The problem is that many fever reducers are also used for aches and pains associated with a muscle fatigue caused by exercise. When I'm really sore I'll have a couple Tylenol to ease the pains, I doubt I am not in the minority on this.
This is a huge pet peave of mine. The numbers given are incomplete, if we paint all the roofs white, after how long does it equal taking all cars of the roads for 11 years? 1 year of roofs painted white? 10 years? I mean, theoretically, if I paint just *my* roof white, it will be the equivalent of taking all the cars off all roads for 11 years with a million years payoff time or something. I'm sick and tired of these incomplete statistics. Yes, I skimmed TFA and saw nothing indicating payoff time. I see these kind of part of the information all the time with energy statistics, and while I agree that it will save energy it is impossible to judge real ROI without the timeframe for the return.
Agreed....mostly. While teachers can improve, either through observing other teachers, guidance, etc, the issue then becomes how many student's years of learning should be ruined for it?
If your child was in the class of a horrible teacher, would you keep them in it so the teacher could practice teaching with your child? Let them get through their learning process and hope that if/when your younger children have the same teacher that they have improved? Or would you take them out and put them in a class with a better teacher?
It isn't as simple as waiting for the system to vet out poor teachers, there are individuals that suffer from poor teaching. I wouldn't want my children set back a year while waiting for a teacher to figure out what they are doing.
"For a person that may be familiar with the movies and little else, it's a great game with an impressive amount of depth and attention to detail. For the mass of fanatical fans that have spent more time poring over every book Tolkien ever wrote than even Tolkien himself, any deviation from the lore of his world is paramount to sacrilege on the most horrific scale."
Seems to imply that there are few people that have watched the movies and little else while many more people read all of the books in a fanatical way. I would propose that first, many more people have seen the movies than have read the books. I would also propose that even among those that read the books, not a huge percentage cared much about the deviation from the books enough to matter. I didn't RTFA, but hopefully there are some better examples in it.
It definitely goes both ways on this. I can't even remember how many times I've seen shows pulling videos from the internet that a person uploaded and calling it news, or filler, or whatever. It is also not uncommon to see TV and newspapers printing and reading comments from blogs including some well researched and first hand information in them. Bloggers often blog on things they have witnessed or experienced, with what I would think is a smaller percentage of them commenting on things they have read.
This seems to be getting slammed pretty good in most of the comments, but I can see this as being very useful especially when purchasing tech items. Case in point, I have gone through several wireless routers, mostly because some of them really really suck, and some are fine. What am I to do when I don't know what is in stock locally and I want to know if the specific model I am getting is crap or worth buying? Go read reviews on Amazon, etc.
How do you know which of the 10 motherboards in stock at Fry's is a total piece of crap? Go home and read up on them? Sounds like a super way to spend time, going back and forth to read reviews when you need a computer up and running ASAP, but don't want a brick in a month.
While perhaps not a killer app, it would be something I would interested in. All assuming you can focus that close.
Why don't grow lawns in the desert? They provide a vital function of producing oxygen, cleaning the air, lowering the heat island effect and are often areas used to recharge underground aquifers. Having a lawn in the desert is good for everyone.
On a bad side, if the mosquitoes adapt to reproduce prior to their sudden kill time, this could severely increase the problem as they would be able to reproduce in even smaller and shorter lasting pools of water.
While I too shop at Walmart for not requiring club cards to get normal pricing, they have one of the most sophisticated data collection systems around. Their ability to spot trends is remarkable, and while I'm not certain that they keep track of who buys what, be certain that if you use plastic, they are more than capable of doing so.
I would say that the problem with most programmers is that they are not such broad thinkers. Most programmers can program and that is about it. They don't often know much about what the product they are working on is supposed to do. This is not entirely their fault, but it leads to a lot of these changes because the workers (accountants for instance) don't know what is possible, and the programmers don't know how to make the accountants life easier. So, the accountant tells the programmer he wants what he thinks is possible. Programmer writes it, perhaps makes it slightly easier than accountant thought possible, which gets accountant thinking, can it do this? Of course, it can, then project is changed.
I once heard that it is better to take an account (or name other vertical business here) and teach them to program than to take a programmer and teach them the market. While this obviously doesn't work quite the intended way, as many just don't get computers, it is a shortcoming of being a programmer that doesn't work in the same area to learn the business model and function prior to programming.
Just like the idea that sales people should be taught exactly how to operate the product and what it does and does not do prior to selling it, programmers ought to be taught accounting prior to writing accounting software (or insert other here).
Back when I was younger I was installing predictive dialers. One time our salesguy sold the dialer as a client management system (to tie specific client lists to specific callers). So, I go out for the install, only to find that my boss doesn't want me to come back until it is complete, so I end up spending days altering the programming to make it do this to the best of its ability. Well, after a couple weeks I got it working, but shortly thereafter turned in my two weeks. The client was still never happy, and more experienced programmers were sent do try to make him happy. The manager at the site was eventually fired for making a bad purchase and the product was recalled.
Anyway, I had a point somewhere...oh yeah...I think it was that our sales guy selling the wrong product motivated me to quit my job installing predictive dialers! (Then on to several programming positions that lasted until the company bankrupted! Yay!)
The whole low bid then go over your bid is common practice, especially when dealing with Govermnent contracts. The company that does the roads here in Arizona (well, phoenix metro area anyway) bid low, won the contract, has underperformed and been over budget, yet, just recently they were given another long term contract with no penalties for being over budget and no performance requirements.
I wish they'd fix their stupid cookie problems. I like the browser, but it blocks cookies from sites I've explicitely allowed at least twice a week. Also, with the new release, what are they going to rename it to?
That's the wonderful thing about paper, it grows back! Even if it ends up in a land fill, plant some trees on it, they will absorb the nutrients from the old paper, and make new paper!
I completely agree, and more than that, remember the days before the net allowed such easy research into anything? Head down to the library, hope they had a book or a neighbor library had a book on the topic, then find out if it tells you what you need. I can remember spending hours looking for relevant information for something I was working on, if it takes me more than a couple minutes now I start getting anxious:-D
This slowing has got to be caused by tall buildings, as we are taking mass that once was in underground and placing it high above the ground. I don't remember what this is called, but there's some nifty name for it. We're also doing the same thing with fossil fuels, just burning them inbetween!:-)
I guess I don't quite see how this ties into the older story about new titles for Sysadmins. Technical Directors have been around a long time, and have always existed in the game creation arena. It isn't just some new spin on Sysadmin or Computer user or something.
While most of your post contains very good ideas, with the number of stories, working out pay arrangements for the revenue for each site listed does not seem like a workable solution at all. Not that I have a better solution for the ad revenue.
Why doesn't someone write an "AI" that reads the story (or comments for) and makes up some sort of response? Whether it makes sense or not, whether it's topical or not, and see what the karma tells us!
Now, when I leave work, I can have the microwave heat up the 2 minute burritos so I can eat them in the bathroom, instead of having to wait until I get out! Come on, how many of you cook full meals that take longer than 10 minutes in a microwave? While it is a novel idea (though not a new one), it seems like it would be a lot more useful if it were a convection oven or something, and even then, how often do you have roasted chicken or other large baked meals?
You also have to look at it's stored energy properties. If it is easier (read cheaper) than producing batteries, fuel oils are a far better storage medium. That's what always gets me about fuel cells, they're great, but what happens when you run out in the middle no where? Fill up a porta-battery with electricity and carry it to your truck? Anyway, this could be a more effective way to store energy than batteries and hydrogen.
(a project we just finished at work was written entirely in perl/ksh, so this is not 100% true.)
So because it is a project you are working on, it qualifies as engineering? Why wouldn't scripted programs (written by other people, of course) not be engineering, because they aren't compiled? That seems like an odd way to determine where engineering has been applied.
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The problem is that many fever reducers are also used for aches and pains associated with a muscle fatigue caused by exercise. When I'm really sore I'll have a couple Tylenol to ease the pains, I doubt I am not in the minority on this.
This is a huge pet peave of mine. The numbers given are incomplete, if we paint all the roofs white, after how long does it equal taking all cars of the roads for 11 years? 1 year of roofs painted white? 10 years? I mean, theoretically, if I paint just *my* roof white, it will be the equivalent of taking all the cars off all roads for 11 years with a million years payoff time or something. I'm sick and tired of these incomplete statistics. Yes, I skimmed TFA and saw nothing indicating payoff time. I see these kind of part of the information all the time with energy statistics, and while I agree that it will save energy it is impossible to judge real ROI without the timeframe for the return.
Agreed....mostly. While teachers can improve, either through observing other teachers, guidance, etc, the issue then becomes how many student's years of learning should be ruined for it?
If your child was in the class of a horrible teacher, would you keep them in it so the teacher could practice teaching with your child? Let them get through their learning process and hope that if/when your younger children have the same teacher that they have improved? Or would you take them out and put them in a class with a better teacher?
It isn't as simple as waiting for the system to vet out poor teachers, there are individuals that suffer from poor teaching. I wouldn't want my children set back a year while waiting for a teacher to figure out what they are doing.
"For a person that may be familiar with the movies and little else, it's a great game with an impressive amount of depth and attention to detail. For the mass of fanatical fans that have spent more time poring over every book Tolkien ever wrote than even Tolkien himself, any deviation from the lore of his world is paramount to sacrilege on the most horrific scale."
Seems to imply that there are few people that have watched the movies and little else while many more people read all of the books in a fanatical way. I would propose that first, many more people have seen the movies than have read the books. I would also propose that even among those that read the books, not a huge percentage cared much about the deviation from the books enough to matter. I didn't RTFA, but hopefully there are some better examples in it.
It definitely goes both ways on this. I can't even remember how many times I've seen shows pulling videos from the internet that a person uploaded and calling it news, or filler, or whatever. It is also not uncommon to see TV and newspapers printing and reading comments from blogs including some well researched and first hand information in them. Bloggers often blog on things they have witnessed or experienced, with what I would think is a smaller percentage of them commenting on things they have read.
This seems to be getting slammed pretty good in most of the comments, but I can see this as being very useful especially when purchasing tech items. Case in point, I have gone through several wireless routers, mostly because some of them really really suck, and some are fine. What am I to do when I don't know what is in stock locally and I want to know if the specific model I am getting is crap or worth buying? Go read reviews on Amazon, etc.
How do you know which of the 10 motherboards in stock at Fry's is a total piece of crap? Go home and read up on them? Sounds like a super way to spend time, going back and forth to read reviews when you need a computer up and running ASAP, but don't want a brick in a month.
While perhaps not a killer app, it would be something I would interested in. All assuming you can focus that close.
Why don't grow lawns in the desert? They provide a vital function of producing oxygen, cleaning the air, lowering the heat island effect and are often areas used to recharge underground aquifers. Having a lawn in the desert is good for everyone.
On a bad side, if the mosquitoes adapt to reproduce prior to their sudden kill time, this could severely increase the problem as they would be able to reproduce in even smaller and shorter lasting pools of water.
While I too shop at Walmart for not requiring club cards to get normal pricing, they have one of the most sophisticated data collection systems around. Their ability to spot trends is remarkable, and while I'm not certain that they keep track of who buys what, be certain that if you use plastic, they are more than capable of doing so.
I would say that the problem with most programmers is that they are not such broad thinkers. Most programmers can program and that is about it. They don't often know much about what the product they are working on is supposed to do. This is not entirely their fault, but it leads to a lot of these changes because the workers (accountants for instance) don't know what is possible, and the programmers don't know how to make the accountants life easier. So, the accountant tells the programmer he wants what he thinks is possible. Programmer writes it, perhaps makes it slightly easier than accountant thought possible, which gets accountant thinking, can it do this? Of course, it can, then project is changed.
I once heard that it is better to take an account (or name other vertical business here) and teach them to program than to take a programmer and teach them the market. While this obviously doesn't work quite the intended way, as many just don't get computers, it is a shortcoming of being a programmer that doesn't work in the same area to learn the business model and function prior to programming.
Just like the idea that sales people should be taught exactly how to operate the product and what it does and does not do prior to selling it, programmers ought to be taught accounting prior to writing accounting software (or insert other here).
Back when I was younger I was installing predictive dialers. One time our salesguy sold the dialer as a client management system (to tie specific client lists to specific callers). So, I go out for the install, only to find that my boss doesn't want me to come back until it is complete, so I end up spending days altering the programming to make it do this to the best of its ability. Well, after a couple weeks I got it working, but shortly thereafter turned in my two weeks. The client was still never happy, and more experienced programmers were sent do try to make him happy. The manager at the site was eventually fired for making a bad purchase and the product was recalled.
Anyway, I had a point somewhere...oh yeah...I think it was that our sales guy selling the wrong product motivated me to quit my job installing predictive dialers! (Then on to several programming positions that lasted until the company bankrupted! Yay!)
The whole low bid then go over your bid is common practice, especially when dealing with Govermnent contracts. The company that does the roads here in Arizona (well, phoenix metro area anyway) bid low, won the contract, has underperformed and been over budget, yet, just recently they were given another long term contract with no penalties for being over budget and no performance requirements.
Had you read, it said "seven of..." not all, both article and description say that
I wish they'd fix their stupid cookie problems. I like the browser, but it blocks cookies from sites I've explicitely allowed at least twice a week. Also, with the new release, what are they going to rename it to?
That's the wonderful thing about paper, it grows back! Even if it ends up in a land fill, plant some trees on it, they will absorb the nutrients from the old paper, and make new paper!
Ahh, the wonderful renewable world of wood.
I completely agree, and more than that, remember the days before the net allowed such easy research into anything? Head down to the library, hope they had a book or a neighbor library had a book on the topic, then find out if it tells you what you need. I can remember spending hours looking for relevant information for something I was working on, if it takes me more than a couple minutes now I start getting anxious :-D
This slowing has got to be caused by tall buildings, as we are taking mass that once was in underground and placing it high above the ground. I don't remember what this is called, but there's some nifty name for it. We're also doing the same thing with fossil fuels, just burning them inbetween! :-)
I guess I don't quite see how this ties into the older story about new titles for Sysadmins. Technical Directors have been around a long time, and have always existed in the game creation arena. It isn't just some new spin on Sysadmin or Computer user or something.
While most of your post contains very good ideas, with the number of stories, working out pay arrangements for the revenue for each site listed does not seem like a workable solution at all. Not that I have a better solution for the ad revenue.
Why doesn't someone write an "AI" that reads the story (or comments for) and makes up some sort of response? Whether it makes sense or not, whether it's topical or not, and see what the karma tells us!
Now, when I leave work, I can have the microwave heat up the 2 minute burritos so I can eat them in the bathroom, instead of having to wait until I get out! Come on, how many of you cook full meals that take longer than 10 minutes in a microwave? While it is a novel idea (though not a new one), it seems like it would be a lot more useful if it were a convection oven or something, and even then, how often do you have roasted chicken or other large baked meals?
Because the Slashback would be full of dupes:
RFC...
blah blah blah
RFC...
blah blah blah
RFC...
blah blah blah
RFC...
blah blah blah
You also have to look at it's stored energy properties. If it is easier (read cheaper) than producing batteries, fuel oils are a far better storage medium. That's what always gets me about fuel cells, they're great, but what happens when you run out in the middle no where? Fill up a porta-battery with electricity and carry it to your truck? Anyway, this could be a more effective way to store energy than batteries and hydrogen.
(a project we just finished at work was written entirely in perl/ksh, so this is not 100% true.)
So because it is a project you are working on, it qualifies as engineering? Why wouldn't scripted programs (written by other people, of course) not be engineering, because they aren't compiled? That seems like an odd way to determine where engineering has been applied.
The unfortunate thing about getting printers so cheap and so un-used, is that it's your tax dollars at work!