Good, less stupid marketing trying to convince us that their product is faster then the other by using some set of obscure benchmarks to compare each other.
Intel Carbon 50Ghz vs Intel Carbon 100Ghz I now what is faster. Vs. Intel Core i4, i5, i7 Sandy Bridge, Ivory Bridge... 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores.... I can't barely figure out which chips from the same product line are better then the others.
Back in the good old days
286, 386, 486 and the number of Megahertz If your 386 had a faster megahertz then your 486 chances are for normal use it would be faster unless you use the new chip features.
We have activist groups who are so insistent on a perfect solution, that they will fight and poo-poo any less then optimal solution to the problem. There was a way to make biodegradable plastic from corn. However they fought against it because it mean Bio-engineered corn. We have Nuclear Energy which has a better safety record then Fossil fuels, but they are bitching and moaning because of the radioactive waste problem. We could burn our garbage but we create carbon to add to global warming. We can't go back to living in a preindustrial way, we can make decisions because they focus so much on the trade offs, for every decision.
How does that account for other animals increase in obesity? I mean a lab rat stress doesn't really increase or decrease if they are testing the same stuff. They are still stuck in the cage like they were 100 years ago.
I thought the government wanted to feed the oil industry? I am confused oh too many conspiracies. They are promoting the electric car so I think it is part of the conspiracy so I will get a gas car just to show them, then that will feed into the oil industry conspiracy.
Popular Music is about being played at a good enough level, so it will not offend the ears of average Joe. And sell as many copies as it can. While some Popular Music can be actually really good, it doesn't cover all the good music out there. There is plenty of good music that isn't popular, but is either considered to dull, or too extreme for average 5 minute attention span Joe.
Also there is a lot of Bad Music that isn't popular either just because it was bad. But if you want it popular you need to fit the right mold, and then you need money to push it.
However those stupid people who make bad decisions can get very violent, making it hard to implement in real life.
As well how do you determine who is fit to make the decisions or not. Also it falls under the same flaw that Soviet Style communism has. Progress needs mistakes screw ups, and bad decisions and people who do not follow the same drummer.
The PC revolution, all the business owners say these Personal Computers are not powerful enough to be useful so they said that they didn't want to make them. So it took some guys to decide to ignore that idea and go on their own.
Our system is sloppy, but it works because of its sloppiness. If you put too much of a tight control, a little mistake will just be huge. If you have loose controls a little mistake is a little mistake.
We tend to find find these predictors however they mean a statically increase of something not necessary that action will occur. There are people with all sorts of mental issues that are living productive and legal lives, because while their instincts may be to do something anti-social, we were taught to not do such, and we are well trained not to do that.
Suicide may have predictors for it, but it doesn't mean that the person will be Suicidal, even during tough times, however there will be an instinct, that they might need to fight, and work with. Knowing this could help to be preemptive. But it isn't a death sentence.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal for a normal organization. However Google size means such outages can cause enough minor inconveniences to be a big problem over all.
Well, there is a lot of issues here. 1. Nano-technology needs a lot of money for research and development. Most companies do not want to fund in R&D as they cannot quantify the value. 2. Governments are trying to show that they are responsible with money so they are not funding R&D because they will get on some media expose on how they are wasting their money playing with pencil lead and scotch tape. 3. Colleges are getting tight on R&D because there is pressure to cut college costs down.
Higher Ed + Government + Private Enterprise combined makes new advances. Right now we are blaming our problems on these portions making it difficult for them to help with innovation.
Higher Ed comes with the early theory's, government pays higher Ed to do further research, private enterprise uses these results to make a product which government and private sectors buy, allowing private enterprise to improve their process, which could bring to new discoveries that Higher Ed to analysis and process and make new theories.
You got to think 2 dimensionally! Think of having a bunch of sphere magnets, you clip them into a 1 magnet high sheet. Now you can bend the sheet of magnets without stretching them they just roll on each other. You pole is more 3 dimension so you have rows and rows of these things so the upper part will stretch assuming that its bonds are equal on all dimensions.
Well there is some interesting results (not published) from some Architecture students at one of my local and expensive Colleges. They looked at utilization of the classrooms, and they saw at the peak time only 20% of the classrooms are being use. However the college was spending a lot of money to build new buildings for classrooms. While it would be cheaper and easier to refurbish the existing classrooms, they will spend more money for a new building.
Why? Because it is easier to get Alumni support for making a new building vs. trying to refurbish some rooms, hence the students were urged to not publish those results and come up with an alternative solution.
There are spots where colleges can save a lot of money, and not hinder quality of the education and research. But colleges are more interested in other things then education and learning.
There is a big difference between complaining about something and being abusive about it, we seem to not understand this concept anymore.
Step 1: Don't assume your adversary is evil or has some evil agenda. Most people want to do the right thing, however they made wrong decisions along the way.
Step 2: Discuss your problems rationally. Get some sleep before you start ranting about something. Ok you are frustrated at this level, perhaps because you have been playing the game for 30 hours straight. And it is you that is blacking out every 5 minutes and not the game. Figure out how big of a deal it is. You love the game but your arm polygons sometimes go threw a wall.
Step 3: Realize that Perhaps you are not the target audience. I mean the "Pony Unicorn Princess" Game is a bit too girly for a 30 something guy. Or "Hell Killer: Mountain of blood", is giving your 4 year old nightmares.
Step 4: Focus on the good points too. If you are going to tell someone your product sucks and you will never buy it anymore, they won't care, they lost (past tense) a customer. If you give them the good points and the bad points then they could be loosing (present tense) a customer and they may be more open minded.
Step 5: Realize if you complain about something, it doesn't make you seem smart. There is the idea that the Intelligent person must be complaining about something and people who are in generally happy must be dumb, isn't really the case. If you like it, it is OK. Stop trying to find faults in everything.
Now you can complain about stuff. Lets say the game says it should work on your system requirements, but it doesn't load up. Or you get bugs that prevent you from winning, you can complain about those, however you should also preference with the fact you like the game otherwise.
so This project was Under [strike]the the oversight of our alien overloads, who financed it by extracting gold from asteroids, in exchange for our compliance which helped hide our[/strike] Budget
It is very hard to see what technologies make it and what doesn't. Usually you get the following factors I call it the 6P(mostly). Price Performance Power Portability Programs (Ph/F)eatures
Now at any given time there is a demand for some balance of these, however it isn't usually sure where the sweet spot is as it can change.
Price, sure the lesser the better... However if you are selling these things you want to make as much money as possible per unit, People are willing to spend so much for something until it becomes too big of desion and will need to weigh the other 5 P's
Performance, Yeah we want the fastest, but how much is that going to cost, and do we really need it to be fast for our use for it.
Power, how long will the battery last, will it affect its portability.
Portability, how small and light is it. Is is rugged enough for my daily use, does it have the Features that will allow me to be portable with it, does it look good to have on my person...
Programs, like features, however you can add your own. How good are the programs available, how many of them are their.
Features, what does it do what doesn't it do. Can I live with what it doesn't do.
Now different stuff has a different balance of this stuff. I have a crossover Lenovo thinkpad laptop/tablet. I have gained in Performance, Features, and Programs, but I lost out portability, power, and price. But I like it, because it fits my needs.
However we really don't know what the people want until it is out. You can have as many checks to see if people like it as you want. But you will never know until it is released.
Cell phone holsters are the sign that you have gone too far.
Back in them early days with cell phones that measured its thickness in inches, those holsters were a little more accepted. However today we just put them in our pocket.
If you have to carry more stuff, get a brief case. Don't try to attach stuff to your pants.
This is the part I don't get. The "Obesity Epidemic" Started in the late 1990's, Before that it wasn't a big problem. We often blame the "Obesity Epidemic" on things like Soda/Pop, Fast Food, Junk Food snacks... However these food foods have been around for many generations, I would expect if they were a major cause to the "Obesity Epidemic" then they would have shown up much earlier after they started to gain popularity.
So either something changed in these foods that makes them different then they were a hundred years ago (such a replacing Sugar, with Corn Syrup) Or there is an other cause, probably more complex that average Joe doesn't want to think of.
My Hypothesis is to the "Obesity Epidemic" is the rise in Mass Media creating fear. Pre-Late 1990's much of new media came from 3 TV stations, and news papers. Which for the most part were rather toned down and didn't try to put people in a major panic about everything. Sure the Russians wanted to blow us up, but that gave us a single enemy to look at. But now we have breaking news on everything, and every little detail is analysed and shown how it will react in a worse case... News of kids missing anywhere in the US is getting headlines, discussion of all the other problems all begins to weigh on us. We have been trained to be afraid of the world.
So we are afraid of the world, we won't let our kids to go outside and play, because we are afraid of the Sex Offender across the street will take them away, or if they accidentally step on the neighbors flower they will get hit by a massive lawsuit. Or if you see other kids you are too scared to discipline them when they are doing something dangerous or wrong, because you are afraid that you will get some sort of child abuse claim against you.... So we keep our kids inside all day. Kids have energy but they don't have means to burn it so they are playing video games all day... However their body is growing so it is telling them they should eat, so they eat, but it leads to excess. If we are adults and we are afraid of the world we put on a few pounds early on mostly because we grew up and didn't adjust our food intake to match our adult needs. However we don't want to be seen as the Fat Guy at the Gym, or the Fat Guy running down the street, that TV Comedies like making fun of. So we will tend to stay inside or do activities that are safe from ridicule. Then combined with the body image that you are Fat means you will begin to accept your weight as part of you identity and not really try too hard to change it. Sure we will try some fad diets loose 10-20 lbs but it will ware us out and will put them back on, plus some. Being that it is called an "Obesity Epidemic" means we are not completely at fault either, because it is part of a bigger problem, so we will sit and weight for those who are smarter then us to solve it.
This Fear model tends to make sense with the trends of higher Obesity. Uneducated: Untrained in dealing with information, more prone to throw stuff out of proportion. Poor: Often Uneducated, however they are worrying about making it to the next day, so they will do what they need to get to the next day, however fearing what will happen tomorrow. Minority Races: Fear of going out, as they are prone to more suspicion, even if they are just doing the same thing the Majority Race is doing.
Sure eating junk food in excess will not be healthy... However they are fine in moderation, and with balance of healthy living.
Wow you have cell phone that can communicate with other phones as far as well into orbit without any need for additional infrastructure?
The Star Trek Communicator wasn't really a big part of star trek, it was a plot device to explain how to talk to the ship. In back in WWII they had portable radios. Without Star Trek we probably would still have had cell phones. Perhaps not the flip phone but other styles. It isn't that Star Trek was prophecy, however it encouraged some easy technology to be made.
Slashdot Mirror
However we got more Cores. So there is more parallel processing going on.
Bad if you are still using DOS, but we learned to open up a bunch of apps without worrying anymore.
Good, less stupid marketing trying to convince us that their product is faster then the other by using some set of obscure benchmarks to compare each other.
Intel Carbon 50Ghz vs Intel Carbon 100Ghz I now what is faster. ... 2 cores, 4 cores, 8 cores.... I can't barely figure out which chips from the same product line are better then the others.
Vs.
Intel Core i4, i5, i7 Sandy Bridge, Ivory Bridge
Back in the good old days
286, 386, 486 and the number of Megahertz If your 386 had a faster megahertz then your 486 chances are for normal use it would be faster unless you use the new chip features.
We have activist groups who are so insistent on a perfect solution, that they will fight and poo-poo any less then optimal solution to the problem.
There was a way to make biodegradable plastic from corn. However they fought against it because it mean Bio-engineered corn. We have Nuclear Energy which has a better safety record then Fossil fuels, but they are bitching and moaning because of the radioactive waste problem. We could burn our garbage but we create carbon to add to global warming.
We can't go back to living in a preindustrial way, we can make decisions because they focus so much on the trade offs, for every decision.
So how does this affect other animals?
How does that account for other animals increase in obesity? I mean a lab rat stress doesn't really increase or decrease if they are testing the same stuff. They are still stuck in the cage like they were 100 years ago.
I am taking that as sarcasm. However it is tough to tell with these posts, you could just be wrong.
Because the gov't want to promote electric cars?
I thought the government wanted to feed the oil industry? I am confused oh too many conspiracies.
They are promoting the electric car so I think it is part of the conspiracy so I will get a gas car just to show them, then that will feed into the oil industry conspiracy.
It isn't as much good, but popular.
Popular Music is about being played at a good enough level, so it will not offend the ears of average Joe. And sell as many copies as it can. While some Popular Music can be actually really good, it doesn't cover all the good music out there. There is plenty of good music that isn't popular, but is either considered to dull, or too extreme for average 5 minute attention span Joe.
Also there is a lot of Bad Music that isn't popular either just because it was bad. But if you want it popular you need to fit the right mold, and then you need money to push it.
So you quote a site where any Nutter can post whatever they feel like. and an other site devoted to a particular agenda and viewpoint.
Well it is Open Source, you get the score.
If they decide to have an Open License to the score then you are good to go.
I personally HATE the Open Source stuff that doesn't have Source Code!!!
Just say it comes with a less End User Restrictive License.
However those stupid people who make bad decisions can get very violent, making it hard to implement in real life.
As well how do you determine who is fit to make the decisions or not. Also it falls under the same flaw that Soviet Style communism has. Progress needs mistakes screw ups, and bad decisions and people who do not follow the same drummer.
The PC revolution, all the business owners say these Personal Computers are not powerful enough to be useful so they said that they didn't want to make them. So it took some guys to decide to ignore that idea and go on their own.
Our system is sloppy, but it works because of its sloppiness. If you put too much of a tight control, a little mistake will just be huge. If you have loose controls a little mistake is a little mistake.
We tend to find find these predictors however they mean a statically increase of something not necessary that action will occur.
There are people with all sorts of mental issues that are living productive and legal lives, because while their instincts may be to do something anti-social, we were taught to not do such, and we are well trained not to do that.
Suicide may have predictors for it, but it doesn't mean that the person will be Suicidal, even during tough times, however there will be an instinct, that they might need to fight, and work with.
Knowing this could help to be preemptive. But it isn't a death sentence.
It wouldn't be that big of a deal for a normal organization. However Google size means such outages can cause enough minor inconveniences to be a big problem over all.
Well, there is a lot of issues here.
1. Nano-technology needs a lot of money for research and development. Most companies do not want to fund in R&D as they cannot quantify the value.
2. Governments are trying to show that they are responsible with money so they are not funding R&D because they will get on some media expose on how they are wasting their money playing with pencil lead and scotch tape.
3. Colleges are getting tight on R&D because there is pressure to cut college costs down.
Higher Ed + Government + Private Enterprise combined makes new advances. Right now we are blaming our problems on these portions making it difficult for them to help with innovation.
Higher Ed comes with the early theory's, government pays higher Ed to do further research, private enterprise uses these results to make a product which government and private sectors buy, allowing private enterprise to improve their process, which could bring to new discoveries that Higher Ed to analysis and process and make new theories.
You got to think 2 dimensionally! Think of having a bunch of sphere magnets, you clip them into a 1 magnet high sheet. Now you can bend the sheet of magnets without stretching them they just roll on each other. You pole is more 3 dimension so you have rows and rows of these things so the upper part will stretch assuming that its bonds are equal on all dimensions.
Well there is some interesting results (not published) from some Architecture students at one of my local and expensive Colleges.
They looked at utilization of the classrooms, and they saw at the peak time only 20% of the classrooms are being use. However the college was spending a lot of money to build new buildings for classrooms. While it would be cheaper and easier to refurbish the existing classrooms, they will spend more money for a new building.
Why? Because it is easier to get Alumni support for making a new building vs. trying to refurbish some rooms, hence the students were urged to not publish those results and come up with an alternative solution.
There are spots where colleges can save a lot of money, and not hinder quality of the education and research. But colleges are more interested in other things then education and learning.
There is a big difference between complaining about something and being abusive about it, we seem to not understand this concept anymore.
Step 1:
Don't assume your adversary is evil or has some evil agenda. Most people want to do the right thing, however they made wrong decisions along the way.
Step 2:
Discuss your problems rationally. Get some sleep before you start ranting about something. Ok you are frustrated at this level, perhaps because you have been playing the game for 30 hours straight. And it is you that is blacking out every 5 minutes and not the game. Figure out how big of a deal it is. You love the game but your arm polygons sometimes go threw a wall.
Step 3:
Realize that Perhaps you are not the target audience. I mean the "Pony Unicorn Princess" Game is a bit too girly for a 30 something guy. Or "Hell Killer: Mountain of blood", is giving your 4 year old nightmares.
Step 4:
Focus on the good points too. If you are going to tell someone your product sucks and you will never buy it anymore, they won't care, they lost (past tense) a customer. If you give them the good points and the bad points then they could be loosing (present tense) a customer and they may be more open minded.
Step 5:
Realize if you complain about something, it doesn't make you seem smart. There is the idea that the Intelligent person must be complaining about something and people who are in generally happy must be dumb, isn't really the case. If you like it, it is OK. Stop trying to find faults in everything.
Now you can complain about stuff.
Lets say the game says it should work on your system requirements, but it doesn't load up. Or you get bugs that prevent you from winning, you can complain about those, however you should also preference with the fact you like the game otherwise.
Nah the key words were "only lightly redacted"
so This project was Under [strike]the the oversight of our alien overloads, who financed it by extracting gold from asteroids, in exchange for our compliance which helped hide our[/strike] Budget
It is very hard to see what technologies make it and what doesn't.
Usually you get the following factors I call it the 6P(mostly).
Price
Performance
Power
Portability
Programs
(Ph/F)eatures
Now at any given time there is a demand for some balance of these, however it isn't usually sure where the sweet spot is as it can change.
Price, sure the lesser the better... However if you are selling these things you want to make as much money as possible per unit, People are willing to spend so much for something until it becomes too big of desion and will need to weigh the other 5 P's
Performance, Yeah we want the fastest, but how much is that going to cost, and do we really need it to be fast for our use for it.
Power, how long will the battery last, will it affect its portability.
Portability, how small and light is it. Is is rugged enough for my daily use, does it have the Features that will allow me to be portable with it, does it look good to have on my person...
Programs, like features, however you can add your own. How good are the programs available, how many of them are their.
Features, what does it do what doesn't it do. Can I live with what it doesn't do.
Now different stuff has a different balance of this stuff. I have a crossover Lenovo thinkpad laptop/tablet. I have gained in Performance, Features, and Programs, but I lost out portability, power, and price. But I like it, because it fits my needs.
However we really don't know what the people want until it is out. You can have as many checks to see if people like it as you want. But you will never know until it is released.
Cell phone holsters are the sign that you have gone too far.
Back in them early days with cell phones that measured its thickness in inches, those holsters were a little more accepted. However today we just put them in our pocket.
If you have to carry more stuff, get a brief case. Don't try to attach stuff to your pants.
They are BB's how much gore do you expect...
No they need tablets.
The desktop business will continue to shrink and be unsustainable for a company the size of Microsoft.
Well a lot of great things in the world are very simple. And making something simple isn't always easy, it may take a lot of skill, and trying.
This is the part I don't get.
The "Obesity Epidemic" Started in the late 1990's, Before that it wasn't a big problem.
We often blame the "Obesity Epidemic" on things like Soda/Pop, Fast Food, Junk Food snacks...
However these food foods have been around for many generations, I would expect if they were a major cause to the "Obesity Epidemic" then they would have shown up much earlier after they started to gain popularity.
So either something changed in these foods that makes them different then they were a hundred years ago (such a replacing Sugar, with Corn Syrup) Or there is an other cause, probably more complex that average Joe doesn't want to think of.
My Hypothesis is to the "Obesity Epidemic" is the rise in Mass Media creating fear.
Pre-Late 1990's much of new media came from 3 TV stations, and news papers. Which for the most part were rather toned down and didn't try to put people in a major panic about everything. Sure the Russians wanted to blow us up, but that gave us a single enemy to look at. But now we have breaking news on everything, and every little detail is analysed and shown how it will react in a worse case... News of kids missing anywhere in the US is getting headlines, discussion of all the other problems all begins to weigh on us. We have been trained to be afraid of the world.
So we are afraid of the world, we won't let our kids to go outside and play, because we are afraid of the Sex Offender across the street will take them away, or if they accidentally step on the neighbors flower they will get hit by a massive lawsuit. Or if you see other kids you are too scared to discipline them when they are doing something dangerous or wrong, because you are afraid that you will get some sort of child abuse claim against you....
So we keep our kids inside all day. Kids have energy but they don't have means to burn it so they are playing video games all day... However their body is growing so it is telling them they should eat, so they eat, but it leads to excess.
If we are adults and we are afraid of the world we put on a few pounds early on mostly because we grew up and didn't adjust our food intake to match our adult needs. However we don't want to be seen as the Fat Guy at the Gym, or the Fat Guy running down the street, that TV Comedies like making fun of. So we will tend to stay inside or do activities that are safe from ridicule. Then combined with the body image that you are Fat means you will begin to accept your weight as part of you identity and not really try too hard to change it. Sure we will try some fad diets loose 10-20 lbs but it will ware us out and will put them back on, plus some. Being that it is called an "Obesity Epidemic" means we are not completely at fault either, because it is part of a bigger problem, so we will sit and weight for those who are smarter then us to solve it.
This Fear model tends to make sense with the trends of higher Obesity.
Uneducated: Untrained in dealing with information, more prone to throw stuff out of proportion.
Poor: Often Uneducated, however they are worrying about making it to the next day, so they will do what they need to get to the next day, however fearing what will happen tomorrow.
Minority Races: Fear of going out, as they are prone to more suspicion, even if they are just doing the same thing the Majority Race is doing.
Sure eating junk food in excess will not be healthy... However they are fine in moderation, and with balance of healthy living.
Wow you have cell phone that can communicate with other phones as far as well into orbit without any need for additional infrastructure?
The Star Trek Communicator wasn't really a big part of star trek, it was a plot device to explain how to talk to the ship. In back in WWII they had portable radios. Without Star Trek we probably would still have had cell phones. Perhaps not the flip phone but other styles. It isn't that Star Trek was prophecy, however it encouraged some easy technology to be made.