The company Sony Ericsson is a separate company where Ericsson and Sony owns 50% each (joint-venture), started six years ago. Notice that Ericsson still kind of produces mobile phones, but in the form of reference designs (with the basic functionality) which then is sold to Sony Ericsson who takes this as a basis for making the finished phone (adding applications, menus, mechanics, etc). We also sells this to other companies, although Sony Ericsson is our largest customer.
Tools like this provided much-needed transparency to the process.
One tool that I am missing very much is to download the history of a given page into some
version control format (git, svn, cvs, etc).
If I want to look at say the last 100 edits of a page, doing so manually clicking
in the history page would be way too much work and too cumbersome
to the point that I would never do that. If on the other hand
it was possible to download the history and use a local version control tool
to get a list of the last 100 edits shown as a continuous list
of patches it would be easy to look through all changes and
I would do so often I guess.
More transparency of editing history can only be good, and
I think such a tool is much needed.
The problem is simple, too many calories in, too few calories out.
You're oversimplifying. There's more to weight than just energy intake/output, since the energy intake is governed by other factors than conscious thinking.
I once read a list of 10 such factors but I only remeber two of them.
Higher indoor temperature than before. Around 3/4 of the energy consumed is used just for maintaining body temperature, so a lower temperature difference between the body and the environment will contribute to fewer calories out.
Less sleep than before. While sleeping you loose some weight (because of maintaining body temperature). While awake your energy consumption will be higher than when sleeping but you will also be eating from time to time. If calories in equals calories out then staying awake will not have any effect, but
for many it will amplify gaining weight.
If they don't know what's latency, then why do they bother about the problem at all?
A couple of years ago Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG managed to say "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" and this was rightfully frowned upon as an valid argument. I fail to see how your is different, am I missing something?
Good point. Hope you'll say the same when people point out that scientists
that question global warming are 'not climatologists' or 'have accepted
money from big oil'.
Hopefully I will, "not climatologists" sounds like possible ad hominem.
If someone is accused of having received money from oil industry this
does not necessarily mean an ad hominem attack. It could be, if it is
just blown of as "this or these persons are not trustworthy", but you
receive money and support from your "friends" (in lack of a better word),
and since you tend to treat friends better than non-friends this will give
some bias. When Microsoft founds some research, say about total cost of
ownership, you do not expect that not to influence the results, do you?
So questioning funding and support is often valid, ad hominem is not.
I guess that there is a mixture of both usually.
Also, the washington post is known to be a liberal newspaper.
Such arguments are called ad hominem and
if you want to be taken serious you should not use those. Actually, you should not
use such arguments in any case whatsoever. Please stop.
Have you hear the story about this fellow that was working in a
museum with dinosaurs and fossils. One day while showing a
group of visitors around he explains "This item is 50 million years and
6 months old". "Wow, so you can determine age that accurate!". "Yes,
because when I started here it was 50 million years old, and that is
half a year ago".
150,000 absolutely sounds like a number of proper accuracy in this case.
If 150,000 is a correct number is another matter (I do not know).
Remember, 68.42% of all statistics express a higher degree of accuracy
than there actually is.
What happens when your computer or mp3 player gets stolen and 6 months later there's files all over the p2p nets with your name on them. How could you prove you weren't the one that put them on there in the first place?
Actually, from a juridical point of view, it would be the plaintiff's responsibility to prove that you shared them.
But I totally agree, this has the potential to be a severe contradiction of
Blackstone's formulation if the
required quality of the evidence presented by the plaintiff will be as low as you (and I) fear.
To help finding the best "blank" frequency spot I
wrote
a gnuplot script
when I bought myself a FM sender (JTNSF311) a few weeks ago. You might find it useful.
I wanted to send FM from my PC in order to avoid switching audio input between TV/video
and my PC on my hi-fi system like I currently do, but I use an external FM radio antenna outside the house and the reception with this was unfortunately
not good enough.
The sound is ok/good enough for the small radio I have in the bathroom though, so at least I do not have to turn up the volume in
the living room to hear PC audio there.
Look at cultures around the world, especially pre-industrialized ones. Each has it's rites of passage from childhood to adulthood. Even the US used to have them. We had master-Apprentice training, we had guilds. What few realize is that these provide a transition from childhood to adulthood. They do so by establishing a sense of accomplishment in the youth as they increase in skills and maturity. The relationships formed by youths provide a solid grounding for dealing with the biological (hormonal) changes that adolescence brings on.
Instead today we have high schools which continue to treat you as if you are five years old. Seriously. Look at what the difference in experience is between 1st and 12th grade. It's the same thing with more topics. There is no bridge between childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Graduation is supposedly some major event, our "replacement" for a rite of passage. But it fails miserably on that account, as we can see.
Teenage kids used to have a more active role in society. In pre-industrial times, they were all apprentices of one sort or another, whether in shops or on farms or even on warships. They weren't left to create their own societies. They were junior members of adult societies.
and I agree with both you and him. School is today to some degree a deposit place for kids while the parents are working and this is bad.
... but even I couldn't tell you if Kingston's offering is better than Secustick.... And if I can't tell the difference, most consumers won't be able to either.
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed,
given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
And how should "illicit usage" be properly defined?
Because what is legal or illegal is different in different countries. And different rulings might be given in similar cases, all depending on the judge or jury.
And this changes over time. The set of actions that were illegal 50 years ago is not the same as this set today. How well do you think DRM is able to cope with future law changes? Imagine if in 2050 all copyright was reduced world wide to only last 10 years. Would any of todays DRM "solutions" stop crippling their owner's goods in 2060?
Regarding locked-down handsets, there are two requirements that I think should be imposed.
When companies sell equipment that has (technical) usage restrictions from its normal, unlimited usage
such usage restrictions must be time limited (i.e. no phones that never can be used with another operator)
the customer should always have the choice to buy either a restricted or unrestricted version (i.e. a shop cannot only offer to sell you a given phone as part of
a subsidized deal, if you want to buy that phone with no restrictions at full price you should be able to do so (at whatever price the shop would classify as full price. I do not
want to impose any rules for this, only the principle that the customer always can choose))
We have a 2-party system. For some reason those on the fringe seem to think that all of our problems would be solved if we just had more parties.
That wouldn't solve anything. In fact, it would make things worse.
We'd have Presidents elected with 25-30% of the popular vote. How does that make our government more representative?
When considering the number of parties in a government it is important to realize that this is a compromise between two things:
Efficiency
Democratic representativeness
If you want to maximize efficiency, go for just one single party. Nothing is more efficient than that. If you want to maximize democratic representativeness, have one party for each voter. Both these extremes are of course not an option, but it is important to realize that you cannot have both at the same time and that more of one means less of the other.
Just having two parties is very efficient since then one of them always will have majority, but note that it is also as far away from truly representing the voters as possible (excluding the possibility of having just one party). Having a large number of parties, say 20 or more, would give a very fine grained representativeness but would also imply huge practical problems. A compromise ought to lie somewhere between. My personal opinion is that the optimum lies in the range of 5 to 8 parties.
Public opinion is a diverse collection of a vast number of different
views. This can (rightly) be characterized as a problem, but massively
limiting the number of parties (i.e just 2) in order to suppress that
bears resemblance to just fixing the symptom and not solving the problem
(which in this case might be unsolvable).
BTW, people can always be classified into two different categories:
those that believe that people can be classified into two different categories
those that don't
PS
Have I missed something? Is number of parties a compromise of other factors than efficiency and democratic representativeness as well?
what's your real name cause i wanna enter you in the "douche-bag of the universe" award.
With an opening like that you both sound a little threatening as well as if you are trying to
ridicule your opponent in lack of other valid counter arguments ("ad hominem"). I hope that is not your intention.
the only reason america is hated is cause of jealousy. we do more for more nations than any other country could dream of.
This argument appears to be a bit shallow. How much effort have have you put down in reaching this conclusion?
If you set up a general problem solving matrix with the following four coloumns
What is the problem?
What is the cause?
What can be done to solve it?
Who should do that?
it looks to me that you only would end up with this: What is the problem? USA is hated What is the cause? Jealousy
Are you really sure that this is all there is to the issue?
I most certainly think the reality is much more complex than that with many other
factors, where jealousy not necessarily plays an important role.
But of course I might be wrong. Maybe the world is as simple as you describe.
I would appreciate if you could educate me in what ways my current view is wrong.
Being able to change one's mind from time to time is an important property
(I do),
so if you present some convincing arguments I might end up agreeing with you.
Please try.
people love success, but despise the successful. that's just the way it goes.
While there absolutely is some truth in this, it is not universally so that
all people in all situations always despise the successful.
I am no expert in psychology so I can not deepen under what conditions
this is applicable, but this argument appears to be a faulty generalization.
This reminds me of a Rick Brant book, The Whispering Box Mystery by John Blaine. It is probably 15-20 years since I read the book, but the plot is like the following:
Someone invents a device to emit a high frequency sound that paralyzes
people (the balance organs are located in the ears)
and uses this for robbery. Rick becomes involved and manages
eventually to create another device that produces a counter sound to neutralize
the paralyzing device.
Of course this is fiction (and interference was not accounted for at
all in the book as far as I remember), but never the less it was an interesting
concept.
Included are such gems as "American students are much more confident about their math abilities than Singaporean students" and "But even the least confident student in Singapore outscores the most confident American student!"
Food for thought.
This is conformed in the study "Unskilled and Unaware of it" (link and link):
Prediction 1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria.
I'd wager the average geek is smarter than 'average'.
This might very well be the case. But maybe it doesn't matter so much since everyone regard themselves above average anyhow, even when they are unskilled (link and link)?
What happened to the old "the customer is always right" ideal?
If people around the world wants to have film/music/whatever available to buy in their country at the same time as
everyone else, then it is the job of the content producers to supply that!
Start noticing how many arguments in favour of "free market" really translates into "no regulation of mighty suppliers allowing them to screw the customers".
The litmus test of if something really supports free competition should be "does the customers really want this?".
Region encoding fails this.
DRM fails this.
I've found that I use the escape key an average of 2983742 times per day.
I've already told you a million times to stop exaggerating...
Now for some actual numbers, I normally have between 10000 and 15000 keystrokes
on a day at work, sometimes up till 20000.
I know this because I use a program to forc^H^H^H^Hremind me to take
breaks. This program monitors keyboard and mouse
activity to determine appropriate rest times and as a bonus keeps historic statistics.
At the end of May I finished my master thesis and when panic mode was in full
effect the last Sunday (to be delivered on Monday) I had over 60000 (the maximum before
that was "just" above 30000).
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The company Sony Ericsson is a separate company where Ericsson and Sony owns 50% each (joint-venture), started six years ago. Notice that Ericsson still kind of produces mobile phones, but in the form of reference designs (with the basic functionality) which then is sold to Sony Ericsson who takes this as a basis for making the finished phone (adding applications, menus, mechanics, etc). We also sells this to other companies, although Sony Ericsson is our largest customer.
I can confirm that. - an Ericsson employee.
If I want to look at say the last 100 edits of a page, doing so manually clicking in the history page would be way too much work and too cumbersome to the point that I would never do that. If on the other hand it was possible to download the history and use a local version control tool to get a list of the last 100 edits shown as a continuous list of patches it would be easy to look through all changes and I would do so often I guess.
More transparency of editing history can only be good, and I think such a tool is much needed.
I once read a list of 10 such factors but I only remeber two of them.
A couple of years ago Thomas Hesse, president of Sony BMG managed to say "Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?" and this was rightfully frowned upon as an valid argument. I fail to see how your is different, am I missing something?
Hopefully I will, "not climatologists" sounds like possible ad hominem. If someone is accused of having received money from oil industry this does not necessarily mean an ad hominem attack. It could be, if it is just blown of as "this or these persons are not trustworthy", but you receive money and support from your "friends" (in lack of a better word), and since you tend to treat friends better than non-friends this will give some bias. When Microsoft founds some research, say about total cost of ownership, you do not expect that not to influence the results, do you?
So questioning funding and support is often valid, ad hominem is not. I guess that there is a mixture of both usually.
150,000 absolutely sounds like a number of proper accuracy in this case. If 150,000 is a correct number is another matter (I do not know).
Remember, 68.42% of all statistics express a higher degree of accuracy than there actually is.
I wanted to send FM from my PC in order to avoid switching audio input between TV/video and my PC on my hi-fi system like I currently do, but I use an external FM radio antenna outside the house and the reception with this was unfortunately not good enough. The sound is ok/good enough for the small radio I have in the bathroom though, so at least I do not have to turn up the volume in the living room to hear PC audio there.
Teenage kids used to have a more active role in society. In pre-industrial times, they were all apprentices of one sort or another, whether in shops or on farms or even on warships. They weren't left to create their own societies. They were junior members of adult societies.
and I agree with both you and him. School is today to some degree a deposit place for kids while the parents are working and this is bad.
"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(not that I think Google is that bad, but it was the first thing that stroke my mind when reading the above comments)
And how should "illicit usage" be properly defined? Because what is legal or illegal is different in different countries. And different rulings might be given in similar cases, all depending on the judge or jury.
And this changes over time. The set of actions that were illegal 50 years ago is not the same as this set today. How well do you think DRM is able to cope with future law changes? Imagine if in 2050 all copyright was reduced world wide to only last 10 years. Would any of todays DRM "solutions" stop crippling their owner's goods in 2060?
This probably says more about your (limited) world view than it describes the reality.
PS: This is not meant as a flamebait (although I cannot guarantee that it will not be perceived as one).
When considering the number of parties in a government it is important to realize that this is a compromise between two things:
If you want to maximize efficiency, go for just one single party. Nothing is more efficient than that. If you want to maximize democratic representativeness, have one party for each voter. Both these extremes are of course not an option, but it is important to realize that you cannot have both at the same time and that more of one means less of the other.
Just having two parties is very efficient since then one of them always will have majority, but note that it is also as far away from truly representing the voters as possible (excluding the possibility of having just one party). Having a large number of parties, say 20 or more, would give a very fine grained representativeness but would also imply huge practical problems. A compromise ought to lie somewhere between. My personal opinion is that the optimum lies in the range of 5 to 8 parties.
Public opinion is a diverse collection of a vast number of different views. This can (rightly) be characterized as a problem, but massively limiting the number of parties (i.e just 2) in order to suppress that bears resemblance to just fixing the symptom and not solving the problem (which in this case might be unsolvable).
BTW, people can always be classified into two different categories:
PS
Have I missed something? Is number of parties a compromise of other factors than efficiency and democratic representativeness as well?
With an opening like that you both sound a little threatening as well as if you are trying to ridicule your opponent in lack of other valid counter arguments ("ad hominem"). I hope that is not your intention.
This argument appears to be a bit shallow. How much effort have have you put down in reaching this conclusion? If you set up a general problem solving matrix with the following four coloumns
- What is the problem?
- What is the cause?
- What can be done to solve it?
- Who should do that?
it looks to me that you only would end up with this:What is the problem? USA is hated
What is the cause? Jealousy
Are you really sure that this is all there is to the issue? I most certainly think the reality is much more complex than that with many other factors, where jealousy not necessarily plays an important role. But of course I might be wrong. Maybe the world is as simple as you describe. I would appreciate if you could educate me in what ways my current view is wrong. Being able to change one's mind from time to time is an important property (I do), so if you present some convincing arguments I might end up agreeing with you. Please try.
While there absolutely is some truth in this, it is not universally so that all people in all situations always despise the successful. I am no expert in psychology so I can not deepen under what conditions this is applicable, but this argument appears to be a faulty generalization.
PS
Useful links for arguments: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_fallacy, http://www.logicalfallacies.info/.
Someone invents a device to emit a high frequency sound that paralyzes people (the balance organs are located in the ears) and uses this for robbery. Rick becomes involved and manages eventually to create another device that produces a counter sound to neutralize the paralyzing device.
Of course this is fiction (and interference was not accounted for at all in the book as far as I remember), but never the less it was an interesting concept.
This might very well be the case. But maybe it doesn't matter so much since everyone regard themselves above average anyhow, even when they are unskilled (link and link)?
.. for those that do not pay extra is sort of similar to a gas station demanding a higher price for cars that are fuel effective.
Start noticing how many arguments in favour of "free market" really translates into "no regulation of mighty suppliers allowing them to screw the customers". The litmus test of if something really supports free competition should be "does the customers really want this?". Region encoding fails this. DRM fails this.
I've already told you a million times to stop exaggerating...
Now for some actual numbers, I normally have between 10000 and 15000 keystrokes on a day at work, sometimes up till 20000. I know this because I use a program to forc^H^H^H^Hremind me to take breaks. This program monitors keyboard and mouse activity to determine appropriate rest times and as a bonus keeps historic statistics. At the end of May I finished my master thesis and when panic mode was in full effect the last Sunday (to be delivered on Monday) I had over 60000 (the maximum before that was "just" above 30000).