Car analogy... Replacing the factory radio with an aftermarket model that makes use of the GPS and Onstar-type hardware without paying the monthly service fee. Does that work for you? I am sure someone will punch holes in that analogy but it does raise an issue of hardware ownership and the right to re-purpose it (think video game consoles and phones; new or obsolete models).
Yeah, at first I thought this was lame since the guitar is just another type of USB wireless controller but then I watched the video. The ALL IN command is linked to the star power feature of the guitar which would might be amusing to those watching you play poker.
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I first noticed this type of driving in Iowa while working a co-op education job for a company there. I grew up in South Dakota so there was not as many multi-lane highways or congestion on them as in other places. However, when I drove on the highways in Iowa, it seemed that there were many drivers that would play the game of "match the speed" with the car next to them thus creating traffic slowdowns and clustering of cars which means more tailgating and frustration. I heard people jokingly call Iowa an acronym for Idiots Out Wandering Around and I believed it after working there for a summer.
But a business that produces something of value can act upon variable risks as they appear or have a plan that considers what might happen to provide a bit of a safety net. To do so in gambling (cheating of some sort) or daytrading (inside information) will get you arrested, roughed up, or killed if caught.
The businesses that tend fail due to risk are run by scum that takes the short-term gains and bail before the long-term loss. This could also lead to being arrested, roughed up, or killed if caught. So you are correct, but businesses vary and the business structure and management style will ultimately determine risks that would be closer to gambling.
The biggest problem with some economic models is that they don't consider the irrationality of a consumer. This is fine when an economy is based on manufacturing or processing/export of natural resources since that follows more rational processes.
The US economic meltdown was long overdue since the writing was on the wall with housing screaming up in value while any job that could be outsourced overseas was sent regardless of the quality and logistics issues it may create.
A consumer-based economy with jobs for the consumers disappearing is going to fail unless money is being pumped in elsewhere (AKA government welfare through various programs such as low-income assistance, subsidies, stimulus checks, etc.). This itself cannot be sustained and now our government looks for more loans from the countries we made wealthy by sending most of our manufacturing jobs (China).
Increasing taxes for the wealthy and businesses will force people to leave the US or find other ways to evade taxes. This means the middle class will bear more of the tax burden over time. There is a good analogy of beer drink buddies of various incomes splitting the tab based on income that illustrates the tax and spending dilemma.
So my opinion is that human behavior models are long overdue to be applied to economics.
This kernel is only meaningful if any process on top of it cannot cause a failure that locks the machine or forces a complete reboot.
For example, a life support system with a GUI that crashes should be able to recover that without forcing the respirator or other critical device to restart as well. Avionics also require that. The GUI device I coded was always paired as master/slave so the slave could immediately take over the master functions. It the old master recovered, then it would come back as the slave. The pilot would barely notice the hand off. This device handled only pilot aids such as nav and comm. The aircraft controls are another system but lack of nav and comm systems can be detrimental in some situations (military, landing/takeoff, and poor visibility).
I worked as software engineer on avionics. The device I wrote for had a 486 chip and was basically the GUI for other avionics such as navigation and communication. It used a bunch of military and avionic standard protocols to communicate to the other boxes. I started coding for it in 2000 and at time it was just updates, new features and new boxes to integrate. However, they were on their way to porting this to PowerPC chips and using TCP/IP to a scalable multiple processor/box approach instead of a master/slave in two 486 boxes. The port to PowerPC also had forethought to write code that code be modular since the endian and bit size of the data had to be changed so code was was devised to know which architecture was being used for data.
The main reason for the port to PowerPC was the lack of 486 chips for new hardware for retrofitting other aircraft. At this point, they maybe looking for a new chip to replace the PowerPC.
Or go to Burger King and get a kid's meal. You might get the Decepticon logo toy that opens up to reveal the Fallen. You could take a couple of those and mount them over the brand emblems on your GM vehicle and now have a Decepticon styled car for less than $5 (cost of meal and double-stick tape). I joked about doing that with my black 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. Just have to give it a cool Transformer name now.
So is the version they are giving as a prize from the contest with the first Transformer DVD? Why did it take so long to get the Camaro into production? I know the first movie used the concept 2006 Camaro panels on a Pontiac GTO.
GM could probably avoided their bailouts and bankruptcy if they could have allocated more to cars that people want instead of competing with styles the Japanese car makers are doing and taking a loss on them.
Alcohol consumption and the driver's license relationship is odd when it comes to punishment for underage consumption. Many states will try to revoke a driver's license for underage consumption even if there was no related driving offense.
Many alcohol and drug laws go too far to stop big offenses by making minor offenses into a big ones as well. For example, in my state, testing positive in a drug test is the same as possession and results in more jail time compared to other states. And don't get me started on the 21 drinking age and the federal blackmail with highway funds.
Norton and McAfee have a reputation for charging a lot more for auto renewal of their old products compared to installing a new version instead. My mom has a Dell that had McAfee originally installed and it would renew at $50 per year. That is insane when you consider the equivalent product in a new version was $40 for a 3-user license at Wal-mart.
I don't care for Norton products since they tend to be bloated and provide poor protection.
That was my thought as well. Depending on what government support he is getting, mental illness qualifies for disability. People tend to judge things they see so physical disability is easier to accept. However, mental illness disability is not always showing physical symptoms. Medications and control of stress may allow them to be functional most of the time. The concern is how stable is this? Will a full time job add too much stress and cause a relapse? For Social Security Disability there is a program for people to try going back to work without losing benefits right away so if a relapse happens then they don't have to reapply for benefits but if they can do the work then after a while the benefits end or are reduced.
My next door neighbors are a retired man (in his 70s) and his wife. He started playing WoW this past winter. He told me his highest character is a 62 and he has a few others as well. I think his grandson got him started on the game. I would say he is officially addicted since he has just bought a second computer so he can play 2 characters at the same time.
However, he has the advantage of not having to work anymore and the only major thing this could be negative toward is the relationship with his wife. Makes me wonder what it will be like when people my age (30s) get to retirement. Imagine a nursing home being like a 24/7 LAN party!
I used to play WoW and other MMOs but then I got a girlfriend and now I am married. I don't really miss it. When I do go back to play or see what is new in the updates, it doesn't draw me in the way it used to.
Many of the school districts in my state have a contract with Gateway to provide laptops for the high school students. These laptops run Windows XP but are somewhat locked down. One of the problems is that the maintaining the laptops has hit a snag since the company providing the warranty repair on them has filed for bankruptcy so about half of the computers are unusable now.
I really don't see the advantage of having kids lug around laptops between home and school. Back when I was in school, computer labs were adequate and would be easier to maintain. Currently, it would be better to have laptops assigned to the classrooms and not to the students. The students should be using a flash drive for their personal files instead. In any scenario, using a Windows OS means dealing with malware concerns. Students could bring in bad stuff on the flash drives from use on infected home computers. I suppose the OS on the school laptops could be booted from a read-only source so malware could not be installed between each student using a computer. I am not sure how well that works for Windows since I have only done something like that with an Ubuntu CD.
Go veggie to reduce methane? No thanks. I like meat along with my veggies and won't change just to fit someone else's ideals (more power to you if you like that diet). I am sure you referring to the cows that give off methane. So you would rather more people make more methane eating more veggies like broccoli? If everyone went to veggies, a new environmental problem would arise from production of more vegetables.
Rechargeable cars have a similar problem if you are supporting them for there no emissions factor. However, the production of the batteries and the electricity to charge them may have other environmental impacts that are just shifted somewhere else.
I am not against trying to protect the environment when it is reasonable and prudent to do so. I do question the amount of impact human production of greenhouse gases contribute to the grand scheme of thing. Some proposed solutions hurt humanity more than they would ever help. A good sized volcano eruption could have a climate impact that would negate our reduction efforts.
Cap and trade will be another tax passed onto consumers. Would it not be better to set a baseline for current industries and then adjust taxes in regard to operating cleaner? The concept of rewarding businesses for doing the right thing is better than taxing for doing wrong.
The big divide between the camps on climate change are a bit to extreme. I think the environmentalists exaggerate the problems while the industries tends to downplay obvious problems. The workable solutions are toward the middle but I think the problem is if you start your stance as moderate you will end up making giving in too much to the extremists when hammering out a compromise.
I have the same thought about writing papers... sorry, I must be plagiarizing you.
Many of the papers I had to write required citing someone credible to back up your position. The school I went to used APA format so the plagiarism check basically looked at that referenced source and showed where you cited it so it was more of a APA format check. I hate the idea of paraphrasing and then still giving credit to someone else so I would quote the source most of the time.
So what do you do when you actually have an original idea but yet need include cited material? Most likely you end up using sources out of context to support you idea and then give someone else credit.
Then there is the whole issue of whether something is common knowledge...
Local caching would make sense to eliminate redundant downloads over the backbone but, like you said, it would not work for DRM'd stuff.
ISPs could reduce traffic by setting up local caches for high bandwidth services if the cost of the backbone was such an issue. The DRM-based services could probably setup a server at the ISP to cache the most popular items.
Net neutrality is an issue with caps because I could see an ISP getting a kickback from legit content providers to not count their content against the cap but your torrents other content would.
I really don't see how you can optimize the backbone without looking at the 1's and 0's to see what is redundant. Or if neutrality is just treating all traffic the same, would an ISP be liable for optimizing the illegal content as well with local caching?
I found that bowling on the Wii had a negative effect on my real bowling. The better I got at the Wii bowling (several 300 games and consistently 200+,) the more my real game struggled. I think it made me lazy on my approach movements or it was just a coincident.
The problem with any Wii variant of a sport or activity is that it can only reproduce a part of the action. The bowling game attempts to replicate the approach and release timing but cannot simulate an actual ball in weight and how it is held then released.
I like the Wii controller for some sports games because it is more fun than the alternative of just mashing buttons on pad-style controller.
There are many other factors that can be worked in with the polling to give more insight into the reasons for one place having more depression than another.
Hawaii being lower is understandable without much explaining. However, the other states (I live in South Dakota) may have advantages when cost of living and city size is considered. Keeping that extra cash for fun things will help the mood and less time commuting and dealing with traffic is a plus too.
I would be interested to see this data in relation to cost of living to income ratio and population density.
I see that a growing lack of driver support will eventually kill off XP for "home" use.
Aside from performance and compatibility problems, what has Vista offered to the average home user to encourage upgrade?
USB support was one of the most compelling reasons for home users to either buy new computers with XP or upgrade the OS to XP to make the USB hardware work better. USB connectivity of digital cameras and audio players were the devices that pushed most people toward XP.
However, many home users see no advantage in Vista as far as features they actually want or need.
metamatic, this may be true for some cases but when it comes to mental illness you can use a blanket solution and each case must be handled as unique. This means the docto should be asking a lot of questions and the person should surround themselves with supportive friends and family to help them gauge mood changes to help give the doctor information that the patient cannot reveal through self-examination.
Like nuintari, I am also diagnosed as bipolar and no longer taking meds. I have a better understanding of how I cycle and what my triggers are so I can have my friends and family give me feedback if they feel I am slipping into depression or mania. I know there are some people who quickly cycle and may experience extreme highs and lows in the same day and this can be best handled with medication. My cycles tend to be weeks to months so the changes are gradual but the various meds I have taken have changed my original cycle which corresponded with the seasons (winter = depressed and summer = mania while spring and fall are the transitions). I have been stuck in a semi-depressed state for a few years now and came back to my normal personality after getting off the meds.
I am not arrogant to say I am cured and still see the doctor for status reports. I would take medication if the situation changed and I was unable to cope otherwise. Changes to my lifestyle and having family support have allowed me to recover in a way a pill alone never would.
I had a neighbor friend who was on Paxil for his OCD and he would have major problems on the occasions where he let his prescription lapse (since he was sometimes strapped for cash and could not cover the copay). It really depends on the drug and the anti-depressants I have taken where I have stopped cold turkey had side effects of headaches and a weird dizziness feeling. It is much like being addicted to caffeine from coffee or Mountain Dew them not drinking them for a few days.
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Car analogy... Replacing the factory radio with an aftermarket model that makes use of the GPS and Onstar-type hardware without paying the monthly service fee. Does that work for you? I am sure someone will punch holes in that analogy but it does raise an issue of hardware ownership and the right to re-purpose it (think video game consoles and phones; new or obsolete models).
Yeah, at first I thought this was lame since the guitar is just another type of USB wireless controller but then I watched the video. The ALL IN command is linked to the star power feature of the guitar which would might be amusing to those watching you play poker.
I first noticed this type of driving in Iowa while working a co-op education job for a company there. I grew up in South Dakota so there was not as many multi-lane highways or congestion on them as in other places. However, when I drove on the highways in Iowa, it seemed that there were many drivers that would play the game of "match the speed" with the car next to them thus creating traffic slowdowns and clustering of cars which means more tailgating and frustration. I heard people jokingly call Iowa an acronym for Idiots Out Wandering Around and I believed it after working there for a summer.
But a business that produces something of value can act upon variable risks as they appear or have a plan that considers what might happen to provide a bit of a safety net. To do so in gambling (cheating of some sort) or daytrading (inside information) will get you arrested, roughed up, or killed if caught.
The businesses that tend fail due to risk are run by scum that takes the short-term gains and bail before the long-term loss. This could also lead to being arrested, roughed up, or killed if caught. So you are correct, but businesses vary and the business structure and management style will ultimately determine risks that would be closer to gambling.
Here is a link to that beer analogy for the US tax system.
http://forums.techguy.org/civilized-debate/697617-us-tax-system-described-beer.html
The biggest problem with some economic models is that they don't consider the irrationality of a consumer. This is fine when an economy is based on manufacturing or processing/export of natural resources since that follows more rational processes.
The US economic meltdown was long overdue since the writing was on the wall with housing screaming up in value while any job that could be outsourced overseas was sent regardless of the quality and logistics issues it may create.
A consumer-based economy with jobs for the consumers disappearing is going to fail unless money is being pumped in elsewhere (AKA government welfare through various programs such as low-income assistance, subsidies, stimulus checks, etc.). This itself cannot be sustained and now our government looks for more loans from the countries we made wealthy by sending most of our manufacturing jobs (China).
Increasing taxes for the wealthy and businesses will force people to leave the US or find other ways to evade taxes. This means the middle class will bear more of the tax burden over time. There is a good analogy of beer drink buddies of various incomes splitting the tab based on income that illustrates the tax and spending dilemma.
So my opinion is that human behavior models are long overdue to be applied to economics.
This kernel is only meaningful if any process on top of it cannot cause a failure that locks the machine or forces a complete reboot.
For example, a life support system with a GUI that crashes should be able to recover that without forcing the respirator or other critical device to restart as well. Avionics also require that. The GUI device I coded was always paired as master/slave so the slave could immediately take over the master functions. It the old master recovered, then it would come back as the slave. The pilot would barely notice the hand off. This device handled only pilot aids such as nav and comm. The aircraft controls are another system but lack of nav and comm systems can be detrimental in some situations (military, landing/takeoff, and poor visibility).
I worked as software engineer on avionics. The device I wrote for had a 486 chip and was basically the GUI for other avionics such as navigation and communication. It used a bunch of military and avionic standard protocols to communicate to the other boxes. I started coding for it in 2000 and at time it was just updates, new features and new boxes to integrate. However, they were on their way to porting this to PowerPC chips and using TCP/IP to a scalable multiple processor/box approach instead of a master/slave in two 486 boxes. The port to PowerPC also had forethought to write code that code be modular since the endian and bit size of the data had to be changed so code was was devised to know which architecture was being used for data.
The main reason for the port to PowerPC was the lack of 486 chips for new hardware for retrofitting other aircraft. At this point, they maybe looking for a new chip to replace the PowerPC.
Or go to Burger King and get a kid's meal. You might get the Decepticon logo toy that opens up to reveal the Fallen. You could take a couple of those and mount them over the brand emblems on your GM vehicle and now have a Decepticon styled car for less than $5 (cost of meal and double-stick tape). I joked about doing that with my black 2007 Pontiac Grand Prix. Just have to give it a cool Transformer name now.
So is the version they are giving as a prize from the contest with the first Transformer DVD? Why did it take so long to get the Camaro into production? I know the first movie used the concept 2006 Camaro panels on a Pontiac GTO.
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=121044
GM could probably avoided their bailouts and bankruptcy if they could have allocated more to cars that people want instead of competing with styles the Japanese car makers are doing and taking a loss on them.
Alcohol consumption and the driver's license relationship is odd when it comes to punishment for underage consumption. Many states will try to revoke a driver's license for underage consumption even if there was no related driving offense.
Many alcohol and drug laws go too far to stop big offenses by making minor offenses into a big ones as well. For example, in my state, testing positive in a drug test is the same as possession and results in more jail time compared to other states. And don't get me started on the 21 drinking age and the federal blackmail with highway funds.
Norton and McAfee have a reputation for charging a lot more for auto renewal of their old products compared to installing a new version instead. My mom has a Dell that had McAfee originally installed and it would renew at $50 per year. That is insane when you consider the equivalent product in a new version was $40 for a 3-user license at Wal-mart.
I don't care for Norton products since they tend to be bloated and provide poor protection.
That was my thought as well. Depending on what government support he is getting, mental illness qualifies for disability. People tend to judge things they see so physical disability is easier to accept. However, mental illness disability is not always showing physical symptoms. Medications and control of stress may allow them to be functional most of the time. The concern is how stable is this? Will a full time job add too much stress and cause a relapse? For Social Security Disability there is a program for people to try going back to work without losing benefits right away so if a relapse happens then they don't have to reapply for benefits but if they can do the work then after a while the benefits end or are reduced.
My next door neighbors are a retired man (in his 70s) and his wife. He started playing WoW this past winter. He told me his highest character is a 62 and he has a few others as well. I think his grandson got him started on the game. I would say he is officially addicted since he has just bought a second computer so he can play 2 characters at the same time.
However, he has the advantage of not having to work anymore and the only major thing this could be negative toward is the relationship with his wife. Makes me wonder what it will be like when people my age (30s) get to retirement. Imagine a nursing home being like a 24/7 LAN party!
I used to play WoW and other MMOs but then I got a girlfriend and now I am married. I don't really miss it. When I do go back to play or see what is new in the updates, it doesn't draw me in the way it used to.
Many of the school districts in my state have a contract with Gateway to provide laptops for the high school students. These laptops run Windows XP but are somewhat locked down. One of the problems is that the maintaining the laptops has hit a snag since the company providing the warranty repair on them has filed for bankruptcy so about half of the computers are unusable now.
I really don't see the advantage of having kids lug around laptops between home and school. Back when I was in school, computer labs were adequate and would be easier to maintain. Currently, it would be better to have laptops assigned to the classrooms and not to the students. The students should be using a flash drive for their personal files instead. In any scenario, using a Windows OS means dealing with malware concerns. Students could bring in bad stuff on the flash drives from use on infected home computers. I suppose the OS on the school laptops could be booted from a read-only source so malware could not be installed between each student using a computer. I am not sure how well that works for Windows since I have only done something like that with an Ubuntu CD.
Go veggie to reduce methane? No thanks. I like meat along with my veggies and won't change just to fit someone else's ideals (more power to you if you like that diet). I am sure you referring to the cows that give off methane. So you would rather more people make more methane eating more veggies like broccoli? If everyone went to veggies, a new environmental problem would arise from production of more vegetables.
Rechargeable cars have a similar problem if you are supporting them for there no emissions factor. However, the production of the batteries and the electricity to charge them may have other environmental impacts that are just shifted somewhere else.
I am not against trying to protect the environment when it is reasonable and prudent to do so. I do question the amount of impact human production of greenhouse gases contribute to the grand scheme of thing. Some proposed solutions hurt humanity more than they would ever help. A good sized volcano eruption could have a climate impact that would negate our reduction efforts.
Cap and trade will be another tax passed onto consumers. Would it not be better to set a baseline for current industries and then adjust taxes in regard to operating cleaner? The concept of rewarding businesses for doing the right thing is better than taxing for doing wrong.
The big divide between the camps on climate change are a bit to extreme. I think the environmentalists exaggerate the problems while the industries tends to downplay obvious problems. The workable solutions are toward the middle but I think the problem is if you start your stance as moderate you will end up making giving in too much to the extremists when hammering out a compromise.
I have the same thought about writing papers... sorry, I must be plagiarizing you.
Many of the papers I had to write required citing someone credible to back up your position. The school I went to used APA format so the plagiarism check basically looked at that referenced source and showed where you cited it so it was more of a APA format check. I hate the idea of paraphrasing and then still giving credit to someone else so I would quote the source most of the time.
So what do you do when you actually have an original idea but yet need include cited material? Most likely you end up using sources out of context to support you idea and then give someone else credit.
Then there is the whole issue of whether something is common knowledge...
Local caching would make sense to eliminate redundant downloads over the backbone but, like you said, it would not work for DRM'd stuff.
ISPs could reduce traffic by setting up local caches for high bandwidth services if the cost of the backbone was such an issue. The DRM-based services could probably setup a server at the ISP to cache the most popular items.
Net neutrality is an issue with caps because I could see an ISP getting a kickback from legit content providers to not count their content against the cap but your torrents other content would.
I really don't see how you can optimize the backbone without looking at the 1's and 0's to see what is redundant. Or if neutrality is just treating all traffic the same, would an ISP be liable for optimizing the illegal content as well with local caching?
I found that bowling on the Wii had a negative effect on my real bowling. The better I got at the Wii bowling (several 300 games and consistently 200+,) the more my real game struggled. I think it made me lazy on my approach movements or it was just a coincident.
The problem with any Wii variant of a sport or activity is that it can only reproduce a part of the action. The bowling game attempts to replicate the approach and release timing but cannot simulate an actual ball in weight and how it is held then released.
I like the Wii controller for some sports games because it is more fun than the alternative of just mashing buttons on pad-style controller.
If the taxis were insured by Travelers they would get a levitating red umbrellas for each cab!
There are many other factors that can be worked in with the polling to give more insight into the reasons for one place having more depression than another.
Hawaii being lower is understandable without much explaining. However, the other states (I live in South Dakota) may have advantages when cost of living and city size is considered. Keeping that extra cash for fun things will help the mood and less time commuting and dealing with traffic is a plus too.
I would be interested to see this data in relation to cost of living to income ratio and population density.
Maybe Pee Wee can use this thing to start his breakfast machine in the mornings.
I see that a growing lack of driver support will eventually kill off XP for "home" use.
Aside from performance and compatibility problems, what has Vista offered to the average home user to encourage upgrade?
USB support was one of the most compelling reasons for home users to either buy new computers with XP or upgrade the OS to XP to make the USB hardware work better. USB connectivity of digital cameras and audio players were the devices that pushed most people toward XP.
However, many home users see no advantage in Vista as far as features they actually want or need.
metamatic, this may be true for some cases but when it comes to mental illness you can use a blanket solution and each case must be handled as unique. This means the docto should be asking a lot of questions and the person should surround themselves with supportive friends and family to help them gauge mood changes to help give the doctor information that the patient cannot reveal through self-examination.
Like nuintari, I am also diagnosed as bipolar and no longer taking meds. I have a better understanding of how I cycle and what my triggers are so I can have my friends and family give me feedback if they feel I am slipping into depression or mania. I know there are some people who quickly cycle and may experience extreme highs and lows in the same day and this can be best handled with medication. My cycles tend to be weeks to months so the changes are gradual but the various meds I have taken have changed my original cycle which corresponded with the seasons (winter = depressed and summer = mania while spring and fall are the transitions). I have been stuck in a semi-depressed state for a few years now and came back to my normal personality after getting off the meds.
I am not arrogant to say I am cured and still see the doctor for status reports. I would take medication if the situation changed and I was unable to cope otherwise. Changes to my lifestyle and having family support have allowed me to recover in a way a pill alone never would.
I had a neighbor friend who was on Paxil for his OCD and he would have major problems on the occasions where he let his prescription lapse (since he was sometimes strapped for cash and could not cover the copay). It really depends on the drug and the anti-depressants I have taken where I have stopped cold turkey had side effects of headaches and a weird dizziness feeling. It is much like being addicted to caffeine from coffee or Mountain Dew them not drinking them for a few days.