$200 million dollars for 224 low income family homes. I get that there are lots of construction costs other than just the houses, but that still seems like a pretty steep price per home.
If the universe is 14.5 billion years old and is as vast and incomprehensibly big as we think it is, and if we as a species are within a couple hundred years of being able to effectively simulate reality, and you consider all the possible simulations that might run on computer hardware of the future, then the probability that we are either brains in a vat, or some other type of computer simulation, seems considerably higher than the probability that it is actually the year 2015 and we are technologically close to, but haven't quite mastered virtual reality simulations. How would you differentiate this reality compared to a simulation of human society in 2015 as created by some human 1000 years in the future? We're "The Sims" from a game of the future.
Just about every single Comcast customer I have ever met, myself included, would tell you how terrible their service is, AND how few other options they have for high-speed internet.
Everything was plausible up until I found out I was in advertising, at which point I would obviously hack the order of precedence in my robot's "Three Laws" chip and command my robot to kill me.
His brain is not connected to a single rational thought, but he is a fucking elected congressman.
(This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original... )
Did you see how the western world cheered when the Egyptian generals took control of the country, when their despot was dethroned. Except, hold on, now they have altered the constitution to ensure their continued power regardless of elected officials. I believe that is called a military coup... You are fucking retarded if you don't think the same thing is being implemented in the US.
The problem is not that "the people" allow them to get away with it, but that nine particularly selected individuals will make this decision based on a long history of weighing some rights over other rights, with a recent disposition (over the last hundred years or so), of devaluing individual rights over the rights of corporations.
And the 535 other individuals that could overrule this decision will not and do not because their jobs depend on the people who benefit from these decisions.
The Data Modeling Handbook : http://www.amazon.com/Data-Modeling-Handbook-Best-Practice-Approach/dp/0471052906/ref=sr_1_58?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278645029&sr=1-58
It is not new, but relational theory hasn't changed much in the last 20 years either.
I have been designing, developing, implementing and fixing relational databases and data warehouses for the last 15 years. The book above was one of the most useful things I read early on in my career.
In my opinion, data integrity is one of the most valuable functions that a database can provide, and a high quality data model is the most important first step in ensuring that. Understanding tuples, understanding relationships and understanding how to translate your business model and business requirements into a functional and correct data model is a very valuable process. Skipping this step, or attempting it with a limited understanding of the theory behind it is a major mistake.
Delaware is home to many, many, US corporations, because of their favorable corporate law.
Because of this, many US companies choose to be Delaware based companies, and this creates a large tax base independent of the population of Delaware. It has nothing to do with "bipartisan centrist leadership".
The only people who are really for horror movies are people who like to kill other people. Possibly some free speech advocates as well, but really - odds are that if someone has a collection of violent images (drawn or not) then they're a murderer or a potential murderer
Now do you see how ridiculous your thought process is? Everyone is a potential murderer too. That's why we don't (or at least not until the Bush and Obama administrations) lock people up for POTENTIAL crimes.
It's called thoughtcrime and it is ridiculous.
So the industry that flouts the law is now requesting artificial support to help them through hard times? What's the real impact if these companies fail? Their assets get sold at a discount, their creditors take a loss, and the world moves on. The technology doesn't disappear. The knowledge of their employees doesn't evaporate. If the business can't survive without manipulating the market or government support, it doesn't deserve to exist.
If DRAM is a valuable technology, somebody, somewhere, can run a business doing it. If that's not possible, then stop doing it.
Maybe everyone should just name a new industry and then mandate that people give them money. That would be so much easier, than say, actually creating value.
If only we knew who invented it...
Sometimes I just wish things had names that described what they were or how they worked rather than who invented it.
Credit where credit is due but isn't the value of a thing in it's use rather than it's discoverer?
from TFA "elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police"
Why can't our wrongheaded government programs be more like the Chinese? Theirs employs tens of thousands. We use our fancy computers to silently monitor everyone, reducing labor need, and thereby keeping us unemployed and under scrutiny.
Wow! Wow! Chairman Mao! Gooooooooo China!
I believe it was the process of modeling galaxy collisions that led to the discovery of dark matter. They realized that the models didn't work like what they saw in space until they added significantly more mass to each galaxy.
What's the usefulness of dark matter you say? I don't know, but I still believe in pure research.
Microsoft TechEd has had a free wireless network for thousands of concurrent users for the last several years.
I believe the hardware/network is setup by Microsoft and not by the facility. Also, this is essentially mobile as they set it up in a conference center and then tear it all down a week later.
It all depends on what your SLA is with the carrier.
Having worked for a wireless telco, I can assure you that outages are not taken lightly and that availability is a very high priority. Outages for a customer when a single line get cut or even for several if a minor trunk fails are not that uncommon, it's a crazy world we live in and few people are willing to pay for multiple connection points to different hubs. But unplanned outages of any hardware or software element at a switching station or hub are rare and routing from hubs to switching stations is redundant in many ways.
That doesn't mean that marketing doesn't overpromise, but engineering is held to very high standards in terms of uptime and availability.
ffoiii
I can think of no reasonble purpose for me to have this, yet, I want it. Bad.
"Sure that's a nice 64 way system, but dude, it's not even carrier grade."
ffoiii
You shouldn't be nice to anyone unless it serves your own interest. The OP asking you to be nice only serves the OP's interests.
However, game theory shows that in the short run, it's best to be mean (selfish) all the time. But in longer runs, especially when there are feedback mechanisms like there are in humans, a strategy of generally being nice (unselfish) has the highest overall rewards. See prisoners dillemm, etc.
Additionally, in most circumstances, being "nice" and social is really a zero cost behavior with a positive reward, which is why most people behave that way. Some people take advantage of this tendency for people to be nice/trusting (con-men, thieves) which creates different behaviors/levels of trust that are developed over time, etc. etc. The variety of human behaviors is a function of many different types of reinforcements and checks and balances all generally designed to create the greatest possible reward at the least possible cost.
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$200 million dollars for 224 low income family homes. I get that there are lots of construction costs other than just the houses, but that still seems like a pretty steep price per home.
If the universe is 14.5 billion years old and is as vast and incomprehensibly big as we think it is, and if we as a species are within a couple hundred years of being able to effectively simulate reality, and you consider all the possible simulations that might run on computer hardware of the future, then the probability that we are either brains in a vat, or some other type of computer simulation, seems considerably higher than the probability that it is actually the year 2015 and we are technologically close to, but haven't quite mastered virtual reality simulations. How would you differentiate this reality compared to a simulation of human society in 2015 as created by some human 1000 years in the future? We're "The Sims" from a game of the future.
Just about every single Comcast customer I have ever met, myself included, would tell you how terrible their service is, AND how few other options they have for high-speed internet.
Everything was plausible up until I found out I was in advertising, at which point I would obviously hack the order of precedence in my robot's "Three Laws" chip and command my robot to kill me.
His brain is not connected to a single rational thought, but he is a fucking elected congressman. (This exact comment has already been posted. Try to be more original... )
His brain is not connected to a single rational thought, but he is a fucking elected congressman.
Did you see how the western world cheered when the Egyptian generals took control of the country, when their despot was dethroned. Except, hold on, now they have altered the constitution to ensure their continued power regardless of elected officials. I believe that is called a military coup... You are fucking retarded if you don't think the same thing is being implemented in the US.
I just bought an Alienware laptop from dell and the primary reason I bought the M17 vs the M14 was the presence of a 10 key keypad on the keyboard.
The problem is not that "the people" allow them to get away with it, but that nine particularly selected individuals will make this decision based on a long history of weighing some rights over other rights, with a recent disposition (over the last hundred years or so), of devaluing individual rights over the rights of corporations. And the 535 other individuals that could overrule this decision will not and do not because their jobs depend on the people who benefit from these decisions.
The Data Modeling Handbook : http://www.amazon.com/Data-Modeling-Handbook-Best-Practice-Approach/dp/0471052906/ref=sr_1_58?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1278645029&sr=1-58 It is not new, but relational theory hasn't changed much in the last 20 years either. I have been designing, developing, implementing and fixing relational databases and data warehouses for the last 15 years. The book above was one of the most useful things I read early on in my career. In my opinion, data integrity is one of the most valuable functions that a database can provide, and a high quality data model is the most important first step in ensuring that. Understanding tuples, understanding relationships and understanding how to translate your business model and business requirements into a functional and correct data model is a very valuable process. Skipping this step, or attempting it with a limited understanding of the theory behind it is a major mistake.
Delaware is home to many, many, US corporations, because of their favorable corporate law. Because of this, many US companies choose to be Delaware based companies, and this creates a large tax base independent of the population of Delaware. It has nothing to do with "bipartisan centrist leadership".
The only people who are really for horror movies are people who like to kill other people. Possibly some free speech advocates as well, but really - odds are that if someone has a collection of violent images (drawn or not) then they're a murderer or a potential murderer Now do you see how ridiculous your thought process is? Everyone is a potential murderer too. That's why we don't (or at least not until the Bush and Obama administrations) lock people up for POTENTIAL crimes. It's called thoughtcrime and it is ridiculous.
Are you by chance a Vogon?
Weren't DRAM manufacturers just involved in a huge price fixing scheme? Oh yeah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing.
So the industry that flouts the law is now requesting artificial support to help them through hard times? What's the real impact if these companies fail? Their assets get sold at a discount, their creditors take a loss, and the world moves on. The technology doesn't disappear. The knowledge of their employees doesn't evaporate. If the business can't survive without manipulating the market or government support, it doesn't deserve to exist.
If DRAM is a valuable technology, somebody, somewhere, can run a business doing it. If that's not possible, then stop doing it.
Maybe everyone should just name a new industry and then mandate that people give them money. That would be so much easier, than say, actually creating value.
If only we knew who invented it... Sometimes I just wish things had names that described what they were or how they worked rather than who invented it. Credit where credit is due but isn't the value of a thing in it's use rather than it's discoverer?
from TFA "elaborate system for Internet censorship that employs tens of thousands of censors and police" Why can't our wrongheaded government programs be more like the Chinese? Theirs employs tens of thousands. We use our fancy computers to silently monitor everyone, reducing labor need, and thereby keeping us unemployed and under scrutiny. Wow! Wow! Chairman Mao! Gooooooooo China!
I, for one, welcome our new psionic telekinetic mutant overlords.
+6 funny.
I believe it was the process of modeling galaxy collisions that led to the discovery of dark matter. They realized that the models didn't work like what they saw in space until they added significantly more mass to each galaxy. What's the usefulness of dark matter you say? I don't know, but I still believe in pure research.
Microsoft TechEd has had a free wireless network for thousands of concurrent users for the last several years. I believe the hardware/network is setup by Microsoft and not by the facility. Also, this is essentially mobile as they set it up in a conference center and then tear it all down a week later.
It all depends on what your SLA is with the carrier. Having worked for a wireless telco, I can assure you that outages are not taken lightly and that availability is a very high priority. Outages for a customer when a single line get cut or even for several if a minor trunk fails are not that uncommon, it's a crazy world we live in and few people are willing to pay for multiple connection points to different hubs. But unplanned outages of any hardware or software element at a switching station or hub are rare and routing from hubs to switching stations is redundant in many ways. That doesn't mean that marketing doesn't overpromise, but engineering is held to very high standards in terms of uptime and availability. ffoiii
I can think of no reasonble purpose for me to have this, yet, I want it. Bad. "Sure that's a nice 64 way system, but dude, it's not even carrier grade." ffoiii
It's obvious, God has a financial interest in stenting.
Seriously though, if ocotpi are going to be terrorizing ROVs without warning, I think we need to take a first strike approach. They may have WMDs.
You shouldn't be nice to anyone unless it serves your own interest. The OP asking you to be nice only serves the OP's interests. However, game theory shows that in the short run, it's best to be mean (selfish) all the time. But in longer runs, especially when there are feedback mechanisms like there are in humans, a strategy of generally being nice (unselfish) has the highest overall rewards. See prisoners dillemm, etc. Additionally, in most circumstances, being "nice" and social is really a zero cost behavior with a positive reward, which is why most people behave that way. Some people take advantage of this tendency for people to be nice/trusting (con-men, thieves) which creates different behaviors/levels of trust that are developed over time, etc. etc. The variety of human behaviors is a function of many different types of reinforcements and checks and balances all generally designed to create the greatest possible reward at the least possible cost.