eliminating UI would make society less stable in general though. It's better to have people get a bit of money for a few months to cover a temporary gap in employment than to have them lose their house. The goal is to have few people on the welfare rolls.
Folks on slashdot think the downside is that people would be promoted based on seniority instead of skills and they all think that they're the best programmers ever and will continue to be.
People who don't like safety nets think that somehow they won't ever need one.
"--it's bad now and getting worse. The federal government is cooking the reality books on the true figures, I would guess it is probably almost double of what they claim. People who exhaust unemployment get taken off the official figures, as well as people only working a few hours a week in some part timer."
But that's always been true. Every downturn I've ever seen has had people claiming that the true figures were worse than the government ones because of that. However, if you compare this downturn to other ones, the relative numbers aren't that bad.
$9/hr won't pay a lot of people's mortages. Moreover working there takes away your time that you can use to find a better job. Taking Unemployment isn't laziness. It's something you earned by working.
"Personally I think there have been some good things about the downturn(though before I started college I could expect to make far more than I can expect now). Prior to the tech bubble bursting there was admitedly millions in fake money to be made, but at the same time, that fake money was being given to absolutely anyone who could turn on a computer and put together a web page(pretty much anyone if they try). Now most jobs seem to be looking for a college degree as well as real world experience(like jobs for every other field), which means that if you have a college degree and you can manage to find yourself some real world experience(which is the challenge), you're looking at reasonable chances of employment, just not at what you used to make. It seems that many of the jobs that were lost were the people who were underqualified to begin with."
So instead of having a world where jobs were plentiful and people were making good money, we'll have a world where some people will be able to get jobs for lower pay......but at least people you don't like won't have jobs. That's an improvement?
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What do you do? Flip coins?
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"One (humbling) thing to remember about reading math is that someone was the first to prove these theorems. Not only did this person not know the direction the proof would take in advance, but he/she didn't know either the hypothesis or conclusion either."
It's not like people prove things at random. At least in my experience, they notice some patterns and start to wonder if that's always true and work on a proof (or disproof) of it.
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"IMHO, assuming you have access in school to the resources: the best way to understand concepts like imaginary numbers is through hands on lab work."
Spoken like a physicist. To a mathematican, the best way to understand imaginary numbers is to say something like, "It annoyed people that the equation 'x^2 = -1' didn't have a solution. They just made up an answer to give them something to play with. Oh it also turns out that this models real world stuff for some reason, but that's not very important."
After completing one of the tasks in HP&CoS about halfway through, I saved my progress, walked a few steps, and suddenly died for no reason. Restore from save. Take a step. Die. No matter what I did, I ended up dying at which point the game would freeze. I had to start all over.
Of course, since the game takes like 2 days to beat, that wasn't that huge of a deal.
The problem isn't so much that it is if-then statements as that AI solutions to problems tend to be based around brute force. "I checked every possible series of actions and this one seems to be the best." That is far different from the way that we seem to make decisions, so it doesn't seem intelligent to us.
What annoyed me so much about the faux timeout is that the plan seemed to be to try to call it at the last second to force the Titans to kick it twice. If you're going to play that kind of game, it will backfire occasionally.
Icing the kicker is just a stupid thing to do anyway. Other than the previous kick (after all of the fireworks went off) I've never seen it work.
And yes, the helmet to helmet hit that caused the fumble should have been penalized.
Ok no one would read this because it's too far down, but the killer app for XM would be for sports fans. I'm a Seattle Mariners fan. I'd pay $10 a month to know that wherever I was in the country, I could pick up the game... and if it's boring I could switch to see how other games were going. The sports market is huge and I bet this would sell more XM boxes than anything else.
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Anyone else think at first that this was going to be about the CIA buying some segways?
eliminating UI would make society less stable in general though. It's better to have people get a bit of money for a few months to cover a temporary gap in employment than to have them lose their house. The goal is to have few people on the welfare rolls.
"Perhaps the unemployment should kick in when the non-compete expires."
Yeah that would be fair. Not only could they not find work, but they wouldn't have a safety net.
Welfare is good for the economy because it leads to fewer angry people breaking windows.
And the people who didn't use the extra money on that would be out on the streets, making things a lot less safe for the population as a whole.
Folks on slashdot think the downside is that people would be promoted based on seniority instead of skills and they all think that they're the best programmers ever and will continue to be.
People who don't like safety nets think that somehow they won't ever need one.
Jon Fishman uses Electrolux vacuums after all.
A third grader would read your paper? I personally would want someone older than that.
I knew a 590 combined, but she got frustrated with it and started making patterns with the scantron sheet.
alt-f4 and ctl-alt-delete can be quite powerful in the windows world. With any luck none of the linux browsers will support this "feature"
"--it's bad now and getting worse. The federal government is cooking the reality books on the true figures, I would guess it is probably almost double of what they claim. People who exhaust unemployment get taken off the official figures, as well as people only working a few hours a week in some part timer."
But that's always been true. Every downturn I've ever seen has had people claiming that the true figures were worse than the government ones because of that. However, if you compare this downturn to other ones, the relative numbers aren't that bad.
$9/hr won't pay a lot of people's mortages. Moreover working there takes away your time that you can use to find a better job. Taking Unemployment isn't laziness. It's something you earned by working.
Let's see. The Cinerama restoration, EMP, SF Museum. Why exactly should I hate him again?
For the record, the vote to create seahawks stadium was statewide and it passed.
"Personally I think there have been some good things about the downturn(though before I started college I could expect to make far more than I can expect now). Prior to the tech bubble bursting there was admitedly millions in fake money to be made, but at the same time, that fake money was being given to absolutely anyone who could turn on a computer and put together a web page(pretty much anyone if they try). Now most jobs seem to be looking for a college degree as well as real world experience(like jobs for every other field), which means that if you have a college degree and you can manage to find yourself some real world experience(which is the challenge), you're looking at reasonable chances of employment, just not at what you used to make. It seems that many of the jobs that were lost were the people who were underqualified to begin with."
...but at least people you don't like won't have jobs. That's an improvement?
So instead of having a world where jobs were plentiful and people were making good money, we'll have a world where some people will be able to get jobs for lower pay...
What do you do? Flip coins?
"One (humbling) thing to remember about reading math is that someone was the first to prove these theorems. Not only did this person not know the direction the proof would take in advance, but he/she didn't know either the hypothesis or conclusion either."
It's not like people prove things at random. At least in my experience, they notice some patterns and start to wonder if that's always true and work on a proof (or disproof) of it.
"IMHO, assuming you have access in school to the resources: the best way to understand concepts like imaginary numbers is through hands on lab work."
Spoken like a physicist. To a mathematican, the best way to understand imaginary numbers is to say something like, "It annoyed people that the equation 'x^2 = -1' didn't have a solution. They just made up an answer to give them something to play with. Oh it also turns out that this models real world stuff for some reason, but that's not very important."
What if there is a parallel universe filled with coffee and we're about to get dunked in it?
After completing one of the tasks in HP&CoS about halfway through, I saved my progress, walked a few steps, and suddenly died for no reason. Restore from save. Take a step. Die. No matter what I did, I ended up dying at which point the game would freeze. I had to start all over.
Of course, since the game takes like 2 days to beat, that wasn't that huge of a deal.
My problem with Angel is that I'm currently hating all of the characters (except for Lorne). It makes the show painful to watch.
The problem isn't so much that it is if-then statements as that AI solutions to problems tend to be based around brute force. "I checked every possible series of actions and this one seems to be the best." That is far different from the way that we seem to make decisions, so it doesn't seem intelligent to us.
What annoyed me so much about the faux timeout is that the plan seemed to be to try to call it at the last second to force the Titans to kick it twice. If you're going to play that kind of game, it will backfire occasionally.
Icing the kicker is just a stupid thing to do anyway. Other than the previous kick (after all of the fireworks went off) I've never seen it work.
And yes, the helmet to helmet hit that caused the fumble should have been penalized.
yeah but at least that way you know whether or not you're paying for the call. That can be a good thing to know.
Ok no one would read this because it's too far down, but the killer app for XM would be for sports fans. I'm a Seattle Mariners fan. I'd pay $10 a month to know that wherever I was in the country, I could pick up the game... and if it's boring I could switch to see how other games were going. The sports market is huge and I bet this would sell more XM boxes than anything else.