I went to a Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture last night. Interestingly enough, he showed a chart that resized each nation on a map based on their total scientific output. The US totally dwarfed the rest of the world except Europe and Japan. However, if you take the derivative of this (i.e. the rate of change in scientific output over the last decade) the US becomes a small country. We are falling HARD. China, Europe, and Japan with Japan and Europe leading the forefront are totally obliterating us when it comes to growth in science and technology. We are only riding out the rest of our momentum from our forefathers. A crash is inevitable unless we seriously invest in science and technology projects. Interestingly enough, the nations with the highest scientific output also have the longest life expectancies, the best economies, and the fairest wages for their people. They also weather disasters much better than other nations. Case in point : Haiti had a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and 250,000 people died. Japan had a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster and less than 28,000 people died. Keep in mind that the Richter scale for earthquakes is logarithmic. So a 9.0 magnitude earthquake is thousands of times stronger than a 7.0 magnitude. As Dr. Tyson said, THAT IS A TRIUMPH of science. People need to seriously consider this when they vote next election and when they talk about cutting funding for our science programs like NASA, NIST, etc. Its an investment in our future economy. It takes longer than most MBA "captains of industry" are willing to wait for profits, but the payout is HUGE.
Because the rest of the world has reasonable charges for data plans, and the US doesn't. It definitively proves that the US cell carriers are screwing people over. Its an anti-competitive practice that IS an oligopoly or is bordering on one and the FTC and FCC are supposed to step in and penalize them for this and/or force them to stop. They don't because they are corrupt. Simple as that. Our government is one big steaming pile of corruption at the highest level. Bought and paid for by special interests and corporate big-wigs. There is nothing wrong with a free market, and everyone always rushes to the defense of corporations with this as an excuse, but THERE IS NO free market in telecomm and cell carriers in the US today. Republicans in office today are a bunch of big hypocrites. It is obvious when time and time again they do things that hurt the American consumer and worker. I have nothing nice to say about Democrats either.
No it doesn't. Giving each family member a few million dollars is not miserly nor does it make one an asshole. The point is that if you give away money too freely you have relatives you never even knew coming out of the wood works asking for handouts. I have a cousin that had this happen to him when he inherited a few million dollars. People would literally not stop bothering him for handouts once he gave his sister something in the tens of thousands of dollars. He finally had to cut off ties with some of his family because they would non-stop try to guilt him into giving them cash. I would make damn sure my parents would be responsibly retired (i.e. no yachts nor mansions but a really nice place to live and plenty of money to enjoy life), and my brother would have all of his college paid for, a condo, a car and a trust fund. The parent post talked about some idiot that went broke when he won 40 million because he didn't know how to make the money work for him, and gave it away too freely. That wouldn't happen to me.
You let your unfortunate past color your judgment. Its a common thing, but try to be objective. Addiction is no more of a rational decision than it is for you to decide you would rather have sex than eat nutritiously. A person may decide to take the first drink so-to-speak but they don't choose to be addicted. They feel good when they use, meanwhile it prevents them from actually using their higher faculties you think they possess regardless of what they are on. Most people don't have that clarity without total abstinence for years. The limbic system in your brain decides what you crave and how hard you crave it. Its a primitive, controlling, part of your brain you cannot simply ignore without consequences. Most people that develop addiction have other untreated problems like depression and/or anxiety. You may as well tell a chronically depressed person it is their fault for not wanting to live any more.
As being a person recovering from addiction, I can tell you its not as easy as you think it is nor is it as hard as most addicted people say. Its definitely much, much harder than you think, bordering on a disease, but a disease it is not. You can kick it if you give it a about a year. The problem is that drugs (mine was alcohol) hijack you central nervous system's reward system making the drug seem more appealing than eating a meal when you are starving, sex when you are horny, or even drinking water when you are thirsty. Its a pretty shitty situation to get yourself into, but you got yourself there in the first place so I understand your not too sympathetic. Still, there are plenty of people out there that deserve a second chance. I am now in a mathematics PhD program. If I didnt get help from my family financially to go through treatment I would have never even achieved a Masters degree.
Actually, there are plenty of rational people that would do what is right with that kind of money. Shit, I wouldn't give a dime to anyone but my parents and my only sibling and even then it would be a set figure that would never be replenished. I would maybe throw my friend a few hundred thousand to day trade with under the understanding that it is my money and I get a cut. The rest of it would be sitting in some kind of fund that is designed to pay me monthly. Id imagine you could pull 5 percent a year on 40 million easy. Some Forex guys can make 40 percent yearly (with a lot of risk). That would end up being 2 million a year. Take 1 million of that out in monthly payments and you are literally set for life. You can buy a car every month and pay for two mortgages on nice houses with that.
The cellphone carries are like the bottled water industry even with data plans. They charge 1 dollar for what costs them.001 dollars, even more if you don't have a subscription.
It crashes for me a lot. Also, it takes forever to load if I am in a town. The game is still worth playing, and probably one of the best games of the decade, but damn it gets irritating to be interrupted every two minutes to save in case of a crash.
As a matter of fact I did the install three different ways in total and each one broke GDM. Two ways are listed on OpenCV's website as the appropriate way to compile. The other way was by getting it through synaptic. It broke GDM all three times. I tried to reconfigure GDM, tried to purge and reinstall, but it wouldn't work. Then I found out it was some lib2***.so.2 error, something like "Invalid version information". I forgot the name of the package it comes from, but I tried the same thing on that package. I spent days looking through forums trying to track down this error and they more or less said to try to fix it the way I tried fixed it. Some advocated reinstalling Gnome but I couldn't even get that to work because of the same error. I don't know a whole lot about Linux, but I am not a computer illiterate person. I spend time on Unix clusters programming for scientific computation, I build and fix my own computers, I am fluent in DOS and Windows, and I used to be able to configure older cisco routers. Im not an idiot. If there is a source for a solution to my problem I should have been able to find it easier than I did (which I didn't yet). Linux is something I actually WANT to learn a lot more about, but breaking over something trivial like installing OpenCV simply should not happen on a supposed Long-Term-Support version of Ubuntu. Sure, I didn't pay for it, but if Linux enthusiasts seriously want the rest of the world to use Linux as well they need to make it harder to break. I know its hard to demand a lot for free, but there will never be a year of the Linux desktop without it. If I was using Windows, it would have taken about twice to three times as long to boot up and hogged about twice as much resources, but at least OpenCV would have been up and running in several minutes. Now Im using a newer version of Ubuntu, and hopefully that will work. This time Im backing up my lib2***.so.2 file (which I probably should have done in the first place but I literally just figured out this was the problem).
Well. If you would buy it anyway, and its as easy to pirate either way, then why shouldn't the company be catering to people like you by having non DRM software?
Ive just spent the last few days trying to install OpenCV on Ubuntu 10.04 to have it break GDM every time I attempt. This is in spite of trying different methods from compiling it with cmake and gcc to installing packages through synaptic. It causes my login window to fail to load thus prohibiting me from actually logging in, even though Gnome loads up and shows the shutdown/restart menu and mouse pointer. After the failure, I can't even reconfigure GDM nor reinstall it, nor can I even use alternate versions of GDM or load up KDE because of some lib4***.so.2 error. Ive reinstalled Ubuntu four times. Linux experts who I follow the directions of, even those in my office that run servers and exclusively use Linux, have no idea why I get the problem even when they try to install OpenCV themselves. My only conclusion is Linux is shit and needs to suck less before people would be willing to use it regularly. It boots fast but you end up spending more time fixing things by wading through forums than its worth, much like windows 95 back in the day. Hence I don't think the use of blu-ray in Linux has any place in a discussion against working poorly with DRM. It works poorly in general.
This guy Alan Finkel is a self described "Neuroscientist and Entrepreneur". What concerns me is the latter. Generally, people that describe themselves as that have large egos and little to back it up with other than they got lucky with an idea and made some decent money. Since this guy's only other real credential is being a neuroscientist, I doubt he understands the finer details of space travel.
Also, the now huge 1920's level disparity in wealth plays along nicely with your prediction. Its easy to control people that have no money and are under surveillance all the time.
Thats pretty much what industry wants. One more cog in the machine. I have a very general and theoretical science background since I have an Applied Math MS and a Pure Math BS with a minor in CS, but I can't find work because people want me to be an Electrical Engineer, or a Computer Science major, etc. The thing is, I could do quite a few jobs they want these people for, however I would require a few months of training. With my general education in a variety of math topics, I may actually be useful on a team since I can think of things that a specialist may not consider. To top it off, I can program, I understand engineering mathematics, I can do physics, I can do financial math, I can even do numerical math for simulations, etc, but I haven't been packaged as a "____ Engineer" so they don't want me. For example, I could do seismic engineering or signal processing if I had a few months training (which were jobs I applied for and was denied). Companies don't want to provide training, they want one brand new and functional out of the box.
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Outsourcing does this dude : http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/off-the-charts-income-gains-for-super-rich . Furthermore, goods and products next door mean nothing if Japan and Europe have the best ones because they actually invest in technology projects, science education and infrastructure.
Outsourcing does this : http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/off-the-charts-income-gains-for-super-rich
I went to a Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture last night. Interestingly enough, he showed a chart that resized each nation on a map based on their total scientific output. The US totally dwarfed the rest of the world except Europe and Japan. However, if you take the derivative of this (i.e. the rate of change in scientific output over the last decade) the US becomes a small country. We are falling HARD. China, Europe, and Japan with Japan and Europe leading the forefront are totally obliterating us when it comes to growth in science and technology. We are only riding out the rest of our momentum from our forefathers. A crash is inevitable unless we seriously invest in science and technology projects. Interestingly enough, the nations with the highest scientific output also have the longest life expectancies, the best economies, and the fairest wages for their people. They also weather disasters much better than other nations. Case in point : Haiti had a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and 250,000 people died. Japan had a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and a nuclear disaster and less than 28,000 people died. Keep in mind that the Richter scale for earthquakes is logarithmic. So a 9.0 magnitude earthquake is thousands of times stronger than a 7.0 magnitude. As Dr. Tyson said, THAT IS A TRIUMPH of science. People need to seriously consider this when they vote next election and when they talk about cutting funding for our science programs like NASA, NIST, etc. Its an investment in our future economy. It takes longer than most MBA "captains of industry" are willing to wait for profits, but the payout is HUGE.
If you believe that you will really enjoy this : http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/off-the-charts-income-gains-for-super-rich
Interesting thing about that that refutes your point : http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110408/ts_yblog_thelookout/off-the-charts-income-gains-for-super-rich
Because the rest of the world has reasonable charges for data plans, and the US doesn't. It definitively proves that the US cell carriers are screwing people over. Its an anti-competitive practice that IS an oligopoly or is bordering on one and the FTC and FCC are supposed to step in and penalize them for this and/or force them to stop. They don't because they are corrupt. Simple as that. Our government is one big steaming pile of corruption at the highest level. Bought and paid for by special interests and corporate big-wigs. There is nothing wrong with a free market, and everyone always rushes to the defense of corporations with this as an excuse, but THERE IS NO free market in telecomm and cell carriers in the US today. Republicans in office today are a bunch of big hypocrites. It is obvious when time and time again they do things that hurt the American consumer and worker. I have nothing nice to say about Democrats either.
No it doesn't. Giving each family member a few million dollars is not miserly nor does it make one an asshole. The point is that if you give away money too freely you have relatives you never even knew coming out of the wood works asking for handouts. I have a cousin that had this happen to him when he inherited a few million dollars. People would literally not stop bothering him for handouts once he gave his sister something in the tens of thousands of dollars. He finally had to cut off ties with some of his family because they would non-stop try to guilt him into giving them cash. I would make damn sure my parents would be responsibly retired (i.e. no yachts nor mansions but a really nice place to live and plenty of money to enjoy life), and my brother would have all of his college paid for, a condo, a car and a trust fund. The parent post talked about some idiot that went broke when he won 40 million because he didn't know how to make the money work for him, and gave it away too freely. That wouldn't happen to me.
You let your unfortunate past color your judgment. Its a common thing, but try to be objective. Addiction is no more of a rational decision than it is for you to decide you would rather have sex than eat nutritiously. A person may decide to take the first drink so-to-speak but they don't choose to be addicted. They feel good when they use, meanwhile it prevents them from actually using their higher faculties you think they possess regardless of what they are on. Most people don't have that clarity without total abstinence for years. The limbic system in your brain decides what you crave and how hard you crave it. Its a primitive, controlling, part of your brain you cannot simply ignore without consequences. Most people that develop addiction have other untreated problems like depression and/or anxiety. You may as well tell a chronically depressed person it is their fault for not wanting to live any more.
It proves there was an agreement. Verbal agreements are binding.
Its an agreement they made, its binding.
As being a person recovering from addiction, I can tell you its not as easy as you think it is nor is it as hard as most addicted people say. Its definitely much, much harder than you think, bordering on a disease, but a disease it is not. You can kick it if you give it a about a year. The problem is that drugs (mine was alcohol) hijack you central nervous system's reward system making the drug seem more appealing than eating a meal when you are starving, sex when you are horny, or even drinking water when you are thirsty. Its a pretty shitty situation to get yourself into, but you got yourself there in the first place so I understand your not too sympathetic. Still, there are plenty of people out there that deserve a second chance. I am now in a mathematics PhD program. If I didnt get help from my family financially to go through treatment I would have never even achieved a Masters degree.
Actually, there are plenty of rational people that would do what is right with that kind of money. Shit, I wouldn't give a dime to anyone but my parents and my only sibling and even then it would be a set figure that would never be replenished. I would maybe throw my friend a few hundred thousand to day trade with under the understanding that it is my money and I get a cut. The rest of it would be sitting in some kind of fund that is designed to pay me monthly. Id imagine you could pull 5 percent a year on 40 million easy. Some Forex guys can make 40 percent yearly (with a lot of risk). That would end up being 2 million a year. Take 1 million of that out in monthly payments and you are literally set for life. You can buy a car every month and pay for two mortgages on nice houses with that.
If you become a billionaire I will be your best friend.
The cellphone carries are like the bottled water industry even with data plans. They charge 1 dollar for what costs them .001 dollars, even more if you don't have a subscription.
That is awesome. Hopefully people make some add ons as well. It has a surprisingly good game engine for how old it is.
It crashes for me a lot. Also, it takes forever to load if I am in a town. The game is still worth playing, and probably one of the best games of the decade, but damn it gets irritating to be interrupted every two minutes to save in case of a crash.
As a matter of fact I did the install three different ways in total and each one broke GDM. Two ways are listed on OpenCV's website as the appropriate way to compile. The other way was by getting it through synaptic. It broke GDM all three times. I tried to reconfigure GDM, tried to purge and reinstall, but it wouldn't work. Then I found out it was some lib2***.so.2 error, something like "Invalid version information". I forgot the name of the package it comes from, but I tried the same thing on that package. I spent days looking through forums trying to track down this error and they more or less said to try to fix it the way I tried fixed it. Some advocated reinstalling Gnome but I couldn't even get that to work because of the same error. I don't know a whole lot about Linux, but I am not a computer illiterate person. I spend time on Unix clusters programming for scientific computation, I build and fix my own computers, I am fluent in DOS and Windows, and I used to be able to configure older cisco routers. Im not an idiot. If there is a source for a solution to my problem I should have been able to find it easier than I did (which I didn't yet). Linux is something I actually WANT to learn a lot more about, but breaking over something trivial like installing OpenCV simply should not happen on a supposed Long-Term-Support version of Ubuntu. Sure, I didn't pay for it, but if Linux enthusiasts seriously want the rest of the world to use Linux as well they need to make it harder to break. I know its hard to demand a lot for free, but there will never be a year of the Linux desktop without it. If I was using Windows, it would have taken about twice to three times as long to boot up and hogged about twice as much resources, but at least OpenCV would have been up and running in several minutes. Now Im using a newer version of Ubuntu, and hopefully that will work. This time Im backing up my lib2***.so.2 file (which I probably should have done in the first place but I literally just figured out this was the problem).
Well. If you would buy it anyway, and its as easy to pirate either way, then why shouldn't the company be catering to people like you by having non DRM software?
How young is younger? I just bought Arx Fatalis from GOG and it runs like a piece of shit.
Ive just spent the last few days trying to install OpenCV on Ubuntu 10.04 to have it break GDM every time I attempt. This is in spite of trying different methods from compiling it with cmake and gcc to installing packages through synaptic. It causes my login window to fail to load thus prohibiting me from actually logging in, even though Gnome loads up and shows the shutdown/restart menu and mouse pointer. After the failure, I can't even reconfigure GDM nor reinstall it, nor can I even use alternate versions of GDM or load up KDE because of some lib4***.so.2 error. Ive reinstalled Ubuntu four times. Linux experts who I follow the directions of, even those in my office that run servers and exclusively use Linux, have no idea why I get the problem even when they try to install OpenCV themselves. My only conclusion is Linux is shit and needs to suck less before people would be willing to use it regularly. It boots fast but you end up spending more time fixing things by wading through forums than its worth, much like windows 95 back in the day. Hence I don't think the use of blu-ray in Linux has any place in a discussion against working poorly with DRM. It works poorly in general.
Japanese families are more nuclear than American families.
This guy Alan Finkel is a self described "Neuroscientist and Entrepreneur". What concerns me is the latter. Generally, people that describe themselves as that have large egos and little to back it up with other than they got lucky with an idea and made some decent money. Since this guy's only other real credential is being a neuroscientist, I doubt he understands the finer details of space travel.
Also, the now huge 1920's level disparity in wealth plays along nicely with your prediction. Its easy to control people that have no money and are under surveillance all the time.
Screw the French. I call it "Freedom Credential Paper".
Thats pretty much what industry wants. One more cog in the machine. I have a very general and theoretical science background since I have an Applied Math MS and a Pure Math BS with a minor in CS, but I can't find work because people want me to be an Electrical Engineer, or a Computer Science major, etc. The thing is, I could do quite a few jobs they want these people for, however I would require a few months of training. With my general education in a variety of math topics, I may actually be useful on a team since I can think of things that a specialist may not consider. To top it off, I can program, I understand engineering mathematics, I can do physics, I can do financial math, I can even do numerical math for simulations, etc, but I haven't been packaged as a "____ Engineer" so they don't want me. For example, I could do seismic engineering or signal processing if I had a few months training (which were jobs I applied for and was denied). Companies don't want to provide training, they want one brand new and functional out of the box.