No, it's really not about the educational *system*. The education is there; pretty much EVERYONE in the US (at least those not homeschooled) has been taught about evolution in school.
The problem is religious people who feel the need to take the Bible (or Koran, or Torah, or Dianetics, whatever...) literally in the *face* of what they have already been taught.
And the article didn't say anything about age in the study. What if 90%+ of those under 30 believed in evolution but 90%+ of those over 70 didn't? That would imply very little of it has to do with the current/recent "education system". The fact is there isn't enough data to make that conclusion...
Well, when reading TFA my first question was "why bother frying the fries anyway, why not just bake them!?"
But that's because the article had absolutely ZERO to do with cooking fries on Jupiter. Jupiter is completely inhospitable to human life and there would be no reason to have humans live on the surface. Jupiter isn't even mentioned in the article, that was a stupid (and incorrect) addition by the submitter.
The ACTUAL point of the study was that cooking in *zero* gravity brings up a bunch of challenges (ie. cooking with oil in zero G!) so they wanted to figure out what levels of artificial gravity would be acceptable/ideal for deep frying.
Yeah, I'm surprised no one else has mentioned that - transparent or not, the actual numbers quoted are REALLY LOW for the San Francisco Bay Area. Their highest paid engineers make just over $100k, which is pretty much the base starting salary at many Silicon Valley tech companies these days.
Then again, if you look at what they do (an app that schedules your Facebook and Twitter posts so that your "fans" are more likely to see them? Not rocket surgery or all that interesting), there is no way in hell they are going to grow into a significant company on their own anyway. Basically they are going to sit around making 2/3 of what their peers at other companies do hoping someone at Facebook will have a brain fart and decide they are worth acquiring.
My first instinct was to link to LMGTFY. But it's a pretty simple question and GTFY reveals:
"Aluminum in general is a third as light and half as strong as steel, or the inverse, steel is twice as strong but three times as heavy."
So, net gain in effective strength, but likely (currently) at more expense. But that was part of the point of the article, they are trying to balance all of these factors to make a durable truck that gets the best mileage possible...
You should be given a final price before you pay, you should read this final screen and identify any problems at this stage. After you've paid you've accepted the deal. If they charge you more than the final checkout screen states then its fraud plain and simple.
No, that's the WHOLE POINT. A mistake is not fraud. If they charge you too much by mistake it's no different than if they charge you too little. Or, in fact the only difference in that contract is in the perspective, and of course almost everyone posting here is coming from the consumer's perspective. Is it fraud if they undercharge you and you don't correct them?
Yes, that's absolutely true - as long as is can be proven that it was due to a mistake and not false advertising. Sorry, but it's not bull, it's established with precedent...
And it also doesn't ACTUALLY have to withstand small arms fire. Princess Di's butt has significantly less momentum than a.30 caliber round.
MY point is these are all such obvious and silly concerns that clearly Ford is not going to sacrifice their #1 seller for the past 30 years because they "didn't think about it" and accidentally made the body panels a few mm too thin.
I mean, seriously, this isn't aluminum foil, people. My damn cookware is hard anodized aluminum, is fairly thin and relatively lightweight, didn't cost that much, and could probably stop a bullet.
Yeah, and don't discount the fact that many who use high end workstations are designers, video editors, and/or just basic web developers (with no real need for them anyway!) working at companies with just plain too much money to spend. And as far as aesthetics - go into a well-funded startup office these days, and it's absurd where that VC money is really going...
I have a maxed out nearly new Macbook Pro for work that I use for development (has Win7, Win8 and Fedora 18 on it, etc). When the company decided all email and corp network services had to be accessed from a locked-down managed machine, they wanted to reinstall and remove admin rights for it. But since they couldn't support Parallels, etc (or a lot of other tools developers were using) they just gave everyone a shiny new maxed out Macbook Pro JUST FOR EMAIL. So I now have a $3000 email terminal.
Well, in the sense that they consider aesthetics a feature, yeah, I totally agree. Their customers buy for style as much as substance, no question, but that's not all that unusual in the high-end consumer market... I should have stuck with aesthetic vs. utility, which is what I think the GP post meant...
I pretty much thought as you do when the story first broke.
But now, after everything that has come out, he IS a hero - because he scarified himself for the common good. He has undoubtedly broken his promises of confidentiality and will now pay for it by his whole life being turned upside down.
I look at it this way - much of what the NSA was doing was illegal and unconstitutional by both international treaty and the Constitution, but no one would have ever known about it or judges been able to rule on it to stop it unless someone spoke up. If that isn't the most perfect definition of a "whistleblower" in all the right ways I don't know what is.
Oh, and "proper procedures to follow if he suspected wrong doing"? Are you fucking kidding me!? This isn't like some middle manager made an unethical decision and it needed to be reported, this is the NSA spending BILLIONS of dollars setting up illegal data collection activities. The whole system is set up so that reporting to your superiors gets you laughed at, and reporting to anyone else gets you imprisoned.
Who cares if it's not rackable?? That's not what it was designed for; you might as well complain that a laptop is not rackable. In fact, it's not remotely targeted towards cost-conscious DIY builders or home users at all, so most of your "expansion" points are irrelevant. 4 DIMM slots are plenty (supports 64GB) if you are willing to replace RAM instead of adding (ie. pay more). And for serious video editing, etc, most of their customers are using external storage arrays anyway, so Apple just decided why bother to put it in the computer case and then have to deal with all of the power and heat issues, etc.
Personally I'd never buy one since I have no use for an overpriced (but very functional) "stylish" workstation. But there are plenty of companies with too much money that will...
It's not Java-based, obviously, but it's origins *were* definitely as a scripting language. It was basically designed to automate the creation of HTML documents/fragments on the client by embedding interpreted code. Now, of course, it does a lot more than would be described strictly as a "scripting language", but colloquially most people now equate dynamic interpreted languages with scripting, anyway...
Well, I guess it may be splitting hairs... but IMO a "website" is not necessarily "software" any more than a house is "wood" or "plumbing". I can have a "website" that is made up entirely of static HTML and images - or as its simplest, just a single image. And no, I don't think HTML qualifies as software, as it really doesn't fit the common definition of "instructions that direct the operation of hardware"; HTML is structured data, not code.
Anyway, my point in replying to the OP is that even the silliest static website (let alone some Javacript-based client) would not work without the dozens of *native* (or Java-based servers, whatever) software components that are required to realize it in your web browser on your screen.
Except duh, websites are not software, "websites" are an experience made up of literally dozens of components on servers, clients, browsers, intermediate networking equipment, routers, modems, etc that all contain software - only one small piece of which is usually written in Javascript/HTML.
Doesn't have to be a small island - if you live in California (especially the Bay Area) it's a fantastic car. There are plenty of superchargers up and down the coast, many companies (and even stores, like Fry's) now have chargers in their parking lots, and it's great for 95% of the daily commutes and a significant number of day trips (from the Bay Area you can easily go to Monterrey, Santa Cruz, Napa, etc). And let's face it, this is a $90k car after a few options, and most people who drop $90k on a car have another car (often an SUV) they can use for the long road trips devoid of charging stations.
Anyway, I agree it's a fantastic *luxury* car, but it's definitely only "cheaper" to run if you compare it to other $90k cars.
Oh, and the US already has almost 100 F-22s. "Make a difference" at what? If more than 100 F-22s are ever required in a conflict, the world in general is going to be pretty much fucked, anyway.
Well, like a black market "bank" with no FDIC registration or insurance named "Drug Money Laundering Bank" that openly advertised itself as a haven for illegal activities
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No, it's really not about the educational *system*. The education is there; pretty much EVERYONE in the US (at least those not homeschooled) has been taught about evolution in school.
The problem is religious people who feel the need to take the Bible (or Koran, or Torah, or Dianetics, whatever...) literally in the *face* of what they have already been taught.
And the article didn't say anything about age in the study. What if 90%+ of those under 30 believed in evolution but 90%+ of those over 70 didn't? That would imply very little of it has to do with the current/recent "education system". The fact is there isn't enough data to make that conclusion...
Well, when reading TFA my first question was "why bother frying the fries anyway, why not just bake them!?"
But that's because the article had absolutely ZERO to do with cooking fries on Jupiter. Jupiter is completely inhospitable to human life and there would be no reason to have humans live on the surface. Jupiter isn't even mentioned in the article, that was a stupid (and incorrect) addition by the submitter.
The ACTUAL point of the study was that cooking in *zero* gravity brings up a bunch of challenges (ie. cooking with oil in zero G!) so they wanted to figure out what levels of artificial gravity would be acceptable/ideal for deep frying.
Not only are you correct, but TFA didn't even mention Jupiter. The submitter made that part up and got it completely wrong...
Yeah, I'm surprised no one else has mentioned that - transparent or not, the actual numbers quoted are REALLY LOW for the San Francisco Bay Area. Their highest paid engineers make just over $100k, which is pretty much the base starting salary at many Silicon Valley tech companies these days.
Then again, if you look at what they do (an app that schedules your Facebook and Twitter posts so that your "fans" are more likely to see them? Not rocket surgery or all that interesting), there is no way in hell they are going to grow into a significant company on their own anyway. Basically they are going to sit around making 2/3 of what their peers at other companies do hoping someone at Facebook will have a brain fart and decide they are worth acquiring.
My first instinct was to link to LMGTFY. But it's a pretty simple question and GTFY reveals:
"Aluminum in general is a third as light and half as strong as steel, or the inverse, steel is twice as strong but three times as heavy."
So, net gain in effective strength, but likely (currently) at more expense. But that was part of the point of the article, they are trying to balance all of these factors to make a durable truck that gets the best mileage possible...
Moral of the story is...
Wait, you bought a FUCKING LINEN HANDKERCHIEF? And "needed one"? What, were you stocking up for a time traveling expedition!?
Are you bringing your own weapons?
You should be given a final price before you pay, you should read this final screen and identify any problems at this stage. After you've paid you've accepted the deal.
If they charge you more than the final checkout screen states then its fraud plain and simple.
No, that's the WHOLE POINT. A mistake is not fraud. If they charge you too much by mistake it's no different than if they charge you too little. Or, in fact the only difference in that contract is in the perspective, and of course almost everyone posting here is coming from the consumer's perspective. Is it fraud if they undercharge you and you don't correct them?
Yes, that's absolutely true - as long as is can be proven that it was due to a mistake and not false advertising. Sorry, but it's not bull, it's established with precedent...
And it also doesn't ACTUALLY have to withstand small arms fire. Princess Di's butt has significantly less momentum than a .30 caliber round.
MY point is these are all such obvious and silly concerns that clearly Ford is not going to sacrifice their #1 seller for the past 30 years because they "didn't think about it" and accidentally made the body panels a few mm too thin.
I mean, seriously, this isn't aluminum foil, people. My damn cookware is hard anodized aluminum, is fairly thin and relatively lightweight, didn't cost that much, and could probably stop a bullet.
Don't you think if you can come up with that question on a whim a joint team of Ford and Alcoa's engineers can as well?
That is not going to cut it for a “work” truck which is constantly being banged into, sat on, having things tied on, etc.
Eh, no I think you are kind of missing the point. Did you read the part about using military grade aluminum parts?
If it can withstand machine gun fire or better, it can withstand commercial use, let alone a woman's butt prints.
Yeah, and don't discount the fact that many who use high end workstations are designers, video editors, and/or just basic web developers (with no real need for them anyway!) working at companies with just plain too much money to spend. And as far as aesthetics - go into a well-funded startup office these days, and it's absurd where that VC money is really going...
I have a maxed out nearly new Macbook Pro for work that I use for development (has Win7, Win8 and Fedora 18 on it, etc). When the company decided all email and corp network services had to be accessed from a locked-down managed machine, they wanted to reinstall and remove admin rights for it. But since they couldn't support Parallels, etc (or a lot of other tools developers were using) they just gave everyone a shiny new maxed out Macbook Pro JUST FOR EMAIL. So I now have a $3000 email terminal.
Well, in the sense that they consider aesthetics a feature, yeah, I totally agree. Their customers buy for style as much as substance, no question, but that's not all that unusual in the high-end consumer market... I should have stuck with aesthetic vs. utility, which is what I think the GP post meant...
Hah, "scarified"? Who uses *scarified* in everyday conversation?? SACRIFICED. Sometimes have to wonder about Safari's autocorrects...
I pretty much thought as you do when the story first broke.
But now, after everything that has come out, he IS a hero - because he scarified himself for the common good. He has undoubtedly broken his promises of confidentiality and will now pay for it by his whole life being turned upside down.
I look at it this way - much of what the NSA was doing was illegal and unconstitutional by both international treaty and the Constitution, but no one would have ever known about it or judges been able to rule on it to stop it unless someone spoke up. If that isn't the most perfect definition of a "whistleblower" in all the right ways I don't know what is.
Oh, and "proper procedures to follow if he suspected wrong doing"? Are you fucking kidding me!? This isn't like some middle manager made an unethical decision and it needed to be reported, this is the NSA spending BILLIONS of dollars setting up illegal data collection activities. The whole system is set up so that reporting to your superiors gets you laughed at, and reporting to anyone else gets you imprisoned.
But "weight and thin" on a phone or laptop are not aesthetics, they are FEATURES. Good features that most people want.
Weight and thin, on the other hand, are not particularly useful features on a workstation. There, on the other hand, they are mostly aesthetics...
Who cares if it's not rackable?? That's not what it was designed for; you might as well complain that a laptop is not rackable. In fact, it's not remotely targeted towards cost-conscious DIY builders or home users at all, so most of your "expansion" points are irrelevant. 4 DIMM slots are plenty (supports 64GB) if you are willing to replace RAM instead of adding (ie. pay more). And for serious video editing, etc, most of their customers are using external storage arrays anyway, so Apple just decided why bother to put it in the computer case and then have to deal with all of the power and heat issues, etc.
Personally I'd never buy one since I have no use for an overpriced (but very functional) "stylish" workstation. But there are plenty of companies with too much money that will...
It's not Java-based, obviously, but it's origins *were* definitely as a scripting language. It was basically designed to automate the creation of HTML documents/fragments on the client by embedding interpreted code. Now, of course, it does a lot more than would be described strictly as a "scripting language", but colloquially most people now equate dynamic interpreted languages with scripting, anyway...
Well, I guess it may be splitting hairs... but IMO a "website" is not necessarily "software" any more than a house is "wood" or "plumbing". I can have a "website" that is made up entirely of static HTML and images - or as its simplest, just a single image. And no, I don't think HTML qualifies as software, as it really doesn't fit the common definition of "instructions that direct the operation of hardware"; HTML is structured data, not code.
Anyway, my point in replying to the OP is that even the silliest static website (let alone some Javacript-based client) would not work without the dozens of *native* (or Java-based servers, whatever) software components that are required to realize it in your web browser on your screen.
No, scripters are still scripters. It's the designers that are getting better at their jobs.
Wait. are you talking to *me* or just making a statement? Because that's pretty much exactly what I said...
Except duh, websites are not software, "websites" are an experience made up of literally dozens of components on servers, clients, browsers, intermediate networking equipment, routers, modems, etc that all contain software - only one small piece of which is usually written in Javascript/HTML.
Doesn't have to be a small island - if you live in California (especially the Bay Area) it's a fantastic car. There are plenty of superchargers up and down the coast, many companies (and even stores, like Fry's) now have chargers in their parking lots, and it's great for 95% of the daily commutes and a significant number of day trips (from the Bay Area you can easily go to Monterrey, Santa Cruz, Napa, etc). And let's face it, this is a $90k car after a few options, and most people who drop $90k on a car have another car (often an SUV) they can use for the long road trips devoid of charging stations.
Anyway, I agree it's a fantastic *luxury* car, but it's definitely only "cheaper" to run if you compare it to other $90k cars.
Oh, and the US already has almost 100 F-22s. "Make a difference" at what? If more than 100 F-22s are ever required in a conflict, the world in general is going to be pretty much fucked, anyway.
Well, like a black market "bank" with no FDIC registration or insurance named "Drug Money Laundering Bank" that openly advertised itself as a haven for illegal activities