These days, we're encouraged to pick a job and stick to it.
That's just blatantly untrue. Unlike any previous period in history, people today are both encouraged, and by necessity usually must change jobs multiple times in their careers, and be flexible within each job, enough to learn new techniques and take on new challenges. You don't just become a blacksmith and churn out nails and horseshoes for the rest of your life these days.
The core problem with all of this argument is simply that communications providers are already a state mandated monopoly or duopoly in most cases. There is simply no competition to flee to if your ISP starts choking bandwidth to certain sites on the internet. What will you do if you live in GA and both your cable provider and your telco decide that you shouldn't be able to reach the website of planned parenthood? There's no other way to get broadband in GA, because the state (in the sense of the government in general) wont allow just anyone to string wires to your house, nor does it currently mandate that the cable or phone companies give access to their wires to anyone else.
It was actually just a guess. I didn't want to use North Dakota as my guess, because I knew for sure that they got too much snow. My theory was that south Dakota would still be cold, but not get as much snow. I've been to Wall Drug in the summer, so I guess I know it does get hot there in the summer. Does it get cold in the winter?
The upside to living in such an expensive place, is that when you reach retirement, you'll have huge retirement assets. You gross $3600 a month, which is really low for the area, particularly for someone 10 years out of high school (which would for a more typical college ba mean 6 years out of college). That puts you in a tough spot, no doubt about it. But the college grad with 6 years of experience is going to be making $5000 a month (or more). That's the difference between where you are now, and maxing out your IRA every year for your working career, meaning at least a half million worth of retirement without any employer match or anything else. Move up to $6000 a month and now you have the money to be able to either start investing in a house locally, or save enough to buy a house outright somewhere else in 10 years, and we still haven't reached the average cs/ee salary level in the area.
True, it is good weather for productivity. But if you just wanted good weather for productivity, you could build the next silicon valley in south dakota, so it will be too cold for people to do anything outdoors, but not enough snow to make it hard to get to work.
That's actually the opposite of relaxed, CA has the strictest laws restricting what employers can put in your contract. The heavy hand of California's laws is what prevents employers from abusing you in whatever way they'd prefer, as they are free to do within the comparatively relaxed legal frameworks of other states.
Well, with the emphasis on technology (the silicon part of silicon valley) it helps that Stanford has a first class computer science and engineering program.
1) Weather. Man, it is great. It may not seem important, but it matters to me a ton.
Man, you've got to try living somewhere with nice weather. Silicon valley is almost as depressing as Seattle with the overcast days. Spend a week or two in San Diego.
It's full of rich people and nerds. The rich people drive up the housing costs, and the nerds are just annoying. So if I could build a new silicon valley without those things somewhere else, that'd be great.
Oh, and the weather could use improvement too. Brrr.
I hate to warn intel about this, but if they don't have Intel Core 6 Octo cpus out in 2020, much less 2040, they're in serious trouble. (According to Intel's roadmaps the Octos are actually due in 2008/2009, but Core 6 is likely to be in the 2015-2018 time frame at the current pace).
1) Build a lot of cheap generators. Generate a lot of power at a power plant (such as the aforementioned fusion plant), and use that power to create fuel (such as hydrogen or methane) instead of electricity. Ship the fuel to your home, and generate the electricity there (using your cheap generator). Then your losses are in conversion and transportation efficiency rather than transmission efficiency. Megabonus: no more ugly transmission lines everywhere.
2) learn to build really small fusion reactors, and build a lot of them. If you have one of these in your back yard (or laundry room... wherever), then you really don't have to worry about transmission or transportation, or even conversion losses. Alternatively, if you have one per city block, you can again
More durable in the sense of harder to break by dropping repeatedly.
The writes are in the 2-3 million range now, but since harddrives can write in the 10 billion range, they aren't quite there yet, but 2-3million is probably sufficient for 3 years of fairly heavy usage. 2 million writes is enough to cover 41 days of continuous full bandwidth writing to the hard drive... if your usage pattern resembles that much continuous writing, then this is probably not the right technology for you.
A followup: three cheers for getting the police involved. If the school won't fix your problem, getting the police involved will. Because the police cannot refuse to take a report, once the report exists, you now have an enormous amount of legal leverage to apply against the school in a lawsuit. As soon as the police report is taken, I think you'll find the school suddenly bending over backward to fix your problem.
The obvious question in this situation: why didn't the teacher report the assault to the police, as the logical escalation when the administration failed to expel?
In what way? He'll just go to a different school.... When he applies to college, he'll either omit the expulsion from his application, or explain it. If he explains it, the right colleges will grab at him. If he omits, they have no way to know.
Do RAR and 7z have some benefit other than making it a hassle to find one good free unzip program that handles everything right? I've never seen anything that got more than a 1% compression benefit, and not seen any convenience or feature benefit.
If solar energy output varied by more than 10% in a couple of years, we'd likely have weather and temperature issues here on earth as a result.
And the width of planets are insignificant compared to the radius of orbit, so unless the spacecraft happened to hit a one in a million chance of wandering through right on the orbital plane of one of the planets, just in sync with the orbit of that planet, this isn't a very likely explanation either.
(the options of interest): Dual 256MB NVidia® GeForce(TM) Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled [+$399 or $12/mo.] - Extreme Performance (RAID 0) [+$190 or $6/mo.]
Only adds $600 to your laptop price!
The main thing it is missing is the dual core turion x2... I presume they don't offer that yet because the dual core laptop procs were only released ~10 days ago, so my guess is that in another week or so you'll be able to buy exactly what you wanted.
Fairness wise, it ought to be the case that tax is due to the state in which the employee was physically located when the work was done, as presumably that is the state from which public resources were consumed. Of course, I'm doubtful that we'll ever reach such a situation, but this law might help.
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After all, the philosophers were out of work, and could devote all their free time to learning how to program.
These days, we're encouraged to pick a job and stick to it.
That's just blatantly untrue. Unlike any previous period in history, people today are both encouraged, and by necessity usually must change jobs multiple times in their careers, and be flexible within each job, enough to learn new techniques and take on new challenges. You don't just become a blacksmith and churn out nails and horseshoes for the rest of your life these days.
Have you not seen ads on TV for Vongo or I'M yet? Two video download services and counting.
The core problem with all of this argument is simply that communications providers are already a state mandated monopoly or duopoly in most cases. There is simply no competition to flee to if your ISP starts choking bandwidth to certain sites on the internet. What will you do if you live in GA and both your cable provider and your telco decide that you shouldn't be able to reach the website of planned parenthood? There's no other way to get broadband in GA, because the state (in the sense of the government in general) wont allow just anyone to string wires to your house, nor does it currently mandate that the cable or phone companies give access to their wires to anyone else.
It was actually just a guess. I didn't want to use North Dakota as my guess, because I knew for sure that they got too much snow. My theory was that south Dakota would still be cold, but not get as much snow. I've been to Wall Drug in the summer, so I guess I know it does get hot there in the summer. Does it get cold in the winter?
The upside to living in such an expensive place, is that when you reach retirement, you'll have huge retirement assets. You gross $3600 a month, which is really low for the area, particularly for someone 10 years out of high school (which would for a more typical college ba mean 6 years out of college). That puts you in a tough spot, no doubt about it. But the college grad with 6 years of experience is going to be making $5000 a month (or more). That's the difference between where you are now, and maxing out your IRA every year for your working career, meaning at least a half million worth of retirement without any employer match or anything else. Move up to $6000 a month and now you have the money to be able to either start investing in a house locally, or save enough to buy a house outright somewhere else in 10 years, and we still haven't reached the average cs/ee salary level in the area.
True, it is good weather for productivity. But if you just wanted good weather for productivity, you could build the next silicon valley in south dakota, so it will be too cold for people to do anything outdoors, but not enough snow to make it hard to get to work.
That's actually the opposite of relaxed, CA has the strictest laws restricting what employers can put in your contract. The heavy hand of California's laws is what prevents employers from abusing you in whatever way they'd prefer, as they are free to do within the comparatively relaxed legal frameworks of other states.
Well, with the emphasis on technology (the silicon part of silicon valley) it helps that Stanford has a first class computer science and engineering program.
1) Weather. Man, it is great. It may not seem important, but it matters to me a ton.
Man, you've got to try living somewhere with nice weather. Silicon valley is almost as depressing as Seattle with the overcast days. Spend a week or two in San Diego.
It's full of rich people and nerds. The rich people drive up the housing costs, and the nerds are just annoying. So if I could build a new silicon valley without those things somewhere else, that'd be great.
Oh, and the weather could use improvement too. Brrr.
It's the difference between being a file sharing uploader and a file sharing downloader.
When you DVR in your home, you download and save the material. You are a downloader.
When a cable provider records the shows, and then sends them to you via an upload. They are an uploader.
Uploaders get into lots of copyright trouble.
I hate to warn intel about this, but if they don't have Intel Core 6 Octo cpus out in 2020, much less 2040, they're in serious trouble. (According to Intel's roadmaps the Octos are actually due in 2008/2009, but Core 6 is likely to be in the 2015-2018 time frame at the current pace).
There are other strategies, of course:
... wherever), then you really don't have to worry about transmission or transportation, or even conversion losses. Alternatively, if you have one per city block, you can again
1) Build a lot of cheap generators. Generate a lot of power at a power plant (such as the aforementioned fusion plant), and use that power to create fuel (such as hydrogen or methane) instead of electricity. Ship the fuel to your home, and generate the electricity there (using your cheap generator). Then your losses are in conversion and transportation efficiency rather than transmission efficiency. Megabonus: no more ugly transmission lines everywhere.
2) learn to build really small fusion reactors, and build a lot of them. If you have one of these in your back yard (or laundry room
Wow ... posts just one number apart ... karma grabbing for your dual accounts to be able to upmoderate yourself by any chance?
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More durable in the sense of harder to break by dropping repeatedly.
... if your usage pattern resembles that much continuous writing, then this is probably not the right technology for you.
The writes are in the 2-3 million range now, but since harddrives can write in the 10 billion range, they aren't quite there yet, but 2-3million is probably sufficient for 3 years of fairly heavy usage. 2 million writes is enough to cover 41 days of continuous full bandwidth writing to the hard drive
A followup: three cheers for getting the police involved. If the school won't fix your problem, getting the police involved will. Because the police cannot refuse to take a report, once the report exists, you now have an enormous amount of legal leverage to apply against the school in a lawsuit. As soon as the police report is taken, I think you'll find the school suddenly bending over backward to fix your problem.
The obvious question in this situation: why didn't the teacher report the assault to the police, as the logical escalation when the administration failed to expel?
In what way? He'll just go to a different school ....
When he applies to college, he'll either omit the expulsion from his application, or explain it. If he explains it, the right colleges will grab at him. If he omits, they have no way to know.
Do RAR and 7z have some benefit other than making it a hassle to find one good free unzip program that handles everything right? I've never seen anything that got more than a 1% compression benefit, and not seen any convenience or feature benefit.
If solar energy output varied by more than 10% in a couple of years, we'd likely have weather and temperature issues here on earth as a result.
And the width of planets are insignificant compared to the radius of orbit, so unless the spacecraft happened to hit a one in a million chance of wandering through right on the orbital plane of one of the planets, just in sync with the orbit of that planet, this isn't a very likely explanation either.
You are unlikely to have dual-7800 Ultra cards running SLI with an AMD X2 with Cool-N-Quiet, and Raid 0 in a laptop.
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... I presume they don't offer that yet because the dual core laptop procs were only released ~10 days ago, so my guess is that in another week or so you'll be able to buy exactly what you wanted.
Here's the page where you can buy almost exactly that at alienware:
http://www.alienware.com/Configurator_Pages/auror
(the options of interest):
Dual 256MB NVidia® GeForce(TM) Go 7900 GS - SLI Enabled [+$399 or $12/mo.] -
Extreme Performance (RAID 0) [+$190 or $6/mo.]
Only adds $600 to your laptop price!
The main thing it is missing is the dual core turion x2
Conservatism and Islamophobia have nothing in common.
Nothing in common except most of their membership, of course.
I meant to imply that OO was only 3 years or so behind.
But I didn't get any funnies, so I guess it didn't connect.
Fairness wise, it ought to be the case that tax is due to the state in which the employee was physically located when the work was done, as presumably that is the state from which public resources were consumed. Of course, I'm doubtful that we'll ever reach such a situation, but this law might help.