Your comment may have been funny, but it was logically unsound.
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You keep force fitting an invalid equivalence between these two scenarios. These two scenarios are not the same nor are the assumptions and procedures the same. With the ATM, the evidence for criminal activity was clear and apparent. Also, waiting and following procedure wasn't going to cause anyone to die. With your patient dropping to the floor, there was no apparent evidence for criminal activity. The reasonable assumption to make is to assume the patient is simply having a medical issue (assume no foul play) and get help to the patient as fast as possible. Even if there was evidence, such as a steak knife in his back, the priority is to save the patient's life.
The artist will win. No more signing away most your rights with shady contracts. No more skimming 99.9 cents on the dollar for CD sales. No more lock in for future albums. Artists are making their money by selling direct to consumers with online distribution channels because it gives the unknown artist a shot. It also promotes better music because when the consumer has better choice, they will choose better music.
The direct sales channels will continue to grow and standardize so I expect the traditional industry losses will accelerate.
Make the students write the paper in class and show intermediary work. Only 2-4 full classes need to be sacrificed for it.
Student hands in topic writeup
Student hands in research photocopies and an outline
Class 1 (or 1 & 2): Student writes 1st draft in class.
Class 2 (or 3 & 4): Student revises and produces 2nd draft in class.
Student hands in final draft.
Each piece of intermediate work is mandatory and averaged into the paper's overall grade. If they miss the writing class, they could do it at the writing workshop and get a validation slip.
There is a reason for following procedure during an investigation. If you have a piece of evidence in a criminal investigation, you don't let people touch it willy nilly because later in trial it could be thrown out on the grounds it was tampered with. The second reason is the criminal could have been watching in the crowd. Letting random invididuals get access to the machine could enable a criminal to erase the data by hitting a reset switch. The police had no idea who planted it there so they could not trust anyone other than law enforcement officials to go near it. This is in no way similar to your cardiologist/heart attack patient scenario.
..teacher's and administrator's phones. This is not right. The adults need to be able to communicate for emergencies. There's no guarantee there is a landline in every room or that it will work (such as in a fire). The way to handle it is 1 day in school suspension for every classroom interruption due to cell phones.
The fact that an artificial food additive possessing chemical side-effects gets into our food supply without detection for decades is worrisome. This time it was a lucky happenstance with a positive outcome. Other times it's not (red dye). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)
Slippery slope argument. Institutionalizing a careless regard for animal life will eventually lead to a general careless regard for human life.
Role model argument. Scientists as a group form a body of people who are commonly recognized as figureheads of authority, leadership, thought shapers, yadda yadda. E.g. role models. As such they are commonly held to higher standard because they are (supposedly) professionals possessing an elevated level of education, power, or influence. You'll see this with other figureheads. Examples. A cheating politician creates a big public stir when caught, but no one cares when a citizen does the same. A sports hero caught doing steroids. A NASA scientist caught up in a love triangle. A 24 yo high school teacher dating an 18 yo student. A movie star busted for DWI.
Priority argument. Animals invading a home represent a health risk to human inhabitants. We value human health higher than animal health so humans win. Animals lose. In the case of scientific experimentation with animals, the existence of those animals possess no (immediate) health risk since they are caged and disease free (at least before the experiment begins). The importance of the rat's health becomes elevated because no one is harmed by their existence.
Responsibility argument. Animals in the wild choose to procreate and invade our homes. They bear a certain level of responsibility for not avoiding humans. In the lab, humans choose to breed (or capture) those animals. In that case humans bear the responsibility for the ethical treatment of them.
Wave is open source implemented in JS, XML, and HTML5. Not Flash. Secondly, GWT is open source written in Java and Javascript. Why in the world would you expect google's application library (slash Java->Javascript converter) to be "foundational" (as in used by everyone, everywhere)? That word implies something like W3C specification standards. It's a freakin application library. Lastly, writing some core functionality and bundling it into AWT and then REUSING that in a web application doesn't count as code reuse? Wtf. I suspect this is more about hating Google than anything else.
Still doesn't sound like cobbling together at all. Sounds like solid software design and implementation.
You missed the point entirely!! REUSE IS A GOOD THING PROVIDED YOU BUILD ON THE FOUNDATION.
Now you're talking gibberish. So, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript are not considered foundational tools? Odd. I would rather you point out their design or implementation flaws (there are many) rather than make obviously untrue silly statements. You can say the foundation is poorly implemented, but you cannot argue that these tools are not foundational.
Google doesn't reuse ideas or technology to create new things, they just repackage and recycle existing technology. Pagerank was the last innovation they had.
Uhhh.. Map Reduce? By the way, an automotive store doesn't create new things nor do they innovate yet they're important.
I don't see how the design and implementation of 1st generation browsers applies when assessing the quality or correctness of the current browser generation. The original browser concept morphed into a general content delivery system. We got there by expanding the definition of "content" to include dynamic content generated on the server-side. Then it expanded again to include client-side generated content (animated images, streaming audio and video, javascript, java applets, flash). Then once again to include DOM aware applications capable of modifying in-page structure and styling (primarily javascript). It was then that the explosion of Web 2.0 apps began. Saying that the browser should not implement these things is like saying it should not support images, or pipelining, or compression, or streaming audio, because originally it didn't.
"Cobbling together", ahem, building applications by reusing existing protocols and formats is a good thing--not a bad thing. Also, I'm not sure why you're associating this particular app with an OS in a browser because if you watch the preview video it's clearly a collaboration and communication application, but.. anyway...
I thought the goal was to run these apps anywhere while maintaining the same user experience regardless of OS and browser, yet feature lightweight on the fly downloads. Getting users to download a native application and keeping it instantly updated is a big hassle. Have you ever had to deal with writing software that executes on a variety of hardware, OS versions, libraries, and JVM versions? Have you had to deal with ensuring a critical software update gets quickly deployed to millions of installations? I doubt it. A centralized, remote software platform implemented on web standards is easy to deploy and keep updated (by comparision). It also reduces the installation footprint required on a user's machine (such as junking up the registry, etc).
Even considering google OS as a complementary offering, I think this dev team clearly wants deep accessibility and platform independence and not be limited to deploying on their own OS. That's very difficult to accomplish with native apps (Java or C based).
You can complain if you want I suppose, but stuff like this is progress.
It sucks to constantly lose to player who has all 3 skills: accuracy, speed, strategy. Your example of predicting a player's path is somewhat a basic strategy in my book. A similar, related strategy is to run down a long corridor, fire a rocket, and chase after it. They hear someone coming (making a sound helps) then they pop around the corner and BAM--face full of rocket.
Strategies I've used involved resource starvation and breaking their winning streak. Resource starvation is when you cue in on all the respawn events for ammo, armor, and powerups and consume as much as you can. At first you may need to be evasive and keep retreating. Fragging is secondary. At some point, you will consistently have more armor and ammo, which means a major advantage during engagement. This works well with running the map with some patterns. With breaking their winning streak (not applicable to 1 on 1 tourneys), you focus on the top player ignoring everyone else. Every time you die and respawn you make a beeline for that player and take him out including yourself if you must. This breaks their euphoria and concentration by planting a seed of doubt forcing them to change up their strategy. You don't win this way, but it does work to break their will. Sometimes they leave the server in frustration upon seeing their ranking drop.
I have heard of this debate before, but there's no reason a water clock or sand clock couldn't have worked at sea if it's designed to be hung from the ceiling and permitted to swing. With materials such as bags (tanned animal stomachs), wax, metal, clay pots, and string it could been installed as a fixture in a boat. If that's not good enough, you could also make wax candles and size them to burn down on 12 or 24 hour increments. Just make the wax candle in a clay pot and hang it from a fixed point so it can swing and burn evenly. Burn multiple candles to average out errors due to small differences in sizing and flammability. You could also do something similar to this by measuring water evaporation. How about evaporating linseed oil? Not as fined grained, but they could tell you if your other clocks are way off and by how much. These combined with occasional high noon measurements (on calm, windless days) could have provided close enough accuracy to navigate and locate larger land masses.
You could periodically resynchronize your "clocks" because along the route there are a number of islands: Shetland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland. Stopping and making camp would have given them a means to use land based clocks to calculate longitude. So, using a less accurate method could have gotten them to the island where they'd have a chance to reset their clocks to an accurate setting again.
If your "clocks" are somewhat unreliable, the solution is to employ multiple methods in parallel to reduce your error rates. This could have been done but I think historians are too piggish to accept it.
This is about the risk of profit loss. I figured it would be apparent.
Using your own argument: there is the risk of an event and the risk of the consequences of an event. We are assuming an event will occur because we're talking about insuring a large population group, so the risk (probability) of an event occurring is nearly 100%. That leaves us with the second part: mitigating the risk of the consequences (which is financial). That can be distributed because cash is fluid.
You are mixing conscientious reckless driving with long distance driving. The context of the article and my post is with long distance because the entire article is about factoring in miles driven.
As the article implies, not all driving risk is due to elective choice or driving recklessness. This plan factors in distance driven, but that strongly correlates to one's job and lot in life. For example, taxi cab drivers (self employed contractors) or carpenters who pay their own insurance, or those who cannot afford exorbitant home prices near the business districts.
I thought the point of insurance was to distribute risk and cost over a group for both the insurer and the driver so that no single individual would be overwhelmed from unexpected expenses. This plan reduces the risk and cost to the insurer but transfers cost from one group of drivers to another group of drivers. It's another step toward customizing insurance plans to a single person customized insurance plan--rendering insurance worthless for those at high risk, yet it's required by law. If one were to apply this to medical insurance in that those who use more pay more, there would be public outcry.
Btw.. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fellow. #1 usage is masculine. You're saying I'm not considering the context. Bull. You are not considering context. All the other definitions do not match the context. Really now, do you believe a dude ranch vacationer applied there in the GP? A person reared in the city? Come on. If you did, you are a superficial thinker. You're also ignoring the dominant slang usage, which is masculine. Lastly, only a zombie with the reasoning skills comparable to a syntax parser would ignore common sense and conclude "dude" was gender neutral in the GP's usage.
Like you, I also get annoyed with red/green faux 3D because it doesn't work for me, so I've never been able to enjoy 3D comic books or TV shows even though I can see 3D in the real world. I had an injury in my recessive eye making my vision in that eye blurry. Yet the vision in the dominant eye is normal. That's why I'm able to see normally when walking around because the fine details come from the dominant eye whereas the recessive eye just fills in the stereo/perspective details.
Red is more difficult for my bad eye to make out, but the left 3D image is red so the effect simply doesn't work for me. Had the colors been reversed, blue for the left image then I'd be able to see the 3d effect. Oddly enough, I can see the effect with the polarized 3D movies with alternating frames because the images are in full color and display in stronger contrast which gives my bad eye more to work with.
How cute.. you conveniently left out the other male oriented usages knowing fully they were more commonly used, lower numbered, and more numerous.
American Heritage
dude n.
1. Informal. An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.
2. Informal. A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.
3. Slang. 1. A man; a fellow. 2. dudes Persons of either sex.
Oh yes.. don't forget Random House. Listed before the American Heritage passage.
Random House.
dude -noun
1. a man excessively concerned with his clothes, grooming, and manners.
2. Slang. fellow; chap.
3. a person reared in a large city.
4. Western U.S. an urban Easterner who vacations on a ranch.
And then there's the etymology.
dude
1883, "fastidious man," New York City slang of unknown origin. The vogue word of 1883, originally used in ref. to the devotees of the "aesthetic" craze, later applied to city slickers, especially Easterners vacationing in the West (dude ranch first recorded 1921). Surfer slang application to any male is first recorded c.1970. Female form dudine (1883) has precedence over dudess (1885).
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Interesting. Although, fyi: "I could honestly care less." --> "I could honestly not care less."
How is it wasting time when the point is to learn?
Your comment may have been funny, but it was logically unsound.
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You keep force fitting an invalid equivalence between these two scenarios. These two scenarios are not the same nor are the assumptions and procedures the same. With the ATM, the evidence for criminal activity was clear and apparent. Also, waiting and following procedure wasn't going to cause anyone to die. With your patient dropping to the floor, there was no apparent evidence for criminal activity. The reasonable assumption to make is to assume the patient is simply having a medical issue (assume no foul play) and get help to the patient as fast as possible. Even if there was evidence, such as a steak knife in his back, the priority is to save the patient's life.
The artist will win. No more signing away most your rights with shady contracts. No more skimming 99.9 cents on the dollar for CD sales. No more lock in for future albums. Artists are making their money by selling direct to consumers with online distribution channels because it gives the unknown artist a shot. It also promotes better music because when the consumer has better choice, they will choose better music.
The direct sales channels will continue to grow and standardize so I expect the traditional industry losses will accelerate.
Make the students write the paper in class and show intermediary work. Only 2-4 full classes need to be sacrificed for it.
Each piece of intermediate work is mandatory and averaged into the paper's overall grade. If they miss the writing class, they could do it at the writing workshop and get a validation slip.
There is a reason for following procedure during an investigation. If you have a piece of evidence in a criminal investigation, you don't let people touch it willy nilly because later in trial it could be thrown out on the grounds it was tampered with. The second reason is the criminal could have been watching in the crowd. Letting random invididuals get access to the machine could enable a criminal to erase the data by hitting a reset switch. The police had no idea who planted it there so they could not trust anyone other than law enforcement officials to go near it. This is in no way similar to your cardiologist/heart attack patient scenario.
..teacher's and administrator's phones. This is not right. The adults need to be able to communicate for emergencies. There's no guarantee there is a landline in every room or that it will work (such as in a fire). The way to handle it is 1 day in school suspension for every classroom interruption due to cell phones.
Can't be as bad as broadstripe.
She'll do just fine--until the huge bill arrives sent from her lawyer. The lawsuit is for revenge, not compensation.. imo.
The fact that an artificial food additive possessing chemical side-effects gets into our food supply without detection for decades is worrisome. This time it was a lucky happenstance with a positive outcome. Other times it's not (red dye). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_(dye)
Just some thoughts as to an explanation why.
Wave is open source implemented in JS, XML, and HTML5. Not Flash. Secondly, GWT is open source written in Java and Javascript. Why in the world would you expect google's application library (slash Java->Javascript converter) to be "foundational" (as in used by everyone, everywhere)? That word implies something like W3C specification standards. It's a freakin application library. Lastly, writing some core functionality and bundling it into AWT and then REUSING that in a web application doesn't count as code reuse? Wtf. I suspect this is more about hating Google than anything else.
Still doesn't sound like cobbling together at all. Sounds like solid software design and implementation.
Now you're talking gibberish. So, HTML, XML, CSS, Javascript are not considered foundational tools? Odd. I would rather you point out their design or implementation flaws (there are many) rather than make obviously untrue silly statements. You can say the foundation is poorly implemented, but you cannot argue that these tools are not foundational.
Uhhh.. Map Reduce? By the way, an automotive store doesn't create new things nor do they innovate yet they're important.
I don't see how the design and implementation of 1st generation browsers applies when assessing the quality or correctness of the current browser generation. The original browser concept morphed into a general content delivery system. We got there by expanding the definition of "content" to include dynamic content generated on the server-side. Then it expanded again to include client-side generated content (animated images, streaming audio and video, javascript, java applets, flash). Then once again to include DOM aware applications capable of modifying in-page structure and styling (primarily javascript). It was then that the explosion of Web 2.0 apps began. Saying that the browser should not implement these things is like saying it should not support images, or pipelining, or compression, or streaming audio, because originally it didn't.
"Cobbling together", ahem, building applications by reusing existing protocols and formats is a good thing--not a bad thing. Also, I'm not sure why you're associating this particular app with an OS in a browser because if you watch the preview video it's clearly a collaboration and communication application, but.. anyway...
I thought the goal was to run these apps anywhere while maintaining the same user experience regardless of OS and browser, yet feature lightweight on the fly downloads. Getting users to download a native application and keeping it instantly updated is a big hassle. Have you ever had to deal with writing software that executes on a variety of hardware, OS versions, libraries, and JVM versions? Have you had to deal with ensuring a critical software update gets quickly deployed to millions of installations? I doubt it. A centralized, remote software platform implemented on web standards is easy to deploy and keep updated (by comparision). It also reduces the installation footprint required on a user's machine (such as junking up the registry, etc).
Even considering google OS as a complementary offering, I think this dev team clearly wants deep accessibility and platform independence and not be limited to deploying on their own OS. That's very difficult to accomplish with native apps (Java or C based).
You can complain if you want I suppose, but stuff like this is progress.
It sucks to constantly lose to player who has all 3 skills: accuracy, speed, strategy. Your example of predicting a player's path is somewhat a basic strategy in my book. A similar, related strategy is to run down a long corridor, fire a rocket, and chase after it. They hear someone coming (making a sound helps) then they pop around the corner and BAM--face full of rocket.
Strategies I've used involved resource starvation and breaking their winning streak. Resource starvation is when you cue in on all the respawn events for ammo, armor, and powerups and consume as much as you can. At first you may need to be evasive and keep retreating. Fragging is secondary. At some point, you will consistently have more armor and ammo, which means a major advantage during engagement. This works well with running the map with some patterns. With breaking their winning streak (not applicable to 1 on 1 tourneys), you focus on the top player ignoring everyone else. Every time you die and respawn you make a beeline for that player and take him out including yourself if you must. This breaks their euphoria and concentration by planting a seed of doubt forcing them to change up their strategy. You don't win this way, but it does work to break their will. Sometimes they leave the server in frustration upon seeing their ranking drop.
I have heard of this debate before, but there's no reason a water clock or sand clock couldn't have worked at sea if it's designed to be hung from the ceiling and permitted to swing. With materials such as bags (tanned animal stomachs), wax, metal, clay pots, and string it could been installed as a fixture in a boat. If that's not good enough, you could also make wax candles and size them to burn down on 12 or 24 hour increments. Just make the wax candle in a clay pot and hang it from a fixed point so it can swing and burn evenly. Burn multiple candles to average out errors due to small differences in sizing and flammability. You could also do something similar to this by measuring water evaporation. How about evaporating linseed oil? Not as fined grained, but they could tell you if your other clocks are way off and by how much. These combined with occasional high noon measurements (on calm, windless days) could have provided close enough accuracy to navigate and locate larger land masses.
You could periodically resynchronize your "clocks" because along the route there are a number of islands: Shetland, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland. Stopping and making camp would have given them a means to use land based clocks to calculate longitude. So, using a less accurate method could have gotten them to the island where they'd have a chance to reset their clocks to an accurate setting again.
If your "clocks" are somewhat unreliable, the solution is to employ multiple methods in parallel to reduce your error rates. This could have been done but I think historians are too piggish to accept it.
This is about the risk of profit loss. I figured it would be apparent.
Using your own argument: there is the risk of an event and the risk of the consequences of an event. We are assuming an event will occur because we're talking about insuring a large population group, so the risk (probability) of an event occurring is nearly 100%. That leaves us with the second part: mitigating the risk of the consequences (which is financial). That can be distributed because cash is fluid.
You are mixing conscientious reckless driving with long distance driving. The context of the article and my post is with long distance because the entire article is about factoring in miles driven.
As the article implies, not all driving risk is due to elective choice or driving recklessness. This plan factors in distance driven, but that strongly correlates to one's job and lot in life. For example, taxi cab drivers (self employed contractors) or carpenters who pay their own insurance, or those who cannot afford exorbitant home prices near the business districts.
I thought the point of insurance was to distribute risk and cost over a group for both the insurer and the driver so that no single individual would be overwhelmed from unexpected expenses. This plan reduces the risk and cost to the insurer but transfers cost from one group of drivers to another group of drivers. It's another step toward customizing insurance plans to a single person customized insurance plan--rendering insurance worthless for those at high risk, yet it's required by law. If one were to apply this to medical insurance in that those who use more pay more, there would be public outcry.
Btw.. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fellow. #1 usage is masculine. You're saying I'm not considering the context. Bull. You are not considering context. All the other definitions do not match the context. Really now, do you believe a dude ranch vacationer applied there in the GP? A person reared in the city? Come on. If you did, you are a superficial thinker. You're also ignoring the dominant slang usage, which is masculine. Lastly, only a zombie with the reasoning skills comparable to a syntax parser would ignore common sense and conclude "dude" was gender neutral in the GP's usage.
Like you, I also get annoyed with red/green faux 3D because it doesn't work for me, so I've never been able to enjoy 3D comic books or TV shows even though I can see 3D in the real world. I had an injury in my recessive eye making my vision in that eye blurry. Yet the vision in the dominant eye is normal. That's why I'm able to see normally when walking around because the fine details come from the dominant eye whereas the recessive eye just fills in the stereo/perspective details.
Red is more difficult for my bad eye to make out, but the left 3D image is red so the effect simply doesn't work for me. Had the colors been reversed, blue for the left image then I'd be able to see the 3d effect. Oddly enough, I can see the effect with the polarized 3D movies with alternating frames because the images are in full color and display in stronger contrast which gives my bad eye more to work with.
How cute.. you conveniently left out the other male oriented usages knowing fully they were more commonly used, lower numbered, and more numerous.
American Heritage
Oh yes.. don't forget Random House. Listed before the American Heritage passage.
Random House.
And then there's the etymology.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dude
I like cheese too.