Cable news channels (CNN/Fox/MSNBC/etc) don't contribute to the gathering and reporting of news, they only regurgitate (over and over and over and...) that of news gathering organizations (NYTimes/Washington Post/WSJ/AP/Reuters).
News organizations should make aggregators and ISP's pay for content. Google and ISP's wouldn't have a service to profit from if others weren't working so hard creating the content they serve. It's just like DirecTV paying Food Network to be in it's channel lineup. Google should pay NYTimes to search and display their reporting.
All the stuff CC and any of the other box stores sell is foreign made for pennies on the dollar of the price. The rest is making you want to buy it (marketing), retail markup, and profit. Design and engineering used to be a larger cost, but that's all outsourced now too. Since the internet has made retail markup on competitive electronics razor thin, CC & BB will both be gone. Electronics have become commodities - cheap, interchangeable, and disposable.
The future of consumption is in crafted goods. They're generally made with quality materials, will last longer, and are more unique than mass manufactured goods. Case in point: furniture. My wife and I buy our furniture from a local store that either buys from US factories or the Amish. It may cost 3-5 times more than IKEA, but our hardwood furniture will last long after we're gone, instead of becoming unfashionable or falling apart in a few years.
Probably the best statistics book is "Applied Linear Statistical Models" by Neter, Kutner, Nachtshiem, Wasserman.
It covers just about everything you need to know about typical "regression" models and it's basic theory, estimation, and many applications.
Nearly every graduate applied regression class uses this book. But it could also be used to teach Design of Experiments and serves as a starting point for non-linear models.
Technically, Phelps should have been disqualified. In butterfly, one's hands must touch the wall at the same time, and from the photo finish he clearly touched with his right hand before his left. Also, if you reach with one hand outstretched further than the other, then clearly you'll get to the wall faster.
It's really sad that what our country needs most to remain competitive in the future is more young people learning science and engineering. But because of the effects of globalization our advice to them is to avoid these fields.
It's pretty simple really:
Nationalism = what's best for us, at the cost of everyone else
Globalism = what's best for the world, at the cost of the least efficient (in this case us)
Renewable energy sources will never replace the efficiency of burning eons worth of decomposed carbon materiel. We might as use it up while we have it. In fact, we should have a policy to use more of what's left than anyone else does. High fuel prices mean we use less fuel and serve as a drag on economic growth by making everything more expensive. That's why the Chinese gov't subsidizes gasoline prices to $2.50/gal.
If a person knows they have a condition they'll buy insurance to protect against it. But if the insurance company doesn't know the person has a condition, then they can't charge more for people with that condition and will instead have to charge more for everyone. People who know they don't have the condition will not see the insurance as a value, and will choose not to buy the insurance. Therefore the only people who buy insurance are the ones who have the condition.
Insurance works on pooled risk - some people make claims, others don't. If everyone makes a claim, then it's no longer insurance. And this is what we're moving away from - insurance for health care - to a health "service".
Your 20" wide has a height of 9.8", while the 19" std has a height of 11.4". With nearly identical vertical resolution, everything on your screen appears 14% smaller in scale than the 19" std. Additionally, the 20" wide has 1.5% less surface area than the 19" std.
For 4% more money, you get to squint your eyes more.
This has been bothering me for some time, so here it is:
WIDESCREEN DISPLAYS ARE SMALLER THAN SAME-DIAGONAL STANDARD 4:3 DISPLAY AND MOST BUSINESS APPLICATION ARE DESIGNED AROUND 4:3.
For a rectangle with a given diagonal the maximum surface area would be a square. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem For the same diagonal, as length and width are further apart surface area decreases.
A widescreen display 16:9 has 11% less surface area than a standard 4:3 display for the same diagonal. They are duping us into believing we're getting more when we're actually getting less!
Also, many work applications still use standard aspect, including PowerPoint and VNC. If I were to change to widescreen, I'd be forced to use a lower resolution in VNC. This bothers me the most.
The only thing widescreen is good for is watching DVDs, which I do on my widescreen TV, not my laptop.
The worst part is they only sell widescreen displays now! (Both laptop and desktop.) Standard is going the way of the dodo, and the few left cost a $hitload.
...but the general enrollment trend is often cited as an argument for increasing the H-1B visa cap, which is used by skilled workers. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has cited declines in computer science enrollment as a reason for opening up the U.S. to more skilled workers and will likely make that argument when he appears March 12 before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee.
Pure Truthiness. Bilbo has it backwards. H1-B's are causing the decline in CS enrollment. Lifting the cap will cause further decline.
He must still be bitten by the entire anti-trust fiasco, and now uses the gov't as his tool, after ignoring and being dumped on by it.
Market research companies don't release studies like this for the benefit of general consumption. What they're really doing is suggesting that blind click-through rates are not sufficient measures of return on investment AND you need their service in determining which click-through consumers do generate higher return.
Of course I'd never be reading 100 fiction or popular/opinion non-fiction books at the same time. If they're reference books, the text may be proprietary but the knowledge in them is not, and can be retrieved from numerous free sources. In fact, Kindle's free, wireless access to Wikipedia may be its most appealing feature.
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Cable news channels (CNN/Fox/MSNBC/etc) don't contribute to the gathering and reporting of news, they only regurgitate (over and over and over and...) that of news gathering organizations (NYTimes/Washington Post/WSJ/AP/Reuters).
I subscribe to the Financial Times on my Kindle. I just installed the iPhone app and FT is not available to download, only the books I've purchased.
News organizations should make aggregators and ISP's pay for content. Google and ISP's wouldn't have a service to profit from if others weren't working so hard creating the content they serve. It's just like DirecTV paying Food Network to be in it's channel lineup. Google should pay NYTimes to search and display their reporting.
You've obviously never heard of Experimental Economics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812/financial-bubbles
And economic models are constantly being validated against observational data.
All the stuff CC and any of the other box stores sell is foreign made for pennies on the dollar of the price. The rest is making you want to buy it (marketing), retail markup, and profit. Design and engineering used to be a larger cost, but that's all outsourced now too. Since the internet has made retail markup on competitive electronics razor thin, CC & BB will both be gone. Electronics have become commodities - cheap, interchangeable, and disposable.
The future of consumption is in crafted goods. They're generally made with quality materials, will last longer, and are more unique than mass manufactured goods. Case in point: furniture. My wife and I buy our furniture from a local store that either buys from US factories or the Amish. It may cost 3-5 times more than IKEA, but our hardwood furniture will last long after we're gone, instead of becoming unfashionable or falling apart in a few years.
Another good example is http://etsy.com/
Great, now let me sync my iPhone to both my work & home PC's iTunes.
Probably the best statistics book is "Applied Linear Statistical Models" by Neter, Kutner, Nachtshiem, Wasserman.
It covers just about everything you need to know about typical "regression" models and it's basic theory, estimation, and many applications.
Nearly every graduate applied regression class uses this book. But it could also be used to teach Design of Experiments and serves as a starting point for non-linear models.
All the more reason to use Azeroth (US East) on battle.net.
Sorry, I've been playing lots of DotA lately.
Technically, Phelps should have been disqualified. In butterfly, one's hands must touch the wall at the same time, and from the photo finish he clearly touched with his right hand before his left. Also, if you reach with one hand outstretched further than the other, then clearly you'll get to the wall faster.
It's really sad that what our country needs most to remain competitive in the future is more young people learning science and engineering. But because of the effects of globalization our advice to them is to avoid these fields.
It's pretty simple really:
Nationalism = what's best for us, at the cost of everyone else
Globalism = what's best for the world, at the cost of the least efficient (in this case us)
While they may lack computer hacking skills, their nunchuck skills are awesome!
Renewable energy sources will never replace the efficiency of burning eons worth of decomposed carbon materiel. We might as use it up while we have it. In fact, we should have a policy to use more of what's left than anyone else does. High fuel prices mean we use less fuel and serve as a drag on economic growth by making everything more expensive. That's why the Chinese gov't subsidizes gasoline prices to $2.50/gal.
What you want is the Tata Nano. $2500 http://www.autoblog.com/2008/01/10/what-2-500-buys-in-india-tata-nano-unveiled/
If a person knows they have a condition they'll buy insurance to protect against it. But if the insurance company doesn't know the person has a condition, then they can't charge more for people with that condition and will instead have to charge more for everyone. People who know they don't have the condition will not see the insurance as a value, and will choose not to buy the insurance. Therefore the only people who buy insurance are the ones who have the condition.
Insurance works on pooled risk - some people make claims, others don't. If everyone makes a claim, then it's no longer insurance. And this is what we're moving away from - insurance for health care - to a health "service".
Your 20" wide has a height of 9.8", while the 19" std has a height of 11.4". With nearly identical vertical resolution, everything on your screen appears 14% smaller in scale than the 19" std. Additionally, the 20" wide has 1.5% less surface area than the 19" std.
For 4% more money, you get to squint your eyes more.
Widescreen is a downgrade. See my full post below.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=521830&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=23065156
This has been bothering me for some time, so here it is:
/rantoff
WIDESCREEN DISPLAYS ARE SMALLER THAN SAME-DIAGONAL STANDARD 4:3 DISPLAY AND MOST BUSINESS APPLICATION ARE DESIGNED AROUND 4:3.
For a rectangle with a given diagonal the maximum surface area would be a square. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean_theorem For the same diagonal, as length and width are further apart surface area decreases.
A widescreen display 16:9 has 11% less surface area than a standard 4:3 display for the same diagonal. They are duping us into believing we're getting more when we're actually getting less!
Also, many work applications still use standard aspect, including PowerPoint and VNC. If I were to change to widescreen, I'd be forced to use a lower resolution in VNC. This bothers me the most.
The only thing widescreen is good for is watching DVDs, which I do on my widescreen TV, not my laptop.
The worst part is they only sell widescreen displays now! (Both laptop and desktop.) Standard is going the way of the dodo, and the few left cost a $hitload.
Parent is correct. Dune is as much current political allegory as Lord of the Rings was with the industrial revolution.
...but the general enrollment trend is often cited as an argument for increasing the H-1B visa cap, which is used by skilled workers. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has cited declines in computer science enrollment as a reason for opening up the U.S. to more skilled workers and will likely make that argument when he appears March 12 before the U.S. House Science and Technology Committee.Pure Truthiness. Bilbo has it backwards. H1-B's are causing the decline in CS enrollment. Lifting the cap will cause further decline.
He must still be bitten by the entire anti-trust fiasco, and now uses the gov't as his tool, after ignoring and being dumped on by it.
Market research companies don't release studies like this for the benefit of general consumption. What they're really doing is suggesting that blind click-through rates are not sufficient measures of return on investment AND you need their service in determining which click-through consumers do generate higher return.
What's the odds on DNF releasing before the Cubs take the World Series?
OK, Neville Chamberlain.
Of course I'd never be reading 100 fiction or popular/opinion non-fiction books at the same time. If they're reference books, the text may be proprietary but the knowledge in them is not, and can be retrieved from numerous free sources. In fact, Kindle's free, wireless access to Wikipedia may be its most appealing feature.
Don't support DRM technology.
Where will Clark Kent become Superman?