I am a scientist and programmer and for the last 3 years I've used an i5-based SP4 as my main system. MS has done a pretty good job of integrating Windows 10 with the tablet / pen / touchscreen/ keyboard setup. The linux subsystem is great and seems to keep getting better. The machine is very portable and still powerful enough to do almost any day-to-day tasks and even light gaming. My only complaint is that there are number of parts that still haven't been perfected which fail rapidly under regular use, and Microsoft's hardware customer service leaves something to be desired. After only 3 years of use, although I still have no trouble running software, my SP4 hardware has become quite flaky. Based on all that, although I'd love to buy a new Surface product, the customer experience was just so horrible last time I'm really disinclined to do so.
This page is pretty helpful to decipher how much people were actually drinking. There's a little figure at the bottom with normal sized drinks and their units and a handy shorthand calculation: ABV (percent) * Vol (mL) / 1000 = units.
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alc...
You get all the convenience of having to conform to the train schedule, with all the fuel consumption of a car (okay, according to TFS, 80% of the fuel consumption of your car plus 1/n*the fuel consumption of the lead vehicle, where n is number of vehicles in the road train).
The article you linked has your answer only a few paragraphs in:
I uncovered confidential documents that revealed the tragic consequences of a tagging company's failure to act on a repeat offender.
The biggest problem with the current system is the disconnect between crime and punishment. That's the difference between the proposed scheme and jail (which can't be swift) and the British version (which simply isn't be enforced):
...and swift, certain punishment for any deviations...
.
That's not to say that there is no way that this can be abused, or that the American version will be enforced in practice any better than the British one or even whether this kind of "easy punishment" creates a moral hazard which will ultimately result in 90% of the population in a wall-less prison in the next decade. I'm only pointing out that the specific failure of the British system is something the OP has addressed in the summary.
The problem isn't Apple (or AT&T). Steve Jobs didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy anything. The problem is with braindead consumers who will buy anything because they are told. You really can't blame the company for wanting to take advantage of that kind of behaviour. This is not to say that there isn't something wrong with the way Apple works. And telcos are about the worst companies in the universe next to oil companies. But to blame them for making a shitty product that sells is unfair: the problem is with self-destructive consumer behaviour that allows those companies to continue on doing what they're doing.
As someone who uses math quite a lot in academia, I can tell you that I've never noticed the missing operators. I just don't use 64-bit integers. The reason *I* upgraded to 64-bit Matlab is because I kept running up against memory constraints. 64-bit Matlab can allocate much larger arrays. I am sure there are places where it would be convenient to use really big integers but I find it hard to believe that this is really a big headache for anyone; the main improvement with the 64-bit version is a much bigger memory space.
So the trick is that the reaction that removes O3 from the stratosphere (where the Ozone Layer lives) proceeds really quickly if it has a solid or liquid surface. Putting more sulphate aerosol precursors into the atmosphere results in more aerosols. If they make their way into the right place at the right time, they can enhance ozone depletion.
I disagree, wholeheartedly. The secret ingredient to a successful business is elbow grease. The fact that this person has asked slashdot this question is not a good indicator of success one way or the other. The important thing is whether this person will be able to take a significant number of the suggestions provided and give'em the old college try.
The only source of truly uncooked data currently would be the raw satellite data, but NASA doesn't give that out until they massage it.
My research uses satellitemeasurements of trace gases and aerosols in the lower atmosphere. I can tell you that:
at the bottom of that second link is the raw satellite data. It is free for you to download. Or anyone, for that matter. I always end my conference presentations with a proud note that any highschool student with enough hard drive space and a strong will could sit down and do the research I am doing. I don't know if NASA is as open with all their satellite products, but at least with OMI and MODIS and MISR and MOPITT they are.
the "raw satellite data" as you call it comes in terms of spectral intensities of reflect and radiated light. Without several fairly advanced courses in physics, or a lot of time at a library with books from said courses, you would be hard pressed to do any kind of useful analysis. I have been working with this stuff for quite some time and I still use the L2 products.
As for illegal aliens, 10 million of the so-called "40 million Americans without insurance" are illegal residents. I'd say it's a significant issue, and if you don't believe me then I'm going to bring my stuff over and setup my bed in your spare room (since you apparently think illegal entrance is a-okay).
Um, did you read the post to which you are replying?
Illegal aliens: This is a non-issue, made up to inflame the ignorant. The right way to deal with illegal aliens is through immigration law reform.
It's a non-issue in terms of a Health Care bill. There are other parts of law designed to deal with illegal immigration. The parent never said that illegal entrance is a-okay. However, by your argument, it's a-okay to deny coverage to 30 million legitimate American residents because there exist 10 million illegal ones.
Frankly, I'd just rather be rich....I'm willing to do just about whatever it takes to get there...
Look, if you'd really wanted to be part of the club, you'd have been born into a richer family. Sorry for your poor foresight in the womb.
Life is short, I'd rather live comfortably the rest of my years, rather than be poor, scraping for a living an idealistic...
Yes, and that is exactly why the system works. People, even fairly rational and intelligent people, are convinced that A) there is a way to get into the upper echelon of society, and B) that is the only way to be happy and/or comfortable.
The fact of the matter is, you are really unlikely to ever make it there and that there are many, many other ways to be happy. But most of those don't increase the GDP as much as working you like a mule until you die.
It's not like making a game, with rules and all, really makes that much difference if they just decide that because you are playing the game by the rules, that you are somehow bad because you succeed? So, you can play the game by their rules, so long as you lose?!?!?
I'm sorry, I got a little confused there; were you talking about casinos or the entire financial industry?
I don't think you quite understand who works for whom, here. If the goal is to vacuum as money out of The Masses' wallets and into the pockets of the rich, then obviously the incentives should be for "investing".
And this is not some kind of conspiracy, here, this is simply a lot of people trying to act in their own best interests and, in the case of Wall St and Washington, succeeding. Unfortuately, because of the way our financial system is set up, that is at the direct expense of Joe Six-pack. Until your average person becomes a little more savvy and realizes that more than half The Economy is a Ponzi scheme, this will continue. Sadlly, it is likely that by the time Joe Six-pack gets wise, Wall St and Washington will have moved on to bigger and better money vacuums.
And I would MUCH rather trust the organization of a relief effort to trained professionals -- like state, federal, and military emergency staff -- to a bunch of "volunteers."
If you are able to do something you have a skill in it. If you can pump gas into your car then you have a skill - pumping gas. Some skills are easier then others (pumping gas vs replacing your breaks).
...versus correctly spelling the names of common automobile components.
I would say people act braver in RPG than in real life, because most of the stuff you can do in a game is beyond your normal capabilities. And even more important: If you die you can start all over. Beside a depression that your character died, nothing of consequence happens.
This is, I think, one of the most important real-life lessons. Most of the time when you do something in real life, nothing of consequence happens. It's only your media-fed, government-encouraged, over-inflated-ego-based fear of all the horrible things that could happen to you if you do something. If you ask yourself, "what's the worst that could happen?" and think really hard about just how bad that answer turns out to be, I think you'll find yourself having a lot more fun and doing a lot more stuff.
Don't take life too serious; you'll never make it out alive.
I would buy that there is a bit more energy in the per 62 million years signal, but I wouldn't call it clockwork-like regularity. If they came up with a p-value of 0.01, I'd say that there must be something happening, but I would expect a little more consistency out of a big cosmic event like the one they're describing.
At this stage in the game, reef conservation is pretty damned environmentally friendly. That's like saying "wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to do something other than replanting rainforests?"
Guess what guys. What you did was basic. You remembered my song history.
Not so: they remembered your song history and then recommended / played you music which they thought you might like. Less like twitter, more like Cinematch. It worked quite well, IMO.
And now your users don't trust you...
Yeah, also, if you don't live in the US, the UK or Germany it costs you money to use the good part of their service. This means that, from Canada, I can still send them my musical habits, which they will apparently send along the RIAA, but I can't benefit from doing so by learning about cool new music from them.
I hope they go down. This kind of behaviour is just stupid.
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I am a scientist and programmer and for the last 3 years I've used an i5-based SP4 as my main system. MS has done a pretty good job of integrating Windows 10 with the tablet / pen / touchscreen/ keyboard setup. The linux subsystem is great and seems to keep getting better. The machine is very portable and still powerful enough to do almost any day-to-day tasks and even light gaming. My only complaint is that there are number of parts that still haven't been perfected which fail rapidly under regular use, and Microsoft's hardware customer service leaves something to be desired. After only 3 years of use, although I still have no trouble running software, my SP4 hardware has become quite flaky. Based on all that, although I'd love to buy a new Surface product, the customer experience was just so horrible last time I'm really disinclined to do so.
This page is pretty helpful to decipher how much people were actually drinking. There's a little figure at the bottom with normal sized drinks and their units and a handy shorthand calculation: ABV (percent) * Vol (mL) / 1000 = units. http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alc...
You get all the convenience of having to conform to the train schedule, with all the fuel consumption of a car (okay, according to TFS, 80% of the fuel consumption of your car plus 1/n*the fuel consumption of the lead vehicle, where n is number of vehicles in the road train).
The article you linked has your answer only a few paragraphs in:
I uncovered confidential documents that revealed the tragic consequences of a tagging company's failure to act on a repeat offender.
The biggest problem with the current system is the disconnect between crime and punishment. That's the difference between the proposed scheme and jail (which can't be swift) and the British version (which simply isn't be enforced):
...and swift, certain punishment for any deviations...
.
That's not to say that there is no way that this can be abused, or that the American version will be enforced in practice any better than the British one or even whether this kind of "easy punishment" creates a moral hazard which will ultimately result in 90% of the population in a wall-less prison in the next decade. I'm only pointing out that the specific failure of the British system is something the OP has addressed in the summary.
The problem isn't Apple (or AT&T). Steve Jobs didn't hold a gun to anyone's head and force them to buy anything. The problem is with braindead consumers who will buy anything because they are told. You really can't blame the company for wanting to take advantage of that kind of behaviour. This is not to say that there isn't something wrong with the way Apple works. And telcos are about the worst companies in the universe next to oil companies. But to blame them for making a shitty product that sells is unfair: the problem is with self-destructive consumer behaviour that allows those companies to continue on doing what they're doing.
As someone who uses math quite a lot in academia, I can tell you that I've never noticed the missing operators. I just don't use 64-bit integers. The reason *I* upgraded to 64-bit Matlab is because I kept running up against memory constraints. 64-bit Matlab can allocate much larger arrays. I am sure there are places where it would be convenient to use really big integers but I find it hard to believe that this is really a big headache for anyone; the main improvement with the 64-bit version is a much bigger memory space.
So the trick is that the reaction that removes O3 from the stratosphere (where the Ozone Layer lives) proceeds really quickly if it has a solid or liquid surface. Putting more sulphate aerosol precursors into the atmosphere results in more aerosols. If they make their way into the right place at the right time, they can enhance ozone depletion.
(Disclaimer, I bought the iPhone 2G and then the 3G and was thinking about the 3GS until the iPad arrived ;-)
Please hand in your Apple Fanboy Card and leave the meeting.
I disagree, wholeheartedly. The secret ingredient to a successful business is elbow grease. The fact that this person has asked slashdot this question is not a good indicator of success one way or the other. The important thing is whether this person will be able to take a significant number of the suggestions provided and give'em the old college try.
The only source of truly uncooked data currently would be the raw satellite data, but NASA doesn't give that out until they massage it.
My research uses satellite measurements of trace gases and aerosols in the lower atmosphere. I can tell you that:
"but it's gonna take a whole lotta floorin'."
As for illegal aliens, 10 million of the so-called "40 million Americans without insurance" are illegal residents. I'd say it's a significant issue, and if you don't believe me then I'm going to bring my stuff over and setup my bed in your spare room (since you apparently think illegal entrance is a-okay).
Um, did you read the post to which you are replying?
Illegal aliens: This is a non-issue, made up to inflame the ignorant. The right way to deal with illegal aliens is through immigration law reform.
It's a non-issue in terms of a Health Care bill. There are other parts of law designed to deal with illegal immigration. The parent never said that illegal entrance is a-okay. However, by your argument, it's a-okay to deny coverage to 30 million legitimate American residents because there exist 10 million illegal ones.
I really hope someone did some pretty heavy analysis on this. The atmosphere is a big and complicated place.
Frankly, I'd just rather be rich....I'm willing to do just about whatever it takes to get there...
Look, if you'd really wanted to be part of the club, you'd have been born into a richer family. Sorry for your poor foresight in the womb.
Life is short, I'd rather live comfortably the rest of my years, rather than be poor, scraping for a living an idealistic...
Yes, and that is exactly why the system works. People, even fairly rational and intelligent people, are convinced that A) there is a way to get into the upper echelon of society, and B) that is the only way to be happy and/or comfortable.
The fact of the matter is, you are really unlikely to ever make it there and that there are many, many other ways to be happy. But most of those don't increase the GDP as much as working you like a mule until you die.
Or the gym locker room... yikes.
It's not like making a game, with rules and all, really makes that much difference if they just decide that because you are playing the game by the rules, that you are somehow bad because you succeed? So, you can play the game by their rules, so long as you lose?!?!?
I'm sorry, I got a little confused there; were you talking about casinos or the entire financial industry?
I don't think you quite understand who works for whom, here. If the goal is to vacuum as money out of The Masses' wallets and into the pockets of the rich, then obviously the incentives should be for "investing".
And this is not some kind of conspiracy, here, this is simply a lot of people trying to act in their own best interests and, in the case of Wall St and Washington, succeeding. Unfortuately, because of the way our financial system is set up, that is at the direct expense of Joe Six-pack. Until your average person becomes a little more savvy and realizes that more than half The Economy is a Ponzi scheme, this will continue. Sadlly, it is likely that by the time Joe Six-pack gets wise, Wall St and Washington will have moved on to bigger and better money vacuums.
And I would MUCH rather trust the organization of a relief effort to trained professionals -- like state, federal, and military emergency staff -- to a bunch of "volunteers."
You are obviously not from New Orleans.
If you are able to do something you have a skill in it. If you can pump gas into your car then you have a skill - pumping gas. Some skills are easier then others (pumping gas vs replacing your breaks).
I would say people act braver in RPG than in real life, because most of the stuff you can do in a game is beyond your normal capabilities. And even more important: If you die you can start all over. Beside a depression that your character died, nothing of consequence happens.
This is, I think, one of the most important real-life lessons. Most of the time when you do something in real life, nothing of consequence happens. It's only your media-fed, government-encouraged, over-inflated-ego-based fear of all the horrible things that could happen to you if you do something. If you ask yourself, "what's the worst that could happen?" and think really hard about just how bad that answer turns out to be, I think you'll find yourself having a lot more fun and doing a lot more stuff.
Don't take life too serious; you'll never make it out alive.
Take a look at wikipedia's graph of extinctions from the article about the history of life. I haven't done any actual signal analysis on this data.
I would buy that there is a bit more energy in the per 62 million years signal, but I wouldn't call it clockwork-like regularity. If they came up with a p-value of 0.01, I'd say that there must be something happening, but I would expect a little more consistency out of a big cosmic event like the one they're describing.
The solar iPhone would be particularly galling for me, as an environmentalist: I would not longer, in good conscience, be able to tell soulpatch wearing, latté drinking ponces to stick their iPhones where the sun don't shine.
You might be interested in the Long Now Foundation
At this stage in the game, reef conservation is pretty damned environmentally friendly. That's like saying "wouldn't it be more environmentally friendly to do something other than replanting rainforests?"
Guess what guys. What you did was basic. You remembered my song history.
Not so: they remembered your song history and then recommended / played you music which they thought you might like. Less like twitter, more like Cinematch. It worked quite well, IMO.
And now your users don't trust you...
Yeah, also, if you don't live in the US, the UK or Germany it costs you money to use the good part of their service. This means that, from Canada, I can still send them my musical habits, which they will apparently send along the RIAA, but I can't benefit from doing so by learning about cool new music from them.
I hope they go down. This kind of behaviour is just stupid.