This may treat the physical addiction, but what about the psychological one? If someone turns to these drugs for relief from stress, boredom, or loneliness, then this habit will remain even though the physical 'need ' isn't there. you got a substitute for that? how about a 'soul' patch?
First as a fad as it was the latest, coolest thing and the answer to everything....then competition and market saturation...and along the way people figured out what tablets do well and what they don't do well. specifically, not quite the desktop killer everyone thought it would be. Tablets are great for a lot of things, but a lot of things go better on a desktop/laptop with a keyboard and mouse.
Depending on which way your filter bubble is oriented, this will come out as pro GW or anti GW...
Everyone knows about the ice ages, but how many know about weather cycles that last decades or the ones that last centuries?
There is evidence of a warming/cooling cycle that lasts about 500 years. We are currently in a warming cycle that started about 1850. Before that we were in cooling cycle starting around 1300 (Little Ice Age). Before that was warming starting around 800 (Medieval Warm Period).
Briefly, during the Medieval Warm Period, marginal land became productive, british wine was of a quality it was cutting into the market for french wine, the Vikings established a colony in Greenland, and the Vikings found grapes growing in Newfoundland.
Soon after 1300, it got colder. Marginal land became unproductive again. The Vikings abandoned Greenland, The british wine industry tanked. And the glaciers in the european alps grew again. Eventually, since the Thames kept freezing solid enough, the british started having Frost Fairs on it. One show describing all this is 'Big Chill: The Little Ice Age' that is shown occasionally on Discovery/History/Science channel. This is history, not tree rings, satellite data, or arctic/antarctic ice cores.
I suggest all the weather observations of the past hundred years have been on the upslope of a natural warming cycle.
Not to say that humans aren't having an effect, with all the pollution we are pumping into the atmosphere. Another show I saw was Nova: Dimming the Sun. In it they talked about some measurable effects of human pollution.
In this show they studied how much solar radiation reached the ground before/after and during the air industry shutdown after 9/11. They studied the atmosphere and how much solar radiation is reaching the ground when there were no jet contrails crisscrossing the sky. The also studied a thousand mile island chain off of India. In comparing the north and south ends of this chain they saw the northern end, typically covered by pollution from India, received much less sunlight than the southern end of the chain which is pristine. They discussed the difference between clouds made of water droplets condensed around natural particles versus manmade particles. The ones from manmade particles reflect ten time more sunlight than clouds made from water droplets formed around natural particles.
You may have heard one of the schemes to cool the earth is to inject sulfur particles into the upper atmosphere to form more reflective clouds. I remember in the 70s and 80s when there was a big push to clean up the smoke stacks and get the lead out of gasoline because of acid rain and fears of global cooling. The recent scheme of injecting sulfur into the atmosphere made me think we could just take the pollution filters off the smokestacks and accomplish the same things. Either way, we will have acid rain again.
While I am for being ‘greener’, I don't think we know enough about climate change and what is feeding into it to make wise decisions about geoengineering our planet. And before one of you throws in an 'occams razor' comment, I must point out that razor only works if you have sufficient information and sufficient understanding of that information to draw a reasonable conclusion.
We don't know all of what is feeding into the climate, from solar output, to pollution, to volcanoes, to the recent discovery that the mid-ocean ridges are more volcanically active that previously thought.(http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/01/12/222234/the-40000-mile-volcano?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed). While I think we can reasonably do more to pollute less, I think we should do a lot more to help Brazil, China, and India curb their pollution (which far outweighs ours).
activations doesn't mean machines running windows 10. I have three machines that I 'activated' with windows 10, but only one still running it. one win7 machine I have I upgraded to win10, but it kept crashing, and then automatically reverted itself to win7 (weird, but cool, though I had a win7 backup I could have used). one win8 machine I have I upgraded, but enough software (even though supposedly win10 ready) broke when I went to win10 that I reverted it to win8. The third, formerly win7, is still running win10 and doing fine. If they are counting activations as running copies, they are way off.
here is a cure for the desire to use a treadmill desk:
1. get a treadmill desk of any variety.
2. set up your computer as you like.
3. get to work.
4. wait until you are concentrating on an email or a task and make a misstep.
5. fall ungracefully. Note #1: do not forget to flail on the way down to make sure you get your coffee or soda all over you and your computer
Note #2: do not forget to whack your skull on your desk or other furniture on the way down.
optional: if you fortunately have installed a backstop to the treadmill and have forgotten to attach the little string for autostop on the treadmill, you can also enjoy the benefits of the treadmill belt sandpapering your flesh and your clothes while you struggle to get off of it.
voila! you are now cured from *ever* wanting to use a treadmill desk again!
Yesterday's luxury is Today's necessity is Tomorrow's basic human right. As in I have a basic human right to have a car with a backup camera and smart headlights and a Blu-ray player for the kids and Pandora and....
This didn't start in the tech industry and won't end there. We would see more of it in certain industries (like auto) if those industries weren't heavily unionized.
It's one thing to force everyone to use your internal wifi for money, it's another to force them to compromise their security so you can make a buck. I would rather not use their "public" wifi because it is not as secure as using my own hotspot. I want to be able see my email, bank, and use social media without worrying the guy in the next room is on the same network and grabbing all my login credentials. I realize anything wireless by its nature is never entirely secure, but I would trust my own hotspot more than a hotel hotspot.
Creationists have the Right to Free Speech, that's why the American Government can't disqualify them from public office or round them up in camps.
Really!? What is this, a crusade or an inquisition? If you don't have the right scientific viewpoint and able to glibly mouth the latest theory you are to be pilloried?
When was the last time a group of people because of beliefs or nationality were rounded up into camps? I could give you a list...
Freedom of speech and freedom of religion point to a freedom of conscience for you and everyone else. Worship God, Satan, Science or the flying spaghetti monster if you wish. When you and any one else say to round up those you don't agree with, you are NOT tolerant, accepting, or enlightened.
If you can't leave those alone who think and believe differently than you, then don't expect them to do the same to you. Having a conference near you is not the same as having a rabid christian screaming in your face. And to those of you who are rabid about your (any) belief and want to scream it into someone else's face...DON'T.
There is an old saying: 'A man convinced against is will is of the same opinion still'. Screaming in someone's face or browbeating them or calling their POV evil is just not effective. The only way to get through to them is to have a civil discussion in which you, with solid reasoning, convince them how they are wrong and you are right. Any other way is just counterproductive.
Don't the creationists have the right to free speech also? This tolerance/acceptance business cuts both ways. Nobody said you had to listen to them just like they probably wouldn't listen to you.
Put the ai in a sandbox and see it if works and plays well with others before letting it out where it could do potential harm.
If second life was still popular, I would suggest that, as we could see how well the ai deals with real people in a contained environment.
Or if we had a virtual world like in Caprica would be better for a sandbox.
Just remember the rules of the sandbox club when you are in there:
#1 there is no sandbox club.
#2 don't talk about sandbox club.
Some hardware makers do a better job with mobile hotspots than others.
I formerly had a droid 4 that I used with foxfi as a wi-fi hotspot and now I use an lg g3 that has a built in mobile hotspot. both of these would provide a reliable wi-fi connection all day to my laptop and tablet and neither was an extra charge from verizon.
I have had 2 samsung tablets and the mobile hot spot function on both have consistently crapped out after about a half hour and I would have to restart the tablet to get it back. the first one was 3g and the second 4g. The 4g was worse in that it would drop the internet connection for itself about every couple of days and I would have to restart it also. Needless to say I won't buy another samsung anything ( I've had trouble with other samsung products) and I am kicking myself for the second tablet when I should've learned from the first one.
If the pantech is not reliable, is there another brand you could use? Or do as others have suggested and use a phone as a hotspot.
What 'news' outlet DOESN'T set the terms of the conversation? All of them show their bias by what 'terms' they use and what stories they chose to report.
And most people sit comfortably in their filter bubbles and don't think much beyond the initial report or one layer deep. Some even automatically go to their republicans are evil or democrats are evil places rather than considering the ramifications of what is actually being said. Take for example the comments around the Tesla factory going to Nevada due to tax breaks and other incentives, without considering the results of doing things the way *they* suggest. Some went immediately to capitalism is evil and tax breaks are unjust without considering what the opposite of capitalism is and how it won't work out the way they think. And a few pointed out the benefit to the local economy to have a new business there and what other jobs and revenues and taxes would come in to support that new 'green' factory.
Have you heard about frontal lobes? Grow a pair.
Businesses are in business to make money. If they aren't making money then they are burning someone else's money to keep operating until that money runs out.
So they look at various ways to cut costs and reducing their tax bill is one just like you would look for cheaper places to shop and for more deductions on your own taxes.
If one city has a better tax deals or other incentives that reduce the business's bottom line compared to another city, where do you think the business will go to?
If one state has a better deal, where do you think the business will go to?
If one country has a better deal...you get the point. Think of all the production that got offshored in the last twenty or thirty years. Recently think of Burger King moving it's headquarters to Canada or Microsoft keeping some of its foreign revenue out of the US; all for tax purposes.
The only way to level the playing field would be to make tax breaks on other incentives illegal and to discourage offshoring by tariffs or taxes or fees. We have done this in the past and we can argue if it helped or hurt our economy at the time, like when we imported cars from Japan and tariffed them to keep our auto makers competitive.
But there is another level to this.
A business moves to a new area and has to be built, so there are construction jobs. Then it hires people to work for it. Their income is taxed in that state and city. They will use local shops and restaurants and so the state and city gets sales taxes, for example. The shops and restaurants will hire more people to handle more business and there are more jobs at a second level. And these new hires will also pay taxes into the city and states economy and shop locally etc. And if the product made is purchased nationally or internationally, then all that money gets back to that state/cities economy to pay for the infrastructure and wages and taxes etc.
So it looks like a win-win for the state and the city that gets the new business. And since cities and states and this country have to compete for these businesses, it is an incentive for these entities to not get too crazy with their taxes otherwise they lose.
How many businesses do you hear of moving out of high taxed New York and California going to low tax states like Texas or Utah or North Dakota or North Carolina? Right now, New York is advertising tax-free zones for new businesses for ten years. That says their usual taxes are too high. And what happens to all these new businesses when their ten years are up? Do you think they will stay or go seek greener and less taxing pastures?
You may complain about the unfairness of these businesses not paying taxes in these places, but then do you go shopping at Amazon or Walmart and try to get all the deductions you can on your own taxes? If so, then shut it.
No one listens if you are a "do as I say, not as I do" kind of poser.
I can think of some Democrats and some Republicans that are as you say. I can also think of some Democrats that are as you say the Republicans are and some Republicans that are as you say the Democrats are.
The truth is somewhere in the middle between the Republican propaganda and the Democrat propaganda. And the comments people make tell you which propaganda they are swallowing hook, line, and sinker.
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ideas like this rely on altruistic humans that will put forth their best efforts regardless of reward. need I go on?
This may treat the physical addiction, but what about the psychological one? If someone turns to these drugs for relief from stress, boredom, or loneliness, then this habit will remain even though the physical 'need ' isn't there. you got a substitute for that? how about a 'soul' patch?
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First as a fad as it was the latest, coolest thing and the answer to everything....then competition and market saturation...and along the way people figured out what tablets do well and what they don't do well. specifically, not quite the desktop killer everyone thought it would be. Tablets are great for a lot of things, but a lot of things go better on a desktop/laptop with a keyboard and mouse.
Depending on which way your filter bubble is oriented, this will come out as pro GW or anti GW... /after and during the air industry shutdown after 9/11. They studied the atmosphere and how much solar radiation is reaching the ground when there were no jet contrails crisscrossing the sky. The also studied a thousand mile island chain off of India. In comparing the north and south ends of this chain they saw the northern end, typically covered by pollution from India, received much less sunlight than the southern end of the chain which is pristine. They discussed the difference between clouds made of water droplets condensed around natural particles versus manmade particles. The ones from manmade particles reflect ten time more sunlight than clouds made from water droplets formed around natural particles.
Everyone knows about the ice ages, but how many know about weather cycles that last decades or the ones that last centuries?
There is evidence of a warming/cooling cycle that lasts about 500 years. We are currently in a warming cycle that started about 1850. Before that we were in cooling cycle starting around 1300 (Little Ice Age). Before that was warming starting around 800 (Medieval Warm Period).
Briefly, during the Medieval Warm Period, marginal land became productive, british wine was of a quality it was cutting into the market for french wine, the Vikings established a colony in Greenland, and the Vikings found grapes growing in Newfoundland.
Soon after 1300, it got colder. Marginal land became unproductive again. The Vikings abandoned Greenland, The british wine industry tanked. And the glaciers in the european alps grew again. Eventually, since the Thames kept freezing solid enough, the british started having Frost Fairs on it. One show describing all this is 'Big Chill: The Little Ice Age' that is shown occasionally on Discovery/History/Science channel. This is history, not tree rings, satellite data, or arctic/antarctic ice cores.
I suggest all the weather observations of the past hundred years have been on the upslope of a natural warming cycle.
Not to say that humans aren't having an effect, with all the pollution we are pumping into the atmosphere. Another show I saw was Nova: Dimming the Sun. In it they talked about some measurable effects of human pollution. In this show they studied how much solar radiation reached the ground before
You may have heard one of the schemes to cool the earth is to inject sulfur particles into the upper atmosphere to form more reflective clouds. I remember in the 70s and 80s when there was a big push to clean up the smoke stacks and get the lead out of gasoline because of acid rain and fears of global cooling. The recent scheme of injecting sulfur into the atmosphere made me think we could just take the pollution filters off the smokestacks and accomplish the same things. Either way, we will have acid rain again.
While I am for being ‘greener’, I don't think we know enough about climate change and what is feeding into it to make wise decisions about geoengineering our planet. And before one of you throws in an 'occams razor' comment, I must point out that razor only works if you have sufficient information and sufficient understanding of that information to draw a reasonable conclusion.
We don't know all of what is feeding into the climate, from solar output, to pollution, to volcanoes, to the recent discovery that the mid-ocean ridges are more volcanically active that previously thought.(http://science.slashdot.org/story/16/01/12/222234/the-40000-mile-volcano?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed). While I think we can reasonably do more to pollute less, I think we should do a lot more to help Brazil, China, and India curb their pollution (which far outweighs ours).
activations doesn't mean machines running windows 10. I have three machines that I 'activated' with windows 10, but only one still running it. one win7 machine I have I upgraded to win10, but it kept crashing, and then automatically reverted itself to win7 (weird, but cool, though I had a win7 backup I could have used). one win8 machine I have I upgraded, but enough software (even though supposedly win10 ready) broke when I went to win10 that I reverted it to win8. The third, formerly win7, is still running win10 and doing fine. If they are counting activations as running copies, they are way off.
here is a cure for the desire to use a treadmill desk:
1. get a treadmill desk of any variety.
2. set up your computer as you like.
3. get to work.
4. wait until you are concentrating on an email or a task and make a misstep.
5. fall ungracefully.
Note #1: do not forget to flail on the way down to make sure you get your coffee or soda all over you and your computer
Note #2: do not forget to whack your skull on your desk or other furniture on the way down.
optional: if you fortunately have installed a backstop to the treadmill and have forgotten to attach the little string for autostop on the treadmill, you can also enjoy the benefits of the treadmill belt sandpapering your flesh and your clothes while you struggle to get off of it.
voila! you are now cured from *ever* wanting to use a treadmill desk again!
Yesterday's luxury is Today's necessity is Tomorrow's basic human right. As in I have a basic human right to have a car with a backup camera and smart headlights and a Blu-ray player for the kids and Pandora and....
so now the used car salesman can tune the sound system to sound like another other car and/or mask that clanking sound the engine is making.
This didn't start in the tech industry and won't end there. We would see more of it in certain industries (like auto) if those industries weren't heavily unionized.
you mean the Linux that your friendly, neighborhood, NSA so graciously helped secure?
All of you got suckered, It was TWEET BAIT. How many times was it retweeted compared to his usual retweet rate?
The less you exercise, the less CO2 you exhale. Or, if you are *that* conscientious about the environment, you could just stop breathing altogether.
It's one thing to force everyone to use your internal wifi for money, it's another to force them to compromise their security so you can make a buck. I would rather not use their "public" wifi because it is not as secure as using my own hotspot. I want to be able see my email, bank, and use social media without worrying the guy in the next room is on the same network and grabbing all my login credentials. I realize anything wireless by its nature is never entirely secure, but I would trust my own hotspot more than a hotel hotspot.
safari books online.
www.safaribooksonline.com
imho certainly worth the money...
"Kill all humans!"
and neither is a $15 movie ticket, a $6 popcorn, a $5 drink, a $4 candy bar....
Creationists have the Right to Free Speech, that's why the American Government can't disqualify them from public office or round them up in camps.
Really!? What is this, a crusade or an inquisition? If you don't have the right scientific viewpoint and able to glibly mouth the latest theory you are to be pilloried? When was the last time a group of people because of beliefs or nationality were rounded up into camps? I could give you a list...
Freedom of speech and freedom of religion point to a freedom of conscience for you and everyone else. Worship God, Satan, Science or the flying spaghetti monster if you wish. When you and any one else say to round up those you don't agree with, you are NOT tolerant, accepting, or enlightened.
If you can't leave those alone who think and believe differently than you, then don't expect them to do the same to you. Having a conference near you is not the same as having a rabid christian screaming in your face.
And to those of you who are rabid about your (any) belief and want to scream it into someone else's face...DON'T.
There is an old saying: 'A man convinced against is will is of the same opinion still'. Screaming in someone's face or browbeating them or calling their POV evil is just not effective. The only way to get through to them is to have a civil discussion in which you, with solid reasoning, convince them how they are wrong and you are right. Any other way is just counterproductive.
Don't the creationists have the right to free speech also? This tolerance/acceptance business cuts both ways. Nobody said you had to listen to them just like they probably wouldn't listen to you.
Put the ai in a sandbox and see it if works and plays well with others before letting it out where it could do potential harm.
If second life was still popular, I would suggest that, as we could see how well the ai deals with real people in a contained environment.
Or if we had a virtual world like in Caprica would be better for a sandbox.
Just remember the rules of the sandbox club when you are in there:
#1 there is no sandbox club.
#2 don't talk about sandbox club.
Some hardware makers do a better job with mobile hotspots than others.
I formerly had a droid 4 that I used with foxfi as a wi-fi hotspot and now I use an lg g3 that has a built in mobile hotspot. both of these would provide a reliable wi-fi connection all day to my laptop and tablet and neither was an extra charge from verizon.
I have had 2 samsung tablets and the mobile hot spot function on both have consistently crapped out after about a half hour and I would have to restart the tablet to get it back. the first one was 3g and the second 4g. The 4g was worse in that it would drop the internet connection for itself about every couple of days and I would have to restart it also. Needless to say I won't buy another samsung anything ( I've had trouble with other samsung products) and I am kicking myself for the second tablet when I should've learned from the first one.
If the pantech is not reliable, is there another brand you could use? Or do as others have suggested and use a phone as a hotspot.
What 'news' outlet DOESN'T set the terms of the conversation? All of them show their bias by what 'terms' they use and what stories they chose to report.
And most people sit comfortably in their filter bubbles and don't think much beyond the initial report or one layer deep. Some even automatically go to their republicans are evil or democrats are evil places rather than considering the ramifications of what is actually being said. Take for example the comments around the Tesla factory going to Nevada due to tax breaks and other incentives, without considering the results of doing things the way *they* suggest. Some went immediately to capitalism is evil and tax breaks are unjust without considering what the opposite of capitalism is and how it won't work out the way they think. And a few pointed out the benefit to the local economy to have a new business there and what other jobs and revenues and taxes would come in to support that new 'green' factory.
Have you heard about frontal lobes? Grow a pair.
Businesses are in business to make money. If they aren't making money then they are burning someone else's money to keep operating until that money runs out.
So they look at various ways to cut costs and reducing their tax bill is one just like you would look for cheaper places to shop and for more deductions on your own taxes.
If one city has a better tax deals or other incentives that reduce the business's bottom line compared to another city, where do you think the business will go to?
If one state has a better deal, where do you think the business will go to?
If one country has a better deal...you get the point. Think of all the production that got offshored in the last twenty or thirty years. Recently think of Burger King moving it's headquarters to Canada or Microsoft keeping some of its foreign revenue out of the US; all for tax purposes.
The only way to level the playing field would be to make tax breaks on other incentives illegal and to discourage offshoring by tariffs or taxes or fees. We have done this in the past and we can argue if it helped or hurt our economy at the time, like when we imported cars from Japan and tariffed them to keep our auto makers competitive.
But there is another level to this.
A business moves to a new area and has to be built, so there are construction jobs. Then it hires people to work for it. Their income is taxed in that state and city. They will use local shops and restaurants and so the state and city gets sales taxes, for example. The shops and restaurants will hire more people to handle more business and there are more jobs at a second level. And these new hires will also pay taxes into the city and states economy and shop locally etc. And if the product made is purchased nationally or internationally, then all that money gets back to that state/cities economy to pay for the infrastructure and wages and taxes etc.
So it looks like a win-win for the state and the city that gets the new business. And since cities and states and this country have to compete for these businesses, it is an incentive for these entities to not get too crazy with their taxes otherwise they lose.
How many businesses do you hear of moving out of high taxed New York and California going to low tax states like Texas or Utah or North Dakota or North Carolina? Right now, New York is advertising tax-free zones for new businesses for ten years. That says their usual taxes are too high. And what happens to all these new businesses when their ten years are up? Do you think they will stay or go seek greener and less taxing pastures?
You may complain about the unfairness of these businesses not paying taxes in these places, but then do you go shopping at Amazon or Walmart and try to get all the deductions you can on your own taxes? If so, then shut it.
No one listens if you are a "do as I say, not as I do" kind of poser.
I can think of some Democrats and some Republicans that are as you say. I can also think of some Democrats that are as you say the Republicans are and some Republicans that are as you say the Democrats are. The truth is somewhere in the middle between the Republican propaganda and the Democrat propaganda. And the comments people make tell you which propaganda they are swallowing hook, line, and sinker.
I can't worship a deity that isn't gluten free.