Except that in most cases are these addicts not just addicted to being high and they happen to choose alcohol because it is free and cheap?
Is it not exceedingly likely that if we inoculated every drunk with this today that in a week 80% of them would be crack addicts or similarly worse off?
Amazon has been given unnatural advantage/monopoly in the marketplace of that State. This will drive the market out of equilibrium and when it settles down Amazon will have come out ahead and the rest of the market will have lost. This will mean jobs lost, jobs that would have been never being, and lower revenue for everyone else.
It has some idea. There is no excuse for how bad the estimated time left for OS file transfers. Where 1 year remaining is commonplace to see seconds before a file finishes, you know they were not even trying. Not only does the OS know everything that is going on, and knows when another concurrent transfers will finish, it is easy enough to find an average slice of the CPU pie that you will likely get in the future.
And even when nothign else is going on. The only active task is the transfer, it still has absolutely no idea how long. They very least they could do is hard code some average metrics. I know how long copying something will take on average, meanwhile the computer all on its own is spewing out 1 week - 2 days - 7 days - 8 months - 1 hour - 3 days - 3 seconds - done.
Except that it is the same thing is some instances and it is not that trivial. For a progress bar you should not consider both "add two integers together" and "unpack and copy 8 gigs to the hard drive" as two separate and equal completed tasks.
That is the problem with most progress bars, and the problem in the original question. 99% of the progress bar is filled up with trivial millisecond things and the other 1% takes tens of minutes, if not longer. So the progress bar is either speeding by faster than the human eye can watch it or it is stuck in place for long enough that you fear the program is broken. This is a failed progress bar, it is absolutely not doing what a progress bar is designed to do.
What you really need is to separate the program execution into ~ equally timed sections so that you can gauge who quickly progress is really being made. If you run it on a slower computer it progresses slower, if the computer starts another resource intensive program progress might slow to half the speed.
And when this is done, you also have your estimated time to completion, because you know in general terms who long the rest of the execution will take.
If you know exactly what you need to do, Exactly how much data you need to unpack, how much you need to copy to the hard drive in how many files, How many registry entries to make, etc. Then if you knew the time these would take on a average computer, And run a few metrics on the computer you are installing onto (and keep doing this throughout), as well possibly looking at the hardware.
Do all this and you could get a very accurate progress bar. It is simply easier to semi-randomly put progress++; markers throughout your code that are accurate enough that the user does not give up and cancel or reboot the PC is frustration.
OK, so say someone steals money from your account.
the thief has made money. If someone notices the theft I guess you get your money back, at least that is what the article claims. I guess banks have insurance for this sort of thing, but even if they do they would pay more in insurance payments than they would in actual dollars lost over time; That is how insurance works. So they do lose money, unless they are allowed to make new money when some is stolen. This loss is passed onto you the customer.
Well of course if you have a system wide problem you would never batch flash your entire fleet of routers (for example) hoping it might fix the problem.
But if you have one device that is acting contrary to logic (default settings and it simply does not work), a flash is simply the only solution unless you want to get an electron microscope and start reading the current firmware one bit at a time.
In my experience upgrading firmware is like restarting an OS. Often just flashing to the exact same version will solve some weird issues you are having. If you do not know the exact cause and solution to a problem, you do not just give up, you reinstall/flash the device/software. It is the quickest solution, it solves 99% of all problems, and because of this is the best thing you can do in most situations.
Some problems have reasons and some are just random events caused by a particle of dust or defects in the hardware. They cannot be understood and often cannot be fixed without a reinstall/flash.
Where did you get that idea. If that were true the only life on earth would be a single celled green goo flouting in the seas. Evolution is absolutely not about "good enough", but instead about "better".
If you have a population with a slight range of genetics, evolution will push the population over the generations to better genetics or to stability if they have already reached relative perfection. If something can be changed for the better, it will be.
Because it is not about good enough, it is about are there any societies/individuals that are genetically better than the average. Therefore there is potential for improvement, therefore evolution will see it happen, given enough time.
Is the first thing you really should; always try for everything. Except maybe flashing firmware if you have no way to unbrick a faulty flash (but it is still what you will probably have to do to fix anything major). Them telling you this is not them making a mistake, and they cannot guarantee how old out of warranty hardware will react to anything.
Why were you inquiring about problems in the first place? Maybe in both instances your expensive hardware was already broken and was bricked not because the advise was bad or the firmware was bad, but because the hardware was already malfunctioning.
I am not exactly sure what insider trading is, but since he not only knows the inner workings of Google but controls them, how is this not insider trading?
It would be pretty simple for him to influence stock price right before he sells, and theoretically influence it down right before he buys back stock. Hell, it would be simple enough to lower the stock price or rise the stock price of other companies. Just announce that Google plans on competing with company X; Stock falls and he can quietly buy up a big chunk; Then announce that they decided to work together and corner the market with a new wonder device; Stock raises.
Homosexual existence is mostly considered evolutionary good because the people without children will be more charitable towards others and will help a whole village to raise all of their children better. This of course does not work in the West any longer, but this way of life is still quite strong in India I believe (and where most of the studies are conducted). The homosexual gene is passed on in the villages and societies who do better on a whole. As long as the homosexual gene never creates a whole generation of pure homosexuals then its continues to be passed on from the carriers who do procreate (the non-homosexuals).
You could also consider the case of a herd of herbivorous. If a homosexual bull was allowed to hang around the herd he would be a huge help in keeping off predators.
No kidding. It takes a LOT of time to find any someone competent in any skilled field. You advertise a job you very well might have hundreds of applicants in no time. And most of them will be completely useless at solving your problem. You would end up spending 100+ paid man hours finding the one person who can apparently solve your problem in a 30-60 minute interview.
If you just solved a real world problem for a company in a interview and made them lots of money, you bargaining position has just gotten a whole lot better. If the only work they needed doing can be completed in a 30 minute interview than they simply do not and never had a job to offer you. And no one would actually do this, it would be an incredibly huge waste of time. You actually think that some company is going to interview 20 people until they get the guy that is capable of solving their problem in 30 minutes? They have just spent a week of work getting a 30 minute answer. If a problem is solvable in a interview setting then the company could of just spent 30 minutes posting a detailed description on some forum somewhere, where they would of gotten an even better and more detailed answer than they could ever of hoped for from an interviewee.
If you provide the answer to a current real world problem in an interview and do not get the job, then it is probably because someone else gave a better response.
And do you really think playing games with the interviewer is going to improve your chances of getting a job? If the person asked you a question they want an answer to that question, not to another question.
Databases and programming languages can store Strings of the length of entire books.
I think we can assume that no one is going to USE a name that takes a week of constant typing to input, so just a generic big string datatype would be big enough for any name.
Well, I am no law expert. But for items like tests, which the school board pays the teachers to create, I am pretty sure they already own them.
For lesson plans, it would depend on the wording of the employee contract, I imagine and your interpretation of the law. It is reasonable to assume that an employee might own a method he developed to do a job, but the contract very well might state that making a lesson plan is a part of the job since every one knows you NEED a lesson plan to teach a class. And even if it did not, it could easily be considered a requirement of fulfilling your contract, and therefore legally the schools IP.
"And, let's not forget, all of this is being created in the teacher's own time, outside of school hours." Yes teachers spend lots of time after hours working, but they do have lots of scheduled time to design tests and lesson plans as well. And since teachers are paid salaries, and not an hourly rate, they do not really have off hours. They are paid X dollars to do a job over a school semester, not 11 dollars an hour over 9-5.
Also, say a teacher quits the day before the final. There is absolutely no time for a temp to make up a final test, the teacher who left was paid to create one. The school owns that test that he spent time creating prior to his leaving, and they should not have to buy it from him.
"The difference between a just-graduated teacher and a teacher with ten years of experience is that the teacher with experience has a stack of lesson plans" And salary and seniority and experience.
Actually, the summery at least, clearly states that the only effect their measures was that giving virtual super powers resulted in increased likelihood to help pick up the pens.
The group flying around in helicopters saving children apparently did not get this and the group flying around using super powers but not saving children got the same results as the other super power wielders.
Steam games are priced the same as stores and you do not get box art, a disk, or a manual with a Steam purchase. Steam occasionally has sales that are easier to take advantage of because they are online, but other than missing out on physical goods and not paying taxes it is the same as a store.
Yes, but first should be not deal with the more pressing evil. Like private pool ownership. Pool owners are a threat to everyone, and the worst part is that they largely target the very young.
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Except that in most cases are these addicts not just addicted to being high and they happen to choose alcohol because it is free and cheap?
Is it not exceedingly likely that if we inoculated every drunk with this today that in a week 80% of them would be crack addicts or similarly worse off?
Amazon has been given unnatural advantage/monopoly in the marketplace of that State. This will drive the market out of equilibrium and when it settles down Amazon will have come out ahead and the rest of the market will have lost. This will mean jobs lost, jobs that would have been never being, and lower revenue for everyone else.
So say you go with the deal. Now 6 months down the line Amazon has driven 50 more small businesses who employed 5000 people out of a job.
Pretty easy choice.
It has some idea. There is no excuse for how bad the estimated time left for OS file transfers. Where 1 year remaining is commonplace to see seconds before a file finishes, you know they were not even trying. Not only does the OS know everything that is going on, and knows when another concurrent transfers will finish, it is easy enough to find an average slice of the CPU pie that you will likely get in the future.
And even when nothign else is going on. The only active task is the transfer, it still has absolutely no idea how long. They very least they could do is hard code some average metrics. I know how long copying something will take on average, meanwhile the computer all on its own is spewing out 1 week - 2 days - 7 days - 8 months - 1 hour - 3 days - 3 seconds - done.
Except that it is the same thing is some instances and it is not that trivial. For a progress bar you should not consider both "add two integers together" and "unpack and copy 8 gigs to the hard drive" as two separate and equal completed tasks.
That is the problem with most progress bars, and the problem in the original question. 99% of the progress bar is filled up with trivial millisecond things and the other 1% takes tens of minutes, if not longer. So the progress bar is either speeding by faster than the human eye can watch it or it is stuck in place for long enough that you fear the program is broken. This is a failed progress bar, it is absolutely not doing what a progress bar is designed to do.
What you really need is to separate the program execution into ~ equally timed sections so that you can gauge who quickly progress is really being made. If you run it on a slower computer it progresses slower, if the computer starts another resource intensive program progress might slow to half the speed.
And when this is done, you also have your estimated time to completion, because you know in general terms who long the rest of the execution will take.
It is not a simple problem but it could be done.
If you know exactly what you need to do, Exactly how much data you need to unpack, how much you need to copy to the hard drive in how many files, How many registry entries to make, etc.
Then if you knew the time these would take on a average computer, And run a few metrics on the computer you are installing onto (and keep doing this throughout), as well possibly looking at the hardware.
Do all this and you could get a very accurate progress bar. It is simply easier to semi-randomly put progress++; markers throughout your code that are accurate enough that the user does not give up and cancel or reboot the PC is frustration.
OK, so say someone steals money from your account.
the thief has made money.
If someone notices the theft I guess you get your money back, at least that is what the article claims.
I guess banks have insurance for this sort of thing, but even if they do they would pay more in insurance payments than they would in actual dollars lost over time; That is how insurance works. So they do lose money, unless they are allowed to make new money when some is stolen. This loss is passed onto you the customer.
I am still waiting for "Hitler did Nothing Wrong" Mountain Dew. (http://readwrite.com/files/files/fields/dub%2520the%2520dew.jpg)
Well of course if you have a system wide problem you would never batch flash your entire fleet of routers (for example) hoping it might fix the problem.
But if you have one device that is acting contrary to logic (default settings and it simply does not work), a flash is simply the only solution unless you want to get an electron microscope and start reading the current firmware one bit at a time.
In my experience upgrading firmware is like restarting an OS. Often just flashing to the exact same version will solve some weird issues you are having.
If you do not know the exact cause and solution to a problem, you do not just give up, you reinstall/flash the device/software. It is the quickest solution, it solves 99% of all problems, and because of this is the best thing you can do in most situations.
Some problems have reasons and some are just random events caused by a particle of dust or defects in the hardware. They cannot be understood and often cannot be fixed without a reinstall/flash.
Where did you get that idea. If that were true the only life on earth would be a single celled green goo flouting in the seas. Evolution is absolutely not about "good enough", but instead about "better".
If you have a population with a slight range of genetics, evolution will push the population over the generations to better genetics or to stability if they have already reached relative perfection. If something can be changed for the better, it will be.
Because it is not about good enough, it is about are there any societies/individuals that are genetically better than the average. Therefore there is potential for improvement, therefore evolution will see it happen, given enough time.
Is the first thing you really should; always try for everything. Except maybe flashing firmware if you have no way to unbrick a faulty flash (but it is still what you will probably have to do to fix anything major).
Them telling you this is not them making a mistake, and they cannot guarantee how old out of warranty hardware will react to anything.
Why were you inquiring about problems in the first place? Maybe in both instances your expensive hardware was already broken and was bricked not because the advise was bad or the firmware was bad, but because the hardware was already malfunctioning.
I am not exactly sure what insider trading is, but since he not only knows the inner workings of Google but controls them, how is this not insider trading?
It would be pretty simple for him to influence stock price right before he sells, and theoretically influence it down right before he buys back stock. Hell, it would be simple enough to lower the stock price or rise the stock price of other companies. Just announce that Google plans on competing with company X; Stock falls and he can quietly buy up a big chunk; Then announce that they decided to work together and corner the market with a new wonder device; Stock raises.
Homosexual existence is mostly considered evolutionary good because the people without children will be more charitable towards others and will help a whole village to raise all of their children better. This of course does not work in the West any longer, but this way of life is still quite strong in India I believe (and where most of the studies are conducted). The homosexual gene is passed on in the villages and societies who do better on a whole. As long as the homosexual gene never creates a whole generation of pure homosexuals then its continues to be passed on from the carriers who do procreate (the non-homosexuals).
You could also consider the case of a herd of herbivorous. If a homosexual bull was allowed to hang around the herd he would be a huge help in keeping off predators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself
No kidding. It takes a LOT of time to find any someone competent in any skilled field. You advertise a job you very well might have hundreds of applicants in no time. And most of them will be completely useless at solving your problem. You would end up spending 100+ paid man hours finding the one person who can apparently solve your problem in a 30-60 minute interview.
"your bargaining position will have gotten worse"
If you just solved a real world problem for a company in a interview and made them lots of money, you bargaining position has just gotten a whole lot better.
If the only work they needed doing can be completed in a 30 minute interview than they simply do not and never had a job to offer you.
And no one would actually do this, it would be an incredibly huge waste of time. You actually think that some company is going to interview 20 people until they get the guy that is capable of solving their problem in 30 minutes? They have just spent a week of work getting a 30 minute answer.
If a problem is solvable in a interview setting then the company could of just spent 30 minutes posting a detailed description on some forum somewhere, where they would of gotten an even better and more detailed answer than they could ever of hoped for from an interviewee.
If you provide the answer to a current real world problem in an interview and do not get the job, then it is probably because someone else gave a better response.
And do you really think playing games with the interviewer is going to improve your chances of getting a job? If the person asked you a question they want an answer to that question, not to another question.
Actually if they do less volume prices will rise.
Databases and programming languages can store Strings of the length of entire books.
I think we can assume that no one is going to USE a name that takes a week of constant typing to input, so just a generic big string datatype would be big enough for any name.
Well, I am no law expert. But for items like tests, which the school board pays the teachers to create, I am pretty sure they already own them.
For lesson plans, it would depend on the wording of the employee contract, I imagine and your interpretation of the law. It is reasonable to assume that an employee might own a method he developed to do a job, but the contract very well might state that making a lesson plan is a part of the job since every one knows you NEED a lesson plan to teach a class. And even if it did not, it could easily be considered a requirement of fulfilling your contract, and therefore legally the schools IP.
"And, let's not forget, all of this is being created in the teacher's own time, outside of school hours." Yes teachers spend lots of time after hours working, but they do have lots of scheduled time to design tests and lesson plans as well.
And since teachers are paid salaries, and not an hourly rate, they do not really have off hours. They are paid X dollars to do a job over a school semester, not 11 dollars an hour over 9-5.
Also, say a teacher quits the day before the final. There is absolutely no time for a temp to make up a final test, the teacher who left was paid to create one. The school owns that test that he spent time creating prior to his leaving, and they should not have to buy it from him.
"The difference between a just-graduated teacher and a teacher with ten years of experience is that the teacher with experience has a stack of lesson plans" And salary and seniority and experience.
It only makes sense to me that the school system would own any lesson plans and tests created by their employees.
Actually, the summery at least, clearly states that the only effect their measures was that giving virtual super powers resulted in increased likelihood to help pick up the pens.
The group flying around in helicopters saving children apparently did not get this and the group flying around using super powers but not saving children got the same results as the other super power wielders.
Steam games are priced the same as stores and you do not get box art, a disk, or a manual with a Steam purchase.
Steam occasionally has sales that are easier to take advantage of because they are online, but other than missing out on physical goods and not paying taxes it is the same as a store.
Yes, but first should be not deal with the more pressing evil. Like private pool ownership. Pool owners are a threat to everyone, and the worst part is that they largely target the very young.