We are the product. We're what Facebook sells to advertisers in order to bring in their business. Facebook needs to offer just enough privacy and control to keep most of us, but not so much as to ruin the value of the product.
We found that Sharepoint didn't offer the level of document authentication that we needed for the FDA-inspected laboratory in our organization. NextDocs is a 'bolt-on' to Sharepoint that offers an electronic signature feature. We're rolling that out now and it seems pretty useful. So if you go the Sharepoint route and it isn't enough, this is worth checking out. Also, you get to say 'bolt-on' in conversation, with maybe an accidental 'strap-on' now and then.
Bad programming for a radiation therapy machine caused it to emit 100 times the radiation dose after certain keystrokes, burning patients badly and killing some of them. Wikipedia has the root cause analysis.
I get the issue of sequestering a jury, but now, they're asking people to do without some pretty deeply ingrained habits. And for days, weeks at a time? I think we'll see an uptick in creative jury-avoidance strategies. I'm going to start working on mine right now!
as if they were simpletons, no matter their gender, taste in clothes, etc. That's what this is about. Dressing up a laptop in pointless bells/whistles just tells customers that the product is probably overpriced. Otherwise, why the gimmicks?
Made it to Slide 9 before the site got Slashdotted...
My favorite was the slide with the two pissed-off teddy bears. They'd make great Office Assistants: "How the f*ck can we help you today?"
What do people think about Processing as a good first programming language? I'm learning it, after not having done any programming since the 80's (BASIC and APL), and it's very easy to learn. It was intended as a way to teach graphic designers and artists how to program. This might be good in a course for non-CS majors.
I bought a home treadmill about two years ago for about $500, and I really like it. I've mostly been using it for regular workouts until recently, when I injured my ankle and have to take it easier. So I made a detachable 'desktop' mod that fits over the arms, that will hold a laptop, mouse and bookstand. I can type or browse the web just fine while walking at 2.5 mph -- very satisfying!
Oh, and I got the idea from the 'walkstation' recently -- a professionally made treadmill and adjustable workstation. Looked great, but at $6000 it was a little rich for my blood.
Why would this invalidate his Best Documentary status?
Because in order to qualify for Best Documentary, the film must not have been shown on television prior to the award.
Here's the link and the relevant paragraph:
"The only problem with my desire to get this movie in front of as many Americans as possible is that, should it air on TV, I will NOT be eligible to submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for Academy Award consideration for Best Documentary. Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical release (fiction films do not have the same restriction)."
-- Michael Moore
It probably won't put them out of business, either. A lot of journals already have full-text available online for a fee. They can selectively make the tax-money-funded studies available for free while keeping the fee for other studies.
Would this drive the journals to prefer privately-funded studies to tax-funded ones? I doubt it. Researchers who qualify for R01 NIH grants and program-project grants are usually doing really interesting, big studies, and people will want to read about them. A journal that stops publishing these big articles will risk becoming irrelevant.
"Dozens? After about the first six she should have gotten a restraining order."
Not necessarily. If he'd directly threatened her, yes. But if he were just following her around, showing up unexpectedly and being a pest, her best bet would be to confront him, say something brief like "You know I don't want to talk to you. You're really acting like an asshole. Now leave me alone." And then refuse to say anything else to him, no matter how much he tries to get a response.
This communicates that she's not afraid of him, whereas a restraining order, under those circumstances, would let him know that she's afraid. Some stalkers get off on creating fear in their victims, and it's best not to give them anything that might serve as a reward.
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...which models, if any, supported an external folding Targus-style keyboard. That's something I'd be looking for. I have an external keyboard for my old Visor, and I use it way too much to want to buy something that I couldn't type on, once in a while. Those little onboard keyboards just can't handle real typing.
But it was nowhere in the article. Anyone know if there are decent USB *portable* keyboards around?
"Lucas refuses to release his originals, as if by removing them from market they will cease to exist."
This felt so unfair to me at first. I've still got the original VHS tapes of the original movies. I thought, wow, how lucky I am to have something that will probably never make it out onto DVD.
But then I came to my senses. Lucas knows full well how many people want to own the original films on DVD. I predict that after the altered original trilogy goes on sale, the REAL originals will too, after a few years, and probably in 2007, just in time for the first movie's 30th anniversary.
This would squeeze the maximum amount of money out of us fans. So, it MUST be true!
"Briefly stated, by only allowing a mimimal amount of data with only one obvious conclusion, presentations are skipping the analytical process. [..] PowerPoint makes us dumb because it disallows independent evaluation, thought, logical processes and retention of information or assessment related data."
Yes, exactly.
By limiting the amount of information which can be displayed on a given slide, PowerPoint also requires the presenter to choose which data are most important, and which data to simplify or just leave out. This introduces bias, even when the presenter does all he can to be honest and complete. We just can't SEE the bias.
It's also less satisfying for the audience. The illustrations in Tufte's books are a delight to look at and THINK about, because there's so much information in each one, and it's presented in a way that's easy and even fun to think about. They are elegant.
I've never seen that kind of elegance in a PowerPoint chart. There's less to think about, less for me to sink my teeth into. A lot of the thinking I might have wanted to do has already been done, by the presenter, at the step where he had to leave some things out in order to create the chart. It's about as satisfying as chewing someone else's chewing gum.
The more data-poor charts we all see, the more normal it feels, and the less aware we are of what might be left out.
Something like this would really have to be integrated into the material of the visor as a kind of semi-transparent display with variable opacity. Man, I'd love that. Just glance up to the upper left corner of my visor and see a pale '75 MPH' display that doesn't obscure the view. Cool.
I can't see it working as an externally-mounted device at all, for the reasons you brought up -- there's just too much wind noise at speed. And while a gear readout would be nice, it's hard to imagine fitting a manual transmission with something that'd display the gear electronically. Guess it's possible though.
It's totally reasonable for scientists to get credit for the work they do. One problem is the way that credit is scored, for purposes of advancement. Scientists get a disproportionate amount of credit for first-authoring primary research studies that get published in peer-reviewed print journals. Credit for being an author other than first (or last), or writing a review article, is much less, and credit for work that doesn't result in publication of one's name as author is almost negligable.
People generally want a strong CV and the chance to advance or secure their position. If the system rewarded people more for cooperating, for sharing good ideas and theories more openly and for participating in large collaborative projects, scientists would follow suit. The current system is pretty circular, since those who make promotion/advancement decisions are generally those who benefited from old system and want to perpetuate it.
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I'm also planning my next holiday to visit the 'Lansing, MI designated renaissance zone.' A cultural landmark!
I hope everyone goes to the 'about' page and clicks through to the patent. It's special.
Loved it! Well done.
We are the product. We're what Facebook sells to advertisers in order to bring in their business. Facebook needs to offer just enough privacy and control to keep most of us, but not so much as to ruin the value of the product.
Very satisfying answer. thanks.
Is this chip design somehow based on the NAND logic gate? How is it different from other chips? I couldn't tell from the article.
We found that Sharepoint didn't offer the level of document authentication that we needed for the FDA-inspected laboratory in our organization. NextDocs is a 'bolt-on' to Sharepoint that offers an electronic signature feature. We're rolling that out now and it seems pretty useful. So if you go the Sharepoint route and it isn't enough, this is worth checking out. Also, you get to say 'bolt-on' in conversation, with maybe an accidental 'strap-on' now and then.
Bad programming for a radiation therapy machine caused it to emit 100 times the radiation dose after certain keystrokes, burning patients badly and killing some of them. Wikipedia has the root cause analysis.
I get the issue of sequestering a jury, but now, they're asking people to do without some pretty deeply ingrained habits. And for days, weeks at a time? I think we'll see an uptick in creative jury-avoidance strategies. I'm going to start working on mine right now!
as if they were simpletons, no matter their gender, taste in clothes, etc. That's what this is about. Dressing up a laptop in pointless bells/whistles just tells customers that the product is probably overpriced. Otherwise, why the gimmicks?
Made it to Slide 9 before the site got Slashdotted... My favorite was the slide with the two pissed-off teddy bears. They'd make great Office Assistants: "How the f*ck can we help you today?"
What do people think about Processing as a good first programming language? I'm learning it, after not having done any programming since the 80's (BASIC and APL), and it's very easy to learn. It was intended as a way to teach graphic designers and artists how to program. This might be good in a course for non-CS majors.
you made me laugh!
I bought a home treadmill about two years ago for about $500, and I really like it. I've mostly been using it for regular workouts until recently, when I injured my ankle and have to take it easier. So I made a detachable 'desktop' mod that fits over the arms, that will hold a laptop, mouse and bookstand. I can type or browse the web just fine while walking at 2.5 mph -- very satisfying!
Oh, and I got the idea from the 'walkstation' recently -- a professionally made treadmill and adjustable workstation. Looked great, but at $6000 it was a little rich for my blood.
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~amw243/diaries/
Here's the link and the relevant paragraph:
"The only problem with my desire to get this movie in front of as many Americans as possible is that, should it air on TV, I will NOT be eligible to submit "Fahrenheit 9/11" for Academy Award consideration for Best Documentary. Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical release (fiction films do not have the same restriction)." -- Michael Moore
essay on michaelmoore.com
Because in order to qualify for Best Documentary, the film must not have been shown on television prior to the award.
Would this drive the journals to prefer privately-funded studies to tax-funded ones? I doubt it. Researchers who qualify for R01 NIH grants and program-project grants are usually doing really interesting, big studies, and people will want to read about them. A journal that stops publishing these big articles will risk becoming irrelevant.
Not necessarily. If he'd directly threatened her, yes. But if he were just following her around, showing up unexpectedly and being a pest, her best bet would be to confront him, say something brief like "You know I don't want to talk to you. You're really acting like an asshole. Now leave me alone." And then refuse to say anything else to him, no matter how much he tries to get a response.
This communicates that she's not afraid of him, whereas a restraining order, under those circumstances, would let him know that she's afraid. Some stalkers get off on creating fear in their victims, and it's best not to give them anything that might serve as a reward.
But it was nowhere in the article. Anyone know if there are decent USB *portable* keyboards around?
This felt so unfair to me at first. I've still got the original VHS tapes of the original movies. I thought, wow, how lucky I am to have something that will probably never make it out onto DVD.
But then I came to my senses. Lucas knows full well how many people want to own the original films on DVD. I predict that after the altered original trilogy goes on sale, the REAL originals will too, after a few years, and probably in 2007, just in time for the first movie's 30th anniversary.
This would squeeze the maximum amount of money out of us fans. So, it MUST be true!
Just had to say, this is the funniest thing I've read all day!
Yes, exactly.
By limiting the amount of information which can be displayed on a given slide, PowerPoint also requires the presenter to choose which data are most important, and which data to simplify or just leave out. This introduces bias, even when the presenter does all he can to be honest and complete. We just can't SEE the bias.
It's also less satisfying for the audience. The illustrations in Tufte's books are a delight to look at and THINK about, because there's so much information in each one, and it's presented in a way that's easy and even fun to think about. They are elegant.
I've never seen that kind of elegance in a PowerPoint chart. There's less to think about, less for me to sink my teeth into. A lot of the thinking I might have wanted to do has already been done, by the presenter, at the step where he had to leave some things out in order to create the chart. It's about as satisfying as chewing someone else's chewing gum.
The more data-poor charts we all see, the more normal it feels, and the less aware we are of what might be left out.
I can't see it working as an externally-mounted device at all, for the reasons you brought up -- there's just too much wind noise at speed. And while a gear readout would be nice, it's hard to imagine fitting a manual transmission with something that'd display the gear electronically. Guess it's possible though.
People generally want a strong CV and the chance to advance or secure their position. If the system rewarded people more for cooperating, for sharing good ideas and theories more openly and for participating in large collaborative projects, scientists would follow suit. The current system is pretty circular, since those who make promotion/advancement decisions are generally those who benefited from old system and want to perpetuate it.