My not particularly efficient laptop uses less than 60 watts to power a 1.6 Ghz Core Duo processor and everything else inside it. Improvements on that would be valuable, but 60 watts is practically noise if you have enough generation to do something useful and well within what can be generated by a human when connected to the appropriate device.
It's barely a hack. Each of the pieces is pretty much being used for its intended purpose (the C64 is being used as a general computing device, the network card is being used as a network card, there is some software, etc.).
Traditional encyclopedias seemed to manage paying people pretty well.
I'm pretty sure that many people bring bias other than dollars to things (and often far more powerful), so I'm not sure how much impact it would really have on quality.
I was pointing out that the situations were pretty similar. If a student tried to hand in someone else's work with attribution, their difficulties would be somewhat different (and probably simpler) than if they got caught handing in copied work.
It's going to take a long time in the U.S.; Building codes are pretty well normalized, but adoption is a fairly local process and the new house market is currently structured so that it is seller driven (huge companies build and sell whole neighborhoods). Those sellers are highly focused on cost minimization (Rather than value maximization) and they, just by being constantly active, have a strong voice in the adoption of building codes.
It takes special talent to do it with a normal phone. I mean, shocker of all shockers, I carried a candy bar phone for a couple of years and never accidentally dialed, let alone accidentally dialed 911.
Michigan (my state) instituted term limits. The most significant change I have noticed is that the legislature is even more ineffective now.
I suppose there are arguments to be made about that being a good thing.
I'm not real sure how useful a guide the presidential term limits are; in the last 50 years, only Reagan and Clinton would have had any real chance at a third term (Bush II and Nixon are the only other ones who made it to a second term, the one had no prospects for a third term, and it would have been pretty bleak for the other) and neither one would have had any chance at a fourth (Reagan was pretty old in 1988 let alone 1992 and 9/11 would have destroyed a president who had been in office for 9 years...not to mention the nation simply getting sick of Clinton by 2000). Going back from there, neither of Truman and Eisenhower had good prospects for 3 terms and FDR was the first man arrogant enough to step outside the precedent set by Washington.
I watched part of a show, I think called "Mega-engineering" or something similar that had computer generated footage of a floating New Orleans (so someone considers it a serious enough thing to spend at least a few tens of thousands of dollars on it).
There is also that cruise ship, I think called "The World" or something. Yep, ResidenSea:
I heat for 5-6 months a year (several of those are pretty light). In that time, I burn propane equivalent to 2.5 kilowatt-years of electricity (I have that right, 2500 watts continuously for a year). My electric consumption is on the order of 500 watts continuous (that is an average that includes water pump, hot water and the normal stuff other than AC; the water pump, water heater and refrigerator are a big chunk of it, the meter is closer to 200 watts when none of them are on but entertainment devices are on (lights, computer, television)).
So my point that I am eventually getting to is that encouraging people to insulate their homes better makes loads more sense than complaining about light bulbs. This includes working for seemingly ridiculous requirements for new construction. 10% saved on heating or cooling is going to be equivalent to a significant portion of overall electric consumption.
I pretty much agree with the rest of what you say.
If, as a professional, you misrepresented the source of the work, it would be just as unethical as the student misrepresenting the source of the work they copied.
Oh yeah, because the indigenous peoples of Africa are genetically and culturally homogeneous. Oh wait, that isn't even remotely true, it just happens that many of them make a lot of melanin.
Java is sort of getting there. My computer still creaks and groans when the JVM is first loaded though, as compared to flash not being noticeable (But maybe flash loads itself when Firefox launches, I haven't checked; that still creates the perception that flash is faster, even if Java is doing a better job of leaving resources alone).
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My not particularly efficient laptop uses less than 60 watts to power a 1.6 Ghz Core Duo processor and everything else inside it. Improvements on that would be valuable, but 60 watts is practically noise if you have enough generation to do something useful and well within what can be generated by a human when connected to the appropriate device.
It's barely a hack. Each of the pieces is pretty much being used for its intended purpose (the C64 is being used as a general computing device, the network card is being used as a network card, there is some software, etc.).
That means javascript can't have that info; otherwise, it can just set an image source to a url that has the data embedded in it.
Traditional encyclopedias seemed to manage paying people pretty well.
I'm pretty sure that many people bring bias other than dollars to things (and often far more powerful), so I'm not sure how much impact it would really have on quality.
I was pointing out that the situations were pretty similar. If a student tried to hand in someone else's work with attribution, their difficulties would be somewhat different (and probably simpler) than if they got caught handing in copied work.
For these apps, where the amount of data isn't huge and much of it is transient, storing the id as a string makes lots of sense.
It wastes some bits, but it won't overflow.
Presumably it was this one ((2^31)+1, ids around 2.2 billion don't exist yet, so apparently the broken apps were using signed numbers):
http://twitter.com/nk/status/2147483649
Don't worry, they are rather simple to find:
http://twitter.com/statuses/show/2147483649.xml
(The first url can be constructed with information from the second...)
You might start thinking about it around 1 billion though. Maybe even at 500 million (especially if you are in some sort of obscene growth phase...).
So...good thing or bad thing?
Sure, but even for the student, the lack of attribution is a big chunk of the ethical breach.
It's going to take a long time in the U.S.; Building codes are pretty well normalized, but adoption is a fairly local process and the new house market is currently structured so that it is seller driven (huge companies build and sell whole neighborhoods). Those sellers are highly focused on cost minimization (Rather than value maximization) and they, just by being constantly active, have a strong voice in the adoption of building codes.
It takes special talent to do it with a normal phone. I mean, shocker of all shockers, I carried a candy bar phone for a couple of years and never accidentally dialed, let alone accidentally dialed 911.
A big problem for you?
Michigan (my state) instituted term limits. The most significant change I have noticed is that the legislature is even more ineffective now.
I suppose there are arguments to be made about that being a good thing.
I'm not real sure how useful a guide the presidential term limits are; in the last 50 years, only Reagan and Clinton would have had any real chance at a third term (Bush II and Nixon are the only other ones who made it to a second term, the one had no prospects for a third term, and it would have been pretty bleak for the other) and neither one would have had any chance at a fourth (Reagan was pretty old in 1988 let alone 1992 and 9/11 would have destroyed a president who had been in office for 9 years...not to mention the nation simply getting sick of Clinton by 2000). Going back from there, neither of Truman and Eisenhower had good prospects for 3 terms and FDR was the first man arrogant enough to step outside the precedent set by Washington.
Don't forget humans, they will probably burn better than some of the animals you mentioned.
I watched part of a show, I think called "Mega-engineering" or something similar that had computer generated footage of a floating New Orleans (so someone considers it a serious enough thing to spend at least a few tens of thousands of dollars on it).
There is also that cruise ship, I think called "The World" or something. Yep, ResidenSea:
http://www.residensea.com/index.html
Nowhere near a colony, but not quite a cruise ship either.
I heat for 5-6 months a year (several of those are pretty light). In that time, I burn propane equivalent to 2.5 kilowatt-years of electricity (I have that right, 2500 watts continuously for a year). My electric consumption is on the order of 500 watts continuous (that is an average that includes water pump, hot water and the normal stuff other than AC; the water pump, water heater and refrigerator are a big chunk of it, the meter is closer to 200 watts when none of them are on but entertainment devices are on (lights, computer, television)).
So my point that I am eventually getting to is that encouraging people to insulate their homes better makes loads more sense than complaining about light bulbs. This includes working for seemingly ridiculous requirements for new construction. 10% saved on heating or cooling is going to be equivalent to a significant portion of overall electric consumption.
I pretty much agree with the rest of what you say.
Which is just financial efficiency...
I don't find it alarming at all.
The prevailing Japanese attitude towards foreigners will probably even shift, simply out of necessity.
If, as a professional, you misrepresented the source of the work, it would be just as unethical as the student misrepresenting the source of the work they copied.
Oh yeah, because the indigenous peoples of Africa are genetically and culturally homogeneous. Oh wait, that isn't even remotely true, it just happens that many of them make a lot of melanin.
Don't you mean off to the beach, in a Speedo?
Java is sort of getting there. My computer still creaks and groans when the JVM is first loaded though, as compared to flash not being noticeable (But maybe flash loads itself when Firefox launches, I haven't checked; that still creates the perception that flash is faster, even if Java is doing a better job of leaving resources alone).
Try hitting 'more'.
They even model Earth as an ellipsoid, rather than a sphere (several online calculators I looked at used a sphere).