: Cash, of course. Jeeves, ready my stealth jet.
Jeeves: Very good, sir. Where to?
Cook: Santa Clara.
Jeeves: Yes, sir.
Scene 2: The Intel boardroom
Tim Cook strides in to the boardroom, smoking a cigar and eyeing the decor.
Krzanich: Cook, you can't come barging in here!
Cook: I think not, old friend. For I just bought Intel!
Krzanich: How?
Cook: I read an informative post on Slashdot in which it was explained how it was as easy as having money equal to the market cap. I'll need to ask you to leave.
Krzanich: Damn it! I didn't think anyone knew this!
Jeeves: Shall I begin construction of your Tony Stark-like secret labs under the building, where you may commence work on powered armour or something similar, sir?
Cook: Yes, Jeeves. That would be awesome - Awesome to the max!
The only good thing about JC was he open sourced his game engines but other then that he hasn't done much to help other games besides his own get open sourced.
So he's done something good, but didn't do what you somehow think he should have done. That's more a criticism of you than of Cormack.
Where does 5000% come from? I can see in the linked figures how 50% figures in.
Opening an account requires a bit more than that:
http://www.barclays.co.uk/CurrentAccounts/Identificationdocumentsrequired/P1242557966027
I know as well that Natwest asked for my passport when I wanted to change my contact details.
Given past behaviour it seems a pretty objective fear. Same would apply to any project, proprietary or open source, that doesn't offer migration paths for data.
How do you figure? Each ticket has the same chance of winning, the more you buy the more likely you are to win. But the odds are such that the expected return over the long run is less than what you would pay in.
That's why smart gamblers buy multiple tickets. Buy two tickets - double your chances? Buy ten tickets and you're ten times more likely to win! How could you lose?
I get the feeling you're going to head down that familiar root pointing out that x is really just a refined version of y - where y is some technology that originated 30 years ago. Barring that, I can only assume you've been living with the Amish. Either way, it'll be just as productive if I pretend to be playing Pong.
Shush. Pong.
I like your style, sir!
However, everyone seems to forget that SnapChat is in touch with almost 99% of all youth and a very large percentage of all smartphone users.
A "customer base" MUCH larger than anything PrimeSense will EVER dream of touching.
Heinz has a user base much larger than Intel's. A comparison between Heinz and Intel seems just as disjointed and useless as comparing SnapChat's user base (online service for consumers) with PrimeSense (licensing tech and selling niche hardware to geeks).
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
