That was my thought as well. With all the weird names and alternate spellings people give their kids these days, pretty much any random combination of letters could be successfully argued as being a valid word. Personally, I think I'll stick with the old rules.
The nursing crisis isn't going to change because people going into nursing misunderstand where the need is. The whole reason the nursing crisis exists is because we have a bunch of aging baby boomers who need someone to take care of them when they get old and decrepit. A whole ton of people have heard about the nursing crisis and decided to go back to school for nursing. The problem is, most of them are going into Labor and Delivery nursing, which is not where the need is. Nobody wants a career cleaning up incontinent old people, they want to take care of cute babies. So, I predict you're going to have a bunch of disgruntled nursing graduates complaining that they can't find work while nursing homes and other providers of geriatric care complain they can't find enough qualified nurses.
If you want to be guaranteed a job for the next 30 years or so, go into geriatric nursing. Unfortunately, you'll be spending the next 30 years changing diapers for 90 year olds, but at least you'll always have steady work. Depending on whose IT department you work for, this may or may not be an improvement over your current situation.
There have been several studies (third question in the interview, feel free to google for more information) showing that the areas of the brain linked to complex decision making and impulse control are still under development in the adolescent brain, and in fact continue to develop into the 20s. These findings may explain, in part, why teenagers are more prone to risky behavior (such as, say, unprotected sex) than older people. In short, studies indicate that hormone-soaked teenage brains do NOT have all the physiological necessities for impulse control.
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers whose brains are still trying to develop good impulse control always think rationally and choose abstinence when a member of their preferred sex is hot to trot for them. This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
The secret is to get really, really high and say a bunch of stuff that sounds really deep and science-y and then write a bunch of incomprehensible equations that supposedly illustrate the deep science-y stuff you said. You don't have to understand it, you just have to make it sound so impressive that everyone will just assume you're smarter than them because they don't understand it. This is how string theory was developed.
Sure, except many websites don't handle tabs in a sane manner. Some end up jumping to different input fields seemingly at random, some move from an input field to the little "What's this?" link next to that input field, some move to some completely unrelated link, or to the submit button even though you're only halfway through the form, or any number of zany things. If websites were designed properly, keyboard shortcuts like tab would work as intended. Too bad so few websites are designed with anyone but an IE 8 user (with Flash player and unlimited bandwidth) clicking a mouse in mind.
Get with the times, grandpa. Making yourself fall slower is what the previous candy-ass generations did. These days, skydivers use lead parachutes and reach much faster speeds than your loser generation ever did.
From what I hear, you can post tweets as the President of the United States now. So, maybe posting about your latest bowel movement bores you, but posing as Barack Obama and announcing you just nuked Nunavut seems pretty exciting to me!
I have a 37" 1080p TV, and with component cables the Wii can do 480p (as opposed to the default 480i with the included cables). The difference between 480p and 480i isn't huge, but it's noticeable, at least on my TV. The Wii games look nice and crisp, although they could possibly look fuzzy on a larger HDTV. So, it's not going to give you the full HD experience, but DVDs max out at (IIRC) 720p anyway, so you aren't getting the full HD experience with Netflix regardless unless you've been paying the extra $4 a month for Blu Ray.
At any rate, I pre-ordered the Wii disk and I'm glad they finally released it. I didn't really want to buy another game console or some specialized device just for streaming Netflix movies, and this will be much more convenient than watching them on my laptop.
The diaper serves as a handy carrying case for the monkey, in case they have to poo now, but won't have anyone nearby they want to fling it at until later. If your helper monkey has some sort of grudge against TSA agents, perhaps because of being treated as a terrorist just because it has hair on its face, it's highly recommended you change the monkey's diaper before going through security.
I suppose if pointing a weapon at some poor low-paid schlub who's just trying to do his job makes you feel like a big man, go for it. Census takers are not the enemy, even if you have some problem with the census (even though it's one of the clearly stated responsibilities of government in the Constitution). Especially in this economy, your census taker could be anyone, including your next door neighbor. Lots of people are out of work looking for a job, and the census is hiring...don't take out your problems with the federal government on the working stiffs who just want to feed their families.
Sure, I could build it, but I hate carpentry and I know from experience I would get no joy out of it. So, if I were the kind of person who was really obsessed with gaming and had $8500 to throw around (I'm not and I don't), I might buy this table. I would certainly not build it, because that would be a huge pain in the ass. Different people have different interests, and carpentry is not one of mine by any stretch of the imagination.
Obviously the market segment for this thing is limited, but the vast selection of furniture stores out there tells me there are plenty of people who would rather pay a premium for furniture to avoid having to build it themselves.
I think it would more likely be used to screw website owners out of advertising revenue. Now, instead of advertisers paying per impression (which they already pay a ridiculously low rate for), they can pay by how many users actually look at the ad. I can see it now:
Website owner: Your ad showed up 200,000 times on my site this month, so you owe me $1.50. Advertiser: Sorry, but our stats show that only 20 of those users actually looked at our ad for more than the 2 second minimum, so we only owe you 15 thousandths of a cent. Don't spend it all in one place.
I don't see why anyone would be surprised by this. He's already a multi-billionaire business tycoon with his own custom-built fortress. Since the job of Batman is already taken, the transition to supervillain is the next logical step.
Being in a space suite is as close as we'll ever come to enjoying a 1 on 1 with good ole father space.
From what I hear, these guys are going to be offering basically one small chair per person, and maybe a little floating around room. I think expecting an entire suite to yourself is a bit much at this stage.
Actually, most of my time is spent fighting crime vigilante-style on the streets of a major city in a brightly colored spandex suit. I only spend a few minutes at a time on the computer.
Depends on the grade you're looking to get. In many courses, if you're looking for an A, you're probably going to need to read substantial portions of the textbook. Reading the same book for two or three hours in a single session is certainly not rare, and that can cause considerable eye strain on a normal screen.
Google has taken substantial hits to their goodwill lately with their stance on privacy and an ever-growing concern that they've become stewards of vast stores of personal data without any guarantees that it will never be misused. Of course, Google's entire business model depends on people handing over their personal data, so goodwill is a hugely important asset to them.
Google is hoping to regain some of that goodwill with a highly public stance against Chinese censorship, at the cost of what is so far a relatively small market for them. I would imagine they're hoping they'll be able to sneak back into China quietly at some point in the future. Best case for them would be that China actually responds to the pressure and quietly dismantles their Great Firewall 5 years from now, but Google will likely be back there whether they do or not. China is a relatively small market for them now, but the potential is too big for a publicly traded company to ignore forever.
This is the only reason I could see using this. My grandfather used to send me checks for $10 every year for my birthday. This continued until I was well into my 20s. I would often just leave the check laying around, because who wants to bother going all the way to the bank for a lousy ten bucks, but he watched his accounts like a hawk and would pester me about why I hadn't cashed the check yet. So, eventually I had to go and cash it. This sort of thing would have been helpful in that case.
Other than that, though, I haven't received a paper check from anyone in quite some time.
There are other ways to make data center cooling more efficient, such as hot aisle containment and individual rack-top coolers blowing cold air directly in front of the racks. There's no reason a modern data center needs to move entire buildings full of air anymore, even without liquid cooling.
Oil immersion may or may not be more efficient, but it doesn't seem like it would scale well. In a large data center where some hardware component is failing on a daily basis, because you have tens of thousands of servers, keeping all that oil contained within the enclosures would be a major challenge. During maintenance, that stuff is going to be getting all over everything, including the tech, who can easily spread it all over anything he touches before he gets around to cleaning up. You'd need a cleaning crew out on the floor constantly.
In any kind of a large data center environment the whole floor is going to be covered in that shit in short order. I can just imagine the fun of dealing with workman's comp claims every other week because someone slipped on liquid coolant on the floor and injured themselves. Even with high quality components, if you have 30,000 servers in a big room, you're going to have someone out there fiddling with one or more of them on a daily basis, and keeping things clean when they're all fully immersed like that would be next to impossible, especially if you're dealing with oil.
This tells me that we still don't have enough information to make any conclusions. We also need to know how many exemptions (on average) were claimed per request. If requests overall were down 11% (as was noted in other comments on this topic), but the number of exemptions claimed for each request went up (from 2 to 3, for example), we would expect an increase in the total number of exemptions claimed.
However, the only real way to judge openness would be what percentage of total requests were denied, regardless of how many exemptions were claimed in each denial. It's odd that this article includes lots of seemingly incriminating numbers without including that key piece of data, almost as if the entire purpose of the article is to drum up controversy regarding something that may or may not be a cause for concern.
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That was my thought as well. With all the weird names and alternate spellings people give their kids these days, pretty much any random combination of letters could be successfully argued as being a valid word. Personally, I think I'll stick with the old rules.
The nursing crisis isn't going to change because people going into nursing misunderstand where the need is. The whole reason the nursing crisis exists is because we have a bunch of aging baby boomers who need someone to take care of them when they get old and decrepit. A whole ton of people have heard about the nursing crisis and decided to go back to school for nursing. The problem is, most of them are going into Labor and Delivery nursing, which is not where the need is. Nobody wants a career cleaning up incontinent old people, they want to take care of cute babies. So, I predict you're going to have a bunch of disgruntled nursing graduates complaining that they can't find work while nursing homes and other providers of geriatric care complain they can't find enough qualified nurses.
If you want to be guaranteed a job for the next 30 years or so, go into geriatric nursing. Unfortunately, you'll be spending the next 30 years changing diapers for 90 year olds, but at least you'll always have steady work. Depending on whose IT department you work for, this may or may not be an improvement over your current situation.
There have been several studies (third question in the interview, feel free to google for more information) showing that the areas of the brain linked to complex decision making and impulse control are still under development in the adolescent brain, and in fact continue to develop into the 20s. These findings may explain, in part, why teenagers are more prone to risky behavior (such as, say, unprotected sex) than older people. In short, studies indicate that hormone-soaked teenage brains do NOT have all the physiological necessities for impulse control.
Sure, and hormone-soaked teenagers whose brains are still trying to develop good impulse control always think rationally and choose abstinence when a member of their preferred sex is hot to trot for them. This is why abstinence-only education has been such a rousing success everywhere it's been tried.
The secret is to get really, really high and say a bunch of stuff that sounds really deep and science-y and then write a bunch of incomprehensible equations that supposedly illustrate the deep science-y stuff you said. You don't have to understand it, you just have to make it sound so impressive that everyone will just assume you're smarter than them because they don't understand it. This is how string theory was developed.
Sure, except many websites don't handle tabs in a sane manner. Some end up jumping to different input fields seemingly at random, some move from an input field to the little "What's this?" link next to that input field, some move to some completely unrelated link, or to the submit button even though you're only halfway through the form, or any number of zany things. If websites were designed properly, keyboard shortcuts like tab would work as intended. Too bad so few websites are designed with anyone but an IE 8 user (with Flash player and unlimited bandwidth) clicking a mouse in mind.
Get with the times, grandpa. Making yourself fall slower is what the previous candy-ass generations did. These days, skydivers use lead parachutes and reach much faster speeds than your loser generation ever did.
From what I hear, you can post tweets as the President of the United States now. So, maybe posting about your latest bowel movement bores you, but posing as Barack Obama and announcing you just nuked Nunavut seems pretty exciting to me!
I have a 37" 1080p TV, and with component cables the Wii can do 480p (as opposed to the default 480i with the included cables). The difference between 480p and 480i isn't huge, but it's noticeable, at least on my TV. The Wii games look nice and crisp, although they could possibly look fuzzy on a larger HDTV. So, it's not going to give you the full HD experience, but DVDs max out at (IIRC) 720p anyway, so you aren't getting the full HD experience with Netflix regardless unless you've been paying the extra $4 a month for Blu Ray.
At any rate, I pre-ordered the Wii disk and I'm glad they finally released it. I didn't really want to buy another game console or some specialized device just for streaming Netflix movies, and this will be much more convenient than watching them on my laptop.
The diaper serves as a handy carrying case for the monkey, in case they have to poo now, but won't have anyone nearby they want to fling it at until later. If your helper monkey has some sort of grudge against TSA agents, perhaps because of being treated as a terrorist just because it has hair on its face, it's highly recommended you change the monkey's diaper before going through security.
I suppose if pointing a weapon at some poor low-paid schlub who's just trying to do his job makes you feel like a big man, go for it. Census takers are not the enemy, even if you have some problem with the census (even though it's one of the clearly stated responsibilities of government in the Constitution). Especially in this economy, your census taker could be anyone, including your next door neighbor. Lots of people are out of work looking for a job, and the census is hiring...don't take out your problems with the federal government on the working stiffs who just want to feed their families.
Sure, I could build it, but I hate carpentry and I know from experience I would get no joy out of it. So, if I were the kind of person who was really obsessed with gaming and had $8500 to throw around (I'm not and I don't), I might buy this table. I would certainly not build it, because that would be a huge pain in the ass. Different people have different interests, and carpentry is not one of mine by any stretch of the imagination.
Obviously the market segment for this thing is limited, but the vast selection of furniture stores out there tells me there are plenty of people who would rather pay a premium for furniture to avoid having to build it themselves.
I think it would more likely be used to screw website owners out of advertising revenue. Now, instead of advertisers paying per impression (which they already pay a ridiculously low rate for), they can pay by how many users actually look at the ad. I can see it now:
Website owner: Your ad showed up 200,000 times on my site this month, so you owe me $1.50.
Advertiser: Sorry, but our stats show that only 20 of those users actually looked at our ad for more than the 2 second minimum, so we only owe you 15 thousandths of a cent. Don't spend it all in one place.
It might be more memorable and fun to visit Nevada (in the counties it is legal)
As far as I know, it's legal to visit Nevada in every county.
I don't see why anyone would be surprised by this. He's already a multi-billionaire business tycoon with his own custom-built fortress. Since the job of Batman is already taken, the transition to supervillain is the next logical step.
Being in a space suite is as close as we'll ever come to enjoying a 1 on 1 with good ole father space.
From what I hear, these guys are going to be offering basically one small chair per person, and maybe a little floating around room. I think expecting an entire suite to yourself is a bit much at this stage.
No comment.
Actually, most of my time is spent fighting crime vigilante-style on the streets of a major city in a brightly colored spandex suit. I only spend a few minutes at a time on the computer.
Depends on the grade you're looking to get. In many courses, if you're looking for an A, you're probably going to need to read substantial portions of the textbook. Reading the same book for two or three hours in a single session is certainly not rare, and that can cause considerable eye strain on a normal screen.
Google has taken substantial hits to their goodwill lately with their stance on privacy and an ever-growing concern that they've become stewards of vast stores of personal data without any guarantees that it will never be misused. Of course, Google's entire business model depends on people handing over their personal data, so goodwill is a hugely important asset to them.
Google is hoping to regain some of that goodwill with a highly public stance against Chinese censorship, at the cost of what is so far a relatively small market for them. I would imagine they're hoping they'll be able to sneak back into China quietly at some point in the future. Best case for them would be that China actually responds to the pressure and quietly dismantles their Great Firewall 5 years from now, but Google will likely be back there whether they do or not. China is a relatively small market for them now, but the potential is too big for a publicly traded company to ignore forever.
This is the only reason I could see using this. My grandfather used to send me checks for $10 every year for my birthday. This continued until I was well into my 20s. I would often just leave the check laying around, because who wants to bother going all the way to the bank for a lousy ten bucks, but he watched his accounts like a hawk and would pester me about why I hadn't cashed the check yet. So, eventually I had to go and cash it. This sort of thing would have been helpful in that case.
Other than that, though, I haven't received a paper check from anyone in quite some time.
There are other ways to make data center cooling more efficient, such as hot aisle containment and individual rack-top coolers blowing cold air directly in front of the racks. There's no reason a modern data center needs to move entire buildings full of air anymore, even without liquid cooling.
Oil immersion may or may not be more efficient, but it doesn't seem like it would scale well. In a large data center where some hardware component is failing on a daily basis, because you have tens of thousands of servers, keeping all that oil contained within the enclosures would be a major challenge. During maintenance, that stuff is going to be getting all over everything, including the tech, who can easily spread it all over anything he touches before he gets around to cleaning up. You'd need a cleaning crew out on the floor constantly.
In any kind of a large data center environment the whole floor is going to be covered in that shit in short order. I can just imagine the fun of dealing with workman's comp claims every other week because someone slipped on liquid coolant on the floor and injured themselves. Even with high quality components, if you have 30,000 servers in a big room, you're going to have someone out there fiddling with one or more of them on a daily basis, and keeping things clean when they're all fully immersed like that would be next to impossible, especially if you're dealing with oil.
This tells me that we still don't have enough information to make any conclusions. We also need to know how many exemptions (on average) were claimed per request. If requests overall were down 11% (as was noted in other comments on this topic), but the number of exemptions claimed for each request went up (from 2 to 3, for example), we would expect an increase in the total number of exemptions claimed.
However, the only real way to judge openness would be what percentage of total requests were denied, regardless of how many exemptions were claimed in each denial. It's odd that this article includes lots of seemingly incriminating numbers without including that key piece of data, almost as if the entire purpose of the article is to drum up controversy regarding something that may or may not be a cause for concern.