5 or so years ago, when I was shopping for a car, I picked up a Consumer Reports car edition. My previous car had been an 87 Toyota Camry station wagon, and it got somewhere in the range of 23-27 MPG doing suburban driving. Looking at that Consumer Reports was depressing. The majority of cars had the same or LESS mpg, despite being 10 to 20 years newer.
Fuck this executive. If he had his way, cars would run 10 MPG.
General response:
About a month ago, I saw an article on Huffington Post by a doctor claiming that diphenhydramine was not effective for getting to sleep/staying asleep and that there was no research supporting its use . I said to myself, "this sounds like bullshit." So I googled it, and found studies supporting its use. So some doctor may have gotten himself a lot of advertising by giving lots of people bad advice. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this article.
It may in fact be true that paroxetine is not useful in treating most adolescents. On the other hand, it may be that some people just want to make a name for themselves. (Not that I trust GSK, either...)
Responding to Alicat1194:
I've had depression and been off and on all sorts of medications. I was on Paxil for a few months during my teenage years, and while it didn't magically fix my problems, it did make life much more tolerable, especially with anxiety. 10+ years later, during another episode of depression, I was diagnosed as having bipolar depression (family history plus I developed mania from citalopram. Escitalopram did not induce mania previously, strangely enough.) My current therapist is reconsidering the bipolar diagnosis. I've been through lithium and a couple mood stabilizers, and I'm now back on Paxil. The others had little to no effect. I credit Paxil more than any other drug for improving my mental state. Of course, at this point, I am no longer an adolescent.
To GP:
I think that the pressures on teens are higher now than they use to be. Instead of go to school, then get a job or go to college, there is maintaining an online social presence, figuring out how you're going to support yourself when wages haven't kept up with inflation, and the increase of college costs with a decrease in returns from a higher education.
I don't disagree that recreational drugs have therapeutic value. However, the current social climate makes them unsavory, and the kids who have the means will seek therapy. These kids end up on a pill, as there is no authority advocating marijuana use.
A corporation isn't a person. It is a bad argument that it is silly to force a corporation to do something if it is silly to force an individual to do the same thing.
I think it is a reasonable expectation that companies dealing with personal information should have a certain security standard. You can argue that the market will take care of the issue, and that some corporation will emerge from the chaos promising both the features you want and the security you want. However, most people are too unfamiliar and uneducated to demand better security. Furthermore, there is little, if any, profit margin from doing it.
We (in the US) expected broadband internet providers to compete and provide us better service, and that never happened. Why are corporations going to want to spend money on security and make a better product for us if they don't have to?
I can see having a security standard being onorous for small businesses, and maybe they should be exempt from standards (unless they deal in medical history, credit info, SSN's, or large quantities of personal data.) But if you're pulling in millions of dollars a year, I don't want to hear about how you can't afford proper security. A site like Ashley Madison? Give me a break. Make it mandatory to put a big red flag on your site if you can't meet a certain level of security. Right now nobody knows what is secure and what isn't.
It's a little funny (in a cynical sense) to consider that if some other life form had advanced to this point and destroyed their planet, there would be no evidence left of them (minus whatever they had established in space and maybe whatever radio waves they had broadcast).
Easy. Ask the employees what they've done to make them think they deserve it. If Steve, Alan, and Lucy all make 50 grand a year, and I make 45 grand, and my contributions to the company are comparable to theirs, why shouldn't I be paid similarly? If I'm not coming through in crucial times, or in ways that the others are, I would like to know about it. I would hope that a manager would be aware of the value of his/her employees. I know, it's a stretch.
I've been thinking for a while now that the answer isn't so much merit based. I think the answer, or at least a step in the right direction, is providing classes the way colleges do.
It's ridiculous to think that 30 kids, of the same age, are going to learn the same way, at the same rate, as each other. A child who isn't as developed, put into the machine before he is ready, is going to start behind. He may very well have a rotten time, and just barely make it through each grade. So now he is the dumb kid, or else you hold him back, and there are stigma/image problems associated with that.
Then there are the children who excel, or would if there were only a path for them to do that. Instead they are held back by the antics of trouble makers and by lessons tailored to the rest of the students. And if you push a kid ahead, there can be stigma for being too smart.
I think part of the solution is to eliminate grades. If Charlie is good at math, but bad at english, you put him in the math 102 class and the eng 100 class and say fuck all with putting everyone of age X in math 101 and eng 101. Charlie can fail out of english 3 times and still excel at other subjects. This won't eliminate stigma for being "dumb" and failing at everything. On the other hand, it might make it okay to not be at the same pace as everyone else. Maybe it will reduce the burden of children who aren't at the same place as everyone else by giving them a place, instead of trying to force them into a place.
Obviously, talented students could be advanced as necessary.
Individualized lessons sound impractical; at that point the teachers become tutors. However, it does sound reasonable to tailor streamed lessons to different teaching/learning styles, and let the masses of students consume (learn) how they want. Let the students choose the teacher that teaches them best. This does not address one on one learning, but it might be an interesting approach.
and why should I give a shit?
Turing Robotic Industries is a company that has created no products to date. One article says it is mostly funded by Lugee Li, CEO of DongGuan Eontec Co., Ltd. That company seems to be primarily involved in die cast metal.
So far, none of this is important enough to be news to me.
What is this mysterious Liquid Metal, that I can't tell if it is a trademark or brand name or what?
Well, it seems to be an amorphous metal alloy with a non crystalline structure. This grants it some physical properties, different strengths and weaknesses, than a chemically similar crystalline metal. However, I doubt this is going to save your screen if you do drop your phone.
Anyways, a couple of paragraphs from wikipedia:
"An amorphous metal (also known metallic glass or glassy metal) is a solid metallic material, usually an alloy, with a disordered atomic-scale structure. Most metals are crystalline in their solid state, which means they have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms. Amorphous metals are non-crystalline, and have a glass-like structure. But unlike common glasses, such as window glass, which are typically electrical insulators, amorphous metals have good electrical conductivity."
"Amorphous metals have higher tensile yield strengths and higher elastic strain limits than polycrystalline metal alloys, but their ductilities and fatigue strengths are lower.[12] Amorphous alloys have a variety of potentially useful properties. In particular, they tend to be stronger than crystalline alloys of similar chemical composition, and they can sustain larger reversible ("elastic") deformations than crystalline alloys. Amorphous metals derive their strength directly from their non-crystalline structure, which does not have any of the defects (such as dislocations) that limit the strength of crystalline alloys. One modern amorphous metal, known as Vitreloy, has a tensile strength that is almost twice that of high-grade titanium. However, metallic glasses at room temperature are not ductile and tend to fail suddenly when loaded in tension, which limits the material applicability in reliability-critical applications, as the impending failure is not evident. Therefore, there is considerable interest in producing metal matrix composite materials consisting of a metallic glass matrix containing dendritic particles or fibers of a ductile crystalline metal."
This. There are flaws that will not be visible in a single 2D picture, and will only be identifiable by painstakingly comparing two photos of the same area from different angles. The alternative is to take pictures in 3D so that you have the depth perception to realize that a given component is sticking out a couple of mm more than it should be.
I'm so tired of well off people who think it is their god damn birth right to have a good education and opportunities, while at the same time people who are born poor in a ghetto have a birth right to poverty. "It's their fault they don't have better jobs and education. It's their choice to fail at school and not overcome their obstacles. I've had just as many challenges as they have, why should they get a free pass? There is no system that keeps them from rising to the top."
SUCH. UTTER. BULLSHIT.
I think about white flight, and how blacks with half a prayer move into white communities hoping for a better life, better education for their young. And all they do is climb out of one hole and into the next. I feel guilt, not because I have done it, but because white Americans have done it, or their earlier generations have. It is a crime we have committed. To claim innocence while at the same time reaping the benefits of leaving your fellow men to falter is mind-bogging.
The war began in earnest when ads became intrusive and disruptive.
I appreciate that someone has to pay for all of the sites that I visit for free. Some are payed entirely out of pocket, a labor of love by the host. And some are fueled by ad revenue. But those that utilize pop-ups, pop-unders, full screen ads, ads that autoplay voice and sound, malicious ads with fake security warnings and fake buttons... I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about denying ad revenue to those sites.
I think the more interesting story is undercover drug unit goes and terrorizes numerous drug dealers for illegal profit. But I guess that story is already months old. http://articles.philly.com/201...
The test subject just has "sclera lenses" in his eyes, this procedure doesn't turn his eyes black.
This is me with protective lenses in my eyes to block out some of the light. As the solution starts to work, the light intensity would increase over the course of 2 hours. I ended up putting sunglasses on soon as well.
I'm a little skeptical that a sclera lens will even be effective for protecting your eyes in a situation like this.
I'm also a little surprised that their research doesn't mention anything about pupil dilation, whether it is normal or otherwise.
Less "stupid kids" and more "leaders of tomorrow".
In the future, these students may come into a position of power, where they can then discriminate based upon their prejudice. Why would UO want to be a part of that process?
Moreover, why would UO want to be represented by these students at all? Would you want to be?
Besides, how many people just throw old pills in the *garbage* ? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason for drug resistance.
It's funny, because this illustrates the bigger problem of people not being aware that when they stop taking antibiotics early, they potentially breed resistant bacteria if their illness relapses. *Noone* should have any antibiotics left to throw the garbage, with the rare exception of someone having an allergic reaction to them.
My one coworker ceased her antibiotics when she felt better, relapsed, and had to get stronger antibiotics. In the meantime, she infected two of her family members with the more resilient bacteria, one of whom had to be hospitalized.
In the urban areas, Uber flourishes because it flaunts the requirements placed upon taxis, and offers cheaper (and higher quality) service as a result.
In the suburban areas, it flourishes for the same reason, plus it offers faster service. So, there may be something valid about this model in a suburban setting.
About the assassination of a specific, currently in power, POTUS? I don't know of any.
I know of movies that assassinate a generic POTUS, or perhaps a previous POTUS. I have never seen a movie in which the current president (at the time of filming), has been assassinated.
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I have a feeling that you might not be in the target market for this particular item.
...and that's a step up from most car companies.
5 or so years ago, when I was shopping for a car, I picked up a Consumer Reports car edition. My previous car had been an 87 Toyota Camry station wagon, and it got somewhere in the range of 23-27 MPG doing suburban driving. Looking at that Consumer Reports was depressing. The majority of cars had the same or LESS mpg, despite being 10 to 20 years newer.
Fuck this executive. If he had his way, cars would run 10 MPG.
General response:
About a month ago, I saw an article on Huffington Post by a doctor claiming that diphenhydramine was not effective for getting to sleep/staying asleep and that there was no research supporting its use . I said to myself, "this sounds like bullshit." So I googled it, and found studies supporting its use. So some doctor may have gotten himself a lot of advertising by giving lots of people bad advice. That was the first thing I thought of when I saw this article.
It may in fact be true that paroxetine is not useful in treating most adolescents. On the other hand, it may be that some people just want to make a name for themselves. (Not that I trust GSK, either...)
Responding to Alicat1194:
I've had depression and been off and on all sorts of medications. I was on Paxil for a few months during my teenage years, and while it didn't magically fix my problems, it did make life much more tolerable, especially with anxiety. 10+ years later, during another episode of depression, I was diagnosed as having bipolar depression (family history plus I developed mania from citalopram. Escitalopram did not induce mania previously, strangely enough.) My current therapist is reconsidering the bipolar diagnosis. I've been through lithium and a couple mood stabilizers, and I'm now back on Paxil. The others had little to no effect. I credit Paxil more than any other drug for improving my mental state. Of course, at this point, I am no longer an adolescent.
To GP:
I think that the pressures on teens are higher now than they use to be. Instead of go to school, then get a job or go to college, there is maintaining an online social presence, figuring out how you're going to support yourself when wages haven't kept up with inflation, and the increase of college costs with a decrease in returns from a higher education.
I don't disagree that recreational drugs have therapeutic value. However, the current social climate makes them unsavory, and the kids who have the means will seek therapy. These kids end up on a pill, as there is no authority advocating marijuana use.
The 16GB model could also be aimed at cloud storage users.
A corporation isn't a person. It is a bad argument that it is silly to force a corporation to do something if it is silly to force an individual to do the same thing.
I think it is a reasonable expectation that companies dealing with personal information should have a certain security standard. You can argue that the market will take care of the issue, and that some corporation will emerge from the chaos promising both the features you want and the security you want. However, most people are too unfamiliar and uneducated to demand better security. Furthermore, there is little, if any, profit margin from doing it.
We (in the US) expected broadband internet providers to compete and provide us better service, and that never happened. Why are corporations going to want to spend money on security and make a better product for us if they don't have to?
I can see having a security standard being onorous for small businesses, and maybe they should be exempt from standards (unless they deal in medical history, credit info, SSN's, or large quantities of personal data.) But if you're pulling in millions of dollars a year, I don't want to hear about how you can't afford proper security. A site like Ashley Madison? Give me a break. Make it mandatory to put a big red flag on your site if you can't meet a certain level of security. Right now nobody knows what is secure and what isn't.
It's a little funny (in a cynical sense) to consider that if some other life form had advanced to this point and destroyed their planet, there would be no evidence left of them (minus whatever they had established in space and maybe whatever radio waves they had broadcast).
Easy. Ask the employees what they've done to make them think they deserve it. If Steve, Alan, and Lucy all make 50 grand a year, and I make 45 grand, and my contributions to the company are comparable to theirs, why shouldn't I be paid similarly? If I'm not coming through in crucial times, or in ways that the others are, I would like to know about it. I would hope that a manager would be aware of the value of his/her employees. I know, it's a stretch.
I've been thinking for a while now that the answer isn't so much merit based. I think the answer, or at least a step in the right direction, is providing classes the way colleges do.
It's ridiculous to think that 30 kids, of the same age, are going to learn the same way, at the same rate, as each other.
A child who isn't as developed, put into the machine before he is ready, is going to start behind. He may very well have a rotten time, and just barely make it through each grade. So now he is the dumb kid, or else you hold him back, and there are stigma/image problems associated with that.
Then there are the children who excel, or would if there were only a path for them to do that. Instead they are held back by the antics of trouble makers and by lessons tailored to the rest of the students. And if you push a kid ahead, there can be stigma for being too smart.
I think part of the solution is to eliminate grades. If Charlie is good at math, but bad at english, you put him in the math 102 class and the eng 100 class and say fuck all with putting everyone of age X in math 101 and eng 101. Charlie can fail out of english 3 times and still excel at other subjects. This won't eliminate stigma for being "dumb" and failing at everything. On the other hand, it might make it okay to not be at the same pace as everyone else. Maybe it will reduce the burden of children who aren't at the same place as everyone else by giving them a place, instead of trying to force them into a place.
Obviously, talented students could be advanced as necessary.
Individualized lessons sound impractical; at that point the teachers become tutors. However, it does sound reasonable to tailor streamed lessons to different teaching/learning styles, and let the masses of students consume (learn) how they want. Let the students choose the teacher that teaches them best. This does not address one on one learning, but it might be an interesting approach.
and why should I give a shit?
Turing Robotic Industries is a company that has created no products to date. One article says it is mostly funded by Lugee Li, CEO of DongGuan Eontec Co., Ltd. That company seems to be primarily involved in die cast metal.
So far, none of this is important enough to be news to me.
What is this mysterious Liquid Metal, that I can't tell if it is a trademark or brand name or what?
Well, it seems to be an amorphous metal alloy with a non crystalline structure. This grants it some physical properties, different strengths and weaknesses, than a chemically similar crystalline metal. However, I doubt this is going to save your screen if you do drop your phone.
Anyways, a couple of paragraphs from wikipedia:
"An amorphous metal (also known metallic glass or glassy metal) is a solid metallic material, usually an alloy, with a disordered atomic-scale structure. Most metals are crystalline in their solid state, which means they have a highly ordered arrangement of atoms. Amorphous metals are non-crystalline, and have a glass-like structure. But unlike common glasses, such as window glass, which are typically electrical insulators, amorphous metals have good electrical conductivity."
"Amorphous metals have higher tensile yield strengths and higher elastic strain limits than polycrystalline metal alloys, but their ductilities and fatigue strengths are lower.[12] Amorphous alloys have a variety of potentially useful properties. In particular, they tend to be stronger than crystalline alloys of similar chemical composition, and they can sustain larger reversible ("elastic") deformations than crystalline alloys. Amorphous metals derive their strength directly from their non-crystalline structure, which does not have any of the defects (such as dislocations) that limit the strength of crystalline alloys. One modern amorphous metal, known as Vitreloy, has a tensile strength that is almost twice that of high-grade titanium. However, metallic glasses at room temperature are not ductile and tend to fail suddenly when loaded in tension, which limits the material applicability in reliability-critical applications, as the impending failure is not evident. Therefore, there is considerable interest in producing metal matrix composite materials consisting of a metallic glass matrix containing dendritic particles or fibers of a ductile crystalline metal."
This. There are flaws that will not be visible in a single 2D picture, and will only be identifiable by painstakingly comparing two photos of the same area from different angles. The alternative is to take pictures in 3D so that you have the depth perception to realize that a given component is sticking out a couple of mm more than it should be.
This. Why did you post AC?
I'm so tired of well off people who think it is their god damn birth right to have a good education and opportunities, while at the same time people who are born poor in a ghetto have a birth right to poverty. "It's their fault they don't have better jobs and education. It's their choice to fail at school and not overcome their obstacles. I've had just as many challenges as they have, why should they get a free pass? There is no system that keeps them from rising to the top."
SUCH. UTTER. BULLSHIT.
I think about white flight, and how blacks with half a prayer move into white communities hoping for a better life, better education for their young. And all they do is climb out of one hole and into the next. I feel guilt, not because I have done it, but because white Americans have done it, or their earlier generations have. It is a crime we have committed. To claim innocence while at the same time reaping the benefits of leaving your fellow men to falter is mind-bogging.
The war began in earnest when ads became intrusive and disruptive.
I appreciate that someone has to pay for all of the sites that I visit for free. Some are payed entirely out of pocket, a labor of love by the host. And some are fueled by ad revenue. But those that utilize pop-ups, pop-unders, full screen ads, ads that autoplay voice and sound, malicious ads with fake security warnings and fake buttons... I don't feel the slightest bit guilty about denying ad revenue to those sites.
Ahh, you are correct.
Citation needed.
The article says nothing about a requirement to use the phone during non-work hours.
I think the more interesting story is undercover drug unit goes and terrorizes numerous drug dealers for illegal profit. But I guess that story is already months old. http://articles.philly.com/201...
You mean, people who believe that nothing is impossible?
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange dealings even death may die.
It might be more appropriate to simply hope that she gets cancer.
This is me with protective lenses in my eyes to block out some of the light. As the solution starts to work, the light intensity would increase over the course of 2 hours. I ended up putting sunglasses on soon as well.
I'm a little skeptical that a sclera lens will even be effective for protecting your eyes in a situation like this.
I'm also a little surprised that their research doesn't mention anything about pupil dilation, whether it is normal or otherwise.
Less "stupid kids" and more "leaders of tomorrow".
In the future, these students may come into a position of power, where they can then discriminate based upon their prejudice. Why would UO want to be a part of that process?
Moreover, why would UO want to be represented by these students at all? Would you want to be?
...how to get them off of your network, then I don't think I'd trust you to accurately determine what the hackers have and haven't accessed.
Besides, how many people just throw old pills in the *garbage* ? I'm pretty sure that's the main reason for drug resistance.
It's funny, because this illustrates the bigger problem of people not being aware that when they stop taking antibiotics early, they potentially breed resistant bacteria if their illness relapses. *Noone* should have any antibiotics left to throw the garbage, with the rare exception of someone having an allergic reaction to them.
My one coworker ceased her antibiotics when she felt better, relapsed, and had to get stronger antibiotics. In the meantime, she infected two of her family members with the more resilient bacteria, one of whom had to be hospitalized.
A large reduction in taser use, higher reports of police brutality, slightly higher use of lethal force?
In the urban areas, Uber flourishes because it flaunts the requirements placed upon taxis, and offers cheaper (and higher quality) service as a result.
In the suburban areas, it flourishes for the same reason, plus it offers faster service. So, there may be something valid about this model in a suburban setting.
About the assassination of a specific, currently in power, POTUS? I don't know of any.
I know of movies that assassinate a generic POTUS, or perhaps a previous POTUS. I have never seen a movie in which the current president (at the time of filming), has been assassinated.