then the client goes into 'reduced functionality mode'
Please translate that for us Linux/UNIX/OS X users. To us it seems that Microsoft Operating Systems always run in 'reduced functionality mode'. Do you mean that functionality is reduced even more?!?
who here would be dumb enough to say times are better to raise a child in 2006 than they were in 1956?
Black people (espcially, but not limited to, those in the formerly-segregated South)? Parents with gay children? Japanese Americans? American Indians? Pacifists? Parents who don't want their children to die from smoking-related diseases. Parents who don't want their childrens' IQs to fall from environmental lead poisoning, or suffer other poisoning (the EPA bans are not really 'technological advances'). Parents of daughters who want their child to have a wide choice of careers and financial independence? Let's just cut this short and say, "almost everybody except rednecks."
money put into the pirate "industry"... goes directly into organised crime and people trafficking
That's for the street vendors and back-alley shops selling physical media. How much money do you think the Mafia or Al Quaeda gets when someone downloads a thousand songs for free? If they want to cut-off the flow of money to the criminals, they should promote profitless online file sharing.
Anything the government was going to do you could do with your taxes anyways.
Curse those Sumerians and their communal irrigation system. Life was so much better when all you needed was a pointed stick.
That's the real reason we're in Iraq: to punish the descendents of those Big-Government mesopotamians. Hammurabi was the Ur-Marxist. (don't mod me down just because you hate puns)
Why can't Google just put a "rated offensive" warning page like YouTube has?
By that token, perhaps they should have refused the Chinese government's demand of censorship, and offered to put a "Warning: rated subversive" notice on those pages.
How would you like to be Google? You cave in to the legal (not 'good', but legal) demands of the Chinese government to censor content, and you get slammed. You refuse to censor blogs in Australia, you get slammed. Maybe they need to add a line to their mission statement, "Don't be neutral."
Funny. Just the other day, I was beating a guy with a steel pipe and I distinctly remember not feeling a thing!
Delusion can be powerful. Maybe we should conduct a/. poll to see how many of us think that we could beat someone with a steel pipe, without feeling anything.
I am sure that you are not serious, but if you were, then our society would consider you to be a psycopath (IANAP), one who is so deluded as to be "diseased".
"love others equal to themself." funny how some donkey riding guy knew this all too well but so many today, 2000+ years later, don't grasp it.
And 2550 years ago, some under-tree-sitting guy knew that you should love everyone as yourself, because 'they' are not distinct from 'you'. The sad state of the world can be explained by the failure to follow any of the many teachings that would make things other than they are.
the cd ls cd ls cd ls cd ls method actually may not be quicker than clicking as you go
Hie thee to a decent shell. With "command-completion" (or is guess it should be called "filename-completion" in this case), you hit a key to complete filenames for you. This even works on Windows XP in a "cmd" shell (unless perhaps the UnixUtils package added this feature???)
In a BASH shell, type "cd/us" (leave off the 'r'). Hit the TAB key, and BASH adds "r/" so that your current command is "cd/usr/". I add an 'l' ('L', not one) and hit TAB again. BASH beeps at me (more than subdir starts with 'l'), so I hit TAB again, and BASH offers "lib/ lib64/ local/". I hit 'o' (because I want "local"), and hit TAB. I now have "cd/usr/local/".
BTW, since my command starts with "cd", BASH knows to only complete my command with directories, not files. If my command dealt with files, then even filenames would be offered. To get really sophisticated, BASH can have associated filename patterns for some commands; if trying to launch Adobe Acrobat Reader, type "acroread {TAB}" and you will only be offered PDF files. GUI Explorer windows can't touch this ease-of-use.
If you are typing "cd ls cd ls cd ls", then you haven't grokked the power and beauty of your shell. If you already know about command-completion, then I apologize for sounding condescending. But many people (even those who have PowerUser status on Windows) don't know how well these tools really work.
I doubt that desktop interfaces will ever shift to full 3D. There's no reason to, it would be more difficult to navigate than '3D' paradigm of nested directorys accessed through a 2D window display that we use today.
That's what the Xerox Execs said about computers moving to color. And to be honest, they were right that there is very little reason for a business desktop to use color. Sure, it makes the pie charts pretty, but there are enough hash-mark patterns that do the same job.
As for a 3D filesystem being more difficult to navigate, a command-line is still a hell of a lot easier way to navigate our filesystems than point-and-click. I can get anywhere on my filesystem a lot easier and faster using "cd" (esp. with command-completion) than I can by clicking: "My Computer", "C:", "Program Files", "Adobe", etc. Just because a new GUI hurts productivity, doesn't mean that it won't be wildly popular. Yes this applies to the bottom-line-loving suits, too.
I'm pretty sure that we don't broadcast VOA inside America. It is propoganda for export only. For domestically-taretted propoganda, tune in to Fox News.
Huh? When did that change? It's always said "Thou shalt not kill" in my bible.
The Bible has gone through a lot more revision than some people want to admit. AFAIK from History Channel and such, the original Hebrew word would be better translated as 'murder' rather than 'kill' (not that I am questioning the divinely guided translation of the KJV! please don't murder/kill me for my heresy).
In a similar vein, it seems that the term used for Mary would better be translated as 'young woman', but 'virgin' has that extra zing.
I played entirely too much Diablo 2 back in the day (Ok, I'm not that old...).
I played entirely too much Wolfenstein 3D back in the day. That doesn't make me too old, but this does: the only reason that I tried Wolfenstein 3D was because of all of time that I spent playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple ][+.
You could have just tossed-out the mouldy pizza and expired ketchup, and climbed in and closed the door. Then you would have seen whether the light goes off or not.
There are two kinds of problems with this idea: technical and business.
On the technical side, let's say that you get this measurement technology into Scientific Atlanta cable boxes. What about:
satellite TV viewers
off-the-air TV viewers (getting more popular with ATSC digital)
IPTV viewers (e.g. Verizon FIOS)
3rd party DVR (e.g. non-cable-box TiVo)
cable companies that use Motorola or really rare manuf.
video iPod
This is just the list that comes to mind. Nielsen measures viewing, regardless of the equipment and service that the viewer uses.
Nielsen's cients really care about who in the household is watching what. They don't want to know what the TV was playing (which might have been left on in an empty room); they want to know which shows each member of the household was watching. It is critical to the advertisers to hit that 18-34 year-old male "sweet spot". The spending habits of many age and gender ranges are "known", and the audience mix has as much to do with the value of advertising as the raw numbers of viewers. Cable companies can't measure this audience mix. You can't tell every cable viewer in America that they have to hit a button on their remote, for each household member who is watching, every 15 minutes. To get this kind of data, you have to have active compliance (which probably means incentives ($)), and you have to be able to track non-compliance for when your data is prepared. This is not simple, easy, or cheap.
On the business side, there is a huge trust issue. Neither the networks nor the advertisers are going to trust numbers that come from the cable companies. These companies have a vested interest in inflating numbers for channels carrying cable-company-generated ads. They might also have an interest in deflating the numbers of more expensive programming/channels, to bring-down the cost (to the cable companies) of those channels. The cable box manufacturers have only the cable companies as their clients, so who would trust them to not put-in any 'features' that the cable companies want?
There is a lot of grumbling about Nielsen being slow to embrace change, and being an expensive service. However, with the exception of Rupert Murdoch, pretty much all of the advertisers and networks trust Nielsen to be non-biased. Nielsen has no conflicting interest; it neither produces programming, nor sells ads.
BTW, the advertisers and networks really do get to decide how large a sample is "good enough". There are currently over 8,000 Nielsen families. If Nielsen's clients said "That's not accurate enough. We want 30,000 Nielsen families.", then there would be 30,000 Nielsen families. But it turns-out that the statistics with 8,000 families is more than enough (what is it, a +/- 2% confidence factor?)
Nielsen's clients aren't screaming for larger samples. They're saying that they want (and are willing to pay for), 'deeper' measurement. They want those 8,000+ families to be measured in more ways. They want video game play measured. They want out-of-home viewing (in-car, at sports bars, in hospital waiting rooms, at a friend's house, etc.) measured. They want video iPod viewing measured. They want to know if these family members watch the commercials. They want to know if the purchasing habits of the family members is influenced by the advertising that they are exposed to (yes, Nielsen has families that scan everything that they purchase through a Nielsen barcode reader, which then gets correlated with their TV advertising exposure). Accurate data from a small (but properly chosen) sample, is "better" than sloppy data from a huge sample.
Like it or not, the term social intelligence is widely used and recognized. Googlefight puts it at about 50 million hits versus 96 million for social skills, so it is at least in the same order of magnititude of use.
When I GoogleFight the two terms, I get very different answers. Note that I searched for the terms using quotation marks, so the exact phrase had to be there, not just the words "social" and "intelligence" in the same document.
"social intelligence" = 468,000 (half a million)
"social skills" = 5,610,000 (5 million) 1 order of magnitude greater
There is more to social intelligence than empathy.
Then how about the term "social skills"? Why attempt to confuse the issue? Intelligence is a complex enough topic without introducing "Golf Intelligence".
the ability to compose pleasing or original compositions, which is more a function of musical intelligence
Which phrase is more likely to be used: "He is a talented composer" or "He is an intelligent composer"? These phrases mean different things (at least to most people they do). To stress that someone is an "intelligent" composer sounds like you are discussing two different things (intelligent and a composer), or that you are saying that someone's compositions are intellectually rather than emotionally oriented (probably not a complement).
Anything that broadens the definition of intelligence makes you less special in your own mind.
Destroying the definition of intelligence can't change how I view myself. It could force me to use different adjectives when describing myself to others (oh, the horror!), but since I don't walk around telling people that I am "intelligent", that doesn't apply either. Redefining words to the point of uselessness (as you said, "intelligence is a stupid term in itself") prevents us from discussing differences in mental processing.
Discussing the murder rate, and the economic and societal factors that influence the murder rate, becomes very difficult if the definition is changed by the "Abortion is Murder", "Fur is Murder", and "Meat is Murder" factions.
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So when will you imagine?
Please translate that for us Linux/UNIX/OS X users. To us it seems that Microsoft Operating Systems always run in 'reduced functionality mode'. Do you mean that functionality is reduced even more?!?
Vista.
Black people (espcially, but not limited to, those in the formerly-segregated South)? Parents with gay children? Japanese Americans? American Indians? Pacifists? Parents who don't want their children to die from smoking-related diseases. Parents who don't want their childrens' IQs to fall from environmental lead poisoning, or suffer other poisoning (the EPA bans are not really 'technological advances'). Parents of daughters who want their child to have a wide choice of careers and financial independence? Let's just cut this short and say, "almost everybody except rednecks."
To get modded "insightful", comment without even RTFAP
That's for the street vendors and back-alley shops selling physical media. How much money do you think the Mafia or Al Quaeda gets when someone downloads a thousand songs for free? If they want to cut-off the flow of money to the criminals, they should promote profitless online file sharing.
Sure it does; your cellmate can conjugate you all night long. The showers are affectionately called "conjugamania".
Curse those Sumerians and their communal irrigation system. Life was so much better when all you needed was a pointed stick.
That's the real reason we're in Iraq: to punish the descendents of those Big-Government mesopotamians. Hammurabi was the Ur-Marxist. (don't mod me down just because you hate puns)
Since you were both drunk, if she was on top, is she the one guilty of rape?
If your BAC was 0.20 and hers was 0.18, then you were more incapacitated than she was. Is she guilty of rape?
By that token, perhaps they should have refused the Chinese government's demand of censorship, and offered to put a "Warning: rated subversive" notice on those pages.
(Insert Zapf Brannigan quote here).
Delusion can be powerful. Maybe we should conduct a /. poll to see how many of us think that we could beat someone with a steel pipe, without feeling anything.
I am sure that you are not serious, but if you were, then our society would consider you to be a psycopath (IANAP), one who is so deluded as to be "diseased".
And 2550 years ago, some under-tree-sitting guy knew that you should love everyone as yourself, because 'they' are not distinct from 'you'. The sad state of the world can be explained by the failure to follow any of the many teachings that would make things other than they are.
Hie thee to a decent shell. With "command-completion" (or is guess it should be called "filename-completion" in this case), you hit a key to complete filenames for you. This even works on Windows XP in a "cmd" shell (unless perhaps the UnixUtils package added this feature???)
In a BASH shell, type "cd /us" (leave off the 'r'). Hit the TAB key, and BASH adds "r/" so that your current command is "cd /usr/". I add an 'l' ('L', not one) and hit TAB again. BASH beeps at me (more than subdir starts with 'l'), so I hit TAB again, and BASH offers "lib/ lib64/ local/". I hit 'o' (because I want "local"), and hit TAB. I now have "cd /usr/local/".
BTW, since my command starts with "cd", BASH knows to only complete my command with directories, not files. If my command dealt with files, then even filenames would be offered. To get really sophisticated, BASH can have associated filename patterns for some commands; if trying to launch Adobe Acrobat Reader, type "acroread {TAB}" and you will only be offered PDF files. GUI Explorer windows can't touch this ease-of-use.
If you are typing "cd ls cd ls cd ls", then you haven't grokked the power and beauty of your shell. If you already know about command-completion, then I apologize for sounding condescending. But many people (even those who have PowerUser status on Windows) don't know how well these tools really work.
1. Outlaw federal funding of research using embryonic stem cells
2. Point out that embryonic stem cell therapies don't exist
3. ???
4. Prophet
That's what the Xerox Execs said about computers moving to color. And to be honest, they were right that there is very little reason for a business desktop to use color. Sure, it makes the pie charts pretty, but there are enough hash-mark patterns that do the same job.
As for a 3D filesystem being more difficult to navigate, a command-line is still a hell of a lot easier way to navigate our filesystems than point-and-click. I can get anywhere on my filesystem a lot easier and faster using "cd" (esp. with command-completion) than I can by clicking: "My Computer", "C:", "Program Files", "Adobe", etc. Just because a new GUI hurts productivity, doesn't mean that it won't be wildly popular. Yes this applies to the bottom-line-loving suits, too.
The fact that "FLA" is a TLA is not cromulent!
I'm pretty sure that we don't broadcast VOA inside America. It is propoganda for export only. For domestically-taretted propoganda, tune in to Fox News.
The Bible has gone through a lot more revision than some people want to admit. AFAIK from History Channel and such, the original Hebrew word would be better translated as 'murder' rather than 'kill' (not that I am questioning the divinely guided translation of the KJV! please don't murder/kill me for my heresy).
In a similar vein, it seems that the term used for Mary would better be translated as 'young woman', but 'virgin' has that extra zing.
I played entirely too much Wolfenstein 3D back in the day. That doesn't make me too old, but this does: the only reason that I tried Wolfenstein 3D was because of all of time that I spent playing the original Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple ][+.
You can blame me for a lack of moderation, but in the end it's not my fault that I don't have any mod points today.
You could have just tossed-out the mouldy pizza and expired ketchup, and climbed in and closed the door. Then you would have seen whether the light goes off or not.
There are two kinds of problems with this idea: technical and business.
On the technical side, let's say that you get this measurement technology into Scientific Atlanta cable boxes. What about:
This is just the list that comes to mind. Nielsen measures viewing, regardless of the equipment and service that the viewer uses.
Nielsen's cients really care about who in the household is watching what. They don't want to know what the TV was playing (which might have been left on in an empty room); they want to know which shows each member of the household was watching. It is critical to the advertisers to hit that 18-34 year-old male "sweet spot". The spending habits of many age and gender ranges are "known", and the audience mix has as much to do with the value of advertising as the raw numbers of viewers. Cable companies can't measure this audience mix. You can't tell every cable viewer in America that they have to hit a button on their remote, for each household member who is watching, every 15 minutes. To get this kind of data, you have to have active compliance (which probably means incentives ($)), and you have to be able to track non-compliance for when your data is prepared. This is not simple, easy, or cheap.
On the business side, there is a huge trust issue. Neither the networks nor the advertisers are going to trust numbers that come from the cable companies. These companies have a vested interest in inflating numbers for channels carrying cable-company-generated ads. They might also have an interest in deflating the numbers of more expensive programming/channels, to bring-down the cost (to the cable companies) of those channels. The cable box manufacturers have only the cable companies as their clients, so who would trust them to not put-in any 'features' that the cable companies want?
There is a lot of grumbling about Nielsen being slow to embrace change, and being an expensive service. However, with the exception of Rupert Murdoch, pretty much all of the advertisers and networks trust Nielsen to be non-biased. Nielsen has no conflicting interest; it neither produces programming, nor sells ads.
BTW, the advertisers and networks really do get to decide how large a sample is "good enough". There are currently over 8,000 Nielsen families. If Nielsen's clients said "That's not accurate enough. We want 30,000 Nielsen families.", then there would be 30,000 Nielsen families. But it turns-out that the statistics with 8,000 families is more than enough (what is it, a +/- 2% confidence factor?)
Nielsen's clients aren't screaming for larger samples. They're saying that they want (and are willing to pay for), 'deeper' measurement. They want those 8,000+ families to be measured in more ways. They want video game play measured. They want out-of-home viewing (in-car, at sports bars, in hospital waiting rooms, at a friend's house, etc.) measured. They want video iPod viewing measured. They want to know if these family members watch the commercials. They want to know if the purchasing habits of the family members is influenced by the advertising that they are exposed to (yes, Nielsen has families that scan everything that they purchase through a Nielsen barcode reader, which then gets correlated with their TV advertising exposure). Accurate data from a small (but properly chosen) sample, is "better" than sloppy data from a huge sample.
When I GoogleFight the two terms, I get very different answers. Note that I searched for the terms using quotation marks, so the exact phrase had to be there, not just the words "social" and "intelligence" in the same document.
"social intelligence" = 468,000 (half a million)
"social skills" = 5,610,000 (5 million) 1 order of magnitude greater
I'm just saying...
Then how about the term "social skills"? Why attempt to confuse the issue? Intelligence is a complex enough topic without introducing "Golf Intelligence".
the ability to compose pleasing or original compositions, which is more a function of musical intelligence
Which phrase is more likely to be used: "He is a talented composer" or "He is an intelligent composer"? These phrases mean different things (at least to most people they do). To stress that someone is an "intelligent" composer sounds like you are discussing two different things (intelligent and a composer), or that you are saying that someone's compositions are intellectually rather than emotionally oriented (probably not a complement).
Anything that broadens the definition of intelligence makes you less special in your own mind.
Destroying the definition of intelligence can't change how I view myself. It could force me to use different adjectives when describing myself to others (oh, the horror!), but since I don't walk around telling people that I am "intelligent", that doesn't apply either. Redefining words to the point of uselessness (as you said, "intelligence is a stupid term in itself") prevents us from discussing differences in mental processing.
Discussing the murder rate, and the economic and societal factors that influence the murder rate, becomes very difficult if the definition is changed by the "Abortion is Murder", "Fur is Murder", and "Meat is Murder" factions.