Although I agree with you on the overdiagnosing of various "mental diseases" it can very well also be allergies manifesting them in these ways.
I'm allergic to (well, not really allergic, but hypersensitive) sugar and various related sweeteners like glucose etc. Before this was known I couldn't handle any criticism, loud noises etc etc. Used to cry a lot (the real heavy tantrums) and everything. I guess I could've been diagnosed with a million mental disorders, however luckily my parents found out it was an oversensitivity towards sugars and a type of foodcoloring.
Now I'm perfectly fine. No moodswings anymore etc. Still nuts as hell though, but who defined "normal" anyway.:p
There are more and more artificial stuff (artificial aroma's, food colorings, added sweeteners, preservatives etc. etc.) mixed with the things we eat, and it's shown that allergies or hypersensitivities towards these ingredients can cause all kinds of weird stuff with someone's personality, without causing real visible allergic reactions.
Diagnosing these types of allergies is also difficult because stopping to eat these types of foods doesn't usually have an immediate effect. It's not an on/off switch, but the effects are reduced gradually so it can be very difficult to quickly see wether or not someone is allergic (opposed to the acute reactions testable by those armscratch tests).
Most likely though it's a mix of factors.... a bit of television, a bit of allergies, and a bit of overactivity of the doctors:)
Sorry, forgot a little thing in my parent post here.
Just wanted to add that besides MS threading the monopoly area where they inhibit the advancements in technology, stopping upcoming competitors in their tracks by buying them out, and make the consumers spend an unreasonable amount of money on their products, they also limit the amount of possible competitors due to the patents given to software ideas. thus actually removing two cornerstones from thesame building (the building being capitalism in their area of business)
me = out:)
Every form of society (like capitalism or communism) have their softspots.
Capitalism works because companies have to compete against eachother. Outsmart eachother. This makes sure there's progress and innovation in the products, plus a fair price because if one company asks more than another, they won't sell due to all the customers running to their competitors.
Patents also have their place here. With hardware patents like the working of CD players or TV's... Other companies can always buy one of those applications from the marketleader and open it up, tear it apart, and check what makes it tick. They'll now be able to make a device based on the competitors that does about thesame, but better without using thesame technologies (patent infrigement).
So there are two issues MS is overstepping here, breaking the workings of capitalism.
Monopolies: If a company got a monopoly they can easily buy out any company that threatens them, thus reducing their need to innovate to nill, and making their customers dependent on whatever price the monopoly dares to ask (within reason, otherwise the customers just won't buy that certain technology at all anymore).
Patents: Software patents are a dangerous thing. Propriarity closed source software cannot be looked into like the hardware equivalent of the CD player or TV. Ofcourse you can limitly trace back what the device does by inserting a certain signal, and checking it's output (reverse engineering) but this isn't as easy as just opening it up. This makes it nigh impossible to really see the technology (read: programming) behind a certain product.
So, any competitor that dared to take on a monopoly like microsoft will have to deal with the extremely large chance of being bought out, and the large chance of being sued to death for patent infrigment. This makes anyone capable of taking on a monopoly like microsoft think twice about doing so, cos the chance of ruining their own life is quite large.
Thus, a monopoly inhibits progress in technology, and costs the consumers a lot of money.
I wasn't saying "this isn't ok", I was *asking* "is this ok?" I wanted to get the critical thought flowing and read some opinions about this. Most people have pointed out that we "subvert" plant and animals all the time, to eat them. I think this is ok, as long as the suffering for the animals involved is kept to a minimum. I also think it's ok to kill bacteria & whatnot that cause human suffering and illness, and within reason to use bacteria for our own purposes (for good, not for evil), etc. My initial question comes from my philosophy about living creatures, which is that everything has a right to live it's own life, free from human exploitation - everything doesn't exist solely for human consumption. Perhaps I'm taking this to an unreasonable extreme applying this to virii, which is why I asked my original question in the first place:-)
Humans are part of the animal kingdom like any other animal is. We need to eat and need to live.
To do this, certain sacrifices need to be made. If a lion kills for its lunch, he really doesn't think about wether or not the creature aimed for has pain or not. He kills as fast as possible so he can eat as fast as possible, because the hyena's are close to take his food from him.
In this aspect we are much more gentile towards the animals we use for food. We already do much to lower the "terror aspect" that cattle has to endure at the end of their life. No matter though how much we try, there always will be that pain and suffering.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that your philosophy about life, or as you say it: "everything has a right to live it's own life, free from human exploitation" might be stained about that you apparently think that we are much different from other animals. We are not. We love as other animals. We fight as other animals, and we wage war as other animals. We cheat, bribe, and make sacrifices, just as (m)any other animal.
hmmm.... was definately aiming for the preview button...
Anyway, for me I needed it to run on any OS without installing software, where-ever I might end up, and I loved that FLAC playback, so I chose this M3L
Don't exactly know what you want in a player, but besides this, you also might wanna look at the Philips one. I believe you don't need any software for that one either.
Don't know about the rest anymore sadly. It's been a while since I bought this one and looked around at all the devices.
Good luck in your search, and have fun with your new toy once you made your choice.;)
I've got the iAudio M3L. Plays atleast for 24h continuously... I couldn't be bothered trying longer.
You don't need any software at all. When you plug the device in, it recognises it as a harddrive. Runs on every OS and Computer aslong as it's got USB support. Throw some music on there and you're good to go. you can use software if you want, with the music library and all, but I've got my music nicely sorted in various directories, so I wouldn't know how a music library would be beneficial for me, but to each his own I guess:)
The M3 supports, amongst others, OGG, FLAC, and the standards.
It has a built-in FM radio, memo recorder recording to mp3 format, can record from any source thru jackplug straight on mp3 etc etc etc...
See www.cowon.com for more info on these players.
I'm sorry but that's a false analogy. No-one would want to remove the file menu.
What you can do though is:
[x] OOo Calc
[x] OOo Write
[x] OOo Impress
[0] ASpell spell checker
+- [0] English
+- [0] Dutch
+- [0] French
+- [0] Italian
etc.
But then again, they already do that (apart from the aspell, you need to manually install that)...
Microsoft gives non of these options. They only provide 1 option at installation, which is on which partition you would like to install the OS.
If I want to exclude programs from my installation, or change stuff like the program files folder / drive, I need to fiddle with a deployment package, or with nLite.
Alcoa is the first plant (started in 2005) to be able to recycle the aluminium and plastic in a Tetra-Pak. They do this by vaporizing this mix of aluminium and plastic in a plasma jet oven.
There was a program about it on the Discovery Channel.
Now, Alcoa doesn't make any electricity, but they focussed on recycling. Perhaps this is just the form of this technology focussing on electricity production.
Although I can imagine the frustration and anger of the lady, I wonder if this is so much different from the age limits set for driving, drinking, or god forbid, watching erotics...
Those are also rules set on age, on the assumption that the average person should be wise enough to handle those things properly. Some kids are wise enough to drive at 14, some aren't wise enough at 21. If there appears to be some problem, and the provider chose to handle it this way I don't really see a difference to forementioned rules, apart for that they are not government regulated.
has been said before that if you look at the bottom of that.cn page there's this line with a lot of chinese characters. That line, if translated by babelfish means:
According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate
Originally posted by rhacquer
Sounds like you might have been stuck in the pure research vs. applied research conflict? I guess there will always be people who fail to see the value in pure research, of simply asking "what if... ?" OTOH, you gotta pay the bills at some point.
IMHO, pure research is almost like the place where art and science come together.
I'm afraid I must disagree with this. Atleast that is my opinion.
The area I hopefully will be working at (but I recon it's hard to get in) is the area of new protheses and biomechanical / bionical aids. There is a LOT to research there still in that area and it's an area with a fast track from research to production and those area's overlap quite a bit aswell. In my opinion there isn't an area where art and science mix more.
Art for the creation of life-like oriented or performance-oriented products for those in need, and science because everything there is really groundbreaking concerning materials, biotechno interfaces etc:)
I'd been pursuing graduate studies for a while and one day, I realized I was miserable and I hated what I was doing. And this struck me as monumentally stupid: why get paid nothing to do work you hate, when there are businesses that will pay you six figures to do work you hate?
So I figured, damn the torpedoes: I'm going to do work I find interesting and enjoyable, or leave academia. After all, what's the worst thing that could happen? I'd end up doing stuff I hated, and have more money.
So I stopped worrying about what I thought other people would find interesting, and started working on problems that fascinated me. These days, I love my work and for the first time I really feel like I have a future in science. The thing is, if you find your work incredibly interesting, others may or may not find it exciting. But if you are an intelligent, curious person and you find your work boring, odds are damn good that other people will find it boring. And as far as I'm concerned, there are too many fascinating problems out there to waste time on the boring ones. These days, I wake up, and run over the dozen or so research projects I'm dabbling on, and say, "What do I want to work on today?", closely followed by, "And how long can I stall on this dissertation thing before my advisor kills me?"
I can only agree with this. I Had thesame problem for a long time, studying technical physics and astrophysics and after a while it occurred to me that the main reason I studied that was because I was afraid of other peoples reactions if I did something else but I was quite miserable at that study.
So I changed to mechanical engineering, a little bit less difficult and now I'm in my final year of a study I love going towards a job I love!
It's harder to change if you've already got a job etc (stigma's on going back to school etc are a bit higher then just changing school) but in many cases it IS possible to do what you like rather then what has been "dictated" by the public (family and/or friends etc).
Originally posted by jqstm
So is it microsoft or society that is removing your freedom?
It's common for consumer choices to be limited by what is popular. But usually you can get what you want if you're willing to pay more. This seems to be true of operating systems.
That would be microsoft's doing in respect to false advertisement, closed formats, preinstalling windows on PC's and other dirty marketingtricks...
The pc world is the only area where you really can close up stuff. In any other workingareas if your competitor built something you are always able to buy a specimen and open it up. Every product is secret until it hits the market. If you keep fileformats closed like microsoft did with all their office formats then noone will be able to communicate with people using other programs.
It's like building a car.
Company A makes the car
Company B makes the towing bar with A's specs or by taking them themselves
Company C makes the trailer fitting on B's specs or by taking them themselves
Company D makes the assisting equipment to load C's trailer
With Microsoft in the IT business it would be all company A because there's no way anymore to get the specs of their product.
NTFS still isn't fully hacked for linux users for read/write access which in my opinion is rediculous...
furthering a company's agenda doesn't automatically include removing the end user his freedoms, however THAT is generally what microsoft does. Remove your freedom to choose. for instance: I want to port to Linux ond get rid of Windows but I do not have this choise due to my work, school, society demanding me to use closed MS formats...
Originally posted by heavy snowfall
News flash: This story isn't for you then.
Why is it that every time a story like this comes up someone feels that such aa phone shouldn't exist just because they don't want it? OH, I KNOW - you're a troll.
Get back under your bridge.
How they could've ranked your post with a 1 is beyond me. -1 is even too much.
So you like these kinds of bloated phones? Good for you. This article is readable for everyone who is interrested and not only for the iPod fanboi's. They have as much right to reply on this article then any other John Doe. That doesn't instantaneously make them a troll.
If you are so naive to think that only those that actually agree with an article have the right to post... well, I pity you then.
And for myself... All I want in a phone is a very good calendar that's also easy to input so I have the SonyEricsson p900.
Haven't seen a phone that's got a better calendar to be honest. That it's got PDA-like software on it... well I hardly use the rest and couldn't care less about it.
yeah it's situated there, but they are still in the development phase so there's no knowing what the future will bring.
Anyway... acid in space. That'll certainly warrant a badass trip many would think is worthwile pursuing I guess:P
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Although I agree with you on the overdiagnosing of various "mental diseases" it can very well also be allergies manifesting them in these ways. :p
:)
I'm allergic to (well, not really allergic, but hypersensitive) sugar and various related sweeteners like glucose etc. Before this was known I couldn't handle any criticism, loud noises etc etc. Used to cry a lot (the real heavy tantrums) and everything. I guess I could've been diagnosed with a million mental disorders, however luckily my parents found out it was an oversensitivity towards sugars and a type of foodcoloring.
Now I'm perfectly fine. No moodswings anymore etc. Still nuts as hell though, but who defined "normal" anyway.
There are more and more artificial stuff (artificial aroma's, food colorings, added sweeteners, preservatives etc. etc.) mixed with the things we eat, and it's shown that allergies or hypersensitivities towards these ingredients can cause all kinds of weird stuff with someone's personality, without causing real visible allergic reactions.
Diagnosing these types of allergies is also difficult because stopping to eat these types of foods doesn't usually have an immediate effect. It's not an on/off switch, but the effects are reduced gradually so it can be very difficult to quickly see wether or not someone is allergic (opposed to the acute reactions testable by those armscratch tests).
Most likely though it's a mix of factors.... a bit of television, a bit of allergies, and a bit of overactivity of the doctors
may I assume that you took the blue pill?
you don't forbid them to make a better product, you forbid them to enlarge their monopoly.
Sorry, forgot a little thing in my parent post here. :)
Just wanted to add that besides MS threading the monopoly area where they inhibit the advancements in technology, stopping upcoming competitors in their tracks by buying them out, and make the consumers spend an unreasonable amount of money on their products, they also limit the amount of possible competitors due to the patents given to software ideas. thus actually removing two cornerstones from thesame building (the building being capitalism in their area of business) me = out
Every form of society (like capitalism or communism) have their softspots.
Capitalism works because companies have to compete against eachother. Outsmart eachother. This makes sure there's progress and innovation in the products, plus a fair price because if one company asks more than another, they won't sell due to all the customers running to their competitors.
Patents also have their place here. With hardware patents like the working of CD players or TV's... Other companies can always buy one of those applications from the marketleader and open it up, tear it apart, and check what makes it tick. They'll now be able to make a device based on the competitors that does about thesame, but better without using thesame technologies (patent infrigement).
So there are two issues MS is overstepping here, breaking the workings of capitalism.
Monopolies: If a company got a monopoly they can easily buy out any company that threatens them, thus reducing their need to innovate to nill, and making their customers dependent on whatever price the monopoly dares to ask (within reason, otherwise the customers just won't buy that certain technology at all anymore).
Patents: Software patents are a dangerous thing. Propriarity closed source software cannot be looked into like the hardware equivalent of the CD player or TV. Ofcourse you can limitly trace back what the device does by inserting a certain signal, and checking it's output (reverse engineering) but this isn't as easy as just opening it up. This makes it nigh impossible to really see the technology (read: programming) behind a certain product.
So, any competitor that dared to take on a monopoly like microsoft will have to deal with the extremely large chance of being bought out, and the large chance of being sued to death for patent infrigment. This makes anyone capable of taking on a monopoly like microsoft think twice about doing so, cos the chance of ruining their own life is quite large.
Thus, a monopoly inhibits progress in technology, and costs the consumers a lot of money.
Humans are part of the animal kingdom like any other animal is. We need to eat and need to live.
To do this, certain sacrifices need to be made. If a lion kills for its lunch, he really doesn't think about wether or not the creature aimed for has pain or not. He kills as fast as possible so he can eat as fast as possible, because the hyena's are close to take his food from him.
In this aspect we are much more gentile towards the animals we use for food. We already do much to lower the "terror aspect" that cattle has to endure at the end of their life. No matter though how much we try, there always will be that pain and suffering.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that your philosophy about life, or as you say it: "everything has a right to live it's own life, free from human exploitation" might be stained about that you apparently think that we are much different from other animals. We are not. We love as other animals. We fight as other animals, and we wage war as other animals. We cheat, bribe, and make sacrifices, just as (m)any other animal.
either that, or I'm a slow typer :P (one post down) :)
hmmm.... was definately aiming for the preview button... ;)
Anyway, for me I needed it to run on any OS without installing software, where-ever I might end up, and I loved that FLAC playback, so I chose this M3L
Don't exactly know what you want in a player, but besides this, you also might wanna look at the Philips one. I believe you don't need any software for that one either.
Don't know about the rest anymore sadly. It's been a while since I bought this one and looked around at all the devices.
Good luck in your search, and have fun with your new toy once you made your choice.
I've got the iAudio M3L. Plays atleast for 24h continuously... I couldn't be bothered trying longer. :)
You don't need any software at all. When you plug the device in, it recognises it as a harddrive. Runs on every OS and Computer aslong as it's got USB support. Throw some music on there and you're good to go. you can use software if you want, with the music library and all, but I've got my music nicely sorted in various directories, so I wouldn't know how a music library would be beneficial for me, but to each his own I guess
The M3 supports, amongst others, OGG, FLAC, and the standards.
It has a built-in FM radio, memo recorder recording to mp3 format, can record from any source thru jackplug straight on mp3 etc etc etc...
See www.cowon.com for more info on these players.
Bush perhaps not but I've got the feeling it's really Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice who are playing the field over there in the white house...
I'm sorry but that's a false analogy. No-one would want to remove the file menu.
What you can do though is:
[x] OOo Calc
[x] OOo Write
[x] OOo Impress
[0] ASpell spell checker
+- [0] English
+- [0] Dutch
+- [0] French
+- [0] Italian
etc.
But then again, they already do that (apart from the aspell, you need to manually install that)...
Microsoft gives non of these options. They only provide 1 option at installation, which is on which partition you would like to install the OS.
If I want to exclude programs from my installation, or change stuff like the program files folder / drive, I need to fiddle with a deployment package, or with nLite.
So you're saying that the IT sector has been touched by his noodly appendage?
Alcoa is the first plant (started in 2005) to be able to recycle the aluminium and plastic in a Tetra-Pak. They do this by vaporizing this mix of aluminium and plastic in a plasma jet oven.
There was a program about it on the Discovery Channel.
Now, Alcoa doesn't make any electricity, but they focussed on recycling. Perhaps this is just the form of this technology focussing on electricity production.
News article about the Alcoa recycling plant.
Although I can imagine the frustration and anger of the lady, I wonder if this is so much different from the age limits set for driving, drinking, or god forbid, watching erotics...
Those are also rules set on age, on the assumption that the average person should be wise enough to handle those things properly. Some kids are wise enough to drive at 14, some aren't wise enough at 21. If there appears to be some problem, and the provider chose to handle it this way I don't really see a difference to forementioned rules, apart for that they are not government regulated.
By the time we'd all get superhuman powers it wouldn't be superhuman anymore. Just human since it's not anything out of the ordinary.
has been said before that if you look at the bottom of that .cn page there's this line with a lot of chinese characters. That line, if translated by babelfish means:
According to the local law laws and regulations and the policy, the part searches the result not to demonstrate
I'm afraid you really don't have a clue...
Please, for your own sake, read up on a bit before replying.
It's not that the rest of the repliers is so right, but you are definately so wrong...
I'm afraid I must disagree with this. Atleast that is my opinion.
The area I hopefully will be working at (but I recon it's hard to get in) is the area of new protheses and biomechanical / bionical aids. There is a LOT to research there still in that area and it's an area with a fast track from research to production and those area's overlap quite a bit aswell. In my opinion there isn't an area where art and science mix more.
Art for the creation of life-like oriented or performance-oriented products for those in need, and science because everything there is really groundbreaking concerning materials, biotechno interfaces etc
* sorry... replied to your parentpost instead of you :P *
I can only agree with this. I Had thesame problem for a long time, studying technical physics and astrophysics and after a while it occurred to me that the main reason I studied that was because I was afraid of other peoples reactions if I did something else but I was quite miserable at that study.
So I changed to mechanical engineering, a little bit less difficult and now I'm in my final year of a study I love going towards a job I love!
It's harder to change if you've already got a job etc (stigma's on going back to school etc are a bit higher then just changing school) but in many cases it IS possible to do what you like rather then what has been "dictated" by the public (family and/or friends etc).
That's just a sad sad sig... Saddest I've ever seen to be honest.
Does FF give you a hug and a kiss when you get back from work? No.
Does a girlfriend give head? Yes.
That would be microsoft's doing in respect to false advertisement, closed formats, preinstalling windows on PC's and other dirty marketingtricks...
The pc world is the only area where you really can close up stuff. In any other workingareas if your competitor built something you are always able to buy a specimen and open it up. Every product is secret until it hits the market. If you keep fileformats closed like microsoft did with all their office formats then noone will be able to communicate with people using other programs.
It's like building a car.
Company A makes the car
Company B makes the towing bar with A's specs or by taking them themselves
Company C makes the trailer fitting on B's specs or by taking them themselves
Company D makes the assisting equipment to load C's trailer
With Microsoft in the IT business it would be all company A because there's no way anymore to get the specs of their product.
NTFS still isn't fully hacked for linux users for read/write access which in my opinion is rediculous...
furthering a company's agenda doesn't automatically include removing the end user his freedoms, however THAT is generally what microsoft does. Remove your freedom to choose. for instance: I want to port to Linux ond get rid of Windows but I do not have this choise due to my work, school, society demanding me to use closed MS formats...
How they could've ranked your post with a 1 is beyond me. -1 is even too much.
So you like these kinds of bloated phones? Good for you. This article is readable for everyone who is interrested and not only for the iPod fanboi's. They have as much right to reply on this article then any other John Doe. That doesn't instantaneously make them a troll.
If you are so naive to think that only those that actually agree with an article have the right to post... well, I pity you then.
And for myself... All I want in a phone is a very good calendar that's also easy to input so I have the SonyEricsson p900.
Haven't seen a phone that's got a better calendar to be honest. That it's got PDA-like software on it... well I hardly use the rest and couldn't care less about it.
yeah it's situated there, but they are still in the development phase so there's no knowing what the future will bring. Anyway... acid in space. That'll certainly warrant a badass trip many would think is worthwile pursuing I guess :P