The cabin is pressurized to 8,000 feet but with very dry air from outside. Humidifying the air would require carrying many extra gallons (hundreds?) of fresh water.
Or, cramming in a few hundred mouth breathers who are stoked on either starbucks (intensifying the dehydration) or fiji water (intensifying rehydration and wallet depletion)... Then again, the real substantial humidity bump happens after they all start complaining about their lousy in flight meal so i can see where the article has a point.
One of the biggest cause of the recent financial crisis was too little regulation of the financial industry. I do *not* want to do it again in 5 years.
The only crisis you don't want to have happen is the one you don't see coming... If this is as plain-faced as many out there think it is, what is the worry? Wait for the momentum to pick up, then bet big against crowd-vesting. Then, sit back and watch your millions roll in!
If the average joe is not allowed to get investment in his company, then how do companies with wealthy venture capital investors work? What's the difference?
There is a small flock of lawyers on either side of the table figuring out how to avoid having their side get (overtly) screwed in the deal, by way of very specific ownership contracts. Since it's not practical to have a lawyer sitting next to the computer everywhere a crowd-vesting purchase is about to be made (it will be a purchase of a share of the profits, not a donation like we currently see with crowdsourcing) it does not seem practical to let "just anyone" solicit funds for ventures of questionable merit on the internet. How will we expect everyday people to be able to tell the difference between a real and fake small t-shirt company on the coast of Louisiana that just needs a few grand to get off the ground with a great idea (that they cant share for fear of being copied)? It's hard enough telling the difference between the real and fake Nigerian Princes out there...
The article is referring "light nuclei" as atoms with low atomic mass. For example fusing Hydrogen with a mass index of 1 to Helium with a mass index of 2.
Then why not just say "light atoms" or "low mass index atoms" instead of making it sound as if the nuclei have any significant variation in their own right (they do not as they are defined by the atom they inhabit.) They (the author) are presumably a fusion scientist of some sort, so how about proving you are smart by advancing the science, not by unnecessarily obfuscating what is supposed to be "an intro to fusion". Sheesh, academic types...
There are classes on religion and that's where this stuff belongs. A class on science has no business talking about religion.
And really this whole freedom of religion is really just that the government shall establish no state religion. Not that religions should have free reign to do whatever the hell they want.
Not that this is even worth mentioning, but the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" which goes a bit further than just "we won't have a state religion" and says that we *won't* have any law that specifically establishes (endorses) a religion as the precedent for governing (or running a government school.)
So going from 1.20/hr China workers to 8/hr illegal mexicans in the USA would boost the cost of a ipad less than $70. My gut level estimate in the last line of less than $100 was pretty good...
Forgot one other thing: Apple *pays Foxconn* to do manufacturing. So, the $10.75 is the worker's wage, his supervisor, their manager, etc etc etc PLUS the cost of the facility and all other coordination effort. Foxconn is a huge company in their own right, they certainly aren't just a bunch of factory workers slapping things together. I would speculate that of the $10.75, less than half goes to paying the worker to do the assembly (leaving him with $5.38) so it's probably more like 4.5 hours of labor. Now that has the same effect on the other side; paying for an organization with the scale of Foxconn anywhere but China is going to require cost increases a LOT higher than the basic $6.25 wage delta you were predicting (such as: cost of land, facilities, supply chain, management, environmental oversight, etc.)
Step 1: Take franchise with loyal following. Step 2: Shit all over it. Step 3: Add CGI explosions.
Bonus points if you make the camera work so fucking terrible (Transformers 2 is a great example of this) that NOBODY HAS ANY FUCKING CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON in anything resembling an action sequence.
You mean in those action sequences you aren't supposed to close your eyes and picture Optimus Prime punching decepticon after decepticon, in his blue and red hand colored glory? Some of you actually watched it? What was it like?
So going from 1.20/hr China workers to 8/hr illegal mexicans in the USA would boost the cost of a ipad less than $70. My gut level estimate in the last line of less than $100 was pretty good...
Yes, but, an extra $70 per iPad times 25 million iPads sold, and that means Apple would have $1.75B less in the bank than they do now! Clearly that is not a viable option...
Batch has for loops, and goto can be used well. What, praytell, is the difference between using a defined function() call, vs a goto:function in a language that otherwise lacks function declaration?
Oh, I dunno, maybe the fact that by default batch scripts resolve all variables at launch time and you have to work extra hard just to get things like meaningful for loops and goto logic to work?
Now my old ipad 1 was I think, $400. So $200 for retail profit, $100 wholesale profit, figure labor and parts cost a 50:50 ratio that gives about $50 "worth" of labor to build a ipad 1. First of all I cry bogus as thats roughly 42 hours of work to assemble and pack a ipad into a box. That just screams bogus. I've done work inside apple products and its an unholy PITA to replace a battery requiring complete disassembly, but it never takes more than an hour for a completely inexperienced American to do it the first time, so I'm unclear why an experienced Chinese takes 42 times longer to do the same work.
When iSuppli lists manufacturing costs (and they are pretty keen on those things) they rarely exceed 10% of the "cost of good sold" and in fact, when analyzing the "new iPad" here is what they came up with:
Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) cost to produce the 32-gigabyte, 4G long-term evolution version of its new third-generation iPad is $375.10[...] The market research firm said the $364.35 estimated bill of materials, which excludes $10.75 for manufacturing costs,
So you can probably count on no more than about 5% of the COGS to go to the worker. (the 32GB, LTE version is at 3% but probably has marginally higher complexity with much higher component cost vs the 16GB wifi version.) Anyhow, carry on, interesting thesis you have there...
Considering windows batch scripting is really just a string of commands tied together with a few syntax options that in no way amount to what anyone with a sane mind would call "programming"... Yes, if you manage to construct a useful program out of nothing but a bat file, you sir are a God.
He's a one-man act that (at least up to this point) sold out very large auditoriums (think: small, successful rock band without any of the overhead and only one person gets ALL the money). I don't imagine he took all the proceeds from that and gave it to some charity, do you? Selling books makes for a decent career, too, and nothing moves books like controversy (right or wrong).
Wasn't the problem here not that what Daisey reported was false, but just that he didn't directly speak to people he claimed to speak with? Of course from a journalistic standpoint that is awful but it is now sweeping these problems under the rug.
Foxconn can now act like there were no problems and ignore them just because the source used was a secondary source reported as a primary source.
It's hard to argue that second hand information is anywhere near as good as firsthand information; this is something that most people learn in kindergarten. But your point is essentially valid; all of the things Daisey said are now "lies" instead of vague, possibly true claims. It will be a LOT harder to prove any of it is true (even though speculation has been circulating for a LONG time.) I somehow doubt Daisey really cares, though. He is as famous as he could want to be, and probably sleeps peacefully on top of a big pile of money.
You may like and prefer that, but it turns out that no one else wants to even see (much less have to mod) 500 posts of your bullshit anonymous trolling. I say "your" because in this context anyone who is anonymous is basically the same shitty asshole of a person, and in "free/open" comment sections from Kalamazoo to Cucamonga the anons turn a thread into a 5 mile long shit fest before you can even blink.
After trying to make sense of my local news outlets' comment sections for about a week, I realized how downright amazing Slashdot is (no, I am not being sarcastic) because the moderation system is effective enough to not make the comment section completely useless (only mostly useless.) Slashdot's mod system does require a dedicated and reliable userbase though, something most podunk local newspaper web sites don't have so I get that it is just not scalable.
Small comment/forum operators have basically all begun turning their back on anonymous offerings for this very reason. The anonymity of the internet means you can shit in the pool and get away with it, and it turns out that enough people are gross as hell and actually enjoy doing just that.
The word you were looking for is "posits". And yes, it sure does suck if you were a redundant IT worker. Let's hope you learned something from slashdot after all these years.
Society has now successfully established that reaction_time(drunken-driver) leads to more accidents (especially troublesome because you are not just injuring yourself with your stupidity, but other, innocent people are killed).
The logical conclusion is that the danger of smartphones is large and people are not aware of it (unlike with drinking or phoning). While we are also now kindof aware that calling while driving is a bad idea, those two don't have a real stigma yet (like NZ ads "If you drink and drive --- you're a bloody idiot").
That's ridiculous.
Reaction_time needs to be a function of the object, not a global function. Oh god, don't tell me this study wasn't object oriented...
Reading that lovely Wikipedia article, I'm told that the Ireland's democracy was led by an official appointed by Britain, because Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. Their democracy was limited to being a mostly-ineffective group in the House of Commons, and a small number in the House of Lords. Those representatives were separated from their constituents, and even when they were convinced of the immediacy of the problem, were effectively blocked from acting by their English counterparts. Instead, the English enacted laws to further stifle the Irish, such as requiring landowners to give up their land in order to receive any food aid.
A functional but completely powerless democracy is hardly what I'd consider "working".
Hindsight is 20/20; "powerless to stop a famine" as a definition for a government that ran into a famine is ipso facto. In what way was their "mostly-ineffective group of representatives" a situation different from what the US and many other democratic nations are currently experiencing (or have experienced at one or more times in the past?)
If you look at where famines occur in the world, they always occur in places where democracy either isn't available, or isn't working.
Hmm does Wikipedia agree with that? 1,2,3, nope (see: Irish Famine of 1840 after 40 years of stable, parliamentary democracy). But, I suppose your definition of "working democracy" is one that is capable of miraculously avoiding a famine?
I've not really paid attention to Santorum, but listening to Obama speak and looking at what he did at Harvard it's pretty obvious that he's smarter than average. Whether or not he is more competent as a political leader than average is not necessarily dependent on this.
You've pointed out the central flaw; what's smarter for the goose is not always smarter for the gander. The idea that a "smart" candidate is the best one is almost never accurate. The candidate with the best demonstrated capacity to seek, set, and execute policies that do the greatest amount of public good is more to the point, but then again public good has such a wide definition that this is almost useless as well.
Perhaps the founding fathers foresaw a future where the US had grown so large and cumbersome that not only did we need representative democracy to distance the plebeians from the decisions, but a representative representative democracy to distance us from those who were making the decisions... Enter, the Electoral College! Here to save the day with slightly-better-than-below-average decision making capabilities!
Can somebody explain to me what they mean by "not smart enough"?
In this context, it means someone who is insufficiently skilled at smelling bullshit. If a plurality of voters were competent in this regard, we would have had different leadership at the national level for pretty much all of the past 100 years. The individuals doing the voting aren't nearly as much to blame as those doing the politicking though, since they basically search FOR the weakness of the populace and use it to their advantage (the prevalence of the term "class warfare" nicely sums up how absurd the discourse is at this point), instead of searching for the best possible good and then putting that in front of the voters.
At the meta level, it's back on the voters to not even realize that this is a problem, as I suspect most will react to this article with the phrase "fuck you for telling me I'm not smart!"
So, somebody hacked into a computer system to gain access to open source software. Brilliant.
If you can't imagine a way that unfettered access to *alter* an exceptionally popular piece of software, virtually undetected, would be useful to someone with unscrupulous intent, then good for you for being so pure of heart. However, in the rest of the world, access like that can be absolutely devastating.
Where did he say he played them for the same draw, genius?
It would be pretty hard to go into debt only playing once per draw... Genius. Powerball only draws 2 times per week, the tickets are $2, so if he "ruined himself" by increasing his debt by $4 a week then I suspect he either has been playing since 1988 or he hasn't made the minimum payments on his card and allowed the late fees and interest to compound relentlessly (which, sadly, I would not be surprised happened.) Still, he has then fallen victim to predatory lending instead of poor probability skills...
Man is powerful because of his intelligence. The stupid should be left behind, to make room for the next stage of human evolution.
If it worked that way I might agree with you, but unfortunately generations upon generations exist without demonstrating this, and ultimately they act as a burden on progress because they don't understand it or what kinds of benefits can be found from it.
Yeah, right, as if the lower class has no purpose. I WOULD like fries with that, and make it snappy...
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The cabin is pressurized to 8,000 feet but with very dry air from outside. Humidifying the air would require carrying many extra gallons (hundreds?) of fresh water.
Or, cramming in a few hundred mouth breathers who are stoked on either starbucks (intensifying the dehydration) or fiji water (intensifying rehydration and wallet depletion)... Then again, the real substantial humidity bump happens after they all start complaining about their lousy in flight meal so i can see where the article has a point.
This bill reduces oversight, regulation, and investor protection measures when companies want to raise investment capital. Please read the following:
http://baselinescenario.com/2012/03/20/cfa-institute-against-the-jobs-bill/
http://baselinescenario.com/2012/03/21/jobs-disaster-looms/
http://baselinescenario.com/2012/03/22/last-ditch-attempt-to-save-a-little-bit-of-investor-protection-in-the-united-states/
One of the biggest cause of the recent financial crisis was too little regulation of the financial industry. I do *not* want to do it again in 5 years.
The only crisis you don't want to have happen is the one you don't see coming... If this is as plain-faced as many out there think it is, what is the worry? Wait for the momentum to pick up, then bet big against crowd-vesting. Then, sit back and watch your millions roll in!
If the average joe is not allowed to get investment in his company, then how do companies with wealthy venture capital investors work? What's the difference?
There is a small flock of lawyers on either side of the table figuring out how to avoid having their side get (overtly) screwed in the deal, by way of very specific ownership contracts. Since it's not practical to have a lawyer sitting next to the computer everywhere a crowd-vesting purchase is about to be made (it will be a purchase of a share of the profits, not a donation like we currently see with crowdsourcing) it does not seem practical to let "just anyone" solicit funds for ventures of questionable merit on the internet. How will we expect everyday people to be able to tell the difference between a real and fake small t-shirt company on the coast of Louisiana that just needs a few grand to get off the ground with a great idea (that they cant share for fear of being copied)? It's hard enough telling the difference between the real and fake Nigerian Princes out there...
> fusing light nuclei together
Light nuclei? They're just photons.
The article is referring "light nuclei" as atoms with low atomic mass. For example fusing Hydrogen with a mass index of 1 to Helium with a mass index of 2.
Then why not just say "light atoms" or "low mass index atoms" instead of making it sound as if the nuclei have any significant variation in their own right (they do not as they are defined by the atom they inhabit.) They (the author) are presumably a fusion scientist of some sort, so how about proving you are smart by advancing the science, not by unnecessarily obfuscating what is supposed to be "an intro to fusion". Sheesh, academic types...
There are classes on religion and that's where this stuff belongs. A class on science has no business talking about religion.
And really this whole freedom of religion is really just that the government shall establish no state religion. Not that religions should have free reign to do whatever the hell they want.
Not that this is even worth mentioning, but the Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" which goes a bit further than just "we won't have a state religion" and says that we *won't* have any law that specifically establishes (endorses) a religion as the precedent for governing (or running a government school.)
Hmm
which excludes $10.75 for manufacturing costs,
So going from 1.20/hr China workers to 8/hr illegal mexicans in the USA would boost the cost of a ipad less than $70. My gut level estimate in the last line of less than $100 was pretty good...
Forgot one other thing: Apple *pays Foxconn* to do manufacturing. So, the $10.75 is the worker's wage, his supervisor, their manager, etc etc etc PLUS the cost of the facility and all other coordination effort. Foxconn is a huge company in their own right, they certainly aren't just a bunch of factory workers slapping things together. I would speculate that of the $10.75, less than half goes to paying the worker to do the assembly (leaving him with $5.38) so it's probably more like 4.5 hours of labor. Now that has the same effect on the other side; paying for an organization with the scale of Foxconn anywhere but China is going to require cost increases a LOT higher than the basic $6.25 wage delta you were predicting (such as: cost of land, facilities, supply chain, management, environmental oversight, etc.)
The Michael Bay formula, explained.
Step 1: Take franchise with loyal following.
Step 2: Shit all over it.
Step 3: Add CGI explosions.
Bonus points if you make the camera work so fucking terrible (Transformers 2 is a great example of this) that NOBODY HAS ANY FUCKING CLUE WHAT IS GOING ON in anything resembling an action sequence.
You mean in those action sequences you aren't supposed to close your eyes and picture Optimus Prime punching decepticon after decepticon, in his blue and red hand colored glory? Some of you actually watched it? What was it like?
Hmm
which excludes $10.75 for manufacturing costs,
So going from 1.20/hr China workers to 8/hr illegal mexicans in the USA would boost the cost of a ipad less than $70. My gut level estimate in the last line of less than $100 was pretty good...
Yes, but, an extra $70 per iPad times 25 million iPads sold, and that means Apple would have $1.75B less in the bank than they do now! Clearly that is not a viable option...
Batch has for loops, and goto can be used well. What, praytell, is the difference between using a defined function() call, vs a goto :function in a language that otherwise lacks function declaration?
Oh, I dunno, maybe the fact that by default batch scripts resolve all variables at launch time and you have to work extra hard just to get things like meaningful for loops and goto logic to work?
Now my old ipad 1 was I think, $400. So $200 for retail profit, $100 wholesale profit, figure labor and parts cost a 50:50 ratio that gives about $50 "worth" of labor to build a ipad 1. First of all I cry bogus as thats roughly 42 hours of work to assemble and pack a ipad into a box. That just screams bogus. I've done work inside apple products and its an unholy PITA to replace a battery requiring complete disassembly, but it never takes more than an hour for a completely inexperienced American to do it the first time, so I'm unclear why an experienced Chinese takes 42 times longer to do the same work.
When iSuppli lists manufacturing costs (and they are pretty keen on those things) they rarely exceed 10% of the "cost of good sold" and in fact, when analyzing the "new iPad" here is what they came up with:
Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) cost to produce the 32-gigabyte, 4G long-term evolution version of its new third-generation iPad is $375.10[...] The market research firm said the $364.35 estimated bill of materials, which excludes $10.75 for manufacturing costs,
So you can probably count on no more than about 5% of the COGS to go to the worker. (the 32GB, LTE version is at 3% but probably has marginally higher complexity with much higher component cost vs the 16GB wifi version.) Anyhow, carry on, interesting thesis you have there...
Considering windows batch scripting is really just a string of commands tied together with a few syntax options that in no way amount to what anyone with a sane mind would call "programming"... Yes, if you manage to construct a useful program out of nothing but a bat file, you sir are a God.
The most obvious PR lesson in recent history (and one of the more important ones to remember) is: "Don't Be Paul Christoforo"...
further reading Ocean Marketing gets pwned by Penny Arcade
He's a one-man act that (at least up to this point) sold out very large auditoriums (think: small, successful rock band without any of the overhead and only one person gets ALL the money). I don't imagine he took all the proceeds from that and gave it to some charity, do you? Selling books makes for a decent career, too, and nothing moves books like controversy (right or wrong).
Wasn't the problem here not that what Daisey reported was false, but just that he didn't directly speak to people he claimed to speak with? Of course from a journalistic standpoint that is awful but it is now sweeping these problems under the rug.
Foxconn can now act like there were no problems and ignore them just because the source used was a secondary source reported as a primary source.
It's hard to argue that second hand information is anywhere near as good as firsthand information; this is something that most people learn in kindergarten. But your point is essentially valid; all of the things Daisey said are now "lies" instead of vague, possibly true claims. It will be a LOT harder to prove any of it is true (even though speculation has been circulating for a LONG time.) I somehow doubt Daisey really cares, though. He is as famous as he could want to be, and probably sleeps peacefully on top of a big pile of money.
You may like and prefer that, but it turns out that no one else wants to even see (much less have to mod) 500 posts of your bullshit anonymous trolling. I say "your" because in this context anyone who is anonymous is basically the same shitty asshole of a person, and in "free/open" comment sections from Kalamazoo to Cucamonga the anons turn a thread into a 5 mile long shit fest before you can even blink.
After trying to make sense of my local news outlets' comment sections for about a week, I realized how downright amazing Slashdot is (no, I am not being sarcastic) because the moderation system is effective enough to not make the comment section completely useless (only mostly useless.) Slashdot's mod system does require a dedicated and reliable userbase though, something most podunk local newspaper web sites don't have so I get that it is just not scalable.
Small comment/forum operators have basically all begun turning their back on anonymous offerings for this very reason. The anonymity of the internet means you can shit in the pool and get away with it, and it turns out that enough people are gross as hell and actually enjoy doing just that.
Image 4 looks way too much like an 1850's Toile pattern for this to possibly be a serious attempt to devise a way to get to space.
The study posts that
The word you were looking for is "posits". And yes, it sure does suck if you were a redundant IT worker. Let's hope you learned something from slashdot after all these years.
I think it just says
reaction_time(smartphone-user) > reaction_time(drunken-driver)
Society has now successfully established that reaction_time(drunken-driver) leads to more accidents (especially troublesome because you are not just injuring yourself with your stupidity, but other, innocent people are killed).
The logical conclusion is that the danger of smartphones is large and people are not aware of it (unlike with drinking or phoning). While we are also now kindof aware that calling while driving is a bad idea, those two don't have a real stigma yet (like NZ ads "If you drink and drive --- you're a bloody idiot").
That's ridiculous.
Reaction_time needs to be a function of the object, not a global function. Oh god, don't tell me this study wasn't object oriented...
Reading that lovely Wikipedia article, I'm told that the Ireland's democracy was led by an official appointed by Britain, because Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. Their democracy was limited to being a mostly-ineffective group in the House of Commons, and a small number in the House of Lords. Those representatives were separated from their constituents, and even when they were convinced of the immediacy of the problem, were effectively blocked from acting by their English counterparts. Instead, the English enacted laws to further stifle the Irish, such as requiring landowners to give up their land in order to receive any food aid.
A functional but completely powerless democracy is hardly what I'd consider "working".
Hindsight is 20/20; "powerless to stop a famine" as a definition for a government that ran into a famine is ipso facto. In what way was their "mostly-ineffective group of representatives" a situation different from what the US and many other democratic nations are currently experiencing (or have experienced at one or more times in the past?)
If you look at where famines occur in the world, they always occur in places where democracy either isn't available, or isn't working.
Hmm does Wikipedia agree with that? 1,2,3, nope (see: Irish Famine of 1840 after 40 years of stable, parliamentary democracy). But, I suppose your definition of "working democracy" is one that is capable of miraculously avoiding a famine?
I've not really paid attention to Santorum, but listening to Obama speak and looking at what he did at Harvard it's pretty obvious that he's smarter than average. Whether or not he is more competent as a political leader than average is not necessarily dependent on this.
You've pointed out the central flaw; what's smarter for the goose is not always smarter for the gander. The idea that a "smart" candidate is the best one is almost never accurate. The candidate with the best demonstrated capacity to seek, set, and execute policies that do the greatest amount of public good is more to the point, but then again public good has such a wide definition that this is almost useless as well.
Perhaps the founding fathers foresaw a future where the US had grown so large and cumbersome that not only did we need representative democracy to distance the plebeians from the decisions, but a representative representative democracy to distance us from those who were making the decisions... Enter, the Electoral College! Here to save the day with slightly-better-than-below-average decision making capabilities!
Can somebody explain to me what they mean by "not smart enough"?
In this context, it means someone who is insufficiently skilled at smelling bullshit. If a plurality of voters were competent in this regard, we would have had different leadership at the national level for pretty much all of the past 100 years. The individuals doing the voting aren't nearly as much to blame as those doing the politicking though, since they basically search FOR the weakness of the populace and use it to their advantage (the prevalence of the term "class warfare" nicely sums up how absurd the discourse is at this point), instead of searching for the best possible good and then putting that in front of the voters.
At the meta level, it's back on the voters to not even realize that this is a problem, as I suspect most will react to this article with the phrase "fuck you for telling me I'm not smart!"
So, somebody hacked into a computer system to gain access to open source software. Brilliant.
If you can't imagine a way that unfettered access to *alter* an exceptionally popular piece of software, virtually undetected, would be useful to someone with unscrupulous intent, then good for you for being so pure of heart. However, in the rest of the world, access like that can be absolutely devastating.
Where did he say he played them for the same draw, genius?
It would be pretty hard to go into debt only playing once per draw... Genius. Powerball only draws 2 times per week, the tickets are $2, so if he "ruined himself" by increasing his debt by $4 a week then I suspect he either has been playing since 1988 or he hasn't made the minimum payments on his card and allowed the late fees and interest to compound relentlessly (which, sadly, I would not be surprised happened.) Still, he has then fallen victim to predatory lending instead of poor probability skills...
If it worked that way I might agree with you, but unfortunately generations upon generations exist without demonstrating this, and ultimately they act as a burden on progress because they don't understand it or what kinds of benefits can be found from it.
Yeah, right, as if the lower class has no purpose. I WOULD like fries with that, and make it snappy...