Are you taking into account other sources of revenue for private schools? Many of them raise money from alumni and/or are church-sponsored and also have their administration done in part by the church. You simply can't compare the tuition to the cost (even assuming your numbers are valid; I'd like to see a source).
And since it's timely: medicare is actually more efficient than private health insurance, and a LOT less goes to administration than at private insurers.
You're confusing the Intel 586 CPU with the Altos model 586 (which had an 8086 CPU running at a blazing 10 MHz); it was introduced in the early 80s. And it might not have been the original machine housing the BBS, so some of the data could be from the 70s.
The OED begs to differ. It has an entry for "architecture" as a verb, and quotes some major English writers as sources.
To design as architect.
a1821 KEATS Fingal's Cave (D.) This was architectur'd thus By the great Oceanus. 1893 Strand Mag. VI. 268/1 The house..was architectured by John Belcher from plans by its owner. 1939 AUDEN & ISHERWOOD Journey to War 120 The slope has been architectured into terraces.
I personally find that working in Windows-based terminals on LCD monitors is far more straining than Mac-based ones or CRT monitors--the text is too sharp and loses distinctiveness.
There's a name for traditional medicine that actually worked: medicine. The whole alternative gang is the ones that don't.
You're assuming, quite mistakenly, that those that haven't been tested don't work. Many, many herbal remedies have simply never been tested by modern, double-blind methods, so we just don't know how effective they are (and even synthetic pharmaceuticals are very hard to really assess, as the frequent recalls and modified FDA recommendations attest).
Can't wait to live in your country with no civil courts to enforce contracts, no public regulation of financial institutions, no consumer protection (e.g., non-poisonous food, non-exploding electronics), no certification of medical professionals, no control over allocation of radio frequencies, no zoning of land use, no pollution limits, and above all no space exploration.
No, demodulating a signal is not news. But not encrypting it in the first place ought to be.
(And TFA had a red herring in its focus on the software used to record the signal--the software is probably the easy part, once you've captured the signal).
Actually it hasn't. The value of the warranty to you personally depends on your own valuation of risk and future money, which differs from individual to individual. That's part of why insurance can benefit everyone.
I had a Digital (yes, DEC, back in the day!) laptop that had the following parts replaced under the three-year warranty: keyboard, screen, hard drive, motherboard, CD drive, power adapter (everything except the chassis was new, and some of that was done overseas). You have to ask yourself at a certain point, is this a really good warranty or a really crappy piece of hardware?
How is the specific order of events that lead to the creation of our planet going to tell us anything about the creation of other planets?
If, for example, certain conditions are needed for a planet to develop a substantial atmosphere, we could look for star systems with those conditions.
Another potential use of this information: it might be helpful data for future terraforming projects, since it could provide a model for the introduction of new gases to a planet.
A public school can't "write off" an expense. Only a private company or individual can write something off--i.e., count it toward a tax deduction. For the school board, the money comes out of tax revenues.
I think SETI@home is great and all, but it sounds like the school board didn't authorize this person to install the software on the machines in question. Whatever the pros and cons are in the abstract, he shouldn't have unilaterally decided to do this. It does cost money to run CPUs at 100% (the SETI@home FAQ estimates over $60 a year) and if there were thousands of machines running it, as there apparently were, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run. Maybe the school district wants to spend its money on that, but it should be decided by the board, not by one employee.
I know I could still read the book even if every fifth letter was replaced by a incorrect one.
That would depend on the book. Your brain could probably error-correct a novel easily enough under those conditions (especially if it was every fifth character, and not random characters at a rate of 20%). But I doubt anyone could follow, say, a math textbook with that many errors.
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Are you taking into account other sources of revenue for private schools? Many of them raise money from alumni and/or are church-sponsored and also have their administration done in part by the church. You simply can't compare the tuition to the cost (even assuming your numbers are valid; I'd like to see a source).
And since it's timely: medicare is actually more efficient than private health insurance, and a LOT less goes to administration than at private insurers.
You're confusing the Intel 586 CPU with the Altos model 586 (which had an 8086 CPU running at a blazing 10 MHz); it was introduced in the early 80s. And it might not have been the original machine housing the BBS, so some of the data could be from the 70s.
Fairly recent Xenix binaries of Kermit exist: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ck80binaries.html#sco
The OED begs to differ. It has an entry for "architecture" as a verb, and quotes some major English writers as sources.
Dental and vision are tied together under my employer's plan; you can buy both or neither, though they're not very good.
I personally find that working in Windows-based terminals on LCD monitors is far more straining than Mac-based ones or CRT monitors--the text is too sharp and loses distinctiveness.
You do realize that this is configurable....?
There's a name for traditional medicine that actually worked: medicine. The whole alternative gang is the ones that don't.
You're assuming, quite mistakenly, that those that haven't been tested don't work. Many, many herbal remedies have simply never been tested by modern, double-blind methods, so we just don't know how effective they are (and even synthetic pharmaceuticals are very hard to really assess, as the frequent recalls and modified FDA recommendations attest).
No, it's a fee you pay for a regular wire transfer from one bank to another. Its absence is what makes PayPal so convenient.
I've never met a fountain pen that was trusty.
More accurately: for a lot of technologies there's a sweet spot in terms of size/scale. Making things significantly smaller or bigger is hard.
I've been wanting to switch to a digital pick system, but the devices are either to fragile to drop from 20' up in a lift or too expensive to buy.
Just use a damned kleenex. They easily survive a 20' fall, and they're much more sanitary than a digital pick system.
The government forces me to drive on the right side of the road. I really don't object.
Public safety was on the list. Finding perpetrators of violent crimes is part of public safety.
Can't wait to live in your country with no civil courts to enforce contracts, no public regulation of financial institutions, no consumer protection (e.g., non-poisonous food, non-exploding electronics), no certification of medical professionals, no control over allocation of radio frequencies, no zoning of land use, no pollution limits, and above all no space exploration.
Doesn't RIM produce one?
No, demodulating a signal is not news. But not encrypting it in the first place ought to be. (And TFA had a red herring in its focus on the software used to record the signal--the software is probably the easy part, once you've captured the signal).
Actually it hasn't. The value of the warranty to you personally depends on your own valuation of risk and future money, which differs from individual to individual. That's part of why insurance can benefit everyone.
I had a Digital (yes, DEC, back in the day!) laptop that had the following parts replaced under the three-year warranty: keyboard, screen, hard drive, motherboard, CD drive, power adapter (everything except the chassis was new, and some of that was done overseas). You have to ask yourself at a certain point, is this a really good warranty or a really crappy piece of hardware?
How is the specific order of events that lead to the creation of our planet going to tell us anything about the creation of other planets?
If, for example, certain conditions are needed for a planet to develop a substantial atmosphere, we could look for star systems with those conditions.
Another potential use of this information: it might be helpful data for future terraforming projects, since it could provide a model for the introduction of new gases to a planet.
True now, false when there was an IE for Mac.
A public school can't "write off" an expense. Only a private company or individual can write something off--i.e., count it toward a tax deduction. For the school board, the money comes out of tax revenues.
I think SETI@home is great and all, but it sounds like the school board didn't authorize this person to install the software on the machines in question. Whatever the pros and cons are in the abstract, he shouldn't have unilaterally decided to do this. It does cost money to run CPUs at 100% (the SETI@home FAQ estimates over $60 a year) and if there were thousands of machines running it, as there apparently were, that's hundreds of thousands of dollars in the long run. Maybe the school district wants to spend its money on that, but it should be decided by the board, not by one employee.
What would the product of such an educational system look like?
Really? Russian roulette is perfectly safe. I've just pulled the trigger five times and nothing has...
I know I could still read the book even if every fifth letter was replaced by a incorrect one.
That would depend on the book. Your brain could probably error-correct a novel easily enough under those conditions (especially if it was every fifth character, and not random characters at a rate of 20%). But I doubt anyone could follow, say, a math textbook with that many errors.