More than that, I would argue there's no such thing as "general intelligence." As far as I can tell, aptitude is fairly specific. Nobody's good at everything, even if some people look like it at first.
So, yeah, it's not the least bit surprising to me that people can be really good at finding the right choice on a test, but still make bad choices in real life. In fact, if you look close, you'll see it happening all the time.
...I do live in a college town, so I have some contact with campus life. I've been able to get online with the school's WiFi without much trouble, so I imagine students can, too.
I think the important thing is not to try to reinvent the wheel. Probably every college and university in the US (and a great many other nations) has someone who's using Linux. Find those people. Ask them what they do.
This summarizes why I don't own an iPhone. They're very slick and all, but I've been spoiled by running Linux for years. The concept of needing someone's approval to run software on my hardware is a non-starter for me. I'll decide that for myself, thanks very much.
That's what I'm thinking. Well, not verbatim. I was actually thinking for that much, I could get a desktop computer, a netbook, and a cheapo cell phone.
Really, this looks cool, but not $780 cool. Guess I'll wait for the N1000.
I've written a few press releases in my day (for politics, not technology). The answer is, people who write these sorts of releases know that journalists are lazy, and routinely cut and paste sentences from them into their articles. The really lazy ones paste in the entire press release.
I'm not much of a programmer, and I'm even less of a lawyer, but the GPL seems pretty straightforward to me: I get read, write, and execute permissions, and I give others read, write, and execute permissions (on their own copy).
Really... what's so complicated or controversial about that?
1. Eleventeen 2. 867-5309 3. 451 4. 1999 5. a gazillion 6. THIS MANY (holding up three fingers) 7. infinity minus one 8. approximately 9. 9/11 (may already be taken) 10. Top ten
Problem is, you're arguing against yourself. I quite agree that Microsoft products are good enough -- and by "good," I mean "familiar" -- but this undermines your point about OpenOffice and Linux gaining traction. These are still unfamiliar to most people, and they are unwilling to start over on the learning curve just because of some ethereal philosophical viewpoint. They're going to stick with what they know, which is Word on XP, over either Windows 7 or Linux. The only time Linux has a fighting chance is when people simply can't cling to XP any longer, and they must change. Then there will be a brief window where they will weigh their options on their merits.
As a medical interpreter, I see health-care IT up close all the time. (I'm writing this in an ER, on an overnight shift.) TFA has a lot of good points, but think the biggest single reason the IT sucks is the sheer complexity of medical information, but also of our byzantine and baffling health system in general.
All the health systems in town use the same medical-records company, because it's local. Its design reminds me of Windows 95, and the nurses know more about the workarounds for the bugs than about the intended use. The thing is, few of the doctors and even fewer of the nurses are interested in computers. They're interested in medicine, and computers are a pain in the neck even *before* they break down. They can't tell when the computer is behaving unpredictably, because as far as they're concerned, the computer always behaves unpredictably.
Am I trying to blame the victims, here? No. I'm saying this is a detailed and ongoing focus group, and they're telling us that the whole IT system is a disaster. And as far as I'm concerned, the most damning critique is that no one I've talked to wants them to change it, because, almost to a person, they're convinced the upgrade will be just as, if not worse.
I was thinking just the opposite. When I hear about fluctuating flow, I keep thinking there must be a way to turn this to our advantage. Here's my idea...
You start with a good-sized counterweight. I don't know exactly how big -- that would depend on all sorts of variables. Anyway, you set it up with gears and pulleys and whatnot such that the wind lifts it up when it blows, and drops it down when it stops. A slight variation on this would be to ratchet the counterweight up to a considerable height, which would allow you to accumulate the power in small gusts, then release the counterweight to drive the rotor.
There must be something I'm overlooking, or someone would have thought of this by now.
... and the nurses spend a lot of time rolling their eyes about this. Or as one of the doctors put it, "Replace 'H1N1' with 'bad cold.'"
Yes, it's killed a number of people. But not as many (in the same timespan) as, say, cars, or industrial accidents, or smoking, or cancer, or heart disease, or drug violence, or drugs themselves, or the US military, or suicide, or old age, or AIDS, or plane crashes, or....
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Meaning if you can generalize the solution to poker, you have the ability to discover the Nash equilibrium of the economy
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
More than that, I would argue there's no such thing as "general intelligence." As far as I can tell, aptitude is fairly specific. Nobody's good at everything, even if some people look like it at first.
So, yeah, it's not the least bit surprising to me that people can be really good at finding the right choice on a test, but still make bad choices in real life. In fact, if you look close, you'll see it happening all the time.
You know, the one where November 16 is two weeks after October 6th.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget. This is not what I look for in hardware.
I was too distracted by "Whose Who" to absorb much after that. Of course, most of it was after that.
There's something kind of indefinable 'fun' about the OS as well..
I've sent this in to Linux developers as a feature request.
Dear developers,
Please make Linux more fun. You know... like... fun. I think it could use 15-20% more je ne sais quoi. Then it would really rock.
Thanks!
Greenguy
...I do live in a college town, so I have some contact with campus life. I've been able to get online with the school's WiFi without much trouble, so I imagine students can, too.
I think the important thing is not to try to reinvent the wheel. Probably every college and university in the US (and a great many other nations) has someone who's using Linux. Find those people. Ask them what they do.
This summarizes why I don't own an iPhone. They're very slick and all, but I've been spoiled by running Linux for years. The concept of needing someone's approval to run software on my hardware is a non-starter for me. I'll decide that for myself, thanks very much.
But, see, this way you can have Chrome on the Chrome on your computer.
You overestimate the power of the dark field!
That's what I'm thinking. Well, not verbatim. I was actually thinking for that much, I could get a desktop computer, a netbook, and a cheapo cell phone.
Really, this looks cool, but not $780 cool. Guess I'll wait for the N1000.
I've written a few press releases in my day (for politics, not technology). The answer is, people who write these sorts of releases know that journalists are lazy, and routinely cut and paste sentences from them into their articles. The really lazy ones paste in the entire press release.
I'm not much of a programmer, and I'm even less of a lawyer, but the GPL seems pretty straightforward to me: I get read, write, and execute permissions, and I give others read, write, and execute permissions (on their own copy).
Really... what's so complicated or controversial about that?
It's chrome. I just keep picturing the bumper of a(n) $1960S_MUSCLE_CAR. Not swirly primary colors.
It's not writing the libretto that's the hard part for 140 characters.
It's building the sets.
1. Eleventeen
2. 867-5309
3. 451
4. 1999
5. a gazillion
6. THIS MANY (holding up three fingers)
7. infinity minus one
8. approximately
9. 9/11 (may already be taken)
10. Top ten
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.
No, really.
Problem is, you're arguing against yourself. I quite agree that Microsoft products are good enough -- and by "good," I mean "familiar" -- but this undermines your point about OpenOffice and Linux gaining traction. These are still unfamiliar to most people, and they are unwilling to start over on the learning curve just because of some ethereal philosophical viewpoint. They're going to stick with what they know, which is Word on XP, over either Windows 7 or Linux. The only time Linux has a fighting chance is when people simply can't cling to XP any longer, and they must change. Then there will be a brief window where they will weigh their options on their merits.
Howzabout we make it optional, so people can decide for themselves?
As a medical interpreter, I see health-care IT up close all the time. (I'm writing this in an ER, on an overnight shift.) TFA has a lot of good points, but think the biggest single reason the IT sucks is the sheer complexity of medical information, but also of our byzantine and baffling health system in general.
All the health systems in town use the same medical-records company, because it's local. Its design reminds me of Windows 95, and the nurses know more about the workarounds for the bugs than about the intended use. The thing is, few of the doctors and even fewer of the nurses are interested in computers. They're interested in medicine, and computers are a pain in the neck even *before* they break down. They can't tell when the computer is behaving unpredictably, because as far as they're concerned, the computer always behaves unpredictably.
Am I trying to blame the victims, here? No. I'm saying this is a detailed and ongoing focus group, and they're telling us that the whole IT system is a disaster. And as far as I'm concerned, the most damning critique is that no one I've talked to wants them to change it, because, almost to a person, they're convinced the upgrade will be just as, if not worse.
I thought the three groups were those who are good at math, and those who aren't.
The "Hawkeye Pierce" model of open source is still my favorite.
I was thinking just the opposite. When I hear about fluctuating flow, I keep thinking there must be a way to turn this to our advantage. Here's my idea...
You start with a good-sized counterweight. I don't know exactly how big -- that would depend on all sorts of variables. Anyway, you set it up with gears and pulleys and whatnot such that the wind lifts it up when it blows, and drops it down when it stops. A slight variation on this would be to ratchet the counterweight up to a considerable height, which would allow you to accumulate the power in small gusts, then release the counterweight to drive the rotor.
There must be something I'm overlooking, or someone would have thought of this by now.
Dasher is a great text-input interface: mouse driven, and you don't even have to click (very often). Not as fast as a keyboard, but still respectable.
Heck, I wish it worked for my N800, and I don't even have any disabilities.
... and the nurses spend a lot of time rolling their eyes about this. Or as one of the doctors put it, "Replace 'H1N1' with 'bad cold.'"
Yes, it's killed a number of people. But not as many (in the same timespan) as, say, cars, or industrial accidents, or smoking, or cancer, or heart disease, or drug violence, or drugs themselves, or the US military, or suicide, or old age, or AIDS, or plane crashes, or....