Whether it is the memory process or another process that causes the degradation, the cure is the same. I doubt that the person who wrote the question cares about the exact process.
Someone responded to that post with a link to a PDF file. The PDF file contains interesting information, but is too detailed for most people. It mentions that often the memory effect isn't really memory effect, but another process that has the same cure.
I agree that it is good to replace the NiCads with NiMH batteries. But it is possible to live with NiCads if you observe their limitations. It is possible that a particular device designed for NiCads will not charge NiMH batteries well.
"The sad part is that many software companies tries to control HOW you
use the program, WHO uses it and WHAT they use it for."
Yes, and changing the license AFTER you have already started using the
software is bait-and-switch.
Thanks to this abusive policy, Bitkeeper now has tons and tons of bad publicity.
With certainty, the bad publicity will cost them more than any extra money
they would have made from the bait-and-switch. Incidentally, did I
mention bait-and-switch?
Every company that would have paid for the Bitkeeper product interprets this sneaky activity very clearly: If they can do sneaky things to Linus, they can do this to our company, too. We should stay away from them. They are not trustworthy.
This is typical of technically capable people who know nothing about marketing and think there is nothing to know: Work for years to build the product, and sink the company in an afternoon.
Truly innovative industry leaders like Microsoft would never do something so
low and mean as change the contract after companies have already decided to
use the product: EULA (End User
License Agreement) for a security bug fix. (Don't croak, it's a joke.
Don't blink, read the link.)
VA Software, owner of Slashdot, uses a sneaky tactic, also. As you can see from the stock price, the VA Software executives are people of great business insight. At the top of every Slashdot article, it says, "The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by
whoever posted them." This sounds like you own your comments, doesn't it? However, the OSDN Terms of Service says at section 4,
CONTENT, paragraph 6, that they own your comments, too. It's as though Chevy sold you a car, but gave its executives the right to come around and use it, also. (I don't like sneakiness. All my comments belong solely to me. Slashdot would not have the importance it has now if the members knew that they were losing control over their writing.)
It's no fun to work at an abusive company. We are seeing a rise in the
number of sneaky contracts. This seems due to, not only technically capable people who are ignorant of marketing, but also the presence of people with no
technical knowledge at technically oriented companies. These people cannot
contribute to the real work of the companies; all they can do is invent ways
to abuse the customer.
As companies become more abusive, it becomes more miserable to work
there. If you are good at what you do, quit and get a job somewhere where
people are treated like people.
The final EULA:
EULAs are becoming more and more abusive. I decided to jump several steps ahead and
write the final EULA:
I can do anything I like.
You have no power.
You can't say anything bad about me.
Everything belongs to me.
I knew a 3-year-old who said this. He has since become an adult, which is more than I can say for some executives.
"The money donated by the U.S. government to Israel is like fuel thrown on
a fire. The amount is said to total about $5.25 billion per year, when all
amounts are considered. This is an enormous amount of money to a prosperous
country of well-educated people. The population of Israel is about 5.8 million people
(1996), so Israel receives from the U.S. government an astounding $905 per
year for every man, woman and child who lives there. (In the entire
world, there are only about 14,000,000 Jews.)"
It is a cultural thing...
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There are very few people of European descent in important positions in Japan. It is a cultural thing, I think, not a genetic thing. There is great difficulty in learning the culture well enough to be considered one of them.
It may be hard to believe...
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The theory explains much of what happens in the world. Look around. Read the books. It's a difficult experience to realize this, but a growthful one. Whether anything I said applies to you, I don't know.
More ignorance: "With the recent release of the new operating system Windows XP by Microsoft, Redmap Networks support wishes to advise that existing ManageEzy and ManagePoint will not run on the Microsoft Windows XP platform. We are currently striving towards a solution for Windows XP and this is expected to be completed by the 3rd quarter of 2002."
The company looks understaffed and underskilled. They gave themselves a year, and missed that deadline.
It is what happens as a very young child that causes the problems, generally.
Also, I was giving you an example of how it could be true that large numbers of people have chronic muscle tension. Maybe it does not apply to you, however. Obviously, I would have no way of knowing anything specific about you.
Two people who love each other sometimes unknowingly traumatize their child, so it is not impossible. It is extremely common that someone says that he or she had loving parents when, in fact, he or she was traumatized. The two are not inconsistent.
"To view this site you must be using Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4 or above.
If you do not have a copy of Microsoft® Internet Explorer please use the links below to download a FREE copy.
We look forward to you visiting us at www.doctrieve.com
A software company that is that ignorant about how to make web pages might not be the best business partner.
I liked this from the article you linked:
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I liked this from the article you linked:
"Tsurunen's candidacy aroused considerable media attention, and his relatively narrow defeats each time marked him out as a serious contender. It is perhaps hard for us to grasp the significance of his achievement, as most European countries, and this includes even relatively isolated and homogeneous Finland, are a good deal more multiculturally-inclined than Japan."
Mirnav: This is for real. The eye is very plastic. If the muscles did not hold
the eye in a bad position, the vision would be perfect.
You said, "... entertain the thought that my myopia that started at the age
of 7 was caused by an excessively tense lifestyle in elementary school!"
The problem is not elementary school. Babies need constant contact with a
loving person. If they don't have it, they grow up with considerable inner
conflict. Check one of my other posts in this sub-thread about genetically
similar people in Brazil and the United States. In Brazil, parents typically
hold their babies constantly. (They bring their babies to parties and dance
with them, for example.) This is the major reason that Brazilians have far
fewer physical problems than Americans. Often, Americans put their babies in a
crib in another room.
It is not logical to focus just on myopia. Many Americans are physical wrecks.
A very large percentage are obese; the U.S. is the most obese country in the
world, with the exception of a Pacific island where the diet is heavy in
coconut fat. Americans have chronic muscle tension in many of the muscle
groups, not just the eye muscles.
Social problems exist in every nation of the world. However, the U.S. is the
worst in the world in several ways: 1) Obesity, 2) Killing other people, 3)
Spying on people, 4) Putting people in prison. What goes around comes around.
The U.S. is a difficult place to live, in many ways, and American's bodies
reflect that.
Using Brazil as an example again, I have been told that the last time the
Brazilian government killed someone in war was 1822. I'm not sure this is
true. I am sure that the U.S. government killed more than 2,000,000 people in
the last 35 years in war. For more about the tendency of the U.S. culture to
violence, see my article What
should be the Response to Violence?.
Before the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cleaned up the mess during the
Viva Rio movement, Rio was notorious for violence. The city had a murder rate
then of something like 45 murders per year per 100,000 population. The rate in
Washington, D.C. is 77.
Instead of seeing the world in a friendly, socially sophisticated way, the U.S. culture tends to see things in an adversarial way. This causes inner conflict in U.S. citizens.
It's a big transition, I know, realizing that, all your life, people have been lying to each other about their inner reality. But it's true.
As I mentioned in another comment in this sub-thread, read "The Primal Scream"
by Arthur Janov.
When you walk down the street in a big city in the U.S., look at people. If
you look closely, you will see that the walking of most people is not
completely free and easy. This is because of chronic muscle tension.
Then, walk down a street in a big city in Brazil, for example Rio de Janeiro.
Look only at people who are genetically similar to those in the United States.
Although many Brazilians come from the same genetic stock as people in the
U.S., Brazilians have much less chronic muscle tension. Their walking is, in
general, more natural. From a humanistic view, the U.S. is a difficult place
to live even though there is a lot of money, and American's bodies reflect
that.
For anyone who is interested, read "Bioenergetics" by Alexander Lowen. Also,
read "The Primal Scream" by Arthur Janov. It is not exercise that cures
myopia; it is the awareness of inner conflict that comes from the exercise. It
is possible to exercise without becoming more aware; someone doing that would
not see improvement.
Chronic muscle tension may not be the only reason for myopia, but it is the
biggest reason by far.
To do it right, you must be VERY committed. Working the muscles with chronic muscle tension will bring up feelings of the conflicts that put the tension there.
Definitely not ANYTHING connected with Scientology. Interestingly, I knew a man who was L. Ron Hubbard's roommate in the '40s. Back then, he talked about starting a religion.
I know this may seem difficult to believe, but bad vision is usually due to chronic tension in the muscles of the eyes. There are methods available to reduce your chronic muscle tension. There is a book about this; I will see if I can find the title.
What is interesting, and unfortunate, is that Windows XP's faults are mostly
avoidable. It seems that the problems are sociological, rather than technical.
Microsoft seems to have become self-destructive, like Tyco and Enron. (Okay, even more self-destructive.)
By far the best marketing for Linux and BSD is Microsoft. It doesn't have to
be that way. The cost to a corporation for someone working at a desk with a
computer is so high that the cost of Windows is not a deciding factor. Linux
is beginning to win, not because of the price, but because people don't like
to be abused, and don't like the ridiculous security risks: (from the article)
"... as of September 9, 2002, there are 19 security
vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer [pivx.com]. (On August 8,
2002, there were 22, so some progress is being made.) This is a terrible
record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that
kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them."
It seems to me that what you said is not proof, but it is interesting to think
about.
The situation with Japan was unusual, it seemed to me, because of General
McArthur. He used his power to help Japan rebuild. (My father was one of the
U.S. military people who helped in the re-construction.) Basically, General
MacArthur was Japan's first democratic leader.
Japan has been peaceful, not because of war, but because of an amazing amount
of creative and intensive charity after the war. Also, the Japanese are
culturally pre-disposed to accept one strong, fatherlike, leader.
Notes from Google: General
MacArthur, the founder of today's 'prosperous' Japan says "... he had
achieved countless reforms such as educational reform, farmland reform,
zaibatsu dissolution, dissolution militarism, promotion of democracy and tax
reform tax reform as well as signing on battleship Missouri. It is no
exaggeration to say that he was the founder of today's prosperous Japan."
The cultural disposition of the Japanese to accept an older leader helped
them accept W. Edwards Deming, an American quality control expert. See History of Japan's Quality movement
which says,
"The quality movement in Japan began in 1946 with the U.S. Occupation
Force's mission to revive and restructure Japan's communications equipment
industry. General Douglas MacArthur was committed to public education through
radio. Homer Sarasohn was recruited to spearhead the effort by repairing and
installing equipment, making materials and parts available, restarting
factories, establishing the equipment test laboratory (ETL), and setting rigid
quality standards for products (Tsurumi 1990). Sarasohn recommended
individuals for company presidencies, like Koji Kobayashi of NEC, and he
established education for Japan's top executives in the management of quality.
Furthermore, upon Sarasohn's return to the United States, he recommended W.
Edwards Deming to provide a seminar in Japan on statistical quality control
(SQC)."
As I said, the charity toward Japan after the war was extensive, amazingly so.
Christianity should be given some credit here because the idea of being
charitable to Japan apparently came from Christian principles. (This is not
meant to be a religious statement. It is only a cultural statement.)
The charity was even more remarkable because Japan had had a really, really
rotten outbreak of mental illness that causes Japanese to be disliked in
countries surrounding Japan even today. There were certainly many reasons why
people would allow themselves to feel negative toward the Japanese.
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Whether it is the memory process or another process that causes the degradation, the cure is the same. I doubt that the person who wrote the question cares about the exact process.
There was no mention of discharging NiMH batteries. There would be no need to do this, since they don't have memory effect.
The discussion was about discharging NiCad batteries perhaps once a year. This was recommended in the RCA NiCad design manual.
Owning my comments means that I alone can determine how they are used. OSDN, is, sneakily, claiming joint ownership.
See my previous post about how to have less trouble with NiCad batteries:
Solutions: 1) Don't charge so much. 2) Discharge.
Someone responded to that post with a link to a PDF file. The PDF file contains interesting information, but is too detailed for most people. It mentions that often the memory effect isn't really memory effect, but another process that has the same cure.
I agree that it is good to replace the NiCads with NiMH batteries. But it is possible to live with NiCads if you observe their limitations. It is possible that a particular device designed for NiCads will not charge NiMH batteries well.
Predictions:
Within 18 months, Linus will stop using Bitkeeper. This will get the Bitkeeper company an enormous amount of additional free negative publicity.
Within 3 years, the Bitkeeper company will be on the edge of bankruptcy.
Within 6 years, if someone mentions Bitkeeper on Slashdot, people will say, "Bit Who?"
"The sad part is that many software companies tries to control HOW you use the program, WHO uses it and WHAT they use it for."
Yes, and changing the license AFTER you have already started using the software is bait-and-switch.
Thanks to this abusive policy, Bitkeeper now has tons and tons of bad publicity. With certainty, the bad publicity will cost them more than any extra money they would have made from the bait-and-switch. Incidentally, did I mention bait-and-switch?
Every company that would have paid for the Bitkeeper product interprets this sneaky activity very clearly: If they can do sneaky things to Linus, they can do this to our company, too. We should stay away from them. They are not trustworthy.
This is typical of technically capable people who know nothing about marketing and think there is nothing to know: Work for years to build the product, and sink the company in an afternoon.
Truly innovative industry leaders like Microsoft would never do something so low and mean as change the contract after companies have already decided to use the product: EULA (End User License Agreement) for a security bug fix. (Don't croak, it's a joke. Don't blink, read the link.)
VA Software, owner of Slashdot, uses a sneaky tactic, also. As you can see from the stock price, the VA Software executives are people of great business insight. At the top of every Slashdot article, it says, "The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them." This sounds like you own your comments, doesn't it? However, the OSDN Terms of Service says at section 4, CONTENT, paragraph 6, that they own your comments, too. It's as though Chevy sold you a car, but gave its executives the right to come around and use it, also. (I don't like sneakiness. All my comments belong solely to me. Slashdot would not have the importance it has now if the members knew that they were losing control over their writing.)
It's no fun to work at an abusive company. We are seeing a rise in the number of sneaky contracts. This seems due to, not only technically capable people who are ignorant of marketing, but also the presence of people with no technical knowledge at technically oriented companies. These people cannot contribute to the real work of the companies; all they can do is invent ways to abuse the customer.
As companies become more abusive, it becomes more miserable to work there. If you are good at what you do, quit and get a job somewhere where people are treated like people.
The final EULA: EULAs are becoming more and more abusive. I decided to jump several steps ahead and write the final EULA:
- I can do anything I like.
- You have no power.
- You can't say anything bad about me.
- Everything belongs to me.
I knew a 3-year-old who said this. He has since become an adult, which is more than I can say for some executives.About that, see What should be the Response to Violence? .
A quote:
"The money donated by the U.S. government to Israel is like fuel thrown on a fire. The amount is said to total about $5.25 billion per year, when all amounts are considered. This is an enormous amount of money to a prosperous country of well-educated people. The population of Israel is about 5.8 million people (1996), so Israel receives from the U.S. government an astounding $905 per year for every man, woman and child who lives there. (In the entire world, there are only about 14,000,000 Jews.)"
There are very few people of European descent in important positions in Japan. It is a cultural thing, I think, not a genetic thing. There is great difficulty in learning the culture well enough to be considered one of them.
It may be hard to believe, but this is worse.
It's unfortunate that you have turned hostile. I was only trying to be helpful.
The theory explains much of what happens in the world. Look around. Read the books. It's a difficult experience to realize this, but a growthful one. Whether anything I said applies to you, I don't know.
More ignorance: "With the recent release of the new operating system Windows XP by Microsoft, Redmap Networks support wishes to advise that existing ManageEzy and ManagePoint will not run on the Microsoft Windows XP platform. We are currently striving towards a solution for Windows XP and this is expected to be completed by the 3rd quarter of 2002."
The company looks understaffed and underskilled. They gave themselves a year, and missed that deadline.
You have missed the point a little.
It is what happens as a very young child that causes the problems, generally.
Also, I was giving you an example of how it could be true that large numbers of people have chronic muscle tension. Maybe it does not apply to you, however. Obviously, I would have no way of knowing anything specific about you.
Two people who love each other sometimes unknowingly traumatize their child, so it is not impossible. It is extremely common that someone says that he or she had loving parents when, in fact, he or she was traumatized. The two are not inconsistent.
The Doctrieve link is not Mozilla friendly:
"To view this site you must be using Microsoft® Internet Explorer 4 or above.
If you do not have a copy of Microsoft® Internet Explorer please use the links below to download a FREE copy.
We look forward to you visiting us at www.doctrieve.com
A software company that is that ignorant about how to make web pages might not be the best business partner.
I liked this from the article you linked:
"Tsurunen's candidacy aroused considerable media attention, and his relatively narrow defeats each time marked him out as a serious contender. It is perhaps hard for us to grasp the significance of his achievement, as most European countries, and this includes even relatively isolated and homogeneous Finland, are a good deal more multiculturally-inclined than Japan."
Mirnav: This is for real. The eye is very plastic. If the muscles did not hold the eye in a bad position, the vision would be perfect.
You said, "... entertain the thought that my myopia that started at the age of 7 was caused by an excessively tense lifestyle in elementary school!"
The problem is not elementary school. Babies need constant contact with a loving person. If they don't have it, they grow up with considerable inner conflict. Check one of my other posts in this sub-thread about genetically similar people in Brazil and the United States. In Brazil, parents typically hold their babies constantly. (They bring their babies to parties and dance with them, for example.) This is the major reason that Brazilians have far fewer physical problems than Americans. Often, Americans put their babies in a crib in another room.
It is not logical to focus just on myopia. Many Americans are physical wrecks. A very large percentage are obese; the U.S. is the most obese country in the world, with the exception of a Pacific island where the diet is heavy in coconut fat. Americans have chronic muscle tension in many of the muscle groups, not just the eye muscles.
Social problems exist in every nation of the world. However, the U.S. is the worst in the world in several ways: 1) Obesity, 2) Killing other people, 3) Spying on people, 4) Putting people in prison. What goes around comes around. The U.S. is a difficult place to live, in many ways, and American's bodies reflect that.
Using Brazil as an example again, I have been told that the last time the Brazilian government killed someone in war was 1822. I'm not sure this is true. I am sure that the U.S. government killed more than 2,000,000 people in the last 35 years in war. For more about the tendency of the U.S. culture to violence, see my article What should be the Response to Violence? .
Before the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, cleaned up the mess during the Viva Rio movement, Rio was notorious for violence. The city had a murder rate then of something like 45 murders per year per 100,000 population. The rate in Washington, D.C. is 77.
Instead of seeing the world in a friendly, socially sophisticated way, the U.S. culture tends to see things in an adversarial way. This causes inner conflict in U.S. citizens.
It's a big transition, I know, realizing that, all your life, people have been lying to each other about their inner reality. But it's true.
As I mentioned in another comment in this sub-thread, read "The Primal Scream" by Arthur Janov.
More like Judge Ito was an important judge in the U.S. during the O.J. Simpson trial, but there has never been a European judge in Japan.
Learning the Japanese culture is a BIG intellectual challenge.
You will always be "gai-jin", a negative term the Japanese have for anyone who is not exactly like them.
When you walk down the street in a big city in the U.S., look at people. If you look closely, you will see that the walking of most people is not completely free and easy. This is because of chronic muscle tension.
Then, walk down a street in a big city in Brazil, for example Rio de Janeiro. Look only at people who are genetically similar to those in the United States. Although many Brazilians come from the same genetic stock as people in the U.S., Brazilians have much less chronic muscle tension. Their walking is, in general, more natural. From a humanistic view, the U.S. is a difficult place to live even though there is a lot of money, and American's bodies reflect that.
For anyone who is interested, read "Bioenergetics" by Alexander Lowen. Also, read "The Primal Scream" by Arthur Janov. It is not exercise that cures myopia; it is the awareness of inner conflict that comes from the exercise. It is possible to exercise without becoming more aware; someone doing that would not see improvement.
Chronic muscle tension may not be the only reason for myopia, but it is the biggest reason by far.
This is correct, in my experience. There is a LOT to be said about this, but no time to say it now or here.
To do it right, you must be VERY committed. Working the muscles with chronic muscle tension will bring up feelings of the conflicts that put the tension there.
Definitely not ANYTHING connected with Scientology. Interestingly, I knew a man who was L. Ron Hubbard's roommate in the '40s. Back then, he talked about starting a religion.
I know this may seem difficult to believe, but bad vision is usually due to chronic tension in the muscles of the eyes. There are methods available to reduce your chronic muscle tension. There is a book about this; I will see if I can find the title.
Sounds like a Microsoft sales person is influencing the University. Here are some reasons why Windows XP is less than perfect: Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.
What is interesting, and unfortunate, is that Windows XP's faults are mostly avoidable. It seems that the problems are sociological, rather than technical. Microsoft seems to have become self-destructive, like Tyco and Enron. (Okay, even more self-destructive.)
By far the best marketing for Linux and BSD is Microsoft. It doesn't have to be that way. The cost to a corporation for someone working at a desk with a computer is so high that the cost of Windows is not a deciding factor. Linux is beginning to win, not because of the price, but because people don't like to be abused, and don't like the ridiculous security risks: (from the article)
"... as of September 9, 2002, there are 19 security vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer [pivx.com]. (On August 8, 2002, there were 22, so some progress is being made.) This is a terrible record for a company that has $40 billion in the bank. Obviously, with that kind of money, Microsoft could fix the bugs if it wanted to fix them."
It seems to me that what you said is not proof, but it is interesting to think about.
The situation with Japan was unusual, it seemed to me, because of General McArthur. He used his power to help Japan rebuild. (My father was one of the U.S. military people who helped in the re-construction.) Basically, General MacArthur was Japan's first democratic leader.
Japan has been peaceful, not because of war, but because of an amazing amount of creative and intensive charity after the war. Also, the Japanese are culturally pre-disposed to accept one strong, fatherlike, leader.
Notes from Google: General MacArthur, the founder of today's 'prosperous' Japan says "... he had achieved countless reforms such as educational reform, farmland reform, zaibatsu dissolution, dissolution militarism, promotion of democracy and tax reform tax reform as well as signing on battleship Missouri. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the founder of today's prosperous Japan."
This article tells a little more: Japan Under American Occupation.
The cultural disposition of the Japanese to accept an older leader helped them accept W. Edwards Deming, an American quality control expert. See History of Japan's Quality movement which says,
"The quality movement in Japan began in 1946 with the U.S. Occupation Force's mission to revive and restructure Japan's communications equipment industry. General Douglas MacArthur was committed to public education through radio. Homer Sarasohn was recruited to spearhead the effort by repairing and installing equipment, making materials and parts available, restarting factories, establishing the equipment test laboratory (ETL), and setting rigid quality standards for products (Tsurumi 1990). Sarasohn recommended individuals for company presidencies, like Koji Kobayashi of NEC, and he established education for Japan's top executives in the management of quality. Furthermore, upon Sarasohn's return to the United States, he recommended W. Edwards Deming to provide a seminar in Japan on statistical quality control (SQC)."
See also, Japan's Secret: W. Edwards Deming.
As I said, the charity toward Japan after the war was extensive , amazingly so.
Christianity should be given some credit here because the idea of being charitable to Japan apparently came from Christian principles. (This is not meant to be a religious statement. It is only a cultural statement.)
The charity was even more remarkable because Japan had had a really, really rotten outbreak of mental illness that causes Japanese to be disliked in countries surrounding Japan even today. There were certainly many reasons why people would allow themselves to feel negative toward the Japanese.