Indeed the issue of reputation never goes away.
For an organization with excellent reputation such as Arizona's 12-news, if they give a brief abstract I *DO* indeed trust that I'll get something like that at 10, and they rarely dissapoint me.
It is perhaps even more feasible for an organization or website to police against lopsided articles, than for example medical organizations must today verify that articles live up to their abstracts, or people would stop clicking to pay huge bucks for the full text.
Why "more feasible", because I think the definition of "lopsided" is more unambiguous than the definition of "abstract matches article".
For example if slashdot allowed people to collect bitpass-bucks in this way, the reader could give a "bad karma" point for lopsided articles. The number of "bad karma" points for each article could simply be posted WITH THE FIRST HALF, a-la-Amazon "3 of 20 buyers found this article lopsided". Thanks for your feedback, I had not actually thought it through that far, but the instantaneous review sounds good, no ?
Amazon basically has me as customer-for-life, because indeed I have been saved from wasting bucks by negative reviews, which Amazon seems to not censor, that's a nice reputation-issue because naively you'd think they are simply interested in maxing short-term sales, but no, they leave the quality-negative-reviews prominently up there, rah !
If there were some way to attach an Amazon Honor System thing to your post, I think I might honestly plunk 10 cents in for this cool info - I never heard of that refund disclosure law before !
Specifically, if your post stopped after the "B&P code 17538" and said "10 cents for remainder of article", I *DEFINITELY* would have plunked 10 cents.
Call me super-visionary, but that's a good business model I think. Half of an article, 10 cents for the remaining half. Hmm ?
Leak-after-Ball-Detach - No, I have never had that happen, having gone through maybe 20 refills over the years. With the extra-fine-point, I HAVE about four times expereienced refused to write, although plenty of ink remained. Warming the point with a match did not work. What might have worked would be the right kind of solvent to free it up, must try that next time. Rubbing alcohol maybe, hmm ? Pilot is obviously aware of this ptential-issue, since the refills come with plastic goo over their tips to prevent dry-out. Nearly always however they continue to write until all the ink is gone.
> don't take them apart
I have been using the G2's for years.
Just yesterday I bought another 10 G2-Extra-Fine-Blue refills at the ASU bookstore for $1.95 a 2-pak. Unscrewing the G2, the spring sometimes falls out, and since the refills do not come with springs you need to know to keep it. Other than that, there does not seem to be anything to go wrong in the take-apart (?).
The extra-fine-point is worth looking for, it is much better than the standard 0.7 in my opinion.
OK, there IS a second law of economics - use your monopoly power to build a huge war chest, from which you can undercut the prices of startup-wannabes so that they go out of business, being unable to outlast your price-wars.
Searching the net, to this day I see things like the-Myth-of-Predatory-Pricing, from which derives much of my contempt for mumbo-jumbo-economics. Predatory pricing is straightforward and intuitively obvious and we see it every day, e.g. the Circuit-City-Commercials, so for folks steeped in mysterious equations to deny this obvious technique, well, that's mumbo-jumbo !
http://www.xmemes.com/cess/PredatoryPricing_000. ht m
I cannot figure out how to stop the posting process from putting spaces in my URLS !
Ah - a layer of spiritualism that cannot be accommodated within the scientific method.
I like your crisp response - so to stick the neck out, that it may be crisply chopped off...
Let me plead guilty in-advance to being obsessed with big ideas, while my ability to cope with detail is suspect. I got a 4-year-degree in Physics but was not top-of-class.
What do you think of the "root of all control-cascades" concept ? http://www.xmemes.com/cwhisper/WigIcon_000.htm
http://www.xmemes.com/cwhisper/GravityIsWeakToo_00 0.htm
It seems likely that posting will stick spaces in these long url's, I have found.
OK, "God must be at the root of all control-cascades, duh, so that it non-falsifiable, therefore it is beyond science, end-of-subject."
However I still dream that some rich person might wonder about closing-the-loop with the stare-angle-trainer concept. http://www.xmemes.com/cstare/StareAngleTrainer_000.htm
Supposing that on quiet days one might be on the edge of being able to filter through to the nano-whispers, another human presence ought to be an extremely strong signal. So I wonder, if the Stare-Angle-Trainer were built, THAT would be at least falsifiable. If from legions of promising test subjects, none could be trained into tracking a human stare, then listening for whispergods would seem less likely, that's a kind of falsifiability, at least.
Ah, mumbo-jumbo. 1st-and-only rule of economics - get either a monopoly or a niche, with niche being merely a diminutive form of monopoly. Then you use the divide-and-conquer ratchet - visit your many suppliers and pick the cheapest one, iterate.
"Niche" has some subtlety when there are complementary functions to be performed, like the complementary proteins in rice and beans. This is well discussed by Brandenburger and Nalebuff in Co-opetition. I rant - http://www.xmemes.com/cess/CoOpetition_000.htm
To thus oversimplify, I invite a scathing response from PoiBoy. I mean, you have invested years in studying details which I have obviously never touched on. So the question remains - are there some underlying fundamentals beneath all of that mumbo-jumbo, which I have missed out on ? If so, someone must have made an attempt to simplify them for the non-specialist, and I'm always interested in knowing about such distillations.
I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry
Did you know that the eminent John Von Neumann, being thoroughly familiar with the principle of defense needing to be eternally vigilant while offense needs only a single opportunity, was resolutely supportive of preemptive war ?
Or so it says on page 142 of my copy of Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma".
Did you know, Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ? I have written this up at: http://www.xmemes.com/cssg/ToolPeople_000.htm
If science ends up just making weapons and non-scientists or even VOTERS get to pull the trigger, then social science, being "controlling", is clearly worth study !
I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry.
I well know that when one starts talking soft-science like game-theory it's easy to sound lame, while tool-science produces such powerful, well, *tools*. To shy back from such controlling topics for fear of sounding lame, well, that would make one a "tool person" !
Did you know, that Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ?
If science ends up just making weapons and non-scientists or even VOTERS get to pull the trigger, then social science, being "controlling", is clearly worth study !
To get to the bottom of things I wonder why Zahavi's book "The Handicap Principle" is not more frequently praised. I rant - http://www.xmemes.com/ciss/Handicap_000.htm
I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry.
PrisonersDilemma_000.htm - when I dragged my mouse across the full URL in the preview window, and copy/paste it into the address bar, it works. However, after "submit", doing the same thing puts that "space" in front of the ".htm". Oh, well !
PrisonersDilemma_000.htm - will not work with the "space" in it. Let's try the full URL one more time: http://www.xmemes.com/cessno/PrisonersDilemma_000. htm
( Sorry about these fumbles, dare I accuse the preview of not being 100% WYSIWYG ? )
Did you know, that Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ?
As with many 50-year-old Americans who experienced Vietnam as teenagers, I have always been obsessed with "on tap, not on top".
I have written this up at:
http://www.xmemes.com/cssg/ToolPeople_000.htm
An eminently readable book which is a great start on game-theory issues is Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma", which I briefly recommend at:
http://www.xmemes.com/cessno/PrisonersDilemma_000. htm
( The above text was clipped from the middle of my original post, although I previewed it ? )
>> books that have helped you gain a greater understanding of the basic concepts of algebra, chemistry, calculus, physics, and other core areas of science?" . However, I had $20 to plunk into an account at nearlyFreeSpeech.net( worth checking out ), and so, I wonder, can this post to SlashDot manage to exhaust my entire bandwidth account in one swoop ?
I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry.
This book can be had new for $11.17 from Amazon, or used for $10.59. The relatively high "used" price indicates the quality. This book entertainingly spells out the:
-- Prisoner's Dilemma
-- Dollar Auction
These are two depressingly basic games, in addition to the "Utterly Dismal Theorem" Garrett Hardin likes to refer to( the quoted phrase Googles nicely ).
If, having read this book, you like it, then I have an online rant I can point you to, but not on Slashdot as I fear bandwidth-charges.
I don't actually know, sorry.
I found the basic Matias principle, which I understand to be something like "the same finger does it, just on the other hand", interesting enough to want to try an X2, if they ever ship it.
But I have never tried their software-driver to make an ordinary keyboard work like the half-keyboard. At a guess, the principle seems symmettric to the right hand.
I had previously assumed that the Admin-Recovery-Key was encrypted using the actual admin-password, so that resetting the hashed-password on the HD would not give the intruder the recovery key.
Therefore up to today I had not bothered to export-and-delete the Admin-recovery-key.
It "ought" to be true that generally speaking, recovery keys are encrypted using the actual user-passwords, so why should the Admin-recovery-key be an exception to this ? Of course "ought" may not apply to EFS, since I have never read anywhere that they have even started scrubbing-the-backup-files after you encrypt just a single file.
This is a troubling issue - I would appreciate a reply if you know what's actually going on in there. Hopefully you'll tell me that the EFS keys are indeed encrypted using the user-passwords, it's just obviously gotta be true, mumble, mumble....
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Indeed the issue of reputation never goes away. For an organization with excellent reputation such as Arizona's 12-news, if they give a brief abstract I *DO* indeed trust that I'll get something like that at 10, and they rarely dissapoint me. It is perhaps even more feasible for an organization or website to police against lopsided articles, than for example medical organizations must today verify that articles live up to their abstracts, or people would stop clicking to pay huge bucks for the full text. Why "more feasible", because I think the definition of "lopsided" is more unambiguous than the definition of "abstract matches article". For example if slashdot allowed people to collect bitpass-bucks in this way, the reader could give a "bad karma" point for lopsided articles. The number of "bad karma" points for each article could simply be posted WITH THE FIRST HALF, a-la-Amazon "3 of 20 buyers found this article lopsided". Thanks for your feedback, I had not actually thought it through that far, but the instantaneous review sounds good, no ? Amazon basically has me as customer-for-life, because indeed I have been saved from wasting bucks by negative reviews, which Amazon seems to not censor, that's a nice reputation-issue because naively you'd think they are simply interested in maxing short-term sales, but no, they leave the quality-negative-reviews prominently up there, rah !
If there were some way to attach an Amazon Honor System thing to your post, I think I might honestly plunk 10 cents in for this cool info - I never heard of that refund disclosure law before ! Specifically, if your post stopped after the "B&P code 17538" and said "10 cents for remainder of article", I *DEFINITELY* would have plunked 10 cents. Call me super-visionary, but that's a good business model I think. Half of an article, 10 cents for the remaining half. Hmm ?
Leak-after-Ball-Detach - No, I have never had that happen, having gone through maybe 20 refills over the years. With the extra-fine-point, I HAVE about four times expereienced refused to write, although plenty of ink remained. Warming the point with a match did not work. What might have worked would be the right kind of solvent to free it up, must try that next time. Rubbing alcohol maybe, hmm ? Pilot is obviously aware of this ptential-issue, since the refills come with plastic goo over their tips to prevent dry-out. Nearly always however they continue to write until all the ink is gone.
> don't take them apart I have been using the G2's for years. Just yesterday I bought another 10 G2-Extra-Fine-Blue refills at the ASU bookstore for $1.95 a 2-pak. Unscrewing the G2, the spring sometimes falls out, and since the refills do not come with springs you need to know to keep it. Other than that, there does not seem to be anything to go wrong in the take-apart (?). The extra-fine-point is worth looking for, it is much better than the standard 0.7 in my opinion.
OK, there IS a second law of economics - use your monopoly power to build
. ht m
a huge war chest, from which you can undercut the prices of startup-wannabes so
that they go out of business, being unable to outlast your price-wars.
Searching the net, to this day I see things like the-Myth-of-Predatory-Pricing,
from which derives much of my contempt for mumbo-jumbo-economics.
Predatory pricing is straightforward and intuitively obvious and we see it every
day, e.g. the Circuit-City-Commercials, so for folks steeped in mysterious
equations to deny this obvious technique, well, that's mumbo-jumbo !
http://www.xmemes.com/cess/PredatoryPricing_000
I cannot figure out how to stop the posting process from putting spaces in my URLS !
Ah - a layer of spiritualism that cannot be accommodated within the scientific method. I like your crisp response - so to stick the neck out, that it may be crisply chopped off... Let me plead guilty in-advance to being obsessed with big ideas, while my ability to cope with detail is suspect. I got a 4-year-degree in Physics but was not top-of-class. What do you think of the "root of all control-cascades" concept ? http://www.xmemes.com/cwhisper/WigIcon_000.htm http://www.xmemes.com/cwhisper/GravityIsWeakToo_00 0.htm
It seems likely that posting will stick spaces in these long url's, I have found.
OK, "God must be at the root of all control-cascades, duh, so that it non-falsifiable, therefore it is beyond science, end-of-subject."
However I still dream that some rich person might wonder about closing-the-loop with the stare-angle-trainer concept. http://www.xmemes.com/cstare/StareAngleTrainer_000 .htm
Supposing that on quiet days one might be on the edge of being able to filter through to the nano-whispers, another human presence ought to be an extremely strong signal. So I wonder, if the Stare-Angle-Trainer were built, THAT would be at least falsifiable. If from legions of promising test subjects, none could be trained into tracking a human stare, then listening for whispergods would seem less likely, that's a kind of falsifiability, at least.
Ah, mumbo-jumbo. 1st-and-only rule of economics - get either a monopoly or a niche, with niche being merely a diminutive form of monopoly. Then you use the divide-and-conquer ratchet - visit your many suppliers and pick the cheapest one, iterate. "Niche" has some subtlety when there are complementary functions to be performed, like the complementary proteins in rice and beans. This is well discussed by Brandenburger and Nalebuff in Co-opetition. I rant - http://www.xmemes.com/cess/CoOpetition_000.htm To thus oversimplify, I invite a scathing response from PoiBoy. I mean, you have invested years in studying details which I have obviously never touched on. So the question remains - are there some underlying fundamentals beneath all of that mumbo-jumbo, which I have missed out on ? If so, someone must have made an attempt to simplify them for the non-specialist, and I'm always interested in knowing about such distillations. I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry
Did you know that the eminent John Von Neumann, being thoroughly familiar with the principle of defense needing to be eternally vigilant while offense needs only a single opportunity, was resolutely supportive of preemptive war ? Or so it says on page 142 of my copy of Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma". Did you know, Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ? I have written this up at: http://www.xmemes.com/cssg/ToolPeople_000.htm If science ends up just making weapons and non-scientists or even VOTERS get to pull the trigger, then social science, being "controlling", is clearly worth study ! I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry. I well know that when one starts talking soft-science like game-theory it's easy to sound lame, while tool-science produces such powerful, well, *tools*. To shy back from such controlling topics for fear of sounding lame, well, that would make one a "tool person" !
Did you know, that Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ? If science ends up just making weapons and non-scientists or even VOTERS get to pull the trigger, then social science, being "controlling", is clearly worth study ! To get to the bottom of things I wonder why Zahavi's book "The Handicap Principle" is not more frequently praised. I rant - http://www.xmemes.com/ciss/Handicap_000.htm I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry.
PrisonersDilemma_000.htm - when I dragged my mouse across the full URL in the preview window, and copy/paste it into the address bar, it works. However, after "submit", doing the same thing puts that "space" in front of the ".htm". Oh, well !
PrisonersDilemma_000.htm - will not work with the "space" in it. Let's try the full URL one more time: http://www.xmemes.com/cessno/PrisonersDilemma_000. htm
( Sorry about these fumbles, dare I accuse the preview of not being 100% WYSIWYG ? )
Did you know, that Winston Churchill once said "Science should be on tap, not on top" ? As with many 50-year-old Americans who experienced Vietnam as teenagers, I have always been obsessed with "on tap, not on top". I have written this up at: http://www.xmemes.com/cssg/ToolPeople_000.htm An eminently readable book which is a great start on game-theory issues is Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma", which I briefly recommend at: http://www.xmemes.com/cessno/PrisonersDilemma_000. htm
( The above text was clipped from the middle of my original post, although I previewed it ? )
>> books that have helped you gain a greater understanding of the basic concepts of algebra, chemistry, calculus, physics, and other core areas of science?" . However, I had $20 to plunk into an account at nearlyFreeSpeech.net( worth checking out ), and so, I wonder, can this post to SlashDot manage to exhaust my entire bandwidth account in one swoop ? I was unable to make the fancy frames-page-index at www.xmemes.com work well outside of MSIE, sorry.
Rebooting my Windows to eject the CD is SO tiresome - I had not known this was also still so with Mac and Linux. Enlightening, thanks !
Thanks ! I had never heard of them, and it sounds like a very intelligent alternative.
This book can be had new for $11.17 from Amazon, or used for $10.59. The relatively high "used" price indicates the quality. This book entertainingly spells out the: -- Prisoner's Dilemma -- Dollar Auction These are two depressingly basic games, in addition to the "Utterly Dismal Theorem" Garrett Hardin likes to refer to( the quoted phrase Googles nicely ). If, having read this book, you like it, then I have an online rant I can point you to, but not on Slashdot as I fear bandwidth-charges.
I don't actually know, sorry. I found the basic Matias principle, which I understand to be something like "the same finger does it, just on the other hand", interesting enough to want to try an X2, if they ever ship it. But I have never tried their software-driver to make an ordinary keyboard work like the half-keyboard. At a guess, the principle seems symmettric to the right hand.
I had previously assumed that the Admin-Recovery-Key was encrypted using the actual admin-password, so that resetting the hashed-password on the HD would not give the intruder the recovery key. Therefore up to today I had not bothered to export-and-delete the Admin-recovery-key. It "ought" to be true that generally speaking, recovery keys are encrypted using the actual user-passwords, so why should the Admin-recovery-key be an exception to this ? Of course "ought" may not apply to EFS, since I have never read anywhere that they have even started scrubbing-the-backup-files after you encrypt just a single file. This is a troubling issue - I would appreciate a reply if you know what's actually going on in there. Hopefully you'll tell me that the EFS keys are indeed encrypted using the user-passwords, it's just obviously gotta be true, mumble, mumble....