In this particular case, that couldn't happen, although I don't necessarily trust any government rules to not be overly broad or open to misinterpretation and abuse.
The case here is that an otherwise normal woman has a pathology linked to her mitochondria that will in all likelihood be passed on to her children. For the most part, paternal mitochondria don't get passed on, so the father isn't an issue. So a third party egg donor is screened to make sure she has "normal" mitochondria and provides some eggs, as does the woman who wants a child. The donor's eggs have their nuclei removed and replaced with those taken from the "bad" eggs. The hybrid eggs are then fertilized using the father's sperm and implanted in the original woman using normal IVF techniques and then she carries her own child.
Where are the mod point when you need them, this should be +11 or so.
Based on my experience, the way my public HS handled this was pretty much the optimum. There were 3 academic sections for the "big" subject (English, math, history, some sciences), my recollection of the names is fuzzy but they were essentially advanced, average, and remedial. The latter is pretty self explanatory, and really, the best way to deal with somebody who needs extra help is to give it to them both to help that student and to keep from disrupting others.
The other two weren't really that different from one another; the advanced class moved a bit faster, maybe had a little extra time to explore an interesting subject a bit more in depth, and had a LOT less busy work. And that's a good thing, since nothing bores advanced students and makes them stop caring than having to do the same busy work over and over again. I'll also point out that the same student could be advanced in on subject and average in another.
And yes, I went to a good public school, they do exist.
There may or may not have been early versions of 10.7 that had a 32-bit kernel, but the release version requires 64-bit and will only run on a Core 2 Duo or better. I should know given that I have a Core Duo iMac (2006) sitting on my desk that's stuck at 10.6.8 as well as a Core 2 Duo MacBook (late 2007) that I could update to 10.7 - the last version that Mac will run. Some but not all Core 2 Duo Macs can run Mavericks.
There's technical truth to what you say, but streaming video is probably less of a problem than you think. I would certainly hope that in a classroom full of students that they aren't all streaming different HD video - if they're watching video at all, it should be relevant to classroom learning and they should probably all be watching the same thing (or at most 2-3 different videos in groups). Probably projected on a large screen at the front of the room, but assuming they all watch on their own school issued laptops/tablets, the school could just implement multicast.
As for kids in a household, my 3 and 6 year olds really could care less whether their YouTube video of choice is 1080p or 480p. This may or may not change in a few years, but 2 continuous 480p streams doesn't come close to saturating my 3 Mb/s pipe.
I'm not sure on the pay cap, but it should definitely be decided by the investors and not a compensation committee that's made up of members of the board who all sit on each other's boards and play golf together.
I do agree 100% on the bonus, though. First, I have a big problem with the concept of a "guaranteed" bonus; if the company hasn't performed well, why is the guy in charge getting a bonus? Of course, it doesn't take much thought to get at the real reason they have these given that we're talking about US corps. The CEO's salary gets taxed at normal rates. Bonuses, however, get taxed at the much lower capital gains rate. This is one reason you'll see a Fortune 500 CEO agree to work for a $1 (or even $1M) salary but then take home a huge bonus.
I think you mean "xeriscaping" - which without looking up and official definition is landscaping using native (or at least appropriate to the local climate) plants, rocks, etc. which tends to be quite drought resistant. It's was pretty popular in Colorado when I was living there.
Hey the fact is union contracts do prevent VERY bad teachers from being fired.
I'll ignore the issues implied by the rest of the quote which are somewhat valid, but this is flat out wrong.
What the contracts do is make it difficult to fire bad or very bad teachers, but it 100% can be done. The trick is that administration has to actually make the effort to document the bad performance and make at least some attempt to allow that teacher to improve. But if a teacher is bad, firing them is mostly an issue of dotting the is and crossing the ts, plus being willing to stand up in the nearly inevitable hearing and provide the documented proof.
This isn't limited to teachers either, btw. My dad used to, as one aspect of his job, have to run disciplinary hearings for civil servants that could result it suspension, loss of pay, or firing. If the supervisor recommending discipline had good records and had followed the correct procedures, there was little problem with any of this. If not, the supervisor usually got chewed out for not doing HIS job properly and wasting everyone's time.
2. Everything is expanded by default, which, again makes it tiresome to skip through pages of low-rated comments.
Not everything is fully expanded by default. It may be true for comments, I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature (there are sometimes gems hidden in low rated comments).
Unfortunately, on the main page TFS is frequently truncated. For some stories, this makes sense such as those long, Hugh Pickens submitted posts that go on for half the height of my screen (I'm personally about 50/50 on reading more on these), but even relatively short stories are truncated after about 2 normal length paragraphs. And when you click for more, instead of expanding on the main page it loads that particular story and comments. FWIW, I did comment on this in the beta survey.
Change for the sake of change is of no benefit to the user.
True that. Unfortunately, this seems to be what they teach in MBA programs these days. Everything needs to be periodically "refreshed" or "updated"; even if everything is going exactly how it should and you're #1 in your niche, there's this (horribly mistaken, IMO) impression that your product will magically get better if you change it.
Many times, these changes are merely cosmetic and everyone gives a collective meh. Rarely have I seen these sorts of changes lead to measurable improvements. I have, however, seen many case where the product ends up significantly worse. See: new Coke, the new Yahoo, and even various credit card and bank statements.
Regardless of whether telcos were handed a check up front or given tax breaks equivalent to that check but possibly spread out over multiple years, they were indeed handed a large ($Billions) wad of cash specifically to wire all those people, especially in the more expensive/rural/underserved parts of the country. And they sort of did for a while, then decided they wouldn't make enough profit on those customers, so stopped and spent the money elsewhere. At the very least they should be forced to give all that money back with interest and penalties. I'd be even happier if some of their executives would be prosecuted for misappropriation of federal funds. In reality, I expect neither will ever happen.
Seconded, I changed my short before hopping onto/. today. Took a few seconds, no problems at all. I was surprised there wasn't a second box to confirm the new password in, although you can show it as plaintext.
There's plenty wrong with the new, "improved" Yahoo mail, I'd move to Gmail or something else if it weren't for the fact that 15 years worth of everybody in my life has my Yahoo address, but changing the password isn't problematic.
Indeed. I'm too lazy go Google it, but I clearly recall a study from a couple of years ago that showed that the cultures with the least incidence of peanut allergies are those that start feeding peanut containing foods the earliest, around 6 months of age IIRC.
In contrast, the pediatricians around here very strongly suggest not even letting your kids near a peanut until they're 2 years old. Fortunately, neither of my children have peanut allergies.
I'm afraid you have that completely backwards. A person who pays off their credit card in full, on time, pays no interest, and generates low (or even negative) revenue for the CC company.
I have to call complete BS on this. The CC company makes no additional income on this person, other than the merchant fees they collect on each and every transaction. For a very large retailer like Target or Walmart, this may come to only 20 cents + 1% or so of each and every transaction (times however many tens of millions of transactions that those stores they process each month), for small merchants it could be more like 60-70 cents + 3% or more.
So, assume I make 5 transactions of $50 each in a month at mid-sized merchants but then pay my bill in full. So, figure 5 x 40 cents + 2.5% of $250, for $8.25. If it costs them a full $1 to mail my statement and process my electronic payment, they made $7.25 on me.
I skimmed the actual paper yesterday, and this seems to be exactly what they think the problem is. Normally, tumor cells accumulate DNA damage, much of it oxidative, and that damage turns on certain pathways that lead to cell death. Prevent the DNA damage from happening in the first place and that doesn't happen. This is, of course, greatly oversimplified.
Serious suggesting here: since you've indicated Apple is an option, either find a friend with a Mac, or go poke at one in an Apple Store (or possibly even Best Buy or they like if there's no local Apple Store and they have them on display and not crippled), give GarageBand a whirl, and see if it has the features you need. IIRC, GarageBand is free with a new Mac or you used to be able to get it on an older Mac as part of the "iLife" suite for something like $80. I think some add ons are (or were) non-free. I haven't done more than the most rudimentary poking at it.
Having said that, a new MacBook is going to be over $1k, possibly $2k if you go with a "Pro" model, but you're not likely comparing it to a $300 Windows laptop special. All of which is a moot point if GarageBand won't do what you need and Mac laptop + Finale is out of your budget.
They get paid significantly better than minimum wage. Source: I know someone who works there, I looked into it several years ago, and I just used Google.
They can start at GS-5 (min. ~$42k) and top out at GS-15 (max. ~$155). Those are ranges, and most examiners have higher degrees (the ones I know have Ph.D.s with postdoc experience) and are probably hired at GS-9 or so probably starting at >$70k - but don't forget it's not cheap to live in/near D.C. The real upper limit is probably $110-120k after 8-10 years as a senior examiner since only the administration (read: overpaid political appointees or their friends) is going to be above GS-13.
Most people don't understand. And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it...
And this here is the big problem. The average American doesn't have a 30 minute attention span for anything that doesn't involve a Kardashian or Honey BooBoo. So you'll need to point out, in under a minute, in language a 10 year old can probably understand, how losing Net Neutrality will make it harder or more expensive for them to find the episode they missed on YouTube.
...protect those gullible grown children from reality so they continue to vote for the fantasy where conservative politics serves them and not just the richest 1%.
Wait,I though we were talking about the UK. I don't see how the Great UK Firewall applies to those who vote Republican on this side of the pond.
disclaimer: yes, I realize that a "conservative" party is sort of, kind of in power in the UK.
So, your solution to someone being "unbanked" is to use services, which charge a monthly fee, that are provided by Chase, which happens to be a bank. Maybe I'm missing something.
In TFS, it says that the subdivision covenants require that all utilities be buried. Depending on the exact wording of the covenants, it may be possible for the HOA to change them or that they may expire at some point. IIRC, the covenants that cover the development I live expire in something like 2018 (house built in 2002), so at least some are time limited.
The reality is that it really, REALLY depends on where the poster lives. Some states and/or municipalities have seriously reigned in the power of HOAs and put limits on what covenants can and can't restrict. In other parts of the country, you can be fined hundreds of dollars a day for having the wrong kind of flower garden or putting up a flagpole.
In terms of Dart users, here's a list of some. Hope that answers your questions!
I'm not sure this is making much of a case for uptake, though. I took a quick look through that list, and the only non-Google company I really recognize on there is Adobe.
It's easy to avoid breaking the law when the job requires a fluent Hindi speaker. The cost savings is just a nice side effect.
I'm sure that Oracle, or rather their in house counsel, will justify the offer using some "logic" very similar to this. As a useful aside, the same sort of distinction can be used any time you need to sole source a purchase - we absolutely need this workstation because it's the only one available with a red case!
The problem that I'm sure they'll find some way to avoid in court if it even gets that far (I smell a settlement), is that the H1-B program ostensibly requires that you pay the immigrant worker at least as much as a US citizen would get paid for the same position/duties. Given the Hindi requirement in your example, that means that this sales person should get paid at least the same as any other bilingual sales rep.
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In this particular case, that couldn't happen, although I don't necessarily trust any government rules to not be overly broad or open to misinterpretation and abuse.
The case here is that an otherwise normal woman has a pathology linked to her mitochondria that will in all likelihood be passed on to her children. For the most part, paternal mitochondria don't get passed on, so the father isn't an issue. So a third party egg donor is screened to make sure she has "normal" mitochondria and provides some eggs, as does the woman who wants a child. The donor's eggs have their nuclei removed and replaced with those taken from the "bad" eggs. The hybrid eggs are then fertilized using the father's sperm and implanted in the original woman using normal IVF techniques and then she carries her own child.
Where are the mod point when you need them, this should be +11 or so.
Based on my experience, the way my public HS handled this was pretty much the optimum. There were 3 academic sections for the "big" subject (English, math, history, some sciences), my recollection of the names is fuzzy but they were essentially advanced, average, and remedial. The latter is pretty self explanatory, and really, the best way to deal with somebody who needs extra help is to give it to them both to help that student and to keep from disrupting others.
The other two weren't really that different from one another; the advanced class moved a bit faster, maybe had a little extra time to explore an interesting subject a bit more in depth, and had a LOT less busy work. And that's a good thing, since nothing bores advanced students and makes them stop caring than having to do the same busy work over and over again. I'll also point out that the same student could be advanced in on subject and average in another.
And yes, I went to a good public school, they do exist.
There may or may not have been early versions of 10.7 that had a 32-bit kernel, but the release version requires 64-bit and will only run on a Core 2 Duo or better. I should know given that I have a Core Duo iMac (2006) sitting on my desk that's stuck at 10.6.8 as well as a Core 2 Duo MacBook (late 2007) that I could update to 10.7 - the last version that Mac will run. Some but not all Core 2 Duo Macs can run Mavericks.
There's technical truth to what you say, but streaming video is probably less of a problem than you think. I would certainly hope that in a classroom full of students that they aren't all streaming different HD video - if they're watching video at all, it should be relevant to classroom learning and they should probably all be watching the same thing (or at most 2-3 different videos in groups). Probably projected on a large screen at the front of the room, but assuming they all watch on their own school issued laptops/tablets, the school could just implement multicast.
As for kids in a household, my 3 and 6 year olds really could care less whether their YouTube video of choice is 1080p or 480p. This may or may not change in a few years, but 2 continuous 480p streams doesn't come close to saturating my 3 Mb/s pipe.
I'm not sure on the pay cap, but it should definitely be decided by the investors and not a compensation committee that's made up of members of the board who all sit on each other's boards and play golf together.
I do agree 100% on the bonus, though. First, I have a big problem with the concept of a "guaranteed" bonus; if the company hasn't performed well, why is the guy in charge getting a bonus? Of course, it doesn't take much thought to get at the real reason they have these given that we're talking about US corps. The CEO's salary gets taxed at normal rates. Bonuses, however, get taxed at the much lower capital gains rate. This is one reason you'll see a Fortune 500 CEO agree to work for a $1 (or even $1M) salary but then take home a huge bonus.
I think you mean "xeriscaping" - which without looking up and official definition is landscaping using native (or at least appropriate to the local climate) plants, rocks, etc. which tends to be quite drought resistant. It's was pretty popular in Colorado when I was living there.
Hey the fact is union contracts do prevent VERY bad teachers from being fired.
I'll ignore the issues implied by the rest of the quote which are somewhat valid, but this is flat out wrong.
What the contracts do is make it difficult to fire bad or very bad teachers, but it 100% can be done. The trick is that administration has to actually make the effort to document the bad performance and make at least some attempt to allow that teacher to improve. But if a teacher is bad, firing them is mostly an issue of dotting the is and crossing the ts, plus being willing to stand up in the nearly inevitable hearing and provide the documented proof.
This isn't limited to teachers either, btw. My dad used to, as one aspect of his job, have to run disciplinary hearings for civil servants that could result it suspension, loss of pay, or firing. If the supervisor recommending discipline had good records and had followed the correct procedures, there was little problem with any of this. If not, the supervisor usually got chewed out for not doing HIS job properly and wasting everyone's time.
The big problem is, what do we replace it with?
2. Everything is expanded by default, which, again makes it tiresome to skip through pages of low-rated comments.
Not everything is fully expanded by default. It may be true for comments, I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature (there are sometimes gems hidden in low rated comments).
Unfortunately, on the main page TFS is frequently truncated. For some stories, this makes sense such as those long, Hugh Pickens submitted posts that go on for half the height of my screen (I'm personally about 50/50 on reading more on these), but even relatively short stories are truncated after about 2 normal length paragraphs. And when you click for more, instead of expanding on the main page it loads that particular story and comments. FWIW, I did comment on this in the beta survey.
Change for the sake of change is of no benefit to the user.
True that. Unfortunately, this seems to be what they teach in MBA programs these days. Everything needs to be periodically "refreshed" or "updated"; even if everything is going exactly how it should and you're #1 in your niche, there's this (horribly mistaken, IMO) impression that your product will magically get better if you change it.
Many times, these changes are merely cosmetic and everyone gives a collective meh. Rarely have I seen these sorts of changes lead to measurable improvements. I have, however, seen many case where the product ends up significantly worse. See: new Coke, the new Yahoo, and even various credit card and bank statements.
Instead, its going to look like somenobody's blog
You're giving beta WAY too much credit. Most blogs don't hurt my eyes anywhere near as much as beta did the one time I didn't manage to avoid it.
Po-tay-to, po-tah-to
Regardless of whether telcos were handed a check up front or given tax breaks equivalent to that check but possibly spread out over multiple years, they were indeed handed a large ($Billions) wad of cash specifically to wire all those people, especially in the more expensive/rural/underserved parts of the country. And they sort of did for a while, then decided they wouldn't make enough profit on those customers, so stopped and spent the money elsewhere. At the very least they should be forced to give all that money back with interest and penalties. I'd be even happier if some of their executives would be prosecuted for misappropriation of federal funds. In reality, I expect neither will ever happen.
Seconded, I changed my short before hopping onto /. today. Took a few seconds, no problems at all. I was surprised there wasn't a second box to confirm the new password in, although you can show it as plaintext.
There's plenty wrong with the new, "improved" Yahoo mail, I'd move to Gmail or something else if it weren't for the fact that 15 years worth of everybody in my life has my Yahoo address, but changing the password isn't problematic.
Essentially this is exactly what they're doing by administering peanut flour.
Indeed. I'm too lazy go Google it, but I clearly recall a study from a couple of years ago that showed that the cultures with the least incidence of peanut allergies are those that start feeding peanut containing foods the earliest, around 6 months of age IIRC.
In contrast, the pediatricians around here very strongly suggest not even letting your kids near a peanut until they're 2 years old. Fortunately, neither of my children have peanut allergies.
I'm afraid you have that completely backwards. A person who pays off their credit card in full, on time, pays no interest, and generates low (or even negative) revenue for the CC company.
I have to call complete BS on this. The CC company makes no additional income on this person, other than the merchant fees they collect on each and every transaction. For a very large retailer like Target or Walmart, this may come to only 20 cents + 1% or so of each and every transaction (times however many tens of millions of transactions that those stores they process each month), for small merchants it could be more like 60-70 cents + 3% or more.
So, assume I make 5 transactions of $50 each in a month at mid-sized merchants but then pay my bill in full. So, figure 5 x 40 cents + 2.5% of $250, for $8.25. If it costs them a full $1 to mail my statement and process my electronic payment, they made $7.25 on me.
I skimmed the actual paper yesterday, and this seems to be exactly what they think the problem is. Normally, tumor cells accumulate DNA damage, much of it oxidative, and that damage turns on certain pathways that lead to cell death. Prevent the DNA damage from happening in the first place and that doesn't happen. This is, of course, greatly oversimplified.
Serious suggesting here: since you've indicated Apple is an option, either find a friend with a Mac, or go poke at one in an Apple Store (or possibly even Best Buy or they like if there's no local Apple Store and they have them on display and not crippled), give GarageBand a whirl, and see if it has the features you need. IIRC, GarageBand is free with a new Mac or you used to be able to get it on an older Mac as part of the "iLife" suite for something like $80. I think some add ons are (or were) non-free. I haven't done more than the most rudimentary poking at it.
Having said that, a new MacBook is going to be over $1k, possibly $2k if you go with a "Pro" model, but you're not likely comparing it to a $300 Windows laptop special. All of which is a moot point if GarageBand won't do what you need and Mac laptop + Finale is out of your budget.
They get paid significantly better than minimum wage. Source: I know someone who works there, I looked into it several years ago, and I just used Google. They can start at GS-5 (min. ~$42k) and top out at GS-15 (max. ~$155). Those are ranges, and most examiners have higher degrees (the ones I know have Ph.D.s with postdoc experience) and are probably hired at GS-9 or so probably starting at >$70k - but don't forget it's not cheap to live in/near D.C. The real upper limit is probably $110-120k after 8-10 years as a senior examiner since only the administration (read: overpaid political appointees or their friends) is going to be above GS-13.
Most people don't understand. And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it...
And this here is the big problem. The average American doesn't have a 30 minute attention span for anything that doesn't involve a Kardashian or Honey BooBoo. So you'll need to point out, in under a minute, in language a 10 year old can probably understand, how losing Net Neutrality will make it harder or more expensive for them to find the episode they missed on YouTube.
...protect those gullible grown children from reality so they continue to vote for the fantasy where conservative politics serves them and not just the richest 1%.
Wait,I though we were talking about the UK. I don't see how the Great UK Firewall applies to those who vote Republican on this side of the pond.
disclaimer: yes, I realize that a "conservative" party is sort of, kind of in power in the UK.
So, your solution to someone being "unbanked" is to use services, which charge a monthly fee, that are provided by Chase, which happens to be a bank. Maybe I'm missing something.
In TFS, it says that the subdivision covenants require that all utilities be buried. Depending on the exact wording of the covenants, it may be possible for the HOA to change them or that they may expire at some point. IIRC, the covenants that cover the development I live expire in something like 2018 (house built in 2002), so at least some are time limited.
The reality is that it really, REALLY depends on where the poster lives. Some states and/or municipalities have seriously reigned in the power of HOAs and put limits on what covenants can and can't restrict. In other parts of the country, you can be fined hundreds of dollars a day for having the wrong kind of flower garden or putting up a flagpole.
Thanks for providing some information.
In terms of Dart users, here's a list of some. Hope that answers your questions!
I'm not sure this is making much of a case for uptake, though. I took a quick look through that list, and the only non-Google company I really recognize on there is Adobe.
It's easy to avoid breaking the law when the job requires a fluent Hindi speaker. The cost savings is just a nice side effect.
I'm sure that Oracle, or rather their in house counsel, will justify the offer using some "logic" very similar to this. As a useful aside, the same sort of distinction can be used any time you need to sole source a purchase - we absolutely need this workstation because it's the only one available with a red case!
The problem that I'm sure they'll find some way to avoid in court if it even gets that far (I smell a settlement), is that the H1-B program ostensibly requires that you pay the immigrant worker at least as much as a US citizen would get paid for the same position/duties. Given the Hindi requirement in your example, that means that this sales person should get paid at least the same as any other bilingual sales rep.