Exactly. And furthermore, most of that water is just required for the little guys to swim around in and is just as recyclable as the N and P. Also, IIRC, at least some of the strains actually excrete the hydrocarbons (or possibly their esters) which makes processing dead easy.
Disclaimer: I didn't (don't) like Dubya, and I don't think he can be quite as stupid as he appeared. That said...
You can indeed be stupid and get a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard:
1. Daddy and Grandpa both went to Yale (i.e. legacy, counts for a lot)
2. Daddy was at the time head of the CIA
3. Daddy can afford to pay full tuition plus several quite generous contributions to the institutions in question
As an aside, when I was graduating from Yale grad school, Dubya was the commencement speaker. His big take-home message was that "you can be a straight-C student and still become president of the United States". See points 2 and 3 above for how a self-described "straight C student" even gets admitted to Harvard Business School.
That's great for the apps you use all the time (web browser, MS Office, etc.), but what about those apps that you use occasionally and don't want cluttering up your desktop space?
Um, the original Core did indeed make it into at least some desktop machines - it happens to be sitting in the 2006 iMac which is my main work computer and that I'm writing on at this moment. It was/is an odd chip: 64 bit addressing but only 32 bit instructions. Fortunately, most of the software I use doesn't need frequent updating, since just about everything Mac has been compiled 64 bit only for the last 2-3 years. I've had some "interesting" experiences getting certain things to run.
This is probably somewhat off-topic, but for some odd reason I felt the need to correct this...
Correction - Firewire was perceived to be more expensive.
IIRC, the licensing fee was all of about $1/port, with most devices having 2 ports for daisy chaining. At the time (I bought an early FW CD-RW drive), the cheapest FW drives of any type were in the $400 range. But rather than sell for $399 instead of $397, most manufacturers said "too expensive".
There are on the order of several dozen intuitive ways to combine 3 strings of 8 characters. So yes, there are about as many generatable passwords in your method as there are possible values for 1 character.
While what you say is probably true (I'm too lazy to do the math, but it's on the right order), it assumes that you already know the 8 character strings that are being combined. If you're trying to break into a buddy's account, know he uses such a scheme, etc. that's fine. But if you're trying to crack someone's account randomly, the password is for all practical purposes 24 characters long.
It really depends on where you are and what the local law is. I'm currently in Iowa City, and the city council recently (last month?) passed an ordinance explicitly removing public urination from the section of the code dealing with sex offenders. It's still a misdemeanor and will get you fined, but it won't put you on a registry.
This doesn't surprise me at all. When my mom took the test to be certified for elementary education (she was already certified to teach HS), she came home somewhat annoyed. Nearly every question had anywhere from 3-5 "correct" answers out of the 5 choices given. Apparently, you were supposed to figure out from the way the question was written that it was targeted at a 4th grader, and that answer (C) was the way in which an "average" 4th grader would answer it. I don't know how you figure out what an average 4th grader is or knows. And then complicate it by the fact that you need to differentiate between how a 3rd, 4th, and 5th grader would answer the same question since all three were possible choices.
Of course, I also took the SAT back in the day, which in the reading comprehension section had similar issues. There were often two correct answers, but one was "better" because that's what whoever wrote the question liked.
A semi-related anecdote from a time when I was living in Georgia:
One of the rural communities had a crumbling school, outdated and/or just missing textbooks, and most of the better teachers looking to move due to low pay (the school average was well under $30k in the late 90s). What do the fine residents decide? Why, let's build a new $2M football stadium and pay 6 coaches well over $100k/year each. Because Johnny is going to get a full ride to college playing football before a lucrative professional career, and Sally is going to go to the same college on a cheerleading scholarship and then marry Johnny. It didn't seem to matter that maybe one student from that town had gotten a football scholarship in the last decade.
2. the wages aren't horrible. I could make 30% more in the private sector, but my benis are solid, and I like having a life.
100% this. A government job may not truly be 9-5 M-F but usually doesn't require insane amounts of overtime. I suppose it depends on how much you value a life outside of the job vs. the number on your paycheck. And the benefit package is usually very good, especially healthcare. Although most jobs now have a 401k equivalent and not pensions. Then again, government employees who aren't purely political are certainly not overpaid, despite what most of the public seems to think.
I also have to agree on the firing. The paperwork and documentation are a pain in the ass, but it's really not that hard to get rid of a bad employee for cause. My dad worked in state government and oversaw quite a number of disciplinary hearings. There was rarely a problem, so long as the supervisor bringing the grievance had all the ducks in a row, even for unionized employees.
1. Advertising doesn't save money in any way, but it MAY lead to more sales.
2. Most academic research is funded by the government, at least in USA. Lately some companies are funding more, but that's only after they eliminated a large portion of their internal R&D to boost next quarter's profits.
3. Most of big pharma, including Bayer, has profit margins well in excess of 20%. Most other industries are happy with somewhere around 5% and would kill for those returns.
4. They won't be selling at a loss. According to TFA, the generic manufacturer will have to pay Bayer a royalty of 6% of profit. Which implies they can make a profit selling the pills for 97% less.
I sympathize with the airline staff. They have to deal with surly customers who start with the presumption that the airlines are out to get them. I start with the presumption that the people behind the desk are just trying to do their job as best they can...
You know, the two points above - airline out to get them, staff just doing their jobs - aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Personally, I don't think the airlines are out to get me, but I do believe that airline execs would kick their grandmothers to the curb in a heartbeat if it would make them an extra buck.
Seriously, when I lived in Colorado, where you have to water your lawn or it dies, for our entire house we used 5k or 6k gallons/month during the peak summer months, about 4k/month the other 9 months of the year of the year. And that includes everything: drinking, cooking, laundry, showers, watering the lawn, watering a large garden, other cleaning, etc. So our total use was
I also happen to have worked as a lifeguard at an Olympic sized pool in my younger days, and know that held between a quarter million and a half million gallons. If we round usage up to 15k gallons/person/year, I'm seeing some of that "fuzzy Washington math", or something. Even if I multiply our use by 10 to account for "indirect" water use, like the water used for growing livestock, something is seriously off...
FB may let Google index the pages, but the data is not "public is open" (sic) to everyone. Both my wife and I regularly get FB results from Google search which come up with a generic page telling us to log in to view the content. Of couse, neither of us have a FB account.
1. The "some of the highest risk strains" you mention account for something like 80-90% of all the problematic effects of HPV.
2. The protection lasts at least 5 years. Nobody knows how much longer than that it will be good, or whether a booster will eventually be needed, since that's roughly how long the vaccine has been available.
Fortunately, I have a good decade to see how effective it is and whether there are any as yet undocumented side effects before I have to worry about whether or not my daughter should get vaccinated.
Of course the 60 year olds are all solving the broader problems. For all the hot phrases such as "interdisciplinary learning" or "crossing boundaries", for most people getting their Ph.D. these days the knowledge gained is incredibly focused on one area. You can't be merely "good" at a wide variety of things - although it helps, you need to be a bona fide expert in one or more areas and that's all you'll be hired for. In many labs, you're "trained" to do and to produce, not to think broadly. Nobody cares if you can solve problems or come up with big ideas UNLESS they lead to a publication, grant, or promotion for your adviser.
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I most certainly do not welcome any new Cyborg overlords.
Speak for yourself; if they all look like Summer Glau, I can't wait!
Only on Slashdot would this be modded "Insightful"...
Combining H2 and O2 back into water is dead easy - just add a spark. But do be careful of the resulting explosion.
Exactly. And furthermore, most of that water is just required for the little guys to swim around in and is just as recyclable as the N and P. Also, IIRC, at least some of the strains actually excrete the hydrocarbons (or possibly their esters) which makes processing dead easy.
You can indeed be stupid and get a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard:
1. Daddy and Grandpa both went to Yale (i.e. legacy, counts for a lot)
2. Daddy was at the time head of the CIA
3. Daddy can afford to pay full tuition plus several quite generous contributions to the institutions in question
As an aside, when I was graduating from Yale grad school, Dubya was the commencement speaker. His big take-home message was that "you can be a straight-C student and still become president of the United States". See points 2 and 3 above for how a self-described "straight C student" even gets admitted to Harvard Business School.
That's great for the apps you use all the time (web browser, MS Office, etc.), but what about those apps that you use occasionally and don't want cluttering up your desktop space?
Um, the original Core did indeed make it into at least some desktop machines - it happens to be sitting in the 2006 iMac which is my main work computer and that I'm writing on at this moment. It was/is an odd chip: 64 bit addressing but only 32 bit instructions. Fortunately, most of the software I use doesn't need frequent updating, since just about everything Mac has been compiled 64 bit only for the last 2-3 years. I've had some "interesting" experiences getting certain things to run. This is probably somewhat off-topic, but for some odd reason I felt the need to correct this...
And who is it that paid for these studies?
IIRC, the licensing fee was all of about $1/port, with most devices having 2 ports for daisy chaining. At the time (I bought an early FW CD-RW drive), the cheapest FW drives of any type were in the $400 range. But rather than sell for $399 instead of $397, most manufacturers said "too expensive".
There are on the order of several dozen intuitive ways to combine 3 strings of 8 characters. So yes, there are about as many generatable passwords in your method as there are possible values for 1 character.
While what you say is probably true (I'm too lazy to do the math, but it's on the right order), it assumes that you already know the 8 character strings that are being combined. If you're trying to break into a buddy's account, know he uses such a scheme, etc. that's fine. But if you're trying to crack someone's account randomly, the password is for all practical purposes 24 characters long.
Or am I missing something?
Golden parachute, perhaps?
It really depends on where you are and what the local law is. I'm currently in Iowa City, and the city council recently (last month?) passed an ordinance explicitly removing public urination from the section of the code dealing with sex offenders. It's still a misdemeanor and will get you fined, but it won't put you on a registry.
This doesn't surprise me at all. When my mom took the test to be certified for elementary education (she was already certified to teach HS), she came home somewhat annoyed. Nearly every question had anywhere from 3-5 "correct" answers out of the 5 choices given. Apparently, you were supposed to figure out from the way the question was written that it was targeted at a 4th grader, and that answer (C) was the way in which an "average" 4th grader would answer it. I don't know how you figure out what an average 4th grader is or knows. And then complicate it by the fact that you need to differentiate between how a 3rd, 4th, and 5th grader would answer the same question since all three were possible choices.
Of course, I also took the SAT back in the day, which in the reading comprehension section had similar issues. There were often two correct answers, but one was "better" because that's what whoever wrote the question liked.
One of the rural communities had a crumbling school, outdated and/or just missing textbooks, and most of the better teachers looking to move due to low pay (the school average was well under $30k in the late 90s). What do the fine residents decide? Why, let's build a new $2M football stadium and pay 6 coaches well over $100k/year each. Because Johnny is going to get a full ride to college playing football before a lucrative professional career, and Sally is going to go to the same college on a cheerleading scholarship and then marry Johnny. It didn't seem to matter that maybe one student from that town had gotten a football scholarship in the last decade.
2. the wages aren't horrible. I could make 30% more in the private sector, but my benis are solid, and I like having a life.
100% this. A government job may not truly be 9-5 M-F but usually doesn't require insane amounts of overtime. I suppose it depends on how much you value a life outside of the job vs. the number on your paycheck. And the benefit package is usually very good, especially healthcare. Although most jobs now have a 401k equivalent and not pensions. Then again, government employees who aren't purely political are certainly not overpaid, despite what most of the public seems to think.
I also have to agree on the firing. The paperwork and documentation are a pain in the ass, but it's really not that hard to get rid of a bad employee for cause. My dad worked in state government and oversaw quite a number of disciplinary hearings. There was rarely a problem, so long as the supervisor bringing the grievance had all the ducks in a row, even for unionized employees.
1. Advertising doesn't save money in any way, but it MAY lead to more sales.
2. Most academic research is funded by the government, at least in USA. Lately some companies are funding more, but that's only after they eliminated a large portion of their internal R&D to boost next quarter's profits.
3. Most of big pharma, including Bayer, has profit margins well in excess of 20%. Most other industries are happy with somewhere around 5% and would kill for those returns.
4. They won't be selling at a loss. According to TFA, the generic manufacturer will have to pay Bayer a royalty of 6% of profit. Which implies they can make a profit selling the pills for 97% less.
I sympathize with the airline staff. They have to deal with surly customers who start with the presumption that the airlines are out to get them. I start with the presumption that the people behind the desk are just trying to do their job as best they can...
You know, the two points above - airline out to get them, staff just doing their jobs - aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Personally, I don't think the airlines are out to get me, but I do believe that airline execs would kick their grandmothers to the curb in a heartbeat if it would make them an extra buck.
Seriously, when I lived in Colorado, where you have to water your lawn or it dies, for our entire house we used 5k or 6k gallons/month during the peak summer months, about 4k/month the other 9 months of the year of the year. And that includes everything: drinking, cooking, laundry, showers, watering the lawn, watering a large garden, other cleaning, etc. So our total use was I also happen to have worked as a lifeguard at an Olympic sized pool in my younger days, and know that held between a quarter million and a half million gallons. If we round usage up to 15k gallons/person/year, I'm seeing some of that "fuzzy Washington math", or something. Even if I multiply our use by 10 to account for "indirect" water use, like the water used for growing livestock, something is seriously off...
FB may let Google index the pages, but the data is not "public is open" (sic) to everyone. Both my wife and I regularly get FB results from Google search which come up with a generic page telling us to log in to view the content. Of couse, neither of us have a FB account.
1. The "some of the highest risk strains" you mention account for something like 80-90% of all the problematic effects of HPV.
2. The protection lasts at least 5 years. Nobody knows how much longer than that it will be good, or whether a booster will eventually be needed, since that's roughly how long the vaccine has been available.
Fortunately, I have a good decade to see how effective it is and whether there are any as yet undocumented side effects before I have to worry about whether or not my daughter should get vaccinated.
Of course the 60 year olds are all solving the broader problems. For all the hot phrases such as "interdisciplinary learning" or "crossing boundaries", for most people getting their Ph.D. these days the knowledge gained is incredibly focused on one area. You can't be merely "good" at a wide variety of things - although it helps, you need to be a bona fide expert in one or more areas and that's all you'll be hired for. In many labs, you're "trained" to do and to produce, not to think broadly. Nobody cares if you can solve problems or come up with big ideas UNLESS they lead to a publication, grant, or promotion for your adviser.
As an aside, in the life sciences, the average age of first RO1 (major NIH research grant) is now >41. Good luck getting tenure without one...
I'm not sure whether to mod this Funny or Insightful...