Henry Ford did actually study the subject of working hours, and realised he got the same productivity when he went from 6 days/week, 12 hours shifts, to 5 days a week 8 hours shifts. He also had a workforce which didn't burn out as quickly.
Factory work, specifically assembly, is very prone to an actual loss of work output with excessive hours. When you're working with a thousand dollars of parts, and a simple mistake can make them into ten dollars of scrap metal, making sure your workforce works as many hours as they can before their error rate begins to spike is crucial.
Some would argue that, in the information age, it's easier to correct the mistakes that overwork & undersleep will lead you to. I'm not entirely sure this is correct... while fixing the extra '$' or misplaced ')' is an amazingly trivial task, finding it can be challenging.
In the first fallout, the same would be true above a certain level of barter skill. And since one of the shopkeepers would replace their stock of skill training books every day, infinite money meant (sort-of) maxing out the hacking, repair, survival, first aid, and small guns skills. (IIRC, the skill books could only train you up to 90%, and you'd have to spend point above that.)
I wish they'd just drop the level of experience gained, across the board.
The enemy rewards, especially on the high end, were okay, if even a little small. But the quest rewards were huge - often bigger than what you would get for all the enemies you'd face completing that quest.
It's not just the game. It happened about every two game hours on my original (first-run) 360. When the DVD drive finally died, I replaced it, and I haven't seen it happen once in the last 12 hours.
Why would they wait until the last expansion to raise the level cap? While I liked Fallout 3, the fact that I hadn't even started the final mission before I hit the cap was kind of irritating.
A lot of those towers use pretty hefty microwave transmitters for line-of-sight transmissions. Right in the center of the beam, it's strong enough to kill birds in seconds. Right at the edges, it's enough to cause organ damage over long periods of time.
There's a huge difference between low-grade microwave emissions exposure and exposure to the frequencies used for wifi.
Why are you making the assumption that strippers don't have self-respect? Strippers tend to be very confident, powerful women more in control of their situations and bodies than most professional women out there.
I spent a better part of a year working at a bar very close to the 'nice' strip club in town. A fair number of the girls who worked at that club came into that bar on a fairly regular basis after work. While a lot of them had the confident-woman imagine, all the ones I got to know on a personal level had some definite issues with the job, their outlook on men, and most had developed some kind of substance abuse problem.
Now, I'll admit, part of it is probably selection bias - if there was ones who never drank, they'd likely avoid going to a bar after work with the rest of their co-workers. But at least about half of them were out at some bar almost every night (well, really, morning) after work, and most of those had some definite issues with the job, even if they did love the pay.
The theory of "economic rational" is that whenever an agent is presented the option to make more money than to make less money, they should choose to make more money. Even if there is other mitigating circumstances, they should make this decision, as the price as determined by the market will have taken these circumstances into account, and if it hasn't then they should haggle for a higher price.
Regardless of which side of the arguement you're on, this isn't what the theory of economic rationality states. Unless one is making a strawman out of the arguement, it's not just about money.
Notably, that when you have a choice between two activities result in $X and $Y expected return and $X > $Y that you should always choose $X or you are not being economically rational.
Again, you're entirely focused on money, which isn't what rationality theory is about. It's about overall value for a transaction. Even if that's expressed in a dollar value, that's not just about the number of bills that change hands.
I'd rather have all truely consenual acts be legal, but some frowned upon by polite society, than have only 'proper' things be legal in the first place.
The economically rational individual will strip for a living if the value they get from stripping is greater than the value it costs them. Each individual's definition of value is unique.
Sort of what I was trying to say, just better put. The point being, the GP is apparently trying to argue that economic decisions should be strictly about money, which is not what the free market is (entirely) about.
So in other words, the feds confiscated the domain, and when it became federal property, what used to be silly computer trespass became a major felonious assault on a government website.
It was an admin, not the owner, that was compromised.
Nope. Effective password alphabet is about 70 characters (26*2+10+punctuation).
Yeah, for some reason I was going with 60 instead of 76.
You can also assume that passwords are unlikely to have 4 or more consecutive punctuation marks, contain parts of dictionary words, etc.
If you're using a 20-character password, having a dictionary word mixed in with a pile of random punctuation (or even interspursed throughout a pile of punctuation) is a perfectly secure password method.
While 123456789icecream might be fairly suspectible to a dictionary attack, 1i@3ce$%6cre&*(0am would be (almost) as easy to remember, and would take most brute-force attacks rather longer.
Hehe.. why do you think women get paid more to be strippers than to be waitresses? There already is a market for lost self-respect. People choose not to participate in it.
Every person places a different value on the same thing. If the difference in pay in X dollars per week, and girl A values her self-respect at X + 100 dollars, it would be irrational for her to strip instead of waiting tables (assuming other values are the same). If girl B values it at X - 200 dollars a week, it wouldn't make sense for her not to strip.
Just because you would make a choice differently doesn't mean they're not participating in the choice.
Dunno. Does Jack have a dog? Maybe the checkpoint dog smelled something innocent like dog piss.
The entire point of bomb & drug dog training is to make them ignore the things that interest normal dogs (dogs of the opposite sex, food, dogs of the same sex, and people, generally in that order) and pay attention to the things that their trainers are interested in (high-nitrate compounds, processed coca leaves, or even DVDs).
If a detection dog is getting distracted by other scents while on duty, it calls into question whether or not they should be used as a cause for further investigation.
It's quite possible to brute-force ten-letter alphanumeric passwords. With some assumptions it should be possible to brute-force even larger passwords.
If cracking a full-disk encryption with a ten-character password takes only five seconds, an eleven-character (assuming that it's case sensitive) password is going to take five minutes. A twelve-character will take about five hours. A thirteen-character, almost two weeks. Fourteen, two years.
Now operation DarkMarket turns out to be a Fed-run honeypot.
Not exactly true. One of the admins was compromised after an arrest, and rather than shutting it down, they kept it running for a bit longer, planning on setting up big buyers for eventual busts.
Anyway, India is the last place for a panopticon. Do you have any idea how many people there are there? It's simply not feasible.
From conversations some Indian nationals at work, school, and a few in-laws, there's a much greater diversity of infrastructure than most other countries in the world. Though the larger cities might be near the US in terms of infrastructure, in many of the rural areas, have reliable electrical power is more of a concern than having internet access, much less it being monitored by the state.
It's one of the concepts of open source software; such things can more easily be spotted and fixed when they are in the open.
Of course, if you're more interested in getting it done fast than right, making it closed source makes it more likely to get the code released before someone finds a vulnerability.
it's not (IMO) survival horror. In what horror movie can any of the characters survive hand-to-hand against large numbers of the (aliens/mutant plants/zombies/whatever)?
Over the course of two to three years, this will actually save money. Just like the replacement of traffic signals with LEDs, it's going to cost less to go to a new system than to keep using the old.
A map of a bank's safe isn't much use if the bank is secure.
But the architect's drawing of the bank could reveal it's actually not very secure at all, if it reveals a point of attack that's easier than going after the vault door.
but there's no person on earth who can hold their breath for as long as a whale.
Claiming you can hear a sound a few kHz above the 'average' human range is one thing, as is claiming to be able to see a 70 or 85 hz flicker. But when you start claiming that you can hear the tectonic plates shifting, or see the flicker from a 1.5 kHz strobe light, it's beyond 'everybody is different' into 'I'm a comic-book superhero' land.
If you have grenades, awesome powers, machine guns, fast running speed & jumping, great aim, etc...
An easier way to separate FPS from survival horror games... in a survival horror game, it's impossible to kill every enemy you can find. You've got to run from / avoid a fair percentage of them if you want to survive.
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Factory work, specifically assembly, is very prone to an actual loss of work output with excessive hours. When you're working with a thousand dollars of parts, and a simple mistake can make them into ten dollars of scrap metal, making sure your workforce works as many hours as they can before their error rate begins to spike is crucial.
Some would argue that, in the information age, it's easier to correct the mistakes that overwork & undersleep will lead you to. I'm not entirely sure this is correct... while fixing the extra '$' or misplaced ')' is an amazingly trivial task, finding it can be challenging.
The second time I played through (before I knew that the good/bad karma endings were essentially the same, unlike Fallout 1 & 2), I did.
In the first fallout, the same would be true above a certain level of barter skill. And since one of the shopkeepers would replace their stock of skill training books every day, infinite money meant (sort-of) maxing out the hacking, repair, survival, first aid, and small guns skills. (IIRC, the skill books could only train you up to 90%, and you'd have to spend point above that.)
The enemy rewards, especially on the high end, were okay, if even a little small. But the quest rewards were huge - often bigger than what you would get for all the enemies you'd face completing that quest.
It's not just the game. It happened about every two game hours on my original (first-run) 360. When the DVD drive finally died, I replaced it, and I haven't seen it happen once in the last 12 hours.
Why would they wait until the last expansion to raise the level cap? While I liked Fallout 3, the fact that I hadn't even started the final mission before I hit the cap was kind of irritating.
There's a huge difference between low-grade microwave emissions exposure and exposure to the frequencies used for wifi.
I spent a better part of a year working at a bar very close to the 'nice' strip club in town. A fair number of the girls who worked at that club came into that bar on a fairly regular basis after work. While a lot of them had the confident-woman imagine, all the ones I got to know on a personal level had some definite issues with the job, their outlook on men, and most had developed some kind of substance abuse problem.
Now, I'll admit, part of it is probably selection bias - if there was ones who never drank, they'd likely avoid going to a bar after work with the rest of their co-workers. But at least about half of them were out at some bar almost every night (well, really, morning) after work, and most of those had some definite issues with the job, even if they did love the pay.
Regardless of which side of the arguement you're on, this isn't what the theory of economic rationality states. Unless one is making a strawman out of the arguement, it's not just about money.
Again, you're entirely focused on money, which isn't what rationality theory is about. It's about overall value for a transaction. Even if that's expressed in a dollar value, that's not just about the number of bills that change hands.
I'd rather have all truely consenual acts be legal, but some frowned upon by polite society, than have only 'proper' things be legal in the first place.
Sort of what I was trying to say, just better put. The point being, the GP is apparently trying to argue that economic decisions should be strictly about money, which is not what the free market is (entirely) about.
It was an admin, not the owner, that was compromised.
Yeah, for some reason I was going with 60 instead of 76.
If you're using a 20-character password, having a dictionary word mixed in with a pile of random punctuation (or even interspursed throughout a pile of punctuation) is a perfectly secure password method.
While 123456789icecream might be fairly suspectible to a dictionary attack, 1i@3ce$%6cre&*(0am would be (almost) as easy to remember, and would take most brute-force attacks rather longer.
Every person places a different value on the same thing. If the difference in pay in X dollars per week, and girl A values her self-respect at X + 100 dollars, it would be irrational for her to strip instead of waiting tables (assuming other values are the same). If girl B values it at X - 200 dollars a week, it wouldn't make sense for her not to strip.
Just because you would make a choice differently doesn't mean they're not participating in the choice.
The entire point of bomb & drug dog training is to make them ignore the things that interest normal dogs (dogs of the opposite sex, food, dogs of the same sex, and people, generally in that order) and pay attention to the things that their trainers are interested in (high-nitrate compounds, processed coca leaves, or even DVDs).
If a detection dog is getting distracted by other scents while on duty, it calls into question whether or not they should be used as a cause for further investigation.
If cracking a full-disk encryption with a ten-character password takes only five seconds, an eleven-character (assuming that it's case sensitive) password is going to take five minutes. A twelve-character will take about five hours. A thirteen-character, almost two weeks. Fourteen, two years.
Not exactly true. One of the admins was compromised after an arrest, and rather than shutting it down, they kept it running for a bit longer, planning on setting up big buyers for eventual busts.
From conversations some Indian nationals at work, school, and a few in-laws, there's a much greater diversity of infrastructure than most other countries in the world. Though the larger cities might be near the US in terms of infrastructure, in many of the rural areas, have reliable electrical power is more of a concern than having internet access, much less it being monitored by the state.
a +1 Funny/Sad mod. I've never seen a better place to put it.
Of course, if you're more interested in getting it done fast than right, making it closed source makes it more likely to get the code released before someone finds a vulnerability.
it's not (IMO) survival horror. In what horror movie can any of the characters survive hand-to-hand against large numbers of the (aliens/mutant plants/zombies/whatever)?
Over the course of two to three years, this will actually save money. Just like the replacement of traffic signals with LEDs, it's going to cost less to go to a new system than to keep using the old.
But the architect's drawing of the bank could reveal it's actually not very secure at all, if it reveals a point of attack that's easier than going after the vault door.
Claiming you can hear a sound a few kHz above the 'average' human range is one thing, as is claiming to be able to see a 70 or 85 hz flicker. But when you start claiming that you can hear the tectonic plates shifting, or see the flicker from a 1.5 kHz strobe light, it's beyond 'everybody is different' into 'I'm a comic-book superhero' land.
An easier way to separate FPS from survival horror games... in a survival horror game, it's impossible to kill every enemy you can find. You've got to run from / avoid a fair percentage of them if you want to survive.