There's Surreal Numbers by Donald Knuth. Given where you posted your question, you've probably read some of his other work, so you should know his style. Honestly, the love story in SN feels a bit bolted on, but he does give an eminently readable approach to Conway's version of number theory. There's a LOT of work left to the reader, but it sounds like you'd be good with that.
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics, but that was 18 years ago...
This much food is not supplementary, it's a whole lunch! Don't forget we're talking about a four-year old. How many four-year olds can eat all these and still be able to consume a sandwich?
I'm trying not to get into the politics of anything here, but my son (4 years old) eats noticeably more than I do. And I eat a lot; I run marathons for fun, and I'm not one of those slight people who's all leg. My son would consider both of those meals combined to be an appetizer.
I don't know about the kid in the article, but my son, he'd go back and ask if there were anymore of those nuggets floating around, oh, and can I have ketchup on them? You only brought a gallon? But I waaaaaaant it...
There are many aspects of the Constitution that need updating. I mean, this bears repeating however obnoxious, but some of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.
Thirteenth amendment.
OK, so the electoral college is largely a product of the 3/5ths compromise on slavery. Should it have been removed when slavery was made unconstitutional? Should inter-racial marriage have been legalized then? How about restitution to former slaves? Was "separate but equal" constitutional?
Perhaps we want to clarify gun rights
What's to clarify?"
Well, let's see, we could take the model of Switzerland, where everyone and their dog has a gun, and ammo is sold at cost, but to buy ammo you either have to (buy & use it at a range) or (register the sale with the government). Could we legally require that in the US? Could we require a national registry of every gun owned in the country? Can we restrict children from owning guns? How about criminals? Felons? Violent felons? How about people who've threatened the president?
Are you really saying that this is sufficiently clear in the original text? Because half the time I can't even figure out what an individual FF would have said, much less what the lot of them would have agreed to, much less whether I agree with them.
I think that I'm starting from the premise that you can't permanently fix the underlying problem. Between honest evolution of the industry, and not-entirely-honest people looking for loopholes I think that any remedy applied now would be too vague, too broad, too confining, or some combination of the above. Hell, Ma Bell was legally broken up. That's about as underlying as I can imagine, and it didn't stay fixed once there was money to be made.
And FWIW, my friends who are doctors have been talking about how there's a movement afoot to sometimes treat just the symptoms, not the disease.
I can understand Congress being hesitant to write real, structural laws governing an industry that didn't exist 20 years ago, is still changing rapidly, and that they don't understand (Senator Stevens may be below average, but I'd actually bet that he's just the one who was caught on tape). While they're trying to figure it out (which might well take 30 years), I'd like someone/thing to curtail obvious abuses. In our current environment, I don't see who could do that except congress.
Hmm, taking the disease metaphor _way_ too far, we could posit that the immune system of the free market will work this out in the long run. But since that might be 30 years (hell, 40), while that's happening, we should simply manage the symptoms. NN is thus ibuprofen... Hmm, I wonder what the tongue depressor would be in this situation...
I'm assuming that the Democratic leadership believes that in a senate trial with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding*, they won't get 2/3 of the senate to vote to convict. I happen to agree with what that assessment, but that's neither here nor there.
so
3) The last impeachment trial took over a month, and they'd rather get some work done instead.
4) They'd rather look like they're trying to get work done.
5) They'd rather look like people not interested in impeachment, than look like people who can't get it done.
6) They believe that the harm a (trial + not guilty verdict) would do to the country outweighs any possible benefits.
I'm sure there are more.
* It's unclear who presides if the VP is impeached. The Chief Justice presides when the president is impeached, but the President of the Senate (the VP) presides over other impeachments. I can't imagine anyone would be happy with Cheney presiding over his own impeachment trial, even him. But it seems to mean that he'd have to step down as President of the Senate so the President of the Senate Pro Tempore would preside. Ignoring the question of how happy Cheney would be to step down, who would that be? Harry Reid? Would it be a fight in itself?
Short version: It's not a slippery slope, it's a slope made out of teflon with melted butter dressing. And you're wearing roller skates.
Longer version: If this were a free market rather than an oligopoly A) it wouldn't be such a problem, and B) it would likely not come up. If these companies had not been typically granted local monopolies by cities and towns to provide internet access, they would have much more freedom to run their businesses as they choose.
But given that there are about 3 companies that handle something like 80% of all traffic in the US, and that they have frequently signed deals with cities & towns to be the exclusive internet provider for that area, I think that it's fair to expect them to do something a little better than "Anything for a buck".
Given how they are already behaving, I think it's fair to believe that they won't compete exclusively by offering the consumer a better deal.
In short I believe that these companies will abuse their power, and that the market will not correct it (CAN NOT correct it in areas where there is a local monopoly). Thus I believe that it is less of a problem to legally require them to treat all destinations equally, than to allow them to do as they please.
I think that the cost to us would be that smaller companies couldn't get started. Small company X re-invents a service currently performed by big company Y. Then company Y just happens to add chrome to it's site that requires it to buy all of the bandwidth that X would have bought. X dies, Y loses the chrome citing user feedback.
Honestly, I even doubt that the extra money they got from youTube, would actually go into infrastructure or reducing consumers bills. I just can't see the CEOs not getting a surprisingly similar amount in a bonus.
Actually, according to their website, when you're running low on juice, you pull over and fill up on gas. It has a Stirling engine that will recharge the batteries that drive the car, even while you're driving. Way more efficient and quieter than an ICE. Swapping batteries would allow you to never use gas, but A) seems physically problematic (these batteries are big, heavy, and designed to be non-trivial to remove from the car), B) seems ripe for abuse (when the battery is getting old, drive to a non-local juice station and swap batteries), and C) would effectively stop battery development dead (would you spend more on better batteries if it meant you could never refill at the juice station again?).
I've heard claims that there used to be a pure-electric plugin vehicle that came with a small trailer containing a generator. So you could take your gas-enabling with you when you wanted it, but leave it home 90% of the time. I have never seen this, don't know how the separate system would actually play out, but it sounds cool...
I read "new media" with a grain of salt and pour over stories from several outlets. After that you might get a better representation of what actually happened before it was filtered through the various outlets (including the government).
That's actually the big advantage that I see with new media. It's really difficult to forget that this is one person's opinion. Pro news spends a lot of money and effort helping me forget that, and trying to get me to accept their story as "truth".
To be fair, I'd believe that the average pro actually is closer to "truth" than the average blogger. It's just that they try really hard to get you to skip that salt and just accept it.
Oh, and it's harder to control "bloggers" than to control "CBS", "NBC", et al. Not impossible, just harder.
I went to a reasonably well known school, and it helped me land a better first job than some equally capable people I know who went to less well known schools. After that my school's name hasn't seemed to help directly.
However, having a good first job on your resume helps you get a good second job. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's just help, not magic. People seem to eventually gravitate to certain places no matter where they went to school. But it's nice to start out higher in the food chain, and could conceivably (dollar wise) pay off for higher tuition fairly quickly.
On the flip side, you'll get where you're going eventually. If you love where you are, you'll learn more than if you don't. In the long run that's more important. You are not "looking at a series of awful jobs if I don't transfer", and you may be looking at burnout if you do. Of course, you might love the new school even more...
There's actually an enhancement request for that with a bounty. There's even a patch submitted (check out bugzilla bug # 181866 (no link, bugzilla rejects links from/.)).
It seems to be stalled at the moment, but there is motivation, money, and work there. Voting for the bug raises the odds that it will get attention. Not by a whole lot, but some.
I'd settle for ~900GB on a disc, if it meant it would fit in all the existing technology/drives/spinners/changers that are already out there...
umm, I assume that you're complaining about the slight difference in size (just shy of 12 cm vs what appears to be just over 12 cm (I did read the article, it says "The disc diameter of 12 centimeters is equivalent to those of CD and DVD.", but doesn't give exact sizes, and the pictures makes it look a bit bigger)), not getting confused by cm vs. inches.
That said, I think that there are 2 important things
the H-drives should be designed to hold and play CD/DVDs (the way that cd players typically have depressions for mini-CDs)
the media should be small enough that a drive that can hold it will fit in a 5.25" slot.
It doesn't matter if this disc can fit in a cd drive as the drive can't play it.
The only other thing that I can think of that matters is that the case for one of these should be pretty close to the size of a CD jewel case so that you don't need to buy new furniture, but that's pretty minimal. If you're worried about cd library robots or something, well, I don't have one and I don't know anyone who does...
I don't remember the size or even the presence of the "canvas screen" being a big issue. A blank wall did just fine (without any significant loss of picture quality IMHO).
I remember that too, but a number of things have changed. The biggest one (to me anyway) is that we've become accustomed to many more pixels, and much less visual noise. Frankly back then the picture was so bad that bumps in the wall were not the biggest resolution problem.
Second, those projectors threw a lot more lumens than affordable modern projection TVs do. A co-worker just got a projector for a pitch dark room. He started out projecting onto a white wall, then he got a screen from staples, then he got some special screen paint "goo" and applied it to a piece of plywood. At each step he's been amazed by how much the picture has improved.
I wrote my first page in this new "HTML" stuff, for the browser. It was called Mosaic. If I was lucky I got to use one of the schmancy new X terminals so I could actually see how it rendered. Then I walked uphill (as I had done getting to school) to get home.
What he said. To be perfectly honest, I see the fact that idiots are foretelling doom to be a heartenening sign.
As for moving jobs off-shore, way back when there were some great programmers in India who couldn't get jobs at all. Then some company A) laid off ten idiots making $100K each, B) gave the Indian programmers peanuts, and C) got great code back. So every other company started doing it. The problems are that there were never all that many great programmers, and that most of them want more than peanuts now (walnuts at least).
Slowly (far too slowly, but that's business ("free market is an efficient allocator" my left foot (well, alright, as compared to everything else we've tried, sure, but really))) businesses will realize that
They didn't hire distinctly better programmers in India than the ones they laid off in the US
They aren't paying them all that much less
There are significant downsides to the 12 hour time difference, different culture and language.
There are significant downsides to the lack of stability/commitment implied by contracting as opposed to hiring people for a while. Your employees are your institutional knowledge. The people you contract with aren't.
Oh yeah, and eventually some Indians might decide "hey, we've got money, but we've run out of people that we can even claim are programmers. How about we offer these contracts to some un-employed people in the US. They'll jump at the chance to work for minimum wage."...
In all, I expect this to hurt, but even out and get better eventually.
Hmm, as someone who grew up just outside NYC, and loves it, and now lives about 5 miles from the HCC in Boston, Yay!
But for whoever cares about my opinions on this trolling:
Parking is easier(believe it or not)
Hynes to Javitz, yes, it is easier. 'course at neither of them would you want to drive there, but...
Boston drivers may be insane, but they're reasonably polite. NYC drivers are suicidal- and downright mean. Umm, which Boston are you talking about? I'm pretty sure that the convention is moving to the one in MA...
It's safer- crime's a fraction of NYC very variable by where exactly you are in either city. Frankly if you're not local, and not stupid, odds are low that someone will bother you either place.
the Big Dig will be totally done and traffic smooth *snort* "Big Dig done?" *snicker* "traffic smooth" *guffaw*
Boston/eastern MA is the birthplace of the revolution umm, so what?
Boston actually has charm, museums, Universities it does, but so does NYC. They're different charms, museums, Uni's to be sure...
Subway cheaper there's a reason that our subway is cheaper, and most people that I think are likely to attend this convention wouldn't mind paying more to get more.
Our mayor doesn't... support police... that beats up minorities.... Again, they're moving it to Boston, MA.
Regarding the "everyone hates him? What the hell?", well, look at history. To go way back so's not to offend anyone still alive...
Gaius Marius saved Rome a few times something like 2100 years ago. Not all that much later everyone hated him. Granted, he was on the losing end of a civil war.
Pretty soon thereafter Lucius Sulla saved Rome from falling apart and subsequent mass starvation. Not all that much later everyone hated him. Granted, he'd disappeared quite a few people, and restructured Rome along the way.
I'd say one of the big differences is that Ender stayed alive artificially long due to relativistic time dilation, and thus lived to see the effect of new leaders having to do something to shove this cultural icon out of what they see as their spot in the history books. It's even presented that way at the end of SftD. After all, Ender basically destroyed an entire sentient species.
Actually, my wife and I just started to using an old laptop with wireless in the kitchen to google for recipes depending on what we feel like cooking now. I guess for us the prediction wasn't wrong, just 25 years too early...
It's about the size of two cookbooks, has a lot more recipes, is more easily searchable, and frankly the online recipes tend to work better for us than cookbook recipes. The only down side is that our lucite "cookbook holder/protector" doesn't do a thing for it.
Umm, your first cite backs what you said before it. The rest of them get fuzzy. You are using different lists which raises the ranks of various democrats. The overall list makes more sense if you're going to talk about people in different jobs in government. WRT "TV/Movies/Music" Bush is #1, Dean #2, Kerry #3, Gephardt #4, Edwards #6, Lieberman #8, Clark #10, Kucinich #18. They're all pretty high on the list, and there are fairly few Republicans on the top 20, but given that they're running for president, I'd expect them to be working the money sources more than usual.
Yee gods, I just looked at the overall totals. Bush has almost 3 and a third what Dean does...
HDT spent one night in jail. He got in at lights out and was out first thing in the morning. Plus he spent the night chatting with his cell mate "a first-rate fellow and a clever man." Check out his take on it.
To be fair, it could have been longer, someone paid his tax during that night. Even so it seems unfair to hold him up as though he endured much in his civil disobedience when the RIAA seems to be pursuing monetary awards that strike me as equivalent to life with the possibility of parole.
And last I heard, prison has gotten less collegial.
They sell. I've had a few, and have one on my current bike. It works, usually.
There's one big problem though. Most generators aren't directlly exposed to weather quite so extreme as that of new england, while being shaken, soaked, and probably stirred, vigorously. Heck, even my car charger has a cover over it, an engine and insulation around it, and shock absorbers holding it up.
All of the problems that I've had with various versions of this doo-hickey have been mechanical.
There's also the question of definition. How much does it cost when
some customers who were thinking about buying your product decide to buy CompetitorCo's because they heard that you've had three bug fixes already?
you annoy your partners by telling them "Hey, the stubs we sent you to start working against has just changed. Here's the new version."?
you burn out your geeks by calling a meeting Friday afternoon and telling them that MajorCustomerCo just found a big bug, and it needs to be fixed by Monday 9AM?
And moreover, yes, these will vary dramatically from project to project.
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Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I have an undergraduate degree in mathematics, but that was 18 years ago...
chicken nuggets, milk, a fruit and a vegetable
This much food is not supplementary, it's a whole lunch! Don't forget we're talking about a four-year old. How many four-year olds can eat all these and still be able to consume a sandwich?
I'm trying not to get into the politics of anything here, but my son (4 years old) eats noticeably more than I do. And I eat a lot; I run marathons for fun, and I'm not one of those slight people who's all leg. My son would consider both of those meals combined to be an appetizer.
I don't know about the kid in the article, but my son, he'd go back and ask if there were anymore of those nuggets floating around, oh, and can I have ketchup on them? You only brought a gallon? But I waaaaaaant it...
There are many aspects of the Constitution that need updating. I mean, this bears repeating however obnoxious, but some of the Founding Fathers were slave owners.
Thirteenth amendment.
OK, so the electoral college is largely a product of the 3/5ths compromise on slavery. Should it have been removed when slavery was made unconstitutional? Should inter-racial marriage have been legalized then? How about restitution to former slaves? Was "separate but equal" constitutional?
Perhaps we want to clarify gun rights
What's to clarify?"
Well, let's see, we could take the model of Switzerland, where everyone and their dog has a gun, and ammo is sold at cost, but to buy ammo you either have to (buy & use it at a range) or (register the sale with the government). Could we legally require that in the US? Could we require a national registry of every gun owned in the country? Can we restrict children from owning guns? How about criminals? Felons? Violent felons? How about people who've threatened the president?
Are you really saying that this is sufficiently clear in the original text? Because half the time I can't even figure out what an individual FF would have said, much less what the lot of them would have agreed to, much less whether I agree with them.
I think that I'm starting from the premise that you can't permanently fix the underlying problem. Between honest evolution of the industry, and not-entirely-honest people looking for loopholes I think that any remedy applied now would be too vague, too broad, too confining, or some combination of the above. Hell, Ma Bell was legally broken up. That's about as underlying as I can imagine, and it didn't stay fixed once there was money to be made.
And FWIW, my friends who are doctors have been talking about how there's a movement afoot to sometimes treat just the symptoms, not the disease.
I can understand Congress being hesitant to write real, structural laws governing an industry that didn't exist 20 years ago, is still changing rapidly, and that they don't understand (Senator Stevens may be below average, but I'd actually bet that he's just the one who was caught on tape). While they're trying to figure it out (which might well take 30 years), I'd like someone/thing to curtail obvious abuses. In our current environment, I don't see who could do that except congress.
Hmm, taking the disease metaphor _way_ too far, we could posit that the immune system of the free market will work this out in the long run. But since that might be 30 years (hell, 40), while that's happening, we should simply manage the symptoms. NN is thus ibuprofen... Hmm, I wonder what the tongue depressor would be in this situation...
There are two possibilities:
or, you know, more.
I'm assuming that the Democratic leadership believes that in a senate trial with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding*, they won't get 2/3 of the senate to vote to convict. I happen to agree with what that assessment, but that's neither here nor there.
so
3) The last impeachment trial took over a month, and they'd rather get some work done instead.
4) They'd rather look like they're trying to get work done.
5) They'd rather look like people not interested in impeachment, than look like people who can't get it done.
6) They believe that the harm a (trial + not guilty verdict) would do to the country outweighs any possible benefits.
I'm sure there are more.
* It's unclear who presides if the VP is impeached. The Chief Justice presides when the president is impeached, but the President of the Senate (the VP) presides over other impeachments. I can't imagine anyone would be happy with Cheney presiding over his own impeachment trial, even him. But it seems to mean that he'd have to step down as President of the Senate so the President of the Senate Pro Tempore would preside. Ignoring the question of how happy Cheney would be to step down, who would that be? Harry Reid? Would it be a fight in itself?
Short version: It's not a slippery slope, it's a slope made out of teflon with melted butter dressing. And you're wearing roller skates.
Longer version:
If this were a free market rather than an oligopoly A) it wouldn't be such a problem, and B) it would likely not come up. If these companies had not been typically granted local monopolies by cities and towns to provide internet access, they would have much more freedom to run their businesses as they choose.
But given that there are about 3 companies that handle something like 80% of all traffic in the US, and that they have frequently signed deals with cities & towns to be the exclusive internet provider for that area, I think that it's fair to expect them to do something a little better than "Anything for a buck".
Given how they are already behaving, I think it's fair to believe that they won't compete exclusively by offering the consumer a better deal.
In short I believe that these companies will abuse their power, and that the market will not correct it (CAN NOT correct it in areas where there is a local monopoly). Thus I believe that it is less of a problem to legally require them to treat all destinations equally, than to allow them to do as they please.
I think that the cost to us would be that smaller companies couldn't get started. Small company X re-invents a service currently performed by big company Y. Then company Y just happens to add chrome to it's site that requires it to buy all of the bandwidth that X would have bought. X dies, Y loses the chrome citing user feedback.
Honestly, I even doubt that the extra money they got from youTube, would actually go into infrastructure or reducing consumers bills. I just can't see the CEOs not getting a surprisingly similar amount in a bonus.
Actually, according to their website, when you're running low on juice, you pull over and fill up on gas. It has a Stirling engine that will recharge the batteries that drive the car, even while you're driving. Way more efficient and quieter than an ICE. Swapping batteries would allow you to never use gas, but A) seems physically problematic (these batteries are big, heavy, and designed to be non-trivial to remove from the car), B) seems ripe for abuse (when the battery is getting old, drive to a non-local juice station and swap batteries), and C) would effectively stop battery development dead (would you spend more on better batteries if it meant you could never refill at the juice station again?).
I've heard claims that there used to be a pure-electric plugin vehicle that came with a small trailer containing a generator. So you could take your gas-enabling with you when you wanted it, but leave it home 90% of the time. I have never seen this, don't know how the separate system would actually play out, but it sounds cool...
That's actually the big advantage that I see with new media. It's really difficult to forget that this is one person's opinion. Pro news spends a lot of money and effort helping me forget that, and trying to get me to accept their story as "truth".
To be fair, I'd believe that the average pro actually is closer to "truth" than the average blogger. It's just that they try really hard to get you to skip that salt and just accept it.
Oh, and it's harder to control "bloggers" than to control "CBS", "NBC", et al. Not impossible, just harder.
However, having a good first job on your resume helps you get a good second job. Lather, rinse, repeat.
It's just help, not magic. People seem to eventually gravitate to certain places no matter where they went to school. But it's nice to start out higher in the food chain, and could conceivably (dollar wise) pay off for higher tuition fairly quickly.
On the flip side, you'll get where you're going eventually. If you love where you are, you'll learn more than if you don't. In the long run that's more important. You are not "looking at a series of awful jobs if I don't transfer", and you may be looking at burnout if you do. Of course, you might love the new school even more...
Either way, good luck.
There's actually an enhancement request for that with a bounty. There's even a patch submitted (check out bugzilla bug # 181866 (no link, bugzilla rejects links from /.)).
It seems to be stalled at the moment, but there is motivation, money, and work there. Voting for the bug raises the odds that it will get attention. Not by a whole lot, but some.
umm, I assume that you're complaining about the slight difference in size (just shy of 12 cm vs what appears to be just over 12 cm (I did read the article, it says "The disc diameter of 12 centimeters is equivalent to those of CD and DVD.", but doesn't give exact sizes, and the pictures makes it look a bit bigger)), not getting confused by cm vs. inches.
That said, I think that there are 2 important things
- the H-drives should be designed to hold and play CD/DVDs (the way that cd players typically have depressions for mini-CDs)
- the media should be small enough that a drive that can hold it will fit in a 5.25" slot.
It doesn't matter if this disc can fit in a cd drive as the drive can't play it.The only other thing that I can think of that matters is that the case for one of these should be pretty close to the size of a CD jewel case so that you don't need to buy new furniture, but that's pretty minimal. If you're worried about cd library robots or something, well, I don't have one and I don't know anyone who does...
I remember that too, but a number of things have changed. The biggest one (to me anyway) is that we've become accustomed to many more pixels, and much less visual noise. Frankly back then the picture was so bad that bumps in the wall were not the biggest resolution problem.
Second, those projectors threw a lot more lumens than affordable modern projection TVs do. A co-worker just got a projector for a pitch dark room. He started out projecting onto a white wall, then he got a screen from staples, then he got some special screen paint "goo" and applied it to a piece of plywood. At each step he's been amazed by how much the picture has improved.
Or that the FBI is also just assuming that these people are all male and don't investigate the female leads...
I wrote my first page in this new "HTML" stuff, for the browser. It was called Mosaic. If I was lucky I got to use one of the schmancy new X terminals so I could actually see how it rendered. Then I walked uphill (as I had done getting to school) to get home.
Umm, didn't SCO do that exact same thing not all that long ago?...
As for moving jobs off-shore, way back when there were some great programmers in India who couldn't get jobs at all. Then some company A) laid off ten idiots making $100K each, B) gave the Indian programmers peanuts, and C) got great code back. So every other company started doing it. The problems are that there were never all that many great programmers, and that most of them want more than peanuts now (walnuts at least).
Slowly (far too slowly, but that's business ("free market is an efficient allocator" my left foot (well, alright, as compared to everything else we've tried, sure, but really))) businesses will realize that
Oh yeah, and eventually some Indians might decide "hey, we've got money, but we've run out of people that we can even claim are programmers. How about we offer these contracts to some un-employed people in the US. They'll jump at the chance to work for minimum wage."...
In all, I expect this to hurt, but even out and get better eventually.
But for whoever cares about my opinions on this trolling:
Hynes to Javitz, yes, it is easier. 'course at neither of them would you want to drive there, but...
Umm, which Boston are you talking about? I'm pretty sure that the convention is moving to the one in MA...
very variable by where exactly you are in either city. Frankly if you're not local, and not stupid, odds are low that someone will bother you either place.
*snort* "Big Dig done?" *snicker* "traffic smooth" *guffaw*
umm, so what?
it does, but so does NYC. They're different charms, museums, Uni's to be sure...
there's a reason that our subway is cheaper, and most people that I think are likely to attend this convention wouldn't mind paying more to get more.
Again, they're moving it to Boston, MA.
FWIW, at least in Boston, verizon wireless lets you delete a message while listening to it.
They don't let you delete it while you're hearing the envelope info (though you don't hear that at all unless you ask for it).
Regarding the "everyone hates him? What the hell?", well, look at history. To go way back so's not to offend anyone still alive...
Gaius Marius saved Rome a few times something like 2100 years ago. Not all that much later everyone hated him. Granted, he was on the losing end of a civil war.
Pretty soon thereafter Lucius Sulla saved Rome from falling apart and subsequent mass starvation. Not all that much later everyone hated him. Granted, he'd disappeared quite a few people, and restructured Rome along the way.
I'd say one of the big differences is that Ender stayed alive artificially long due to relativistic time dilation, and thus lived to see the effect of new leaders having to do something to shove this cultural icon out of what they see as their spot in the history books.
It's even presented that way at the end of SftD. After all, Ender basically destroyed an entire sentient species.
It's about the size of two cookbooks, has a lot more recipes, is more easily searchable, and frankly the online recipes tend to work better for us than cookbook recipes. The only down side is that our lucite "cookbook holder/protector" doesn't do a thing for it.
Yee gods, I just looked at the overall totals. Bush has almost 3 and a third what Dean does...
I love the quote about migrant oratory though...
To be fair, it could have been longer, someone paid his tax during that night. Even so it seems unfair to hold him up as though he endured much in his civil disobedience when the RIAA seems to be pursuing monetary awards that strike me as equivalent to life with the possibility of parole.
And last I heard, prison has gotten less collegial.
There's one big problem though. Most generators aren't directlly exposed to weather quite so extreme as that of new england, while being shaken, soaked, and probably stirred, vigorously. Heck, even my car charger has a cover over it, an engine and insulation around it, and shock absorbers holding it up.
All of the problems that I've had with various versions of this doo-hickey have been mechanical.
- some customers who were thinking about buying your product decide to buy CompetitorCo's because they heard that you've had three bug fixes already?
- you annoy your partners by telling them "Hey, the stubs we sent you to start working against has just changed. Here's the new version."?
- you burn out your geeks by calling a meeting Friday afternoon and telling them that MajorCustomerCo just found a big bug, and it needs to be fixed by Monday 9AM?
And moreover, yes, these will vary dramatically from project to project.