I know of many companies (including my own) that have policies against openly discussing salaries between employees at the same level. But there's really no way to stop it when employees are away from the office. It's just that Cathy can't mention the fact that Mike makes more than her up when she's negotiating pay with her manager. Nor can anybody stop the sharing of this information between employees of two different companies as long as it takes place out of sight of management.
The biggest discrepancies in pay at the same level tend to be between new hires and people who've been around a few years, because pay increases for continuing employees don't usually keep up with salaries for new hires. And that's negative for the company, because to keep up employees may have to hop ship in a few years taking all their know-how with them and you have to bring a new guy on board and teach him how to do that gal's job as well as she did it. Turnover is the enemy of efficiency.
And that's probably mostly what the companies in this case were trying to avoid. But they could have avoided it with salary transparency and better consistency of pay with ability and experience.
Whether a girl became a woman at 13 depended on genetics and how she ate -- just like it does today. Even today it can be later than 15, even in girls who are well-nourished. Menstruation at 13 only happened in girls who had plenty to eat, and that means that the tribe had ready access to plentiful food. That situation was the norm in some areas, but not in others.
That aside, a girl might likely become a mother for the first time at 15. If she lived to 30, she was just as likely to be able to raise her children as she had been at 15 or 18. Once she became infertile, her risk of death per year decreased because she no longer faced the risk of death due to a pregnancy-gone-wrong. So she had a better chance of raising her young children.
Men never faced the risks associated with pregnancy. At 30, their chance of raising a child to adulthood required them to live to 45. That's hardly any more difficult than living from 15 to 30. Maybe easier, because by 30, they've gotten wilier and wiser, avoiding many dangers. In primitive tribes, most men didn't need to worry about the first big danger of modern middle age: heart disease. Their hearts stayed in good shape because they had to exercise and had little opportunity to overeat.
10,800,000 kWh is 10.8 GWh not 10.8 TWh. 10.8 TWh is 10,800,000,000 kWh which would be $1,360,800,000 at your rates. Also, does that rate include distribution charges or only generation charges?
That includes everything. It's the consumer's cost.
The premise is ridiculous. Everybody around here seems to want to believe that the government is much more interested in what they are doing than they could conceivably be.
I fail to see any advantage to my offspring in that. I can still produce children in my early 30s. In fact, I did. Two of them. I'm not done raising them yet. They still need my protection and help for a few years yet. And that's why middle age is an evolutionary advantage. We have children that take a long time to mature, so we need to be productive and helpful for at least that long after we stop being able to make them.
Unless we can get their older sister to raise them. I've been trying that but it hasn't quite taken yet.
I am middle aged, nearing fifty. I (and my friends) can still hike a trail with my kids, keep up with them and show them interesting things, stuff I remember wondering about when I was their age.
My Mom, however, is 77. She cannot hike those same trails at our speed and she has difficulty remembering things. She stays back with the great-grandkids and the octogenarian dog, baking cookies while we hike.
There is a qualitative difference between middle age and old age, but that may not be readily apparent if you have nothing to compare to.
If you're nearing 50 and can keep up with your kids, either you are either in hella great shape or your kids are crippled. Your kids are probably slowing down so you can keep up.
My kids hop up mountains like goats after a full week of loafing in front of the computer and television. Youth is a wonderful thing. I wish I still had it.
I'm not saying they weren't providing a good service. I'm saying you were inconvenienced, slightly.
You can upload your pictures to another service with a little effort. Mostly, that effort consists of creating another account on another service and telling your computer to upload THIS folder to the server. Then let it do its' thing. The heavy lifting is all automatic.
But if you multiply that inconvenience by thousands or (as the claim is) millions of legit users, it amounts to a giant pain in the ass.
But the intense pain is suffered only by Carpathia and MegaUpload.
Already in the WRONG orbit. Just like on Earth, the value of real estate is in its LOCATION.
Spending $2.6 billion to put a 500 ton asteroid in Earth orbit is justifiable if it's an alternative to lifting stuff from Earth that would cost over $2.6 billion to put in orbit.
The present cost of putting stuff in Earth orbit -- from Earth's surface, is $4300/kg using Proton rockets.
500 tons x $4300 / kg = $2.15 billion. It's still cheaper to bring it from Earth, and from Earth, you will be bringing manufactured materials, or at least refined materials, saving the cost of building a manufacturing infrastructure in space that could process asteroid material into end-use materials.
The project is a no-go financially.
And by the time they could capture their asteroid, we'll probably have air launch or more advanced systems for launching basic materials to orbit and those are likely to cut the cost of putting materials in orbit by more than 50%.
In fact, this is the principal problem to be solved in space technology.
While they're at it they can patent a car with no steering wheel. Instead it senses your mood and intelligence and drives youwhere it guesses you want to go.
I really doubt that millions of people were more than slightly inconvenienced. Smart people didn't put their only copy of any data they thought was important there. A service like that is for backups and exchange with other users. Unless either you were stupid or list your original due to a crash, you can just re-upload to another service.
Otherwise only Megaupload itself and Carpathian are really up a creek.
The way LCD monitors work is that they have a backlight that's on all the time and it consumes the lion's share of the power. Dark pixels are produced by applying an electric field to liquid crystal, an act that takes power mostly in the switching of states. So an all-dark screen takes about the same power as an all-white screen.
If you want to save power in display-related actions, display pages that require minimal computing to render. You'll save more power in the CPU and GPU.
If you want to save power again, set your browser to reject cookies, not display video and not run scripts you haven't authorized. Set your firewall to block major advertisement sites.
And that's just your browser. There's more power to be saved by turning off power-hungry services of your operating system.
You seriously fail to understand the differences between SOPA and CISPA.
You also fail to understand that the army of supporters you think is behind you just isn't there. SOPA got millions worked up because of the things that distinguish it from SOPA.
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So we used to be overspending on the military worse than we are now Ans that makes our current militaryindustrialextravaganza OK?
We could cut total military spending 50% and it would sill be out of line with what we need
Some posts only need the subject line.
500 billion? That hardly qualifies as a simulation of "the whole universe."
Heck they don't even know how manty particles there are in the whole universe has but conservatively, they're off by a factor of greater than 10^70.
I know of many companies (including my own) that have policies against openly discussing salaries between employees at the same level. But there's really no way to stop it when employees are away from the office. It's just that Cathy can't mention the fact that Mike makes more than her up when she's negotiating pay with her manager. Nor can anybody stop the sharing of this information between employees of two different companies as long as it takes place out of sight of management.
The biggest discrepancies in pay at the same level tend to be between new hires and people who've been around a few years, because pay increases for continuing employees don't usually keep up with salaries for new hires. And that's negative for the company, because to keep up employees may have to hop ship in a few years taking all their know-how with them and you have to bring a new guy on board and teach him how to do that gal's job as well as she did it. Turnover is the enemy of efficiency.
And that's probably mostly what the companies in this case were trying to avoid. But they could have avoided it with salary transparency and better consistency of pay with ability and experience.
Whether a girl became a woman at 13 depended on genetics and how she ate -- just like it does today. Even today it can be later than 15, even in girls who are well-nourished. Menstruation at 13 only happened in girls who had plenty to eat, and that means that the tribe had ready access to plentiful food. That situation was the norm in some areas, but not in others.
That aside, a girl might likely become a mother for the first time at 15. If she lived to 30, she was just as likely to be able to raise her children as she had been at 15 or 18. Once she became infertile, her risk of death per year decreased because she no longer faced the risk of death due to a pregnancy-gone-wrong. So she had a better chance of raising her young children.
Men never faced the risks associated with pregnancy. At 30, their chance of raising a child to adulthood required them to live to 45. That's hardly any more difficult than living from 15 to 30. Maybe easier, because by 30, they've gotten wilier and wiser, avoiding many dangers. In primitive tribes, most men didn't need to worry about the first big danger of modern middle age: heart disease. Their hearts stayed in good shape because they had to exercise and had little opportunity to overeat.
10,800,000 kWh is 10.8 GWh not 10.8 TWh. 10.8 TWh is 10,800,000,000 kWh which would be $1,360,800,000 at your rates. Also, does that rate include distribution charges or only generation charges?
That includes everything. It's the consumer's cost.
No they don't run cost free and yes they do bill consumers for every penny of their costs. What were you trying to ask?
The premise is ridiculous. Everybody around here seems to want to believe that the government is much more interested in what they are doing than they could conceivably be.
I always thought they figured into the travelling salesman problem.
In fact, I thought the were the point.
I fail to see any advantage to my offspring in that. I can still produce children in my early 30s. In fact, I did. Two of them. I'm not done raising them yet. They still need my protection and help for a few years yet. And that's why middle age is an evolutionary advantage. We have children that take a long time to mature, so we need to be productive and helpful for at least that long after we stop being able to make them.
Unless we can get their older sister to raise them. I've been trying that but it hasn't quite taken yet.
I am middle aged, nearing fifty. I (and my friends) can still hike a trail with my kids, keep up with them and show them interesting things, stuff I remember wondering about when I was their age.
My Mom, however, is 77. She cannot hike those same trails at our speed and she has difficulty remembering things. She stays back with the great-grandkids and the octogenarian dog, baking cookies while we hike.
There is a qualitative difference between middle age and old age, but that may not be readily apparent if you have nothing to compare to.
If you're nearing 50 and can keep up with your kids, either you are either in hella great shape or your kids are crippled. Your kids are probably slowing down so you can keep up.
My kids hop up mountains like goats after a full week of loafing in front of the computer and television. Youth is a wonderful thing. I wish I still had it.
NOBODY said copyright is a natural right. So nobody cares when you assert that it isn't.
It's a statutory right that depends on no moral rights of the "owner".
By your peculiar use of the word "moral," with which most people do not agree.
Copyright certainly has a well-established place in law. The fact that you don't like those laws is irrelevant. You still have to obey them.
I'm not saying they weren't providing a good service. I'm saying you were inconvenienced, slightly.
You can upload your pictures to another service with a little effort. Mostly, that effort consists of creating another account on another service and telling your computer to upload THIS folder to the server. Then let it do its' thing. The heavy lifting is all automatic.
But if you multiply that inconvenience by thousands or (as the claim is) millions of legit users, it amounts to a giant pain in the ass.
But the intense pain is suffered only by Carpathia and MegaUpload.
Already in the WRONG orbit. Just like on Earth, the value of real estate is in its LOCATION.
Spending $2.6 billion to put a 500 ton asteroid in Earth orbit is justifiable if it's an alternative to lifting stuff from Earth that would cost over $2.6 billion to put in orbit.
The present cost of putting stuff in Earth orbit -- from Earth's surface, is $4300/kg using Proton rockets.
500 tons x $4300 / kg = $2.15 billion. It's still cheaper to bring it from Earth, and from Earth, you will be bringing manufactured materials, or at least refined materials, saving the cost of building a manufacturing infrastructure in space that could process asteroid material into end-use materials.
The project is a no-go financially.
And by the time they could capture their asteroid, we'll probably have air launch or more advanced systems for launching basic materials to orbit and those are likely to cut the cost of putting materials in orbit by more than 50%.
In fact, this is the principal problem to be solved in space technology.
Exactly!
While they're at it they can patent a car with no steering wheel. Instead it senses your mood and intelligence and drives youwhere it guesses you want to go.
Prior art!
I really doubt that millions of people were more than slightly inconvenienced. Smart people didn't put their only copy of any data they thought was important there. A service like that is for backups and exchange with other users. Unless either you were stupid or list your original due to a crash, you can just re-upload to another service.
Otherwise only Megaupload itself and Carpathian are really up a creek.
So I made projections of when the number of retractions would equal the number of articles, but I found an error in my data set.
I had to retract it.
The way LCD monitors work is that they have a backlight that's on all the time and it consumes the lion's share of the power. Dark pixels are produced by applying an electric field to liquid crystal, an act that takes power mostly in the switching of states. So an all-dark screen takes about the same power as an all-white screen.
If you want to save power in display-related actions, display pages that require minimal computing to render. You'll save more power in the CPU and GPU.
If you want to save power again, set your browser to reject cookies, not display video and not run scripts you haven't authorized. Set your firewall to block major advertisement sites.
And that's just your browser. There's more power to be saved by turning off power-hungry services of your operating system.
But if they didn't actually split a particle the article is misleading.
Why can't scientists review their press coverage?
Only hundreds of years of patent and copyright protection.
But this is a case of unauthorized intrusion not copyright violation.
... from CISPA.
You seriously fail to understand the differences between SOPA and CISPA.
You also fail to understand that the army of supporters you think is behind you just isn't there. SOPA got millions worked up because of the things that distinguish it from SOPA.
Yes there ARE left wing extremists but not in any national office on the last 30 years. Obama is somewhere between George HW Bush and Clinton.
The only LEDlamp I ever bought lasted 3 weeks.