Well the human brain is a rationalization engine. If you're doing something you inherently disagree with and don't have the initiative to move away from it or there are reasons you can't, your brain will come up with a way to rationalize your behavior. That is where these excuses come from. I wonder if they knew what they were being hired into when they got their job.
Of course, I was just trying to point out that administrative overhead for any function in big government is notoriously wasteful. I also wasn't trying to say that I disagree with this public info requirement, just disagree with having so many mandates that you have to fill out hours of paperwork to order a pack of pencils (sarcastic example but you get the picture).
The "two steps back" are the industrial scissors you need to maneuver the red tape maze that is the federal government. Those scissors cost taxpayer money. Big government is like a black hole that sucks in money and spits out hawking radiation in the form of pennies.
On one side, I understand how competition in the browser space is good for advancement, but the whole concept of why market share matters perplexes me. How do free browsers, which do nothing but display webpages, make ANY money whatsoever? They seem to be a gigantic money sink to me. The only thing I can think of is the default search bar generating ad revenue, but thats it. What the hell is the point of comparing "market share" of something like this? I don't see how this translates into anything benefiting the company in the lead.
Google's entire business model relies on the free internet society that the US has helped build. If the internet started in Iran, it wouldn't be what it is today. To say a US company with a business model based on internet freedom has a US bias is quite the waste of breath.
This is simply a case of a company embracing like-minded groups and distancing its threats.
Not sure if Cali is like my state, but if you look at the sign, it says a "MAX FINE" before the $1000. Someone throwing out a banana peel likely won't get fined at all. A bag of fast food trash: $50. A full garbage bag due to laziness: $500. Dumping 100 pounds of trash: $1000. These fines are reasonable considering the damage done, and are in now way proportional to one spam or one song.
I feel sorry for you if your state really does have black-and-white fines.
I spent $700 on an IPS panel monitor a few years ago and am an avid gamer. Anantech, after constant complaints about input lag from many readers, began testing it in their monitor reviews. My monitor scored around a 50ms input lag.
That 50ms forced me to buy another monitor. My clicks lost accuracy in RTS games, my aim was off in FPS games, and I could see the delay when watching movies (lip movement didn't match voices). I bought a TN panel monitor of the same size and have them next to each other now, and only use the IPS panel for surfing and image editing. You can drag a window from the TN panel to the IPS panel and see it rubber band due to the delay.
I suspect that 133ms will make a majority of games that require fine accuracy unplayable from my experience with the above.
The scariest problem about changing the US healthcare system to be similar to the rest of the developed world is that the rest of the developed world rides on the R&D spent in the US for healthcare reasons. The US develops it and implements it as early adopters, and other countries adopt it when it goes mainstream. As an anecdote, my cousin has a doctorate in the medical research field and has no major job opportunities in Europe when compared to the options in the US. They are told as they go into the higher ends of the field (he's specializing in cancer research) that they will likely have to move to the US to finish their studies or find a job. Socializing medicine in the US will destroy the incentive to innovate and slow down the rate of advancement in the field significantly, since it will change the focus from advanced techniques to mainstream commodity techniques.
In short, the US may be behind in medical care but it is vastly ahead of everywhere else in the world when it comes to medical R&D and advancement, specifically because of the way our system rewards R&D. Socializing our system will hurt medical options for people in the long run worldwide because of the reduced incentive for leading edge R&D.
Maybe its because they aren't worth the cost of shipping. I'd imagine standard incandescents are less dense than packing peanuts, and likely have one of the lowest $/sq ft values in shipping. I think all the ones I've seen and used are definitely GE.
The criminal "profession" has an intelligence bias. Most intelligent people who contemplate crime realize the profit isn't much better than working a day job if you want to do it in a way that there is a very minimal chance of getting caught. "Well, I could make a living stealing things, but in order to steal x I need to recon for y hours, buy z tools, only do it n times every month per area, and be cautious in every aspect of my life. Shit, why don't I just start my own business instead?"
I didn't see a link to the document in those links, but I'd assume its a giant peice of legalese. A large majority of legal documents are simply definitions, and the rest overly verbose ways of describing something simple. Once you know how to read a legal document, it takes less time to read than most child's books of the same length.
It is still important to read thoroughly to find the gaps and loopholes coded into the document, but you can grasp a majority of the substance by only reading 20% of the paper.
Whatever happened to people saying "my phone." Not "my iPhone, Droid, n900..." Its quite possibly the douchiest way of trying to make yourself seem more important(99% of the time the brand isn't relevant to the conversation). I wonder if these are the same people that hold their phones and beer bottles so everyone else can see the logo.
Time isn't of the essence with 95% of all freight. In the past year, containership transit times have increased up to 50% due to slow steaming (to absorb massive overcapacity and increase fuel efficiency). It hasn't been as big an issue for shippers as you'd expect.
Also, no train can be built that is more efficient than sea transport. Containerships are orders of magnitude more efficient than rail which is orders of magnitude more efficient than trucks which are orders of magnitude more efficient than planes.
Fun fact: it takes more fuel to travel 10 miles to a shoestore to buy a pair of nikes in a sedan than it takes to ship that pair of shoes from China to the US by water. Economies of scale are a wonderful thing.
Rail is the 2nd most economical form of transportation, but if there's a water link, it still sucks in comparison. The rail could be economical for targeting landlocked locations like deep Ukraine and Russia with regards to freight, but the cities it mentioned in the article hint at passenger travel. It would be extremely economical for passenger travel, and I could see it taking off if they did it right. In 10 years, gas will likely cost a lot more so it'd be even better. Fares could be competitive at half the price of flight by then.
As someone who has tried both and prefers e-ink, I'd like to ask your age and if you have to wear glasses. I'm almost 25 and have bad vision, and LCDs tear my eyes up. It takes me longer to go to sleep sometimes after long days at work just because my eyes hurt when laying in bed from staring at LCDs all day (8-bit IPS panels too, no cheap TN).
I used to think like you, that I could live staring at monitors all day, until my vision took a dive. It is common knowledge that e-ink produces less eyestrain, for proven reasons dealing with staring into a light all day (thats what a monitor is). I also find it funny that everyone my age who grew up on TV's and computers can swap glasses due to similar perscriptions (hinting that backlit displays damage vision, especially since these vision problems dont' follow genetic history). To deny common experience solely on personal anecdote and say everyone is is wrong is arrogant. Chill out and stop being an asshat.
I'll use an apple fanboy line since you're so high on the kool-aid: Apparently this product isn't designed for you.
Doing this will likely drive contracting costs down. We all know how much private companies make off of govt contracting jobs. Maybe this will make them a bit more realistic, and be competitive in 5 years?
Locking them in for 30 years only creates "guaranteed" jobs, and we all know what happens to efficiency in gov't positions like those. Firing people in from gov't jobs is notoriously difficult, this way they have an auto-fire mechanism and if they want them back, they can re-hire them. As dirty as it is, it works, and if the job isn't meant to be a lifetime position, it works even better.
I lacked a bit of clarity in my post. I was trying to ramble of a list of possible reasons the FCC decided to do their own collection. Key word possible, as I didn't research into any of them.
Neither of us are going to know the reasons behind the decision, but we can speculate. I don't think the FCC would be dumb enough to avoid such an obvious solution without good reason. I still think both the reputation ramifications and the ISP's already optimising against that channel could be valid reasons.
Could you imagine the outcry among speedtest users if speedtest gave information to the gov't for this? It would damage their reputation, and it would damage the FCC's reputation as well for collecting data through a back-channel rather than through request. This isn't even weighing in speedtest's privacy policy and the fact that ISPs have already optimised their burst performance around benchmarks like speedtest.
Some black & white punishments exist because its impossible to determine premeditation and intent in some situations without a confession. As far as I can tell, there should be no way to prove that him buying a wii-controller that looks like his gun and leaving it on the table was intended to get the kid to shoot themself. In situations like these, its the behavior that creates the crime that is outlawed altogether. The parents commmitted an act of criminal negligence and should be punished.
Letting this guy get off scott free for extreme negligence opens the door for other stepfathers to "accidentally" leave a gun on the table cocked and loaded to get rid of the "nuisance" in their relationship. Guilty consience and greif has nothing to do with the life lost.
If it isn't used frequently for a specific purpose, its not a specific tool for their computer use. Remove it and install foxit, and also install an anti-malware program and run it anyways.
Malwarebytes and Foxit are both fairly small, I don't think dialup should be an issue here.
I've built many PCs over the years, and here's the most effective time-saver method I can advise for mid-range PCs:
Pick out a CPU and Graphics card from Tom's "Best x for the money" monthly guides. These are pretty spot on and will save you a bit of time. Try not to go under $80 for a CPU and $100 for a graphics card, because you start hitting a point where you lose too much performance per dollar. Add CPU and graphics card cost for 40% of system cost. Anything above the price point I mentioned should handle your requirements, but check benchmarks at review sites to be sure.
Look them up on newegg and use the combo items to find the other peices. You can also use combo item list to find compatibilities and search the categories with those in mind. Compare the combo items to the hot items for each cateogory and make a decision on which you should go with based on price/features/reviews.
Mobo: Either go with the combo deal on a processor or find the chipsets compatible with your processor and sort by "most reviewed" to see what informed people are buying. Read the mid-level reviews to see what people dislike about the item (4 & 3 stars). There is always one or two shining stars per chipset that outcompete the rest in the mainstream segment, and these will have disproportionately more reviews than the other boards.
RAM: Use mobo specs to pick out which RAM you need, these days most likely 2x2gig DDR2 or 3x2gig DDR3 depending on mobo. Use "most reviewed" again to spot items people have landed on after research.
HDD: Not much has changed. SSD won't help too much with game performance, so this one is up to you.
PSU: Use "most reviewed" again, try to pick out of the middle range of your needed wattage. A cheap PSU can destroy your entire system. Make sure it can handle your graphics card.
Case: Personal preference. You can usually find a nice mature/non-bling case with most reviewed again, and a lot of times cases & PSUs have combos offered.
You can do more fine-grained research to save 10%, but I personally don't think its worth the many hours necessary to ensure you're not buying lemons.
In summary, don't worry about the model numbers and work from the main items towards compatibilities for RAM & Mobo. All PCIE will be compatible with almost any board you choose.
This methodology works pretty well on systems from $500 to $1000 without bells & whistles. Yes, you're buying what everyone else bought, but "everyone else" who buys these things are buying on the leading edge every 6-12 months. They have experience.
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Well the human brain is a rationalization engine. If you're doing something you inherently disagree with and don't have the initiative to move away from it or there are reasons you can't, your brain will come up with a way to rationalize your behavior. That is where these excuses come from. I wonder if they knew what they were being hired into when they got their job.
Of course, I was just trying to point out that administrative overhead for any function in big government is notoriously wasteful. I also wasn't trying to say that I disagree with this public info requirement, just disagree with having so many mandates that you have to fill out hours of paperwork to order a pack of pencils (sarcastic example but you get the picture).
The "two steps back" are the industrial scissors you need to maneuver the red tape maze that is the federal government. Those scissors cost taxpayer money. Big government is like a black hole that sucks in money and spits out hawking radiation in the form of pennies.
On one side, I understand how competition in the browser space is good for advancement, but the whole concept of why market share matters perplexes me. How do free browsers, which do nothing but display webpages, make ANY money whatsoever? They seem to be a gigantic money sink to me. The only thing I can think of is the default search bar generating ad revenue, but thats it. What the hell is the point of comparing "market share" of something like this? I don't see how this translates into anything benefiting the company in the lead.
Google's entire business model relies on the free internet society that the US has helped build. If the internet started in Iran, it wouldn't be what it is today. To say a US company with a business model based on internet freedom has a US bias is quite the waste of breath.
This is simply a case of a company embracing like-minded groups and distancing its threats.
Not sure if Cali is like my state, but if you look at the sign, it says a "MAX FINE" before the $1000. Someone throwing out a banana peel likely won't get fined at all. A bag of fast food trash: $50. A full garbage bag due to laziness: $500. Dumping 100 pounds of trash: $1000. These fines are reasonable considering the damage done, and are in now way proportional to one spam or one song.
I feel sorry for you if your state really does have black-and-white fines.
I spent $700 on an IPS panel monitor a few years ago and am an avid gamer. Anantech, after constant complaints about input lag from many readers, began testing it in their monitor reviews. My monitor scored around a 50ms input lag.
That 50ms forced me to buy another monitor. My clicks lost accuracy in RTS games, my aim was off in FPS games, and I could see the delay when watching movies (lip movement didn't match voices). I bought a TN panel monitor of the same size and have them next to each other now, and only use the IPS panel for surfing and image editing. You can drag a window from the TN panel to the IPS panel and see it rubber band due to the delay.
I suspect that 133ms will make a majority of games that require fine accuracy unplayable from my experience with the above.
The scariest problem about changing the US healthcare system to be similar to the rest of the developed world is that the rest of the developed world rides on the R&D spent in the US for healthcare reasons. The US develops it and implements it as early adopters, and other countries adopt it when it goes mainstream. As an anecdote, my cousin has a doctorate in the medical research field and has no major job opportunities in Europe when compared to the options in the US. They are told as they go into the higher ends of the field (he's specializing in cancer research) that they will likely have to move to the US to finish their studies or find a job. Socializing medicine in the US will destroy the incentive to innovate and slow down the rate of advancement in the field significantly, since it will change the focus from advanced techniques to mainstream commodity techniques.
In short, the US may be behind in medical care but it is vastly ahead of everywhere else in the world when it comes to medical R&D and advancement, specifically because of the way our system rewards R&D. Socializing our system will hurt medical options for people in the long run worldwide because of the reduced incentive for leading edge R&D.
Maybe its because they aren't worth the cost of shipping. I'd imagine standard incandescents are less dense than packing peanuts, and likely have one of the lowest $/sq ft values in shipping. I think all the ones I've seen and used are definitely GE.
The criminal "profession" has an intelligence bias. Most intelligent people who contemplate crime realize the profit isn't much better than working a day job if you want to do it in a way that there is a very minimal chance of getting caught. "Well, I could make a living stealing things, but in order to steal x I need to recon for y hours, buy z tools, only do it n times every month per area, and be cautious in every aspect of my life. Shit, why don't I just start my own business instead?"
We also covered this last year
I didn't see a link to the document in those links, but I'd assume its a giant peice of legalese. A large majority of legal documents are simply definitions, and the rest overly verbose ways of describing something simple. Once you know how to read a legal document, it takes less time to read than most child's books of the same length.
It is still important to read thoroughly to find the gaps and loopholes coded into the document, but you can grasp a majority of the substance by only reading 20% of the paper.
Whatever happened to people saying "my phone." Not "my iPhone, Droid, n900..." Its quite possibly the douchiest way of trying to make yourself seem more important(99% of the time the brand isn't relevant to the conversation). I wonder if these are the same people that hold their phones and beer bottles so everyone else can see the logo.
Yes, traffic sucked this morning. /rant off
Time isn't of the essence with 95% of all freight. In the past year, containership transit times have increased up to 50% due to slow steaming (to absorb massive overcapacity and increase fuel efficiency). It hasn't been as big an issue for shippers as you'd expect.
Also, no train can be built that is more efficient than sea transport. Containerships are orders of magnitude more efficient than rail which is orders of magnitude more efficient than trucks which are orders of magnitude more efficient than planes.
Fun fact: it takes more fuel to travel 10 miles to a shoestore to buy a pair of nikes in a sedan than it takes to ship that pair of shoes from China to the US by water. Economies of scale are a wonderful thing.
Rail is the 2nd most economical form of transportation, but if there's a water link, it still sucks in comparison. The rail could be economical for targeting landlocked locations like deep Ukraine and Russia with regards to freight, but the cities it mentioned in the article hint at passenger travel. It would be extremely economical for passenger travel, and I could see it taking off if they did it right. In 10 years, gas will likely cost a lot more so it'd be even better. Fares could be competitive at half the price of flight by then.
As someone who has tried both and prefers e-ink, I'd like to ask your age and if you have to wear glasses. I'm almost 25 and have bad vision, and LCDs tear my eyes up. It takes me longer to go to sleep sometimes after long days at work just because my eyes hurt when laying in bed from staring at LCDs all day (8-bit IPS panels too, no cheap TN).
I used to think like you, that I could live staring at monitors all day, until my vision took a dive. It is common knowledge that e-ink produces less eyestrain, for proven reasons dealing with staring into a light all day (thats what a monitor is). I also find it funny that everyone my age who grew up on TV's and computers can swap glasses due to similar perscriptions (hinting that backlit displays damage vision, especially since these vision problems dont' follow genetic history). To deny common experience solely on personal anecdote and say everyone is is wrong is arrogant. Chill out and stop being an asshat.
I'll use an apple fanboy line since you're so high on the kool-aid: Apparently this product isn't designed for you.
Doing this will likely drive contracting costs down. We all know how much private companies make off of govt contracting jobs. Maybe this will make them a bit more realistic, and be competitive in 5 years?
Locking them in for 30 years only creates "guaranteed" jobs, and we all know what happens to efficiency in gov't positions like those. Firing people in from gov't jobs is notoriously difficult, this way they have an auto-fire mechanism and if they want them back, they can re-hire them. As dirty as it is, it works, and if the job isn't meant to be a lifetime position, it works even better.
I lacked a bit of clarity in my post. I was trying to ramble of a list of possible reasons the FCC decided to do their own collection. Key word possible, as I didn't research into any of them.
Neither of us are going to know the reasons behind the decision, but we can speculate. I don't think the FCC would be dumb enough to avoid such an obvious solution without good reason. I still think both the reputation ramifications and the ISP's already optimising against that channel could be valid reasons.
Could you imagine the outcry among speedtest users if speedtest gave information to the gov't for this? It would damage their reputation, and it would damage the FCC's reputation as well for collecting data through a back-channel rather than through request. This isn't even weighing in speedtest's privacy policy and the fact that ISPs have already optimised their burst performance around benchmarks like speedtest.
Some black & white punishments exist because its impossible to determine premeditation and intent in some situations without a confession. As far as I can tell, there should be no way to prove that him buying a wii-controller that looks like his gun and leaving it on the table was intended to get the kid to shoot themself. In situations like these, its the behavior that creates the crime that is outlawed altogether. The parents commmitted an act of criminal negligence and should be punished.
Letting this guy get off scott free for extreme negligence opens the door for other stepfathers to "accidentally" leave a gun on the table cocked and loaded to get rid of the "nuisance" in their relationship. Guilty consience and greif has nothing to do with the life lost.
Buffet often laments that his company has so much money that it's difficult to maintain good returns through investments.
If you see him, please let him know that I can fix that problem for him.
Actually, I'm pretty sure they sell monitoring hardware as well (can't remember which story it was linked to but I think it was Comcast).
They win either way.
If it isn't used frequently for a specific purpose, its not a specific tool for their computer use. Remove it and install foxit, and also install an anti-malware program and run it anyways.
Malwarebytes and Foxit are both fairly small, I don't think dialup should be an issue here.
Wish I had mod points for the vCast slam. I laughed for a good minute or two.
I've built many PCs over the years, and here's the most effective time-saver method I can advise for mid-range PCs:
Pick out a CPU and Graphics card from Tom's "Best x for the money" monthly guides. These are pretty spot on and will save you a bit of time. Try not to go under $80 for a CPU and $100 for a graphics card, because you start hitting a point where you lose too much performance per dollar. Add CPU and graphics card cost for 40% of system cost. Anything above the price point I mentioned should handle your requirements, but check benchmarks at review sites to be sure.
Look them up on newegg and use the combo items to find the other peices. You can also use combo item list to find compatibilities and search the categories with those in mind. Compare the combo items to the hot items for each cateogory and make a decision on which you should go with based on price/features/reviews.
Mobo: Either go with the combo deal on a processor or find the chipsets compatible with your processor and sort by "most reviewed" to see what informed people are buying. Read the mid-level reviews to see what people dislike about the item (4 & 3 stars). There is always one or two shining stars per chipset that outcompete the rest in the mainstream segment, and these will have disproportionately more reviews than the other boards.
RAM: Use mobo specs to pick out which RAM you need, these days most likely 2x2gig DDR2 or 3x2gig DDR3 depending on mobo. Use "most reviewed" again to spot items people have landed on after research.
HDD: Not much has changed. SSD won't help too much with game performance, so this one is up to you.
PSU: Use "most reviewed" again, try to pick out of the middle range of your needed wattage. A cheap PSU can destroy your entire system. Make sure it can handle your graphics card.
Case: Personal preference. You can usually find a nice mature/non-bling case with most reviewed again, and a lot of times cases & PSUs have combos offered.
You can do more fine-grained research to save 10%, but I personally don't think its worth the many hours necessary to ensure you're not buying lemons.
In summary, don't worry about the model numbers and work from the main items towards compatibilities for RAM & Mobo. All PCIE will be compatible with almost any board you choose.
This methodology works pretty well on systems from $500 to $1000 without bells & whistles. Yes, you're buying what everyone else bought, but "everyone else" who buys these things are buying on the leading edge every 6-12 months. They have experience.