Copper price might have something to do with the increase in theft. It was about 4$/LB from Dec 2005 to Sept 2008. Now is only 1.5 $/LB. Of course the profit for the thieves is still 100% but they get less money for the same risk.
Having company sponsored childcare doesn't mean other employees are getting paid less, is just means the stockholders are not seeing as big of a profit as they could have.
How do you know this for sure?. You will have to factor in the loss of productivity (and therefore company value) related to the stress, sick kids, etc, of workers that don't have their kids in the company day care. Perhaps a subsidy is justified not only from a social point of view but also from an economic point of view too. I'd like to see numbers about this.
While what you say it's true, what makes sense for an individual does not necessarily makes sense for a company.
Say you really want to have the best workers in the field. If they happen to have kids and they want to stay close to them while working, having a day care facility is good for the company as well as good for the individual workers who have kids. If you are an employee that does not have kids, you'll benefit indirectly from being able to work with colleagues that have kids and that won't work in your company otherwise (or to the extent that they won't be as happy or as productive as having the day care facility).
Those same kiddies that you talk about are users that don't have institutional support or enough nerdy friends when something "comes up" in linux. I understand the repeated-redundant questions clogging up the expert forums but usually the technical level needed to solve some specific problem is very high (and specially to understand what one is doing). And it gets high so quickly sometimes that a new user can not discriminate whether her question is being answered or not in an old post.
I think everybody would benefit from a newbie forum (I've been a newbie Linux user for almost 10 years now) so that one can ask stupid questions and get well explained answers from some generous more advanced users. Just last week I had to replace my video card. I have it working after several hours, but it still looks like an Atari. I am looking forward having some time to spare from my research to see if I can make it work in 3-D.
I wonder what is the working definition of space... Some satellites operate within the earth atmosphere and do in fact sense the earth from the atmosphere. What is the height at which one should obtain the license? Images from a plane are fine? a photo camera is nothing more than a sensing device operating in the visible part of the spectra...
A gap in ability is perfecly possible as we know that the functioning of the brain in boys and girls is quite different (in a statistical sense of course). In the top of the distribution of math performance (ability + interests), as the study also points out, the gap between boys and girls seems to be big. This shows up more patently in international math competitions (where girls are vastly outnumbered in the prize winners). In general, one should not expect to know the answer before making the real experiment. So, I hope the people that conducted the study were not "expecting" to find what they found either.
There is a good side to it. Usually is very expensive to perform a large scale air quality experiment in a city like Beijing. This will be useful to scientists to test models under different conditions than the normal operation of the city, and the impact of some of these measures on air quality, so more informed decision making can be made when trying to solve the problem for good.
Is it just me or this sounds pretty inhumane and lacking any consideration for the person being fired/layed-off?. What about one week in advance notice? Do people immediately stop receiving pay?
Of course this is the best way to avoid retaliation but good faith also should play a role, I think...
I am sorry about calling you a troll. Rather I should have said that your post (rather than yourself) seemed like trolling. It didn't seem to me that "Who is going to watch the olympics?" was a rethoric question. You stated below that "content that nobody's going to view". If you were serious then you are very far removed from reality. You can look at some of the numbers for the Athens 2004 olympics here
http://en.beijing2008.cn/16/8/article211928716.shtml
Well I don't know how to go about a set of criteria for telling whether something is a legitimate athletic event. After all, several athletic events are just throwing stuff into the air, and others involve shooting stuff, jumping on a pool, etc, so they can all be easily ridiculed. If people get really good at nacho-scripting, there is no a-priori reason why it should not make it as an athletic event.
Yes, you are right. Who would like to watch the best athletes in the world, make their best effort, competing against each other as they strive to be the fastest, strongest human beings in history, as they strive to achieve perfection in their disciplines. Who would be that crazy?
PS: I know this guy is being a troll, but nevertheless...
I don't understand what is the big deal. This is the usual business with all travelers except europeans. Somehow, this only levels the field with respect to everybody else in the world. That doesn't make it good, but it makes it a bit more fair, if you will.
I have to admit that the article is thought provoking, and it might actually fulfill an educational purpose in a science or philosophy class. It can be given to students for criticizing, in that way be used as a motivation for a discussion about how science can benefit from new technologies.
The article is wrong basically because is confusing Science with something else, that could in the best case be called engineering. Science is about understanding and we use data and models to iteratively refine our understanding. Neither the model or the data by themselves, are the science. More importantly, as other people have pointed out, there is no understanding embedded in a correlation, or in a collection of butterflies for that matter (even if each butterfly is given a pompous "scientific" name).
"the fields of anthropology, archeology and paleontology are filled with people fighting little turf wars"
Maybe because of their field of study, they are a bit more aware than other scientists of the consequences of publish or perish.;)
The thing is that Al Gore has not raised awareness about the climate change issue, rather he has raised awareness about anthropogenic global warming using rethoric to support his arguments. Whenever science shows uncertainties, he either ignores them or make them play towards the catastrophic global warming side of the argument. He is therefore an activist not interested in whether the issue has scientific merit or not. He is very far from "build(ing) up and disseminat(ing) greater knowledge about man-made climate change" as the official explanation for the Nobel peace prize goes.
On the other hand, the IPCC role at least on paper is to assess the scientific merit of the risk of man induced climate change and make this accessible to the general public and to the policy makers. However, the matter is far from settled and there is active scientific discussion in many different aspects of the issue. Even in those as important as the climate sensitivity to CO2. This Nobel prize is a shameless political move to blackmail the scientific community towards more extreme positions on the issue.
I find hard to read long articles or books in a browser setting, perhaps because one has too many open windows, and it is very easy to jump to something else when the article becomes boring. I also find easier to read a pdf article or book in full screen mode (Ctrl-L in Acrobat). That way things look closer to the situation in which one is reading a hardcopy article or book and I feel I am focusing more in the content.
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It's enough to power a small village in Africa, but not far from the average US monthly average of 920 kWh
Copper price might have something to do with the increase in theft. It was about 4$/LB from Dec 2005 to Sept 2008. Now is only 1.5 $/LB. Of course the profit for the thieves is still 100% but they get less money for the same risk.
It seems that you should be watching foreign movies for a change.
What is the purpose of using a world map when you have data for only a handful of countries?
Having company sponsored childcare doesn't mean other employees are getting paid less, is just means the stockholders are not seeing as big of a profit as they could have.
How do you know this for sure?. You will have to factor in the loss of productivity (and therefore company value) related to the stress, sick kids, etc, of workers that don't have their kids in the company day care. Perhaps a subsidy is justified not only from a social point of view but also from an economic point of view too. I'd like to see numbers about this.
While what you say it's true, what makes sense for an individual does not necessarily makes sense for a company. Say you really want to have the best workers in the field. If they happen to have kids and they want to stay close to them while working, having a day care facility is good for the company as well as good for the individual workers who have kids. If you are an employee that does not have kids, you'll benefit indirectly from being able to work with colleagues that have kids and that won't work in your company otherwise (or to the extent that they won't be as happy or as productive as having the day care facility).
It really comes down to what you value more, your principals or your job.
But if you don't work at a school, you'd probably value more your job than your principal.
Those same kiddies that you talk about are users that don't have institutional support or enough nerdy friends when something "comes up" in linux. I understand the repeated-redundant questions clogging up the expert forums but usually the technical level needed to solve some specific problem is very high (and specially to understand what one is doing). And it gets high so quickly sometimes that a new user can not discriminate whether her question is being answered or not in an old post. I think everybody would benefit from a newbie forum (I've been a newbie Linux user for almost 10 years now) so that one can ask stupid questions and get well explained answers from some generous more advanced users. Just last week I had to replace my video card. I have it working after several hours, but it still looks like an Atari. I am looking forward having some time to spare from my research to see if I can make it work in 3-D.
But it means that if you are planning a manned spaceflight, you only need to carry enough water to get there.
I wonder what is the working definition of space ... Some satellites operate within the earth atmosphere and do in fact sense the earth from the atmosphere. What is the height at which one should obtain the license? Images from a plane are fine? a photo camera is nothing more than a sensing device operating in the visible part of the spectra ...
I know some of them too, but I am glad I haven't met the ones that break IT.
A gap in ability is perfecly possible as we know that the functioning of the brain in boys and girls is quite different (in a statistical sense of course). In the top of the distribution of math performance (ability + interests), as the study also points out, the gap between boys and girls seems to be big. This shows up more patently in international math competitions (where girls are vastly outnumbered in the prize winners). In general, one should not expect to know the answer before making the real experiment. So, I hope the people that conducted the study were not "expecting" to find what they found either.
There is a good side to it. Usually is very expensive to perform a large scale air quality experiment in a city like Beijing. This will be useful to scientists to test models under different conditions than the normal operation of the city, and the impact of some of these measures on air quality, so more informed decision making can be made when trying to solve the problem for good.
Is it just me or this sounds pretty inhumane and lacking any consideration for the person being fired/layed-off?. What about one week in advance notice? Do people immediately stop receiving pay? Of course this is the best way to avoid retaliation but good faith also should play a role, I think ...
I am sorry about calling you a troll. Rather I should have said that your post (rather than yourself) seemed like trolling. It didn't seem to me that "Who is going to watch the olympics?" was a rethoric question. You stated below that "content that nobody's going to view". If you were serious then you are very far removed from reality. You can look at some of the numbers for the Athens 2004 olympics here http://en.beijing2008.cn/16/8/article211928716.shtml
Well I don't know how to go about a set of criteria for telling whether something is a legitimate athletic event. After all, several athletic events are just throwing stuff into the air, and others involve shooting stuff, jumping on a pool, etc, so they can all be easily ridiculed. If people get really good at nacho-scripting, there is no a-priori reason why it should not make it as an athletic event.
Yes, you are right. Who would like to watch the best athletes in the world, make their best effort, competing against each other as they strive to be the fastest, strongest human beings in history, as they strive to achieve perfection in their disciplines. Who would be that crazy? PS: I know this guy is being a troll, but nevertheless ...
No, I am not stupid, I didn't read the original article and I received my punishment.
I don't understand what is the big deal. This is the usual business with all travelers except europeans. Somehow, this only levels the field with respect to everybody else in the world. That doesn't make it good, but it makes it a bit more fair, if you will.
I have to admit that the article is thought provoking, and it might actually fulfill an educational purpose in a science or philosophy class. It can be given to students for criticizing, in that way be used as a motivation for a discussion about how science can benefit from new technologies. The article is wrong basically because is confusing Science with something else, that could in the best case be called engineering. Science is about understanding and we use data and models to iteratively refine our understanding. Neither the model or the data by themselves, are the science. More importantly, as other people have pointed out, there is no understanding embedded in a correlation, or in a collection of butterflies for that matter (even if each butterfly is given a pompous "scientific" name).
"in a small unheated cell on Guantanamo" Is this supposed to be a bad thing in the Caribbean?
"the fields of anthropology, archeology and paleontology are filled with people fighting little turf wars" Maybe because of their field of study, they are a bit more aware than other scientists of the consequences of publish or perish. ;)
"I met my wife on line 27 years ago" 27 years ago? Was the internet developed enough at that time? Pardon my ignorance.
The thing is that Al Gore has not raised awareness about the climate change issue, rather he has raised awareness about anthropogenic global warming using rethoric to support his arguments. Whenever science shows uncertainties, he either ignores them or make them play towards the catastrophic global warming side of the argument. He is therefore an activist not interested in whether the issue has scientific merit or not. He is very far from "build(ing) up and disseminat(ing) greater knowledge about man-made climate change" as the official explanation for the Nobel peace prize goes. On the other hand, the IPCC role at least on paper is to assess the scientific merit of the risk of man induced climate change and make this accessible to the general public and to the policy makers. However, the matter is far from settled and there is active scientific discussion in many different aspects of the issue. Even in those as important as the climate sensitivity to CO2. This Nobel prize is a shameless political move to blackmail the scientific community towards more extreme positions on the issue.
I find hard to read long articles or books in a browser setting, perhaps because one has too many open windows, and it is very easy to jump to something else when the article becomes boring. I also find easier to read a pdf article or book in full screen mode (Ctrl-L in Acrobat). That way things look closer to the situation in which one is reading a hardcopy article or book and I feel I am focusing more in the content.