The Chinese have been doing this to themselves quite effectively.
One Child Per Family has led to aborting females en mass, and has already tweaked the sex mix. This in turn affects the next generation, even if you drop the policy, as with a, for example, 55% male generation, the average female needs to produce (50/45)*2, or more than 2.2 children for break-even.
If it saves time, total driven by all trucks could indeed drop, as individual trucks would make more deliveries once they reached the area, reducing the number of trucks.
Perhaps a month or two ago, Apple started regularly offering me to change to a shorter route while driving. These have been great (one pulled me off the freeway for three miles before jumping back on) except . . .
A left turn off a major street, around the block , and a left turn back on to the same street . . . uhh . . .
What most people miss on Y2K is that given the constraints at the time most of those programs were written, the cost of avoiding the problem would have been roughly triple (in real terms, discounted dollars, etc.) as ultimately fixing it was.
Yes, economists went back and actually measured, estimated, etc. Also, most of the code from the era did not, in fact, make it to Y2K, and would have incurred the costs without receiving a benefit.
Although the resources would be negligible today, we are talking about the extra labor to punch two more digits on each and every 72 column card, the limited number of digits on those punch cards, memory for which it was a break thought when the *rental* price dropped down to a buck a byte a month, the extra processing time to handle three or four digits, etc.
It also didn't help that so many (a strong majority?) coded in the year ending in 00 exception to leap years without including the divisible by 400 exception to the exception . . . other attempts to accommodate 2000 might have had similar blunders.
Over the last two decades, schools have increasingly come to see the law school as a cash cow, to turn profits for other university projects.
Tuition has been doubled, tripled, and more, which is possible due to the instant availability of huge student loans (similar to how sloppy underwriting and loan-flipping was the primary cause of the housing bubble).
Students now leave law schools with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and payments that suggest burger flipping might have been a better idea.
25 years ago, sheets of forced air were common in Las Vegas grocery stores as a way to leave the cavernous doors open and form *some* barrier to the AC getting out into the desert heat.
Today, they're rare, generally replaced with automatic or manual doors. When you do see (err, feel) one, it's usually in conjunction with an automatic door.
>BTW, the part about knowing who's going to use the >door and who isn't is probably doable with cameras >and enough processing power.
Rule 1: if it isn't touching the ground, don't open for it . . .
Side effects would included positive (not opening for drones and birds), and negative (being sued for not opening for the differently gravitationalized, avian-americans, and so forth).
However, I don't recall seeing that anywhere other than an executable for CP/M (and as BASCA under MS-DOS), so maybe I need to go back to Extended Disk BASIC version 2 . . .
>Well Hollywood better put a goddamn end to the >practice. I, for one, am sick and tired of Hollywood >using actual children to portray children in movies >and television. They should be using only actors >above the age of 18.
Uhm, isn't that that Matthew Broderick is for?
Although I think he's finally ready to play college students instead of high school . . .:)
Many years ago there was a proposal for the "Tux Virus."
The notion was that it would download a linux distribution with FVWM95 as the window manager, use Wine for the windows binaries, and probably include OpenOffice.
Some even deluded themselves that it would take the victim a while to notice.
Fortunately, those that had the actual ability to do this (that is, to come as close as possible; it's not like Wine was up to running random binaries) had better things to do, or had been taught better by their mothers.
Unfortunately, that was not the case for vigor, which actually got implemented . . .
A couple of weeks ago, I got a pneumatic nail gun to put sheeting on the hothouse in my back yard. mmm.
Yesterday, I got the fuel tank back onto my '72 Cadillac Convertible.
Today, I was going to put a new water pump and fan clutch onto that '72, but I bought my wife a mustang convertible, so it's going to be a week or two.
We just get to buy more expensive toys as we get older . . .
To the point that there were two 12k variants of the Apple ][.
One had 12k contiguous memory; the other had a gap so that you could use the hires graphics.
If you built your own plugs, you could power off and switch between the two. (there was a dip socket for each of the three banks which hard-wired the bank to it's memory address).
And then 16k chipsets dropped to $100, and everyone had 48k . . .
My 1984 mac 128k still works, albeit with 512k now.
My 1991 Macintosh Potable would work if I replaced some capacitors.
I think I bought the MacClassic in 1991, and it still works.
My 1994 Powerbook 180 would work if I put the pieces back together; it's a victim of the IBM 2.5" scsi drives and their near-100% failure rate.
For that matter, I have a '95 or so thinkpad I bought used that would work if I fixed broken wires in the power supply cable, to say nothing of my working 1987 Tandy 102 . . .
And none of these have any influence on what my next machine will be. (most likely, replacing the HD with SSD on my 2012 iMac)
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The Chinese have been doing this to themselves quite effectively.
One Child Per Family has led to aborting females en mass, and has already tweaked the sex mix. This in turn affects the next generation, even if you drop the policy, as with a, for example, 55% male generation, the average female needs to produce (50/45)*2, or more than 2.2 children for break-even.
hawk
> So 'jumping species lines' would only be possible if the two species naturally interbred.
If they can breed and pass the gene, they're already the same species, by definition . . .
However, for unnatural breeding, we should probably insert some kind of hillbilly joke here . . .
hawk
If it saves time, total driven by all trucks could indeed drop, as individual trucks would make more deliveries once they reached the area, reducing the number of trucks.
hawk
Perhaps a month or two ago, Apple started regularly offering me to change to a shorter route while driving. These have been great (one pulled me off the freeway for three miles before jumping back on) except . . .
A left turn off a major street, around the block , and a left turn back on to the same street . . . uhh . . .
hawk
What most people miss on Y2K is that given the constraints at the time most of those programs were written, the cost of avoiding the problem would have been roughly triple (in real terms, discounted dollars, etc.) as ultimately fixing it was.
Yes, economists went back and actually measured, estimated, etc. Also, most of the code from the era did not, in fact, make it to Y2K, and would have incurred the costs without receiving a benefit.
Although the resources would be negligible today, we are talking about the extra labor to punch two more digits on each and every 72 column card, the limited number of digits on those punch cards, memory for which it was a break thought when the *rental* price dropped down to a buck a byte a month, the extra processing time to handle three or four digits, etc.
It also didn't help that so many (a strong majority?) coded in the year ending in 00 exception to leap years without including the divisible by 400 exception to the exception . . . other attempts to accommodate 2000 might have had similar blunders.
hawk
>For instance, some Xerox printers let you upload
>firmware updates via port 9100, and vulnerabilities
>exist allowing remote code execution
Damnit, I *knew* I should have listened when he warned me not buy the gatling gun with servos option . . . :)
hawk
MUFFIN is quite important, even critical: without it, you can no longer boot your older 13 sector diskettes from prior to DOS 3.3 . . . :)
hawk
Over the last two decades, schools have increasingly come to see the law school as a cash cow, to turn profits for other university projects.
Tuition has been doubled, tripled, and more, which is possible due to the instant availability of huge student loans (similar to how sloppy underwriting and loan-flipping was the primary cause of the housing bubble).
Students now leave law schools with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and payments that suggest burger flipping might have been a better idea.
hawk, esq.
Yes, we are.
Use _hillary() to create a jail for office . . . :)
hawk
25 years ago, sheets of forced air were common in Las Vegas grocery stores as a way to leave the cavernous doors open and form *some* barrier to the AC getting out into the desert heat.
Today, they're rare, generally replaced with automatic or manual doors. When you do see (err, feel) one, it's usually in conjunction with an automatic door.
hawk
>BTW, the part about knowing who's going to use the
>door and who isn't is probably doable with cameras
>and enough processing power.
Rule 1: if it isn't touching the ground, don't open for it . . .
Side effects would included positive (not opening for drones and birds), and negative (being sued for not opening for the differently gravitationalized, avian-americans, and so forth).
hawk
>Is there any negative side to Hangouts?
Wait a minute, are you suggesting it has a positive side?
Google voie was far more useful when it could be used on a gmail page without needing to launch another window and ask questions in that window . . .
Failure to ring has become far more common since the hangouts hijacking, too--changing from "rare" to "frequent".
hawk
>Windows 7 was the last decent OS they released.
Harumph.
Personally, I'd put it as MBASIC5.
However, I don't recall seeing that anywhere other than an executable for CP/M (and as BASCA under MS-DOS), so maybe I need to go back to Extended Disk BASIC version 2 . . .
hawk
They did--it doesn't get his name, it's named *after* him.
The official name is "soDamendAnnoying" . . .
hawk
Read 1984 . . .
>Less space than a Nomad
In all fairness, I rarely need to control more than one starship in battle at a time with my phone, so a fraction of Nomad's space works fine . . .
hawk
> But the 1st amendment is not a law in that respect
Yes, it is, as applied through the 14th, as are all other parts of the Bill of Rights "fundamental to the concept of ordered liberty." [*]
hawk, esq.
[*] And the establishment clause, which is applied, well, whenever a court feels like it . . .
>Well Hollywood better put a goddamn end to the
>practice. I, for one, am sick and tired of Hollywood
>using actual children to portray children in movies
>and television. They should be using only actors
>above the age of 18.
Uhm, isn't that that Matthew Broderick is for?
Although I think he's finally ready to play college students instead of high school . . . :)
hawk
Mrs. Doubtfire would have been *really* weird with an actress in the title role . . .
hawk
>it's awfully hard to get consent from the dead.
Only if you go to cut-rate necromancers. The good ones are more expensive, but worth it . . .
haw
Many years ago there was a proposal for the "Tux Virus."
The notion was that it would download a linux distribution with FVWM95 as the window manager, use Wine for the windows binaries, and probably include OpenOffice.
Some even deluded themselves that it would take the victim a while to notice.
Fortunately, those that had the actual ability to do this (that is, to come as close as possible; it's not like Wine was up to running random binaries) had better things to do, or had been taught better by their mothers.
Unfortunately, that was not the case for vigor, which actually got implemented . . .
hawk
>One is never too old to play with toys
Exactly. They just change over time.
A couple of weeks ago, I got a pneumatic nail gun to put sheeting on the hothouse in my back yard. mmm.
Yesterday, I got the fuel tank back onto my '72 Cadillac Convertible.
Today, I was going to put a new water pump and fan clutch onto that '72, but I bought my wife a mustang convertible, so it's going to be a week or two.
We just get to buy more expensive toys as we get older . . .
hawk
To the point that there were two 12k variants of the Apple ][.
One had 12k contiguous memory; the other had a gap so that you could use the hires graphics.
If you built your own plugs, you could power off and switch between the two. (there was a dip socket for each of the three banks which hard-wired the bank to it's memory address).
And then 16k chipsets dropped to $100, and everyone had 48k . . .
hawk
more often, the able solution is to not crash in the first place . . . :)
hawk
My 1984 mac 128k still works, albeit with 512k now.
My 1991 Macintosh Potable would work if I replaced some capacitors.
I think I bought the MacClassic in 1991, and it still works.
My 1994 Powerbook 180 would work if I put the pieces back together; it's a victim of the IBM 2.5" scsi drives and their near-100% failure rate.
For that matter, I have a '95 or so thinkpad I bought used that would work if I fixed broken wires in the power supply cable, to say nothing of my working 1987 Tandy 102 . . .
And none of these have any influence on what my next machine will be. (most likely, replacing the HD with SSD on my 2012 iMac)