Any candidates for public office feel like giving her parents some employment or shall we go the usual route, use her as an example the American Dream isn't dead, yet, and then abandon them for the next popular thing on the campaign trail?
It's not employment, but a few sources are reporting that county officials are giving her family an apartment to live in. Here's hoping they don't rescind it after she passes from the national spotlight.
Because if the machines are working, they're more accurate than a hand count. They need to be spot checked to make sure there aren't any bugs or fraud occurring, but you could just check 10% of the precincts at random (plus any that seem odd) to be reasonably sure of that.
Because if the machines are working, they're more accurate than a hand count. They need to be spot checked to make sure there aren't any bugs or fraud occurring, but you could just check 10% of the precincts at random (plus any that seem odd) to be reasonably sure of that.
My guess is that the video used distilled water, which is highly resistive. Water only conducts if it contains impurities.
For the actual product, I would expect them to apply the coating with the battery already in, and you simply can't take it out without needing to reapply the coating.
Considering that real median income has been stagnant or declining for the past thirty years, I'd say wages and employment are problems. That's what happens when all the money gets sucked up by the top 1%.
A lot of people like to talk about how you should find a way to get paid for doing what you love, but for the vast majority of people, that's impossible. The world needs ditch diggers and customer service agents and so forth, and always will. You're not gonna find someone who really enjoys cleaning bird shit off the sidewalk, who would do it even if they didn't need the money. The vast majority of people work for the paycheck, and that will always be the case. The fact that a fellow bird shit cleaner is a good guy doesn't matter, you could always hang out with him after work (although realistically, suddenly acquiring that sort of money will quickly ruin most casual friendships).
Yeah, you'd get bored doing nothing, but there's a whole range of options between "doing nothing" and "working 40 hours a week". You could join clubs, do volunteer work, start your own little project that may or may not ever make money, etc.
Please explain how "the existence of the CIA" means that the United States is at war with its citizens (since that is what you are responding to, after all). Show your work.
You'll be waiting a long time. Most of them won't even read this story, and will continue to believe that lie for the rest of their lives. They'll even casually bring it up in conversation, causing other people to believe it. "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
Metamoderation makes Slashdot worse, because moderators who go against the groupthink receive a lifetime ban from moderating, so you end up with a system where only people with the "correct" beliefs have mod points.
Metamoderation is good for eliminating trolls, but it suppresses minority opinions even more than a straight upvote/downvote system.
Exactly who is speculating here? You assert that people "figure out the force they need" shortly after beginning to use the screen, but you have absolutely no way of knowing if that's true. You've never measured the force of fingers on the screen. People can be pressing too hard without visible "mashing" their fingers against the screen.
And your assertion that hovering a finger can't induce RSI because "there is no stress involved" shows just how clueless you are. Try pointing a finger roughly horizontal to the ground and holding that position for five minutes and tell me no stress is involved. My finger started aching after three minutes.
And how on earth does point to contradict point one? Pushing too hard on something can hurt you, hovering your finger too long can hurt you. Do you believe it is impossible to freeze to death, given that one can burn to death? There is total ignorance on display here, but it is not on the part of the authors.
When you stop and think about it, animal testing could never be replaced with any amount of science. Animals are very complex systems. No simple system will capture every interaction. And if you do create a system complex enough that it will react as an animal would to any given stimuli, you've basically built yourself an animal, and it's no more moral to run tests on it than it is to run tests on a mouse.
If you bothered to read instead of immediately jumping to prove how much smarter you are, you would see that their claim is that touchscreens are worse than normal interfaces for two primary reasons:
1) Lack of tactile feedback causes users to push against the screen with several times the force used on a keyboard, without even realizing it. 2) The fact that even the lightest touch can cause something to happen forces users to hover their fingers over the keyboard when thinking, whereas with a normal keyboard you can rest your fingers on the keys without accidentally pressing one.
These two factors increase the likely hood of developing an RSI through touchscreen use as compared to keyboard use. The only real flaw with the article is that they don't really give any suggestions as to how to get around these problems, except to use a bluetooth keyboard, which isn't much of a solution.
The only reason a half completed building has value in StarCraft is because it can be used to block chokepoints, which is kind of a silly mechanic in the first place. It would make more sense, and still be balancable, if buildings could always be squeezed between, and there were wall buildings available to the Terran and Protoss to completely block areas.
The system worked extremely well in SupCom1, though it is admittedly a very different game than StarCraft. For both of the game's resources (energy and mass), you had an income and a certain amount of storage. Anything you try to build has a total cost (say 100 energy) and a rate at which that cost is spent (say 10 energy per second). If the total cost per second of everything you're building is less than your income, the excess income fills up your storage. If you're spending more than you're taking in, those savings get depleted. If you hit a point where you have no more savings, and your spending exceeds your income, all your production slows down proportionately (e.g. if you're spending 100 energy per second, and making only 50, then all production will be slowed by 50%). If you want to rush one thing through, you can pause everything else.
It's all extremely intuitive, and doesn't involve any of the sudden crashes you worried about. I don't know that it would work in Starcraft (it would be a major change that a lot of people would oppose simply for it being different), but it is a damn shame that they took it out of SupCom2.
I've got to disagree with you. Games aren't any more dumbed down than they used to be. Individual franchises get dumbed down (e.g. Supreme Commander 2 vs the original, Dragon Age 2 vs the original, etc.), but as a whole there have always been good, deep games scattered amidst hundreds of crappy shallow ones. We just remember games like Baldur's Gate and forget "Generic Dungeon Crawler #87". Likewise, nasty DRM has been around for a long time. The Interplay LotR RPGs were great, but I can't go back and play them, because half of the dialogue was hidden in numbered paragraphs in the manual, which my late cat took a piss on years ago. At least modern DRM is urine-proof.
I wouldn't call the GP elitist though. Maybe he's harder to entertain than he used to be, but what makes that a bad thing? You don't expect to watch the same movies and TV shows you did when you were younger, so why expect to enjoy the same games?
That sounds like you're saying the exact same thing as me, but with a positive spin. Western manufacturers only make small orders. Margin doesn't matter. You can't feed your family on percentage points. Volume is what matters, and all the volume is going overseas. Places like TSMC own the electronics industry.
If western manufacturers are capacity limited, then why aren't they expanding?
The death penalty, especially against nonviolent people, is barbaric. It would be quite sufficient to sentence the briber and recipient to, say, 30 years behind bars. And there is no need for corporate dissolution (which punishes a lot of innocent bystanders). Just lock away the current executives, and promote or hire some people to fill their roles. I'm confident the new management would not make the old management's mistake.
Government taxes have little to do with it. When most of the manufacturing was moved to Asia, skill sets started to atrophy. It is very hard to find skilled manufacturing managers, engineers, or even operators in the West because there are few places to build up those skills. Likewise, when volumes are low, it's hard to justify the cutting edge machinery that allows for faster turn times and lower costs.
When the corporate CEOs decided to line their pockets by offshoring, they didn't just screw over the people they fired. They made it damn near impossible to ever bring those jobs back. Things will continue to get worse until the Asian factories realize that they can just take the schematics and make and sell the latest iPad as their own, and there won't be a damn thing we can do about it, since we will be completely unable to manufacture it (or anything else) in the West. Even if we were to eliminate all minimum wage and pollution laws, we wouldn't be able to compete, because we've been training them and buying their high tech tools for decades. But the CEOs who made that choice for us will have already retired with their hundreds of millions of dollars, so what do they care?
Making it illegal to accept outside money isn't enough, since a popular way to bribe politicians right now is to offer them high paying jobs for when they retire.
We need to not only ban outside money, but also require politicians to sign non-competes (sad as that is), banning them from working in any private sector job for a period of time dependent on what their role in the government was (e.g. 2 years for cabinet members and the like, 4 years for a representative, 6 for a senator, life for a president).
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I'll take her research over your gut feeling any day. If she's a finalist, then I certainly hope that she already controlled for such an effect.
Any candidates for public office feel like giving her parents some employment or shall we go the usual route, use her as an example the American Dream isn't dead, yet, and then abandon them for the next popular thing on the campaign trail?
It's not employment, but a few sources are reporting that county officials are giving her family an apartment to live in. Here's hoping they don't rescind it after she passes from the national spotlight.
While the OP is clearly a shill, your refutations ring hollow.
Using Firefox's own usage stats, only about 0.5% of users use NoScript. Comparing that tiny segment to the standard IE install makes no sense.
Then, on the other side, you focus on people who turn off UAC, and ignore the hundreds of millions who leave it on.
Basically, from each group, you're cherry picking whichever segment best supports your argument, even when that segment is in no way representative.
Because if the machines are working, they're more accurate than a hand count. They need to be spot checked to make sure there aren't any bugs or fraud occurring, but you could just check 10% of the precincts at random (plus any that seem odd) to be reasonably sure of that.
Because if the machines are working, they're more accurate than a hand count. They need to be spot checked to make sure there aren't any bugs or fraud occurring, but you could just check 10% of the precincts at random (plus any that seem odd) to be reasonably sure of that.
My guess is that the video used distilled water, which is highly resistive. Water only conducts if it contains impurities.
For the actual product, I would expect them to apply the coating with the battery already in, and you simply can't take it out without needing to reapply the coating.
At least for the kindle, waterproof gadgets have already been invented.
It's called a zip-loc bag, and it is great for unwinding in the tub.
They don't already?
Considering that real median income has been stagnant or declining for the past thirty years, I'd say wages and employment are problems. That's what happens when all the money gets sucked up by the top 1%.
Talking to your coworkers about such things could be considered a form of unionizing. In many businesses, you'd be fired on the spot.
A lot of people like to talk about how you should find a way to get paid for doing what you love, but for the vast majority of people, that's impossible. The world needs ditch diggers and customer service agents and so forth, and always will. You're not gonna find someone who really enjoys cleaning bird shit off the sidewalk, who would do it even if they didn't need the money. The vast majority of people work for the paycheck, and that will always be the case. The fact that a fellow bird shit cleaner is a good guy doesn't matter, you could always hang out with him after work (although realistically, suddenly acquiring that sort of money will quickly ruin most casual friendships).
Yeah, you'd get bored doing nothing, but there's a whole range of options between "doing nothing" and "working 40 hours a week". You could join clubs, do volunteer work, start your own little project that may or may not ever make money, etc.
Having a unified GUI theme isn't what people are talking about when they refer to fragmentation. There is no contradiction here.
Please explain how "the existence of the CIA" means that the United States is at war with its citizens (since that is what you are responding to, after all). Show your work.
You'll be waiting a long time. Most of them won't even read this story, and will continue to believe that lie for the rest of their lives. They'll even casually bring it up in conversation, causing other people to believe it. "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."
Metamoderation makes Slashdot worse, because moderators who go against the groupthink receive a lifetime ban from moderating, so you end up with a system where only people with the "correct" beliefs have mod points.
Metamoderation is good for eliminating trolls, but it suppresses minority opinions even more than a straight upvote/downvote system.
Exactly who is speculating here? You assert that people "figure out the force they need" shortly after beginning to use the screen, but you have absolutely no way of knowing if that's true. You've never measured the force of fingers on the screen. People can be pressing too hard without visible "mashing" their fingers against the screen.
And your assertion that hovering a finger can't induce RSI because "there is no stress involved" shows just how clueless you are. Try pointing a finger roughly horizontal to the ground and holding that position for five minutes and tell me no stress is involved. My finger started aching after three minutes.
And how on earth does point to contradict point one? Pushing too hard on something can hurt you, hovering your finger too long can hurt you. Do you believe it is impossible to freeze to death, given that one can burn to death? There is total ignorance on display here, but it is not on the part of the authors.
When you stop and think about it, animal testing could never be replaced with any amount of science. Animals are very complex systems. No simple system will capture every interaction. And if you do create a system complex enough that it will react as an animal would to any given stimuli, you've basically built yourself an animal, and it's no more moral to run tests on it than it is to run tests on a mouse.
If you bothered to read instead of immediately jumping to prove how much smarter you are, you would see that their claim is that touchscreens are worse than normal interfaces for two primary reasons:
1) Lack of tactile feedback causes users to push against the screen with several times the force used on a keyboard, without even realizing it.
2) The fact that even the lightest touch can cause something to happen forces users to hover their fingers over the keyboard when thinking, whereas with a normal keyboard you can rest your fingers on the keys without accidentally pressing one.
These two factors increase the likely hood of developing an RSI through touchscreen use as compared to keyboard use. The only real flaw with the article is that they don't really give any suggestions as to how to get around these problems, except to use a bluetooth keyboard, which isn't much of a solution.
The only reason a half completed building has value in StarCraft is because it can be used to block chokepoints, which is kind of a silly mechanic in the first place. It would make more sense, and still be balancable, if buildings could always be squeezed between, and there were wall buildings available to the Terran and Protoss to completely block areas.
The system worked extremely well in SupCom1, though it is admittedly a very different game than StarCraft. For both of the game's resources (energy and mass), you had an income and a certain amount of storage. Anything you try to build has a total cost (say 100 energy) and a rate at which that cost is spent (say 10 energy per second). If the total cost per second of everything you're building is less than your income, the excess income fills up your storage. If you're spending more than you're taking in, those savings get depleted. If you hit a point where you have no more savings, and your spending exceeds your income, all your production slows down proportionately (e.g. if you're spending 100 energy per second, and making only 50, then all production will be slowed by 50%). If you want to rush one thing through, you can pause everything else.
It's all extremely intuitive, and doesn't involve any of the sudden crashes you worried about. I don't know that it would work in Starcraft (it would be a major change that a lot of people would oppose simply for it being different), but it is a damn shame that they took it out of SupCom2.
I've got to disagree with you. Games aren't any more dumbed down than they used to be. Individual franchises get dumbed down (e.g. Supreme Commander 2 vs the original, Dragon Age 2 vs the original, etc.), but as a whole there have always been good, deep games scattered amidst hundreds of crappy shallow ones. We just remember games like Baldur's Gate and forget "Generic Dungeon Crawler #87". Likewise, nasty DRM has been around for a long time. The Interplay LotR RPGs were great, but I can't go back and play them, because half of the dialogue was hidden in numbered paragraphs in the manual, which my late cat took a piss on years ago. At least modern DRM is urine-proof.
I wouldn't call the GP elitist though. Maybe he's harder to entertain than he used to be, but what makes that a bad thing? You don't expect to watch the same movies and TV shows you did when you were younger, so why expect to enjoy the same games?
I have lots of proof that pi is actually equal to three. I just don't have time to show you.
That sounds like you're saying the exact same thing as me, but with a positive spin. Western manufacturers only make small orders. Margin doesn't matter. You can't feed your family on percentage points. Volume is what matters, and all the volume is going overseas. Places like TSMC own the electronics industry.
If western manufacturers are capacity limited, then why aren't they expanding?
The death penalty, especially against nonviolent people, is barbaric. It would be quite sufficient to sentence the briber and recipient to, say, 30 years behind bars. And there is no need for corporate dissolution (which punishes a lot of innocent bystanders). Just lock away the current executives, and promote or hire some people to fill their roles. I'm confident the new management would not make the old management's mistake.
Government taxes have little to do with it. When most of the manufacturing was moved to Asia, skill sets started to atrophy. It is very hard to find skilled manufacturing managers, engineers, or even operators in the West because there are few places to build up those skills. Likewise, when volumes are low, it's hard to justify the cutting edge machinery that allows for faster turn times and lower costs.
When the corporate CEOs decided to line their pockets by offshoring, they didn't just screw over the people they fired. They made it damn near impossible to ever bring those jobs back. Things will continue to get worse until the Asian factories realize that they can just take the schematics and make and sell the latest iPad as their own, and there won't be a damn thing we can do about it, since we will be completely unable to manufacture it (or anything else) in the West. Even if we were to eliminate all minimum wage and pollution laws, we wouldn't be able to compete, because we've been training them and buying their high tech tools for decades. But the CEOs who made that choice for us will have already retired with their hundreds of millions of dollars, so what do they care?
Making it illegal to accept outside money isn't enough, since a popular way to bribe politicians right now is to offer them high paying jobs for when they retire.
We need to not only ban outside money, but also require politicians to sign non-competes (sad as that is), banning them from working in any private sector job for a period of time dependent on what their role in the government was (e.g. 2 years for cabinet members and the like, 4 years for a representative, 6 for a senator, life for a president).