All the knowledge you'd gain from college can be found for free online.
Maybe if you are getting a degree in Javascript, or Linux, or some other computer topic - pretty much anything else? Not so much. Not to mention that any college degree worth a damn is more than just memorizing random facts - you also learn how to research, how to do, etc... etc...
Keep in mind that Hubble's mission is far more than just pictures... (though they get all the attention). Hubble is also a spectrographic instrument - and it can "see" wavelengths that do not penetrate the atmosphere.
There's more to astronomy than just who can create the sharpest and prettiest pictures.
Spot on. But 'Maker' is the current buzzword de jour.
But for the most part, it seems what these folks are creating isn't handmade goods in the traditional sense, but art pieces. So really, this article seems to mostly be a song-and-dance I've heard a hundred times before, all across the country - "keep cheap rent and rundown buildings and somehow magic will happen and the artists will bring honor and glory and gold to the city".
I can't recall offhand a single case in which this has turned out to be true.
. I didn't know there were any grocery stores that didnt' cut up their own meat and package it?
Few, if any, places cut their own chicken. Other than that, Wal-Mart often has a regional butcher rather than one on site, and there are also some 'brand name' meats starting to spread that come to grocery store already packed.
In a traditional grocery store, there's hundreds of cuts of meat that are packaged up into individual portions sitting in a refrigerator waiting to be picked up by some consumer. There's a good chance that it won't be picked up and will eventually need to be tossed. Also, storing cut up meat isn't as efficient as say storing an entire side of beef/whole chicken/pork etc..
There may be hundreds of packages but there's only a few dozen different cuts. And the retailers long ago figured out how to optimize their display (in types and quantities) so as to minimize the amount that's tossed. (And they then minimize that amount even further by discounting it a day or two before it goes off.) Nor do they store cuts of meat, it's cut (almost universally) on demand on a daily basis. (If it's not cut on site, it either comes frozen or is cut on a regional basis and delivered every couple of days at worst.)
With the on-demand grocery, the side of beef is whole until an order is placed and then that side is cut up as per the orders that are needed. So if you need 50 steaks, you cut up exactly 50 steaks. Compared that to the traditional store in which you have to base that days sales on historical numbers and predictions rather than actual orders. If you as a meat-dept manager guess that 100 steaks will be sold on a thursday and only 50 are sold, you're going to lose money. With the online butcher, you only cut up 50 steaks. In this case you're much more efficient as you have less product waste.
Um... you do know that meat lasts more than a day don't you? If they do miss their Thursday numbers that badly, they just cut fewer on Friday. (Not to mention it's pretty rare to cut a whole days worth at once - there isn't sufficient display and storage space, instead the butchers cut steaks every couple of hours as needed.)
Not to mention, grocery store butchers haven't worked with whole sides in a long time... Not only is there considerable waste on a side (which costs to ship), there's a considerable imbalance in demand between various cuts from a given side. Instead, they order what are called primals and cut those up as required. (Also much of the 'waste' is valuable byproduct for sausage making, fats for various uses, etc... this is much more efficiently balanced at the wholesale/salughterhouse level than at the individual grocery level.)
Nail meet head. One of the things folks here on Slashdot don't seem to grasp is that one of the key preconditions for a drive in theater to be successful is cheap land near a population center. But if it's near enough to drive to, it's near enough that suburbia is eventually going to swallow it - this raises the value of land above the income available from the theater. A few might continue to run the theater out of habit or love, but most are not going to leave cash on the table.
There are in fact people buying or starting up drive-in theaters whose basic business plan is to generate enough income from the theater to pay the mortgage and tax bill until development reaches them and the value of the land increases. The drive-in 'revival' seen in some spots recently (because of the drop in property values after the 2008 crash) is a direct result of this.
Uhh, that's a tautology there, friend. If someone found a way to buck a declining trend, then everyone else is indeed fucked up, because they are declining while the other guy is succeeding.
Only if the circumstances are identical or nearly so. Consider the theater near me who is struggling because suburbia has gradually crept out and surrounded him... resulting in a much higher tax bill. (One of the key preconditions for a successful drive-in is cheap land near a population center.)
What is he supposed to do? He can't add showings. He can't add screens. He can't raise the cost of his concessions much without inducing more people to bring their own. He can't raise ticket prices much without driving away the carloads of families who are his bread and butter. He's already running a flea market on Saturday and Sunday. He can't move because low density sprawl and zoning and land use regulations mean the only available places are much too far from a significant concentration of population....
So it's easy to say "oh, just copy everyone else" (when you don't understand the specific situation, let alone the economics of the industry), but it's much harder in reality to actually do so.
It can also work with planets though. Earth has a magnetic field, so by pumping current (or sinking it) you can increase and decrease orbital height relative to the planet.
Bitcoin could have been a useful petty cash system for the Internet. If you could buy song downloads or MMORPG game items with it, it would be convenient and widely used.
Not really. I already have dollars, so to pay in Bitcoins I first have to find a way to get Bitcoins. So I either incur a loss due to exchange fees or pay a whole heap of dollars upfront for a mining rig, or find something to do that other people will pay me Bitcoins for. All three of which are much more inconvenient or difficult than simply paying dollars in the first place. The same principle also applies to the people accepting Bitcoins - generally their expenses are off the 'net (rent, power, water, insurance) are paid in dollars (or whatever their local currency is), so they have to go to the extra expense and inconvenience of exchanging the Bitcoins they've been paid into dollars they can pay with. Not to mention the headache and expense of trying to keep accounts in two different currencies.)
Watching movies outdoors is still pretty popular, so if they're run properly, offering a social experience that people can't get in the living room or crowded into theater rows, there's no reason drive-ins can't stay in business.
I always love the Slashdot crowd - they know so much more than actual business owners. If you're so smart why don't you take a crack at explaining why the facts are contrary to your opinion?
Drive in theaters and theaters in general are not popular because for many people the additional cost is not reflected in additional quality and user experience.
For not being popular... why are there nearly twice as many screens as there were twenty five years ago? How did the top five movies released in 2012 collectively gross two billion dollars? Who bought the 1.37 billion movie tickets sold in the US in 2012?
That said implying the outdoor theatre is dead simply because operators are making a rational decision not to invest in their firms is a bit overreaching. There are two theaters in my city that show live and filmed entertainment. They are both free. They are both jam packed.
Brace yourself - I have a shocker for you... "your city" != "all of the US". (In fact, I suspect it's not even close to being typical.)
I've been noticing these places closing over the course of the last 30 years though.
They've been dying much longer than that... They really only ever had about four or five peak years in the late 50's/early 60's. Though there's a lot of nostalgia for them, they never were anything but a small minority of the total number of screens in the US.
Encourage employees to use the 20% time to Innovate within the existing projects; for example, by finding ways to make them better or lower their costs.
And what you end up with is the 'hell in a handbasket' so many Google products are in. Endless tinkering and "innovation", but no clear direction and rarely are they 'better'.
Because they handed out stock options left and right, and ended up with enough people holding enough vested options that the rules said they had to go public. But even, they pulled a fast one - the GOOG traded on the market are lower class shares... with no dividend, ownership, or voting rights. All of higher class shares with all those rights are held by a very small number of people - early Google insiders, investors, and VC's.
I see way too many game companies let their developers just openly communicate with the fan base unbuffered, and they need to take a hint from Blizzard to let the professionals handle it.
That depends on the game, it's fandom, and the culture of the forums (slash the ability of the moderator team) - very few fandoms are as large and fanatic as WoW, and very few forums are as toxic as WoW's... so drawing conclusions from Blizzard is very shaky indeed. On the other hand, it's equally possible to have a passionate fanbase with a quite moderate forum culture. One where the developers can interact and the 'crazies' are absent (by force if need be), that was certainly the case with CoX, and is with YPP!, and KSP. (All smaller, fringier games.)
maybe its time to think outside the box now that we know ion drives work a kg of propellant and three exhuast ports would fix this issue with new tech
Not only will ion drives not work in this situation (insufficient thrust, insufficient fine throttle control), they have the disadvantage of potentially contaminating the optics with their exhaust. As with Hubble, the later is a huge concern and why they chose reaction wheels in the first place. (Not to mention not requiring potentially mission limiting consumables.)
Unless my memory is grossly faulty here, Schiavo was considered an atypically unambiguous case medically (with massive amounts of brain that just weren't present anymore, much less electrically active or not); but was a sordid story in messy family feuds being adopted by culture warriors, diagnosis-by-video being performed by histrionic congressmen, and whatnot.
No, your memory is spot on. In fact, I've been paying attention off and on to these cases since the Karen Ann Quinlan case in the mid 1970's, and offhand I can't recall a single case that hinged on whether or not the patient was conscious. IIRC, they've all pretty much hinged on whether or not the patient is medically alive, or whether or not they're likely to recover and/or regain consciousness. While this tool might help with the definition of the former, it's pretty much useless in the latter cases.
Now we want to _use_ insurance. Insurance can't be profitable if we're all going to use it.
Insurance can be quite profitable even if the ensured want to use it. But the problem isn't that people want to use it - it's that everyone wants it to endlessly pay out dollars while paying in only pennies. And that's the insidious part of Obamacare... the notion that dollars can be printed from pennies is now enshrined in law. (Without actually fixing any of the real problems in our healthcare system.)
Within a decade of Obamacare taking full effect, you're going to see a wave of bankruptcies ripple through the insurance industry. The knock-on effects will make 2008 look like a child's tea party.
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Maybe if you are getting a degree in Javascript, or Linux, or some other computer topic - pretty much anything else? Not so much. Not to mention that any college degree worth a damn is more than just memorizing random facts - you also learn how to research, how to do, etc... etc...
Did you actually read his comment? Or just reply to the subject line?
Not to mention, only the ignorant think that "price" is only reckoned in dollars.
Keep in mind that Hubble's mission is far more than just pictures... (though they get all the attention). Hubble is also a spectrographic instrument - and it can "see" wavelengths that do not penetrate the atmosphere.
There's more to astronomy than just who can create the sharpest and prettiest pictures.
I take it then you've never actually done any cold forging?
Detroit's climate sucks, and it isn't as "cool" as California.
Spot on. But 'Maker' is the current buzzword de jour.
But for the most part, it seems what these folks are creating isn't handmade goods in the traditional sense, but art pieces. So really, this article seems to mostly be a song-and-dance I've heard a hundred times before, all across the country - "keep cheap rent and rundown buildings and somehow magic will happen and the artists will bring honor and glory and gold to the city".
I can't recall offhand a single case in which this has turned out to be true.
Few, if any, places cut their own chicken. Other than that, Wal-Mart often has a regional butcher rather than one on site, and there are also some 'brand name' meats starting to spread that come to grocery store already packed.
Non proliferation is on the very short list of things that both sides of the aisle and pretty much every President since Kennedy agree on.
There may be hundreds of packages but there's only a few dozen different cuts. And the retailers long ago figured out how to optimize their display (in types and quantities) so as to minimize the amount that's tossed. (And they then minimize that amount even further by discounting it a day or two before it goes off.) Nor do they store cuts of meat, it's cut (almost universally) on demand on a daily basis. (If it's not cut on site, it either comes frozen or is cut on a regional basis and delivered every couple of days at worst.)
Um... you do know that meat lasts more than a day don't you? If they do miss their Thursday numbers that badly, they just cut fewer on Friday. (Not to mention it's pretty rare to cut a whole days worth at once - there isn't sufficient display and storage space, instead the butchers cut steaks every couple of hours as needed.)
Not to mention, grocery store butchers haven't worked with whole sides in a long time... Not only is there considerable waste on a side (which costs to ship), there's a considerable imbalance in demand between various cuts from a given side. Instead, they order what are called primals and cut those up as required. (Also much of the 'waste' is valuable byproduct for sausage making, fats for various uses, etc... this is much more efficiently balanced at the wholesale/salughterhouse level than at the individual grocery level.)
So, yeah, pretty much everything you said is BS.
Translation: I was asked a reasonable question, but I can't answer it. So, instead, I'll reply with an attack.
Thereby proving my point.
Nail meet head. One of the things folks here on Slashdot don't seem to grasp is that one of the key preconditions for a drive in theater to be successful is cheap land near a population center. But if it's near enough to drive to, it's near enough that suburbia is eventually going to swallow it - this raises the value of land above the income available from the theater. A few might continue to run the theater out of habit or love, but most are not going to leave cash on the table.
There are in fact people buying or starting up drive-in theaters whose basic business plan is to generate enough income from the theater to pay the mortgage and tax bill until development reaches them and the value of the land increases. The drive-in 'revival' seen in some spots recently (because of the drop in property values after the 2008 crash) is a direct result of this.
Only if the circumstances are identical or nearly so. Consider the theater near me who is struggling because suburbia has gradually crept out and surrounded him... resulting in a much higher tax bill. (One of the key preconditions for a successful drive-in is cheap land near a population center.)
What is he supposed to do? He can't add showings. He can't add screens. He can't raise the cost of his concessions much without inducing more people to bring their own. He can't raise ticket prices much without driving away the carloads of families who are his bread and butter. He's already running a flea market on Saturday and Sunday. He can't move because low density sprawl and zoning and land use regulations mean the only available places are much too far from a significant concentration of population....
So it's easy to say "oh, just copy everyone else" (when you don't understand the specific situation, let alone the economics of the industry), but it's much harder in reality to actually do so.
Those are called electrodynamic tethers.
Not really. I already have dollars, so to pay in Bitcoins I first have to find a way to get Bitcoins. So I either incur a loss due to exchange fees or pay a whole heap of dollars upfront for a mining rig, or find something to do that other people will pay me Bitcoins for. All three of which are much more inconvenient or difficult than simply paying dollars in the first place. The same principle also applies to the people accepting Bitcoins - generally their expenses are off the 'net (rent, power, water, insurance) are paid in dollars (or whatever their local currency is), so they have to go to the extra expense and inconvenience of exchanging the Bitcoins they've been paid into dollars they can pay with. Not to mention the headache and expense of trying to keep accounts in two different currencies.)
Ah... the old Slashdot standby... "I know one or two guys locally bucking a fifty year long trend, so it's everyone else that's effed up".
I always love the Slashdot crowd - they know so much more than actual business owners. If you're so smart why don't you take a crack at explaining why the facts are contrary to your opinion?
For not being popular... why are there nearly twice as many screens as there were twenty five years ago? How did the top five movies released in 2012 collectively gross two billion dollars? Who bought the 1.37 billion movie tickets sold in the US in 2012?
Brace yourself - I have a shocker for you... "your city" != "all of the US". (In fact, I suspect it's not even close to being typical.)
They've been dying much longer than that... They really only ever had about four or five peak years in the late 50's/early 60's. Though there's a lot of nostalgia for them, they never were anything but a small minority of the total number of screens in the US.
And what you end up with is the 'hell in a handbasket' so many Google products are in. Endless tinkering and "innovation", but no clear direction and rarely are they 'better'.
Because they handed out stock options left and right, and ended up with enough people holding enough vested options that the rules said they had to go public. But even, they pulled a fast one - the GOOG traded on the market are lower class shares... with no dividend, ownership, or voting rights. All of higher class shares with all those rights are held by a very small number of people - early Google insiders, investors, and VC's.
That depends on the game, it's fandom, and the culture of the forums (slash the ability of the moderator team) - very few fandoms are as large and fanatic as WoW, and very few forums are as toxic as WoW's... so drawing conclusions from Blizzard is very shaky indeed. On the other hand, it's equally possible to have a passionate fanbase with a quite moderate forum culture. One where the developers can interact and the 'crazies' are absent (by force if need be), that was certainly the case with CoX, and is with YPP!, and KSP. (All smaller, fringier games.)
You can drink a lot of coffee and work regular forty hour weeks and have a fifteen minute or less commute too. (I know half a dozen people like that.)
Not only will ion drives not work in this situation (insufficient thrust, insufficient fine throttle control), they have the disadvantage of potentially contaminating the optics with their exhaust. As with Hubble, the later is a huge concern and why they chose reaction wheels in the first place. (Not to mention not requiring potentially mission limiting consumables.)
No, your memory is spot on. In fact, I've been paying attention off and on to these cases since the Karen Ann Quinlan case in the mid 1970's, and offhand I can't recall a single case that hinged on whether or not the patient was conscious. IIRC, they've all pretty much hinged on whether or not the patient is medically alive, or whether or not they're likely to recover and/or regain consciousness. While this tool might help with the definition of the former, it's pretty much useless in the latter cases.
Insurance can be quite profitable even if the ensured want to use it. But the problem isn't that people want to use it - it's that everyone wants it to endlessly pay out dollars while paying in only pennies. And that's the insidious part of Obamacare... the notion that dollars can be printed from pennies is now enshrined in law. (Without actually fixing any of the real problems in our healthcare system.)
Within a decade of Obamacare taking full effect, you're going to see a wave of bankruptcies ripple through the insurance industry. The knock-on effects will make 2008 look like a child's tea party.