Honest, objective education around nutrition just isn't possible in this political climate. If we can't get the government to accept global warming / global climate change as fact, how do you think we are going to convince them that most of what the USDA has been spouting for the past 50 years is what has lead us to this mess?
I really believe education beyond very basic stuff is a big waste of resources. Incentives to individuals don't work either. Financial incentives to businesses do work though.
Ever see those cigarette packages from Australia(?) that have nasty pictures of diseased lungs? Turns out shame or appealing to vanity is effective. Maybe every soda container should have a warning and a picture of a big fat sweaty guy.
What do you think about my prediction that food company executives will soon be seen as "evil" as tobacco company executives?
It's great that you pay for your own god damn health care. I really wish everybody did (or at least middle class and up). If they did, I believe health care would be much more affordable. IMHO, it's insane that health insurance premiums are offered as an employment benefit.
Things are changing faster than you might think. My elementary school aged kids are being taught in school to avoid carbs (sugar and refined white flour are equally evil apparently) and that fat is just a good source of energy. Eat lots of vegetables and some fruit and some meat (mostly chicken or fish).
This is much different from what I was taught at their age. Back then it was all about eating equally from 4 food groups (meat/protein, fruits and veg, bread, and dairy I think they were).
This American Life did a similar story about doctors who don't wash their hands enough. Education wasn't the answer - doctors are the most educated people in the hospital. Likewise, I don't think education will do much here. People who are fat generally know why they are fat.
The hands washing problem was fixed largely through shaming them. Incentives didn't work. Maybe making people feel shameful for ordering mega calorie foods would help?
I think there's a pretty big difference between banning the actions of a person and regulating the harmful activities of a corporation. Nothing in this proposal forces people to live healthfully.
Companies are knowingly planning and implenting significant resources into not only the ONE product of *one* company, but a company who's very DNA and entire lifetime history is one of absolute *shitting* on its enterprise customers.
Companies need to keep their employees happy. Spending resources on keeping important employees happy is money well spent. Plus all of these devices have a 2 year life span, so making plans more than a few years out is probably a bad idea anyway.
I said playing piano was nothing more than a dick-waving thing to do on your phone. And you just said it wasn't for important use, but for screwing around with.
Are you just trolling? How is making commercial music more important than doing so for artistic reasons? And have you tried GarageBand on the iPad? It's a fantastic piece of software. I know musicians who have bought an iPad just for GarageBand.
Education doesn't work and the recommended daily intake numbers have more to do with politics than nutrition.
Every single person ordering 20+ ounces of soda knows that water would be a better choice.
This is a regulation of vendors, not consumers. I predict that within 20 years, the executives of major food companies will start facing scrutiny and lawsuits in the same way that tobacco executives did a few years ago. If current trends continue, the damage that companies like Coca Cola and McDonald's are doing will dwarf anything that the tobacco companies did.
Spoken like a true fanboy. "If apple chooses not to do so or isn't good at it, it's not neccesary." Did you hear yourself?
He didn't say that at all. Apple doesn't care about enterprise customers because that's not their market. They also aren't making point-of-sale terminals. So what? There's lots of evidence that their interest in the professional market is fading. These days Apple is mostly about consumers.
Since Apple isn't adapting to the enterprise, lots of enterprises are adapting to Apple. Companies are figuring out ways of supporting iPhones or are simply letting employees bring their own device.
And have you ever used an iDevice?
Have you? If all of your apps are crashing all of the time, then I think you have a hardware problem. Your experience isn't typical.
If you're doing professional music editing on a smartphone on the road, please. You're not a music professional then.
By professional, do you mean commercial? For most people, making music is a creative or artistic endeavor and has nothing to do with being professional.
My problem with the biblical version of creation is that it's literally a deus ex machina story. There's nothing intellectually stimulating in it. You can't hypothesize anything or calculate consequences or implications. It has nothing for the curious to investigate. IMHO, there's nothing of interest to discuss about it other than how people interpret the story differently and that's totally dull for me because debating the meaning of poetry exposes no truths, only opinions. It may bring a few people together, but generally it divides.
It isn't exactly the same situation, but Tivo is (or at least was) built on signed open source software. IIRC, this was part of what brought about GPL3.
WP7 is a dead end. WP8 is basically another reboot of Microsoft's mobile platform. Does anybody really wonder why they are having a hard time attracting developer interest these days?
I partially agree with you though. WP7 is very pretty and works well. Unfortunately, too many of the apps (not all though) are very rough and buggy. IME, when it comes to app polish and quality, iOS > Android > WP7.
Because then they would have to compete with Samsung and they just don't have the talent. I don't know if it's possible, but they should abandon hardware entirely and figure out how to offer secure messaging on top of Android or iOS. They are big enough and bring enough customers that Apple or Google might even be willing to grant them privileged access to the operating system that other 3rd party apps don't get.
And I absolutely LOVED my Handera 330 (a Palm OS device). Just like your old BB was a good phone, the Handera was a pretty good "app machine". These days, you have to be good at both. RIM is going to be a great business school case study in what happens when your market gets disrupted and you pretend everything is still fine.
The problem with the Thinkpad's modularity is that they feel like a bunch of modules rattling around in a plastic box. I have a T520 and it's a mediocre machine at best.
The only machine I recommend these days is a Macbook.
Wages are a small part of the cost of an iPhone. They could be made in the US for something like $60 more per phone.
If you search for "build iphone in america", you find lots of articles with the same quote:
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.
“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.”
Just out of curiosity, do you have any moral qualms with somebody who buys the season pass on iTunes or Amazon, but gets the episodes from bit torrent to avoid the one week delay? TV shows like GoT have a big social component to them and talking about it with friends or coworkers is part of the experience. I totally understand why some people don't want to wait.
Or rather, the competition has advanced while Lenovo rests.
I have a T520 and my wife has a Macbook Pro. The Macbook is a far better piece of hardware. Even if you only want to run Windows, I'd consider buying an Apple laptop and reformatting it with Windows.
The one thing I like about the Thinkpad (and the reason I picked it) is the 1080p matte screen. Everything else is mediocre at best. They are pretty cheap though, so maybe it's a case of getting what you pay for.
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Honest, objective education around nutrition just isn't possible in this political climate. If we can't get the government to accept global warming / global climate change as fact, how do you think we are going to convince them that most of what the USDA has been spouting for the past 50 years is what has lead us to this mess?
I really believe education beyond very basic stuff is a big waste of resources. Incentives to individuals don't work either. Financial incentives to businesses do work though.
Ever see those cigarette packages from Australia(?) that have nasty pictures of diseased lungs? Turns out shame or appealing to vanity is effective. Maybe every soda container should have a warning and a picture of a big fat sweaty guy.
What do you think about my prediction that food company executives will soon be seen as "evil" as tobacco company executives?
It's great that you pay for your own god damn health care. I really wish everybody did (or at least middle class and up). If they did, I believe health care would be much more affordable. IMHO, it's insane that health insurance premiums are offered as an employment benefit.
Things are changing faster than you might think. My elementary school aged kids are being taught in school to avoid carbs (sugar and refined white flour are equally evil apparently) and that fat is just a good source of energy. Eat lots of vegetables and some fruit and some meat (mostly chicken or fish).
This is much different from what I was taught at their age. Back then it was all about eating equally from 4 food groups (meat/protein, fruits and veg, bread, and dairy I think they were).
I don't know why Sony would be skittish about going online only.
I agree.
This American Life did a similar story about doctors who don't wash their hands enough. Education wasn't the answer - doctors are the most educated people in the hospital. Likewise, I don't think education will do much here. People who are fat generally know why they are fat.
The hands washing problem was fixed largely through shaming them. Incentives didn't work. Maybe making people feel shameful for ordering mega calorie foods would help?
I think there's a pretty big difference between banning the actions of a person and regulating the harmful activities of a corporation. Nothing in this proposal forces people to live healthfully.
Companies need to keep their employees happy. Spending resources on keeping important employees happy is money well spent. Plus all of these devices have a 2 year life span, so making plans more than a few years out is probably a bad idea anyway.
Are you just trolling? How is making commercial music more important than doing so for artistic reasons? And have you tried GarageBand on the iPad? It's a fantastic piece of software. I know musicians who have bought an iPad just for GarageBand.
Education doesn't work and the recommended daily intake numbers have more to do with politics than nutrition.
Every single person ordering 20+ ounces of soda knows that water would be a better choice.
This is a regulation of vendors, not consumers. I predict that within 20 years, the executives of major food companies will start facing scrutiny and lawsuits in the same way that tobacco executives did a few years ago. If current trends continue, the damage that companies like Coca Cola and McDonald's are doing will dwarf anything that the tobacco companies did.
He didn't say that at all. Apple doesn't care about enterprise customers because that's not their market. They also aren't making point-of-sale terminals. So what? There's lots of evidence that their interest in the professional market is fading. These days Apple is mostly about consumers.
Since Apple isn't adapting to the enterprise, lots of enterprises are adapting to Apple. Companies are figuring out ways of supporting iPhones or are simply letting employees bring their own device.
Have you? If all of your apps are crashing all of the time, then I think you have a hardware problem. Your experience isn't typical.
By professional, do you mean commercial? For most people, making music is a creative or artistic endeavor and has nothing to do with being professional.
WP8 is based on WinRT. WP7 has a WinCE kernel. They are very, very different.
It isn't even clear if WP7 phones will be able to be upgraded to WP8. Most sources say it won't be.
My problem with the biblical version of creation is that it's literally a deus ex machina story. There's nothing intellectually stimulating in it. You can't hypothesize anything or calculate consequences or implications. It has nothing for the curious to investigate. IMHO, there's nothing of interest to discuss about it other than how people interpret the story differently and that's totally dull for me because debating the meaning of poetry exposes no truths, only opinions. It may bring a few people together, but generally it divides.
What evidence can you point to that supports your views, or is it entirely faith based?
It isn't exactly the same situation, but Tivo is (or at least was) built on signed open source software. IIRC, this was part of what brought about GPL3.
WP7 is a dead end. WP8 is basically another reboot of Microsoft's mobile platform. Does anybody really wonder why they are having a hard time attracting developer interest these days?
I partially agree with you though. WP7 is very pretty and works well. Unfortunately, too many of the apps (not all though) are very rough and buggy. IME, when it comes to app polish and quality, iOS > Android > WP7.
Yes, and it would have been available on any device running Flash.
You could have used H.264 and only had to encode it once. Just like Flash, it would have only worked on devices that support it.
Yep. Your experience developing with HTML5 has value going forward. People with Flash expertise are finding a shrinking market for them to work in.
Because then they would have to compete with Samsung and they just don't have the talent. I don't know if it's possible, but they should abandon hardware entirely and figure out how to offer secure messaging on top of Android or iOS. They are big enough and bring enough customers that Apple or Google might even be willing to grant them privileged access to the operating system that other 3rd party apps don't get.
And I absolutely LOVED my Handera 330 (a Palm OS device). Just like your old BB was a good phone, the Handera was a pretty good "app machine". These days, you have to be good at both. RIM is going to be a great business school case study in what happens when your market gets disrupted and you pretend everything is still fine.
Almost the entire WebOS team has been hired by Google. I don't think HP is doing anything with WebOS anymore.
Amazon will only be able to quash competition then raise prices if the publisher's don't wake up and realize that DRM is tying their fate to Amazon.
If there were no DRM lock-in, then there are basically no barriers to entry. Anybody could be an ebook seller.
The problem with the Thinkpad's modularity is that they feel like a bunch of modules rattling around in a plastic box. I have a T520 and it's a mediocre machine at best.
The only machine I recommend these days is a Macbook.
Wages are a small part of the cost of an iPhone. They could be made in the US for something like $60 more per phone.
If you search for "build iphone in america", you find lots of articles with the same quote:
Just out of curiosity, do you have any moral qualms with somebody who buys the season pass on iTunes or Amazon, but gets the episodes from bit torrent to avoid the one week delay? TV shows like GoT have a big social component to them and talking about it with friends or coworkers is part of the experience. I totally understand why some people don't want to wait.
Or rather, the competition has advanced while Lenovo rests.
I have a T520 and my wife has a Macbook Pro. The Macbook is a far better piece of hardware. Even if you only want to run Windows, I'd consider buying an Apple laptop and reformatting it with Windows.
The one thing I like about the Thinkpad (and the reason I picked it) is the 1080p matte screen. Everything else is mediocre at best. They are pretty cheap though, so maybe it's a case of getting what you pay for.
The key is what he says next:
If you have a lot of related data, then you should probably be using a relational db, no?