Yeah, to clarify for everyone: this is notable because it's the first mobile submersible that can operate at those depths—the Trieste brought two passengers to the Challenger Deep, but it was only capable of descent and ascent, not powered lateral movement.
Wow! Facebook must cause divorces! Or, Facebook is now simply a "space" in which social activity takes place for a great many people, and that evidence of illicit affairs and other information unpalatable to a spouse can be found there just as it was previously found in desks, coat pockets, cameras, and inboxes.
Actually, I suspect that it's because Verizon just cares about what's going on in _their_ forums, and they included that clause so they could terminate the internet service of complainers / trolls in their forums without saying so explicitly. That's what I would do, if I were a myopic, profit-maximizing natural monopoly.
I'm pretty amazed too. Your post made an assessment of how all government systems should be paid for, and to support this you cited an example where others pay unfairly for rural residents' services. I merely looked at the general principle that you were proposing (that only users of public services should pay for those services) and cited an example where people's financial means prevent them from paying "their fair share" of the cost of the service, but (in my humble opinion) still deserve to enjoy the benefits of the infrastructure in question, in this case, roads. I don't see this as twisting your argument at all, just raising an example where your system fails to achieve optimal results. Unless, that is, you think that only rural users should follow this pay-for-your-own-services principle, which you did not indicate in your post--on the contrary, you seemed to be advocating the principle everywhere, without excepting poor urban areas.
In any case, if you agree that poor inner city folk need to be subsidized because they don't have the means to pay, and that this is an OK use of govt. money, then we have nothing to argue about anyway. Incidentally, I also think it's unfair that we're subsidizing rural development, and that it should stop.
Also, it sounds like multiple governments', or at least multiple government agencies' data are on the same cloud? I hope for Google's sake it doesn't get cracked, because pissing off one government sounds like no fun, let alone a handful of them.
You want to build a house in Nowhere, Virginia: You pay the installation costs. There should not be any subsidization for these services by non-users. Not one single dime.
Would that also follow for maintenance costs? In that case should poor people, and thus poor neighborhoods, get lower quality roads than rich people? Naturally, this is already happening to some extent--bad neighborhoods often have unclean roads riddled with potholes, but in your "ideal" scenario I can only imagine infrastructure being yet more unevenly distributed. This would be a great way to create something approximating a third world country, right here in America!
As another intern at IBM this summer I can say without equivocation that I don't think you understand just how big IBM is. I was in Research, and I certainly didn't know anyone who used Symphony with any regularity. There's Global Business Services (IBM's massive consulting arm), too, and I know for certain that people working there use whatever their clients want them to use, which is often MS Office.
perhaps not as many as you'd think... it's almost all in Russian(?).
Oh, and don't everyone go check it out at once--we wouldn't want Slashdot blamed for the next DDoS attack on this fellow's account. I can see the headlines now...
... and my experiences with AppleCare providers and Apple's genius bar itself have always been exemplary. However, my concern is not whether you or other service providers will unfairly judge my problem as user abuse, it's that these judgment calls may be taken away from the care provider and instead, through this automated sensing, allow (or force, through policy) servicepeople to skip a thorough examination and dismiss claims because the abuse sensor was triggered, in a sort of first-pass firewall fashion. I don't know that Apple will do this and I sincerely hope that they won't, but the technology seems as if it would be very well-suited to that end.
Apple would probably make money in the end through decreased support costs, but all the same I'd be a lot less inclined to get AppleCare if I felt that there was a significant risk of wear-and-tear getting interpreted by this sensor as "abuse."
Okay, I think I should post a clarification before someone misunderstands and moderates me down. I don't think anyone is trying to sabotage anyone--I think it would be ludicrous for Microsoft to sabotage its software, just as I think it would be ludicrous for Apple to sabotage boot camp when it is a major selling point of Macs to switchers.
Trust this insofar as you trust Wired. They say that the microwave will leave scorch marks, so this is NOT recommended. I suppose blunt force trauma is virtually undetectable or at least explainable by wear and tear throughout the course of your travels.
This is a legal gray area, but a couple years back Wired suggested that hitting the passport's chip with a hammer would disable the RFID without obvious signs--a disabled RFID chip does not invalidate the passport.
I'm going to go ahead and make a claim with just as much evidence as you just provided--none--namely, that Microsoft has some hidden code that runs down the battery when it detects Apple hardware. Which is easier, designing hardware to make an operating system run inefficiently, or designing software to make hardware run efficiently? Microsoft is cleearrrly just trying to make Mac hardware look bad so people go back to PC hardware, bringing some market share back to Windows.
I wouldn't call myself pro-DRM, but I'm just glad that battle.net has remained free--you know they could charge a nominal fee and people would still be all over it. As a paying customer with a broadband connection, I'm willing to live without LAN play so that Blizzard makes the money I'm sure they deserve. Modern broadband ensures that there's essentially no bandwidth impediment to everyone using battle.net in the same location anymore (as others have pointed out).
By your argument, the Chinese murdered children at random because they underengineered some school houses in an earthquake-prone region. What about New Orleans, where our government, with a gajillion times the resources of an impoverished Chinese provincial town, failed to construct adequate levees in a similarly disaster-prone region and exacerbated the loss of life with inadequate relief efforts? Should I even mention the TVA coal ash spill ? While we don't have the level of political repression the Chinese government perpetrates, we had our fair share of coverups and misinformation surrounding both of those incidents. Please stop throwing stones--you're going to get our glass house shattered in short order.
Bringing the conversation back on topic, what happened was a tragedy and, in my humble estimation, could have happened anywhere in the world. The amount of abuse perpetrated in our nursing homes, for instance, is appalling. What caught my eye is that they even have camps in an attempt to address the issue of "internet addiction"--have you guys seen this elsewhere, or is it as Chinese a phenomenon as "fat camps" might be an American one?
I am going to agree with you for the most part—I feel that human-centricity doesn't necessarily imply a lack of rigor. Just because it requires dealing with the horribly complicated mess that humans are, one can still approach the problem at hand using rigorous, human-centric strategies. Learning how to work with human variation is not completely an intuitive affair, as there are a lot of frameworks, each with its own merits about how to understand humans and their behavior, and how to apply this understanding to disciplines like software engineering. Maybe this lacks "formality" in the sense that it's not formulaic in nature, but saying it's not rigorous is pejorative in a way that I'm not comfortable with.
On the other hand, saying that Simon's description of human decisionmaking is as "solid as mathematical formulas behind computer science" seems a bit silly to me—at best, it's just a good lens through which to explain some facet of human behavior, but even if Simon's work were a perfect, unassailable analysis of the human decisionmaking process (which it is not—how can we prove that neurologically speaking Simon is correct? We can prove that algorithms work all the way from the number theoretic level), understanding just decisionmaking wouldn't be enough for our purposes.
I'm wondering whether this production of biodiesel requires different equipment and processes than the filtration of used cooking oil, or any number of other sources. Otherwise, we'd have this expensive, bulky equipment just for purifying coffee grounds, and additional expensive, bulky equipment for processing peanut shells, and any number of other sources, all for producing less than one day's worth of oil demand all year. If the biodiesel is extractable using some kind of "standard method," perhaps the coffee conversion process could follow something like the recycling model--all biodiesel-containing waste products in one bin, plastics in another, etc. But at what level of efficiency could this possibly happen?
Ah, all this hubbub makes me feel a bit guilty--as a Stanford undergrad I took a couple of these courses last year and didn't attend a single lecture. Only did the homework, showed up for the tests. Still got the credit and grade, though. Perhaps it's only fair that others will be able to learn more from these classes while not paying the $40K tuition that I had to suffer.
Docs or it didn't happen... if we're to believe your conspiracy theories, who's to say that you're not working for a viral marketing firm for the NPD group? That's certainly more plausible than your claim that you're a blu-ray whistleblower...
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Yeah, to clarify for everyone: this is notable because it's the first mobile submersible that can operate at those depths—the Trieste brought two passengers to the Challenger Deep, but it was only capable of descent and ascent, not powered lateral movement.
Wow! Facebook must cause divorces! Or, Facebook is now simply a "space" in which social activity takes place for a great many people, and that evidence of illicit affairs and other information unpalatable to a spouse can be found there just as it was previously found in desks, coat pockets, cameras, and inboxes.
Actually, I suspect that it's because Verizon just cares about what's going on in _their_ forums, and they included that clause so they could terminate the internet service of complainers / trolls in their forums without saying so explicitly. That's what I would do, if I were a myopic, profit-maximizing natural monopoly.
I'm pretty amazed too. Your post made an assessment of how all government systems should be paid for, and to support this you cited an example where others pay unfairly for rural residents' services. I merely looked at the general principle that you were proposing (that only users of public services should pay for those services) and cited an example where people's financial means prevent them from paying "their fair share" of the cost of the service, but (in my humble opinion) still deserve to enjoy the benefits of the infrastructure in question, in this case, roads. I don't see this as twisting your argument at all, just raising an example where your system fails to achieve optimal results. Unless, that is, you think that only rural users should follow this pay-for-your-own-services principle, which you did not indicate in your post--on the contrary, you seemed to be advocating the principle everywhere, without excepting poor urban areas.
In any case, if you agree that poor inner city folk need to be subsidized because they don't have the means to pay, and that this is an OK use of govt. money, then we have nothing to argue about anyway. Incidentally, I also think it's unfair that we're subsidizing rural development, and that it should stop.
Also, it sounds like multiple governments', or at least multiple government agencies' data are on the same cloud? I hope for Google's sake it doesn't get cracked, because pissing off one government sounds like no fun, let alone a handful of them.
You want to build a house in Nowhere, Virginia: You pay the installation costs. There should not be any subsidization for these services by non-users. Not one single dime.
Would that also follow for maintenance costs? In that case should poor people, and thus poor neighborhoods, get lower quality roads than rich people? Naturally, this is already happening to some extent--bad neighborhoods often have unclean roads riddled with potholes, but in your "ideal" scenario I can only imagine infrastructure being yet more unevenly distributed. This would be a great way to create something approximating a third world country, right here in America!
As another intern at IBM this summer I can say without equivocation that I don't think you understand just how big IBM is. I was in Research, and I certainly didn't know anyone who used Symphony with any regularity. There's Global Business Services (IBM's massive consulting arm), too, and I know for certain that people working there use whatever their clients want them to use, which is often MS Office.
perhaps not as many as you'd think... it's almost all in Russian(?). Oh, and don't everyone go check it out at once--we wouldn't want Slashdot blamed for the next DDoS attack on this fellow's account. I can see the headlines now...
...now that I found out that I'm still patronizing AOL in some form. Yes, I used to have AOL. For shame.
I particularly enjoyed the "child-friendly" mouse shaped like the head of Tweety Bird, where you click by jabbing his(?) eyes.
... and my experiences with AppleCare providers and Apple's genius bar itself have always been exemplary. However, my concern is not whether you or other service providers will unfairly judge my problem as user abuse, it's that these judgment calls may be taken away from the care provider and instead, through this automated sensing, allow (or force, through policy) servicepeople to skip a thorough examination and dismiss claims because the abuse sensor was triggered, in a sort of first-pass firewall fashion. I don't know that Apple will do this and I sincerely hope that they won't, but the technology seems as if it would be very well-suited to that end.
Apple would probably make money in the end through decreased support costs, but all the same I'd be a lot less inclined to get AppleCare if I felt that there was a significant risk of wear-and-tear getting interpreted by this sensor as "abuse."
Okay, I think I should post a clarification before someone misunderstands and moderates me down. I don't think anyone is trying to sabotage anyone--I think it would be ludicrous for Microsoft to sabotage its software, just as I think it would be ludicrous for Apple to sabotage boot camp when it is a major selling point of Macs to switchers.
Trust this insofar as you trust Wired. They say that the microwave will leave scorch marks, so this is NOT recommended. I suppose blunt force trauma is virtually undetectable or at least explainable by wear and tear throughout the course of your travels.
This is a legal gray area, but a couple years back Wired suggested that hitting the passport's chip with a hammer would disable the RFID without obvious signs--a disabled RFID chip does not invalidate the passport.
I'm going to go ahead and make a claim with just as much evidence as you just provided--none--namely, that Microsoft has some hidden code that runs down the battery when it detects Apple hardware. Which is easier, designing hardware to make an operating system run inefficiently, or designing software to make hardware run efficiently? Microsoft is cleearrrly just trying to make Mac hardware look bad so people go back to PC hardware, bringing some market share back to Windows.
Where were they when we spent billions of government dollars on undeclared wars and racked up a huge deficit during the Bush years? Hypocrisy much?
It's no use, they require more vespene gas.
I wouldn't call myself pro-DRM, but I'm just glad that battle.net has remained free--you know they could charge a nominal fee and people would still be all over it. As a paying customer with a broadband connection, I'm willing to live without LAN play so that Blizzard makes the money I'm sure they deserve. Modern broadband ensures that there's essentially no bandwidth impediment to everyone using battle.net in the same location anymore (as others have pointed out).
By your argument, the Chinese murdered children at random because they underengineered some school houses in an earthquake-prone region. What about New Orleans, where our government, with a gajillion times the resources of an impoverished Chinese provincial town, failed to construct adequate levees in a similarly disaster-prone region and exacerbated the loss of life with inadequate relief efforts? Should I even mention the TVA coal ash spill ? While we don't have the level of political repression the Chinese government perpetrates, we had our fair share of coverups and misinformation surrounding both of those incidents. Please stop throwing stones--you're going to get our glass house shattered in short order.
Bringing the conversation back on topic, what happened was a tragedy and, in my humble estimation, could have happened anywhere in the world. The amount of abuse perpetrated in our nursing homes, for instance, is appalling. What caught my eye is that they even have camps in an attempt to address the issue of "internet addiction"--have you guys seen this elsewhere, or is it as Chinese a phenomenon as "fat camps" might be an American one?
I am going to agree with you for the most part—I feel that human-centricity doesn't necessarily imply a lack of rigor. Just because it requires dealing with the horribly complicated mess that humans are, one can still approach the problem at hand using rigorous, human-centric strategies. Learning how to work with human variation is not completely an intuitive affair, as there are a lot of frameworks, each with its own merits about how to understand humans and their behavior, and how to apply this understanding to disciplines like software engineering. Maybe this lacks "formality" in the sense that it's not formulaic in nature, but saying it's not rigorous is pejorative in a way that I'm not comfortable with.
On the other hand, saying that Simon's description of human decisionmaking is as "solid as mathematical formulas behind computer science" seems a bit silly to me—at best, it's just a good lens through which to explain some facet of human behavior, but even if Simon's work were a perfect, unassailable analysis of the human decisionmaking process (which it is not—how can we prove that neurologically speaking Simon is correct? We can prove that algorithms work all the way from the number theoretic level), understanding just decisionmaking wouldn't be enough for our purposes.
I'm wondering whether this production of biodiesel requires different equipment and processes than the filtration of used cooking oil, or any number of other sources. Otherwise, we'd have this expensive, bulky equipment just for purifying coffee grounds, and additional expensive, bulky equipment for processing peanut shells, and any number of other sources, all for producing less than one day's worth of oil demand all year. If the biodiesel is extractable using some kind of "standard method," perhaps the coffee conversion process could follow something like the recycling model--all biodiesel-containing waste products in one bin, plastics in another, etc. But at what level of efficiency could this possibly happen?
Ah, all this hubbub makes me feel a bit guilty--as a Stanford undergrad I took a couple of these courses last year and didn't attend a single lecture. Only did the homework, showed up for the tests. Still got the credit and grade, though. Perhaps it's only fair that others will be able to learn more from these classes while not paying the $40K tuition that I had to suffer.
Docs or it didn't happen... if we're to believe your conspiracy theories, who's to say that you're not working for a viral marketing firm for the NPD group? That's certainly more plausible than your claim that you're a blu-ray whistleblower...
iPhone platform, ADC, FairPlay, Objective-C, .dmg, QuickTime formats... and I'm sure there's a whole lot more.
Note: I'm not necessarily saying these are bad things, but you asked.