If Sesame Street helps reduce the frequency of math-phobes in our young population, I will be eternally thankful. Too many people have escaped learning math due to being afraid of it; if they are introduced to it at a young age they might not develop an irrational fear of it.
I would think large arrays of dedicated stationary batteries might be a better choice.
How is a parking lot full of EVs not exactly that?
Two main things come to mind immediately:
Battery technology and configuration - The way EV batteries are set up in terms of input and output are optimized for driving electric motors. Voltages, amperages, etc would likely need to be stepped up or down to be delivered to the grid. And if your parking lot is 1/3 Honda, 1/3 Toyota, and 1/3 Ford, you may need to handle 3 different systems that need to be connected to the grid differently.
Density - An electric car is not just a battery. It has all the other bits that make it a car and make it less useful for storing power for the grid in comparison to a dedicated array of batteries occupying the same space as the car. You also need room around the cars so that people can get in and out of them - otherwise they wouldn't be very useful cars, would they?
You are also counting on things like people parking their cars in ways that works well with this, and being willing to accept the additional charge/discharge cycles that you would be subjecting their batteries to. And what if someone who drives an EV has an emergency in the middle of the day and needs to drive home before they have a charge on their battery thanks to the new use of their car as power storage for the grid?
A lot of software that is written for graduate school is by nature specialized. So if you are looking for "widely used software" you probably won't find it there, unless you modify the qualifier to "widely used within a field".
That, and very few people complete a bioinformatics PhD in 4 years as asserted in the summary - unless they enter the PhD program with a master's degree already in hand - most take more like 6-7 years. It can often be one of the most difficult PhDs at any institution in part to the fact that it often involves negotiating a minefield of conflicting departmental requirements between departments of Biology, CSci, Math, Statistics, and others.
It seems like the energy loss of moving energy from the grid to the cars, then back to the grid, could potentially be too great to justify the investment. I would think large arrays of dedicated stationary batteries might be a better choice.
In nationalised healthcare systems, the doctors get paid insanely high; in private healthcare systems, the doctors get paid insanely high.
There are a lot of people who make a lot more money than doctors who have jobs of far less importance. Say what you will about the practice of medicine in this country (or others) but really the salary isn't out of line for what they do.
virtual customer service. Use your imagination, and you can be served virtually. Then when you're done you can go somewhere else to interact with someone who cares.
Being as the medical school system in this country is designed around finding automaton students, and making them into automaton physicians, the transition to robots should be easy. Very few physicians are trained to do more than regurgitate text book information, which a robot could do just as well if not better.
They don't mention how they reach the temperature required for gasification of the beans. That requires some energy input, and they didn't say where that energy came from.
Not that gasoline as we know and use it today comes with no cost, but if efficiency and cleanliness is what they are after, a little more disclosure would be useful.
Anyway, saying she's never had a non-government job is lying through omission.
Can you point to a single job she's ever held, or a single paycheck she's ever received, that was not made possible by the government? She is in the camp that repeatedly shouts from the highest mountain that the government cannot create jobs, yet I am not aware of a single job she has ever had that was not created or heavily supplemented by the government.
There is no lie there based on any amount of information I have ever seen. If you have information that I have not seen, please share it and I will take back what I have said. However my statement reflects the reality of all the information I have ever seen, including what you just said - every single job Bachmann has ever held has been either directly working for the government, or supported by the same. Regardless of what your feelings are about the money she has received from the farm and her husband's business, the reality is nobody forced her to accept the money from either. She could have chosen a different path instead, which could have freed her from this rank hypocrisy.
Good to see that after all the negative publicity Netflix has pulled in for itself over the past several months, they can still find a way to slasvertise here. This clearly will heal all the wounds of the rate hikes, the company split (with our customer information split too), the loss of starz programming, the random cycles of titles being acquired and lost for streaming, etc.
Is slashdot facing spontaneous combustion as well? I had to use https to load this page - attempts with http failed with the 503 / guru meditation / varnish error.
No. If you are paid to talk to people on the phone, you need to be clear. People whose accents are too heavy - even if they know their stuff - can be incoherent to callers. The employer isn't forcing them to talk that way outside of work, or necessarily even when not on the phone.
In other words, their neutralized accent is a job tool. It is no more a rights violation than being expected to know how to use MS Word.
The Tea Party members of congress mostly signed a fealty pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes no matter what.
That became pretty well a litmus test for all republicans. I am not aware of a single republican in congress who did not sign the pledge, and for that matter several "blue-dog" democrats have signed it as well. I thank you for using the work fealty to describe the pledge, as it is very much a religious oath to many of the members.
You can't sign a pledge of that nature which has the effect of subverting democracy and expect to get away with it.
Well, the Tea Party - and many of their GOP colleagues - view the government as acting in violation of the constitution on which it is based. Hence they see themselves as committing no seditious act; rather they believe they are aiding our democracy by bringing government down through their pledge.
But CNN told me we just need to check facebook for the latest revolution. They and all the other main news sources did endless interviews of people from Egypt who were naming their children facebook in honor of their revolutions.
If 2010 taught us anything, it is that no revolution, ever, anywhere, happened without facebook. All hail facebook and its indisputable power to bring about justice and peace!
Being as everything important that I use has the 7-8-9 on top, with the exception of the phone
Really? You never use ATMs?
I use an ATM only when I need cash, which isn't very often. Are you saying I should go to the strip club more often?
Point-of-sale card readers?
You need the PIN pad only if running your card as debit. I can run my check card as VISA without needing the PIN pad.
Doors with keypad locks?
I haven't used a door with a keypad lock in over 5 years.
I suspect you're in a fairly small minority if that's the case.
That or you are assuming that too many people live your life.
I agree that the complaint seems overblown, but some of the dismissive responses seem equally so.
Its a matter of perspective, friend. If most of what you need and use most often has the 789 on top, then the phone might be the wrong one. And if you don't actually dial your phone often, then even more so.
Being as everything important that I use has the 7-8-9 on top, with the exception of the phone, I figured the phone had it wrong. And considering how seldom anyone touch dials anymore, the phone being the odd one out seems less relevant all the time.
Really, when was the last time you dialed something on your phone by its number? Every number I call often on my phone is in the memory of my phone, so I'm dialing by name. The memory of my phone far exceeds the total number of people and places I have any reason to call, so I just enter every number once and save it under a name I can remember.
I don't know what message you thought you were replying to, but your conclusions don't go with what I wrote at all. Of course since you wrote it AC (as one should when making such wholly illogical statements) you probably won't come back to read my reply.
Because no matter what your intentions are, I would highly advise against jeopardizing the progress of your MS just because you want to use copyright terms that your department doesn't agree with. If you haven't already, I would very highly recommend you check with them first to see how they manage the copyright of theses that are written there. Depending on the institution you may even need to go higher than that to find the official policy and find out if it has any flexibility.
But in the absence of such claims, there's no good non-nanny-state reason why an adult person should not be able to purchase and consume whatever he or she wants and then bear the consequences.
I can think of one good reason - the same reason why we restrict alcohol sales.
If someone isn't familiar with the effects of a substance, or is unable or unwilling to use it responsibly, they could jeopardize other people.
There are many useful prescription drugs - albuterol being one of them - that I think should be available immediate over-the-counter. On the other hand I don't see society being well served by people being able to buy unlimited quantities of things such as growth hormones or narcotic pain killers.
The headline could be read to say that Sprint is monitoring how much data their customers download to their phones when using other hot spots, while the reality is that they are controlling how much data you can send through one of their mobile hotspots.
While the latter makes more sense, you can't rule out the possibility of the former when talking about a company like Sprint.
Introduce a FLAT $$$ tax - not even a percentage of one's income, just a flat $$$ amount, and call it that. No different from everybody paying the same price for a bottle of coke @ the store. Or should shops start asking customers their income, and then charge them accordingly?
So then if your income is less than that flat amount, you give the government all your money and starve to death? That sounds like a great plan.
I read a while ago that Deutsche Telekom is looking to get rid of its American T-Mobile. I haven't heard anyone else jumping up with an offer to buy it - and it makes sense that only another GSM provider would want to - so it seems there may be a chance of the T-Mobile (as we know it in the US) going away completely if nobody buys it.
So for us poor bastards on T-Mobile it seems that our fate is either
Become AT&T customers
Watch T-Mobile go away and become someone else's (possibly AT&T) customer on our own
Based on the summery, President Obama is proposing to increase taxes on those that make over 1mil a year and the republicans are calling it class warfare. Which part of that is wrong / pandering to the conservative base?
Except that he is looking to place the taxes on their income at the same level that the rest of us peons pay. Currently we have a heavily regressive taxation system, he is looking to flatten it.
Of course, one would not know that by reading this summary. The summary wants one to believe that he aims to take away all the income from those who are receiving more than $1M in compensation, which is (at the very least) dishonest.
In other words, it isn't class warfare. In reality it is an attempt to actually level the playing field, but of course the wealthy won't stand for that.
Glad to see we are still happily catering to the conservative base on the front page. That, and multiple daily updates on what the creator of facebook is eating for breakfast, has really made this site great.
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If Sesame Street helps reduce the frequency of math-phobes in our young population, I will be eternally thankful. Too many people have escaped learning math due to being afraid of it; if they are introduced to it at a young age they might not develop an irrational fear of it.
I would think large arrays of dedicated stationary batteries might be a better choice.
How is a parking lot full of EVs not exactly that?
Two main things come to mind immediately:
You are also counting on things like people parking their cars in ways that works well with this, and being willing to accept the additional charge/discharge cycles that you would be subjecting their batteries to. And what if someone who drives an EV has an emergency in the middle of the day and needs to drive home before they have a charge on their battery thanks to the new use of their car as power storage for the grid?
A lot of software that is written for graduate school is by nature specialized. So if you are looking for "widely used software" you probably won't find it there, unless you modify the qualifier to "widely used within a field".
That, and very few people complete a bioinformatics PhD in 4 years as asserted in the summary - unless they enter the PhD program with a master's degree already in hand - most take more like 6-7 years. It can often be one of the most difficult PhDs at any institution in part to the fact that it often involves negotiating a minefield of conflicting departmental requirements between departments of Biology, CSci, Math, Statistics, and others.
It seems like the energy loss of moving energy from the grid to the cars, then back to the grid, could potentially be too great to justify the investment. I would think large arrays of dedicated stationary batteries might be a better choice.
In nationalised healthcare systems, the doctors get paid insanely high; in private healthcare systems, the doctors get paid insanely high.
There are a lot of people who make a lot more money than doctors who have jobs of far less importance. Say what you will about the practice of medicine in this country (or others) but really the salary isn't out of line for what they do.
then treat them like gods.
I do agree we could do without that part.
virtual customer service. Use your imagination, and you can be served virtually. Then when you're done you can go somewhere else to interact with someone who cares.
Being as the medical school system in this country is designed around finding automaton students, and making them into automaton physicians, the transition to robots should be easy. Very few physicians are trained to do more than regurgitate text book information, which a robot could do just as well if not better.
They don't mention how they reach the temperature required for gasification of the beans. That requires some energy input, and they didn't say where that energy came from.
Not that gasoline as we know and use it today comes with no cost, but if efficiency and cleanliness is what they are after, a little more disclosure would be useful.
Anyway, saying she's never had a non-government job is lying through omission.
Can you point to a single job she's ever held, or a single paycheck she's ever received, that was not made possible by the government? She is in the camp that repeatedly shouts from the highest mountain that the government cannot create jobs, yet I am not aware of a single job she has ever had that was not created or heavily supplemented by the government.
There is no lie there based on any amount of information I have ever seen. If you have information that I have not seen, please share it and I will take back what I have said. However my statement reflects the reality of all the information I have ever seen, including what you just said - every single job Bachmann has ever held has been either directly working for the government, or supported by the same. Regardless of what your feelings are about the money she has received from the farm and her husband's business, the reality is nobody forced her to accept the money from either. She could have chosen a different path instead, which could have freed her from this rank hypocrisy.
Good to see that after all the negative publicity Netflix has pulled in for itself over the past several months, they can still find a way to slasvertise here. This clearly will heal all the wounds of the rate hikes, the company split (with our customer information split too), the loss of starz programming, the random cycles of titles being acquired and lost for streaming, etc.
Yep, we all love netflix now for sure!
Is slashdot facing spontaneous combustion as well? I had to use https to load this page - attempts with http failed with the 503 / guru meditation / varnish error.
No. If you are paid to talk to people on the phone, you need to be clear. People whose accents are too heavy - even if they know their stuff - can be incoherent to callers. The employer isn't forcing them to talk that way outside of work, or necessarily even when not on the phone.
In other words, their neutralized accent is a job tool. It is no more a rights violation than being expected to know how to use MS Word.
The Tea Party members of congress mostly signed a fealty pledge to Grover Norquist not to raise taxes no matter what.
That became pretty well a litmus test for all republicans. I am not aware of a single republican in congress who did not sign the pledge, and for that matter several "blue-dog" democrats have signed it as well. I thank you for using the work fealty to describe the pledge, as it is very much a religious oath to many of the members.
You can't sign a pledge of that nature which has the effect of subverting democracy and expect to get away with it.
Well, the Tea Party - and many of their GOP colleagues - view the government as acting in violation of the constitution on which it is based. Hence they see themselves as committing no seditious act; rather they believe they are aiding our democracy by bringing government down through their pledge.
And naturally, they see no government employee as being worthy of their own job. For some reason a certain GOP presidential hopeful who has never in her life held a non-government job doesn't seem to see that as a problem.
But CNN told me we just need to check facebook for the latest revolution. They and all the other main news sources did endless interviews of people from Egypt who were naming their children facebook in honor of their revolutions.
If 2010 taught us anything, it is that no revolution, ever, anywhere, happened without facebook. All hail facebook and its indisputable power to bring about justice and peace!
Being as everything important that I use has the 7-8-9 on top, with the exception of the phone
Really? You never use ATMs?
I use an ATM only when I need cash, which isn't very often. Are you saying I should go to the strip club more often?
Point-of-sale card readers?
You need the PIN pad only if running your card as debit. I can run my check card as VISA without needing the PIN pad.
Doors with keypad locks?
I haven't used a door with a keypad lock in over 5 years.
I suspect you're in a fairly small minority if that's the case.
That or you are assuming that too many people live your life.
I agree that the complaint seems overblown, but some of the dismissive responses seem equally so.
Its a matter of perspective, friend. If most of what you need and use most often has the 789 on top, then the phone might be the wrong one. And if you don't actually dial your phone often, then even more so.
Being as everything important that I use has the 7-8-9 on top, with the exception of the phone, I figured the phone had it wrong. And considering how seldom anyone touch dials anymore, the phone being the odd one out seems less relevant all the time.
Really, when was the last time you dialed something on your phone by its number? Every number I call often on my phone is in the memory of my phone, so I'm dialing by name. The memory of my phone far exceeds the total number of people and places I have any reason to call, so I just enter every number once and save it under a name I can remember.
I don't know what message you thought you were replying to, but your conclusions don't go with what I wrote at all. Of course since you wrote it AC (as one should when making such wholly illogical statements) you probably won't come back to read my reply.
Because no matter what your intentions are, I would highly advise against jeopardizing the progress of your MS just because you want to use copyright terms that your department doesn't agree with. If you haven't already, I would very highly recommend you check with them first to see how they manage the copyright of theses that are written there. Depending on the institution you may even need to go higher than that to find the official policy and find out if it has any flexibility.
But in the absence of such claims, there's no good non-nanny-state reason why an adult person should not be able to purchase and consume whatever he or she wants and then bear the consequences.
I can think of one good reason - the same reason why we restrict alcohol sales.
If someone isn't familiar with the effects of a substance, or is unable or unwilling to use it responsibly, they could jeopardize other people.
There are many useful prescription drugs - albuterol being one of them - that I think should be available immediate over-the-counter. On the other hand I don't see society being well served by people being able to buy unlimited quantities of things such as growth hormones or narcotic pain killers.
The headline could be read to say that Sprint is monitoring how much data their customers download to their phones when using other hot spots, while the reality is that they are controlling how much data you can send through one of their mobile hotspots.
While the latter makes more sense, you can't rule out the possibility of the former when talking about a company like Sprint.
Introduce a FLAT $$$ tax - not even a percentage of one's income, just a flat $$$ amount, and call it that. No different from everybody paying the same price for a bottle of coke @ the store. Or should shops start asking customers their income, and then charge them accordingly?
So then if your income is less than that flat amount, you give the government all your money and starve to death? That sounds like a great plan.
So for us poor bastards on T-Mobile it seems that our fate is either
go to google.com/+ and you can sign up through there.
Or you can read the article and eventually find the link.
Based on the summery, President Obama is proposing to increase taxes on those that make over 1mil a year and the republicans are calling it class warfare. Which part of that is wrong / pandering to the conservative base?
Except that he is looking to place the taxes on their income at the same level that the rest of us peons pay. Currently we have a heavily regressive taxation system, he is looking to flatten it.
Of course, one would not know that by reading this summary. The summary wants one to believe that he aims to take away all the income from those who are receiving more than $1M in compensation, which is (at the very least) dishonest.
In other words, it isn't class warfare. In reality it is an attempt to actually level the playing field, but of course the wealthy won't stand for that.
Glad to see we are still happily catering to the conservative base on the front page. That, and multiple daily updates on what the creator of facebook is eating for breakfast, has really made this site great.