Every event that is remembered is recreated from disparate associations.
People usually recreate memories in ways that reduce negative affect. (If
you don't, you risk depression, etc.) This includes reducing moral
threat, ie, culpability. Once something has been misremembered a few times
it is
Thursday night I attended Dr James Bradfield Moody's talk at ANU in
Canberra on "Unleashing innovation in a resource limited world". His
startup "Tushare" is an on-line brokering service for people to give
away unwanted items. He is also author of "The Sixth Wave: How to
Succeed in a Resource-L
On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 21:31 +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
> The flip side is that drivers lie, all the time, concerning incidents with
> vulnerable road users such as cyclists and pedestrians.
Of course. I would simplify your statement to "drivers lie, all the
time, concerning everything". Often to t
Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Yeah ... the problem with major OS developers and hardware producers is that
> more often than not they get to the point where it all becomes marketing and
> PR and not enough attention is paid to the technology development and adding
> to the user value thingie.
A big
Thanks Rick,
Little Snitch, Huh?
An aptly named little puppy. I'll give it a look.
Yeah ... the problem with major OS developers and hardware producers is that
more often than not they get to the point where it all becomes marketing and PR
and not enough attention is paid to the technology dev
Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Same with Apple Maverick and the iCloud ... not a lot of mention of it until
> after you had installed.
I've installed Little Snitch, a super configurable TCP/IP firewall
that informs me of every outgoing connection every application is
attempting to make. Once it is trai
On 28/10/2013, at 10:42 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-10-28 at 08:26 +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>> "We don’t have to rely on eyewitnesses that can’t act be trusted
>>> as to what happened—we actually have the data,” he said. “The guy
>>> around us wasn’t paying enough attention. The data wi
Well, I did mention the I/O latency problem.
For instance, in other versions of Mac OS X (from what I remember of Snow
Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion) desktop updates were instant when you copied a
file or conducted some desktop file based operation. With Maverick, you copy
the file, and a sec
M,
Same with Apple Maverick and the iCloud ... not a lot of mention of it until
after you had installed.
I think the plan is to sneakily get you onto the Cloud, and justify same by
pointing out the 'extreme amounts' of storage you’re getting for nothing (Wow!
A Whole 5 GIGABYTES!!), wh
