How does basing money on rocks change anything? Money just provides a means to trade. If we want to base it on something of intrinsic value, I would suggest energy over shiny rocks.
So who decides, the patient or family, or BIG government?
Under our current system, insurance companies decide. It seems disingenuous to imply that patients have the choice and that the current system(private insurance companies) pays for every treatment than anyone could ever want/need. There are plenty of people who have been denied claims. I also don't understand why you can't still have private insurance if there is national health care. Did the advent of Blue Cross/Blue Shield make it impossible to get Aetna?
How does the cost of the developer magically disappear? Why should a developer have to pay back more than he was originally paid? I don't know how you justify keeping a commission on something that's returned.
I see how some people react when they get hit with something, but really I just think it's a stimulus response. I don't feel it when they are injured so what do I care anyway.
It makes sense if you think of original sin as the quest for knowledge(apple = knowledge). The idea that we can control tomorrow (through knowledge) instead of God. In this sense most every human is indeed born with original sin. Especially when it differentiates us from animals. They are innocent because regardless of their behavior they do not try to 'know'(/control) what will happen.
I recently watched a show on Hulu where it asked at the beginning if I would rather watch one extended commercial at the beginning or have regular breaks. Hopefully they will continue to try different things like that. I'll agree though that the commercial every seek is annoying as well as seeing the same commercial every 15 minutes if it has regular breaks.
But people spoiled by running constantly as administrator
I don't know if users are more spoiled or programmers are. Most users don't know the difference until a program request it. I find it interesting that you can install Mozilla as a user into a user folder but then you can't install Adobe Flash for it unless you're an Admin.
Any company would dance in the streets if they could get that kind of a cut out of their labor costs.
Labor cost compared to production is what really matters. GM workers are 22% less efficient. Increasing productivity would provide bigger gains that cutting wages.
When you factor productivity in with wages GM is obviously at a huge disadvantage. I think we are mostly agreeing. GMs costs don't provide as much return as Toyotas.
GM doesn't pay much more than Toyota. In 2005 GM paid on average $31.35/hr vs Toyota paying $27/hr.
The big cost difference comes from GM paying people who aren't working (Job banks and retirees[460,000 vs 1,600]) as well as taking more man-hours (34.2 hrs vs 27.9) to build a vehicle than Toyota. Some Toyota plants actually pay more than some GM plants.
1. How is someone technologically savvy enough to need the blueprints to Marine One and yet not enough so to let this happen?
2. Why wasn't the file at least encrypted?
I would not base my decision on an article trying to prove the markets always pick the best product. While they point out bias for DVORAK they fail miserably to point out bias against.
Such as Strong and DVORAK had strained business relations and that Strong said 7 years before the study they cite "I have developed a great deal of material on how to get this increased production on the part of typists on the standard keyboard. Consequently, I am not in favor of purchasing new keyboards and retraining typists on the new keyboard.... I strongly feel that the present keyboard has not been fully exploited, and I am out to exploit it to its utmost in opposition to the change to new keyboards."
Additionally Strong destroyed all the research when others asked for the data.
I know I'm crazy but I am a little reluctant in trusting the scientific vigor of a couple of economist whose stated goal is to show that the market always chooses the best product.
What you see is evidence that maybe Dvorak nets you a whole ONE PERCENT INCREASE.
Actually that's a difference of 7% as 212 is 107% of 198. Add to that how many more people use QWERTY vs DVORAK. And it has some significance. BTW Barbara Blackburn was the fastest in 1985, 1995 and 2005.
Wouldn't a proper control group have no previous typing skills? Seems like the studies are saying a lifetime of QWERTY plus 100 hrs training is better than 100 hrs of Dvorak. The studies that the article sites seem to address whether retraining for Dvorak is cost effective, not whether Dvorak or QWERTY is inherently better from the get go.
It also seems the article is more geared towards disproving Dvorak superiority rather than proving QWERTY. Reminds of when Creations think that if they debunk evolution it automatically proves Creationism.
And you're right it is anecdotal but it took less than 10 hrs of self-training for me to reach my QWERTY speeds with Dvorak. I had a year of formal training for QWERTY and 10 plus years of experience with it at the time.
I guess when they do a study with two groups that have no typing experience it will mean something.
I skimmed the article so maybe I missed it, but did the authors of this article try to learn DVORAK themselves? Seems to me they are trying to use economic theory to discount the effectiveness of Dvorak. I have not known anyone who learned it ever say it wasn't faster. It's always as fast or faster.
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and the dissolution of the gold standard
How does basing money on rocks change anything? Money just provides a means to trade. If we want to base it on something of intrinsic value, I would suggest energy over shiny rocks.
Then he'll just have to virtualize the older virtualization software in the newer virtualization software.
I'd love to see an efficacy study done on happiness or attitude. I wonder how that experiment would be set up.
A few things you might be interested in reading
Placebo effect
Neural top down control of physiology
Depression and poor health
For all you know they 'blogging' could be a front for a local child porn ring.
The search warrant lists "petty theft" and "computer tampering with the intent to harass" as probable causes.
So who decides, the patient or family, or BIG government?
Under our current system, insurance companies decide. It seems disingenuous to imply that patients have the choice and that the current system(private insurance companies) pays for every treatment than anyone could ever want/need. There are plenty of people who have been denied claims. I also don't understand why you can't still have private insurance if there is national health care. Did the advent of Blue Cross/Blue Shield make it impossible to get Aetna?
I don't think we will ever be able to run a tank or a fighter jet off of electricity alone.
What about using the electricity to make hydrogen?
How does the cost of the developer magically disappear? Why should a developer have to pay back more than he was originally paid? I don't know how you justify keeping a commission on something that's returned.
I see how some people react when they get hit with something, but really I just think it's a stimulus response. I don't feel it when they are injured so what do I care anyway.
Socrates thought the earth was round.
Why can't I click a button on the TV to make my remote beep when I can't find it. Maybe I should patent that.
State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler)
It makes sense if you think of original sin as the quest for knowledge(apple = knowledge). The idea that we can control tomorrow (through knowledge) instead of God. In this sense most every human is indeed born with original sin. Especially when it differentiates us from animals. They are innocent because regardless of their behavior they do not try to 'know'(/control) what will happen.
I recently watched a show on Hulu where it asked at the beginning if I would rather watch one extended commercial at the beginning or have regular breaks. Hopefully they will continue to try different things like that. I'll agree though that the commercial every seek is annoying as well as seeing the same commercial every 15 minutes if it has regular breaks.
But people spoiled by running constantly as administrator
I don't know if users are more spoiled or programmers are. Most users don't know the difference until a program request it. I find it interesting that you can install Mozilla as a user into a user folder but then you can't install Adobe Flash for it unless you're an Admin.
Any company would dance in the streets if they could get that kind of a cut out of their labor costs.
Labor cost compared to production is what really matters. GM workers are 22% less efficient. Increasing productivity would provide bigger gains that cutting wages.
When you factor productivity in with wages GM is obviously at a huge disadvantage. I think we are mostly agreeing. GMs costs don't provide as much return as Toyotas.
GM doesn't pay much more than Toyota. In 2005 GM paid on average $31.35/hr vs Toyota paying $27/hr.
The big cost difference comes from GM paying people who aren't working (Job banks and retirees[460,000 vs 1,600]) as well as taking more man-hours (34.2 hrs vs 27.9) to build a vehicle than Toyota. Some Toyota plants actually pay more than some GM plants.
1. How is someone technologically savvy enough to need the blueprints to Marine One and yet not enough so to let this happen? 2. Why wasn't the file at least encrypted?
We restrict our energy sources so tightly that we cannot continue to feed our growing population and starve to death
How would driving smaller cars and using energy more efficiently cause people to starve?
I would not base my decision on an article trying to prove the markets always pick the best product. While they point out bias for DVORAK they fail miserably to point out bias against.
... I strongly feel that the present keyboard has not been fully exploited, and I am out to exploit it to its utmost in opposition to the change to new keyboards."
Such as Strong and DVORAK had strained business relations and that Strong said 7 years before the study they cite "I have developed a great deal of material on how to get this increased production on the part of typists on the standard keyboard. Consequently, I am not in favor of purchasing new keyboards and retraining typists on the new keyboard.
Additionally Strong destroyed all the research when others asked for the data.
I know I'm crazy but I am a little reluctant in trusting the scientific vigor of a couple of economist whose stated goal is to show that the market always chooses the best product.
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What you see is evidence that maybe Dvorak nets you a whole ONE PERCENT INCREASE.
Actually that's a difference of 7% as 212 is 107% of 198. Add to that how many more people use QWERTY vs DVORAK. And it has some significance.
BTW Barbara Blackburn was the fastest in 1985, 1995 and 2005.
Umm maybe if I was trying to pick the fastest car in the world.
It interesting what comes up when you search for 'fastest typist in the world' on google.
It interesting what comes up when you search for 'fastest typist in the world' on google.
Wouldn't a proper control group have no previous typing skills? Seems like the studies are saying a lifetime of QWERTY plus 100 hrs training is better than 100 hrs of Dvorak. The studies that the article sites seem to address whether retraining for Dvorak is cost effective, not whether Dvorak or QWERTY is inherently better from the get go.
It also seems the article is more geared towards disproving Dvorak superiority rather than proving QWERTY. Reminds of when Creations think that if they debunk evolution it automatically proves Creationism.
And you're right it is anecdotal but it took less than 10 hrs of self-training for me to reach my QWERTY speeds with Dvorak. I had a year of formal training for QWERTY and 10 plus years of experience with it at the time.
I guess when they do a study with two groups that have no typing experience it will mean something.
I skimmed the article so maybe I missed it, but did the authors of this article try to learn DVORAK themselves? Seems to me they are trying to use economic theory to discount the effectiveness of Dvorak. I have not known anyone who learned it ever say it wasn't faster. It's always as fast or faster.