It's the old adage that you have to teach every new generation what the old one already knows.. if you don't, you get bouts of dark ages.
There's no guarantee that what one person researches and discovers gets shared with all the people who need to know so they don't make mistakes in what they do, the biggest example is of course medicine and doctors, no one wants mis-diagnosis, but it happens, and the problem is that there isn't a educational system which makes sure that people who need to know, know.. you know?
There's a pretty great ted talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html - why isit relevant? because if you want to generate the most competent next generation, you have to motivate them, and to motivate someone, you should know how to motivate people.
We need to motivate people to do the right thing, and to know how to do that, we ourselves need to know how to be properly motivated to see how to do it right.
I also like this ted-talk because it's right, but goes against normality in how we think about motivation. And guess what, if people don't learn this, we'll time and time again get sucked back into the ignorant way of doing things.
There are plenty of professions where there is a real dark-age in how some people know how to do things better, but the profession doesn't change for one reason or another. Probably yours, dear reader, is a part of it and you yourself.
The thing with Android being open, will mean interconnectedness, and programmability on a large scale.
Let's say 3 companies have 20 types of android phones in total.
15 of those phones have GPS, frontcam, compass, radio and wireless. Even though the companies differ, the same API can be used to access the GPS, wireless, frontcamera, and so on, each manufacturer has connected their hardware to the same API, so programmers will benefit from a unified base they don't have to worry about.
That's really the beauty of having an open source OS for the phones, developers know what to expect, and manufacturers just have to connect to the proper APIs.
The fact that manufacturers will on some level develop themselves software advantages for their phones isn't really relevant, that's just something they can do themselves and copyright will protect them from others directly copying them.
If however manufacturers don't open their hardware to the APIs so that developers can develop for the phone.. then you have a problem.
This sadly is happening with Samsung and its symbian partnership, a lot of the hardware in samsung phones isn't connected to the API for symbian developers to take advantage of it, and there's regrettably a perceived utter lack of action on their part to open things up to make it easier for symbians developers to implement things for both Nokia and Samsung phones.
Symbian could be doing the same thing as android, it's a stable platform with a lot of hardware behind it, but manufacturers really have to make sure that developers can get to the hardware, otherwise you're not really benefitting yourself or your customers.
"even the juror said it would have been better if it was just handled internally"
- Yea, just because it's a city, they shouldn't have made this a criminal case.. I don't think Microsoft or Cisco would criminally charge someone for something like this.. And having him under police surveillance? wtf? Are these employers, or the fucking empire?
The city officials went way overboard, both in how they used city resources against him, and by actually accusing him of criminal wrongdoing.
And it's just stupid that Jurors get asked "did he do something wrong", they just have to acknowledge "yes", and because it's a criminal case, he gets a jail sentence.. for what? Why does any guilty criminal case have to go overboard with sentencing? Proper thing would be to sentence him "fired from the job" and that's it.
You guys in america.. when will you see the difference between government and fucked up paranoia and abuse of power by officials?
How can you get from "One person, who ignored everything around him to the detriment of the flight" to "All pilots must be the same as him, and will ignore everything around them if minesweeper is allowed"
- This is a clear case of That individual wasn't distracted by other tools and thus fucked up.. it's more like that individual WILLFULLY ignored everything around him and thus fucked up.
Normal pilots who are doing their jobs properly will be able to immediately respond and monitor things while doing something else, because they themselves decide what priority to put minesweeper or facebook in.
Pilots who have already decided to ignore normal procedure will do so even with a in-flight magazine and their penis.
Minesweeper or facebook do not make a bad pilot.
- This is regulatory nonsense, blame is being put on the wrong thing here.
is that Samsung has had the i8910 out for almost a year, and no one is talking about this really great phone.
I've got one, and the qualities are endless: 1) seamless video playback of up to 1280x720 2) video capture of 720p quality 3) excellent GPS 4) strikingly beautiful amoled screen 5) incredibly powerful graphics processor 6) symbian OS 7) Wireless support 8) front facing video camera 9) stereo speakers as well as normal headset input 10) DLNA server and controller 11) you can use it as a phone;P 12) being able to use skype through wireless with the phone instead of calling the person.. really nice:D 13) great community which is trying to improve it even further. 14) multi-task 15) copy paste function from beginning;) - I'm probably forgetting some other bonuses.
The flaws so far are: 1) doesn't have multi-touch 2) you need to do some googling and software browsing on various websites to find and set up tools you'd like to use.
With this phone, I've got everything I could ever need in hand. It's my first one-cellphone-does-all item, and I'm liking it very much.
The old meaning of the wort art is the same as "technique" or "craft" means today.
Simply put art is defined not by content (game, play, movie, music) but by how the content is/was crafted.
So any work from an ikea chair, to a boardgame or computer game, to the making of chess pieces, or the making of a movie is art.
Of course the meaning of the word art has been idealized by people who would like it to only be connected to things they like, thus you have people saying one thing is art, and another thing isn't.
If I look at a few examples:
A chair handcrafted by a complete beginner would not be considered art. A handcrafted chair by a expert craftsman would be considered art. It's the technique or learned craft that separates what's art and not art.
A designed chair by an expert would be considered art, even if the design is then crafted by machines to make a million copies and sold by Ikea.
a beautifully done chess pieces and board is considered art, even if it's done in millions of copies
2 players competing at chess is not considered art, but is a chess match between 2 grandmasters art?
2 players playing instruments is considered art by modern standards almost regardless of skill.
The modern definition is: Art is in the eye of the beholder, but that is only meant as an important part of verifying that the i) chair actually works ii) the chess pieces aren't missing pieces iii) the players aren't sucking badly. It's the verification of the craft/technique as good work.
Some people though add another definition to narrow it further down: "Only what I call art".
How can a misconception that basically allows you to swear all you want make your life hell?
That's like saying people think you drive badly because you're a woman, and that makes your life hell.. others peoples opinion of you make that much of a difference? Paranoid much?
I don't think people of our current society really understand how good we have it..
Every single living species on this earth have had to constantly forage for food, shelter, or mates.. constantly. And we had to do the same for a very, very long time. I'm not talking about going hunting once a week, I'm talking before that, when we had to spend most of our time foraging for food, that means from 6 in the morning, until 8 in the night, going from place to place for shelter, or for food.
This is what wild animals have to do, and this is what we had to do.
Our current situation, where we have specialized and been able to organize our efforts so much that you only need to work 8 hours a day to feed, clothe and even pamper yourself without any real worry is what has given us the chance to specialize into other areas which are of no real concern to our immediate needs.
Our efforts throughout the ages have given us more spare time to do with as we please, and we've reached a certain equilibrium where we can both fend for our needs, and enjoy things in our spare time.
Would we really be even interested in things in outer space, if we had to worry about us and our kids being ill and hungry for weeks on end?
We are very Naive about our own efforts because we aren't the people who had to work out all the details, all the systems, all the inventions which puts us where we are today, it's our forefathers and mothers which gave us their legacy in hopes of a better future and good people of our day which are carrying the torch.
It's a miracle that we've come this far, and our success might just be the first chance life in the universe is able to be this stable and this prosperous to be able to even think outside our basic needs.
Never forget how lucky we are that we can work together for a better world. I just hope we can do it even better in the future.
I also like the analogy of the guy "I love to spread paper on the desk" - that's not normal procedure for every person in the office, that's just some weird system you set up.
I'm working in IT, and I must say, I never have to have any paper on my desk, it's all digital, but maybe being part of IT, we tend to try and do everything from our computers.
I think Geotagging an old map, which isn't based on accurate satellite imagery is an interesting concept.
Of course you aren't interested in in its accuracy, as that probably is horrible comparatively speaking, but like any good metatagging of content an image contains, it's interesting to geo-tag what's represented on the map in the context of the item being geo-tagged.
Things like : http://www.openstreetmap.org/ are interesting, and adding historical maps to that as well would be interesting, for although it's not a perfect replica, if the map is contorted to the real word map by the geotagging information, you could have a pretty accurate depiction of development within an area.
but.. isn't mass directly related to the space itself? I've always been of the thought that space was the field mass was a part of, and any particles of space (matter) was in fact the evidence of a field (space) and mass-particles (matter).
Of course this is important research, it's definitely worth asking the question, is mass a sign of a different field than space, like EM is a different field than space. I'm pretty sure though that the question will be no.. Mass of particles is in my mind linked to matter-particles being mass-particles in the space-field so to speak.
But then if anything interesting comes out of it, it'll give us a better understanding of the space-field, which is needed I think.
They're complaining about an emulator for old crap they've long time ago stopped selling. If they really had been interested in making a profit of the symbian/Iphone/Android cellphones, they'd have been themselves making emulators so that they could have an online store they could sell games for the phones.
They didn't, and someone else gave his free time to make a kickass emulator, and I think Nokia is right in showing what the phone can do. If nintendo gets their act together, realize it's not about having total-control-of-the-platform, but about the games and enjoyability, and want to create a marketable gaming product for the various cellphone OSes, they should stop whining like little bitches, and make something cool for the platforms, instead of whining about it and shitting on other peoples creativity.
I don't buy games for the wii/DS because I have some affinity for the platform or nintendo, I buy them for the games sake. If I can enjoy them on my cellphone, so much the better.
I disagree with the premise that people who use Google for their news will in any way change how they view the news just because one or two, or many sites start to remove themselves.
If the change is gradual enough, other companies will notice the extra traffic and welcome it.
There is "perhaps" a chance you can either a) increase the size of the muscle cells, or b) increase the number of muscle cells in the proper conditions. Check out : http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_index.html for some basics. the forums are filled with interesting discussion which might help you out.
I applaud him for not going to Fox because Fox has PROVEN themselves not to be interested in telling the truth. This has nothing to do with belief or religion, or even politics.
That just means they've been able to hide even better the pile of cash they're paying themselves whether it's under or over the table, or they're putting even more money into advertising so people get the wrong idea.
Private industry has not been able to decrease the cost of medicine, they haven't been able to decrease the cost for each individual, they haven't been able to increase the average health of people.
How can you stand having a middle-man between you and your doctor? How can you stand having to fight to keep yourself from being bankrupt because of medical costs?
it's invariably better than ventrilo for all the things you listed. Why would you even consider going back? You just tell people it's effing awesome, and if you don't use it, you're a noob: http://www.videosift.com/video/N00B-Boyfriend
"no one would switch to it just for the benefit of talking to us." - so it's not the programmes fault, it's that no one likes you?
Who can remember the article about the guy who shipped donuts to companies, and left a tin to put the cash in, basically trusting people to do the right thing if they grabbed a donut?
- I think it was about 90% of all people who were honest, 10% of people who weren't, and that's with a real product which you're really stealing.
regarding music, if there wasn't this much negativity from the **AA, and people were left to their own in downloading what they like with no repercussions, a lot more people would buy what they like in support of good music.
Personally I've long time ago stopped buying music as I feel it's wrong to reward this kind of behaviour from the **AA, and I've stopped browsing music as musicians today all have that same stigma to them, doing it for greed, and I have no interest in listening to what I associate with greed.
Music is basically the manipulation of emotion. How can you possibly feel good listening to what you like, when every artist the last 50 years has the **AA stigma to it? Everytime I hear a song, no matter which one, I also feel the negative connection: "people are getting sued for listening to this because of greed"
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In other news: USB 2.0 has been successfully used wit ATA and Serial-ATA!
Film at 11.
It's the old adage that you have to teach every new generation what the old one already knows.. if you don't, you get bouts of dark ages.
There's no guarantee that what one person researches and discovers gets shared with all the people who need to know so they don't make mistakes in what they do, the biggest example is of course medicine and doctors, no one wants mis-diagnosis, but it happens, and the problem is that there isn't a educational system which makes sure that people who need to know, know.. you know?
There's a pretty great ted talk here: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/dan_pink_on_motivation.html - why isit relevant? because if you want to generate the most competent next generation, you have to motivate them, and to motivate someone, you should know how to motivate people.
We need to motivate people to do the right thing, and to know how to do that, we ourselves need to know how to be properly motivated to see how to do it right.
I also like this ted-talk because it's right, but goes against normality in how we think about motivation. And guess what, if people don't learn this, we'll time and time again get sucked back into the ignorant way of doing things.
There are plenty of professions where there is a real dark-age in how some people know how to do things better, but the profession doesn't change for one reason or another. Probably yours, dear reader, is a part of it and you yourself.
The thing with Android being open, will mean interconnectedness, and programmability on a large scale.
Let's say 3 companies have 20 types of android phones in total.
15 of those phones have GPS, frontcam, compass, radio and wireless. Even though the companies differ, the same API can be used to access the GPS, wireless, frontcamera, and so on, each manufacturer has connected their hardware to the same API, so programmers will benefit from a unified base they don't have to worry about.
That's really the beauty of having an open source OS for the phones, developers know what to expect, and manufacturers just have to connect to the proper APIs.
The fact that manufacturers will on some level develop themselves software advantages for their phones isn't really relevant, that's just something they can do themselves and copyright will protect them from others directly copying them.
If however manufacturers don't open their hardware to the APIs so that developers can develop for the phone.. then you have a problem.
This sadly is happening with Samsung and its symbian partnership, a lot of the hardware in samsung phones isn't connected to the API for symbian developers to take advantage of it, and there's regrettably a perceived utter lack of action on their part to open things up to make it easier for symbians developers to implement things for both Nokia and Samsung phones.
Symbian could be doing the same thing as android, it's a stable platform with a lot of hardware behind it, but manufacturers really have to make sure that developers can get to the hardware, otherwise you're not really benefitting yourself or your customers.
So Iceland would be the best of both worlds.. with hot volcanoes on top of cold glaciers, just put up the proper IEEE standard vinyl curtain.
"even the juror said it would have been better if it was just handled internally"
- Yea, just because it's a city, they shouldn't have made this a criminal case.. I don't think Microsoft or Cisco would criminally charge someone for something like this.. And having him under police surveillance? wtf? Are these employers, or the fucking empire?
The city officials went way overboard, both in how they used city resources against him, and by actually accusing him of criminal wrongdoing.
And it's just stupid that Jurors get asked "did he do something wrong", they just have to acknowledge "yes", and because it's a criminal case, he gets a jail sentence.. for what? Why does any guilty criminal case have to go overboard with sentencing? Proper thing would be to sentence him "fired from the job" and that's it.
You guys in america.. when will you see the difference between government and fucked up paranoia and abuse of power by officials?
How can you get from "One person, who ignored everything around him to the detriment of the flight" to "All pilots must be the same as him, and will ignore everything around them if minesweeper is allowed"
- This is a clear case of That individual wasn't distracted by other tools and thus fucked up.. it's more like that individual WILLFULLY ignored everything around him and thus fucked up.
Normal pilots who are doing their jobs properly will be able to immediately respond and monitor things while doing something else, because they themselves decide what priority to put minesweeper or facebook in.
Pilots who have already decided to ignore normal procedure will do so even with a in-flight magazine and their penis.
Minesweeper or facebook do not make a bad pilot.
- This is regulatory nonsense, blame is being put on the wrong thing here.
Do you know what the best thing would be to get rid of most of your problems?
Make them legal immigrants.
is that Samsung has had the i8910 out for almost a year, and no one is talking about this really great phone.
I've got one, and the qualities are endless: ;P :D ;)
1) seamless video playback of up to 1280x720
2) video capture of 720p quality
3) excellent GPS
4) strikingly beautiful amoled screen
5) incredibly powerful graphics processor
6) symbian OS
7) Wireless support
8) front facing video camera
9) stereo speakers as well as normal headset input
10) DLNA server and controller
11) you can use it as a phone
12) being able to use skype through wireless with the phone instead of calling the person.. really nice
13) great community which is trying to improve it even further.
14) multi-task
15) copy paste function from beginning
- I'm probably forgetting some other bonuses.
The flaws so far are:
1) doesn't have multi-touch
2) you need to do some googling and software browsing on various websites to find and set up tools you'd like to use.
With this phone, I've got everything I could ever need in hand. It's my first one-cellphone-does-all item, and I'm liking it very much.
The old meaning of the wort art is the same as "technique" or "craft" means today.
Simply put art is defined not by content (game, play, movie, music) but by how the content is/was crafted.
So any work from an ikea chair, to a boardgame or computer game, to the making of chess pieces, or the making of a movie is art.
Of course the meaning of the word art has been idealized by people who would like it to only be connected to things they like, thus you have people saying one thing is art, and another thing isn't.
If I look at a few examples:
A chair handcrafted by a complete beginner would not be considered art. A handcrafted chair by a expert craftsman would be considered art. It's the technique or learned craft that separates what's art and not art.
A designed chair by an expert would be considered art, even if the design is then crafted by machines to make a million copies and sold by Ikea.
a beautifully done chess pieces and board is considered art, even if it's done in millions of copies
2 players competing at chess is not considered art, but is a chess match between 2 grandmasters art?
2 players playing instruments is considered art by modern standards almost regardless of skill.
The modern definition is: Art is in the eye of the beholder, but that is only meant as an important part of verifying that the i) chair actually works ii) the chess pieces aren't missing pieces iii) the players aren't sucking badly. It's the verification of the craft/technique as good work.
Some people though add another definition to narrow it further down: "Only what I call art".
How can a misconception that basically allows you to swear all you want make your life hell?
That's like saying people think you drive badly because you're a woman, and that makes your life hell.. others peoples opinion of you make that much of a difference? Paranoid much?
Doesn't make sense.
This might be a off-topic rant, but..
I don't think people of our current society really understand how good we have it..
Every single living species on this earth have had to constantly forage for food, shelter, or mates.. constantly. And we had to do the same for a very, very long time. I'm not talking about going hunting once a week, I'm talking before that, when we had to spend most of our time foraging for food, that means from 6 in the morning, until 8 in the night, going from place to place for shelter, or for food.
This is what wild animals have to do, and this is what we had to do.
Our current situation, where we have specialized and been able to organize our efforts so much that you only need to work 8 hours a day to feed, clothe and even pamper yourself without any real worry is what has given us the chance to specialize into other areas which are of no real concern to our immediate needs.
Our efforts throughout the ages have given us more spare time to do with as we please, and we've reached a certain equilibrium where we can both fend for our needs, and enjoy things in our spare time.
Would we really be even interested in things in outer space, if we had to worry about us and our kids being ill and hungry for weeks on end?
We are very Naive about our own efforts because we aren't the people who had to work out all the details, all the systems, all the inventions which puts us where we are today, it's our forefathers and mothers which gave us their legacy in hopes of a better future and good people of our day which are carrying the torch.
It's a miracle that we've come this far, and our success might just be the first chance life in the universe is able to be this stable and this prosperous to be able to even think outside our basic needs.
Never forget how lucky we are that we can work together for a better world. I just hope we can do it even better in the future.
Agreed.
I also like the analogy of the guy "I love to spread paper on the desk" - that's not normal procedure for every person in the office, that's just some weird system you set up.
I'm working in IT, and I must say, I never have to have any paper on my desk, it's all digital, but maybe being part of IT, we tend to try and do everything from our computers.
You lucky, lucky bastard..
I had to learn on a computer with N O Memory, instead it had a rotating sawblade you had to etch your bits into, while moving!
I think Geotagging an old map, which isn't based on accurate satellite imagery is an interesting concept.
Of course you aren't interested in in its accuracy, as that probably is horrible comparatively speaking, but like any good metatagging of content an image contains, it's interesting to geo-tag what's represented on the map in the context of the item being geo-tagged.
Things like : http://www.openstreetmap.org/ are interesting, and adding historical maps to that as well would be interesting, for although it's not a perfect replica, if the map is contorted to the real word map by the geotagging information, you could have a pretty accurate depiction of development within an area.
but.. isn't mass directly related to the space itself? I've always been of the thought that space was the field mass was a part of, and any particles of space (matter) was in fact the evidence of a field (space) and mass-particles (matter).
Of course this is important research, it's definitely worth asking the question, is mass a sign of a different field than space, like EM is a different field than space. I'm pretty sure though that the question will be no.. Mass of particles is in my mind linked to matter-particles being mass-particles in the space-field so to speak.
But then if anything interesting comes out of it, it'll give us a better understanding of the space-field, which is needed I think.
K.
I'm against Nintendo for this kind of crap.
They're complaining about an emulator for old crap they've long time ago stopped selling. If they really had been interested in making a profit of the symbian/Iphone/Android cellphones, they'd have been themselves making emulators so that they could have an online store they could sell games for the phones.
They didn't, and someone else gave his free time to make a kickass emulator, and I think Nokia is right in showing what the phone can do. If nintendo gets their act together, realize it's not about having total-control-of-the-platform, but about the games and enjoyability, and want to create a marketable gaming product for the various cellphone OSes, they should stop whining like little bitches, and make something cool for the platforms, instead of whining about it and shitting on other peoples creativity.
I don't buy games for the wii/DS because I have some affinity for the platform or nintendo, I buy them for the games sake. If I can enjoy them on my cellphone, so much the better.
I disagree with the premise that people who use Google for their news will in any way change how they view the news just because one or two, or many sites start to remove themselves.
If the change is gradual enough, other companies will notice the extra traffic and welcome it.
You bastard.. yoooouuuuuu baaaastarrrrrd..
Make ur spoiler alerts bigger, you should have said ***SPOILER ALERT: WILL FUCK UP HOW YOU LOOK AT ALIENS THE MOVIE***
I probably would have ignored it anyway, but maybe, just maybe it would have saved me from having to upgrade my suspension of disbelief.
There is "perhaps" a chance you can either a) increase the size of the muscle cells, or b) increase the number of muscle cells in the proper conditions. Check out : http://www.hypertrophy-specific.com/hst_index.html for some basics. the forums are filled with interesting discussion which might help you out.
I applaud him for not going to Fox because Fox has PROVEN themselves not to be interested in telling the truth. This has nothing to do with belief or religion, or even politics.
That just means they've been able to hide even better the pile of cash they're paying themselves whether it's under or over the table, or they're putting even more money into advertising so people get the wrong idea.
Private industry has not been able to decrease the cost of medicine, they haven't been able to decrease the cost for each individual, they haven't been able to increase the average health of people.
How can you stand having a middle-man between you and your doctor? How can you stand having to fight to keep yourself from being bankrupt because of medical costs?
copyright terms should be 13 years at most. Otherwise I agree.
Mumble is great.
it's invariably better than ventrilo for all the things you listed. Why would you even consider going back? You just tell people it's effing awesome, and if you don't use it, you're a noob: http://www.videosift.com/video/N00B-Boyfriend
"no one would switch to it just for the benefit of talking to us." - so it's not the programmes fault, it's that no one likes you?
Grow some balls and use mumble.
That should be framed and sent to every single judge in every single country.
Who can remember the article about the guy who shipped donuts to companies, and left a tin to put the cash in, basically trusting people to do the right thing if they grabbed a donut?
- I think it was about 90% of all people who were honest, 10% of people who weren't, and that's with a real product which you're really stealing.
regarding music, if there wasn't this much negativity from the **AA, and people were left to their own in downloading what they like with no repercussions, a lot more people would buy what they like in support of good music.
Personally I've long time ago stopped buying music as I feel it's wrong to reward this kind of behaviour from the **AA, and I've stopped browsing music as musicians today all have that same stigma to them, doing it for greed, and I have no interest in listening to what I associate with greed.
Music is basically the manipulation of emotion. How can you possibly feel good listening to what you like, when every artist the last 50 years has the **AA stigma to it? Everytime I hear a song, no matter which one, I also feel the negative connection: "people are getting sued for listening to this because of greed"