"Not being so hot at maths" doesn't follow. It's easier to remember your lottery numbers if you never change them. Then it only takes a second to check whether you've won because the numbers are in your head as well as on the ticket.
Complete mischaracterization. What the article says is that there was an African expansion from a smallish group in West Africa that spread out and populated most of the continent and that Europe was colonized really quickly in the aftermath of the latest glaciation by people rpobably from the middle east.
The African expansion took longer because there were more people there to compete with the expanding group.
* Bell Beaker site mentioned in summary but not in quoted article. * Summary says R1b entered after 3rd millienium BC. Quoted article says the European expansion took place roughly 12000 years ago:
In Europe, the expansion was very rapid, taking only approximately 325 (50 to 600) years and ending approximately 12 (6 to 14) KYA,...
No mystery there. The last glacial period ended about 12000 years ago, turning much of Europe from a hard place to live to a much easier place to live. People moved in and expanded greatly.
I think that's the important part right there; sorting.
Sorting out the opposite sex people who are not even looking for a mate at all is the primary and most important sort. What good does it do you to approach a woman or man who's already in a committed relationship? It's a complete waste of your time. What do you want people to do, hang around in bars or churches or social clubs looking for girls with no ring on their finger and no man on their arm?
But you can do so much better than that with just being able to see some biographical and interest data and if this algorithm works, it could really increase the efficiency again because looks effing matter. You can't change this about people. It's in our DNA. So does the sound of a person's voice, which you can get if they do videos. They can't yet convey how the person smells and that matters too.
The good news is that if this method works or if it can be refined it can pick mates that would probably like you and suggest you to each other more efficiently.
But sadly the point is well taken that the dating site gets paid for the time you're not spending with the love of your life. If they got too efficient they'd lose money. There's a counterbalance though. You'd pay more if they could promise to find you someone who is a great match in a month or your money back.
Never met a man who couldn't work for men either unless they couldn't work for anybody. I've met plently like that.
It may not be meanness on the part of the boss. Maybe everybody is hardwired to accept male authority and not all people can adapt to female authority.
So what's the fucking point? Where's the science that says year old kids have the essential wiring and have mastered the prerequisite skills to understand computer programming?
Christ! you're trying to teach the little bastards to read and now they're supposed to write code before they can write coherent sentences and spell?
Education is like drugs. Once they get you hooked, you can't quit. The fuckers. It's more than 20 years since I got my MS and my house is still full of books.
It sounds like the model they are using of "attractiveness" is one dimensional based on how many approaches and responses each profile gets. I think a more complex model is needed to optimize matchmaking.
Rather than try to build an estimate of attractiveness of each man to all women and of each woman to all men, it seems like you could build a network analysis that works in a more personalized way. It's possible to build a database that categorizes women according to WHICH men tend to like them, not just how many, and the same for the men, then compute most likely reciprocal matches. Maybe that's what they're doing, but it didn't sound like it.
Combine that with biographical data subjected to the same sort of analysis and you might get much better success rates than any site out there.
That would be useless. Those fights are dominated by an argument between those who use the products for profit on the one hand and True Believers on the other.
If by 'encourage(s) users to void their warranty'" you mean "use the thing you paid for however you see fit in concordance with a thousand year history of English, Formal and natural law, then yeah, I guess you could say it voids your warranty.
That's something of an overstatement. Can you show us a thousand year history of products coming with warranties and a body of law that deals with it?
Companies that SELL stuff normally take a position that if you modify it in such a way that it no longer performs the purpose for which they designed it to be used, that's your responsiblity and has nothing to do with their warranty whether written or implied.
It's just amazing seeing, first Apple, and now Google, transform themselves into the modern IBM with their ever encroaching and desperate "lock in" policies.
Apple has always been playing the lock in game. Try running any software written for your Apple computer -- any generation -- on a non-Apple machine. Doesn't fucking work, does it? And they've got proprietary file formats too.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Seeing as the user is the product being sold, Google can't have their products (users vis a vie control of the user experience) just walking off the plantation, now can they?
CM isn't walking off Google's plantation. Cyanogenmod is very very much stock Android, with a few added bells and whistles. And it's not walking off your mobile provider's plantation either, because it leaves your phone locked to your carrier without further modification. But it does let you uninstall the crapware that most phones come with from your carrier.
I think their objection is that they want to avoid this situation: 1. Joe User installs CM Installer from the Market. 2. Joe User installs CyanogenMod on his phone. 3. The CM version he manages to install is either wrong for his phone or in some other way doesn't work to his satisfaction. 4. He lacks the expertise to reinstall his phone's stock firmware. 5. According to Joe User, his phone is "broken." 6. Joe takes his phone to the store or warranty service center of his carrier. 7. Carrier or manufacturer absorbs the cost of either replacing or restoring Joe's phone to stock or 8. They tell Joe to pound sand because he voided his warranty, permanently souring Joe on their service. 9. Carrier or manufacturer sues Google over encouraging Joe and millions of other Joes like him to fuck up their phones, which is costing THEM money.
This of course is a little modified in the case where Google is the manufacturer. In that case, it's a direct cost to Google of phones being returned to them for repair or replacement. They want no part of that.
How realistic is it that CM will fuck up your phone? In my experience, plenty. My phone won't run any CM correctly past 10.1.2. 10.1.3 and subsequent versions break the battery charging and USB connectivity. I thought it was a hardware problem until I downgraded.
This has nothing to do with gasoline vs. electric and everything to do with responding to user problems in a way that limits future liability. This is not Ford's first dance. They learned something from previous experiences
Not quite. From the quoted article, "There have been 12 reported fires but no injuries in the bigger recall of 139,917 Ford Escape vehicles."
But it does show a huge difference between Tesla and the management of a car company that's been in the business a long time. Ford will recall and repair 139,917 cars because of 12 fires. Tesla downplays battery fires.
Elon Musk should be looking at Ford management and asking himself what they know about making and selling cars that he doesn't.
Up through middle school I had only a handful of male teachers. From high school on it was pretty balanced. Most of my teachers of both sexes were very good in high school. In college I had mostly male professors, but that was a function of being in engineering. There weren't and still aren't a lot of female engineering professors.
I wouldn't know. Acidity maybe? Take a sample to a local chemist or agricultural extension office. It sounds like the problem is pretty widespread in your area. They may already know the answer.
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I supposed it's better than UDUMBASS.
No, that will make it blow up wherever it is. We're talking about launching the rocket.
In the bad old days of pulse dialing, entering 00000000 would take 10x as long as entering 11111111.
Maybe they were going for maximum delay.
"Not being so hot at maths" doesn't follow. It's easier to remember your lottery numbers if you never change them. Then it only takes a second to check whether you've won because the numbers are in your head as well as on the ticket.
Explains the preponderance of recessive traits like blond hair, blue eyes and fair skin. You people need to get out more.
Complete mischaracterization. What the article says is that there was an African expansion from a smallish group in West Africa that spread out and populated most of the continent and that Europe was colonized really quickly in the aftermath of the latest glaciation by people rpobably from the middle east.
The African expansion took longer because there were more people there to compete with the expanding group.
* Bell Beaker site mentioned in summary but not in quoted article.
* Summary says R1b entered after 3rd millienium BC. Quoted article says the European expansion took place roughly 12000 years ago:
In Europe, the expansion was very rapid, taking only approximately 325 (50 to 600) years and ending approximately 12 (6 to 14) KYA,...
No mystery there. The last glacial period ended about 12000 years ago, turning much of Europe from a hard place to live to a much easier place to live. People moved in and expanded greatly.
I think that's the important part right there; sorting.
Sorting out the opposite sex people who are not even looking for a mate at all is the primary and most important sort. What good does it do you to approach a woman or man who's already in a committed relationship? It's a complete waste of your time. What do you want people to do, hang around in bars or churches or social clubs looking for girls with no ring on their finger and no man on their arm?
But you can do so much better than that with just being able to see some biographical and interest data and if this algorithm works, it could really increase the efficiency again because looks effing matter. You can't change this about people. It's in our DNA. So does the sound of a person's voice, which you can get if they do videos. They can't yet convey how the person smells and that matters too.
The good news is that if this method works or if it can be refined it can pick mates that would probably like you and suggest you to each other more efficiently.
But sadly the point is well taken that the dating site gets paid for the time you're not spending with the love of your life. If they got too efficient they'd lose money. There's a counterbalance though. You'd pay more if they could promise to find you someone who is a great match in a month or your money back.
Never met a man who couldn't work for men either unless they couldn't work for anybody. I've met plently like that.
It may not be meanness on the part of the boss. Maybe everybody is hardwired to accept male authority and not all people can adapt to female authority.
So what's the fucking point? Where's the science that says year old kids have the essential wiring and have mastered the prerequisite skills to understand computer programming?
Christ! you're trying to teach the little bastards to read and now they're supposed to write code before they can write coherent sentences and spell?
Education is like drugs. Once they get you hooked, you can't quit. The fuckers. It's more than 20 years since I got my MS and my house is still full of books.
It sounds like the model they are using of "attractiveness" is one dimensional based on how many approaches and responses each profile gets. I think a more complex model is needed to optimize matchmaking.
Rather than try to build an estimate of attractiveness of each man to all women and of each woman to all men, it seems like you could build a network analysis that works in a more personalized way. It's possible to build a database that categorizes women according to WHICH men tend to like them, not just how many, and the same for the men, then compute most likely reciprocal matches. Maybe that's what they're doing, but it didn't sound like it.
Combine that with biographical data subjected to the same sort of analysis and you might get much better success rates than any site out there.
I'm more interested in what advantage there might be in running Sailfish instead of Android -- if any?
That would be useless. Those fights are dominated by an argument between those who use the products for profit on the one hand and True Believers on the other.
Doesn't matter. This task is ideally suited for parallel processing.
That's why the big boys lay dedicated fiber.
When a man is dead, does he still possess the right to control his work?
Given their ability to kill bacteria, I have to wonder whether what you're saying about the silicon is true.
Ask Elon Musk. He's responsible for public perception of how his company is handling customer problems.
If by 'encourage(s) users to void their warranty'" you mean "use the thing you paid for however you see fit in concordance with a thousand year history of English, Formal and natural law, then yeah, I guess you could say it voids your warranty.
That's something of an overstatement. Can you show us a thousand year history of products coming with warranties and a body of law that deals with it?
Companies that SELL stuff normally take a position that if you modify it in such a way that it no longer performs the purpose for which they designed it to be used, that's your responsiblity and has nothing to do with their warranty whether written or implied.
It's just amazing seeing, first Apple, and now Google, transform themselves into the modern IBM with their ever encroaching and desperate "lock in" policies.
Apple has always been playing the lock in game. Try running any software written for your Apple computer -- any generation -- on a non-Apple machine. Doesn't fucking work, does it? And they've got proprietary file formats too.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising. Seeing as the user is the product being sold, Google can't have their products (users vis a vie control of the user experience) just walking off the plantation, now can they?
CM isn't walking off Google's plantation. Cyanogenmod is very very much stock Android, with a few added bells and whistles. And it's not walking off your mobile provider's plantation either, because it leaves your phone locked to your carrier without further modification. But it does let you uninstall the crapware that most phones come with from your carrier.
I think their objection is that they want to avoid this situation:
1. Joe User installs CM Installer from the Market.
2. Joe User installs CyanogenMod on his phone.
3. The CM version he manages to install is either wrong for his phone or in some other way doesn't work to his satisfaction.
4. He lacks the expertise to reinstall his phone's stock firmware.
5. According to Joe User, his phone is "broken."
6. Joe takes his phone to the store or warranty service center of his carrier.
7. Carrier or manufacturer absorbs the cost of either replacing or restoring Joe's phone to stock or
8. They tell Joe to pound sand because he voided his warranty, permanently souring Joe on their service.
9. Carrier or manufacturer sues Google over encouraging Joe and millions of other Joes like him to fuck up their phones, which is costing THEM money.
This of course is a little modified in the case where Google is the manufacturer. In that case, it's a direct cost to Google of phones being returned to them for repair or replacement. They want no part of that.
How realistic is it that CM will fuck up your phone? In my experience, plenty. My phone won't run any CM correctly past 10.1.2. 10.1.3 and subsequent versions break the battery charging and USB connectivity. I thought it was a hardware problem until I downgraded.
Don't put words in my mouth, asshat.
This has nothing to do with gasoline vs. electric and everything to do with responding to user problems in a way that limits future liability. This is not Ford's first dance. They learned something from previous experiences
Not quite. From the quoted article, "There have been 12 reported fires but no injuries in the bigger recall of 139,917 Ford Escape vehicles."
But it does show a huge difference between Tesla and the management of a car company that's been in the business a long time. Ford will recall and repair 139,917 cars because of 12 fires. Tesla downplays battery fires.
Elon Musk should be looking at Ford management and asking himself what they know about making and selling cars that he doesn't.
Up through middle school I had only a handful of male teachers. From high school on it was pretty balanced. Most of my teachers of both sexes were very good in high school. In college I had mostly male professors, but that was a function of being in engineering. There weren't and still aren't a lot of female engineering professors.
If the experiments are reproducible, it's science.
Apparently it's biochemistry that is not a science.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203764804577059841672541590
I wouldn't know. Acidity maybe? Take a sample to a local chemist or agricultural extension office.
It sounds like the problem is pretty widespread in your area. They may already know the answer.