which is somewhat less than what they've been required to sock away for the '75-year retirement' plan Congress dropped on them in '06. If they hadn't had that requirement, they wouldn't have that debt...
Prior art still has an effect; you still (theoretically) can't patent something 'obvious' or something that's actually been available for sale for a year. Switching to first-to-file mostly gets rid of arguments about "yeah, my app got in a month later but I thought of the idea 3 months before them, really!"
and there we find the problem. Competent patent reviewers (especially in the numbers needed) cost more than the PTO can afford, especially with Congress siphoning off much of their revenue (from patent applications). So you get either too few good ones or many not-so-good ones, and either way they can't handle the workload.
At that point, why do you need sales tax even if you are using a brick and mortar store? I have my doubts that your property taxes cover all that. (Of course, if you live in a state that has no sales tax, you shouldn't be affected anyway.)
Oh, certainly. While money isn't a great motivator of good work, it's an excellent motivator for not getting yourself fired... and a lack of money (seen as a lack of appreciation) can be a very strong demotivator. But if the only reason you're doing it is to keep yourself from going broke, you're not going to be putting as much of yourself into it as someone who truly loves doing it, and the product will probably show it.
http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/2008/10/29/motivate-creative-people/
The problem is not directly the lack of disincentive for failure, it's the lack of balance. Adding clawbacks would penalize failure, but only if they get caught and only if they still have the money, and the bonus/clawback system is still a positive feedback. Negative feedback principles dictate that we remove causes before we add retribution; that is, rather than add an after-the-fact penalty that may not be enforceable, try to make it less desirable before the fact by removing the bonus.
Donating cash doesn't help, true. Donating used goods does, though, compared to throwing said goods out. (Compared to a yard sale, I dunno. Depends on what sells for how much.)
I believe the phrase "Roland Emmerich style" (in the whole "everything's going to freeze solid in 2 days!" sense) is significant in the mostly-quoted sentence...
I think it's more of disagreeing with "human behavior can affect what is going on". If we assume that's false, we may have to worry about the impact of change but we don't have to take responsibility for it, past or future, and we don't have to spend effort trying because we know it's not going to help. The ease of doing nothing without the guilt - a win-win! *remove tongue from cheek*
So how does this mean "you can make a model do absolutely anything"? A given model makes predictions. Those predictions are seen to be accurate or not accurate. A different model makes different predictions. A model that can do "absolutely anything" isn't making predictions, so nobody would pay attention to it.
My guess is two-fold: (a) a lot of folks like both, and (b) while all of it is 'fiction', going from 'high fantasy' to 'hard science fiction' is more of a spectrum than a hard break. The Belgariad is fantasy, and The Caves of Steel or Mote in God's Eye are science fiction (though even those can be argued not to be 'hard' SF) but where do you put the Perelandra books? Or Star Trek (late 60s version, in particular)? It's difficult to set an objective cutoff.
Well, they did say they were avoiding the genres 'horror' and 'teen', which tends to cover most of the vampire realm. But they also implied they intended to do those in future surveys.
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and how do you define 'too close' on the web?
which is somewhat less than what they've been required to sock away for the '75-year retirement' plan Congress dropped on them in '06. If they hadn't had that requirement, they wouldn't have that debt...
expensive yes, practical maybe not. I don't see offhand how it's more dangerous than having AC all over, but I'm not an EE. Would you care to explain?
nah, they can transition to other things pretty easily. Cows, for example.
Oh, that's easy. Given large prime p, the factors are 1 and p. Large non-primes are left as an exercise for the reader :)
While I like the idea of doing a better job, doing the same job cheaper has a more predictable result in the quarterly profit report.
Prior art still has an effect; you still (theoretically) can't patent something 'obvious' or something that's actually been available for sale for a year. Switching to first-to-file mostly gets rid of arguments about "yeah, my app got in a month later but I thought of the idea 3 months before them, really!"
and there we find the problem. Competent patent reviewers (especially in the numbers needed) cost more than the PTO can afford, especially with Congress siphoning off much of their revenue (from patent applications). So you get either too few good ones or many not-so-good ones, and either way they can't handle the workload.
corn-fed cows have substantially higher levels of e coli. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_feeding references a study from Cornell.
My Harmony remote is my best entertainment-center investment ever, bar none. My wife claims that without that she'd have broken up with me :)
I also found apt to be annoying. aptitude, however, is the shiznit.
I dub this argument 'Xeno's Suicide' :)
At that point, why do you need sales tax even if you are using a brick and mortar store? I have my doubts that your property taxes cover all that. (Of course, if you live in a state that has no sales tax, you shouldn't be affected anyway.)
Oh, certainly. While money isn't a great motivator of good work, it's an excellent motivator for not getting yourself fired... and a lack of money (seen as a lack of appreciation) can be a very strong demotivator. But if the only reason you're doing it is to keep yourself from going broke, you're not going to be putting as much of yourself into it as someone who truly loves doing it, and the product will probably show it.
http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/2008/10/29/motivate-creative-people/
I thought psychology had determined that we work best when we're doing the work because we enjoy it, not because we're getting rewarded for it.
The problem is not directly the lack of disincentive for failure, it's the lack of balance. Adding clawbacks would penalize failure, but only if they get caught and only if they still have the money, and the bonus/clawback system is still a positive feedback. Negative feedback principles dictate that we remove causes before we add retribution; that is, rather than add an after-the-fact penalty that may not be enforceable, try to make it less desirable before the fact by removing the bonus.
Donating cash doesn't help, true. Donating used goods does, though, compared to throwing said goods out. (Compared to a yard sale, I dunno. Depends on what sells for how much.)
I believe the phrase "Roland Emmerich style" (in the whole "everything's going to freeze solid in 2 days!" sense) is significant in the mostly-quoted sentence...
I think it's more of disagreeing with "human behavior can affect what is going on". If we assume that's false, we may have to worry about the impact of change but we don't have to take responsibility for it, past or future, and we don't have to spend effort trying because we know it's not going to help. The ease of doing nothing without the guilt - a win-win! *remove tongue from cheek*
So how does this mean "you can make a model do absolutely anything"? A given model makes predictions. Those predictions are seen to be accurate or not accurate. A different model makes different predictions. A model that can do "absolutely anything" isn't making predictions, so nobody would pay attention to it.
do you have evidence that these ethnic tribal units didn't have a chief?
Sure, but the Science Fiction shelf is going to get very small if you push out the stuff that's really Futuristic Fantasy.
My guess is two-fold: (a) a lot of folks like both, and (b) while all of it is 'fiction', going from 'high fantasy' to 'hard science fiction' is more of a spectrum than a hard break. The Belgariad is fantasy, and The Caves of Steel or Mote in God's Eye are science fiction (though even those can be argued not to be 'hard' SF) but where do you put the Perelandra books? Or Star Trek (late 60s version, in particular)? It's difficult to set an objective cutoff.
Well, they did say they were avoiding the genres 'horror' and 'teen', which tends to cover most of the vampire realm. But they also implied they intended to do those in future surveys.
Oooh, I like this. Thanks for the pointer!