Is that because there just aren't enough decent writers out there? Or that those other decent writers want way too much money?
I think that is more on target. Writing anything from a neutral point of view is difficult/impossible. If you are taking the time to edit an article, you are most likely not an impartial 3rd party. Hopefully what this could encourage is more well written articles. As with all articles, the obviously false information can get edited out by other users. If the information then gets continually changed the article gets frozen (a la Scientology).
I can see this going awry, but I'd be interested to see where it heads.
Spending $10 to print and spiralbind a textbook is a lot cheaper than paying $150 for a hardcover version.
While I have no data to back it up, I would have to believe that it is less expensive to have one publishing company produce all the hardbound books and ship them than it is for each school district to print 100 at Kinkos and spiral bound it. Economies of scale need to come into effect.
The remainder of the money goes to the publisher and author(s). Even in our School Textbook 2.0 world, they both would need to get paid. I would be hard pressed to believe that with the same profit margins this could turn out to be less expensive in the end.
The rest of my family would glaze over and say something rude if I tried to talk about this kind of thing.
I think you are getting to the root cause of what I think the article missed. Most people are not interested in actually striving to find out the truth (regardless of what the truth happens to be). Pop philosophy is helping people justify the beliefs they already have, regardless of what it is. To do that, all you need is a plausible sounding argument.
According to a shocking report [time.com] by "Time Magazine", "if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear."
Hold on a minute. The important question is if in the entire life cycle of ethanol, does it release more greenhouse gases than gasoline. We need to remember that plants also consume carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. A University of Nebraska study showed ethanol had a 50% reduction in GHG over gasoline.
has anyone noticed that no one has mentioned the #1 reason for the growing energy problem and its associated pollution problem? The #1 reason is overpopulation.
There is an easy solution to that one. If you're so adamant about it as a problem you're more than welcome to go first...
The problem is that cooking courses are not designed for engineers. Most engineers can't just take something at face value without understanding why it is so (which is why many are such bad cooks). You did a cost benefit and decided it wasn't worth understanding how cooking worked - that's what a good engineer does.
The great chefs understand how food works, not just some recipe. Understanding if something is going to burn or come out evenly cooked means that you really understand the thermodynamics involved. Like science, cooking is just trial and error until you get a good handle on the boundary conditions.
it's wrong to get a guilty party off on a technicality.
I can certainly understand the sentiment. I could see myself having a hard time working for someone who I thought was guilty of a heinous crime(if I was a lawyer), but the guilty party still needs representation.
The goal of an ethical lawyer defending a party should not be to try to find dishonest loopholes, but to ensure that the prosecuting party is playing by the rules.
Not at all. The idea behind "shoot the hackers" is flamebait and you are right that if we could harness some of that talent and turn more black hats into white hats we would all be much better off.
Right now we as a community aren't very good at helping those people use their talents in a constructive way. For that, in my opinion, you are right on.
In fact, it seems so utterly stupid that I get furious every time I hear some thoughtless moron spout "Punish the hackers".
A little blame needs to come from all areas. Not every website or messageboard is run by someone with a CS degree with a minor in website security. A break-in of a government site or large corporate site is one thing, a family website another. This site is probably somewhere in between.
Saying it isn't the hackers fault that improper mehtods were used to secure a site is like saying it isn't the muggers fault that the lady's handbag was so easy to steal.
but even worse, I would suspect these types of foods are consumed in higher quantities by lower income levels (shopping for fresh foods - not to mention at Whole Foods - isn't cheap). Not only is it trying to squeeze more tax revenue, it would be hitting the lower income bracket the worse.
Are you familiar with the scientific process? This was yet another falsifiable test for the currently best supported version of the theory of abiogenesis. It was a test the theory passed
None of this is science - let's stop using that word. Everyone here is making conjectures about a certain something that happened in a point of time. That isn't science, that is history. Proving that life can be created spontaneously does not infer that it did. In the negative, not having a method to have it happen today does not mean that it didn't happen in the past.
Science tells us what is most likely to happen in the future. It isn't a great historian because history isn't subject to testing (today only happens once).
In France, the temperature dipped lower still. In Paris, it sank to -15 ÂC on 14 January and stayed there for 11 days
What? While the weather here in France has been a little colder than normal (I'm midway between Paris and Lille), saying it has been -15C for 11 days is just false. There has been one day where this area hit -15, but we've been staying above 0C most days.
This is a new millenium and 2D is not gone, but it is dying fast. There are still plenty of applications (wiring schematics, HVAC) that don't transfer well into 3D and will continue to use 2D applications. Even in applications that are based around a 3D model still need a 2D interface for creating prints.
In testing to see if humans smell in stereo the best experiment they could come up with is having people follow a piece of scented rope in the grass? All this experiment would prove is that people can smell. If you loose the sent you turn your head to the left or right and if the sent increases, you move in that direction.
They went through the extra step of jamming things in people's noses and surprise, people didn't do so well with this teflon contraption hanging off their face.
What does the Yootle have to do with a wisdom of the crowd concept? It has no predictive aspect, only a petty score keeping of how much work you do and how little you get your way.
This has been said many times in the past few years, but it's still not feasible. One big reason YouTube is popular is because it is "Instant-On." Not only that, but most people are inherently selfish and don't look at the big picture. Why should I upload a p2p file any any decent rate and sacrifice that bandwidth? Relying on files provided by the goodwill of others is inherently flawed.
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Is that because there just aren't enough decent writers out there? Or that those other decent writers want way too much money?
I think that is more on target. Writing anything from a neutral point of view is difficult/impossible. If you are taking the time to edit an article, you are most likely not an impartial 3rd party. Hopefully what this could encourage is more well written articles. As with all articles, the obviously false information can get edited out by other users. If the information then gets continually changed the article gets frozen (a la Scientology).
I can see this going awry, but I'd be interested to see where it heads.
Spending $10 to print and spiralbind a textbook is a lot cheaper than paying $150 for a hardcover version.
While I have no data to back it up, I would have to believe that it is less expensive to have one publishing company produce all the hardbound books and ship them than it is for each school district to print 100 at Kinkos and spiral bound it. Economies of scale need to come into effect.
The remainder of the money goes to the publisher and author(s). Even in our School Textbook 2.0 world, they both would need to get paid. I would be hard pressed to believe that with the same profit margins this could turn out to be less expensive in the end.
I'm sure all this is fine as long as you don't overload the hard drive
The rest of my family would glaze over and say something rude if I tried to talk about this kind of thing.
I think you are getting to the root cause of what I think the article missed. Most people are not interested in actually striving to find out the truth (regardless of what the truth happens to be). Pop philosophy is helping people justify the beliefs they already have, regardless of what it is. To do that, all you need is a plausible sounding argument.
the problem is that people use the word cult incorrectly
All religions are cults
For the negative usage, a cult (item 3) is any belief that is different than yours
my folks and I attended a presbyterian church for 4 years. We stopped when we were told not to return until we wanted to tithe appropriately.
I'm sorry - that's terrible
According to a shocking report [time.com] by "Time Magazine", "if the world gets even 10% of its energy from these new kinds of crops, most tropical forests will probably disappear."
Hold on a minute. The important question is if in the entire life cycle of ethanol, does it release more greenhouse gases than gasoline. We need to remember that plants also consume carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. A University of Nebraska study showed ethanol had a 50% reduction in GHG over gasoline.
has anyone noticed that no one has mentioned the #1 reason for the growing energy problem and its associated pollution problem? The #1 reason is overpopulation.
There is an easy solution to that one. If you're so adamant about it as a problem you're more than welcome to go first...
The problem is that cooking courses are not designed for engineers. Most engineers can't just take something at face value without understanding why it is so (which is why many are such bad cooks). You did a cost benefit and decided it wasn't worth understanding how cooking worked - that's what a good engineer does.
The great chefs understand how food works, not just some recipe. Understanding if something is going to burn or come out evenly cooked means that you really understand the thermodynamics involved. Like science, cooking is just trial and error until you get a good handle on the boundary conditions.
If you're interested, try out the cooking for engineers website.
it's wrong to get a guilty party off on a technicality.
I can certainly understand the sentiment. I could see myself having a hard time working for someone who I thought was guilty of a heinous crime(if I was a lawyer), but the guilty party still needs representation.
The goal of an ethical lawyer defending a party should not be to try to find dishonest loopholes, but to ensure that the prosecuting party is playing by the rules.
Not at all. The idea behind "shoot the hackers" is flamebait and you are right that if we could harness some of that talent and turn more black hats into white hats we would all be much better off.
Right now we as a community aren't very good at helping those people use their talents in a constructive way. For that, in my opinion, you are right on.
In fact, it seems so utterly stupid that I get furious every time I hear some thoughtless moron spout "Punish the hackers".
A little blame needs to come from all areas. Not every website or messageboard is run by someone with a CS degree with a minor in website security. A break-in of a government site or large corporate site is one thing, a family website another. This site is probably somewhere in between.
Saying it isn't the hackers fault that improper mehtods were used to secure a site is like saying it isn't the muggers fault that the lady's handbag was so easy to steal.
but even worse, I would suspect these types of foods are consumed in higher quantities by lower income levels (shopping for fresh foods - not to mention at Whole Foods - isn't cheap). Not only is it trying to squeeze more tax revenue, it would be hitting the lower income bracket the worse.
Are you familiar with the scientific process? This was yet another falsifiable test for the currently best supported version of the theory of abiogenesis. It was a test the theory passed
None of this is science - let's stop using that word. Everyone here is making conjectures about a certain something that happened in a point of time. That isn't science, that is history. Proving that life can be created spontaneously does not infer that it did. In the negative, not having a method to have it happen today does not mean that it didn't happen in the past.
Science tells us what is most likely to happen in the future. It isn't a great historian because history isn't subject to testing (today only happens once).
In France, the temperature dipped lower still. In Paris, it sank to -15 ÂC on 14 January and stayed there for 11 days
What? While the weather here in France has been a little colder than normal (I'm midway between Paris and Lille), saying it has been -15C for 11 days is just false. There has been one day where this area hit -15, but we've been staying above 0C most days.
In testing to see if humans smell in stereo the best experiment they could come up with is having people follow a piece of scented rope in the grass? All this experiment would prove is that people can smell. If you loose the sent you turn your head to the left or right and if the sent increases, you move in that direction. They went through the extra step of jamming things in people's noses and surprise, people didn't do so well with this teflon contraption hanging off their face.
What does the Yootle have to do with a wisdom of the crowd concept? It has no predictive aspect, only a petty score keeping of how much work you do and how little you get your way.