Wow, www.useit.com is a terrible looking website and difficult to use.
Agreed; an explanation is that in the days his presupposition was that every page should load in less than y sec (I think it was 4) for e_v_e_r_y user.
Quote: "The citizens of any given polis were an elite group of people — slaves, peasants, women and resident aliens were not part of the body of citizens."
Any attempt of 'change' would indeed disturb the process of finding the roots again.
I mean it's not like the rest of the world depends upon us to actually get things done.
Yes, especially 1.3*10^9 Chinese, 1.15*10^9 Indians, not to speak of the mere 0.7*10^9 Europeans, all waiting for the glorious US to 'get things done'.
You beat me to it; but it systematically seems a little more, quote: "Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin also wrote a trilogy of prequel novels to Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation trilogy with Bear credited for the middle book in the trilogy."
First(ly), it is quite questionable whether it is possible to condense all relevant environmental stimuli (and processing of those, time relations within included) into a smaller frame. Think, e.g. of microgravity, not forgetting that gravity was/is the only (I believe) constant over the whole course of evolution.
Second(ly), if you have the assumption that time in itself matters, you may end up with the idea that a 'day is not a day'.
Hints may be derived from (e.g.) research on sleep/dreaming (probably also in conjunction of the effects of sorts of sleep deprivation on learning) as well as from a comparison of time needed for different mammalians until being fully socialized.
No experimenter bias to worry about.
No built in heuristics which where thought up by the developer who was totally isolated from social influences (probably some kind of condition along the autistic spectrum).
Programmable for effective randomization.
Perfectly 'well-definedness' of "effective"; amen.
Truly double blind capable.
Yes, one hand not knowing what the other is doing.
Can counteract the Placebo effect.
Is free to ignore hard to explain observations.
No ego to bruise.
A frozen, muted mind.
It's the end of science as we know it.
Will (has) happened without 'so-called' robots already.
Slashdot Mirror
Bank rescue ~90-billion-Euro: big worthy chunk
CERN Euro 20M: too small a particle to care for
As we can learn, big mountains do not help much to gain perspective.
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If 99% of the people have to pay already, why not just charge everyone via the Plain Old Taxation system?
Maybe because it is easier to change the rules (to get more money) this way.
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The thing is the UK won't really be better off by electing the conservatives.
Probably no country will be better off by electing 'the other side' given the presupposition that it is still politicians to vote for.
As unfair as it may sound people should have to take an intelligence test before being allowed to vote.
The barrier should be set at the reproduction level, which could (maybe) also cure the aforementioned problem.
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Wow, www.useit.com is a terrible looking website and difficult to use.
Agreed; an explanation is that in the days his presupposition was that every page should load in less than y sec (I think it was 4) for e_v_e_r_y user.
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Nightfall
THNX, though I read this one (albeit not in English) which has a broader scope regarding short term memory.
It seems that Vonnegut (other reply) fits better to what I imagined, probably I shall give it a try.
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Soylent_Green
Somehow one has to engineer thresholds.
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the term hasn't been used in normal conversation for some time, it was part of a political battle that is 80 years gone
the meaning of an archaic word
It is about time to write a SF-story about the consequences of a situation when the average memory span is determined by short term memory.
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Democracy redefined
Quote: "The citizens of any given polis were an elite group of people — slaves, peasants, women and resident aliens were not part of the body of citizens."
Any attempt of 'change' would indeed disturb the process of finding the roots again.
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otherwise one probably has to assume that the proceedings touch 'national security'.
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... which was not particularly easy those days (no internet at home).
It was an early SLS distro on a 286 IBM-clone.
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... on a low. Perhaps a good buy, as Tamiflu is said to help.
Or should I say clever timing?
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The purpose of a school is NOT to teach students how things work right now, but how they will work in the future.
... yes, I dream on ...
The purpose of a school is to enable students to cope with change.
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You can't put 90% or even 30% of the people in jail
You can make the country a jail.
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I don't think neither wave mechanics nor quantum mechanics can figure out how women think.
It has been figured out a long time ago: obfuscated mechanics.
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Interesting question — but no, quote: "I came to The Cyberiad through another book, Robotic Fables."
It seems, though, that this book has not yet reached the Internet yet.
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I mean it's not like the rest of the world depends upon us to actually get things done.
Yes, especially 1.3*10^9 Chinese, 1.15*10^9 Indians, not to speak of the mere 0.7*10^9 Europeans, all waiting for the glorious US to 'get things done'.
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Bibliography Tools in the Context of WWW and LATEX
Looks like that covers your needs.
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Wire tapping, Gitmo, Afghanistan, Iraq, all of Obama's timelines are looking a lot more like Bush's now.
No, the marketing is a lot better.
But I agree, even more so as I am not a US citizen and things look even worse from my point of view (Europe).
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bone density
You might improve your condition by practicing Taiji. Find out for yourself.
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The 96% figure seems more likely to be a massive error in calculation than anything.
Easier; they found out that 96% of the netbooks that came with a MS product indeed run that.
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recycling
You beat me to it; but it systematically seems a little more, quote: "Bear, Gregory Benford, and David Brin also wrote a trilogy of prequel novels to Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation trilogy with Bear credited for the middle book in the trilogy."
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Go back a couple hundred years and people believed all sorts of weird things.
...
And this changed how?
One in 10 Americans still think Obama is Muslim
or, even more amusing
In the United States, 81 percent believe in heaven and 70 percent in hell and the devil. (2005)
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Whazzat? I'm not following you here bud.
First(ly), it is quite questionable whether it is possible to condense all relevant environmental stimuli (and processing of those, time relations within included) into a smaller frame. Think, e.g. of microgravity, not forgetting that gravity was/is the only (I believe) constant over the whole course of evolution.
Second(ly), if you have the assumption that time in itself matters, you may end up with the idea that a 'day is not a day'.
Hints may be derived from (e.g.) research on sleep/dreaming (probably also in conjunction of the effects of sorts of sleep deprivation on learning) as well as from a comparison of time needed for different mammalians until being fully socialized.
CC.
We can simulate a day in one second
The question here (which from time to time plagues me since decades) is whether, given these conditions, a day is still a day? IMHO, hard to decide.
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No experimenter bias to worry about.
No built in heuristics which where thought up by the developer who was totally isolated from social influences (probably some kind of condition along the autistic spectrum).
Programmable for effective randomization.
Perfectly 'well-definedness' of "effective"; amen.
Truly double blind capable.
Yes, one hand not knowing what the other is doing.
Can counteract the Placebo effect.
Is free to ignore hard to explain observations.
No ego to bruise.
A frozen, muted mind.
It's the end of science as we know it.
Will (has) happened without 'so-called' robots already.
CC.