Because parents today teach their kids to bitch, complain, and wallow is self-pity with absolute mastery, while at the same time instilling the absolute belief that there is nothing anybody can do about anything.
That's a pretty cool feature... still doesn't compare in any meaningful way to the 496, but for most people, I am sure it is sufficient:)
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Map data will make or break a GPS product. To me, you are committing monetary suicide if you buy a GPS where you cannot regularly update the maps, and/or the manufacturer does not provide such updates.
Most consumer-level GPSes do not have updateable maps, and those that do just update you with a year-old map they got for cheap.
I have a Garmin GPSMAP-496 and I *love* it.
If you want a good GPS with an accurate map, you have to pay for it. The $100 Mio piece-o-shit GPS is going to have, at best, a 3-5 year old map on it that they picked up a license for on the cheap. I tried a Mio, and it didn't even have a new map for the intersection of North Wales and Morris roads in 19446, which had been redesigned a decade or more ago. The result: "Turn right down this road that doesn't exist anymore."
There were also many cases where it would tell me to drive a mile or more out of my way, only to turn around and go back. It also sent me down dead-end streets SEVERAL times because it thought they still went through. Again, these changes around town were made a decade or more ago, but the Mio had no idea because the manufacturer used really old map data.
At 60GHz, interference from WHAT? That's a very uncrowded part of the spectrum and there isn't too much natural noise up that high, let alone man made.
This is an easy fix. Simply put a PLD between the RAM and the memory controller, and have a battery backed supply that runs the memory for a short time after poweroff. When power goes away, the battery backup circuit holds up the PLD and the RAM long enough for a state machine in the PLD to scrub the memory.
Is Microsoft's answer to Tux and the Bitten Apple. M$ has never really had a Mascot, and I will bet dollars to donuts that some M$ marketing person had an epiphany that the reason everyone hates M$ was because they didn't have a cute, cuddly mascot or cultural icon.
So, their answer, of course, is to create not one, but LOTS, of cute, cuddly mascots. After all, if one is good, 10 must be better. Right?
After reading some of the replies to my post, I agree that I was inappropriately dismissing of online dating for its obvious benefits as a tool. I also want to say that I did not mean for my OP to be a one-size-fits-all solution. Your points are well-taken, and your last paragraph is spot on. There are definitely a lot of traps people fall into.
Looking at the problem from the purely mathematical sense that TFA does, the goal is to achieve P and V such that the likelihood, call it F(P,V) is globally maximized. I think I should have honed in more on the point that, for a lot of people, it is easier to change P and V for the better in real life than online (even if it does work online). I also still believe that in general this is true for the vast majority, even if they don't know it or believe it for themselves.
If I were to put a ranking on the barriers that most people experience in real life, I think I would have to put the #1 rank on a lack of patience. On a "good" dating site, as you say, this is forced, so they are removing what is to me the largest barrier to success in finding a quality partner. But, I think the next couple of barriers are not far behind in their magnitude: lack of confidence in one's self and lack of a strong personal identity. These are two things online dating sites can do nothing about.
I can definitely see your point, and obviously I didn't mean my OP to be the "one size fits all" solution to everyone.
I do respectfully disagree with some aspects of your opinion on the simplicity of joining groups. You are right that groups are suspicious of new people. This is absolutely true. They will always wonder about your motives. Every group I have joined has initially made me feel sort of like they didn't trust me. That's fine, though. It just takes a long time for adults to become fully integrated and accepted into a new group. It can take months. It's not a simple matter of joining a group. It's a complicated matter of joining a group and waiting for them to warm up to you. Only once they are very accustomed to you being there will they start to accept you. You might just be joining the group for the end purpose of meeting women, but you can be assured that the women in the group are likely not there for the end purpose of meeting men.
Advice for people in a city without "trillions" of friends? Absolutely. It is difficult to be terribly specific without knowing anything about you, but allow me to go on the assumption that you are the type that tends to have fewer, but closer friends (this is me, believe it or not). This is a huge amplifier of V for you, but it impedes P just by virtue of the fewer number of opportunities.
First, here is where a wingman (wingperson, really) helps incredibly. If you and one of your closer friends join a group together, that is 100x better than joining one alone. It demonstrates that at least one person has accepted you, and that you have at least some degree of social skill. Even better is if your friend is your opposite sex, and the platinum prize is if your opposite-sex friend is attractive. A guy who shows up to a group with an attractive woman with whom he is just friends will generate respectful envy among the men and curiosity among the women.
Second, joining a group centered on a topic with which you do not have mastery knowledge is better than joining one centered on a topic on which you are already expert. If you enter the group as an interested party and look to them for advice and guidance, you will be reinforcing their expert status while at the same time learning something new. This enriches your cultural experience and expands your pool of possible friends by exposing you to people different than you. You are also providing an avenue for the group members to enrich their cultural experience and knowledge, so you are more likely to be approached by curious people.
Third, another option is to join a group where _nobody_ has mastery knowledge. You instantly have something in common with everyone else. A good example is a foreign language or musical instrument class. They are repetitive, so you are guaranteed multiple interactions with the same people. You also share the same expertise level as everyone else (save the instructor), so you are in a better position to help each other.
Finally, be patient! It takes a long time to be accepted into a group, especially as adults. I have two examples I can share with you.
6 weeks ago, I joined a new running group (solo, without the inside recommendation). We run once every week, and every other week is beer and pizza night after the run. I have gone every week, and I am still not "tight" with anyone there, but people are starting to talk to me more and more now that I have been there a while. They are only starting to believe that I am "for real" and not there for some disingenuous motive.
Second, I started taking a foreign language class last fall. There are about 10 students in the class (not that many, right?). Most of them have nothing in common with me, but as the class has continued for the past 20 weeks or so, the smallness of our group has lent itself to start to grow personal relationships between the people in the class. There has also been the opportunity to learn many new things due to the differences between all of us. We have had a couple of social events
I am not only in my 30's, but I am one of two single child-less people in the entire office. I do not socialize at all with people from work. I have met most of my friends through cycling, running, flying, and other social activities I am involved in.
If you can't socialize easily at work, join some clubs or take up new hobbies and meet people that way. It is so incredibly easy, you would be surprised.
Go out, socialize, have friends, and meet the person of your dreams au naturale.
I met my girlfriend at a game night another friend invited me to. Believe me, this method gives you all of the advantages of these silly social networking and dating sites, but without having to do any of the work. This is because this is how human socialization works anyway. You meet people through people, and the more well adapted you are socially, the more people you meet and befriend, and the more you value your interpersonal relationships.
So, P and V (RTFA if you haven't already) both get much bigger, which is always more fun.
This explains everything about PowerBoost. In short, they do not advertise the maximum speed at which the connection will operate during the burst. They explain clearly that your connection will run at your provisioned speed after the burst is over.
Oh come on people. Can you please just stop the witch hunt? Comcast advertises this as a feature, and to me it's actually pretty convenient. I can imagine that most downloads are probably less than 10MB in a single burst, so giving the user the first 5 seconds or so of transfer at a higher rate helps the consumer see a faster internet. Keeping sustained transfers at the advertised cap speed ensures one user can't gobble up all the bandwidth over a prolonged period of time. Everybody wins.
This is not too different than how metered T/OC-x connections are operated. These metered T/OC-x connections bill you based on your sustained bandwidth, so yeah, you can have short bursts without getting a gigantic bill, but if you are pegged at 50% all the time, your bill will be huge.
This sucks. I like my HD-DVD player much better than my BluRay player. On the BRD player, it takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes just to power up, open the tray, close the tray with a disc in it, and finally load up and get to the main menu. Then, it's another 5 minutes or so before the movie starts, and that is iff there are no mantatory previews for 3 year old movies on it.
It takes less than 2 minutes to get to the movie from PowerOff on the HD-DVD player.
Trial Lawyers are just salivating; waiting for the one report that claims the link between the non-ionizing (i.e. it can't cause cancer) radiation from cell phones and cancer is conclusive.
Studies can generate statistics to say whatever they want. The fact remains that radiation from cell phones does not have enough energy to mess up your DNA, no matter how much the Trial Lawyers wish it did.
The problem with statistical studies is that they study statistics, not facts. Statistical studies can conveniently ignore variables that detract from the findings the researchers wish to support. For example, in the study where they try to link salivary gland cancer with cell phones, did they look at other variables that could cause it? Probably not. Did they look at ALL of the possible causes? Definitely not.
Cell phones don't cause cellular damage, and that is all there is to it. The frequency is not high enough. The E-field strength is not high enough. I would be willing to bet that there is a stronger correlation between the parotid tumors and chemicals leeching out of the plastics and rubber in the cell phone through the skin on that side of the face. I doubt they considered that, either.
It's funny you mention that. Water vapor is responsible for the largest percentage of global warming compared to all other greenhouse gases. What you're talking about is planetary suicide. What's more, as the Earth warms naturally, the concentration of water vapor in the air increases, so it is a positive feedback loop in itself. We can captivate water vapor from the atmosphere in the form of large ice caps. But, those melt too as the temperature increases, making more water available to create water vapor.
The mixture of tailpipe exhaust consisting of CO2 and H2O has less of a greenhouse effect than would a homogeneous expenditure of an equivalent mass of pure H2O vapor.
Right now, we have a trifecta of problems - the perfect storm, as it were. Solar output has been increasing steadily over the past couple of decades, and the global surface temperature in lock-step with it. As a consequence, the air can hold more water vapor, which increases temperature further. We are also adding CO2 to the atmosphere in large quantities, and although the magnitude of the effect of this on surface temperature is arguable, there is little doubt it is contributory. Finally, thickening plant coverage due to increased concentrations of plant food in the atmosphere (CO2) is darkening the surface overall, causing less solar energy to be reflected back out into space.
These three factors together are quite worrisome, and mitigating one worsens another. Clearly, we can do nothing about increasing Solar output. We can strip plant life, but that only increases CO2. So, the only think we are really empowered to do is reduce the amount of CO2 we're adding through human activity. We can then pray that the Sun calms down and doesn't cook us to death.
Whether it is defective will be determined by whether they stated that the player would be compatible with "this and all future versions of the Bluray format"
If they sold it as a "BluRay 1.0 Compatible Player," then as long as it remains so, it is not defective. The fact that it does not support features the customer wants is irrelevant to whether the device fails to perform to its stated specifications.
I haven't needed a public hotspot since I starting getting online through a bluetooth link to my 3G phone. I usually get about 1mbit in both directions, which is plenty for what I need to do on the road, and it's only $20/mo for unlimited data through my provider (AT&T + Ginormous Employer Discount).
Cellular data networks are becoming more ubiquitous and AT&T's is by far the fastest (I've tried them all). Public hotspots are the pay-phones of the 21st century.
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Looks like he got what he deserved.
Because parents today teach their kids to bitch, complain, and wallow is self-pity with absolute mastery, while at the same time instilling the absolute belief that there is nothing anybody can do about anything.
That's a pretty cool feature... still doesn't compare in any meaningful way to the 496, but for most people, I am sure it is sufficient :)
Map data will make or break a GPS product. To me, you are committing monetary suicide if you buy a GPS where you cannot regularly update the maps, and/or the manufacturer does not provide such updates.
Most consumer-level GPSes do not have updateable maps, and those that do just update you with a year-old map they got for cheap.
I have a Garmin GPSMAP-496 and I *love* it.
If you want a good GPS with an accurate map, you have to pay for it. The $100 Mio piece-o-shit GPS is going to have, at best, a 3-5 year old map on it that they picked up a license for on the cheap. I tried a Mio, and it didn't even have a new map for the intersection of North Wales and Morris roads in 19446, which had been redesigned a decade or more ago. The result: "Turn right down this road that doesn't exist anymore."
There were also many cases where it would tell me to drive a mile or more out of my way, only to turn around and go back. It also sent me down dead-end streets SEVERAL times because it thought they still went through. Again, these changes around town were made a decade or more ago, but the Mio had no idea because the manufacturer used really old map data.
Is no PC at all...
At 60GHz, interference from WHAT? That's a very uncrowded part of the spectrum and there isn't too much natural noise up that high, let alone man made.
Care to cite that "quick research?"
In a 5mm package, that would probably cause rapid failure due to heat without some form of high-flux heat sinking capability.
If it's a QFN package, it probably has a thermal relief slug, but still, 2W is a boatload of energy to dissipate.
This is an easy fix. Simply put a PLD between the RAM and the memory controller, and have a battery backed supply that runs the memory for a short time after poweroff. When power goes away, the battery backup circuit holds up the PLD and the RAM long enough for a state machine in the PLD to scrub the memory.
Yes, 1200 seconds per day, for certain values of 1200. :-p
Should be 3600 (s/hr) * 8 (hr/day) haha... that only makes the thing more massive anyway...
Damn math... I can calculate the radar cross section of an F-22 in my head, but I can't do simple math anymore... Argh...
Assume: 12 Watts for 8 Hours/day, weight travels a vertical distance of 1 meter.
Calculation:
12 (J/s) * 1200 (s/day) * 365 (day/year) * 200 (year) = 1051.2 MJ
PE (J) = mgh = m (kg) * 9.81 (m / s**2) * 1 (m)
m = ~107 Mkg
Good luck with that...
I said "cute and cuddly" not "maddening and intrusive"
Is Microsoft's answer to Tux and the Bitten Apple. M$ has never really had a Mascot, and I will bet dollars to donuts that some M$ marketing person had an epiphany that the reason everyone hates M$ was because they didn't have a cute, cuddly mascot or cultural icon.
So, their answer, of course, is to create not one, but LOTS, of cute, cuddly mascots. After all, if one is good, 10 must be better. Right?
Or the dog???
After reading some of the replies to my post, I agree that I was inappropriately dismissing of online dating for its obvious benefits as a tool. I also want to say that I did not mean for my OP to be a one-size-fits-all solution. Your points are well-taken, and your last paragraph is spot on. There are definitely a lot of traps people fall into.
Looking at the problem from the purely mathematical sense that TFA does, the goal is to achieve P and V such that the likelihood, call it F(P,V) is globally maximized. I think I should have honed in more on the point that, for a lot of people, it is easier to change P and V for the better in real life than online (even if it does work online). I also still believe that in general this is true for the vast majority, even if they don't know it or believe it for themselves.
If I were to put a ranking on the barriers that most people experience in real life, I think I would have to put the #1 rank on a lack of patience. On a "good" dating site, as you say, this is forced, so they are removing what is to me the largest barrier to success in finding a quality partner. But, I think the next couple of barriers are not far behind in their magnitude: lack of confidence in one's self and lack of a strong personal identity. These are two things online dating sites can do nothing about.
Thoughts?
I can definitely see your point, and obviously I didn't mean my OP to be the "one size fits all" solution to everyone.
I do respectfully disagree with some aspects of your opinion on the simplicity of joining groups. You are right that groups are suspicious of new people. This is absolutely true. They will always wonder about your motives. Every group I have joined has initially made me feel sort of like they didn't trust me. That's fine, though. It just takes a long time for adults to become fully integrated and accepted into a new group. It can take months. It's not a simple matter of joining a group. It's a complicated matter of joining a group and waiting for them to warm up to you. Only once they are very accustomed to you being there will they start to accept you. You might just be joining the group for the end purpose of meeting women, but you can be assured that the women in the group are likely not there for the end purpose of meeting men.
Advice for people in a city without "trillions" of friends? Absolutely. It is difficult to be terribly specific without knowing anything about you, but allow me to go on the assumption that you are the type that tends to have fewer, but closer friends (this is me, believe it or not). This is a huge amplifier of V for you, but it impedes P just by virtue of the fewer number of opportunities.
First, here is where a wingman (wingperson, really) helps incredibly. If you and one of your closer friends join a group together, that is 100x better than joining one alone. It demonstrates that at least one person has accepted you, and that you have at least some degree of social skill. Even better is if your friend is your opposite sex, and the platinum prize is if your opposite-sex friend is attractive. A guy who shows up to a group with an attractive woman with whom he is just friends will generate respectful envy among the men and curiosity among the women.
Second, joining a group centered on a topic with which you do not have mastery knowledge is better than joining one centered on a topic on which you are already expert. If you enter the group as an interested party and look to them for advice and guidance, you will be reinforcing their expert status while at the same time learning something new. This enriches your cultural experience and expands your pool of possible friends by exposing you to people different than you. You are also providing an avenue for the group members to enrich their cultural experience and knowledge, so you are more likely to be approached by curious people.
Third, another option is to join a group where _nobody_ has mastery knowledge. You instantly have something in common with everyone else. A good example is a foreign language or musical instrument class. They are repetitive, so you are guaranteed multiple interactions with the same people. You also share the same expertise level as everyone else (save the instructor), so you are in a better position to help each other.
Finally, be patient! It takes a long time to be accepted into a group, especially as adults. I have two examples I can share with you.
6 weeks ago, I joined a new running group (solo, without the inside recommendation). We run once every week, and every other week is beer and pizza night after the run. I have gone every week, and I am still not "tight" with anyone there, but people are starting to talk to me more and more now that I have been there a while. They are only starting to believe that I am "for real" and not there for some disingenuous motive.
Second, I started taking a foreign language class last fall. There are about 10 students in the class (not that many, right?). Most of them have nothing in common with me, but as the class has continued for the past 20 weeks or so, the smallness of our group has lent itself to start to grow personal relationships between the people in the class. There has also been the opportunity to learn many new things due to the differences between all of us. We have had a couple of social events
I am not only in my 30's, but I am one of two single child-less people in the entire office. I do not socialize at all with people from work. I have met most of my friends through cycling, running, flying, and other social activities I am involved in.
If you can't socialize easily at work, join some clubs or take up new hobbies and meet people that way. It is so incredibly easy, you would be surprised.
Go out, socialize, have friends, and meet the person of your dreams au naturale.
I met my girlfriend at a game night another friend invited me to. Believe me, this method gives you all of the advantages of these silly social networking and dating sites, but without having to do any of the work. This is because this is how human socialization works anyway. You meet people through people, and the more well adapted you are socially, the more people you meet and befriend, and the more you value your interpersonal relationships.
So, P and V (RTFA if you haven't already) both get much bigger, which is always more fun.
http://www.comcast.com/customers/faq/FaqCategory.ashx?CatId=377
This explains everything about PowerBoost. In short, they do not advertise the maximum speed at which the connection will operate during the burst. They explain clearly that your connection will run at your provisioned speed after the burst is over.
Oh come on people. Can you please just stop the witch hunt? Comcast advertises this as a feature, and to me it's actually pretty convenient. I can imagine that most downloads are probably less than 10MB in a single burst, so giving the user the first 5 seconds or so of transfer at a higher rate helps the consumer see a faster internet. Keeping sustained transfers at the advertised cap speed ensures one user can't gobble up all the bandwidth over a prolonged period of time. Everybody wins.
This is not too different than how metered T/OC-x connections are operated. These metered T/OC-x connections bill you based on your sustained bandwidth, so yeah, you can have short bursts without getting a gigantic bill, but if you are pegged at 50% all the time, your bill will be huge.
This sucks. I like my HD-DVD player much better than my BluRay player. On the BRD player, it takes anywhere from 5-10 minutes just to power up, open the tray, close the tray with a disc in it, and finally load up and get to the main menu. Then, it's another 5 minutes or so before the movie starts, and that is iff there are no mantatory previews for 3 year old movies on it.
It takes less than 2 minutes to get to the movie from PowerOff on the HD-DVD player.
Trial Lawyers are just salivating; waiting for the one report that claims the link between the non-ionizing (i.e. it can't cause cancer) radiation from cell phones and cancer is conclusive.
Studies can generate statistics to say whatever they want. The fact remains that radiation from cell phones does not have enough energy to mess up your DNA, no matter how much the Trial Lawyers wish it did.
The problem with statistical studies is that they study statistics, not facts. Statistical studies can conveniently ignore variables that detract from the findings the researchers wish to support. For example, in the study where they try to link salivary gland cancer with cell phones, did they look at other variables that could cause it? Probably not. Did they look at ALL of the possible causes? Definitely not.
Cell phones don't cause cellular damage, and that is all there is to it. The frequency is not high enough. The E-field strength is not high enough. I would be willing to bet that there is a stronger correlation between the parotid tumors and chemicals leeching out of the plastics and rubber in the cell phone through the skin on that side of the face. I doubt they considered that, either.
Haven't you ever heard the old axiom "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?"
It's funny you mention that. Water vapor is responsible for the largest percentage of global warming compared to all other greenhouse gases. What you're talking about is planetary suicide. What's more, as the Earth warms naturally, the concentration of water vapor in the air increases, so it is a positive feedback loop in itself. We can captivate water vapor from the atmosphere in the form of large ice caps. But, those melt too as the temperature increases, making more water available to create water vapor.
The mixture of tailpipe exhaust consisting of CO2 and H2O has less of a greenhouse effect than would a homogeneous expenditure of an equivalent mass of pure H2O vapor.
Right now, we have a trifecta of problems - the perfect storm, as it were. Solar output has been increasing steadily over the past couple of decades, and the global surface temperature in lock-step with it. As a consequence, the air can hold more water vapor, which increases temperature further. We are also adding CO2 to the atmosphere in large quantities, and although the magnitude of the effect of this on surface temperature is arguable, there is little doubt it is contributory. Finally, thickening plant coverage due to increased concentrations of plant food in the atmosphere (CO2) is darkening the surface overall, causing less solar energy to be reflected back out into space.
These three factors together are quite worrisome, and mitigating one worsens another. Clearly, we can do nothing about increasing Solar output. We can strip plant life, but that only increases CO2. So, the only think we are really empowered to do is reduce the amount of CO2 we're adding through human activity. We can then pray that the Sun calms down and doesn't cook us to death.
Whether it is defective will be determined by whether they stated that the player would be compatible with "this and all future versions of the Bluray format"
If they sold it as a "BluRay 1.0 Compatible Player," then as long as it remains so, it is not defective. The fact that it does not support features the customer wants is irrelevant to whether the device fails to perform to its stated specifications.
I haven't needed a public hotspot since I starting getting online through a bluetooth link to my 3G phone. I usually get about 1mbit in both directions, which is plenty for what I need to do on the road, and it's only $20/mo for unlimited data through my provider (AT&T + Ginormous Employer Discount).
Cellular data networks are becoming more ubiquitous and AT&T's is by far the fastest (I've tried them all). Public hotspots are the pay-phones of the 21st century.