In the phrase "What is this being used for anyways?", I am using the pronoun "this" to refer to the data collected by the heart rate monitor, not the heart rate monitor itself.
Still, if I were to join your level of pedanticism, I could claim that there are indeed other uses for a heart rate monitor, such as dynamically creating a rhythm for some avante garde performance piece. But, I'm in a relatively good mood this morning, so I won't. Plus, I think I just made up a new word (pedanticism!), so it's not a complete waste.
My own view is basically, as long as they aren't driving their camera-car into my living room, I'm fine with it.
When you are in public, there is certain information about you that is publicly available at that point - skin color, hair color, height, what you are wearing, etc. At work I've helped set up a closed circuit camera system, some of which have a good view of city streets around the business. That is not a big deal.
Of course, this is a far cry different from the CCTV system as is set up in London. That's a government venture, and would not be something I support here in the US.
Others above have already said this, but a big part of libertarianism is liberty, as in civil liberty, the rights and liberties of citizens.
"Libertarian" is a very broad brush, and can include anyone from left wing socialist to right wing anarchists and a whole lot more. It almost always includes a stress on the importance of personal liberties, and that often includes right to privacy to varying degrees.
1. Thanks. And that goes to everyone else who followed my post with a congratulations as well.
2. That's pretty much how I feel about it. I'm even happy if it's something they record at the beginning and end of the year and compare the two. I just get a little antsy in this age of near infinite data retention (and yes, a little paranoid).
I hesitated whether to mention that whole spectrum thing. I just refer to it as a brief snapshot of a general ideology (namely mine), nothing more. In other words, my ever changing ideas define it, I don't define myself or my ideas by any arbitrary made up spectrum. And though it may give you a general idea of where I'm coming from, it's next to useless to helping you guess where I stand on any individual issue.
So, if you hate that part, ignore it, my comments lose nothing by it. It's just another tool to help expedite a discussion.
Just to point out, it's the libertarians (little l, meaning the political ideology, not the political party) that are most likely to question what these are being used for, and if they are to become some sort of permanent record, to take umbrage with that. Although you are a tad more likely to find libertarians in the Republican party as opposed to the Democratic party, libertarian != conservative.
Myself, I am a slightly left-leaning centrist libertarian, and a new dad (5 days ago! Woot!), I can understand the concern. This is the sort of odd request that I just have to ask "What is this being used for anyways?" I'm not saying I automatically disapprove of it, whatever it is.
yeah, I know, you're just a troll trying for a few bites. I don't care. This really isn't a response to you anyways. I've just seen too many knee-jerk "let's paint everyone who doesn't agree with us with one broad stroke and thus be able to disregard them all" reactions lately.
This is something Guild Wars tried to address in their approach. By making gaming areas instanced and meet-up areas MMO, a player's actions can effect the game world on a slightly grander scale. The state of the instance is decided based upon the previous actions of those entering it.
The thing is, I feel they didn't capitalize on this opportunity nearly enough...
. Hell, make it so that you have some sort of skill-based mini game (like Tetris?) that effects the quality of things you're trying to craft, so it's not just about the level of grinding you've done on the skill, but also on actual skill.
On top of that, you have the whole "defend my stuff" part of the game, which moves toward traditional strategy elements. You're recruiting and training units, you're building defenses. You're making alliances with other players to defend each others stuff.
That is beginning to sound a little bit like Puzzle Pirates...
I'm managing a 30-some some computer network with their "Worry Free Business Advanced" suite, and it's great. Central web interface control over all machines, easy to read reports, integrates well with our mail server, monitors network traffic for suspicious activity, automatically generates and e-mails you reports. The cost is, per machine, about what you would expect to pay to buy some basic residential oriented solution for each machine.
I'm in much the same boat, and one thing that has really helped around here is that I make a conscious effort to educate the users as much as I can. Now, you're not going to be able to train any of them to be self sufficient, but explaining what you are doing and why can go a long way. Now even the more computer illiterate users here are doing a better job of reporting exactly what the problem is that is arising (for example, the correct but nigh useless "The Internet is down" more properly and accurately becomes "I'm receiving an error when my browser starts up"), and whenever there is an error in some custom software, they know to check certain data entries were correctly entered first, and then gather some specific information about the error before calling on me, which allows me to fix their problem a lot faster than it would happen otherwise.
In all, explaining my troubleshooting/repair work as I perform it does take a bit longer, but an extra 15 minutes spent then can easily save hours of effort down the road. Plus, it helps the users to understand what you are doing.
As far as I know, Mozilla puts no restrictions on who can release what sort of Add-Ons. In this equation, Microsoft controls the OS and the software update program; they needed no permission from Mozilla to push this out.
And as an Add-On, it's not really akin to patching a 3rd party app exactly. It's just a MS program that closely works and integrates with the publicly documented interface of a 3rd party app.
One additional oversight you are making is that the asker is the only one who might benefit from having this question asked and answered publicly. I happen to also be in a position where we are thinking about deploying an internal-only IM for a small business. I have already Googled the topic and have learned a bit about Jabber, but happen to have not put the time into it yet to go poring through each of the different implementations to find the one that best fits our needs.
So, I open the article, and start reading the comments hoping for some knowledgeable colleagues who have already gone through this to share their experiences and wisdom. Unfortunately, I get people like you, wasting my time. You could have skipped this article as a topic you aren't interested instead.
Google is great for a search engine, but doesn't always provide the experienced advice one seeks.
Besides, as any brewer or baker will tell you, yeast used in brewing is genetically inclined to produce more alcohol than CO2, whereas the yeast used in baking is just the opposite - it produces much more CO2 than alcohol. That's why you don't bake with brewer's yeast, or brew with baker's yeast.
Remember, not everyone drinks alcohol, especially not everyday, but almost everyone eats bread at least once a day if not more...
Folks, it's almost Passover - maybe unleavened bread can save the planet!
On the bright side, your browser will now be able to recognize when you are.. "finished", and close those pages for you (well, after bookmarking, according to how you set your preferences).
This will turn out to be a great idea, until the first virus hits it designed to recognize certain facial gestures, and automatically upload the images to flickr.
For some reason, this isn't a good day to pick up any actual news...
But, all those clock cycles we save but not putting the page through all that pointless bell-and-whistle rendering can be dedicated to making sure that all network traffic is encrypted with the most unpenetrable methods available, right?
On a (only) slightly more serious note, I have wished that more sites had better support for Lynx, just 'cause it would render faster and more reliably on a mobile Lynx browser on my phone.
Based upon the DJs I've known (non-karaoke, that is), piracy seems to be a standard practice of DJs across the board. The difference is, Karaoke music companies, I imagine, target KJs as their primary audience, whereas the main record industry targets the average end consumer. For them, DJs are as much a means for advertising their product.
Although interesting, I can't imagine your analysis of what is occurring in the Karaoke microcosm of the music industry directly correlates to the industry as a whole, in much the same way that one can't use the anecdotes of the goings ons of one small suburb to accurately reflect the trends of the entire nation. At least not without a good healthy dose of corroborating data to show that such a relationship does indeed exist. Though the karaoke and greater music industries share some of the same trappings, their business practices and revenue streams are indeed unique.
Haven't heard the Japanese on it, but I think you can but Princess Mononoke in there too. Didn't the English dub even enjoy a modest Japanese theatrical run, because enough Japanese liked the English voice cast? Not a huge run, but still..
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In the phrase "What is this being used for anyways?", I am using the pronoun "this" to refer to the data collected by the heart rate monitor, not the heart rate monitor itself.
Still, if I were to join your level of pedanticism, I could claim that there are indeed other uses for a heart rate monitor, such as dynamically creating a rhythm for some avante garde performance piece. But, I'm in a relatively good mood this morning, so I won't. Plus, I think I just made up a new word (pedanticism!), so it's not a complete waste.
My own view is basically, as long as they aren't driving their camera-car into my living room, I'm fine with it.
When you are in public, there is certain information about you that is publicly available at that point - skin color, hair color, height, what you are wearing, etc. At work I've helped set up a closed circuit camera system, some of which have a good view of city streets around the business. That is not a big deal.
Of course, this is a far cry different from the CCTV system as is set up in London. That's a government venture, and would not be something I support here in the US.
Others above have already said this, but a big part of libertarianism is liberty, as in civil liberty, the rights and liberties of citizens.
"Libertarian" is a very broad brush, and can include anyone from left wing socialist to right wing anarchists and a whole lot more. It almost always includes a stress on the importance of personal liberties, and that often includes right to privacy to varying degrees.
1. Thanks. And that goes to everyone else who followed my post with a congratulations as well.
2. That's pretty much how I feel about it. I'm even happy if it's something they record at the beginning and end of the year and compare the two. I just get a little antsy in this age of near infinite data retention (and yes, a little paranoid).
I hesitated whether to mention that whole spectrum thing. I just refer to it as a brief snapshot of a general ideology (namely mine), nothing more. In other words, my ever changing ideas define it, I don't define myself or my ideas by any arbitrary made up spectrum. And though it may give you a general idea of where I'm coming from, it's next to useless to helping you guess where I stand on any individual issue.
So, if you hate that part, ignore it, my comments lose nothing by it. It's just another tool to help expedite a discussion.
Just to point out, it's the libertarians (little l, meaning the political ideology, not the political party) that are most likely to question what these are being used for, and if they are to become some sort of permanent record, to take umbrage with that. Although you are a tad more likely to find libertarians in the Republican party as opposed to the Democratic party, libertarian != conservative.
Myself, I am a slightly left-leaning centrist libertarian, and a new dad (5 days ago! Woot!), I can understand the concern. This is the sort of odd request that I just have to ask "What is this being used for anyways?" I'm not saying I automatically disapprove of it, whatever it is.
yeah, I know, you're just a troll trying for a few bites. I don't care. This really isn't a response to you anyways. I've just seen too many knee-jerk "let's paint everyone who doesn't agree with us with one broad stroke and thus be able to disregard them all" reactions lately.
I rather like this alternate interpretation of the infographic the AP used to explain their new scheme. Found via BoingBoing.
This is something Guild Wars tried to address in their approach. By making gaming areas instanced and meet-up areas MMO, a player's actions can effect the game world on a slightly grander scale. The state of the instance is decided based upon the previous actions of those entering it.
The thing is, I feel they didn't capitalize on this opportunity nearly enough...
. Hell, make it so that you have some sort of skill-based mini game (like Tetris?) that effects the quality of things you're trying to craft, so it's not just about the level of grinding you've done on the skill, but also on actual skill.
On top of that, you have the whole "defend my stuff" part of the game, which moves toward traditional strategy elements. You're recruiting and training units, you're building defenses. You're making alliances with other players to defend each others stuff.
That is beginning to sound a little bit like Puzzle Pirates...
... Jack Sprat?
'Cause this blog post wasn't written by JRR Tolkien?
I'm managing a 30-some some computer network with their "Worry Free Business Advanced" suite, and it's great. Central web interface control over all machines, easy to read reports, integrates well with our mail server, monitors network traffic for suspicious activity, automatically generates and e-mails you reports. The cost is, per machine, about what you would expect to pay to buy some basic residential oriented solution for each machine.
I'm in much the same boat, and one thing that has really helped around here is that I make a conscious effort to educate the users as much as I can. Now, you're not going to be able to train any of them to be self sufficient, but explaining what you are doing and why can go a long way. Now even the more computer illiterate users here are doing a better job of reporting exactly what the problem is that is arising (for example, the correct but nigh useless "The Internet is down" more properly and accurately becomes "I'm receiving an error when my browser starts up"), and whenever there is an error in some custom software, they know to check certain data entries were correctly entered first, and then gather some specific information about the error before calling on me, which allows me to fix their problem a lot faster than it would happen otherwise.
In all, explaining my troubleshooting/repair work as I perform it does take a bit longer, but an extra 15 minutes spent then can easily save hours of effort down the road. Plus, it helps the users to understand what you are doing.
As far as I know, Mozilla puts no restrictions on who can release what sort of Add-Ons. In this equation, Microsoft controls the OS and the software update program; they needed no permission from Mozilla to push this out.
And as an Add-On, it's not really akin to patching a 3rd party app exactly. It's just a MS program that closely works and integrates with the publicly documented interface of a 3rd party app.
One additional oversight you are making is that the asker is the only one who might benefit from having this question asked and answered publicly. I happen to also be in a position where we are thinking about deploying an internal-only IM for a small business. I have already Googled the topic and have learned a bit about Jabber, but happen to have not put the time into it yet to go poring through each of the different implementations to find the one that best fits our needs.
So, I open the article, and start reading the comments hoping for some knowledgeable colleagues who have already gone through this to share their experiences and wisdom. Unfortunately, I get people like you, wasting my time. You could have skipped this article as a topic you aren't interested instead.
Google is great for a search engine, but doesn't always provide the experienced advice one seeks.
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Besides, as any brewer or baker will tell you, yeast used in brewing is genetically inclined to produce more alcohol than CO2, whereas the yeast used in baking is just the opposite - it produces much more CO2 than alcohol. That's why you don't bake with brewer's yeast, or brew with baker's yeast.
Remember, not everyone drinks alcohol, especially not everyday, but almost everyone eats bread at least once a day if not more...
Folks, it's almost Passover - maybe unleavened bread can save the planet!
On the bright side, your browser will now be able to recognize when you are .. "finished", and close those pages for you (well, after bookmarking, according to how you set your preferences).
This will turn out to be a great idea, until the first virus hits it designed to recognize certain facial gestures, and automatically upload the images to flickr.
For some reason, this isn't a good day to pick up any actual news...
But, all those clock cycles we save but not putting the page through all that pointless bell-and-whistle rendering can be dedicated to making sure that all network traffic is encrypted with the most unpenetrable methods available, right?
On a (only) slightly more serious note, I have wished that more sites had better support for Lynx, just 'cause it would render faster and more reliably on a mobile Lynx browser on my phone.
I'm still waiting for some big, monumental event/discovery to be first reported as an April Fool's joke, only to actually become true at a later date.
The line of people who want to post in this thread just to get an "achievement" can start here...
Kaylee smokes Inara any day.
Now there's a thought to keep a man warm on a cold night...
Wait, am I read that wrong?
'Cause Scranton, PA has so far been too shortsighted to fund the creation of their own Internet. Damn beancounters.
Based upon the DJs I've known (non-karaoke, that is), piracy seems to be a standard practice of DJs across the board. The difference is, Karaoke music companies, I imagine, target KJs as their primary audience, whereas the main record industry targets the average end consumer. For them, DJs are as much a means for advertising their product.
Although interesting, I can't imagine your analysis of what is occurring in the Karaoke microcosm of the music industry directly correlates to the industry as a whole, in much the same way that one can't use the anecdotes of the goings ons of one small suburb to accurately reflect the trends of the entire nation. At least not without a good healthy dose of corroborating data to show that such a relationship does indeed exist. Though the karaoke and greater music industries share some of the same trappings, their business practices and revenue streams are indeed unique.
Haven't heard the Japanese on it, but I think you can but Princess Mononoke in there too. Didn't the English dub even enjoy a modest Japanese theatrical run, because enough Japanese liked the English voice cast? Not a huge run, but still..