Hey, it almost sounds like an premeditated consequence. Like, hey, if we oppress most of the population into submission, those smart enough to fight back will figure stuff out that we can use on other people, or we could even hire them.
As much as we all despise meetings, they are often needed. I've seen email exchanges go on for days arguing about something that could have been resolved in about 15 minutes with a simple conference call.
Then again, communicating properly in text is a skill that can be learned and developed. Young people who spend their lives text messaging have a great deal more experience expressing themselves in text than the previous generation, which may lead to more productive digital conversations.
Also, IM is different from email in that it is much easier to have a back-and-forth like in a spoken conversation. It also discourages having a huge CC list like emails where 15 people have to wade through two people's misunderstanding, saving the company a lot of time.
Furthermore, in some topics text can have a higher effective bandwidth than the spoken word. For programmers, the ability to send properly formatted code snippets back and forth is a big advantage over sitting in a meeting room with a white board. Plus, for a lot of problems you just need sparse but frequent communication with someone while you are working, and IM is perfect for when you aren't in the same room.
Meetings are not the scourge of business, improperly managed meetings are.
Wages aren't necessarily the most important attraction. Medicine is another field in which we have a shortage of students, and the overwhelming cause is the cost of extended medical school. If we had more scholarships and grants and fellowships to fund people's education, more people could follow their dreams to be a doctor or engineer.
What's the point in racking up $50-150k in student loans if you're going to be making $100k in 5 years? By that logic, getting a cheaper degree--and a better-paying job--is a no-brainer. However, if you could get through school without any debt and do what you love, the wage scale would be much less of an issue.
Some rouge nation meeting their nonproliferation obligations hits the US with a chemical attack in a major city. Say, one million dead... and we won't nuke them back?
No. We tickle them mercilessly until they mess up their makeup.
But more seriously, no. If they truly are a rogue state, killing their civilians won't do any good against the leadership, and more than likely would give them propaganda fodder for continuing to fight against the "enemy of the people." The only way to deal with a serious attack is to use overwhelming conventional force to take out their military in the most precise way possible. We know how to do that, right?
NASA-speak frequently involves sentences consisting entirely of articles, prepositions, and acronyms. Half our "words" turn out to be backronyms, and some nested acronyms (acronyms for strings of acronyms) are easily four or five levels deep.
Discount shipping required dismantling several highway bridges and $10,000 fuel surcharge. Problems all the way. Buy with caution. Hire your own demolition team and save $$$.
Or we could keep flying them, at excruciating cost, until every last one blows itself up, leaving nothing for future generations to remember a whole era of spaceflight by. The only reason the hardware cost so many billions of dollars is because so many man-hours went into retrofitting and repairing it to actually work. Face it, the only way to not have this problem is to take control of space travel away from politicians.
They started taking bids from museums a year or two ago, and closed the bidding last month. Currently marked down to the bargain-basement price of $28 million each, including shipping, no quantity discounts.
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Well, it was 2001. Some of our users were eating all their food out of gerber jars at the time.
All the eleven-year-olds who read slashdot? Yeah, they were.
Seriously, how much porn do we really need? Ever? If it has little or no artistic value, then one gang bang video is as good as the next, the pirated video market will reach saturation and and paying customers will demand less and less production. Only better/more interesting product will drive fresh consumption. Nothing else is worth paying for.
Oh, and this applies to Hollywood too. As long as you produce true art and not crap that isn't even worth watching Hulu ads for, you will survive as an industry in spite of the piracy.
Sure, why not? All harm to another is immoral. That's the fundamental (and fundamentally ignored) premise of many religions. And why do we ignore it? To justify things like war and torture and genocide and slavery and frivolous lawsuits, which for some reason seem like an awfully good idea to an awful lot of people at some points in time.
So basically, moral relativism is as much a part of human nature as morality in the first place. Anyone who tells you to always be moral and not harm anyone hasn't gotten around to the bit where you're supposed to "release the infidels from their worldly suffering" and bring them all their sheep when you're done with it.
Exactly. The whole problem is that what people perceive to be a safe speed is, in fact, not safe. The only way to change that perception is through massive PR campaigns and enforcement. No amount of environmental modifications will change how people determine what a safe speed is.
Now this is what we need to hear. If you've ever wondered how people manage in the crowded streets of cities in India, China, Africa, etc. (where pedestrians, animals, horse carts and trucks are all neck and neck with each other), it's because they are paying attention! It would never work if there were traffic lights or stop signs because those assume that automotive traffic has the right of way, which it doesn't on a city street.
How about we take a page out of New Hampshire's book? They actually enforce their speed limits to to the letter, and I've heard that people drive *under* the speed limit to avoid getting tickets all the time. The whole "10 mph over" unwritten rule (what we have in MD) really screws with people's respect for the law. When the rules are enforced reliably and to the letter, people are much more likely to respect them.
But then all the lawyers would resubmit millions of applications every year. You also have to limit the number of submissions per inventor or apply a tiered pricing program (first three applications cost $200 each, next 10 cost $10,000 each, after that $30,000 each). That way small inventors could compete with large corporations without totally swamping the system.
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Hey, it almost sounds like an premeditated consequence. Like, hey, if we oppress most of the population into submission, those smart enough to fight back will figure stuff out that we can use on other people, or we could even hire them.
As much as we all despise meetings, they are often needed. I've seen email exchanges go on for days arguing about something that could have been resolved in about 15 minutes with a simple conference call.
Then again, communicating properly in text is a skill that can be learned and developed. Young people who spend their lives text messaging have a great deal more experience expressing themselves in text than the previous generation, which may lead to more productive digital conversations.
Also, IM is different from email in that it is much easier to have a back-and-forth like in a spoken conversation. It also discourages having a huge CC list like emails where 15 people have to wade through two people's misunderstanding, saving the company a lot of time.
Furthermore, in some topics text can have a higher effective bandwidth than the spoken word. For programmers, the ability to send properly formatted code snippets back and forth is a big advantage over sitting in a meeting room with a white board. Plus, for a lot of problems you just need sparse but frequent communication with someone while you are working, and IM is perfect for when you aren't in the same room.
Meetings are not the scourge of business, improperly managed meetings are.
Kudos to that!
Wages aren't necessarily the most important attraction. Medicine is another field in which we have a shortage of students, and the overwhelming cause is the cost of extended medical school. If we had more scholarships and grants and fellowships to fund people's education, more people could follow their dreams to be a doctor or engineer.
What's the point in racking up $50-150k in student loans if you're going to be making $100k in 5 years? By that logic, getting a cheaper degree--and a better-paying job--is a no-brainer. However, if you could get through school without any debt and do what you love, the wage scale would be much less of an issue.
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He put the capacitor in backwards, and it exploded like a bomb. Good thing he didn't wait around to eat his lunch there.
Some rouge nation meeting their nonproliferation obligations hits the US with a chemical attack in a major city. Say, one million dead... and we won't nuke them back?
No. We tickle them mercilessly until they mess up their makeup.
But more seriously, no. If they truly are a rogue state, killing their civilians won't do any good against the leadership, and more than likely would give them propaganda fodder for continuing to fight against the "enemy of the people." The only way to deal with a serious attack is to use overwhelming conventional force to take out their military in the most precise way possible. We know how to do that, right?
It's just PDF 2.0... You can't have 2.0 without executable code. If it doesn't move, it's so pre 2.0.
So, is this no longer a problem in France?
NASA-speak frequently involves sentences consisting entirely of articles, prepositions, and acronyms. Half our "words" turn out to be backronyms, and some nested acronyms (acronyms for strings of acronyms) are easily four or five levels deep.
In that case it would be bring-your-own-747.
Discount shipping required dismantling several highway bridges and $10,000 fuel surcharge. Problems all the way. Buy with caution. Hire your own demolition team and save $$$.
Or we could keep flying them, at excruciating cost, until every last one blows itself up, leaving nothing for future generations to remember a whole era of spaceflight by. The only reason the hardware cost so many billions of dollars is because so many man-hours went into retrofitting and repairing it to actually work. Face it, the only way to not have this problem is to take control of space travel away from politicians.
They started taking bids from museums a year or two ago, and closed the bidding last month. Currently marked down to the bargain-basement price of $28 million each, including shipping, no quantity discounts.
Well, it was 2001. Some of our users were eating all their food out of gerber jars at the time.
All the eleven-year-olds who read slashdot? Yeah, they were.
Randall certainly didn't make it easy to parse, though. There's no line breaks and all there a dozen different constructions for the commands.
Duh, the article answered that question: no one. ;)
That just shows how huge the magnifying glass was.
Yeah, seriously, who forgot to add the "ihateaprilfools" tag?
Seriously, how much porn do we really need? Ever? If it has little or no artistic value, then one gang bang video is as good as the next, the pirated video market will reach saturation and and paying customers will demand less and less production. Only better/more interesting product will drive fresh consumption. Nothing else is worth paying for.
Oh, and this applies to Hollywood too. As long as you produce true art and not crap that isn't even worth watching Hulu ads for, you will survive as an industry in spite of the piracy.
Sure, why not? All harm to another is immoral. That's the fundamental (and fundamentally ignored) premise of many religions. And why do we ignore it? To justify things like war and torture and genocide and slavery and frivolous lawsuits, which for some reason seem like an awfully good idea to an awful lot of people at some points in time.
So basically, moral relativism is as much a part of human nature as morality in the first place. Anyone who tells you to always be moral and not harm anyone hasn't gotten around to the bit where you're supposed to "release the infidels from their worldly suffering" and bring them all their sheep when you're done with it.
Exactly. The whole problem is that what people perceive to be a safe speed is, in fact, not safe. The only way to change that perception is through massive PR campaigns and enforcement. No amount of environmental modifications will change how people determine what a safe speed is.
Now this is what we need to hear. If you've ever wondered how people manage in the crowded streets of cities in India, China, Africa, etc. (where pedestrians, animals, horse carts and trucks are all neck and neck with each other), it's because they are paying attention! It would never work if there were traffic lights or stop signs because those assume that automotive traffic has the right of way, which it doesn't on a city street.
How about we take a page out of New Hampshire's book? They actually enforce their speed limits to to the letter, and I've heard that people drive *under* the speed limit to avoid getting tickets all the time. The whole "10 mph over" unwritten rule (what we have in MD) really screws with people's respect for the law. When the rules are enforced reliably and to the letter, people are much more likely to respect them.
They were not made by man. They were made by woman (a.k.a. your mom).
But then all the lawyers would resubmit millions of applications every year. You also have to limit the number of submissions per inventor or apply a tiered pricing program (first three applications cost $200 each, next 10 cost $10,000 each, after that $30,000 each). That way small inventors could compete with large corporations without totally swamping the system.
Eh? Just get a DVI to HDMI cable. Or DisplayPort to HDMI. DVI and HDMI are just different connectors for the same signals.