I think the norm for good life insurance policies is that they cover suicide after an initial ~2-year period. This is apparently enough to remove most of the desperate schemers.
I only looked at so-called "cooperatives", as opposed to for-profit companies.
(Apropos of nothing: I still don't see the point of getting any life insurance as opposed to just investing, unless you do actually plan to kill yourself in 2 years.)
Maybe this is because technicians are smart & analytically-minded enough in general to not be influenced by the disproportionate prizes given to the "top" 0.1%; an elite for whom much randomness is involved in the selection, even on top of the necessary talent. Thus, there is no purpose in offering the "big prizes", as opposed to more stable salaries across the board. Just a thought.
Your questions are probably rhetorical, but anyway, the answer to both is "no". (assuming the fully general case allowing all initially finite configurations)
There were no "transactions". It was a totally self-contained utility app; it read a flat file from disk; maximized a function (in the most retarded way possible, so it took about 10 minutes); and spit out the answer.
The pause was there, so he could spend a day or two every week sitting in front of his computer as a human-batch-processor, doing nothing but hitting the space-bar.
A coworker went off on me, for no particular reason, about not downloading any music because he would (somehow) get in trouble for it, in case the BSA raided our offices for (again) no particular reason.
I downloaded a pile of public domain/CC music just on principle. Then I decompiled one of his "utilities" in order to remove a gratuitous pause he had added, just for job security. I felt bad about the latter thing, afterwards, but not the former.
Some people are natural parasites, and can't grasp that other people are not just like them.
I suspect that this breaks down as you go more elite; e.g. not much transience out of the top 1%.
Although I'm impressed by the symmetry of this figure, I wouldn't call the top 20% as "the higher-ups". That's 1 in 5. It's more like the top <1% who are really calling the shots.
This is also true; and the reasons for "choosing" Windows are worse than the reasons for choosing Linux, usually.
Nonetheless, I am looking forward to a true next generation of OS and interface design. Vernor Vinge predicts (in Rainbows End) that it will be proprietary to the hilt, and in cahoots with various governments to boot, but so beautiful and intuitive that there will basically be no contest.
Every station I've been to has a system-wide map before paid-entry (at least at the main entrance; usually not at the unmanned ones). Usually/always a detail-map of the immediate area too. And then there are the route maps by the track. There could be more of these I suppose.
Schedules are another matter. I lived here for four years before I found out the trains (at least in principle) run on a fixed schedule.
I think the trains are pretty easy to use; I at least had a lot more trouble figuring out what direction I was facing, after getting out of the station...
If there is recursion, there is a means to address an unbounded processing memory, unless the recursion is explicitly restricted in some way (as it is in the case of LBA which is equivalent to context-sensitive grammar).
That's true, but the abusers get smarter because there are fewer of them, since the not-as-bright/knowledgeable ones get weeded out. Everyone's happy; the techies get a "challenge"; the company gets fewer warranty abuses; and no one is really conscious of the change that just took place.
Well then the original developers picked the wrong license, didn't they? It's not your fault.
Ask RMS and his acolytes about it. After they ask for your penance for using the evil Apple Store, I'm sure they'd rather you donate the $ to FSF, than to the original developers.:)
The compile-from-source people had moved to emacs23 months ago.
Now it's available for the 3rd-party binary-repository people on nix.
Then it'll become a standard package.
Eventually, Aquamacs will move to v23 or do backporting, and the Mac (without darwine, &c.) people can have it. (Aquamacs is a beautiful app, and has at least some of the features implemented independently anyway)
People: mod this down, and mod up "shutdown -p now"'s posts. I was apparently wrong, and downloading/receiving files can be considered infringement on the part of the downloader, depending on the amount of effort/awareness involved in the process. However, in practice, pure downloading is comparatively safe to p2p.
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I think the norm for good life insurance policies is that they cover suicide after an initial ~2-year period. This is apparently enough to remove most of the desperate schemers.
I only looked at so-called "cooperatives", as opposed to for-profit companies.
(Apropos of nothing: I still don't see the point of getting any life insurance as opposed to just investing, unless you do actually plan to kill yourself in 2 years.)
I think it'll be a while before we see the emergence of "cryptographically-strong psychology". Maybe some day.
Maybe this is because technicians are smart & analytically-minded enough in general to not be influenced by the disproportionate prizes given to the "top" 0.1%; an elite for whom much randomness is involved in the selection, even on top of the necessary talent. Thus, there is no purpose in offering the "big prizes", as opposed to more stable salaries across the board. Just a thought.
Caps remain caps if read without HTML-formatting?
I know, the contrast with the Operation TIPS thing is fucking hilarious. Ah, Republicans.
I love XKCD, but Randall Munroe should perhaps remove the beam from his own eye ...
Your questions are probably rhetorical, but anyway, the answer to both is "no". (assuming the fully general case allowing all initially finite configurations)
A universal Turing machine has been implemented in Life: http://www.rendell-attic.org/gol/tm.htm
There were no "transactions". It was a totally self-contained utility app; it read a flat file from disk; maximized a function (in the most retarded way possible, so it took about 10 minutes); and spit out the answer.
The pause was there, so he could spend a day or two every week sitting in front of his computer as a human-batch-processor, doing nothing but hitting the space-bar.
A coworker went off on me, for no particular reason, about not downloading any music because he would (somehow) get in trouble for it, in case the BSA raided our offices for (again) no particular reason.
I downloaded a pile of public domain/CC music just on principle. Then I decompiled one of his "utilities" in order to remove a gratuitous pause he had added, just for job security. I felt bad about the latter thing, afterwards, but not the former.
Some people are natural parasites, and can't grasp that other people are not just like them.
I suspect that this breaks down as you go more elite; e.g. not much transience out of the top 1%.
Although I'm impressed by the symmetry of this figure, I wouldn't call the top 20% as "the higher-ups". That's 1 in 5. It's more like the top <1% who are really calling the shots.
This is also true; and the reasons for "choosing" Windows are worse than the reasons for choosing Linux, usually.
Nonetheless, I am looking forward to a true next generation of OS and interface design. Vernor Vinge predicts (in Rainbows End) that it will be proprietary to the hilt, and in cahoots with various governments to boot, but so beautiful and intuitive that there will basically be no contest.
Nope. Not yet.
The "laptop mode" issue was, however, a real one...
Linux isn't that great, and Ubuntu isn't that friendly. It just happens to be the only choice for many people, for various reasons.
Every station I've been to has a system-wide map before paid-entry (at least at the main entrance; usually not at the unmanned ones). Usually/always a detail-map of the immediate area too. And then there are the route maps by the track. There could be more of these I suppose.
Schedules are another matter. I lived here for four years before I found out the trains (at least in principle) run on a fixed schedule.
I think the trains are pretty easy to use; I at least had a lot more trouble figuring out what direction I was facing, after getting out of the station...
Wow, that "static" effect is damned annoying...
No it isn't.
Here's a hint: the word stereo (as in stereophonic) comes from the Greek word "stereos" meaning "solid".
If there is recursion, there is a means to address an unbounded processing memory, unless the recursion is explicitly restricted in some way (as it is in the case of LBA which is equivalent to context-sensitive grammar).
Without getting into too much detail with #4, note that urine at least functions as an antibacterial agent: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=297400
As for the other part, well, I'm pretty sure that for most of our evolutionary past, we tended to die long before incontinence would set in...
In case you're reading this, AC, it looks like the Aquamacs crew has released a preview version based on emacs23:
http://aquamacs.org/news.shtml#2.0p1
That's true, but the abusers get smarter because there are fewer of them, since the not-as-bright/knowledgeable ones get weeded out. Everyone's happy; the techies get a "challenge"; the company gets fewer warranty abuses; and no one is really conscious of the change that just took place.
8.5% employment?
Well then the original developers picked the wrong license, didn't they? It's not your fault.
Ask RMS and his acolytes about it. After they ask for your penance for using the evil Apple Store, I'm sure they'd rather you donate the $ to FSF, than to the original developers. :)
The relevance comes in phases.
The compile-from-source people had moved to emacs23 months ago.
Now it's available for the 3rd-party binary-repository people on nix.
Then it'll become a standard package.
Eventually, Aquamacs will move to v23 or do backporting, and the Mac (without darwine, &c.) people can have it. (Aquamacs is a beautiful app, and has at least some of the features implemented independently anyway)
People: mod this down, and mod up "shutdown -p now"'s posts. I was apparently wrong, and downloading/receiving files can be considered infringement on the part of the downloader, depending on the amount of effort/awareness involved in the process. However, in practice, pure downloading is comparatively safe to p2p.
Interesting. Thx.