Also, sometimes correlation is evidence of causation. Not always, of course, but sometimes correlation is most certainly an indicator of causation.
No. Correlation is never evidence of causation. Correlation is only evidence of correlation.
There may be causation. Not always. Correlation is not an indicator of causation. It indicates you cannot rule out causation. Look for it. Try to find causality. But to not be fooled that because a correlation exists between two items or events that one causes the other.
Actually, its an interesting comparison. I use ESRI products and more and more I am shifting to using free (such as Google) web and non-web products to do some display / mapping work. Why? Because, for one, as you said, every ESRI Arc 9.3 seat costs a shitload. Secondly, I can achieve a substantially similar result in half the time while leaving the license open for someone else. Will it come to a point that free/lower cost software solutions will eliminate ESRI? Maybe. Should they feel threatened? Absolutely. Their user base is already being eroded and users disgruntled. I can't seem to find many fans. So is it a fair comparison? On the cost, no. On the features and use - absolutely. They are both complementary and competitors.
If I had mod points I would give them to you. I think there are a lot of priests who feel exactly the same way - (Christian) religion and science are not incompatible.
ID has been foisted on us by a vocal lunatic fringe with bull just slick-sounding enough to suck in (the large number of) non-thinkers.
Wrong. Both parties have a love affair with spending lots of money...With either one of them, the end result is disaster. Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos!
This is close - it captures location, time, and direction. Now all it needs is angle (azimuth). From the product description: "...tilting can stop the GPS receiver and compas from working properly..." Ok, fix this glitch and add azimuth info. Next, make it small enough to fit into a point-and-shoot. To all those privacy freaks - just don't record the information about the shot. You can also eliminate any EXIF data on your pics if you want. As for me - I find it extremely useful to know where I took a shot and when. Taking site photos of projects would be so much easier if I could just say "this is the x block of such and such, looking north at the property" without haveing to take written notes after I take each shot. Ok, so my example does not include azimuth information. Just like I have a need for time, location and direction, I am sure someone has a need for azimuth information.
I really don't think that visialization is what urban planning is all about. That is what architecture is for. You can get a much better idea of what a project will look like with a photoshopped picture. It certainly costs less than aerial photoography. The money spent on making made-for-tv graphics should go to hiring brains that can use the right tools to ask the right questions.
The fly-throughs and the zooming - a lot of that is just 'smoke and mirrors' show stuff to sell the project at the city council level. From a planning perspective, by that time its probably too late to do anything substantive. Planning is about the needs 10 years down the road.
The new tools are great. I love google earth. These tools however are not like the GIS tools available in planning depts. which DO get used, and I support paying for 100%. I do not feel, however that there will be a rush of people attending meetings because of the tools. When people do attend those meetings I think that the fancy graphics can distract from the substance of the discussion.
Is this a good land-use decision? Does it follow what is established in our comprehensive plan / zoning ordinance? If it does not, what are the previously not-considered impacts on services - roadway, sewer? EMT response times, etc? I would rather have a planning department consider these questions than worry about how a project will look in a fly-through. That may not sell the crowd, but ultimately city council needs hard data to make decisions.
Disclaimer: I am an urban planner.
One of the things these free tools do is raise the expectations bar. Most planning departments have had access for many years to GIS tools which are far more capable than what the online tools can do. That said, the general public has not. I do not think that "ordinary citizens will get more involved" - I have been to enough public meetings to know what citizen apathy looks like - but I do think that the public's perception of what is possible in terms of visualization and presentation will change. Think CSI - doesn't every crime lab work that way?
In terms of participation, there will still be the controvertial cases where city hall is packed with angry citizens reacting to the "greedy developer" coming to the city to "destroy the quality of life" or "make traffic a nightmare" but for the most part people have lives and do not care about local government unless it is a basic utility like water service, fire or police protection. When they do get involved, however, they will expect to see zooming and fly-throughs using aerial photos. I love the digital orthophotography but this stuff is expensive and not everyplace is covered.
Ok, so the US is fighting a couple of wars, holding people indefinitely in GITMO, probably being sucked into another conflict in the middle-east, etc. and THIS is what we spend our time on?
Gambling?
Something is afoot. Methinks it is time to re-enlicit support from the conservative base... elections are around the corner. And we all know that these rich 'moblike' online casino owners are probably funding terrorism, right? Its the perfect issue. You have the 'moral high-ground' and a non-US resident at which to finger-point! Wow. You have to hand it to the Republican party. Machiavelli could have learned a trick or two.
So you would have no problem is Microsoft Word sent information back to MS on the text of the documents you had on your hard drive and advertised products to you based on that? It would just read the titles and the author, mind you. Clippy would only pop-up and recommend you buy something if you had not disabled that feature - you may be able to easily opt-out. That dos not make it right.
Lordy... I loved Zork (yes, I am that old) but I can't imagine how cool the game would be if it read the text to you and you responded via voice. I think ppl might actually get back into "text only" games if they could interact via voice and tell the character what to do.
This battle will not be over anytime soon. There was a reason it was found to be to onerous on retailers to calculate taxes. That said, there is a huge incentive for states to want to collect tax on internet transactions. This will be a political as well as technical battle. As one the article stated, one big fight will be over which state collects the tax - the state where the buyer is located, or the state where the goods are shipped from? Or is it the state where the seller is headquartered? OR where the servers are located? This is going to get messy. Different tax rates for different states is one thing. Different rates for different goods, from different locations? Forget that they have not even considered micropayments... don't hold your breath for this one to be 'streamlined' any time soon.
I think that there is a simplicity which is deceptive about convergence. The idea of carrying one device instead of, say 4 (a PDA, a phone, a camera, and an MP3 player) is great. Unfortunately, the functions these devices perform dictate their form to some degree, and sometimes these forms work cross-purpose. Can these limitations be overcome? Maybe. Right now cell-phones don't have the best cameras. PDA's don't make the most convinient phones. (even if you wear one of those blue-tooth ear aliens that make you look like you are a nutter talking to yourself).
Bill may have it partially right. As the components for these devices get smaller and less expensive some great devices will arise that combine functions. They will not however eliminate the dedicated devices. The single purpose device will be all the better for the advances.
(3) ENCRYPTION- A telecommunications carrier shall not be responsible for decrypting, or ensuring the government's ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication.
So, as has been mentioned before, this will be used to catch the dumb criminals. Wire-tapping ISP's seems a pre-emptive strike against VOIP. If you cannot wire-tap ISP's you cannot "tap a phone" that is VOIP - which may/will become ubiquitous.
I disagree with your assessment of the DVD - the alternative to buying a region encoded DMR'ed machine was not to buy one at all. What you are suggesting is that a lot of people did just that. I disagree. I am one of the FEW people that could easily afford a DVD player but do not own one - not even in a computer. (because I am very peeved about region encoding). I am probably in the tiniest of minorities. I still agree that business are looking for shorth term gains and fail to create the "building block" type products that ensure long-term prosperity.
If no one purchased products which used e-mail spamming techniques we would quickly see the volume of spam reduced.
I wonder if my e-mail is on any of these spam CD's and if there is any way to have it removed. As their site said- for a spammer the work "remove" means "confirm".
The items on the prohibited list make sense. Blasting caps, knives, etc. I have flown w/in the US and internationally since 9-11. What irritated me is not the list itself, but the subjectiveness in applying the rules.
At one airport sewing siscors are OK, while at another they are not. In one airport inspecting shoes is all the rage. Now all laptops have to go through the x-ray machine (at least in Dallas). You never really know what you will be asked to do with electronics. Heaven forbid you bring on a piece of electronics the screener is unfamiliar with!
The lawyers for the victims got together and said - "You need compensation!" And then proceeded to go after as many deep pockets as they could. The 2 kids parents probably don't have a dime. Why sue them? While they are the ones responsible for raising morons, they don't have the cash. The lawyers are probably racking up billable hours and hoping for a settlement.
Television model: advertisers via commercials (spam) pay for the programming I see, subsidizing my costs to watch.
Snail Mail model: advertisers pay the post office to send their bulk mail (spam), subsidizing the cost for me to send and receive mail.
Internet model: Spammers have a free ride. I pay to receive their crap.
Want to get rid of spammers? Not likely - we have their equivalent in other media. Want to reduce it? Make them pay.
Unfortunately there will always be some fool who thinks the herbal viagra will work, or that Munbumi from Nigeria is going to transfer him 20% of $22.5 from the Nigerian reserves. Spammers will always want to get to these people. Right now it costs them next to nothing.
What revenue were they losing when Johnny rips his CD to play on his mp3 player? They have lost the opportunity to sell you the same music in the mp3 format.
...you go to the gas station and buy a ticket for the car-wash. The face-value of the ticket is worthless...
But when you go to punch in the code number and it does not work because the gas station has given your code away, you have been defrauded. Not for the value of the ticket - for the value of the car-wash.
The first thing I looked at and read was the e-mail. Was it made up? was it real? who cares. The point is that we are curious by nature. We look at things we know we shouldn't. Sometimes it's just curiosity, sometimes it's an invasion of privacy.
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Bingo.
Also, sometimes correlation is evidence of causation. Not always, of course, but sometimes correlation is most certainly an indicator of causation.
No. Correlation is never evidence of causation. Correlation is only evidence of correlation. There may be causation. Not always. Correlation is not an indicator of causation. It indicates you cannot rule out causation. Look for it. Try to find causality. But to not be fooled that because a correlation exists between two items or events that one causes the other.
I think the Onion Got it Right "Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others" http://www.theonion.com/articl...
Actually, its an interesting comparison. I use ESRI products and more and more I am shifting to using free (such as Google) web and non-web products to do some display / mapping work. Why? Because, for one, as you said, every ESRI Arc 9.3 seat costs a shitload. Secondly, I can achieve a substantially similar result in half the time while leaving the license open for someone else. Will it come to a point that free/lower cost software solutions will eliminate ESRI? Maybe. Should they feel threatened? Absolutely. Their user base is already being eroded and users disgruntled. I can't seem to find many fans. So is it a fair comparison? On the cost, no. On the features and use - absolutely. They are both complementary and competitors.
If I had mod points I would give them to you. I think there are a lot of priests who feel exactly the same way - (Christian) religion and science are not incompatible. ID has been foisted on us by a vocal lunatic fringe with bull just slick-sounding enough to suck in (the large number of) non-thinkers.
Why is there a minimum age to begin with?
The reason for the minimum age does not matter at this point. The fact is that it was the rule every nation agreed to play by.
The Chinese did not play by the rules.
They cheated.
Is it a good rule? Is the rule useful? Those are different matters all together which do not change the fact that they CHEATED.
Dude, she's not .01 percent pregnant.
>There is clearly a cost to handing over your personal data. This is why you fill in the forms with someone else's personal data ;)
This is close - it captures location, time, and direction. Now all it needs is angle (azimuth). From the product description: "...tilting can stop the GPS receiver and compas from working properly..." Ok, fix this glitch and add azimuth info. Next, make it small enough to fit into a point-and-shoot. To all those privacy freaks - just don't record the information about the shot. You can also eliminate any EXIF data on your pics if you want. As for me - I find it extremely useful to know where I took a shot and when. Taking site photos of projects would be so much easier if I could just say "this is the x block of such and such, looking north at the property" without haveing to take written notes after I take each shot. Ok, so my example does not include azimuth information. Just like I have a need for time, location and direction, I am sure someone has a need for azimuth information.
I really don't think that visialization is what urban planning is all about. That is what architecture is for. You can get a much better idea of what a project will look like with a photoshopped picture. It certainly costs less than aerial photoography. The money spent on making made-for-tv graphics should go to hiring brains that can use the right tools to ask the right questions.
The fly-throughs and the zooming - a lot of that is just 'smoke and mirrors' show stuff to sell the project at the city council level. From a planning perspective, by that time its probably too late to do anything substantive. Planning is about the needs 10 years down the road.
The new tools are great. I love google earth. These tools however are not like the GIS tools available in planning depts. which DO get used, and I support paying for 100%. I do not feel, however that there will be a rush of people attending meetings because of the tools. When people do attend those meetings I think that the fancy graphics can distract from the substance of the discussion.
Is this a good land-use decision? Does it follow what is established in our comprehensive plan / zoning ordinance? If it does not, what are the previously not-considered impacts on services - roadway, sewer? EMT response times, etc? I would rather have a planning department consider these questions than worry about how a project will look in a fly-through. That may not sell the crowd, but ultimately city council needs hard data to make decisions.
Disclaimer: I am an urban planner. One of the things these free tools do is raise the expectations bar. Most planning departments have had access for many years to GIS tools which are far more capable than what the online tools can do. That said, the general public has not. I do not think that "ordinary citizens will get more involved" - I have been to enough public meetings to know what citizen apathy looks like - but I do think that the public's perception of what is possible in terms of visualization and presentation will change. Think CSI - doesn't every crime lab work that way? In terms of participation, there will still be the controvertial cases where city hall is packed with angry citizens reacting to the "greedy developer" coming to the city to "destroy the quality of life" or "make traffic a nightmare" but for the most part people have lives and do not care about local government unless it is a basic utility like water service, fire or police protection. When they do get involved, however, they will expect to see zooming and fly-throughs using aerial photos. I love the digital orthophotography but this stuff is expensive and not everyplace is covered.
Ok, so the US is fighting a couple of wars, holding people indefinitely in GITMO, probably being sucked into another conflict in the middle-east, etc. and THIS is what we spend our time on?
Gambling?
Something is afoot. Methinks it is time to re-enlicit support from the conservative base... elections are around the corner. And we all know that these rich 'moblike' online casino owners are probably funding terrorism, right? Its the perfect issue. You have the 'moral high-ground' and a non-US resident at which to finger-point! Wow. You have to hand it to the Republican party. Machiavelli could have learned a trick or two.
So you would have no problem is Microsoft Word sent information back to MS on the text of the documents you had on your hard drive and advertised products to you based on that? It would just read the titles and the author, mind you. Clippy would only pop-up and recommend you buy something if you had not disabled that feature - you may be able to easily opt-out. That dos not make it right.
Lordy... I loved Zork (yes, I am that old) but I can't imagine how cool the game would be if it read the text to you and you responded via voice. I think ppl might actually get back into "text only" games if they could interact via voice and tell the character what to do.
This battle will not be over anytime soon. There was a reason it was found to be to onerous on retailers to calculate taxes. That said, there is a huge incentive for states to want to collect tax on internet transactions. This will be a political as well as technical battle. As one the article stated, one big fight will be over which state collects the tax - the state where the buyer is located, or the state where the goods are shipped from? Or is it the state where the seller is headquartered? OR where the servers are located? This is going to get messy. Different tax rates for different states is one thing. Different rates for different goods, from different locations? Forget that they have not even considered micropayments... don't hold your breath for this one to be 'streamlined' any time soon.
I think that there is a simplicity which is deceptive about convergence. The idea of carrying one device instead of, say 4 (a PDA, a phone, a camera, and an MP3 player) is great. Unfortunately, the functions these devices perform dictate their form to some degree, and sometimes these forms work cross-purpose. Can these limitations be overcome? Maybe. Right now cell-phones don't have the best cameras. PDA's don't make the most convinient phones. (even if you wear one of those blue-tooth ear aliens that make you look like you are a nutter talking to yourself). Bill may have it partially right. As the components for these devices get smaller and less expensive some great devices will arise that combine functions. They will not however eliminate the dedicated devices. The single purpose device will be all the better for the advances.
(3) ENCRYPTION- A telecommunications carrier shall not be responsible for decrypting, or ensuring the government's ability to decrypt, any communication encrypted by a subscriber or customer, unless the encryption was provided by the carrier and the carrier possesses the information necessary to decrypt the communication.
So, as has been mentioned before, this will be used to catch the dumb criminals. Wire-tapping ISP's seems a pre-emptive strike against VOIP. If you cannot wire-tap ISP's you cannot "tap a phone" that is VOIP - which may/will become ubiquitous.
I disagree with your assessment of the DVD - the alternative to buying a region encoded DMR'ed machine was not to buy one at all.
What you are suggesting is that a lot of people did just that. I disagree.
I am one of the FEW people that could easily afford a DVD player but do not own one - not even in a computer. (because I am very peeved about region encoding). I am probably in the tiniest of minorities.
I still agree that business are looking for shorth term gains and fail to create the "building block" type products that ensure long-term prosperity.
If no one purchased products which used e-mail spamming techniques we would quickly see the volume of spam reduced. I wonder if my e-mail is on any of these spam CD's and if there is any way to have it removed. As their site said- for a spammer the work "remove" means "confirm".
The items on the prohibited list make sense. Blasting caps, knives, etc.
I have flown w/in the US and internationally since 9-11. What irritated me is not the list itself, but the subjectiveness in applying the rules.
At one airport sewing siscors are OK, while at another they are not. In one airport inspecting shoes is all the rage. Now all laptops have to go through the x-ray machine (at least in Dallas). You never really know what you will be asked to do with electronics. Heaven forbid you bring on a piece of electronics the screener is unfamiliar with!
The lawyers for the victims got together and said - "You need compensation!" And then proceeded to go after as many deep pockets as they could. The 2 kids parents probably don't have a dime. Why sue them? While they are the ones responsible for raising morons, they don't have the cash. The lawyers are probably racking up billable hours and hoping for a settlement.
Television model: advertisers via commercials (spam) pay for the programming I see, subsidizing my costs to watch. Snail Mail model: advertisers pay the post office to send their bulk mail (spam), subsidizing the cost for me to send and receive mail. Internet model: Spammers have a free ride. I pay to receive their crap. Want to get rid of spammers? Not likely - we have their equivalent in other media. Want to reduce it? Make them pay. Unfortunately there will always be some fool who thinks the herbal viagra will work, or that Munbumi from Nigeria is going to transfer him 20% of $22.5 from the Nigerian reserves. Spammers will always want to get to these people. Right now it costs them next to nothing.
What revenue were they losing when Johnny rips his CD to play on his mp3 player?
They have lost the opportunity to sell you the same music in the mp3 format.
...you go to the gas station and buy a ticket for the car-wash. The face-value of the ticket is worthless...
But when you go to punch in the code number and it does not work because the gas station has given your code away, you have been defrauded. Not for the value of the ticket - for the value of the car-wash.
The first thing I looked at and read was the e-mail. Was it made up? was it real? who cares. The point is that we are curious by nature. We look at things we know we shouldn't. Sometimes it's just curiosity, sometimes it's an invasion of privacy.