What is the purpose of this post? What does it even mean? What is the purpose of posting a link to a nebulous summary of a highly suggestive report on an extremely politically charged subject on a site that bills itself "News for Nerds"?
If nerds won't find the answer, who will? Those who used to steal our lunches at school?
The limitations of our existence confounds the intellect. Most of the yearnings in our daydreams have gone unrequited for far too long. Be that as it may we are gladly accepting our fate to live with a small quantity of luxuries and without lack of the vast majority of our necessities, there still behooves the duty to find a solution in the vast oceans above our heads, to wit outer space. So it seems a timetable has been suggested. Twenty years hence may appear a tad arbitrary but for those who have often wondered what the ballpark might be it's a gentle cattle prod to the human race to seek cooperation in an effort for survival.
My problem has been convincing them that they con't just pass of the cost of Windows to the customer. They like the fact that they can hire 3-4 MCSEs for the cost of one good Unix admin, but they don't realize that the Unix admin can set things up so that maintenance is much easier
That kind of math is pretty narrow minded, if you think about it. The whole world has become a better place because of computers, hasn't it? The "customers" for a lot of businesses are just ordinary people, and as such rely on Windows, and so far Windows has been quite reliable. Windows has brought joy and good fortune to these customers - is it such a bad thing then to charge them a little extra because businesses look forward to a better future with Windows?
The whole computer industry could not have evolved so quickly without the cash input from non-Unix users, and businesses find comfort in a unified computer industry. Businesses will buy into Windows as long as Microsoft and hardware makers are working on better technology. The free software is nice, but it has to be paid for somehow or else it doesn't keep up.
Indeed, only 15 years ago, when Windows 95 came into being, Unix computers cost as much as cars, so it was the Wintel combination that brought costs down to earth while making user interaction very intuitive. Without the efforts at Microsoft, we might have little choice than to buy really expensive machines right now and some clunky software choices.
FOSS and Microsoft together keep prices down. Without FOSS, Microsoft would be just as pricey as can be, but if Microsoft stopped, the motivation behind FOSS would be shrivel up.
I too find it disturbing that displays have gone to 2MP and stopped. We were this close to being able to actually read a PDF on 100% zoom without squinting. WTF is going on?
Economics might be the answer. When I upgraded a few years ago I went from ye olde 1024 x 768 to 1280 x 800 - a little better in both directions - while the price was quite low. The aspect ratio of 4:3 was lost but I attributed it to widescreen movie viewing as well as lower poer consumption.
Go forward a year and a half (coinciding with the recession) and I was shocked to see screen sizes of 1366 x 768 - these are good upgrades for dinky netbook users but it pressures people to upgrade again. Sure enough a year later during the economic recovery, 1600 x 900 has come back a little in the affordable class.
When people are looking to spend a bit more now for a bit better, hopefully the screens with greater vertical space will return to store shelves. They're available as a special order, and software typically chews up horizontal area, so it's simple. If enough people won't stand for screens that are too small and stores have too much unsold inventory, the industry will offer the larger screens.
In America, our capitalists insist that the individual's (i.e., their own) interests come before the state's and the people's, and anything that they do is justified by the profit motive even if it should hurt America
Why has everyone been so negative? Somehow when your neighbor is striving to get ahead, woe is me. To recap the commentary capitalist IBM has sold out to the reds, who knows what they're plotting.
Maybe the sentiment can be explained. American unemployment is at stagnantly high levels, and look at China, who has been behind for so long, they shouldn't be catching up in the passing lane. Change is alarming, but it's inevitable, and change is everywhere.
So much for the psychology - look at it from a different economic angle. A stronger China will be a bigger customer with happier citizenry, willing to spend. American small businesses looking for growth should consider exports. They can export to backward third world countries filled with bandits, bad infrastructure, and not much liquid capital, or they can export to China, who is working hard on improving the country and getting richer.
Whether things will turn out for better or worse is not known. It's all speculation. A major unpredictable rival at the opposite end of the world is sure to make things exciting.
Beyond brilliant, Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades
But it's only a 544 page book. It might not read like Harry Potter but if he's been working on it at a pace of 25 pages a year (bet you the index and contents is 40 pages), can it really tell me something without forcing me to look for explanations in other places? I wonder how it compares to handbooks, which also list massive numbers of formulas in small print and still take up thousands of pages.
The reason for the heatsink is because high output diodes get hot enough TO MELT THEMSELVES WITHOUT SUFFICIENT HEAT DISSIPATION
Deja vu all over again and the more things change the more they stay the same
This is analogous to the problem Edison solved for the incandescent - what's needed is an Edison for LEDs, or an HSF for long-life incandescents??? Worth a try...
Maybe the whole idea of using LEDs at a single bright source can be replaced with scattering LEDs over many points. It is feasible, as LEDs last quite long
. I saw 3-4 accidents from idiots who were afraid to travel 80 in clear skys with dry roads, but didn't flinch at all from going 65 when they couldn't see and the water was an non-trivially deep
The common "reasoning" is going too slow will cause someone to rear-end them. The craziest thing is people going the speed limit in fog so thick they can't see anything. There have been massive 200 car pile ups in fog, as though this is what would happen if lemmings drove cars.
My opinion on raising the speed limit to 90 - don't make it a purchasable option, make it available for free, because otherwise one day someone will really want to do it and have no experience driving at that speed (although most drivers probably go that fast quite often already). Also, being legal at 90 just means the speeding ticket for 110 or 120 is that much less, so this is the zone where people will really get into trouble if they're not ready for it. At the higher speeds, things happen much sooner and stopping distances are much longer.
Furthermore, if a lot of people do buy into it, enforcement won't bother stopping people for such high speeds anyways. Who wants to do a traffic stop standing out there with cars going by at 120? Not to mention, someone already in a hurry will not appreciate buying a permit and then having to show it when stopped for going over the posted limit. And someone else not in a hurry isn't going to like another dude trying to get his money's worth even if it means tailgating, passing into oncoming traffic, and other unsafe practices to get to open road.
All this is, is a way to earn more government revenue. Raise ths speed limit, raise taxes on gas, increase the frequency of car inspections - that would be a safer way, though it costs a lot more to build high speed roads.
What's the point in teaching a 200 person class? You can't interact with them at all,
But for a low-cost education that doesn't lead to massive debt, it works. The prof has to explain well in order to avoid pesky students lining up at his/her office. For many such classes there is a lab session where assistants interact. If all goes according to plan the students should come out with actual knowledge.
For that matter, these courses should be available as do-it-yourself kits. Surely after decades of modern education getting the first university degree for anyone literate would be distilled to a formula. I daresay toy companies like Lego would have parents falling all over them if they produced Legoland chemistry for ages 17+
The cost entirely depends on how many cores you're running, and more importantly your monthly usage
While I don't keep up with the mainframe way of doing things, I thought companies bought mainframes rather than time. In the old days, computers were rare and expensive so time was valuable and users watched how much time their jobs took. Why would anyone these days care to put up with this headache? Hiring people to tweak jobs and code in order to squeeze out wasted cycles seems to my naivete more expensive than merely buying extra hardware, given the lower prices of computing these days.
Is IBM selling mainframes on the basis that if people paid by the hour they would be paying less than an upfront sale? The selling point would be the performance is so great that a huge savings could be achieved. On this basis, if the performance is scalable with the number of mainframes, it would justify the sale of multiple machines and thereby lead to savings based on economies of scale.
This sales strategy (if that is what is actual) is clever in that once a company commits to hiring in order to optimize usage and reduce the expense of many mainframes, now finds it ought to utilize the mainframe staff to load more work on the mainframes because after all these people need something to do, and there should be some gain to using excess (and to some degree unlimited) computing capacity.
In order to maintain this sales strategy the time must be pressured towards zero or else the time charges will eventually equal the cost of N depreciated machines, and it would be better off to cap the future charges by buying the machines as they've already been proven. Upgraded machines would provide the dilemma of paying full price for the newer models or running old clunkers, which eat valuable real estate
Except you don't get court summons delivered by email, facebook, or Twitter. You get them via certified letter, in person, or some other means that is easy to audit
My two cents - a website called TheDirt probably gets a lot of summons and orders to pay restitution, fake or otherwise. Moral of the story has to do with sticking your neck out.
My bet is this fuck up will cost her the real case
New items on To Do list for TheDirty: (a) wipe their servers (b) move to an untouchable jurisdiction
Startling that many more specks appear in the range of Mercury to Mars in the last half. In grade school, I heard of the asteroid belt beyond Mars, but there is a lot lurking at one astronomical unit from the sun.
With so many pieces even as far as Jupiter one good bump could put the Earth in a collision course - is that enough incentive to do something?
Apple has been around for 3+ decades, a fascinating change in computing.
As a PC user I look occasionally at why to use a Mac but the one button mouse and high prices keep turning me to the competition. However, bundle an iPad, with a stylus that uses a button for right clicking, in a Mac deal so a user has the alternative of handwriting and touch input via Bluetooth or LAN as well as a portable subcomputer away from the desk, and Mac sales may go nuts. Heck, somebody make an iPad or lightweight tablet do this for a PC.
Now I just wrote it and know which arbibrary symbols I replaced the more common ones with, but I still have trouble looking at it and working out what it means! The standardisation of mathematical symbols, and their common use, is what makes it even vaguely teachable. Using "()" as an indicator of a missing term in an equation is madness because everyone I've ever known would use them to indicate a change to the default order of calculation (BODMAS)
Ow my thumb!
The nail is there and all you guys have been hammering it and hitting your thumbs.
BTW 4 + 3 + 2 = 7 + 2 not 9 + 2 -- transcription error or something that we've kind of bought into
The exercise may well be to teach the associativity of addition.
4 + 3 + 2 = (4 + 3) + 2 --- fill the blank between parentheses with 4 + 3 not with the evaluated result of 4 + 3
Likely scenario - secretary being very blonde decides to help out by saving the paper between two empty parentheses
He admitted it himself. Admitting your crimes on the internet are no different than admitting them in real life
There's a difference between admitting to an authority versus talking big to impress people, and even so-called hard evidence can be faked to gain more credibility.
However, this guy doesn't look like the kind to back away from the story in court, so I see nothing wrong with prosecuting
If just a bunch of people inside the SEC can see the whole data, a problem can go undetected, but if the real-time trading info of all brokers and their ilk was exposed to everyone (without client names), any investor with an ounce of CYA will check.
The downside - the brokers play follow the leader and create bubbles, but even this can be observed and hedged against.
At any rate there is a lot of CYA possible for the diligent investor already
Maybe what the world needs is a few bubbles going all the time. Froth might be better for the economy rather than trying to stabilize the economy. Businesses need some angles to play in order to justify growth and hiring. The one bubble at a time mentality or the one bandwagon at a time focus of investors puts a lot of jobs at risk.
There are many ventures existing, and that is good but no one wants their bubble to burst. Yet for the unemployed-for-a-long-time I say "Get involved and make a few bubbles. You have strength in numbers."
How on earth was it allowed that a security guard was allowed to do this in a prison of all places?
Government job?
Guarding a prison is about as exciting as being an inmate. With so many people taking the shittiest work to make a buck, some guards might have been used to a less boring workday. A game can keep a guard alert, but it should be done with a randomly provided game in a break room with frequent duty rotations
It seems that Kmart offered rainchecks to those who found the item sold out at their local store up until July 31
Due to this month being August, the rainchecks are good until 2011? Although by then a better alternative should be.
Maybe that was supposed to be Aug 31. Whatever. The price is good, but why do they always tease like this and not have enough for everyone? Of course that has to do with trying to not make too many etc etc. Make a portable tablet that can give high-performance VNC into a real computer, pretty please.
Computer technology is increasingly powerful - of course the opportunity will become available to use the Internet or a software package to learn by yourself all that is needed for a university degree.
BUT how much is really involved in making such a system workable for the run-of-the-mill high school graduate to learn enough for a professional degree? There is a tremendous breadth of knowledge to learn, even if taught at a fairly shallow depth.
If the software is capable of nagging and evaluating the student to ensure that the work is good, the result may be inexpensive education for many people. A very good thing, and a goal that should be sought.
The real target is somewhat hidden - what is the real target? A system that can teach can do. If the software is good enough to guage a student, it is good enough to guage itself. It would probably have to be much better than a student in order to know that the student is adequate. As a student I was unsure of myself, and I did not always believe that even the students in the upper years could do everything correctly in the lower-year problems, yet it seemed that somehow the education system would make the requisite knowledge available to someone staying long enough for a PhD, to become able to handle every situation at the Bachelor level. This conception was downgraded as I learned more, but for a machine it may be possible.
That could mean that acquiring a formal degree is only the starting point because machines will compete for the most basic work done by professionals. Even if machines were not assigned all of this work, there could be an incredible glut of qualified people. Machine education would be possible anywhere there is reliable electricity.
Indeed, the education software would be pushed down into K-12, and students could be graduating at 16 or 17 ready to work. If unemployment in the developed world is at unexpected highs now, just wait and see.
What are people going to do? The path from raw materials to finished products is fairly well charted. Housing was useful in stimulating the economy, and it will become more necessary, not less. The fundamental reason for housing is not to get people employed in making houses and sell houses. No - the fundamental reason for housing is for having places to put the stuff. As machines make more stuff and people keep buying it, it has to go somewhere. The developing world will start catching on too, and the Earth is only so big.
People might think this is crazy, there are people unemployed for years with no prospects in sight, but that is only a correction. As the developing world accumulates more wealth, there will be manufacturers selling globally, with globally recognized brands in every sector. The trick for creating jobs is to stop the selfish thinking of "where am I going to get a job" and to start giving the developing world better opportunities to develop housing and infrastructure. Housing is the place where the stuff goes, and if people can have health and houses they will pay for stuff, and that means business growth and jobs. Which of course leads to technological breakthroughs, computerized education, and job competition, and many other problems.
The "scam" here is the massive one where America thought the purpose of the market was to provide retirement savings- Thus people dumped all their money into the market in hopes of having big retirement payouts. Look at the surge in the DOW since the 90's- that's everyone's retirements going straight into the market. You know how many people nearing retirement in 2008 and 2009 watched their retirement plans go out the window?
The problem is not following through and instead looking for a quick greedy profit. After millione of Joe the Plumbers (i.e., typical people) bought into so many shares they would have a lot of power in some of the corporations. Instead of collectively guiding the corporations, they wanted to sneak in a few sucker punches to each other to see whose portfolio comes out with the most money. They deferred to fat cat executives on blind faith that corporations that got big will keep doing it right.
These Joe the Plumbers needs to organize in order to keep their investment safe. Throwing their money at the BPs results in lost retirements, and that's a sad outcome learned the hard way.
I remember when processor MHz ratings went from 566 to 600 to 633 to 667. On this disk when they achieved the 666th Gb, it wasn't good enough to report until the 667th was reached, barely squeaking over the bar.
Slashdot Mirror
What is the purpose of this post? What does it even mean? What is the purpose of posting a link to a nebulous summary of a highly suggestive report on an extremely politically charged subject on a site that bills itself "News for Nerds"?
If nerds won't find the answer, who will? Those who used to steal our lunches at school?
The limitations of our existence confounds the intellect. Most of the yearnings in our daydreams have gone unrequited for far too long. Be that as it may we are gladly accepting our fate to live with a small quantity of luxuries and without lack of the vast majority of our necessities, there still behooves the duty to find a solution in the vast oceans above our heads, to wit outer space. So it seems a timetable has been suggested. Twenty years hence may appear a tad arbitrary but for those who have often wondered what the ballpark might be it's a gentle cattle prod to the human race to seek cooperation in an effort for survival.
Miles Under the Ocean
Well, that's interesting, a fish under the ocean. Usually there's rock under the ocean.
My problem has been convincing them that they con't just pass of the cost of Windows to the customer. They like the fact that they can hire 3-4 MCSEs for the cost of one good Unix admin, but they don't realize that the Unix admin can set things up so that maintenance is much easier
That kind of math is pretty narrow minded, if you think about it. The whole world has become a better place because of computers, hasn't it? The "customers" for a lot of businesses are just ordinary people, and as such rely on Windows, and so far Windows has been quite reliable. Windows has brought joy and good fortune to these customers - is it such a bad thing then to charge them a little extra because businesses look forward to a better future with Windows?
The whole computer industry could not have evolved so quickly without the cash input from non-Unix users, and businesses find comfort in a unified computer industry. Businesses will buy into Windows as long as Microsoft and hardware makers are working on better technology. The free software is nice, but it has to be paid for somehow or else it doesn't keep up.
Indeed, only 15 years ago, when Windows 95 came into being, Unix computers cost as much as cars, so it was the Wintel combination that brought costs down to earth while making user interaction very intuitive. Without the efforts at Microsoft, we might have little choice than to buy really expensive machines right now and some clunky software choices.
FOSS and Microsoft together keep prices down. Without FOSS, Microsoft would be just as pricey as can be, but if Microsoft stopped, the motivation behind FOSS would be shrivel up.
It's just a subtle reminder to never cross the beams
Yet another cross to bear
I don't keep my systems "up to date". The system I'm posting this from is still on XP SP1.
You're doing all right. I'm just using Morse code but I did recently upgrade to SP4, you know, where I soldered a grounding wire to my chair.
I too find it disturbing that displays have gone to 2MP and stopped. We were this close to being able to actually read a PDF on 100% zoom without squinting. WTF is going on?
Economics might be the answer. When I upgraded a few years ago I went from ye olde 1024 x 768 to 1280 x 800 - a little better in both directions - while the price was quite low. The aspect ratio of 4:3 was lost but I attributed it to widescreen movie viewing as well as lower poer consumption.
Go forward a year and a half (coinciding with the recession) and I was shocked to see screen sizes of 1366 x 768 - these are good upgrades for dinky netbook users but it pressures people to upgrade again. Sure enough a year later during the economic recovery, 1600 x 900 has come back a little in the affordable class.
When people are looking to spend a bit more now for a bit better, hopefully the screens with greater vertical space will return to store shelves. They're available as a special order, and software typically chews up horizontal area, so it's simple. If enough people won't stand for screens that are too small and stores have too much unsold inventory, the industry will offer the larger screens.
In America, our capitalists insist that the individual's (i.e., their own) interests come before the state's and the people's, and anything that they do is justified by the profit motive even if it should hurt America
Why has everyone been so negative? Somehow when your neighbor is striving to get ahead, woe is me. To recap the commentary capitalist IBM has sold out to the reds, who knows what they're plotting.
Maybe the sentiment can be explained. American unemployment is at stagnantly high levels, and look at China, who has been behind for so long, they shouldn't be catching up in the passing lane. Change is alarming, but it's inevitable, and change is everywhere.
So much for the psychology - look at it from a different economic angle. A stronger China will be a bigger customer with happier citizenry, willing to spend. American small businesses looking for growth should consider exports. They can export to backward third world countries filled with bandits, bad infrastructure, and not much liquid capital, or they can export to China, who is working hard on improving the country and getting richer.
Whether things will turn out for better or worse is not known. It's all speculation. A major unpredictable rival at the opposite end of the world is sure to make things exciting.
Well, the 243,000,500,000,000,000,002th digit of pi is "4".
Go on, prove me wrong
You may be right, particularly in binary.
Beyond brilliant, Kemp has worked on his book for over two decades
But it's only a 544 page book. It might not read like Harry Potter but if he's been working on it at a pace of 25 pages a year (bet you the index and contents is 40 pages), can it really tell me something without forcing me to look for explanations in other places? I wonder how it compares to handbooks, which also list massive numbers of formulas in small print and still take up thousands of pages.
The reason for the heatsink is because high output diodes get hot enough TO MELT THEMSELVES WITHOUT SUFFICIENT HEAT DISSIPATION
Deja vu all over again and the more things change the more they stay the same
This is analogous to the problem Edison solved for the incandescent - what's needed is an Edison for LEDs, or an HSF for long-life incandescents??? Worth a try ...
Maybe the whole idea of using LEDs at a single bright source can be replaced with scattering LEDs over many points. It is feasible, as LEDs last quite long
. I saw 3-4 accidents from idiots who were afraid to travel 80 in clear skys with dry roads, but didn't flinch at all from going 65 when they couldn't see and the water was an non-trivially deep
The common "reasoning" is going too slow will cause someone to rear-end them. The craziest thing is people going the speed limit in fog so thick they can't see anything. There have been massive 200 car pile ups in fog, as though this is what would happen if lemmings drove cars.
My opinion on raising the speed limit to 90 - don't make it a purchasable option, make it available for free, because otherwise one day someone will really want to do it and have no experience driving at that speed (although most drivers probably go that fast quite often already). Also, being legal at 90 just means the speeding ticket for 110 or 120 is that much less, so this is the zone where people will really get into trouble if they're not ready for it. At the higher speeds, things happen much sooner and stopping distances are much longer.
Furthermore, if a lot of people do buy into it, enforcement won't bother stopping people for such high speeds anyways. Who wants to do a traffic stop standing out there with cars going by at 120? Not to mention, someone already in a hurry will not appreciate buying a permit and then having to show it when stopped for going over the posted limit. And someone else not in a hurry isn't going to like another dude trying to get his money's worth even if it means tailgating, passing into oncoming traffic, and other unsafe practices to get to open road.
All this is, is a way to earn more government revenue. Raise ths speed limit, raise taxes on gas, increase the frequency of car inspections - that would be a safer way, though it costs a lot more to build high speed roads.
What's the point in teaching a 200 person class? You can't interact with them at all,
But for a low-cost education that doesn't lead to massive debt, it works. The prof has to explain well in order to avoid pesky students lining up at his/her office. For many such classes there is a lab session where assistants interact. If all goes according to plan the students should come out with actual knowledge.
For that matter, these courses should be available as do-it-yourself kits. Surely after decades of modern education getting the first university degree for anyone literate would be distilled to a formula. I daresay toy companies like Lego would have parents falling all over them if they produced Legoland chemistry for ages 17+
The cost entirely depends on how many cores you're running, and more importantly your monthly usage
While I don't keep up with the mainframe way of doing things, I thought companies bought mainframes rather than time. In the old days, computers were rare and expensive so time was valuable and users watched how much time their jobs took. Why would anyone these days care to put up with this headache? Hiring people to tweak jobs and code in order to squeeze out wasted cycles seems to my naivete more expensive than merely buying extra hardware, given the lower prices of computing these days.
Is IBM selling mainframes on the basis that if people paid by the hour they would be paying less than an upfront sale? The selling point would be the performance is so great that a huge savings could be achieved. On this basis, if the performance is scalable with the number of mainframes, it would justify the sale of multiple machines and thereby lead to savings based on economies of scale.
This sales strategy (if that is what is actual) is clever in that once a company commits to hiring in order to optimize usage and reduce the expense of many mainframes, now finds it ought to utilize the mainframe staff to load more work on the mainframes because after all these people need something to do, and there should be some gain to using excess (and to some degree unlimited) computing capacity.
In order to maintain this sales strategy the time must be pressured towards zero or else the time charges will eventually equal the cost of N depreciated machines, and it would be better off to cap the future charges by buying the machines as they've already been proven. Upgraded machines would provide the dilemma of paying full price for the newer models or running old clunkers, which eat valuable real estate
Except you don't get court summons delivered by email, facebook, or Twitter. You get them via certified letter, in person, or some other means that is easy to audit
My two cents - a website called TheDirt probably gets a lot of summons and orders to pay restitution, fake or otherwise. Moral of the story has to do with sticking your neck out.
My bet is this fuck up will cost her the real case
New items on To Do list for TheDirty: (a) wipe their servers (b) move to an untouchable jurisdiction
Startling that many more specks appear in the range of Mercury to Mars in the last half. In grade school, I heard of the asteroid belt beyond Mars, but there is a lot lurking at one astronomical unit from the sun.
With so many pieces even as far as Jupiter one good bump could put the Earth in a collision course - is that enough incentive to do something?
Digitizing tables date back to the 1950s
Analog tablets go back to pre-Moses.
Apple has been around for 3+ decades, a fascinating change in computing.
As a PC user I look occasionally at why to use a Mac but the one button mouse and high prices keep turning me to the competition. However, bundle an iPad, with a stylus that uses a button for right clicking, in a Mac deal so a user has the alternative of handwriting and touch input via Bluetooth or LAN as well as a portable subcomputer away from the desk, and Mac sales may go nuts. Heck, somebody make an iPad or lightweight tablet do this for a PC.
Now I just wrote it and know which arbibrary symbols I replaced the more common ones with, but I still have trouble looking at it and working out what it means! The standardisation of mathematical symbols, and their common use, is what makes it even vaguely teachable. Using "()" as an indicator of a missing term in an equation is madness because everyone I've ever known would use them to indicate a change to the default order of calculation (BODMAS)
Ow my thumb!
The nail is there and all you guys have been hammering it and hitting your thumbs.
BTW 4 + 3 + 2 = 7 + 2 not 9 + 2 -- transcription error or something that we've kind of bought into
The exercise may well be to teach the associativity of addition.
4 + 3 + 2 = (4 + 3) + 2 --- fill the blank between parentheses with 4 + 3 not with the evaluated result of 4 + 3
Likely scenario - secretary being very blonde decides to help out by saving the paper between two empty parentheses
He admitted it himself. Admitting your crimes on the internet are no different than admitting them in real life
There's a difference between admitting to an authority versus talking big to impress people, and even so-called hard evidence can be faked to gain more credibility.
However, this guy doesn't look like the kind to back away from the story in court, so I see nothing wrong with prosecuting
So no, it probrably wouldn't work
beg to differ
If just a bunch of people inside the SEC can see the whole data, a problem can go undetected, but if the real-time trading info of all brokers and their ilk was exposed to everyone (without client names), any investor with an ounce of CYA will check.
The downside - the brokers play follow the leader and create bubbles, but even this can be observed and hedged against.
At any rate there is a lot of CYA possible for the diligent investor already
Maybe what the world needs is a few bubbles going all the time. Froth might be better for the economy rather than trying to stabilize the economy. Businesses need some angles to play in order to justify growth and hiring. The one bubble at a time mentality or the one bandwagon at a time focus of investors puts a lot of jobs at risk.
There are many ventures existing, and that is good but no one wants their bubble to burst. Yet for the unemployed-for-a-long-time I say "Get involved and make a few bubbles. You have strength in numbers."
How on earth was it allowed that a security guard was allowed to do this in a prison of all places?
Government job?
Guarding a prison is about as exciting as being an inmate. With so many people taking the shittiest work to make a buck, some guards might have been used to a less boring workday. A game can keep a guard alert, but it should be done with a randomly provided game in a break room with frequent duty rotations
It seems that Kmart offered rainchecks to those who found the item sold out at their local store up until July 31
Due to this month being August, the rainchecks are good until 2011? Although by then a better alternative should be.
Maybe that was supposed to be Aug 31. Whatever. The price is good, but why do they always tease like this and not have enough for everyone? Of course that has to do with trying to not make too many etc etc. Make a portable tablet that can give high-performance VNC into a real computer, pretty please.
Computer technology is increasingly powerful - of course the opportunity will become available to use the Internet or a software package to learn by yourself all that is needed for a university degree.
BUT how much is really involved in making such a system workable for the run-of-the-mill high school graduate to learn enough for a professional degree? There is a tremendous breadth of knowledge to learn, even if taught at a fairly shallow depth.
If the software is capable of nagging and evaluating the student to ensure that the work is good, the result may be inexpensive education for many people. A very good thing, and a goal that should be sought.
The real target is somewhat hidden - what is the real target? A system that can teach can do. If the software is good enough to guage a student, it is good enough to guage itself. It would probably have to be much better than a student in order to know that the student is adequate. As a student I was unsure of myself, and I did not always believe that even the students in the upper years could do everything correctly in the lower-year problems, yet it seemed that somehow the education system would make the requisite knowledge available to someone staying long enough for a PhD, to become able to handle every situation at the Bachelor level. This conception was downgraded as I learned more, but for a machine it may be possible.
That could mean that acquiring a formal degree is only the starting point because machines will compete for the most basic work done by professionals. Even if machines were not assigned all of this work, there could be an incredible glut of qualified people. Machine education would be possible anywhere there is reliable electricity.
Indeed, the education software would be pushed down into K-12, and students could be graduating at 16 or 17 ready to work. If unemployment in the developed world is at unexpected highs now, just wait and see.
What are people going to do? The path from raw materials to finished products is fairly well charted. Housing was useful in stimulating the economy, and it will become more necessary, not less. The fundamental reason for housing is not to get people employed in making houses and sell houses. No - the fundamental reason for housing is for having places to put the stuff. As machines make more stuff and people keep buying it, it has to go somewhere. The developing world will start catching on too, and the Earth is only so big.
People might think this is crazy, there are people unemployed for years with no prospects in sight, but that is only a correction. As the developing world accumulates more wealth, there will be manufacturers selling globally, with globally recognized brands in every sector. The trick for creating jobs is to stop the selfish thinking of "where am I going to get a job" and to start giving the developing world better opportunities to develop housing and infrastructure. Housing is the place where the stuff goes, and if people can have health and houses they will pay for stuff, and that means business growth and jobs. Which of course leads to technological breakthroughs, computerized education, and job competition, and many other problems.
The "scam" here is the massive one where America thought the purpose of the market was to provide retirement savings- Thus people dumped all their money into the market in hopes of having big retirement payouts. Look at the surge in the DOW since the 90's- that's everyone's retirements going straight into the market. You know how many people nearing retirement in 2008 and 2009 watched their retirement plans go out the window?
The problem is not following through and instead looking for a quick greedy profit. After millione of Joe the Plumbers (i.e., typical people) bought into so many shares they would have a lot of power in some of the corporations. Instead of collectively guiding the corporations, they wanted to sneak in a few sucker punches to each other to see whose portfolio comes out with the most money. They deferred to fat cat executives on blind faith that corporations that got big will keep doing it right.
These Joe the Plumbers needs to organize in order to keep their investment safe. Throwing their money at the BPs results in lost retirements, and that's a sad outcome learned the hard way.
I remember when processor MHz ratings went from 566 to 600 to 633 to 667. On this disk when they achieved the 666th Gb, it wasn't good enough to report until the 667th was reached, barely squeaking over the bar.
Is Google evil?
I love Google, as long as it always helps me.
But why couldn't the government ferret out this information without Google? Aren't they the ones who put the satellites up there in the first place?