Because in their search for revenge, proponents want the executed to suffer. Suffer as much as they supposedly made to suffer their victims. Of course, this is assuming that they convicted the right person.
Whem they talk about painless, they are talking about the eyes of the witnesses. They want the executed to suffer in a way that does not offend the sensitivities of the eyewitnesses. It must be painful, but not gross to the now-turned-killers.
There have been many methods that have been discarded in the past, as they don't satisfy the bloody anger of the victim's relatives.
Sure. Source please.
I agree on following consensus of sound studies. Those using proper scientific method and having statistical power ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Also, those that are valid for current context, like the much more potent concentration of the active ingredient of cannabis that exists today.
Ignoring activism, there is huge amount of poor studies. Serious scientists read and evaluate them. You propose a consensus of all studies, the good and the bad together. What PhD program did learn this from?:-D
I really don't care how you do your decision making or whether you smoke with your 6 yo children. But I don't want my taxes to be paying welfare to those loosers because their brain is too damaged to learn how to fry potatoes at a McDonald. Finding jobs is going to be difficult without having brain damage, anyway.
I assume that you will not be interested to evaluate studies and create public policy based of statistical or simulation-based forecasts, but Nate Silver's 'The Signal and the Noise' is excellent advise on evaluating scientific advise. As he says, averaging results of sound studies is wise as you can expect most times (not always) to obtain better results than when siding with one study (which could be right or wrong). Consensus.... blind consensus as proposed above? Of course not.
It is not advocacy. It is unintended consequences.
I know about many teens that celebrate each time that the media asserts that cannabis is safe. Safer than tobacco and alcohol? It is even legal in some states, so it must be very safe, regardless of what adults say.
They kids that I'm talking about are a special case (each one have a mental disorder diagnosis, in addition to their substance abuse problems), but the same logic applies to the general population.
If it is safe, then it is safe. Period. Unless it is not.
Actually, as far as I remember (when asking the same question) alcohol causes more deaths (out of car accidents and violence), so yes, it is more dangerous, but it doesn't cause brain damage. Can you find your source?
'Even Casual Marijuana Use Harms Young Brain, Study Finds'
http://www.elementsbehavioralh...
Marijuana might not be dangerous in a fully developed brain, but it causes damage to a young one. Sure, many used it years ago and nobody became a depressed looser... Or, did they?
Sure. With the new API they will know what kernel to apply to their SVM learner, and the system will set the correct data types and preprocess the data just in the way that a parametric model needs, and will know when to segment your data when it is appropriate to apply different models to each segment, and will consider misclassification costs, and will know how to handle unbalanced datasets, and how to prevent overfitting, and when it is ok to apply ensemble models, and will write a summary justifying the assumptions made during the modeling process.
Sure.
What this will cause is a huge track recird of failed projects and a bad name for machine learning as a discipline. Very sad for qualified practitioners.
The last Android, without the apps and vendor ecosystem.
Or the last Blackberry, without the successful legacy...
Windows Mobile, without the name.
Firefox OS, without the mindshare for a successful browser.
We can really invent many irrelevant comparisons and they don't stop being stupid.
This. If your budget is restricted you want your investment to last. If your solution is not interoperable you will have to throw it away each time that you add a critical component that is not compatible with your old technology. You want something that grows with you.
Also, you are better asking at a home automation forum like cocoontech. Com
"TO GET STUFF DONE"
You are right, people want to get things done. But assuming that everybody has the same needs is an oversimplification that. Business can say that they want to cater some specific use-case. However, saying that all customers fit the same use-case is not just ill-advised, but plain stupid.
The most common case that I find is the parent that purchased a tablet to his child and then realized that it was an error, and wants to add parental controls to it.
If the tablet was Android I tell them to install Funamo for Parental Controls and Smart Launcher as a simpler UI with automatic app categorization. No relation to any of those utilities.
If it was an iPad, I prescribe an hour of autoflagellation while begging pardon from almighty god Steve Jobs for ever thinking about spoiling the divine iOS experience.
Yes, I make sure that they understand that being an iOS owner and Thinking Different IS NOT COMPATIBLE.
There are also use-cases for elder/disabled people, businesses, etc. It is OK that a business chooses to ignore them. However, when I see consumers and pseudo-UI-experts lobbying for the iOS monoculture I can understand why why sad events like the Holocaust happened.
Feedly as a backend server might be as good as was the Google Reader backend. I never used Google Reader via a browser. I always use a dedicated offline reader clients in each device - with read/unread status synced via Google Reader API. Clients like NewsRob or Press sync periodically while I'm on WiFi and I can read later, saving data from my 'unlimited' plan.
I tried the Feedly client just after Google announcement, but it does not meet my need. It is focused in eye-candy, does not preload, so it is pulling data as I use it...in general, it is more a competitor to Flipboard than to a hard core rss offline reader.
I don't use Plex (I refuse to install just another media streaming server app in my NAS just for the Roku) but all the DLNA Roku apps that I have tried require registration via Roku's web page (even when my NAS is internal) . This is completely unnecessary with other DLNA clients. Roku's insistence on registering even private channels with them is extremely suspicious and unacceptable for me, so I use other DLNA clients instead. The only explanation are ridiculously stupid design or desire for spying on the media that you watch (man in the middle, just as bit.ly does). I vote for the second one.
Who said I did any trade? I said that Amazon is stupidly coercing their customers into buying a Kindle or an iPad.
This is completely ridiculous... Not supporting the OS that made the Kindle possible but decide to support the platform of their major content competitor. Amazon is not just an unethical leecher (OS leecher) but just plain stupid.
Can you stream from your Plex server even if you don't have connection to internet? I don't think so. Roku's business model consists on capturing everything that you watch. That is why they don't support regular DLNA. If they can't spy it is not supported.
Having a hard top means that the currency might become scarse causing a drastic valuation of the currency once demand exceed offer. Can any economy run on it, and if not, what will be done afterwards? Bitcoin v2.0?
Agree fully 100%. The take of the good feedback here is to focus on the creation on the content and leave the formatting to the publisher.
Now, while nobody have mentioned it here, there are tools to help you to develop your ideas and create that structured content. As some people said, linear writing, focusing on all the details from the first pass is not the way to go. You should develop your ideas as they come (top-down and down-to-top, as they emerge). If you know the main structure that you are going to have, your write top-down. If you have a lot of ideas, you capture them and then organize them in groups until you have a logical structure and order.
In addition, depending on the size of your document, a work processor only shows a very small portion of your document - about 0.25% of the document for a 200 pages document. You have to do a lot of scroll-up/down. Its almost like I like watching a paint thru a pinhole.
Mindmapping tools solve both problems. They let you capture your ideas and structuring (and restructuring) as you write using drag and drop. Can also see the whole document in a single screen or expland the sections (or the text) to see the details. While oriented to the educational market, Inspiration has the best tutorial to explain the concept here: http://www.inspiration.com/videos/Inspiration . It explain how to develope your concept (and content) and then export to MS Word using Styles instead of formatting (as other advise here). Inspiration is very good, but not the most polished and capable application in the bunch.
The most polished mindmapping application that I have seen so far is Mindjet's MindManager ( http://www.mindjet.com/ ). I saw the demo on version 8 and it is impressive (worth the money). I have also used version 7 for a few months for developing ideas and writing procedures. The exports to MS Word look even better than the ones from Inspiration. And you can even add due dates to the content sections (for your own control) and add attribued like completion percentage. You can also embeed graphics, Excel tables, attachments, links, etc. It also has and outline view, so that you can sort the order of topics, etc.
The free alternative is FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ). The lastest version have many extensions for exporting in different formats too. I develop my personal mindmaps in FreeMind and keep a portable version of FreeMind (with Java) in my pen drive. FreeMind exports to OpenOffice format, but you could use OpenOffice for converting into MS Word, if required.
So the steps are: 1. Forget the document formatting applications mentioned by 99% of the commenters here. 2. Use a mindmap application to create your content. 3. Export to MS Word. 4. Send to you publisher and let them take care of the rest.
Update: In option 2, you have the option of creating a new process and challenge the existing existing Current Best Approach. If you win the challengem then your process is the new Current Best Approach. Most times the other owner places fierce opposition to the change. You just need a person high enought in the hierarchy to call your process the one to follow. Once I escalated at Global VP level to do this - and won.
This is the domain of Industrail Psychiologist and this is not my field, so I'm not qualified to know the right thing to do, but this is what I have seen:
1. No company policy: Just what you all describe here. It's almost imposible to get the people to document what they read. If anybody does it, nobody read it. So what is the purpose?
2. Medium policy: Once global company that I worked for had the concept of Current Best Approach (CBA). Something like a Best Practice, but recognizing that practices are not permanent. Whenever you face the need to solve a new problem or establish a new process you first check a global database of documented processes called 'Current Best Approach'. If you don't find it there , then you invent your new process and archive it in the database (Lotus Notes). While not every process is documented, the most important ones are. And, whenever any boss ask if you are following the CBA you better be prepared to answer the question. This is required by big companies with little profit that must make sure that they must follow the most efficient process in all their organizations around the world.
3. Strict policy: In a regulated environemnt (GMP, SOX), you must have all processes documented so penalty of fines or closure of operations by the Federal Government. Every process is documented, and there is a training system that shows that everybody is trained in the functions that they perform. If you fail in your job (called a Non-Conformance), an investigation is opened. If they noticed that the failiure is caused by a wrong documentation, the documentation is updated and all impacted personnel is retrained. If the root cause is that you didn't follow the procedure then you get the equivalent of a memo. After 3 memos you are fired. Everybody hates it, but it works.
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Because in their search for revenge, proponents want the executed to suffer. Suffer as much as they supposedly made to suffer their victims. Of course, this is assuming that they convicted the right person. Whem they talk about painless, they are talking about the eyes of the witnesses. They want the executed to suffer in a way that does not offend the sensitivities of the eyewitnesses. It must be painful, but not gross to the now-turned-killers. There have been many methods that have been discarded in the past, as they don't satisfy the bloody anger of the victim's relatives.
Sure. Source please. I agree on following consensus of sound studies. Those using proper scientific method and having statistical power ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...). Also, those that are valid for current context, like the much more potent concentration of the active ingredient of cannabis that exists today. Ignoring activism, there is huge amount of poor studies. Serious scientists read and evaluate them. You propose a consensus of all studies, the good and the bad together. What PhD program did learn this from? :-D
I really don't care how you do your decision making or whether you smoke with your 6 yo children. But I don't want my taxes to be paying welfare to those loosers because their brain is too damaged to learn how to fry potatoes at a McDonald. Finding jobs is going to be difficult without having brain damage, anyway.
I assume that you will not be interested to evaluate studies and create public policy based of statistical or simulation-based forecasts, but Nate Silver's 'The Signal and the Noise' is excellent advise on evaluating scientific advise. As he says, averaging results of sound studies is wise as you can expect most times (not always) to obtain better results than when siding with one study (which could be right or wrong). Consensus.... blind consensus as proposed above? Of course not.
It is not advocacy. It is unintended consequences. I know about many teens that celebrate each time that the media asserts that cannabis is safe. Safer than tobacco and alcohol? It is even legal in some states, so it must be very safe, regardless of what adults say. They kids that I'm talking about are a special case (each one have a mental disorder diagnosis, in addition to their substance abuse problems), but the same logic applies to the general population. If it is safe, then it is safe. Period. Unless it is not.
Actually, as far as I remember (when asking the same question) alcohol causes more deaths (out of car accidents and violence), so yes, it is more dangerous, but it doesn't cause brain damage. Can you find your source?
'Even Casual Marijuana Use Harms Young Brain, Study Finds' http://www.elementsbehavioralh... Marijuana might not be dangerous in a fully developed brain, but it causes damage to a young one. Sure, many used it years ago and nobody became a depressed looser... Or, did they?
Sure. With the new API they will know what kernel to apply to their SVM learner, and the system will set the correct data types and preprocess the data just in the way that a parametric model needs, and will know when to segment your data when it is appropriate to apply different models to each segment, and will consider misclassification costs, and will know how to handle unbalanced datasets, and how to prevent overfitting, and when it is ok to apply ensemble models, and will write a summary justifying the assumptions made during the modeling process. Sure. What this will cause is a huge track recird of failed projects and a bad name for machine learning as a discipline. Very sad for qualified practitioners.
The last Android, without the apps and vendor ecosystem. Or the last Blackberry, without the successful legacy... Windows Mobile, without the name. Firefox OS, without the mindshare for a successful browser. We can really invent many irrelevant comparisons and they don't stop being stupid.
This. If your budget is restricted you want your investment to last. If your solution is not interoperable you will have to throw it away each time that you add a critical component that is not compatible with your old technology. You want something that grows with you. Also, you are better asking at a home automation forum like cocoontech. Com
"TO GET STUFF DONE" You are right, people want to get things done. But assuming that everybody has the same needs is an oversimplification that. Business can say that they want to cater some specific use-case. However, saying that all customers fit the same use-case is not just ill-advised, but plain stupid. The most common case that I find is the parent that purchased a tablet to his child and then realized that it was an error, and wants to add parental controls to it. If the tablet was Android I tell them to install Funamo for Parental Controls and Smart Launcher as a simpler UI with automatic app categorization. No relation to any of those utilities. If it was an iPad, I prescribe an hour of autoflagellation while begging pardon from almighty god Steve Jobs for ever thinking about spoiling the divine iOS experience. Yes, I make sure that they understand that being an iOS owner and Thinking Different IS NOT COMPATIBLE. There are also use-cases for elder/disabled people, businesses, etc. It is OK that a business chooses to ignore them. However, when I see consumers and pseudo-UI-experts lobbying for the iOS monoculture I can understand why why sad events like the Holocaust happened.
Feedly as a backend server might be as good as was the Google Reader backend. I never used Google Reader via a browser. I always use a dedicated offline reader clients in each device - with read/unread status synced via Google Reader API. Clients like NewsRob or Press sync periodically while I'm on WiFi and I can read later, saving data from my 'unlimited' plan. I tried the Feedly client just after Google announcement, but it does not meet my need. It is focused in eye-candy, does not preload, so it is pulling data as I use it...in general, it is more a competitor to Flipboard than to a hard core rss offline reader.
I don't use Plex (I refuse to install just another media streaming server app in my NAS just for the Roku) but all the DLNA Roku apps that I have tried require registration via Roku's web page (even when my NAS is internal) . This is completely unnecessary with other DLNA clients. Roku's insistence on registering even private channels with them is extremely suspicious and unacceptable for me, so I use other DLNA clients instead. The only explanation are ridiculously stupid design or desire for spying on the media that you watch (man in the middle, just as bit.ly does). I vote for the second one.
BTW, I only use Nexus devices.
Who said I did any trade? I said that Amazon is stupidly coercing their customers into buying a Kindle or an iPad. This is completely ridiculous... Not supporting the OS that made the Kindle possible but decide to support the platform of their major content competitor. Amazon is not just an unethical leecher (OS leecher) but just plain stupid.
Can you stream from your Plex server even if you don't have connection to internet? I don't think so. Roku's business model consists on capturing everything that you watch. That is why they don't support regular DLNA. If they can't spy it is not supported.
Or buy an iPad.
Your posting looks intelligent. You are getting generally good proposal. However, be aware that this is a democracy. Your opponent is too big.
Having a hard top means that the currency might become scarse causing a drastic valuation of the currency once demand exceed offer. Can any economy run on it, and if not, what will be done afterwards? Bitcoin v2.0?
Agree fully 100%. The take of the good feedback here is to focus on the creation on the content and leave the formatting to the publisher.
Now, while nobody have mentioned it here, there are tools to help you to develop your ideas and create that structured content. As some people said, linear writing, focusing on all the details from the first pass is not the way to go. You should develop your ideas as they come (top-down and down-to-top, as they emerge). If you know the main structure that you are going to have, your write top-down. If you have a lot of ideas, you capture them and then organize them in groups until you have a logical structure and order.
In addition, depending on the size of your document, a work processor only shows a very small portion of your document - about 0.25% of the document for a 200 pages document. You have to do a lot of scroll-up/down. Its almost like I like watching a paint thru a pinhole.
Mindmapping tools solve both problems. They let you capture your ideas and structuring (and restructuring) as you write using drag and drop. Can also see the whole document in a single screen or expland the sections (or the text) to see the details. While oriented to the educational market, Inspiration has the best tutorial to explain the concept here: http://www.inspiration.com/videos/Inspiration . It explain how to develope your concept (and content) and then export to MS Word using Styles instead of formatting (as other advise here). Inspiration is very good, but not the most polished and capable application in the bunch.
The most polished mindmapping application that I have seen so far is Mindjet's MindManager ( http://www.mindjet.com/ ). I saw the demo on version 8 and it is impressive (worth the money). I have also used version 7 for a few months for developing ideas and writing procedures. The exports to MS Word look even better than the ones from Inspiration. And you can even add due dates to the content sections (for your own control) and add attribued like completion percentage. You can also embeed graphics, Excel tables, attachments, links, etc. It also has and outline view, so that you can sort the order of topics, etc.
The free alternative is FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page ). The lastest version have many extensions for exporting in different formats too. I develop my personal mindmaps in FreeMind and keep a portable version of FreeMind (with Java) in my pen drive. FreeMind exports to OpenOffice format, but you could use OpenOffice for converting into MS Word, if required.
So the steps are:
1. Forget the document formatting applications mentioned by 99% of the commenters here.
2. Use a mindmap application to create your content.
3. Export to MS Word.
4. Send to you publisher and let them take care of the rest.
Easy, isn't it?
Update: In option 2, you have the option of creating a new process and challenge the existing existing Current Best Approach. If you win the challengem then your process is the new Current Best Approach. Most times the other owner places fierce opposition to the change. You just need a person high enought in the hierarchy to call your process the one to follow. Once I escalated at Global VP level to do this - and won.
This is the domain of Industrail Psychiologist and this is not my field, so I'm not qualified to know the right thing to do, but this is what I have seen: 1. No company policy: Just what you all describe here. It's almost imposible to get the people to document what they read. If anybody does it, nobody read it. So what is the purpose? 2. Medium policy: Once global company that I worked for had the concept of Current Best Approach (CBA). Something like a Best Practice, but recognizing that practices are not permanent. Whenever you face the need to solve a new problem or establish a new process you first check a global database of documented processes called 'Current Best Approach'. If you don't find it there , then you invent your new process and archive it in the database (Lotus Notes). While not every process is documented, the most important ones are. And, whenever any boss ask if you are following the CBA you better be prepared to answer the question. This is required by big companies with little profit that must make sure that they must follow the most efficient process in all their organizations around the world. 3. Strict policy: In a regulated environemnt (GMP, SOX), you must have all processes documented so penalty of fines or closure of operations by the Federal Government. Every process is documented, and there is a training system that shows that everybody is trained in the functions that they perform. If you fail in your job (called a Non-Conformance), an investigation is opened. If they noticed that the failiure is caused by a wrong documentation, the documentation is updated and all impacted personnel is retrained. If the root cause is that you didn't follow the procedure then you get the equivalent of a memo. After 3 memos you are fired. Everybody hates it, but it works.