According to a Nobel-winning economist, as of early 2008 the (then) almost five year war had a direct cost of $845 billion (true costs estimated at $3 trillion).
$845 billion / 5 years = $169 billion a year
With 365 days in a year, that puts the daily average cost at $463 million dollars. That's the NSF's annual budget every 16 days. Now, if only we had waited two weeks to invade...
"I still find it remarkable that we can look to distant quasars to get insights into the deep interior of our planet," Buffett said.
I don't think we need more reasons to study space, but here's one anyway. Studying quasars billions of light years away helps us understand the Earth's magnetic field - what more support do we need for the value and interrelatedness of any and all scientific research?
Derrida began speaking and writing publicly at a time when the French intellectual scene was experiencing an increasing rift between what could broadly be called "phenomenological" and "structural" approaches to understanding individual and collective life. For those with a more phenomenological bent the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. For the structuralists, this was a problematic and misleading avenue of interrogation, and the "depth" and originality of experience could in fact only be an effect of structures which are not themselves experiential. It is in this context that in 1959 Derrida asks the question: Must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something?
Nerds like to be smart. Nerds like to be smart about being smart.
There's a big difference between "Fox News has three times the ratings of its competitors" and "Fox News has three times the ratings of its competitors but doesn't significantly inform its viewers." This is about knowing more, and knowing more about what we already know. If there was an article saying "MSNBC viewers are less informed" that would be just as noteworthy, because it tells us about our world. Slashdot doesn't need to have every bombing story or every celebrity breakup, but I'm glad it can give me metrics about other media sources.
But people get the news, and if they make a choice to watch Fox News Channel they are actively not watching another service. There's no need to say that MSNBC or CNN are bastions of reporting, but if viewers of Fox News aren't getting better informed, which is clear from the survey, then yes, by watching Fox News instead of something else they are being made less informed.
I am of course assuming that news is a relatively zero-sum game, but the alternative, that people just like having their already-entrenched views repeated back to them, results in basically the same outcome.
The US Naval Air Systems Command has given Lockheed Martin $45.8 million to buy two of its K-MAX unmanned helicopters and Boeing's Frontier subsidiary $29.9 million to buy two A160T Hummingbird unmanned aircraft. The Navy/Marines will ultimately choose one of the unmanned helicopters...
More than $75 million to get four count 'em 4 aircraft so that they can later pick which one they like best. Spending $75 million now so that they can shell out hundreds of millions is urgent. $7.5 million a year for four years wouldn't even buy you a test run in the aircraft, which the military should be demanding anyway.
The difference between a popularity contest that garners interest and an annual event that garners appreciation. Yeah, the miners were part of a great story, but they and the "Unemployed American" haven't done anything. The story hits home, but the message isn't there, and the message is why we pay attention.
I've got an issue with these sorts of things (PotY, Oscars, etc.), namely that they're often heavily weighted by recentism. Wikileaks (NOT Assange, mind you, but Wikileaks) has been a big deal for a few weeks; say what you want about Zuck and Assange, and I agree with you, but people have literally not shut up about that bloody movie all year.
Don't get stuck in the past, guys. GoldenEye had its day, and that day has passed.
For you. Just because current games are "better" doesn't mean the old ones are no longer any fun. Sure, they may have lost some of their initial cache, but there's still a net positive to many of them. I don't think there's a person here who wouldn't be willing to get to a warp zone in Super Mario Bros. After Angry Birds, I bet Solitaire is the number 2 game in the world. It's the same thing with movies. Nobody born after Return of the Jedi or who grew up with Jurassic Park is going to find The Birds truly believable, but it's still an astounding film and for some, quite frightening. Seeing Avatar or Train a Dragon in 3D doesn't diminish the quality of King Kong. Black Ops may be awesome, but for 50 bucks on Craigslist I can get an N64, two controllers, and some BA games.
I think it depends on the industry and business model. A lot of successful companies are moving to the open, bull-pen format for just that reason - efficiency - as well as cost. There are some holdouts, though, and places that thrive because some people (good executives, for example) take a strong leadership role may want to keep cubicles because sometimes a little privacy and quiet is necessary. I know people who are swapping away from cubicles and one of their worries is that, as reliable workers, the already frequent interruptions from their colleagues will only increase.
That's what happens when the story is from the section dealing with money and finance, hence the signoff - So click away, holiday shoppers. Amazon's got your back.
Wouldn't a retroactive patent be, by its very nature, either pointless or irrelevant? I mean, if there's anything in the past that could infringe on the backdated patent, then it should invalidate that very patent. And if there's nothing historical, then what's the point of backdating? Just say "your term is ten years shorter" and call it a day.
I don't think that's it, or at least, there's no way to draw that conclusion without seeing everyone's passwords for everything. Most people use the same password for most everything, tacking on a letter/number/upper case/symbol as required by certain sites. The only real creativity is in the workplace, at companies where passwords must be changed every [1-3] months and you cannot repeat. After about a year, you gotta start coming up with new concepts. That can never work for something like Gawker or Slashdot because, as you say, it's not vital, but that doesn't mean people are using an insecure password because they recognize the lower importance. Besides, that's like switching wallets when you have ten bucks or 200 on you.
It will look nothing like the computer "maid" on "The Jetsons."
Who thought that had anything to do with it? I think it's time that we as a culture realized that Rosie is decidedly not what people think of when they hear the word "computer."
Yes, because of course all terrorists are the same color and come from the same place, and only attack people that are actively engaging them militarily. There's nothing but ignorant generalizations in your post, and personally, I'd take masturbation over nose-picking any day.
If it weren't for the Wikileaks nonsense, anonymous trolling for teh lulz wouldn't be news. I'm interested to see how the publicity plays out here, but this is exactly what/b/ is about, random nonsense. So fuck snow, and let's get on with the news.
It's the natural order of things, whether for a company or for people. They want to waltz in, change everything radically, then settle down and grow old with their affluence. "If you want to know what is going to happen to the youngest generation, they're going to grow up and worry about the youngest generation."
Come on CNN, surely you can do better. "Technology" is not a thing you can count, you might as well say they are "innervated with ideas" or "filled with facts" or that they "are expensive and have expensive stuff in them." If you don't know, don't say anything, but don't report like a dumbed-down version of simple wikipedia.
Slashdot Mirror
The width is usually on the order of tens of nanometers; length can be up to multiple centimeters.
According to a Nobel-winning economist, as of early 2008 the (then) almost five year war had a direct cost of $845 billion (true costs estimated at $3 trillion).
$845 billion / 5 years = $169 billion a year
With 365 days in a year, that puts the daily average cost at $463 million dollars. That's the NSF's annual budget every 16 days. Now, if only we had waited two weeks to invade...
"I still find it remarkable that we can look to distant quasars to get insights into the deep interior of our planet," Buffett said.
I don't think we need more reasons to study space, but here's one anyway. Studying quasars billions of light years away helps us understand the Earth's magnetic field - what more support do we need for the value and interrelatedness of any and all scientific research?
Even the most advanced medical anatomy textbook doesn't put a penis on the front cover. That being said, it's based on zygote, and clicking around there reveals quite a bit. See, for example: http://www.3dscience.com/3D_Models/Human_Anatomy/Female_Systems/index.php
The bodybrowser page links you to http://khronos.org/webgl/wiki/Getting_a_WebGL_Implementation which gives you WebGL information and, for Safari, links you to http://nightly.webkit.org/
Everyone sound smart!
Derrida began speaking and writing publicly at a time when the French intellectual scene was experiencing an increasing rift between what could broadly be called "phenomenological" and "structural" approaches to understanding individual and collective life. For those with a more phenomenological bent the goal was to understand experience by comprehending and describing its genesis, the process of its emergence from an origin or event. For the structuralists, this was a problematic and misleading avenue of interrogation, and the "depth" and originality of experience could in fact only be an effect of structures which are not themselves experiential. It is in this context that in 1959 Derrida asks the question: Must not structure have a genesis, and must not the origin, the point of genesis, be already structured, in order to be the genesis of something?
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstructionism#Theory)
Nerds like to be smart.
Nerds like to be smart about being smart.
There's a big difference between "Fox News has three times the ratings of its competitors" and "Fox News has three times the ratings of its competitors but doesn't significantly inform its viewers." This is about knowing more, and knowing more about what we already know. If there was an article saying "MSNBC viewers are less informed" that would be just as noteworthy, because it tells us about our world. Slashdot doesn't need to have every bombing story or every celebrity breakup, but I'm glad it can give me metrics about other media sources.
Okay.
But people get the news, and if they make a choice to watch Fox News Channel they are actively not watching another service. There's no need to say that MSNBC or CNN are bastions of reporting, but if viewers of Fox News aren't getting better informed, which is clear from the survey, then yes, by watching Fox News instead of something else they are being made less informed.
I am of course assuming that news is a relatively zero-sum game, but the alternative, that people just like having their already-entrenched views repeated back to them, results in basically the same outcome.
This sense of urgency
The same page as TFA features this story:
The US Naval Air Systems Command has given Lockheed Martin $45.8 million to buy two of its K-MAX unmanned helicopters and Boeing's Frontier subsidiary $29.9 million to buy two A160T Hummingbird unmanned aircraft. The Navy/Marines will ultimately choose one of the unmanned helicopters...
More than $75 million to get four count 'em 4 aircraft so that they can later pick which one they like best. Spending $75 million now so that they can shell out hundreds of millions is urgent. $7.5 million a year for four years wouldn't even buy you a test run in the aircraft, which the military should be demanding anyway.
What part of that is confusing? With the exception of the Space Shuttle, pretty much everything born of the 80s is "awesomely bad."
The difference between a popularity contest that garners interest and an annual event that garners appreciation. Yeah, the miners were part of a great story, but they and the "Unemployed American" haven't done anything. The story hits home, but the message isn't there, and the message is why we pay attention.
I've got an issue with these sorts of things (PotY, Oscars, etc.), namely that they're often heavily weighted by recentism. Wikileaks (NOT Assange, mind you, but Wikileaks) has been a big deal for a few weeks; say what you want about Zuck and Assange, and I agree with you, but people have literally not shut up about that bloody movie all year.
Don't get stuck in the past, guys. GoldenEye had its day, and that day has passed.
For you. Just because current games are "better" doesn't mean the old ones are no longer any fun. Sure, they may have lost some of their initial cache, but there's still a net positive to many of them. I don't think there's a person here who wouldn't be willing to get to a warp zone in Super Mario Bros. After Angry Birds, I bet Solitaire is the number 2 game in the world. It's the same thing with movies. Nobody born after Return of the Jedi or who grew up with Jurassic Park is going to find The Birds truly believable, but it's still an astounding film and for some, quite frightening. Seeing Avatar or Train a Dragon in 3D doesn't diminish the quality of King Kong. Black Ops may be awesome, but for 50 bucks on Craigslist I can get an N64, two controllers, and some BA games.
The problem is if 4% of their workforce is 100 people, thats about 2500 employees.... So about 90% have to go.
Well, the article said 600, which would have given them 15,000 employees.
I think it depends on the industry and business model. A lot of successful companies are moving to the open, bull-pen format for just that reason - efficiency - as well as cost. There are some holdouts, though, and places that thrive because some people (good executives, for example) take a strong leadership role may want to keep cubicles because sometimes a little privacy and quiet is necessary. I know people who are swapping away from cubicles and one of their worries is that, as reliable workers, the already frequent interruptions from their colleagues will only increase.
Games already made + money to fantastic charity + money to fantastic rights foundation = monster success
That's what happens when the story is from the section dealing with money and finance, hence the signoff - So click away, holiday shoppers. Amazon's got your back.
Wouldn't a retroactive patent be, by its very nature, either pointless or irrelevant? I mean, if there's anything in the past that could infringe on the backdated patent, then it should invalidate that very patent. And if there's nothing historical, then what's the point of backdating? Just say "your term is ten years shorter" and call it a day.
I don't think that's it, or at least, there's no way to draw that conclusion without seeing everyone's passwords for everything. Most people use the same password for most everything, tacking on a letter/number/upper case/symbol as required by certain sites. The only real creativity is in the workplace, at companies where passwords must be changed every [1-3] months and you cannot repeat. After about a year, you gotta start coming up with new concepts. That can never work for something like Gawker or Slashdot because, as you say, it's not vital, but that doesn't mean people are using an insecure password because they recognize the lower importance. Besides, that's like switching wallets when you have ten bucks or 200 on you.
It will look nothing like the computer "maid" on "The Jetsons."
Who thought that had anything to do with it? I think it's time that we as a culture realized that Rosie is decidedly not what people think of when they hear the word "computer."
Yes, because of course all terrorists are the same color and come from the same place, and only attack people that are actively engaging them militarily. There's nothing but ignorant generalizations in your post, and personally, I'd take masturbation over nose-picking any day.
If it weren't for the Wikileaks nonsense, anonymous trolling for teh lulz wouldn't be news. I'm interested to see how the publicity plays out here, but this is exactly what /b/ is about, random nonsense. So fuck snow, and let's get on with the news.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/755/
It's the natural order of things, whether for a company or for people. They want to waltz in, change everything radically, then settle down and grow old with their affluence. "If you want to know what is going to happen to the youngest generation, they're going to grow up and worry about the youngest generation."
Come on CNN, surely you can do better. "Technology" is not a thing you can count, you might as well say they are "innervated with ideas" or "filled with facts" or that they "are expensive and have expensive stuff in them." If you don't know, don't say anything, but don't report like a dumbed-down version of simple wikipedia.