I can't believe there are 16% of people who do not believe that our evolutionary progress is not guided by His Noodly Appendage. How else can you explain midgets?
We keep trying to put them up for you. But you keep complaining about the Star of David on the capitol lawn and quotes from the Qur'an in the general assembly.
FWIW - there's nothing "undecided" about the other 21%. I might quote several prominant Christians in saying "Our beliefs are the truth, and the only truth. You may disagree with me all you want, but I have read the [Bible|Science Books] and you are simply wrong."
Divinely guided simply means that you don't believe that man sprung fully formed from the mind of a God, but you don't know enough about statistical variation and the libraries of research which show how very complex conditions can arise through random mutation and fitness selections.
You could say that the poll is roughly split between a group which believes in the science (but may not understand how complete it is, so allows the hand of God to make sure we ended up as humans), and a group which is so bereft of learning and logic as to believe - word for word - a collection of stories written when the earth was flat, infinite, and at the center of the universe.
It's not surprising that the latter exists, it's that they very well may outnumber the former.
No, because then we'll say he's incompetent for asking slashdot to do his job for him, rather than our telling him he's incompetent because his spec is incomplete.
You're using it wrong, and you're using the wrong one.
I've been late once or twice in the past 10 years. They have always credited back the interest and fees when I called. They give you that 1% because they're getting 2.5-3% from the merchant (which you're paying though markup, but they're not giving cash discounts, so...).
I've decided that a lot of card companies much really suck. Chase, otoh, has been exceptionally accommodating for me. Questionable charge? It's gone in 24 hours and they take it up with the merchant. I even filed a CDW loss on a rental car once (dented a plastic bumper on a rental Jeep - you'd think they would be more durable) - sent in the paper work, got call to confirm the information, and 30 days later got a claim report and $0 balance from the rental company.
I'm not a huge client either - maybe $10k/yr ($20k if we're really flush). I've never had an annual fee.
Yeah, but when a 20oz drink is $6.50 and a 44oz drink is $7.50, I'd think the movie theaters would love to stop those couples or families who share a single drink. Sounds like a win for the movie theaters!
Of course it's not socialist - Obama's (not really, it was congress' plan) plan would make you pay to get a health plan. Those who couldn't afford one would be subsidized; that's not really socialism but rather welfare. It has roots in socialistic behavior.
On the contrary, these people want their healthcare paid for by someone else who isn't the government. It's like socialism, but since it's not the government and they're not sure what the name for it is. They have re-apportioned the word "freedom" to mean "tied to your employer for all of your healthcare needs or hounded by collectors for all of time due to the last emergency room visit you couldn't afford." You can see how that last phrase is a little awkward, whereas Freedom just rolls of the tongue.
Prior art is only one test. Novel is not sufficient, only necessary. Obviousness to a practitioner of the art should also invalidate a patent. This is a variation on layaway departments. You choose an item as a gift and the store holds it for you until later to pay for it. If you choose to not give the gift (or the recipient says they don't want it) you don't pay for it.
The only thing that is somewhat novel is that the acceptance of the item is split into a two-factor approval - you (at purchase) and the recipient (at acceptance). Traditionally, Amazon - and most larger online retailers - will allow you to select your item (your gift), then input your credit card information, then accept the item (click the purchase button), and ONLY WHEN THE ITEM SHIPS is your credit card charged. You can even go in an decline your item (your "gift") at any time before it ships and you (the giver) will not be charged for the item.
One of the things I appreciate about having a home office which is also isolated from the rest of the house is the tomb-like silence which pervades the office most of the day. Most of my work (reports, calculations) goes best when it's dead quite, but when I'm drawing or drafting I put on light music (usu contemporary a cappella, jazz, or classical). The silence, which is 80% of the time, drives my wife nuts (or rather she thinks I'm nuts for sitting in it). That just makes the silence even better.:-)
I thought pink noise was basically white noise ("random") that had a uniform volume over the entire frequency band of interest (usually human hearing). White noise has a (linear?) variation which is weighted towards higher frequencies.
It turns out that I just had my vision checked today, and even at 43 my left eye is 20/15 and my right eye is somewhere between 20/15 and 20/10. I have an iPhone 4 and a new iPad, and I'll tell you right now that I rarely find use for the density of pixels. Somewhere between the previous, clearly pixellated screen and the current retina display, there really is no difference - or at least no usable one until the pixels are no longer RGB stripes. I used to have a 15.4" 1920x1200 laptop screen and - to be honest - the standard UI size in Windows was generally too small for all-day usage and I went to a larger fixed monitor in the office. Now I use a 30" 2560x1600 monitor, and I generally don't notice the pixels (per se) at normal viewing distance, though I do recognize that the sub-pixels exist and throw off my perception of uniform areas of color. I edit photos on the machine and normally zoom in to 2:1 to work at the pixel level because I don't fully perceive the change in values pixelwise at 1:1 due to the resolution.
It turns out that, especially for video, the pixel density means so much less. I'm actually happy with a 125" screen and a 720p projector from 12' away. I can see the difference with 1080 equipment, but only when I look for it. Just as I may hear the difference with 96kHz source audio, but unless I'm listening to my equipment (vs listening to the music), 44.1kHz is more than sufficient.
What does piss me off is that the iPad takes hours to charge because of honking big battery it takes to drive all those beautiful pixels. I need longer operating life more than I need 4x the pixels I'll never see.
There's a thread of truth in this. Even the most open western business is going to be extremely hesitant to hire someone with nearly zero language skills. Better to lay off the coding, make learn mandarin your primary "job", and once you're confident look for work. Teach some english on the side if you must to make money. Above all, look for business contacts which will provide you with resources to draw upon when you return to the west. Having functional/conversational mandarin under your belt could be a serious asset when you return, having contacts in the largest market in the world could be even better.
BTW - take mandarin from a native, ideally a locally born one, and do your best to mimic his or her way of speaking, not just the language mechanics. Its one thing to speak a foreign language, to sound like someone from that country to a local is a rare gift.
We're already made of anti-matter. Except that, since we're here, and we're making the rules and naming things, we call it matter and all the opposite stuff is anti-matter.
Screw the programming job, I suggest you hire yourself out as a technical manual writer or proofreader. I don't care how much they pay you, you should consider it a service to your native land.
That only works if you do business in a vacuum. If you never collaborate with world, are willing to train your employees from scratch on all of your software, and only ever have to produce hard copy output, then OSS can be a reasonable alternative.
This can't be stressed enough. Pay a premium for the highest level of service and support you can get. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but if you actually have money (as opposed to ten guys bootstrapping the business on cheetos and tap water) it will cost you less than the time you spend to get it done, and it WILL NOT BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to keep it running smoothly. Never underestimate the time it takes to manage such a system if it's not your core function.
Think of it this way - your billing rate (and everyone at the company) is at least $100/hr. You'll need to explain this to management and get their blessing. In comparison to a 4 hour meeting telling them why it's worthwhile to have somebody else do it until your're at 50-100 employees, it wil take 4 meetings. 4pplx12hrsx100=$4800. If you have to train your users for half a day - just half a day - because it's new to them you've blown $4000. You'll spend a week figuring out how to make it all work and get the components installed. Another $4000. You're going to lose 2 hours a week per person to people not being able to figure new stuff out and screwing things up. That's $8000 in the first month. The first glitch you have will cost you 16 hours to troubleshoot and fix (if you're lucky). $1600. You'll do that three times a year (again, if your lucky). $4800. You'll spend 4 hours a month just keeping it patched and running. $4800/yr. So, if you actually have work to do in this startup, and you're not just sitting around idle, there's $30,000 at stake in the first year, maybe $20,000 the next. Now decide if it's worth a custom in-house solution. (Note: if your cloud service goes down for 2 days, and they suck so much there's no local backup, you're still only out $16,000. Even Amazon's S3 faceplant wasn't that bad, and if you'd paid for their top tier distributed service it wouldn't have affected you)
...they came up snake eyes. Or, perhaps a five. Either way, you didn't do your due diligence if you thought that Facebook, today, was worth 100:1 P/E ratio with a solid income track record established. Why is it that people want to sue when their bets went bad. Do you sue the track when that clean looking bay you bet to show comes in fourth because they didn't tell you he was off his feed that morning? Do you sue the casino and Nevada Gaming Commission when you don't ply well at the slots because the adjust the payouts since the last months payout percentages were posted?
"Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm".
So...he's basically saying that he has a mean rise somewhere just shy of 10cm, and an uncertainty of 10cm. That would, to a simple engineer like myself, suggest that sea levels ARE rising, and that they are rising at a rate which is somewhere between a negligible amount and 20cm over 100 years, or (wait for it) 2mm per year. TFS suggests that 1.8mm/yr is the annual average amount for the last fifty years. Presuming that there was no change - or a negligible one - from 1910-1960, that would average out to 0.9mm.yr.
That's 9cm in 100 years or 10% less than Dr MÃrner's "not more than" mean, and well within his +/- 10cm. band.
Yeah, but it's nearly free money. Sure, it feels like you just won the lottery, and then found out that the jackpot is only 60% of what they claimed if you take it now, and then Uncle Sam is going to treat it as oridnary income and draw of another 35%, leaving you with just 40c on the dollar.
But, really, if you had stock a month ago, it was worth $16/share. Through the magic of irrational exuberance, it was worth 2.5x that on Friday. In six months, even if it drops to half of the ipo price, it's still worth more than you thought it would be worth more that you thought it would be.
I doubt that FB will drop to a penny stock in six months. I doubt it will go below $18-20/share (~40 P/E ratio, I think, which is probably more reasonable for a company that is just now figuring out how to really fleece it's customers and users).
Thank you for your response.I've tried to find if it was possible to capture iMessage data on my LAN. Encrypted, huh? Better to know now not to beat my head against a brick wall on it.
On the contrary, while you are int explicitly private in such a setting others have noted that there is a high degree of anonymity as well as a reasonable expectation that legal actions taken will not be permanently recorded (security tapes are rotated, for example), nor will anyone outside of the people in the bar be aware of your presence.
Though not a perfect analogy, it like the free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech comparison. No, you're not alone; No, nobody is going to remember who you are or what you did, or even that you were there unless you make an effort to be memorable.
If you want to know why your taxes are so high you only need to look at the deals which are given to major corporations to attract and retain their business. It's getting to be a bit like CEO compensation packages. Will the best ones make you money - sure. But that money is collected from everyone else - essentially a tax increase on the everyman.
The fact that governments are pitted against one another just means that the downward spiral will continue, as each locality offers to unlevel the playing field to favor their locality.
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I can't believe there are 16% of people who do not believe that our evolutionary progress is not guided by His Noodly Appendage. How else can you explain midgets?
We keep trying to put them up for you. But you keep complaining about the Star of David on the capitol lawn and quotes from the Qur'an in the general assembly.
FWIW - there's nothing "undecided" about the other 21%. I might quote several prominant Christians in saying "Our beliefs are the truth, and the only truth. You may disagree with me all you want, but I have read the [Bible|Science Books] and you are simply wrong."
Divinely guided simply means that you don't believe that man sprung fully formed from the mind of a God, but you don't know enough about statistical variation and the libraries of research which show how very complex conditions can arise through random mutation and fitness selections.
You could say that the poll is roughly split between a group which believes in the science (but may not understand how complete it is, so allows the hand of God to make sure we ended up as humans), and a group which is so bereft of learning and logic as to believe - word for word - a collection of stories written when the earth was flat, infinite, and at the center of the universe.
It's not surprising that the latter exists, it's that they very well may outnumber the former.
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No, because then we'll say he's incompetent for asking slashdot to do his job for him, rather than our telling him he's incompetent because his spec is incomplete.
And who wants to stick their smart phone in some strippers ass crack?
Okay, don't answer that (I know...rule 34).
You're using it wrong, and you're using the wrong one.
I've been late once or twice in the past 10 years. They have always credited back the interest and fees when I called. They give you that 1% because they're getting 2.5-3% from the merchant (which you're paying though markup, but they're not giving cash discounts, so...).
I've decided that a lot of card companies much really suck. Chase, otoh, has been exceptionally accommodating for me. Questionable charge? It's gone in 24 hours and they take it up with the merchant. I even filed a CDW loss on a rental car once (dented a plastic bumper on a rental Jeep - you'd think they would be more durable) - sent in the paper work, got call to confirm the information, and 30 days later got a claim report and $0 balance from the rental company.
I'm not a huge client either - maybe $10k/yr ($20k if we're really flush). I've never had an annual fee.
Yeah, but when a 20oz drink is $6.50 and a 44oz drink is $7.50, I'd think the movie theaters would love to stop those couples or families who share a single drink. Sounds like a win for the movie theaters!
Of course it's not socialist - Obama's (not really, it was congress' plan) plan would make you pay to get a health plan. Those who couldn't afford one would be subsidized; that's not really socialism but rather welfare. It has roots in socialistic behavior.
On the contrary, these people want their healthcare paid for by someone else who isn't the government. It's like socialism, but since it's not the government and they're not sure what the name for it is. They have re-apportioned the word "freedom" to mean "tied to your employer for all of your healthcare needs or hounded by collectors for all of time due to the last emergency room visit you couldn't afford." You can see how that last phrase is a little awkward, whereas Freedom just rolls of the tongue.
Prior art is only one test. Novel is not sufficient, only necessary. Obviousness to a practitioner of the art should also invalidate a patent. This is a variation on layaway departments. You choose an item as a gift and the store holds it for you until later to pay for it. If you choose to not give the gift (or the recipient says they don't want it) you don't pay for it.
The only thing that is somewhat novel is that the acceptance of the item is split into a two-factor approval - you (at purchase) and the recipient (at acceptance). Traditionally, Amazon - and most larger online retailers - will allow you to select your item (your gift), then input your credit card information, then accept the item (click the purchase button), and ONLY WHEN THE ITEM SHIPS is your credit card charged. You can even go in an decline your item (your "gift") at any time before it ships and you (the giver) will not be charged for the item.
This is a "neat idea" not a novel invention.
One of the things I appreciate about having a home office which is also isolated from the rest of the house is the tomb-like silence which pervades the office most of the day. Most of my work (reports, calculations) goes best when it's dead quite, but when I'm drawing or drafting I put on light music (usu contemporary a cappella, jazz, or classical). The silence, which is 80% of the time, drives my wife nuts (or rather she thinks I'm nuts for sitting in it). That just makes the silence even better. :-)
I thought pink noise was basically white noise ("random") that had a uniform volume over the entire frequency band of interest (usually human hearing). White noise has a (linear?) variation which is weighted towards higher frequencies.
It turns out that I just had my vision checked today, and even at 43 my left eye is 20/15 and my right eye is somewhere between 20/15 and 20/10. I have an iPhone 4 and a new iPad, and I'll tell you right now that I rarely find use for the density of pixels. Somewhere between the previous, clearly pixellated screen and the current retina display, there really is no difference - or at least no usable one until the pixels are no longer RGB stripes. I used to have a 15.4" 1920x1200 laptop screen and - to be honest - the standard UI size in Windows was generally too small for all-day usage and I went to a larger fixed monitor in the office. Now I use a 30" 2560x1600 monitor, and I generally don't notice the pixels (per se) at normal viewing distance, though I do recognize that the sub-pixels exist and throw off my perception of uniform areas of color. I edit photos on the machine and normally zoom in to 2:1 to work at the pixel level because I don't fully perceive the change in values pixelwise at 1:1 due to the resolution.
It turns out that, especially for video, the pixel density means so much less. I'm actually happy with a 125" screen and a 720p projector from 12' away. I can see the difference with 1080 equipment, but only when I look for it. Just as I may hear the difference with 96kHz source audio, but unless I'm listening to my equipment (vs listening to the music), 44.1kHz is more than sufficient.
What does piss me off is that the iPad takes hours to charge because of honking big battery it takes to drive all those beautiful pixels. I need longer operating life more than I need 4x the pixels I'll never see.
There's a thread of truth in this. Even the most open western business is going to be extremely hesitant to hire someone with nearly zero language skills. Better to lay off the coding, make learn mandarin your primary "job", and once you're confident look for work. Teach some english on the side if you must to make money. Above all, look for business contacts which will provide you with resources to draw upon when you return to the west. Having functional/conversational mandarin under your belt could be a serious asset when you return, having contacts in the largest market in the world could be even better.
BTW - take mandarin from a native, ideally a locally born one, and do your best to mimic his or her way of speaking, not just the language mechanics. Its one thing to speak a foreign language, to sound like someone from that country to a local is a rare gift.
We're already made of anti-matter. Except that, since we're here, and we're making the rules and naming things, we call it matter and all the opposite stuff is anti-matter.
I thought that was obvious.
Screw the programming job, I suggest you hire yourself out as a technical manual writer or proofreader. I don't care how much they pay you, you should consider it a service to your native land.
That only works if you do business in a vacuum. If you never collaborate with world, are willing to train your employees from scratch on all of your software, and only ever have to produce hard copy output, then OSS can be a reasonable alternative.
This can't be stressed enough. Pay a premium for the highest level of service and support you can get. I know that sounds counter-intuitive, but if you actually have money (as opposed to ten guys bootstrapping the business on cheetos and tap water) it will cost you less than the time you spend to get it done, and it WILL NOT BE YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to keep it running smoothly. Never underestimate the time it takes to manage such a system if it's not your core function.
Think of it this way - your billing rate (and everyone at the company) is at least $100/hr. You'll need to explain this to management and get their blessing. In comparison to a 4 hour meeting telling them why it's worthwhile to have somebody else do it until your're at 50-100 employees, it wil take 4 meetings. 4pplx12hrsx100=$4800. If you have to train your users for half a day - just half a day - because it's new to them you've blown $4000. You'll spend a week figuring out how to make it all work and get the components installed. Another $4000. You're going to lose 2 hours a week per person to people not being able to figure new stuff out and screwing things up. That's $8000 in the first month. The first glitch you have will cost you 16 hours to troubleshoot and fix (if you're lucky). $1600. You'll do that three times a year (again, if your lucky). $4800. You'll spend 4 hours a month just keeping it patched and running. $4800/yr. So, if you actually have work to do in this startup, and you're not just sitting around idle, there's $30,000 at stake in the first year, maybe $20,000 the next. Now decide if it's worth a custom in-house solution.
(Note: if your cloud service goes down for 2 days, and they suck so much there's no local backup, you're still only out $16,000. Even Amazon's S3 faceplant wasn't that bad, and if you'd paid for their top tier distributed service it wouldn't have affected you)
...they came up snake eyes. Or, perhaps a five. Either way, you didn't do your due diligence if you thought that Facebook, today, was worth 100:1 P/E ratio with a solid income track record established. Why is it that people want to sue when their bets went bad. Do you sue the track when that clean looking bay you bet to show comes in fourth because they didn't tell you he was off his feed that morning? Do you sue the casino and Nevada Gaming Commission when you don't ply well at the slots because the adjust the payouts since the last months payout percentages were posted?
It looks like somebody dragged a wet towel across the surface of the moon.
"Despite fluctuations down as well as up, "the sea is not rising," he says. "It hasn't risen in 50 years." If there is any rise this century it will "not be more than 10cm (four inches), with an uncertainty of plus or minus 10cm".
So...he's basically saying that he has a mean rise somewhere just shy of 10cm, and an uncertainty of 10cm. That would, to a simple engineer like myself, suggest that sea levels ARE rising, and that they are rising at a rate which is somewhere between a negligible amount and 20cm over 100 years, or (wait for it) 2mm per year. TFS suggests that 1.8mm/yr is the annual average amount for the last fifty years. Presuming that there was no change - or a negligible one - from 1910-1960, that would average out to 0.9mm.yr.
That's 9cm in 100 years or 10% less than Dr MÃrner's "not more than" mean, and well within his +/- 10cm. band.
Yeah, but it's nearly free money. Sure, it feels like you just won the lottery, and then found out that the jackpot is only 60% of what they claimed if you take it now, and then Uncle Sam is going to treat it as oridnary income and draw of another 35%, leaving you with just 40c on the dollar.
But, really, if you had stock a month ago, it was worth $16/share. Through the magic of irrational exuberance, it was worth 2.5x that on Friday. In six months, even if it drops to half of the ipo price, it's still worth more than you thought it would be worth more that you thought it would be.
I doubt that FB will drop to a penny stock in six months. I doubt it will go below $18-20/share (~40 P/E ratio, I think, which is probably more reasonable for a company that is just now figuring out how to really fleece it's customers and users).
Thank you for your response.I've tried to find if it was possible to capture iMessage data on my LAN. Encrypted, huh? Better to know now not to beat my head against a brick wall on it.
On the contrary, while you are int explicitly private in such a setting others have noted that there is a high degree of anonymity as well as a reasonable expectation that legal actions taken will not be permanently recorded (security tapes are rotated, for example), nor will anyone outside of the people in the bar be aware of your presence.
Though not a perfect analogy, it like the free-as-in-beer vs free-as-in-speech comparison. No, you're not alone; No, nobody is going to remember who you are or what you did, or even that you were there unless you make an effort to be memorable.
If you want to know why your taxes are so high you only need to look at the deals which are given to major corporations to attract and retain their business. It's getting to be a bit like CEO compensation packages. Will the best ones make you money - sure. But that money is collected from everyone else - essentially a tax increase on the everyman.
The fact that governments are pitted against one another just means that the downward spiral will continue, as each locality offers to unlevel the playing field to favor their locality.