Having just gotten back from Guatemala, you already see a fair amount of the "squalid children with big eyes huddled under sodden tarps" even if not in the urban centers.
The country has some pretty significant poverty/living condition issues and the city is one of the BETTER parts of the country. Any sort of relocation project is entirely impossible given the finances and state of the nation.
The issue really is that any sort of infrastructure project might be equally crippled. This in many ways reminds of the situation in Haiti prior to the earthquake. They know they are in a hazardus environment, but the lack of ability to implement anything in terms of building code or infrastructure programs means that prayer and luck are the only options.
Actually the limit is around 27% but just takes special yeast.
The Sam Adam's Utopias are made this way (no distillation). They simply took the hardiest yeast from repeated generations to get a strain that had extremely high alcohol survivability. This allowed them to reach 27%. That being said, there will always be a limit before the yeast dies off. The only way to push the ABV is distillation, which in my mind, really isn't beer. Beer by definition is a fermented not a distilled drink.
I think its half and half. I think EMI is being motivated purely by profit, while the band could care less about the money and is concerned about their artistic record and creative integrity.
I don't think its necessarily and inherent trait (though it could be a reason certain people gravitate to the work), but I HAVE noticed that the work also ingrains this view. Its common, at least in a good engineering environment, to have significant individual responsibility and accountability for ones work. You want a person who owns their results. As such over time engineers begin to get the mentality that they are always right. Its a two sided coin for sure. Nobody wants a waffling engineer who once he's run his numbers or written his code that isn't confident it is correct and will do what he/she wants. By the same token, being blind to the possibility that there might be a mistake and accepting criticism/peer review is definitely a flaw.
I think the best mix for an engineer is one who's grown confident in their abilities to the point of expecting that when they do something they did it right, and taking ownership for the work they create, BUT is open to the idea that mistakes do happen and thats what working as part of a team is all about, constructive feedback, and adding to your future capabilities.
But what is the breakdown within those percentages of engineering degrees. I suspect as a whole, that Europe's percentage will be higher than in the US and the Arab and Asian nations even higher still. The reason the numbers are so inflated in the west is all the liberal arts degrees that people take so that they can "get a degree".
This speaks as much to the issues in our nations education and social priorities as anything else, but those numbers don't really tell the story of whether engineers are more prevalent in Arab states.
Thats not true at all. If say 3 directions are working correctly, but 1 is obscured, as long as the 1 direction that is obscured is treated as a stop, they will ok. Sure someone might go through on green another direction, but the person who stops is supposed to look before proceeding, the idea being that they will see on coming traffic.
Ideally all directions would treat it as a 4 way stop, be the effect if they don't is the same as a 2 way stop on a road where the other 2 directions always have the right of way.
I completely agree. I've had the unlimited plan for about 5 years, since my Original Rzr. I've since been using it with my iPaq and was just about to buy an HP netbook that I could drop my SIM into for data connections.
I've been an ATT customer for about 12 years, and if they drop the unlimited data I'll just switch to Verizon or Tmobile. I've been waiting patiently for a 'Droid phone I can use on ATT anyway, this would be the perfect time for me to just get one and switch carriers.
Not sure where you saw orders tanking, they have over 840 currently, and thats without orders to come once airlines see the performance of the initial models.
The blackout was one of the telemetry cameras failing. They mentioned this in one of the press releases.
I agree though, very elegant looking rocket, and damn was it fast.
I believe the trajectory was in part due to the fact that they weren't trying to reach orbit, they were just going to 21 miles and letting it fall back to earth over the Atlantic.
Or you could try killing 2 birds with one stone. Why bother with sending it up empty. I'm sure they have some Satellite that they will need to put up, or some other project, maybe an ISS mission.
They can send it up to do whatever the prescribed job is, and then grab the hubble and bring it back.
The only issue might be the orbits. Would take significant fuel to change orbits if they are far apart.
Might be a cool mission to test some robotic recovery systems. Fire a capsule up and use a robot to place it inside the capsule and then return it.
I've seen the movie, and while I agree their motives in destroying the cars and fighting the laws belayed their true intentions, the real truth is someplace between your post and the parent post.
GM was still losing huge amounts of money on the EV1. They were rumored to cost upwards of 30k each just to produce them. No matter what price they leased them at they were essentially taking a loss to prove the concept.
The real question that the movie raises is why GM fought to pull them off the road rather than just sell the, cut their losses and be done with the whole mess. I think this is where the slimy corporation part comes into play. With those cars around as a reminded people would constantly be begging the question "Here is where we were, why haven't we moved forward?"
Did you play EQ2? It most certainly has a long standing storyline that the factions are key to.
Most of it goes back 10+ years into the original game.
They don't do morphing, and while it might be awkward having a DE playing on the light side, it does allow for interesting class/race combos you couldn't normally get.
Additionally you still have faction impacts, etc. Some races exist on both sides already so thats less of a racial thing.
When you switch factions all of your spells reset to their base quality, and a bunch of your factions get altered, so its not like switching is free. There is a significant in game penalty to doing it.
Additionally there is a non aligned faction you temporarily (or in some people's cases permanently) join, which has significant penalties (no major cities to use, PKable by both sides, etc).
The system added a great element to the game when it first came out (though some of that was neutralized).
People would run smuggling operations betraying people back and forth to sell and get goods from the other cities before they had cross faction vendors (though they have a 40% penalty so some of this still probably happens). It allowed for very uncommon race/class combos. It allowed for some interesting dynamics between factions since the factions couldn't directly communicate with each other.
Isn't a big issue at this point finding endpoints inside the country to connect the proxies to?
One thread I was reading said they were down to 2-3 ssh connections.
I'm having very 1980's visions of WARdialing Iranian phone numbers trying to find places to set up a connection, hehe.
On a more serious (realistic note). Has there been any effort to find people with satellite uplinks who could host proxies or even a non-local IP inside the country? I have no idea if there's any prevalence of wi-fi inside the country, but some NATed subnets using sat uplinks would have latency, but the government wouldn't be able to do much to block them, and they could be mobile.
They succeed at getting the community energized and just together having fun. A smart company would use that not to get media attention, but to target the people it cares about getting its message. I would hazard to say that the press coverage of a large newsbit at E3 generates as much new interest in a game, as a great demo at PAX that spreads word of mouth through the community there.
Its similar to why PA is such a success. Like minded people taking their information from among their own as opposed to from some talking suit. Sure the E3 info makes the mainstream press, but the people who really make up the gaming community more often than not aren't swayed by that so much as what the community says.
It just happens to be that E3 contains information that the community ways in on because of its hype, but I think they filter and digest it just as much as they do if it came out on any other day.
It says in the article that usage will be covered by the cost of a regular Live Membership. So $50/year or whatever, but the vast majority of 360 users pay that already.
Indeed most of the motorola boxes Comcast uses are in fact pricey, fragile pieces of crap with a garbage in house OS Comcast uses to replace the Moto OS.
So the comparison is really around volume, and yeah the 360 is louder, but I'll take that given the chance to watch Sky or other things my cable box doesn't give me.
Most cable companies subsidize the cable boxes, renting them to customers as a fee. If I could own one and buy one of better quality than the ones the cable companies provide I'd do that in a second, and expect it to run a couple of hundred.
Re:Microsoft's Ripoff Of Sony's Skill Points
on
The Best Achievements
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
Indeed. Not to mention most people could care less about overall scores or totals, but rather compare with their friends what they've done in a specific game.
Oh you got the 10k kills in Halo? Nice I'm only 30% of the way there, etc.
Its only on the high end of things that the overall total becomes an e-peen contest.
The MS achievements are also nice because they gauge progress as well as skill in a lot of cases. You can tell if a person finished a game AND if they were good at it. Its the perfect mix as it allows a casual person to feel like they are achieving something and the hardcore gamer can bump his chest and show how he got the hardest achievement in the game done.
Exactly I said this when the first hints of the merger came out. Sun would be playing the role of DEC/Compaq in this merger.
IBM would buy them for their installed enterprise base and technology. Sparc goes the way of Alpha, and those existing customers convert to Linux or AIX. Sure some defect to HP or Dell, but thats what HP and IBM were doing already (cannibalizing Sun's existing market share). This would just be a way for IBM to get a much bigger foot in the door with those existing customers.
Meanwhile, Java, and any Solaris features/tech IBM deemed worthy would either get rolled into AIX, or turned into an open source Linux project under IBM's control.
Slashdot Mirror
But is there a way a government that can't properly feed 23% of its citizens and has 56% below the poverty line can afford?
source info
Having just gotten back from Guatemala, you already see a fair amount of the "squalid children with big eyes huddled under sodden tarps" even if not in the urban centers.
The country has some pretty significant poverty/living condition issues and the city is one of the BETTER parts of the country. Any sort of relocation project is entirely impossible given the finances and state of the nation.
The issue really is that any sort of infrastructure project might be equally crippled. This in many ways reminds of the situation in Haiti prior to the earthquake. They know they are in a hazardus environment, but the lack of ability to implement anything in terms of building code or infrastructure programs means that prayer and luck are the only options.
Actually the limit is around 27% but just takes special yeast.
The Sam Adam's Utopias are made this way (no distillation). They simply took the hardiest yeast from repeated generations to get a strain that had extremely high alcohol survivability. This allowed them to reach 27%. That being said, there will always be a limit before the yeast dies off. The only way to push the ABV is distillation, which in my mind, really isn't beer. Beer by definition is a fermented not a distilled drink.
I think its half and half. I think EMI is being motivated purely by profit, while the band could care less about the money and is concerned about their artistic record and creative integrity.
I don't think its necessarily and inherent trait (though it could be a reason certain people gravitate to the work), but I HAVE noticed that the work also ingrains this view. Its common, at least in a good engineering environment, to have significant individual responsibility and accountability for ones work. You want a person who owns their results. As such over time engineers begin to get the mentality that they are always right. Its a two sided coin for sure. Nobody wants a waffling engineer who once he's run his numbers or written his code that isn't confident it is correct and will do what he/she wants. By the same token, being blind to the possibility that there might be a mistake and accepting criticism/peer review is definitely a flaw.
I think the best mix for an engineer is one who's grown confident in their abilities to the point of expecting that when they do something they did it right, and taking ownership for the work they create, BUT is open to the idea that mistakes do happen and thats what working as part of a team is all about, constructive feedback, and adding to your future capabilities.
But what is the breakdown within those percentages of engineering degrees. I suspect as a whole, that Europe's percentage will be higher than in the US and the Arab and Asian nations even higher still. The reason the numbers are so inflated in the west is all the liberal arts degrees that people take so that they can "get a degree".
This speaks as much to the issues in our nations education and social priorities as anything else, but those numbers don't really tell the story of whether engineers are more prevalent in Arab states.
Thats not true at all. If say 3 directions are working correctly, but 1 is obscured, as long as the 1 direction that is obscured is treated as a stop, they will ok. Sure someone might go through on green another direction, but the person who stops is supposed to look before proceeding, the idea being that they will see on coming traffic.
Ideally all directions would treat it as a 4 way stop, be the effect if they don't is the same as a 2 way stop on a road where the other 2 directions always have the right of way.
I completely agree. I've had the unlimited plan for about 5 years, since my Original Rzr. I've since been using it with my iPaq and was just about to buy an HP netbook that I could drop my SIM into for data connections.
I've been an ATT customer for about 12 years, and if they drop the unlimited data I'll just switch to Verizon or Tmobile. I've been waiting patiently for a 'Droid phone I can use on ATT anyway, this would be the perfect time for me to just get one and switch carriers.
Not sure where you saw orders tanking, they have over 840 currently, and thats without orders to come once airlines see the performance of the initial models.
The blackout was one of the telemetry cameras failing. They mentioned this in one of the press releases.
I agree though, very elegant looking rocket, and damn was it fast.
I believe the trajectory was in part due to the fact that they weren't trying to reach orbit, they were just going to 21 miles and letting it fall back to earth over the Atlantic.
I feel bad that I lost my 5 digit uid during college over a decade ago :(
at least they fix it for free.
Or you could try killing 2 birds with one stone. Why bother with sending it up empty. I'm sure they have some Satellite that they will need to put up, or some other project, maybe an ISS mission.
They can send it up to do whatever the prescribed job is, and then grab the hubble and bring it back.
The only issue might be the orbits. Would take significant fuel to change orbits if they are far apart.
Might be a cool mission to test some robotic recovery systems. Fire a capsule up and use a robot to place it inside the capsule and then return it.
I've seen the movie, and while I agree their motives in destroying the cars and fighting the laws belayed their true intentions, the real truth is someplace between your post and the parent post.
GM was still losing huge amounts of money on the EV1. They were rumored to cost upwards of 30k each just to produce them. No matter what price they leased them at they were essentially taking a loss to prove the concept.
The real question that the movie raises is why GM fought to pull them off the road rather than just sell the, cut their losses and be done with the whole mess. I think this is where the slimy corporation part comes into play. With those cars around as a reminded people would constantly be begging the question "Here is where we were, why haven't we moved forward?"
Did you play EQ2? It most certainly has a long standing storyline that the factions are key to.
Most of it goes back 10+ years into the original game.
They don't do morphing, and while it might be awkward having a DE playing on the light side, it does allow for interesting class/race combos you couldn't normally get.
Additionally you still have faction impacts, etc. Some races exist on both sides already so thats less of a racial thing.
When you switch factions all of your spells reset to their base quality, and a bunch of your factions get altered, so its not like switching is free. There is a significant in game penalty to doing it.
Additionally there is a non aligned faction you temporarily (or in some people's cases permanently) join, which has significant penalties (no major cities to use, PKable by both sides, etc).
The system added a great element to the game when it first came out (though some of that was neutralized).
People would run smuggling operations betraying people back and forth to sell and get goods from the other cities before they had cross faction vendors (though they have a 40% penalty so some of this still probably happens). It allowed for very uncommon race/class combos. It allowed for some interesting dynamics between factions since the factions couldn't directly communicate with each other.
Isn't a big issue at this point finding endpoints inside the country to connect the proxies to?
One thread I was reading said they were down to 2-3 ssh connections.
I'm having very 1980's visions of WARdialing Iranian phone numbers trying to find places to set up a connection, hehe.
On a more serious (realistic note). Has there been any effort to find people with satellite uplinks who could host proxies or even a non-local IP inside the country? I have no idea if there's any prevalence of wi-fi inside the country, but some NATed subnets using sat uplinks would have latency, but the government wouldn't be able to do much to block them, and they could be mobile.
Would be bright, not a doomsday scenario:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse#Betelgeuse.27s_fate
grants, debt, scholarships, and summer work for spending cash.
I think more importantly PAX doesn't WANT to.
They succeed at getting the community energized and just together having fun. A smart company would use that not to get media attention, but to target the people it cares about getting its message. I would hazard to say that the press coverage of a large newsbit at E3 generates as much new interest in a game, as a great demo at PAX that spreads word of mouth through the community there.
Its similar to why PA is such a success. Like minded people taking their information from among their own as opposed to from some talking suit. Sure the E3 info makes the mainstream press, but the people who really make up the gaming community more often than not aren't swayed by that so much as what the community says.
It just happens to be that E3 contains information that the community ways in on because of its hype, but I think they filter and digest it just as much as they do if it came out on any other day.
Basically make it PAX with press conferences?
And thats not taking into account the fact that PAX has already planned to start holding 2 iterations per year. One on each coast.
Its really pretty simple E3=conference for game companies PAX=conference for gamers. The population of one is much greater than the other.
It says in the article that usage will be covered by the cost of a regular Live Membership. So $50/year or whatever, but the vast majority of 360 users pay that already.
Indeed most of the motorola boxes Comcast uses are in fact pricey, fragile pieces of crap with a garbage in house OS Comcast uses to replace the Moto OS.
So the comparison is really around volume, and yeah the 360 is louder, but I'll take that given the chance to watch Sky or other things my cable box doesn't give me.
Most cable companies subsidize the cable boxes, renting them to customers as a fee. If I could own one and buy one of better quality than the ones the cable companies provide I'd do that in a second, and expect it to run a couple of hundred.
Indeed. Not to mention most people could care less about overall scores or totals, but rather compare with their friends what they've done in a specific game.
Oh you got the 10k kills in Halo? Nice I'm only 30% of the way there, etc.
Its only on the high end of things that the overall total becomes an e-peen contest.
The MS achievements are also nice because they gauge progress as well as skill in a lot of cases. You can tell if a person finished a game AND if they were good at it. Its the perfect mix as it allows a casual person to feel like they are achieving something and the hardcore gamer can bump his chest and show how he got the hardest achievement in the game done.
Exactly I said this when the first hints of the merger came out. Sun would be playing the role of DEC/Compaq in this merger.
IBM would buy them for their installed enterprise base and technology. Sparc goes the way of Alpha, and those existing customers convert to Linux or AIX. Sure some defect to HP or Dell, but thats what HP and IBM were doing already (cannibalizing Sun's existing market share). This would just be a way for IBM to get a much bigger foot in the door with those existing customers.
Meanwhile, Java, and any Solaris features/tech IBM deemed worthy would either get rolled into AIX, or turned into an open source Linux project under IBM's control.