Um, Sweden is only 170K square miles. The US is 3.8M square miles. So, while Sweden's population density is less than the US, the coverage area, and thus cost, is MUCH higher. Granted, a good portion of the US would not need full coverage as there is nothing in some places but wilderness and loggers... (grin)
The "population density" argument is a red herring. Americans managed to build roads.
Is fiber really that much harder?
It's extra meaningless since the robot was allowed to map out the maze ahead of time.
And the alternative? Introduce an element of blind luck to the competition?
I judge my Steam purchases by hours of gameplay per pound (about $1.50). Anything over 10 hours per pound is usually pretty good. Some games are in the hundreds of hours per pound. Most half-decent games manage at least 1 hour per pound. Anything below that I consider a loss. So the game has to be either amazing and long (rare - HL2 managed it), or it has to be cheap, or it has to be very replayable.
I strongly disagree. Your argument assumes infinite time. Games are cheap, time is limited.
As time available for games approach zero, price can be ignored. The only metric that matters is "amusement per hour".
I would pay a lot more for a 5-hour great game that I would for a 20-hour decent game.
It's only a two party system if the parties have differing points of view. If the parties are both in favor of it, then what you have is a one party system.
It's like a car driving on the wrong road and the people inside argue whether the the left lane or right lane is better.
There is really no benefit to society from picosecond trading. All it produces is more fancy excuses the intelligent sociopaths can use to take money from us.
This.
"provide liquidity" is pretty words. They are inserting a middle man in every single trade to leech the difference between buyer and seller.
They are removing huge values from the system without providing any benefit. It should definitely be illegal.
I usually start my day browsing the front page and opening interesting stories into tabs. Those I read one by one during the day.
This is no longer possible. After opening 5-10 stories, Firefox is consuming 100% of one core. This makes the browser extremely unresponsive and not possible to browse anything else.
His powers just branched out into the "real world" layer of the Matrix, where all who thought they were free were still enslaved. He has to re-learn his skills in this second layer (...)
Second layer? Ha!
Zero. One. Infinity. It's Matrices all the way down.
- Cheering for the Matrix since movie #1!
Identity theft and "unauthorized access" and taking the money from an account holder is as absurd as a bank getting robbed and taking it from the last deposits made to the bank and not from their general coffers. It was never done that way before, so why is it done that way now?
Why does mere credentials allow large money transfers?
I thought everyone was using hardware ID by now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_token
I know such tokens can still be improved, and it will improve. And sure is a lot more secure than just a password.
The company knows what each and everyone makes, you do not. More bargaining power for the company, less bargaining power to you, little bee.
In some socialist countries, net taxes are public information. From this it is trivial to estimate the base salary of anyone. Neighbor, co-worker, boss, prime minister.
Makes it harder to have huge salary gaps in a company as people will check the salary of the boss.
Rather than hurting "anyone" is actually hurts "everyone". This is just another case of what's called the "tragedy of the commons". Each person who pirates a game benefits himself or herself, but if enough people do this it's no longer tenable to make games and no one has a game to play, for free or otherwise.
Be extremely cautious when comparing information to physical property. James Boyle have written a nice book about the trap you are falling into:
http://www.thepublicdomain.org/
Instead of thinking in terms of black and white, we really need to focus on the real issue: How much legal protection is needed?
I think we can all agree that "life + 75 years" (depending on country) is vastly more protection that a computer game needs. In my opinion, this excessive protection can only lead to stagnation.
We need to create a sensible copyright law first, then people will respect it. And only then can it be successfully enforced.
I agree wholeheartedly with your "WTF". My 5 year old laptop (luggable) has 1920x1200 resolution. I though 5 years and going from a laptop to a desktop screen should give me a serious boot in resolution. Nope, nothing (unless I go all the way to 30").
The only comfort I have is that maybe the iPhone "retina" hype can switch the focus back to higher resolutions.
I too find it disturbing that displays have gone to 2MP and stopped. We were this close to being able to actually read a PDF on 100% zoom without squinting. WTF is going on?
- Full HD
- "Good enough"
- 3D graphics
- Fonts not scaling to higher resolution
Instead of pixels, most consumers just relate to the words "Full HD". For a lot of people "better than Full HD" makes no more sense than "it goes to 11". And sadly, it's good enough for most (even if it is not enough for you and me).
3D graphics performance is also increasingly critical. Increasing the number of pixels eats a LOT of 3D performance, but makes little difference unless your eyes can clearly see each pixel.
Not all fonts scale properly. On a lot of systems / programs, using higher than FullHD resolution on the average 20-some monitor will make it really hard to read the text in a lot of programs. A lot of people are unable to adjust/fix this.
That seems worse than the natural alternative to me.
His choice, not yours.
Without further details, my default opinion on medical research is that it's a good thing.
The real question has always been if there's "free will" and what that would be defined as.
I cracked that nut a log time ago. Free will cannot exist. I guarantee it.
You're welcome to disagree and ponder the answer for yourself. I doubt I can convince anyone in a Slashdot post, though. Sorry.
Never use the same lie more than two times?
That's exactly what the boy though...
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
