"you have more people available to learn new skills"
That's the biggest fallacy in the argument. Most people who talk about getting the chronically poor into a position where they can learn new skills and do more work to give them the chance to move up the ladder. Here's the dirty little secret: humans are no longer cost effective at any price which supports the modern concept of first world necessities (clean, healthy food; safe, energy efficient housing, basic transportation - personal or public, connectivity to others). \
These people aren't unemployed because they don't have the right training, they're unemployed because they're untrainable for jobs that will command a living wage. And I can guarantee that if you found out tomorrow that your job didn't pay you even 1/4 of what it would take to make rent and put food on the table, you would eventually stop going to work. (you would probably look for alternate ways to live, but you wouldn't give up 40-50 hours of every week and still go hungry).
The parent has been modded troll for the "modest proposal" tack taken to the surplus worker problem, but the basic tenet is true: we've either replaced the entry level jobs with automation or reduced them with efficiency. Calling them surplus is merely extending the word used for old factory equipment which has been superceded by more cost effective versions. It's not a judgement on the people, personally, but a simple value calculation that they do not/can not perform tasks more efficiently than machinery which has replaced them.
We've reached an interesting point where we don't really need all the people we have (by half!) what it takes to keep society fed and clothed. And yet our million-year-old value system requires that you perform some useful task for the herd in order to partake in the benefits of the herd production. It's going to get very interesting over the next century.
Yes, I know; the joke about SV having shit service, but...Colleges are well wired, the towns around them are often not. Virginia Tech - the "electronic village" - that was supposed to get 10bT to every home over a decade ago - STILL has ISP-by-address. If you're lucky you get Verizon 7/768 AND Comcast, but many places have a single provider. And there is basically no fiber. The only competition I've seen is from a rural telecom who stopped by one day while running new service to a select few, and they could get you T1-speed service (1.5/1.5) for the bargain price of $120/mo. AYFKM?
The town looked into high speed but decided it was too difficult to exercise their rights of way and didn't want to piss off Comcast, so they scuttled 100Mb fiber to everyone. I think they may still be meeting once a month to talk about "high speed internet" but they'll never get anything done about it.
"If Samsung were to create another version of their flagship phone, but with 4000mAh to 8000mAh batteries (to support the extra GHz and cores without draining the batteries too fast), they can make their phones twice to 4 times as fast, just by upping the Ghz, or the number of cores, or both."
See how easy that was? When it comes right down to it, the processors are on par within the total thermal/power envelope presented by the form factor and battery technology. If we've learning anything since the days of the 486, it's that clock speed and core count don't really matter when the input is a power envelope and the output is useful work done.
[cheapshot]What amazes me is that in all the years Apple has been making smartphones, it's still impossible to add a music file from email to itunes on the phone.[/cheapshot]
Yeah, I have several friends who will post/share things on their wall to "find later." Yeah, there's pretty much no way you're going to find that later unless you manually scroll through pages and pages of old posts. Finding stuff on FB is darned near impossible, with their "search" being woefully inadequate. I copy off to Evernote when I can, though FB has taken the genius step of disabling copy (and paste, for some odd reason) in Android, which means running FB in a mobile browser if I really want to archive something.
Of course, searching your own (or friends) history isn't the point of FB, but it seems like a pretty big miss if you want people to stay encapsulated in the system for marketing purposes.
No, you just choose teachers who aren't vaccinated.
It's probably not cost effective to do so, though, so you may as well just prohibit them from attending public school if they're not vaccinated and call it a day.
You're playing games with words and statistics. To wit:
"children who haven't received DTaP vaccines are at least 8 times more likely to get pertussis"
There, you could stop right there. But your statistics belie the truth. If we expect that 16% of children are only partially vaccinated and 4% are unvaccinated, in a population of 100000 children, in which 0.1% get pertussis you get:
81 children out of 80,000 get pertussis, or a vaccinated infection rate of 0.01% 11 children out of 16,000 get pertussis, or 0.07% 8 children out of 4000 get pertussis, or 0.20%
In other words, it means that your child is 20x more likely to get pertussis in the event of an outbreak if her or she is unvaccinated vs being vaccinated. The linked studies you made actually prove the OP's point - a successful vaccine prevents transmission: you do not become s silent "carrier" unless you suffer from a successful infection. And in the case of the linked studies, the concern is over particular vaccines which are not as effective in producing a robust antibody reaction. They're saying you need more/better vaccines, not fewer.
An array of 1600 of these 8k monitors? Okay...that's really only 163' across and 92' high - barely in the top 20 of the largest screens in the world - but at 156ppi I'd say you're probably sitting too close to the screen if you can see the pixels.;-)
5.5" phone screens are at 2560x1440, with 4k on the way. 8k on a monitor...what's the hold up?
Phones seem perfectly able to light the screen and drive the pixels at less than 4W TDP. Seems odd that 8k is such a large challenge given volume, mass and power budgets 20-100x that of a phone.
Yes. Yes it is. In fact, for an airport, support facilities, hangar and maintenance facilities, and proper air traffic control and infrastructure, you'd be hard pressed to get a commercial project for significantly less with the same specifications.
How can you safely produce your wallet, which usually resides in your pocket? If you're all fired up worried about getting shot, put your hands on the hood of the car and tell them which pocket your phone is in. Having had my share of traffic violations requiring identification, it's never been an issue. Then again, I'm not black, so I get a lot more leeway in what constitutes a threatening move and what doesn't.
A proper implementation should be by the OS maker, though, which automatically locks the phone when the app is accessed - or in which the license/insurance/registration information can only be accessed from the home screen via a special unlock code/access which does not unlock the rest of the phone contents.
While a super-secure app isn't really necessary for police, since they can just call in your license number and verify you're legal/in the system, for things like age verification, you'd have to add some kind of simple challenge/response functionality for people who don't have access to police records (bouncers, cashiers, bartenders).
Not that it matters. Until Apple/Google get the whole NFC payment bullshit worked out and every vendor has an NFC terminal we're going to be carrying around other slabs of plastic to pay for things. Carrying a license isn't really an extra burden.
Yeah, except that 16:9 portrait is way too tall and skinny (I have a Sony Flip, so I've tried it, even at super high res 2880x1620). I actually think 4:3 is good, but I'd be happy with Ax size (1.41:1) or even 3:2.
cue cute black girl shrugging and saying "why not both?".
Monitors are cheap - landscape in the middle and portrait on the sides. And make 'em big (I have 2 decade-old 1600x1200 20" dell monitors flanking a 2560x1600; works perfectly)
Personally, I think monitors for computers should be in the ISO 216 / A series size. 1.41:1 "works" for a lot of content, and doesn't get weird when you shift to portrait (if portrait is your thing, or you're using a convertable laptop in portrait mode).
While that's somewhat true, the mere act of singing properly (extending vowels and turning dipthongs/consonants at the beginning of the "next" word) leads to this quite a bit. I once learned a song mostly from a commercial recording, then found out that the (somewhat odd) words I'd learned in one phrase were different than what I'd learned. Thing was - it didn't matter. The vowel and consonant sounds were identical for all practical purposes, and it didn't matter which "words" were there.
If you're not using RAW, you're doing it wrong. JPGs are for end use, and as such will never really benefit from higher bit depths. It's like being concerned that your music isn't being released in 24bit/192kHz. Those people who can tell - and viewing conditions where - the differences can be seen are so rarified that you may as well use a TIFF at 16 bits and (if you want) lossless compression. It's not as if we're worried about space constraints *in those situations* these days.
Previous measurements of the deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ratio in other comets have shown a wide range of values. Of the 11 comets for which measurements have been made, it is only the Jupiter-family Comet 103P/Hartley 2 that was found to match the composition of Earth’s water, in observations made by ESA’s Herschel mission in 2011.
I have to get antivirus, defrag, software/driver updaters and registry correction software on top of that.
You may need to run Windows, but that doesn't mean you have to run an ancient version of it. Win7 doesn't actually need defragging unless you use a spinning drive and tend to fill up the entire capacity of the disk *and* do a lot of random writes (you do have a dedicated scratch disk like Adobe recommends, right?), comes with antivirus built in, software and driver updates are automatic (unless the vendor doesn't support them). As to registry correction software...wtf are you doing with your PC? I've used the registry since NT v3.1 and have never needed "correction software" for the registry hives.
"But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around."
I'm sorry, but my buzzword bingo card just shit it's pants over that sentence. Coopetition and Swim Lane Clarity. That makes Synergy seem quaint.
" A solid lump of flesh and bone or a solid lump of styrofoam, plastic, and some small bits of metal." FTFY
I would worry more about the "potentially explosive" lithium batteries, but the actual energy involved is likely less than the rated capacity of 57Wh (for a DJI Phantom, a fairly large consumer model), or 205kJ of energy. If you consider they fire multiple chickens (at 3-4kg) at a combined vector of aircraft speed and compressor blade speed of 275m/s, the impact energy is north of 300(+/-)kJ. If you're concerned about high temperatures, remember that this is a jet engine made of high temperature steel and ceramics. Don't forget that they also fire 120+g balls of ice into the engines at hundreds of m/s, so it's not all "soft stuff" they test against these engines.
That's not to say that a large drone might not do damage to an engine, but if you combine the chance of an idiot drone pilot *and* the chance of getting ingested into an engine *and* the chance of actually having an impact which severely damages the engine you're talking very very remote possibilities. You may as well start patrolling the highways to make sure nobody flies above them for fear of the drone losing power and diving into traffic. Current laws cover the conditions well enough for general safety (glide slope and general hobby a/c altitude limits).
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"you have more people available to learn new skills"
That's the biggest fallacy in the argument. Most people who talk about getting the chronically poor into a position where they can learn new skills and do more work to give them the chance to move up the ladder. Here's the dirty little secret: humans are no longer cost effective at any price which supports the modern concept of first world necessities (clean, healthy food; safe, energy efficient housing, basic transportation - personal or public, connectivity to others). \
These people aren't unemployed because they don't have the right training, they're unemployed because they're untrainable for jobs that will command a living wage. And I can guarantee that if you found out tomorrow that your job didn't pay you even 1/4 of what it would take to make rent and put food on the table, you would eventually stop going to work. (you would probably look for alternate ways to live, but you wouldn't give up 40-50 hours of every week and still go hungry).
The parent has been modded troll for the "modest proposal" tack taken to the surplus worker problem, but the basic tenet is true: we've either replaced the entry level jobs with automation or reduced them with efficiency. Calling them surplus is merely extending the word used for old factory equipment which has been superceded by more cost effective versions. It's not a judgement on the people, personally, but a simple value calculation that they do not/can not perform tasks more efficiently than machinery which has replaced them.
We've reached an interesting point where we don't really need all the people we have (by half!) what it takes to keep society fed and clothed. And yet our million-year-old value system requires that you perform some useful task for the herd in order to partake in the benefits of the herd production. It's going to get very interesting over the next century.
Yes, I know; the joke about SV having shit service, but...Colleges are well wired, the towns around them are often not. Virginia Tech - the "electronic village" - that was supposed to get 10bT to every home over a decade ago - STILL has ISP-by-address. If you're lucky you get Verizon 7/768 AND Comcast, but many places have a single provider. And there is basically no fiber. The only competition I've seen is from a rural telecom who stopped by one day while running new service to a select few, and they could get you T1-speed service (1.5/1.5) for the bargain price of $120/mo. AYFKM?
The town looked into high speed but decided it was too difficult to exercise their rights of way and didn't want to piss off Comcast, so they scuttled 100Mb fiber to everyone. I think they may still be meeting once a month to talk about "high speed internet" but they'll never get anything done about it.
"If Samsung were to create another version of their flagship phone, but with 4000mAh to 8000mAh batteries (to support the extra GHz and cores without draining the batteries too fast), they can make their phones twice to 4 times as fast, just by upping the Ghz, or the number of cores, or both."
See how easy that was? When it comes right down to it, the processors are on par within the total thermal/power envelope presented by the form factor and battery technology. If we've learning anything since the days of the 486, it's that clock speed and core count don't really matter when the input is a power envelope and the output is useful work done.
[cheapshot]What amazes me is that in all the years Apple has been making smartphones, it's still impossible to add a music file from email to itunes on the phone.[/cheapshot]
"...they actually toss out copies of their genetic mateiral (sic)..."
This is /.; we're familiar with the process.
Tell that to SpiderOak.
Yeah, I have several friends who will post/share things on their wall to "find later." Yeah, there's pretty much no way you're going to find that later unless you manually scroll through pages and pages of old posts. Finding stuff on FB is darned near impossible, with their "search" being woefully inadequate. I copy off to Evernote when I can, though FB has taken the genius step of disabling copy (and paste, for some odd reason) in Android, which means running FB in a mobile browser if I really want to archive something.
Of course, searching your own (or friends) history isn't the point of FB, but it seems like a pretty big miss if you want people to stay encapsulated in the system for marketing purposes.
Well, if somebody's paying $500 for dead cats, I'm willing to bounce my dead cat for that kind of money.
No, you just choose teachers who aren't vaccinated.
It's probably not cost effective to do so, though, so you may as well just prohibit them from attending public school if they're not vaccinated and call it a day.
You're playing games with words and statistics. To wit:
"children who haven't received DTaP vaccines are at least 8 times more likely to get pertussis"
There, you could stop right there. But your statistics belie the truth. If we expect that 16% of children are only partially vaccinated and 4% are unvaccinated, in a population of 100000 children, in which 0.1% get pertussis you get:
81 children out of 80,000 get pertussis, or a vaccinated infection rate of 0.01%
11 children out of 16,000 get pertussis, or 0.07%
8 children out of 4000 get pertussis, or 0.20%
In other words, it means that your child is 20x more likely to get pertussis in the event of an outbreak if her or she is unvaccinated vs being vaccinated. The linked studies you made actually prove the OP's point - a successful vaccine prevents transmission: you do not become s silent "carrier" unless you suffer from a successful infection. And in the case of the linked studies, the concern is over particular vaccines which are not as effective in producing a robust antibody reaction. They're saying you need more/better vaccines, not fewer.
An array of 1600 of these 8k monitors? Okay...that's really only 163' across and 92' high - barely in the top 20 of the largest screens in the world - but at 156ppi I'd say you're probably sitting too close to the screen if you can see the pixels. ;-)
5.5" phone screens are at 2560x1440, with 4k on the way. 8k on a monitor...what's the hold up?
Phones seem perfectly able to light the screen and drive the pixels at less than 4W TDP. Seems odd that 8k is such a large challenge given volume, mass and power budgets 20-100x that of a phone.
Lawyers don't laugh - it throws them off their count while going through their piles of money.
Yes. Yes it is. In fact, for an airport, support facilities, hangar and maintenance facilities, and proper air traffic control and infrastructure, you'd be hard pressed to get a commercial project for significantly less with the same specifications.
Yeah, of all the Soviet Russia conditions where "your papers, please" could be used to identify the US as a police state, this is NOT one of them.
How can you safely produce your wallet, which usually resides in your pocket? If you're all fired up worried about getting shot, put your hands on the hood of the car and tell them which pocket your phone is in. Having had my share of traffic violations requiring identification, it's never been an issue. Then again, I'm not black, so I get a lot more leeway in what constitutes a threatening move and what doesn't.
A proper implementation should be by the OS maker, though, which automatically locks the phone when the app is accessed - or in which the license/insurance/registration information can only be accessed from the home screen via a special unlock code/access which does not unlock the rest of the phone contents.
While a super-secure app isn't really necessary for police, since they can just call in your license number and verify you're legal/in the system, for things like age verification, you'd have to add some kind of simple challenge/response functionality for people who don't have access to police records (bouncers, cashiers, bartenders).
Not that it matters. Until Apple/Google get the whole NFC payment bullshit worked out and every vendor has an NFC terminal we're going to be carrying around other slabs of plastic to pay for things. Carrying a license isn't really an extra burden.
Yeah, except that 16:9 portrait is way too tall and skinny (I have a Sony Flip, so I've tried it, even at super high res 2880x1620). I actually think 4:3 is good, but I'd be happy with Ax size (1.41:1) or even 3:2.
cue cute black girl shrugging and saying "why not both?".
Monitors are cheap - landscape in the middle and portrait on the sides. And make 'em big (I have 2 decade-old 1600x1200 20" dell monitors flanking a 2560x1600; works perfectly)
Personally, I think monitors for computers should be in the ISO 216 / A series size. 1.41:1 "works" for a lot of content, and doesn't get weird when you shift to portrait (if portrait is your thing, or you're using a convertable laptop in portrait mode).
While that's somewhat true, the mere act of singing properly (extending vowels and turning dipthongs/consonants at the beginning of the "next" word) leads to this quite a bit. I once learned a song mostly from a commercial recording, then found out that the (somewhat odd) words I'd learned in one phrase were different than what I'd learned. Thing was - it didn't matter. The vowel and consonant sounds were identical for all practical purposes, and it didn't matter which "words" were there.
If you're not using RAW, you're doing it wrong. JPGs are for end use, and as such will never really benefit from higher bit depths. It's like being concerned that your music isn't being released in 24bit/192kHz. Those people who can tell - and viewing conditions where - the differences can be seen are so rarified that you may as well use a TIFF at 16 bits and (if you want) lossless compression. It's not as if we're worried about space constraints *in those situations* these days.
Previous measurements of the deuterium/hydrogen (D/H) ratio in other comets have shown a wide range of values. Of the 11 comets for which measurements have been made, it is only the Jupiter-family Comet 103P/Hartley 2 that was found to match the composition of Earth’s water, in observations made by ESA’s Herschel mission in 2011.
I have to get antivirus, defrag, software/driver updaters and registry correction software on top of that.
You may need to run Windows, but that doesn't mean you have to run an ancient version of it. Win7 doesn't actually need defragging unless you use a spinning drive and tend to fill up the entire capacity of the disk *and* do a lot of random writes (you do have a dedicated scratch disk like Adobe recommends, right?), comes with antivirus built in, software and driver updates are automatic (unless the vendor doesn't support them). As to registry correction software...wtf are you doing with your PC? I've used the registry since NT v3.1 and have never needed "correction software" for the registry hives.
"But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around."
I'm sorry, but my buzzword bingo card just shit it's pants over that sentence. Coopetition and Swim Lane Clarity. That makes Synergy seem quaint.
" A solid lump of flesh and bone or a solid lump of styrofoam, plastic, and some small bits of metal." FTFY
I would worry more about the "potentially explosive" lithium batteries, but the actual energy involved is likely less than the rated capacity of 57Wh (for a DJI Phantom, a fairly large consumer model), or 205kJ of energy. If you consider they fire multiple chickens (at 3-4kg) at a combined vector of aircraft speed and compressor blade speed of 275m/s, the impact energy is north of 300(+/-)kJ. If you're concerned about high temperatures, remember that this is a jet engine made of high temperature steel and ceramics. Don't forget that they also fire 120+g balls of ice into the engines at hundreds of m/s, so it's not all "soft stuff" they test against these engines.
That's not to say that a large drone might not do damage to an engine, but if you combine the chance of an idiot drone pilot *and* the chance of getting ingested into an engine *and* the chance of actually having an impact which severely damages the engine you're talking very very remote possibilities. You may as well start patrolling the highways to make sure nobody flies above them for fear of the drone losing power and diving into traffic. Current laws cover the conditions well enough for general safety (glide slope and general hobby a/c altitude limits).