A handy side-effect would be a reduction in the number of sexual harassment suits against top executives.
:D Another side-effect: the management transforms from a "men-world" into a women-world. To be more precise, from a "dog-eat-dog world" into a "bitch eat dogs of all sexes world".:D
In the two-player game, subjects had to agree on how to divide 40 dollars or risk losing it all. Participants who begin with the entire sum of money could offer only five dollars or 25 dollars to their competitor.
Burnham found that, among those considering the offers, participants with higher levels of testosterone were more likely to reject what they perceived as low offers, ending up with nothing as a result.
Now: were the players CEOs? Were they, at least, representatively chosen? TFA doesn't say, but the same TFA gives enough info to say the research at least eliminated factor of "not being in the same position as their older counterparts".
There's nothing in TFA to suggest that testosterone as such has anything to do with!
Not denying that it may be stupid, not fully agreeing either - just pointing out that you are wrong (at least in form) - the TFA does reference studies in regarding the level of testosterone and results of negotiations:
the TFA bears the title of "Young, male, testosterone-fueled CEOs...".
from the body of the TFA:
Burnham found that, among those considering the offers, participants with higher levels of testosterone were more likely to reject what they perceived as low offers, ending up with nothing as a result.
A podcast interview with Prof. Levi on the results of “Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game” can be found on the INFORMS website at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
The moral of the story is that if we want to have a more emotional connection with our devices we might want to start figuring out how to get blowjobs from them. At that point, I would say we would be pretty damned attached to them.
Ah, clearly, I sense a mind of an engineer in the above... prone to generalization from anecdotal occurrences, confident the things can happen in predictable ways...
I don't have answers, but only questions, illustrated by the following joke:
The difference between a young kid and an old men: the kid believes Mr Dick is used only to take a leak; the old man is damned sure about it.
The morals of the joke:
generalize and you will certainly miss opportunities (like: tunning the personal assistant to the way old men are still able to feel an affective connection; with an aging population, that's a pretty large market segment);
forget to evaluate consequences and you may run into troubles. Like: "since when creating attachment to the personal assistant is a feature for our product? Our shareholders ask us to sell-sell-sell... but nobody wants to ditch our older model they feel so good about".
Yes!!! The Moore law in relation with the market segment of people suffering from schizophrenia (why stop at 2 cores when there is a niche that asks for many more?)
"You honor, the mood history recovered from the phone indicates..., suggesting a clear intent. I ask the jury to convict."
The "social engineering art" (and I do include advertising here - most of the time, it's conning one into buying things one is better without) suddenly get access to another dimension to use/manipulate. Ah, the new refinements possible for Nigerian scammers... just delicious
hell, yeah! Behavioral economics/impulse trading and a new feedback loop. The fanboy-ism extended into the world of trading, in which an Intel-based gizmos can influence traders to drop AMD stocks (or Win7-running ones to sell/stop buying Google/Nokia/Apple stocks).
high difficulties in pushing new models to the market: people getting so "mood-ly" attached of their "old personal assistant" will impact on the capability to push new models
At some point, lawmakers will be from the generation that also posts on forums, that downloaded mp3's when they were younger (or still do), and that watched 2 or 3 movies illegally when they were students.
Current lawmakers all smoked dope when they were students. That doesn't mean that they are all in favor of legalizing marihuana.
And the "flower power" generation had, during 60-ies - 70-ies, some pretty liberal idea about sex... FF 40 years (they should be in their 60 now) and... try singing that in public, you'll see it's almost as illegal as marijuana.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, as solicitor general last year, had urged the court to reverse itself amid complaints that federal prosecutions were being complicated, and computer searches were grinding to a halt, because of the detailed guidelines.
Since when the job to prosecute should be easy/quick/cheap? The last I know, the principles were: Innocent until proved guilty and
better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. Nothing in there sound to me as "first and above all, do the prosecution blind-fast".
More worrisome: the position comes from a judge... But maybe I'm growing too old too fast already.
It doesn't matter what I understand, and it doesn't matter what MS would understand (if it is not phrased carefully). What matters it what the Russians will understand or choose to understand in the context of their legislation.
As the parent post noted: while MS intentions (in this instance) may be well meant, it just doesn't mean they'll have the desired effect: not without due care being paid.
Student traces diagram on onion-skin paper, photographs it, eats it.
Eating some good ten minutes as well. And having to get back some complex demonstrations/answers she/he's might not able to understand. Maybe will pass the exam, but I don't think the grade will be anything exceptional (and, IMHO, for a student that doesn't like physics, better to let go with low marks than fail - nobody has anything to win in asking the student to persist in something that s/he doesn't like. BTW: I'm BcS in physics).
As an employer the employee who succeeds is the one who knows how to obtain the information necessary to solve a problem, and use those methods to build their skill levels up.
Great idea. Teach them that anything goes as long as they have the desired result, including bullying someone into solve their problems. They'll make great managers in the future and will accept any problem/task (even if unfeasible within the constraints) because they'll be confident that there always be a replaceable slave to work for it. As long as it helps the corporate bottom line, it just doesn't matter.
Even more, physics is statistically rarely used/required in an industry, thus the attitude-forming experience (of exams passed this way) will have a very easy justification to accept it as a valid solution for life.
I think he's worried that you could IM a friend during an exam to work the answers out for you, as if you're a thin client, with all that computing power over in the cloud.
Idea: hinder the "sensing" not the communications. E.g. ask them to solve a single problem, in which the explanations do need a fairly complex diagram. Draw the diagram on a low-contrast color scheme (and/or on a very glossy paper), so that taking a photo (w/wo using flashlight) to result in nothing intelligible.
And the qualifier is, of course, "qualifying." The article doesn't say who qualifies, and says that journalists and NGOs don't have to do anything to get the license,
It seems that designating, safeguarding, and disseminating such important information involves over 100 unique markings and at least 130 different labeling or handling routines,
then
"found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may remain at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse."
Therefore, I reckon the near future will see (at least) 101 unique markings and 131 labeling/handling routines - that's how the govs work, folks!
Why does north america suck so much when it comes to technical infrastructure? It's kind of irritating, especially when this is apparantely the hub of the economic first world.
Maybe they get to be the hub of the economic first world by sucking dry any existing infrastructure and customers? (I reckon they call it "efficiency")
They did, yes. The porn testers have not, ummm, returned yet.
Speaking about blazing fast: close to the speed of light, strange things happens with the time and sizes... I wonder which of the two is the real cause for them being late?
man, what a load of bullshit...
these people are paid by someone that doesn't want this network for the future to see the light of day... lemme guess... telstra:-)
Nope. They are paid by the customers... to do nothing at all, most of the time and to call a mobile if a light gets on I reckon the inertia in doing nothing is very hard to overcome (don't attribute to malice what can be reasonable explained by stupidity).
"People poison themselves with DIY alcohol brewing, preserves and curing gone wrong quite frequently. "
Really? What toxins are produced by fermentation? How are these toxins magnified/added/altered by distillation?
Methanol - not a product of yeast fermentation but anaerobic bacteria will produce it - may be encountered in fermentations gone wrong.
Amygdayn not a product of the fermentation, but present in the kernel of some fruits that are being used in preparing brandy. Dissolves in alcohol (resulted from fermentation): dangerous in high concentration, as one of the (enzyme catalyzed) decomposition path leads to hydrogen cyanide.
(these two I know about as risks associated with DYI plum-brandy).
Even if it wouldn't be a statistical fluctuation, what derives from there is: for the time being, Google manages to get more profit from less user interaction (that is, lower cost).
If you adapt too much, then the player won't feel challenges anymore. And in games challenges are the things that will demand players to push forward the efforts.
Adapting for the level of the player or adapting against it: can work both ways. A careful approach can actually maintain the level of interest (frustrate the player, but not too much... rather tease) as well as driving up the level of skills
We need 2 points of informative and 3 of insightful stat!
And as someone who has spent upward of 10 years walking to work either reading a book or listening with headphones, I can say that yes, doing either is dangerous unless you use common sense and your other senses. Of course doing both at once is suicidal.
What do you mean by both? [Walking and reading/listening] or [using common-sense and your other senses]?
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A handy side-effect would be a reduction in the number of sexual harassment suits against top executives.
:D Another side-effect: the management transforms from a "men-world" into a women-world. :D
To be more precise, from a "dog-eat-dog world" into a "bitch eat dogs of all sexes world".
Make castration a standard step of getting an MBA?
One way or the other its bound to make the world a better place ;-)
Oh Carly, is that you?
In the two-player game, subjects had to agree on how to divide 40 dollars or risk losing it all. Participants who begin with the entire sum of money could offer only five dollars or 25 dollars to their competitor.
Burnham found that, among those considering the offers, participants with higher levels of testosterone were more likely to reject what they perceived as low offers, ending up with nothing as a result.
Now: were the players CEOs? Were they, at least, representatively chosen? TFA doesn't say, but the same TFA gives enough info to say the research at least eliminated factor of "not being in the same position as their older counterparts".
There's nothing in TFA to suggest that testosterone as such has anything to do with!
Not denying that it may be stupid, not fully agreeing either - just pointing out that you are wrong (at least in form) - the TFA does reference studies in regarding the level of testosterone and results of negotiations:
Burnham found that, among those considering the offers, participants with higher levels of testosterone were more likely to reject what they perceived as low offers, ending up with nothing as a result.
A podcast interview with Prof. Levi on the results of “Deal or No Deal: Hormones and the Mergers and Acquisitions Game” can be found on the INFORMS website at www.scienceofbetter.org/podcast.
The moral of the story is that if we want to have a more emotional connection with our devices we might want to start figuring out how to get blowjobs from them. At that point, I would say we would be pretty damned attached to them.
Ah, clearly, I sense a mind of an engineer in the above... prone to generalization from anecdotal occurrences, confident the things can happen in predictable ways...
I don't have answers, but only questions, illustrated by the following joke:
The difference between a young kid and an old men: the kid believes Mr Dick is used only to take a leak; the old man is damned sure about it.
The morals of the joke:
Yes!!! The Moore law in relation with the market segment of people suffering from schizophrenia (why stop at 2 cores when there is a niche that asks for many more?)
Feel free to add.
At some point, lawmakers will be from the generation that also posts on forums, that downloaded mp3's when they were younger (or still do), and that watched 2 or 3 movies illegally when they were students.
Current lawmakers all smoked dope when they were students. That doesn't mean that they are all in favor of legalizing marihuana.
And the "flower power" generation had, during 60-ies - 70-ies, some pretty liberal idea about sex ... FF 40 years (they should be in their 60 now) and... try singing that in public, you'll see it's almost as illegal as marijuana.
From TFA:
Since when the job to prosecute should be easy/quick/cheap? The last I know, the principles were:
Innocent until proved guilty and better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer . Nothing in there sound to me as "first and above all, do the prosecution blind-fast".
More worrisome: the position comes from a judge...
But maybe I'm growing too old too fast already.
You have no idea what an NGO actually is, do you.
It doesn't matter what I understand, and it doesn't matter what MS would understand (if it is not phrased carefully). What matters it what the Russians will understand or choose to understand in the context of their legislation.
As the parent post noted: while MS intentions (in this instance) may be well meant, it just doesn't mean they'll have the desired effect: not without due care being paid.
Student traces diagram on onion-skin paper, photographs it, eats it.
Eating some good ten minutes as well. And having to get back some complex demonstrations/answers she/he's might not able to understand. Maybe will pass the exam, but I don't think the grade will be anything exceptional (and, IMHO, for a student that doesn't like physics, better to let go with low marks than fail - nobody has anything to win in asking the student to persist in something that s/he doesn't like. BTW: I'm BcS in physics).
As an employer the employee who succeeds is the one who knows how to obtain the information necessary to solve a problem, and use those methods to build their skill levels up.
Great idea. Teach them that anything goes as long as they have the desired result, including bullying someone into solve their problems.
They'll make great managers in the future and will accept any problem/task (even if unfeasible within the constraints) because they'll be confident that there always be a replaceable slave to work for it. As long as it helps the corporate bottom line, it just doesn't matter.
Even more, physics is statistically rarely used/required in an industry, thus the attitude-forming experience (of exams passed this way) will have a very easy justification to accept it as a valid solution for life.
I think he's worried that you could IM a friend during an exam to work the answers out for you, as if you're a thin client, with all that computing power over in the cloud.
Idea: hinder the "sensing" not the communications.
E.g. ask them to solve a single problem, in which the explanations do need a fairly complex diagram. Draw the diagram on a low-contrast color scheme (and/or on a very glossy paper), so that taking a photo (w/wo using flashlight) to result in nothing intelligible.
And the qualifier is, of course, "qualifying." The article doesn't say who qualifies, and says that journalists and NGOs don't have to do anything to get the license,
NGO... Hmmm... Would, for instance, Lukoil qualify? Because they don't seem to have any gov ownership.
Let me help. Non-US NGOs.
Do/will the Russians botnet herders qualify? After all, they are NGO-es.
It seems that designating, safeguarding, and disseminating such important information involves over 100 unique markings and at least 130 different labeling or handling routines,
then
"found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may remain at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse."
Therefore, I reckon the near future will see (at least) 101 unique markings and 131 labeling/handling routines - that's how the govs work, folks!
Why does north america suck so much when it comes to technical infrastructure? It's kind of irritating, especially when this is apparantely the hub of the economic first world.
Maybe they get to be the hub of the economic first world by sucking dry any existing infrastructure and customers? (I reckon they call it "efficiency")
They did, yes. The porn testers have not, ummm, returned yet.
Speaking about blazing fast: close to the speed of light, strange things happens with the time and sizes... I wonder which of the two is the real cause for them being late?
man, what a load of bullshit... these people are paid by someone that doesn't want this network for the future to see the light of day... lemme guess... telstra :-)
Nope. They are paid by the customers... to do nothing at all, most of the time and to call a mobile if a light gets on
I reckon the inertia in doing nothing is very hard to overcome (don't attribute to malice what can be reasonable explained by stupidity).
"People poison themselves with DIY alcohol brewing, preserves and curing gone wrong quite frequently. "
Really? What toxins are produced by fermentation? How are these toxins magnified/added/altered by distillation?
Methanol - not a product of yeast fermentation but anaerobic bacteria will produce it - may be encountered in fermentations gone wrong.
Amygdayn not a product of the fermentation, but present in the kernel of some fruits that are being used in preparing brandy. Dissolves in alcohol (resulted from fermentation): dangerous in high concentration, as one of the (enzyme catalyzed) decomposition path leads to hydrogen cyanide.
(these two I know about as risks associated with DYI plum-brandy).
Even if it wouldn't be a statistical fluctuation, what derives from there is: for the time being, Google manages to get more profit from less user interaction (that is, lower cost).
I certainly would not agree with the mining tax since it affects your major export.
Pick you choice: would you agree with NBN and a huge budget deficit?
FOX has now been linked with North Korea and the Ground Zero Imam. They've clearly taken over Iraq's place in the Axis of Evil. When do we invade?
At the "News at 11" time?
If you adapt too much, then the player won't feel challenges anymore. And in games challenges are the things that will demand players to push forward the efforts.
Adapting for the level of the player or adapting against it: can work both ways. A careful approach can actually maintain the level of interest (frustrate the player, but not too much... rather tease) as well as driving up the level of skills
We need 2 points of informative and 3 of insightful stat!
And as someone who has spent upward of 10 years walking to work either reading a book or listening with headphones, I can say that yes, doing either is dangerous unless you use common sense and your other senses. Of course doing both at once is suicidal.
What do you mean by both? [Walking and reading/listening] or [using common-sense and your other senses]?