Typical strawman. GP said nothing about adding more government, he wants to add more 'school'. Thanks for playing, though.
Approximately 15 years after I graduated from high school, the inflation-adjusted per-student cost at my old district is roughly twice what it used to be. It appears that most of the money is going to making the programs more diverse with the consequence of letting the fundamentals go by the wayside and funneling more money to a small percentage of children that are unwilling or unable to learn.
The net result is that the "middle of the curve" kids are less prepared, the "upper curve" students do OK, but are spinning their wheels more, and the "no child left behind" kids are right where they started, but just with a lot more money thrown at them.
Er... an island that is considerably larger than Ireland, or Pennsylvania, or Hungary, or more than twice as large as New York state, is a "teenie, tiny little dot"?
Step away from Google Maps. Instead, do a search on "Mercator" to see why you are an idiot.
If that is too much to ask:
New York = 54,555 sq mi
Pennsylvania = 46,055 sq mi
Iceland = 39,770 sq mi
Hungary = 35,919 sq mi
Ireland = 32,591 sq mi
(All data from Wikipedia)
A Prius at Highway speeds will see no benefit from it's heavy batteries. And its engine, which is terribly ineffeciant will be working overtime. Meanwhile a larger, lets say BMW engine, will be working at a relaxing pace burning less fuel.
Exactly. That is why a BMW M3 gets 20 MPG on the highway and the Prius gets only 45 MPG.
And that whole "variable displacement" thing that some cars have for highway driving? Complete bullshit. Why would they want to shut half the cylinders down if running at a "relaxing pace" is so economical?
I love FIOS for my Internet, and it's HD looks great (my neighbor uses them for TV), but at least here in Pittsburgh they required that you use the Actiontec routers that they provide if you want to use them for TV. That's a non starter for me. I tried their router when they provisioned my Internet. It's utter crap. Until they let me use the hardware of my choice for routing I won't be using them for TV service.
Upon request, Verizon will switch your ONT from "Coax Broadband" to "Ethernet Broadband". You then plug your router into the ONT's RJ-45 jack and plug the Actiontec into your router. This way, all your network traffic will go through your router and the only network traffic going through the Actiontec will be that going to the set-top boxes.
Must? No. Just like you don't HAVE to use metric. It just makes things easier and more standard.
Sorry... I mistook your original post saying that the US should switch to the metric system with you saying that the US should switch to the metric system.
So, your theory is that in the global economy, you MUST use the US Dollar and MUST know ALL the following languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hindi, Portuguese?
Good luck with that.
$1B is a ridiculous amount of money for this lawsuit
I'm guessing the amount is based on this (from TFA):
The lawsuit alleges the tool, which was originally named "MY GRATE" was later renamed, at Google's insistence, "gMove". Though the product retailed for $29, Google asked that LimitNone sell it to Google's customers for $19.
and
According to the complaint, Scott McMullan, a senior executive in the Google Apps partner program, told LimitNone that the potential for 50 million users - was "just too big to come from someone else" and that "this is how Google operates."
I am just in the process of evaluating a new server to replace my home rack-mount.
As the previous poster mentioned, if you don't need a lot of power, the D-Link DNS323 with two SATA drives might fit the bill. I just got one and put in two 500GB drives. So far, it is doing a good job replacing my home server for file serving, web serving, email, dns, dhcp, and rtorrent.
It cost about $300 ($160 for the unit, 2 x $70 for the drives on sale). The big payoff is that it uses (well, supposed to use since I haven't thrown the kill-a-watt on it yet) about 50W instead of the 250W that my current server uses.
200W * 24 hrs * 365 days / 1000 *.17 = $297.87 savings in power per year
So, if you claim that soldiers abhor war, then WHY THE FUCK DID THEY BECOME SOLDIERS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Exactly.
Just the same way a person becomes a doctor because he or she loves blood and cutting people open. On the other hand, you become a nurses if you like sticking needles into people, dirty bedpans, and watching people suffer.
You don't want to think why a person becomes a mortician.... trust me.
I've done work on construction estimates that were of similar (~$250M) size that were submitted as "GMP" - Guaranteed Max Price.
Yeah, Change Orders will pad that somewhat, and there is some contingency, but together they won't be more than 15%.
Of course this makes the bidding a farce as everyone tries to put in the lowest estimate
Which is why I've always felt that the process should pick the second lowest bid. It's trivial to shoot for the bottom... it's impossible to shoot for second from the bottom.
While I hate to let unimportant things like "facts" get in the way of your diatribe, but this has NOTHING to do with Iraq.
NASA's FY2008 budget has been increased by about 1 billion over FY2007 ($17.3B vs $16.25B).
Perhaps you should be aiming your vitriol at the NASA Administrators, since they are the ones that make the decisions to cut / increase funding to individual projects.
Sure... once you point me to the public repository that contains the source code to IE's engine. You know, the code that contains these "unpublished" APIs?
Nothing worse than overhearing a conversation in the hallway " um', yeah, ok, well it looks like we're sending Michael down there to sit with PLATO, and um, you know, push the red button once a day at 8am...and yeah, we'll be wanting him to be there all winter. ok?"
Silly... the red button once a day is so passe. Now you have to type "4 8 15 16 23 42" every 108 minutes.
but most of the complaints I've personally heard about the non-swappable battery are related to the Air's role as an ultraportable and not being able to swap batteries on long haul flights or trips when power may not be available
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I know for a fact that the Nokia outsold the iPhone G3 during the first 10 days of July this year.
Approximately 15 years after I graduated from high school, the inflation-adjusted per-student cost at my old district is roughly twice what it used to be. It appears that most of the money is going to making the programs more diverse with the consequence of letting the fundamentals go by the wayside and funneling more money to a small percentage of children that are unwilling or unable to learn.
The net result is that the "middle of the curve" kids are less prepared, the "upper curve" students do OK, but are spinning their wheels more, and the "no child left behind" kids are right where they started, but just with a lot more money thrown at them.
Step away from Google Maps. Instead, do a search on "Mercator" to see why you are an idiot. If that is too much to ask: New York = 54,555 sq mi Pennsylvania = 46,055 sq mi Iceland = 39,770 sq mi Hungary = 35,919 sq mi Ireland = 32,591 sq mi (All data from Wikipedia)
Exactly. That is why a BMW M3 gets 20 MPG on the highway and the Prius gets only 45 MPG.
And that whole "variable displacement" thing that some cars have for highway driving? Complete bullshit. Why would they want to shut half the cylinders down if running at a "relaxing pace" is so economical?
Upon request, Verizon will switch your ONT from "Coax Broadband" to "Ethernet Broadband". You then plug your router into the ONT's RJ-45 jack and plug the Actiontec into your router. This way, all your network traffic will go through your router and the only network traffic going through the Actiontec will be that going to the set-top boxes.
Obviously, you have never met the Aristocrats.
Don't VWS me, bro!
Sorry ... I mistook your original post saying that the US should switch to the metric system with you saying that the US should switch to the metric system.
So, your theory is that in the global economy, you MUST use the US Dollar and MUST know ALL the following languages: Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hindi, Portuguese? Good luck with that.
You are right. Since the global economy is already using a common language and common currency, it makes perfect sense to use common units.
Without using a calculator, 155 minutes are how many hours? How many days?
50 mil * $19 = $950 million
I am just in the process of evaluating a new server to replace my home rack-mount.
.17 = $297.87 savings in power per year
As the previous poster mentioned, if you don't need a lot of power, the D-Link DNS323 with two SATA drives might fit the bill. I just got one and put in two 500GB drives. So far, it is doing a good job replacing my home server for file serving, web serving, email, dns, dhcp, and rtorrent.
It cost about $300 ($160 for the unit, 2 x $70 for the drives on sale). The big payoff is that it uses (well, supposed to use since I haven't thrown the kill-a-watt on it yet) about 50W instead of the 250W that my current server uses.
200W * 24 hrs * 365 days / 1000 *
It will pay for itself in 12 months.
Exactly.
Just the same way a person becomes a doctor because he or she loves blood and cutting people open.
On the other hand, you become a nurses if you like sticking needles into people, dirty bedpans, and watching people suffer.
You don't want to think why a person becomes a mortician.... trust me.
I rated 8 jokes and it gave me this recommendation:
Could not connect to user database: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11)
I don't get it.
While I hate to let unimportant things like "facts" get in the way of your diatribe, but this has NOTHING to do with Iraq.
NASA's FY2008 budget has been increased by about 1 billion over FY2007 ($17.3B vs $16.25B).
Perhaps you should be aiming your vitriol at the NASA Administrators, since they are the ones that make the decisions to cut / increase funding to individual projects.
Web comic strips are about as funny as blog "journalism" is credible.