I do believe he is right in a sense. You cannot compare the US to those countries so simply as it leaves out too many variables.
One thing I do note that makes a big difference is that parents of the current and maybe even previous generation are far more concerned with themselves than their children. We have more disposable income than generations raised in the seventies which in turn has resulted in many more things for adults to have to occupy their time. We then have the cycle where some people get stuck in wanting more and more and thereby reducing the time they allot to their children.
As such the children are left idle more here than in other countries so the higher fat and calorie intakes affect children here more. Combine with the abundance of food and junk food and its a double whammy. I can compare different parents easily just in my sister's own neighborhood. You can tell those who focus on their children and those who don't simply by observing the kids. From how outgoing they are to even their weight. Sorry, there just isn't an excuse for a 200lb 8th grader. Yet I can see the same in the parents. But wait you say, its genetic. Yeah, until I look at their wedding pictures and wonder where the dashing young man went and his hard body wife went...
I would this squarely in the category of "its not worth the effort"
Why? Simple, we are aready so locked down, scanned, and updated, that the risk of IE is down to levels not worth going beyond. In other words, going to a new browser gains nothing but incurs cost, training, and support.
Can firefox be locked down so users cannot add plug ins? As the article mentioned there isn't support for risk adverse let alone push services.
Because one of the little dirty secrets of the Clean Air act was to exclude about everyone other than passenger cars from the rules. They specifically excluded diesel from the rules as the manufacturers were claiming small number of vehicles, poor farmers, and limited impact. Most likely a front for the oil industry.
Does Sweet Crude ring a bell? Specifically named for lack of sulfur which was the major contaminate in diesel.
The oil industry had the chance to make diesel the fuel of the future but their bean counters got in the way. They have known for ages (since McKinley's time) how to remove sulfur from the fuel BUT THEY DID NOT WANT TO. they did it for speciality uses (kerosene lamps so they would not catch fire or stink) but not vehicles. As such states like California went after them, specifically because nearly a dozen of the contaminents in heavy sulfur diesel fuel are carcinogens. Worse studies showed that air in diesel school buses was worse than the air around them!
Diesel had a futre but the industry got greedy and now will pay for it. Its not going to be until 2010 that we have mandatory clean diesels. Hell the current ones put out contaminents that hard catalytic converters.
hit an object that doesn't crumple in a SMART car and the results will not be pretty.
The key thing I remember from talking to a SMART distributor was how well it fared in accidents with OTHER cars. When some of us asked about fixed objects they kept going back to car versus car.
A car with such a limited crumple zone as the SMART is going to transmit more energy to the occupants upon impact, there simply isn't enough car there to do anything.
Besides the car was woefully underpowered requiring near lead footing to use on the highway... meaning shitty mileage for something that weighs in at 1800lbs
I believe Texas is one of them. It apparently does cause legislators a lot of grief to the point many try to find ways to eliminate or bypass the requirement.
If only we could force the US government to be totally open people might get disgusted with the current crop of Democrats and Republicans to maybe do something
Its a license to pollute. It is the ultimate expression of wealth. You are buying permission to pollute.
All I saw at the recent get together for global warming supporters in Asia were people willing to save the environment because they are willing to make ME sacrifice. They, no, they have the money to buy themselves the right to destroy my environment and the political power to protect that right of theirs while taking mine away.
Sorry, but the primary reason I destest Al Gore is his excessive resource use which he somehow thinks he absolves by buying trees. If he were truly serious about OUR environment he would cut back what he uses, not buy the right to abuse.
There is nothing more arrogant than carbon credits : paying for excessive resource use and the right to pollute.
I bet in most companies one baseball bat could bring most companies to their knees.
Why resort to a "logic bomb" which they will know who did it to just being direct?
Don't think so, many places I have been I could appear as a Heating and Cooling worker, electrician, or even trash disposal, and get unescorted access into the data center. All the security in the world doesn't do diddly when half of the IT department will let you in with "can you let me back in, my buddy can't hear me over the fans"
because future product development includes high speed transmission of copyrighted video. As such they will probably get hammered while trying to cut deals with the big media companies. Meaning, where the studios cannot get laws passed to do what they want they can go after anyone who both provides the underlying service as well as the content.
Now everyone can have their princess leia projected while talking to her, of course she is on the wall but one day she will literally spring up from the phone as you lay it down on the table and chat using your BT headset.
Hell, done right we will eventually be able to do presentations for people who can't come into the office. Real time video and projection combined to make a cool tool. I figure it is just like cell based cameras, first two generations suck before something truly useful comes along
Sorry HD-DVD is dieing because of back room politics and its not Microsoft. Really, half the time we are claiming they are a dino and dieing off and the next time they are a world power behind the scenes, about the only thing not pinned on them is 9/11.
This is about Hollywood studios lining up with a product more friendly with what they want.
I went with HD-DVD initially because of price. That and the fact ALL movies start immediately without bunches of lead in crap - something that disney loves.
I will get a BluRay once the price reaches HD-DVD player price points. Fortunately there aren't enough movies restricted to one player or the other. Do I think my "investment" in HD-DVD is wasted? No, because they aren't going to stop playing. Besides calling it an "investment" is just a lame way to justify what you spend on something that is essentially frivolous.
Grats to Sony on the win, too bad for the consumer as I while both have overpriced movies the BluRay players are not competitive. If anything it may slow down real High Definition roll outs.
The market that can use these devices is any area where manuals must be referenced or should be referenced throughout the day. Think car repair. No way can anyone know everything about any car out there. Build a more sturdy form of these machines (grease/solvent/drop resistant) and let it load books on the fly from a local server. Instead of having to have bulky stations fixed throughout the center, let alone paper manuals or such, they can now follow the worker...
e-books need a business use first, then after people get used to using them at work they will want that functionality at home and that is when the sales will take off.
Besides, ironing out usage issues in a business environment is much better than a consumer market where control isn't available.
In November, after the promised high-volume sales to governments failed to materialize, the organization began a $399 "Give 1, Get 1" promotion, in which people could buy XO machines and subsidize gifts to educational programs. O.L.P.C. said it distributed about 50,000 computers in the United States during the promotion.
I don't see a problem with Intel moving on, they were trying to push their technology but weren't ready (too much power consumption with their proposal). I do see a problem with the OLPC process apparently not working out and little being done to expose this. If more people knew about it perhaps some would step up and buy the machines.
Buying votes and getting people to turn to government. Yes it is only $80 or so.
Please quit trying to dismiss us as a society lost, the big thing wrong with the US is the government. Our society is just fine otherwise. The real sad thing is that the 2008 election won't change anything
My girlfriend is black and she is generally concerned about crossing paths with young black males on city streets where there aren't lots of people. Hence she avoids its.
The problem we face here in America is that its offensive to too many people to declare a problem a problem if it identifies a minority group. Look at all the crap we are going through with illegal immigrants! People breaking the law to get here yet if we apply the label and are not part of that specific minority group you can be labled a bigot or racist.
We cannot fix society by looking away. This was how the cities got to be such a mess in many places. Box them in high rise slums and look away. Don't apply the stern hand and it all goes to hell. Its similar to schools. One of my coworkers moved to the suburbs so his wife would not get beaten up AGAIN in a middle school! Oh sure they get the kids but the problem is that removing one or two hooligans doesn't fix the problem - it only opens the door for someone else to step in. The system won't do anything because of lawsuits from aggrieved parents; only upset when their child is nailed for being bad, they aren't concerned about what the kid did just what the school did to punish them.
If the billboards do show a disproportional number of minorities then perhaps people in those communities and others will have to face the facts. More likely the program will just get ended as its easier to ignore a problem than fix it. The primary reason their numbers are higher isn't because as a people they are different or worse, its the fact that society doesn't try to really help them. It attempts to ignore them, hoping handouts will mollify them, and they only acts AFTER they become a problem. We need to put the fear of god (as in administrators and the teachers) back into the system and reward success more. We have school systems who go out of their way to not reward individual success and what has it gotten us? Show the kids there is a reason to be the best - AWARD them for doing the best. Don't let them get out and find a world which actually has winners and losers.
The issue in NY is that you cannot use bikes year round.
If you want them to be really environmentally considerate let them bring horses back to the whole city!
My only beef with being friendly to the environment, if these vehicles truly are from manufacturing to disposal, is that they make it seem all so nice. The key is that city officials are the ones raking in the glory for their actions while its the tax payers who should get credit. It is very easy to be magnanimous on someone else's dime
I am not Joe Sixpack. I have CFLs in many rooms but I am disappointed that I have to keep receipts and packaging as I have had some die in a day and too many have died within a year. While there are solutions that provide "warm" light most of the bulbs don't work well in decorative solutions. I guess we will have to move back to globes and other light covers to make them acceptable. New fixtures which allow for their use which hide the curly cue shapes and "odd" look. Of course down the road in twenty years kids won't know the difference let alone the fact they may laugh at our use of inefficient lighting.
I figure Joe Sixpack is even less concerned about the environmental impact of disposing of these lights. Yet how are we going to get people to buy these if their reliability isn't there? Besides it isn't Joe its Jane who you have to sell these too.
The market has been doing a great job getting these into people's homes. Franky I see politician involvement simply as grandstanding. They waited till there was a market then want to present themselves as moving the issue along? Get real. Its environmental grandstanding. They did nothing but are trying to take credit for it. Hell I would award Wal-Mart more credit to getting CFLs accepted than Washington or any environmentalist.
because we are truly seeing debate on the subject finally, no longer are we subject to just having anyone who doesn't believe dismissed out of hand. The change was evident earlier when those who believe started turning the whole subject into practically a religion. When your subject cannot withstand doubts and you respond with slander versus the people opposing instead of their ideas your facade begins to crack and people see through it.
Of course it wasn't helped by all the elites who seemed to revel in their excess in just staging a meeting. Coming in personal jets, having to fly them empty to a nearby island just to store them, and other abuses were an affront to even some of their ardent supporters.
No, the Break Through is that people are not recognizing that this isn't set in stone. We don't know all the facts. As much as one side wants to end the discussion another brings in even more variables casting doubt upon earlier findings. People who were in one camp have switched. We are finally seeing the scientific community act. I guess they got tired of all the politicians and elites making claims in their names.
Climate change is a fact of life. We have to determine first if its a bad thing. We have to first determine what is the right temperature for our planet before we can even begin to determine if things are going wrong. We have to know more of the variables. We have to know all of this just to determine if we can even blame ourselves. Before we change our actions we need to know if our actions previously were the cause. Changing something without all the facts simply is a feel good activity. It accomplishes nothing other than to make people leading a charge feel vindicated - even if it did nothing in the end.
I would love to see Wired and the likes list the top ten things promised by politicians and what actually occured.
Perhaps if people saw more of the crap that government politicians pulled they would stop being distracted by the nonsense crap like what company A or company B failed to deliver.
Priorities people. This whole Wired! list is like an exercise in futility, it has no effect on your life.
Going after Blizzard for an unknown game announcement? Why not beat on Warhammer Online? Where is it at?
that one or more of those Pc based servers will suffer downtime before the mainframe does.
Hell I would bet that more than half of them go out beforehand. I know, but there will be others up. Thats all well and good provided all of them are sharing the application and all associated data - or are they replicating it across many machines to provide the safety they had before?
because now with better computer simulations they can loft nice little toys into orbit that contain no nuclear matter, thereby not alerting any enviromentalist or anti-nukes, and have a very nice and clean weapon system.
I expect a lot more studies on the compositions of asteroids to determine just "which" kind is such a threat to us, which of course can lead to making these threats. All in the name of science.
Talk about a wet dream for telephony companies. Getting people to pay for the minutest they use. Getting people to pay for ring tones and the like. Getting people to pay for stuff they can generically access with a simple internet connection and then get them to pay MORE. Better yet, get them to pay for multiple phones for one family.
Worse, there are people who think this has improved their lives. More money tossed out the door. Sorry, but life hasn't changed, people still get by just fine without being available to others 24x7. However marketing people did wonders and suddenly many people not only feel as if they cannot live without a cell phone but they actually feel entitled to them and some go so far as to think others are entitled to them as well... as in that the government should supply those cannot afford them!
Laughable. Keep paying for it guys. I have a pay per minute plan, I normally spend around SEVEN dollars a month at most. Suddenly I am 300 to 500 dollars richer than my friends and I still am in contact with all of them, just in a more sensible method.
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I do believe he is right in a sense. You cannot compare the US to those countries so simply as it leaves out too many variables.
One thing I do note that makes a big difference is that parents of the current and maybe even previous generation are far more concerned with themselves than their children. We have more disposable income than generations raised in the seventies which in turn has resulted in many more things for adults to have to occupy their time. We then have the cycle where some people get stuck in wanting more and more and thereby reducing the time they allot to their children.
As such the children are left idle more here than in other countries so the higher fat and calorie intakes affect children here more. Combine with the abundance of food and junk food and its a double whammy. I can compare different parents easily just in my sister's own neighborhood. You can tell those who focus on their children and those who don't simply by observing the kids. From how outgoing they are to even their weight. Sorry, there just isn't an excuse for a 200lb 8th grader. Yet I can see the same in the parents. But wait you say, its genetic. Yeah, until I look at their wedding pictures and wonder where the dashing young man went and his hard body wife went...
I would this squarely in the category of "its not worth the effort"
Why? Simple, we are aready so locked down, scanned, and updated, that the risk of IE is down to levels not worth going beyond. In other words, going to a new browser gains nothing but incurs cost, training, and support.
Can firefox be locked down so users cannot add plug ins? As the article mentioned there isn't support for risk adverse let alone push services.
Because one of the little dirty secrets of the Clean Air act was to exclude about everyone other than passenger cars from the rules. They specifically excluded diesel from the rules as the manufacturers were claiming small number of vehicles, poor farmers, and limited impact. Most likely a front for the oil industry.
Does Sweet Crude ring a bell? Specifically named for lack of sulfur which was the major contaminate in diesel.
The oil industry had the chance to make diesel the fuel of the future but their bean counters got in the way. They have known for ages (since McKinley's time) how to remove sulfur from the fuel BUT THEY DID NOT WANT TO. they did it for speciality uses (kerosene lamps so they would not catch fire or stink) but not vehicles. As such states like California went after them, specifically because nearly a dozen of the contaminents in heavy sulfur diesel fuel are carcinogens. Worse studies showed that air in diesel school buses was worse than the air around them!
Diesel had a futre but the industry got greedy and now will pay for it. Its not going to be until 2010 that we have mandatory clean diesels. Hell the current ones put out contaminents that hard catalytic converters.
hit an object that doesn't crumple in a SMART car and the results will not be pretty.
The key thing I remember from talking to a SMART distributor was how well it fared in accidents with OTHER cars. When some of us asked about fixed objects they kept going back to car versus car.
A car with such a limited crumple zone as the SMART is going to transmit more energy to the occupants upon impact, there simply isn't enough car there to do anything.
Besides the car was woefully underpowered requiring near lead footing to use on the highway... meaning shitty mileage for something that weighs in at 1800lbs
disclosure of all budget items.
I believe Texas is one of them. It apparently does cause legislators a lot of grief to the point many try to find ways to eliminate or bypass the requirement.
If only we could force the US government to be totally open people might get disgusted with the current crop of Democrats and Republicans to maybe do something
Its a license to pollute. It is the ultimate expression of wealth. You are buying permission to pollute.
All I saw at the recent get together for global warming supporters in Asia were people willing to save the environment because they are willing to make ME sacrifice. They, no, they have the money to buy themselves the right to destroy my environment and the political power to protect that right of theirs while taking mine away.
Sorry, but the primary reason I destest Al Gore is his excessive resource use which he somehow thinks he absolves by buying trees. If he were truly serious about OUR environment he would cut back what he uses, not buy the right to abuse.
There is nothing more arrogant than carbon credits : paying for excessive resource use and the right to pollute.
I bet in most companies one baseball bat could bring most companies to their knees.
Why resort to a "logic bomb" which they will know who did it to just being direct?
Don't think so, many places I have been I could appear as a Heating and Cooling worker, electrician, or even trash disposal, and get unescorted access into the data center. All the security in the world doesn't do diddly when half of the IT department will let you in with "can you let me back in, my buddy can't hear me over the fans"
because future product development includes high speed transmission of copyrighted video. As such they will probably get hammered while trying to cut deals with the big media companies. Meaning, where the studios cannot get laws passed to do what they want they can go after anyone who both provides the underlying service as well as the content.
Now everyone can have their princess leia projected while talking to her, of course she is on the wall but one day she will literally spring up from the phone as you lay it down on the table and chat using your BT headset.
Hell, done right we will eventually be able to do presentations for people who can't come into the office. Real time video and projection combined to make a cool tool. I figure it is just like cell based cameras, first two generations suck before something truly useful comes along
Sorry HD-DVD is dieing because of back room politics and its not Microsoft. Really, half the time we are claiming they are a dino and dieing off and the next time they are a world power behind the scenes, about the only thing not pinned on them is 9/11.
This is about Hollywood studios lining up with a product more friendly with what they want.
I went with HD-DVD initially because of price. That and the fact ALL movies start immediately without bunches of lead in crap - something that disney loves.
I will get a BluRay once the price reaches HD-DVD player price points. Fortunately there aren't enough movies restricted to one player or the other. Do I think my "investment" in HD-DVD is wasted? No, because they aren't going to stop playing. Besides calling it an "investment" is just a lame way to justify what you spend on something that is essentially frivolous.
Grats to Sony on the win, too bad for the consumer as I while both have overpriced movies the BluRay players are not competitive. If anything it may slow down real High Definition roll outs.
More for presentation than gaming, so why does Alienware have this product?
times....
that being once.
The market that can use these devices is any area where manuals must be referenced or should be referenced throughout the day. Think car repair. No way can anyone know everything about any car out there. Build a more sturdy form of these machines (grease/solvent/drop resistant) and let it load books on the fly from a local server. Instead of having to have bulky stations fixed throughout the center, let alone paper manuals or such, they can now follow the worker...
e-books need a business use first, then after people get used to using them at work they will want that functionality at home and that is when the sales will take off.
Besides, ironing out usage issues in a business environment is much better than a consumer market where control isn't available.
In November, after the promised high-volume sales to governments failed to materialize, the organization began a $399 "Give 1, Get 1" promotion, in which people could buy XO machines and subsidize gifts to educational programs. O.L.P.C. said it distributed about 50,000 computers in the United States during the promotion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/technology/04laptop.html?ref=business
I don't see a problem with Intel moving on, they were trying to push their technology but weren't ready (too much power consumption with their proposal). I do see a problem with the OLPC process apparently not working out and little being done to expose this. If more people knew about it perhaps some would step up and buy the machines.
This isn't a subsidy, its a vote buy.
Buying votes and getting people to turn to government. Yes it is only $80 or so.
Please quit trying to dismiss us as a society lost, the big thing wrong with the US is the government. Our society is just fine otherwise. The real sad thing is that the 2008 election won't change anything
My girlfriend is black and she is generally concerned about crossing paths with young black males on city streets where there aren't lots of people. Hence she avoids its.
The problem we face here in America is that its offensive to too many people to declare a problem a problem if it identifies a minority group. Look at all the crap we are going through with illegal immigrants! People breaking the law to get here yet if we apply the label and are not part of that specific minority group you can be labled a bigot or racist.
We cannot fix society by looking away. This was how the cities got to be such a mess in many places. Box them in high rise slums and look away. Don't apply the stern hand and it all goes to hell. Its similar to schools. One of my coworkers moved to the suburbs so his wife would not get beaten up AGAIN in a middle school! Oh sure they get the kids but the problem is that removing one or two hooligans doesn't fix the problem - it only opens the door for someone else to step in. The system won't do anything because of lawsuits from aggrieved parents; only upset when their child is nailed for being bad, they aren't concerned about what the kid did just what the school did to punish them.
If the billboards do show a disproportional number of minorities then perhaps people in those communities and others will have to face the facts. More likely the program will just get ended as its easier to ignore a problem than fix it. The primary reason their numbers are higher isn't because as a people they are different or worse, its the fact that society doesn't try to really help them. It attempts to ignore them, hoping handouts will mollify them, and they only acts AFTER they become a problem. We need to put the fear of god (as in administrators and the teachers) back into the system and reward success more. We have school systems who go out of their way to not reward individual success and what has it gotten us? Show the kids there is a reason to be the best - AWARD them for doing the best. Don't let them get out and find a world which actually has winners and losers.
its on all their street bikes.
The issue in NY is that you cannot use bikes year round.
If you want them to be really environmentally considerate let them bring horses back to the whole city!
My only beef with being friendly to the environment, if these vehicles truly are from manufacturing to disposal, is that they make it seem all so nice. The key is that city officials are the ones raking in the glory for their actions while its the tax payers who should get credit. It is very easy to be magnanimous on someone else's dime
I am not Joe Sixpack. I have CFLs in many rooms but I am disappointed that I have to keep receipts and packaging as I have had some die in a day and too many have died within a year. While there are solutions that provide "warm" light most of the bulbs don't work well in decorative solutions. I guess we will have to move back to globes and other light covers to make them acceptable. New fixtures which allow for their use which hide the curly cue shapes and "odd" look. Of course down the road in twenty years kids won't know the difference let alone the fact they may laugh at our use of inefficient lighting.
I figure Joe Sixpack is even less concerned about the environmental impact of disposing of these lights. Yet how are we going to get people to buy these if their reliability isn't there? Besides it isn't Joe its Jane who you have to sell these too.
The market has been doing a great job getting these into people's homes. Franky I see politician involvement simply as grandstanding. They waited till there was a market then want to present themselves as moving the issue along? Get real. Its environmental grandstanding. They did nothing but are trying to take credit for it. Hell I would award Wal-Mart more credit to getting CFLs accepted than Washington or any environmentalist.
because we are truly seeing debate on the subject finally, no longer are we subject to just having anyone who doesn't believe dismissed out of hand. The change was evident earlier when those who believe started turning the whole subject into practically a religion. When your subject cannot withstand doubts and you respond with slander versus the people opposing instead of their ideas your facade begins to crack and people see through it.
Of course it wasn't helped by all the elites who seemed to revel in their excess in just staging a meeting. Coming in personal jets, having to fly them empty to a nearby island just to store them, and other abuses were an affront to even some of their ardent supporters.
No, the Break Through is that people are not recognizing that this isn't set in stone. We don't know all the facts. As much as one side wants to end the discussion another brings in even more variables casting doubt upon earlier findings. People who were in one camp have switched. We are finally seeing the scientific community act. I guess they got tired of all the politicians and elites making claims in their names.
Climate change is a fact of life. We have to determine first if its a bad thing. We have to first determine what is the right temperature for our planet before we can even begin to determine if things are going wrong. We have to know more of the variables. We have to know all of this just to determine if we can even blame ourselves. Before we change our actions we need to know if our actions previously were the cause. Changing something without all the facts simply is a feel good activity. It accomplishes nothing other than to make people leading a charge feel vindicated - even if it did nothing in the end.
This will never work, there are no pirates involved. If you have Ninja you must have Pirates else it just doesn't balance out.
I would love to see Wired and the likes list the top ten things promised by politicians and what actually occured.
Perhaps if people saw more of the crap that government politicians pulled they would stop being distracted by the nonsense crap like what company A or company B failed to deliver.
Priorities people. This whole Wired! list is like an exercise in futility, it has no effect on your life.
Going after Blizzard for an unknown game announcement? Why not beat on Warhammer Online? Where is it at?
that one or more of those Pc based servers will suffer downtime before the mainframe does.
Hell I would bet that more than half of them go out beforehand. I know, but there will be others up. Thats all well and good provided all of them are sharing the application and all associated data - or are they replicating it across many machines to provide the safety they had before?
because now with better computer simulations they can loft nice little toys into orbit that contain no nuclear matter, thereby not alerting any enviromentalist or anti-nukes, and have a very nice and clean weapon system.
I expect a lot more studies on the compositions of asteroids to determine just "which" kind is such a threat to us, which of course can lead to making these threats. All in the name of science.
more likely confused as both have created how about as many differently packaged versions of their movies?
Like, how many ways can you present LOTR? (hell I am still waiting for HDDVD version)
Really.
Talk about a wet dream for telephony companies. Getting people to pay for the minutest they use. Getting people to pay for ring tones and the like. Getting people to pay for stuff they can generically access with a simple internet connection and then get them to pay MORE. Better yet, get them to pay for multiple phones for one family.
Worse, there are people who think this has improved their lives. More money tossed out the door. Sorry, but life hasn't changed, people still get by just fine without being available to others 24x7. However marketing people did wonders and suddenly many people not only feel as if they cannot live without a cell phone but they actually feel entitled to them and some go so far as to think others are entitled to them as well... as in that the government should supply those cannot afford them!
Laughable. Keep paying for it guys. I have a pay per minute plan, I normally spend around SEVEN dollars a month at most. Suddenly I am 300 to 500 dollars richer than my friends and I still am in contact with all of them, just in a more sensible method.