Besides all the torso talk: Actually, putting on a cap on your head is a great way to save heat. The brain is located very near the surface of the body, so you are losing heat like there's no tomorrow if you don't wear a cap in cold conditions. The body always give heat priority to the brain, and there is no depth of tissue outside it to take the heat gradient.
A Swedish TV show claimed something like 75% of your heat losses are through your (uncovered) head at cold temperatures.
The GPL personalities that now are unwillingly involved are heavy weight names. The people on the other side are no-names, foot soldiers.
The tactic from the SCO side may be to "dance" with these, for us, important guys. Until our guys take a wrong step. SCOers are expendable. Thorvalds and Stallman are not.
SCO has more than likely received what is generally known as "Death Spiral Financing."
I've tried to find where you can buy options in SCOX to make a small buck when they go belly-up, but sites like Etrade displays no options available for SCOX (though other company symbols have options chains).
Many episodes deal more with the social evolution of humanity rather than shooting 'phasers' at everything that doesn't look human.
Thanks DeathPenguin for your posting. Star Trek shows that SciFi can be relationship oriented instead of just tech (killing and such stuff is just an extension of simplistic logic, ie dead, not dead). I don't say this is better but for everyone but I believe humnanity is fundamentally split into two groups, and Star Trek caters more to us feelers than to thinkers.
Also, bear in mind that these are continuums, not classifications. You'll be *somewhere between* Introversion and Extroversion, *somewhere between* sensing and intuitive, and so on.
In Real Life you may appear to be, however basically the classifications are not continuums. You can learn to appreciate introversion, or begin to fathom feeling, as examples, but you stay in your type. Mixing strategies (e.g. thinking and feeling ) on a fundamental level would make our heads spin. However as we get older we appear to be more "continous" since we learn to use a mixed bag of "tactics" because that works best IRL.
Introversion is, according to the Myers-Briggs typology, people who use their dominant function "inwards", i e reflecting on things already taken in instead of reacting directly to the outside world.
So what is a "function"? Everyone has four functions that we use: Two information generating functions, and two decision making functions.
The informations gathering functions are called "sensing" and "intuition" respectively, and the decision making functions are called "feeling" and "thinking"
Sensing is about the here and now, and what has happened before. Intuition is about seeing patterns and multiple developments developing from a situation: Dreaming and imagination. Feeling is about making decisions based upon peoples reactions and hunches about this (empathy). Thinking is about making decisions on well defined thoughts logically strung together and disregard the fluffy stuff.
However as each person grows into and adult, she chooses to rely on a pairing of one of the information gathering functions and one of the decision making functions, and more or less disregard the two others. She often has a problem understanding that other people have chosen other pairings and this can lead to a lot of misunderstanding.
Anyway to get back top the discussion on introversion: When you have your two functions you rely on (as an example thinking and intuition), if the one that dominates is directed inwards, you're an introvert. Roughly half of all Americans are introverts.
Hackers and programmers come in all types, though e.g. INTJ is often associated with programmers. INTJ is a person who uses intuition as her dominant function directed inwards, and thinking (directed outwards) for decision making.
This is a large and complex (well basically a bit unstructured) subject and I fully expect a number of posters to point out errors in the above text:-)
/jeorgen
who tests as ENFP (Extrovert intuitive feeler)
Compression could save hearing
on
Is Louder Better?
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
If a recording sounds louder it has more compression. This also means that there are no strong peaks either. With low compression you sometimes turn the volume up while listening, which means loud spikes will be very loud: The brain integrates (smears out) loud noises over 100ms but the ear only over 10 ms. So sudden spikes hurt the ear more than they sound to the brain.
Some of these Game Theory scenarios do not include the bigger social picture. Sometimes it's rational to turn down a paltry offer and make it so that both loses, even when that could be seen as irrational.
However it is only rational to take $1 if you are absolutely sure that:
1) You will not be doing business with the other person again
2) People won't find out you're a loser.
And yes, the experiments I guess explicitly presupposes that 1) and 2) are true, but the brain probably says "Who am I to trust that?". The situation is too artificial for the brain to take seriously.
Try walking hunched on a crowded sidewalk and then try to walk straight (particularly stretch your stomach, rotate your tailbone back and press your pelvis lightly forward). People will stop bouncing into you. Why? Because a person walking straight and proud can't give way without falling, while walking hunched gives you good balance to give way in all directions. So you commit to walking staright and the game changes. People solve it through readjusting their paths at more of a distance, problem solved. I. e. you solved the problem by changing the problem: "This is what I am gonna do, you guys do what you want".
Spampal is great (and free)! I use it with Outlook 2000. Spampal is a POP proxy. You install it as a service on your mom's computer and direct outlook to get the mail from it (ie localhost). Spampal then fetches the the mail from the real pop mailbox and tags all spam based on block lists. You the create an outlook mail folder called spam or something and make a rule that all mails with the header "X-spam-pal..." should be sent there.
Since the cost of light bulbs in projectors is really high, it would be interesting to know how many bulbs they burned through in the test for each projector.
Ink jet printers have very different running costs due to different costs for replacement ink cartridges. Does anyone know of a breakdown of running costs for different projectors or at least can share some experiences?
In your post, you keep confusing the term Politically correct
with smarter. Please avoid this error in the future.
Politically correct has nothing to do with it. Politically
correct means to give an answer according to a dogma, regardless of
the facts at hand. The dogma in the politically correct is
something along the lines to deny old dogma and create new ones, usually
molded in opposition to the old.
Seriously, though... Would you also say To make a difference
between men and women WRT child-bearing is completely idiotic. It is much
smarter to make a difference between people with wombs and without?
Of course it is better to check for wombs:-). Or to go even further;
fertile women and the rest of humanity. It all depends on what you want to
find out. Dividing humanity into men and women is an exceedingly crude
taxonomy for any kind of more advanced knowledge about individuals. You
don't go around saying Women should be given antibiotics and men
anti blood clotting agents, now do you? And the reason why is that
we have at our disposal a much more fine grained taxonomy, as for example,
who has a bacterial infection and who doesn't.
When society realizes that males and females each have their own
strengths, we'll start advancing noticeably faster. Until then, we'll keep
having suboptimal role-fillings because everyone wants to pretend no
differences exist.
Most people do not fit into gender stereotypes. There are other
groupings than man-woman. The Economist had an interesting article some
years ago about short men vs tall men. You had a bigger difference there
than between the sexes (income etc), so the sex grouping is often
arbitrary, and it hurts individuals. You are falling into a collectivist
trap here. Why don't you just treat individuals just as individuals? Some
are good at some things, some bad at them. And it's not a question of
being politically correct. It's abut supporting and promoting any
individual baased on their weaknesses (in childhood) and strengths (in
child- and adulthood). I don't care if a person working for me is a male
or female as long as the job gets done. If I would hang on to stereotypes
in my thinking I would miss many opportunities. And people aren't distributed evenly throughout society either. If a woman wants to become a soldier she is more likely to have the personality traits and skills appropriate for the job than a woman picked out at random.
I'm not after that people should be treated the same. Quite the
opposite. An WRT to gender roles, have you heard of the Myers-Briggs
personality test? It's administered to some 3mio people every year. Most
women who take it answer in such a way to the questions that they fit into
the gender role, and most men do too for their role (I'm referring to the
feeling/thinking dichotomy in the test). But a full 1/3 of each sex does
not. NAd that is, generally speaking, how bad gender steretyping works.
To make a difference between men and women WRT 3D user interface design is completely idiotic. It is much smarter to make a difference between people with high spatial ability and low. You can measure it. It just takes a littler longer than to check the genitals.
I score very bad on spatial ability, and I am a man. My father does the same. Incidentally we're both computer consultants.
Wouldn't it be smarter to say that people with low spatial ability need bigger screens for the same performance? Why the gender thing? Battle of the sexes?
For those who only get it when exercising, it isn't much good, since they are breathing so heavily because they need the O2 for the exertion! And for those with allergic-type, I can't see how it could do any good.
My problems where not asthma, but inflammatory reaction, ie allergic-type. Still Buteyko helped me. With regards to exercise-induced asthma, the theory is that exertion makes you overbreathe, either directly from the exercise, after the exercise or even because you breathed to less during the exercise and your body is overcompensating afterwards to keep up.
I've tried jogging and it takes down my Control Pause (CP), and so does doing breathing exercises too hard (breathing so little your pulse goes up).
Easy does it. I know it's hard to "believe" in new stuff all the time, since most of it is not helpful, but if you have the time I advise you to try the exercises just for a few days. Just check that your pulse does not go up, because then your starving yourself of oxygen beyond increasing your Co2.
Interesting, but not terribly new. The idea that the increased breathing rate
of asthmatics is the cause and not an effect of their symptoms has been around
for a while.
If you're interested, I advise you to try. It really does work. I've done it.
I did not have asthma per se but bronchitis (seasonal). It lubricates the mucus
membranes, relaxes the smooth tissue muscles and moderates the immune system. It
so obvious when you do it, as long as you're actually increasing your co2 level,
and you're not just overbreathing just due to the stresses of the exercises..
It has been alternatively proven and disproven at least 3 times that I
know of over the past 60 years or so.
I gather you're talking about the breathing rate? This is specifically about
the CO2. You can breathe away as much as you want as long as you keep it small.
However if you have sources I know a community that would love to hear about
them.
This theory has the same problem as every other theory/model/whatever
describing asthma: asthma is not a homogeneous disease. It isn't even a single
disease. Hell, some people don't even like calling it a disease at all. There
are several mechanistiaclly distinct syndromes that all present as asthma. This
theory possibly addresses one, and can therefore be proven or disproven
depending solely on what subpopulation of asthmatics you survey.
No. This theory cuts to the heart of asthma, i e not getting enough air. The
body may block your nose, and wrt the air pipe and lungs, let the mucus
membranes swell or put the smooth muscle tissue into a cramp. It is still the
same source of the problems. I have found lots of people who bear witness of how
this method has helped them, and none who say it hasn't. There must be I think,
but, again, I'd like to hear about them.
A very elegant explanation of the
cause for asthma is that it's due to subtle chronic hyperventilation. Asthma is simply a protection mechanism against the depletion of carbon dioxide in the
body. Some people have genetic predisposition for this protection. CO2 is needed
to balance the immune system and to relax muscle tissue, among other things. A thunderstorm imposes stress and that is enough to trigger the protection
mechanism.
Ok, so I didn't follow the link, but just reading the headline "Do RIAA Demands Violate FERPA Protections?", it just feels like the powerful full bodied upper case acronym RIAA has been challenged by a new kid on the block, the FERPA.
FERPA has less redundancy in it's structure with four unique letters, against the unnecessary duplication of the "A"'s at the end of the RIAA.
FERPA has a more aggressive to feel to it with all the usual F* connotations and the spiffy "P" giving it rhythm. I think it stands a chance.
I have started using Gnome/Redhat recently, and I am seriously impressed by the icons. I teach user interface design, emphasizing silouette and clean lines with regards to icons. And the icons on my Gnome desktop are gorgeous (I normally use Windows though I believe Macintosh 6.05 and thereabouts was the bees knees user interface wise).
This good UI design seems to permeate more areas of the Gnome world. Yesterday I discovered the moleskine editor. It has the same graphical style and user interface simplicíty. Well worth a look. Gorgeous.
If you want to get a window on Linux with one single Windows application in it, the screen sharing application tightvnc has a beta (se bottom of page) where you can e.g. share just one window instead of the whole screen. they've named it partial desktop sharing
have you ever used a PDA? The entire interfaces are driven by pen-based gestures
..what I mean is to the use the cell phone or PDA itself as the thing you're doing gestures with, in the air, hence the gyro. I am aware of the pen-based interfaces.
Maybe gestures could take off on cell phones and PDAs with their cramped space for input devices? Put in a gyro and just gesture away, no need for a keyboard. Would make it even harder though to distinguish between loonies (who walk around talking and gesturing to themselves) and ordinary cell phone users.
If you are actually doing XP, tell me a little about:
* the kind of project
Web based publishing systems, cross publishing systems, search engines, log analysis.
* how it was done before
Pretty much like XP, but not so formalised. I.e. the customer was in charge, no hard contracts but rather a relationship and mutual trust with customer, delivering a quick bottom line solution first and then add features on request.. * what prompted you to make the switch to XP
It made good sense judging from my own experience. My degree from University is in Systems Development methodologies, and I have always found the ones we were taught to be very bureaucratic. I also worked as a project leader in a research environment were we used a lot of prototyping. * how that switch work and how long it took
We're not yet ready with any smooth running unit testing framework, but it took maybe one month to get pair programming and stories to function well. The company is Webworks (in Swedish), BTW.
* and how things have been since moving to XP
Very relaxed, no worries, although I have a tendency to burn out when I'm driving in pair programming since I can go so fast now. Customers are happy too.
" * do you know others doing XP, if so how many"
Nope
Slashdot Mirror
Step one for rationality is to get people out from under their beds :-)
Actually, putting on a cap on your head is a great way to save heat. The brain is located very near the surface of the body, so you are losing heat like there's no tomorrow if you don't wear a cap in cold conditions. The body always give heat priority to the brain, and there is no depth of tissue outside it to take the heat gradient.
A Swedish TV show claimed something like 75% of your heat losses are through your (uncovered) head at cold temperatures.
The tactic from the SCO side may be to "dance" with these, for us, important guys. Until our guys take a wrong step. SCOers are expendable. Thorvalds and Stallman are not.
SCO has more than likely received what is generally known as "Death Spiral Financing."
I've tried to find where you can buy options in SCOX to make a small buck when they go belly-up, but sites like Etrade displays no options available for SCOX (though other company symbols have options chains).
Anyone knows why?
Not everyone on slashdot may know what the TNO and TUV is. To clarify it is the Dutch and German equivalent to the Swedish SIS.
One piece of paper per candidate,with the candidate's name printed on it. Put it into an envelope. Put the envelope into the ballot box. That's it.
It's fool proof, tamper resistant, easy to inspect and has (well actually is) a paper trail.
In Real Life you may appear to be, however basically the classifications are not continuums. You can learn to appreciate introversion, or begin to fathom feeling, as examples, but you stay in your type. Mixing strategies (e.g. thinking and feeling ) on a fundamental level would make our heads spin. However as we get older we appear to be more "continous" since we learn to use a mixed bag of "tactics" because that works best IRL.
So what is a "function"? Everyone has four functions that we use: Two information generating functions, and two decision making functions.
The informations gathering functions are called "sensing" and "intuition" respectively, and the decision making functions are called "feeling" and "thinking"
Sensing is about the here and now, and what has happened before. Intuition is about seeing patterns and multiple developments developing from a situation: Dreaming and imagination. Feeling is about making decisions based upon peoples reactions and hunches about this (empathy). Thinking is about making decisions on well defined thoughts logically strung together and disregard the fluffy stuff.
However as each person grows into and adult, she chooses to rely on a pairing of one of the information gathering functions and one of the decision making functions, and more or less disregard the two others. She often has a problem understanding that other people have chosen other pairings and this can lead to a lot of misunderstanding.
Anyway to get back top the discussion on introversion: When you have your two functions you rely on (as an example thinking and intuition), if the one that dominates is directed inwards, you're an introvert. Roughly half of all Americans are introverts.
Hackers and programmers come in all types, though e.g. INTJ is often associated with programmers. INTJ is a person who uses intuition as her dominant function directed inwards, and thinking (directed outwards) for decision making.
This is a large and complex (well basically a bit unstructured) subject and I fully expect a number of posters to point out errors in the above text :-)
who tests as ENFP (Extrovert intuitive feeler)
However it is only rational to take $1 if you are absolutely sure that:
1) You will not be doing business with the other person again
2) People won't find out you're a loser.
And yes, the experiments I guess explicitly presupposes that 1) and 2) are true, but the brain probably says "Who am I to trust that?". The situation is too artificial for the brain to take seriously.
Try walking hunched on a crowded sidewalk and then try to walk straight (particularly stretch your stomach, rotate your tailbone back and press your pelvis lightly forward). People will stop bouncing into you. Why? Because a person walking straight and proud can't give way without falling, while walking hunched gives you good balance to give way in all directions. So you commit to walking staright and the game changes. People solve it through readjusting their paths at more of a distance, problem solved. I. e. you solved the problem by changing the problem: "This is what I am gonna do, you guys do what you want".
Ink jet printers have very different running costs due to different costs for replacement ink cartridges. Does anyone know of a breakdown of running costs for different projectors or at least can share some experiences?
Politically correct has nothing to do with it. Politically correct means to give an answer according to a dogma, regardless of the facts at hand. The dogma in the politically correct is something along the lines to deny old dogma and create new ones, usually molded in opposition to the old.
Seriously, though... Would you also say To make a difference between men and women WRT child-bearing is completely idiotic. It is much smarter to make a difference between people with wombs and without?
Of course it is better to check for wombs :-). Or to go even further;
fertile women and the rest of humanity. It all depends on what you want to
find out. Dividing humanity into men and women is an exceedingly crude
taxonomy for any kind of more advanced knowledge about individuals. You
don't go around saying Women should be given antibiotics and men
anti blood clotting agents, now do you? And the reason why is that
we have at our disposal a much more fine grained taxonomy, as for example,
who has a bacterial infection and who doesn't.
When society realizes that males and females each have their own strengths, we'll start advancing noticeably faster. Until then, we'll keep having suboptimal role-fillings because everyone wants to pretend no differences exist.
Most people do not fit into gender stereotypes. There are other groupings than man-woman. The Economist had an interesting article some years ago about short men vs tall men. You had a bigger difference there than between the sexes (income etc), so the sex grouping is often arbitrary, and it hurts individuals. You are falling into a collectivist trap here. Why don't you just treat individuals just as individuals? Some are good at some things, some bad at them. And it's not a question of being politically correct. It's abut supporting and promoting any individual baased on their weaknesses (in childhood) and strengths (in child- and adulthood). I don't care if a person working for me is a male or female as long as the job gets done. If I would hang on to stereotypes in my thinking I would miss many opportunities. And people aren't distributed evenly throughout society either. If a woman wants to become a soldier she is more likely to have the personality traits and skills appropriate for the job than a woman picked out at random.
I'm not after that people should be treated the same. Quite the opposite. An WRT to gender roles, have you heard of the Myers-Briggs personality test? It's administered to some 3mio people every year. Most women who take it answer in such a way to the questions that they fit into the gender role, and most men do too for their role (I'm referring to the feeling/thinking dichotomy in the test). But a full 1/3 of each sex does not. NAd that is, generally speaking, how bad gender steretyping works.
/jeorgen
I score very bad on spatial ability, and I am a man. My father does the same. Incidentally we're both computer consultants.
Wouldn't it be smarter to say that people with low spatial ability need bigger screens for the same performance? Why the gender thing? Battle of the sexes?
My problems where not asthma, but inflammatory reaction, ie allergic-type. Still Buteyko helped me. With regards to exercise-induced asthma, the theory is that exertion makes you overbreathe, either directly from the exercise, after the exercise or even because you breathed to less during the exercise and your body is overcompensating afterwards to keep up.
I've tried jogging and it takes down my Control Pause (CP), and so does doing breathing exercises too hard (breathing so little your pulse goes up).
Easy does it. I know it's hard to "believe" in new stuff all the time, since most of it is not helpful, but if you have the time I advise you to try the exercises just for a few days. Just check that your pulse does not go up, because then your starving yourself of oxygen beyond increasing your Co2.
If you're interested, I advise you to try. It really does work. I've done it. I did not have asthma per se but bronchitis (seasonal). It lubricates the mucus membranes, relaxes the smooth tissue muscles and moderates the immune system. It so obvious when you do it, as long as you're actually increasing your co2 level, and you're not just overbreathing just due to the stresses of the exercises..
It has been alternatively proven and disproven at least 3 times that I know of over the past 60 years or so.
I gather you're talking about the breathing rate? This is specifically about the CO2. You can breathe away as much as you want as long as you keep it small. However if you have sources I know a community that would love to hear about them.
This theory has the same problem as every other theory/model/whatever describing asthma: asthma is not a homogeneous disease. It isn't even a single disease. Hell, some people don't even like calling it a disease at all. There are several mechanistiaclly distinct syndromes that all present as asthma. This theory possibly addresses one, and can therefore be proven or disproven depending solely on what subpopulation of asthmatics you survey.
No. This theory cuts to the heart of asthma, i e not getting enough air. The body may block your nose, and wrt the air pipe and lungs, let the mucus membranes swell or put the smooth muscle tissue into a cramp. It is still the same source of the problems. I have found lots of people who bear witness of how this method has helped them, and none who say it hasn't. There must be I think, but, again, I'd like to hear about them.
/jeorgen
Many people , bear witness of how they have rid themselves of asthma by recalibrating their CO2 tolerance to sane levels.
And you can do this on your own, although there are people in many countries(not in mine though) that can help you with it.
FERPA has less redundancy in it's structure with four unique letters, against the unnecessary duplication of the "A"'s at the end of the RIAA.
FERPA has a more aggressive to feel to it with all the usual F* connotations and the spiffy "P" giving it rhythm. I think it stands a chance.
This good UI design seems to permeate more areas of the Gnome world. Yesterday I discovered the moleskine editor. It has the same graphical style and user interface simplicíty. Well worth a look. Gorgeous.
Cheers /jeorgen
If you are actually doing XP, tell me a little about:
/jeorgen
* the kind of project
Web based publishing systems, cross publishing systems, search engines, log analysis.
* how it was done before
Pretty much like XP, but not so formalised. I.e. the customer was in charge, no hard contracts but rather a relationship and mutual trust with customer, delivering a quick bottom line solution first and then add features on request..
* what prompted you to make the switch to XP
It made good sense judging from my own experience. My degree from University is in Systems Development methodologies, and I have always found the ones we were taught to be very bureaucratic. I also worked as a project leader in a research environment were we used a lot of prototyping.
* how that switch work and how long it took
We're not yet ready with any smooth running unit testing framework, but it took maybe one month to get pair programming and stories to function well. The company is Webworks (in Swedish), BTW.
* and how things have been since moving to XP
Very relaxed, no worries, although I have a tendency to burn out when I'm driving in pair programming since I can go so fast now. Customers are happy too.
" * do you know others doing XP, if so how many"
Nope