Since you're not that good at financial accounting, I'll break something down for you. It used to be that parents didn't have to work two jobs to keep the family afloat. Starting in the 50's and 60's, women flooded the workforce. Workers became so plentiful that relative wages went down (supply and demand). Because of that, inflation eventually sorted this out. Now the work of two people have the relative value that the work of one did not so long ago.
Don't mistake this for an attack on women. It's not. But our economy took a fundamental shift, and it is not as easy for a family to survive on a single income. There's no doubt that one can get an education and really improve yourself. Many people have great high-paying jobs. This lead to a shift that brought a whole lot more people to college. Colleges were failing far too many students, and educational grants took a big hit with the surge of new students. College curricculums have had to become easier, especially at state-run institutions, just to keep from failing too many students. This leads us to today, where a large percentage of the population is college educated. There is a surplus of well-educated workers in the work force, lowering wages for everyone by the increased competition.
So now a family can barely survive between two parents working, and two huge college loan debts. Our country's economy runs on cheap labor. Not everyone can advance themselves or it just raises the bar for all.
Except that on par doesn't necessarily mean numerically equivalent. If par took into account those within one standard deviation of average, you might include a whole lot of slightly below average people without unnecessarily failing too many.
I believe that the GP post was saying that exactly this behavior was gaming the system. You only learned the material that would be on the test. No time for actually getting immersed in a subject or learning for the sake of learning. Let's talk about an extreme example of some kid who fails chemistry because they couldn't memorize enough atomic numbers, but they invent a chemical formula as useful as Teflon. Did the kid learn chemistry? YES! But he didn't "game" the system by studying the periodic table and rote memorizing numbers.
Zeldman has been around the web...a LOT. It's actually HIMSELF that is obsessed with the minimal (see alistapart.com, and he must think he can speak for the Japanese just because he has a minimalist POV.
Please report this to Google for me. I saw the place on Food Network, and I don't live more than a couple hours away. I want to go there sometime, and I'll completely forget that the map is wrong.
I'm too lazy and can't be bothered to do it myself, so please inspire yourself with thinking of the good of mankind and all that.
I would assume that those would be tests of needles WITH a vaccine or something to deliver, to test the effectiveness of it actually transferring into the body. You don't need so much regulation to jab at someone with a pointy stick unless it contains chemicals.
Well what do you say about someone selling you a car with C4 in the trunk rigged to a button in the front seat that said "don't press." They'd certainly be liable whether you press that button or not.
I was a bit unclear with my wording but I was talking about both. The squashing of the dynamic range ruins the high and low frequency sounds. They might be there in number, but not in clarity.
In response to your second point - movie trailers can certainly be output in 2K and 4K, and probably will be by the time they hear the news and have time to upload. Films are edited at a higher resolution than 1080p.
I think you underestimate just how cut off the dynamic range of FM radio is. Have you ever heard a song on the radio and then put in a CD of that same song to hear the difference? Both the high and low end frequencies are just plain chopped off on FM.
And yes - because I'm in a fringe area, I can actually hear when it switches between FM and HD. It's practically a late evening and day difference.
It's not just the range - it's the clarity. And I for one have a relatively quiet running car - wouldn't have it any other way if I can afford to.
I have an HD radio receiver in my car. It was a feature of the cheapest radio that fit in my car. I live an hour from a major city and the reception goes in and out. But it seamlessly falls back to standard FM when I lose the signal. It sounds great, and you get subchannels much like ATSC. HD Radio rivals CD quality and has none of the poor dynamic range of FM. But it's broadcast at such a low power, that it really only works if you're in a metro area.
Blech. Thankfully, I've patented the process of spreading peanut butter on both slices of bread so that I may enjoy the jelly in the middle without it soaking into the bread.
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Did they forge the mining tools or build the trucks? Not quite the same thing. Especially when you're talking about hundreds of employees.
Since you're not that good at financial accounting, I'll break something down for you. It used to be that parents didn't have to work two jobs to keep the family afloat. Starting in the 50's and 60's, women flooded the workforce. Workers became so plentiful that relative wages went down (supply and demand). Because of that, inflation eventually sorted this out. Now the work of two people have the relative value that the work of one did not so long ago.
Don't mistake this for an attack on women. It's not. But our economy took a fundamental shift, and it is not as easy for a family to survive on a single income. There's no doubt that one can get an education and really improve yourself. Many people have great high-paying jobs. This lead to a shift that brought a whole lot more people to college. Colleges were failing far too many students, and educational grants took a big hit with the surge of new students. College curricculums have had to become easier, especially at state-run institutions, just to keep from failing too many students. This leads us to today, where a large percentage of the population is college educated. There is a surplus of well-educated workers in the work force, lowering wages for everyone by the increased competition.
So now a family can barely survive between two parents working, and two huge college loan debts. Our country's economy runs on cheap labor. Not everyone can advance themselves or it just raises the bar for all.
Except that on par doesn't necessarily mean numerically equivalent. If par took into account those within one standard deviation of average, you might include a whole lot of slightly below average people without unnecessarily failing too many.
Well...I guess it wasn't the first letter of the word fail, so they dropped it. American grading scales give A, B, C, D, F.
I believe that the GP post was saying that exactly this behavior was gaming the system. You only learned the material that would be on the test. No time for actually getting immersed in a subject or learning for the sake of learning. Let's talk about an extreme example of some kid who fails chemistry because they couldn't memorize enough atomic numbers, but they invent a chemical formula as useful as Teflon. Did the kid learn chemistry? YES! But he didn't "game" the system by studying the periodic table and rote memorizing numbers.
Take 700 x 15 trials each, and then see how many people .1% is.
Zeldman has been around the web...a LOT. It's actually HIMSELF that is obsessed with the minimal (see alistapart.com, and he must think he can speak for the Japanese just because he has a minimalist POV.
Nice example.
You need to buy yourself a Kill-A-Watt:
http://www.p3international.com/products/special/P4400/P4400-CE.html
As long as they don't stop buying lottery tickets, I agree with you. They save me the trouble of paying too much in state taxes...
And so they should be for a Photoshop job like that, dishonesty aside.
Another example of "aesthetics" would be the chemical dispersants used to hide the oil spill below the surface of the water.
Please report this to Google for me. I saw the place on Food Network, and I don't live more than a couple hours away. I want to go there sometime, and I'll completely forget that the map is wrong.
I'm too lazy and can't be bothered to do it myself, so please inspire yourself with thinking of the good of mankind and all that.
BBS polls? I think that puts YOU in the small minority.
I would assume that those would be tests of needles WITH a vaccine or something to deliver, to test the effectiveness of it actually transferring into the body. You don't need so much regulation to jab at someone with a pointy stick unless it contains chemicals.
Well what do you say about someone selling you a car with C4 in the trunk rigged to a button in the front seat that said "don't press." They'd certainly be liable whether you press that button or not.
Not zero benefit. Given the higher bandwidth allocated, and assuming it's scaled down to 1080p on a smaller monitor it approaches lossless HD quality.
I was a bit unclear with my wording but I was talking about both. The squashing of the dynamic range ruins the high and low frequency sounds. They might be there in number, but not in clarity.
In response to your second point - movie trailers can certainly be output in 2K and 4K, and probably will be by the time they hear the news and have time to upload. Films are edited at a higher resolution than 1080p.
I think you underestimate just how cut off the dynamic range of FM radio is. Have you ever heard a song on the radio and then put in a CD of that same song to hear the difference? Both the high and low end frequencies are just plain chopped off on FM.
And yes - because I'm in a fringe area, I can actually hear when it switches between FM and HD. It's practically a late evening and day difference.
It's not just the range - it's the clarity. And I for one have a relatively quiet running car - wouldn't have it any other way if I can afford to.
I have an HD radio receiver in my car. It was a feature of the cheapest radio that fit in my car. I live an hour from a major city and the reception goes in and out. But it seamlessly falls back to standard FM when I lose the signal. It sounds great, and you get subchannels much like ATSC. HD Radio rivals CD quality and has none of the poor dynamic range of FM. But it's broadcast at such a low power, that it really only works if you're in a metro area.
Triple damages ($3 per song) plus legal fees. I'm sure the legal fees alone are enough to make anyone think twice.
Every expired patent. Otherwise, you'd just be rolling the money on to the people that own the first part of the patent.
Blech. Thankfully, I've patented the process of spreading peanut butter on both slices of bread so that I may enjoy the jelly in the middle without it soaking into the bread.
Oh, this could be used for interoperability - something explicitly allowed under DMCA. It's just like reverse engineering Word's .doc format.