> Money is a proxy here for the input/output ratio of resources, energy and labor.
You're ignoring the time factor. It's a valid proxy *when averaged over time*.
Not considering the time lag creates arguments like "don't invest in new science or technology if it's not immediately profitable". If people behaved this way universally, the various technology revolutions of the past would have never happened.
That's correct, there is no audible difference to a human between a 22kHz sine wave and a 22kHz any-other-shape periodic wave.
Not to mention, no adult human can hear 22kHz anyway. I hear 16kHz. My 9-year-old can hear 19kHz. Get a frequency generator app and test yourself -- it's fascinating.
I think the word you're looking for is "diarrhetic". You see, one involves excessive pooping, whilst the other is for excessive urination. A subtle distinction, yes, but nevertheless an important one.
The fact that these words are homophones is just a happy coincidence of linguistics.
You're arguing a false dichotomy. My made-up guy is neither Goofus nor Gallant -- he has the skills of Gallant, plus the initiative to do more. That's who I look for in my hires.
Goofus is a per-hour contractor -- you buy his time. Gallant is a per-piece contractor -- you buy his output. In an employee, I want neither -- I want someone who feels like they're part of the mission, and can identify work that needs to be done without some manager handing it to them. People who can do this well deserve to get paid more, get promotions, and still manage to keep a 40-hour week -- plus they get a sense of meaningful ownership of what they do.
They're both bad employees. The best employee is the one who does all his work in an hour, maybe takes a little break and has a snack, then says "Hey Boss, this took less time than expected. What else can I help with?".
Your view expects the boss to know everything about all of his staff's work, which frankly is an outdated view outside of manufacturing and other simple, easily measurable areas. In today's complex "knowledge worker" (or pick your favorite buzzword) environment, employees tend to know more than their boss about the details of their work . . . which is a Good Thing (tm), as it increases everyone's capacity for meaningful work.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
> pro-U.S. propaganda: The Russian space program sucks.
I remember when I learned (well into adulthood) that the Russians had landed probes on Venus, and even sent photographs back from the surface. I was obsessed with space travel as a kid in the 80s, and really feel like that was kept hidden from me as an American student.
Most of Google's business model is based on Internet-based client-server interaction. The faster people's connections are, the better their core products work.
Since the state of high-speed internet in the US today is basically an abusive oligopoly, Google has a huge interest in changing that market for the better.
If that's the case, it's a shit design -- it should never allow such a differential between "current actual" and "current goal" speeds. If you keep mashing the button after the differential hits, say, 5mph, it should ignore further presses until it's back in range.
> At some point along that line, it no longer becomes immoral to remain in business
The point where that occurs is where your actions and decisions no longer have a significant impact. Microsoft, and your wagon makers, are both far from that point.
It's entirely within the wagon maker's power to refuse to fill that order for 1,000 new wagons to the Nazi Party. If the wagons are making it to the Party through aftermarket back channels, THAT's where the wagon maker can begin to claim no moral responsibility. That's not where we are, though.
I hate to confess it, but I actually visit an all flash site daily! And yes it sucks. But I have a polar heart rate monitor that uploads to the web, and the only way to access the data is through their all flash site.
You support an all-flash site merely for some heart-monitor something or other? Do Web standards mean nothing to you?!
Driving basically sucks. The "joy of driving" only occurs when you're driving alone on a narrow road, which is rare outside of car commercials.
Once the robo-cars take over (which eventually will happen), you'll be able to go to special sport-driving parks to experience the "joy of driving" if you like . . . in a better car than you could ordinarily afford, and without the hazards and risks that opening 'er up on a public road carries.
I, for one, welcome our new self-driving Oldsmobiles.
It's simple . . . there will be special robot-car-only lanes. Penalties will be very stiff for driving "manually" in them, much like HOV lanes today . . . the main difference is that the left lane of all freeways will become these special lanes eventually. People who think driving in traffic is fun will get over it when they see how much faster the robot lanes run.
At the same time, sport-driving areas will become big business: rent an old-fashioned manual Ferrari and drive it around a track for a few hours. Then get back in your robo-car for the trip home, superior in every possible way to today's archaic transportation mode.
Really, people suck ass at driving. Machines could, and will, do it far better. The only question is when.
There's statutory law (explicitly written laws) and case law (it's that way because of these 11,000 related court cases). The first is subject to change only through new legislation; the 2nd is always subject to new interpretation.
In other words, move off campus. Then once you do that, you'll discover that you can have keg parties and clambakes at your house, and BitTorrent access will suddenly seem a lot less important anyway.
I rather suspect there will be a pendulum effect. Right now probably more boys would be chosen than girls. Girls would then be in short supply - making them more desireable.
And how long would this effect take to materialize? I know it's fashionable for laissez-faire advocates to pretend like the timeframes required to iron out inefficiencies are irrelevant, but this cycle (if it even exists) would likely have a period of an entire generation.
Rather than spend the money on this just go out and buy a Mac.
Puh-leaze. Instead of spending money on Apple's overpriced wares, just use one of the many free alternatives, available on all of your favorite platforms.
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My point was that "leisure" time isn't worthless, but it's not worth "whatever the office pays you". In reality, I'd consider my scarce leisure time to be worth significantly more to me than my salary.
Putting a number on it, however, just smacks of simplistic scorekeeping. McDonald's Joe's time away from playing with his kids is at least as valuable as your time away from whatever you like to do.
(I also like to combine my emoticons with my closing parentheses, where possible.;)
I myself have been torn regarding this practice. On the one hand, combining them has a better rhythm, as well as requiring fewer characters. However, it leaves me with a little of that hollow feeling you get when a set of parentheses is not properly closed (example here;).
On the other hand, keeping them separate also looks somewhat like you're opening one set but closing two, which leaves one with a similar, vague case of the lexical heebiejeebies (case in point:)).
I find the only fully satisfactory solution is also the least efficient; that is, including both the complete emoticon and the closing parenthesis, separated by a single space character (like this;) ).
A controversial special case, which may or may not warrant discussion here, would be the practice of combining an open parenthesis with an emoticon (: but the whole idea kind of freaks me out;).
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> Money is a proxy here for the input/output ratio of resources, energy and labor.
You're ignoring the time factor. It's a valid proxy *when averaged over time*.
Not considering the time lag creates arguments like "don't invest in new science or technology if it's not immediately profitable". If people behaved this way universally, the various technology revolutions of the past would have never happened.
That's correct, there is no audible difference to a human between a 22kHz sine wave and a 22kHz any-other-shape periodic wave. Not to mention, no adult human can hear 22kHz anyway. I hear 16kHz. My 9-year-old can hear 19kHz. Get a frequency generator app and test yourself -- it's fascinating.
I think the word you're looking for is "diarrhetic". You see, one involves excessive pooping, whilst the other is for excessive urination. A subtle distinction, yes, but nevertheless an important one. The fact that these words are homophones is just a happy coincidence of linguistics.
You're arguing a false dichotomy. My made-up guy is neither Goofus nor Gallant -- he has the skills of Gallant, plus the initiative to do more. That's who I look for in my hires.
Goofus is a per-hour contractor -- you buy his time. Gallant is a per-piece contractor -- you buy his output. In an employee, I want neither -- I want someone who feels like they're part of the mission, and can identify work that needs to be done without some manager handing it to them. People who can do this well deserve to get paid more, get promotions, and still manage to keep a 40-hour week -- plus they get a sense of meaningful ownership of what they do.
They're both bad employees. The best employee is the one who does all his work in an hour, maybe takes a little break and has a snack, then says "Hey Boss, this took less time than expected. What else can I help with?". Your view expects the boss to know everything about all of his staff's work, which frankly is an outdated view outside of manufacturing and other simple, easily measurable areas. In today's complex "knowledge worker" (or pick your favorite buzzword) environment, employees tend to know more than their boss about the details of their work . . . which is a Good Thing (tm), as it increases everyone's capacity for meaningful work.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." -- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Sounds like a very expensive donkey/mule replacement. Why not just use real animals?
> pro-U.S. propaganda: The Russian space program sucks.
I remember when I learned (well into adulthood) that the Russians had landed probes on Venus, and even sent photographs back from the surface. I was obsessed with space travel as a kid in the 80s, and really feel like that was kept hidden from me as an American student.
I don't need huge total volume, I just want blisteringly fast for shortish periods.
In other words, porn.
Most of Google's business model is based on Internet-based client-server interaction. The faster people's connections are, the better their core products work.
Since the state of high-speed internet in the US today is basically an abusive oligopoly, Google has a huge interest in changing that market for the better.
If that's the case, it's a shit design -- it should never allow such a differential between "current actual" and "current goal" speeds. If you keep mashing the button after the differential hits, say, 5mph, it should ignore further presses until it's back in range.
> At some point along that line, it no longer becomes immoral to remain in business The point where that occurs is where your actions and decisions no longer have a significant impact. Microsoft, and your wagon makers, are both far from that point. It's entirely within the wagon maker's power to refuse to fill that order for 1,000 new wagons to the Nazi Party. If the wagons are making it to the Party through aftermarket back channels, THAT's where the wagon maker can begin to claim no moral responsibility. That's not where we are, though.
Meh, your little brother's comments are usually more insightful than yours anyway. Zing!
What a coincidence -- FC2 was the distro that drove me away from Red Hat and all of its relations.
You support an all-flash site merely for some heart-monitor something or other? Do Web standards mean nothing to you?!
Once the robo-cars take over (which eventually will happen), you'll be able to go to special sport-driving parks to experience the "joy of driving" if you like . . . in a better car than you could ordinarily afford, and without the hazards and risks that opening 'er up on a public road carries.
I, for one, welcome our new self-driving Oldsmobiles.
At the same time, sport-driving areas will become big business: rent an old-fashioned manual Ferrari and drive it around a track for a few hours. Then get back in your robo-car for the trip home, superior in every possible way to today's archaic transportation mode.
Really, people suck ass at driving. Machines could, and will, do it far better. The only question is when.
There's statutory law (explicitly written laws) and case law (it's that way because of these 11,000 related court cases). The first is subject to change only through new legislation; the 2nd is always subject to new interpretation.
In other words, move off campus. Then once you do that, you'll discover that you can have keg parties and clambakes at your house, and BitTorrent access will suddenly seem a lot less important anyway.
And how long would this effect take to materialize? I know it's fashionable for laissez-faire advocates to pretend like the timeframes required to iron out inefficiencies are irrelevant, but this cycle (if it even exists) would likely have a period of an entire generation.
Puh-leaze. Instead of spending money on Apple's overpriced wares, just use one of the many free alternatives, available on all of your favorite platforms.
Putting a number on it, however, just smacks of simplistic scorekeeping. McDonald's Joe's time away from playing with his kids is at least as valuable as your time away from whatever you like to do.
The hijacker's script watches to see who's coming. If it's googlebot, redirect. If it's an actual user, do [insidious thing].
I myself have been torn regarding this practice. On the one hand, combining them has a better rhythm, as well as requiring fewer characters. However, it leaves me with a little of that hollow feeling you get when a set of parentheses is not properly closed (example here ;).
On the other hand, keeping them separate also looks somewhat like you're opening one set but closing two, which leaves one with a similar, vague case of the lexical heebiejeebies (case in point :)).
I find the only fully satisfactory solution is also the least efficient; that is, including both the complete emoticon and the closing parenthesis, separated by a single space character (like this ;) ).
A controversial special case, which may or may not warrant discussion here, would be the practice of combining an open parenthesis with an emoticon (: but the whole idea kind of freaks me out ;).