The biggest thing is Space-X is applying modern technology, not 50 year old technology, to their solutions.
If you think back to the shuttle design... Most of the work was done on paper, with perhaps a few months on computer simulation.
Space-X with its new design and all computer driven, means they can test fix test and retest in the computer before they build a working system. This allows them engineer to reliability, without a bunch of testing.
Sometimes Open Source is the better value, sometimes Microsoft is the better value. It really depends on how your organization operates.
Unix/Linux systems are really good at automated processes. This is for businesses that have few employees and performs services that can be done automatically.
Windows is better for businesses that are more people orientated. Where there is more free form information and less automation. Where having a computer that is more familiar to work with, is much more beneficial.
Now both systems can be configured to do each other jobs, however there will be a lot more tinkering and customization to get them to do that job. And the further you get past the basic install the greater total cost. Sure you can Have Linux with Open Office, to do the job of Windows and Office... But you will always be fighting to try to stay at the same standard that Windows and Office, meaning Free Software+4-8 hours of training+1-2 hour of config time per PC. Vs. License fee, and no training and config time. per feature set.
The "Right Side of History" is one of these overused statements to say He I Think I am right, while your side is wrong.
The problem with trying to look good for history, is that history looks back with filtered vision. A lot of people at the time, even in the US, though Communism was a good idea, you look at Star Trek, Communism won! The hippy movement... As an ideal communism looked progressive and will bring the world into a better place... However the system had a fatal flaw it didn't account of peoples ambitions, so a people will have their own idea on what they need, and people who disagreed needed to be controlled, so a more totalitarian system came from it. You follow the party, if you disagree you are against the party. However those more conservative groups, saw it is a threat and saw it for its danger, and kept it under control...
For a healthy food supply it is wise to have more diversity in food not less. Cattle help with creating greater food supply diversity. A virus could kill of a lot of animals hitting the food supply. If Poultry is our only source of meat, we could cause major problems. Milk isn't as much "European descendants" European based ancestry allows them to digest milk, and it had became part of our dietary needs. They can survive without milk, however they are better off with it. Other nationalities, don't need milk and they do not digest it as well. The biggest problem with food anger, is the lack of understanding that different bodies digest food differently and needs different nutrients. Not all people can be vegans, not all people can eat meat.
Well you can use statistics. The people who currently live in the village probably have a strong correlation to a particular gene structure, Then the further out you go the correlation diminishes. So we get a good old bell curve.
So if you take one in a different area and you see that they would correlate better to a different area, then chances are their family probably had came from there.
We can tell in the United States already if someone is native to America, Asia, Europe, or Africa. We can know this without going back in time or checking history books to figure it out. You can just look at the existing population. If you go to the Europe, Sure there are people of other races but most of them are White. If your skin is white too, chances are your family came from that area of the world.
With genetics, We can break things down to a much finer detail... But the idea is still the same,
Screen Realestate. I have chrome full screen. Other then my page I have a rather large white bar with significant white space, displaying a lot of information that is more useful to the web-server then it is for me. Now that extra space could give me an extra 50 pixels vertical. Which may mean that I may not need to scroll down to hit that Submit button, Or for my current screen I will be able to see the Allowed HTML Tags, for easy reference.
I don't think his mortality or even his ego to the next generation was his consideration. I think it is a common situation that the big CEO's and other rich people have today. We tend to forget the actual feeling of being poor and struggling. I remember the time I was laid off, I remember feeling bad however I am unable to empathize with my past self. So as they get rich and successful they really forget how to empathize with the issues of their employees. The issues that have happened to them in the past is mostly academic to them. Just as the adult Slashdot reader looks at kids today who seem to be slacking off in school, where they should just sit down and focus, so they can get a better life. You may remember slacking off in school, however it is academic and you forget the actual feelings of mental stress, worrying about saying the right thing all the time. So the stuff that you see the kids are doing today seems quite stupid... However that is only because you don't have that type of situation anymore.
Now back to the issue at hand. For Jobs, he is probably on the classical idea of you can get get a job and work up the company if you do good at it. He doesn't realize that his own company is preventing this via a lot of forces such as... Politics: Your boss doesn't want you promoted because you can threaten his position. Business Structure: After you get to this title, the next one requires you to be a manager, or do work that you do not want to do. Or the companies requirement has a large skills gap to move up. Bad/Underfunded HR Management: HR for big organizations will often just give raises promotions extra benefits based on a calculation, and not actually get off their butts and manage the human resources at a company. All this stuff creates an environment where an employee must move from company to company every few years otherwise they will be stuck in a dead end job. However on the average employee turnover cost 150% to hire and retrain a new employee. So it is understandable that the CEO really doesn't want their skill moving around to their competitors. Because they have have made it on top of the corporate food chain and lost empathy towards the others who are trying to work their way up too.
Boeing also shows interiors for its traditional airlines too... However I have never seen any of Boeings customers implement them either. It really comes down to cost.
If a planet has life on it. If we visit it, how much damage will that cause. I mean just the bacteria on our skin that is normally helpful, my thrive and kill off all the life on the planet that may not have such defenses.
Range right now is the big limiting factor towards electric car deployment. Gasoline and Hybrid cars get about 400 miles straight, that is about 8 hours of driving. Electric cars can barely get 100 miles, that is about 3 hours of drive time.
The Electric car is still good for most commutes, even mine which is rather long may still work, however it will be close to the limit. But that means people will need to buy 2 cars, one for distance, and 1 for commute. Environmentally it seems like a good plan however not to many people can afford 2 cars per person, or 2.5 cars for 2 people.
I would expect with a higher density tape, you would get a higher write speed as well. The read and write speed of the tape can be electrically increases much easier than speeding up how much tension that a fast rolling tape can handle.
So what is left to fight our growing skepticism in everything? While we may be out of an economic depression, the world is in a type of cultural depression, were individual feel that there isn't much future. We in essence gave up and stopped trying. Our great success stories of our age are guys who make things like Facebook, Twitter,Angry Birds and Candy Crush. This is actually very depressing stuff. In essence escapist technology.
The Space Race, was a publicity stunt, but a damn good one that really helped America and the world. It helped make people optimistic. If you grew up in the 70's and 80's the Idea that you could be an astronaut, or working in that fancy ground control room with all those monitors, inspired people to try new things study Science and Engineering. This personal exploration often took them off the path of going into space... However it moved people in other areas.
You can also just put your cell phone on an overhead projector. But I think there are other thing as well. For example I can see a full TV size digital movie, will have surround sound higher resolution. Vs the cell phone which will probably have mono sound and probably the movie resolution will be 1/4 on what the phone can handle.
Much like back in them days where you could get the Records, Cassette Tapes, or CDs at different prices for the same stuff. The difference in price isn't about how hard or the cost of the material. It is charged different for different quality.
I know I am feeding the troll, but I need a break from work. The Republicans are not Anti-Science, they are food "Good News" Science, say GMO Foods, and new technologies, stuff they can say look how much money science is making us. What they don't like is Bad news science, where it means a company will need to change their production and loose money. As well if a particular science seems to clash with a religion of a voter base.
That said, If say the Evangelicals started to vote Democrat, you will see a new set of democrats fighting against putting evolution in schools.
Politicians are not for and against science. They are just going to have a position that gets them their most votes.
I like the idea of a patent. However patents shouldn't be given for everything, only for exceptional creative ideas, having a patent should be so the little guy can stand up to the big guy. However with the tolling going on with these silly patients of lets invent this before someone else does. Turned patents from a force to protect the inventor, or a scam to leach companies and inventors of their earned money.
If you are little guy the cost of defending yourself is often higher then the payout would be. So you are forced to get bullied by the troll. With this decision, that means if the tolls loose they will get a double expense whammy. So they would probably be more careful on who they want to attack.
Yes but they were expensive. A B&W Dumb Terminal could cost about a grand, A PC would be about 2 grand. When a company bought a computer back then, they didn't plan for a 4 year life cycle, but because these systems cost millions of dollars, they planed for 10+ years of usage out of it.
Secondly there wasn't much trust in the computer, and most programs were not meant to be fancy UI but straight number crunching. So a lot of the work was done by had as to have a paper backup. That said these old programs were smaller, and had less flaws, because they were so carefully done.
However that is a barbaric way to look at justice. The point of a death penalty, is for people deemed to dangerous to be contained. Prison should be people deemed to dangerous to be out in the public.
We have confused justice with revenge. And we have expanded our prison system to be a punishment system.
I think the biggest mistake is the Unusual section of "Cruel and Unusual punishment". It creates a system that makes finding appropriate penalties to crimes much more difficult. Because we are using a 18th century punishment to a 21st century crime.
Are you sure... Collage Age Geeks: 18-24 Were born in the 1990's! When they were old enough to start doing geeky stuff with the computer we are well in the late 90's and early 2000's. There is a new generation of "Kids" out there who never had to experience the world pre-GUI, with 5 1/2 or bigger sized floppy disks, or without high speed internet. The actual kids today who are able to start doing more then basic stuff with the computer, doesn't comprehend a world without internet connectivity will cellphones, or Monitors that more then a few inches thick.
For people who have used BASIC in its primary sense are at least 30 years old now.
That isn't true. The CS 101 Class should have components about following up structure. Give assignments where the students may need to build off their code, if they start doing it the BASIC Way make assignments that shows how much harder it is to maintain over time. I went into CS with a Strong knowledge in BASIC, it was actually very helpful. As the other students were struggling with Loops and getting the darn thing to work, I was focusing more on trying to follow the guidelines for style and seeing if there is way I could make it better. Sure I got the talking to when in a lecture I brought up using a GOTO to solve a problem. However that was about it.
Well there were a few key advantages. BASIC was an interpreted language, vs FORTRAN or COBOL that required compiling. This gave beginner programmers quicker response in terms of code it run it. vs. Compile find a slew of cryptic errors try to find them and fix and try again. Secondly BASIC was a line driven language vs. procedural. 10 print "hello" 20 goto 10 yes it created a lot of bad programming habits. But it really explained how the computer processed the stuff better then the procedure. But I am sure some of you taking CS 101 (Those without previous programming experience) often got hung up on function and procedures, loops and nested loops. The BASIC GOTO and if you get advanced use the GOSUB and RETURN makes these concepts easier.
Third BASIC handles free formatting much easier. FORTRAN you needed to follow a Particular set of formatting the first few spaces were reserved for labels or line wrap numbers, limit to 80 columns... In general nitpicking stuff that a started just doesn't want to handle.
As time went on, we really loss the simple computer programming language. BASIC turned to QBASIC then to Visual Basic then to VB.NET which made it a formatted language with all the hold ups the other professional languages has. There isn't really a good starting language anymore.
As someone who has lost a lot of weight, Less Carbs food, larger breakfast, smaller dinners, and increased exercise. You should know that it isn't easy by any means. I find it just as difficult as it was when I took my Masters Degree while working full time. And keeping my weight down is still hard work. Why? First a minor change in your lifestyle, can cause weight to sneak in. For me it was when I went to college. Sure I was rather active, but I was fully grown so I didn't need as much food. However College is full of food, so I still ate like I was 16 years old. So after college I put on 50lbs, While in college I tried to do stuff that will help me loose weight, I tried going vegetarian where I ate more carbs, I tried to exercise more where it made me feel more hungry, so I ate the balance. And the college food isn't really the most healthy. After college I was focusing on getting my career going, so I have been less active working long hours, Combined with going to grad school, I have been eating less and a bit more healthy so it wasn't as rapid as it was in college however I got an other 50lbs after 10 years. During this time I was off and on, figuring I can just use my will power to overcome it. However the problem is when you get fat, is your energy level drops so doing simple exercises drains you, combined with a poor body image of yourself, you are afraid to go out in public and be posted on facebook as that fatty who is running see how silly he looks. I knew I really needed to take it seriously so I started hitting the gym, And the first few month it was pure hell, my legs felt like jello, sweating up a storm after going 1 mile, and I was really wanting high calorie food to make me feel better, but I needed to fight it, every day. It is hard when there is a company lunch with a bunch of interesting foods to try, or going to a party. However I got most of it off now, and I am still working on getting the rest of it too. But being callous towards a fat person. 1. Doesn't help: It reinforces their fugitive body image and makes them more timid to go out and try. 2. Doesn't show support and empathy towards the problem they are facing. Most fat people are usually have it on their mind and are trying to loose weight all time. But they are often missing a crucial step in the process, causing them to suffer for no real gain. 3. There is blaming others for their faults, then there is a fact that society has the decks stacked against them. Usually for someone who is gaining unwanted weight, the worst thing they can do, which is also the first thing, is go toward the processed diet foods. It is like saying Poor people just need to go to school and then they can get a better job. Minorities just need to not get in trouble to stay out of jail. The system has been built against them. Sure thre are things they can do. However why can't we realize the faults in the system and fix it.
Yes, it is very common method. Popularity by limitation. Being that every product/person is unique you can show that it is the best/most popular by pushing all of its features, and dropping out candidates with different features because they don't count.
For example Android is the top selling platform for mobile phones. Apple is the top selling phone. Both statements can be right. As Google gives android to many different phone makers, all are competing with Apple who sells more phone then any individual company. But combined they are a larger group. Microsoft can chime in by adding all the PC's with Windows and Phones with Windows Mobile. They can pick and choose how far to go back to make them seem like they are the most dominate in the market.
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The biggest thing is Space-X is applying modern technology, not 50 year old technology, to their solutions.
If you think back to the shuttle design... Most of the work was done on paper, with perhaps a few months on computer simulation.
Space-X with its new design and all computer driven, means they can test fix test and retest in the computer before they build a working system. This allows them engineer to reliability, without a bunch of testing.
Sometimes Open Source is the better value, sometimes Microsoft is the better value.
It really depends on how your organization operates.
Unix/Linux systems are really good at automated processes. This is for businesses that have few employees and performs services that can be done automatically.
Windows is better for businesses that are more people orientated. Where there is more free form information and less automation. Where having a computer that is more familiar to work with, is much more beneficial.
Now both systems can be configured to do each other jobs, however there will be a lot more tinkering and customization to get them to do that job. And the further you get past the basic install the greater total cost. Sure you can Have Linux with Open Office, to do the job of Windows and Office... But you will always be fighting to try to stay at the same standard that Windows and Office, meaning Free Software+4-8 hours of training+1-2 hour of config time per PC. Vs. License fee, and no training and config time. per feature set.
How is this different then now. Other than the blood today is more metaphorical
The "Right Side of History" is one of these overused statements to say He I Think I am right, while your side is wrong.
The problem with trying to look good for history, is that history looks back with filtered vision.
A lot of people at the time, even in the US, though Communism was a good idea, you look at Star Trek, Communism won! The hippy movement... As an ideal communism looked progressive and will bring the world into a better place... However the system had a fatal flaw it didn't account of peoples ambitions, so a people will have their own idea on what they need, and people who disagreed needed to be controlled, so a more totalitarian system came from it. You follow the party, if you disagree you are against the party.
However those more conservative groups, saw it is a threat and saw it for its danger, and kept it under control...
For a healthy food supply it is wise to have more diversity in food not less. Cattle help with creating greater food supply diversity. A virus could kill of a lot of animals hitting the food supply. If Poultry is our only source of meat, we could cause major problems.
Milk isn't as much "European descendants" European based ancestry allows them to digest milk, and it had became part of our dietary needs. They can survive without milk, however they are better off with it. Other nationalities, don't need milk and they do not digest it as well.
The biggest problem with food anger, is the lack of understanding that different bodies digest food differently and needs different nutrients. Not all people can be vegans, not all people can eat meat.
Well you can use statistics. The people who currently live in the village probably have a strong correlation to a particular gene structure, Then the further out you go the correlation diminishes. So we get a good old bell curve.
So if you take one in a different area and you see that they would correlate better to a different area, then chances are their family probably had came from there.
We can tell in the United States already if someone is native to America, Asia, Europe, or Africa. We can know this without going back in time or checking history books to figure it out. You can just look at the existing population. If you go to the Europe, Sure there are people of other races but most of them are White. If your skin is white too, chances are your family came from that area of the world.
With genetics, We can break things down to a much finer detail... But the idea is still the same,
Screen Realestate. I have chrome full screen. Other then my page I have a rather large white bar with significant white space, displaying a lot of information that is more useful to the web-server then it is for me.
Now that extra space could give me an extra 50 pixels vertical. Which may mean that I may not need to scroll down to hit that Submit button, Or for my current screen I will be able to see the Allowed HTML Tags, for easy reference.
I don't think his mortality or even his ego to the next generation was his consideration. I think it is a common situation that the big CEO's and other rich people have today.
We tend to forget the actual feeling of being poor and struggling. I remember the time I was laid off, I remember feeling bad however I am unable to empathize with my past self. So as they get rich and successful they really forget how to empathize with the issues of their employees. The issues that have happened to them in the past is mostly academic to them. Just as the adult Slashdot reader looks at kids today who seem to be slacking off in school, where they should just sit down and focus, so they can get a better life. You may remember slacking off in school, however it is academic and you forget the actual feelings of mental stress, worrying about saying the right thing all the time. So the stuff that you see the kids are doing today seems quite stupid... However that is only because you don't have that type of situation anymore.
Now back to the issue at hand.
For Jobs, he is probably on the classical idea of you can get get a job and work up the company if you do good at it. He doesn't realize that his own company is preventing this via a lot of forces such as...
Politics: Your boss doesn't want you promoted because you can threaten his position.
Business Structure: After you get to this title, the next one requires you to be a manager, or do work that you do not want to do. Or the companies requirement has a large skills gap to move up.
Bad/Underfunded HR Management: HR for big organizations will often just give raises promotions extra benefits based on a calculation, and not actually get off their butts and manage the human resources at a company.
All this stuff creates an environment where an employee must move from company to company every few years otherwise they will be stuck in a dead end job.
However on the average employee turnover cost 150% to hire and retrain a new employee. So it is understandable that the CEO really doesn't want their skill moving around to their competitors. Because they have have made it on top of the corporate food chain and lost empathy towards the others who are trying to work their way up too.
Boeing also shows interiors for its traditional airlines too... However I have never seen any of Boeings customers implement them either.
It really comes down to cost.
If a planet has life on it. If we visit it, how much damage will that cause. I mean just the bacteria on our skin that is normally helpful, my thrive and kill off all the life on the planet that may not have such defenses.
Range right now is the big limiting factor towards electric car deployment.
Gasoline and Hybrid cars get about 400 miles straight, that is about 8 hours of driving.
Electric cars can barely get 100 miles, that is about 3 hours of drive time.
The Electric car is still good for most commutes, even mine which is rather long may still work, however it will be close to the limit. But that means people will need to buy 2 cars, one for distance, and 1 for commute. Environmentally it seems like a good plan however not to many people can afford 2 cars per person, or 2.5 cars for 2 people.
I would expect with a higher density tape, you would get a higher write speed as well.
The read and write speed of the tape can be electrically increases much easier than speeding up how much tension that a fast rolling tape can handle.
So what is left to fight our growing skepticism in everything? ,Angry Birds and Candy Crush. This is actually very depressing stuff. In essence escapist technology.
While we may be out of an economic depression, the world is in a type of cultural depression, were individual feel that there isn't much future. We in essence gave up and stopped trying. Our great success stories of our age are guys who make things like Facebook, Twitter
The Space Race, was a publicity stunt, but a damn good one that really helped America and the world. It helped make people optimistic. If you grew up in the 70's and 80's the Idea that you could be an astronaut, or working in that fancy ground control room with all those monitors, inspired people to try new things study Science and Engineering. This personal exploration often took them off the path of going into space... However it moved people in other areas.
You can also just put your cell phone on an overhead projector.
But I think there are other thing as well.
For example I can see a full TV size digital movie, will have surround sound higher resolution. Vs the cell phone which will probably have mono sound and probably the movie resolution will be 1/4 on what the phone can handle.
Much like back in them days where you could get the Records, Cassette Tapes, or CDs at different prices for the same stuff. The difference in price isn't about how hard or the cost of the material. It is charged different for different quality.
Do you mean the cheesy made at home amateur stuff.
Or the real stuff you get illegally off the black market.
I know I am feeding the troll, but I need a break from work.
The Republicans are not Anti-Science, they are food "Good News" Science, say GMO Foods, and new technologies, stuff they can say look how much money science is making us.
What they don't like is Bad news science, where it means a company will need to change their production and loose money. As well if a particular science seems to clash with a religion of a voter base.
That said, If say the Evangelicals started to vote Democrat, you will see a new set of democrats fighting against putting evolution in schools.
Politicians are not for and against science. They are just going to have a position that gets them their most votes.
It says you went to all 7 continents "staying with local families and learning to cook the cuisines of the world"
Wouldn't Antarctica just be canned food. As the locals are only there temporary. Or is there a really good Penguin Soup?
I like the idea of a patent. However patents shouldn't be given for everything, only for exceptional creative ideas, having a patent should be so the little guy can stand up to the big guy. However with the tolling going on with these silly patients of lets invent this before someone else does. Turned patents from a force to protect the inventor, or a scam to leach companies and inventors of their earned money.
If you are little guy the cost of defending yourself is often higher then the payout would be. So you are forced to get bullied by the troll. With this decision, that means if the tolls loose they will get a double expense whammy. So they would probably be more careful on who they want to attack.
Yes but they were expensive.
A B&W Dumb Terminal could cost about a grand, A PC would be about 2 grand.
When a company bought a computer back then, they didn't plan for a 4 year life cycle, but because these systems cost millions of dollars, they planed for 10+ years of usage out of it.
Secondly there wasn't much trust in the computer, and most programs were not meant to be fancy UI but straight number crunching. So a lot of the work was done by had as to have a paper backup.
That said these old programs were smaller, and had less flaws, because they were so carefully done.
However that is a barbaric way to look at justice.
The point of a death penalty, is for people deemed to dangerous to be contained.
Prison should be people deemed to dangerous to be out in the public.
We have confused justice with revenge. And we have expanded our prison system to be a punishment system.
I think the biggest mistake is the Unusual section of "Cruel and Unusual punishment". It creates a system that makes finding appropriate penalties to crimes much more difficult. Because we are using a 18th century punishment to a 21st century crime.
Are you sure...
Collage Age Geeks: 18-24 Were born in the 1990's! When they were old enough to start doing geeky stuff with the computer we are well in the late 90's and early 2000's. There is a new generation of "Kids" out there who never had to experience the world pre-GUI, with 5 1/2 or bigger sized floppy disks, or without high speed internet.
The actual kids today who are able to start doing more then basic stuff with the computer, doesn't comprehend a world without internet connectivity will cellphones, or Monitors that more then a few inches thick.
For people who have used BASIC in its primary sense are at least 30 years old now.
That isn't true.
The CS 101 Class should have components about following up structure. Give assignments where the students may need to build off their code, if they start doing it the BASIC Way make assignments that shows how much harder it is to maintain over time. I went into CS with a Strong knowledge in BASIC, it was actually very helpful. As the other students were struggling with Loops and getting the darn thing to work, I was focusing more on trying to follow the guidelines for style and seeing if there is way I could make it better.
Sure I got the talking to when in a lecture I brought up using a GOTO to solve a problem. However that was about it.
Well there were a few key advantages.
BASIC was an interpreted language, vs FORTRAN or COBOL that required compiling. This gave beginner programmers quicker response in terms of code it run it. vs. Compile find a slew of cryptic errors try to find them and fix and try again.
Secondly BASIC was a line driven language vs. procedural.
10 print "hello"
20 goto 10
yes it created a lot of bad programming habits. But it really explained how the computer processed the stuff better then the procedure. But I am sure some of you taking CS 101 (Those without previous programming experience) often got hung up on function and procedures, loops and nested loops. The BASIC GOTO and if you get advanced use the GOSUB and RETURN makes these concepts easier.
Third BASIC handles free formatting much easier. FORTRAN you needed to follow a Particular set of formatting the first few spaces were reserved for labels or line wrap numbers, limit to 80 columns... In general nitpicking stuff that a started just doesn't want to handle.
As time went on, we really loss the simple computer programming language. BASIC turned to QBASIC then to Visual Basic then to VB.NET which made it a formatted language with all the hold ups the other professional languages has.
There isn't really a good starting language anymore.
As someone who has lost a lot of weight, Less Carbs food, larger breakfast, smaller dinners, and increased exercise. You should know that it isn't easy by any means. I find it just as difficult as it was when I took my Masters Degree while working full time. And keeping my weight down is still hard work.
Why?
First a minor change in your lifestyle, can cause weight to sneak in. For me it was when I went to college. Sure I was rather active, but I was fully grown so I didn't need as much food. However College is full of food, so I still ate like I was 16 years old. So after college I put on 50lbs, While in college I tried to do stuff that will help me loose weight, I tried going vegetarian where I ate more carbs, I tried to exercise more where it made me feel more hungry, so I ate the balance. And the college food isn't really the most healthy.
After college I was focusing on getting my career going, so I have been less active working long hours, Combined with going to grad school, I have been eating less and a bit more healthy so it wasn't as rapid as it was in college however I got an other 50lbs after 10 years. During this time I was off and on, figuring I can just use my will power to overcome it. However the problem is when you get fat, is your energy level drops so doing simple exercises drains you, combined with a poor body image of yourself, you are afraid to go out in public and be posted on facebook as that fatty who is running see how silly he looks.
I knew I really needed to take it seriously so I started hitting the gym, And the first few month it was pure hell, my legs felt like jello, sweating up a storm after going 1 mile, and I was really wanting high calorie food to make me feel better, but I needed to fight it, every day. It is hard when there is a company lunch with a bunch of interesting foods to try, or going to a party. However I got most of it off now, and I am still working on getting the rest of it too.
But being callous towards a fat person.
1. Doesn't help: It reinforces their fugitive body image and makes them more timid to go out and try.
2. Doesn't show support and empathy towards the problem they are facing. Most fat people are usually have it on their mind and are trying to loose weight all time. But they are often missing a crucial step in the process, causing them to suffer for no real gain.
3. There is blaming others for their faults, then there is a fact that society has the decks stacked against them. Usually for someone who is gaining unwanted weight, the worst thing they can do, which is also the first thing, is go toward the processed diet foods. It is like saying Poor people just need to go to school and then they can get a better job. Minorities just need to not get in trouble to stay out of jail. The system has been built against them. Sure thre are things they can do. However why can't we realize the faults in the system and fix it.
Yes, it is very common method. Popularity by limitation.
Being that every product/person is unique you can show that it is the best/most popular by pushing all of its features, and dropping out candidates with different features because they don't count.
For example Android is the top selling platform for mobile phones.
Apple is the top selling phone.
Both statements can be right. As Google gives android to many different phone makers, all are competing with Apple who sells more phone then any individual company. But combined they are a larger group.
Microsoft can chime in by adding all the PC's with Windows and Phones with Windows Mobile. They can pick and choose how far to go back to make them seem like they are the most dominate in the market.