Except it doesn't imply causation either. Correlation of that sort implies that there is some sort of meaningful relationship between the two. It does not imply a causal link in most cases.
What it implies is some sort of reliable link between the two. It could be a causal link, or it could be that there's a common precondition or it may be that it just is the natural consequence of a favorable environment for both.
But it certainly does not imply causation. It's that sort of thinking that's got people convinced that the link between smoking and lung cancer means that smoking causes lung cancer. Sure it probably does, but people have been looking hard for a long time and they still haven't demonstrated it.
There are definitely other possibilities and focusing on a link which may never yield a causal relation is just plain silly. It's already pretty well established that smoking causes heart disease and emphysema.
Oh yeah, that's right. And the Dutch also gave us option contracts, as they were necessary to facilitate tulip mania.
I wouldn't brag about that. Options are terrible in terms of an orderly an useful stock market. Options are mainly a way of inflating a company's market cap without actually providing anything of value to anybody. In many cases like with MS, there are unimaginably large numbers of warrants that are unlikely to ever be exercised because their strike prices is way beyond the range within which the shares actually trade.
MS could easily offer to sell a trillion shares at 200k and it would have an effect on the market of sorts. But there's no way that even a single one of those would ever get exercised without a lot of buy backs and reverse splits. But they'd still be out there. Like wise for the willingness to buy a few hundred million for a nickel a piece. Not going to happen.
He's saying that it's the motion that's the most likely reason. The Dvorak is causing your fingers to move less on the keyboard and that as a result you're having less trouble with your wrists.
Or at least that, that is a reasonable explanation for the change.
Actually, you can. Just change the keyboard map. Of course that leaves you with a keyboard that's basically Das Keyboard, with random printing, but you can do it. Anybody that can touch type in German ought to be able to remap a standard QWERTY to do that trick as well as a "proper" German keyboard.
Not really, the keys are placed on a Dvorak keyboard based upon the frequency of use. Trying to balance it so that as much as possible you're not using the same finger for consecutive letters and often times not on the same hand. It's basically meant to be fast and efficient. Whether or not that's the case is a matter for consideration elsewhere.
And yes, that does depend a great deal upon the language, as just because you're talking about 21 different non-vowels, they're not necessarily optimally placed in the same places in French as in German as in English. And you've also got the added need to consider the special characters, accents, umlauts, etc.
Nice trolling, are you honestly suggesting that somebody capable of pirating a program, as in cracking the DRM, wouldn't be able to figure out that there was irrelevant encrypted binary globs in the program? Or that they would be getting the files from a purchase?
Realistically, it's implausible to suggest that files that get leaked before they go on sale are being cracked from a purchased version. More likely than not the pirates would notice the inconsistent md5s and just remove the offending code. Or possibly just repackage sans signature.
Honestly, I wouldn't buy too much into the neurology aspect. Sure that's what causes it, but the nervous system is far more flexible than was ever imagined.
If you're wanting to work at it, probably the best source of information would be a Buddhist meditation center. The more practiced monks and lamas are probably the best source of information on the subject. Vipissana and other practices that discourage attachment to thoughts are probably a good place to start looking.
But, that's largely anecdotal, and it's hard to say how well it works in the long term.
The ADHD brain is different than a typical one, but it's really not that different. There's definitely a well substantiated ability to focus, the term being hyperfocus, with little ability to control it.
People with ADHD can meditate, and the right meditation does help. But, unlike with normal people, the concentration goes back to normal much sooner and the amount of time on task required is much greater. Think 2-3 hours a day. And no that isn't impossible, it's entirely possible that and individual with ADHD will spend that much time in hyperfocus anyways.
As for the stimulants, that's really not how they work, nor is that what they do. They don't speed up the attention handling, they increase the focus. Meaning the mind slows. I'm not sure anybody really understands why so many with ADHD have a flipped reaction to stimulus. But it's pretty apparent that it is to some extent the case.
If those of use with ADHD could do it without stimulant meds they wouldn't be allowed to have them. The only reason that Ritalin and the other medications are allowed is that they work far better than any of the other possibilities.
The argument that women and girls don't get ADHD is pretty antiquated, there's increasing evidence that girls tend to over organize, spending all of their time working on that. Leaving little time, if any, for doing things that they enjoy.
People with ADHD can focus, in fact we can focus to a degree that you can't even imagine. What we can't typically do is control the focus. We might be focusing on everything but what we want to, or losing many hours focused on one minute detail of a project. Again, that isn't something that's going to be made up, stimulant medication is a serious pain, and it possessing it requires special care.
Or, we can turn this into some tin foil hat necessitated argument about what's really in the pills and what the medications really do.
Whether or not the competition is free is wholly irrelevant to the question. The question is whether or not MS is damaging or distorting the market by doing so. A commercial interest that makes money by selling an item is not allowed to dump.
Linux doesn't charge anybody for their software, so failing to charge subsectors is really not dumping.
The reason why dumping is banned is that a company with deep pockets, like MS, can afford to give away a lot of product and put smaller vendors into bankruptcy, then raise their prices again. Or use the threat of lowered prices as a way of strong arming the competition into giving in.
No it isn't nor should it be. The fact that the internet has made it easier to release patches does not mean that software should be treated like that. Once a release is made, it should be properly tested and patch only against things which wouldn't show up in reasonable testing.
Whether MS wants to add or change things for the next version is immaterial, the previous release was released.
Sigh, PC gone amok. If they're working in IT then they'd better speak English fairly well. Most users have to type commands in English, most documentation is in English, a significant number of fora are in English. If you're not able to communicate reasonably well in English you're going to be at a serious disadvantage, one serious enough that the CCIE isn't likely to save your butt.
At some point people need to realize that there's a difference between ideal and what we've got, most civil rights legislation does have loopholes for times when the applicant can't do the job. And it's not because bigots managed to sneak it in, at some point the job needs to get done.
It could be better, the motions that it wants aren't very good ergonomically for many. Pointing and rotating at the same time is something which is quite stressful on the wrist.
That's actually inline with most estimates that I've seen. Remember a CRT will often times weigh 20lbs or more and it's not that big of a box. Lead is something that's been used for quite a while for shielding radiation.
But, as for the story, it's China's fault for not enforcing their own regulations. There is now some recognition that it needs to be done responsibly, but assuming that it's the US' fault for not enforcing Chinese environmental legislation is kind of odd. Really the best thing would be for people to get information through ban.org.
Other than that my home state of WA just officially opened up manufacturer sponsored recycling sites. The only complaint that I've got about it is that there wasn't a provision requiring compliance with the Basel Convention. Hopefully there'll be enough transparency that we know whether or not a site is.
Indeed, one of the things that I've noticed is that hardcore gamer isn't something that Nintendo ever really aspired to. Not that they should because the so called "hardcore" gamers make up a much smaller portion of the pie than more casual ones.
Look at the older games and only a relatively small number could be reasonably defined as for hardcore gaming. And usually it was because you really needed to have a hint guide to finish them or were ridiculously designed. Karate kid, I'm looking at you.
FPSes suck on a console, they just suck, the controls are terrible and ultimately very little can change that. A keyboard and mouse is a much better choice for that sort of gaming. You shouldn't have to play every consolve version starting with the SNES to be comfortable with the controls. You should be able to pick it up in a few minutes. If it takes longer than that, the controls need to be fixed as they are terribly, terribly broken.
The fact that one site is considered that important is far worse than any openid breach could possibly be. It doesn't matter whether it's myspace, facebook, or the future thing dikfore, it's not good to equate one site to the internet.
The fact that people at that site don't see it isn't a good reason to suggest that it's unknown by the masses. It's the fact that a large number of sites don't use it and display it prominently.
Those are the wrong questions, Google doesn't have a business model. They've been getting better, but the R&D has been all over the map and much of it doesn't have a prospective positive cashflow until after release. I'm not saying that all research needs to have an obvious way of marketing it, but a business shouldn't be buying out other businesses that lack a business model.
As a business they've been surviving largely upon largesse and a DoJ that doesn't believe in regulation. At some point they'll have to form up a model or die. It's not really beyond the realm of possibility that a new administration taking regulation more seriously could run them into the ground by requiring that they compete with other corporations. That deal with doubleclick is not the sort of thing that responsible regulator typically allow.
Yes, but Apple had an incentive and a business model that consumers could live with. I'm not sure that you can say the same thing for a Google router. There's no particular business model other than spying on the owner and I doubt that many people would go along with that without something in it for them.
But, Apple isn't Harley. People don't buy Macs because they're better than the alternatives, they have aspects which are superior, but they really aren't necessarily better than the competition.
If we switch to iPods, those are definitely not as good as the competition. Sorry to break it to any fanbois in the room, but iPods aren't good. They're popular, and that's a very important distinction. There isn't a feature of an iPod which isn't done by somebody else. And in at least one case that Apple got busted for ripping off from elsewhere. Think song database layout.
What you're suggesting is that the desire to spend too much on a product which isn't necessarily any better is innate. I'm not sure anybody realistically believes that to be the way most people make their decisions. So to sum that up, it looks far more personality cultish than you're giving credit for.
Sounds more like he's got better judgment. Nothing in particular against Jobs, but if you look at the way that the stock bounces around due to his presence or absence,you'd think he were doing the actual design and production work himself.
Really that's one of the top arguments for not involving oneself in Apple stock. At some point he will die or move on and at that point, it's really questionable as to what there'll be left over. I would assume a lot, but if that's the case,then the valuation of Apple is being done via magic 8-ball.
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Except it doesn't imply causation either. Correlation of that sort implies that there is some sort of meaningful relationship between the two. It does not imply a causal link in most cases.
What it implies is some sort of reliable link between the two. It could be a causal link, or it could be that there's a common precondition or it may be that it just is the natural consequence of a favorable environment for both.
But it certainly does not imply causation. It's that sort of thinking that's got people convinced that the link between smoking and lung cancer means that smoking causes lung cancer. Sure it probably does, but people have been looking hard for a long time and they still haven't demonstrated it.
There are definitely other possibilities and focusing on a link which may never yield a causal relation is just plain silly. It's already pretty well established that smoking causes heart disease and emphysema.
Oh yeah, that's right. And the Dutch also gave us option contracts, as they were necessary to facilitate tulip mania.
I wouldn't brag about that. Options are terrible in terms of an orderly an useful stock market. Options are mainly a way of inflating a company's market cap without actually providing anything of value to anybody. In many cases like with MS, there are unimaginably large numbers of warrants that are unlikely to ever be exercised because their strike prices is way beyond the range within which the shares actually trade.
MS could easily offer to sell a trillion shares at 200k and it would have an effect on the market of sorts. But there's no way that even a single one of those would ever get exercised without a lot of buy backs and reverse splits. But they'd still be out there. Like wise for the willingness to buy a few hundred million for a nickel a piece. Not going to happen.
(and the still-used model for government bonds)? ;-)
I won't hold that against you.
He's saying that it's the motion that's the most likely reason. The Dvorak is causing your fingers to move less on the keyboard and that as a result you're having less trouble with your wrists.
Or at least that, that is a reasonable explanation for the change.
Actually, you can. Just change the keyboard map. Of course that leaves you with a keyboard that's basically Das Keyboard, with random printing, but you can do it. Anybody that can touch type in German ought to be able to remap a standard QWERTY to do that trick as well as a "proper" German keyboard.
Not really, the keys are placed on a Dvorak keyboard based upon the frequency of use. Trying to balance it so that as much as possible you're not using the same finger for consecutive letters and often times not on the same hand. It's basically meant to be fast and efficient. Whether or not that's the case is a matter for consideration elsewhere.
And yes, that does depend a great deal upon the language, as just because you're talking about 21 different non-vowels, they're not necessarily optimally placed in the same places in French as in German as in English. And you've also got the added need to consider the special characters, accents, umlauts, etc.
Nice trolling, are you honestly suggesting that somebody capable of pirating a program, as in cracking the DRM, wouldn't be able to figure out that there was irrelevant encrypted binary globs in the program? Or that they would be getting the files from a purchase?
Realistically, it's implausible to suggest that files that get leaked before they go on sale are being cracked from a purchased version. More likely than not the pirates would notice the inconsistent md5s and just remove the offending code. Or possibly just repackage sans signature.
Honestly, I wouldn't buy too much into the neurology aspect. Sure that's what causes it, but the nervous system is far more flexible than was ever imagined.
If you're wanting to work at it, probably the best source of information would be a Buddhist meditation center. The more practiced monks and lamas are probably the best source of information on the subject. Vipissana and other practices that discourage attachment to thoughts are probably a good place to start looking.
But, that's largely anecdotal, and it's hard to say how well it works in the long term.
The ADHD brain is different than a typical one, but it's really not that different. There's definitely a well substantiated ability to focus, the term being hyperfocus, with little ability to control it.
People with ADHD can meditate, and the right meditation does help. But, unlike with normal people, the concentration goes back to normal much sooner and the amount of time on task required is much greater. Think 2-3 hours a day. And no that isn't impossible, it's entirely possible that and individual with ADHD will spend that much time in hyperfocus anyways.
As for the stimulants, that's really not how they work, nor is that what they do. They don't speed up the attention handling, they increase the focus. Meaning the mind slows. I'm not sure anybody really understands why so many with ADHD have a flipped reaction to stimulus. But it's pretty apparent that it is to some extent the case.
If those of use with ADHD could do it without stimulant meds they wouldn't be allowed to have them. The only reason that Ritalin and the other medications are allowed is that they work far better than any of the other possibilities.
The argument that women and girls don't get ADHD is pretty antiquated, there's increasing evidence that girls tend to over organize, spending all of their time working on that. Leaving little time, if any, for doing things that they enjoy.
People with ADHD can focus, in fact we can focus to a degree that you can't even imagine. What we can't typically do is control the focus. We might be focusing on everything but what we want to, or losing many hours focused on one minute detail of a project. Again, that isn't something that's going to be made up, stimulant medication is a serious pain, and it possessing it requires special care.
Or, we can turn this into some tin foil hat necessitated argument about what's really in the pills and what the medications really do.
Whether or not the competition is free is wholly irrelevant to the question. The question is whether or not MS is damaging or distorting the market by doing so. A commercial interest that makes money by selling an item is not allowed to dump.
Linux doesn't charge anybody for their software, so failing to charge subsectors is really not dumping.
The reason why dumping is banned is that a company with deep pockets, like MS, can afford to give away a lot of product and put smaller vendors into bankruptcy, then raise their prices again. Or use the threat of lowered prices as a way of strong arming the competition into giving in.
No it isn't nor should it be. The fact that the internet has made it easier to release patches does not mean that software should be treated like that. Once a release is made, it should be properly tested and patch only against things which wouldn't show up in reasonable testing.
Whether MS wants to add or change things for the next version is immaterial, the previous release was released.
Yes, but unfortunately, MS built in full chair repulsion technology. You don't think that Balmer throws chairs just for fun, do you?
IANAL, but...
Sigh, PC gone amok. If they're working in IT then they'd better speak English fairly well. Most users have to type commands in English, most documentation is in English, a significant number of fora are in English. If you're not able to communicate reasonably well in English you're going to be at a serious disadvantage, one serious enough that the CCIE isn't likely to save your butt.
At some point people need to realize that there's a difference between ideal and what we've got, most civil rights legislation does have loopholes for times when the applicant can't do the job. And it's not because bigots managed to sneak it in, at some point the job needs to get done.
It could be better, the motions that it wants aren't very good ergonomically for many. Pointing and rotating at the same time is something which is quite stressful on the wrist.
That's actually inline with most estimates that I've seen. Remember a CRT will often times weigh 20lbs or more and it's not that big of a box. Lead is something that's been used for quite a while for shielding radiation.
But, as for the story, it's China's fault for not enforcing their own regulations. There is now some recognition that it needs to be done responsibly, but assuming that it's the US' fault for not enforcing Chinese environmental legislation is kind of odd. Really the best thing would be for people to get information through ban.org.
Other than that my home state of WA just officially opened up manufacturer sponsored recycling sites. The only complaint that I've got about it is that there wasn't a provision requiring compliance with the Basel Convention. Hopefully there'll be enough transparency that we know whether or not a site is.
You didn't see that USB powered sex toy? Because I'm sure that could be adapted to the WII.
Indeed, one of the things that I've noticed is that hardcore gamer isn't something that Nintendo ever really aspired to. Not that they should because the so called "hardcore" gamers make up a much smaller portion of the pie than more casual ones.
Look at the older games and only a relatively small number could be reasonably defined as for hardcore gaming. And usually it was because you really needed to have a hint guide to finish them or were ridiculously designed. Karate kid, I'm looking at you.
FPSes suck on a console, they just suck, the controls are terrible and ultimately very little can change that. A keyboard and mouse is a much better choice for that sort of gaming. You shouldn't have to play every consolve version starting with the SNES to be comfortable with the controls. You should be able to pick it up in a few minutes. If it takes longer than that, the controls need to be fixed as they are terribly, terribly broken.
But only if you don't care about password reset exploits or the fact that this information is sent via clear text through the tubes.
The fact that one site is considered that important is far worse than any openid breach could possibly be. It doesn't matter whether it's myspace, facebook, or the future thing dikfore, it's not good to equate one site to the internet.
The fact that people at that site don't see it isn't a good reason to suggest that it's unknown by the masses. It's the fact that a large number of sites don't use it and display it prominently.
Those are the wrong questions, Google doesn't have a business model. They've been getting better, but the R&D has been all over the map and much of it doesn't have a prospective positive cashflow until after release. I'm not saying that all research needs to have an obvious way of marketing it, but a business shouldn't be buying out other businesses that lack a business model.
As a business they've been surviving largely upon largesse and a DoJ that doesn't believe in regulation. At some point they'll have to form up a model or die. It's not really beyond the realm of possibility that a new administration taking regulation more seriously could run them into the ground by requiring that they compete with other corporations. That deal with doubleclick is not the sort of thing that responsible regulator typically allow.
Yes, but Apple had an incentive and a business model that consumers could live with. I'm not sure that you can say the same thing for a Google router. There's no particular business model other than spying on the owner and I doubt that many people would go along with that without something in it for them.
But, Apple isn't Harley. People don't buy Macs because they're better than the alternatives, they have aspects which are superior, but they really aren't necessarily better than the competition.
If we switch to iPods, those are definitely not as good as the competition. Sorry to break it to any fanbois in the room, but iPods aren't good. They're popular, and that's a very important distinction. There isn't a feature of an iPod which isn't done by somebody else. And in at least one case that Apple got busted for ripping off from elsewhere. Think song database layout.
What you're suggesting is that the desire to spend too much on a product which isn't necessarily any better is innate. I'm not sure anybody realistically believes that to be the way most people make their decisions. So to sum that up, it looks far more personality cultish than you're giving credit for.
Sounds more like he's got better judgment. Nothing in particular against Jobs, but if you look at the way that the stock bounces around due to his presence or absence,you'd think he were doing the actual design and production work himself.
Really that's one of the top arguments for not involving oneself in Apple stock. At some point he will die or move on and at that point, it's really questionable as to what there'll be left over. I would assume a lot, but if that's the case,then the valuation of Apple is being done via magic 8-ball.