I don't really read the NYTs, but I'll take a different view just to keep things lively. So, I know everything on the internet is supposed to be free. But...don't you think it's fair for the journalists to get paid for the work they've done? The sentiment so far has been "great, thanks NYT. I'll just go somewhere else where the news is free". That's fine, but I think eventually you will get what you pay for. So what if all the major papers switch to a paywall? Will we be left with only cheap reporting or rehashing of other's stories?
While the doctors writing out scrips for antibiotics does play a role, one of the major factors should be patient education. A lot of people think that antibiotics should be used for minor complaints, such as colds. In addition, one major cause of superbugs is the failure of patients to complete a course of antibiotics. They feel better, so they simply stop taking the medications.
It certainly is an interesting hypothesis. However, their sample is now limited to terrorist:engineers. A test of this theory would be to check the engineers of other religious groups for similar traits. It might be the combination of these personality traits coupled with the radical teachings that inspire those individuals to act. However, the tendency might manifest itself in some other way in different religions that don't promote violent martyrdom.
What you saw were the "sponsored links" that usually appear above the actual search results. The reason Target didn't appear in the sponsored links is because they obviously didn't pay enough to Google to target (forgive pun) that particular combination of words. If you go down about 3 links, you should see the Target links.
I agree with you both, but I think you're missing my point. The disciplines of both psychology and advertising are based on the assumption that while we are all individuals and have free will, we also as a group have patterns and tendencies. Hence the Forer effect (a.k.a, Barnum statements) which are used by the folks writing horoscopes. We have free will, but we have numerous undetected forces acting to influence us.
So, if we know when they're going to attack, wouldn't we not want them to know that we know? I mean, won't publicizing this just make the insurgents change their pattern?...military intelligence.
Hmmm...useless might be an overstatement. I'm assuming they're talking about large scale trends here, not "the enemy will attack at precisely 12:07 pm on Dec 23rd". If so, it would indeed help with planning a troop surge. In fact, I wonder if you could even break the pattern by knowing the cycle? If you knew that in 6 months there was going to be a surge, and you brought in boatloads of troops, might it discourage the enemy?
Nice! Another thought: maybe this model could be extended to different levels of conflict? Maybe the patterns for guerrilla warfare are different than the larger "subsidized" events?
Not to mention the exceptional sound quality, even for the cheapo ones. I've actually listened to them side by side with recording studio speakers, and the sound quality is amazingly close, IMHO.
Ah yes - that was before I bought my SkullCandies. Those things are so soundproof that I put them in without music to block out sound. Now I really have to crank it to annoy my friends across the street;^)
Sorry BadAnalogyGuy - you need to RTFA. The issue here is not the ambient noise produced by the earphones, but the damage to the listener. (...trying to think of a bad analogy...). Imagine you're a car, and you want to put the wrong kind of gas in your tank... (never mind)
The EU govenment is trying to protect us from ourselves. Hmmm....which makes me wonder why they don't try to impose any limits on rock concerts. I'll bet they're over 85db, and it affects 10s of thousands of people at a time.
Interesting. On the one hand, I think this is a good idea. Folks tend to (illegally) listen with the earphones while driving. Also, it seems that at least half of the people you pass on busy streets are listening as well - I wonder how many pedestrian accidents are related to missing auditory cues from the environment?
On the other hand, I'm one of those people that tend to listen at full volume while walking. I had a friend one time tell me that he heard my earbuds from all the way across the street (seriously). My chronic tinnitus aside, if you limit my decibelage, I will find a way to crank it. Besides, what is the use of limiting the decibels if you can just override it anyway?
OK, so I'm an "indie" artist, and I have a ton of friends who are indie artists as well. We actually just got signed to a minor record label after years of trying to sell our CDs at gigs, carshows, and chick-fil-a grand opentings, etc. Fortunately, we used iTunes to sell our music instead of imeem. I have to tell you that at.99$ a tune we weren't making a whole lot of $$. In fact, all of my indie friends mentioned above pretty much have full time jobs to pay the bills - the music thing for most of us is something we do just because we love to play.
The point is that I would guess that the imeem accounts are probably just micropayments - maybe in the range of 5-20$. I wouldn't expect any laywer to go after this kind of chump change, not even for a class action suit. I think us poor starving musician types will just have to suck it up as usual while we get hassled by the man.
While most of the posts so far have focused on the paper aspect, what's interesting to me is the fact that the batteries can be printed. Assuming that you don't need the paper, this opens up a pretty significant world of possibilities. For example, imagine a solar powered aircraft that has the energy stored in the paint? This would give a pretty significant performance increase due to the lack of need for a standard battery.
Also, if there's no need for paper, could you use it as a liquid? Pour it into the interstitial space of your machine? The potential for space savings are staggering.
It's interesting commentary to me on social networking - this whole dust up appears to be from the use of the name "friend" to signify a virtual relationship. I wonder if this issue would have come up if the name were changed to something neutral like "node" or "connection". Using a name like that would at least avoid the superficial appearance of impropriety.
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I don't really read the NYTs, but I'll take a different view just to keep things lively. So, I know everything on the internet is supposed to be free. But...don't you think it's fair for the journalists to get paid for the work they've done? The sentiment so far has been "great, thanks NYT. I'll just go somewhere else where the news is free". That's fine, but I think eventually you will get what you pay for. So what if all the major papers switch to a paywall? Will we be left with only cheap reporting or rehashing of other's stories?
While the doctors writing out scrips for antibiotics does play a role, one of the major factors should be patient education. A lot of people think that antibiotics should be used for minor complaints, such as colds. In addition, one major cause of superbugs is the failure of patients to complete a course of antibiotics. They feel better, so they simply stop taking the medications.
...Sarah and John Connor will come by with a big guy from the future to get it back soon.
It certainly is an interesting hypothesis. However, their sample is now limited to terrorist:engineers. A test of this theory would be to check the engineers of other religious groups for similar traits. It might be the combination of these personality traits coupled with the radical teachings that inspire those individuals to act. However, the tendency might manifest itself in some other way in different religions that don't promote violent martyrdom.
(Sorry, my friend, I just have to go here)
OK, so you want us to stick it to the big monopolistic corporation by using....Bing?? Way to fight for the little guy!! Stickin it to the man!!
What you saw were the "sponsored links" that usually appear above the actual search results. The reason Target didn't appear in the sponsored links is because they obviously didn't pay enough to Google to target (forgive pun) that particular combination of words. If you go down about 3 links, you should see the Target links.
I agree with you both, but I think you're missing my point. The disciplines of both psychology and advertising are based on the assumption that while we are all individuals and have free will, we also as a group have patterns and tendencies. Hence the Forer effect (a.k.a, Barnum statements) which are used by the folks writing horoscopes. We have free will, but we have numerous undetected forces acting to influence us.
So, if we know when they're going to attack, wouldn't we not want them to know that we know? I mean, won't publicizing this just make the insurgents change their pattern? ...military intelligence.
I agree with you to a point, but if that were completely true than the disciplines of psychology and advertising would not exist.
Hmmm...useless might be an overstatement. I'm assuming they're talking about large scale trends here, not "the enemy will attack at precisely 12:07 pm on Dec 23rd". If so, it would indeed help with planning a troop surge. In fact, I wonder if you could even break the pattern by knowing the cycle? If you knew that in 6 months there was going to be a surge, and you brought in boatloads of troops, might it discourage the enemy?
Nice! Another thought: maybe this model could be extended to different levels of conflict? Maybe the patterns for guerrilla warfare are different than the larger "subsidized" events?
Good question. Fortunately, we posted our tunes there before we got signed, so I'm not sure how much the record companies take.
Sorry to disappoint value_added: My playlist includes Miles Davis, Tony Williams and Jaco. Those cats never go out of style.
Not to mention the exceptional sound quality, even for the cheapo ones. I've actually listened to them side by side with recording studio speakers, and the sound quality is amazingly close, IMHO.
Ah yes - that was before I bought my SkullCandies. Those things are so soundproof that I put them in without music to block out sound. Now I really have to crank it to annoy my friends across the street ;^)
Sorry BadAnalogyGuy - you need to RTFA. The issue here is not the ambient noise produced by the earphones, but the damage to the listener. (...trying to think of a bad analogy...). Imagine you're a car, and you want to put the wrong kind of gas in your tank... (never mind)
The EU govenment is trying to protect us from ourselves. Hmmm....which makes me wonder why they don't try to impose any limits on rock concerts. I'll bet they're over 85db, and it affects 10s of thousands of people at a time.
Interesting. On the one hand, I think this is a good idea. Folks tend to (illegally) listen with the earphones while driving. Also, it seems that at least half of the people you pass on busy streets are listening as well - I wonder how many pedestrian accidents are related to missing auditory cues from the environment?
On the other hand, I'm one of those people that tend to listen at full volume while walking. I had a friend one time tell me that he heard my earbuds from all the way across the street (seriously). My chronic tinnitus aside, if you limit my decibelage, I will find a way to crank it. Besides, what is the use of limiting the decibels if you can just override it anyway?
OK, so I'm an "indie" artist, and I have a ton of friends who are indie artists as well. We actually just got signed to a minor record label after years of trying to sell our CDs at gigs, carshows, and chick-fil-a grand opentings, etc. Fortunately, we used iTunes to sell our music instead of imeem. I have to tell you that at .99$ a tune we weren't making a whole lot of $$. In fact, all of my indie friends mentioned above pretty much have full time jobs to pay the bills - the music thing for most of us is something we do just because we love to play.
The point is that I would guess that the imeem accounts are probably just micropayments - maybe in the range of 5-20$. I wouldn't expect any laywer to go after this kind of chump change, not even for a class action suit. I think us poor starving musician types will just have to suck it up as usual while we get hassled by the man.
While most of the posts so far have focused on the paper aspect, what's interesting to me is the fact that the batteries can be printed. Assuming that you don't need the paper, this opens up a pretty significant world of possibilities. For example, imagine a solar powered aircraft that has the energy stored in the paint? This would give a pretty significant performance increase due to the lack of need for a standard battery.
Also, if there's no need for paper, could you use it as a liquid? Pour it into the interstitial space of your machine? The potential for space savings are staggering.
It's interesting commentary to me on social networking - this whole dust up appears to be from the use of the name "friend" to signify a virtual relationship. I wonder if this issue would have come up if the name were changed to something neutral like "node" or "connection". Using a name like that would at least avoid the superficial appearance of impropriety.