You are forced to adopt good posture if you want to do them properly and with any heavy weight. You'll carry that posture with you into your daily activities.
It's only a "major design smell" to "bounce back and forth" if it's computationally expensive. This theory makes it sound like electrons aren't firmly rooted in space and time to begin with.
Maybe it's computationally cheaper to define something as existing in all places and all times.
Well I imagine it isn't optimized for readability :)
If the point is to have a jillion of electrons, each at the right time and place (for the observer), I assume a rather complicated mechanism must have been put in place to "tie the knot" just right - I mean to "navigate" the time-travelling electron just so it never fails to appear wherever, whenever it's expected.
> Bottom line is that gas distributors don't have to precisely reflect the drop in oil prices at the pump because they can make more money that way.
This is a gross simplification. I'm not an expert or someone with a deep understanding of how gas stations work, but even I understand that a barrel of crude requires a complex process to turn it into gasoline and even more logistics to get it to the pump. Every one of the people in that process needs to be paid, including your friendly neighborhood gas station cashier.
This line of thinking is the equivalent to wondering why the price of a new car hasn't decreased if steel prices hypothetically dropped. Most products cost much more than their raw materials because to change them from raw materials to products and to put that product on a shelf requires the hard work of many people.
Beautiful. A few of them almost look like something you'd see through a telescope.
I've been looking forward to a glass of Macallan to kick off the holidays, I'll be thinking about these while sipping on it. Thanks for the post and cheers!
Warning: youtube vid. But this is some of my favorite personalities from ye olde mod scene talking about their very successful business. Very happy for them, and i'm always interested in non-standard corporate hierarchies.
I agree. Everything I've read about them just seems so weird and fascinating, especially since it seems like they could introduce something completely unexpected with the ad-hoc way the teams are organized. Valve doing R&D on wearable computing just because someone felt like doing it is mind-blowing to me.
Care to explain why you feel that way? It's a major feature from the dominant social network that could have consequences in the academic space. Personally, I'm curious what effect this could have on Blackboard if they continue to (re-)expand into .edu territory.
I also think it's quite interesting in this regard, although the largest obstacle is obviously privacy/security. If Facebook were to spin off some of its .edu ventures (encroachments?) with terms more amenable to university and student interests it could do quite well. Being forced to use Blackboard is an inconvenience, but being forced to register for a facebook account feels downright threatening. Not that you're suggesting this, but it has to be crossing a few minds in academia.
>When Apple dropped floppy drives from the iMac, they were dealing with an early-adopter set of consumers.
No, this is incorrect. The iMac was the computer for people that were new to computers and the internet. It was the computer for everyone, not early-adopter gadget geeks. When they dropped the floppy there was an enormous amount of bitching from said gadget geeks, yet the computer still sold very well with the general consumer.
The rest of the article is iffy at best, I don't see Apple adding another tier of laptop products when they are simplifying their other product lines (e.g. iPad 2 -> iPad)
It seems to me that the manufacturing strength would be an very strong option for Intel in the future. Even in the event that ARM completely dominates the CPU market, Intel could still profitably function as a fab producing ARM processors.
You are forced to adopt good posture if you want to do them properly and with any heavy weight. You'll carry that posture with you into your daily activities.