I have felt the most desire to tweak when I was new to a system and wanted to make it like the old one. (I liked being able to middle-click to maximize the height but not the width!)
But in the end I agree, it's easier just to upgrade or switch seldomly, then give up a re-learn the habits.
...when you don't have to spend money on R&D because you've stolen the technology from the US.
Whatever, fellah. I'm just trying to imagine some middle-aged army getting all indignant because the other side is shooting flaming arrows... "Cheaters! That's our idea, we did it first! It's for us to use against you, not the other way around! If you win and kill us all, it doesn't count!"
Implicit in the "let it blow down" approach is that you are not in it.
This is what I am thinking a couple days ago watching the news reports of angry people in Staten Island complaining about the lack of assistance because their neighborhood looks like a war zone: why are you there? At least with Katrina I could see that a lot of the people who stayed didn't own a car, which also means they may not have money for a hotel room. But in the pictures of Staten Island I am seeing yachts piled up on porsches. And then 24-48 hours later (yesterday), the cavalry did arrive, and food, water, and ice are being handed out. So again my question, why ride out the storm or be the first back into the devastation afterwards, unless you are equipped to do so? Just cool your jets and get out of the way for a few days.
Well... see, the thing is, gasoline isn't really $4.17 / gallon. The gas is much less, and the rest of that price is taxes that go for road maintenance.
Well, the gas tax is about 10% of each gallon, which is hardly "vast."
I agree something would have to be done if electric cars get very popular though.
Over the past 100 years, data from the tide gauge at the Battery in Lower Manhattan reveal that the region has already experienced close to a foot (9 to 10 inches) of sea level rise.
Unfortunately, sea level has risen 15 cm since 1950. The flooding from the storm surge is what causes most of the damage, not the wind. Attributing a single storm to global warming may be uncertain, but there is no uncertainty about the increased damage from the higher storm surge due to global warming.
No. Anything entirely within a single datacenter or city does not fit any reasonable definition of "cloud." That's the whole point of it; no single point of failure, in case something like Sandy happens.
Have you noticed any outages on google, or youtube, or netflix, or any other geographically dispersed network? I haven't.
While we're discussing what "happiness" really is, I wonder why meditation/tai chi/exercise don't seem to have the drawbacks that drugs seem to inevitably have, like tolerance build-up, and dependency? Or do they - are people who regularly work out more unhappy on days they don't than people who never do? Or, on the other hand, is it possible there exist "good" drugs without the drawbacks and we just haven't found them yet?
Actually I think the basic prior art here is "windowing." And I don't even mean Microsoft Windows; the basic idea of having multiple programs on the screen, all running concurrently but each using only part of the screen, was novel in the late 1960s. "Overlapping" windows, like MS Windows and everything since then, is actually a refinement of that concept. Emacs, for example, just partitions the screen into nested rectangles. Just like "tiles."
Forget nutrition; with n=1, even random variation (i.e. something other than parents' gene pool, nutrition, or parenting) could account for it. The article mentions a study from UCLA, so probably there's more behind this than is included in the (very lame) article.
Doing controlled studies of the effects of parental neglect in humans would require a horribly un-ethical study, but the findings in controlled studies of rats and monkeys have been consistent. Leaving your baby stuck in a crib all day until it forgets how to cry for help is not something you want to do.
Really, is that true of DDR2 also? I was upgrading a machine recently, and "server RAM" is quite a cheaper than non-ECC DDR2, which seems to be holding its value on the used market surprisingly well.
Ethnic groups are not. If you were writing dystopian sci-fi, you could imagine racism re-aligning along purely objective, genetically-testable criteria.
The summary introduces the word "learning" which is not in the article. The behavior is certainly interesting. But is there any evidence it is learned through experience rather than being inherited?
I cannot imagine anyone in their right mind and able body would pay an extra 10% for a substantial chunk of fuel just to avoid putting a lead in a socket.
I might not either, but a lot of people routinely spend twice (i.e. 100% more) than they need to on fuel, just to boost their ego or have a smoother ride or more elbow room. They buy bottled water and don't bother turning off the heat when they're not home, too.
Keep talking : you have nearly invented a perpetual motion machine of the first kind.
Huh? I never said it wouldn't need a power source; if the spinning magnet in the car and the ones in the road were going fast enough the forward motion of the car would be insignificant. Look, wireless power transmission isn't even tricky if you use electromagnetic induction (but the efficiency is worse yet). Or instead of that, you could put electromagnets in the road and a magnet in the car and push it along a wave (a railgun) and have no engine at all. You could hit a boiler in the car's underbelly with microwaves to power a steam engine. You could use focusing and aiming solar collectors to make solar-powered cars with a fraction of the surface area. Probably none of it is cost-effective but any of them could be done.
90% may not be good enough if a plug is a convenient alternative. If you're taking an efficiency hit, might as well use it to enable something new. How about this: line up magnets under the road to charge cars as they move along. (Ideally the chargers would be powered by solar panels in the median, or in the road itself).
NBC / weather channel / comcast has deep pockets may they can pay for one.
No they wouldn't, because there's no way to exclusively capture the value created by the investment.
Insurance companies, at least, have a direct financial stake in this information. But since there's no way to warn their own customers without also warning the other insurance company's customers, so all companies end up benefitting equally - again, no incentive to invest.
Just because everybody would clearly benefit from doing something collectively does NOT necessarily mean anybody would benefit from doing it alone.
These generalities about people not caring about medical expenses due to insurance do not ring true to me. Is your insurance really so good that you don't pay anything? My experience, in support a family with several kids, is that I spend thousands of dollars per year after insurance.
Maybe lots of people wouldn't be able to get them. Or maybe prices would drop enough that you be looking at most people being able to get them.
There is already a huge market - millions and millions of people in the world - without insurance. (For that matter there are millions of people in the US alone without insurance). So if no products have appeared to serve that market, it isn't because of insurance.
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But in the end I agree, it's easier just to upgrade or switch seldomly, then give up a re-learn the habits.
Not yet. Spell it out for me. Even a tiny home on Staten Island costs over $300,000.
Whatever, fellah. I'm just trying to imagine some middle-aged army getting all indignant because the other side is shooting flaming arrows... "Cheaters! That's our idea, we did it first! It's for us to use against you, not the other way around! If you win and kill us all, it doesn't count!"
This is what I am thinking a couple days ago watching the news reports of angry people in Staten Island complaining about the lack of assistance because their neighborhood looks like a war zone: why are you there? At least with Katrina I could see that a lot of the people who stayed didn't own a car, which also means they may not have money for a hotel room. But in the pictures of Staten Island I am seeing yachts piled up on porsches. And then 24-48 hours later (yesterday), the cavalry did arrive, and food, water, and ice are being handed out. So again my question, why ride out the storm or be the first back into the devastation afterwards, unless you are equipped to do so? Just cool your jets and get out of the way for a few days.
Well, the gas tax is about 10% of each gallon, which is hardly "vast."
I agree something would have to be done if electric cars get very popular though.
Fine, consider NYC exclusively:
Unfortunately, sea level has risen 15 cm since 1950. The flooding from the storm surge is what causes most of the damage, not the wind. Attributing a single storm to global warming may be uncertain, but there is no uncertainty about the increased damage from the higher storm surge due to global warming.
No. Anything entirely within a single datacenter or city does not fit any reasonable definition of "cloud." That's the whole point of it; no single point of failure, in case something like Sandy happens.
Have you noticed any outages on google, or youtube, or netflix, or any other geographically dispersed network? I haven't.
While we're discussing what "happiness" really is, I wonder why meditation/tai chi/exercise don't seem to have the drawbacks that drugs seem to inevitably have, like tolerance build-up, and dependency? Or do they - are people who regularly work out more unhappy on days they don't than people who never do? Or, on the other hand, is it possible there exist "good" drugs without the drawbacks and we just haven't found them yet?
Android's marketshare on smartphones is approaching 70%. Linux isn't winning on the desktop, it's outmoding the desktop.
Actually I think the basic prior art here is "windowing." And I don't even mean Microsoft Windows; the basic idea of having multiple programs on the screen, all running concurrently but each using only part of the screen, was novel in the late 1960s. "Overlapping" windows, like MS Windows and everything since then, is actually a refinement of that concept. Emacs, for example, just partitions the screen into nested rectangles. Just like "tiles."
Well, yeah, that's the problem. Too many false starts. But Microsoft was by no means late to the mobile market.
Define first to market.
Doing controlled studies of the effects of parental neglect in humans would require a horribly un-ethical study, but the findings in controlled studies of rats and monkeys have been consistent. Leaving your baby stuck in a crib all day until it forgets how to cry for help is not something you want to do.
Really, is that true of DDR2 also? I was upgrading a machine recently, and "server RAM" is quite a cheaper than non-ECC DDR2, which seems to be holding its value on the used market surprisingly well.
On the other hand, the modern GPU is much closer to the vector units of "classical" supercomputers than anything minis/PCs of that era had.
Ethnic groups are not. If you were writing dystopian sci-fi, you could imagine racism re-aligning along purely objective, genetically-testable criteria.
I don't think they can run without ventilation.
The summary introduces the word "learning" which is not in the article. The behavior is certainly interesting. But is there any evidence it is learned through experience rather than being inherited?
I might not either, but a lot of people routinely spend twice (i.e. 100% more) than they need to on fuel, just to boost their ego or have a smoother ride or more elbow room. They buy bottled water and don't bother turning off the heat when they're not home, too.
Huh? I never said it wouldn't need a power source; if the spinning magnet in the car and the ones in the road were going fast enough the forward motion of the car would be insignificant. Look, wireless power transmission isn't even tricky if you use electromagnetic induction (but the efficiency is worse yet). Or instead of that, you could put electromagnets in the road and a magnet in the car and push it along a wave (a railgun) and have no engine at all. You could hit a boiler in the car's underbelly with microwaves to power a steam engine. You could use focusing and aiming solar collectors to make solar-powered cars with a fraction of the surface area. Probably none of it is cost-effective but any of them could be done.
90% may not be good enough if a plug is a convenient alternative. If you're taking an efficiency hit, might as well use it to enable something new. How about this: line up magnets under the road to charge cars as they move along. (Ideally the chargers would be powered by solar panels in the median, or in the road itself).
Are these really just weather satellites?
No they wouldn't, because there's no way to exclusively capture the value created by the investment.
Insurance companies, at least, have a direct financial stake in this information. But since there's no way to warn their own customers without also warning the other insurance company's customers, so all companies end up benefitting equally - again, no incentive to invest.
Just because everybody would clearly benefit from doing something collectively does NOT necessarily mean anybody would benefit from doing it alone.
Sounds common-sensical. But what is the fact of the matter?
In general, Medicare does not cover routine hearing exams or hearing aids of any type. In some cases, diagnostic hearing exams are covered by Medicare Part B, but this is only when they are ordered by a doctor... You pay 100% of charges for routine hearing exams and hearing aids
These generalities about people not caring about medical expenses due to insurance do not ring true to me. Is your insurance really so good that you don't pay anything? My experience, in support a family with several kids, is that I spend thousands of dollars per year after insurance.
There is already a huge market - millions and millions of people in the world - without insurance. (For that matter there are millions of people in the US alone without insurance). So if no products have appeared to serve that market, it isn't because of insurance.