I have 2GB of mail saved on my home thunderbird and it is so slow to open that I've switched back to gmail's web interface. Apparently there was a bug where large mailboxes with lots of small messages caused the indexing to choke, but you know what? I don't care why it happened, I care that thunderbird performed horribly on a medium amount of mail. I care that GMail or Outlook can handle that amount without trying, and I'm not going back to thunderbird unless there is compelling reason to leave GMail's web-interface.
Maybe you missed the part where the US military costs more than *every other world military combined*. Stop and think about that. You're a large country with only 2 neighbors accessible by land, neither of which is hostile towards you. The only other armies in the world that have both the manpower and potential technology to threaten you from across an ocean are Russia, which is having trouble making payments to keep their nuclear subs heated, and China, who would have trouble maintaining their standard of living if their biggest customer suddenly disappeared. You have so many overlapping military and pseudo-military branches with their own messy bureaucracies that the pentagon has said it can't even put together a high-level accurate budget! I think you could significantly cut military spending and still be the greatest military power in the world, by far.
For embedded devices, sure. But I don't see any desktops or laptops being sold with anything other than x86 at Best Buy. Microsoft competes with Nintendo and Sony in games, doesn't mean they don't have an OS / document suite monopoly.
Due to NAFTA the US has pretty much unlimited access to Canada's oil. Also saying Quebec wants independence is pushing it, Quebec has had 2 referendums on separating and both times chose to stay. Given the amount of power Quebec is given in the Canadian Constitution and the money they receive from the rest of Canada via equalization payments I don't think they're going anywhere any time soon.
It's called eating your own dog food. If every Apple employee got a free iPhone (for work purposes, of course) do you think Apple would still ignore issues that technical people care about? Internal bug reports tend to carry more weight then internet complaining.
I'm in the same situation, only with smart phones. I'm sure some people own that phone from that fruity company, but they aren't bringing them to work. On the other hand, if you own a bottom-of-the-line cheap little smart phone for personal use no one is going to care if you bring it. In the case of Pepsi I bet no one would care if you brought no name cola, since it isn't really a competitor.
Someone who wants a $400 computer is not going to buy an apple. If you have $1200 to blow on a laptop then Apple is great if that's your thing, but that's still triple the price a lot of people want to pay for their computer.
Global warming switched to climate change when they realized that the warming would stop the NW current, which would actually cause the climate to cool in places where the ocean currents normally provide temperate climates (like Britain). See, they discovered that the name as it was was actually deceptive, so they changed it.
It costs the company around 50k to train someone in a professional setting. If you've been there a while there could be knowledge lost that no one else has when you leave, which can be linked to even more money lost. Assuming you make 100k the only way you lose as much as the company is if you take 6 months to find a new job, assuming you get no severance. I would say for most people it hurts the company more when someone quits than it hurts a person to be let go.
Bull. As someone who learned manual for the first 10 or so years driving, then switched to automatic I can say that if you're good at driving manual then it makes no difference if you're driving manual or automatic. The motions and decisions around switching gears just becomes habit and you don't think about it any more than you think about pushing on the gas to speed up. A manual does not take more skill to drive, it just takes a little practice. These days they can't even match an automatic for gas mileage, and in a few more years they won't be able to match an electric for acceleration so there really will be no point to buying manual (other than a small cost savings, perhaps)
Fair enough, but unlike whatever you told that girl in the bar they are lies in writing, there is no he said/she said/hearsay issues. There's still no major difference between facebook posts and anything else you put in writing and leave somewhere it could be subpoenaed.
That's fine, have a manual mode and an automatic mode. Or have some roads be for human drivers and some for self-driving cars only. At least on the highway it should be possible for some cars to be human driven and others to be machine driven. Some people today like to drive cars really, really fast. That's why we have racetracks. Eventually it will probably be the same way with driving a car yourself.
We're getting there though. There are cars that will parallel park themselves, ones that will alert you if you're drifting over your lane markings, ones that will beep at you if you're about to back up into something. Each of these things is a small step towards getting a car to drive itself. It may be quite a ways out before a car can navigate busy city streets, but I could see one handling highway driving within the next 10-20 years.
Just to clarify, assuming you use the same system I've seen around here, the truck is essentially designed to drive around a small rail cargo box. The box is loaded at the factory, the truck takes it to the rail station, where it is lifted off the truck and placed on a rail car. Because the truck can only be so high the boxes can usually be stacked on top of each other to minimize the number of train cars required. Once the train reaches the destination the box is placed on another truck where it is driven the last bit to the retailer.
You would think they could solve the cold battery issue: put the battery in a well-insulated box, and use a small amount of charge from the battery to ensure that the ambient temperature in the box stays within the ideal range for the battery. Either that or find some way to make a battery perform well in cold winter temperatures. I'm sure one or the other will be done at some point, since there are a lot of us living in climates that aren't as nice as California.
The major credit rating agencies are US companies right? Is it going to be in their own best interests to lower the credit rating of their home country?
But do you have a problem with them teaching the history of evolution? In particular, that before Darwin it was believed that creatures were essentially created the way they currently exist. Without looking at the particulars of their data it could be that teachers saying 'here's what ID teaches and here's why it is wrong according to the evidence we have' could be lumped into that 72% of teachers teaching ID. Competing theories should be taught, even if they're crazy, because if we aren't willing to understand a different viewpoint there is no way we can competently argue against it. Hell, we even teach string theory to physicists, and there is not a shred of proof that that model is correct.
Depends on how they do it. I remember being taught the history of the atomic model, including some bits about 4 elements, aethers, and how religion influenced some of the historic models. So long as evolution is taught as the leading theory based on the massive amounts of evidence we have, who cares if they pay a few seconds of lip service to what some other people believe?
Yes, but they aren't using them as sworn testimony (I assume). There's no reason not to treat them the same as a letter or diary that is entered as evidence.
What you're seeing is the same thing that causes female programmers to generally be really good. It isn't that females are all naturally better at programming. It's that the programming profession is viewed as being a male profession, so it's not something a female is going to do as a default. In other words: girls who are developers are developers because they want to be. Most people who do what they want to do, not something they were pressured into are better than people who do something they were told would make them lots of money.
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The recession ended quite some time ago, in case you missed it. It hasn't changed a generation any more than the past few recessions did.
The whitespace seems to be a slashdot 'feature' at the moment, I see it on all comments with just a few exceptions right now.
I have 2GB of mail saved on my home thunderbird and it is so slow to open that I've switched back to gmail's web interface. Apparently there was a bug where large mailboxes with lots of small messages caused the indexing to choke, but you know what? I don't care why it happened, I care that thunderbird performed horribly on a medium amount of mail. I care that GMail or Outlook can handle that amount without trying, and I'm not going back to thunderbird unless there is compelling reason to leave GMail's web-interface.
Maybe you missed the part where the US military costs more than *every other world military combined*. Stop and think about that. You're a large country with only 2 neighbors accessible by land, neither of which is hostile towards you. The only other armies in the world that have both the manpower and potential technology to threaten you from across an ocean are Russia, which is having trouble making payments to keep their nuclear subs heated, and China, who would have trouble maintaining their standard of living if their biggest customer suddenly disappeared. You have so many overlapping military and pseudo-military branches with their own messy bureaucracies that the pentagon has said it can't even put together a high-level accurate budget! I think you could significantly cut military spending and still be the greatest military power in the world, by far.
For embedded devices, sure. But I don't see any desktops or laptops being sold with anything other than x86 at Best Buy. Microsoft competes with Nintendo and Sony in games, doesn't mean they don't have an OS / document suite monopoly.
Due to NAFTA the US has pretty much unlimited access to Canada's oil. Also saying Quebec wants independence is pushing it, Quebec has had 2 referendums on separating and both times chose to stay. Given the amount of power Quebec is given in the Canadian Constitution and the money they receive from the rest of Canada via equalization payments I don't think they're going anywhere any time soon.
It's called eating your own dog food. If every Apple employee got a free iPhone (for work purposes, of course) do you think Apple would still ignore issues that technical people care about? Internal bug reports tend to carry more weight then internet complaining.
I'm in the same situation, only with smart phones. I'm sure some people own that phone from that fruity company, but they aren't bringing them to work. On the other hand, if you own a bottom-of-the-line cheap little smart phone for personal use no one is going to care if you bring it. In the case of Pepsi I bet no one would care if you brought no name cola, since it isn't really a competitor.
If you have to cheat on the assignments you're never going to be able to pass the exam required to get the grades to get the interview.
Someone who wants a $400 computer is not going to buy an apple. If you have $1200 to blow on a laptop then Apple is great if that's your thing, but that's still triple the price a lot of people want to pay for their computer.
Global warming switched to climate change when they realized that the warming would stop the NW current, which would actually cause the climate to cool in places where the ocean currents normally provide temperate climates (like Britain). See, they discovered that the name as it was was actually deceptive, so they changed it.
Thank goodness Verison is still CDMA then!
It costs the company around 50k to train someone in a professional setting. If you've been there a while there could be knowledge lost that no one else has when you leave, which can be linked to even more money lost. Assuming you make 100k the only way you lose as much as the company is if you take 6 months to find a new job, assuming you get no severance. I would say for most people it hurts the company more when someone quits than it hurts a person to be let go.
Bull. As someone who learned manual for the first 10 or so years driving, then switched to automatic I can say that if you're good at driving manual then it makes no difference if you're driving manual or automatic. The motions and decisions around switching gears just becomes habit and you don't think about it any more than you think about pushing on the gas to speed up. A manual does not take more skill to drive, it just takes a little practice. These days they can't even match an automatic for gas mileage, and in a few more years they won't be able to match an electric for acceleration so there really will be no point to buying manual (other than a small cost savings, perhaps)
Fair enough, but unlike whatever you told that girl in the bar they are lies in writing, there is no he said/she said/hearsay issues. There's still no major difference between facebook posts and anything else you put in writing and leave somewhere it could be subpoenaed.
That's fine, have a manual mode and an automatic mode. Or have some roads be for human drivers and some for self-driving cars only. At least on the highway it should be possible for some cars to be human driven and others to be machine driven. Some people today like to drive cars really, really fast. That's why we have racetracks. Eventually it will probably be the same way with driving a car yourself.
We're getting there though. There are cars that will parallel park themselves, ones that will alert you if you're drifting over your lane markings, ones that will beep at you if you're about to back up into something. Each of these things is a small step towards getting a car to drive itself. It may be quite a ways out before a car can navigate busy city streets, but I could see one handling highway driving within the next 10-20 years.
Just to clarify, assuming you use the same system I've seen around here, the truck is essentially designed to drive around a small rail cargo box. The box is loaded at the factory, the truck takes it to the rail station, where it is lifted off the truck and placed on a rail car. Because the truck can only be so high the boxes can usually be stacked on top of each other to minimize the number of train cars required. Once the train reaches the destination the box is placed on another truck where it is driven the last bit to the retailer.
I thought the current prius batteries were going a lot farther than 70000?
You would think they could solve the cold battery issue: put the battery in a well-insulated box, and use a small amount of charge from the battery to ensure that the ambient temperature in the box stays within the ideal range for the battery. Either that or find some way to make a battery perform well in cold winter temperatures. I'm sure one or the other will be done at some point, since there are a lot of us living in climates that aren't as nice as California.
The major credit rating agencies are US companies right? Is it going to be in their own best interests to lower the credit rating of their home country?
But do you have a problem with them teaching the history of evolution? In particular, that before Darwin it was believed that creatures were essentially created the way they currently exist. Without looking at the particulars of their data it could be that teachers saying 'here's what ID teaches and here's why it is wrong according to the evidence we have' could be lumped into that 72% of teachers teaching ID. Competing theories should be taught, even if they're crazy, because if we aren't willing to understand a different viewpoint there is no way we can competently argue against it. Hell, we even teach string theory to physicists, and there is not a shred of proof that that model is correct.
Depends on how they do it. I remember being taught the history of the atomic model, including some bits about 4 elements, aethers, and how religion influenced some of the historic models. So long as evolution is taught as the leading theory based on the massive amounts of evidence we have, who cares if they pay a few seconds of lip service to what some other people believe?
Yes, but they aren't using them as sworn testimony (I assume). There's no reason not to treat them the same as a letter or diary that is entered as evidence.
What you're seeing is the same thing that causes female programmers to generally be really good. It isn't that females are all naturally better at programming. It's that the programming profession is viewed as being a male profession, so it's not something a female is going to do as a default. In other words: girls who are developers are developers because they want to be. Most people who do what they want to do, not something they were pressured into are better than people who do something they were told would make them lots of money.