Well, damn - there goes the whole edible underwear market
"Blank video cassettes"
I guess this includes beta and VHS. Bastards - that was my next start-up incubator idea I was going to pitch to a few VCs next week. *sigh* I wonder if wax cylinders are going to come back any time soon...
Have you ever worked with interfacing to Government systems and contracts? Trust me, worst fucking system in the world. I do government work only when I really, really have to, because in general it's not worth the time and hassle.
I've got bad news for you - all that information you're worried about is kept in private commercial databases, and can and has been leaked by corporate failures.
"SS numbers, addresses, phone numbers, driver's license numbers..." What, exactly, do you think the credit companies use to rate you? That's what was leaked from Target - all your identifying information. If it were just your CC number it would be easy to fix. And Verizon - they had your entire call history stored and available with a simple hack - that's NSA level stuff right there - free for the world to see. Amazon, Google, or even just your CC company have waaaay more personal data on you (like the prescriptions your bought or the doctors and hospitals you've visited and paid for) - and you don't have to even hack their servers. They'll sell your personal information for a few pennies.
I have a W8 convertible (Sony Flip, fwiw), and the touch screen part of W8 isn't what makes it suck, it's the apps and the keyboard implementation. There are no fullscreen/touch browsers other than IE, and if you have any other browser set to default IE won't come up in touch mode. And even if you do decide to use it, it turns off all/most extensions. WTF? And the keyboard - which doesn't include an alt key by default - doesn't come up automatically or provide any auto-correct or heuristic input help in anything but IE and MS Office, as if MS put those functions into the apps instead of the keyboard function. Whomever did their usability study must have done it in a sterile environment.
As for actual operation when in laptop mode - yes, the Metro interface is bulky for regular operations, but it's more of an annoyance than an actual hindrance. Like all the modern ribbon interfaces the new fullscreen trades finger-accessibility and pretty graphics for efficiency in the form of extra clicks and mouse movement to start programs.
This sounds like it correlates well with the reduction in belief in evolution. I think it has less to do with climate science and conditions, and more to do with the handlers of the evangelical right feeding anti-science gospel to their parishioners.
This, like many rural telecoms, also runs the local cable TV franchise - probably the only one. The first thing I thought when I saw those caps was "hey - that's pretty much aimed at Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services". See, because they are having people on BB drop their cableTV, which is costing them subscribers and *effectively* raising the cost of their fixed cableTV payments.
Otherwise, as a cooperative, they would (should) be charging a basic rate for the speed and include a "cap" to recover their costs for equipment and maintenance, beyond which you pay only the Tier1 rates for data. I am, of course presuming that even a small cooperative does not pay $3/GB for Tier1 transmission (which would be so stupidly insane that the entire tech staff should be fired, or at least investigated for a kickback/bribe scheme with whomever their current provider is).
Absolutely true, but the OP isn't a 12 year old who isn't quite getting his scales. He's in his 30s. That's not to say he can't pick up the memory and learning skills to compete in a university environment and ultimately in the job market, but he's clearly way behind his 18 and 19 year old competitors in these skills if he's not just doing poorly but outright failing classes.
It's worth a long, hard look at your goals if there are several years of catch-up and then several more of study to get where you're going. Is graduating with a BS at 45 after 12-15 years of study worth the results? Only he can decide, but better to do so now before those years are gone.
Dimmable LEDs - now you ARE talking real money. And shitty dimming, unless you like the 10% min light output and freakishly cool color temperature for a light that's barely on.
How long do you thing the electronics in that CFL are really going to last? How many solid state devices costing less than $10 and subject to heavy heat cycling do you have in your house from 1994 that still work?
Every person is not a delicate butterfly who will grow up to be the unicorn if they just believe and clap their hands hard enough to make it so.
Sometimes, a wall in front of you is not a requirement that you climb it no matter the difficulty, but perhaps that walking around - or choosing a different direction - really is a better alternative.
I can sketch, but I do not have the fine motor skills or natural ability to replicate real world (or imagined) people, places, or things on paper. If I were to go to a university to study art, I too would take 2-3 times as long as anyone else, and produce work which was noticably less accurate/detailed than my peers. I could study harder, retake many classes, try all sorts of learning tricks, but it would always be an uphill battle.
It is easy for those of us in knowledge positions to think that success in technical classes is simply a function of hard work. That, while partially true, is not the sole criteria for success. A friend (and music notable) has said that nearly everyone can sing, and with practice anyone who can sing, can sing well. While that's true, it's only true in the sense that you could dedicate your entire life to singing and get good - good enough to enjoy it. But you would never have thevoice of Mariah Carey or Luciano Pavoratti or any of a number of naturally gifted people who also worked very hard.
I think the parent post is right -maybe college just ins't for this guy. At least not as a short term career choice. Speed and repetition, along with memory training may help. Or it may not. Choosing to become an artist out of desire, and finding that you cannot - with instruction - replicate basic actions is a prime indicator that art may not be the path which provides the greatest reward.
1) many humans do not have, or have not sufficiently developed, their cognitive skills in such a way that they would benefit an employer in a knowledge position
2) humans who do not work generally have no other means of support, and become dependent on the largesse of the ruling or financial classes.
The 1960s and 1970s utopian ideas of a 10 hour work week supplemented by computers and robots completely ignores the reality of a greedy human species. We will give up 40-60 hours a week to be in a better financial position than our neighbors, and those human hours have a fairly fixed net value (accounting for "inflation" and other human financial "innovations" centered around our greed).
Well, the pregnancy prevention part is pretty simple - outpatient surgery will fix you right up.
Preventing microbe transfer when bodily fluids are mixed and parts are in direct contact - well, that's quite a bit more challenging without a physical barrier.
Uh, yes and no. Yes, they are given more leeway to deviate, but they're also given top students with parents who are actively involved in the success of their children.
Charter schools are places where you allow those who would be bored or limited in a standard setting which is geared to cater to the 25th percentile learner to leap ahead of their peers by freeing them of the slower learners and the children whose parents take no active role in learning. It has far less to do with the methods and far more to do with who attends.
If I tell you that I'd like you to have $100,000 in your bank account at the end of the year and offer you two scenarios:
A) I give you $50,000 and an investment account
B) I give you $100,000, several full time professional money managers who will work around the clock, and that for every investment you make you will have two professionals to watch, check, and alert you of any changes or challenges which might result in a loss.
Which do you think is going to be a success at the end of the year? B, of course. That's what your charter (or enterprise) school is. If you take nothing but already-successful students, with parents who are involved in and focused on the academic success of their child, you have to royally fuck up to end up not hitting your goals. Heck, if you cleared out the worst performing school in the district of all the students and then put the enterprise students in there together and told the parents this was an honor and a privilege as it was a "magnet" school for academics you'd have the same fabulous results. If you combine all smart kids and involved, forward thinking parents you can make almost any teacher/staff group look like geniuses.
My wife likes him because he didn't toe the party line when he needed help after Sandy.
I think he's a fucking hypocrite because he basically said Obama as a commie faggot until he, unexpectedly, needed more help than he could get from his own state. Then he became a sudden convert to the shared-risk model of disaster response which the Democrats seem to favor. He's lucky it happened at the end of the first term, 'cause three months later and I would have told him to suck it and go ask his Republican governor friends to open up their coffers because people who don't want to pay in don't get to hold their hands out when their luck runs dry.
If two "practitioners skilled in the art" come up with the same idea independently, it SHOULD automatically invalidate the patent. That is part of the patent language, is it not?
I have a 30" central and two 20" (4:3) portraits flanking it. It's nice, but I'd like a second big monitor. I do architectural work and am often "checking" drawings, which means two 24x36" plan sets side by side. Being able to read both of them without scrolling or zooming would be awesome.
So you're saying that most people are just leeches on the system. It like the average bitcoin user has no idea what kind of infrastructure it takes - or doesn't care - in keeping an independent currency afloat.
A self-driving car is going to have a huge amount of telemetry. It will be able to tell you more about the accident than any participant or observer. It will likely have video of any event (cache), plus all of the IMU data. Not only will it be able to show you that the light was green when it proceeded through the intersection, it will be able to calculate the speed and angle of the car that hit you once the vehicle type is plugged into the vector equation.
And you're right - if the system is found to be faulty the insurance company will have their lawyers go after the manufacturer. And the manufacturer will probably lose, or will settle to cover up the issue. EULAs mean nothing against gross negligence, and a good lawyer and stable of expert witnesses can always find gross negligence if there has been actual wrongdoing.
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"under garments, underpants, underwear"
Well, damn - there goes the whole edible underwear market
"Blank video cassettes"
I guess this includes beta and VHS. Bastards - that was my next start-up incubator idea I was going to pitch to a few VCs next week. *sigh* I wonder if wax cylinders are going to come back any time soon...
Have you ever worked with interfacing to Government systems and contracts? Trust me, worst fucking system in the world. I do government work only when I really, really have to, because in general it's not worth the time and hassle.
I presume you're cash only, with no bank account. That's a real bitch when it comes to regular, gainful employment, though.
I've got bad news for you - all that information you're worried about is kept in private commercial databases, and can and has been leaked by corporate failures.
"SS numbers, addresses, phone numbers, driver's license numbers..." What, exactly, do you think the credit companies use to rate you? That's what was leaked from Target - all your identifying information. If it were just your CC number it would be easy to fix. And Verizon - they had your entire call history stored and available with a simple hack - that's NSA level stuff right there - free for the world to see. Amazon, Google, or even just your CC company have waaaay more personal data on you (like the prescriptions your bought or the doctors and hospitals you've visited and paid for) - and you don't have to even hack their servers. They'll sell your personal information for a few pennies.
I have a W8 convertible (Sony Flip, fwiw), and the touch screen part of W8 isn't what makes it suck, it's the apps and the keyboard implementation. There are no fullscreen/touch browsers other than IE, and if you have any other browser set to default IE won't come up in touch mode. And even if you do decide to use it, it turns off all/most extensions. WTF? And the keyboard - which doesn't include an alt key by default - doesn't come up automatically or provide any auto-correct or heuristic input help in anything but IE and MS Office, as if MS put those functions into the apps instead of the keyboard function. Whomever did their usability study must have done it in a sterile environment.
As for actual operation when in laptop mode - yes, the Metro interface is bulky for regular operations, but it's more of an annoyance than an actual hindrance. Like all the modern ribbon interfaces the new fullscreen trades finger-accessibility and pretty graphics for efficiency in the form of extra clicks and mouse movement to start programs.
This sounds like it correlates well with the reduction in belief in evolution. I think it has less to do with climate science and conditions, and more to do with the handlers of the evangelical right feeding anti-science gospel to their parishioners.
This, like many rural telecoms, also runs the local cable TV franchise - probably the only one. The first thing I thought when I saw those caps was "hey - that's pretty much aimed at Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services". See, because they are having people on BB drop their cableTV, which is costing them subscribers and *effectively* raising the cost of their fixed cableTV payments.
Otherwise, as a cooperative, they would (should) be charging a basic rate for the speed and include a "cap" to recover their costs for equipment and maintenance, beyond which you pay only the Tier1 rates for data. I am, of course presuming that even a small cooperative does not pay $3/GB for Tier1 transmission (which would be so stupidly insane that the entire tech staff should be fired, or at least investigated for a kickback/bribe scheme with whomever their current provider is).
Absolutely true, but the OP isn't a 12 year old who isn't quite getting his scales. He's in his 30s. That's not to say he can't pick up the memory and learning skills to compete in a university environment and ultimately in the job market, but he's clearly way behind his 18 and 19 year old competitors in these skills if he's not just doing poorly but outright failing classes.
It's worth a long, hard look at your goals if there are several years of catch-up and then several more of study to get where you're going. Is graduating with a BS at 45 after 12-15 years of study worth the results? Only he can decide, but better to do so now before those years are gone.
Dimmable LEDs - now you ARE talking real money. And shitty dimming, unless you like the 10% min light output and freakishly cool color temperature for a light that's barely on.
How long do you thing the electronics in that CFL are really going to last? How many solid state devices costing less than $10 and subject to heavy heat cycling do you have in your house from 1994 that still work?
Every person is not a delicate butterfly who will grow up to be the unicorn if they just believe and clap their hands hard enough to make it so.
Sometimes, a wall in front of you is not a requirement that you climb it no matter the difficulty, but perhaps that walking around - or choosing a different direction - really is a better alternative.
I can sketch, but I do not have the fine motor skills or natural ability to replicate real world (or imagined) people, places, or things on paper. If I were to go to a university to study art, I too would take 2-3 times as long as anyone else, and produce work which was noticably less accurate/detailed than my peers. I could study harder, retake many classes, try all sorts of learning tricks, but it would always be an uphill battle.
It is easy for those of us in knowledge positions to think that success in technical classes is simply a function of hard work. That, while partially true, is not the sole criteria for success. A friend (and music notable) has said that nearly everyone can sing, and with practice anyone who can sing, can sing well. While that's true, it's only true in the sense that you could dedicate your entire life to singing and get good - good enough to enjoy it. But you would never have thevoice of Mariah Carey or Luciano Pavoratti or any of a number of naturally gifted people who also worked very hard.
I think the parent post is right -maybe college just ins't for this guy. At least not as a short term career choice. Speed and repetition, along with memory training may help. Or it may not. Choosing to become an artist out of desire, and finding that you cannot - with instruction - replicate basic actions is a prime indicator that art may not be the path which provides the greatest reward.
6, if you regularly read Facebook for math tips.
Two problems:
1) many humans do not have, or have not sufficiently developed, their cognitive skills in such a way that they would benefit an employer in a knowledge position
2) humans who do not work generally have no other means of support, and become dependent on the largesse of the ruling or financial classes.
The 1960s and 1970s utopian ideas of a 10 hour work week supplemented by computers and robots completely ignores the reality of a greedy human species. We will give up 40-60 hours a week to be in a better financial position than our neighbors, and those human hours have a fairly fixed net value (accounting for "inflation" and other human financial "innovations" centered around our greed).
Well, the pregnancy prevention part is pretty simple - outpatient surgery will fix you right up.
Preventing microbe transfer when bodily fluids are mixed and parts are in direct contact - well, that's quite a bit more challenging without a physical barrier.
Uh, yes and no. Yes, they are given more leeway to deviate, but they're also given top students with parents who are actively involved in the success of their children.
Charter schools are places where you allow those who would be bored or limited in a standard setting which is geared to cater to the 25th percentile learner to leap ahead of their peers by freeing them of the slower learners and the children whose parents take no active role in learning. It has far less to do with the methods and far more to do with who attends.
"Big success"
If I tell you that I'd like you to have $100,000 in your bank account at the end of the year and offer you two scenarios:
A) I give you $50,000 and an investment account
B) I give you $100,000, several full time professional money managers who will work around the clock, and that for every investment you make you will have two professionals to watch, check, and alert you of any changes or challenges which might result in a loss.
Which do you think is going to be a success at the end of the year? B, of course. That's what your charter (or enterprise) school is. If you take nothing but already-successful students, with parents who are involved in and focused on the academic success of their child, you have to royally fuck up to end up not hitting your goals. Heck, if you cleared out the worst performing school in the district of all the students and then put the enterprise students in there together and told the parents this was an honor and a privilege as it was a "magnet" school for academics you'd have the same fabulous results. If you combine all smart kids and involved, forward thinking parents you can make almost any teacher/staff group look like geniuses.
My wife likes him because he didn't toe the party line when he needed help after Sandy.
I think he's a fucking hypocrite because he basically said Obama as a commie faggot until he, unexpectedly, needed more help than he could get from his own state. Then he became a sudden convert to the shared-risk model of disaster response which the Democrats seem to favor. He's lucky it happened at the end of the first term, 'cause three months later and I would have told him to suck it and go ask his Republican governor friends to open up their coffers because people who don't want to pay in don't get to hold their hands out when their luck runs dry.
If two "practitioners skilled in the art" come up with the same idea independently, it SHOULD automatically invalidate the patent. That is part of the patent language, is it not?
Develop transporter technology?
Proposal accepted.
Change this to use dual, counter-rotating ducted fans around the perimeter, aerodynamicize the shape, and you've got the Moller Air-Car!
Well, except that this one appears to be something that could actually become airborne in the foreseeable future.
I have a 30" central and two 20" (4:3) portraits flanking it. It's nice, but I'd like a second big monitor. I do architectural work and am often "checking" drawings, which means two 24x36" plan sets side by side. Being able to read both of them without scrolling or zooming would be awesome.
So you're saying that most people are just leeches on the system. It like the average bitcoin user has no idea what kind of infrastructure it takes - or doesn't care - in keeping an independent currency afloat.
A self-driving car is going to have a huge amount of telemetry. It will be able to tell you more about the accident than any participant or observer. It will likely have video of any event (cache), plus all of the IMU data. Not only will it be able to show you that the light was green when it proceeded through the intersection, it will be able to calculate the speed and angle of the car that hit you once the vehicle type is plugged into the vector equation.
And you're right - if the system is found to be faulty the insurance company will have their lawyers go after the manufacturer. And the manufacturer will probably lose, or will settle to cover up the issue. EULAs mean nothing against gross negligence, and a good lawyer and stable of expert witnesses can always find gross negligence if there has been actual wrongdoing.
Well, yeah, but these have the wye-fies and I think this is the one with the bigger gee bees. Can I get these new satellites in white? ;-)