1.4 (ethernet, 4k, etc) 1.4 Mini. (Won't be used in a home theater. This will come with your ZuneHD, Sony HD camcorder or cell phone.) 1.4 Automotive. (When would you ever buy that thinking it would work in your home theater system?)
So in reality they're releasing 1 new cable that customers will ever encounter. And it'll make things MUCH less confusing for the customers. Buy a new home theater. Plug an HDMI cable from your receiver to your XBox 720, BluRay Player and TV. Done! No ethernet cable into your xBox 720, BluRay Player and TV. Now need to run an audio out cable from your TV to your receiver. Just one easy cable between every system and all the features should work.
Two poets 'decided' to become homless to 'focus on their poetry'. As the story goes it was really less about choosing to be free as it was about being put on the street by their substance addictions and minor mental health issues. The Parent Post sounds to be pretty stable (after all he returned to normal life). But I think a lot of people who "decide to go homeless" are really people with deeper problems who won't acknowledge them. For me my apartment is the opposite of something I need to worry about. Auto bill pay and as far as I'm concerned it's free. 0 hastle. No constant battle to survive.
Now I've certainly felt the desire to 'go free' before and just move into a tent in the wilderness with a year's worth food. And have spent a month camping for the fun of it. But I think there is a difference between that and the constant rat race in the city.
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I hope the data reported will be impartially selected, honestly gathered, clearly explained, and perfectly accurate. Perhaps they could start with inspiration from the Concord Coalition's National Debt Counter.
Good luck with that, this is the government we're talking about...
What's funny about your cynicism is that the referenced website in the summary IS ALREADY depending on government data to function. The cited example is an example of an instance where the government is already living up to the promise you just scoffed at as impossible.
I'm not saying it's ok. I'm just saying I would rather as a book publisher have you save your limited resources to spend on one of my books instead of going to a used book store and spending money there.
75% of the used game price disappears into Gamestop. As far as the game ecosystem is concerned that money is gone. Your customers are expending their limited teen dollars on a product that in no way what so ever brings a profit.
If instead of buying and reselling 2 games these teens pirated those 2 games and simply purchased a third new the publisher would make more money than if they threw their money into the big bonfire that is the used game market.
I don't buy used games on principle. (Wait... so I'm paying someone for a game and simultaneously not giving the content creators any money? Why not just pirate it and spend more money on new games if I'm not going to pay the creators?)
But even if I wasn't against the concept of used games I still don't see the financial incentive. Gamestop will pay me less than the parking fee to go in and sell them a game. If I were to drive to a free-parking gamestop it would cost more in gas than they would give me. The used prices of new games tend to be almost the same as new. ~$45-50 for new releases and games on steam tend to be priced as low or lower for older games.
If you aren't going to buy it new you might as well just pirate it and save the money going to Wal-Mart.
I think it has more to do with the fact that most people simply don't recognize that it's OK to use side streets.
I usually navigate by "I need to be over *there*" and then simply trust that as long as I keep heading in the right direction I'll get there. It works 99.9% of the time. Doesn't help you find a house in the 'burbs but nothing does.
Lack of confidence I think causes more people to get lost than arrogance. There are exceptions of course. If you don't know which direction you need to head and generally the distance to your destination this method of navigation is impossible. I have a friend who is a worthless navigator. In highschool we would ask him at least once a week which direction north was. In the same room. In the same school. For at least 2 years. He still to this day can't reliably remember which direction north is. He is not a candidate for the "That Way" school of navigation.
After all I drive an incredibly fuel efficient vehicle. But... and this is the key point. I live near work so that I have a really short commute. My car which gets 19-25mpg uses less gas than a prius driving 40 miles both ways every day by several orders of magnitude.
It's not about how efficient your car is. It's about how much fuel you use. Then again the car companies have never been anxious to actually manufacture good options without being forced to do so. Just like it took the threat of a wave of legal action for McDonalds etc to start offering some healthier (and higher profit margin) options.
Sometimes companies need a nudge to make an effort to change public perception and desires. I would love to have a sporty, sexy 2-door hybrid. But right now I don't have any options. So I buy the gas guzzling sporty 2-doors.
1) Inspiration and motivation. (The project is appealing with interesting and stimulating challenges.) 2) Optimism. (The project has clear and attainable goals. I look forward to completion because I think it'll be a great product.) 3) Competition and Recognition. (My project is going head to head with someone else's and or might receive recognition. I'll work faster. I'll be less likely to lose Optimism or Motivation and it'll challenge me to push beyond the comfort zone.)
Probably because catholicism was largely institutionalized by a pagan emporer and they are rightfully skeptical of an organizational with such well proven human origins.
While I'm not christian I would say that they're at least being consistent in rejecting verifiably faliable sources. They just hide behind the ones with less documentation (but probably were created under extremely similar means).
If you discover a skeleton then you get a monopoly on its data until you reveal it. By keeping it secret you can be certain to glean as many discoveries as possible from it before opening it up to further investigation and interpretation.
If you find it and open it to public scrutiny immediately then you're competing on equal footing with everyone else to draw conclusions and write papers. If you hold it secret for 2 years then you can be sure any significant conclusions and papers are written by your own team and not someone else.
It's like finding a clue in the scavenger hunt. Don't give it up until you've found the prize or need help looking.
Japan wasn't really "devastated by two nuclear bombs".
It's a pretty big place. Neither a majority of their population nor their land was even affected by the nuclear bombs.
More Japanese died prior to the bombs in regular combat than the nuclear blasts. The Japanese may have overcome adversity but the Nuclear blasts weren't much worse than the firebombing of Tokyo or the sustained loss of life during combat.
Just as the US wasn't devastated by the World Trade Center collapsing.
It's like Ford mentioning that their car is a better mid sized sedan than Toyota's in a TV ad.
"The Ford Xenu has more cargo room than the Toyota(tm) Lilac".
They're using the trademark in order to compare their offerings against someone elses product. "Customers chose Coke over Pepsi(tm) 9 to 1 in taste tests!"
An even more direct analogy would be to have a free concierge service which is sponsored by a few local restaurants. A customer comes in and mentions they've heard of this new place in town called "Zimbini's" and if they could get a reservation for 6pm that night. The concierge says they'd be happy to but had they also heard of one of their sponsors who has a similar menu.
You tell your employees who to offer in comparison to other companies. The employee uses their knowledge to make sponsored recomendations based on requests. I can't possibly see that would ever be trademark infringement.
You must not be an American. Or know very many protestants.
Almost everyone I know is protestant. The vast vast vast majority of them accept Genesis as the literal description of creation.
And I would say that's not an abnormal figure:
An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible's book of Genesis is "literally true" rather than a story meant as a "lesson."
[...] The poll, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points, was conducted Feb. 6 to 10 among 1,011 adults
Careful any scientist would actually know you can neither prove nor disprove anything based on observation. Not simply disprove.
All empirical data is suspect. All data can be forged. All data can be tricked. All data could be an illusion. Therefore there is no certainty.
But that's all very impractical. Therefore in order to live we must be pragmatists and attempt to divine the most 'probable' explanation. This can become more probable or less probable but never proved or disproved. The deciding factor of truth is a personal burden of proof line. (Which is not to say that there isn't a truth that is one way and not another, just that all attempts to discern it inevitably come down to probability and pragmatism and not actual knowledge.) I think therefore something thought (not necessarily 'me') is the only conclusion that can be reached. There is something at this instantaneous moment in time which exists somewhere.
Your H0/H1 explanation is true. In all likelihood H0 is MORE LIKELY to be true than H1. But it's not necessarily true. After all Ockham's razor was created in order to defend religion and the bible was originally cited as a source which was 'infaliable'.
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Personally I think the burden of proof demarkation line is the greatest weakness of organized religions today. They encourage their members to arbitrarily move the line for one subject in one specific instance but none others. Faith is good... but only for our religion. And only interpreted this way.
If I found an alternate bible which was identical in every way but had no God. If it was just as old. And was kept on an alternate universe religious leaders would insist that theirs is better. With absolutly no distinction between the two.
This tactic can back fire of course from time to time. By forcing your congregation to move their line burden of proof line outside of reason into unfounded speculation you get into trouble with other unfounded speculations. Harry Potter suddenly is no longer a charming work of fiction but actually an opposing world view which is equally plausible to christianity and is a threat.
Instead of a consistent approach it's more like a peninsula into absurdity which you are supposed to have faith in. Faith in God: Good. Faith in Evolution and reason: "Well you can't prove that." It's fun that Christians who have next to no more empirical evidence for their cause than Unicorns can go on TV and so passionately argue against Evolution or Global Warming as being on shaky empirical ground.
A healthy and consistent respect of empiricism as the 'most likely description of reality' on all sides of the debate would be far more productive than the little pockets of ideology that we all sit in today.
"Global Warming is dangerous to society." Great. How so? Lay out your case. "Gay Marriage will destroy our country." Great. How so? Lay out your case. "Terrorists are only a marginal threat that should be largely ignored." Great. How so? Lay out your case.
The Gay Marriage 'debate' has spun around for years now and I've never heard anyone on the Religious right explain in tangible, empirical ways why they're right. They don't even try. It's just "You're a bigot!" "They're destroying marriage!".
IE dominated the browser market because Netscape blew monkey balls.
The reason firefox took off wasn't because of anti-competitive behavior it was because users found a competitive product and decided to replace what they viewed as an inferior product.
Not so fast cowboy. The state supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional. States have constitutions too. They also have supreme courts. Washington State Supreme Court != SCOTUS.
I've found the Seattle Police Department to be very non-dickheady.
Go 10 miles in any direction and the story completely changes. But the Seattle police department tend to be pretty cool. And they're fast. Freakishly fast. I had to call 911 last year to report an assault in progress and they arrived in less than 40 seconds. I saw an accident last week and before I could even make a U-Turn to go a block around a patrol car had already pulled up and was checking on the drivers.
They seem more interested in keeping traffic moving than making some sort of ticket quota. In all of my interactions they've been incredibly friendly and bent over backwards to be patient.
I don't know anyone personally in the police department and I'm not in any way employed. I've just been so pleasantly suprised and impressed by the Seattle Police Department since moving here that I think they deserve some recognition for not being complete pricks like other places I've lived (I'm looking at you Lynwood PD).
Because while Microsoft has every right to disable their software, they have NO LEGAL RIGHT to turn my computer on or off. That is *MY* hardware. You turn it off without my permission and I will have you in court for unlawful trespass, unauthorized computer access, unauthorized use of property, and a whole slew of other Federal charges.
You did give permission. You said. "After 11 months I agree that Microsoft may turn off my comptuer every 2 hours while running windows 7."
You just don't give permission each and every time it does it.
Otherwise 90% of all software installers would be commiting a felony when they restart after installing. Also windows update if configured in a certain fashion would also be a felon.
What do you want to fax them a signed agreement everytime you hit start -> shutdown?
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Probably the cable that came with your zune.
Actually set stupid article to fail.
They aren't releasing 72 different cables.
They're releasing 3:
1.4 (ethernet, 4k, etc)
1.4 Mini. (Won't be used in a home theater. This will come with your ZuneHD, Sony HD camcorder or cell phone.)
1.4 Automotive. (When would you ever buy that thinking it would work in your home theater system?)
So in reality they're releasing 1 new cable that customers will ever encounter. And it'll make things MUCH less confusing for the customers. Buy a new home theater. Plug an HDMI cable from your receiver to your XBox 720, BluRay Player and TV. Done! No ethernet cable into your xBox 720, BluRay Player and TV. Now need to run an audio out cable from your TV to your receiver. Just one easy cable between every system and all the features should work.
There was a This American Life about this a few months back:
http://www.thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=358
Two poets 'decided' to become homless to 'focus on their poetry'. As the story goes it was really less about choosing to be free as it was about being put on the street by their substance addictions and minor mental health issues. The Parent Post sounds to be pretty stable (after all he returned to normal life). But I think a lot of people who "decide to go homeless" are really people with deeper problems who won't acknowledge them. For me my apartment is the opposite of something I need to worry about. Auto bill pay and as far as I'm concerned it's free. 0 hastle. No constant battle to survive.
Now I've certainly felt the desire to 'go free' before and just move into a tent in the wilderness with a year's worth food. And have spent a month camping for the fun of it. But I think there is a difference between that and the constant rat race in the city.
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P.S. To all of you pro-piracy. Pro-freebie. Down with RIAA types out there. That link is to a FREE podcast. With the assumption that if you like it you will support the artists and creators. Here is an opportunity to back up your words with actual action. It's DRM free. It's free of charge. It's everything you insist would convince you to support the artists. So do it. Click that donate button if you like the podcast and want to see more.
As opposed to all the non-data being posted under the .gov domain?
Ideally all of the other data on .gov would be available on Data.gov as well.
What would you suggest they call it?
DataThatIsAvailableElsewhereOn TheGovDomainButFormattedForEasyParseingAndDataMining.gov
It's a website that provides government data. Government Data. Data.Gov. I don't know how they could be more clear and accurate in their description.
I hope the data reported will be impartially selected, honestly gathered, clearly explained, and perfectly accurate. Perhaps they could start with inspiration from the Concord Coalition's National Debt Counter.
Good luck with that, this is the government we're talking about...
What's funny about your cynicism is that the referenced website in the summary IS ALREADY depending on government data to function. The cited example is an example of an instance where the government is already living up to the promise you just scoffed at as impossible.
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
I'm not saying it's ok. I'm just saying I would rather as a book publisher have you save your limited resources to spend on one of my books instead of going to a used book store and spending money there.
75% of the used game price disappears into Gamestop. As far as the game ecosystem is concerned that money is gone. Your customers are expending their limited teen dollars on a product that in no way what so ever brings a profit.
If instead of buying and reselling 2 games these teens pirated those 2 games and simply purchased a third new the publisher would make more money than if they threw their money into the big bonfire that is the used game market.
I don't buy used games on principle. (Wait... so I'm paying someone for a game and simultaneously not giving the content creators any money? Why not just pirate it and spend more money on new games if I'm not going to pay the creators?)
But even if I wasn't against the concept of used games I still don't see the financial incentive. Gamestop will pay me less than the parking fee to go in and sell them a game. If I were to drive to a free-parking gamestop it would cost more in gas than they would give me. The used prices of new games tend to be almost the same as new. ~$45-50 for new releases and games on steam tend to be priced as low or lower for older games.
If you aren't going to buy it new you might as well just pirate it and save the money going to Wal-Mart.
I think it has more to do with the fact that most people simply don't recognize that it's OK to use side streets.
I usually navigate by "I need to be over *there*" and then simply trust that as long as I keep heading in the right direction I'll get there. It works 99.9% of the time. Doesn't help you find a house in the 'burbs but nothing does.
Lack of confidence I think causes more people to get lost than arrogance. There are exceptions of course. If you don't know which direction you need to head and generally the distance to your destination this method of navigation is impossible. I have a friend who is a worthless navigator. In highschool we would ask him at least once a week which direction north was. In the same room. In the same school. For at least 2 years. He still to this day can't reliably remember which direction north is. He is not a candidate for the "That Way" school of navigation.
I half agree with you.
After all I drive an incredibly fuel efficient vehicle. But... and this is the key point. I live near work so that I have a really short commute. My car which gets 19-25mpg uses less gas than a prius driving 40 miles both ways every day by several orders of magnitude.
It's not about how efficient your car is. It's about how much fuel you use. Then again the car companies have never been anxious to actually manufacture good options without being forced to do so. Just like it took the threat of a wave of legal action for McDonalds etc to start offering some healthier (and higher profit margin) options.
Sometimes companies need a nudge to make an effort to change public perception and desires. I would love to have a sporty, sexy 2-door hybrid. But right now I don't have any options. So I buy the gas guzzling sporty 2-doors.
Windows XP?
1) Inspiration and motivation. (The project is appealing with interesting and stimulating challenges.)
2) Optimism. (The project has clear and attainable goals. I look forward to completion because I think it'll be a great product.)
3) Competition and Recognition. (My project is going head to head with someone else's and or might receive recognition. I'll work faster. I'll be less likely to lose Optimism or Motivation and it'll challenge me to push beyond the comfort zone.)
Professional: Someone who can do his very best work, even when he doesn't feel like it
n.
1) A fabled mythical creature.
2) A robot.
If your out of wifi range of 300' your not going to be watching hulu.
Ok so you can't watch it on Mars... I suppose that's a fair point.
Probably because catholicism was largely institutionalized by a pagan emporer and they are rightfully skeptical of an organizational with such well proven human origins.
While I'm not christian I would say that they're at least being consistent in rejecting verifiably faliable sources. They just hide behind the ones with less documentation (but probably were created under extremely similar means).
Or a combination of the two.
If you discover a skeleton then you get a monopoly on its data until you reveal it. By keeping it secret you can be certain to glean as many discoveries as possible from it before opening it up to further investigation and interpretation.
If you find it and open it to public scrutiny immediately then you're competing on equal footing with everyone else to draw conclusions and write papers. If you hold it secret for 2 years then you can be sure any significant conclusions and papers are written by your own team and not someone else.
It's like finding a clue in the scavenger hunt. Don't give it up until you've found the prize or need help looking.
Japan wasn't really "devastated by two nuclear bombs".
It's a pretty big place. Neither a majority of their population nor their land was even affected by the nuclear bombs.
More Japanese died prior to the bombs in regular combat than the nuclear blasts. The Japanese may have overcome adversity but the Nuclear blasts weren't much worse than the firebombing of Tokyo or the sustained loss of life during combat.
Just as the US wasn't devastated by the World Trade Center collapsing.
I've got an even better one:
It's like Ford mentioning that their car is a better mid sized sedan than Toyota's in a TV ad.
"The Ford Xenu has more cargo room than the Toyota(tm) Lilac".
They're using the trademark in order to compare their offerings against someone elses product.
"Customers chose Coke over Pepsi(tm) 9 to 1 in taste tests!"
An even more direct analogy would be to have a free concierge service which is sponsored by a few local restaurants. A customer comes in and mentions they've heard of this new place in town called "Zimbini's" and if they could get a reservation for 6pm that night. The concierge says they'd be happy to but had they also heard of one of their sponsors who has a similar menu.
You tell your employees who to offer in comparison to other companies. The employee uses their knowledge to make sponsored recomendations based on requests. I can't possibly see that would ever be trademark infringement.
You must not be an American. Or know very many protestants.
Almost everyone I know is protestant. The vast vast vast majority of them accept Genesis as the literal description of creation.
And I would say that's not an abnormal figure:
An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible's book of Genesis is "literally true" rather than a story meant as a "lesson."
[...]
The poll, with a margin of error of 3 percentage points, was conducted Feb. 6 to 10 among 1,011 adults
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/feb/16/20040216-113955-2061r/
This was just the first poll that came up on google. It falls in line with all the other polls I've seen on the subject.
Careful any scientist would actually know you can neither prove nor disprove anything based on observation. Not simply disprove.
All empirical data is suspect. All data can be forged. All data can be tricked. All data could be an illusion. Therefore there is no certainty.
But that's all very impractical. Therefore in order to live we must be pragmatists and attempt to divine the most 'probable' explanation. This can become more probable or less probable but never proved or disproved. The deciding factor of truth is a personal burden of proof line. (Which is not to say that there isn't a truth that is one way and not another, just that all attempts to discern it inevitably come down to probability and pragmatism and not actual knowledge.) I think therefore something thought (not necessarily 'me') is the only conclusion that can be reached. There is something at this instantaneous moment in time which exists somewhere.
Your H0/H1 explanation is true. In all likelihood H0 is MORE LIKELY to be true than H1. But it's not necessarily true. After all Ockham's razor was created in order to defend religion and the bible was originally cited as a source which was 'infaliable'.
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Personally I think the burden of proof demarkation line is the greatest weakness of organized religions today. They encourage their members to arbitrarily move the line for one subject in one specific instance but none others. Faith is good... but only for our religion. And only interpreted this way.
If I found an alternate bible which was identical in every way but had no God. If it was just as old. And was kept on an alternate universe religious leaders would insist that theirs is better. With absolutly no distinction between the two.
This tactic can back fire of course from time to time. By forcing your congregation to move their line burden of proof line outside of reason into unfounded speculation you get into trouble with other unfounded speculations. Harry Potter suddenly is no longer a charming work of fiction but actually an opposing world view which is equally plausible to christianity and is a threat.
Instead of a consistent approach it's more like a peninsula into absurdity which you are supposed to have faith in. Faith in God: Good. Faith in Evolution and reason: "Well you can't prove that." It's fun that Christians who have next to no more empirical evidence for their cause than Unicorns can go on TV and so passionately argue against Evolution or Global Warming as being on shaky empirical ground.
A healthy and consistent respect of empiricism as the 'most likely description of reality' on all sides of the debate would be far more productive than the little pockets of ideology that we all sit in today.
"Global Warming is dangerous to society." Great. How so? Lay out your case.
"Gay Marriage will destroy our country." Great. How so? Lay out your case.
"Terrorists are only a marginal threat that should be largely ignored." Great. How so? Lay out your case.
The Gay Marriage 'debate' has spun around for years now and I've never heard anyone on the Religious right explain in tangible, empirical ways why they're right. They don't even try. It's just "You're a bigot!" "They're destroying marriage!".
IE dominated the browser market because Netscape blew monkey balls.
The reason firefox took off wasn't because of anti-competitive behavior it was because users found a competitive product and decided to replace what they viewed as an inferior product.
Not so fast cowboy. The state supreme court ruled it was unconstitutional. States have constitutions too. They also have supreme courts. Washington State Supreme Court != SCOTUS.
I've found the Seattle Police Department to be very non-dickheady.
Go 10 miles in any direction and the story completely changes. But the Seattle police department tend to be pretty cool. And they're fast. Freakishly fast. I had to call 911 last year to report an assault in progress and they arrived in less than 40 seconds. I saw an accident last week and before I could even make a U-Turn to go a block around a patrol car had already pulled up and was checking on the drivers.
They seem more interested in keeping traffic moving than making some sort of ticket quota. In all of my interactions they've been incredibly friendly and bent over backwards to be patient.
I don't know anyone personally in the police department and I'm not in any way employed. I've just been so pleasantly suprised and impressed by the Seattle Police Department since moving here that I think they deserve some recognition for not being complete pricks like other places I've lived (I'm looking at you Lynwood PD).
And it should be noted that Washington State has no such laws (even for name).
Because while Microsoft has every right to disable their software, they have NO LEGAL RIGHT to turn my computer on or off. That is *MY* hardware. You turn it off without my permission and I will have you in court for unlawful trespass, unauthorized computer access, unauthorized use of property, and a whole slew of other Federal charges.
You did give permission. You said. "After 11 months I agree that Microsoft may turn off my comptuer every 2 hours while running windows 7."
You just don't give permission each and every time it does it.
Otherwise 90% of all software installers would be commiting a felony when they restart after installing. Also windows update if configured in a certain fashion would also be a felon.
What do you want to fax them a signed agreement everytime you hit start -> shutdown?
That's because kdawson doesn't believe in indentity protection. kdawson gave up his trademark and as such any troll is now free to post stories under his name.
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