If Metro had any large social influence, we'd all be dressed like celebrity buffons and act personally irresponsibility with respect to sex, drugs, and relationships. A small portion of the population may demonstrate those traits, but to claim that one information source could have that kind of influence over purchasing choices implies that multiple information sources could likewise influence purchasing choices, which relegates Metro back to the status of noise for most of the population.
Your skills are not unique. The market will interpret your attempt to cut out Amazon as damage and route around you accordingly. The eleven clients you would deny to Amazon are indistinguishable from nothing to Amazon, yet Amazon represents an entire world of possibilities to your clients.
Simpler way: Block www.facebook.com and facebook.com (which serve the offsite like buttons and such). Allow m.facebook.com (which doesn't serve like buttons or any scripts).
The result is an ad-free light-weight facebook page without app spam in the feeds, faster page loads off-site, and no Flash cookies or other persistence, without batch file hackage.
One of the following is true: 1) During 2010, Wikileaks has received one or more documents not pertaining to the US government, and has chosen not to release them. Wikileaks is therefore biased. 2) During 2010, Wikileaks has NOT received any documents not pertaining to the US government. Wikileaks is therefore not a credible leaks organization according to potential leakers in general.
That argument morally permits any action by the US government, as long as it was previously used by another government against the US. In other words, there would be no grounds on which to condemn the US for anything disclosed about its war crimes, nor any would any shenanigans disclosed by the present disclosure justify any criticism since every other diplomat does the same things.
You cannot just assume away a contradiction in that manner to justify a simplistic blanket rule for a complex situation.
Particular details may or may not have meaning depending on the abstraction. On a platter, an infinite number of different states could mean 1, and a different infinite number of different states could mean 0. In a photo, a bitflipped LSB in a pixel value may mean everything, or or it may mean nothing.
It's possible and often profitable to be both correct about the technical and social aspects of a topic of discussion. jmottram08 has used substantially the same wetware as available to yourself to come to an understanding of the world that differs from your own. Yet by participating in this discussion he has demonstrated at least a willingness to have his views challenged on the topic.
Even though you may be entirely correct in your technical understanding and analysis, your effectiveness at convincing others of your position depends on successfully socializing your knowledge. A good representative legislative body should include individuals with technical competencies distributed normally. jmottram08 would appear to be more knowledgeable than most, but less knowledgeable than experts, on the subject of digital photography. If you cannot civilly convince jmottram08 of the merits of your technical argument, good luck convincing the majority with whom you have an even larger knowledge gap.
By including social disdain along with your technical arguments, you not only undercut your own technical argument by begging the person whom you attack to ignore it, but you also lose the social backing of those who know your argument is correct.
For the record, I've just friended jmottram08 and defended him in this longish offtopic post because even though he's technically incorrect on some points, he has shown a greater willingness and ability to consider plausible alternatives that include social dimensions than your posts demonstrate.
What do you read in this area? At the moment I'm particularly interested in locating results from large scale studies (peer-reviewed or otherwise) about cheating in online components of education since such studies rarely attract research funding.
Or that person uses a European keyboard layout, or an enlightened text input system such as found on OS X. To compose an accented character requires pressing Option and the character representing of the diacritic, and then typing the character on which it is to appear. Option+e Shift+e produces É. Memorizing, as for the extended ASCII control characters, does not scale well to all of Unicode.
Like input systems, academic systems vary in different parts of the world. I look forward to publishing a paper deserving the honour of being recited from memory (if only in parts) by scholars inspired by the Confucian system. Until I produce much more significant work, I'll just have to make do with being cited by people who've only skimmed the abstracts.
> We probably won't do any better until we have true AI that can understand a scientific paper.
This would have even more perverse consequences with respect to content being optimized around the AI. We've seen this before with spam and SEO in which content quality persistently diminishes with time.
> @ 20 paper per Issue(monthly) we would have 1700 Journals solely dedicated to Indian students.
I've been asked by publishers from India to referee such things (with titles randomly ordering two or more of "International | Global | Journal | Management | Advanced | Business | Science | Engineering | Information | Technology | Computing | Development | Innovation | Studies", usually off by one word from an established publication), even in areas in which I have relatively little experience. Sometimes they have even asked me to pay for the privilege. Their "sample issues" are often full of unpublishable papers, often reminiscent of the output from those random paper generators.
(I suspect that I attract such solicitations because my academic pen name contains a South Asian-sounding component of unrelated origin.)
> would you trust "medical" science from these places to poke, prod, diagnose and operate on your bod?
Yes. They seem to do relatively well for treading an order of magnitude more citizens at an order of magnitude lower cost than US or EU. And their medical staffs have broader ranges of practical experience since barriers to medical care are incidental rather than structural.
> Would you perhaps like a nice Chinese translation from which to study dinosaurs?
I'd rather have access to their oodles of undiscovered field sites, as opposed to being conceptually and intellectually locked in to Dinosaur Provincial Park.
> Somehow are their fledgling space programs somehow wiser now than NASA?
Private citizens now have fledging space programs that are more relevant than NASA's. Flickr regularly documents space experiments on How about physics?
Leading edge semi-conductor physics are more often commercialized in China than almost anywhere else. They have also started making their move in catalytic green energy systems. MIT partnered with India's Tata on their new domestic catalytic hydrogen/solar energy system, rather than with US or EU, because India has fewer physical and intellectual legacy issues.
> Newsclowns are just clowns,no matter the arena
Depends on where you get your news. The Economist is utterly clueless about IT, EIU is hit and miss depending on how much they interpolate, but they usually provide reference to their external sources.
What's the business or technical reason for maintaining compatibility between home and technical computer desktop environments? The largest potential for growth would seem not to be in the technical market, where adoption of (other brands of) Linux is already strong and approaching saturation, but in the relatively untapped home or business environment where Ubuntu has some core competencies.
Also, I don't think this move asks "everyone to rebuild and recode" as much as it asks those developers who want to follow Ubuntu into the non-technical market to do the work to understand their users' needs, rather than imposing a one size fits all paradigm. The scientific, mobile, and entertainment appliance Linux distros have been far more successful than most because they understand market segmentation.
Ingestion of semi-endangered plan spps. would not be my first approach since you'd be saturating more than just the lungs with the active compounds. Since most of the genti- compounds appear to be large, alkaloid, cyclic or aromatic ligands of sugars, (assuming that their many potential active sites remain unmolested in the GI tract) I would be surprised if maintaining sufficient concentration into the bloodstream to have it aerosolize in the lungs wouldn't also generate substantial side effects almost everywhere else in the body where Gentain could be used for treatment.
I don't see the benefit here of ingestion over inhalation, but there is potentially interesting research with respect to asthma occurrence among drinkers of bitters and the like.
Most of the transitions and dynamic elements available through PowerPoint have analogues through CSS and JS, so the internal technical problems are minimal. The difficult part would be designing the UI since Gecko provides low-level interfaces to hundreds of DHTML goodies, not all of which have practical value to individuals creating presentations.
It would be relatively easy to disable the branches of code that wait on or poll network or scripting stuff to enhance performance, but having a network-aware presentation app would also provide opportunities to design new types of presentation with new data sources, content, interactions, etc.
If the combination of DHTML presentations and (hopefully) ease of use provide sufficient value in new ways, a Mozilla presentation app wouldn't even need to worry about being able to import from.ppt.
OO.o can fail perfectly fine on its own for slightly more than basic office tasks.
Try to data- and mail- merge a basic newsletter/membership renewal package with simple design elements using several thousand rows and variable content depending on flags in the data source. The output will be mostly fine when it works (inconsistently excepting niceties like typography, clean content breaks, and precise control over content placement), but attempting to output batches of more than 500 items at a time leads to wonderful core dumps and/or pages of borked Postscript that gs declines to interpret and/or repair.
And then there's the spreadsheet app that implements some but not all of the useful functions in statistical or financial analysis families, and the presentation app that doesn't know how to verify the ability of the local system to provide or present typefaces and assets when opening files created on a different machine...
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If Metro had any large social influence, we'd all be dressed like celebrity buffons and act personally irresponsibility with respect to sex, drugs, and relationships. A small portion of the population may demonstrate those traits, but to claim that one information source could have that kind of influence over purchasing choices implies that multiple information sources could likewise influence purchasing choices, which relegates Metro back to the status of noise for most of the population.
Your skills are not unique. The market will interpret your attempt to cut out Amazon as damage and route around you accordingly. The eleven clients you would deny to Amazon are indistinguishable from nothing to Amazon, yet Amazon represents an entire world of possibilities to your clients.
Why not just retcon it as a WikiLeaks release and turn this event into a PR opportunity?
Simpler way:
Block www.facebook.com and facebook.com (which serve the offsite like buttons and such).
Allow m.facebook.com (which doesn't serve like buttons or any scripts).
The result is an ad-free light-weight facebook page without app spam in the feeds, faster page loads off-site, and no Flash cookies or other persistence, without batch file hackage.
One of the following is true:
1) During 2010, Wikileaks has received one or more documents not pertaining to the US government, and has chosen not to release them. Wikileaks is therefore biased.
2) During 2010, Wikileaks has NOT received any documents not pertaining to the US government. Wikileaks is therefore not a credible leaks organization according to potential leakers in general.
Leaking random documents provides as much transparency as x-raying random passengers at airports.
The great thing about a dead man's switch is that you can remove the man from maintaining the switch without first having to kill him.
That position legitimates government's erosion of the people's privacy.
If that is your true belief, then please do not fight for privacy on my behalf.
> Turnabout is fair play.
That argument morally permits any action by the US government, as long as it was previously used by another government against the US. In other words, there would be no grounds on which to condemn the US for anything disclosed about its war crimes, nor any would any shenanigans disclosed by the present disclosure justify any criticism since every other diplomat does the same things.
You cannot just assume away a contradiction in that manner to justify a simplistic blanket rule for a complex situation.
Particular details may or may not have meaning depending on the abstraction. On a platter, an infinite number of different states could mean 1, and a different infinite number of different states could mean 0. In a photo, a bitflipped LSB in a pixel value may mean everything, or or it may mean nothing.
Consider the universe as a storage medium...
The changes to a bit of a storage medium over time also have meaning, while each state should be distinguishable from the last.
It's possible and often profitable to be both correct about the technical and social aspects of a topic of discussion. jmottram08 has used substantially the same wetware as available to yourself to come to an understanding of the world that differs from your own. Yet by participating in this discussion he has demonstrated at least a willingness to have his views challenged on the topic.
Even though you may be entirely correct in your technical understanding and analysis, your effectiveness at convincing others of your position depends on successfully socializing your knowledge. A good representative legislative body should include individuals with technical competencies distributed normally. jmottram08 would appear to be more knowledgeable than most, but less knowledgeable than experts, on the subject of digital photography. If you cannot civilly convince jmottram08 of the merits of your technical argument, good luck convincing the majority with whom you have an even larger knowledge gap.
By including social disdain along with your technical arguments, you not only undercut your own technical argument by begging the person whom you attack to ignore it, but you also lose the social backing of those who know your argument is correct.
For the record, I've just friended jmottram08 and defended him in this longish offtopic post because even though he's technically incorrect on some points, he has shown a greater willingness and ability to consider plausible alternatives that include social dimensions than your posts demonstrate.
What do you read in this area? At the moment I'm particularly interested in locating results from large scale studies (peer-reviewed or otherwise) about cheating in online components of education since such studies rarely attract research funding.
Or that person uses a European keyboard layout, or an enlightened text input system such as found on OS X. To compose an accented character requires pressing Option and the character representing of the diacritic, and then typing the character on which it is to appear. Option+e Shift+e produces É. Memorizing, as for the extended ASCII control characters, does not scale well to all of Unicode.
Like input systems, academic systems vary in different parts of the world. I look forward to publishing a paper deserving the honour of being recited from memory (if only in parts) by scholars inspired by the Confucian system. Until I produce much more significant work, I'll just have to make do with being cited by people who've only skimmed the abstracts.
US/EU seem to apply the same kind of quality control to their domestic junk food systems...
> We probably won't do any better until we have true AI that can understand a scientific paper.
This would have even more perverse consequences with respect to content being optimized around the AI. We've seen this before with spam and SEO in which content quality persistently diminishes with time.
We need a journal of non-results to minimize accidental repetition of work while preserving the ability to reinterpret and learn from our mistakes.
> @ 20 paper per Issue(monthly) we would have 1700 Journals solely dedicated to Indian students.
I've been asked by publishers from India to referee such things (with titles randomly ordering two or more of "International | Global | Journal | Management | Advanced | Business | Science | Engineering | Information | Technology | Computing | Development | Innovation | Studies", usually off by one word from an established publication), even in areas in which I have relatively little experience. Sometimes they have even asked me to pay for the privilege. Their "sample issues" are often full of unpublishable papers, often reminiscent of the output from those random paper generators.
(I suspect that I attract such solicitations because my academic pen name contains a South Asian-sounding component of unrelated origin.)
> would you trust "medical" science from these places to poke, prod, diagnose and operate on your bod?
Yes. They seem to do relatively well for treading an order of magnitude more citizens at an order of magnitude lower cost than US or EU. And their medical staffs have broader ranges of practical experience since barriers to medical care are incidental rather than structural.
> Would you perhaps like a nice Chinese translation from which to study dinosaurs?
I'd rather have access to their oodles of undiscovered field sites, as opposed to being conceptually and intellectually locked in to Dinosaur Provincial Park.
> Somehow are their fledgling space programs somehow wiser now than NASA?
Private citizens now have fledging space programs that are more relevant than NASA's. Flickr regularly documents space experiments on How about physics?
Leading edge semi-conductor physics are more often commercialized in China than almost anywhere else. They have also started making their move in catalytic green energy systems. MIT partnered with India's Tata on their new domestic catalytic hydrogen/solar energy system, rather than with US or EU, because India has fewer physical and intellectual legacy issues.
> Newsclowns are just clowns ,no matter the arena
Depends on where you get your news. The Economist is utterly clueless about IT, EIU is hit and miss depending on how much they interpolate, but they usually provide reference to their external sources.
What's the business or technical reason for maintaining compatibility between home and technical computer desktop environments? The largest potential for growth would seem not to be in the technical market, where adoption of (other brands of) Linux is already strong and approaching saturation, but in the relatively untapped home or business environment where Ubuntu has some core competencies.
Also, I don't think this move asks "everyone to rebuild and recode" as much as it asks those developers who want to follow Ubuntu into the non-technical market to do the work to understand their users' needs, rather than imposing a one size fits all paradigm. The scientific, mobile, and entertainment appliance Linux distros have been far more successful than most because they understand market segmentation.
X does not magically disappear when other options become available. In the worst case, you could roll your own from source.
Ingestion of semi-endangered plan spps. would not be my first approach since you'd be saturating more than just the lungs with the active compounds. Since most of the genti- compounds appear to be large, alkaloid, cyclic or aromatic ligands of sugars, (assuming that their many potential active sites remain unmolested in the GI tract) I would be surprised if maintaining sufficient concentration into the bloodstream to have it aerosolize in the lungs wouldn't also generate substantial side effects almost everywhere else in the body where Gentain could be used for treatment.
I don't see the benefit here of ingestion over inhalation, but there is potentially interesting research with respect to asthma occurrence among drinkers of bitters and the like.
Do you often get soda into your lungs, in which the taste receptors for bitter reside?
Most of the transitions and dynamic elements available through PowerPoint have analogues through CSS and JS, so the internal technical problems are minimal. The difficult part would be designing the UI since Gecko provides low-level interfaces to hundreds of DHTML goodies, not all of which have practical value to individuals creating presentations.
It would be relatively easy to disable the branches of code that wait on or poll network or scripting stuff to enhance performance, but having a network-aware presentation app would also provide opportunities to design new types of presentation with new data sources, content, interactions, etc.
If the combination of DHTML presentations and (hopefully) ease of use provide sufficient value in new ways, a Mozilla presentation app wouldn't even need to worry about being able to import from .ppt.
OO.o can fail perfectly fine on its own for slightly more than basic office tasks.
Try to data- and mail- merge a basic newsletter/membership renewal package with simple design elements using several thousand rows and variable content depending on flags in the data source. The output will be mostly fine when it works (inconsistently excepting niceties like typography, clean content breaks, and precise control over content placement), but attempting to output batches of more than 500 items at a time leads to wonderful core dumps and/or pages of borked Postscript that gs declines to interpret and/or repair.
And then there's the spreadsheet app that implements some but not all of the useful functions in statistical or financial analysis families, and the presentation app that doesn't know how to verify the ability of the local system to provide or present typefaces and assets when opening files created on a different machine...