So, if I spend everything I make plus a little (the amount taken off by taxes for example thus breaking perfectly even income to expenses), I get back all my taxes?
Maybe business taxes are different, but aren't taxes usually taken off revenue, not profit?
I haven't seen a video card in a long time that didn't have s-video out as well as VGA. The last 3 cards I've owned (and I upgrade video cards very infrequently so this covers nearly a decade) have has s-video out. I don't know how long s-video in has been standard on tv's but probably nearly as long.
Or just, Really Poorly. If it had been done right, for better or worse, we wouldn't be having this discussion. If it worked right there wouldd be no debate, and if it were rigged right there would be no debate. The fact we have stories like this means it was done wrong for whatever end it is supposed to be.
I know that it may be completely incomprehensible to you but try this thought. Maybe Obama isn't the wrong thing. I can't say he's the right thing, but he hasn't even had an opportunity to do anything yet. At least give him until January 21st before you declare him the wrong thing.
I suppose that could mean that anyone who is caught by google streetview could claim unlawful search, since a non-government, warrentless group came onto private property out of public view to photograph a site which is then used as evidence. That might be sufficient technicality to get anyone who wasn't previously being investigated off the hook.
I misunderstood what you had said before. I thought you had said that old tests were sold and the current tests were the same. Only changing one problem is still a bit lazy though. What you described as I read it before sounded like being able to buy answer keys to current tests but I know that you mean something more like practice tests which are commonly given before tests at many universities.
The bit about free and careless cheating with the belief it only hurts the student is still a bad sign though. They only hurt themselves unless they manage to graduate, in which case an idiot gets a degree that signifies that they know as much about the subject as you do. Generally every university and other higher learning institution I've been to or know the policies of explicitly forbid the use of another persons work as your own. Getting caught according to guidelines is supposed to be a failure in the course and in my years at universities and college I've never seen a syllabus not include a stiff warning about academic dishonesty.
Honestly, a degree from that university is worthless. A university with policies like that is hardly more than a degree mill in my opinion. Unmodified tests with answers being sold? Seriously if you wouldn't mind telling us where you got your degree we can all know to file anyone from there in the "almost certainly worthless" candidates folder.
I could write a genetic algorithm based program which would proceed from simple to complex as a matter of necessity in response to whatever stimuli is presented. Yes writing the algorithm is an investment of thought and energy. The results of the algorithm, its continued function is inherent in the system and does not require additional investments beyond that necessary to maintain the system. So in this case if God wrote evolution into the universe it will function, whether or not there is a God is another question and whether or not God designed an evolutionary process is a philosophical matter not a matter of science.
The important point here is, evolution can continue if the system supports it and whether or not there is a creator of the evolutionary system is another level deeper into the matter. Evolution can happen even if there is a God, the only people threatened by evolution are fundamentalists who believe that God created every creature, and all known (and to be discovered) fossils.
I remember a story a few years back about a guy in new york who refused to pay a tip even though the menu said a gratuity would be added to the bill, the proprietor called the police and the guy was arrested for theft of services. If you're going to try that, just be sure the addition of the gratuity wasn't written in fine print somewhere on the menu, or hope the proprietor doesn't care enough to bother. Some googling revealed that the new york man was eventually let go after a judge determined that he could not be assessed a mandatory tip, but also while googling I found mention of texas law which specifically mentioned mandatory gratuities and upholds them.
It isn't a basic assumption that belief in higher power hurts the group. It's the idea held by some that they will suffer for the transgressions of others. It isn't a form even of simple religious intolerance they may often not care what deity you worship so long as you *act* as they do so as not to inspire the wrath of their god for allowing such things to happen around them and not acting. In some ways the statement 'Evil prospers when good men do nothing' can inspire a few more zealotish types to try to enforce their beliefs on the group to cause the hurt to the group.
There is a different between freefall in an atmosphere in a gravitational field and the absence of gravity. Most orbitting objects will eventually have orbital decay from the minimal amount of atmosphere they are in so the most correct term for the gravity situation in orbit is 'microgravity', given enough time any loose object will settle in accordance with the gravitational field. So I've heard anyway.
If 50 years ago people really were more educated than we are today, how do you explain the fact that our productivity is an order of magnitude greater?
It only takes one genius to design the lightbulb, which allows you to double the production from a given facility. A few smart people changing the way we work improving the productivity of masses does not say anything about the capabilities of the masses.
Actually, it works with any units so long as the units are the same. Three feet by four feet by 5 feet is still all feet. If you go 36 inches by 48 inches by 50 inches then you'd factor out a 12 and get the same 3, 4, 5 ratio. Reduce any set of numbers to the lowest common denominator and if it is 3:4:5 and refers to the length of the sides of a triangle then it is square.
A macro lens is capable of taking pictures of things in much more detail than a normal lens. Think of a steel countertop at a moderate distance it would look much like an ordinary camera picture of it would, but if you look a littlem ore carefully even from a few feet away you can usually see scratches in the surface. A macro lens allows you to focus closer than the usual minimum focal distance so you can capture that detail. Normally you'd only be able to get so close and then it'd just get blurry instead of clearer macro lenses are designed to overcome that limitation.
Look at the classics in a bookstore, pick one at random of which several versions are avialable on the shelf. Figure out which ones are abridged and which aren't. Now realize that the abridged versions are very easy to mistake for the full version. An abridgement is the beginning of a summarization abridge an abridged copy and you have a condensed version, keep going and you end up with cliffs notes. From the full version to cliffs notes you can easily spot the difference, but it is geting harder and harder to find unabridged versions, or distinguish them from full versions.
As a broke-ass college student trying to save what meager money I have from work to go on a spring break vacation this year, I can say being able to pull together even another $10 a week would help me immensely, that is the difference between feeling like I am living comfortably, and feeling like I'll tightened my belt till my eyes are bulging so I can go on vacation.
Cacti in my experience are actually very difficult to grow, they like very dry air which might be hard to get in an office. Most plants won't mind if you take a week or two off without watering them also. Just about any plant save african violets and other very tempermental tropicals should be fine for a week, anything subtropical or drought resistant can do 2 weeks easily. I've got a plant that I water somewhere around monthly (overwatering is the number one killer of plants).
The first rule of beaurocracy is "If you don't spend your entire budget this fiscal term it will be cut in the next one, always spend everything you have and request an increase next term."
Does this whole dumb idea make sense yet? Of course they will reinvent the wheel, they will make it just compatible enough to work so they can actually impliment it as an ongoing project to suck up excess funding while providing a marginal (or even purely theoretical) improvement.
Having read them both myself, I preferred 1984. It has a more clear demonstration of how the system supporting big brother works. Everything from rewriting history to double speak is elaborated on enough to make parallels to the real world. Things are called Orwellian because Orwell saw things which are used more and more in the modern world. I prefer the book which has a clear and unambigous message about where these kinds of things which are currently possible can lead over one about a world that cannot be (yet) with cloning and genetic engineering and such.
Using watch batteries makes me think that the purpose of them is to keep some memory ticking in the pen. Adding another AAA would mean that whenever they needed to be changed you'd lose the data you were trying to store, unless they were in seperate compartments. Additionally, rechargable batteries (at least, NiMH types) self-discharge and will be at a low enough voltage to be commonly considered dead after 60 days. Using rechargables in remote controls and long term low drain applications is a misapplication of the technology.
To make a mockery of your point, it is equally difficult and convoluted to do proper bounds checking isn't it? Yet it doesn't happen, as setting the last byte in a string to 0 might often not happen. I'm not a programmer really so I don't know what occurs if the last byte of a string isn't null, it might be less dangerous than buffer overflows but it doesn't sound like strncpy() is any more fool-programmer-proof.
Wow, I just looked over that site it's a neat concept. Universal pieces and many games instead of unitasking game pieces. The homeworlds game rules looked like fun too. Seems like most anything could be used in place of those tokens which makes it even better.
The reason I have always heard for dogs not being bipedal is that their hip joints aren't suitable for it. In an animal who's legs are always close to 90 degrees to its spine, when walking, the hip would not need (evolutionarily speaking) the range of motion that would allow comfortable bipedal movement.
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So, if I spend everything I make plus a little (the amount taken off by taxes for example thus breaking perfectly even income to expenses), I get back all my taxes?
Maybe business taxes are different, but aren't taxes usually taken off revenue, not profit?
I haven't seen a video card in a long time that didn't have s-video out as well as VGA. The last 3 cards I've owned (and I upgrade video cards very infrequently so this covers nearly a decade) have has s-video out. I don't know how long s-video in has been standard on tv's but probably nearly as long.
Or just, Really Poorly. If it had been done right, for better or worse, we wouldn't be having this discussion. If it worked right there wouldd be no debate, and if it were rigged right there would be no debate. The fact we have stories like this means it was done wrong for whatever end it is supposed to be.
I know that it may be completely incomprehensible to you but try this thought. Maybe Obama isn't the wrong thing. I can't say he's the right thing, but he hasn't even had an opportunity to do anything yet. At least give him until January 21st before you declare him the wrong thing.
I suppose that could mean that anyone who is caught by google streetview could claim unlawful search, since a non-government, warrentless group came onto private property out of public view to photograph a site which is then used as evidence. That might be sufficient technicality to get anyone who wasn't previously being investigated off the hook.
Statistics are tricky and generally counter-intuitive. As my stats professor said, often the best mathematicians are among the worst statisticians.
I misunderstood what you had said before. I thought you had said that old tests were sold and the current tests were the same. Only changing one problem is still a bit lazy though. What you described as I read it before sounded like being able to buy answer keys to current tests but I know that you mean something more like practice tests which are commonly given before tests at many universities.
The bit about free and careless cheating with the belief it only hurts the student is still a bad sign though. They only hurt themselves unless they manage to graduate, in which case an idiot gets a degree that signifies that they know as much about the subject as you do. Generally every university and other higher learning institution I've been to or know the policies of explicitly forbid the use of another persons work as your own. Getting caught according to guidelines is supposed to be a failure in the course and in my years at universities and college I've never seen a syllabus not include a stiff warning about academic dishonesty.
Honestly, a degree from that university is worthless. A university with policies like that is hardly more than a degree mill in my opinion. Unmodified tests with answers being sold? Seriously if you wouldn't mind telling us where you got your degree we can all know to file anyone from there in the "almost certainly worthless" candidates folder.
I could write a genetic algorithm based program which would proceed from simple to complex as a matter of necessity in response to whatever stimuli is presented. Yes writing the algorithm is an investment of thought and energy. The results of the algorithm, its continued function is inherent in the system and does not require additional investments beyond that necessary to maintain the system. So in this case if God wrote evolution into the universe it will function, whether or not there is a God is another question and whether or not God designed an evolutionary process is a philosophical matter not a matter of science.
The important point here is, evolution can continue if the system supports it and whether or not there is a creator of the evolutionary system is another level deeper into the matter. Evolution can happen even if there is a God, the only people threatened by evolution are fundamentalists who believe that God created every creature, and all known (and to be discovered) fossils.
I remember a story a few years back about a guy in new york who refused to pay a tip even though the menu said a gratuity would be added to the bill, the proprietor called the police and the guy was arrested for theft of services. If you're going to try that, just be sure the addition of the gratuity wasn't written in fine print somewhere on the menu, or hope the proprietor doesn't care enough to bother.
Some googling revealed that the new york man was eventually let go after a judge determined that he could not be assessed a mandatory tip, but also while googling I found mention of texas law which specifically mentioned mandatory gratuities and upholds them.
It isn't a basic assumption that belief in higher power hurts the group. It's the idea held by some that they will suffer for the transgressions of others. It isn't a form even of simple religious intolerance they may often not care what deity you worship so long as you *act* as they do so as not to inspire the wrath of their god for allowing such things to happen around them and not acting. In some ways the statement 'Evil prospers when good men do nothing' can inspire a few more zealotish types to try to enforce their beliefs on the group to cause the hurt to the group.
There is a different between freefall in an atmosphere in a gravitational field and the absence of gravity. Most orbitting objects will eventually have orbital decay from the minimal amount of atmosphere they are in so the most correct term for the gravity situation in orbit is 'microgravity', given enough time any loose object will settle in accordance with the gravitational field. So I've heard anyway.
0.88% != 0.88
0.0088 * 15 = 0.132 (13%)
13% you say? The excerpt says 2%-4%. RTA and you'll see though they report up to 13% on some systems.
If 50 years ago people really were more educated than we are today, how do you explain the fact that our productivity is an order of magnitude greater?
It only takes one genius to design the lightbulb, which allows you to double the production from a given facility. A few smart people changing the way we work improving the productivity of masses does not say anything about the capabilities of the masses.
Actually, it works with any units so long as the units are the same. Three feet by four feet by 5 feet is still all feet. If you go 36 inches by 48 inches by 50 inches then you'd factor out a 12 and get the same 3, 4, 5 ratio. Reduce any set of numbers to the lowest common denominator and if it is 3:4:5 and refers to the length of the sides of a triangle then it is square.
A macro lens is capable of taking pictures of things in much more detail than a normal lens. Think of a steel countertop at a moderate distance it would look much like an ordinary camera picture of it would, but if you look a littlem ore carefully even from a few feet away you can usually see scratches in the surface. A macro lens allows you to focus closer than the usual minimum focal distance so you can capture that detail. Normally you'd only be able to get so close and then it'd just get blurry instead of clearer macro lenses are designed to overcome that limitation.
Look at the classics in a bookstore, pick one at random of which several versions are avialable on the shelf. Figure out which ones are abridged and which aren't. Now realize that the abridged versions are very easy to mistake for the full version. An abridgement is the beginning of a summarization abridge an abridged copy and you have a condensed version, keep going and you end up with cliffs notes. From the full version to cliffs notes you can easily spot the difference, but it is geting harder and harder to find unabridged versions, or distinguish them from full versions.
As a broke-ass college student trying to save what meager money I have from work to go on a spring break vacation this year, I can say being able to pull together even another $10 a week would help me immensely, that is the difference between feeling like I am living comfortably, and feeling like I'll tightened my belt till my eyes are bulging so I can go on vacation.
Cacti in my experience are actually very difficult to grow, they like very dry air which might be hard to get in an office. Most plants won't mind if you take a week or two off without watering them also. Just about any plant save african violets and other very tempermental tropicals should be fine for a week, anything subtropical or drought resistant can do 2 weeks easily. I've got a plant that I water somewhere around monthly (overwatering is the number one killer of plants).
The first rule of beaurocracy is "If you don't spend your entire budget this fiscal term it will be cut in the next one, always spend everything you have and request an increase next term."
Does this whole dumb idea make sense yet?
Of course they will reinvent the wheel, they will make it just compatible enough to work so they can actually impliment it as an ongoing project to suck up excess funding while providing a marginal (or even purely theoretical) improvement.
Having read them both myself, I preferred 1984. It has a more clear demonstration of how the system supporting big brother works. Everything from rewriting history to double speak is elaborated on enough to make parallels to the real world. Things are called Orwellian because Orwell saw things which are used more and more in the modern world. I prefer the book which has a clear and unambigous message about where these kinds of things which are currently possible can lead over one about a world that cannot be (yet) with cloning and genetic engineering and such.
Using watch batteries makes me think that the purpose of them is to keep some memory ticking in the pen. Adding another AAA would mean that whenever they needed to be changed you'd lose the data you were trying to store, unless they were in seperate compartments. Additionally, rechargable batteries (at least, NiMH types) self-discharge and will be at a low enough voltage to be commonly considered dead after 60 days. Using rechargables in remote controls and long term low drain applications is a misapplication of the technology.
To make a mockery of your point, it is equally difficult and convoluted to do proper bounds checking isn't it?
Yet it doesn't happen, as setting the last byte in a string to 0 might often not happen. I'm not a programmer really so I don't know what occurs if the last byte of a string isn't null, it might be less dangerous than buffer overflows but it doesn't sound like strncpy() is any more fool-programmer-proof.
Wow, I just looked over that site it's a neat concept. Universal pieces and many games instead of unitasking game pieces. The homeworlds game rules looked like fun too. Seems like most anything could be used in place of those tokens which makes it even better.
The reason I have always heard for dogs not being bipedal is that their hip joints aren't suitable for it. In an animal who's legs are always close to 90 degrees to its spine, when walking, the hip would not need (evolutionarily speaking) the range of motion that would allow comfortable bipedal movement.