that's economic reality pretty much agreed upon by anyone with an IQ above 100 and an average education
The set of people with IQ greater than 100 is 50% of the population by definition. When qualified by "average education", the set drops to less than 50%. But the structure of your sentence implies they hold a majority opinion.
I'm not sure how he generalizes to the rest of the population, but on elementary school tests I, personally, can remember reading science answers off mental images of the textbook pages.
I only remember that fact NOW because I had a couple teachers grill me as to why my phrasing was identical to the book's...:/
Copyright infringer!:)
I did something similar in high school; we had a history project with a written report and presentation portion, and I drew a picture as my presentation. I was then told that I needed to discuss the topic, but I wasn't prepared, so I just read my paper to the class word for word from memory. My teacher was reading along and was surprised afterward since I was a little rebellious at that age and never did homework.
Dude, you quite obviously just have normal memory like the rest of us.
The rest of us slashdotters, squatting in basements, using our eidetic memories and vaguely autistic personalities to bring up internet arguments from the early 90's? That rest of us? Or the rest of humanity who are amazed when we remember a conversation in detail from just a month ago (let alone decades)?
It seems your memory works best on things where you were paying attention at the time. Eating dinner didn't require your focus, so you were probably thinking of something else, but walking and driving require you to pay attention to your surroundings to remain safe, so you remember your surroundings with clarity.
Close your eyes and picture an apple. Is it red or green? I get the feeling that some people actually see an apple, and it actually registers as red or green in their brain before the question is even asked.
More than that. I first see a Red Delicious, then a Granny Smith. Now a Yellow Delicious, and my current supermarket's display of apples, including Fujis, Pink Ladys, etc. Prior supermarkets I've been to, including ones from when I was a kid. The smell of fresh apple, the smell of decaying apples by the cross country race course at my middle school. The sights and sounds of the hornets buzzing on those decaying apples, the dread I always felt running past them, hoping the hornets were too drunk to attack. The burning in my lungs at that part of the course. My middle school floor plan. The day I went back to visit old teachers as an adult. Seeing that the Apple ][ computers were on display instead of in use. Apple ][, that's what I see in my mind's eye.
the eidetic myth - if it exists no ones managed to prove it. Not that there haven't been people who demonstrated amazing memorization feats - but that a long way from a photographic memory. Plenty claim to have it - but I think you'll find the Great Randi hasn't had to fork out any money yet. I've read of few experiments where they failed to memorize everything
Failed to memorize. Ding ding ding. If they're putting any effort at all into memorization then they don't have a photographic memory. Instead, they should just remember everything they're paying attention to. The paying attention part might be hard though, since every new experience probably triggers a memory, and I'd think they'd spend a lot of time remembering things when they should be paying attention.
- even over quite short periods of time (if you can see and hear it, but not remember all of it, it ain't photographic, usually just confabulation).
Which could be harder for a true eidetic. Short term versus long term.
No one has ever demonstrated the ability to remember languages they've never heard before, for instance.
I believe that falls under the realm of ESP, unless you're talking about written language.
Perhaps... but if you had a photographic memory, don't you think you'd have better things to do with your time than bore yourself with memory contests?
Not just bore yourself in the present, but in the future too. Who wants a perfect memory of a memory contest that you're 100% certain to win (unless another person with photographic memory shows up, then it's down to who mis-speaks first, which might be interesting from the novelty).
Actually, there ARE some people who have near-perfect autobiographical memory. Hyperthymesia is the name for it. Though I really can't say with any certainty whether this particular kind of memory would convey any advantages in the memory competitions.
It wouldn't. Those competitions are kind of like a "Fastest man alive" competition, but only for 100m, not ranging from 100m dash to a full marathon. Hyperthymesia sufferers are more like marathon runners (who are forced to run constantly). Note that Hyperthymesia isn't quite Photographic Memory since they can't remember concepts they've learned any better than other people.
You have to assume things. I assume there is solid ground under my desk chair. I don't stare at the ground nonstop for confirmation.
It's good that you don't. There's no reason to believe that photons hitting your eyes in certain patterns have anything to do with whether the floor is really there. For that matter, electrochemical stimulus from your optic nerves might have nothing to do with photons.
glad you agree with my assertion that it was false pretenses.
did you mention anything else that even matters?
Perhaps the fact that whether the pretenses were false or not is a moot point? That the U.S. was already at war with Iraq and only the Coalition members joined that war under the reasons stipulated (and although I didn't mention it, all of them, including GWB, actually believed those reasons were true)?
Stop. Hammer time.
Technically, his dad started the war with Iraq. Since there was no peace treaty, it was essentially the same war as what was started with Desert Storm (Invasion of Iraq). GWB only needed reasons (or false pretenses if you like that term better) to bring the Coalition in, the U.S. was already at war with Iraq, and Iraq was constantly breaking the cease-fire by shooting at our military jets.
Oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh (you can't touch this)
I will say one thing, GP is full of shit when they claim that the iMacs overheat. The ONLY times I've seen them overheat is when cooling systems are blocked (either due to dust or PEBCAK [post it notes over air holes]).
Most of our machines are cool to the touch, about 20% are warm, and 4% are hot to the touch (jerk your hand back from surprise level, not pain level). Apple won't repair/replace anything temperature related until the machine shuts down because "overheating doesn't happen unless there has been a shutdown" So they send a replacement HDD, but not a replacement fan or mobo (for the temperature controller), because it's not in their script. I'm guessing you only admin about 40 or so in a small graphics design business and they're mostly used for MS Office and Photoshop. Apple didn't design these machines to run under full load for more than a couple minutes at a time, and they *do* overheat easily, even in cool rooms.
I've admined hundreds of iMacs, a few Xserves, and dozens of Mac pros. The iMacs suck huge donkey balls. They overheat constantly
Kinda like way too numerous Windows machines? Toshibas were (are) notorious for this, as one for instance.
Nothing like them. The iMacs are having hardware failures of about 2% per month (while still under warranty). Any PCs I've seen do this are usually just past warranty or have dying fans. These iMacs' fans are working, they're just designed poorly.
and there is no way to lock them down.
Kinda like Windows?
Now you're just being trollish. Anyone with half a brain can lock Windows down sufficiently until the week before patch Tuesday.
You can set an nvram password but that is trivially defeated mechanically (in a way that can't be physically locked down).
Kinda like on the PC platform?
Now you're not trolling anymore, you're being stupid. To reset a bios password on a PC platform, you have to open the case and reset a jumper on the motherboard. The case can be locked. On an iMac, you just have to access the [censored]. The [censored] can NOT be locked (you can lock the iMac to a desk, but the [censored] is still easily accessible with a screwdriver).
The Xserves use cheap sata drives marked up 200%,
Wow, much like much of the "professional" cheapo servers from... Dell, HP and others?
No, more like the "professional" servers from no-name companies, except they charge only half as much as Dell, and only a third of what Apple used to charge. Dell and HP tend to use SCSI/SAS in their professional servers.
and the Mac pros don't stack well nor fit sideways in a rack (or have redundant power). The only thing driving apple hardware sales is their software, and they know it.
Wow, much like most of the machines out there in the PC world until you go into the 5 digit range (or mid to high 4 digit if you are lucky) or custom build?
What are you smoking? The only computer cases less stackable or rack-capable than mac pros are SGI machines. The only windows box I've seen that wouldn't stack and isn't some custom gaming rig also happened to be an SGI: the 320 abomination. To make a mac pro as stack/rack-friendly as any workstation offering from any PC company, you have to use a hacksaw and a metal file to remove those stupid handles/legs.
I'm not slamming the WinPC world... I am pointing out that what you are posting is irrelevant since it's a relatively even playing field in the areas you mention.
Quite relevant since I have actual experience in both worlds, and it's not an even playing field by a long shot. Even our end users are complaining about the iMacs compared to the 'doze PCs, and they're almost all Apple-heads.
Thus, you should be comparing Apples to WinPCs in OTHER areas... you know... the ones where the end results aren't the same for the comparison.
I am.
Then, perhaps you can troll one side or the other.
Enjoy your check from Apple this month, you shill.
"I know what all fifty buttons on my TV remote does, I don't know why people are too dumb or lazy to figure it out too. It's obviously superior to the five-button TV remote." isn't the correct answer for all consumers. Somewhere there's a guy who knows what every extra charge on your phone bill is for, and since you don't know, he thinks you're too dumb or lazy to figure out.
And the difference between you and him is that you don't rub your hands together in fiendish greedy glee thinking of all the pennies coming your way from the fools who can't work better remote controls. The phone bills are deliberately confusing. The remote controls are deliberately useform, but making them slightly user friendly is somewhere in the design process.
I've admined hundreds of iMacs, a few Xserves, and dozens of Mac pros. The iMacs suck huge donkey balls. They overheat constantly and there is no way to lock them down. You can set an nvram password but that is trivially defeated mechanically (in a way that can't be physically locked down). The best you can do is use video cameras and restrict physical access to the machine itself with a keycard type system, the review the tapes religiously. The Xserves use cheap sata drives marked up 200%, and the Mac pros don't stack well nor fit sideways in a rack (or have redundant power). The only thing driving apple hardware sales is their software, and they know it.
You try 5 or 6 days without food in the middle of winter with no heat and let me know how it works out for you.
I'm sure I would hate it (and I usually do have quite some days of this or that dry food, it is easy to put the new stuff on the back of the shelf), but I'm also quite sure I would survive it, with basically zero issues.
Fat slashdotters living in their mothers' basements are quite different from frail old ladies. The fat keeps us warm and provides needed chemical energy.
It also puts the defender at a disadvantage, since they obviously now have to offer them something to get the same access.
And they'd better offer something really good, because they're potentially a criminal, and anything their lawyer sees, they can probably ask to see (to assist in their own defense). I'd rather side with an obvious bribe from the prosecutor than a potentially dangerous gamble from the defense.
I can't see why a judge would allow attorneys to provide jurors with the means to do their own research on the case, rather than confining their judgment to what they hear in court. "Free WiFi, just don't google the case!"
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At least use IE4 and Netscape 4 Gold. Netscape post 4 was the AOL crappified Netscape.
that's economic reality pretty much agreed upon by anyone with an IQ above 100 and an average education
The set of people with IQ greater than 100 is 50% of the population by definition. When qualified by "average education", the set drops to less than 50%. But the structure of your sentence implies they hold a majority opinion.
"I was the first one to want to go to war!" - Family Guy
I'm not sure how he generalizes to the rest of the population, but on elementary school tests I, personally, can remember reading science answers off mental images of the textbook pages. I only remember that fact NOW because I had a couple teachers grill me as to why my phrasing was identical to the book's... :/
Copyright infringer! :)
I did something similar in high school; we had a history project with a written report and presentation portion, and I drew a picture as my presentation. I was then told that I needed to discuss the topic, but I wasn't prepared, so I just read my paper to the class word for word from memory. My teacher was reading along and was surprised afterward since I was a little rebellious at that age and never did homework.
Dude, you quite obviously just have normal memory like the rest of us.
The rest of us slashdotters, squatting in basements, using our eidetic memories and vaguely autistic personalities to bring up internet arguments from the early 90's? That rest of us? Or the rest of humanity who are amazed when we remember a conversation in detail from just a month ago (let alone decades)?
It seems your memory works best on things where you were paying attention at the time. Eating dinner didn't require your focus, so you were probably thinking of something else, but walking and driving require you to pay attention to your surroundings to remain safe, so you remember your surroundings with clarity.
Close your eyes and picture an apple. Is it red or green? I get the feeling that some people actually see an apple, and it actually registers as red or green in their brain before the question is even asked.
More than that. I first see a Red Delicious, then a Granny Smith. Now a Yellow Delicious, and my current supermarket's display of apples, including Fujis, Pink Ladys, etc. Prior supermarkets I've been to, including ones from when I was a kid. The smell of fresh apple, the smell of decaying apples by the cross country race course at my middle school. The sights and sounds of the hornets buzzing on those decaying apples, the dread I always felt running past them, hoping the hornets were too drunk to attack. The burning in my lungs at that part of the course. My middle school floor plan. The day I went back to visit old teachers as an adult. Seeing that the Apple ][ computers were on display instead of in use. Apple ][, that's what I see in my mind's eye.
the eidetic myth - if it exists no ones managed to prove it. Not that there haven't been people who demonstrated amazing memorization feats - but that a long way from a photographic memory. Plenty claim to have it - but I think you'll find the Great Randi hasn't had to fork out any money yet. I've read of few experiments where they failed to memorize everything
Failed to memorize. Ding ding ding. If they're putting any effort at all into memorization then they don't have a photographic memory. Instead, they should just remember everything they're paying attention to. The paying attention part might be hard though, since every new experience probably triggers a memory, and I'd think they'd spend a lot of time remembering things when they should be paying attention.
- even over quite short periods of time (if you can see and hear it, but not remember all of it, it ain't photographic, usually just confabulation).
Which could be harder for a true eidetic. Short term versus long term.
No one has ever demonstrated the ability to remember languages they've never heard before, for instance.
I believe that falls under the realm of ESP, unless you're talking about written language.
Perhaps ... but if you had a photographic memory, don't you think you'd have better things to do with your time than bore yourself with memory contests?
Not just bore yourself in the present, but in the future too. Who wants a perfect memory of a memory contest that you're 100% certain to win (unless another person with photographic memory shows up, then it's down to who mis-speaks first, which might be interesting from the novelty).
Actually, there ARE some people who have near-perfect autobiographical memory. Hyperthymesia is the name for it. Though I really can't say with any certainty whether this particular kind of memory would convey any advantages in the memory competitions.
It wouldn't. Those competitions are kind of like a "Fastest man alive" competition, but only for 100m, not ranging from 100m dash to a full marathon. Hyperthymesia sufferers are more like marathon runners (who are forced to run constantly). Note that Hyperthymesia isn't quite Photographic Memory since they can't remember concepts they've learned any better than other people.
If you fire the dummies, they just end up at someone else's company (and you get other companies' dummies. Ain't no technical fix for stupid, son.
people with faster metabolisms get more done, use their phone more often. people with slow metabolisms are sloths.
The lives of insects scurrying around in darkness are measured in days, the lives of trees basking in sunshine are measured in centuries.
Parent isn't offtopic, it's just written too poetically for one moderator to understand.
You have to assume things. I assume there is solid ground under my desk chair. I don't stare at the ground nonstop for confirmation.
It's good that you don't. There's no reason to believe that photons hitting your eyes in certain patterns have anything to do with whether the floor is really there. For that matter, electrochemical stimulus from your optic nerves might have nothing to do with photons.
Ah, I forgot about the LCD mini-pixel usage for fonts, etc. No wonder I rarely see someone use wysiwyg anymore.
glad you agree with my assertion that it was false pretenses. did you mention anything else that even matters?
Perhaps the fact that whether the pretenses were false or not is a moot point? That the U.S. was already at war with Iraq and only the Coalition members joined that war under the reasons stipulated (and although I didn't mention it, all of them, including GWB, actually believed those reasons were true)?
starting A WAR
Stop. Hammer time.
Technically, his dad started the war with Iraq. Since there was no peace treaty, it was essentially the same war as what was started with Desert Storm (Invasion of Iraq). GWB only needed reasons (or false pretenses if you like that term better) to bring the Coalition in, the U.S. was already at war with Iraq, and Iraq was constantly breaking the cease-fire by shooting at our military jets.
Oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh (you can't touch this)
I will say one thing, GP is full of shit when they claim that the iMacs overheat. The ONLY times I've seen them overheat is when cooling systems are blocked (either due to dust or PEBCAK [post it notes over air holes]).
Most of our machines are cool to the touch, about 20% are warm, and 4% are hot to the touch (jerk your hand back from surprise level, not pain level). Apple won't repair/replace anything temperature related until the machine shuts down because "overheating doesn't happen unless there has been a shutdown" So they send a replacement HDD, but not a replacement fan or mobo (for the temperature controller), because it's not in their script. I'm guessing you only admin about 40 or so in a small graphics design business and they're mostly used for MS Office and Photoshop. Apple didn't design these machines to run under full load for more than a couple minutes at a time, and they *do* overheat easily, even in cool rooms.
I've admined hundreds of iMacs, a few Xserves, and dozens of Mac pros. The iMacs suck huge donkey balls. They overheat constantly
Kinda like way too numerous Windows machines? Toshibas were (are) notorious for this, as one for instance.
Nothing like them. The iMacs are having hardware failures of about 2% per month (while still under warranty). Any PCs I've seen do this are usually just past warranty or have dying fans. These iMacs' fans are working, they're just designed poorly.
and there is no way to lock them down.
Kinda like Windows?
Now you're just being trollish. Anyone with half a brain can lock Windows down sufficiently until the week before patch Tuesday.
You can set an nvram password but that is trivially defeated mechanically (in a way that can't be physically locked down).
Kinda like on the PC platform?
Now you're not trolling anymore, you're being stupid. To reset a bios password on a PC platform, you have to open the case and reset a jumper on the motherboard. The case can be locked. On an iMac, you just have to access the [censored]. The [censored] can NOT be locked (you can lock the iMac to a desk, but the [censored] is still easily accessible with a screwdriver).
The Xserves use cheap sata drives marked up 200%,
Wow, much like much of the "professional" cheapo servers from... Dell, HP and others?
No, more like the "professional" servers from no-name companies, except they charge only half as much as Dell, and only a third of what Apple used to charge. Dell and HP tend to use SCSI/SAS in their professional servers.
and the Mac pros don't stack well nor fit sideways in a rack (or have redundant power). The only thing driving apple hardware sales is their software, and they know it.
Wow, much like most of the machines out there in the PC world until you go into the 5 digit range (or mid to high 4 digit if you are lucky) or custom build?
What are you smoking? The only computer cases less stackable or rack-capable than mac pros are SGI machines. The only windows box I've seen that wouldn't stack and isn't some custom gaming rig also happened to be an SGI: the 320 abomination. To make a mac pro as stack/rack-friendly as any workstation offering from any PC company, you have to use a hacksaw and a metal file to remove those stupid handles/legs.
I'm not slamming the WinPC world... I am pointing out that what you are posting is irrelevant since it's a relatively even playing field in the areas you mention.
Quite relevant since I have actual experience in both worlds, and it's not an even playing field by a long shot. Even our end users are complaining about the iMacs compared to the 'doze PCs, and they're almost all Apple-heads.
Thus, you should be comparing Apples to WinPCs in OTHER areas... you know... the ones where the end results aren't the same for the comparison.
I am.
Then, perhaps you can troll one side or the other.
Enjoy your check from Apple this month, you shill.
"I know what all fifty buttons on my TV remote does, I don't know why people are too dumb or lazy to figure it out too. It's obviously superior to the five-button TV remote." isn't the correct answer for all consumers. Somewhere there's a guy who knows what every extra charge on your phone bill is for, and since you don't know, he thinks you're too dumb or lazy to figure out.
And the difference between you and him is that you don't rub your hands together in fiendish greedy glee thinking of all the pennies coming your way from the fools who can't work better remote controls. The phone bills are deliberately confusing. The remote controls are deliberately useform, but making them slightly user friendly is somewhere in the design process.
I've admined hundreds of iMacs, a few Xserves, and dozens of Mac pros. The iMacs suck huge donkey balls. They overheat constantly and there is no way to lock them down. You can set an nvram password but that is trivially defeated mechanically (in a way that can't be physically locked down). The best you can do is use video cameras and restrict physical access to the machine itself with a keycard type system, the review the tapes religiously. The Xserves use cheap sata drives marked up 200%, and the Mac pros don't stack well nor fit sideways in a rack (or have redundant power). The only thing driving apple hardware sales is their software, and they know it.
You try 5 or 6 days without food in the middle of winter with no heat and let me know how it works out for you.
I'm sure I would hate it (and I usually do have quite some days of this or that dry food, it is easy to put the new stuff on the back of the shelf), but I'm also quite sure I would survive it, with basically zero issues.
Fat slashdotters living in their mothers' basements are quite different from frail old ladies. The fat keeps us warm and provides needed chemical energy.
It also puts the defender at a disadvantage, since they obviously now have to offer them something to get the same access.
And they'd better offer something really good, because they're potentially a criminal, and anything their lawyer sees, they can probably ask to see (to assist in their own defense). I'd rather side with an obvious bribe from the prosecutor than a potentially dangerous gamble from the defense.
I can't see why a judge would allow attorneys to provide jurors with the means to do their own research on the case, rather than confining their judgment to what they hear in court. "Free WiFi, just don't google the case!"
Cock-Cola you probably could get away with, since it is another word.
You'e mad, Wongberger! That would never fly!
In all likelihood nobody would have ever seen The Silmarillion were it not for him. How different would Middle-Earth fandom be then?
Only a select few would refer to Mithrandir by all his twenty three names.