“Reasoning doesn’t have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions,” said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author of the journal article, with Dan Sperber. “It was a purely social phenomenon. It evolved to help us convince others and to be careful when others try to convince us.” Truth and accuracy were beside the point.
As such, this model also allows for emotional reasoning ('truthiness') and the acceptance of logical fallacy.
After I posted that, I was thinking that this would be perfect for things that already work well in the shell - Lynx, vi/emacs, etc - but there's no keyboard.
The touch screen isn't capacitive; it apparently uses a much less precise IR system to track your finger. So, neat, you got it rooted and can run Android apps - on a six-inch grayscale screen that can only roughly approximate gestures. I think that if you want to pay for an e-reader and use it as a tablet, the Nook Color is the better bet.
This is the Nook Simple Touch, which was available yesterday. The Nook Color's been out since November. It's news because the various Nooks have been rooted for a while now, and the latest Nook iteration apparently did nothing to make it harder.
I can hardly wait for the day people will be able to use their cell phones on those long haul flights.
I can wait forever if need be, and be glad for the privilege. You know how annoying it is when people shout into their cell phones? The intersection of those people with the set of people who can't shut up on airplanes, added to the already stressful air travel experience, is not something I look forward to.
This one is slightly better in that it's not mainly about Bitcoin, but it's obvious that Slashdot is being pumped full of Bitcoin articles by Bitcoin promoters.
To the point where the story being linked to is from Al-Jazeera.
Aside from the obvious implication of planted evidence, how was the shooting officer threatened to the point of justified deadly force if the gun couldn't be found for four days? Did the dying suspect construct an elaborate hiding place for the gun and place it there only after brandishing it and getting shot?
Maybe you need to THROW AWAY all that technology that's got you so befuddled, and go back to something more genuine.
He kind of did that once, when he sold the Graphics Group in a fire sale to finance his divorce. It didn't help - we still wound up with a tech-heavy, shitty prequels. The Graphics Group, as Pixar, went on to tell some good stories (and yes, some formulaic ones) with amazing CGI. I think the real key is removing George Lucas from the equation.
They can only assert their trademarks to prevent market confusion - specifically, against a competing product with a similar name or similar branding.
A fact of which they are acutely aware, given that they used this argument to claim distinction from Apple Corps (the Beatles' music label), on the grounds that they sold computers, not music. (Which, predictably, led to another lawsuit when they produced the iPod, iTunes music store, etc.)
I just couldn't see any other reason for you to make that post unless you are constantly reading Slashdot to find some reason, however vague, to post some xkcd promotion.
Busted! Nothing spells profiteering like posting a link to a year-old April Fool's joke on a free website that doesn't display ads.
That's probably a good solution if you're designing it that way from the word go, but involves some significant effort to migrate to it if you hadn't. Bear in mind, you're shifting the bulk of the processing from the desktop to the back-end, which you would have to build the capacity for if you didn't have it already.
I think it would be cheaper to design one virtual machine that will run decently on a predetermined hardware minimum, and a disk image designed for that one machine that includes your base software packages, and can have additional software installed as necessary.
And yet, if you save more by making that change than it costs, it pays for itself. Revenue would be nice, but isn't a necessary component.
"Why can't it be a simple comparison of costs?"
Because that's already done
I reject this premise, since your previous point required additional revenue to pay for it.
and the cost of supporting devices that you can't completly control is obviously larger in quite a lot of ways (management tools, training, baselining, added complexity and variability...) and even in some unobvious ways (when you allow for somebody to use his own car for business purposes you have to reimburse gas and tearing; you don't think that you'll get to use their devices for free, do you?)
All questions I raised.
"If it costs me less to support a device owned by an employee plus the added risk of lost/compromised data than it does to purchase, maintain, support and then ultimately dispose of a device owned by the company, then it makes perfect business sense."
Yes, you are right. It's only that as of today, it costs more and poses a higher risk.
You didn't come even remotely close to demonstrating this. Can you provide support for your argument?
Why does the decision have to bring in revenue? Why can't it be a simple comparison of costs? If it costs me less to support a device owned by an employee plus the added risk of lost/compromised data than it does to purchase, maintain, support and then ultimately dispose of a device owned by the company, then it makes perfect business sense. And let's be clear, the additional risk is only the risk added by letting the employee use their own machine; there's a still a huge baseline risk in letting the employee have access to the data, take home a laptop, etc. to begin with.
The complication I see is coming up with a solution that allows for an enormous variety of hardware and software combinations but still allows the IT department to maintain quality standards and enforce SOP. Then enters the question of repairs - if an employee damages their personal laptop that they use for work, who pays for it? How is work done in the meantime? What about depreciation? The business can currently depreciate the asset, but now the employee needs to figure out the work/personal mix before they can do it. Does the employee get some sort of 'mileage' on their devices to reimburse for the increased wear-and-tear? What about employees who *don't* want to use their personal devices - you still have to provide them the tools to do their job.
I think ultimately we'll see some relaxation in IT that *allows* for personal use, but does so in a sand-boxed manner through virtualization. Bring in any machine you want that meets some minimum requirements, and IT will load it up with VMware and a pre-configured disk image.
Use the flow of blood to generate a tiny bit of electric current through induction in a series of spaced coils wrapped around a vein, and run the current backward along the flow of blood to a small pump. A series of these throughout the body would work, as you say, as a distributed heart. The only problem I can foresee is timing; since you're moving a fluid through a closed system, the pumps would have to work in tandem or else blood pressure would be persistently erratic throughout the body, which can't be good long term.
...and then someone will emulate a modem (complete with bandwidth throttled to 57k, and handshaking sounds), get DOSBox running, and load in the images for Windows 3.1, thus recreating my computer from my freshman year of college in JavaScript - except much faster.
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“Reasoning doesn’t have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions,” said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author of the journal article, with Dan Sperber. “It was a purely social phenomenon. It evolved to help us convince others and to be careful when others try to convince us.” Truth and accuracy were beside the point.
As such, this model also allows for emotional reasoning ('truthiness') and the acceptance of logical fallacy.
The union of a set with itself is itself, and since he seems to be the only one trying to unionize, mission accomplished?
After I posted that, I was thinking that this would be perfect for things that already work well in the shell - Lynx, vi/emacs, etc - but there's no keyboard.
The touch screen isn't capacitive; it apparently uses a much less precise IR system to track your finger. So, neat, you got it rooted and can run Android apps - on a six-inch grayscale screen that can only roughly approximate gestures. I think that if you want to pay for an e-reader and use it as a tablet, the Nook Color is the better bet.
This is the Nook Simple Touch, which was available yesterday. The Nook Color's been out since November. It's news because the various Nooks have been rooted for a while now, and the latest Nook iteration apparently did nothing to make it harder.
I can hardly wait for the day people will be able to use their cell phones on those long haul flights.
I can wait forever if need be, and be glad for the privilege. You know how annoying it is when people shout into their cell phones? The intersection of those people with the set of people who can't shut up on airplanes, added to the already stressful air travel experience, is not something I look forward to.
This one is slightly better in that it's not mainly about Bitcoin, but it's obvious that Slashdot is being pumped full of Bitcoin articles by Bitcoin promoters.
To the point where the story being linked to is from Al-Jazeera.
...which is itself inevitable once (n mod 4) = 1. (Stupid slashdot filters out ≅ symbol)
The problem really becomes proving that for any {n: (n mod 4) = 2,3}, the sequence will eventually yield {n: (n mod 4) = 1}.
Aside from the obvious implication of planted evidence, how was the shooting officer threatened to the point of justified deadly force if the gun couldn't be found for four days? Did the dying suspect construct an elaborate hiding place for the gun and place it there only after brandishing it and getting shot?
Someone set us up the cupcake! The cupcake is a lie!
The recipes are nowhere to be found on the Ellen site, but here's what I could find that seems to fit the bill:
Mojito cupcakes
Rocky Road cupcakes
...provided by a lesbian, no less.
But does it run Linux?
Maybe you need to THROW AWAY all that technology that's got you so befuddled, and go back to something more genuine.
He kind of did that once, when he sold the Graphics Group in a fire sale to finance his divorce. It didn't help - we still wound up with a tech-heavy, shitty prequels. The Graphics Group, as Pixar, went on to tell some good stories (and yes, some formulaic ones) with amazing CGI. I think the real key is removing George Lucas from the equation.
They can only assert their trademarks to prevent market confusion - specifically, against a competing product with a similar name or similar branding.
A fact of which they are acutely aware, given that they used this argument to claim distinction from Apple Corps (the Beatles' music label), on the grounds that they sold computers, not music. (Which, predictably, led to another lawsuit when they produced the iPod, iTunes music store, etc.)
Is that her new backstory? A friend...of my science project...wants to know.
Are those numbers "at once" or "ever"?
I just couldn't see any other reason for you to make that post unless you are constantly reading Slashdot to find some reason, however vague, to post some xkcd promotion.
Busted! Nothing spells profiteering like posting a link to a year-old April Fool's joke on a free website that doesn't display ads.
That's like comparing apples to hammers.
You know what they say: "When all you've got is an iPhone, everything starts to look like you're getting screwed."
That's probably a good solution if you're designing it that way from the word go, but involves some significant effort to migrate to it if you hadn't. Bear in mind, you're shifting the bulk of the processing from the desktop to the back-end, which you would have to build the capacity for if you didn't have it already.
I think it would be cheaper to design one virtual machine that will run decently on a predetermined hardware minimum, and a disk image designed for that one machine that includes your base software packages, and can have additional software installed as necessary.
How so?
"Why does the decision have to bring in revenue?"
Because change costs money.
And yet, if you save more by making that change than it costs, it pays for itself. Revenue would be nice, but isn't a necessary component.
"Why can't it be a simple comparison of costs?"
Because that's already done
I reject this premise, since your previous point required additional revenue to pay for it.
and the cost of supporting devices that you can't completly control is obviously larger in quite a lot of ways (management tools, training, baselining, added complexity and variability...) and even in some unobvious ways (when you allow for somebody to use his own car for business purposes you have to reimburse gas and tearing; you don't think that you'll get to use their devices for free, do you?)
All questions I raised.
"If it costs me less to support a device owned by an employee plus the added risk of lost/compromised data than it does to purchase, maintain, support and then ultimately dispose of a device owned by the company, then it makes perfect business sense."
Yes, you are right. It's only that as of today, it costs more and poses a higher risk.
You didn't come even remotely close to demonstrating this. Can you provide support for your argument?
Why does the decision have to bring in revenue? Why can't it be a simple comparison of costs? If it costs me less to support a device owned by an employee plus the added risk of lost/compromised data than it does to purchase, maintain, support and then ultimately dispose of a device owned by the company, then it makes perfect business sense. And let's be clear, the additional risk is only the risk added by letting the employee use their own machine; there's a still a huge baseline risk in letting the employee have access to the data, take home a laptop, etc. to begin with.
The complication I see is coming up with a solution that allows for an enormous variety of hardware and software combinations but still allows the IT department to maintain quality standards and enforce SOP. Then enters the question of repairs - if an employee damages their personal laptop that they use for work, who pays for it? How is work done in the meantime? What about depreciation? The business can currently depreciate the asset, but now the employee needs to figure out the work/personal mix before they can do it. Does the employee get some sort of 'mileage' on their devices to reimburse for the increased wear-and-tear? What about employees who *don't* want to use their personal devices - you still have to provide them the tools to do their job.
I think ultimately we'll see some relaxation in IT that *allows* for personal use, but does so in a sand-boxed manner through virtualization. Bring in any machine you want that meets some minimum requirements, and IT will load it up with VMware and a pre-configured disk image.
Nope, I had a similar idea:
Use the flow of blood to generate a tiny bit of electric current through induction in a series of spaced coils wrapped around a vein, and run the current backward along the flow of blood to a small pump. A series of these throughout the body would work, as you say, as a distributed heart. The only problem I can foresee is timing; since you're moving a fluid through a closed system, the pumps would have to work in tandem or else blood pressure would be persistently erratic throughout the body, which can't be good long term.
Still a cool idea, though.
...and then someone will emulate a modem (complete with bandwidth throttled to 57k, and handshaking sounds), get DOSBox running, and load in the images for Windows 3.1, thus recreating my computer from my freshman year of college in JavaScript - except much faster.