It also seems to tie together arrow of time and gravity. The only accepted explanation for the fact that time is unidirectional is that entropy increases with time.By tying the concept of gravity and time together, this theory probably puts us closer to "Grand unified theory".
India had mopeds for a long time and the inspiration for this one seems to be the TVS 50
It has been in production for over 30 years and used to be most popular moped in India. This is actually smaller than the Honda cub (which was sold as Bajaj M80 in India) and is supposedly based on an indigenous design - though TVS would later collaborate with Suzuki to introduce their motorcycles in India. .
The MZ through its many evolutions actually became Rajdoot in India, which was a full motorcycle, not a moped. The tunturi and its variants became Suvega mopeds in India.
That post is the new Natalie Portman post. Not sure who is doing it, but it is the 3rd story today I've seen it. I'd say ignore it, downmod it or mod it funny.
Actually I have found google's products amazingly useful
At a place where I used to consult, they use a Bloomberg machine to get financial data. Then they export it out to excel and then from there to either 3rd party toolkits or write macros in excel to analyze it. It was often a problem that data was not always up-to-date or that two versions were over written. (It's a finance firm, and they like excel to look at data. Obviously, no source control either)
Turns out Google can do the whole thing for you.Google Finance has the data, which you can pull into google docs using functions and then you can write functions to generate results. It does not have macros, but you can get pretty close using standard functions. Best part is that the data is always automatically updated since the whole thing is "on the cloud". The cost savings on Bloomberg ($20 K per year), Excel (~$100/year), computer +Electricity (~600/year), a human being to keep data updated/versioned ($10 K/year for the task) - is enormous.
Here is a car analogy
That's the sort of thing that goes on with car leases.
If you "buy" a car, but take a loan against it and refuse to pay it back, the bank can take it back. In most of US, the repo man can hot-wire and take the car as long as he does not break in to your property. In rest of the world, you can't do it unless you get a cop to be around.
Either way, it is not acceptable to trash the car or trash the personal items left in the car (they must be returned to you). Apple deleting the contact list etc. would be considered destruction of personal property.
IANAL, nor a judge.
This should theoretically produce exact opposite effects.Nazi Germans were pairing people based on similar physical characteristics. In as much as looks correlate with geographical origins and geographical origins with disease resistance, they were pairing people with similar immunities.
People born in different parts of the world should theoretically have very different immune systems. One example is the case of Native Americans who had no immunity to continental diseases and were almost wiped out when Europeans landed with TB and other diseases. In reverse, Europe was exposed to plague (from mid east?) and Syphilis (mostly American) but managed to survive after losing half the population . Sickle cell anemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease) is prevalent in Africa, but it also provides resistance to malaria. People born outside Africa rarely get Malaria and sickle cell anemia is not common outside tropics.
So if your pair people based on different immune systems you should also end up picking people who are of very different racial characteristics. A blonde, blue eyed European would be paired with an Alaskan and an African with a Japanese. At least this would have been the case if we did the pairing in 16th century. I am not sure how this works today, since almost all diseases are now spread globally and most people have some amount of immunity to most of them.
Why is the above a troll ? It is whining, may be but not a troll
This is fairly well studied in economics. If soccer players in Brazil are rich, why isn't everyone a soccer player ?
The answer is that 1000's try to become the next Ronaldinho, but only one becomes the rich soccer player. If you average Ronaldinho's wealth over the total number of people who try to be rich soccer player, playing soccer is not lucrative. Same applies to actresses. There are thousands working in Hollywood as waitresses, hoping for an opportunity to be the next famous actress. Only a few make it, and so on an average becoming an actress is not lucrative.
The idea of old-money vs. new is rather well studied too. Considering that protestants were complaining about this while US was getting set up, it is fairly old issue too. What the current beliefs are is that US is one of the best countries in the world for a smart poor man to become rich and so all is not bad.Not sure if anyone studied how fast the stupid rich lose it, nor saying it is perfect.
Probably not the actual user scenario.
1)Take your laptop and coffee to your car parked outside Dunkin donuts
2) Leave the laptop on the roof of the car to have one hand free to open the car door.
3) Get in close the door and drive, forgetting that laptop on the roof
4) Laptop falls down and driven over by the next sleep deprived, coffee swilling, late for office driver behind you
?
5) Profit
In perfect capitalism, healthcare would equal a 100% inheritance tax.
If you knew you were about to die and some one told you there was a medicine that would keep you alive for 10 more years, how much would you pay ? You'd pay all the wealth you had minus the cost of living for the 10 years. You would do this after 10 years again etc. etc. until you had no money left and you die.
Since newer and newer technologies are being developed and people are living longer and since the population as a whole gets older, the cost of caring for someone tomorrow is higher than caring for someone today. Which is why "I pay for you, your son will pay for me tomorrow" is an unequal bargain.It is even worse when you fund the future expenses through debt, since someone will have to pick the tab up (or USA can declare bankruptcy, causing devaluation which works to the same effect).
Not true.
There is no credit check for banking jobs, otherwise they would not be able to hire all the international students they hire (who arrive here with no credit history). CEO of Citibank, Vikram Pandit started like that.
You also don't need a private school background, the most preferred group for an associate job is from Army. They get to claim "we hire veterans" and at the same time the Army background gives the hired people the ability to work insane hours without protest, be comfortable with being away from family for days etc. Best of all they are often broke and will work hard to make money. Many traders and bankers started out this route.
Other things you say about the field is more or less correct.
I think it is more like "I have both a car and a bike. But I won't buy gas anymore since it is expensive, I'll bike instead".
Seems like a perfectly rational economic response to market forces.
Bullshit. Modern science was nearly killed off by the church lasting until persecution of Copernicus and Galileo. Arabs kept the science alive through the period. It was actually the weakening of the grip of church on science that allowed science to flourish. Read up on renaissance when you get the time -- they clearly looked to Greece and Rome for inspiration, not Christianity.
I do agree that after the renaissance the church co-opted science and funded many universities etc. But that does not mean that Church invented "Science".
If it were not for the Europeans and their guns conquering the world, China or India would have discovered "science" on their own anyway.
Except James bond apparently. His has both Gin and Vodka. And considering that he has been drinking this stuff from the 60's far before Americans even knew what a Vodka was, I think I'll respect his opinion. And I'll respect the opinion of anyone who fought in WW2, drinks Martinis and still can charm the pants off Hale Berry.
Except when it applies patches , which it does almost nightly it seems like.
I have been using Vista for two years, side-by-side with Ubuntu on my laptop. 3 crashes on Vista so far (1 non-recoverable) at least two of which I traced to a patch. Ubuntu has not crashed, but is not the most use-able either; mainly due to Mozilla being noticeably slower and the rest due to OpenOffice not being able to open Excel sheets with macros.
Afghanistan, at least the parts outside Kabul. NWFP of Pakistan that adjoins it.
NWFP had a system where the government actually gave power to local tribes officially.They sort of run the show. During the post Soviet period this spread to Afghanistan and now in most parts everything including selling Cocaine is legal.
Just as you would expect, the local warlords use all the money from this revenue to buy guns, which allows them to control the market completely. Now the region is free of government control but is not really "free" - people with guns will kill you if you buy/sell something they don't like, a bible for example.
Or Somalia. Same thing , no government, warlords gain money, use it to buy guns etc. etc.
Pretty much what I thought too. I can't understand why these guys made their robot so high off the ground. I'd have thought a really low design would work better. Then they could use a weight on a retractable arm mounted to sides to steer -When you want to turn left push the weight to the left side, causing friction to increase on the left and Ski to turn towards that side.
They should have been thinking of Tobagganing or Sledding instead of "Ski-ing".
That can't be how it works. If it were the case, they would be encoding a separate copy for each customer, a task which is going to be extremely processor intensive. I doubt their servers really can do that while still being able to deliver the content to you at the click of a button.
You should travel on the trains on the east coast. Every man in a suit I see going to work in NY in the morning is either reading a Kindle or busy working/reading on his laptop.
A kindle only makes sense for a terrestrial traveler (WiFi download of books/news) who also uses it regularly. On a plane you can't get WiFi, nor are you going to travel to work daily by flight. So it makes no sense to use a Kindle there.
Now this market might not be very large. But it is extremely rich (hedge funds, Wallstreeters or the average beautician in NY) and will last a while -- people have been commuting for work to NY for years and they won't start driving anytime soon.
This is heavenly for me.
I never keep a book after I have read it since I have learned that I never re-read it again (Unless it is a textbook of sorts). I read a lot of books though and can easily finish reading a book in 2 weeks. B&N is claiming that you can read a lend book on a PC with B&N software. All I need now is a few friends who'll lend me books. Alternately, I'll create a website where people can lend their books to each other if B&N does not create one.
Google really seems to be pushing the world to a book-Utopia. All the books (and information you can find on the internet) you'd ever want, for free! Only thing you are limited to is by your reading speed and free time you have! The added bonus is the 500,000 books that Google has which it is giving away for free permanently.
Macros are a big problem too.
Financial users are a big customer of MS Excel - A spreadsheet is the easiest way of looking at a cash flow statement or a balance sheet and of doing projections. Many of the spreadsheets have Macros built in or have financial formulas that only exist in MS Office. I have not yet found an easy way of getting these spreadsheets to work on Openoffice.
I have lost atleast one job interview because my resume was messed up when created using Openoffice (2.x), so I will be careful for a while more before creating any *.doc files in it either. Anyway, for simple things like resumes, google docs is far more easier to use and to load.
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It also seems to tie together arrow of time and gravity. The only accepted explanation for the fact that time is unidirectional is that entropy increases with time.By tying the concept of gravity and time together, this theory probably puts us closer to "Grand unified theory".
It is only true if you can prove that you exist. "Cogito ergo sum" is an axiom, not a proof.
India had mopeds for a long time and the inspiration for this one seems to be the TVS 50
It has been in production for over 30 years and used to be most popular moped in India. This is actually smaller than the Honda cub (which was sold as Bajaj M80 in India) and is supposedly based on an indigenous design - though TVS would later collaborate with Suzuki to introduce their motorcycles in India.
. The MZ through its many evolutions actually became Rajdoot in India, which was a full motorcycle, not a moped. The tunturi and its variants became Suvega mopeds in India.
That post is the new Natalie Portman post. Not sure who is doing it, but it is the 3rd story today I've seen it. I'd say ignore it, downmod it or mod it funny.
Actually I have found google's products amazingly useful
/year), computer +Electricity (~600 /year), a human being to keep data updated/versioned ($10 K /year for the task) - is enormous.
At a place where I used to consult, they use a Bloomberg machine to get financial data. Then they export it out to excel and then from there to either 3rd party toolkits or write macros in excel to analyze it. It was often a problem that data was not always up-to-date or that two versions were over written. (It's a finance firm, and they like excel to look at data. Obviously, no source control either)
Turns out Google can do the whole thing for you.Google Finance has the data, which you can pull into google docs using functions and then you can write functions to generate results. It does not have macros, but you can get pretty close using standard functions. Best part is that the data is always automatically updated since the whole thing is "on the cloud". The cost savings on Bloomberg ($20 K per year), Excel (~$100
there are a lot of corporate workers out there that do their daily thing via citrix or similar remote desktop access...
Is this some corporate cost saving measure to save toilet paper ?
How does anyone manage to crap over citrix ? Why do people put up with it ?
Here is a car analogy
That's the sort of thing that goes on with car leases.
If you "buy" a car, but take a loan against it and refuse to pay it back, the bank can take it back. In most of US, the repo man can hot-wire and take the car as long as he does not break in to your property. In rest of the world, you can't do it unless you get a cop to be around.
Either way, it is not acceptable to trash the car or trash the personal items left in the car (they must be returned to you). Apple deleting the contact list etc. would be considered destruction of personal property.
IANAL, nor a judge.
This should theoretically produce exact opposite effects.Nazi Germans were pairing people based on similar physical characteristics. In as much as looks correlate with geographical origins and geographical origins with disease resistance, they were pairing people with similar immunities.
People born in different parts of the world should theoretically have very different immune systems. One example is the case of Native Americans who had no immunity to continental diseases and were almost wiped out when Europeans landed with TB and other diseases. In reverse, Europe was exposed to plague (from mid east?) and Syphilis (mostly American) but managed to survive after losing half the population . Sickle cell anemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease) is prevalent in Africa, but it also provides resistance to malaria. People born outside Africa rarely get Malaria and sickle cell anemia is not common outside tropics.
So if your pair people based on different immune systems you should also end up picking people who are of very different racial characteristics. A blonde, blue eyed European would be paired with an Alaskan and an African with a Japanese. At least this would have been the case if we did the pairing in 16th century. I am not sure how this works today, since almost all diseases are now spread globally and most people have some amount of immunity to most of them.
Why is the above a troll ? It is whining, may be but not a troll
This is fairly well studied in economics. If soccer players in Brazil are rich, why isn't everyone a soccer player ?
The answer is that 1000's try to become the next Ronaldinho, but only one becomes the rich soccer player. If you average Ronaldinho's wealth over the total number of people who try to be rich soccer player, playing soccer is not lucrative. Same applies to actresses. There are thousands working in Hollywood as waitresses, hoping for an opportunity to be the next famous actress. Only a few make it, and so on an average becoming an actress is not lucrative.
The idea of old-money vs. new is rather well studied too. Considering that protestants were complaining about this while US was getting set up, it is fairly old issue too. What the current beliefs are is that US is one of the best countries in the world for a smart poor man to become rich and so all is not bad.Not sure if anyone studied how fast the stupid rich lose it, nor saying it is perfect.
Probably not the actual user scenario.
1)Take your laptop and coffee to your car parked outside Dunkin donuts
2) Leave the laptop on the roof of the car to have one hand free to open the car door.
3) Get in close the door and drive, forgetting that laptop on the roof
4) Laptop falls down and driven over by the next sleep deprived, coffee swilling, late for office driver behind you
?
5) Profit
In perfect capitalism, healthcare would equal a 100% inheritance tax.
If you knew you were about to die and some one told you there was a medicine that would keep you alive for 10 more years, how much would you pay ? You'd pay all the wealth you had minus the cost of living for the 10 years. You would do this after 10 years again etc. etc. until you had no money left and you die.
Since newer and newer technologies are being developed and people are living longer and since the population as a whole gets older, the cost of caring for someone tomorrow is higher than caring for someone today. Which is why "I pay for you, your son will pay for me tomorrow" is an unequal bargain.It is even worse when you fund the future expenses through debt, since someone will have to pick the tab up (or USA can declare bankruptcy, causing devaluation which works to the same effect).
Not true.
There is no credit check for banking jobs, otherwise they would not be able to hire all the international students they hire (who arrive here with no credit history). CEO of Citibank, Vikram Pandit started like that.
You also don't need a private school background, the most preferred group for an associate job is from Army. They get to claim "we hire veterans" and at the same time the Army background gives the hired people the ability to work insane hours without protest, be comfortable with being away from family for days etc. Best of all they are often broke and will work hard to make money. Many traders and bankers started out this route.
Other things you say about the field is more or less correct.
I think it is more like "I have both a car and a bike. But I won't buy gas anymore since it is expensive, I'll bike instead".
Seems like a perfectly rational economic response to market forces.
Bullshit. Modern science was nearly killed off by the church lasting until persecution of Copernicus and Galileo. Arabs kept the science alive through the period. It was actually the weakening of the grip of church on science that allowed science to flourish. Read up on renaissance when you get the time -- they clearly looked to Greece and Rome for inspiration, not Christianity.
I do agree that after the renaissance the church co-opted science and funded many universities etc. But that does not mean that Church invented "Science".
If it were not for the Europeans and their guns conquering the world, China or India would have discovered "science" on their own anyway.
Except James bond apparently. His has both Gin and Vodka. And considering that he has been drinking this stuff from the 60's far before Americans even knew what a Vodka was, I think I'll respect his opinion. And I'll respect the opinion of anyone who fought in WW2, drinks Martinis and still can charm the pants off Hale Berry.
Except when it applies patches , which it does almost nightly it seems like. I have been using Vista for two years, side-by-side with Ubuntu on my laptop. 3 crashes on Vista so far (1 non-recoverable) at least two of which I traced to a patch. Ubuntu has not crashed, but is not the most use-able either; mainly due to Mozilla being noticeably slower and the rest due to OpenOffice not being able to open Excel sheets with macros.
Afghanistan, at least the parts outside Kabul. NWFP of Pakistan that adjoins it.
NWFP had a system where the government actually gave power to local tribes officially.They sort of run the show. During the post Soviet period this spread to Afghanistan and now in most parts everything including selling Cocaine is legal.
Just as you would expect, the local warlords use all the money from this revenue to buy guns, which allows them to control the market completely. Now the region is free of government control but is not really "free" - people with guns will kill you if you buy/sell something they don't like, a bible for example.
Or Somalia. Same thing , no government, warlords gain money, use it to buy guns etc. etc.
Pretty much what I thought too. I can't understand why these guys made their robot so high off the ground. I'd have thought a really low design would work better. Then they could use a weight on a retractable arm mounted to sides to steer -When you want to turn left push the weight to the left side, causing friction to increase on the left and Ski to turn towards that side.
They should have been thinking of Tobagganing or Sledding instead of "Ski-ing".
That can't be how it works. If it were the case, they would be encoding a separate copy for each customer, a task which is going to be extremely processor intensive. I doubt their servers really can do that while still being able to deliver the content to you at the click of a button.
Should have said 3G network or wireless signals, not Wifi.
Well, you can read a book in 14 days. And since your brain has no DRM, so they can't clear it out even if they wanted to.
You should travel on the trains on the east coast. Every man in a suit I see going to work in NY in the morning is either reading a Kindle or busy working/reading on his laptop.
A kindle only makes sense for a terrestrial traveler (WiFi download of books/news) who also uses it regularly. On a plane you can't get WiFi, nor are you going to travel to work daily by flight. So it makes no sense to use a Kindle there.
Now this market might not be very large. But it is extremely rich (hedge funds, Wallstreeters or the average beautician in NY) and will last a while -- people have been commuting for work to NY for years and they won't start driving anytime soon.
This is heavenly for me.
I never keep a book after I have read it since I have learned that I never re-read it again (Unless it is a textbook of sorts). I read a lot of books though and can easily finish reading a book in 2 weeks. B&N is claiming that you can read a lend book on a PC with B&N software. All I need now is a few friends who'll lend me books. Alternately, I'll create a website where people can lend their books to each other if B&N does not create one.
Google really seems to be pushing the world to a book-Utopia. All the books (and information you can find on the internet) you'd ever want, for free! Only thing you are limited to is by your reading speed and free time you have! The added bonus is the 500,000 books that Google has which it is giving away for free permanently.
Macros are a big problem too.
Financial users are a big customer of MS Excel - A spreadsheet is the easiest way of looking at a cash flow statement or a balance sheet and of doing projections. Many of the spreadsheets have Macros built in or have financial formulas that only exist in MS Office. I have not yet found an easy way of getting these spreadsheets to work on Openoffice.
I have lost atleast one job interview because my resume was messed up when created using Openoffice (2.x), so I will be careful for a while more before creating any *.doc files in it either. Anyway, for simple things like resumes, google docs is far more easier to use and to load.
You could say that about Larry Ellison too. That does not stop him from merging companies or laying off people.