...and I can not lie, You other brothers can't deny, When Tim Cook walks in with a white plastic case, And puts a round corner in your face -- You get sprung!
And finally, it should be noted that even including this incident, the murder rate in Colorado is lower than it is in Washington DC, where owning a firearm is essentially illegal....
Actually it should be noted that, ignoring RATE, there are more murders in Washington DC (population 600k or so) than in Colorado (population 5.1 million or so) in a typical year.
I put it in the same category as similar paradoxical factoids -- for instance, that the states with the most stringent marriage-defense laws tend to have highest rate of out-of-wedlock births. The laws are an attempted reaction against an existing social problem (perhaps a mal-adaptive, but an attempt at a protective response nonetheless); states with laxer laws don't have lower rates because of their stance, it is their lower rate that prevents development of cultural pressures to demand governmental action.
Unfortunately, in either of the two cases, ideology locks leaders into a fixed and unhelpful response.
Seeing as how 1/3 of the earth is made of iron and we've assuredly been rained upon by some iron meteorites that probably popped somewhere in the atmosphere, something tells me that iron-rich moments in the ocean's history have not been unknown. Does the fossil record have anything to say on the subject?
In the case of tablets and phones, packaging is the first personal encounter with what is intended to be a personal device. Getting this step right is crucial to shaping how a consumer perceives the product and too many companies neglect this simple but ineluctable point.
It's kind of like losing your virginity. You'll have sex plenty of times in the future (presumably), but the initial experience is very important.
It's not fetishism to want a consumer's experience of "getting at the device" to be quick, obvious, and easy. Furthermore, packaging that is easily opened and which is not damaged upon opening makes that packaging reusable.
Ah-yup, that's not exactly what she said though. Regardless, the initial box-opening experience is important.
The only people who don't understand that the document is expressing opposition to fake methodologies that focus on making the students feel good and are ineffective at teaching, are those who evidently went to a school teaching these methodologies.
With careful reading between the lines, it is possible to understand what they are really trying to say. Still, for a fundamental platform document, it should not be necessary to "read between the lines" and tease out what the authors meant. What I took away from skimming through it:
1.) The authors of the document were not in control of their emotions at the time they put words to paper. Not good when they're in leadership positions. 2.) Many statements only make sense if you consider certain terms to be "code words", functioning as a short-hand notation for a previously-established pool of beliefs and ideological positions centered around that term.
Either the authors were too immersed in their own cultural circle to communicate with outsiders, or -- more likely -- the document was intended for internal-use only (in which case, it's contents should have been issued in some other document than than their official platform declaration).
And the product variety and quality has improved dramatically every step of the way. That corner store usually and no more than 4 round steaks to choose from. Not an entire meat counter full of various sizes. They had poor quality fruit, when it was in season. Not a fruit section with fruit from all over the world all year around.
Oh, and hey, they had flys.
That kind of variety and quality doesn't come from mom and pop stores. It comes from big corporations.
But hey its a free country. You want those filthy little corner stores with limited selection, just drive 100 miles across the Mexican border. They still have them there. And the Flys too. No selection, very few products to sell. Go further down in central America, South America, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and it gets worse still.
I don't have any experience with Central/South America, but I've spent a fair bit of time in Asia. And I'll agree with you regarding the ever-present flies, but not on any other point. The diversity of the small vendors was outstanding; while each individual vendor might have a tiny selection, there were literally hundreds of them in a market, each jostling for a niche (and somehow, my grandmother knew exactly who to go to, for the best quality stuff at any given time).
If you walked in with set ideas about what you wanted to buy at that moment, then yes -- you might not be able to find that exact thing if it was was out of season. In the street markets, if you were willing to be flexible, you'd find unusual heirloom varieties of things that might be grown only in a single village (but might have been grown there for centuries), or you'd find entire species of fruits and vegetables you never even knew existed. That's for stuff you can eat -- if you wanted gadgets and electronics, it was just as good, as long as you were near a major city (most of it's produced there now, anyway). If you knew where to look, you could find vendors in a little stall in the corner somewhere that could do custom-modded laptops builds for you right there, on the spot (and slap on an emblem for whatever brand you wanted it to "be").
In comparison, the quality of fruits of vegetables you can get in the typical US suburban supermarket is really sad. Americans do not consume enough vegetables compared to the folks over there, and I can understand why. Everything has been bred to look shiny and hygienic and perfect -- but you don't taste with just your eyes. A lot of people don't understand how much has been lost because they've never had a decent example to compare against what they're getting. And, once you discount the dozen brands of each item, the true amount of variety is really small -- for instance, all our vegetables seem to be based around maybe two dozen species that have sufficient scales of production and distribution to make them economical. Over there, it's hundreds.
If you've never had a good experience with a street market, maybe you haven't been to a healthy, vibrant one. Time's running out though -- and I can understand why. It takes time and expertise to shop in that kind of environment, and your legs get a strenuous workout in the process (maybe the change is part of why asians are getting fatter now). And yes, there's noise and flies and dirt everywhere, and the little vendors don't have the economy of scale big operations can offer. As a result, in some places the multinationals big-box stores are gradually pushing the street markets out of business (they hang on for a while, but in their declining years it can be pretty sad. Maybe that's the kind of market you've seen?)
The playbook should have been a blackberry in a tablet form. Instead you needed a BB and as PB to get function. = Fail. Do not now how that ever, ever, ever passed QA and system testing.
My guess is that RIM management considered it to be feature, not a bug. In their previous dominant position, they were so concerned about not competing against themselves, that they forgot to compete with the rest of the market.
Instead of worrying that Playbooks might erode sales of higher-end BBs, or managing turf battles between their phone and tablet groups, perhaps they figured they would tie the two together, and *presto* -- ensure customers would be locked-in to the combination, and guarantee RIM make a two-for-one sale. Except of course, that instead of choosing to buy both, customers chose to buy neither.
Some researchers manage to track raindrops (or snowflakes) in front of a light and, in real time, change the beam so that they are not illuminated! This drastically reduces glare.
Can we do the opposite, and change the beam to exclusively illuminate moving particles only? Bet it would look really cool.
Depends how you define "safe". DDT won't kill you, but it is a persistent and bio-accumulating endocrine disrupter -- even decades after being banned in most places, it is still universally detectable in human breast milk (one of the tissues in which it concentrates).
I had one, a Matrox m3d -- Looked great paired up with a Tseng Labs ET6000. Performance wasn't that great though -- by the time the drivers matured, it was already verging on obsolescence.
solar geoengineering could lead to brighter, whiter skies, and sunsets with an afterglow
It would probably also interfere with ground-based astronomy and our view of the night sky, by direct absorption/scattering of starlight, and by worsening Skyglow effects, increasing scattering terrestrial sources of light back at us. Life-long urban residents already have no idea what a proper view of the Firmament looks like (not even knowing the Milky Way is something you can see with your own naked eyes!), never having seen more than the moon and a pathetic handful of dots.
No it isn't. DMCA *is* the polite method of contacting the other people. All they need to do is respond "no it doesn't infringe" and the material is restored again, per the law. (It is then the responsibility of the owner to file a lawsuit.)
I would disagree, given that -- while not a legal requirement to do so -- many sites have a policy of suspending or banning users who receive more than a certain number of DMCA complaints. Thus, it has become an impolite method of contact de-facto.
Did anybody ready the article? The plant is being built in Taiwan, not in the People's Republic of China.
Yes we did, you just had a reading comprehension fail. The plant is being built in Hainan (a province of the PRC). The press statement is being issued from Taiwan ROC, where Foxconn's corporate offices are.
Depending on how they counted them, there are probably also many employees working outside the plant as well, handling things like transportation and external infrastructure. For a plant of this size, the number of associated employees not actually in the plant could be quite substantial.
Following up, forgot to state in my previous post why I was responding to your statement that "The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource.".
The reason I pointed out Mao ZheDong, was that he said something very similar, prior to embarking on the disastrous policies described my post above -- that he considered humans to be a resource rather than a burden, and therefore more people would equal more growth.
Don't be an idiot. The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource. Without people eventually development would stagnate or even reverse itself. It has happened before when there were large population implosions (fall of the Roman Empire, Black Death, etc).
A Brief History Of
China's One-Child Policy: "Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production," Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." The communist government condemned birth control and banned imports of contraceptives.
Or it could be that the executive staff just received some of the worst engineering advice ever.
Maybe they should have omitted the "capable of delivering worst engineering advice ever, with a straight face" requirement from their job descriptions. Because I get the distinct feeling that their work instructions from management to engineering did not include having engineering deliver any good advice.
This would be a great idea for a Makerspace trying to attract more people/funding.
You've already got tools and a core of tinkerers that know how to fix stuff -- if you could draw in a broader audience from the community, you could make some extra money selling them drinks and munchies, and possibly convert some people to the hobby.
Segmented sleep, also known as divided sleep, bimodal sleep pattern, or interrupted sleep, is a polyphasic or biphasic sleep pattern where two or more periods of sleep are punctuated by a period of wakefulness. Along with a nap (siesta) in the day, it has been argued that this is the natural pattern of human sleep. A case has been made that maintaining such a sleep pattern may be important in regulating stress.
Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive 'dominance displays.'
As a stone-thrower, he's already advanced further politically than we have, seeing as how we are still at the poo-throwing dominance display stage.
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I like big phones
...and I can not lie,
You other brothers can't deny,
When Tim Cook walks in with a white plastic case,
And puts a round corner in your face --
You get sprung!
And finally, it should be noted that even including this incident, the murder rate in Colorado is lower than it is in Washington DC, where owning a firearm is essentially illegal....
Actually it should be noted that, ignoring RATE, there are more murders in Washington DC (population 600k or so) than in Colorado (population 5.1 million or so) in a typical year.
I put it in the same category as similar paradoxical factoids -- for instance, that the states with the most stringent marriage-defense laws tend to have highest rate of out-of-wedlock births. The laws are an attempted reaction against an existing social problem (perhaps a mal-adaptive, but an attempt at a protective response nonetheless); states with laxer laws don't have lower rates because of their stance, it is their lower rate that prevents development of cultural pressures to demand governmental action.
Unfortunately, in either of the two cases, ideology locks leaders into a fixed and unhelpful response.
Seeing as how 1/3 of the earth is made of iron and we've assuredly been rained upon by some iron meteorites that probably popped somewhere in the atmosphere, something tells me that iron-rich moments in the ocean's history have not been unknown. Does the fossil record have anything to say on the subject?
Banded Iron Formations.
In the case of tablets and phones, packaging is the first personal encounter with what is intended to be a personal device. Getting this step right is crucial to shaping how a consumer perceives the product and too many companies neglect this simple but ineluctable point.
It's kind of like losing your virginity. You'll have sex plenty of times in the future (presumably), but the initial experience is very important.
It's not fetishism to want a consumer's experience of "getting at the device" to be quick, obvious, and easy. Furthermore, packaging that is easily opened and which is not damaged upon opening makes that packaging reusable.
Ah-yup, that's not exactly what she said though. Regardless, the initial box-opening experience is important.
The only people who don't understand that the document is expressing opposition to fake methodologies that focus on making the students feel good and are ineffective at teaching, are those who evidently went to a school teaching these methodologies.
With careful reading between the lines, it is possible to understand what they are really trying to say. Still, for a fundamental platform document, it should not be necessary to "read between the lines" and tease out what the authors meant. What I took away from skimming through it:
1.) The authors of the document were not in control of their emotions at the time they put words to paper. Not good when they're in leadership positions.
2.) Many statements only make sense if you consider certain terms to be "code words", functioning as a short-hand notation for a previously-established pool of beliefs and ideological positions centered around that term.
Either the authors were too immersed in their own cultural circle to communicate with outsiders, or -- more likely -- the document was intended for internal-use only (in which case, it's contents should have been issued in some other document than than their official platform declaration).
And the product variety and quality has improved dramatically every step of the way. That corner store usually and no more than 4 round steaks to choose from. Not an entire meat counter full of various sizes. They had poor quality fruit, when it was in season. Not a fruit section with fruit from all over the world all year around.
Oh, and hey, they had flys.
That kind of variety and quality doesn't come from mom and pop stores. It comes from big corporations.
But hey its a free country. You want those filthy little corner stores with limited selection, just drive 100 miles across the Mexican border. They still have them there. And the Flys too. No selection, very few products to sell. Go further down in central America, South America, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina and it gets worse still.
I don't have any experience with Central/South America, but I've spent a fair bit of time in Asia. And I'll agree with you regarding the ever-present flies, but not on any other point. The diversity of the small vendors was outstanding; while each individual vendor might have a tiny selection, there were literally hundreds of them in a market, each jostling for a niche (and somehow, my grandmother knew exactly who to go to, for the best quality stuff at any given time).
If you walked in with set ideas about what you wanted to buy at that moment, then yes -- you might not be able to find that exact thing if it was was out of season. In the street markets, if you were willing to be flexible, you'd find unusual heirloom varieties of things that might be grown only in a single village (but might have been grown there for centuries), or you'd find entire species of fruits and vegetables you never even knew existed. That's for stuff you can eat -- if you wanted gadgets and electronics, it was just as good, as long as you were near a major city (most of it's produced there now, anyway). If you knew where to look, you could find vendors in a little stall in the corner somewhere that could do custom-modded laptops builds for you right there, on the spot (and slap on an emblem for whatever brand you wanted it to "be").
In comparison, the quality of fruits of vegetables you can get in the typical US suburban supermarket is really sad. Americans do not consume enough vegetables compared to the folks over there, and I can understand why. Everything has been bred to look shiny and hygienic and perfect -- but you don't taste with just your eyes. A lot of people don't understand how much has been lost because they've never had a decent example to compare against what they're getting. And, once you discount the dozen brands of each item, the true amount of variety is really small -- for instance, all our vegetables seem to be based around maybe two dozen species that have sufficient scales of production and distribution to make them economical. Over there, it's hundreds.
If you've never had a good experience with a street market, maybe you haven't been to a healthy, vibrant one. Time's running out though -- and I can understand why. It takes time and expertise to shop in that kind of environment, and your legs get a strenuous workout in the process (maybe the change is part of why asians are getting fatter now). And yes, there's noise and flies and dirt everywhere, and the little vendors don't have the economy of scale big operations can offer. As a result, in some places the multinationals big-box stores are gradually pushing the street markets out of business (they hang on for a while, but in their declining years it can be pretty sad. Maybe that's the kind of market you've seen?)
The playbook should have been a blackberry in a tablet form. Instead you needed a BB and as PB to get function. = Fail. Do not now how that ever, ever, ever passed QA and system testing.
My guess is that RIM management considered it to be feature, not a bug. In their previous dominant position, they were so concerned about not competing against themselves, that they forgot to compete with the rest of the market.
Instead of worrying that Playbooks might erode sales of higher-end BBs, or managing turf battles between their phone and tablet groups, perhaps they figured they would tie the two together, and *presto* -- ensure customers would be locked-in to the combination, and guarantee RIM make a two-for-one sale. Except of course, that instead of choosing to buy both, customers chose to buy neither.
I think that last bit would require a seriously insecure god.
That would explain so much about the Old Testament.
After opening with a false premise like "storied history of leadership", do you really want to read more?
Maybe. Sometimes effusive praise isn't always what it initially appears to be.
Some researchers manage to track raindrops (or snowflakes) in front of a light and, in real time, change the beam so that they are not illuminated! This drastically reduces glare.
Can we do the opposite, and change the beam to exclusively illuminate moving particles only? Bet it would look really cool.
DDT is pretty safe if you aren't a bird.
Depends how you define "safe". DDT won't kill you, but it is a persistent and bio-accumulating endocrine disrupter -- even decades after being banned in most places, it is still universally detectable in human breast milk (one of the tissues in which it concentrates).
I can fill a room with a fart.
That's nothing. I can empty a room with mine!
PowerVR PCX2
I had one, a Matrox m3d -- Looked great paired up with a Tseng Labs ET6000. Performance wasn't that great though -- by the time the drivers matured, it was already verging on obsolescence.
No, but it does have a rainbow streamer and a really, really annoying theme song.
Speaking of which, DaiwellP's Nyancat album came out. More Nyan than you can shake a stick at!
solar geoengineering could lead to brighter, whiter skies, and sunsets with an afterglow
It would probably also interfere with ground-based astronomy and our view of the night sky, by direct absorption/scattering of starlight, and by worsening Skyglow effects, increasing scattering terrestrial sources of light back at us. Life-long urban residents already have no idea what a proper view of the Firmament looks like (not even knowing the Milky Way is something you can see with your own naked eyes!), never having seen more than the moon and a pathetic handful of dots.
No it isn't. DMCA *is* the polite method of contacting the other people. All they need to do is respond "no it doesn't infringe" and the material is restored again, per the law. (It is then the responsibility of the owner to file a lawsuit.)
I would disagree, given that -- while not a legal requirement to do so -- many sites have a policy of suspending or banning users who receive more than a certain number of DMCA complaints. Thus, it has become an impolite method of contact de-facto.
Did anybody ready the article? The plant is being built in Taiwan, not in the People's Republic of China.
Yes we did, you just had a reading comprehension fail. The plant is being built in Hainan (a province of the PRC). The press statement is being issued from Taiwan ROC, where Foxconn's corporate offices are.
Depending on how they counted them, there are probably also many employees working outside the plant as well, handling things like transportation and external infrastructure. For a plant of this size, the number of associated employees not actually in the plant could be quite substantial.
Following up, forgot to state in my previous post why I was responding to your statement that "The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource.".
The reason I pointed out Mao ZheDong, was that he said something very similar, prior to embarking on the disastrous policies described my post above -- that he considered humans to be a resource rather than a burden, and therefore more people would equal more growth.
Don't be an idiot. The more people we have, the higher the rate of technological advancement will happen. Humans are the ultimate resource. Without people eventually development would stagnate or even reverse itself. It has happened before when there were large population implosions (fall of the Roman Empire, Black Death, etc).
A Brief History Of China's One-Child Policy :
"Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is fully capable of finding a solution; the solution is production," Mao Zedong proclaimed in 1949. "Of all things in the world, people are the most precious." The communist government condemned birth control and banned imports of contraceptives.
Combining rampant population growth with the disastrous industrial and agricultural follies of the Great Leap Forward , China experienced one of the largest famines in modern history -- the Great Chinese Famine of 1958-1962.
just need some vetted moderators to rank the attractiveness of people
"+1 Interesting"
...
"+1 Interesting"
"+1 Interesting"
"-1 Troll"
Note: The "Troll" moderation doesn't refer to behavior, either.
Or it could be that the executive staff just received some of the worst engineering advice ever.
Maybe they should have omitted the "capable of delivering worst engineering advice ever, with a straight face" requirement from their job descriptions. Because I get the distinct feeling that their work instructions from management to engineering did not include having engineering deliver any good advice.
This would be a great idea for a Makerspace trying to attract more people/funding.
You've already got tools and a core of tinkerers that know how to fix stuff -- if you could draw in a broader audience from the community, you could make some extra money selling them drinks and munchies, and possibly convert some people to the hobby.
Thanks, right after reading the article, I came down to see if anyone else had posted a comment regarding First & Second Sleep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Segmented sleep, also known as divided sleep, bimodal sleep pattern, or interrupted sleep, is a polyphasic or biphasic sleep pattern where two or more periods of sleep are punctuated by a period of wakefulness. Along with a nap (siesta) in the day, it has been argued that this is the natural pattern of human sleep. A case has been made that maintaining such a sleep pattern may be important in regulating stress.
Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive 'dominance displays.'
As a stone-thrower, he's already advanced further politically than we have, seeing as how we are still at the poo-throwing dominance display stage.