If there is a pandemic scare every ten years and you kill 100,000 people each time by inoculating them, after 100 years, you are much better off than if you had one pandemic kill 10 million people, let alone 100 million.
Proposed by who? It isn't something I have seen getting any serious political attention, so talking about it as if it is a serious possibility is on the level with talking about the proposed Interplanetary Union.
H-1Bs barely affect the economy. There are maybe 500,000 people working under an H-1B (that's making generous assumptions, 250,000 is probably more accurate), out of 140 million working Americans (there are another 15-20 million Americans who are unemployed but want a job).
Now, those 500,000 H-1B workers are certainly competing with Americans for jobs, but they are not completely eroding the market they are competing in, a market which employs tens of millions of people.
As far as Mexicans, they benefit you and I as much as they benefit the rich, if they were paying Americans 'properly', things like produce would cost far more at the store.
The fructose in corn syrup is what everybody is all worried about (Even though it is in table sugar, in similar proportions, as part of each sucrose molecule), feeding people fruit would help a little with nutrition, but most Westerners (and those with similar lifestyles) get plenty of vitamins in their current diet.
Approximately what wage were you offering, based on how long it would have taken you (you would probably be faster than someone you hired, you are going to know your requirements a little better, so this should maximize the wage)?
Whenever I have looked at those sites, from the other direction (looking for work to do), the requirements have been arbitrary and the compensation a pittance.
Python is pretty close to Matlab as far as being the 'real thing' as a programming language. For engineers in general, Matlab still makes more sense, it is widely used in industry.
The article says that they are going to use it to do work on a vehicle they are planning on launching in the next 3 years, and 3,000 square meters really isn't that large (the complex that the lab is at has 25 buildings sprawled over 330 acres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Technical_Center ).
Basically, GM spends millions of dollars each time they sneeze, this attention is an attempt at some good will from the public.
You say 'Comedy Central itself' as if Comedy Central is somehow associated with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network. It isn't, well, not beyond being basic cable (Viacom owns Comedy Central, Time Warner owns Cartoon Network, by way of Turner).
Still, lamps that light the street instead of the sky aren't that hard to come by (and even if they aren't 100% effective at containing the light, why not use them?).
It seems inevitable to me (whether creative commons or something similar).
For the stuff you call politically charged, you can just have 1.5 or 2 years of material available for each course with sufficient vanilla material for 1 year and sufficient interesting material for 1 year, so hopefully not all that much effort would need to be wasted arguing.
The more energy publishers put into controlling their content, the more energy end users will put into alternatives like ebooks with open licenses.
The stuff available now is wildly variable in quality, but there are hundreds of thousands of instructors who need books each year, it doesn't take a great deal of their collective attention to generate a fantastic amount of material, and once there is material that is 'good enough', it will pretty much only get better.
Reader 9 improves loading speed quite a bit (even after the preloader is turned off). On a system with a couple of gigabytes of ram, it doesn't use a punishingly large amount of resources either (who doesn't upgrade to 2 gigs when it costs $25?).
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If there is a pandemic scare every ten years and you kill 100,000 people each time by inoculating them, after 100 years, you are much better off than if you had one pandemic kill 10 million people, let alone 100 million.
We're freaking out over a new flu. A new cold is even less noteworthy.
Bush made public statements to the contrary. Go to the following page and search on "We represent three":
http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070821-3.html
Just above Bush's statements, Harper and Calderon also mock the very concept.
Forgive me for linking to government records of public statements, rather than Lou Dobbs.
Proposed by who? It isn't something I have seen getting any serious political attention, so talking about it as if it is a serious possibility is on the level with talking about the proposed Interplanetary Union.
H-1Bs barely affect the economy. There are maybe 500,000 people working under an H-1B (that's making generous assumptions, 250,000 is probably more accurate), out of 140 million working Americans (there are another 15-20 million Americans who are unemployed but want a job).
Now, those 500,000 H-1B workers are certainly competing with Americans for jobs, but they are not completely eroding the market they are competing in, a market which employs tens of millions of people.
As far as Mexicans, they benefit you and I as much as they benefit the rich, if they were paying Americans 'properly', things like produce would cost far more at the store.
"We" aren't going anywhere. Maybe in 10 generations, humans will manage to get off the planet.
Personally, I prefer the tyrant to the will of the majority. I mean, the tyrant might be benevolent once in awhile.
The fructose in corn syrup is what everybody is all worried about (Even though it is in table sugar, in similar proportions, as part of each sucrose molecule), feeding people fruit would help a little with nutrition, but most Westerners (and those with similar lifestyles) get plenty of vitamins in their current diet.
Approximately what wage were you offering, based on how long it would have taken you (you would probably be faster than someone you hired, you are going to know your requirements a little better, so this should maximize the wage)?
Whenever I have looked at those sites, from the other direction (looking for work to do), the requirements have been arbitrary and the compensation a pittance.
Python is pretty close to Matlab as far as being the 'real thing' as a programming language. For engineers in general, Matlab still makes more sense, it is widely used in industry.
Each language has some advantages over the other.
Chevron spun the technology off to a subsidiary who markets batteries:
http://www.cobasys.com/products/transportation.shtml
Of course, they are under fire, so that isn't going to be a sufficient explanation:
http://www.hybridcars.com/components/cobasys-ceo-defends-his-battery-company-0811.html
Anyway, between your assertion that there was a market and the internal GM assertion that there wasn't a market, I'll take GM every time.
The article says that they are going to use it to do work on a vehicle they are planning on launching in the next 3 years, and 3,000 square meters really isn't that large (the complex that the lab is at has 25 buildings sprawled over 330 acres: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Technical_Center ).
Basically, GM spends millions of dollars each time they sneeze, this attention is an attempt at some good will from the public.
Because they were leasing it for far less than it cost them to build it. That is an even worse business plan than the one GM did follow.
Sweet.
Strange coincidence, some of my best friends are steaks.
The moderation in this thread is giving me a headache.
You say 'Comedy Central itself' as if Comedy Central is somehow associated with Adult Swim and Cartoon Network. It isn't, well, not beyond being basic cable (Viacom owns Comedy Central, Time Warner owns Cartoon Network, by way of Turner).
Astraweb sells 25 Gigabytes for $10. $25 buys 180 Gigabytes. I have had zero issues with them since last August, using the cheaper plan.
Still, lamps that light the street instead of the sky aren't that hard to come by (and even if they aren't 100% effective at containing the light, why not use them?).
Michigan hasn't declined that much:
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GRTTable?_bm=y&-_box_head_nbr=R1901&-ds_name=ACS_2007_1YR_G00_&-_lang=en&-format=US-30&-CONTEXT=grt
Basically, there are a bunch of states where there wasn't ever much industry.
It seems inevitable to me (whether creative commons or something similar).
For the stuff you call politically charged, you can just have 1.5 or 2 years of material available for each course with sufficient vanilla material for 1 year and sufficient interesting material for 1 year, so hopefully not all that much effort would need to be wasted arguing.
The more energy publishers put into controlling their content, the more energy end users will put into alternatives like ebooks with open licenses.
The stuff available now is wildly variable in quality, but there are hundreds of thousands of instructors who need books each year, it doesn't take a great deal of their collective attention to generate a fantastic amount of material, and once there is material that is 'good enough', it will pretty much only get better.
Reader 9 improves loading speed quite a bit (even after the preloader is turned off). On a system with a couple of gigabytes of ram, it doesn't use a punishingly large amount of resources either (who doesn't upgrade to 2 gigs when it costs $25?).
Does Future Chinese have an alphabet? To me, that seems key to enjoying the class.
It costs a fair bit more than $99 if you don't have a contract.