You mean, your students are actually there to learn academic skills? Heretic! They should be learning practical things, like, um, leadership skills. Or networking.
Run down infrastructure, run down education, and low taxes? Beaches as well? A wasted boom? California sounds a bit like Australia, except for the low tax bit. But we don't have a recession yet. Housing is 6-8x yearly income... so I'm stocking up on tinned food, and practicing my dueling banjos.
Printing yourself is cheap and nasty. The paper goes manky much sooner, it's not as well printed, and it's much heavier per page.
There is a reason why hardcover books are still, despite the fact that they cost more - they are much more durable. (Although, like big cars I expect the manufacturer makes more on the margin... )
Printouts are good for worksheets (which you throw away anyway), and books that you won't actually use, and maybe specialist topics (where 30 people in the world will read it), and for stuff that goes out of date the moment it's printed (like most economics, these days), but not Math and Science.
Socialism is state owned "means of production" - the state owns the industry.
Communism is the next logical step - everything is communally owned.
"Power to the people" is not exclusive to Marxism. It's also in most humanist systems. Democracy is "political power to the people", and it predates Marx by quite a few years. Epicurus and a number of other Greeks had some thoughts on it as well. Lots of Renaissance thinkers, Luther (who broke away from the Catholic church, in part to bring religious power to the people), and quite a few others.
Libertarians and Ayn Randists will also declare that their goal is "power to the people", and they aren't communists by any stretch of the imagination.
"Power to the people through the common ownership of economic assets" is communism. But of course, everyone wants to take the moral high ground and say they are the only one standing up for the little man. "Power to Big Brother" is never a popular meme (unless Big Brother is portrayed as the lessor of two evils).
If Bing's meant to be an advertising platform, but it's so unpopular that they have to advertise, why should they even bother? What's next, ads in google?
Or maybe Bing isn't meant to sell any ads... but then what's their business model? To f*cking kill google?
How many of the Bing searches for the term "sex" with the setting changed to India, with the user originating from slashdot? With the sparsity of non-google searches, a slashdotting could be almost significant.
Unless you just want to stick to VIM (or emacs), a 7 inch screen screws up a lot of user interfaces. My eeePC has dialog boxes in pre-loaded software that can't be "OK'd" because the buttons are off the screen.:(
Don't forget, now the Pirate Party has a seat, so it has real clout.
People will look to them for tie-breakers in non-IP rulings, they have a pulpit to preach from, and the media have to cover them. Vested interests will offer them support.
The flip side is, they can't do anything stupid, or they will look like a bunch of cranks.
Oh, that's right. Now I remember. But if I recall switchers, a lot of transformer / rectifiers have cutters - rapid on-off switches so the AC power turns into an extremely high frequency signal. It's more AC than AC. Then you step down, then rectify and smooth the signal. Otherwise you need *much* bigger capacitors - your PSU would be bigger than your laptop.
They shouldn't care about AC or DC in, because they just cut the signal into a jitter. But it's easier to step down if you are already close to the final voltage.
Given the low price of non-Apple power supplies, it makes you wonder why inverters are so much, as they have similar parts. I guess that a pretty AC wave is hard to generate, but a noisy AC signal (suitable for transforming into DC) is easier. Or maybe it's just a factor of economies of scale.
Inverters are a cost, but thin film is no worse off - your inverter won't care that you have a larger area of cellls to produce the same voltage.
Besides, a lot of electronic equipment can run off DC. Why should you invert the power, then run it through a rectifier, then pump it into your laptop?
AC power is good for long-distance transmission, but it's no better for consumer use. Air conditioners might prefer AC, but mostly a move to DC could be just as good. Houses could be wired to have an AC system (for obsolete equipment, and stuff that needs electric pumps), and a low voltage DC rail (for new stuff). It might also mean cheaper electronics, if you don't need a bloody rectifier in every piece of white plastic you own.
How about taxing carbon emissions, and letting the market figure things out?
If that's not good enough because people cheat by importing materials from China, then you can tax the "embodied emissions" (i.e. the estimated tax that should have been payed) at the border. You could give a symmetric tax refund to exporters, based on the same sort of estimate.
I'm suggesting using a top down estimate, based on materials in the import / export rather than a paper-trail based rebate. Otherwise people will fudge their paperwork... and try to push all their emissions taxes into exportable goods via accounting tricks to get a rebate.
The qwerty keyboard is definitely cool. I just wish the batteries would last. Well, they are user replaceable, but it's a big hassle. The problem is that qwerty only seems to come with expensive phones with stacks of features, and the features reduce batter life.
I wouldn't mind a greyscale LCD (like the Newton) if it improved battery life a lot... but it's not going to happen.
There are bound to be other examples of industry statistics being made up, then propagated through the media, and finally put out in a government policy report.
You do it like the Australian PBS shakes down big pharma.
An Australian agency does a cost-benefit analysis on the "product" getting offered. If the price is right, and the "product" (i.e. course) is beneficial*** then you offer a subsidy. If the cost-benefit is not there, you don't subsidize.
The agency is completely isolated from Parliament (to prevent corruption)
* Or if the Fed is too wasteful, state based agencies** ** Actually, merge some of your states - California and Idaho should not be in the same category
*** the benefits of education (especially higher education) are very very hard to judge, especially if there is some chance that the metric will be gamed. Targeting student-teacher ratios can reduce admin / building overheads, but it also cuts research. Targeting graduate salaries can just make schools pick privileged, well connected students. Student satisfaction (which Australia targets) is risky - as it reduces rigor. Targeting research is also a nightmare (as researches then game the metric). Subjective judgments are open to lobbying.
Education is just one of those wicked problems where the free market isn't ideal (as students are too poor and too inexperienced to make their own decisions, and it's a return to feudalism if rich kids are the only ones who get a good education), but the state can't just set some metrics and create a pseudo-market by dishing out subsidies. Health is another.
What's battery life like? I currently have a Viewty (a cheaper iPhone competitor... you might have heard of it) which lasts for about 12 hours. I miss my old phone, which lasted for a week.:(
It seems that the phones without browsers are just better phones.
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You mean, your students are actually there to learn academic skills? Heretic! They should be learning practical things, like, um, leadership skills. Or networking.
Run down infrastructure, run down education, and low taxes? Beaches as well? A wasted boom? California sounds a bit like Australia, except for the low tax bit. But we don't have a recession yet. Housing is 6-8x yearly income ... so I'm stocking up on tinned food, and practicing my dueling banjos.
Printing yourself is cheap and nasty. The paper goes manky much sooner, it's not as well printed, and it's much heavier per page.
There is a reason why hardcover books are still, despite the fact that they cost more - they are much more durable. (Although, like big cars I expect the manufacturer makes more on the margin ... )
Printouts are good for worksheets (which you throw away anyway), and books that you won't actually use, and maybe specialist topics (where 30 people in the world will read it), and for stuff that goes out of date the moment it's printed (like most economics, these days), but not Math and Science.
Socialism is state owned "means of production" - the state owns the industry.
Communism is the next logical step - everything is communally owned.
"Power to the people" is not exclusive to Marxism. It's also in most humanist systems. Democracy is "political power to the people", and it predates Marx by quite a few years. Epicurus and a number of other Greeks had some thoughts on it as well. Lots of Renaissance thinkers, Luther (who broke away from the Catholic church, in part to bring religious power to the people), and quite a few others.
Libertarians and Ayn Randists will also declare that their goal is "power to the people", and they aren't communists by any stretch of the imagination.
"Power to the people through the common ownership of economic assets" is communism. But of course, everyone wants to take the moral high ground and say they are the only one standing up for the little man. "Power to Big Brother" is never a popular meme (unless Big Brother is portrayed as the lessor of two evils).
He did say "historically". Switchers weren't always so easy to make. There is probably still infrastructure around that predates transistors.
Did Bill wiggle his butt again, or have they realized that it's not really a selling point?
If Bing's meant to be an advertising platform, but it's so unpopular that they have to advertise, why should they even bother? What's next, ads in google?
Or maybe Bing isn't meant to sell any ads ... but then what's their business model? To f*cking kill google?
How many of the Bing searches for the term "sex" with the setting changed to India, with the user originating from slashdot? With the sparsity of non-google searches, a slashdotting could be almost significant.
Unless you just want to stick to VIM (or emacs), a 7 inch screen screws up a lot of user interfaces. My eeePC has dialog boxes in pre-loaded software that can't be "OK'd" because the buttons are off the screen. :(
Don't forget, now the Pirate Party has a seat, so it has real clout.
People will look to them for tie-breakers in non-IP rulings, they have a pulpit to preach from, and the media have to cover them. Vested interests will offer them support.
The flip side is, they can't do anything stupid, or they will look like a bunch of cranks.
Oh, that's right. Now I remember. But if I recall switchers, a lot of transformer / rectifiers have cutters - rapid on-off switches so the AC power turns into an extremely high frequency signal. It's more AC than AC. Then you step down, then rectify and smooth the signal. Otherwise you need *much* bigger capacitors - your PSU would be bigger than your laptop.
They shouldn't care about AC or DC in, because they just cut the signal into a jitter. But it's easier to step down if you are already close to the final voltage.
Given the low price of non-Apple power supplies, it makes you wonder why inverters are so much, as they have similar parts. I guess that a pretty AC wave is hard to generate, but a noisy AC signal (suitable for transforming into DC) is easier. Or maybe it's just a factor of economies of scale.
There is the famous p0rnbuntu:
http://galix.nexticom.net/~rebel/ircpics/08-10-26_ubuntu-calendar-march.jpg
Elvish? Klingon?
Oh, wait, a human language. Huff.
Wait, aren't programmers human?
Inverters are a cost, but thin film is no worse off - your inverter won't care that you have a larger area of cellls to produce the same voltage.
Besides, a lot of electronic equipment can run off DC. Why should you invert the power, then run it through a rectifier, then pump it into your laptop?
AC power is good for long-distance transmission, but it's no better for consumer use. Air conditioners might prefer AC, but mostly a move to DC could be just as good. Houses could be wired to have an AC system (for obsolete equipment, and stuff that needs electric pumps), and a low voltage DC rail (for new stuff). It might also mean cheaper electronics, if you don't need a bloody rectifier in every piece of white plastic you own.
Edison FTW!!!!
How about taxing carbon emissions, and letting the market figure things out?
If that's not good enough because people cheat by importing materials from China, then you can tax the "embodied emissions" (i.e. the estimated tax that should have been payed) at the border. You could give a symmetric tax refund to exporters, based on the same sort of estimate.
I'm suggesting using a top down estimate, based on materials in the import / export rather than a paper-trail based rebate. Otherwise people will fudge their paperwork ... and try to push all their emissions taxes into exportable goods via accounting tricks to get a rebate.
Wait, isn't that just MapReduce?
You could run it in an X86 emulator, but the number of tuples you would burn sort of defeats the purpose of using ARM.
Would I be the first person to say "that's so purple it's ultraviolet!"?
The qwerty keyboard is definitely cool. I just wish the batteries would last. Well, they are user replaceable, but it's a big hassle. The problem is that qwerty only seems to come with expensive phones with stacks of features, and the features reduce batter life.
I wouldn't mind a greyscale LCD (like the Newton) if it improved battery life a lot ... but it's not going to happen.
There are bound to be other examples of industry statistics being made up, then propagated through the media, and finally put out in a government policy report.
Remember the housing shortage?
You do it like the Australian PBS shakes down big pharma.
An Australian agency does a cost-benefit analysis on the "product" getting offered. If the price is right, and the "product" (i.e. course) is beneficial*** then you offer a subsidy. If the cost-benefit is not there, you don't subsidize.
The agency is completely isolated from Parliament (to prevent corruption)
* Or if the Fed is too wasteful, state based agencies**
** Actually, merge some of your states - California and Idaho should not be in the same category
*** the benefits of education (especially higher education) are very very hard to judge, especially if there is some chance that the metric will be gamed. Targeting student-teacher ratios can reduce admin / building overheads, but it also cuts research. Targeting graduate salaries can just make schools pick privileged, well connected students. Student satisfaction (which Australia targets) is risky - as it reduces rigor. Targeting research is also a nightmare (as researches then game the metric). Subjective judgments are open to lobbying.
Education is just one of those wicked problems where the free market isn't ideal (as students are too poor and too inexperienced to make their own decisions, and it's a return to feudalism if rich kids are the only ones who get a good education), but the state can't just set some metrics and create a pseudo-market by dishing out subsidies. Health is another.
What's battery life like? I currently have a Viewty (a cheaper iPhone competitor ... you might have heard of it) which lasts for about 12 hours. I miss my old phone, which lasted for a week. :(
It seems that the phones without browsers are just better phones.
It's also illegal in China. The Chinese Bing also blocks naughty words, but interestingly that's all it blocks.
On a side note, "hot blondes" is blocked, but "hot blonds" (a misspelling) gets: "Results are included for hot blondes."
"Hot blondes" is blocked. "Hot dirty blondes" is OK.
Go figure.
Also, "Two girls one cup", "goatsie", and "tubgirl" pass. I guess they still have some work to do.
Do you think there will be an add-on that gives bonus points for using words that were deliberately excluded from the family version?