I agree... "It's always been about reputation"
The majority of our beliefs are based on what we have learned from an authority figure of one form or another. We could not develop otherwise -- it is not feasible to spend the time that would be needed to validate what we are told based on either rationality or personal experience.
Hang on a sec... if you read the Club Penguin announcement, they are not closing down Club Penguin but replacing the current version with a new one. Sounds like a big fuss about nothing.
How will the drones ensure that the recipient is the correct person? And how will they protect themselves against other people or drones stealing the cargo?
The/. item claims "The article states that last year alone, Apple Australia paid only $AU88.5 million in tax..." but that is incorrect. The article states "Last year Apple reported pretax earnings in Australia of only $88.5 million..."
The problem with Facebook's groups of friends is that the UI hides the functionality. I doubt that one in 1,000 users would have stumbled upon the right process for making a photo available to just a subset of their friends. I've suggested that a better approach to this type of control is to assign "privacy tags" to both people and published objects. A "friend" could then see just those objects of mine for which both they and the object share the same privacy tag.
This is not much different to observations Sherry Turkle reported in her 1984 book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Way back then she noted that young children had trouble deciding whether even simple electronic toys were alive. She proposed that when a toy could be taken apart to see the physical mechanism, children recognise it as merely an artefact. But when the behaviour is controlled via some computer chip, they are more likely to attribute it with "life".
Can you fill me in on some details about using LyX and DocBook? I'm trying to figure out whether that combination can do the following for me:
1. Allow me to write large amounts (500,000 words) of user-oriented doc split up into many topics, each in a separate file.
2. Allow output to be in various forms, including printed, PDF, HTML and CHTML.
3. Allow topics to be collected together in overlapping subsets for different purposes (e.g. to print a document with topics 1, 2 and 3 (along with title page, TOC and index); and at another time to produce a CHTML help system with topics 1, 4 and 5.)
4. Some way of producing cross-references appropriate to the output format. i.e. if I have cross-references between source files (which semantically means a reference from one topic to another), when I produce printed output I want the cross-refs to refer to the correct page number, but when I produce HTML output I want the cross-refs to be hyperlinks between the correct HTML files.
5. Some form of conditional tags which allow different text to be produced for different targets. The classic example is with cross references: I want "See Another Topic on page 64" for printed output, but when the same topic is used in HTML, the text should say "See Another Topic" as a hyperlink. But the requirement is more general: potentially any piece of text or graphics may be marked as conditional for certain output formats.
Lastly, if I want all this to happen, what auxilliary software do I need on top of LyX?
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I agree ... "It's always been about reputation"
The majority of our beliefs are based on what we have learned from an authority figure of one form or another. We could not develop otherwise -- it is not feasible to spend the time that would be needed to validate what we are told based on either rationality or personal experience.
Elon Musk invented BitCoin? Surely not. I heard it was Kim Jong-un.
I think you're a little harsh. Garnet puts a lot of AI into those reports.
Hang on a sec ... if you read the Club Penguin announcement, they are not closing down Club Penguin but replacing the current version with a new one. Sounds like a big fuss about nothing.
How will the drones ensure that the recipient is the correct person? And how will they protect themselves against other people or drones stealing the cargo?
FWIW, I am also praying for your sister in law and those surrounding her.
The /. item claims "The article states that last year alone, Apple Australia paid only $AU88.5 million in tax ..." but that is incorrect. The article states "Last year Apple reported pretax earnings in Australia of only $88.5 million ..."
Who invented this term "gifting" and what's wrong with just giving?
The problem with Facebook's groups of friends is that the UI hides the functionality. I doubt that one in 1,000 users would have stumbled upon the right process for making a photo available to just a subset of their friends. I've suggested that a better approach to this type of control is to assign "privacy tags" to both people and published objects. A "friend" could then see just those objects of mine for which both they and the object share the same privacy tag.
It would save some of us the trouble of putting similar material together if you could post the presentation somewhere.
This is not much different to observations Sherry Turkle reported in her 1984 book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Way back then she noted that young children had trouble deciding whether even simple electronic toys were alive. She proposed that when a toy could be taken apart to see the physical mechanism, children recognise it as merely an artefact. But when the behaviour is controlled via some computer chip, they are more likely to attribute it with "life".
Can you fill me in on some details about using LyX and DocBook? I'm trying to figure out whether that combination can do the following for me:
1. Allow me to write large amounts (500,000 words) of user-oriented doc split up into many topics, each in a separate file.
2. Allow output to be in various forms, including printed, PDF, HTML and CHTML.
3. Allow topics to be collected together in overlapping subsets for different purposes (e.g. to print a document with topics 1, 2 and 3 (along with title page, TOC and index); and at another time to produce a CHTML help system with topics 1, 4 and 5.)
4. Some way of producing cross-references appropriate to the output format. i.e. if I have cross-references between source files (which semantically means a reference from one topic to another), when I produce printed output I want the cross-refs to refer to the correct page number, but when I produce HTML output I want the cross-refs to be hyperlinks between the correct HTML files.
5. Some form of conditional tags which allow different text to be produced for different targets. The classic example is with cross references: I want "See Another Topic on page 64" for printed output, but when the same topic is used in HTML, the text should say "See Another Topic" as a hyperlink. But the requirement is more general: potentially any piece of text or graphics may be marked as conditional for certain output formats.
Lastly, if I want all this to happen, what auxilliary software do I need on top of LyX?
Matt.