I think we'd be better off with a digg type system - anybody can upgrade or downgrade a comment. Comments have bigger or lower threshholds - -25 to +100 or something. Not every post downgraded should be consider crap, make browsing -4 and above default.
I like digg style moderation better, it's more spur of the moment - I can sit there and say "wow, that was a good comment" or "that was really stupid" and assign a plus or minus point without hassle and spontaneously, when I feel like it.
With/.'s system, everytime I have mod points, alway assigned to me when there are no decent article I like or don't feel like grading shit, I feel like a $8 an hour data entry clerk monkey or a middle school teach, trying to assign grades to the first f-ing posts I read to get it out of the way and not to "lose" my points.
There's can also be decay on the front of the teeth, not deep, but sometimes the dentist cuts away the gum line to put in the filling. This was the case with me with my bottom front teeth (plus these teeth are thin, not much room to miss a nerve coming in from the side instead of the top).
Did some looking up on our fragile teeth
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As I had a spate of dental problems the last year and because I was wondering why we evolves such apparently wretchedly fragile teeth (sharks have it nice, three rows of ever-emerging teeth keep popping up and the old ones pop out), and read up on dentistry in general to take better care of my teeth.
There are a lot of people out there who keep repeating that cavities were not a problem in most people until refined sugar hit the scene around the 1700s and that the industrial revolution made it cheap for the masses.
This is true to a point but I guess this article shows it's stupid to think that no one had cavities before refined sugar.
Drspiller.com being a good site to look up some info. Meat won't give cavities. Natural starchy foods (vegetables like potatoes) and fruit have many natural fibers that wash their own sugars off your teeth before they have time to settle, and the acids in them negligent because of dilution. With a drink of water afterwards should prevent any problems.
So it's true, processed and refined foods, especially with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, etcetera, are the biggest causes of cavities.
However, dried fruits are sticky and should be treated as refined sugar or processed foods (these all can cause cavities) and may be the biggest cavity causer of the old world (along with perhaps alcohols, like mead, etcetera).
I don't know. My father hates the numbing feeling of novacaine so much, he has endured fillings, crowns, and even several root canals without any pain killer.
Now, I don't know how he does this, but I joke with him that he must have worked as a spy for the CIA. He says it's a matter of letting go and making your mind wander to something else - but I'm not about to test this.
But anyway, he shows no memoryloss/blocking due to trauma. I imagine ancient peoples in general having a higher pain threshhold due to more exposure.
The 1998 legislature passed and Governor Branstad signed into law Senate File 530 (SF530). In 2004 this law was amended by the legislature. Code of Iowa Chapter 34A provides for a statewide surcharge on wireless communications, including cellular, personal communication services, and commercial mobile radio services. The original surcharge rate was $0.50 per month per telephone number. The surcharge rate was amended in 2004 to $0.65 per month. Under this law, the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Division is given the responsibility for the "wireless" E911 program.
Since 9/11, the government has mandated that all mobile phones be able to pinpoint their location. This is simply Disney extending their capability to see where you/their phones are to you.
In 2001, the Federal Communications Commission ordered mobile telephone carriers to add technology to handsets that pinpoint their location. The idea was to make it easier to track 911 calls.
Some carriers adopted technology that used signals from cell phone towers to determine location. Others, including national carriers Verizon Wireless, Sprint and Nextel, went with GPS.
Although Nextel is the only national carrier to offer GPS services, all new phones sold by these carriers are GPS- equipped. By the end of 2005, companies that chose GPS are supposed to have converted at least 95 percent of their subscribers to the phones, although some carriers have indicated they will ask the FCC for an extension.
Bravo to the technological feat itself but I find this part an all-too common thing these days:
There are also governmental restrictions on this research, forcing Kenneth and his team to fly to Portugal to carry out the operation. If this technology takes off, the future will be bright for the sight-impaired."
I find it troubling that more and more developments have to be taken out of America simply to make it happen, just like stem-cell research. I'm wonder if the people behind the loud, irritating moral voice against this type of research will have any qualms using the advances/benefits when they need them?
From that perspective, Microsoft "jumped the shark" quite a while ago. Many of their releases "minimum requirements" were really pushing it, i.e. it loads the program/os but not much else....
IMHO we will see a lot of them in stors like Buest Buy. It will be a good scam to sell and/or install the needed parts to make it work right. If this is done I see a jump the shark moment for Windows.
But what does this have to do with windows/microsoft? It would be out of their hands at that point, and the manufacturers that make the decision.
I still don't see it happening. It's more like, "One device in your pocket that does everything poorly or two devices dedicated to their niche" right now.
And truthfully, as a consumer, I wouldn't want all my eggs in one basket. At one point, I'd prefer to have my phone stay my phone, my mp3 player stay my mp3 player, and my pda be a good pda. And my digital camera be a good digital camera.
Up to now, any "convergence" device I have used was always a piece of crap in terms of interface if nothing else (and usually there was always many something elses). There are successful devices that converge things together (the PC) but usually at the cost of many generations to get it right, till then they are clunky gadgets.
I believe that's where the iPod has it's popularity, it's not a clunky gadget but is elegant and easy to use for its purpose. Rather, most of the time it JUST WORKS. The convergence devices, especially the first few generations, will not be able to get around this.
Maybe in five years, phones will be competent (as in easy and intuitive to use) mp3 players, pdas, cameras, and what not in one pocket - but I don't think it has come yet. It's probably not the hardware either, but the software.....
I think Apple has the leg up in this arena anyway, as seen with the video iPod, I think it can grow the iPod to be a PDA (NEWTON!!!!) without major problem, it has the screen and input, just not a stylus, or a phone (which I believe is coming out already), and put a camera on it (like the MacBook Pros have) if they are so inclined. They have the mindshare, the ball is in their court to do with as they please.
I don't think that's the case with all consumers. I've stopped watching TV, most movies in the Theatre (by companies I reject), buying CDs from RIAA-signed artists, etcetera because I either don't like the methods of the industry behind them or the single company.
I'll be the first to admit it's not always possible to apply this method in all areas, but I consider it the only form of democracy I can exercise daily.
But it's not hard to do, beyond the checking (and there are websites to do that), because of all the entertainment choices out there (this is how I got into some manga/anime) you might find even better stuff because you venture out the safe zone into something unknown/untried.
Or simply find the chance to get away from big entertainment and actually do something physical enjoyable - like hang-gliding or whatever your form of poison happens to be.
It's a pretty liberating experience not to have to have anything in particular, especially the latest thing that the mainstream pushes on you.
Sony is obvious, but Dell, besides the lack of quality in certain parts (which could be directly correlated to cheap prices), loads their new computers with tons of bloatware - you have to sit there and remove programs for an hour to get the speed you expect from your new computer and then still, remnants are left.
This might be standard among the big boys in the PC industry, but last time I got a Mac - I was pretty amazed by the lack of crap (wonders if that will change with Jobs being part-owner of Disney)....
Problem is, patents can be renewed - so a 17 year patent can really be a 34 wait for innovation.
Do you really want to wait that long? What if it helped you live longer? Would you really be waiting that long before other companies can touch it?
I seem to recall that was part of the test, that it actually needed to be possible at the time you were patenting something, not just a crack-pipe dream....
Used to be, but I think the USPTO has been inspired by Martin Luther King Jr in the meantime.
MLK: "I have a dream-" USPTO: "Great! We'll grant you a patent on that!"
Granted being in the middle of nowhere meant that the local stores had to contend with high supplier costs, but somehow $8 for 2 litres of Pepsi still seems excessive.
Holy crap, where was this? Northern Alaska or Canada?
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Is there any way MS could pull the rug out from under Apple if Apple goes further than MS likes? You know, oops, Windows won't activate on Macs anymore. I'm sure the EULA retains MS's right to revoke a license any time they see fit.
Eula's also can claim the right to have your spouse and first born child - doesn't mean it's legally binding. "Right to revoke?" How about right to what I paid for?
Besides, if Apple were to have a contract with MS (as if), it would not be a one sided EULA.
Then you have a reputation. If you really were out of the norm to what your customers expected, you must have built it despite your appearance. Congratulations on taking the harder path.
On the other hand, people who don't care whether you wear sandles, have a ponytail, are black, white, asian, a woman, or whatever, will come out ahead, because they'll pick stuff that is best, rather than looking to see if it wears Armani suits.
If only people were that objective.
The truth is that, as a salesman, you have to play to your audience and different audiences have different requirements - in essence you sell yourself along with a product. This doesn't always mean a suit, but you are conforming yourself to your audience.
If a business suit might level the playing field where your potential clients take you that much more seriously, while someone who shows up in stained T-shirk and slack will have to have a product that is that much more better to be taken seriously, why even risk it?
You see it everyday, in how consumers pick products. Usually, lets say in electronics, the more polished products get more serious consideration. Something that looks slapped together or superficialy cheap/chintzy is either not taken seriously or has to be sold cheaper - even if the functionality is better.
If you really like to believe that people are so objective to look past the superficial, I suggest you put some research into "packaging..."
I remember IBM having one of the strictest dress code up to a few years ago, perhaps they relaxed a little.
But many places in the hacker/programming culture, you see the sandal-wear freestyle dress. Even within companies such as Microsoft and Nintendo.
The only difference I perceived between businesses and opensource operations is that companies are mostly headed by businessmen while OSS operation are many times headed by techies/former techies (much like a start-up).
Businessmen know to keep their programmers hidden or tell them to "dress up" when a client comes while techies may be somewhat insensitive to this more social side of business. Even if the businessman doesn't "hide" his programmers, he represents the face of outfit to a client and is better off well-dressed.
But it's doesn't mean that the techies are at a disadvantage, if money is on the table, techies can learn fast.
BTW, programming in a business suit can be fun once in a while, plus you have the advantage of getting away from junk food (crumbs) which is a health bonus:)
No matter how many cores one has, the transistor count should remain roughly the same for a 1-core, 2-core, 8-core chip of the same nm process and is limited by that process (90 nm in this case).
- NO, transistor count WILL increase with the increase of the number of cores.
But it would seem to me, that for the same sized chip, regardless of number of cores, the process (90 nm in this case) limits the number of transistors.
It would seem to me, that a CPU's workload is roughly limited by the number of transistors it has multiplied by it's MHz speed. No matter how many cores one has, the transistor count should remain roughly the same for a 1-core, 2-core, 8-core chip of the same nm process and is limited by that process (90 nm in this case).
I would suppose (but am not sure) extra cores reduce the number of transistors being idle at any one moment. The downside would seem that each extra core reduces the capability to process highly sequential problems in favor of highly paralell problems.
I know extra cores are nice to an extent, but isn't there a point where the paralellized gains aren't worth reduction in individual core capability? So these chips may be great for networks (routers, etcetera) but not so nice in desktops.
I suppose that's because VR has been dead as a buzzword for quite a while. I actually don't remember hearing it in marketing since the failed Nintendo Gameboy VR thingy and by then it's trendy use was waning in existence anyway.
By their trendy nature, these words go in and out of fashion and marketers like to jump to a new set of words that hasn't built up resistance from their audience yet. The art of selling.
Remember when the term "clicks-n-mortar" was still being used? I suspect "podcasts" and "blogs" will cease to be buzzwords within a few years, and either simply be normal, everyday words we use because that phenonema was sucessful on some level or will eventually fade out of our consciousness.
You have sound reasoning, but I think it relies on the government being almost too competent..... I found this article (and that woman's story) to be a good basis to think otherwise:
What I think is up with those documents is that they got filtered, anything important taken out beforehand, and these are the scraps given to the public. If nothing comes out of it - they can say "Hey, we tried." If anything actually comes out of it, that's icing on the cake, and may have been an find they wouldn't have made with their current resources.
It reminds me of when East Germany fell (1989) and West Germany essentially overtook ("united with") the former communist Government in 1990. In a last ditch effort to save state secrets (the Russians still had influence and enough people had double agent, agent, etcetera roles in the DDR that they didn't want the West to find out), they shredded all the documents before unification.
But for some reason, they left it at that, put the thing essentially neatly and sequentially in garbage bags and dumped them. Since them, Germany has had a facility for taping these documents together (now they use computers) and are still finding the names of DDR agents that were in West Germany, perhaps KGB agents (perhaps?), and other secrets and were still making arrests based on this information.
The point of that story is that if even a humongous economy like Germany (in the top 10 of the world) cannot or will not afford get all those documents together and extract the information in a more timely manner (within a scant several years instead of over 15 years) - why would the US been immune to this problem?
It might have a more resources, but they are also scattered among many interests. Consider that the arabic language is the obstacle in this case (as opposed to shredding) and it's clear that they could use the help deciphering it.
But I agree, they aren't going to give away any obviously groundbreaking information. Yet, intelligence is sometimes relies on linking many small, seemingly irrevalent, pieces of information together rather than a single smoking gun.
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I think we'd be better off with a digg type system - anybody can upgrade or downgrade a comment. Comments have bigger or lower threshholds - -25 to +100 or something. Not every post downgraded should be consider crap, make browsing -4 and above default.
/.'s system, everytime I have mod points, alway assigned to me when there are no decent article I like or don't feel like grading shit, I feel like a $8 an hour data entry clerk monkey or a middle school teach, trying to assign grades to the first f-ing posts I read to get it out of the way and not to "lose" my points.
I like digg style moderation better, it's more spur of the moment - I can sit there and say "wow, that was a good comment" or "that was really stupid" and assign a plus or minus point without hassle and spontaneously, when I feel like it.
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From the summary: "non-trivial?"
What is happening to our language with retarded constructs such as this? What happened to the word "important?"
Next time I have mod points, I think I'll mod down anybody who mentions modding their own posts up/down without do so in humor.
(Score: -1, Manipulative)
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(Score: -1, Whiny)
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(Score: -1, Pretensious)
There's can also be decay on the front of the teeth, not deep, but sometimes the dentist cuts away the gum line to put in the filling. This was the case with me with my bottom front teeth (plus these teeth are thin, not much room to miss a nerve coming in from the side instead of the top).
As I had a spate of dental problems the last year and because I was wondering why we evolves such apparently wretchedly fragile teeth (sharks have it nice, three rows of ever-emerging teeth keep popping up and the old ones pop out), and read up on dentistry in general to take better care of my teeth.
There are a lot of people out there who keep repeating that cavities were not a problem in most people until refined sugar hit the scene around the 1700s and that the industrial revolution made it cheap for the masses.
This is true to a point but I guess this article shows it's stupid to think that no one had cavities before refined sugar.
Drspiller.com being a good site to look up some info. Meat won't give cavities. Natural starchy foods (vegetables like potatoes) and fruit have many natural fibers that wash their own sugars off your teeth before they have time to settle, and the acids in them negligent because of dilution. With a drink of water afterwards should prevent any problems.
So it's true, processed and refined foods, especially with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, etcetera, are the biggest causes of cavities.
However, dried fruits are sticky and should be treated as refined sugar or processed foods (these all can cause cavities) and may be the biggest cavity causer of the old world (along with perhaps alcohols, like mead, etcetera).
I don't know. My father hates the numbing feeling of novacaine so much, he has endured fillings, crowns, and even several root canals without any pain killer.
Now, I don't know how he does this, but I joke with him that he must have worked as a spy for the CIA. He says it's a matter of letting go and making your mind wander to something else - but I'm not about to test this.
But anyway, he shows no memoryloss/blocking due to trauma. I imagine ancient peoples in general having a higher pain threshhold due to more exposure.
In fact, it's now under the authority of Homeland Security:
http://www.iowahomelandsecurity.org/asp/E_911/Gen
From http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/parents_bosse
I find it troubling that more and more developments have to be taken out of America simply to make it happen, just like stem-cell research. I'm wonder if the people behind the loud, irritating moral voice against this type of research will have any qualms using the advances/benefits when they need them?
From that perspective, Microsoft "jumped the shark" quite a while ago. Many of their releases "minimum requirements" were really pushing it, i.e. it loads the program/os but not much else....
But what does this have to do with windows/microsoft? It would be out of their hands at that point, and the manufacturers that make the decision.
I still don't see it happening. It's more like, "One device in your pocket that does everything poorly or two devices dedicated to their niche" right now.
And truthfully, as a consumer, I wouldn't want all my eggs in one basket. At one point, I'd prefer to have my phone stay my phone, my mp3 player stay my mp3 player, and my pda be a good pda. And my digital camera be a good digital camera.
Up to now, any "convergence" device I have used was always a piece of crap in terms of interface if nothing else (and usually there was always many something elses). There are successful devices that converge things together (the PC) but usually at the cost of many generations to get it right, till then they are clunky gadgets.
I believe that's where the iPod has it's popularity, it's not a clunky gadget but is elegant and easy to use for its purpose. Rather, most of the time it JUST WORKS. The convergence devices, especially the first few generations, will not be able to get around this.
Maybe in five years, phones will be competent (as in easy and intuitive to use) mp3 players, pdas, cameras, and what not in one pocket - but I don't think it has come yet. It's probably not the hardware either, but the software.....
I think Apple has the leg up in this arena anyway, as seen with the video iPod, I think it can grow the iPod to be a PDA (NEWTON!!!!) without major problem, it has the screen and input, just not a stylus, or a phone (which I believe is coming out already), and put a camera on it (like the MacBook Pros have) if they are so inclined. They have the mindshare, the ball is in their court to do with as they please.
I don't think that's the case with all consumers. I've stopped watching TV, most movies in the Theatre (by companies I reject), buying CDs from RIAA-signed artists, etcetera because I either don't like the methods of the industry behind them or the single company.
p e=ArtistSearch&keyword=The+White+Stripes
I'll be the first to admit it's not always possible to apply this method in all areas, but I consider it the only form of democracy I can exercise daily.
But it's not hard to do, beyond the checking (and there are websites to do that), because of all the entertainment choices out there (this is how I got into some manga/anime) you might find even better stuff because you venture out the safe zone into something unknown/untried.
Or simply find the chance to get away from big entertainment and actually do something physical enjoyable - like hang-gliding or whatever your form of poison happens to be.
It's a pretty liberating experience not to have to have anything in particular, especially the latest thing that the mainstream pushes on you.
There are even pleasant surprises when checking, I was for sure all my favorite artists would be signed onto a RIAA Company before I actually looked:
http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/search.asp?searchty
Neither of which earned my trust truth be told.
Sony is obvious, but Dell, besides the lack of quality in certain parts (which could be directly correlated to cheap prices), loads their new computers with tons of bloatware - you have to sit there and remove programs for an hour to get the speed you expect from your new computer and then still, remnants are left.
This might be standard among the big boys in the PC industry, but last time I got a Mac - I was pretty amazed by the lack of crap (wonders if that will change with Jobs being part-owner of Disney)....
Do you really want to wait that long? What if it helped you live longer? Would you really be waiting that long before other companies can touch it?
Used to be, but I think the USPTO has been inspired by Martin Luther King Jr in the meantime.
MLK: "I have a dream-"
USPTO: "Great! We'll grant you a patent on that!"
Holy crap, where was this? Northern Alaska or Canada?
Eula's also can claim the right to have your spouse and first born child - doesn't mean it's legally binding. "Right to revoke?" How about right to what I paid for?
Besides, if Apple were to have a contract with MS (as if), it would not be a one sided EULA.
Then you have a reputation. If you really were out of the norm to what your customers expected, you must have built it despite your appearance. Congratulations on taking the harder path.
If only people were that objective.
The truth is that, as a salesman, you have to play to your audience and different audiences have different requirements - in essence you sell yourself along with a product. This doesn't always mean a suit, but you are conforming yourself to your audience.
If a business suit might level the playing field where your potential clients take you that much more seriously, while someone who shows up in stained T-shirk and slack will have to have a product that is that much more better to be taken seriously, why even risk it?
You see it everyday, in how consumers pick products. Usually, lets say in electronics, the more polished products get more serious consideration. Something that looks slapped together or superficialy cheap/chintzy is either not taken seriously or has to be sold cheaper - even if the functionality is better.
If you really like to believe that people are so objective to look past the superficial, I suggest you put some research into "packaging..."
Sometimes a suits job is easy and sometimes it looks easy.
However, social skills cannot be learned from a book and there is a reason why the top salesman can earn more than a good programmer.
If a programmer has both social skill AND hacking skills, he can only be better off.
I remember IBM having one of the strictest dress code up to a few years ago, perhaps they relaxed a little.
But many places in the hacker/programming culture, you see the sandal-wear freestyle dress. Even within companies such as Microsoft and Nintendo.
The only difference I perceived between businesses and opensource operations is that companies are mostly headed by businessmen while OSS operation are many times headed by techies/former techies (much like a start-up).
Businessmen know to keep their programmers hidden or tell them to "dress up" when a client comes while techies may be somewhat insensitive to this more social side of business. Even if the businessman doesn't "hide" his programmers, he represents the face of outfit to a client and is better off well-dressed.
But it's doesn't mean that the techies are at a disadvantage, if money is on the table, techies can learn fast.
BTW, programming in a business suit can be fun once in a while, plus you have the advantage of getting away from junk food (crumbs) which is a health bonus:)
But it would seem to me, that for the same sized chip, regardless of number of cores, the process (90 nm in this case) limits the number of transistors.
It would seem to me, that a CPU's workload is roughly limited by the number of transistors it has multiplied by it's MHz speed. No matter how many cores one has, the transistor count should remain roughly the same for a 1-core, 2-core, 8-core chip of the same nm process and is limited by that process (90 nm in this case).
I would suppose (but am not sure) extra cores reduce the number of transistors being idle at any one moment. The downside would seem that each extra core reduces the capability to process highly sequential problems in favor of highly paralell problems.
I know extra cores are nice to an extent, but isn't there a point where the paralellized gains aren't worth reduction in individual core capability? So these chips may be great for networks (routers, etcetera) but not so nice in desktops.
Are have I missed something completely?
I suppose that's because VR has been dead as a buzzword for quite a while. I actually don't remember hearing it in marketing since the failed Nintendo Gameboy VR thingy and by then it's trendy use was waning in existence anyway.
By their trendy nature, these words go in and out of fashion and marketers like to jump to a new set of words that hasn't built up resistance from their audience yet. The art of selling.
Remember when the term "clicks-n-mortar" was still being used? I suspect "podcasts" and "blogs" will cease to be buzzwords within a few years, and either simply be normal, everyday words we use because that phenonema was sucessful on some level or will eventually fade out of our consciousness.
You have sound reasoning, but I think it relies on the government being almost too competent..... I found this article (and that woman's story) to be a good basis to think otherwise:
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minut
What I think is up with those documents is that they got filtered, anything important taken out beforehand, and these are the scraps given to the public. If nothing comes out of it - they can say "Hey, we tried." If anything actually comes out of it, that's icing on the cake, and may have been an find they wouldn't have made with their current resources.
It reminds me of when East Germany fell (1989) and West Germany essentially overtook ("united with") the former communist Government in 1990. In a last ditch effort to save state secrets (the Russians still had influence and enough people had double agent, agent, etcetera roles in the DDR that they didn't want the West to find out), they shredded all the documents before unification.
But for some reason, they left it at that, put the thing essentially neatly and sequentially in garbage bags and dumped them. Since them, Germany has had a facility for taping these documents together (now they use computers) and are still finding the names of DDR agents that were in West Germany, perhaps KGB agents (perhaps?), and other secrets and were still making arrests based on this information.
The point of that story is that if even a humongous economy like Germany (in the top 10 of the world) cannot or will not afford get all those documents together and extract the information in a more timely manner (within a scant several years instead of over 15 years) - why would the US been immune to this problem?
It might have a more resources, but they are also scattered among many interests. Consider that the arabic language is the obstacle in this case (as opposed to shredding) and it's clear that they could use the help deciphering it.
But I agree, they aren't going to give away any obviously groundbreaking information. Yet, intelligence is sometimes relies on linking many small, seemingly irrevalent, pieces of information together rather than a single smoking gun.