Normally that would be true but with the weird twist in the jetstream the last few weeks I doubt it was too much help unless they wanted to go over the gulf of mexico and canada.
This thing was nowhere near the altitude of the jetstream. At low altitude the westerlies still prevail; though of course they vary in strength but with this thing it doesn't take much of a wind to make the difference between getting anywhere and not;-)
I read your comment and have been trying to understand what the issue is. This plane has flown at night before. It collects more solar energy during daytime flight than it uses for power and stores the remainder in batteries for use during nighttime flight. Even if it couldn't, this aircraft is quite slow so, it wouldn't outrun the sun in an east-to-west flight.
Prevailing westerly winds? Most of the SF -> NYC trip would have been downwind. Most of an NYC -> SF trip would be upwind.
Pictures show the aircraft sat on the ground with the tail missing and the forward roof burnt out but it certainly did NOT cartwheel...
I happened to check news just as this story was breaking. The word "cartwheel" came from the first eyewitness report. The next two eyewitnesses said it "spun". So I'm guessing that the guy who said "cartwheel" doesn't really know what the word means, and that instead it spun on its belly.
The recruiters were there to offer jobs to people, not to answer for every controversy involving the agency. It isn't their job, and it isn't especially reasonable. Do you harass sales clerks about sweat shop labor used to manufacture some particular good in their store? This isn't much different.
Are you really that big of a fucking moron? Comparing sales clerks to recruiters???
No, I don't expect a sales clerk to answer questions about a company's sourcing of its products. But a recruiter for that same company had fucking well better have answers if I want to ask questions about the company's ethics towards its workers and/or suppliers!!!
The vast majority of the silicon is devoted to cache. I believe a modern Intel CPU uses 1% of the transistors for instruction processing before they get into the RISC core...
You are way, way off. Cache is big, but less than 1/2. Instruction pre-fetch and speculative decode is a big chunk of the cores.
Intel kept up with/ahead of RISC by keeping ahead of the industry in process shrink, maintaining a higher power budget, and devoting tremendous resources, both design and silicon to offsetting the handicaps of the x86 architecture. Just because they were mostly successful does not suddenly mean those handicaps exist. The proof of it is quite simple: look at an x86 block diagram and see how much of the silicon is devoted to decoding the obsolete ISA into something the core can actually use.
Intel gets high margins on much the x86 line. What on earth makes this douche assume that Intel would be willing to accept Samsung's margins in order to enable Apple to shift even more of the consumer market away from x86???
IF the Atom processor is the wrong processor for Apple, regardless of the market Intel curently demands, Intel will correct any problems. They're big, but not too big to listen to their biggest customers.
What makes you think the problems can be fixed? The x86 architecture is a poor fit for modern CPUs. The necessity of dealing with variable-length instructions in the context of pipelined execution requires a tremendous amount of logic devoted to speculative instruction decode, and there is nothing Intel can do to eliminate that.
A major reorg of MS is imminent, hence Ballmer doesn't want to reveal the real head yet and asked them to report to him for the time being. Tired of Slashdot's misleading and biased headlines and summary.
What, exactly, is misleading about it???
MS, according to you, is in such a state of disarray that Ballmer cannot reveal the real head of Xbox, but instead has to step in temporarily??? And we expect that pending reorg to accomplish what, exactly???
The cost to actually send the money to the employee direct deposit is $0.35 per transaction... The costs are mostly in the other services...
Yes, IIRC my payroll service charges me about $1 per. I'm not really sure, all I remember was that it was trivially cheap. (It actually is a charge over and above what a paper check would cost, because even with direct deposit they still print and mail a form for each employee, facsimile check at top marked "NON-NEGOTIABLE" and W2 info at bottom.)
Still a trivial cost as compared to all the others, as you point out. $15 is trivial shit compared to the other costs of having an employee, even a minimum wage one.
Indeed. It is absolutely despicable that any employer would try to push this cost onto its low-wage workers. The only justification for payment by debit card is as an option for an employee who, for whatever reason, would prefer it over a check or direct deposit. (And there are reasons: poor neighborhoods often do not have banks that offer free checking, nor reasonably-priced check cashing services. Just because you or I can easily convert a check into cash at no, or very low, cost, does not mean everyone can.)
And how much does it cost you to write a check for pay?
That's no more relevant to paying my employees than is how much I pay for electricity or liability insurance or any other expense of running the business.
Now, if you're just curious, it's along the line of $40 baseline + $15 per employee. But that's a full payroll service, calculation & withholding & reporting & remittal of all taxes.
I fail to see how the method of payment is somehow an afront to an employee, so much so as to warrant a lawsuit. If she doesn't like how she's paid she's welcome to work somewhere else.
The law requires that she be paid minimum wage, not "minimum wage less some processing fees to help reduce the employer's cost".
It started with some states, getting rid of both checks and direct deposit for unemployment benefits. Yeah, you get your card, and there's some way to get some cash for free, but there's all sorts of limits and restrictions. You either use it to buy stuff so that the merchants end paying the issuing bank, or you get your cash to your checking account in one payment and it costs you.
As an employer I can attest that payroll services have been pushing this on me hard since at least 2008. They're obviously getting a commission, or they would not be promoting it so aggressively. My default is always direct deposit, but I do pass along the paperwork for the debit card to new hires--this results in a blank uncomprehending stare as they process the idea; "why in the hell would I want to do that???";-)
If the banks could charge us fees for paying in cash, they would. From their point of view this is the next best thing.
What needs to happen is a RICO prosecution which would drag in all the service providers involved with this. ISPs, financial institutions, and all the other generally legitimate businesses that enable this kind of fraud.
I agree with RICO prosecutions, but not for everyone you're referring to as "enablers". I had a nice chat with someone at the phone company about this once--the problem with these operations is that they stay on the move in order to avoid getting caught. They'll literally lease an office, get phones, start calling, and move to another state within a very short span of time--less than a month. By the time the phone company gathers complaints and can shut off the phones, they're already gone--and of course without paying their phone bill. (If it were easy to catch them, it wouldn't take the FTC years to run them to ground...)
Now, if there are any ISPs, phone companies or banks that are actually in collusion, throw the book at them. But in general, what I'd think you'd find is two categories of service providers they use: those that are offshore in semi-lawless jurisdictions, and those that are getting defrauded just like all the other victims.
The fines for businesses that break the law need to be "the revenue earned during the period when the conduct was occurring" that would eliminate the sociopathic calculus that companies use to determine if the potential downside of breaking the law is less than the upside. Stating the penalty as "all revenue" instead of "all profit" would ensure that they lose more than they gain.
While I agree on the ethical/moral sense of "taking ALL their money", you're wrong about the sociopathic calculus. The sociopaths believe that they are smarter than the whole world and will never be caught, so no potential fine is large enough to deter them. The best we can hope for is to bankrupt them, and, ideally, imprison the worst offenders.
Now, if they could just get those "This is an automated message from account services... Press one if you would like to lower your interest rates to as little as..." assholes, that would be great...
They did. A couple of months ago. The problem is the ROI is so high on this kind of scam that there's always another scumbag setting up all over again.
If they wasted less time on specific niche problems and symbolic integration tricks: students could probably learn all the Calculus they really need in 1 semester. And then use the 2nd semester for better maths perspective; E.g. number theory or topology.
Maybe. Or maybe you're overestimating the ability of humanities majors to learn math;-)
Maybe a good idea would be an integrated course--math & physics. The same way calc & physics classes parallel each other for engineering majors, combine them into a single simplified class...
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Normally that would be true but with the weird twist in the jetstream the last few weeks I doubt it was too much help unless they wanted to go over the gulf of mexico and canada.
This thing was nowhere near the altitude of the jetstream. At low altitude the westerlies still prevail; though of course they vary in strength but with this thing it doesn't take much of a wind to make the difference between getting anywhere and not ;-)
I read your comment and have been trying to understand what the issue is. This plane has flown at night before. It collects more solar energy during daytime flight than it uses for power and stores the remainder in batteries for use during nighttime flight. Even if it couldn't, this aircraft is quite slow so, it wouldn't outrun the sun in an east-to-west flight.
Prevailing westerly winds? Most of the SF -> NYC trip would have been downwind. Most of an NYC -> SF trip would be upwind.
I'll bet it was the adrenalin talking.
Yes, it occurred to me that he knows perfectly well what "cartwheel" means, and in the excitement of the moment made an imprecise word choice.
Pictures show the aircraft sat on the ground with the tail missing and the forward roof burnt out but it certainly did NOT cartwheel...
I happened to check news just as this story was breaking. The word "cartwheel" came from the first eyewitness report. The next two eyewitnesses said it "spun". So I'm guessing that the guy who said "cartwheel" doesn't really know what the word means, and that instead it spun on its belly.
when machines start building parts to repair themselves fully, it will be akin to humans procreating..
What are you trying to say? That soon 35% of internet traffic will be videos of machines building parts?
The recruiters were there to offer jobs to people, not to answer for every controversy involving the agency. It isn't their job, and it isn't especially reasonable. Do you harass sales clerks about sweat shop labor used to manufacture some particular good in their store? This isn't much different.
Are you really that big of a fucking moron? Comparing sales clerks to recruiters???
No, I don't expect a sales clerk to answer questions about a company's sourcing of its products. But a recruiter for that same company had fucking well better have answers if I want to ask questions about the company's ethics towards its workers and/or suppliers!!!
So you can deduce silicon area from abstract block diagrams?
No, I can "deduce" silicon area from photographs of silicon with blocks outlined and labelled.
The vast majority of the silicon is devoted to cache. I believe a modern Intel CPU uses 1% of the transistors for instruction processing before they get into the RISC core...
You are way, way off. Cache is big, but less than 1/2. Instruction pre-fetch and speculative decode is a big chunk of the cores.
Yes. That's why RISC killed the x86 stone dead.
Intel kept up with/ahead of RISC by keeping ahead of the industry in process shrink, maintaining a higher power budget, and devoting tremendous resources, both design and silicon to offsetting the handicaps of the x86 architecture. Just because they were mostly successful does not suddenly mean those handicaps exist. The proof of it is quite simple: look at an x86 block diagram and see how much of the silicon is devoted to decoding the obsolete ISA into something the core can actually use.
Intel gets high margins on much the x86 line. What on earth makes this douche assume that Intel would be willing to accept Samsung's margins in order to enable Apple to shift even more of the consumer market away from x86???
IF the Atom processor is the wrong processor for Apple, regardless of the market Intel curently demands, Intel will correct any problems. They're big, but not too big to listen to their biggest customers.
What makes you think the problems can be fixed? The x86 architecture is a poor fit for modern CPUs. The necessity of dealing with variable-length instructions in the context of pipelined execution requires a tremendous amount of logic devoted to speculative instruction decode, and there is nothing Intel can do to eliminate that.
One of my 2 screens is larger than this one (2560x1600)!
2,200 acres to house a 2.2 acre facility??? OK, add in the 137-acre solar farm, still less than 140 acres used?
A major reorg of MS is imminent, hence Ballmer doesn't want to reveal the real head yet and asked them to report to him for the time being. Tired of Slashdot's misleading and biased headlines and summary.
What, exactly, is misleading about it???
MS, according to you, is in such a state of disarray that Ballmer cannot reveal the real head of Xbox, but instead has to step in temporarily??? And we expect that pending reorg to accomplish what, exactly???
Out of curiosity, do they offer you anything in return for using the payroll cards? (a kickback or rate reduction?)
Simply no direct deposit fee. So it would save ~$1 per employee per pay period.
The cost to actually send the money to the employee direct deposit is $0.35 per transaction... The costs are mostly in the other services...
Yes, IIRC my payroll service charges me about $1 per. I'm not really sure, all I remember was that it was trivially cheap. (It actually is a charge over and above what a paper check would cost, because even with direct deposit they still print and mail a form for each employee, facsimile check at top marked "NON-NEGOTIABLE" and W2 info at bottom.)
Still a trivial cost as compared to all the others, as you point out. $15 is trivial shit compared to the other costs of having an employee, even a minimum wage one.
Indeed. It is absolutely despicable that any employer would try to push this cost onto its low-wage workers. The only justification for payment by debit card is as an option for an employee who, for whatever reason, would prefer it over a check or direct deposit. (And there are reasons: poor neighborhoods often do not have banks that offer free checking, nor reasonably-priced check cashing services. Just because you or I can easily convert a check into cash at no, or very low, cost, does not mean everyone can.)
And how much does it cost you to write a check for pay?
That's no more relevant to paying my employees than is how much I pay for electricity or liability insurance or any other expense of running the business.
Now, if you're just curious, it's along the line of $40 baseline + $15 per employee. But that's a full payroll service, calculation & withholding & reporting & remittal of all taxes.
I fail to see how the method of payment is somehow an afront to an employee, so much so as to warrant a lawsuit. If she doesn't like how she's paid she's welcome to work somewhere else.
The law requires that she be paid minimum wage, not "minimum wage less some processing fees to help reduce the employer's cost".
It started with some states, getting rid of both checks and direct deposit for unemployment benefits. Yeah, you get your card, and there's some way to get some cash for free, but there's all sorts of limits and restrictions. You either use it to buy stuff so that the merchants end paying the issuing bank, or you get your cash to your checking account in one payment and it costs you.
As an employer I can attest that payroll services have been pushing this on me hard since at least 2008. They're obviously getting a commission, or they would not be promoting it so aggressively. My default is always direct deposit, but I do pass along the paperwork for the debit card to new hires--this results in a blank uncomprehending stare as they process the idea; "why in the hell would I want to do that???" ;-)
If the banks could charge us fees for paying in cash, they would. From their point of view this is the next best thing.
...you were getting a higher quality picture and sound...
Not to mention that at home you get the sound of only the movie you are watching, not the ones to the left and right of the theatre you're in...
What needs to happen is a RICO prosecution which would drag in all the service providers involved with this. ISPs, financial institutions, and all the other generally legitimate businesses that enable this kind of fraud.
I agree with RICO prosecutions, but not for everyone you're referring to as "enablers". I had a nice chat with someone at the phone company about this once--the problem with these operations is that they stay on the move in order to avoid getting caught. They'll literally lease an office, get phones, start calling, and move to another state within a very short span of time--less than a month. By the time the phone company gathers complaints and can shut off the phones, they're already gone--and of course without paying their phone bill. (If it were easy to catch them, it wouldn't take the FTC years to run them to ground...)
Now, if there are any ISPs, phone companies or banks that are actually in collusion, throw the book at them. But in general, what I'd think you'd find is two categories of service providers they use: those that are offshore in semi-lawless jurisdictions, and those that are getting defrauded just like all the other victims.
The fines for businesses that break the law need to be "the revenue earned during the period when the conduct was occurring" that would eliminate the sociopathic calculus that companies use to determine if the potential downside of breaking the law is less than the upside. Stating the penalty as "all revenue" instead of "all profit" would ensure that they lose more than they gain.
While I agree on the ethical/moral sense of "taking ALL their money", you're wrong about the sociopathic calculus. The sociopaths believe that they are smarter than the whole world and will never be caught, so no potential fine is large enough to deter them. The best we can hope for is to bankrupt them, and, ideally, imprison the worst offenders.
Where is that?!?
Historic long-term return of no-load index funds. Look it up.
Now, if they could just get those "This is an automated message from account services... Press one if you would like to lower your interest rates to as little as..." assholes, that would be great...
They did. A couple of months ago. The problem is the ROI is so high on this kind of scam that there's always another scumbag setting up all over again.
If they wasted less time on specific niche problems and symbolic integration tricks: students could probably learn all the Calculus they really need in 1 semester. And then use the 2nd semester for better maths perspective; E.g. number theory or topology.
Maybe. Or maybe you're overestimating the ability of humanities majors to learn math ;-)
Maybe a good idea would be an integrated course--math & physics. The same way calc & physics classes parallel each other for engineering majors, combine them into a single simplified class...