The Nielsen Company, which takes TV set ownership into account when it produces ratings, will tell television networks and advertisers on Tuesday that 96.7 percent of American households now own sets, down from 98.9 percent previously.
I'm not a statistician, but >95% seems like a majority of people to me. How does it make the GP's claim ("significant portion") less extraordinary?
A significant portion of the country no longer owns televisions nor are interested in non-time-shifted content.
Source, please? Your claim is rather extrordinary. Pretty much every person I know owns at least one television, and almost all of them have cable (as much as they complain about the cost).
Its a little like when your mom kept your old school work. As an adult, are you really interested in your own child-like scribblings? Is anybody else?
I like history. I'm even a little curious about my own, but the novelty of seeing my childhood photos wears off quickly. The novelty of seeing my wife's, or my own childrens' photos, wears off quickly too. I study history to understand how the world got to the way it is now, perhaps to help predict the future but certainly to put current events into perspective. Personal history is generally less useful, especially when viewed from a personal perspective.
I'm more interested in what's going on now - what are my kids are doing now, what my spouse and friends are thinking about now, what I'm capable of now. It's generally greater than before. The past is a less polished version of today.
The US government continues to support all kinds of things that don't make sense. The so-called War On Drugs springs to mind as well.
Another example: Catalytic converters (required equipment on new cars since the '80s) don't make sense either: why prescribe a speific solution when you could specify a desired outcome instead? My first car, an '82 Honda Civic had a CVCC engine which was cleaner than a car equipped with a catalytic converter, but production ceased because the technologies were incompatible and the converter was required. Kind if defeats the purpose of the law, if the purpose was to reduce smog.
I think the heaviest driver in converting to LEDs isn't the electrical savings, but the savings in repair calls. When an incandesent bulb burns out, you have to head out and replace it pronto or else you have a non-working traffic light. When one LED in a matrix burns out, meh, you'll go check it out when 40-50% are dead.
I'm not clear on how changing the culture via things like "strengthening of marriage" (whatever that means) will curtail mass violence. Are you suggesting that seriously disturbed individuals, people with severe mental defect, will cease to exist just by removing some movies and books?
Making ethanol from the corn is more energy intensive than distillation of oil into gasoline. For every gallon of ethanol you produce, energy equivalent to more than one gallon is burned just to distill it (never mind farming, ferilization, and transportation). Distillation is done with, yup, petroleum products.
Ethanol is nowhere near cabon neutral, given the way we produce it. We'd be closer if we used cane sugar, but tarrifs are so high that it's not economically viable. That's also the work of the corn lobby.
It's possible that behavior has changed as mobility has increased.
rural places have changed from not locking one's doors to widespread theft of agricultural equipment
In the past, it wasn't as easy to move stolen goods and the markets didn't exist. If you stole a tractor, a car, or someone's silverplate and jewelery, chances were good that you'd have to fence it locally. Now, I can make a quick trip to another state.
small towns were more honest because that is what it takes for a small, isolated society where everyone knows everyone, to survive
Now-a-days, there are no isolated towns in the U.S. It's unlikely that you would need to drive more than an hour or two to reach a city.
It has nothing to do with a count of generations and everything to do with possible mutation. Your statement implies that Rudyard Kipling's "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" was on to something. Hint: giraffes didnt get longer necks by stretching.
"To hook private functions that are called without indirection (e.g., through a function pointer), the rootkit employs inline code hooking. In order to hook a function, the rootkit simply overwrites the start of the function with an e9 byte. This is the opcode for a jmp rel32 instruction, which, as its only operand, has 4 bytes relative offset to jump to," Georg Wicherski of CrowdStrike wrote in a detailed analysis of the new Linux malware.
"The rootkit, however, calculates an 8-byte or 64-bit offset in a stack buffer and then copies 19 bytes (8 bytes offset, 11 bytes unitialized) behind the e9 opcode into the target function. By pure chance the jump still works, because amd64 is a little endian architecture, so the high extra 4 bytes offset are simply ignored."
The tests are simple and they just check basic knowledge that you probably already have as a programmer.
I cut my teeth in IT and made a transition to programming about a decade ago. I've found that many programmers aren't particularly well versed in IT, and vice-versa. They're two very different types of jobs.
I think just nailed why people have trouble getting hired at that age. It's potentialy risky and costly as is, and any attempts at using disclose to make yourself less risky to an employer only ends up making you more risky.
It's OK if you volunteer the information. It's just not OK for the company to ask.
What blew my mind is seeing colleges have a "college arithmetic" course. I thought college algebra was one thing, but having to learn long division at the university level?
More people than ever before are seeking (and getting) education beyond high school. The best and the brightest have always gone, but colleges and universities are opening up to lower quality students - those with less education upon arrival. The institutions are simply providing an educational service to a group that needs it.
Don't get worked up over higher education hewing to its mandate, which is to provide an education to all (and possibly make some money while doing it by selling you some remedial courses to ease you along). Be happy that people aren't turning their noses up at it. It improves society for everyone.
How does one determine the provenance of a widget, mineral (like oil), or foodstuff? Commodity items are difficult if not impossible to discriminate post-sale. Enforcement would be impossible for many products.
The decision in Kelo was based on eminent domain being within state jurisdiction, where the taking was allowable according to Connecticut law, instead of federal jurisdiction. While the end result was a shame and did little to expand citizens' rights, it had nothing to do with a corporate bias because it was based on law and technicalities.
Stronger marketing of trucks may have something to do with it. Light trucks are far more profitable for auto manufacturers to sell than cars. I heard a figure that some trucks represent 50% profit, whereas the average car might be 10-15%.
You're ignoring real-life. It doesn't matter if I know how to merge properly if the person in front of me doesn't. It doesn't matter if all of us know how to merge properly, if (as is the case on I-95 around Boston) there isn't a merge lane. (No, really. On an number of entrances there simply isn't one. No right shoulder either).
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The Nielsen Company, which takes TV set ownership into account when it produces ratings, will tell television networks and advertisers on Tuesday that 96.7 percent of American households now own sets, down from 98.9 percent previously.
I'm not a statistician, but >95% seems like a majority of people to me. How does it make the GP's claim ("significant portion") less extraordinary?
A significant portion of the country no longer owns televisions nor are interested in non-time-shifted content.
Source, please? Your claim is rather extrordinary. Pretty much every person I know owns at least one television, and almost all of them have cable (as much as they complain about the cost).
It's not the job of the DNS server or protocol to check the source ip; that job belongs to the firewall.
Its a little like when your mom kept your old school work. As an adult, are you really interested in your own child-like scribblings? Is anybody else?
I like history. I'm even a little curious about my own, but the novelty of seeing my childhood photos wears off quickly. The novelty of seeing my wife's, or my own childrens' photos, wears off quickly too. I study history to understand how the world got to the way it is now, perhaps to help predict the future but certainly to put current events into perspective. Personal history is generally less useful, especially when viewed from a personal perspective.
I'm more interested in what's going on now - what are my kids are doing now, what my spouse and friends are thinking about now, what I'm capable of now. It's generally greater than before. The past is a less polished version of today.
The US government continues to support all kinds of things that don't make sense. The so-called War On Drugs springs to mind as well.
Another example: Catalytic converters (required equipment on new cars since the '80s) don't make sense either: why prescribe a speific solution when you could specify a desired outcome instead? My first car, an '82 Honda Civic had a CVCC engine which was cleaner than a car equipped with a catalytic converter, but production ceased because the technologies were incompatible and the converter was required. Kind if defeats the purpose of the law, if the purpose was to reduce smog.
I think the heaviest driver in converting to LEDs isn't the electrical savings, but the savings in repair calls. When an incandesent bulb burns out, you have to head out and replace it pronto or else you have a non-working traffic light. When one LED in a matrix burns out, meh, you'll go check it out when 40-50% are dead.
I'm not clear on how changing the culture via things like "strengthening of marriage" (whatever that means) will curtail mass violence. Are you suggesting that seriously disturbed individuals, people with severe mental defect, will cease to exist just by removing some movies and books?
Making ethanol from the corn is more energy intensive than distillation of oil into gasoline. For every gallon of ethanol you produce, energy equivalent to more than one gallon is burned just to distill it (never mind farming, ferilization, and transportation). Distillation is done with, yup, petroleum products.
Ethanol is nowhere near cabon neutral, given the way we produce it. We'd be closer if we used cane sugar, but tarrifs are so high that it's not economically viable. That's also the work of the corn lobby.
rural places have changed from not locking one's doors to widespread theft of agricultural equipment
In the past, it wasn't as easy to move stolen goods and the markets didn't exist. If you stole a tractor, a car, or someone's silverplate and jewelery, chances were good that you'd have to fence it locally. Now, I can make a quick trip to another state.
small towns were more honest because that is what it takes for a small, isolated society where everyone knows everyone, to survive
Now-a-days, there are no isolated towns in the U.S. It's unlikely that you would need to drive more than an hour or two to reach a city.
It has nothing to do with a count of generations and everything to do with possible mutation. Your statement implies that Rudyard Kipling's "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" was on to something. Hint: giraffes didnt get longer necks by stretching.
these boxes were using red hat - "A new Linux rootkit has emerged"
That would be Gentoo, where we even have to compile our viruses from source (but then the virus is super-optimized).
"To hook private functions that are called without indirection (e.g., through a function pointer), the rootkit employs inline code hooking. In order to hook a function, the rootkit simply overwrites the start of the function with an e9 byte. This is the opcode for a jmp rel32 instruction, which, as its only operand, has 4 bytes relative offset to jump to," Georg Wicherski of CrowdStrike wrote in a detailed analysis of the new Linux malware.
"The rootkit, however, calculates an 8-byte or 64-bit offset in a stack buffer and then copies 19 bytes (8 bytes offset, 11 bytes unitialized) behind the e9 opcode into the target function. By pure chance the jump still works, because amd64 is a little endian architecture, so the high extra 4 bytes offset are simply ignored."
The tests are simple and they just check basic knowledge that you probably already have as a programmer.
I cut my teeth in IT and made a transition to programming about a decade ago. I've found that many programmers aren't particularly well versed in IT, and vice-versa. They're two very different types of jobs.
I think just nailed why people have trouble getting hired at that age. It's potentialy risky and costly as is, and any attempts at using disclose to make yourself less risky to an employer only ends up making you more risky.
It's OK if you volunteer the information. It's just not OK for the company to ask.
What blew my mind is seeing colleges have a "college arithmetic" course. I thought college algebra was one thing, but having to learn long division at the university level?
More people than ever before are seeking (and getting) education beyond high school. The best and the brightest have always gone, but colleges and universities are opening up to lower quality students - those with less education upon arrival. The institutions are simply providing an educational service to a group that needs it.
Don't get worked up over higher education hewing to its mandate, which is to provide an education to all (and possibly make some money while doing it by selling you some remedial courses to ease you along). Be happy that people aren't turning their noses up at it. It improves society for everyone.
When I did the search earlier, the results included How piracy built the U.S. publishing industry.
Let me google that for you
Lets not forget the United States itself, which used to be a capital of intellectual piracy and cheap knock-offs in the 18th and 19th centuries.
How does one determine the provenance of a widget, mineral (like oil), or foodstuff? Commodity items are difficult if not impossible to discriminate post-sale. Enforcement would be impossible for many products.
The decision in Kelo was based on eminent domain being within state jurisdiction, where the taking was allowable according to Connecticut law, instead of federal jurisdiction. While the end result was a shame and did little to expand citizens' rights, it had nothing to do with a corporate bias because it was based on law and technicalities.
Stronger marketing of trucks may have something to do with it. Light trucks are far more profitable for auto manufacturers to sell than cars. I heard a figure that some trucks represent 50% profit, whereas the average car might be 10-15%.
You're ignoring real-life. It doesn't matter if I know how to merge properly if the person in front of me doesn't. It doesn't matter if all of us know how to merge properly, if (as is the case on I-95 around Boston) there isn't a merge lane. (No, really. On an number of entrances there simply isn't one. No right shoulder either).
Some turbos are better than others. The turbo on my 2000 Saab kicks in nicely, I never feel like the car is underpowered.
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Soylent batteries?