I've taken organizational behaviour courses. People work best when they're motivated. A very popular motivator is potential earnings
A popular motivator is incentive - but that doesn't mean it is a good motivator.
See this - first six minutes. If your job is simple, straightforward, not dependent on any insights you need to have - sure. Incentives work. If you need to do something new, have insights, solve real problems - incentives work against you.
I have a feeling that micropayments would make "the internet" track users even more. This is because most people are too dumb to disagree if a website promises to track them everywhere as well as ask for micropayments.
Without micropayments, at least it is easy to somewhat thwart tracking by deleting cookies and other browser data every time you go to a new website. With micropayments, one might have to change payment mode every few minutes. Banking system may "innovate" to make that easy - in a few dozens of years. Or maybe not - they might partake in the tracking fest.
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name?
But minimum specs are for running only Windows - not even any bundled applications like calendar, calculator, minesweeper, or recommended ones like antivirus, MS Office. How many people do that?
Should MS be honest and include the memory requirements of typical application set? Yes. But that is not the way business communication works. Serving size of coca cola is 2 nanograms, you should ask your doctor for this medicine even though you are not qualified to decide and he is, Apple computers don't get windows viruses. All true, useless statements devoid of honesty.
I don't know where it says they all have to have equal functionality before you can complain about one or the other.
I don't know where it says that I don't have a right to complain
I know triple / quadruple negatives can be confusing, but I think your meaning is similar to that of the GP.
They all don't have to have equal functionality before complain can be made. So you have the right to complain even before equal functionality is achieved.
In those cases the bug is not completely filed - it just luckily reminds the developer of a mistake made in the code. If it doesn't remind, it cannot be fixed. Even when it does remind, it appears that the bug is fixed but actually an unfiled bug is fixed which the developer recognized from the filed "bug report" and looking at related code.
I presume you use google maps on a mobile device, and firefox on non-mobile device, so uMatrix cannot help you, right? Or am I mistaken?
For mobile devices, where google maps is most useful, I try blocking all access from it using Xprivacy / firewall when I am not using. This includes contacts, GPS, internet and some other. When using, I only enable GPS and internet, and disable again once I am done.
I don't think it is fixed. On the contrary, i am telling you that this bug is impossible to be fixed. This is because verifying is part of bug fixing, which you haven't made possible.
The bug filer does not "want to discuss how I created such system state."
How can you ever see the problem fixed? Of epistemological necessity, such a bug can never be confirmed to be fixed. If it stops bothering people, it can be closed.
They are getting fewer dollars per unit of goods sold whether or not they bring that cash back to the US
But those dollars are of greater value than earlier. Every single one of these dollars can buy more internationally than it could buy before 2014. Since they are not bringing the cash back to the US, only the international value of the cash is relevant.
Which being irrelevant I was talking about dry weight.
Of the remaining solid matter, 30% is bacteria, or 9% of the total mass
30% of dry weight, which is what I said. I didn't realize that body temperature water being zero-calorie has to be spelt out for you. In that case, I might also point out that by volume at STP, significant amount could be gaseous too though it varies hugely.
Furthermore, the mass of feces is generally significantly less than the mass of food ingested
Irrelevant, highly variable, and less less if the recommended amount of fibre is ingested.
Lastly, fecal bacteria consume many chemicals which are indigestible to humans.
Not a significant amount of which are chemically other than fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Note that most fibre is chemically carbohydrate but nutritionally roughage - yet fibre processing gut flora is rare in humans.
There are fat slobs, hard workers, smart workers, perfectionists, and professionals.
Fat slobs and hard workers don't need much information - the facts you mention are good enough for hard workers, and nothing can help fat slobs.
Smart workers, perfectionists and professionals can do with more information than what you mention.
Even people with a genuine genetic disadvantage can succeed by applying basic thermodynamics
No. Genuine genetic disadvantage can easily mean e.g. lower immunity when they eat less / exercise more / both. This results in a vicious cycle of illness preventing exercise causing further loss of immunity causing more illness - eventually this lack of exercise leads to "lifestyle" diseases.
Can they lose weight by eating less / exercising more? Sure. Can it be called "succeed" if it kills them / substantially lowers quality of life / causes genuine irritability even after prolonged practice? I am not sure.
Actual absorption percentage of fats, proteins and carbohydrates in high 90s in unlikely. A typical person's faeces contains 30% microbes - the microbes eat human food, multiply, and come out.
So even if consumption in the gut is over 90%, it is not all consumption by the body but some of it is by the microbes which will not be in the body after defecation.
1. I don't, but that is nothing to do with advertising, the topic here. 2. As said above, I didn't "select" the brand; there is only one, the one made for the car
You seem to have missed the whole point of advertising. FYI it works best for companies selling products that have multiple brands of comparable products - mostly from different companies. It also works as a nice ego-boost for existing customers - a kind of after-sales service, if you will, but even there it mainly works for players in multi-brand markets.
Now, missing the point is a very poor way to make your point.
BTW, some car parts are made by multiple different companies and come in different brands (some unbranded ones could be great too). So if the ones applicable to you are the ones that come in single brand, that wasn't clear from your earlier post at all.
1) Everyday things like food. What I buy is not decided by advertising, it is decided on trial. Eg, I will try different types of beer and settle on the one I like best.
And how do you know your "liking" doesn't result from harmful components?
3) Specialist things like car spares and building materials. What I buy is not decided by advertising, it is decided by what I can find... who sells the same brand anyway
Here you dodged the question - how did you select the brand in the first place. You did tell an unrelated fact - that the brand you selected is available both 25 miles away and > 100 miles away.
In spite of knowing that advertisements tell a one sided story, humans still get affected significantly by it.
Humans don't work like that. Same person has different contexts in which they are evil and saintlike. Some people end up in professions that make them evil.
There are snakes in half the billboards, and the snakes enter every stopped car. You can travel with a mongoose in your car, but every mongoose is not effective against every snake.
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I've taken organizational behaviour courses. People work best when they're motivated. A very popular motivator is potential earnings
A popular motivator is incentive - but that doesn't mean it is a good motivator.
See this - first six minutes. If your job is simple, straightforward, not dependent on any insights you need to have - sure. Incentives work. If you need to do something new, have insights, solve real problems - incentives work against you.
I have a feeling that micropayments would make "the internet" track users even more. This is because most people are too dumb to disagree if a website promises to track them everywhere as well as ask for micropayments.
Without micropayments, at least it is easy to somewhat thwart tracking by deleting cookies and other browser data every time you go to a new website. With micropayments, one might have to change payment mode every few minutes. Banking system may "innovate" to make that easy - in a few dozens of years. Or maybe not - they might partake in the tracking fest.
Should users just get their own systems infected because of the advertisements?
Please tell me, because I have a lot to learn in *nix, how would I figure out to use chmod to change permissions if I was previously unaware of the command name?
apropos permission
apropos file
apropos change
But minimum specs are for running only Windows - not even any bundled applications like calendar, calculator, minesweeper, or recommended ones like antivirus, MS Office. How many people do that?
Should MS be honest and include the memory requirements of typical application set? Yes. But that is not the way business communication works. Serving size of coca cola is 2 nanograms, you should ask your doctor for this medicine even though you are not qualified to decide and he is, Apple computers don't get windows viruses. All true, useless statements devoid of honesty.
I don't know where it says they all have to have equal functionality before you can complain about one or the other.
I don't know where it says that I don't have a right to complain
I know triple / quadruple negatives can be confusing, but I think your meaning is similar to that of the GP.
They all don't have to have equal functionality before complain can be made. So you have the right to complain even before equal functionality is achieved.
You complain and that is a great thing.
It is not unrelated.
In those cases the bug is not completely filed - it just luckily reminds the developer of a mistake made in the code. If it doesn't remind, it cannot be fixed. Even when it does remind, it appears that the bug is fixed but actually an unfiled bug is fixed which the developer recognized from the filed "bug report" and looking at related code.
I presume you use google maps on a mobile device, and firefox on non-mobile device, so uMatrix cannot help you, right? Or am I mistaken?
For mobile devices, where google maps is most useful, I try blocking all access from it using Xprivacy / firewall when I am not using. This includes contacts, GPS, internet and some other. When using, I only enable GPS and internet, and disable again once I am done.
Not sure how good this is.
Yes, so you can fix it. But you understandably don't want to get into that kind of code, so let us assume you won't fix it.
Others cannot fix it because you haven't made possible one of the most important steps of fixing something - verifying, for them.
I don't think it is fixed. On the contrary, i am telling you that this bug is impossible to be fixed. This is because verifying is part of bug fixing, which you haven't made possible.
While my bugs have also never received attention at redhat, you still haven't explained how this particular bug could ever be confirmed to be fixed.
The bug filer does not "want to discuss how I created such system state."
How can you ever see the problem fixed? Of epistemological necessity, such a bug can never be confirmed to be fixed. If it stops bothering people, it can be closed.
That is like working around a lack of feature in your email application. K9-mail at least, supports notification without sound.
They are getting fewer dollars per unit of goods sold whether or not they bring that cash back to the US
But those dollars are of greater value than earlier. Every single one of these dollars can buy more internationally than it could buy before 2014. Since they are not bringing the cash back to the US, only the international value of the cash is relevant.
Feces are 70% water.
Which being irrelevant I was talking about dry weight.
Of the remaining solid matter, 30% is bacteria, or 9% of the total mass
30% of dry weight, which is what I said. I didn't realize that body temperature water being zero-calorie has to be spelt out for you. In that case, I might also point out that by volume at STP, significant amount could be gaseous too though it varies hugely.
Furthermore, the mass of feces is generally significantly less than the mass of food ingested
Irrelevant, highly variable, and less less if the recommended amount of fibre is ingested.
Lastly, fecal bacteria consume many chemicals which are indigestible to humans.
Not a significant amount of which are chemically other than fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Note that most fibre is chemically carbohydrate but nutritionally roughage - yet fibre processing gut flora is rare in humans.
There are fat slobs, hard workers, smart workers, perfectionists, and professionals.
Fat slobs and hard workers don't need much information - the facts you mention are good enough for hard workers, and nothing can help fat slobs.
Smart workers, perfectionists and professionals can do with more information than what you mention.
Even people with a genuine genetic disadvantage can succeed by applying basic thermodynamics
No. Genuine genetic disadvantage can easily mean e.g. lower immunity when they eat less / exercise more / both. This results in a vicious cycle of illness preventing exercise causing further loss of immunity causing more illness - eventually this lack of exercise leads to "lifestyle" diseases.
Can they lose weight by eating less / exercising more? Sure. Can it be called "succeed" if it kills them / substantially lowers quality of life / causes genuine irritability even after prolonged practice? I am not sure.
Actual absorption percentage of fats, proteins and carbohydrates in high 90s in unlikely. A typical person's faeces contains 30% microbes - the microbes eat human food, multiply, and come out.
So even if consumption in the gut is over 90%, it is not all consumption by the body but some of it is by the microbes which will not be in the body after defecation.
1. I don't, but that is nothing to do with advertising, the topic here.
2. As said above, I didn't "select" the brand; there is only one, the one made for the car
You seem to have missed the whole point of advertising. FYI it works best for companies selling products that have multiple brands of comparable products - mostly from different companies. It also works as a nice ego-boost for existing customers - a kind of after-sales service, if you will, but even there it mainly works for players in multi-brand markets.
Now, missing the point is a very poor way to make your point.
BTW, some car parts are made by multiple different companies and come in different brands (some unbranded ones could be great too). So if the ones applicable to you are the ones that come in single brand, that wasn't clear from your earlier post at all.
1) Everyday things like food. What I buy is not decided by advertising, it is decided on trial. Eg, I will try different types of beer and settle on the one I like best.
And how do you know your "liking" doesn't result from harmful components?
3) Specialist things like car spares and building materials. What I buy is not decided by advertising, it is decided by what I can find ... who sells the same brand anyway
Here you dodged the question - how did you select the brand in the first place. You did tell an unrelated fact - that the brand you selected is available both 25 miles away and > 100 miles away.
In spite of knowing that advertisements tell a one sided story, humans still get affected significantly by it.
Humans don't work like that. Same person has different contexts in which they are evil and saintlike. Some people end up in professions that make them evil.
There are snakes in half the billboards, and the snakes enter every stopped car. You can travel with a mongoose in your car, but every mongoose is not effective against every snake.
At least four of his businesses have gone under, but somehow he's managed to get out unscathed.
Seems like he is the ideal US President then. US will not do well in the coming years - Trump will dodge the responsibility expertly.
I didn't say there was nothing old, so this is irrelevant. You said there was nothing new, so my pointing out new things is relevant.
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