All the cost and possible misery to one side, a big cosmic event like this could do a lot of good. It might just reinvigorate general public's interest in the cosmos. Just seems a bit too quiet these days.
Not for commercial use option would allow people to upskill using your product. Some of these guys may end up in the industry you sell to and in taking their skills into that industry raise your products profile. I would think that this is the easist way to become the defacto supplier of niche software. However, spying on these people might turn them away from you.
I don't know if Chikatilo was a psychopath, anyhow, psychopaths seem to enjoy hurting others and are usually pretty smart. There is a secure institution where a buch of psychopaths managed to get hold of the manual for a well known profiling instrument that, effectively scored psychopathology from 0 to 40. They then had t-shirts printed with just "Perfect 40" on them. Point being that once something is public knowledge the kinds of people who engage in this kind of activity are likely to pay attention and work to throw predictive algorithms off, simply because they would gain a great deal of satisfation doing so.
We JUST got done upgrading to hdtv, digital and flatscreens all over the freakin country. And most of us feel that was stupid anyway. But it was all we could buy when our old tvs finally died.
I'm pretty happy with my 44 inch hdtv, this really is all I need in a TV. I can't see the 3D in 3D tv, can't say I much care for it on the big screen either, as you say no 3D effect can surpass a decent story and a decent story does not need 3D.
What many people still dont understand is that the OLPC isnt for those dying from hunger, its for those that can already survive, but have no economic ways to really improve their long term lives.. education can help a lot in that field, but...
I agree, up to a point. The thing is, improving education in economically deprived areas leads to well educated people with no means of developing further. They end up knowing that their future is bleak and, my guess is, this may lead to other problems including migration, disenfranchisement and so on. If we really want to improve their economy then I would think communication and infrastructure would be best attended to. Mobile commuications mean that people can play a more productive role in markets. For example, a fisherman can phone ahead to see where he can get the best price for his haul. Similarly, a farmer can find the lowest price for feed and the best price for his crop. And infrastructure, simple things like transport to improve access would help enourmously. How staring at a 13" screen helps is beyond me. It just stikes me as a nice western idea that if we give these guys a computer then all is well. A while back people bought outlying people tractors. They ran out of diesel and they ended up hauling the plough behind cattle.
... to give it it's proper name. Basically, people with similar behaviours end to seek out each others company. For example, heavy drinking smokers will probably find themselves at the bar or outside in smokers' alley. Similarly, ability to survive economically will determine where people can live. If some of these behaviours are genetically determined then they are also more likely to reproduce and so lead to a concentration of those genetic predispositions. But, and this is the bit but, there's a very thin thread between genes and complex behaviours, despite what you might read in the papers. There is a breathtaking array of interactions between, for example, genes and environment in producing behaviour and that are far from being properly inderstood that Baron-Cohen's thesis is, to put it mildly, overinterpreting the available evidence.
I have heard that some areas have become so reliant on food airdrops that kids, when they are hungry, look up at the sky for their next meal. They are foretting how to find food for themselves. Point being, if these laptops are dropped from the sky they might be inadvertantly eaten.
I like this idea a lot but would like to have the light barrier as the death trap. We need more lasers in the world. With the advantage that mosquitos might evolve to avoid all forms of light, including romantic candle light.
I recall an article in the Econonist a few years back that described a time when a macro economist visited his chum, who worked on a trading desk in a large bank. The economnist basically came away saying that there's simply no time or space for elegant theories in anything that went on in that environment. The science of economics was more applicable to fly fishng than high frequency trading. But I think the real issue for economics is that it has historically been very prescriptive - what people should do - rather than descriptive - explaining what people actually do. This was forcefully highlighted by the psychologist Kahneman, who went on to win the nobel prize for economics. That said, I enjoy economics and do feel it offers a lot to the world. I also think the premise that economic theory didn't predict the economic collapse is wrong. My limited reading of economic theory left me with the impression something was going wrong (in particular Shleifer, A (2000). Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance). But any prediction using economic theory presumes we have access to the evidence required to make accurate predictions. What we are slowly seeing is that, in their rush for profit, institutions effectively hid their exposure to risk. This duplicity, more than anything, compounded by a healthy dose of herd behaviour, is the reason the approaching precipice was obscured.
The problem here is that a video does not neccessarily accurately document misconduct. Classic example might be police arresting a violent out of control offender who resists. The video would probably not capture the offense, just the end point where officers are physically restraining the perpetrator. It is not difficult to edit some footage to make it look like the police were behaving unreasonably. Should the full facts be known casual observers might come to an entirely different conclusion. Instead they'll get edited footage from someone who might have an undeclared agenda. Add in the sites promulgation of officers personal information and you have a volatile mix. The truth is that there are some pretty nasty people out there who may or may not be carrying a weapon and the only option for police is physical restraint.
I had BT fibre to my place for a while. It was awesome and very reliable (one of the reasons why I went for it). But chatting to the engineer it turned out there is another reason why BT are keen to push forward with fibre - a certain section of the community are pinching copper wire. Fibre does not have much resale value, if any, and can last longer. I was near the sea and it turned out one reason why fibre was installed was because the original wiring was degrading faster than expected. So upgrading has other long-term benefits, other than the obvious.
What maintains quality is the peer review system (which the journals do not pay for).
Very much definitely this. And what is strange is that reviewers give their time freely (although I have been offered payment a few times, it is pretty unusual). It is pretty obvious that if academics find themselves unable to distribute their work fairly then publishers might find it increasingly hard to find people to review submissions.
This is a really good thing. As the summary notes, this will teach kids logic and thinking systematically. Knowing how to program isn't just a useful skill in the direct sense of programming things and possibly being employed that way. It also does a really good job of making one think precisely and carefully. There's also another advantage which is it helps kids appreciate that the technology around them are things they can understand and don't need to treat like they are magic.
They are also skills that generalise and are useful elsewhere, not just in IT. I also see programming as something of a conduit - you programme something so this could help nurture interests in other areas like math.
They find an impage of a missing child on your phone... then what? Guys in black balaclavas burst into your home? Presumably this app would access to more than just the photos in order to work our who you were and where you are? That said, I quite like the idea but so long as I can trace my cheating ex-wife
You are asking a paranoid bunch of very high performing individuals to cooperate with one another and write a mission statement. I like the idea... but... er... oh look, shiny things!
Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes?
You know for once it would be nice if the mollusks were the bad guy, screwing things up for humans. Gastropods could evolve to have hi-tech bio-warfare labs in their shells, they retreat and then re-emerge with an exotic neurotoxin precisely tailored to the threat. Then! Fed up with being trodden on and being cooked in French cuisine they turn on mankind by turning chimps into hyper-intelligent evil psychopaths! Only to find that the now dominant chimps evolve a taste for escargots au beurre d'ail.
He was not trying to generate electricity - "To get it to generate electricity you would need a turbine and a generator and that is very difficult to build yourself," he told HD. He was just tinkering! Obviously a DIY purist. This guy should get a geek medal or something. Utterly brilliant. And I am very pleased I'm not his neighbour.
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All the cost and possible misery to one side, a big cosmic event like this could do a lot of good. It might just reinvigorate general public's interest in the cosmos. Just seems a bit too quiet these days.
Not for commercial use option would allow people to upskill using your product. Some of these guys may end up in the industry you sell to and in taking their skills into that industry raise your products profile. I would think that this is the easist way to become the defacto supplier of niche software. However, spying on these people might turn them away from you.
I know people who work at the institution in question - I would be surprised if there was a link to it
I don't know if Chikatilo was a psychopath, anyhow, psychopaths seem to enjoy hurting others and are usually pretty smart. There is a secure institution where a buch of psychopaths managed to get hold of the manual for a well known profiling instrument that, effectively scored psychopathology from 0 to 40. They then had t-shirts printed with just "Perfect 40" on them. Point being that once something is public knowledge the kinds of people who engage in this kind of activity are likely to pay attention and work to throw predictive algorithms off, simply because they would gain a great deal of satisfation doing so.
Is quite nice, not sure if it meets your ASP needs though
We JUST got done upgrading to hdtv, digital and flatscreens all over the freakin country. And most of us feel that was stupid anyway. But it was all we could buy when our old tvs finally died.
I'm pretty happy with my 44 inch hdtv, this really is all I need in a TV. I can't see the 3D in 3D tv, can't say I much care for it on the big screen either, as you say no 3D effect can surpass a decent story and a decent story does not need 3D.
What many people still dont understand is that the OLPC isnt for those dying from hunger, its for those that can already survive, but have no economic ways to really improve their long term lives.. education can help a lot in that field, but...
I agree, up to a point. The thing is, improving education in economically deprived areas leads to well educated people with no means of developing further. They end up knowing that their future is bleak and, my guess is, this may lead to other problems including migration, disenfranchisement and so on. If we really want to improve their economy then I would think communication and infrastructure would be best attended to. Mobile commuications mean that people can play a more productive role in markets. For example, a fisherman can phone ahead to see where he can get the best price for his haul. Similarly, a farmer can find the lowest price for feed and the best price for his crop. And infrastructure, simple things like transport to improve access would help enourmously. How staring at a 13" screen helps is beyond me. It just stikes me as a nice western idea that if we give these guys a computer then all is well. A while back people bought outlying people tractors. They ran out of diesel and they ended up hauling the plough behind cattle.
... to give it it's proper name. Basically, people with similar behaviours end to seek out each others company. For example, heavy drinking smokers will probably find themselves at the bar or outside in smokers' alley. Similarly, ability to survive economically will determine where people can live. If some of these behaviours are genetically determined then they are also more likely to reproduce and so lead to a concentration of those genetic predispositions. But, and this is the bit but, there's a very thin thread between genes and complex behaviours, despite what you might read in the papers. There is a breathtaking array of interactions between, for example, genes and environment in producing behaviour and that are far from being properly inderstood that Baron-Cohen's thesis is, to put it mildly, overinterpreting the available evidence.
They are the Baron-Cohen brothers - one is an academic and one is a film actor. I am unable to judge which is most annoying.
I have heard that some areas have become so reliant on food airdrops that kids, when they are hungry, look up at the sky for their next meal. They are foretting how to find food for themselves. Point being, if these laptops are dropped from the sky they might be inadvertantly eaten.
I like this idea a lot but would like to have the light barrier as the death trap. We need more lasers in the world. With the advantage that mosquitos might evolve to avoid all forms of light, including romantic candle light.
I recall an article in the Econonist a few years back that described a time when a macro economist visited his chum, who worked on a trading desk in a large bank. The economnist basically came away saying that there's simply no time or space for elegant theories in anything that went on in that environment. The science of economics was more applicable to fly fishng than high frequency trading. But I think the real issue for economics is that it has historically been very prescriptive - what people should do - rather than descriptive - explaining what people actually do. This was forcefully highlighted by the psychologist Kahneman, who went on to win the nobel prize for economics. That said, I enjoy economics and do feel it offers a lot to the world. I also think the premise that economic theory didn't predict the economic collapse is wrong. My limited reading of economic theory left me with the impression something was going wrong (in particular Shleifer, A (2000). Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance). But any prediction using economic theory presumes we have access to the evidence required to make accurate predictions. What we are slowly seeing is that, in their rush for profit, institutions effectively hid their exposure to risk. This duplicity, more than anything, compounded by a healthy dose of herd behaviour, is the reason the approaching precipice was obscured.
More ammunition in my daughter's quest for an iPhone 4s
The problem here is that a video does not neccessarily accurately document misconduct. Classic example might be police arresting a violent out of control offender who resists. The video would probably not capture the offense, just the end point where officers are physically restraining the perpetrator. It is not difficult to edit some footage to make it look like the police were behaving unreasonably. Should the full facts be known casual observers might come to an entirely different conclusion. Instead they'll get edited footage from someone who might have an undeclared agenda. Add in the sites promulgation of officers personal information and you have a volatile mix. The truth is that there are some pretty nasty people out there who may or may not be carrying a weapon and the only option for police is physical restraint.
One of the more unusual eulogies
I had BT fibre to my place for a while. It was awesome and very reliable (one of the reasons why I went for it). But chatting to the engineer it turned out there is another reason why BT are keen to push forward with fibre - a certain section of the community are pinching copper wire. Fibre does not have much resale value, if any, and can last longer. I was near the sea and it turned out one reason why fibre was installed was because the original wiring was degrading faster than expected. So upgrading has other long-term benefits, other than the obvious.
What maintains quality is the peer review system (which the journals do not pay for).
Very much definitely this. And what is strange is that reviewers give their time freely (although I have been offered payment a few times, it is pretty unusual). It is pretty obvious that if academics find themselves unable to distribute their work fairly then publishers might find it increasingly hard to find people to review submissions.
This is a really good thing. As the summary notes, this will teach kids logic and thinking systematically. Knowing how to program isn't just a useful skill in the direct sense of programming things and possibly being employed that way. It also does a really good job of making one think precisely and carefully. There's also another advantage which is it helps kids appreciate that the technology around them are things they can understand and don't need to treat like they are magic.
They are also skills that generalise and are useful elsewhere, not just in IT. I also see programming as something of a conduit - you programme something so this could help nurture interests in other areas like math.
What if it's cloudy?
Intel should get into the restaurant business - they do high end computng and cook food at the same time.
They find an impage of a missing child on your phone... then what? Guys in black balaclavas burst into your home? Presumably this app would access to more than just the photos in order to work our who you were and where you are? That said, I quite like the idea but so long as I can trace my cheating ex-wife
You are asking a paranoid bunch of very high performing individuals to cooperate with one another and write a mission statement. I like the idea... but... er... oh look, shiny things!
Why must it always be mankind that is responsible, even for the rise of the apes?
You know for once it would be nice if the mollusks were the bad guy, screwing things up for humans. Gastropods could evolve to have hi-tech bio-warfare labs in their shells, they retreat and then re-emerge with an exotic neurotoxin precisely tailored to the threat. Then! Fed up with being trodden on and being cooked in French cuisine they turn on mankind by turning chimps into hyper-intelligent evil psychopaths! Only to find that the now dominant chimps evolve a taste for escargots au beurre d'ail.
He was not trying to generate electricity - "To get it to generate electricity you would need a turbine and a generator and that is very difficult to build yourself," he told HD. He was just tinkering! Obviously a DIY purist. This guy should get a geek medal or something. Utterly brilliant. And I am very pleased I'm not his neighbour.
erm... RAM? That is kind of a big one