Thanks for articulating that - I was just thinking the same thing. Nuclear power plants are enormous infrastructure investments that require government levels of funding. Any average Joe can invest $10K into solar panels and be off the grid forever. I can't go out and buy $10K worth of a personal nuclear reactor (No Mr Fusions here) and I never will be able to.
But why wouldn't you want to make your consumption less? We cut our power bill by a third just by installing a solar hot water heating system. No inefficient solar panels - just a propylene glycol tube and an extra water tank. We get all the hot water we could ever use this way. (Actually, our water consumption itself went up since everyone happily takes extra long showers now.)
Consuming less power doesn't mean doing without. It means making the most energy efficient choices. (The insulated curtains I put in our living room a few months ago already paid for themselves, too.)
Close. I'm guessing it was a lawyer.
In TFA they complain that they're also teaching first graders how to "take a test." I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I do wish they'd focus more time on teaching kids how to study for tests. (Maybe not first graders, but later on.) That's something I had to pick up on my own in college because no one in 13 years of elementary, middle, and high school, ever bothered to go over that.
They still have dynamic, on-demand pricing. A thousand people look at an item on one day? I'll go up 1% by tomorrow. Nobody clicked on an item on one day? 5% discount tomorrow.
Perhaps I've been spoiled by the speed of most Google apps and such, but Gmail has been very slow compared to its peppy-ness just a few months ago. I'll mark stuff in my Junk/Ads folder as read, then want to move on to my Spam folder to delete the stuff, but the app will stop me because it still has "pending requests" on the server. Gmail was a lot more tolerant of me being click-happy before. I'm not sure what changed.
Google (and the others) shrugged and played nice with the NSA, to what extent we don't know. They should have realized that the NSA didn't need their permission to get that data... they were getting it anyway. And a lot more.
I wonder if Google can sue? And if they can, will they?
Both the far left and the far right will end up violating your rights by pure Libertarian standards. In my case, I lean pretty far left because I'd rather my personal rights be violated (e.g. be taxed too much) to ensure the poor kid in the trailer down the street has enough to eat and a shot at a decent education. There but for the grace of God go I, and so on.
Good luck getting 2/3 of the states to agree on anything, even something as fundamental as "we don't want our own government spying on us." If one side is for it, the other side must be against it (even if it's a good idea), and if someone is neither for nor against it they're probably unable to fully understand it.
I think it also helps that English is the most commonly spoken second language in a good many countries. So if someone can't find a particular resource in their native language online, they're more likely to turn to an English based equivalent than they are, say, a Japanese or Danish based one.
This. The Doctor was always adjusting the control room to suit his personality and mood. The TARDIS (which is actually the size of a large building if I remember right from the books) had chameleon circuits on both the inside and the outside that let it appear as whatever was needed. The outside circuit got stuck as the police box early on in the series (maybe even mentioned in the first episode) but the interior one is mostly functional.
Hence, any appearance of a teletype was there because the Doctor liked it. The actual function of it was something different. It'd be like hooking up a monochrome VGA monitor to a Core i7 with command line jury-rigging in place.
But those things won't necessarily make you happy. They're at best a means to an end, not an end in of themselves. Wine is delicious and makes me tipsy, but I'm only happy drinking it when I'm at the vineyard/winery and having a discussion with the vintner over how his farm evolved from a tobacco farm fifty years ago to its current state as a productive commercial vineyard, and how he's so happy to leave a wonderful legacy to his children.
$Gender/sexualPreference only make you happy if they're emotionally attuned to you. Many a married person is totally depressed, even if they have other lovers on the side.
Song? There's enough terrible music being put out today to make me miserable for the rest of my life. So I don't listen to the radio, but instead put on podcasts of things that are good to hear.
Ebay has a lot of "vintage" Lego sets for sale. I'd run some Lysol over them before giving them to a child, but they're otherwise much less expensive than the "build X and only X" kits.
We need to start likening things to quantum physics. At this point rocket science is frikkin' easy compared to all this quantum stuff.
Until quantum entangled particles gets harnessed into the faster than light communications they've talked about over the years, no one will really care anyway.
What annual inspection? I live in an area (in Georgia, not Oregon) where there are no requirements for any annual inspection. As long as I pay my birthday tax on time, they really don't care what condition my car is in around here.
It could be a split. Living longer AND healthier means more productive years, which could also spin into saving better for a longer retirement. I wouldn't mind working 'til I was 100 if I had an expected lifespan of 150 years. And working for 50-70 productive years instead of just 30-40 means it'd be easier to save enough to straight up live off investments during retirement.
You can get the CAPM (baby PM cert) just by having been on a team that does projects for at least a year, or taking a 23+ hour course/training online, then passing a relatively simple test. Probably one of the easier IT certs to get, considering.
Get a good analyst to do that junk for you. They exist. Make them deal with the users, get your requirements, translate them from User Speak over to proper Dev Speak, dig out the required database changes and grind out the new data, and let you code away merrily from there.
I do that for my team, along with the functional documentation and the bulk of the testing. That frees up more time for our coders to, you know, write code.
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Thanks for articulating that - I was just thinking the same thing. Nuclear power plants are enormous infrastructure investments that require government levels of funding. Any average Joe can invest $10K into solar panels and be off the grid forever. I can't go out and buy $10K worth of a personal nuclear reactor (No Mr Fusions here) and I never will be able to.
But why wouldn't you want to make your consumption less? We cut our power bill by a third just by installing a solar hot water heating system. No inefficient solar panels - just a propylene glycol tube and an extra water tank. We get all the hot water we could ever use this way. (Actually, our water consumption itself went up since everyone happily takes extra long showers now.)
Consuming less power doesn't mean doing without. It means making the most energy efficient choices. (The insulated curtains I put in our living room a few months ago already paid for themselves, too.)
Close. I'm guessing it was a lawyer. In TFA they complain that they're also teaching first graders how to "take a test." I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I do wish they'd focus more time on teaching kids how to study for tests. (Maybe not first graders, but later on.) That's something I had to pick up on my own in college because no one in 13 years of elementary, middle, and high school, ever bothered to go over that.
Duh. Nerds always have strong opinions on guns, whether real or virtual.
They still have dynamic, on-demand pricing. A thousand people look at an item on one day? I'll go up 1% by tomorrow. Nobody clicked on an item on one day? 5% discount tomorrow.
Google has my age and gender wrong despite me using Google Plus.
Perhaps I've been spoiled by the speed of most Google apps and such, but Gmail has been very slow compared to its peppy-ness just a few months ago. I'll mark stuff in my Junk/Ads folder as read, then want to move on to my Spam folder to delete the stuff, but the app will stop me because it still has "pending requests" on the server. Gmail was a lot more tolerant of me being click-happy before. I'm not sure what changed.
Google (and the others) shrugged and played nice with the NSA, to what extent we don't know. They should have realized that the NSA didn't need their permission to get that data... they were getting it anyway. And a lot more.
I wonder if Google can sue? And if they can, will they?
Both the far left and the far right will end up violating your rights by pure Libertarian standards. In my case, I lean pretty far left because I'd rather my personal rights be violated (e.g. be taxed too much) to ensure the poor kid in the trailer down the street has enough to eat and a shot at a decent education. There but for the grace of God go I, and so on.
I'm one of the lucky folks who's never funded a Kickstarter project that failed to deliver. All of my friends have been burned at least once now.
Good luck getting 2/3 of the states to agree on anything, even something as fundamental as "we don't want our own government spying on us." If one side is for it, the other side must be against it (even if it's a good idea), and if someone is neither for nor against it they're probably unable to fully understand it.
I think it also helps that English is the most commonly spoken second language in a good many countries. So if someone can't find a particular resource in their native language online, they're more likely to turn to an English based equivalent than they are, say, a Japanese or Danish based one.
Funny enough, River Song was a better driver of the TARDIS than the Doctor. (She read the instruction book, apparently.)
This. The Doctor was always adjusting the control room to suit his personality and mood. The TARDIS (which is actually the size of a large building if I remember right from the books) had chameleon circuits on both the inside and the outside that let it appear as whatever was needed. The outside circuit got stuck as the police box early on in the series (maybe even mentioned in the first episode) but the interior one is mostly functional.
Hence, any appearance of a teletype was there because the Doctor liked it. The actual function of it was something different. It'd be like hooking up a monochrome VGA monitor to a Core i7 with command line jury-rigging in place.
But those things won't necessarily make you happy. They're at best a means to an end, not an end in of themselves. Wine is delicious and makes me tipsy, but I'm only happy drinking it when I'm at the vineyard/winery and having a discussion with the vintner over how his farm evolved from a tobacco farm fifty years ago to its current state as a productive commercial vineyard, and how he's so happy to leave a wonderful legacy to his children.
$Gender/sexualPreference only make you happy if they're emotionally attuned to you. Many a married person is totally depressed, even if they have other lovers on the side.
Song? There's enough terrible music being put out today to make me miserable for the rest of my life. So I don't listen to the radio, but instead put on podcasts of things that are good to hear.
AT&T currently caps us at 150 GB a month, so that'd lower our ISP bill to $15/month! I'm game.
And the people who watch Netflix at full HD for 5-6 hours a day will be paying ten times as much, but hey, screw them.
Ebay has a lot of "vintage" Lego sets for sale. I'd run some Lysol over them before giving them to a child, but they're otherwise much less expensive than the "build X and only X" kits.
You mean it's not quantum physics. Ahem.
We need to start likening things to quantum physics. At this point rocket science is frikkin' easy compared to all this quantum stuff.
Until quantum entangled particles gets harnessed into the faster than light communications they've talked about over the years, no one will really care anyway.
What annual inspection? I live in an area (in Georgia, not Oregon) where there are no requirements for any annual inspection. As long as I pay my birthday tax on time, they really don't care what condition my car is in around here.
It could be a split. Living longer AND healthier means more productive years, which could also spin into saving better for a longer retirement. I wouldn't mind working 'til I was 100 if I had an expected lifespan of 150 years. And working for 50-70 productive years instead of just 30-40 means it'd be easier to save enough to straight up live off investments during retirement.
You can get the CAPM (baby PM cert) just by having been on a team that does projects for at least a year, or taking a 23+ hour course/training online, then passing a relatively simple test. Probably one of the easier IT certs to get, considering.
I use Quizzle instead. I've never been upsold that way.
Naw, Slashdot and Google News would also need to break for that to work for me.
Get a good analyst to do that junk for you. They exist. Make them deal with the users, get your requirements, translate them from User Speak over to proper Dev Speak, dig out the required database changes and grind out the new data, and let you code away merrily from there.
I do that for my team, along with the functional documentation and the bulk of the testing. That frees up more time for our coders to, you know, write code.