javanix

Can any economists here speculate as to the relative profitability for Blizzard with this sort of forked pricing?

If these truly are a viable storage system, building an interface that's reasonably easily adaptable to the current computing paradigm shouldn't be too difficult. Traditional HDDs and SDDs both play nice with SATA, for instance, despite using wildly disparate methods of storing bits.

I hate to break it to the authors, but just because something comes directly from the government does not necessarily make it "correct" or even "free from bias".

The results of the focus testing we did (mostly with a group of autistic adults) ended up resulting in most of the peculiarities you described.

Incidentally, if anyone has any experience doing design work for disabled individuals, I'd love to hear your design processes. This project had a decidedly "too many cooks in the kitchen" sort of feel to it, and though I think it turned out pretty well I think the process could have gone smoother.

I agree with everything but the above.

On some level, the iPad isn't really a Turing Machine.

The author talks as if he'd never heard of the place before, and apparently needed to research the war.

Says something interesting about the current news cycle if true.

More and more games will be moved to models that require a persistent internet connection though - the article does a good job of pointing out that winning the battle for just two months is nearly "good enough".

I would love to drop my cable TV and just pay for my internet connection - problem is, I call up my cable provider and they claim that it's actually more expensive to just buy a 5mbps connection than it is to tack on the TV. Ideally I would like to pay less money for less services, but its out of my control.

I'm sure there are plenty of folks who would pay a flat rate (also presumably cheaper) for a 3G/4G pipe that they could pull data and phone service out of (Google Voice, Skype, etc), but the carriers fight that for their bottom lines.

The problem isn't that we all pay too much, its that we're all forced into paying for too much.

Taking a set of pictures and then using stitching software, followed by some Photoshop touch-ups would probably give you a pretty good start.

I can't imagine anyone complaining about more/bigger ads on buses, especially if it helps reduce subsidies and spending.

That said, the author did manage to be hired in multiple tenure-track positions, and made it to an Ivy League school. One would hope - expect, really - that with that level of career success she should be able to at least pay off their college debts, especially if she was as frugal as she claimed to be in her essay.

Given crude initial conditions and some indication of what variables to consider

The only induction done in the whole process was done by the researchers in this step - otherwise the algorithm wouldn't have had anything to "evolve" to.

Were those "native" members of the cultures in question doing the counting, or was it the author of the video imitating?

Interesting video in any case.

Good parenting lesson? Hell no.

If I absolutely have to meet something, I will. Granted, I can only keep it up for a couple of weeks or so, but during that time I can productively code for > 10 hours at a time.