Yeah, one week of lack of inventory with no excess inventory to have to liquidate at a reduced price is close to ideal for forecasting sales (months in advance for retooling). So the Fire slightly exceeded their sales expectations over that period (perhaps by ~4%). Give the man a bonus.
Is there some new way science is able to quantify happiness? They can measure it?
An entirely subjective measure should be sufficient. If somebody says they're as happy as they could imagine, and you assume they're not lying, then there's no point in saying, "oh, but you could be happier!"
The reason they picked Ruby on Rails is that four kids were trying to create a distributed social network in less than a year.
Distributed I tried installing back when it had some hype, and getting all the gem versions just right was a requirement, and not one I was going to achieve on the Fedora release I had running (some parts were too new, some too old, IIRC). Still I spent some time attempting to get it just right, and still failed in a bit of dependency hell. And I've run other ruby apps and have spent years dealing with related issues in CPAN and RPM-land. Perhaps with another six hours I might have succeeded, but they were also being hostile on their bugtracker to a guy who was offering to do a compatible PHP port at the time (for easy deployment), so I gave up.
They built software that needed to be distributed and was very hard to get running. Rails was the wrong tool for the job. Perhaps the right tool doesn't yet exist.
There are *three miles* of ice on Antarctica in some places. Meanwhile, many places on Earth are desertifying. We know that the Earth used to be hotter and wetter - I'm not sure why the doomsday people always paint a dry hot Earth future (the end of the current interglacial not withstanding).
Coasts that were charted by humans in centuries past are now completely ice covered - so a little long-term perspective might be in order.
I was buying insurance for the family for about $800/mo. Then my State passed a law that said that all preexisting conditions had to be covered. Two family members had "them" - one was controlled by a $4/mo prescription from WalMart, and the other is a "grow out of it" situation, but the rate to insure against all potential outcomes of those conditions was an extra $600/mo. With me trying to be a decent dad and my wife a stay at home mom, we've been just getting by financially, and there was no magical $7200 per year sitting out there. I looked into real insurance (against catastrophic illness), but again the State has so many requirements on insurers that it can't exist here. I was worried about medical bankruptcies so I looked into that and found out that over 80% of people who go into medical bankruptcy had insurance. So, we went uninsured.
Instead of spending $9600/yr, we now spend $1200/yr on a gym membership and lots of produce and have gotten back in shape. That knee that was aching me is now 'cured' and I feel like an idiot for wondering before if I should be looking at surgery and steroids (no, stupid, lose weight and strengthen the joint muscles).
Now, doctors visits are out of pocket and we visit with skilled nurses unless we really need a doctor. The local hospital charges $430 for a Vitamin D titre, but I found it available elsewhere for $75 including draw with just a short drive. Recently we had a condition that would be treated the same either way whether an expensive diagnostic was run, so we just skipped the diagnostic. None of this is "insured" thinking.
If the worse should happen? That same State that screwed up the insurance market here will force the hospitals to provide care. I don't like it at all, but that's the hand I'm dealt. Let me buy real health insurance and I'll sign up again tomorrow.
Obamacare? Pfft, I make over $29K per year, so they'll 'force' me to buy so-called insurance at the $17,000/yr rate. That money does not exist. They say I'll need to pay a fine of $1300 a year for not having that $17,000 per year (and get nothing in return). But the law is plainly unconstitutional and has no enforcement teeth, so they can pound sand - I'm not cancelling my gym membership to pay these morons a fine just so I can get sick.
The reason why cell phone bans don't work is the same reason other bans don't work, because they aren't enforced enough or at all
Enforcement is the problem. When texting is banned, people put the phones down in their lap to text so that the cops can't see the phones up on top of the steering wheel while they're texting and watching the road.
OK, I guess thinking that government laws can solve this problem is really the root cause.
How about this - rescind the laws that prevent automatic car trials from happening on your State's roads instead? Nevada seems to be doing just fine.
People have made it clear that they'd rather surf than drive, so everything that stands in the way of letting that happen safely is a problem. Or just fight human nature - whatever works.
Yeah, as I said, "once in a while" - oatmeal is our standby. It keeps quite well pre-made too. I do:
melt on high (~14KBTU):
3T unsalted butter add:
3c old fashioned oats roast until 'nutty', then add:
3 c hot water (warning - hyper boil). add:
1/2 t sea salt Cook until ~ half water is absorbed then reduce to medium-low and add:
1 t cinnamon stir in, add:
3 c skim milk
1/4 c erythritol
1/8 t pure stevia extract
1/2c chopped pecans cook until most of the liquid is absorbed and add to top:
1 t vanilla extract let sit a moment for alcohol to volatilize, then mix in. Turn off heat when it looks like oatmeal.
That makes about 8 generous servings. I've never measured exactly how long it keeps, because it's always gone by then, but at least 5 days.
It staggers me to watch fellow parents pour gallons of sugar down their kids throats -- "look, it's low fat and free from high fructose corn syrup!!!!" despite the fact that it contains apple juice as a "natural" ingredient, which is just injected for its fructose content -- it's like HFCS without the corn syrup.
I was in the Target cereal aisle last night, looking for something for the kids to eat (once in a while) and only two of the cereals had fewer than 6 g of sugar per serving (I eat one with no sugar, but those require more of an adult palette). My kids shouldn't have more than about 30g of sugar a day for their weight, and many of those cereals (with orange juice "as part of this complete breakfast") were up in the 23-28g range (per small-side-of-normal serving).
I was in the grocery store at lunch time and two enormous pre-teen boys (possibly brother, hard to be sure about their features or gender) were each there to pick up a 12-pack of Mountain Dew.
If it weren't for the pace of medical science, we'd probably be looking at a generation who would die much younger than their parents. There has to be more to it than just one guy who wrote a BS paper in the 70's.
Popcorn often has lots of fat unless you make it yourself.
And don't be afraid of a little bit of good quality fat. I use about 1 Tablespoon of high quality peanut oil to pop about 1/2 c of popcorn in a large pot. Given the residue still on the bottom of the pot, probably only half of that makes it onto the popcorn, and the yield is enough for about six people to have a good-sized serving. The quality peanut oil has a nice peanut flavor, so you don't need to pour butter on it (or even worse - manufactured popcorn topping [scare music here]). Grind up half a teaspoon of sea salt in the mortar and pestle and you're good to go.
When I was young, air poppers were very popular and they had a little melting tray on top to hold a stick's worth of butter. I have no idea why anybody ever bought these things when a simple pot works much better. Or why people use microwave popcorn at home, which is just awful, nasty stuff.
The two most valuable pieces of screen real estate (upper left and right corners, per Fitt's Law) are mandatorily taken by the Activities widget, which nobody supports, and the Cashew, which is the button you have to push to customize your toolbar.
Oh, and they stole the non-toolbar screen edges for 'window resize' in the latest release, even in maximized window mode (using the scrollbars now requires precision mousing instead of flick 'n click). The edges are the second most valuable bits of screen real estate (current the toolbar edge does nothing).
I think I've only ever read three UI design books ever, and a few blogs. I'm left to conclude that there are people out there who do understand, but they are actively hostile towards usability (in favor of eye-candy or whatever).
Oh, and hide my cursor when I start typing, for Pete's sake.
What what government does in relation to utilities is change the motive from profit to service.
I live on a road with no cable service, per government monopoly grant. The local government prevented me from installing a fiber network on the poles for the neighborhood.
No, there's plenty of room and we can feed them (to the extent that we don't put food into our gas tanks, anyhow).
and we have no control over our own global population growth
Education - it works every time it's tried. Parts of Europe are so 'successful' that their populations are shrinking. There are States that repress their people, but we'll get those dealt with one of these centuries.
Arguing that there is currently no food crisis, but rather a distribution problem is specious.
even when most of the liability risk is assumed by the government
That's actually a detriment, not a benefit. Private insurers would have pushed the insurance rates for light water reactors beyond profitability at this time. The Integral Fast Reactor was built and ran for years two decades ago. We probably would have been almost done converting over by now, had the normal market pressures been present and all that nuclear waste onsite would now be being consumed.
Oh, but no, we'll let the Hank Johnsons of the world decide what kind of technology will work best.
It sure was a good thing those private companies built a massive national highway infrastructure for automobiles to run on
It's true, the States seized most of the private highways in the 1800's. The important point was that the automobile was built to run on horse-carriage roads; there was no infrastructure work specific to the automobile before it was invented.
or standardized, built and maintained the telephone and electricity grids.
You think the governments build and maintain the telephone and electricity grids?
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds damn near perfect.
Yeah, one week of lack of inventory with no excess inventory to have to liquidate at a reduced price is close to ideal for forecasting sales (months in advance for retooling). So the Fire slightly exceeded their sales expectations over that period (perhaps by ~4%). Give the man a bonus.
If your numbers are going to be arbitrary, why not roll them over at 3.9?
Because it's Linus's choice of arbitrary number, not yours?
Is there some new way science is able to quantify happiness? They can measure it?
An entirely subjective measure should be sufficient. If somebody says they're as happy as they could imagine, and you assume they're not lying, then there's no point in saying, "oh, but you could be happier!"
Well, NOW, yeah. But for the vast majority and prior banging, on the evolutionary time scale, the purpose was baby-making.
Pregnant women still seek sex.
The reason they picked Ruby on Rails is that four kids were trying to create a distributed social network in less than a year.
Distributed I tried installing back when it had some hype, and getting all the gem versions just right was a requirement, and not one I was going to achieve on the Fedora release I had running (some parts were too new, some too old, IIRC). Still I spent some time attempting to get it just right, and still failed in a bit of dependency hell. And I've run other ruby apps and have spent years dealing with related issues in CPAN and RPM-land. Perhaps with another six hours I might have succeeded, but they were also being hostile on their bugtracker to a guy who was offering to do a compatible PHP port at the time (for easy deployment), so I gave up.
They built software that needed to be distributed and was very hard to get running. Rails was the wrong tool for the job. Perhaps the right tool doesn't yet exist.
There are *three miles* of ice on Antarctica in some places. Meanwhile, many places on Earth are desertifying. We know that the Earth used to be hotter and wetter - I'm not sure why the doomsday people always paint a dry hot Earth future (the end of the current interglacial not withstanding).
Coasts that were charted by humans in centuries past are now completely ice covered - so a little long-term perspective might be in order.
I was buying insurance for the family for about $800/mo. Then my State passed a law that said that all preexisting conditions had to be covered. Two family members had "them" - one was controlled by a $4/mo prescription from WalMart, and the other is a "grow out of it" situation, but the rate to insure against all potential outcomes of those conditions was an extra $600/mo. With me trying to be a decent dad and my wife a stay at home mom, we've been just getting by financially, and there was no magical $7200 per year sitting out there. I looked into real insurance (against catastrophic illness), but again the State has so many requirements on insurers that it can't exist here. I was worried about medical bankruptcies so I looked into that and found out that over 80% of people who go into medical bankruptcy had insurance. So, we went uninsured.
Instead of spending $9600/yr, we now spend $1200/yr on a gym membership and lots of produce and have gotten back in shape. That knee that was aching me is now 'cured' and I feel like an idiot for wondering before if I should be looking at surgery and steroids (no, stupid, lose weight and strengthen the joint muscles).
Now, doctors visits are out of pocket and we visit with skilled nurses unless we really need a doctor. The local hospital charges $430 for a Vitamin D titre, but I found it available elsewhere for $75 including draw with just a short drive. Recently we had a condition that would be treated the same either way whether an expensive diagnostic was run, so we just skipped the diagnostic. None of this is "insured" thinking.
If the worse should happen? That same State that screwed up the insurance market here will force the hospitals to provide care. I don't like it at all, but that's the hand I'm dealt. Let me buy real health insurance and I'll sign up again tomorrow.
Obamacare? Pfft, I make over $29K per year, so they'll 'force' me to buy so-called insurance at the $17,000/yr rate. That money does not exist. They say I'll need to pay a fine of $1300 a year for not having that $17,000 per year (and get nothing in return). But the law is plainly unconstitutional and has no enforcement teeth, so they can pound sand - I'm not cancelling my gym membership to pay these morons a fine just so I can get sick.
The reason why cell phone bans don't work is the same reason other bans don't work, because they aren't enforced enough or at all
Enforcement is the problem. When texting is banned, people put the phones down in their lap to text so that the cops can't see the phones up on top of the steering wheel while they're texting and watching the road.
OK, I guess thinking that government laws can solve this problem is really the root cause.
How about this - rescind the laws that prevent automatic car trials from happening on your State's roads instead? Nevada seems to be doing just fine.
People have made it clear that they'd rather surf than drive, so everything that stands in the way of letting that happen safely is a problem. Or just fight human nature - whatever works.
Yeah, as I said, "once in a while" - oatmeal is our standby. It keeps quite well pre-made too. I do:
melt on high (~14KBTU):
3T unsalted butter
add:
3c old fashioned oats
roast until 'nutty', then add:
3 c hot water
(warning - hyper boil). add:
1/2 t sea salt
Cook until ~ half water is absorbed then reduce to medium-low and add:
1 t cinnamon
stir in, add:
3 c skim milk
1/4 c erythritol
1/8 t pure stevia extract
1/2c chopped pecans
cook until most of the liquid is absorbed and add to top:
1 t vanilla extract
let sit a moment for alcohol to volatilize, then mix in. Turn off heat when it looks like oatmeal.
That makes about 8 generous servings. I've never measured exactly how long it keeps, because it's always gone by then, but at least 5 days.
At least not as bad as Oracle's "Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel", IMHO.
about that...
It staggers me to watch fellow parents pour gallons of sugar down their kids throats -- "look, it's low fat and free from high fructose corn syrup!!!!" despite the fact that it contains apple juice as a "natural" ingredient, which is just injected for its fructose content -- it's like HFCS without the corn syrup.
I was in the Target cereal aisle last night, looking for something for the kids to eat (once in a while) and only two of the cereals had fewer than 6 g of sugar per serving (I eat one with no sugar, but those require more of an adult palette). My kids shouldn't have more than about 30g of sugar a day for their weight, and many of those cereals (with orange juice "as part of this complete breakfast") were up in the 23-28g range (per small-side-of-normal serving).
I was in the grocery store at lunch time and two enormous pre-teen boys (possibly brother, hard to be sure about their features or gender) were each there to pick up a 12-pack of Mountain Dew.
If it weren't for the pace of medical science, we'd probably be looking at a generation who would die much younger than their parents. There has to be more to it than just one guy who wrote a BS paper in the 70's.
Popcorn often has lots of fat unless you make it yourself.
And don't be afraid of a little bit of good quality fat. I use about 1 Tablespoon of high quality peanut oil to pop about 1/2 c of popcorn in a large pot. Given the residue still on the bottom of the pot, probably only half of that makes it onto the popcorn, and the yield is enough for about six people to have a good-sized serving. The quality peanut oil has a nice peanut flavor, so you don't need to pour butter on it (or even worse - manufactured popcorn topping [scare music here]). Grind up half a teaspoon of sea salt in the mortar and pestle and you're good to go.
When I was young, air poppers were very popular and they had a little melting tray on top to hold a stick's worth of butter. I have no idea why anybody ever bought these things when a simple pot works much better. Or why people use microwave popcorn at home, which is just awful, nasty stuff.
The two most valuable pieces of screen real estate (upper left and right corners, per Fitt's Law) are mandatorily taken by the Activities widget, which nobody supports, and the Cashew, which is the button you have to push to customize your toolbar.
Oh, and they stole the non-toolbar screen edges for 'window resize' in the latest release, even in maximized window mode (using the scrollbars now requires precision mousing instead of flick 'n click). The edges are the second most valuable bits of screen real estate (current the toolbar edge does nothing).
I think I've only ever read three UI design books ever, and a few blogs. I'm left to conclude that there are people out there who do understand, but they are actively hostile towards usability (in favor of eye-candy or whatever).
Oh, and hide my cursor when I start typing, for Pete's sake.
Sometimes I find that getting really tired actually makes me more productive. The creative juices are gone, and I can get through the drudgery.
I hear you can get amphetamines from your doctor to do that too.
What what government does in relation to utilities is change the motive from profit to service.
I live on a road with no cable service, per government monopoly grant. The local government prevented me from installing a fiber network on the poles for the neighborhood.
There are too many people now
No, there's plenty of room and we can feed them (to the extent that we don't put food into our gas tanks, anyhow).
and we have no control over our own global population growth
Education - it works every time it's tried. Parts of Europe are so 'successful' that their populations are shrinking. There are States that repress their people, but we'll get those dealt with one of these centuries.
Arguing that there is currently no food crisis, but rather a distribution problem is specious.
Or accurate, if you care to examine the data.
even when most of the liability risk is assumed by the government
That's actually a detriment, not a benefit. Private insurers would have pushed the insurance rates for light water reactors beyond profitability at this time. The Integral Fast Reactor was built and ran for years two decades ago. We probably would have been almost done converting over by now, had the normal market pressures been present and all that nuclear waste onsite would now be being consumed.
Oh, but no, we'll let the Hank Johnsons of the world decide what kind of technology will work best.
Dick Cheney
True, but then he carpetbagged and lost a primary.
I'll miss his voice, but I guess that was the intention.
It sure was a good thing those private companies built a massive national highway infrastructure for automobiles to run on
It's true, the States seized most of the private highways in the 1800's. The important point was that the automobile was built to run on horse-carriage roads; there was no infrastructure work specific to the automobile before it was invented.
or standardized, built and maintained the telephone and electricity grids.
You think the governments build and maintain the telephone and electricity grids?
Of course I don't know how to do the former but I watched Mitnick do it on Leo Laporte's TechTV show in about 30 seconds...
Ooh, I'll have to find this. I have my work PBX forward calls to my cell and it really sucks that the callerID gets lost.
Please explain how the scientific method is not applicable to societal experiments.
So it is like homeopathic 'medicine' then?
Nope. Homeopathy claims to depend on dilution for its magic. Holy water can't be diluted!
It's like if you had a drop of beer and put it in the bucket, and the whole bucket became beer. I know some people who just might worship that!
I find the timing of the sex charges too coincidental to pass the smell test.
Timing? How about that one of the 'girls' was kicked out of Cuba for working with a known CIA operative there?
Swedish prosecutors once traveled to Serbia to interview a suspected murderer.
March 22nd of *this year*