This is a common misperception held because dry coffee has less caffeine than dry tea. Most people would agree that It's the content of the brewed cup that matters.
Depending on the blend of tea you can get vastly different ammounts of caffeine (herbal infusions don't have any caffeine). Generally even a straight blend of the Camellia Sinensis plant will yield less caffeine in the final brewed cup than coffee. A cup of black tea will average about half of the caffeine ammount of your average cup of coffee (80mg)
By definition, hoaxes are forgeries, and forgeries require originals from which to copy. So what is this 'unknown force' that creates genuine crop circles? One answer may lie with sound.
Oh I see... a hoax is a forgery; so there has to be an original. Awesome. I like your ability to redefine words. Can you teach me to do that too?
hoax - n.
1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
2. Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
I guess they are using a different dictionary.
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A good way for you to point this out to others is to mention that governments give corporations the permission to be corporations, on the presumption that they will benefit the society. The people who run the corp. get protections not allowed for individuals. In exchange, society at large can and should expect that corporation to benefit society.
For most corporations (especially lately) society has only asked for economic growth from them. It is entirely understandable that a company would forget or try to minimize their other obligations (federal government, irs, state government, SEC, etc..) Especially since the people's voice to businesses is largely through the government and courts which are themselves often swayed by money.
Bravo for calling out this oft-quoted fallacy for what it is.
I actually saw this company at a computer fair and tried it. The laptop monitor looked gray without the clear glasses. They were pitching the product as a solution for people who fly often.
They would modify your laptop for you in a couple of days and ship it back to you with the glasses. I was always a little weary of sending them a laptop to modify. I don't know what they would do if they broke it. The nice feature was that they would also include a polarizing screen that clipped to the front of the display in case you diddn't want to use the glasses.
I always wondered what happened to that company.
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My theory on how they slip this in to the marketplace goes like this:
Step 1) Make all jobs requireing human interaction pay almost nothing. This way you will be sure that your stores will only be able to hire people who can work nowhere else due to poor social skills, anger management problems, etc...
Step 2) Wait for customers to become annoyed with service.
Step 3) Introduce "convienince" machine so that people have option to deal with surly employees.
This is the way the banks went with ATMs, the grocery stores are currently going and I imagine the way that the gas stations will eventually go.
Here in NJ, self service gas is not allowed. There has been a huge drop in the quality of service you get from the attendants in the past few years. They don't come around to your door to get your money anymore. I had an attendant do the whole transaction through my sunroof! At this rate I will gladly accept robotic gas filling when it becomes feasable.
Seriously... I visited this campus this summer and saw the track. I thought it was a plain ol' monorail. I walked from one end of the campus to the other in 5 minutes.
I don't really understand why they would spend 14 mil on this. There are probably some much better Universities for a project like this. My College had 4 or 5 different campuses spread out by 20 minute bus rides. As a student it is common to have classes on three of the campuses each day.
Does anyone know how ODU managed to raise that much money for a seemingly overpowered project?
Rather than looking at the technology or costs, why not look into the business health of each company. I think if you are going to be making an investment, youwant to be picking the one that is going to have staying power.
The Motly Fool recently shorted sirius believing their company to be overvalued. (That is not to say that their company will fail, stock price doesn't necessarily equate business health) The fool has quite a bit of discussion on each company.
Is the only protection from this that eiomail is not that popular yet? Also, I thought that sometimes servers just try to brute force a mail server to find valid email addresses for common names. wouldn't all of those get delivered?
Stats don't always say what you think they are reporting. Especially when done in the form of a survey.
For a good breakdown of how people understand their own skill level take a look at this journal article. It does a good job of graphing people's self assessments against their actual performances.
The point is that just because a population is not confident about their skills as a computer user, does not mean that they are lacking those skills. Conversely, it is the confidant ones who lack the knowledge to be able to rate their own performance.
Microsoft is going to have to say things like: "We're going to put the entire.NET initiative on hold, probably for years, while we work the security problems out."
First of all.... Microsoft said they were going to prioritize security. That doesn't necessarily mean put all new features on hold until they are 100% secure. You can make security a priority without doing the OpenBSD nothing but security route.
Analysts like Gartner have recommended that enterprises switch away from Microsoft IIS and delay installing Windows XP, both because of security concerns.
I would like to point out that the precipitating reason they changed their recommendation was due to MS's new licensing policy. Security problems are just more fuel to the fire.
MS's security policies annoys the hell out of me but lets at least hold our points to realistic ones.
they might eventually have to raise the rim another foot or so.
According to lots of "old-timers" they should have raised the rim about 10 years ago. The sport itself evolves along with our expectations of it. Sports are not played the same way they used to be. The tactics and techniques that a player from 20 years ago would utilize would be useless in a modern game.
Another thing about basketball that evolves: their shorts. Initially it seems like the old style shorts would be less restrictive and hence more effective. Perhaps longer shorts are more evolutionarily fit. Perhaps they mask the players leg movements better or distract the eye of opponents. Or perhaps they are more intimidating to opponents because they are wearing a style reminiscent of urban street wear. In another 20 years the players will all be wearing wide legged pants.
I find the set-up to be much harder and more under-the-hood than redhat or debian. I certainly understand people being afraid of that since it requires some linux knowledge and reading of the debian manual. Not too much for someone who is already familair with Mandrake, Suse or RedHat IMHO.
Once the thing is installed and set up I really think that the non-tech person can easily maintaing the system and perform upgrades using KPackage. Especially if they have a tendency toward leaving a working system alone. KPackage is, as you say Red Carpet is, friendly if not overly pretty. If you limit yourself to mainly using it to upgrade existing packages, it is just as (or maybe more) idiot-proof than windows. In my experience (over a year now) even new software installs have been painless.
The only things I have had to get under the hood with in debian since the setup has been a kernel upgrade from 2.2.18 -> 2.4.16 needing some lilo tweaking, a devfs modification for my modem and a screwed up X11 4 setup. Even KDE 2.0 ->2.1->2.2 went just fine. And this is me running on sid! If you stick to testing or stable I am sure you will have even less problems.
I'm just trying to share with everyone the satisfaction I have felt with Debian's package policy. I also liked FreeBSD's ports but I'm satisfied with Debian.
Seriously, what is with this? Whenever people talk about Evolution or Red Carpet I get this feeling that I have some secret that nobody else knows about. I know debian is harder to get installed than other distros but *come on*.... it is a one time cost. You would think it was next to impossible the way people avoid it.
Every couple of weeks I pop open KPackage and use the debian servers to and shop around for upgrades. If I ever find myself needing software I don't have... I go to KPackage.
I don't understand. Why does Ximian need to charge money for bandwidth and Debian not? Are their operating costs a lot higher? I think it must be because Debian is not-for-profit so people must feel more responsability to make donations. I just don't feel philanthropy towards a for-profit business.
Quite funny. I agree except they do make a much more intuitive interface: the automatic transmission. Stick shifts are only for power users. Lots of people have no idea how to use them since they have never needed to learn. People who don't know how to drive stick don't want to learn because they are afraid that they will either:
1) drop the transmission and break the car
2) not be able to figure out what to do at a critical moment. (everyone will be yelling at them to get out of the way)
If you don't have the time to learn how to drive stick in a parking lot or somewhere safe and removed, (preferably with a coach) you will simply only drive automatics. If the only car available is a stick you will let someone else do it all the while feeling ever-so-slightly ashamed that you should already know how to do this.
I am sure the analogies are not lost on you and you see that there is a point to simplifying the interface. (you can even charge $1000 more per car for it!)
Doesn't this sound a little bit like kde's IO Slaves?
They are more geared toward using them for application programming than shell access. KDE's IO subsystem treats the linux fs as one component our of many. I wonder if they have read about plan9's implementations?
Especially with search engines in the state they are, I might hit two dozens pages trying to find what I'm really searching for. I have no problem paying for the information I want, but I'd be annoyed at paying for content I don't want simply because they haven't indexed it properly.
As Clay Shirky pointed out, not to mention the fact that you are adding another thing to think about. Another decision to make every time you reach for an href link.
The web is alredy too costly from a user GUI standpoint in that every link you click wastes about 5 seconds (YMMV) of your life. That's the real reason people hate sites that split their stories up into pages. The last thing that will fly is adding another thing to consider every time you click a link.
The only way it would work is by offsetting all of these "costs" with something. I think only "Damned good content" would work, and since this is the internet we're talking about here, for most sites it simply will not fly.
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My gentoo is still on a K6-2/500 you insensitive clod!
That's not a bug. It's a feature. Really.
This is a common misperception held because dry coffee has less caffeine than dry tea. Most people would agree that It's the content of the brewed cup that matters.
Depending on the blend of tea you can get vastly different ammounts of caffeine (herbal infusions don't have any caffeine). Generally even a straight blend of the Camellia Sinensis plant will yield less caffeine in the final brewed cup than coffee. A cup of black tea will average about half of the caffeine ammount of your average cup of coffee (80mg)
Party pooper.
Keep reading...
Film Gimp is based on GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program. Film Gimp is an independent project, separate from GIMP and GNU.
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I liked this one:
By definition, hoaxes are forgeries, and forgeries require originals from which to copy. So what is this 'unknown force' that creates genuine crop circles? One answer may lie with sound.
Oh I see... a hoax is a forgery; so there has to be an original. Awesome. I like your ability to redefine words. Can you teach me to do that too?
hoax - n.
1. An act intended to deceive or trick.
2. Something that has been established or
accepted by fraudulent means.
I guess they are using a different dictionary.
-pos
Hear, Hear!
A good way for you to point this out to others is to mention that governments give corporations the permission to be corporations, on the presumption that they will benefit the society. The people who run the corp. get protections not allowed for individuals. In exchange, society at large can and should expect that corporation to benefit society.
For most corporations (especially lately) society has only asked for economic growth from them. It is entirely understandable that a company would forget or try to minimize their other obligations (federal government, irs, state government, SEC, etc..) Especially since the people's voice to businesses is largely through the government and courts which are themselves often swayed by money.
Bravo for calling out this oft-quoted fallacy for what it is.
-pos
*Gasp*
Are you suggesting.....
No it can't be.....
Prince invented 1337speak?!?!?!?!?!?!
I actually saw this company at a computer fair and tried it. The laptop monitor looked gray without the clear glasses. They were pitching the product as a solution for people who fly often.
They would modify your laptop for you in a couple of days and ship it back to you with the glasses. I was always a little weary of sending them a laptop to modify. I don't know what they would do if they broke it. The nice feature was that they would also include a polarizing screen that clipped to the front of the display in case you diddn't want to use the glasses.
I always wondered what happened to that company.
-pos
My theory on how they slip this in to the marketplace goes like this:
Step 1) Make all jobs requireing human interaction pay almost nothing. This way you will be sure that your stores will only be able to hire people who can work nowhere else due to poor social skills, anger management problems, etc...
Step 2) Wait for customers to become annoyed with service.
Step 3) Introduce "convienince" machine so that people have option to deal with surly employees.
This is the way the banks went with ATMs, the grocery stores are currently going and I imagine the way that the gas stations will eventually go.
Here in NJ, self service gas is not allowed. There has been a huge drop in the quality of service you get from the attendants in the past few years. They don't come around to your door to get your money anymore. I had an attendant do the whole transaction through my sunroof! At this rate I will gladly accept robotic gas filling when it becomes feasable.
-pos
"Nobody every got fired for buying IBM."
Now that same philosophy has simply changed slightly. Just replace IBM with Oracle, or Microsoft.
Seriously... I visited this campus this summer and saw the track. I thought it was a plain ol' monorail. I walked from one end of the campus to the other in 5 minutes.
I don't really understand why they would spend 14 mil on this. There are probably some much better Universities for a project like this. My College had 4 or 5 different campuses spread out by 20 minute bus rides. As a student it is common to have classes on three of the campuses each day.
Does anyone know how ODU managed to raise that much money for a seemingly overpowered project?
-pos
Rather than looking at the technology or costs, why not look into the business health of each company. I think if you are going to be making an investment, youwant to be picking the one that is going to have staying power.
The Motly Fool recently shorted sirius believing their company to be overvalued. (That is not to say that their company will fail, stock price doesn't necessarily equate business health) The fool has quite a bit of discussion on each company.
It's a an important perspective.
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eiomail looks interesting...
r 0n@you.eiomail.com
However, what's to stop a spammer from knowing that eiomail is target recoverable and just start sending:
spam1@you.eiomail.com
spam2@you.eiomail.com
p
Is the only protection from this that eiomail is not that popular yet? Also, I thought that sometimes servers just try to brute force a mail server to find valid email addresses for common names. wouldn't all of those get delivered?
just wondering.
-pos
Stats don't always say what you think they are reporting. Especially when done in the form of a survey.
For a good breakdown of how people understand their own skill level take a look at this journal article. It does a good job of graphing people's self assessments against their actual performances.
The point is that just because a population is not confident about their skills as a computer user, does not mean that they are lacking those skills. Conversely, it is the confidant ones who lack the knowledge to be able to rate their own performance.
-pos
I like how the researcher says that he is open for suggestions on what to name the color as long as it isn't beige...
/. and the rest of the media shout, "The Universe is Beige!"
and then
Microsoft is going to have to say things like: "We're going to put the entire .NET initiative on hold, probably for years, while we work the security problems out."
First of all.... Microsoft said they were going to prioritize security. That doesn't necessarily mean put all new features on hold until they are 100% secure. You can make security a priority without doing the OpenBSD nothing but security route.
Analysts like Gartner have recommended that enterprises switch away from Microsoft IIS and delay installing Windows XP, both because of security concerns.
I would like to point out that the precipitating reason they changed their recommendation was due to MS's new licensing policy. Security problems are just more fuel to the fire.
MS's security policies annoys the hell out of me but lets at least hold our points to realistic ones.
-pos
Yeah, it means that people actually tried to visit the site before posting.
That's definitly a record.
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Congrats! After all the work you have given us, you deserve the well wishings of a quarter million people.
Best of luck.
they might eventually have to raise the rim another foot or so.
According to lots of "old-timers" they should have raised the rim about 10 years ago. The sport itself evolves along with our expectations of it. Sports are not played the same way they used to be. The tactics and techniques that a player from 20 years ago would utilize would be useless in a modern game.
Another thing about basketball that evolves: their shorts. Initially it seems like the old style shorts would be less restrictive and hence more effective. Perhaps longer shorts are more evolutionarily fit. Perhaps they mask the players leg movements better or distract the eye of opponents. Or perhaps they are more intimidating to opponents because they are wearing a style reminiscent of urban street wear. In another 20 years the players will all be wearing wide legged pants.
I find the set-up to be much harder and more under-the-hood than redhat or debian. I certainly understand people being afraid of that since it requires some linux knowledge and reading of the debian manual. Not too much for someone who is already familair with Mandrake, Suse or RedHat IMHO.
Once the thing is installed and set up I really think that the non-tech person can easily maintaing the system and perform upgrades using KPackage. Especially if they have a tendency toward leaving a working system alone. KPackage is, as you say Red Carpet is, friendly if not overly pretty. If you limit yourself to mainly using it to upgrade existing packages, it is just as (or maybe more) idiot-proof than windows. In my experience (over a year now) even new software installs have been painless.
The only things I have had to get under the hood with in debian since the setup has been a kernel upgrade from 2.2.18 -> 2.4.16 needing some lilo tweaking, a devfs modification for my modem and a screwed up X11 4 setup. Even KDE 2.0 ->2.1->2.2 went just fine. And this is me running on sid! If you stick to testing or stable I am sure you will have even less problems.
I'm just trying to share with everyone the satisfaction I have felt with Debian's package policy. I also liked FreeBSD's ports but I'm satisfied with Debian.
-pos
Seriously, what is with this? Whenever people talk about Evolution or Red Carpet I get this feeling that I have some secret that nobody else knows about. I know debian is harder to get installed than other distros but *come on*.... it is a one time cost. You would think it was next to impossible the way people avoid it.
Every couple of weeks I pop open KPackage and use the debian servers to and shop around for upgrades. If I ever find myself needing software I don't have... I go to KPackage.
I don't understand. Why does Ximian need to charge money for bandwidth and Debian not? Are their operating costs a lot higher? I think it must be because Debian is not-for-profit so people must feel more responsability to make donations. I just don't feel philanthropy towards a for-profit business.
Just some thoughts.
-pos
Quite funny. I agree except they do make a much more intuitive interface: the automatic transmission. Stick shifts are only for power users. Lots of people have no idea how to use them since they have never needed to learn. People who don't know how to drive stick don't want to learn because they are afraid that they will either:
1) drop the transmission and break the car
2) not be able to figure out what to do at a critical moment. (everyone will be yelling at them to get out of the way)
If you don't have the time to learn how to drive stick in a parking lot or somewhere safe and removed, (preferably with a coach) you will simply only drive automatics. If the only car available is a stick you will let someone else do it all the while feeling ever-so-slightly ashamed that you should already know how to do this.
I am sure the analogies are not lost on you and you see that there is a point to simplifying the interface. (you can even charge $1000 more per car for it!)
-pos
Doesn't this sound a little bit like kde's IO Slaves?
They are more geared toward using them for application programming than shell access. KDE's IO subsystem treats the linux fs as one component our of many. I wonder if they have read about plan9's implementations?
-pos
Especially with search engines in the state they are, I might hit two dozens pages trying to find what I'm really searching for. I have no problem paying for the information I want, but I'd be annoyed at paying for content I don't want simply because they haven't indexed it properly.
As Clay Shirky pointed out, not to mention the fact that you are adding another thing to think about. Another decision to make every time you reach for an href link.
The web is alredy too costly from a user GUI standpoint in that every link you click wastes about 5 seconds (YMMV) of your life. That's the real reason people hate sites that split their stories up into pages. The last thing that will fly is adding another thing to consider every time you click a link.
The only way it would work is by offsetting all of these "costs" with something. I think only "Damned good content" would work, and since this is the internet we're talking about here, for most sites it simply will not fly.
-pos