How ironic: using Wikipedia as a source when commenting on a news article discussing how Wikipedia was controlled for some purpose for months unknown to the users of Wikipedia at large. Really.
AC seemed to think that ads aimed at children don't make sense as children do not have money. I point out that children's desires influence the purchasing habits of their parents. You bring in parents not buying MDMA for their children because...?
I play Magic: the Gathering a bit and read some of the daily articles from time to time. One of the authors is Mark Rosewater, a head designer. One of the things he talks about is design in the abstract, which has a lot of application beyond games. One of the things he talks about is how to learn to be creative. Here is a sample article about how to be creative: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr273
Another example is the book "How to solve it". This is a rather interesting book, because it gives steps on how to solve problems -- steps that, once they become ingrained, act exactly like creativity.
And for teaching a creative people to be formal, a famous counterexample is Ramanujan, and Indian mathematician of great creativity that could never be made to learn "the correct ways to apply [his] ideas". Hardy tried, and failed to do that.
This is ironic: only after writing the about paragraph did I read down to where you said "lack of creativity is why Indian...".
Duh. And the other two are the same way (explicitly listing them, as you seem to have missed the point):
an-album-cover => anal-bum-cover
therapists => the-rapists
Although I'm all for fighting child pornography, I think that the government needs to provide evidence that a person used in pornography is truly under the age of 18.
Agreed. Note, you did not say "I think that the government needs to provide evidence that a person used in pornography is truly a particular age."
So how exactly has this helped him or the economy?
In five years, due to the smaller amount of energy he is now using, he saves up the amount of money he spent upgrading, and can now buy his new oven and hire more employees. In another five years, he now has a bonus pile of cash which he can play with, which he wouldn't have had without lower energy costs.
Why do you replace your single pane windows with double pane? Why do you add insulation to your home? Why do you replace your 80's refrigerator with a new one? Why switch from incandescent to florescent light bulbs? Why buy a lower polluting, more gas efficient car? Why purchase reusable grocery sacks? Why purchase a bicycle?
In the 70's, we had an energy crisis. As a result, there was a massive shift in the American economy to be energy efficient. Miles per gallon in cars doubled. Refrigerators quadrupled efficiency. New houses and repairs/upgrades started requiring energy-saving features, like insulation. Energy Star ratings are mandatory for many appliances. While this is an up-front cost that requires retooling factories and increasing prices, the long term benefits and money-saving effects outweigh the initial cost.
The reason people fight this is because people do not look at the life-cycle cost of a product. They see an item at a low cost and but it in preference to one that is twice the cost but will last five times longer, or buy one that has a low cost, but a high maintenance cost (printer ink, anyone?). This is not the broken-window fallacy, as you are not replacing the window, you are upgrading it to something that has benefits beyond the original.
Seriously, you think that the only people who are affected by the classics are classics majors?
Imagine losing all of Shakespeare, Twain, Wells, Homer, Verne, Dickens, Shaw, Poe, etc., not to mention works from unknown authors that produced Grimm's tales, Aesop's fables, Robin Hood, Beowulf, the Bible, etc.? Do you really have no idea how much of our culture is steeped in the literature of the past?
And with mistakes too. I tried to correct it, but couldn't get Wikipedia to respond fast enough to make it possible for me. I checked a couple hours later though, and it had been fixed up by then.
While "the state is not required to prove the [...] age of the minor", it does not say "the state is not required to prove that the person is a minor". The difference is that if the picture is of a six-year-old, it is pretty clear the person is a minor. An apparent 15-year-old, however, will need something more to prove that the person is a minor. If the law said that minority did not need to be proved, then the law would be saying that any pornography is child pornography, on the word of the state.
I can't (legally). Not unless I get a written waver from NHTSA. Looking at the application [pdf], you can see that you can't turn it off on a whim. Maybe you live in a country that doesn't try to over protect, but the example is untrue in a large part of the world.
Actually, it's that the highway toll operators should not be able to forbid Toyota from making a car that works on UP's tracks. Right now, the Bay Area Toll Authority says, "Toyota, you are not allowed to sell Corollas that can run on anything but our toll roads, not even ones that run on other people's toll roads, never mind railroad tracks." Notice how the RAZR had several versions, one that worked on each type of network, and can be used on any carrier? Right now, it is okay for carriers to forbid that, and the small carriers are objecting.
The bigger tipoff is that the bacteria survived in ice. It's not likely that a bacterium adapted to live in ice will also be able to live (and thrive) in humans.
Note, it survived in ice, not necessarily adapted to live in ice. Note that it did not replicate until it was incubated at 5C (41F). </nitpick> Though it was explicitly mentioned as non-pathogenic. I imagine cold-blooded creatures would have more to worry about.
First, you describe as a dichotomy something that is really a continuum. There are other points on that continuum that make more sense.
Second, imagine someone that works or commutes where there is no internet connection, WiFi or otherwise. That person uses the phone as a modem many hours a day every day. When he is not sitting down with his computer, or is not at work, then he uses the smart phone capabilities.
Basically, the point that the carriers are worried about is close to, but not quite, your number 2. It is people that will have a netbook or laptop handy a lot, but not most, of the time. And there are more people there than you might think.
Another possibility that occurs to me is that someone may use it as a primary home internet connection, which then is not needed when the person leaves home. And then that person will want the smart phone capabilities when not at home.
For those that don't know, tethering is when you tie your phone to your computer and hit it around the computer several times, until the phone brakes your computer screen.
This is useful, as one wants to slow down the screen as it flies out the window in a fit of anger.
You should have put the customer on hold for 2 minutes and 15 seconds as soon as they ask the first question, surfed slashdot in the interim, and then continued with the call as normal. The metrics work, you get a bunch of extra break time, the customer is still helped, everyone's happy.
Not to defend ogg vorbis too much, but it has actually achieved success in a few realms - it's the audio format of choice on Wikipedia, which is one of the web's most popular sites
Which makes WP sound inaccessible for almost everyone, as the proper codec is not installed on most machines. I know, I know, it's easy to install the right software, but most people will not get past the help page that is rather long. ogg will become widely usable in (not joking) the Year of Linux on the Desktop, because only then will there be a large enough installed base for the network effect to kick in.
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How ironic: using Wikipedia as a source when commenting on a news article discussing how Wikipedia was controlled for some purpose for months unknown to the users of Wikipedia at large. Really.
What?
AC seemed to think that ads aimed at children don't make sense as children do not have money. I point out that children's desires influence the purchasing habits of their parents. You bring in parents not buying MDMA for their children because ...?
Isn't that effectively the current case?
Besides, the point I made was not that the law was good or bad or whatever, but just that people are not interpreting what it says correctly.
I play Magic: the Gathering a bit and read some of the daily articles from time to time. One of the authors is Mark Rosewater, a head designer. One of the things he talks about is design in the abstract, which has a lot of application beyond games. One of the things he talks about is how to learn to be creative. Here is a sample article about how to be creative:
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr273
Another example is the book "How to solve it". This is a rather interesting book, because it gives steps on how to solve problems -- steps that, once they become ingrained, act exactly like creativity.
And for teaching a creative people to be formal, a famous counterexample is Ramanujan, and Indian mathematician of great creativity that could never be made to learn "the correct ways to apply [his] ideas". Hardy tried, and failed to do that.
This is ironic: only after writing the about paragraph did I read down to where you said "lack of creativity is why Indian ...".
Which, of course, is why there are no television ads aimed at young children on TV. Oh, wait....
If you have never been around children, I can understand that you do not know the power of a five-year-old saying, "I want X!"
Duh. And the other two are the same way (explicitly listing them, as you seem to have missed the point):
an-album-cover => anal-bum-cover
therapists => the-rapists
Although I'm all for fighting child pornography, I think that the government needs to provide evidence that a person used in pornography is truly under the age of 18.
Agreed. Note, you did not say "I think that the government needs to provide evidence that a person used in pornography is truly a particular age."
HM is a good example. Slashdot had a story on him a while back.
So how exactly has this helped him or the economy?
In five years, due to the smaller amount of energy he is now using, he saves up the amount of money he spent upgrading, and can now buy his new oven and hire more employees. In another five years, he now has a bonus pile of cash which he can play with, which he wouldn't have had without lower energy costs.
Why do you replace your single pane windows with double pane? Why do you add insulation to your home? Why do you replace your 80's refrigerator with a new one? Why switch from incandescent to florescent light bulbs? Why buy a lower polluting, more gas efficient car? Why purchase reusable grocery sacks? Why purchase a bicycle?
In the 70's, we had an energy crisis. As a result, there was a massive shift in the American economy to be energy efficient. Miles per gallon in cars doubled. Refrigerators quadrupled efficiency. New houses and repairs/upgrades started requiring energy-saving features, like insulation. Energy Star ratings are mandatory for many appliances. While this is an up-front cost that requires retooling factories and increasing prices, the long term benefits and money-saving effects outweigh the initial cost.
The reason people fight this is because people do not look at the life-cycle cost of a product. They see an item at a low cost and but it in preference to one that is twice the cost but will last five times longer, or buy one that has a low cost, but a high maintenance cost (printer ink, anyone?). This is not the broken-window fallacy, as you are not replacing the window, you are upgrading it to something that has benefits beyond the original.
Seriously, you think that the only people who are affected by the classics are classics majors?
Imagine losing all of Shakespeare, Twain, Wells, Homer, Verne, Dickens, Shaw, Poe, etc., not to mention works from unknown authors that produced Grimm's tales, Aesop's fables, Robin Hood, Beowulf, the Bible, etc.? Do you really have no idea how much of our culture is steeped in the literature of the past?
And with mistakes too. I tried to correct it, but couldn't get Wikipedia to respond fast enough to make it possible for me. I checked a couple hours later though, and it had been fixed up by then.
While "the state is not required to prove the [...] age of the minor", it does not say "the state is not required to prove that the person is a minor". The difference is that if the picture is of a six-year-old, it is pretty clear the person is a minor. An apparent 15-year-old, however, will need something more to prove that the person is a minor. If the law said that minority did not need to be proved, then the law would be saying that any pornography is child pornography, on the word of the state.
Why can't I turn it off?
I can decide to turn off my airbag.
I can't (legally). Not unless I get a written waver from NHTSA. Looking at the application [pdf], you can see that you can't turn it off on a whim. Maybe you live in a country that doesn't try to over protect, but the example is untrue in a large part of the world.
All the more reason for electronics vendors to settle on a VERY LIMITED set of power sources and connection types.
All the more reason for consumers to want electronics vendors to settle on a VERY LIMITED set of power sources and connection types.
Look around this page. There are a lot of people here throwing in their 2c (please adjust for national currency).
Actually, it's that the highway toll operators should not be able to forbid Toyota from making a car that works on UP's tracks. Right now, the Bay Area Toll Authority says, "Toyota, you are not allowed to sell Corollas that can run on anything but our toll roads, not even ones that run on other people's toll roads, never mind railroad tracks." Notice how the RAZR had several versions, one that worked on each type of network, and can be used on any carrier? Right now, it is okay for carriers to forbid that, and the small carriers are objecting.
The bigger tipoff is that the bacteria survived in ice. It's not likely that a bacterium adapted to live in ice will also be able to live (and thrive) in humans.
Note, it survived in ice, not necessarily adapted to live in ice. Note that it did not replicate until it was incubated at 5C (41F). </nitpick> Though it was explicitly mentioned as non-pathogenic. I imagine cold-blooded creatures would have more to worry about.
First, you describe as a dichotomy something that is really a continuum. There are other points on that continuum that make more sense.
Second, imagine someone that works or commutes where there is no internet connection, WiFi or otherwise. That person uses the phone as a modem many hours a day every day. When he is not sitting down with his computer, or is not at work, then he uses the smart phone capabilities.
Basically, the point that the carriers are worried about is close to, but not quite, your number 2. It is people that will have a netbook or laptop handy a lot, but not most, of the time. And there are more people there than you might think.
Another possibility that occurs to me is that someone may use it as a primary home internet connection, which then is not needed when the person leaves home. And then that person will want the smart phone capabilities when not at home.
For those that don't know, tethering is when you tie your phone to your computer and hit it around the computer several times, until the phone brakes your computer screen.
This is useful, as one wants to slow down the screen as it flies out the window in a fit of anger.
You should have put the customer on hold for 2 minutes and 15 seconds as soon as they ask the first question, surfed slashdot in the interim, and then continued with the call as normal. The metrics work, you get a bunch of extra break time, the customer is still helped, everyone's happy.
Turn on safe search: http://images.google.com/preferences You do not even have to be logged in.
Not to defend ogg vorbis too much, but it has actually achieved success in a few realms - it's the audio format of choice on Wikipedia, which is one of the web's most popular sites
Which makes WP sound inaccessible for almost everyone, as the proper codec is not installed on most machines. I know, I know, it's easy to install the right software, but most people will not get past the help page that is rather long. ogg will become widely usable in (not joking) the Year of Linux on the Desktop, because only then will there be a large enough installed base for the network effect to kick in.
MOSS? Quite a piece of work, I must say. And yes, it does work. I was a TA that used it.
a short efficient bubble sort.
One exists?
'If you're IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, your worst nightmare is now visible.'
I didn't realize they had merged.