My understanding is that in England, most of the time if you are born in the "working class", your children will die as part of the "working class".
Warning: anecdote. My parents immigrated to the US from Britian after my dad graduated from medical school. I've recently been doing some geneology, and saw the professions of my paternal line all the way back to 1805 in various censi and birth certificates. My grandfather was a naval officer and a teacher, but everyone previous to him was listed as a "labourer," "miner," or "iron worker" (including some 12 year olds, which seems kind of sad). The son of a miner getting commission in the Royal Navy wouldn't have happened in the 19th century, nor would a minor's grandson becoming a physician and university professor.
I guess the point from this one example is that this might have been the case at some point, but it isn't necessarily still true. My father was able to attend medical school for free because the government paid for him (the offspring of labourers) to attend, thus springing him into upper middle class. It's only one data point but it beats "my understanding is that . .."
I think a whoosh is called for here. I think AC is pointing out that the Native Americans immigrated from Asia, just a long time before the Europeans arrived.
I hope you're joking about the people from the southwest being self-centered thing, cause otherwise, wow, you need to get out and meet people more.
You know, the main point of that post was that water shortages in the US are a regional problem. Interesting that what you got out of it was that it was all about you.
Would they really risk the entire show for some money, when they care so much for it?
I've had some jobs I really enjoyed. The products were good, the people were great, and I loved my time there. If they called me right now and offered me less money than they used to pay me, I wouldn't go back.
How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1?
This may sound like a "get off my lawn" comment, but how many kids today are having their first experiences with Windows XP or Vista? By the time Windows 3.1 came out, they already pretty much dominated the home computer market, so of course that was the computer you used. Pretty much your only other choice in that period was the Macintosh (as we used to call them in those days, while we wore onions on our belts as was the style . ..)
I had my first home computer experience on our TI-99, with 9K of RAM. My neighbor got a Comodore 64, and a couple other friends had TRS-80 s. We eventually replaced the TI-99 with an Apple ][e.
Consolidation of new industries often happens, and no one is evil just because of that. I do wonder what the world would look like if more than 1 dominant OS survived out of that group. (Yes, I know Linux is real, and Mac OS has made a real resurgence. But Windows still owns the personal computer market).
I know of no database that actually does a single query in parallel, but I'm not sure it would be any more efficient, because there is only one disk
There is more than one disk. Remember we're not running databases on your laptop. The first time I saw one table spread out over multiple disks it was an Informix database and the feature was called Fragmentation. I believe SQL Server calls it sharding. Once you do that, it's easy enough to do your queries in parallel. Informix not only let you roughly configure how many threads and how much memory to use for parallel queries, but it did all of this over 10 years ago.
Here's a link to the relevant documation:
http://docs.rinet.ru/InforSmes/ch20/ch20.htm#Heading4
You can't force intelligence on people (except when they're teachable.)
Man, I hate to be pedantic, but people who are teachable are already intelligent. People who can learn but haven't are ignorant, not unintelligent. Intelligence is basically a measure of teachability.
I think originally it was that a lot of American-owned property was seized by the new Cuban government. It was a big US vacation spot, so many of the hotels and resorts were owned by US citizens and corporations. When Fidel came to power he basically revoked the titles to all of those properties and claimed them for himself, so a lot of rich and powerful US citizens were very unhappy with him. Add to that the fear of communists and you get an embargo.
Now it's mostly because the only people who REALLY care are Americans of Cuban descent, and they feel very strongly that it should continue. Why make a voting block angry if no one else will care about the decision?
Sure. Except our star actually *is* in our backyard.
yes, but I think the parent was talking about the hemp, which would literally be in people's back yards. he was implying people would prefer hemp (or its relatives) growing in their back yard to nuclear power plants in their back yards.
Absolutely. I don't know if I've ever heard any of his work but I will buy this CD. I think it's brilliant. (The irony is that I still won't have heard one of his songs, since the CD doesn't have any on it . . . but the point is I'll happily give him money for his political statement).
Still, they spend millions producing a product and then give it away. Yes, of course they make money selling something else -- it wouldn't be a business model if there wasn't a source of revenue. But the primary product they produce is given away for free, and it's been a successful business model for decades.
Please demonstrate a successful business model that relies on giving away the product for free.
It depends on what you think the product is, and what the company thinks the product is. One example would be broadcast television (or radio before that). You can turn it on and watch for free, but what you don't realize is that YOU are the product they are selling (cue Russia jokes).
But still, the model holds -- they spend a LOT of money developing a product which is then given away for free. You could argue that it doesn't RELY on giving the product away for free, because cable manages to charge for it, but Google still uses this business mode for the most part. I could argue that their business model for, say, gmail wouldn't be as effective if they charged you to use the service.
It would be ironic to be American and ask a Scotsman to repeat himself in English.
I don't think so. I grant you it would be ignorant (or perhaps sarcastic, depending on intent), but it doesn't make it to ironic. A good test of this -- If an Englishman asked a Scotsman to repeat himself in English, would that be ironic? It would be closer to ironic if the American (or Scotsman) asked an Englishman to repeat himself in English (though there are so many English accents that even some Englishman have trouble understanding some of them).
Of course, evolution didn't have concrete in mind either. When I run on sidewalks, I feel it in my ankles and knees (but I'm close to 40, so that may be part of it). Running on asphalt is easier. In evolutionary terms, running across prairies would probably be fine without shoes.
I've never understood this assumption. It seems contradictory to say the minority is less likely to be targeted when IIS servers get popped a lot more than Apache
The number of users is certainly not the only factor. Think of it like spam -- If you have a site dedicated to something really weird, like vomit porn (I just made that up, but chances are someone would like it) -- you will probably get a much higher hit rate if you could target your spam to a specific group of email addresses known to subscribe to porn sites and interested in medical supplies. Maybe even 50% of them would check out your site, versus.001 percent of the general public. But if your targeted email list only has 500 people on it, and you can get another list with 5 million email addresses, it makes more sense to try the bigger list. Even with a lower hit rate, you'll get more responses.
So if OS X and Windows are about equally secure (really, even if Windows was twice as secure as OS X) it would make sense to target Windows instead of Mac -- there are just so many more of them.
Alternative medicine has been aware of this fact (that the microorganisms that live in our bodies are a normal part of our physiology) for ages.
First, modern medicine has been "aware" that they were there and had beneficial effects for decades also. There are two things you're missing:
1. The discovery is not that they help digest food and nutrients, but they might help determine how your body uses it
2. The difference between "aware of this fact" and actually doing a reproducible study to help determine whether this "fact" is true.
My only real problem with alternative medicine is that it doesn't care what is true, just what we believe to be true.
Why go to that much effort? It's one thing if you believe in it -- I can see a religious person being upset if someone "covertly" baptised them. But why would an atheist care if someone applied a superstitious ceremony to them when they were too young to remember? Are they just worried about the Church of England using their baptism to bolster their numbers?
Are you saying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were *valid* uses of nuclear weapons?
If so have you ever wondered, of the people who died in those attacks, how many were children?
This is a tough question. Probably not more children than died in the bombing of Germany (or Britain, for that matter), and maybe not more than would have died if the allies invaded Tokyo because Japan hadn't surrendered. There isn't anything magical about nuclear weapons, they are just really efficient killing machines. The alternative wasn't less killing, just less efficient killing.
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My understanding is that in England, most of the time if you are born in the "working class", your children will die as part of the "working class".
Warning: anecdote. My parents immigrated to the US from Britian after my dad graduated from medical school. I've recently been doing some geneology, and saw the professions of my paternal line all the way back to 1805 in various censi and birth certificates. My grandfather was a naval officer and a teacher, but everyone previous to him was listed as a "labourer," "miner," or "iron worker" (including some 12 year olds, which seems kind of sad). The son of a miner getting commission in the Royal Navy wouldn't have happened in the 19th century, nor would a minor's grandson becoming a physician and university professor. I guess the point from this one example is that this might have been the case at some point, but it isn't necessarily still true. My father was able to attend medical school for free because the government paid for him (the offspring of labourers) to attend, thus springing him into upper middle class. It's only one data point but it beats "my understanding is that . . ."
I think a whoosh is called for here. I think AC is pointing out that the Native Americans immigrated from Asia, just a long time before the Europeans arrived.
anyone not born in the Mesopotamia region is likely descended from immigrants
Actually, the Mesopotamians probably walked there from Africa.
I hope you're joking about the people from the southwest being self-centered thing, cause otherwise, wow, you need to get out and meet people more.
You know, the main point of that post was that water shortages in the US are a regional problem. Interesting that what you got out of it was that it was all about you.
Would they really risk the entire show for some money, when they care so much for it?
I've had some jobs I really enjoyed. The products were good, the people were great, and I loved my time there. If they called me right now and offered me less money than they used to pay me, I wouldn't go back.
How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1?
This may sound like a "get off my lawn" comment, but how many kids today are having their first experiences with Windows XP or Vista? By the time Windows 3.1 came out, they already pretty much dominated the home computer market, so of course that was the computer you used. Pretty much your only other choice in that period was the Macintosh (as we used to call them in those days, while we wore onions on our belts as was the style . . .)
I had my first home computer experience on our TI-99, with 9K of RAM. My neighbor got a Comodore 64, and a couple other friends had TRS-80 s. We eventually replaced the TI-99 with an Apple ][e.
Consolidation of new industries often happens, and no one is evil just because of that. I do wonder what the world would look like if more than 1 dominant OS survived out of that group. (Yes, I know Linux is real, and Mac OS has made a real resurgence. But Windows still owns the personal computer market).
If we're talking sexy IT companies like Microsoft ... then you won't find much outside cites in California.
I think Microsoft hires a couple of people in some suburb of Seattle.
I know of no database that actually does a single query in parallel, but I'm not sure it would be any more efficient, because there is only one disk
There is more than one disk. Remember we're not running databases on your laptop. The first time I saw one table spread out over multiple disks it was an Informix database and the feature was called Fragmentation. I believe SQL Server calls it sharding. Once you do that, it's easy enough to do your queries in parallel. Informix not only let you roughly configure how many threads and how much memory to use for parallel queries, but it did all of this over 10 years ago. Here's a link to the relevant documation: http://docs.rinet.ru/InforSmes/ch20/ch20.htm#Heading4
You can't force intelligence on people (except when they're teachable.)
Man, I hate to be pedantic, but people who are teachable are already intelligent. People who can learn but haven't are ignorant, not unintelligent. Intelligence is basically a measure of teachability.
He said that the sort of debate that often takes place in public forums is useless, because it grossly oversimplifies things.
Thanks for breaking that down for us.
I think originally it was that a lot of American-owned property was seized by the new Cuban government. It was a big US vacation spot, so many of the hotels and resorts were owned by US citizens and corporations. When Fidel came to power he basically revoked the titles to all of those properties and claimed them for himself, so a lot of rich and powerful US citizens were very unhappy with him. Add to that the fear of communists and you get an embargo. Now it's mostly because the only people who REALLY care are Americans of Cuban descent, and they feel very strongly that it should continue. Why make a voting block angry if no one else will care about the decision?
Sure. Except our star actually *is* in our backyard.
yes, but I think the parent was talking about the hemp, which would literally be in people's back yards. he was implying people would prefer hemp (or its relatives) growing in their back yard to nuclear power plants in their back yards.
Absolutely. I don't know if I've ever heard any of his work but I will buy this CD. I think it's brilliant. (The irony is that I still won't have heard one of his songs, since the CD doesn't have any on it . . . but the point is I'll happily give him money for his political statement).
Still, they spend millions producing a product and then give it away. Yes, of course they make money selling something else -- it wouldn't be a business model if there wasn't a source of revenue. But the primary product they produce is given away for free, and it's been a successful business model for decades.
Please demonstrate a successful business model that relies on giving away the product for free.
It depends on what you think the product is, and what the company thinks the product is. One example would be broadcast television (or radio before that). You can turn it on and watch for free, but what you don't realize is that YOU are the product they are selling (cue Russia jokes).
But still, the model holds -- they spend a LOT of money developing a product which is then given away for free. You could argue that it doesn't RELY on giving the product away for free, because cable manages to charge for it, but Google still uses this business mode for the most part. I could argue that their business model for, say, gmail wouldn't be as effective if they charged you to use the service.
It would be ironic to be American and ask a Scotsman to repeat himself in English.
I don't think so. I grant you it would be ignorant (or perhaps sarcastic, depending on intent), but it doesn't make it to ironic. A good test of this -- If an Englishman asked a Scotsman to repeat himself in English, would that be ironic? It would be closer to ironic if the American (or Scotsman) asked an Englishman to repeat himself in English (though there are so many English accents that even some Englishman have trouble understanding some of them).
Evolution didn't have Nike in mind.
Of course, evolution didn't have concrete in mind either. When I run on sidewalks, I feel it in my ankles and knees (but I'm close to 40, so that may be part of it). Running on asphalt is easier. In evolutionary terms, running across prairies would probably be fine without shoes.
What makes anyone think that Amtrack:TNG is going to be a better idea?
I'm hoping for a holodeck.
I've never understood this assumption. It seems contradictory to say the minority is less likely to be targeted when IIS servers get popped a lot more than Apache
The number of users is certainly not the only factor. Think of it like spam -- If you have a site dedicated to something really weird, like vomit porn (I just made that up, but chances are someone would like it) -- you will probably get a much higher hit rate if you could target your spam to a specific group of email addresses known to subscribe to porn sites and interested in medical supplies. Maybe even 50% of them would check out your site, versus .001 percent of the general public. But if your targeted email list only has 500 people on it, and you can get another list with 5 million email addresses, it makes more sense to try the bigger list. Even with a lower hit rate, you'll get more responses.
So if OS X and Windows are about equally secure (really, even if Windows was twice as secure as OS X) it would make sense to target Windows instead of Mac -- there are just so many more of them.
Alternative medicine has been aware of this fact (that the microorganisms that live in our bodies are a normal part of our physiology) for ages.
First, modern medicine has been "aware" that they were there and had beneficial effects for decades also. There are two things you're missing:
1. The discovery is not that they help digest food and nutrients, but they might help determine how your body uses it
2. The difference between "aware of this fact" and actually doing a reproducible study to help determine whether this "fact" is true.
My only real problem with alternative medicine is that it doesn't care what is true, just what we believe to be true.
Why go to that much effort? It's one thing if you believe in it -- I can see a religious person being upset if someone "covertly" baptised them. But why would an atheist care if someone applied a superstitious ceremony to them when they were too young to remember? Are they just worried about the Church of England using their baptism to bolster their numbers?
Are you saying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were *valid* uses of nuclear weapons? If so have you ever wondered, of the people who died in those attacks, how many were children?
This is a tough question. Probably not more children than died in the bombing of Germany (or Britain, for that matter), and maybe not more than would have died if the allies invaded Tokyo because Japan hadn't surrendered.
There isn't anything magical about nuclear weapons, they are just really efficient killing machines. The alternative wasn't less killing, just less efficient killing.
http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/quests/cow.shtml The cow level was hilarious. I still break out laughing sometimes just thinking about it.
I got to sit in a windowless basement data closet. At least it was a paycheck
But did anyone take your stapler?
the interface is all that's new here.
Not exactly. With Ubquity you get instant feedback during typing
Couldn't auto-fill be considered part of the new interface?