The type of people that invent/mashup these names on their blogs etc have a dream of one day standing in front of a crowd of people while being introduced as "the father/inventor/visionary of microcyberblugblurging".
I think I did not make my main point clearly enough.
Sure, irrational thought can be modelled if it can be adequately characterized. But to do that we need to know what the true indicator variables are. For example, people might say they buy the most healthy bread, but we know they tend to buy the one in the red wrapper, then we can ask a bunch of bogus smoke-screen questions and just focus on color of the wrapper. Figuring this out takes a lot of iterations.
However, when it comes to on-off events like elections and voting it is often a lot harder. Each election is different, with different combinations of burning issues, presidential candidates, fashions etc etc so we don't really get to know what the true variables are: we don't know if they will actually go for the guy with the nice shoes, the tall guy or the guy with the biggest hat.
There will always be some who fit better in MS and some that fit better in Google, just like some people prefer to live in Seattle and some prefer to live in New York, or some prefer to eat beef and others pork.
People are different and I'm glad of it. Imagine if everyone wanted to live in your city, work at your company, eat the same snacks as you...... that would suck big time!
As parent says, most people are incapable of rational thought, so using a rational approach to predict their behavior is bound to go awry.
People will say they want the person with the best tax policy, yet vote for the guy with the nicest shoes or looks like a hero. The Governator is only there because he dealt to the bad guys in the movies, not because of anything he's done in Real Life.
Shared links that are used for both telephone networks and computer networks already do this: regular phone channels are given higher QoS and use different protocols.
I think you have some very good ideas to cut down on cheating etc.
When I attended university, I regularly skipped classes if I thought I would not learn anything in that class. I could then use that time more productively.
A friend and I buddied up taking notes: he took course A and I took course B. We still did the tests (one mid-term test per course) and both got good grades in both courses. I hardly learned anything from those courses but they were prerequisites so I had to take them.
I think what I did was right because all I skipped was the drudge stuff of attending class.
I've been building embedded systems for a very long time now and find that pen + paper or whiteboard diagramming is often the best. Big paper: A1 (American D). If you want to write it up in a document then photograph it and put the picture in the document.
This approach has given the best bang for bucks that I have seen.
They adopt a technology when there is sufficient usage to spin a buck.
Gutenberg press: 1440, first mass printed porn 1950 or so.
The www started in 1990, but the porners only really got going in 2000+ when there were a lot of people with broadband to their homes.
Still, the major usage model for ebook readers seems to be to take a book on the subway. Until society gets a bit less uptight about public porn reading and public masturbation there will be very little call for pebook porn.
I too only use a low level voice phone Nokia (1100) and have no use for a fancier phone. You can still get low-level phones for pretty low cost new, and almost free on eBay etc.
But at least I can appreciate that there are other people out there who actually have a lifestyle/usage pattern that fits better with a more sophisticated phone and have the money to spend on it.
Facial recognition needs quite a bit of complex processing and very competent researchers. It is a pity that they're putting it into such a impractical application.
Medical errors are a huge killer. In USA they are responsible for 40k+ deaths per year. If RFID can save 10% of those then you get a saving of 4k+ lives per year.
Interference related deaths need to be pretty bad to offset that.
Sure that's true for very large things and has always been so. People are generally not importing swimming pools from China.
But with smaller things (refrigerator or smaller) distance transport from foreign lands is pretty low. The cost of shipping a refrigerator across the sea is way smaller than the cost of trucking it across a state. Sure, that shipping cost has gone up, but so has the cost of trucking etc. Sure, those shipping costs have gone up, but by a very small amount relative to the whole product cost.
The PC had 3GB of RAM so he probably never got to the point where the whole system was resource constrained.
It could be argued that a good design would use the available excess resources to give the best user experience and only get clever with memory usage when the resources get constrained. If look at things that way, then Safari might be the winner and FF the worst.
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The type of people that invent/mashup these names on their blogs etc have a dream of one day standing in front of a crowd of people while being introduced as "the father/inventor/visionary of microcyberblugblurging".
Sure, irrational thought can be modelled if it can be adequately characterized. But to do that we need to know what the true indicator variables are. For example, people might say they buy the most healthy bread, but we know they tend to buy the one in the red wrapper, then we can ask a bunch of bogus smoke-screen questions and just focus on color of the wrapper. Figuring this out takes a lot of iterations.
However, when it comes to on-off events like elections and voting it is often a lot harder. Each election is different, with different combinations of burning issues, presidential candidates, fashions etc etc so we don't really get to know what the true variables are: we don't know if they will actually go for the guy with the nice shoes, the tall guy or the guy with the biggest hat.
People are different and I'm glad of it. Imagine if everyone wanted to live in your city, work at your company, eat the same snacks as you...... that would suck big time!
People will say they want the person with the best tax policy, yet vote for the guy with the nicest shoes or looks like a hero. The Governator is only there because he dealt to the bad guys in the movies, not because of anything he's done in Real Life.
I only found out that Mandy was male when I tried to grope her.
Shared links that are used for both telephone networks and computer networks already do this: regular phone channels are given higher QoS and use different protocols.
It's one thing hitting a LEO sat. It's quite another trying to hit a GPS satellite which is 26000 km up.
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Sheep... well a man can't help himself there!
When I attended university, I regularly skipped classes if I thought I would not learn anything in that class. I could then use that time more productively.
A friend and I buddied up taking notes: he took course A and I took course B. We still did the tests (one mid-term test per course) and both got good grades in both courses. I hardly learned anything from those courses but they were prerequisites so I had to take them.
I think what I did was right because all I skipped was the drudge stuff of attending class.
and a few astronomical projects that are even bigger than that.
This approach has given the best bang for bucks that I have seen.
and I still want my money!
usenet porn was not mainstream and was posted by readership rather than people trying to make a living out of porn (ie. not pornographers).
Especially if mom lives there now.
Gutenberg press: 1440, first mass printed porn 1950 or so.
The www started in 1990, but the porners only really got going in 2000+ when there were a lot of people with broadband to their homes.
Still, the major usage model for ebook readers seems to be to take a book on the subway. Until society gets a bit less uptight about public porn reading and public masturbation there will be very little call for pebook porn.
a library. There might even be one in a city near you.
In the "it's all about me and my feelings" generation, the need for, and value of, critical and objective thought has been lost.
No wonder most kids (and many adults) really believe that a cell phone can cook an egg or pop corn.
I too only use a low level voice phone Nokia (1100) and have no use for a fancier phone. You can still get low-level phones for pretty low cost new, and almost free on eBay etc.
But at least I can appreciate that there are other people out there who actually have a lifestyle/usage pattern that fits better with a more sophisticated phone and have the money to spend on it.
Hand gesture recognition makes a lot more sense.
The equation is tipping back towards domestic manufacture.
Shipping costs are only one of the variables and it is inaccurate to attribute the whole shift to that.
Interference related deaths need to be pretty bad to offset that.
But with smaller things (refrigerator or smaller) distance transport from foreign lands is pretty low. The cost of shipping a refrigerator across the sea is way smaller than the cost of trucking it across a state. Sure, that shipping cost has gone up, but so has the cost of trucking etc. Sure, those shipping costs have gone up, but by a very small amount relative to the whole product cost.
It could be argued that a good design would use the available excess resources to give the best user experience and only get clever with memory usage when the resources get constrained. If look at things that way, then Safari might be the winner and FF the worst.
No wonder it uses less memory.