lots of checklists will cut down on mistakes at all levels.
There is a recent book on this; i forget the name. the results are huge i think it was 46% decrease in post op complications or something like that. (this isn't my topic of interest) Everybody has a bad day, a checklist is constant. I can't believe this wasn't common practice already (until that book.) It made so much sense for me when I was flight training... big planes are complex and 1 mistake out of order can be hard to fix in time.
It only takes about a generation and people begin to forget or even lose the imagination of the things the way they used to be.
Government workers used to get paid reasonably close to the private counter parts. FACT. Public service was an honorable profession and for many it was worth the slightly lower wages (but increased stability.) Government workers were not thought of as incompetent crooks; well not all of them were - plus the bad ones tended to stick out MORE because there was more of a contrast and other well intentioned workers less tolerant of them. This was the general case long ago; now people can't even imagine the possibility of what was and did actually exist. Its so bad some people can't believe it ever was any better than it is today.
On a local level, I've SEEN politicians sucker people into undermining and wrecking public services with the INTENT of replacing them with his friend's private business. I've seen this done and sadly; even when its so fast people can remember how much better it was before "reform" and expensive privatization with no real benefits -- not enough people get upset or notice to change the result. It actually takes something really really bad before it can be reversed. Its the fault of the citizens ultimately that this stuff happens. We've had a long term large scale more organized version of this going on in the whole country.
I've seen money wasted on things that could have been done in-house simply because they don't want to compete with the contractors. Its crazy non-thinking behavior. I don't hire someone to cut my grass because I'm afraid I'm unfairly competing with them.
The public and the officials set low expectations-- so we allow bad results because that is what we EXPECT to get. Any manager expecting little will eventually have their expectations met.
Did you know the moon landings are FAKE!! I know because they can't make me understand all the rocket science, electronics, radio, telescopes and physics that were used to "prove" we landed on the moon. I'm supposed to trust the Russians saying the USA did land on the moon?;-)
Scientists should have to prove to the consumer everything they discover or otherwise its all just BS to get more research grants!
If you are not smart enough to learn the science so can evaluate the discoveries then science should STOP PROGRESSING! Furthermore, we need to stop specialization in society! We can't have these elite "experts" telling us crap that we don't know is true or false!
Weekly weather is in NO WAY the same as long term global average trends! That is an extremely simplistic statement to make.
The BEST we can do is the IPCC and we work from the best available information we have.... except that is an ideal - in reality we don't like to go with the best answers because we have political biases and selfishness to deal with (humans.) Sure, one can complain how pathetic it is that the best we can do is the IPCC which I think also reflects how pathetic the judgment of some people is.
It is just like a common Sci-Fi plot: the scientist is correct and only gets support when all hell brakes loose and people are desperate enough to need expert opinion (often with a plot twist of again ignoring the expert and causing some more trouble.)
Most people do not understand the thing; therefore, I'd say its not so simple.
But it was indirectly tangible - the cash and numbers are virtual but they represented REAL tangible assets. The money was itself was always a symbolic representation but the meaning behind it WAS tangible until we got off gold.
Accounting was possible with something tangible. Now, its purely virtual with just 1 authority (for US dollars) doing the accounting.
In a way, it was similar to gold, because generally speaking the accounting for the gold was a hidden trust-based system because nations were sometimes cooking their books. They couldn't allow a real accounting for the gold backing they claimed to have when it wasn't there because that would cause a devaluation of their money. While similar, it is not the same because there was a possible fall back position of a tangible object. Its like a written contract vs a handshake.
The FED doesn't have to account for the gold; yet there is enough to hide that we can't ever get a real accounting of what they have been doing.
We didn't realize this system could be fundamentally altered - it was a necessity because we were cooking the books and didn't have the gold backing. The situation was forced during Nixon and his way out of the mess was to say "it no longer matters we don't care about gold anymore" while making deals with OPEC so that the dollar wouldn't be devalued by making the world buy oil in US dollars. In a way, we moved to OIL from gold but even that is not that simple either.
We don't really need that middle eastern oil as much as people think; we get most our oil from our own hemisphere. Its about our currency more than their oil.
What should really piss people off is that the FED hands out (with gov backing) the "cheatcode" to corps to get free money - to "banks" of their choosing. Its a bailout all the time-- the more money they create the less value yours has; its a TAX on everybody so the banksters can profit from your money without you having anything you can do about it. This is why a tangible backing was beneficial; it was a CAP on this kind of behavior (although it still happened in a different way but it wasn't as bad or as easy.)
Game money needs some level of scarcity to work just like how the FED does it; it will have issues yet to be seen-- such as games where users can buy money for the game and then have it devalued or lost in hacks/bugs etc.
Money is virtual ALREADY. Arguably, money was virtual at its inception but since we moved from gold (tangible) to debt (intangible) money is now virtual.
Furthermore, most the worlds money is exchanged as numbers (now being done with computers) so even the representative objects (cash/coin) have only been a niche player.
Banks don't print money, they practically type a cheat code and the government just gives them a higher number to work with (which is many times higher than the actual virtual amount they are given - see fractional lending.)
Democracies have a weakness: complexity. The more complex the more removed from the public the issue is for them to manage their employees (public servants.) Like a boss who is clueless about the jobs his workers perform; it just doesn't work out as well in the long term... Power by obscurity primarily using complexity; or one could think of it as security by obscurity. It actually works; obscure something enough and you deter the curious people; unlike computer security, 1 person "getting in" does not cause much change (if any) most of the time (because its not a computer system and it does not behave like one even if the concepts apply to both.)
The solution is to simplify the law... using mostly lawyers elected to office? I know... Seriously, we don't need most the complexity its why judges and juries exist to interpret using "common sense" if we try to program everything explicitly for fear of the judicial branch and the public might think we end up with what we have today (see jury nullification and think about why it exists to counter this mentality of undermining of freedom.)
Ben Franklin said any government is fine if it is well administered. He is correct.
All governments fall to despotism eventually as history has shown to be the case; Franklin basically stated this at the end of the constitutional convention.
No, not exact quotes, I can think beyond those; having found them before. If you want it the source quotes go find them like I did (well, I didn't have internet back then...)
-------- Grandparent is spot on. Americans don't know jack - its like brave new world; we need a term to describe this lack of civic duty.
Its STILL LCD and blurs. What they do is fake a higher rate by using a strobe to cut down on the blur. Also, I've seen some of the LCDs tear during playback which is not LCD but the electronics causing the problem -- these were cheaper and likely on display to help the sales people fool more customers into how bad 60hz is.
My 30" LCD computer screen is beyond HD at 60hz progressive. It blurs a bit and I got used to it-- its so minor from the 75Hz CRTs I used to have that I only initially noticed. I don't play enough games to notice.
Result: SAME. I will not disagree. The blabbing differs; but the actions don't much.
It does at least feel better when some minority gets slapped down by the system - it shows there are some people trying to do something.... although it also shows the majority don't want anything good to happen. Perhaps someday people will notice and defend the few surviving decent reps while replacing the vast majority the reps? Nah... people can't tell the talkers from the doers; and that is just the few who bother to listen at all.
Makes me think of good cop vs bad cop - similar ends; different method - but why do some people like the bad cop more?
Star Trek the reboot was as if billions of Vulcans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. And that terrible thing happened!
They removed science fiction from star trek, they'll have to find a way to remove the comic from spiderman. How about get that vampire kid and this time make it a COMPLETELY shallow teen flick this time. Spiderman at Twilight.
Apache should keep hosting basic pages for the old series with at least LINKS to where the projects have moved to be maintained. Sourceforge for example or OpenBSD.
The realistic measure should be USAGE not how much development activity there is on the last branch. Bug fixes may be few and years between when the software becomes rock solid. "Perfect" software (unobtainable) would never need patching outside of changes in the abstraction layer with the OS (ignoring compiler issues) but under this line of thinking --- actively debugged software is "alive" and the more bugs and unfinished features plaguing coders the better.
The reality is that if you have a program that does its job well and has been made stable and secure - WHY SHOULD IT BE UPGRADED? other than changes to port it to new systems (those needs should diminish with time as well) and maybe a few bug fixes.
I'm not advocating supporting old versions; however, I think its foolish to judge 'finished' projects as dead and useless - they should at least host the code and/or link to somebody who is willing to maintain it.
Biology (hard science) has a constructive approach going from the ground up - chemicals and physical operations.
Psychology (soft science) is about identifying trends and describing them clearly to other experts; something like anthropology or sociology does. Attempts to deconstruct these trends using other more "atomic" trends as well as finding interdisciplinary connections is extremely difficult and builds prestige; however, these often amount to being temporary fads that are later found to be weak or false or specific to a group/culture/time. Not to undermine the work, humans will never have easy explanations.
Here we have Autism and Asperger's which are placed on the same spectrum merely because they have some outward common traits in their generalized diagnostic definitions. Neither is well understood and classification at the mild end of the spectrum is difficult for professionals who are trained to have an eye for such things. Even when understood fully-- its psychology and one shouldn't expect the biology to ever align with it - Asperger's is often described as developmental in which case, it may have much more to do with nurture than nature. Autism might actually be 5 different things that produce somewhat similar results creating this so called "spectrum" which again, has been defined by only observing the resulting behaviors of all of them.
There are many similar examples. Nature being on the constructionist side and Nurture on the developmental side. One that bugs me is how we linked depression to biology when most of the time it is not biological by psychological in origin - they only connect in a niche case; otherwise, the two fields are not aligned. This misunderstanding has led to many people only drugging the affect of their mental condition to change physical feelings and not the psychological ones (not to mention the increase in messed up people who take these drugs which may not cause direct complications but cause some people to mentally go nuts by failing to treat/experience the actual problem. Reminds me of some form of severe repression...)
Asperger's might be a form of evolution and not related with autism at all. Who knows. Just thought I'd throw out that idea... if humans evolve - how would we react? (obviously, we'd label them with some syndrome... note I said "evolve" not wanting to create a thread about our devolution.)
Extensions are the ONLY reason I use firefox. We will have to fork if they do something this stupid. We have a RATING SYSTEM now - problem is that we don't have feedback about the impact of add-ons so users can rate up or down based on that information.
A COMPROMISE would be simply to have 2 classes of extension. Jetpack add-ons would be something people could filter out when looking for add-ons.
SOME work better as HTML while others are impossible.
You can't QoS the magicjack. it uses a HUGE range of ports making the QoS only useful if you don't do something else in that wide UDP range they use. It only initiates with a predictable port the proxy gets it going in some random range after that. Unless you have a fancy router that can figure it out somehow (by destination) you basically are taking the upper range of UDP to a higher priority. The software doesn't let you pick the connection; otherwise you could stick it on a second network port and handle it that way (which I've done.)
The TOS for MJ is one of the worst I have ever seen; they could write malware and get protected by the TOS you must agree to. Most people don't read it... At 1st I wondered if they were going 2 make their money by spying on me. (lotta luck I did all I could to sandbox it and later ran it in a VM... now I moved to a TK6000)
Yes. I have been on it for 1 year. I have a TK6000 now as well with the intention of moving over to that over the next year.
MagicJack's software or device seems to have issues over long periods of time that require the device get unplugged (reboot) along with the software restarting or the quality becomes unusable. This may be a mac issue. It is basically a standard audio i/o device and therefore switching users causes the user-based app to lose the audio for the phone; but maintains a network connection anyway. Nobody seems to be able to trigger the phone ringing with the device yet (that is, outside their software.) It works with asterisk.
I had good service for 6 months only. it recently got a little better but not enough for me to consider it usable in the longer term. Besides, I don't want a big tower running in the right user all the time just to keep my phone working. Tech support sucks.
TK6000 has a microcontroller. Some setup troubles; great tech support. Its easier to set QoS for it because its on a port while the MJ is a desktop app that uses a HUGE random port range you can't setup on the router. (it only uses 5060-5070 to init - I've monitored the traffic. Yes, you can use other SIP software on MJ. I've not tried TK6000's software in USB mode yet under windows; I probably won't ever.)
Oh, MJ works better on mac in a virtual machine minimal windows XP; you get caller ID then as well-- but you waste 500MB ram-- it STILL suffered from the device needing a 'reboot' after a day of running (with or without calls) or the sound did the same thing.
I would say the TK6000 is the better product so far. Due to their tech support, QoS, and standalone ability. End cost is the same for both. Downside is the TK requires I dial a 1+number+# even when it is a local number; clearly their controller needs a start and end signal and their server isn't able to insert the local area code for you. TK openly uses Asterisk for the server; MJ might but there are no indications I've seen. Also I've had the TK drop connection (no dial tone) possibly due to the device not setting up new connections when they are broken by the ISP. Long phone calls I've heard get dropped but I've not had a long one yet... MJ on the otherhand starts stuttering after 30-40min of use; and for the last 6months, it stutters if the app has been open half a day (even with no calls) on mac or win. So, right now, I hate the MJ because I've had to call people back every time while I reboot it so I can actually hear them! The TK sometimes never rings (if its a dropped connection) but works fine otherwise putting it in a DMZ seemed to help with that.
Voicemail is great with both- shows up as an email and the TK's asterisk emails include caller ID information in the email.
Propaganda (aka PR) for generations on behalf of corporations has suckered the ignorant American public into a warped view of reality.
Even the word socialism has been destroyed; we lack even general terms for the public to use. Populism still exists but is often equated with mob rule over here. Most extremes turn out poorly, democracies are by nature more socialist and populist.
I remember the 80s when we had the peak of anti government hype outside and inside the government (hell we had a corp spokesperson as president.) We even still have the common phrase "government of the people by the people, for the people." Despite this, many people thought that the government was the problem and was a separate thing from themselves - ignoring that THEY are the government.
If a democratic government can't do something that means that the people can't organize and do it as a group; essentially arguing that democracy does not work in that situation. Perhaps so-- but people would support democracy more if they realized what it really is beyond the meaningless BRAND name it has become in the eyes of the public.
Many chick flicks are no more sophisticated than stuff for children. There are shallow movies for every demographic. Da Governator made action films on par with Sandra Bullock or Alvin and the Chipmonks but his were action movies.
Some movies are just like rides to appeal to certain groups. While other movies are more like a tour, museum, lecture, or just a form of fictional voyeurism.
A good children's movie may not appeal to adults; being Pixar isn't a requirement (it just is if you want to appeal to the most people.)
People often falsely apply ideas and concepts from other areas to education. Human education and development is UNLIKE EVERYTHING; therefore, one should avoid inter-discipline thinking. Psychology and education should be the fields upon which to base changes. Even then, we are talking about a topic which will never be fully understood (by humans.) This uncertainty somehow seems to give people license to spout off opinions like they know something merely because they were school children themselves. I'm no dentist simply because I've been to the dentist for much of my life; furthermore, my understanding is from a totally different perspective.
I'm often against technology which surprises people given that I'm an expert. After the shock has worn off, people go back to irrationally believing technology makes everything better in and I'm dismissed like some faith healer preaching against antibiotics.
Metrics: Any measurement system of intangible things is going to have a lot of errors, especially in the ream of hacking the system to fake better results. There are plenty of political motives that distract from the goals already; the metrics only add to this problem. Most metrics should be gone; I'm not saying there should be nothing, there should be something that works around inherent problems; something quite different from what exists today.
Nuclear power never was cost effective. Nobody has proven it can be competitive. I don't care if you can find unlimited amounts of the stuff - I know it is safer now than in the past; I'm not convinced the disposal process works as far as uranium and I remember how much that was/is downplayed to this day so I'm reasonably skeptical about the claims on Thorium. Above all other issues; the technology has never payed off - it requires massive government funding to "compete" at all levels. At least the French have the government runs them instead of subsidizing private monopolies and those still run at a loss.
When the arguments continue to be that alternatives are too expensive to coal because we don't include a cost to the CO2--- why is it that nuclear power gets so much attention when it costs more than the greener alternatives? Grid power storage is possible - it may also be unprofitable. The reality is that we will all HAVE to pay more for electricity - and most likely the public will not stomach direct payment and will unknowingly pay indirectly with their various taxes.
- Why is it we praise and defend our military when they lack the profit motive and benefits of the free market capitalism? Is this not socialism? Why don't we have competing military contractors providing all our "defense" needs? Why is government health insurance, or an energy grid is unthinkable? Is it because soldiers are the only professionals who can act unselfishly?
So now we define words based on what the crackpots think they mean?
Parent is using a straw man fallacy: setting up a false premise that is easy to knock down with the subsequent argument; banking on others to accept the false premise.
Patriotism and Nationalism (2 different things) often suffer from attempted hijacking by crackpots seeking to redefine them. For example, in the USA socialism has been misunderstood for over a generation and the crackpot definition is currently mainstream. "Keep the government out of my medicare!" etc.
Besides, this left/right paradigm is for simpletons and the poor reasoning that results aids the political parties. So, the misunderstanding is perpetuated. In addition, many people are willfully ignorant when it comes to politics (there is no stigma of shame like there is with illiteracy.) A far more realistic model is TWO DIMENSIONAL: left/right + top/bottom. Check it out: http://politicalcompass.org/
I reiterate: So now we define words based on what the crackpots think they mean?
The same literal minded thought that insults the intelligence of the legal system by playing technical games with clear intent to violate the law, allows 3rd/4th/5th party circumvention. This same literal thinking allows corporations exemption from all laws imposed upon government.
In the USA corporations are thought to be separate entities and given ridiculous levels of power (which hasn't always been the case.) The truth is that corporations ARE government entities whose entire existence and basic operation depend upon government. Simply because a kind of government created organization is "independently" managed does not mean it is not a government entity. Therefore, corporations fall under the classification as government unless specifically specified otherwise (or there may be a blanket law which may exist, I don't know. If it does exist, then the government clearly agreed with this logic.)
People get upset when government exempts itself from the laws and creates excuses for doing so. But if they can create a generalized hack that is less obvious... By empowering a 3rd party they pay... individuals being more difficult to use & scale; the corporation is perfectly suited to this task.
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lots of checklists will cut down on mistakes at all levels.
There is a recent book on this; i forget the name. the results are huge i think it was 46% decrease in post op complications or something like that. (this isn't my topic of interest) Everybody has a bad day, a checklist is constant. I can't believe this wasn't common practice already (until that book.) It made so much sense for me when I was flight training... big planes are complex and 1 mistake out of order can be hard to fix in time.
Simple solution; not absolute, but it helps
CHECKLISTS! Pilots have an easy job and they need them. huge benefits resulted from giving them checklists.
Doctors and medical workers must be forced to use checklists. period.
It only takes about a generation and people begin to forget or even lose the imagination of the things the way they used to be.
Government workers used to get paid reasonably close to the private counter parts. FACT. Public service was an honorable profession and for many it was worth the slightly lower wages (but increased stability.) Government workers were not thought of as incompetent crooks; well not all of them were - plus the bad ones tended to stick out MORE because there was more of a contrast and other well intentioned workers less tolerant of them. This was the general case long ago; now people can't even imagine the possibility of what was and did actually exist. Its so bad some people can't believe it ever was any better than it is today.
On a local level, I've SEEN politicians sucker people into undermining and wrecking public services with the INTENT of replacing them with his friend's private business. I've seen this done and sadly; even when its so fast people can remember how much better it was before "reform" and expensive privatization with no real benefits -- not enough people get upset or notice to change the result. It actually takes something really really bad before it can be reversed. Its the fault of the citizens ultimately that this stuff happens. We've had a long term large scale more organized version of this going on in the whole country.
I've seen money wasted on things that could have been done in-house simply because they don't want to compete with the contractors. Its crazy non-thinking behavior. I don't hire someone to cut my grass because I'm afraid I'm unfairly competing with them.
The public and the officials set low expectations-- so we allow bad results because that is what we EXPECT to get. Any manager expecting little will eventually have their expectations met.
Did you know the moon landings are FAKE!! I know because they can't make me understand all the rocket science, electronics, radio, telescopes and physics that were used to "prove" we landed on the moon. I'm supposed to trust the Russians saying the USA did land on the moon? ;-)
Scientists should have to prove to the consumer everything they discover or otherwise its all just BS to get more research grants!
If you are not smart enough to learn the science so can evaluate the discoveries then science should STOP PROGRESSING! Furthermore, we need to stop specialization in society! We can't have these elite "experts" telling us crap that we don't know is true or false!
Weekly weather is in NO WAY the same as long term global average trends! That is an extremely simplistic statement to make.
The BEST we can do is the IPCC and we work from the best available information we have.... except that is an ideal - in reality we don't like to go with the best answers because we have political biases and selfishness to deal with (humans.) Sure, one can complain how pathetic it is that the best we can do is the IPCC which I think also reflects how pathetic the judgment of some people is.
It is just like a common Sci-Fi plot: the scientist is correct and only gets support when all hell brakes loose and people are desperate enough to need expert opinion (often with a plot twist of again ignoring the expert and causing some more trouble.)
Most people do not understand the thing; therefore, I'd say its not so simple.
But it was indirectly tangible - the cash and numbers are virtual but they represented REAL tangible assets. The money was itself was always a symbolic representation but the meaning behind it WAS tangible until we got off gold.
Accounting was possible with something tangible. Now, its purely virtual with just 1 authority (for US dollars) doing the accounting.
In a way, it was similar to gold, because generally speaking the accounting for the gold was a hidden trust-based system because nations were sometimes cooking their books. They couldn't allow a real accounting for the gold backing they claimed to have when it wasn't there because that would cause a devaluation of their money. While similar, it is not the same because there was a possible fall back position of a tangible object. Its like a written contract vs a handshake.
The FED doesn't have to account for the gold; yet there is enough to hide that we can't ever get a real accounting of what they have been doing.
We didn't realize this system could be fundamentally altered - it was a necessity because we were cooking the books and didn't have the gold backing. The situation was forced during Nixon and his way out of the mess was to say "it no longer matters we don't care about gold anymore" while making deals with OPEC so that the dollar wouldn't be devalued by making the world buy oil in US dollars. In a way, we moved to OIL from gold but even that is not that simple either.
We don't really need that middle eastern oil as much as people think; we get most our oil from our own hemisphere. Its about our currency more than their oil.
What should really piss people off is that the FED hands out (with gov backing) the "cheatcode" to corps to get free money - to "banks" of their choosing. Its a bailout all the time-- the more money they create the less value yours has; its a TAX on everybody so the banksters can profit from your money without you having anything you can do about it. This is why a tangible backing was beneficial; it was a CAP on this kind of behavior (although it still happened in a different way but it wasn't as bad or as easy.)
http://moveyourmoney.info/
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Game money needs some level of scarcity to work just like how the FED does it; it will have issues yet to be seen-- such as games where users can buy money for the game and then have it devalued or lost in hacks/bugs etc.
Money is virtual ALREADY. Arguably, money was virtual at its inception but since we moved from gold (tangible) to debt (intangible) money is now virtual.
Furthermore, most the worlds money is exchanged as numbers (now being done with computers) so even the representative objects (cash/coin) have only been a niche player.
Banks don't print money, they practically type a cheat code and the government just gives them a higher number to work with (which is many times higher than the actual virtual amount they are given - see fractional lending.)
Democracies have a weakness: complexity.
The more complex the more removed from the public the issue is for them to manage their employees (public servants.) Like a boss who is clueless about the jobs his workers perform; it just doesn't work out as well in the long term... Power by obscurity primarily using complexity; or one could think of it as security by obscurity. It actually works; obscure something enough and you deter the curious people; unlike computer security, 1 person "getting in" does not cause much change (if any) most of the time (because its not a computer system and it does not behave like one even if the concepts apply to both.)
The solution is to simplify the law... using mostly lawyers elected to office? I know... Seriously, we don't need most the complexity its why judges and juries exist to interpret using "common sense" if we try to program everything explicitly for fear of the judicial branch and the public might think we end up with what we have today (see jury nullification and think about why it exists to counter this mentality of undermining of freedom.)
Ben Franklin said any government is fine if it is well administered. He is correct.
All governments fall to despotism eventually as history has shown to be the case; Franklin basically stated this at the end of the constitutional convention.
No, not exact quotes, I can think beyond those; having found them before. If you want it the source quotes go find them like I did (well, I didn't have internet back then...)
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Grandparent is spot on. Americans don't know jack - its like brave new world; we need a term to describe this lack of civic duty.
Its STILL LCD and blurs. What they do is fake a higher rate by using a strobe to cut down on the blur. Also, I've seen some of the LCDs tear during playback which is not LCD but the electronics causing the problem -- these were cheaper and likely on display to help the sales people fool more customers into how bad 60hz is.
My 30" LCD computer screen is beyond HD at 60hz progressive. It blurs a bit and I got used to it-- its so minor from the 75Hz CRTs I used to have that I only initially noticed. I don't play enough games to notice.
Result: SAME. I will not disagree. The blabbing differs; but the actions don't much.
It does at least feel better when some minority gets slapped down by the system - it shows there are some people trying to do something.... although it also shows the majority don't want anything good to happen. Perhaps someday people will notice and defend the few surviving decent reps while replacing the vast majority the reps? Nah... people can't tell the talkers from the doers; and that is just the few who bother to listen at all.
Makes me think of good cop vs bad cop - similar ends; different method - but why do some people like the bad cop more?
Turn off the TV.
I repeat:
Star Trek the reboot was as if billions of Vulcans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. And that terrible thing happened!
They removed science fiction from star trek, they'll have to find a way to remove the comic from spiderman. How about get that vampire kid and this time make it a COMPLETELY shallow teen flick this time. Spiderman at Twilight.
Stop giving these people your money.
Apache should keep hosting basic pages for the old series with at least LINKS to where the projects have moved to be maintained. Sourceforge for example or OpenBSD.
The realistic measure should be USAGE not how much development activity there is on the last branch. Bug fixes may be few and years between when the software becomes rock solid. "Perfect" software (unobtainable) would never need patching outside of changes in the abstraction layer with the OS (ignoring compiler issues) but under this line of thinking --- actively debugged software is "alive" and the more bugs and unfinished features plaguing coders the better.
The reality is that if you have a program that does its job well and has been made stable and secure - WHY SHOULD IT BE UPGRADED? other than changes to port it to new systems (those needs should diminish with time as well) and maybe a few bug fixes.
I'm not advocating supporting old versions; however, I think its foolish to judge 'finished' projects as dead and useless - they should at least host the code and/or link to somebody who is willing to maintain it.
Biology (hard science) has a constructive approach going from the ground up - chemicals and physical operations.
Psychology (soft science) is about identifying trends and describing them clearly to other experts; something like anthropology or sociology does. Attempts to deconstruct these trends using other more "atomic" trends as well as finding interdisciplinary connections is extremely difficult and builds prestige; however, these often amount to being temporary fads that are later found to be weak or false or specific to a group/culture/time. Not to undermine the work, humans will never have easy explanations.
Here we have Autism and Asperger's which are placed on the same spectrum merely because they have some outward common traits in their generalized diagnostic definitions. Neither is well understood and classification at the mild end of the spectrum is difficult for professionals who are trained to have an eye for such things. Even when understood fully-- its psychology and one shouldn't expect the biology to ever align with it - Asperger's is often described as developmental in which case, it may have much more to do with nurture than nature. Autism might actually be 5 different things that produce somewhat similar results creating this so called "spectrum" which again, has been defined by only observing the resulting behaviors of all of them.
There are many similar examples. Nature being on the constructionist side and Nurture on the developmental side.
One that bugs me is how we linked depression to biology when most of the time it is not biological by psychological in origin - they only connect in a niche case; otherwise, the two fields are not aligned. This misunderstanding has led to many people only drugging the affect of their mental condition to change physical feelings and not the psychological ones (not to mention the increase in messed up people who take these drugs which may not cause direct complications but cause some people to mentally go nuts by failing to treat/experience the actual problem. Reminds me of some form of severe repression...)
Asperger's might be a form of evolution and not related with autism at all. Who knows. Just thought I'd throw out that idea ... if humans evolve - how would we react? (obviously, we'd label them with some syndrome... note I said "evolve" not wanting to create a thread about our devolution.)
Extensions are the ONLY reason I use firefox. We will have to fork if they do something this stupid. We have a RATING SYSTEM now - problem is that we don't have feedback about the impact of add-ons so users can rate up or down based on that information.
A COMPROMISE would be simply to have 2 classes of extension. Jetpack add-ons would be something people could filter out when looking for add-ons.
SOME work better as HTML while others are impossible.
I saw the traffic. it initially uses those ports but afterwards it sets up the actual "connection" on a near random udp port in a huge range.
That slows down the weak router I have; it takes more work to lower all other traffic.
You can't QoS the magicjack. it uses a HUGE range of ports making the QoS only useful if you don't do something else in that wide UDP range they use. It only initiates with a predictable port the proxy gets it going in some random range after that. Unless you have a fancy router that can figure it out somehow (by destination) you basically are taking the upper range of UDP to a higher priority. The software doesn't let you pick the connection; otherwise you could stick it on a second network port and handle it that way (which I've done.)
The TOS for MJ is one of the worst I have ever seen; they could write malware and get protected by the TOS you must agree to. Most people don't read it... At 1st I wondered if they were going 2 make their money by spying on me. (lotta luck I did all I could to sandbox it and later ran it in a VM... now I moved to a TK6000)
Yes. I have been on it for 1 year. I have a TK6000 now as well with the intention of moving over to that over the next year.
MagicJack's software or device seems to have issues over long periods of time that require the device get unplugged (reboot) along with the software restarting or the quality becomes unusable. This may be a mac issue. It is basically a standard audio i/o device and therefore switching users causes the user-based app to lose the audio for the phone; but maintains a network connection anyway. Nobody seems to be able to trigger the phone ringing with the device yet (that is, outside their software.) It works with asterisk.
I had good service for 6 months only. it recently got a little better but not enough for me to consider it usable in the longer term. Besides, I don't want a big tower running in the right user all the time just to keep my phone working. Tech support sucks.
TK6000 has a microcontroller. Some setup troubles; great tech support. Its easier to set QoS for it because its on a port while the MJ is a desktop app that uses a HUGE random port range you can't setup on the router. (it only uses 5060-5070 to init - I've monitored the traffic. Yes, you can use other SIP software on MJ. I've not tried TK6000's software in USB mode yet under windows; I probably won't ever.)
Oh, MJ works better on mac in a virtual machine minimal windows XP; you get caller ID then as well-- but you waste 500MB ram-- it STILL suffered from the device needing a 'reboot' after a day of running (with or without calls) or the sound did the same thing.
I would say the TK6000 is the better product so far. Due to their tech support, QoS, and standalone ability. End cost is the same for both. Downside is the TK requires I dial a 1+number+# even when it is a local number; clearly their controller needs a start and end signal and their server isn't able to insert the local area code for you. TK openly uses Asterisk for the server; MJ might but there are no indications I've seen. Also I've had the TK drop connection (no dial tone) possibly due to the device not setting up new connections when they are broken by the ISP. Long phone calls I've heard get dropped but I've not had a long one yet... MJ on the otherhand starts stuttering after 30-40min of use; and for the last 6months, it stutters if the app has been open half a day (even with no calls) on mac or win. So, right now, I hate the MJ because I've had to call people back every time while I reboot it so I can actually hear them! The TK sometimes never rings (if its a dropped connection) but works fine otherwise putting it in a DMZ seemed to help with that.
Voicemail is great with both- shows up as an email and the TK's asterisk emails include caller ID information in the email.
Propaganda (aka PR) for generations on behalf of corporations has suckered the ignorant American public into a warped view of reality.
Even the word socialism has been destroyed; we lack even general terms for the public to use. Populism still exists but is often equated with mob rule over here. Most extremes turn out poorly, democracies are by nature more socialist and populist.
I remember the 80s when we had the peak of anti government hype outside and inside the government (hell we had a corp spokesperson as president.) We even still have the common phrase "government of the people by the people, for the people." Despite this, many people thought that the government was the problem and was a separate thing from themselves - ignoring that THEY are the government.
If a democratic government can't do something that means that the people can't organize and do it as a group; essentially arguing that democracy does not work in that situation. Perhaps so-- but people would support democracy more if they realized what it really is beyond the meaningless BRAND name it has become in the eyes of the public.
Many chick flicks are no more sophisticated than stuff for children. There are shallow movies for every demographic. Da Governator made action films on par with Sandra Bullock or Alvin and the Chipmonks but his were action movies.
Some movies are just like rides to appeal to certain groups. While other movies are more like a tour, museum, lecture, or just a form of fictional voyeurism.
A good children's movie may not appeal to adults; being Pixar isn't a requirement (it just is if you want to appeal to the most people.)
People often falsely apply ideas and concepts from other areas to education. Human education and development is UNLIKE EVERYTHING; therefore, one should avoid inter-discipline thinking. Psychology and education should be the fields upon which to base changes. Even then, we are talking about a topic which will never be fully understood (by humans.) This uncertainty somehow seems to give people license to spout off opinions like they know something merely because they were school children themselves. I'm no dentist simply because I've been to the dentist for much of my life; furthermore, my understanding is from a totally different perspective.
I'm often against technology which surprises people given that I'm an expert. After the shock has worn off, people go back to irrationally believing technology makes everything better in and I'm dismissed like some faith healer preaching against antibiotics.
Metrics: Any measurement system of intangible things is going to have a lot of errors, especially in the ream of hacking the system to fake better results. There are plenty of political motives that distract from the goals already; the metrics only add to this problem. Most metrics should be gone; I'm not saying there should be nothing, there should be something that works around inherent problems; something quite different from what exists today.
Nuclear power never was cost effective. Nobody has proven it can be competitive. I don't care if you can find unlimited amounts of the stuff - I know it is safer now than in the past; I'm not convinced the disposal process works as far as uranium and I remember how much that was/is downplayed to this day so I'm reasonably skeptical about the claims on Thorium. Above all other issues; the technology has never payed off - it requires massive government funding to "compete" at all levels. At least the French have the government runs them instead of subsidizing private monopolies and those still run at a loss.
When the arguments continue to be that alternatives are too expensive to coal because we don't include a cost to the CO2--- why is it that nuclear power gets so much attention when it costs more than the greener alternatives? Grid power storage is possible - it may also be unprofitable. The reality is that we will all HAVE to pay more for electricity - and most likely the public will not stomach direct payment and will unknowingly pay indirectly with their various taxes.
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Why is it we praise and defend our military when they lack the profit motive and benefits of the free market capitalism? Is this not socialism? Why don't we have competing military contractors providing all our "defense" needs? Why is government health insurance, or an energy grid is unthinkable? Is it because soldiers are the only professionals who can act unselfishly?
So now we define words based on what the crackpots think they mean?
Parent is using a straw man fallacy: setting up a false premise that is easy to knock down with the subsequent argument; banking on others to accept the false premise.
Patriotism and Nationalism (2 different things) often suffer from attempted hijacking by crackpots seeking to redefine them.
For example, in the USA socialism has been misunderstood for over a generation and the crackpot definition is currently mainstream. "Keep the government out of my medicare!" etc.
Besides, this left/right paradigm is for simpletons and the poor reasoning that results aids the political parties. So, the misunderstanding is perpetuated. In addition, many people are willfully ignorant when it comes to politics (there is no stigma of shame like there is with illiteracy.) A far more realistic model is TWO DIMENSIONAL: left/right + top/bottom. Check it out: http://politicalcompass.org/
I reiterate:
So now we define words based on what the crackpots think they mean?
The same literal minded thought that insults the intelligence of the legal system by playing technical games with clear intent to violate the law, allows 3rd/4th/5th party circumvention. This same literal thinking allows corporations exemption from all laws imposed upon government.
In the USA corporations are thought to be separate entities and given ridiculous levels of power (which hasn't always been the case.) The truth is that corporations ARE government entities whose entire existence and basic operation depend upon government. Simply because a kind of government created organization is "independently" managed does not mean it is not a government entity. Therefore, corporations fall under the classification as government unless specifically specified otherwise (or there may be a blanket law which may exist, I don't know. If it does exist, then the government clearly agreed with this logic.)
People get upset when government exempts itself from the laws and creates excuses for doing so. But if they can create a generalized hack that is less obvious... By empowering a 3rd party they pay... individuals being more difficult to use & scale; the corporation is perfectly suited to this task.