But thousands of people have worked really hard and we have what we have today! That doesn't mean that someone thinking outside the box couldn't come along and do twice as well, but it's improbable. Still, the best of luck to him.
Also, this is a widely prescribed drug! It seems unlikely that it has massive, instantaneous effects on cognitive function that no one has noticed before.
As with the miraculous improvement in solar power efficiency in the next story, I'd love for this to work out but am not holding my breath.
...double the rate of the next most successful solar process.
I know nothing about this area, the guy is obviously smart and sane, and it would be fantastic if it worked, but... my BS detector started blaring when I got to those words.
What was their statistical tolerance? Was it zero?
The term you're looking for is "power". Obviously the study didn't have 100% power, and some tiny effect might have gone undetected. As the authors say (I don't know why you're demanding "references" so angrily, as if the link here didn't contain a thorough summary and more than enough information to find the original article) what can be excluded is that thimerosal had any major effect.
Please, educate yourself. READ studies on vaccines etc... And I mean government studies, not the PR material that the companies put out. As I said, if you do as much research as we have and come to an opposite conclusion, then fair play to you. I'm just absolutely sick of ill-informed individuals such as yourself condemning the opposite side.
Please link to the studies you're talking about and I'll be glad to take a look at them.
The link between thimerosal and autism has already been pretty thoroughly disproven. (Link to a blog rather than the paper because 1) it's a good summary and 2) I'm not sure whether the link is freely readable.) Whatever merit this hypothesis had in the past, any future work on it that "activists" manage to force clearly comes at the expense of projects that might be genuinely useful.
The entire *point* of the Japanese show has been lost on Iron Chef America. It was always intended as a cheesy drama with serious cooking...It was unique, and maybe uniquely Japanese.
I don't know if you saw the William Shatner-era Iron Chef -- they did try to do a recreation of the original and it was disastrous because, as you say, the original was uniquely Japanese. Despite that, a knockoff might have been made to fly if the Japanese show hadn't been so familiar and beloved.
The Alton Brown version doesn't attempt to replace the original show; it's a deliberately low-key and straightforward tribute to it.
Incidentally, as with Monty Python (who failed disastrously trying to Americanize their own material before learning better), Iron Chef's appeal in translation went beyond the original show. The translator they used for the requisite actress judge, the chef who had been forced into a life of shame because his restaurant had burned down, the weirdness of a lot of the seafood -- the show's creators didn't anticipate the comedy of that.
Wouldn't a company of the size and type to need such expensive software be spending that much in a couple week's payroll? I am serious here.
Perhaps, but a couple of weeks' payroll isn't a trivial amount!!! What seems odd, though, is that Microsoft doesn't really have much expensive software. This program seems more appropriate to a CAD vendor than to Excel and PowerPoint.
At any rate, the column is witless. I'm accustomed to teenagers who genuinely can't imagine that everyone doesn't use and pay for computers exactly like they do, but you'd think that someone claiming to be a CEO had would have more of a clue.
Actually early adopters will simply improvie their operational effectiveness in relation to the competition, this is not the same as strategic advantage...
Terminology aside, Carr's whole point is that the advantages of first adopters do not outweigh the added costs, wrong choices and time spent on cultivating "vision" and "alignment" relative to companies who wait for a consensus to emerge and then make their investment. He certainly doesn't "ignore" the issue.
Given the smartestest people in the world, the revolutionary free lunch policy and the room of rubber balls, shouldn't they be producing something exciting by now? Experimenting with libertarian enthusiasms from 2003 while their lawyers acquire and rebrand other people's Web 2.0 startups seems a bit of a letdown after the hype.
Obviously Apple Matters is going to have a bias towards OS X and that should be taken into account. However, that said we've been reducing both our Windows and Linux systems in favor of OS X for some time now for many of the reasons outlined in the referenced article.
From walking around the MIT campus, it seems like there's been a huge increase in uptake of Macs around there, by everyone from fresh-faced undergrads to grizzled beardos. It used to be that the biologists were the only ones who had them.
That's just laptops, though; I have no idea how it translates to desktops.
The link is an annoying mix of nitpicking and posturing passed off as substantive correction, but the silly, obnoxious "real mom" spin on it seems to be purely Zonk's invention. It doesn't do her any favors.
(I'd complain about the irritating use of "mom" but nowadays I'm just grateful for any adult who doesn't say "mommy".)
I have been thinking very seriously to introduce a recorder in my life to settle arguments with my girlfriend (yes yes, here's my geek card).
Believe me, this scheme fully qualifies you for that geek card, with nerd, dweeb and dork stamps on it. Producing transcripts is not going to get you a "win" in any meaningful sense of the word.
It doesn't mean that 34% of the desktops are virtualized.
I get that, but am still surprised by what it *does* mean. Particularly since a situation like yours, with a handful of (I'm guessing) self-driven Mac users, probably isn't even on the CIO's radar.
34% of surveyed companies have been running virtualized desktops? Putting aside that that number doesn't seem to square with the "Virtual Desktops a Hard Sell" table below, does that seem likely?!?
That bit, the third numbered bullet, is what matters.
If you regard "NeoSmart Technologies can exclusively reveal..." as an indisputable statement of fact, I suppose. The whole story, including Silverlight market share, seems to have been completely invented by them.
I'm curious how some obviously anti-Microsoft group (one which seems to mostly produce bootloader mods!) was given inside access to a secret Microsoft project -- and why such a project is "currently in beta". Certainly a different definition of "beta" than Google uses.
No, it was USB. (It had been in use before, but was poorly supported.) For years after, almost all USB peripherals were made of translucent blue plastic.
In a first-of-its-kind case, a California jury will convict a U.C.-Irvine dropout, Richard Machado, of sending threatening and hateful e-mail to students of Asian dissent.
Between the timeliness of this story, his spelling, and his belief that Bill Gates is facing criminal charges, Paul McNamara sounds like he'd fit in well here as an editor.
If you download a copyrighted song from a server in Antigua, will that be an ironclad defense that will make you invulnerable to future attacks from the RIAA?
Sorry, I only trust idiotic legal theories from New York Country Lawyer has weighed in to endorse them.
We were getting trained on some desktop sharing / presentation software. The instructor was getting increasingly frustrated with one woman who couldn't seem to manage even the most basic steps. ("Click on the icon. No, the picture thing! Click with your mouse -- no!) Finally she gave that woman control of her own computer...
**Whoosh**! The woman instantly tears into the instructor's hard drive like in one of those hacker movies and starts moving and deleting files! The instructor dived for her own laptop and yanked the Ethernet cable. I'm still not all sure what really happened there.
Google is a great company filled with brilliant people like maybe no company has ever been.
I don't believe that for a second (Bell Labs, for example? Toyota, Lockheed, Merck, IBM, Philips, Sony, Xerox...?) but wouldn't it be sad if it were true? They should come over here and develop new drugs; I'll be glad to cover making Web 2.0 apps that never get out of beta.
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But thousands of people have worked really hard and we have what we have today! That doesn't mean that someone thinking outside the box couldn't come along and do twice as well, but it's improbable. Still, the best of luck to him.
As with the miraculous improvement in solar power efficiency in the next story, I'd love for this to work out but am not holding my breath.
I know nothing about this area, the guy is obviously smart and sane, and it would be fantastic if it worked, but ... my BS detector started blaring when I got to those words.
This seems like a genuinely useful activity for DHS, certainly more valuable than x-raying my shoes and confiscating my saline solution.
The term you're looking for is "power". Obviously the study didn't have 100% power, and some tiny effect might have gone undetected. As the authors say (I don't know why you're demanding "references" so angrily, as if the link here didn't contain a thorough summary and more than enough information to find the original article) what can be excluded is that thimerosal had any major effect.
Please link to the studies you're talking about and I'll be glad to take a look at them.
Except that study after study has now demonstrated that it does no such thing.
The link between thimerosal and autism has already been pretty thoroughly disproven. (Link to a blog rather than the paper because 1) it's a good summary and 2) I'm not sure whether the link is freely readable.) Whatever merit this hypothesis had in the past, any future work on it that "activists" manage to force clearly comes at the expense of projects that might be genuinely useful.
I don't know if you saw the William Shatner-era Iron Chef -- they did try to do a recreation of the original and it was disastrous because, as you say, the original was uniquely Japanese. Despite that, a knockoff might have been made to fly if the Japanese show hadn't been so familiar and beloved.
The Alton Brown version doesn't attempt to replace the original show; it's a deliberately low-key and straightforward tribute to it.
Incidentally, as with Monty Python (who failed disastrously trying to Americanize their own material before learning better), Iron Chef's appeal in translation went beyond the original show. The translator they used for the requisite actress judge, the chef who had been forced into a life of shame because his restaurant had burned down, the weirdness of a lot of the seafood -- the show's creators didn't anticipate the comedy of that.
Perhaps, but a couple of weeks' payroll isn't a trivial amount!!! What seems odd, though, is that Microsoft doesn't really have much expensive software. This program seems more appropriate to a CAD vendor than to Excel and PowerPoint.
At any rate, the column is witless. I'm accustomed to teenagers who genuinely can't imagine that everyone doesn't use and pay for computers exactly like they do, but you'd think that someone claiming to be a CEO had would have more of a clue.
Terminology aside, Carr's whole point is that the advantages of first adopters do not outweigh the added costs, wrong choices and time spent on cultivating "vision" and "alignment" relative to companies who wait for a consensus to emerge and then make their investment. He certainly doesn't "ignore" the issue.
Given the smartestest people in the world, the revolutionary free lunch policy and the room of rubber balls, shouldn't they be producing something exciting by now? Experimenting with libertarian enthusiasms from 2003 while their lawyers acquire and rebrand other people's Web 2.0 startups seems a bit of a letdown after the hype.
From walking around the MIT campus, it seems like there's been a huge increase in uptake of Macs around there, by everyone from fresh-faced undergrads to grizzled beardos. It used to be that the biologists were the only ones who had them.
That's just laptops, though; I have no idea how it translates to desktops.
(I'd complain about the irritating use of "mom" but nowadays I'm just grateful for any adult who doesn't say "mommy".)
Believe me, this scheme fully qualifies you for that geek card, with nerd, dweeb and dork stamps on it. Producing transcripts is not going to get you a "win" in any meaningful sense of the word.
I get that, but am still surprised by what it *does* mean. Particularly since a situation like yours, with a handful of (I'm guessing) self-driven Mac users, probably isn't even on the CIO's radar.
34% of surveyed companies have been running virtualized desktops? Putting aside that that number doesn't seem to square with the "Virtual Desktops a Hard Sell" table below, does that seem likely?!?
If you regard "NeoSmart Technologies can exclusively reveal..." as an indisputable statement of fact, I suppose. The whole story, including Silverlight market share, seems to have been completely invented by them.
I'm curious how some obviously anti-Microsoft group (one which seems to mostly produce bootloader mods!) was given inside access to a secret Microsoft project -- and why such a project is "currently in beta". Certainly a different definition of "beta" than Google uses.
No, it was USB. (It had been in use before, but was poorly supported.) For years after, almost all USB peripherals were made of translucent blue plastic.
Between the timeliness of this story, his spelling, and his belief that Bill Gates is facing criminal charges, Paul McNamara sounds like he'd fit in well here as an editor.
Sorry, I only trust idiotic legal theories from New York Country Lawyer has weighed in to endorse them.
**Whoosh**! The woman instantly tears into the instructor's hard drive like in one of those hacker movies and starts moving and deleting files! The instructor dived for her own laptop and yanked the Ethernet cable. I'm still not all sure what really happened there.
It seems to actually be a competitor to Google Docs, but your point is still a good one.
I don't believe that for a second (Bell Labs, for example? Toyota, Lockheed, Merck, IBM, Philips, Sony, Xerox...?) but wouldn't it be sad if it were true? They should come over here and develop new drugs; I'll be glad to cover making Web 2.0 apps that never get out of beta.
Ahh, that could be. My first thought was the same as bconway's: "Is that supposed to be Klingon?"