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Yeah. And I thought this experiment was too stupid. I can't beleive how petty Hacker News has gotten to mark me down on this.

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Are we really still at the point in "Landscape and Urban Planning" research that we need to verify that walking in the woods chills you out and helps you focus more than walking down a busy street?

The only upgrade Intel cares about is the purchase of a new system. That is why Intel is taking a revenue hit.

Yes, a repeated game like Iterated PD is a different game with a different solution. The Grim strategy for example.

Cooperating is strongly dominated by defecting in Prisoners Dilemma. This is an obvious and very basic game theory result.

Game Theory models strategic situations and doesn't offer insight outside what is modeled. If you think there should be communication supporting cooperation in the game, that game is NOT the Prisoners Dilemma and is in fact another game.

The Prisoners Dilemma is a model that is stacked very much against cooperation. Think about it, the prisoners are held in separate rooms and not allowed to communicate at all in the original story.

Not insightful. Offers a 60 year old argument about symbol systems and the need for more computational power (alone).

I suggest reading Andy Clark's Mindware for a critical view of various approaches to this problem.

Ninja.

I really like the Dover book Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline. It adds historical perspective, makes you think, and teaches basic and understandable proofs.

I have a Samsung Captivate, an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S (developer phone) all purchased in Q4 2010. Nexus S updated until 4.1, iPhone is still current with iOS 7 and the Captivate got ONE update (manually via USB) from 2.1 to 2.2... the Software Update NEVER updated.

That's called retreating 'upmarket' and it usually (historically) fails. IBM is the exception.

As clichéd as the Innovator's Dilemma is now, I find very few folks who have actually read it and processed all the strategies, and case studies in the book.

Spinning off a wholly independent entity that can compete at the new price level/market is Christensen's recommended approach. It's all in the book.

FYI: Krugman is a Nobel Memorial Prize winning economist who is quite otherwise famous.

No, they hoped it wouldn't mater. Unless they've perfected the ability to predict the future they and everyone else won't know for quite some time.

$80 in 1956 is roughly $675 dollars today as calculated by CPI: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2480%20in%201956%20in%...

Accountability is what school offers you. You are forced to work the homework problems and then you really learn. You can do this on your own but without the social motivation it is much less likely. Udacity, etc. are solving this problem for online education now in CS.

What is really means is that the supply of workers at $15/hour greatly outnumbers the demand for workers at $15/hour.

Example:

I was hired at the end of the dot-com bubble into a technology mega-corporation at the age I should have just finished college. I dropped out of state after studying German and whatever to make money in the technology boom, and I did. Lots. For many years my career grew and I was at zero disadvantage to someone entering with a degree. In the bust, I was even at an advantage for awhile as I had key experience over anyone competing with me.

Over time however it became evident the long term growth curve of my career had a lower slope than my college educated colleges. Soon enough I couldn't move up any more. In a deep, sit-down conversation with a respected manager I was told I would never make senior grade engineer without the degree.

Now in a start-up or small shop maybe this wouldn't matter. In a Fortune 500 corp. it simply did.

Now I'm in my 30's and back in school. At least I'm enjoying it this time :)

The hardware is that much better. 2x the cost but you don't have to carry a damn crap-top around that weighs 4 or more pounds and blows a fan when you move a window.

>Siri and the iPhone 4s is nothing new, Apple simply tied a lot of things together

The original iPhone was nothing new component-wise but something wonderful is summation. This has been Apple's gift. Lots of folks can dream up and write a paper about super-phone, it's a top-notch engineering company, living in the real world of engineering trade-offs, that can actually build and sell millions.

I like to believe I own myself. I am not interested in any legal procedure where an official of the medical establishment can declare my personal ownership no longer valid and harvest 2 million dollars revenue from my still warm body. The couldn't do it with my car and it is wrong to do it with my corpse.

The day my family receives a life insurance style settlement for my death I will consider it. But not if you cut my people out of the deal.

While this article didn't show anything, the mainstream argument about minimum wage causing labor surpluses is well enough explained on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Economics_of_the_m...

Programmers here are discussing if they choose to work unpaid extra hours or not. You don't make a country great by forbidding extra work regardless of the employee desires. You make a country great by allowing employers and employees to decide amongst themselves case by case. If labor wants to forbid this for other vocations good for them. I would like to keep my right to work more hours on salary or not.

I prefer web services that link software on various apps across various devices which cache and sync content. The best example is probably Kindle which has a hardware device, various mobile apps and web based reader.

It doesn't work for me at least. Part of the value of note taking is to flip through the book quickly and see the notes and then recall the most interesting parts. This seems lost.

As a hybrid user who reads many books in both physical and digital forms, I have found that my preference for Kindle is directly related to how much I have traveled in the last month or two.

I bought the first kindle and took it on a month long trip to Africa and re-read the Baroque Cycle on it. I jave a a few new Kindles since. I love most the platform aspect of Kindle and I rarely buy novels or computer tech books in any other form.

However I grew up traveling to Powells books and living with physical books. I find that a good physical book has something that the digital version lacks. The physical form is a symbol for my memories of a book. I can simply pick it up and thoughts, themes and so forth come back to me. A quick flip through pulls out my memories.

For deep study I still find that writing in ad underlining a book increases my understanding dramatically. For awhile I composed notes at the computer while I read but this was time consuming and akward.

Digital books are disruptive. As Carr once wrote though, the disruption doesn't mean something isn't lost... often much is. We need to find the right ways to bring as much as that along with us from the physical world into the digital as we can. Perhaps I am too old already, but I am sure I will be one of the last with physical books as well as a continual user of the digital.

One of the things a free-market education system would offer is competition on reputation - allowing customers to choose schools before ever going there based on short feedback loops of many individual customers attending and reporting. This is already done with the public-private college system we have now - and yet you argue it's not possible to determine the quality of a school without going there, finding out it's bad and then being damaged?

If you don't understand how markets better allocate resources than top down rationing systems I suggest you go take economics at the nearest community college.

One of the concepts in the micro-economics principles class you will learn is that education has positive external benefits (beyond the market). In other words there is a marginal social benefit to education that exceeds the market demand. The best way to address this is not to have public school system monopolies of supply and take the cost to near zero - a much more efficient mechanism is to harness (superior) market resource allocation through demand subsidies.

The workstation Xeons support dual (separate physical packages) processor configurations. These are for real workstations and how you get to 12 or 16 cores. Of course just about no one needs a real workstation anymore and a six or eight core single processor ala i7 900 series would work just fine for most in a Mac Pro.

Raising the standard of living for all - just like all the other technologies from the wheel (putting people who haul things on their backs out of work) to the loom, to the Ditch Witch and so on.

If you are comparing a T series with a MacBook Air I can tell you have never actually touched or picked up a MacBook. You should really visit one of the stores and check them out.

The biggest concern Intel has is that moving down market, shrinking products and lowering margins almost never works in any industry when a disruptive competitor is moving upmarket into the same space (Innovator's Delimma).

If Intel could move down market successfully don't you think we would have seen a reasonable IA facsimile of an iPhone or an iPad after all these years?

Soon everyone on earth, except perhaps the bottom billion poorest, with have Internet access via ARM and Intel will peak at the top 2-3 billion. That's what scares the hell out of them.

ARM,as a mobile optimized architecture, will never compete on performance grounds with IA. IA is the push rod V8 of computing and ARM is the hybrid.