...that less people are living with asthma in countries where there is less access to the kind of medicine and care, both maintenance and emergency, that greatly reduces the risk of death associated with asthma in the developed world.
Sole Proprietorships make make up the majority of businesses, but, if you look at it in terms of revenue, I think you will find the largest businesses make most of the money, and have the greatest economic impact.
Last I heard, the vast majority of all jobs were in small businesses, not big business.
Asthma is an immune disorder. Asthma attacks are triggered by the body over-reacting to outside stimuli.
Asthma is not an "immune disorder", though immune responses (including allergies) are common asthma triggers that exacerbate inflammation. Asthma "inducers" that produce spasms (a different kind of asthma attack) are environmental, but generally not related to immune response.
People widely claim that asthma is caused by pollution and point to the high incidence of asthma in the USA as proof.
That I've seen, they also point to the correlation between areas inside the US with high childhood asthma incidence and the areas within the US with high pollution; also the fact that particulate pollution is demonstrably an asthma inducer.
Yet, strangely, children in even more highly polluted countries - like Mexico - do not get asthma as often as American children.
Mexico City may be the most polluted city in the world, or nearly so, but I don't recall that, in general, air pollution in Mexico was worse than that in the US. Certainly their output of many pollutants is, on a per capita basis, far less than the US.
What's the difference you ask?
Children in highly polluted third-world countries who develop asthma are less likely to get medical care in the event of a life-threatening attack than those in more developed countries (even ones with crappy health delivery systems like the US), and therefore the proportion of children living with asthma is likely to be lower, even if the chances of getting it are the same or higer.
Further, for similar reasons related to healthcare access, those who do have asthma in such countries are less likely to be diagnosed with it.
And in fact they pretty much don't exist. Craigslist was founded by one guy, Craig Newmark, entirely with his own money. He still owns most of the company, except for one small chunk that he gave away, and that later was sold to eBay.
Sole? Sole proprietorships and very narrowly, privately held corporations, partnerships, etc. make up a large percentage of businesses, and many of them operate in accord with interests of their owners beyond simply maximizing financial return or market value of the business.
Widely, publicly held companies whose management's sole duty is to maximize the financial return to the owners may make up most really big businesses, but they certainly aren't most businesses.
Indeed, Craigslist is plenty of ads.
Analysts who say that Craigslist should seek more profit by making people view ads they aren't interested in in order to see the ads they are actively seeking by viewing Craigslist in the first place are, well, perhaps missing the source of Craigslist's dominant position.
I wouldn't say that we know for sure that Microsoft is playing nice; I am saying that we have to admit that there is a possibilty.
If someone is revealed to have said they plan to "embrace, extend, and extinguish" something, and then they start publicly embracing it, then, while you might want to admit the remote possibility that they've suddenly changed their mind and fallen in love with it, you in any case should acknowledge that by far the more likely possibility is that they are doing exactly what they said they were going to do.
Work at a real company where millions of dollars change hands on a daily basis and Notes/Domino is the only solution.
Strange, then, that I've seen so many organizations in that category switch from Notes to Exchange.
I think you underrate the importance of UI. If you haven't got a decent UI, nobody except technicians are effective working with the product in any size organization, which makes every other feature irrelevant, unless the product will only be used by technicians.
Now, admittedly, it should be easier to fix a UI problem than to fundamentally rework the structural underpinnings -- which just says why there is no excuse for Notes.
Viral works on one thing alone: You have to have an AWESOME product that people will want to tell their friends about.
That;'s not at all true; if the ad itself is interesting and gets passed on for its entertainment value, that's clearly a success; if the ad contains information that gets passed person-to-person independently of the ad, in a sense that's a kind of successful viral advertising itself; spreading FUD that gets accepted as conventional wisdom and spread around and repeated in person-to-person discussions as fact is, in a way, successful viral advertising.
Do you believe that the ratio of women to men involved with a free software project is a useful metric for quality?
It can't be any less useful than most of the various numerical metrics applied to computer hardware and software.
But you need a catchy name for the measurement to make it a real metric -- you'd have to multiply the ratio by, say, 1000 and call it like ChickMarks or something.
The problem isn't just with girls now, it's both sexes.
Oh, I agree. I'm just saying that there is something outside of the school system making up for it, a little bit, for boys, not so much for girls, which might explain why female involvement seems to have peaked (in relative terms).
...in a market with perfect competition (a fair definition of a "properly working market"), price will be set by sellers marginal cost at the quantity sold, that quantity will be set by buyer's willingness to pay that marginal cost.
Surely even the current supreme court is going to knock this down.
If they can't even get the right answer on "should evidence gained by police through a search conducted without actually knocking-and-announcing despite the fact that the search was authorized by a knock-and-announce warrant be excluded from a criminal case", I really don't trust them to get anything else right, either.
And the reason the politcians agreed with this is because by the same logic it means the state collects more taxes.
No, the reason that politicians agreed with this is because not doing so meant their opponents in the next elections would get more contributions from tribal casino operators.
Politicians aren't all that consistently motivated by prospects of tax revenues (otherwise, there would never be tax cuts), they are motivated consistently by where campaign contributions go.
Am I the only one that thinks the whole aero craze is over the top. Is it really that important to be able to see through some of your windows and have them displayed in "3d"?
From playing around with XGL, I think that there is some advantage to a 3d-accelerated UI (aside from the "ooh, pretty" advantage), though the insane requirements for Vista reduce the advantage (I mean, yeah, its nice to offload some CPU work to the GPU, especially work that mostly gets done when you aren't already running GPU intensive tasks, but for the requirements of Vista, I could just get an XP machine with a much better CPU cheaper.)
OTOH, aside from the rearrangement of work, I don't see much advantage to a "3d" UI unless you go to something like, for example, OpenCroquet.
WotC has provided some D&D books as PDFs for some time, and SJG doesn't (or at least hasn't for long, its been a couple months since I was on e23, and e23's blocked where I am right now) make its whole catalog available as PDFs.
There are lots of publishers that do release everything as PDFs in the RPG business, including lots of PDF-only publishers, but WotC is far and away the biggest player in the business, so this is pretty significant.
Most of the content of the three core books (and some from others) is available for free (free as in beer, and under a license inspired by Free Software licenses, though arguably not completely Free in that sense) in RTF (the official release) as the d20 SRD, there are also free PDF versions available from third-parties under the same license.
If Criminal orgs are purchasing exploits, why doesn't Microsoft?
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Because, through various cutouts to avoid it being traced back to them, it is Microsoft selling the exploits.
I mean, come on, you ever know Microsoft to pass up such an obvious opportunity to leverage a monopoly in one field (say, Office suites) into a dominant market position in another field (say, exploits for Office suites.) </tinfoil>
I'm really tired of hearing this term. Nobody's identity is being physically stolen; therefore it is not theft.
No, people's tangible and intangible personal property is stolen by means of misrepresenting identity (not always the one whose property is stolen, depending on the particular manner of identity theft.) "Identity theft" is not "theft of identity" its "theft by misrepresenting identity".
And, therefore, it is theft.
It really grinds my gears when industry lobbyists and shills use inflammatory rhetoric to exaggerate the impact of mundane, victimless crimes.
Identity theft is no more "victimless" than than armed robbery.
I don't know how this is a surprise to anyone "cross-site scripting techniques" are so common now there writing magazine articles about them go look at the last 2600 and you will find out how to do it and that you can start with myspace.com.
The people that this is a surprise to are probably not people who read 2600.
I examined the dearth of female CS students at my University and talked to one of my professors. She had been keeping track of the numbers for years, and it turned out that while ALL sciences had seen increased enrolment -- including pure mathematics -- CS enrolment for women was down every year. It's not too hard or too technical or too 'science-y', so what's doing it?
I'm not certain of this, but I get the impression that while computers in schools, even to the elementary schools, are far more common, programming in the (before college) schools is less so than it was twenty years ago, with more focus on application use. I wonder if the kids that get into programming young aren't mostly doing it through game programming books -- the main one's I see aimed at young newbie programmers -- that focus on building the kind of games mostly popular with boys.
Certainly, even the gifted children of friends I here about don't seem to be exposed to Logo (or, I guess, Squeak would be the more current equivalent), or taught to program in BASIC (including how to make music, which seemed to be one of the most popular things), in elementary school like the students I went to elementary school with.
I don't really care for the fluorescent bulb replacement for the house. They don't look quite right. Maybe I am just used to the yellowish glow of incandescent, but fluorecent lights are just too harsh. Even the ones that are supposed to be "soft." I imagine LEDs would be simlar if my LED flashlight is any gauge.
Though this is drifting a bit afield, I personally like the ones that are enclosed in an outer frosted casing, particularly the ones I have in recessed ceiling floodlights in my house (the bare ones, even with a shade, do seem rather harsh. And I especially love the full-spectrum flourescent desk lamp I have.
But, yeah, I understand why some people don't like most CFLs; when I had an apartment without recessed fixtures they werent as nice, though -- living in the CA central valley -- the twin advantages of reduced waste heat and reduced energy use, with long life being an extra boost, sold me anyway.
One person is irrelvant. The claim is not that no woman is 'genetically built for programming' but that women in general aren't.
Well, given that the ratio of women:men in CS programs is something closer to 1:4 than 0:n, even if the imbalance in the field is genetic, it doesn't explain the lack of applications GNOME received by itself.
why didnt these superior candidates apply for the google summer of code in the first place then?
The title of the GNOME effort "Women's Summer Outreach Program" clearly indicates that GNOME thinks the problem is exposure (either of Summer of Code or the GNOME project itself) to women in the field; given the application ratios, unless there is something particularly repulsive to women about GNOME, that's probably a fair assumption.
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...that less people are living with asthma in countries where there is less access to the kind of medicine and care, both maintenance and emergency, that greatly reduces the risk of death associated with asthma in the developed world.
Asthma is not an "immune disorder", though immune responses (including allergies) are common asthma triggers that exacerbate inflammation. Asthma "inducers" that produce spasms (a different kind of asthma attack) are environmental, but generally not related to immune response.
That I've seen, they also point to the correlation between areas inside the US with high childhood asthma incidence and the areas within the US with high pollution; also the fact that particulate pollution is demonstrably an asthma inducer.
Mexico City may be the most polluted city in the world, or nearly so, but I don't recall that, in general, air pollution in Mexico was worse than that in the US. Certainly their output of many pollutants is, on a per capita basis, far less than the US.
Children in highly polluted third-world countries who develop asthma are less likely to get medical care in the event of a life-threatening attack than those in more developed countries (even ones with crappy health delivery systems like the US), and therefore the proportion of children living with asthma is likely to be lower, even if the chances of getting it are the same or higer.
Further, for similar reasons related to healthcare access, those who do have asthma in such countries are less likely to be diagnosed with it.
Sole? Sole proprietorships and very narrowly, privately held corporations, partnerships, etc. make up a large percentage of businesses, and many of them operate in accord with interests of their owners beyond simply maximizing financial return or market value of the business.
Widely, publicly held companies whose management's sole duty is to maximize the financial return to the owners may make up most really big businesses, but they certainly aren't most businesses.
Indeed, Craigslist is plenty of ads. Analysts who say that Craigslist should seek more profit by making people view ads they aren't interested in in order to see the ads they are actively seeking by viewing Craigslist in the first place are, well, perhaps missing the source of Craigslist's dominant position.
...in a market with perfect competition (a fair definition of a "properly working market"), price will be set by sellers marginal cost at the quantity sold, that quantity will be set by buyer's willingness to pay that marginal cost.
No, the reason that politicians agreed with this is because not doing so meant their opponents in the next elections would get more contributions from tribal casino operators.
Politicians aren't all that consistently motivated by prospects of tax revenues (otherwise, there would never be tax cuts), they are motivated consistently by where campaign contributions go.
...the requirements to make Windows Vista run well make the PS3 look more attractive as a computer. :)
Yeah. The Department of Homeland Security should keep all those kids safe.
WotC has provided some D&D books as PDFs for some time, and SJG doesn't (or at least hasn't for long, its been a couple months since I was on e23, and e23's blocked where I am right now) make its whole catalog available as PDFs. There are lots of publishers that do release everything as PDFs in the RPG business, including lots of PDF-only publishers, but WotC is far and away the biggest player in the business, so this is pretty significant.
Most of the content of the three core books (and some from others) is available for free (free as in beer, and under a license inspired by Free Software licenses, though arguably not completely Free in that sense) in RTF (the official release) as the d20 SRD, there are also free PDF versions available from third-parties under the same license.
Because, through various cutouts to avoid it being traced back to them, it is Microsoft selling the exploits.
I mean, come on, you ever know Microsoft to pass up such an obvious opportunity to leverage a monopoly in one field (say, Office suites) into a dominant market position in another field (say, exploits for Office suites.)
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I'm not certain of this, but I get the impression that while computers in schools, even to the elementary schools, are far more common, programming in the (before college) schools is less so than it was twenty years ago, with more focus on application use. I wonder if the kids that get into programming young aren't mostly doing it through game programming books -- the main one's I see aimed at young newbie programmers -- that focus on building the kind of games mostly popular with boys.
Certainly, even the gifted children of friends I here about don't seem to be exposed to Logo (or, I guess, Squeak would be the more current equivalent), or taught to program in BASIC (including how to make music, which seemed to be one of the most popular things), in elementary school like the students I went to elementary school with.
So what's to get girls started on the path?