Surely it would be better to tether a submarine just outside territorial waters and have it link to the mainland via microwave relayed via a tethered blimp or via undersea fiber. The submarine could have a couple of access tubes leading up to the surface for air, access and a place to tether the blimps. That way, there would be almost no "wave action" to rock the datacenter.
the H1Bs are the ones you want. That and the special visas for artists and extremely rich people. The moral problem with these special visas is not at the receiving country's end, it is with the drain on talent and capital that it places on the originating country. Unless, say, India benefits from returning citizens with valuable foreign work experience it strikes me that India has more to lose than the US in this transfer of labor.
It strikes me that the "problem" is how to keep and feed huge numbers of US citizens that are not in this league professionally. The problem to my mind is not so much that there are only so many highly-skilled tech jobs around as that there are fewer and fewer productive things for people that lack high-end skills to do. If we are looking for a way to fully employ America and maintain a strong middle class (ie, what passes for socialism here) then we need to look for solutions for Americans in the bottom 50% of qualification and not worry about a few thousand high-end earners.
For the bottom 50%, H1Bs look like a winning proposition to me because they assume their burden of the tax base.
Is to search for the other Juno that was described here. As the first SUV is now several light-library_of_congresses away and could be anywhere within a volume of 10^76 cubic football fields of its projected location.
University was great for me. The sex, the music, meeting academics, the culture, the learning. All of it great. But since I left university my learning needs have changed significantly and content on the internet has grown to address them. I now need to almost rent knowledge. That is, learn something with limited application for a short time for some specific project and then I can go ahead and forget it. There are plenty of good reasons for universities to exist, but I think they need to concentrate on complementing what is available online rather than competing with it. And given that such a wealth of things have become available online recently that simply did not exist before, that means Universities need to change and refocus on becoming centers for bringing people together to create new things and de-emphasize their role in stuffing people with "business friendly" skillsets. That does not mean that they need to drop undergraduate engineering programs, just that they need to concentrate more specifically on what they uniquely bring to the process of learning.
was thought to have a sensitivity to gluten and so we cut it out of her diet for a few months. Thankfully gluten did not turn out to be an issue, but it was only after taking the time to read the ingredients list on the things we would normally buy that you find gluten in damn near everything; it's even in soy sauce. It took some effort to avoid.
If they mean, say, less than 6 months old, then...
Presumably the stats reset to zero after 6 months of the last confirmed fatality in each model
With delays in reporting / verifying fatalities it seems that by the time any fatality is an official statistic, the "new" window clause will cease to allow it to count
With enough different models of car and a short enough definition of new, and a long enough lag to verify fatalities, then presumably many manufacturers could have at least one model today that can make this boast
So maybe we're not far from this goal anyway, and maybe it's got more to do with marketing spin than human lives. Though I have to say, it sounds more sincere coming from Volvo than from other manufacturers.
in that it is not a preliminary requirement to learn programming. I have tried teaching kids to program using scratch and I can tell you they love it. In fact, they really don't need much in the way of teaching to be able to express themselves pretty well in scratch. No, the problem lies with the parents and businesses that want "proper" computing taught (you know, spreadsheets, word processing) not this arty-farty-abstract programming crap. To a large part of the population computing means word processing, spreadsheets, powerpoints. I seem to remember this was a big complaint against the OLPC; it did not support real applications like excel. It's as if we all want our children to become office drones that have no idea how anything actually works.
So if I understand it, the thing does not have enough buoyancy to stay aloft without its engines, or enough engine power / the right shape to stay aloft without the helium. So what we have here is a disaster that can happen if either component fails.
The whole suggestion of enforcing this client-side is so idiotic that I'm inclined to believe that there will be ISP-side enforcement and that in fact the client is only there to warn the user.
That the trades are trying to trigger "limits". ie. Someone may have pre-programmed a system to automatically dump stock if the price tanks, so when one of these trades comes in the price looks as if it is tanked, the stock sells and the buyer snaps up a bargain.
To be clear, here is what I want to see when I walk into a high-street chain bookstore (like B&N or Borders).
the store is split into four parts; a bar, an "AV, reading and reference" area, a "special format book" area and a "cheap read" area
the cheap read area contains whatever the bookstore can get inexpensively; same as walmart etc.
The "special format" area contains books like the one about the little monster that likes orange-peanut-butter-pickle sandwiches (the one with the fluffy cover and the tail), or the coffee table book with fancy printing or cardboard cutouts etc.
The "AV, reading and reference" area contains 100s of 1000s of precis of books. For example; a couple of chapters bound with the index. Whatever the publisher thinks will represent the book well in, say, 50 pages. This section also includes a number of computers containing a good catalog of inventory and available e-titles, recommendations etc. It also contains a number of book printer/binding machines. When you have selected the books you want, either from browsing or selecting them from the catalog you can have them either delivered for around amazon.com type prices, or printed there and then for a small premium. A similar machine will burn you a CD, DVD, BR, or direct download to your MP3/ipod for music and video
Not to ignite a war over public school standards, but until I read the frontispiece of "Simple Nature" I thought it was a textbook for High school. It seemed high-school level to me. The explanations are clear enough and quite frankly I would expect my kids to understand most or all of the material he presents in those books well before they leave high school. As Feyneman says, the high school textbooks (at least back when he read them) seemed to waste time teaching gibberish when they could be stating simple facts and let kids get along with the task of learning.
I don't disagree, but I do also see the difference that involved parenting makes. and it must be pretty hard for a kid that gets shitty teaching and shitty parenting to make up the gap for themselves. I wonder how one would test those statements. Surely someone with at least some credibility (ie. not tied to a teachers union or to a fringe "think tank") must have tried.
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kidnapping and identity theft as "business practices". Then the FBI would hunt down these copyright infringing criminals.
Surely it would be better to tether a submarine just outside territorial waters and have it link to the mainland via microwave relayed via a tethered blimp or via undersea fiber. The submarine could have a couple of access tubes leading up to the surface for air, access and a place to tether the blimps. That way, there would be almost no "wave action" to rock the datacenter.
the H1Bs are the ones you want. That and the special visas for artists and extremely rich people. The moral problem with these special visas is not at the receiving country's end, it is with the drain on talent and capital that it places on the originating country. Unless, say, India benefits from returning citizens with valuable foreign work experience it strikes me that India has more to lose than the US in this transfer of labor.
It strikes me that the "problem" is how to keep and feed huge numbers of US citizens that are not in this league professionally. The problem to my mind is not so much that there are only so many highly-skilled tech jobs around as that there are fewer and fewer productive things for people that lack high-end skills to do. If we are looking for a way to fully employ America and maintain a strong middle class (ie, what passes for socialism here) then we need to look for solutions for Americans in the bottom 50% of qualification and not worry about a few thousand high-end earners.
For the bottom 50%, H1Bs look like a winning proposition to me because they assume their burden of the tax base.
The seven up series I remember watching as a child.
Is to search for the other Juno that was described here. As the first SUV is now several light-library_of_congresses away and could be anywhere within a volume of 10^76 cubic football fields of its projected location.
University was great for me. The sex, the music, meeting academics, the culture, the learning. All of it great. But since I left university my learning needs have changed significantly and content on the internet has grown to address them. I now need to almost rent knowledge. That is, learn something with limited application for a short time for some specific project and then I can go ahead and forget it. There are plenty of good reasons for universities to exist, but I think they need to concentrate on complementing what is available online rather than competing with it. And given that such a wealth of things have become available online recently that simply did not exist before, that means Universities need to change and refocus on becoming centers for bringing people together to create new things and de-emphasize their role in stuffing people with "business friendly" skillsets. That does not mean that they need to drop undergraduate engineering programs, just that they need to concentrate more specifically on what they uniquely bring to the process of learning.
was thought to have a sensitivity to gluten and so we cut it out of her diet for a few months. Thankfully gluten did not turn out to be an issue, but it was only after taking the time to read the ingredients list on the things we would normally buy that you find gluten in damn near everything; it's even in soy sauce. It took some effort to avoid.
So maybe we're not far from this goal anyway, and maybe it's got more to do with marketing spin than human lives. Though I have to say, it sounds more sincere coming from Volvo than from other manufacturers.
A copy of an Indiana Jones movie for reference, a large rock, a chisel and a ramp. Oh, and some kind of triggering device based on twisted vines.
in that it is not a preliminary requirement to learn programming. I have tried teaching kids to program using scratch and I can tell you they love it. In fact, they really don't need much in the way of teaching to be able to express themselves pretty well in scratch. No, the problem lies with the parents and businesses that want "proper" computing taught (you know, spreadsheets, word processing) not this arty-farty-abstract programming crap. To a large part of the population computing means word processing, spreadsheets, powerpoints. I seem to remember this was a big complaint against the OLPC; it did not support real applications like excel.
It's as if we all want our children to become office drones that have no idea how anything actually works.
So if I understand it, the thing does not have enough buoyancy to stay aloft without its engines, or enough engine power / the right shape to stay aloft without the helium. So what we have here is a disaster that can happen if either component fails.
The whole suggestion of enforcing this client-side is so idiotic that I'm inclined to believe that there will be ISP-side enforcement and that in fact the client is only there to warn the user.
That the trades are trying to trigger "limits". ie. Someone may have pre-programmed a system to automatically dump stock if the price tanks, so when one of these trades comes in the price looks as if it is tanked, the stock sells and the buyer snaps up a bargain.
Is that why they have Bo ? Is it a prototype for ER deployment or elder disposal.
Yes; it's most likely a blatant lie.
But just in case there's a problem. I hereby officially close the airspace above my property.
Not to ignite a war over public school standards, but until I read the frontispiece of "Simple Nature" I thought it was a textbook for High school. It seemed high-school level to me. The explanations are clear enough and quite frankly I would expect my kids to understand most or all of the material he presents in those books well before they leave high school.
As Feyneman says, the high school textbooks (at least back when he read them) seemed to waste time teaching gibberish when they could be stating simple facts and let kids get along with the task of learning.
Some of Benjamin Crowell's work, of which I am a fan.
I'm not "football".
Lodi is just a waypoint. People will drive to Barstow, ride to Lodi and then get back into their cars and continue on to... oh wait; shit !
I don't disagree, but I do also see the difference that involved parenting makes. and it must be pretty hard for a kid that gets shitty teaching and shitty parenting to make up the gap for themselves. I wonder how one would test those statements. Surely someone with at least some credibility (ie. not tied to a teachers union or to a fringe "think tank") must have tried.
or...
>>> x='world cup of data sorting'
>>> l = list(x)
>>> l.sort()
>>> l
[' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', 'a', 'a', 'c', 'd', 'd', 'f', 'g', 'i', 'l', 'n', 'o', 'o', 'o', 'p', 'r', 'r', 's', 't', 't', 'u', 'w']
That did not take a minute, including typing it in.