Computers from stores come with I/E or Safari.
Anyone with Chrome or Mozilla had to at least click something and do an install.
I agree it ain't much but it is something and i suspect that is what got measured by the analysis.
Seems to me if 1/3 of Americans are obese and another third overweight, there are two criticisms:
1. Anorexia isn't as big a problem as some other dietary issues
2. If seeing skinny models increases anorexia, then we need to do more of it in order to solve the obesity problem.
Their conclusions weren't thought thru very carefully.
Most scientists assume without much thought that physics has no limits.
However, even a tiny bit of analysis shows it has both an upper and a lower limit of usefulness.
The lower limit is Planck's constant--Heisenberg's Uncertainty. When you move beyond this point, all your measurements are suspect and you end up with bogus interpretations that don't mean anything. Discovery of a new particle means you merely discovered a new particle; it doesn't mean your theory is correct. You disprove the theory with absurd reduction--only argue the truthfulness of quantum mechanics with a legitimate physicist: someone who has published an article in volume II or later of a scientific journal unequivocally proving the universe did not exist until he and his grad students measured it. Reduction Ad Absurdum.
The other limit is at the upper end. If there is no limit to figuring things out, then physics leads 'naturally' to chemistry and biology and that with enough effort, you could infer and create the laws of chemistry or biology or human interactions based on the laws of physics.
We already assume that is absurd but don't examine the idea in depth.
The easiest understanding occurs when you realize physics covers the whole universe but chemistry only occurs in the realm of planets--hydrogen fusing into helium is physics, not chemistry. The best proof of 'emergence' or new complex areas is from math. Figure out how we go from integers to fractions to irrationals to imaginaries based purely on the opposite of varieties of counting/adding.
Adding 1 gives you an infinite list of positive integers.
Inversing or subtracting gives you Zero and the Negative numbers.
Multiplication is just a faster more restricted form of addition but its inverse gives you fractions--the Rational Numbers.
Squaring something is just a more restricted version of multiplication but inversing it gives you the Imaginary numbers.
The various groups of numbers are considered drastically different from each other by mathematicians. They even result in different sizes of Infinity
Sounds like the Ace Hardware philosophy. Develop _customers_; don't worry about each particular sale. They will point me to someone else if they don't have it so Ace is _always_ my first choice.
I had a direct boss tell me to write an inventory system for our computers.
I refused. Told him the only way I was going to do it was if he and a few others were willing to spend time explaining directly to me why the other 5 inventory systems we had weren't sufficient. He got all pissy but I held my ground saying use this system or use that system but that I wasn't going to write a 6th system and have it fail just like all the others.
He finally narrowed down exactly what information he wanted about our computers and I wrote him a miminalist system--already having demonstrated from the other failures that too much info or too many fields is not useful and that if you don't keep it up-to-date, then the numbers are flakey and that's because of the manager and his people, not because of the IT person who wrote the 'last crappy system.'
But he still holds a grudge against me. I made him have to think about the questions he wanted answered instead of just demand answers. Non-IT people hate that shit.
Apparently, many men overlooked Newt Gingrich's harassment accusations, thinking that could happen to any male at random given a flakey female. That's why he weathered that storm. But when he admitted to having a 13-year affair, most of the men who supported Newt dropped him because that isn't something that is accidental or unpreventable.
Using technology correctly shows improvement. Well-written learning games are immensely useful on game devices.
Taking notes on paper as opposed to electronics is just as useful/useless either way. It depends on the teaching itself.
The other aspect of e-learning is the distance stuff. Folks learn a lot better in interactive groups and anything that diminishes the interactivity diminishes the learning.
This principle doesn't mean e-devices are bad, just that they need to be implemented properly.
Aristotle thought reading would spell the death of civilization (because students weren't memorizing poems the way Ari did as a child).
It isn't necessarily a waste of other people's money. I work for the Feds and see all sorts of waste that happens on 'good' ideas.
Surveillance of a high crime area is a good idea. But collecting data and saving it is not a police skill, it is an IT skill.
The issue is that many govt ideas (pushed by voters as much as contractors) entail new skill sets or new directions that a business might think twice about before pursuing but that any govt org gets no chance at all even for input once the voters/politicians decide.
Seriously, if you want to correct the issues of governance, identify the exact problem and quit spewing ideology of right, left or contractor 'malfeasance.'
Check out Viet Nam's Bouncing Betties.
They were designed specifically to injure and tie up resources moving soldiers to a hospital. If a guy is dead, I _can_ leave him but won't yet all I have to do is carry his corpse away with me. But if he's injured, we need to sit and wait for medevac.
The flaw in the analysis is doing a study in countries where people do not have equal access to education.
If only the rich can get educated, then their children, equally represented in genders, will form the population that is being studied.
Only if all children have equal chance at education does measuring educational achievement tell you anything about the general population.
The variability IS the Y-chromosome.
Burning bad bridges is a good thing. Used to be the class slut but cleaned up her act later or used to be a loser but finally buckled down once he left his dysfuncitonal family and friends. Bridges burn both ways too.
But if I leave the village and move to a new village in a galaxy far, far away, my reputation does not follow me and I can reinvent myself.
See College, Freshman.
1. Where exactly were you in the application (screen shot).
2. What happened when you pressed the bad button? (screen shot)
3. (most important) What did you expect to happen when you pressed the button?
That will generate good bug info. Each report still needs to go thru some sort of approval committee tho before being labeled a bug or not and getting 'fixed.'
Just because it isn't new doesn't mean it can't be dangerous. sheesh.
Vehicles didn't cause air pollution in Los Angeles until there were a million of them.
Infecting the Ogallala reservoir with 10ccs of anything except plutonium isn't going to poison that many people. But dumping in ten million gallos of almost anything will affect the water.
It isn't the use of any resource that causes issues; it is only the overuse (by definition).
For the folks who whine about there not being enough female engineers or scientists, consider this FACT:
Most of the prisoners in the US (and elsewhere) are male yet no one decries that we need more male prisoners nor is there any sort of impetus for being a criminal
If you want to make your own observation, walk into a high school and count the number of fe/males in the top AP classes and then go and count them in the bottom-tier classes. You end up with the same ratio.Far more males to females. That's wider variability due specifically to the Y-chromosome. In fact, if it is biological, then getting rid of all cultural influences whatsoever should result in 1/3 and 2/3 ratios of women to men on the top ends of behavior (STEM) and on the bottom, too (prison).
The personal PC will die the same sort of 'death' that radio did with the advent of television. ha ha ha.
PCs won't ever be the biggest seller they used to be, but they aren't going to fade away by any means.
Actually, having terrorists try to build a nuclear weapon is far safer for America than having them take whatever plutonium they can get their hands on, grind it into dust and spread it in the headwaters of the Mississippi or Colorado rivers. Goodbye USA. Plutonium is a strong poison.
The problem with bioweapons is: How do you inoculate your own people safely?
The main problem with the research is the sample selection. He is comparing autistic SMART children against normal AVERAGE-Intelligence populations. No wonder the autistic kids seem smarter.That skewed selection is devastating if you wish to draw actual conclusions about autism and usefulness for intelligence.
1. You couldn't bleed enough energy off to make the eruption significantly smaller.
2. Far worse, if you as a govt or corp did -anything- at all to the volcano and then it exploded, it would be -your- fault in social and eventually legal terms.
The Republicans and Tea Partiers who want government out of business forget that business relies on government operating the market place thru intellectual property laws and contract law and ensuring a safe, non-counterfeit money supply. When CDOs made all the money counterfeit, the rich got bailed out BY GOVERNMENT and still the Koch-sucker bros cry about too much government. Move to Somalia and try to get rich there with a government-ensured marketplace to sell your wares in.
I am a developer who has worked at several Agencies in USDA and been thru a variety of e-mail system changes. It's the same old same old. The folks at the top want standardization without wasting any time on requirements. I remember once when they took WordPerfect away because USDA was going completely to Word. Good idea, except legislators in State governments and in Congress demanded WordPerfect attachments, not Word attachments and the legislators didn't really care about some lame USDA memo from some lame USDA CIO wannabe.
It's a money-saving tactic MS provides to small businesses. If they wanted to send out more e-mail, they'd have to waste money on a second server (or use something besides MS software).
I'm a programmer for the Federal government. I suspect one major snafu is all the regulations the system has surrounding extreme security and which sorts of hardware and software you have to buy. Once some group of knowitalls stick their nose into the architectural decisions, nothing good will happen. This is true whether you are in private industry or in government. The systems I do work because we ignore all that stuff (by using all the various memos to build us a defensive paperwork moat around the system).
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Can you say self-selection?
Computers from stores come with I/E or Safari.
Anyone with Chrome or Mozilla had to at least click something and do an install.
I agree it ain't much but it is something and i suspect that is what got measured by the analysis.
Seems to me if 1/3 of Americans are obese and another third overweight, there are two criticisms:
1. Anorexia isn't as big a problem as some other dietary issues
2. If seeing skinny models increases anorexia, then we need to do more of it in order to solve the obesity problem.
Their conclusions weren't thought thru very carefully.
Most scientists assume without much thought that physics has no limits.
However, even a tiny bit of analysis shows it has both an upper and a lower limit of usefulness.
The lower limit is Planck's constant--Heisenberg's Uncertainty. When you move beyond this point, all your measurements are suspect and you end up with bogus interpretations that don't mean anything. Discovery of a new particle means you merely discovered a new particle; it doesn't mean your theory is correct. You disprove the theory with absurd reduction--only argue the truthfulness of quantum mechanics with a legitimate physicist: someone who has published an article in volume II or later of a scientific journal unequivocally proving the universe did not exist until he and his grad students measured it. Reduction Ad Absurdum.
The other limit is at the upper end. If there is no limit to figuring things out, then physics leads 'naturally' to chemistry and biology and that with enough effort, you could infer and create the laws of chemistry or biology or human interactions based on the laws of physics.
We already assume that is absurd but don't examine the idea in depth.
The easiest understanding occurs when you realize physics covers the whole universe but chemistry only occurs in the realm of planets--hydrogen fusing into helium is physics, not chemistry. The best proof of 'emergence' or new complex areas is from math. Figure out how we go from integers to fractions to irrationals to imaginaries based purely on the opposite of varieties of counting/adding.
Adding 1 gives you an infinite list of positive integers.
Inversing or subtracting gives you Zero and the Negative numbers.
Multiplication is just a faster more restricted form of addition but its inverse gives you fractions--the Rational Numbers.
Squaring something is just a more restricted version of multiplication but inversing it gives you the Imaginary numbers.
The various groups of numbers are considered drastically different from each other by mathematicians. They even result in different sizes of Infinity
Sounds like the Ace Hardware philosophy. Develop _customers_; don't worry about each particular sale. They will point me to someone else if they don't have it so Ace is _always_ my first choice.
That is true. All those Republicans look the same to me ;-)
I had a direct boss tell me to write an inventory system for our computers.
I refused. Told him the only way I was going to do it was if he and a few others were willing to spend time explaining directly to me why the other 5 inventory systems we had weren't sufficient. He got all pissy but I held my ground saying use this system or use that system but that I wasn't going to write a 6th system and have it fail just like all the others.
He finally narrowed down exactly what information he wanted about our computers and I wrote him a miminalist system--already having demonstrated from the other failures that too much info or too many fields is not useful and that if you don't keep it up-to-date, then the numbers are flakey and that's because of the manager and his people, not because of the IT person who wrote the 'last crappy system.'
But he still holds a grudge against me. I made him have to think about the questions he wanted answered instead of just demand answers. Non-IT people hate that shit.
Seems to me all Monsanto needs to do is sue the corn borers. They aren't legally allowed to eat that corn. That'll fix 'em fer sure.
Apparently, many men overlooked Newt Gingrich's harassment accusations, thinking that could happen to any male at random given a flakey female. That's why he weathered that storm. But when he admitted to having a 13-year affair, most of the men who supported Newt dropped him because that isn't something that is accidental or unpreventable.
Using technology correctly shows improvement. Well-written learning games are immensely useful on game devices.
Taking notes on paper as opposed to electronics is just as useful/useless either way. It depends on the teaching itself.
The other aspect of e-learning is the distance stuff. Folks learn a lot better in interactive groups and anything that diminishes the interactivity diminishes the learning.
This principle doesn't mean e-devices are bad, just that they need to be implemented properly.
Aristotle thought reading would spell the death of civilization (because students weren't memorizing poems the way Ari did as a child).
It isn't necessarily a waste of other people's money. I work for the Feds and see all sorts of waste that happens on 'good' ideas.
Surveillance of a high crime area is a good idea. But collecting data and saving it is not a police skill, it is an IT skill.
The issue is that many govt ideas (pushed by voters as much as contractors) entail new skill sets or new directions that a business might think twice about before pursuing but that any govt org gets no chance at all even for input once the voters/politicians decide.
Seriously, if you want to correct the issues of governance, identify the exact problem and quit spewing ideology of right, left or contractor 'malfeasance.'
Check out Viet Nam's Bouncing Betties.
They were designed specifically to injure and tie up resources moving soldiers to a hospital. If a guy is dead, I _can_ leave him but won't yet all I have to do is carry his corpse away with me. But if he's injured, we need to sit and wait for medevac.
The flaw in the analysis is doing a study in countries where people do not have equal access to education.
If only the rich can get educated, then their children, equally represented in genders, will form the population that is being studied.
Only if all children have equal chance at education does measuring educational achievement tell you anything about the general population.
The variability IS the Y-chromosome.
Burning bad bridges is a good thing. Used to be the class slut but cleaned up her act later or used to be a loser but finally buckled down once he left his dysfuncitonal family and friends. Bridges burn both ways too.
But if I leave the village and move to a new village in a galaxy far, far away, my reputation does not follow me and I can reinvent myself.
See College, Freshman.
Use Joel Spolsky's guide to reporting errors:
1. Where exactly were you in the application (screen shot).
2. What happened when you pressed the bad button? (screen shot)
3. (most important) What did you expect to happen when you pressed the button?
That will generate good bug info. Each report still needs to go thru some sort of approval committee tho before being labeled a bug or not and getting 'fixed.'
Just because it isn't new doesn't mean it can't be dangerous. sheesh.
Vehicles didn't cause air pollution in Los Angeles until there were a million of them.
Infecting the Ogallala reservoir with 10ccs of anything except plutonium isn't going to poison that many people. But dumping in ten million gallos of almost anything will affect the water.
It isn't the use of any resource that causes issues; it is only the overuse (by definition).
For the folks who whine about there not being enough female engineers or scientists, consider this FACT:
Most of the prisoners in the US (and elsewhere) are male yet no one decries that we need more male prisoners nor is there any sort of impetus for being a criminal
If you want to make your own observation, walk into a high school and count the number of fe/males in the top AP classes and then go and count them in the bottom-tier classes. You end up with the same ratio.Far more males to females. That's wider variability due specifically to the Y-chromosome. In fact, if it is biological, then getting rid of all cultural influences whatsoever should result in 1/3 and 2/3 ratios of women to men on the top ends of behavior (STEM) and on the bottom, too (prison).
The personal PC will die the same sort of 'death' that radio did with the advent of television. ha ha ha.
PCs won't ever be the biggest seller they used to be, but they aren't going to fade away by any means.
Actually, having terrorists try to build a nuclear weapon is far safer for America than having them take whatever plutonium they can get their hands on, grind it into dust and spread it in the headwaters of the Mississippi or Colorado rivers. Goodbye USA. Plutonium is a strong poison. The problem with bioweapons is: How do you inoculate your own people safely?
The main problem with the research is the sample selection. He is comparing autistic SMART children against normal AVERAGE-Intelligence populations. No wonder the autistic kids seem smarter.That skewed selection is devastating if you wish to draw actual conclusions about autism and usefulness for intelligence.
1. You couldn't bleed enough energy off to make the eruption significantly smaller.
2. Far worse, if you as a govt or corp did -anything- at all to the volcano and then it exploded, it would be -your- fault in social and eventually legal terms.
The Republicans and Tea Partiers who want government out of business forget that business relies on government operating the market place thru intellectual property laws and contract law and ensuring a safe, non-counterfeit money supply. When CDOs made all the money counterfeit, the rich got bailed out BY GOVERNMENT and still the Koch-sucker bros cry about too much government. Move to Somalia and try to get rich there with a government-ensured marketplace to sell your wares in.
I am a developer who has worked at several Agencies in USDA and been thru a variety of e-mail system changes. It's the same old same old. The folks at the top want standardization without wasting any time on requirements. I remember once when they took WordPerfect away because USDA was going completely to Word. Good idea, except legislators in State governments and in Congress demanded WordPerfect attachments, not Word attachments and the legislators didn't really care about some lame USDA memo from some lame USDA CIO wannabe.
It's a money-saving tactic MS provides to small businesses. If they wanted to send out more e-mail, they'd have to waste money on a second server (or use something besides MS software).
I'm a programmer for the Federal government. I suspect one major snafu is all the regulations the system has surrounding extreme security and which sorts of hardware and software you have to buy. Once some group of knowitalls stick their nose into the architectural decisions, nothing good will happen. This is true whether you are in private industry or in government. The systems I do work because we ignore all that stuff (by using all the various memos to build us a defensive paperwork moat around the system).