Is it a large building? A lot of buildings use this arrangement because alternating the location of the men's and women's bathrooms minimizes the average distance-to-bathroom. For example, if the men's bathroom on my floor is on the north side and I work on the south side, going up one floor to the south-side bathroom there would be faster than going to the north-side bathroom on the other end of my floor.
"screeners will stop passengers for additional security if they match certain pieces of known intelligence" = carte blanche for profiling by race, religion, ethnicity, etc., especially when the pieces of intelligence are known only to the screeners.
Vaccines and antibiotics are fundamentally different (flu shots and other vaccines are not part of the superbug problem), but the mindset remains the same.
So much of modern antibiotic use (at least in the U. S.) is hugely irresponsible. Doctors prescribe antibiotics not because they are necessary, but because they are heckled by patients who want a prescription to justify their trip to the doctor's office and because they are encouraged by pharmaceutical companies to move their products.
Anybody who knows anything about biochemistry and/or pharmaceuticals knows that novel drugs that are SAFE and EFFECTIVE are enormously expensive to develop and clinically test. It's idiotic to use these medical tools, which have finite effectiveness due to resistance development, unless they are truly necessary.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria develop their resistance at a cost - a resistant organism that can out-survive normal bacteria in the presence of antibiotics will probably die out in a normal environment if it hasn't already gained an overwhelming majority. The mutations that provide antibiotic resistance will, in most cases, make the organism less fit or efficient than an unresistant strain in an antibiotic-free environment. The fact that Norway's policies are working is partial proof of this.
In short, people are idiots and everyone should really be following the example the Norwegians have set here.
I thought it was bad enough when the U. S. was falling behind the rest of the world in health care and science education. Now we've fallen behind in spam generation as well?!?! Come on people! This is a wake-up call if ever I heard one!
For me, it was less about getting "the college experience" and more about going to a large, well-regarded research university. I wish I could go back and see how it would have worked out if I had done things differently, but at this point there is no way to know if the better university was worth the extra debt.
The point is not that everything doesn't work out in the end. The point is that too many obstacles are being thrown up in front of people who want to get an advanced education. It does not make sense to do this. While it sucks for me and people like me in the short term, the more important thing is that it hurts the society as a whole in the long term. Fleecing grad students is a net win for the banks and a net loss for the country.
Postponing grad school would have significantly hobbled an scientific research career; more than a few years would have been required to pay off my loans. In case you didn't notice, a career in science is not lucrative and our country needs scientists and engineers badly. I don't think I should get special treatment - I think that EVERYONE should have access to more practical ways to finance an education than are currently available.
I don't think grad school is an entitlement, and I worked hard day and night for four years in physics and chemistry to earn the right to attend graduate school. However, I recognize that postponing grad school for a few to several years would have a negative impact on a scientific/academic career. Our system of educational financing should not penalize individuals who want to pursue an advanced education, and right now it does. As far as taxpayers go, I am a taxpayer and believe that the government should subsidize education FAR more that it does right now. Educated citizens are the future of any nation.
I think you must have loans that are somehow different from mine. While I don't have to make payments on most of my loans while I'm in grad school, the interest continues to accrue. I would also like to propose a distinction between "whining" and anecdotally highlighting a situation that is both unfair to individuals who decide to pursue an advanced education and harmful to the intellectual and scientific health of the country.
I'm in a situation similar to the person featured in the article - interest accrues on my student loans at a rate of several thousand dollars per year, even WHILE I'M IN GRAD SCHOOL and have no reasonable means to pay down the principal. My tuition, even at a public undergraduate institution, was $30k + per year. I personally know many, many other grad students in my position. It's outrageous that the people the government and banks should be supporting - those who spend nearly a decade earning an advanced education - are being fleeced left and right.
This could be really useful if they added sound recording and a way to program the device to take a picture upon sensing a pre-determined stimulus. You could, for instance, record a couple samples of the sound keys make when you put them down somewhere and tell the device to take a snapshot whenever it detects a similar noise. Assuming accurate pattern-matching, something like this could really cut down on time lost searching for lost keys.
I'm sure there are tons of other movement/light/sound stimuli combinations that would also be useful to program in as markers for important events. The sound of a car engine starting, a door closing or opening - if this could be opened up to community development, the possibilities are staggering.
As the article and the 800 megapixel resolution referenced in the headline are targeted at a general audience, not astrophotography experts, and as I have a solid math/physics background, I'm in a perfectly comfortable position to help put a photograph's resolution in context. Most people who read the headline are not going to think of the resolution given in an astrophotographical context, but in comparison to the resolutions of the digital cameras they are personally familiar with.
800 megapixels would be a very large resolution for a normal image of a simple subject like, say, a person. But when you consider that this image is covering 360 degrees of night sky, which changes nightly (constellations and planets rise and set just like the sun), the resolution is not so great. An exposure time of 6 minutes (during which everything is moving) goes to show how "blurry" even an 800 megapixel image of the night sky (an enormous subject) must be. This doesn't take anything away by the beauty of this project, but I think it's important to put sensational measurements such as "800 megapixels" in context.
On a different note:
In 2009, you photograph sky. In 2010, sky photographs YOU!.
Helmets are irrelevant. Comfort is irrelevant. Your culture will adapt to service us. We will add your economic and petrochemical distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
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Is it a large building? A lot of buildings use this arrangement because alternating the location of the men's and women's bathrooms minimizes the average distance-to-bathroom. For example, if the men's bathroom on my floor is on the north side and I work on the south side, going up one floor to the south-side bathroom there would be faster than going to the north-side bathroom on the other end of my floor.
Mark is already rich. At this point, he's doing it out of narcissism or some other non-financial reason.
"screeners will stop passengers for additional security if they match certain pieces of known intelligence" = carte blanche for profiling by race, religion, ethnicity, etc., especially when the pieces of intelligence are known only to the screeners.
Vaccines and antibiotics are fundamentally different (flu shots and other vaccines are not part of the superbug problem), but the mindset remains the same.
So much of modern antibiotic use (at least in the U. S.) is hugely irresponsible. Doctors prescribe antibiotics not because they are necessary, but because they are heckled by patients who want a prescription to justify their trip to the doctor's office and because they are encouraged by pharmaceutical companies to move their products.
Anybody who knows anything about biochemistry and/or pharmaceuticals knows that novel drugs that are SAFE and EFFECTIVE are enormously expensive to develop and clinically test. It's idiotic to use these medical tools, which have finite effectiveness due to resistance development, unless they are truly necessary.
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria develop their resistance at a cost - a resistant organism that can out-survive normal bacteria in the presence of antibiotics will probably die out in a normal environment if it hasn't already gained an overwhelming majority. The mutations that provide antibiotic resistance will, in most cases, make the organism less fit or efficient than an unresistant strain in an antibiotic-free environment. The fact that Norway's policies are working is partial proof of this.
In short, people are idiots and everyone should really be following the example the Norwegians have set here.
Which is why I checked the md5 hash and found that it matches before posting :)
Here's a Slashdot post that shows my e-mail address next to my username.
Who will be the first to crack it?
Fixed that for you.
That's SPAM consumption you're talking about, not SPAM production.
I thought it was bad enough when the U. S. was falling behind the rest of the world in health care and science education. Now we've fallen behind in spam generation as well?!?! Come on people! This is a wake-up call if ever I heard one!
but must admit that this strikes a blow to their reputation for competence and effectiveness.
... and that was back when gas was cheap!
If you read some of my responses to AC posts, I think you will find your questions mostly answered.
For me, it was less about getting "the college experience" and more about going to a large, well-regarded research university. I wish I could go back and see how it would have worked out if I had done things differently, but at this point there is no way to know if the better university was worth the extra debt.
The point is not that everything doesn't work out in the end. The point is that too many obstacles are being thrown up in front of people who want to get an advanced education. It does not make sense to do this. While it sucks for me and people like me in the short term, the more important thing is that it hurts the society as a whole in the long term. Fleecing grad students is a net win for the banks and a net loss for the country.
Postponing grad school would have significantly hobbled an scientific research career; more than a few years would have been required to pay off my loans. In case you didn't notice, a career in science is not lucrative and our country needs scientists and engineers badly. I don't think I should get special treatment - I think that EVERYONE should have access to more practical ways to finance an education than are currently available.
I don't think grad school is an entitlement, and I worked hard day and night for four years in physics and chemistry to earn the right to attend graduate school. However, I recognize that postponing grad school for a few to several years would have a negative impact on a scientific/academic career. Our system of educational financing should not penalize individuals who want to pursue an advanced education, and right now it does. As far as taxpayers go, I am a taxpayer and believe that the government should subsidize education FAR more that it does right now. Educated citizens are the future of any nation.
I think you must have loans that are somehow different from mine. While I don't have to make payments on most of my loans while I'm in grad school, the interest continues to accrue. I would also like to propose a distinction between "whining" and anecdotally highlighting a situation that is both unfair to individuals who decide to pursue an advanced education and harmful to the intellectual and scientific health of the country.
I'm in a situation similar to the person featured in the article - interest accrues on my student loans at a rate of several thousand dollars per year, even WHILE I'M IN GRAD SCHOOL and have no reasonable means to pay down the principal. My tuition, even at a public undergraduate institution, was $30k + per year. I personally know many, many other grad students in my position. It's outrageous that the people the government and banks should be supporting - those who spend nearly a decade earning an advanced education - are being fleeced left and right.
This could be really useful if they added sound recording and a way to program the device to take a picture upon sensing a pre-determined stimulus. You could, for instance, record a couple samples of the sound keys make when you put them down somewhere and tell the device to take a snapshot whenever it detects a similar noise. Assuming accurate pattern-matching, something like this could really cut down on time lost searching for lost keys.
I'm sure there are tons of other movement/light/sound stimuli combinations that would also be useful to program in as markers for important events. The sound of a car engine starting, a door closing or opening - if this could be opened up to community development, the possibilities are staggering.
As the article and the 800 megapixel resolution referenced in the headline are targeted at a general audience, not astrophotography experts, and as I have a solid math/physics background, I'm in a perfectly comfortable position to help put a photograph's resolution in context. Most people who read the headline are not going to think of the resolution given in an astrophotographical context, but in comparison to the resolutions of the digital cameras they are personally familiar with.
Whoops - thanks for the correction.
800 megapixels would be a very large resolution for a normal image of a simple subject like, say, a person. But when you consider that this image is covering 360 degrees of night sky, which changes nightly (constellations and planets rise and set just like the sun), the resolution is not so great. An exposure time of 6 minutes (during which everything is moving) goes to show how "blurry" even an 800 megapixel image of the night sky (an enormous subject) must be. This doesn't take anything away by the beauty of this project, but I think it's important to put sensational measurements such as "800 megapixels" in context.
On a different note:
In 2009, you photograph sky. In 2010, sky photographs YOU!.
Helmets are irrelevant. Comfort is irrelevant. Your culture will adapt to service us. We will add your economic and petrochemical distinctiveness to our own. Resistance is futile.
been reading for a couple years now, i just only got an account recently. the irritating responses just get to me sometimes.