Actually, you may be touching on something interesting here.
"Getting an A" was remarked to require some 8 times the effort as getting say a "C". But in the business world, "Effort" = "Labor Salaries".
Microsoft seems to have perfected the art of releasing their Grade C-Minus work as "Version 1.0" to get market share, scrape-by sales, open logistics channels, etc.
Then they literally buy themselves another chunk of years to (sometimes) get out a B-Plus version. "Version 3.11". I understand popular wisdom to be that Windows hit the zenith with the combined pair of Win2000/Xp. (They traded advantages, but those were the Op systems people really went with.)
Now they're back with a C-Minus entry in the next class, aka "Vista". "Windows Seven" will probably be another mediocre improvement, and presumably "Windows Eight" or such will be that next Platinum Standard.
Someone supply me the name of the logical fallacy that involves artificially reducing the problem to exclude a solution.
You almost got away with the Heart Surgery example, but I can't think of *anything* that needs more knowledge of Orgo Chemistry than prescribing!
Let's think of a really easy example. Aspartame. Through some aggressive marketing, the substance was the premier diet drink sweetener until the last few years. However, it is unstable under easily reachable conditions (like a hot warehouse), and often breaks down into really nasty components. So we all agree to pick an alternative. I'd like a doctor to know if Sucralose or Sorbitol will interact with diabetes medications.
I agree you have a knowledge function that is not meant to be deleted. However, you appear to be merging a couple of situations that I feel would benefit from being separated.
You of course have final review because of the risks you mentioned. Yet I still believe that not every minute of the case requires top level judgement.
The breakpoint I went after may even benefit from some "risk prevention" agreements. For example, if the defendant is otherwise stuck with some $8-10,000 fine which I would call "low-midline", then it makes no decision-analysis sense to use your firm for more than 50 hours (choosing an arbitrary rate of $200 an hour).
This means the **AA can just grind you just out of spite alone to force you to do work that will drive your price over the mark. That is what I am looking to open a discussion about.
If someone gets the big precendent that says "this is how you bust this kind of claim", if the first few steps are "boilerplate", that is where I was suggesting my initial "simple" rate.
I am the "Junior IT" technical admin for my company, and I slid into that because it is an *adjunct* role because ridiculous software glitches appear in the proprietary Enterprise package we use. So, I play WhackaBug professionally some 30 hours a month. I also try to reign in the worst logic-Fail situations embedded in management's "big pictures". My Uni degree is in accounting. It's really common to see Accounting/IT pairings.
The "Senior IT" guy is also self taught, but he went more "classical IT" and now does our servers, Exchange, etc.
So my advice now is to have a "lead" profession that drives your resume, and "play the IT card" to seal the deal. It also gives smaller companies a reason to hire you if they don't need 40+hour dedicated IT types.
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Bingo.
One reason we moan about lawyers is the artificially protected fees. For simple filings the level of knowledge "should cost" some $50 an hour tops, and small cases could escape under a grand.
Then Orgs. like the RIAA reverse-leverage this fact to pull their copyright stunts.
Things that can happen to a Offer of a contract (EULA). Accepted, or Rejected with Counter Offer.
So by printing out a copy of the EULA and attaching the sticky note & sending it back, you are counter-offering.
Believe it or not, this essentially CAN be done, and I have succeeded once in doing so. Basically, some company had a nasty boilerplate EULA "that they got from Legal". I had a couple of careful discussions with the top management, and for my personal copy was allowed to agree to a more balanced EULA.
When I view your act, it sends my Dopamine levels spiking."
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We're here pretending to read dry blocks of informational material and then posting nested dry blocks of presumably informational material. That's what Web 2.0 discovered! That's cheap!
Therefore it's got to be possible to produce a lean, mean, word&picture optimized browser for this. Yea, it might not be able to do dynamic online market trading, but that's when you open a second Big Engine browser.
I am not even creative enough to think of the little neat features that don't cost much but add fun little experience perks. Maybe organize stories by Slashdot Category?
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I also am with the Old School philosophy that says that *some* care to software compactness is important even if we have lots of juicy hardware these days.
What are the options out there that really do use a small footprint for basic web activity (like webmail and forums)? Flash is not required, nor RSS.
If I want to actually watch a Youtube page... *I can open an entirely new copy of the app!* It would be nice if the other 7 tabs were under 100 megs.
Every time I hear about one of these deals, I start to think that they should makethe DRM *a whole separate game*!
"If you want to play this game at the Advanced level, Hack the Mainframe DRM. If you want to play it at Standard, just put the little CD in nice and easy..."
Pay for two hours of Bruce Schneier's consulting time and come up with something truly hideous, like self modifying code living inside a SchrodingerCatBox with a live feed from the NSA's Algorithm Beta Testing program.
I carefully avoided the word Lazy because that is the mistake too often applied. Scientists are starting to document some real correlations around people who "just can't seem to get started".
Use your favorite browser to look up Flow yourself. Yes, there are conceptual points in dispute, but at least the pioneer who organized the concept theory put a definable topic togther.
I enjoy reading because I found it to be the highest enjoyment per dollar. The reader may freely glance at the last 5 pages to determine if the tome is "merely a genre example" (or brilliant with a bad ending). If it is not up to your standards, don't read it.
The quality of non-fiction has increased noticeably in the last 25-ish years. Find good authors that do a quality job and go vertically through their backlist that may have vanished off the shelves for no other reason than bookstore politics. Second Editions are your source towards Fact-Checked versions after everyone made a fuss off the goofs in the original.
Your tone indicates you are quite intelligent, so my first suggestions for "enriching books" that deal with these and other topics are the paired set by James H. Austin, MD. Volume 1 is "Zen and the Brain" and volume 2 is Zen-Brain Reflections. At 1150 combined Non-Supplementary pages, they might last you a week.
Really enriching activities require effort to be put into it first, and that takes an energy threshold.
Part of the experience spread that leads some people to MMO addictions is that it is low threshold. Then they discover it's also a low reward spread as well, but by that point the day is shot again.
This connects to the psychology of Flow. If someone has trouble getting putting that special kind of effort that makes peak experiences possible, then they drift into some other low grade activity.
You're on to something, but let's nudge the topic a bit.
My chief non-work leisure activity is reading, with computers and music a joint second.
I managed to officially retire from high-end video games and most generic online RPG... because when put side by side with books, those activities had a dismal "Satisfaction per hour" score.
I read like a fiend... because I'm intellectually starved. At least the rise of the internet means there's an outlet to SHARE the results of all that reading, and one of these years I'll start a serious website.
Even at my favorite Cafe, I make sure to have a book nearby because on the days when "no one is really talking" the conversations sound like really bad episodes of tv shows. But it takes a rollicking conversation to get me to put the book down.
This whole thread has serious Apples & Mangoes problems.
You became addicted to cigarettes... because you enjoy them. You have reached a plateau, so you still enjoy them, meaning the activity is not escalating into the next severity class. However, if you found yourself up against an important reason to quit, then the physical-addiction side would kick in.
"Addicted to food" is different, because whole the baseline quantity of cigarettes is zero, there *is* a baseline of food. So attempting to take that minimum amount away creates a logical fallacy because then it becomes a problem again, but in the other direction. (Anorexics have a mis-calibrated food baseline.)
Modern USA *is* addicted to *excess* food, because this is encouraged by brutal social pressures from advertising to Increasing Sales discussions in boardrooms. If you wake up one year and discover you are overweight, and try to cut back, the level of dificulty experienced is the measure of the food addiction.
Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip every summer down to the Music Strip to visit the stores in the Post-Napster1.0 World. I'd run my computer mouse along the world wide web, after doin' a GREP, and one day I happened to catch my self a true Song.
Well, I stuffed it down in a 3rd Party pod, Added a couple ringtones on top, And when jogging day came I took it for a run. So I turned down Maple, up Vine, to Arkham, across the field for the Flea Market parking, and jogged down Main when that Song went totally beserk.
The DRM-Enabled Device with Hash Tables tried to run the codec Fable(tm) on this plain ol' MP3. It went to look for a license that never existed; The song just started playing while the Server persisted, trying to lock down a Song that was already free.
The Day the Song went beserk, On that DRM'ed Musical Clerk, During my morning run across Main Street. It was a fight for survival 'Led to an MP3 Revival, and Indie Bands all shouted Halleleujah!
Well, Eighty Seven DRM servers were cleared, Five hundred thousand tunes reappeared, and seven Boards of directors fired the CEO's on the spot.
Best Western wasn't deprived of their backups, were they? So by famous Slashdot Meme-Think, the info "wasn't stolen", it was "infringed"!
Since people don't make money by selling their personal details anymore, you can always go to their houses for live performances!
Since the "making available" theory is in trouble these days, we look for actual proof of data download... which we have, right? Then can we get the FBI to go after these guys for statutory damages of 3*$1*8M = $24 Million? (Because many songs have shorter lyrics than what a hotel collects)
I have no desire to create yet another PC to level up through the ruthless grind. 'Way back I played a sort of NPC consultant in the background of other people's story arcs.
I found it relaxing to toss out some InCharacter lines every hour while working on projects.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry,
I checked this and everything looks really ugly.
Can we get an OffByTwo browser that can sneak past the exploit but not look quite so awful?
What about the Canary approach?
1. "I promise under penalty of Perjury not to actively state a false status of my app. with Apple."
2.
"Today I was not declined by Apple."
"Today I was not declined by Apple."
"Today I was not declined by Apple."
"Today I was not declined by Apple."
3. ( ... Crickets ... )
Actually, you may be touching on something interesting here.
"Getting an A" was remarked to require some 8 times the effort as getting say a "C". But in the business world, "Effort" = "Labor Salaries".
Microsoft seems to have perfected the art of releasing their Grade C-Minus work as "Version 1.0" to get market share, scrape-by sales, open logistics channels, etc.
Then they literally buy themselves another chunk of years to (sometimes) get out a B-Plus version. "Version 3.11". I understand popular wisdom to be that Windows hit the zenith with the combined pair of Win2000/Xp. (They traded advantages, but those were the Op systems people really went with.)
Now they're back with a C-Minus entry in the next class, aka "Vista". "Windows Seven" will probably be another mediocre improvement, and presumably "Windows Eight" or such will be that next Platinum Standard.
I seem to recall Microsoft like that idea so much that they paid their former CEO a huge amount of money to look at you, wag his tail, and walk away.
Delicious!
+1 HonestMod!
Let's hear it for the "+1 You Don't Know Murdock" option.
The RIAA is very not-alive-in-the-usual-sense.
Plus I can really picture Michael Des Barres crushing the role of RIAA chief counsel.
Someone supply me the name of the logical fallacy that involves artificially reducing the problem to exclude a solution.
You almost got away with the Heart Surgery example, but I can't think of *anything* that needs more knowledge of Orgo Chemistry than prescribing!
Let's think of a really easy example. Aspartame. Through some aggressive marketing, the substance was the premier diet drink sweetener until the last few years. However, it is unstable under easily reachable conditions (like a hot warehouse), and often breaks down into really nasty components. So we all agree to pick an alternative. I'd like a doctor to know if Sucralose or Sorbitol will interact with diabetes medications.
Good to know you are indeed a practitioner.
I agree you have a knowledge function that is not meant to be deleted. However, you appear to be merging a couple of situations that I feel would benefit from being separated.
You of course have final review because of the risks you mentioned. Yet I still believe that not every minute of the case requires top level judgement.
The breakpoint I went after may even benefit from some "risk prevention" agreements. For example, if the defendant is otherwise stuck with some $8-10,000 fine which I would call "low-midline", then it makes no decision-analysis sense to use your firm for more than 50 hours (choosing an arbitrary rate of $200 an hour).
This means the **AA can just grind you just out of spite alone to force you to do work that will drive your price over the mark. That is what I am looking to open a discussion about.
If someone gets the big precendent that says "this is how you bust this kind of claim", if the first few steps are "boilerplate", that is where I was suggesting my initial "simple" rate.
I disagree.
I am the "Junior IT" technical admin for my company, and I slid into that because it is an *adjunct* role because ridiculous software glitches appear in the proprietary Enterprise package we use. So, I play WhackaBug professionally some 30 hours a month. I also try to reign in the worst logic-Fail situations embedded in management's "big pictures". My Uni degree is in accounting. It's really common to see Accounting/IT pairings.
The "Senior IT" guy is also self taught, but he went more "classical IT" and now does our servers, Exchange, etc.
So my advice now is to have a "lead" profession that drives your resume, and "play the IT card" to seal the deal. It also gives smaller companies a reason to hire you if they don't need 40+hour dedicated IT types.
Bingo.
One reason we moan about lawyers is the artificially protected fees. For simple filings the level of knowledge "should cost" some $50 an hour tops, and small cases could escape under a grand.
Then Orgs. like the RIAA reverse-leverage this fact to pull their copyright stunts.
Lessee...
Things that can happen to a Offer of a contract (EULA).
Accepted, or Rejected with Counter Offer.
So by printing out a copy of the EULA and attaching the sticky note & sending it back, you are counter-offering.
Believe it or not, this essentially CAN be done, and I have succeeded once in doing so. Basically, some company had a nasty boilerplate EULA "that they got from Legal". I had a couple of careful discussions with the top management, and for my personal copy was allowed to agree to a more balanced EULA.
"Dear Performer.
When I view your act, it sends my Dopamine levels spiking."
We're here pretending to read dry blocks of informational material and then posting nested dry blocks of presumably informational material. That's what Web 2.0 discovered! That's cheap!
Therefore it's got to be possible to produce a lean, mean, word&picture optimized browser for this. Yea, it might not be able to do dynamic online market trading, but that's when you open a second Big Engine browser.
I am not even creative enough to think of the little neat features that don't cost much but add fun little experience perks. Maybe organize stories by Slashdot Category?
I also am with the Old School philosophy that says that *some* care to software compactness is important even if we have lots of juicy hardware these days.
What are the options out there that really do use a small footprint for basic web activity (like webmail and forums)? Flash is not required, nor RSS.
If I want to actually watch a Youtube page... *I can open an entirely new copy of the app!* It would be nice if the other 7 tabs were under 100 megs.
That's a great line.
Every time I hear about one of these deals, I start to think that they should makethe DRM *a whole separate game*!
"If you want to play this game at the Advanced level, Hack the Mainframe DRM. If you want to play it at Standard, just put the little CD in nice and easy..."
Pay for two hours of Bruce Schneier's consulting time and come up with something truly hideous, like self modifying code living inside a SchrodingerCatBox with a live feed from the NSA's Algorithm Beta Testing program.
I carefully avoided the word Lazy because that is the mistake too often applied. Scientists are starting to document some real correlations around people who "just can't seem to get started".
Use your favorite browser to look up Flow yourself. Yes, there are conceptual points in dispute, but at least the pioneer who organized the concept theory put a definable topic togther.
I enjoy reading because I found it to be the highest enjoyment per dollar. The reader may freely glance at the last 5 pages to determine if the tome is "merely a genre example" (or brilliant with a bad ending). If it is not up to your standards, don't read it.
The quality of non-fiction has increased noticeably in the last 25-ish years. Find good authors that do a quality job and go vertically through their backlist that may have vanished off the shelves for no other reason than bookstore politics. Second Editions are your source towards Fact-Checked versions after everyone made a fuss off the goofs in the original.
Your tone indicates you are quite intelligent, so my first suggestions for "enriching books" that deal with these and other topics are the paired set by James H. Austin, MD. Volume 1 is "Zen and the Brain" and volume 2 is Zen-Brain Reflections. At 1150 combined Non-Supplementary pages, they might last you a week.
Too much vitriol, AC.
Really enriching activities require effort to be put into it first, and that takes an energy threshold.
Part of the experience spread that leads some people to MMO addictions is that it is low threshold. Then they discover it's also a low reward spread as well, but by that point the day is shot again.
This connects to the psychology of Flow. If someone has trouble getting putting that special kind of effort that makes peak experiences possible, then they drift into some other low grade activity.
You're on to something, but let's nudge the topic a bit.
My chief non-work leisure activity is reading, with computers and music a joint second.
I managed to officially retire from high-end video games and most generic online RPG ... because when put side by side with books, those activities had a dismal "Satisfaction per hour" score.
I read like a fiend... because I'm intellectually starved. At least the rise of the internet means there's an outlet to SHARE the results of all that reading, and one of these years I'll start a serious website.
Even at my favorite Cafe, I make sure to have a book nearby because on the days when "no one is really talking" the conversations sound like really bad episodes of tv shows. But it takes a rollicking conversation to get me to put the book down.
This whole thread has serious Apples & Mangoes problems.
You became addicted to cigarettes ... because you enjoy them. You have reached a plateau, so you still enjoy them, meaning the activity is not escalating into the next severity class. However, if you found yourself up against an important reason to quit, then the physical-addiction side would kick in.
"Addicted to food" is different, because whole the baseline quantity of cigarettes is zero, there *is* a baseline of food. So attempting to take that minimum amount away creates a logical fallacy because then it becomes a problem again, but in the other direction. (Anorexics have a mis-calibrated food baseline.)
Modern USA *is* addicted to *excess* food, because this is encouraged by brutal social pressures from advertising to Increasing Sales discussions in boardrooms. If you wake up one year and discover you are overweight, and try to cut back, the level of dificulty experienced is the measure of the food addiction.
"...subjunctive mood is screwed up with such regularity..."
Yea, everyone has Subjunctivitis.
Is Michael J. Fox available?
Well when I was a kid I'd take a trip
every summer down to the Music Strip
to visit the stores in the Post-Napster1.0 World.
I'd run my computer mouse along
the world wide web, after doin' a GREP,
and one day I happened to catch my self a true Song.
Well, I stuffed it down in a 3rd Party pod,
Added a couple ringtones on top,
And when jogging day came I took it for a run.
So I turned down Maple, up Vine, to Arkham,
across the field for the Flea Market parking,
and jogged down Main when that Song went totally beserk.
The DRM-Enabled Device with Hash Tables
tried to run the codec Fable(tm) on this plain ol' MP3.
It went to look for a license that never existed;
The song just started playing while the Server persisted,
trying to lock down a Song that was already free.
The Day the Song went beserk,
On that DRM'ed Musical Clerk,
During my morning run across Main Street.
It was a fight for survival
'Led to an MP3 Revival,
and Indie Bands all shouted Halleleujah!
Well, Eighty Seven DRM servers were cleared,
Five hundred thousand tunes reappeared,
and seven Boards of directors fired the CEO's on the spot.
That could be the next internet meme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTrgh0vELEo
Best Western wasn't deprived of their backups, were they? So by famous Slashdot Meme-Think, the info "wasn't stolen", it was "infringed"!
Since people don't make money by selling their personal details anymore, you can always go to their houses for live performances!
Since the "making available" theory is in trouble these days, we look for actual proof of data download... which we have, right? Then can we get the FBI to go after these guys for statutory damages of 3*$1*8M = $24 Million? (Because many songs have shorter lyrics than what a hotel collects)
Grand Theft Prosection FTW!
I would actually fall into this category.
I have no desire to create yet another PC to level up through the ruthless grind. 'Way back I played a sort of NPC consultant in the background of other people's story arcs.
I found it relaxing to toss out some InCharacter lines every hour while working on projects.