Well, only true douchebags who think they are cool because the dial goes up to six (that's BIGGER than five!) hold it up to their head. Garden grade douchbags use it with a bluetooth earset that makes them look douchiest of all while not actually achieving the heighth of douchebaggery that comes from holding it to their head. The very first phablet, IMHO, was the Dell 7 back in 2009 or 10. I met a guy in a tech mall in China using one as a phablet with an earset. I liked the basic idea, but it took me a few months to find a non-douchebag headset with earplugs and a bluetooth clip-on mikewhich I am sure you agree is by far less douchebaggy. By then I was out of interest and didn't want anything but a WeTab for a tablet.
Swamp Baptists think of it as his birthday, other Baptists and Methodists as well, certainly the lay people of most christian groups do.
Oh and the M,M,L&J party idea is kind of weak since they weren't alive when Jesus was, and most of them weren't alive when the others were, and didn't know each other except by reading copies of the prior writers. John died the latest, almost 300AD when the council of Nicea chose the accepted gospels and letters and acts that make up the new testament as well as deciding what they would accept in the OT.
There is plenty of knowledge about all this, but that doesn't mean that everyone shares that knowledge or wants to know these things since they don't agree with what they learned in Sunday School as Toddlers which is when their religious beliefs were cast in stone.
And, the "farmer" no longer sits on the tractor, it is an immigrant laborer. The farmer sits in his office and deals with numbers while, according to this, his bones weaken. THe immigrant workers are on their feet all day, in and out of the tractor etc, etc.
Not at all like the old days. I remember (excuse the ramblings of an old man) working on a woman's house when one of my men stopped us and said he could hear someone calling for help. We honed in on the call and saw a tractor that looked parked in a field a quater mile away. Running over there we found an old man (in his 70s) who had been pulling a stump with his tractor when the stump pulled and the tractor big wheel ran up his leg and knocked him down. It was still in gear and he was holding it from running over him completely just by sitting up. We got it off and him out, he got up, shook himself off and got back on the tractor to get back to work with a "thanks for the hand!"
You are using an e-reader that won't read PDF? Probably using some kind of DRM trash I guess. As I said above, it is the Americanization of commerce (the cheapest is always the best) that is destroying this particular market. e-readers can be cheap, for the romance/vampire novel set, but if you are going to need to do higher level work then there should be higher quality tools that meet your needs.
I have used e-ink displays for years, actually more than 15 now (Sony PRS, the first one was my first) and a high quality e-reader whips butt. The iRex, from Europe, was used by pilots (for example) to hold their logs as well as their flight manuals instead of rolling the kilos of paper required for that task. Obviously scrolling/paging back and forth was important for them as well. The problem is the common American mistake of assuming that the cheapest is the best. The iRex not only had two screens, but also cost $900.00 and came with an integral cover and other goodies (I forget the whole list). It was quite impressive.
Can you get one now? DIIK, but if you can't, I will blame the Americanization of commerce for that, too;)
How about you airgap your email and your email? As in separate business and personal? As in do your WORK at work and your personal away from work? it really isn't that hard boys and girls. Oh yeah, right, you link all your shit together so that you can do your facebook (sorry, i don't use it) and your G+ (I have 2, one work, one personal) etc. You think its hard, but because of my job a public request to see my email must be honored, so any of my colleagues who don't airgap their stuff get what they deserve.
So, you haven't helped your parents to get more reasonable service yet? Why not? If yoiu could get them the services they need with an ADSL connection and then let them drop the landline and the cable and set them up with a single internet connection that would give them all the services that I have the way I have it for a savings, why don't you?
And then when you find that they are still being robbed by the corporations that provide the service. maybe you can write in and apologize.
The thing is that I am not getting that 100meg service for the money I pay. My service is being gamed by the corporations that are trying to force me to pay more than ten times what is reasonable for a relatively small service that my tax dollars subsidized in the first place. You may not use as much in your house as we do in our house, but we pay for much more than we receive, and have ever since we came back to the US.
Believe me, the Chinese and the Thai do not get subsidized service in the cities, the corporations that provide the services make a fortuine there: in fact the deposed prime minister of Thailand and his family -- which also includes another recent PM of Thailand-- made their multibillion dollar fortune on providing internet service in Thailand, as well as mobile phone and satellite TV. All for a tenth (or less) of what we pay here. Don't try to tell me that greedy corporations in Asia are less greedy than they are here, especially when they can afford to buy Premier league soccer teams in England with their ill-gotten gains.
. "The fact that you pay so [[much]] for very high speed Internet shows that other people are [not] subsidizing you, because most people don't need or use 100 Mbps connections." FTFY (aside: the number of people using/watching Netflix and Hulu are increasing exponentially. more and more of the students and teachers and staff at the 50,000 person university where I work have dropped their landline+cable connection because they can't afford the extra cost. And remember we are the 1% in the world who can't afford that. when I lived in Asia, poor shopkeepers sleeping an entire family ion a single sheet of plywood on the concrete floor of their storefront had internet for pennies a week. That was 15 years ago, they are miles ahead of us now for a tenth the cost we pay. Stop kidding yourself, go abroad to live and discover the truth)
Well, I use Veriscum in Tampa for @$85 a month, internet only: but that is still too expensive considering that my interenet enabled TV has trouble pulling in HULU plus but no problem with Netflix. That is the problem with Internet openness, the cost, the speed the FAIRNESS (especially to the consumer)
you really should not make ignorant assertions like this. I lived in China for 6 years, total. In that time I saw the uptake of internet spread across the entire country-- admittedly first to urban center and the rural SW last of all, but then I lived in the rural SW back around 2000-2002 and had the same internet (in my crummy little apartment that was all I could afford on my $375 a month salary as a teacher) as the governor in his mansion. So, don't talk about what you don't know about. Rick is right.
And, I bank with an unusual American bank. One of the things I noticed is that I get my paycheck credited to my account a day before everyone else in my office. Maybe this is why? I also know that this bank (which I have used for decades has: 1) photo check deposit (and has had it for the last ten+ years) 2) smartphone app that allows all transaction activity through the app 3) transaction assessment: they email me about every transaction over my (self-imposed) limit, and stop/refuse any transaction from a location where I am not (you might not like it, but when I travel I call them first and tell them where I will be. This protects me and the retailer/hotel/etc) 4) has only one physical location 5) monthly repayment of ATM fees from other bank/store ATMs 6) complete/robust on-line banking with all the bells and whistles (like buying clubs for cars and houses, loan applications, investment tracking, I can't think of everything they let me do on the website) No, I don't want to give their name, they used to be just for armed forces families, but now have a little broader outreach. my son said he even saw an ad for them the other day, that would be a surprise.
This: Here in Florida, and in many other states, they want to charge people who have rooftop solar for lost business. Perhaps I overstate the situation, they are fighting our ability to feed electric back into the grid and be reimbursed for that electricity at commercial rates. They want to consider loss of opportunity as well as loss of the need for generation and pay a pittance of the value of the power we feed back into the system. Naturally, we want to be reimbursed at a rate closer to what we pay for power they generate.
Because it is crap on the sites that I use to deliver content to my students. The two students that have surfaces are constantly failing to keep up because their browser can't connect to the LMS site (Canvas). Firefox (my hater buddies) is what works best for Canvas. Chrome is a close second and Safari neck and neck with chrome. IE is just a waste of time to even start up.
Sorry, but that is my daily truth, and the fact that my students have been brainwashed to use IE because they aren't sophisticated enough to know that there are other browsers is a sad commentary on the continuing effect of the MS micromonopoly. (Oh, this is in the US, but it is worse in China.)
You are living in the past. Here in Tampa, public transit, that is buses, is growing faster than uber and lyft. (Disclaimer, my wife drove for Lyft until a couple of weeks ago, when she just got sick of the low return on time and our investment in a nice car). I was talking to a driver on the #6 route last week (my morning ride of 45-50 minutes door to desk) and he said they just hired 27 new drivers for route expansion and retirement replacement. Mostly expansion according to him. He has 30 years in as a driver and plans to stay on, the custoimers are getting nicer he says.
If I was driving, on the highway, it would take about 35 minutes from door to desk, so it costs me an extra 10-15 minutes to take the bus. Even at twice the loss consider this: Bus cost: $.50 (50 cents) one way= $1.00 a day Gas cost: 20 miles one way, 40 round trip, say $5.00 a day Parking cost: $250.00 a year, say $1.00 a day minimum if I take no vacations Cost of maintenance or carpayments for that second car (as it is we only keep one car because I don't need it to drive to work) as well as taxes and insurance.
OK, now think about this: instead of two crappy cars on my crappy salary we have a 2014 Chevy Volt, spend less than $100.00 a month on gas, $0 on maintenance, and have an nice, awesome ride. We are looking at trading up to a Tesla S when they come off of lease and we can get them about half price. How could I do that if I was wasting my money on a second car?
More and more people can and should run this kind of simple cost/benefit analysis and realize that their lifestyle could be better just by making better choices. When I talk about this at work everyone has excuses, but the reality is that people are starting to move to my neighborhood because it has awesome bus service. the value of my house has gone up 45% in the last three years because it is close to downtown and has 5 different bus lines running on 15-20 minute schedules within 3 blocks of my front door.
So, your description of the bus is wrong, I know cause I ride it every day, dressed for my office and my classrooms and I fit in just fine.
I have to agree. I switched my work computer to linux to suit what I had been doing for years as a lone wolf, but the office is MS. I do appreciate that, for what we do, Windows works OK. I still can work faster than most of my colleagues, but that is just me, not the systems. BUT, I am still completely acclimated to gnome3 and linux and it would be a real waste of time and effort to switch to Windows. It is one of my few worries at work, that Win10 will be so tightly controled that in a WinOffice there will be no way to not use windows, or at least dual boot.
the "average" user buys based on advertising and hype, always have, always will. The informed user ignores the hype and buys what they need, not what has the "best" spec. Still, they study the specs and read "real" reviews (not the marketing hype I find right now in all the American media about the "amazing" new iPhone 6 for example.
you buy a phone on a contract plan? didn't learn math did you? or to recognize that when you get something for "free" you are paying twice the real price.
I'm way too seriously old for this to be other than funny. Like Apple stuff in general, The last really great Apple product was the blue and white iMac in '98. That was not just agreat product, it was equal to PCs for five or six years after it's introduction. While PCs were moving at light speed improvement, our old iMac was equal to or ahead of anything else you could buy. But now... what are they showing us? Nuttin' Advertising and marketing hype about something that is old the year before it came out. And, as with most things, what people care about is the hype and the marketing and the buyer buy-in.
When I point out that iPhones are now just "toy phones" to my students, they really don't get what I am talking about: they are made for children's hands.
When I point out that you have to use two hands to use a "phablet" which is kind of silly, "phones" have traditionally been a one-hand operation they also don't get it.
Why not? because they buy on two criteria: what has the hype at the moment, and what will make them look cool. Phone as fashion accessory, no wonder we want the new watches, they are obviously fashion.
We have lost the battle of form vs function. Fashion has won.
Yes, yes yes! I remember my grandmother as a failing, doddering old lady who was confused on her good days. Only as I got old enough to be old myself do I appreciate her history, what she did before I was an active part of her life. She wrote three books (on semi-autobiographical and two based on the history of the Surratt family during the assassination of Lincoln) in the fifties and early sixties, was a newspaper reporter in the 50s through the sixties. She was an active part of the war effort in her community during WWII and in general was a feisty woman in a world full of housewives. But I never knew her that way because of time. In some ways I prefer to let go of the actual memories of the doddering old lady and hold on to her real achievements, even though they are not part of my memories about her.
As a language scientist ( a linguist) I know that you are coming from the hard sciences with an argument that I honor for its simplicity, its integrity and its beauty. Unfortunately it struggles in the real world of complex systems. In simple experiments we can shave away all the complementary and supplementary functions that are connected to any simple act or action. But in the real world we are constrained by reality and complexity, because if we remove attendant functions, we lose the reality of the system itself. Things/actions do not exist in simplicity, they grow, change, advance or retreat through complexity and this is where the hard sciences fail to recognize that complexity is the nature of reality and that the empirical function, of reducing to a single simple element or action, does not reflect the nature of the real universe.
Thus we scorn "modeling" because if we make a change in an attendant function we get a different answer even though the simple question ("Are we changing the world through pollution?") has not changed. We get different answers because of the complexity of the system, not because of the inability of the practitioners to define the component functions (or parts) carefully enough.
Dude, I have the experience too, and don't really want to believe it or to make up pseudo-scientific reasons why it works, but it does. Come on over to the house, I'll stick a couple bent copper wires in your hands and let you do it. Although I have seen one or two people that really don't get it/do it, most everyone else in the world can.
I was taught this trick by a carpenter I worked for. He even showed me that if you put copper wires in a coke bottle they would find the pipes as well. I have used this many times, just a couple of months ago in fact, and it always works. I have also used it to find underground water flows when I lived in Thailand.
and why is the data from 2012? Looks like the author of the article followed a link to a 2012 report and wrote an article using that info, without any attempt to update. Or else the project died, or was censored? Too many questions, my brain hurts when there is bad articles, bad data, bad , bad , bad................turtles. everywhere....
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Well, only true douchebags who think they are cool because the dial goes up to six (that's BIGGER than five!) hold it up to their head. Garden grade douchbags use it with a bluetooth earset that makes them look douchiest of all while not actually achieving the heighth of douchebaggery that comes from holding it to their head. The very first phablet, IMHO, was the Dell 7 back in 2009 or 10. I met a guy in a tech mall in China using one as a phablet with an earset. I liked the basic idea, but it took me a few months to find a non-douchebag headset with earplugs and a bluetooth clip-on mikewhich I am sure you agree is by far less douchebaggy. By then I was out of interest and didn't want anything but a WeTab for a tablet.
Swamp Baptists think of it as his birthday, other Baptists and Methodists as well, certainly the lay people of most christian groups do.
Oh and the M,M,L&J party idea is kind of weak since they weren't alive when Jesus was, and most of them weren't alive when the others were, and didn't know each other except by reading copies of the prior writers. John died the latest, almost 300AD when the council of Nicea chose the accepted gospels and letters and acts that make up the new testament as well as deciding what they would accept in the OT.
There is plenty of knowledge about all this, but that doesn't mean that everyone shares that knowledge or wants to know these things since they don't agree with what they learned in Sunday School as Toddlers which is when their religious beliefs were cast in stone.
And, the "farmer" no longer sits on the tractor, it is an immigrant laborer. The farmer sits in his office and deals with numbers while, according to this, his bones weaken. THe immigrant workers are on their feet all day, in and out of the tractor etc, etc.
Not at all like the old days. I remember (excuse the ramblings of an old man) working on a woman's house when one of my men stopped us and said he could hear someone calling for help. We honed in on the call and saw a tractor that looked parked in a field a quater mile away. Running over there we found an old man (in his 70s) who had been pulling a stump with his tractor when the stump pulled and the tractor big wheel ran up his leg and knocked him down. It was still in gear and he was holding it from running over him completely just by sitting up. We got it off and him out, he got up, shook himself off and got back on the tractor to get back to work with a "thanks for the hand!"
Not too many farmers like that left today.
You are using an e-reader that won't read PDF? Probably using some kind of DRM trash I guess. As I said above, it is the Americanization of commerce (the cheapest is always the best) that is destroying this particular market. e-readers can be cheap, for the romance/vampire novel set, but if you are going to need to do higher level work then there should be higher quality tools that meet your needs.
I have used e-ink displays for years, actually more than 15 now (Sony PRS, the first one was my first) and a high quality e-reader whips butt. The iRex, from Europe, was used by pilots (for example) to hold their logs as well as their flight manuals instead of rolling the kilos of paper required for that task. Obviously scrolling/paging back and forth was important for them as well.
The problem is the common American mistake of assuming that the cheapest is the best. The iRex not only had two screens, but also cost $900.00 and came with an integral cover and other goodies (I forget the whole list). It was quite impressive.
Can you get one now? DIIK, but if you can't, I will blame the Americanization of commerce for that, too;)
How about you airgap your email and your email? As in separate business and personal? As in do your WORK at work and your personal away from work? it really isn't that hard boys and girls. Oh yeah, right, you link all your shit together so that you can do your facebook (sorry, i don't use it) and your G+ (I have 2, one work, one personal) etc. You think its hard, but because of my job a public request to see my email must be honored, so any of my colleagues who don't airgap their stuff get what they deserve.
The voice of reason speaks.
[watch your back, mate]
So, you haven't helped your parents to get more reasonable service yet? Why not?
If yoiu could get them the services they need with an ADSL connection and then let them drop the landline and the cable and set them up with a single internet connection that would give them all the services that I have the way I have it for a savings, why don't you?
And then when you find that they are still being robbed by the corporations that provide the service. maybe you can write in and apologize.
The thing is that I am not getting that 100meg service for the money I pay. My service is being gamed by the corporations that are trying to force me to pay more than ten times what is reasonable for a relatively small service that my tax dollars subsidized in the first place. You may not use as much in your house as we do in our house, but we pay for much more than we receive, and have ever since we came back to the US.
Believe me, the Chinese and the Thai do not get subsidized service in the cities, the corporations that provide the services make a fortuine there: in fact the deposed prime minister of Thailand and his family -- which also includes another recent PM of Thailand-- made their multibillion dollar fortune on providing internet service in Thailand, as well as mobile phone and satellite TV. All for a tenth (or less) of what we pay here.
Don't try to tell me that greedy corporations in Asia are less greedy than they are here, especially when they can afford to buy Premier league soccer teams in England with their ill-gotten gains.
. "The fact that you pay so [[much]] for very high speed Internet shows that other people are [not] subsidizing you, because most people don't need or use 100 Mbps connections."
FTFY
(aside: the number of people using/watching Netflix and Hulu are increasing exponentially. more and more of the students and teachers and staff at the 50,000 person university where I work have dropped their landline+cable connection because they can't afford the extra cost. And remember we are the 1% in the world who can't afford that. when I lived in Asia, poor shopkeepers sleeping an entire family ion a single sheet of plywood on the concrete floor of their storefront had internet for pennies a week. That was 15 years ago, they are miles ahead of us now for a tenth the cost we pay. Stop kidding yourself, go abroad to live and discover the truth)
Well, I use Veriscum in Tampa for @$85 a month, internet only: but that is still too expensive considering that my interenet enabled TV has trouble pulling in HULU plus but no problem with Netflix. That is the problem with Internet openness, the cost, the speed the FAIRNESS (especially to the consumer)
you really should not make ignorant assertions like this. I lived in China for 6 years, total. In that time I saw the uptake of internet spread across the entire country-- admittedly first to urban center and the rural SW last of all, but then I lived in the rural SW back around 2000-2002 and had the same internet (in my crummy little apartment that was all I could afford on my $375 a month salary as a teacher) as the governor in his mansion. So, don't talk about what you don't know about. Rick is right.
And, I bank with an unusual American bank. One of the things I noticed is that I get my paycheck credited to my account a day before everyone else in my office. Maybe this is why? I also know that this bank (which I have used for decades has:
1) photo check deposit (and has had it for the last ten+ years)
2) smartphone app that allows all transaction activity through the app
3) transaction assessment: they email me about every transaction over my (self-imposed) limit, and stop/refuse any transaction from a location where I am not (you might not like it, but when I travel I call them first and tell them where I will be. This protects me and the retailer/hotel/etc)
4) has only one physical location
5) monthly repayment of ATM fees from other bank/store ATMs
6) complete/robust on-line banking with all the bells and whistles (like buying clubs for cars and houses, loan applications, investment tracking, I can't think of everything they let me do on the website)
No, I don't want to give their name, they used to be just for armed forces families, but now have a little broader outreach. my son said he even saw an ad for them the other day, that would be a surprise.
This: Here in Florida, and in many other states, they want to charge people who have rooftop solar for lost business. Perhaps I overstate the situation, they are fighting our ability to feed electric back into the grid and be reimbursed for that electricity at commercial rates. They want to consider loss of opportunity as well as loss of the need for generation and pay a pittance of the value of the power we feed back into the system. Naturally, we want to be reimbursed at a rate closer to what we pay for power they generate.
Because it is crap on the sites that I use to deliver content to my students. The two students that have surfaces are constantly failing to keep up because their browser can't connect to the LMS site (Canvas). Firefox (my hater buddies) is what works best for Canvas. Chrome is a close second and Safari neck and neck with chrome. IE is just a waste of time to even start up.
Sorry, but that is my daily truth, and the fact that my students have been brainwashed to use IE because they aren't sophisticated enough to know that there are other browsers is a sad commentary on the continuing effect of the MS micromonopoly. (Oh, this is in the US, but it is worse in China.)
You are living in the past. Here in Tampa, public transit, that is buses, is growing faster than uber and lyft. (Disclaimer, my wife drove for Lyft until a couple of weeks ago, when she just got sick of the low return on time and our investment in a nice car). I was talking to a driver on the #6 route last week (my morning ride of 45-50 minutes door to desk) and he said they just hired 27 new drivers for route expansion and retirement replacement. Mostly expansion according to him. He has 30 years in as a driver and plans to stay on, the custoimers are getting nicer he says.
If I was driving, on the highway, it would take about 35 minutes from door to desk, so it costs me an extra 10-15 minutes to take the bus. Even at twice the loss consider this:
Bus cost: $.50 (50 cents) one way= $1.00 a day
Gas cost: 20 miles one way, 40 round trip, say $5.00 a day
Parking cost: $250.00 a year, say $1.00 a day minimum if I take no vacations
Cost of maintenance or carpayments for that second car (as it is we only keep one car because I don't need it to drive to work) as well as taxes and insurance.
OK, now think about this: instead of two crappy cars on my crappy salary we have a 2014 Chevy Volt, spend less than $100.00 a month on gas, $0 on maintenance, and have an nice, awesome ride. We are looking at trading up to a Tesla S when they come off of lease and we can get them about half price.
How could I do that if I was wasting my money on a second car?
More and more people can and should run this kind of simple cost/benefit analysis and realize that their lifestyle could be better just by making better choices. When I talk about this at work everyone has excuses, but the reality is that people are starting to move to my neighborhood because it has awesome bus service. the value of my house has gone up 45% in the last three years because it is close to downtown and has 5 different bus lines running on 15-20 minute schedules within 3 blocks of my front door.
So, your description of the bus is wrong, I know cause I ride it every day, dressed for my office and my classrooms and I fit in just fine.
I have to agree. I switched my work computer to linux to suit what I had been doing for years as a lone wolf, but the office is MS. I do appreciate that, for what we do, Windows works OK. I still can work faster than most of my colleagues, but that is just me, not the systems.
BUT, I am still completely acclimated to gnome3 and linux and it would be a real waste of time and effort to switch to Windows. It is one of my few worries at work, that Win10 will be so tightly controled that in a WinOffice there will be no way to not use windows, or at least dual boot.
the "average" user buys based on advertising and hype, always have, always will. The informed user ignores the hype and buys what they need, not what has the "best" spec. Still, they study the specs and read "real" reviews (not the marketing hype I find right now in all the American media about the "amazing" new iPhone 6 for example.
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you buy a phone on a contract plan? didn't learn math did you? or to recognize that when you get something for "free" you are paying twice the real price.
I'm way too seriously old for this to be other than funny.
Like Apple stuff in general, The last really great Apple product was the blue and white iMac in '98. That was not just agreat product, it was equal to PCs for five or six years after it's introduction. While PCs were moving at light speed improvement, our old iMac was equal to or ahead of anything else you could buy.
But now... what are they showing us? Nuttin' Advertising and marketing hype about something that is old the year before it came out. And, as with most things, what people care about is the hype and the marketing and the buyer buy-in.
When I point out that iPhones are now just "toy phones" to my students, they really don't get what I am talking about: they are made for children's hands.
When I point out that you have to use two hands to use a "phablet" which is kind of silly, "phones" have traditionally been a one-hand operation they also don't get it.
Why not? because they buy on two criteria: what has the hype at the moment, and what will make them look cool. Phone as fashion accessory, no wonder we want the new watches, they are obviously fashion.
We have lost the battle of form vs function. Fashion has won.
Yes, yes yes!
I remember my grandmother as a failing, doddering old lady who was confused on her good days. Only as I got old enough to be old myself do I appreciate her history, what she did before I was an active part of her life. She wrote three books (on semi-autobiographical and two based on the history of the Surratt family during the assassination of Lincoln) in the fifties and early sixties, was a newspaper reporter in the 50s through the sixties. She was an active part of the war effort in her community during WWII and in general was a feisty woman in a world full of housewives. But I never knew her that way because of time. In some ways I prefer to let go of the actual memories of the doddering old lady and hold on to her real achievements, even though they are not part of my memories about her.
As a language scientist ( a linguist) I know that you are coming from the hard sciences with an argument that I honor for its simplicity, its integrity and its beauty. Unfortunately it struggles in the real world of complex systems. In simple experiments we can shave away all the complementary and supplementary functions that are connected to any simple act or action. But in the real world we are constrained by reality and complexity, because if we remove attendant functions, we lose the reality of the system itself. Things/actions do not exist in simplicity, they grow, change, advance or retreat through complexity and this is where the hard sciences fail to recognize that complexity is the nature of reality and that the empirical function, of reducing to a single simple element or action, does not reflect the nature of the real universe.
Thus we scorn "modeling" because if we make a change in an attendant function we get a different answer even though the simple question ("Are we changing the world through pollution?") has not changed. We get different answers because of the complexity of the system, not because of the inability of the practitioners to define the component functions (or parts) carefully enough.
Dude, I have the experience too, and don't really want to believe it or to make up pseudo-scientific reasons why it works, but it does. Come on over to the house, I'll stick a couple bent copper wires in your hands and let you do it. Although I have seen one or two people that really don't get it/do it, most everyone else in the world can.
I was taught this trick by a carpenter I worked for. He even showed me that if you put copper wires in a coke bottle they would find the pipes as well. I have used this many times, just a couple of months ago in fact, and it always works. I have also used it to find underground water flows when I lived in Thailand.
and why is the data from 2012? Looks like the author of the article followed a link to a 2012 report and wrote an article using that info, without any attempt to update. Or else the project died, or was censored?
Too many questions, my brain hurts when there is bad articles, bad data, bad , bad , bad................turtles. everywhere....