Actually, from the reports about the report that I read, the study singles out Wal-Mart precisely because its policies are worse than chains such as Costco. But I don't know if that's in the report itself. If you've actually read the report, can you confirm?
Another problem with the Berkeley study is that it assumes that all Wal-Mart employees do not get health insurance through parents, spouses, or other employers. The actual results are likely to be much smaller.
Well, I still didn't read the actual report;) but I did look at the authors' response which states the following: "our methodology accounts for the fact that some individuals who have spouses working at a company with more generous health insurance are opting into such plans.... Given the greater rate of job based health coverage at large California retailers overall... Wal-Mart workers and family members utilize 40% more in such public health expenditures than workers in large retailers overall in the state."
I had guessed this about the methodology even before reading the response. I can't imagine a professional researcher/PhD without a personal axe to grind who wouldn't account for this in his research.
People on this list love to hate Wal*Mart, but that fact is that they are good for the economy and for the consumer
I don't know much about Wal-Mart firsthand as I've never lived near one. However, there was the study recently released by the University of California Labor Center which found that Wal-Mart's low-wage and health-insurance strategies actually cost California $86 million. That in essence, the public subsidizes Wal-Mart's labor costs.
So you may get lower prices at checkout but only because you pay taxes to otherwise subsidize Wal-Mart.
If the report is correct (and I admit I've only read the media coverage of the report, not the report itself), that's not true capitalism at all.
If you need more than five paragraphs to try to clarify a sentence fragment, perhaps you should consider using the preview button to quell your written diarrhea. There's no need to be petulant about the fact that people don't care about the general thrust of your post. There's no evidence to suggest you are a misunderstood genius. But you might be petulant about the fact that your reasoning is still a miserable failure.
You assert that your parenthetical statement ("I don't know if he knows English, but it's not his native tongue") meant "What I mean by that is not that he doesn't know English, but only that it's not his native tongue". But those statements do not have the same truth conditions.
Writing clearly is hard work. Admitting one's mistakes is hard work. Not everyone can do it. But you might take comfort knowing the company you keep: you are bedfellows with President Bush.
since the pope doesn't even speak English (I don't know if he knows English, but it's not his native tongue), so we might ask what exactly he means by 'defects'
English is not the Pope's native language.
The Pope does not speak English.
I suppose implicit is the premise:
One cannot speak a language if it is not one's native language.
You also posit an equally interesting corollary:
Knowing a language is not sufficient for speaking that language.
According to Mary Schumacher, Pope John Paul II speaks eight languages "rather fluently": Polish, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English (a figure widely cited).
In this CNN transcript, Alessio Vinci, the CNN Rome Bureau Chief, echoes reports that the Pope speaks as many as seventeen languages.
There were two fellows at UC Berkeley (Phelps and Wilensky) who implemented the idea of "fingerprinting" web pages at least as far back as 2000. It was a non-trivial fingerprinting (i.e. not just MD5 hash of a web page).
As far as I know, they haven't done any more recent work on this and the software is only available via archive.org.
I would love a vga (or better!) capable screen that fits in a drive bay. If you've seen the lcd's for car stereos that slide out, you know what I mean. Or if you don't, imagine the rackmountable lcd displays that slide out and then go vertical but sized for a drive bay.
Would be great for the htpc that's normally only used with a projector. You don't always want to turn on the beamer if you're just playing music, but you do need to be able to use some sort of screen.
other than compromising the gcc distribution, how would one implement such an automatically propagating, hidden feature and make it fly?
Let me restate that: i. "implement such an automatically propagating, hidden feature and make it fly" if and only if "compromising the gcc distribution".
or, "A iff B".
So to answer your immediate question, which also raises the question whether you yourself "RTFL", I'll quote Ken Thompson: A if "... an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode".
Since I've just provided you a C, D, and E (i.e.: C = assembler, D = loader, E = hardware microcode), your claim, A iff B, is false.
I'm not really trying to antagonize you, btw;) It's just that the original poster expressed a concern about trojans and spyware in RealPlayer, despite the source release of the Helix Player, questioning if the relation between Helix and RealPlayer was akin to Mozilla and Netscape--i.e. a reasonable concern. Somewhat sidestepping that issue, the issue became one of detecting trojans or spyware in open source software in general. You then restricted the domain to a specific case detailed by Thompson. Do you think that avoiding detection is even limited to exploits such as those described by Thompson? Then you're just not using your imagination enough. The grandparent poster made a fairly intuitive claim along the lines of X if Y is more clever than Z and cited Thompson as an illustrative example. I think you could also have X if Y is less lazy than Z. Or X if Y has more time than Z.
For example the conclusion: "Fighting a war on two fronts is bad", could be reached either by abstract reasoning along the lines of how a two front war would divide one's resources and increase the chance of loosing the war. Or you could form an analogy to Germany loss in WWI.
The way I see it, they compliment eachother.
Abstract Reasoning: Why Analogy, what a nice dress you're wearing today!
Analogy: Abstract, where did you get that scarf? You always show such remarkable taste.
Everything until then is just a matter of degree of human involvement.
because the AI will have had no degree of human involvement? ah, because the AI will have been designed by an AI? ah, infinity...
even in the terms you construed*, there is the human concept of an "artificial intelligence" constructing a "movie", yet another human concept. just more degrees of human involvement.
* "The first all-artificial movie will be made by an AI that has no access to any outside materials"
i don't remember the raid options, but i did install debian onto lvm partitions using beta3. as i recall, the interface for lvm setup could use some work, but i did get it to work in the end.
That's just it: sounds like, but isn't. Does anyone have details on what this lossless format is? I'd be surprised if Apple actually went and developed their own format. And why on earth *not* use FLAC? There certainly aren't licensing encumberments. And among the lossless codecs, FLAC is (one of?) the most hardware friendly (easy to decode).
Now, for the 8th-grade lesson you seem to have missed...
wow, in my 8th grade science class i learned that the new girl would blush when asked if she liked to give head and that caroline let frank feel her up in assembly. damned if i remember any talk about voltage and current;)
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Actually, from the reports about the report that I read, the study singles out Wal-Mart precisely because its policies are worse than chains such as Costco. But I don't know if that's in the report itself. If you've actually read the report, can you confirm?
;) but I did look at the authors' response which states the following: ... Wal-Mart workers and family members utilize 40% more in such public health expenditures than workers in large retailers overall in the state."
Another problem with the Berkeley study is that it assumes that all Wal-Mart employees do not get health insurance through parents, spouses, or other employers. The actual results are likely to be much smaller.
Well, I still didn't read the actual report
"our methodology accounts for the fact that some individuals who have spouses working at a company with more generous health insurance are opting into such plans.... Given the greater rate of job based health coverage at large California retailers overall
I had guessed this about the methodology even before reading the response. I can't imagine a professional researcher/PhD without a personal axe to grind who wouldn't account for this in his research.
People on this list love to hate Wal*Mart, but that fact is that they are good for the economy and for the consumer
I don't know much about Wal-Mart firsthand as I've never lived near one. However, there was the study recently released by the University of California Labor Center which found that Wal-Mart's low-wage and health-insurance strategies actually cost California $86 million. That in essence, the public subsidizes Wal-Mart's labor costs.
So you may get lower prices at checkout but only because you pay taxes to otherwise subsidize Wal-Mart.
If the report is correct (and I admit I've only read the media coverage of the report, not the report itself), that's not true capitalism at all.
If you need more than five paragraphs to try to clarify a sentence fragment, perhaps you should consider using the preview button to quell your written diarrhea. There's no need to be petulant about the fact that people don't care about the general thrust of your post. There's no evidence to suggest you are a misunderstood genius. But you might be petulant about the fact that your reasoning is still a miserable failure.
You assert that your parenthetical statement ("I don't know if he knows English, but it's not his native tongue") meant "What I mean by that is not that he doesn't know English, but only that it's not his native tongue". But those statements do not have the same truth conditions.
Writing clearly is hard work. Admitting one's mistakes is hard work. Not everyone can do it. But you might take comfort knowing the company you keep: you are bedfellows with President Bush.
- English is not the Pope's native language.
- The Pope does not speak English.
I suppose implicit is the premise:- One cannot speak a language if it is not one's native language.
You also posit an equally interesting corollary:- Knowing a language is not sufficient for speaking that language.
According to Mary Schumacher, Pope John Paul II speaks eight languages "rather fluently": Polish, Russian, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English (a figure widely cited). In this CNN transcript, Alessio Vinci, the CNN Rome Bureau Chief, echoes reports that the Pope speaks as many as seventeen languages.There were two fellows at UC Berkeley (Phelps and Wilensky) who implemented the idea of "fingerprinting" web pages at least as far back as 2000. It was a non-trivial fingerprinting (i.e. not just MD5 hash of a web page).
As far as I know, they haven't done any more recent work on this and the software is only available via archive.org.
A paper
I gather that the IBM effort is different in significant respects, but it certainly employs ideas from Phelps & Wilensky.
I would love a vga (or better!) capable screen that fits in a drive bay. If you've seen the lcd's for car stereos that slide out, you know what I mean. Or if you don't, imagine the rackmountable lcd displays that slide out and then go vertical but sized for a drive bay.
Would be great for the htpc that's normally only used with a projector. You don't always want to turn on the beamer if you're just playing music, but you do need to be able to use some sort of screen.
wow. thank you for the link.
Do you have any links to examples or javascript that can actually do this?
I find it especially hard to believe there's a way to spoof the SSL padlock in JavaScript.
why wouldn't you at least use a lossless audio compression codec?
e.g. FLAC, APE, SHN...
other than compromising the gcc distribution, how would one implement such an automatically propagating, hidden feature and make it fly?
;)
Let me restate that:
i. "implement such an automatically propagating, hidden feature and make it fly" if and only if "compromising the gcc distribution".
or, "A iff B".
So to answer your immediate question, which also raises the question whether you yourself "RTFL", I'll quote Ken Thompson: A if "... an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode".
Since I've just provided you a C, D, and E (i.e.: C = assembler, D = loader, E = hardware microcode), your claim, A iff B, is false.
I'm not really trying to antagonize you, btw
It's just that the original poster expressed a concern about trojans and spyware in RealPlayer, despite the source release of the Helix Player, questioning if the relation between Helix and RealPlayer was akin to Mozilla and Netscape--i.e. a reasonable concern. Somewhat sidestepping that issue, the issue became one of detecting trojans or spyware in open source software in general. You then restricted the domain to a specific case detailed by Thompson. Do you think that avoiding detection is even limited to exploits such as those described by Thompson? Then you're just not using your imagination enough. The grandparent poster made a fairly intuitive claim along the lines of X if Y is more clever than Z and cited Thompson as an illustrative example. I think you could also have X if Y is less lazy than Z. Or X if Y has more time than Z.
So, if real managed to insert a trojan into the master copy of the gcc distribution, they could make it work, is that it?
sometimes an anvil to the head just isn't direct enough. so, no, that's not it.
Anyone notice Samsung's Smart Screen?
Sounds like a strange winner, but still, I'd like to see it/download it. Didn't find anything more than a press release blurb by googling for it.
This is the kind of impertinence up with which I shall not put.
For example the conclusion: "Fighting a war on two fronts is bad", could be reached either by abstract reasoning along the lines of how a two front war would divide one's resources and increase the chance of loosing the war. Or you could form an analogy to Germany loss in WWI.
The way I see it, they compliment eachother.
Abstract Reasoning: Why Analogy, what a nice dress you're wearing today!
Analogy: Abstract, where did you get that scarf? You always show such remarkable taste.
maybe you should look into blonde racks.
thanks, i'll be here all week.
Everything until then is just a matter of degree of human involvement.
because the AI will have had no degree of human involvement? ah, because the AI will have been designed by an AI? ah, infinity...
even in the terms you construed*, there is the human concept of an "artificial intelligence" constructing a "movie", yet another human concept. just more degrees of human involvement.
* "The first all-artificial movie will be made by an AI that has no access to any outside materials"
eh? how does this work? b/c my copy of q3 for windows is languishing would be great if i could play q3 on linux w/out having to repurchase
i don't remember the raid options, but i did install debian onto lvm partitions using beta3. as i recall, the interface for lvm setup could use some work, but i did get it to work in the end.
ah thanks for the heads-up. i hadn't heard of the evolution of lpac.
in any case, there's an informative thread on hydrogenaudio on the whole subject. suggests that it *isn't* mpeg-4-als, since it's as yet unfinished.
Sounds like FLAC for iPods
That's just it: sounds like, but isn't. Does anyone have details on what this lossless format is? I'd be surprised if Apple actually went and developed their own format. And why on earth *not* use FLAC? There certainly aren't licensing encumberments. And among the lossless codecs, FLAC is (one of?) the most hardware friendly (easy to decode).
my pre-1963 computer only takes leaded!
One button mouse problem solved and more, look iup Side Track
linky linky
Now, for the 8th-grade lesson you seem to have missed...
;)
wow, in my 8th grade science class i learned that the new girl would blush when asked if she liked to give head and that caroline let frank feel her up in assembly. damned if i remember any talk about voltage and current
After all, 3M's not stupid: they price things correctly. These are the guys behind the Post-It Note.
Like, everyone knows Romy & Michele like invented Post-It Notes.
googles commant on the new name:
;)
Did you mean: comment?