So if I am an organ donor, and I have a head trauma, what exactly is the X% chance that I'm "harvested" when I would have revived? What is the Y% that I would have died anyway? And what is the Z% that I'm revived to a really crappy bed-ridden semi-veggie burden on society life? For me in the "worst case" where I may have recovered, I still gave my life for someone else. That's what soldiers and firefighters do.
About the nerd-hacker code-writer industrial complex? The more money goes into this, the more incentive to take courses in hacking, the more people study code, the more hackers they create? Isn't that how the theory goes? Or are we expected to only fund and educate the "freedom hackers"?
As a former (environmental) regulator, its always difficult to find the balance between enforcing guarantees against everything imaginable at whatever cost, and providing a balance against the business people who want to pump profits and stock on a quarterly outlook. Regulators are a risk-adverse bunch and tend to think first of how they will look if something goes wrong, and can be guilty of considering every possible scenario as a mandate, which can bankrupt a business. But most businesses also have people who look first and foremost at the impact of a new cost on earnings and the next quarterly stock report. Japan has a bit of a reputation for erring on the side of business, but the important thing is that the lesson is in the press and if anyone else has any OTHER suggestions from their engineers, they should probably take a second look... or people will trust the regulators.
The folks making LSD in the 1980s that I knew were all hippy communes. No marijuana drug wars in Mexico, no Columbia cocaine wars, no Al Capone St. Valentines Day massacres. Perhaps the utility of a psychotropic drug should be measured by how peaceful its distribution system is while it's illegal. I'd tend to let LSD off for good behavior, obviously nobody is hooked on it enough to want to kill other people or pay other people so much that they are willing to kill people.
I didn't follow through to the abstract, but the article didn't claim to be creating net energy. There could be other causes for more net energy emitted than applied, such as the device being on fire.
Just dramatically increased the value of "rip" and "burn" software development, same as they did with CD prices creating the MP3 market. Invest in "Writers" and "Burners", the Chinese will be happy to make the hardware.
Most of the problems I see in democracy are caused by people who are very smart. Because they are very smart, they think they are always right. They design systems and bureaucracies to reform and fix real, actual, world problems. Then really smart people figure out ways to abuse the system the smart people above created. Socrates, the protagonist in Plato's Republic said "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing," and, "An honest man is always a child."
Bingo. A wheel without a road is like a computer without electricity. They should be talking about the "invention" of the road, which probably was just a factor of having enough people walking around to beat a long enough trail.
Some of these sites, like MEST (Meltwater) are quite promising, but it is yet to be seen if they will produce good coders. The "tinkerer" economies (Japan, southern China, Singapore, Korea) with few natural resources have always seemed to leapfrog the natural-resource based economies, but most of the investment in Africa has been in resources. Nations earning $3.5k per person per year are getting online at 10 times the rate of growth of the OECD. The tinkering there has a lot of potential. The most opportunity currently is probably in repair and refurbishing, but eventually programming may follow. http://bit.ly/xAMhds I'd like to see all the internet cafes, used computer stores, etc. put on the map as well.
Ten years ago, Proview was one of the top 5 contract manufacturers, beside companies like Wistron, Foxconn, BenQ, Lenovo, etc. Where some (like Wistron's Acer and Foxconn and Lenovo) managed to grow larger than their contractors (Dell, Apple, Gateway, IBM, etc.), Proview was stuck in the CRT assembly market and never re-emerged. The company made a billion for awhile re-manufacruring and refurbishing old monitors for resale in India, Africa, etc., but that business was labelled "ewaste" and the company went bankrupt in 2007 I think. Now it's an angry wife and wants some of Apple hubbie's moola.
It's going to be dictated by the publishers, editors, filmmakers, and content. On the one hand, the types of displays are starting to look like different brands of paper. On the other hand, the content providers are competing with good content produced years ago, which they can't monetize (e.g. Monty Python), as well as Youtube. But whoever makes or distributes something watchable will dictate the fate of the devices, and their remotes. They might choose to distribute for a hardware reason like the article says. Or they might not and the "better" device may go pound sand.
Dude. I know the concept, thought I invented it while pulling an herbally influenced all nighter in college. I stayed up endlessly trying to write James Joyce worthy digressions and offshooting paragraphs which violated the system (both because I was violating the rules on "digression", and because I had a term paper due I was procrastinating). The next morning, I found out it was crap, or at best would have taken an exponential number of days to edit. For now, traditional allusions and/or sequels are the way to go, time is better spent writing a linear story with foreshadowing and allusions to other works.
Someday, perhaps, a future, more highly evolved being may find hypertext lit enjoyable as an art form, but I doubt they would want to read MY hypertext lit, which would seem to them like a volume of encyclopedias written by second graders or cave men. That future being will find anything we write to be sophomoric, but will perhaps get high and try to invent calculus literature, to be pondered by a yet further evolved being...
A voluntary non-slave workforce with choices of places to work is the cure for most workplace ills. For better or worse, Foxconn is a place that people can quit from, and many people do, it's high turnover. For now, Foxconn is better than the textile mills in the area, so it's not a management emergency yet. But they appear to be responding to these complaints, and responding to them professionally to constructive criticism. http://bit.ly/x5VT83 Personally I like the melting-pot story... when Cantonese and Mandarin and Hong Kong and Taiwanese people find themselves not defined by their language or culture but by the positions (management, labor, services, etc.), creating wealth and resolving problems, it's been a good thing.
How is this an eyebrow raising story? Is Tylenol somehow like Bohpol? Tylenol was a corporation which was a victim of an attack on its brand and business practice, and hired a PR firm and made changes to bottle caps which are taught as the textbook business response to a press emergency. Having been to Foxconn / Han Hai and worked with people from there, and having read the hysterical descriptions of their operations in the USA press, I think they deserve credit for A) having already identified a scaleability problem (plan to put in robot labor), B) having raised the salaries significantly within weeks of the bad press, and now C) hiring a professional western PR firm to help them in a dilemma in western PR.
I'm not excusing everything that has happened in the course of Han Hoi Precision's growth curve, but they seem to be handling the industrial revolution reform at a pace in years rather than decades. Sure some of it is reaction to criticism, but rapid response is not the same as "cover up"! Some commenters seem to have no default setting between fanboy/troll, and any story with Foxconn in a headline becomes 5-Mod v. 0-Mod debate, more like American politics than indication that anyone is in any way concerned about China's development, pollution, or unemployment balance.
There's gotta be more. E.g., Do the women really have more trouble with privacy settings - or does Facebook assume so because women inquire about the settings, whereas men won't stop and ask for directions (also explaining why more men fail to change settings to private)?
Which is why you should not recycle paper. Recycling paper is all extra carbon emissions..... Recycling paper is actually evil but all the anti-science fanatics assume recycling produces unicorns, kittens and puppies with no adverse affect on the environment.
SkepticalOptimist.... I'm very much a fan of critical dialogue and questioning environmentalist, because I want environmentalism to progress with scientific method and avoid myths. With that said, well, your comment above is just wrong on many levels. Science and economics support paper recycling.
Paper recycling has been extensively studied. American Forest and Paper Association, a group of mills, engineers, etc., who plants the trees you correctly laud, says we should recycle as much paper as possible and supports mandatory recycling http://www.afandpa.org/Recycling.aspx. Most of the recycled paper is exported overseas to places without forests in the first place. The places (like China and Japan) without forests are chopping down old growth timber in Papua New Guinea and Borneo to plant fast growing pulpwood trees. And most of it is used for toilet paper. The recycled white office paper is prized because it has been bleached (wood from trees must be bleached, and most deinking investments followed the passage of the Clean Water Act). And the energy savings from recycled paper is documented - it makes sense if you think about driving trucks into the woods to cut trees vs. trucks to collect the recycled paper. And the highest recycling rates are in free market situations - time of war, poor cities... not exactly a puppy and unicorn economy.
So you should remain skeptical but be optimistic about why the free market loves recycling, and stop blaming unicorns and ponies for world interest in recycling. And maybe look into the Bureau of Land Management's timber and land subsidies if you need a new foil. Not to put too fine a point on it, you don't know what you are talking about and appear to be making it up as you go along.
Everyone, listen. I can explain this, as I have a degree in "political science". Through careful observation of the political cycle, we have learned that there is a percentage of the voting populace who know very little, who get confused by information, but have mutated to hold a few beliefs very, very, strongly. They have adapted from being ignored by the majority of Americans, who don't hold those single beliefs as strongly. At each extreme of each party, these single belief mutants compensate by participating very early in the election cycle, to try to kill off the common sense bearing candidates, much as a new male lion kills off the progeny of the previous pride leader. As the common sense candidates are killed off by filicide earlier and earlier in the caucus cycle, the remaining candidates evolve to express the same strong opinions of the early influencers. The majority responds by electing the opposite party (House ore Senate) from the executive party in order to balance out the risk of extreme legislation taking place. Some candidates try to survive the cull by camouflaging their beliefs (flip flopping), or allowing their own core beliefs to evolve very rapidly to meet the polling environment. It's all normal, move along, nothing to see here.
Samsung has not left the CRT business, has still been making the flatter CRT models in Malaysia. But they skipped the 5th year retooling a year ago, which is a sign they are going to run the ship into the ground. I wonder whether the write offs on that CRT division will go to the new company:
I'm from the Ozarks, and was shocked to learn as an adult that virtually the whole area of Arkansas-Missouri-Tennessee etc. was clear cut 100 years ago, and that there is more growth now than my grandparents had around them. But in Africa, saw the opposite, the clearing of forests at a frightening pace. If this can show us year-to-year how the forests are shrinking or growing, we may find out that the loss of carbon consumers is as important as the growth of carbon emitters.
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So if I am an organ donor, and I have a head trauma, what exactly is the X% chance that I'm "harvested" when I would have revived? What is the Y% that I would have died anyway? And what is the Z% that I'm revived to a really crappy bed-ridden semi-veggie burden on society life? For me in the "worst case" where I may have recovered, I still gave my life for someone else. That's what soldiers and firefighters do.
No one lives forever. Grow up, people.
It's been 30 years, and I still can't get "Clap on! Clap off! Clap-on-clap-off..." song out of my head. This is worse than Ch-ch-ch-Chia Obama.
About the nerd-hacker code-writer industrial complex? The more money goes into this, the more incentive to take courses in hacking, the more people study code, the more hackers they create? Isn't that how the theory goes? Or are we expected to only fund and educate the "freedom hackers"?
As a former (environmental) regulator, its always difficult to find the balance between enforcing guarantees against everything imaginable at whatever cost, and providing a balance against the business people who want to pump profits and stock on a quarterly outlook. Regulators are a risk-adverse bunch and tend to think first of how they will look if something goes wrong, and can be guilty of considering every possible scenario as a mandate, which can bankrupt a business. But most businesses also have people who look first and foremost at the impact of a new cost on earnings and the next quarterly stock report. Japan has a bit of a reputation for erring on the side of business, but the important thing is that the lesson is in the press and if anyone else has any OTHER suggestions from their engineers, they should probably take a second look... or people will trust the regulators.
It's never even been used.
dammit
The folks making LSD in the 1980s that I knew were all hippy communes. No marijuana drug wars in Mexico, no Columbia cocaine wars, no Al Capone St. Valentines Day massacres. Perhaps the utility of a psychotropic drug should be measured by how peaceful its distribution system is while it's illegal. I'd tend to let LSD off for good behavior, obviously nobody is hooked on it enough to want to kill other people or pay other people so much that they are willing to kill people.
I didn't follow through to the abstract, but the article didn't claim to be creating net energy. There could be other causes for more net energy emitted than applied, such as the device being on fire.
Just dramatically increased the value of "rip" and "burn" software development, same as they did with CD prices creating the MP3 market. Invest in "Writers" and "Burners", the Chinese will be happy to make the hardware.
Most of the problems I see in democracy are caused by people who are very smart. Because they are very smart, they think they are always right. They design systems and bureaucracies to reform and fix real, actual, world problems. Then really smart people figure out ways to abuse the system the smart people above created. Socrates, the protagonist in Plato's Republic said "As for me, all I know is that I know nothing," and, "An honest man is always a child."
Less likely, but more interesting to consider.
Bingo. A wheel without a road is like a computer without electricity. They should be talking about the "invention" of the road, which probably was just a factor of having enough people walking around to beat a long enough trail.
Some of these sites, like MEST (Meltwater) are quite promising, but it is yet to be seen if they will produce good coders. The "tinkerer" economies (Japan, southern China, Singapore, Korea) with few natural resources have always seemed to leapfrog the natural-resource based economies, but most of the investment in Africa has been in resources. Nations earning $3.5k per person per year are getting online at 10 times the rate of growth of the OECD. The tinkering there has a lot of potential. The most opportunity currently is probably in repair and refurbishing, but eventually programming may follow. http://bit.ly/xAMhds I'd like to see all the internet cafes, used computer stores, etc. put on the map as well.
Ten years ago, Proview was one of the top 5 contract manufacturers, beside companies like Wistron, Foxconn, BenQ, Lenovo, etc. Where some (like Wistron's Acer and Foxconn and Lenovo) managed to grow larger than their contractors (Dell, Apple, Gateway, IBM, etc.), Proview was stuck in the CRT assembly market and never re-emerged. The company made a billion for awhile re-manufacruring and refurbishing old monitors for resale in India, Africa, etc., but that business was labelled "ewaste" and the company went bankrupt in 2007 I think. Now it's an angry wife and wants some of Apple hubbie's moola.
It's going to be dictated by the publishers, editors, filmmakers, and content. On the one hand, the types of displays are starting to look like different brands of paper. On the other hand, the content providers are competing with good content produced years ago, which they can't monetize (e.g. Monty Python), as well as Youtube. But whoever makes or distributes something watchable will dictate the fate of the devices, and their remotes. They might choose to distribute for a hardware reason like the article says. Or they might not and the "better" device may go pound sand.
Dude. I know the concept, thought I invented it while pulling an herbally influenced all nighter in college. I stayed up endlessly trying to write James Joyce worthy digressions and offshooting paragraphs which violated the system (both because I was violating the rules on "digression", and because I had a term paper due I was procrastinating). The next morning, I found out it was crap, or at best would have taken an exponential number of days to edit. For now, traditional allusions and/or sequels are the way to go, time is better spent writing a linear story with foreshadowing and allusions to other works.
Someday, perhaps, a future, more highly evolved being may find hypertext lit enjoyable as an art form, but I doubt they would want to read MY hypertext lit, which would seem to them like a volume of encyclopedias written by second graders or cave men. That future being will find anything we write to be sophomoric, but will perhaps get high and try to invent calculus literature, to be pondered by a yet further evolved being...
If you hire a lawyer, you've failed, if you go to a doctor, you've failed? Read NYT David Pogue's Post http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/what-cameras-inside-foxconn-found/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto#comments
A voluntary non-slave workforce with choices of places to work is the cure for most workplace ills. For better or worse, Foxconn is a place that people can quit from, and many people do, it's high turnover. For now, Foxconn is better than the textile mills in the area, so it's not a management emergency yet. But they appear to be responding to these complaints, and responding to them professionally to constructive criticism. http://bit.ly/x5VT83 Personally I like the melting-pot story... when Cantonese and Mandarin and Hong Kong and Taiwanese people find themselves not defined by their language or culture but by the positions (management, labor, services, etc.), creating wealth and resolving problems, it's been a good thing.
How is this an eyebrow raising story? Is Tylenol somehow like Bohpol? Tylenol was a corporation which was a victim of an attack on its brand and business practice, and hired a PR firm and made changes to bottle caps which are taught as the textbook business response to a press emergency. Having been to Foxconn / Han Hai and worked with people from there, and having read the hysterical descriptions of their operations in the USA press, I think they deserve credit for A) having already identified a scaleability problem (plan to put in robot labor), B) having raised the salaries significantly within weeks of the bad press, and now C) hiring a professional western PR firm to help them in a dilemma in western PR.
I'm not excusing everything that has happened in the course of Han Hoi Precision's growth curve, but they seem to be handling the industrial revolution reform at a pace in years rather than decades. Sure some of it is reaction to criticism, but rapid response is not the same as "cover up"! Some commenters seem to have no default setting between fanboy/troll, and any story with Foxconn in a headline becomes 5-Mod v. 0-Mod debate, more like American politics than indication that anyone is in any way concerned about China's development, pollution, or unemployment balance.
There's gotta be more. E.g., Do the women really have more trouble with privacy settings - or does Facebook assume so because women inquire about the settings, whereas men won't stop and ask for directions (also explaining why more men fail to change settings to private)?
Which is why you should not recycle paper. Recycling paper is all extra carbon emissions. .... Recycling paper is actually evil but all the anti-science fanatics assume recycling produces unicorns, kittens and puppies with no adverse affect on the environment.
SkepticalOptimist.... I'm very much a fan of critical dialogue and questioning environmentalist, because I want environmentalism to progress with scientific method and avoid myths. With that said, well, your comment above is just wrong on many levels. Science and economics support paper recycling.
Paper recycling has been extensively studied. American Forest and Paper Association, a group of mills, engineers, etc., who plants the trees you correctly laud, says we should recycle as much paper as possible and supports mandatory recycling http://www.afandpa.org/Recycling.aspx. Most of the recycled paper is exported overseas to places without forests in the first place. The places (like China and Japan) without forests are chopping down old growth timber in Papua New Guinea and Borneo to plant fast growing pulpwood trees. And most of it is used for toilet paper. The recycled white office paper is prized because it has been bleached (wood from trees must be bleached, and most deinking investments followed the passage of the Clean Water Act). And the energy savings from recycled paper is documented - it makes sense if you think about driving trucks into the woods to cut trees vs. trucks to collect the recycled paper. And the highest recycling rates are in free market situations - time of war, poor cities... not exactly a puppy and unicorn economy.
So you should remain skeptical but be optimistic about why the free market loves recycling, and stop blaming unicorns and ponies for world interest in recycling. And maybe look into the Bureau of Land Management's timber and land subsidies if you need a new foil. Not to put too fine a point on it, you don't know what you are talking about and appear to be making it up as you go along.
Everyone, listen. I can explain this, as I have a degree in "political science". Through careful observation of the political cycle, we have learned that there is a percentage of the voting populace who know very little, who get confused by information, but have mutated to hold a few beliefs very, very, strongly. They have adapted from being ignored by the majority of Americans, who don't hold those single beliefs as strongly. At each extreme of each party, these single belief mutants compensate by participating very early in the election cycle, to try to kill off the common sense bearing candidates, much as a new male lion kills off the progeny of the previous pride leader. As the common sense candidates are killed off by filicide earlier and earlier in the caucus cycle, the remaining candidates evolve to express the same strong opinions of the early influencers. The majority responds by electing the opposite party (House ore Senate) from the executive party in order to balance out the risk of extreme legislation taking place. Some candidates try to survive the cull by camouflaging their beliefs (flip flopping), or allowing their own core beliefs to evolve very rapidly to meet the polling environment. It's all normal, move along, nothing to see here.
I can't tell whether this is offtopic or a brilliant channelling of Emily Litela, available only on hulu. http://www.hulu.com/watch/2364/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-emily-litella-on-violins-on-tv
Samsung has not left the CRT business, has still been making the flatter CRT models in Malaysia. But they skipped the 5th year retooling a year ago, which is a sign they are going to run the ship into the ground. I wonder whether the write offs on that CRT division will go to the new company:
I'm from the Ozarks, and was shocked to learn as an adult that virtually the whole area of Arkansas-Missouri-Tennessee etc. was clear cut 100 years ago, and that there is more growth now than my grandparents had around them. But in Africa, saw the opposite, the clearing of forests at a frightening pace. If this can show us year-to-year how the forests are shrinking or growing, we may find out that the loss of carbon consumers is as important as the growth of carbon emitters.