I noticed that too, and I suspect the author meant MB/s, which is supported by the actual press release:
The first generation drive has a capacity of 300 gigabytes on a single disk with a 20 megabyte per second transfer rate.
The write transfer rate is determined by the time required to position the laser at the correct angular address, the speed of the shutter, the laser power, and the exposure time. In this demonstration the average exposure time per page was 2.7 milliseconds, which translates into a user write transfer rate of 23 megabytes per second.
A microfortnight?!? Are you insane??? You can't just combine metric and imperial measurements like that. Portions of a unit must be expressed in fractions whose denoninator is a power of 2. Everybody knows that. Jeeze. And I won't even ask wtf a "kilometer" is doing in your sentence.
Those weren't misspellings.. panaromas are all the rage. They're the latest in scent-over-IP. And panormaras are obviously enormous panoramas. Panormous, if you will.
Funny, I was going to say just the opposite. Who wants to read freakin' cookbooks about imaginary ingredients which make imaginary food? What's next, a game where you pretend to clean your imaginary house? Oh wait, that's right.. the Sims. I'm going to write a game -- I'll call it a programming simulator -- where people write programs to run on my "virtual machine," relinquish the rights, and pay me for the privelage. Each week I'll make a new challenge, like "backend database solution for a fortune 50 company," and the first person or persons to submit a viable program win a badge, or a title in front of their names or something. Maybe some boots of the whale. And if the submitter's program has more than 3 critical flaws, or 10 minor bugs, they lose the prize and their maximum typing speed is reduced by 50% for 24 hours.
Step 1) Threaten to remove head, to obtain pin code and secure card with a chip and a recent encryption technology. Step 2) Remove head to use with iris recon and 3d face recon. Step 3) ??? Step 4) Profit!!!
Not to defend the actions of OR, but terminating a pregnancy is hardly speech. It is most definately an act, and while I support a woman's right to choose, spouting off about "freedom of speech, freedom from religion" is just as tasteless and misguided as picketing a clinic. Just different shades of BS...
Either that, or slash.20.inda@gourmet.com is getting tons of e-mail as the scrapers automatically remove the word "spam".
And to address the GGP, I'd just as soon get no spam, so I agree with the OP's concern. Even with good filters, I still have to do a cursory scan for false positives, and I still get occasional false negatives.
There's no feel-good sci-fi bogostity there. People die and suffer and doubt.
Which is why I hate, for example, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis. They're the antithesis of BSG. It's not that the acting is bad, per se, but it's hard to present a believable character when everyone's doing and saying things you'd never expect someone to do/say in real life. They don't even really have a plausible motivation for what they're doing. And to top it off, any sense of risk is negated by the fact that you know everyone's going to be fine at the end of the day. I guess some people find that comforting. I find it boring. Great for kids, sure, but that's about it.
That's why I like The Shield. It's not about crime and punishment, but the people -- realistic people with believable motives and roles which directly affect the plots. It's the exact opposite of CSI really, which, while a good show in its own right, is focused almost exclusively on the details with very little character development. Of course they both have some amount of BS, whether its zooming in on crappy video or the chief believing a patently obvious lie. Overall though, they present plausible scenarios, and it's hard to think of any examples of any show, even documentary, which doesn't take liberties with the truth.
As for Zonks summary sometimes unreadable. Like bad notes. But better(?) "Can't understand!" Ideas but skill communication... Heard before. Somewhere. Kirk!
It always happens that the new guy hired in for the position always gets more money than the 10 year vetran employee and usually has only 70=80% of the productivity of the vetran.
That may be, but there are other factors as well. In 10 years, the price of things has increased, particularly real-estate, as you mentioned. You may have bought a fairly nice home 10 years ago for X dollars, and you can continue making mortgage payments at your current salary. Unfortunately, real estate prices have gone up between 30% and 300% in the past 10 years. Fortunately, your home has increased in value. New guy, however, has to buy his home at the new prices, and needs more money to enjoy the same quality of life. That's a large driving force for inflation, especially since a home is the largest purchase most people ever make.
I'm not sure that there's any merit to the idea that new people are less productive, at least in the long term, but that's a whole seperate issue.
So your examples would be different from anything else... how, exactly?
If your business relies on my screws, and I decide to stop selling them to you, or charge you a higher price, you're equally screwed. Or unscrewed, as the case may be. You always have the option to manufacture your own screws, or buy someone else's solution. If my screws are not as valuable as the price I'm trying to charge (or extort, in your opinion), then nobody will buy them and I'll go out of business. If you pay for them, then they're clearly worth chat I'm charging you. That's what value is: whatever someone's willing to pay.
I don't expect many of you to realize that living in front of a computer or TV without real interaction isn't a natural human way of life.
What does that even mean? Not a "natural human way of life?" What's natural? What's "real interaction?" Living in caves, hunting and gathering? All technology exists to fulfill human desire which, by definition, is natural. Farming, homes, horses, cars, boats, planes, books, TVs, and computers all exist because someone had a natural desire for something. Someone sitting in front of a computer is no more unnatural than 10 guys in suits sitting in a board meeting instead of bashing each other over the head to compete for mates. If someone is living a satisfying life, who the hell are you to say it's "unnatural," implying that a) your life is "natural," and b) anything else is wrong.
I don't expect you to realize this, but a function of learning -- a natural process -- is that people develop different preferences. Some, such as the sex drive, are innate, but most are learned. Just because you want to sit in a sewing circle or run up and down a field doesn't make anyone else's preferences less correct.
Education is not a business, and students are not customers.
That's just naive. The textbook industry is probably the most glaring evidence of the profit-centric nature of education, but it's all business. Education is business, and students are buying little pieces of paper that say they know something.
Try to take away the money, and we'll end up going back to the days of unpaid apprenticeships, where the student practically begs to be taught, and lives like a slave for years while learning.
Nonsense. Information is no longer something that resides solely in the heads of skilled professionals or inaccessable monestary libraries. The most important reason to listen to an educator is to find out what they're going to test on. In other words, if there was no educator, there would be little reason to need one. Their primary purpose is to ensure the necessity of their own existance. Sure, they can occasionally answer questions, clarify points, etc., but for the most part, most educators are little more than organic text-to-speech systems. I have had engaging, thought provoking professors who developed their own cirriculum, but that was generally limited to liberal arts classes, and the biggest reason to pay attention was still to figure out what they wanted you to know. Generally, if you only read the textbook, you'll have all the information you need. Conversely, if you only pay attention to lectures and don't read the book, you'll probably be lost and missing key points.
I'm not saying education isn't important -- it is -- but it's most definately a business relationship, and the one thing every educator really teaches their students (albeit indirectly, perhaps) is to play by (or exploit) the rules in order to satisfy the desires and requirements of their superior in order to succeed.
Obviously I meant for the final version. Change "Feb 2007" to "1 month after release," if it's postponed again. I doubt it will be, but that's really not what I was talking about, at all.
You too can profit from your computer, in just a couple hours a day. My simple business plan teaches you step-by-step how to do just that, and earn up to $5,000, $20,000 or even up to $100,000 in just one day!!! Imagine, financial independance, buying that new home or car you've always wanted. And best of all, you don't need any experience or skills! Millions of people are making money every day selling products online, and using my patented* system you too can profit in the Information Age! And there's no inventory to maintain, no shipping required, and no complicated** forms to fill out. Don't miss this opportunity! If my ideas intrigue you, and you would like to subscribe to my FREE newsletter, simply send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with $12.95 for shipping & handling, and I'll tell you how you can get access to the business secrets that worked for me.
* In a small, third-world country. ** Compared to very complicated forms written in foreign languages.
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I just don't pay for it!
Some people get better over time.. some people get distracted.
It's not really all that incongruous to say that you did horrible things to other people and liked it.
Maybe not for you. Sadist much?
by professors on grad students
That is a joke right?
Not to the students!
A microfortnight?!? Are you insane??? You can't just combine metric and imperial measurements like that. Portions of a unit must be expressed in fractions whose denoninator is a power of 2. Everybody knows that. Jeeze. And I won't even ask wtf a "kilometer" is doing in your sentence.
Those weren't misspellings.. panaromas are all the rage. They're the latest in scent-over-IP. And panormaras are obviously enormous panoramas. Panormous, if you will.
Funny, I was going to say just the opposite. Who wants to read freakin' cookbooks about imaginary ingredients which make imaginary food? What's next, a game where you pretend to clean your imaginary house? Oh wait, that's right.. the Sims. I'm going to write a game -- I'll call it a programming simulator -- where people write programs to run on my "virtual machine," relinquish the rights, and pay me for the privelage. Each week I'll make a new challenge, like "backend database solution for a fortune 50 company," and the first person or persons to submit a viable program win a badge, or a title in front of their names or something. Maybe some boots of the whale. And if the submitter's program has more than 3 critical flaws, or 10 minor bugs, they lose the prize and their maximum typing speed is reduced by 50% for 24 hours.
I dunno.. I have a feeling all the taxes they'd miss out on weigh more heavily than any attempt at maintaining perceptions.
these Closed Proceedings belong to him.
I believe you meant, "these Closed Proceedings ARE belong to him."
Step 1) Threaten to remove head, to obtain pin code and secure card with a chip and a recent encryption technology.
Step 2) Remove head to use with iris recon and 3d face recon.
Step 3) ???
Step 4) Profit!!!
Not to defend the actions of OR, but terminating a pregnancy is hardly speech. It is most definately an act, and while I support a woman's right to choose, spouting off about "freedom of speech, freedom from religion" is just as tasteless and misguided as picketing a clinic. Just different shades of BS...
Either that, or slash.20.inda@gourmet.com is getting tons of e-mail as the scrapers automatically remove the word "spam".
And to address the GGP, I'd just as soon get no spam, so I agree with the OP's concern. Even with good filters, I still have to do a cursory scan for false positives, and I still get occasional false negatives.
Are you saying this story is deja news?
I swear to God, I was 90% done with my paper and then my sister picked up the phone.
...zealotry is clowding his judgment...
Did you mean: clowning
It probably didn't. He just ignored it since most spell checkers don't have an exhaustive list of proper names and words. In Zonkspeak:
Cylon. Psylon. Both red. Which is right? Cannot tell. Pylon. That works.
There's no feel-good sci-fi bogostity there. People die and suffer and doubt.
Which is why I hate, for example, Stargate SG1 & Atlantis. They're the antithesis of BSG. It's not that the acting is bad, per se, but it's hard to present a believable character when everyone's doing and saying things you'd never expect someone to do/say in real life. They don't even really have a plausible motivation for what they're doing. And to top it off, any sense of risk is negated by the fact that you know everyone's going to be fine at the end of the day. I guess some people find that comforting. I find it boring. Great for kids, sure, but that's about it.
That's why I like The Shield. It's not about crime and punishment, but the people -- realistic people with believable motives and roles which directly affect the plots. It's the exact opposite of CSI really, which, while a good show in its own right, is focused almost exclusively on the details with very little character development. Of course they both have some amount of BS, whether its zooming in on crappy video or the chief believing a patently obvious lie. Overall though, they present plausible scenarios, and it's hard to think of any examples of any show, even documentary, which doesn't take liberties with the truth.
As for Zonks summary sometimes unreadable. Like bad notes. But better(?) "Can't understand!" Ideas but skill communication... Heard before. Somewhere. Kirk!
It always happens that the new guy hired in for the position always gets more money than the 10 year vetran employee and usually has only 70=80% of the productivity of the vetran.
That may be, but there are other factors as well. In 10 years, the price of things has increased, particularly real-estate, as you mentioned. You may have bought a fairly nice home 10 years ago for X dollars, and you can continue making mortgage payments at your current salary. Unfortunately, real estate prices have gone up between 30% and 300% in the past 10 years. Fortunately, your home has increased in value. New guy, however, has to buy his home at the new prices, and needs more money to enjoy the same quality of life. That's a large driving force for inflation, especially since a home is the largest purchase most people ever make.
I'm not sure that there's any merit to the idea that new people are less productive, at least in the long term, but that's a whole seperate issue.
So your examples would be different from anything else... how, exactly?
If your business relies on my screws, and I decide to stop selling them to you, or charge you a higher price, you're equally screwed. Or unscrewed, as the case may be. You always have the option to manufacture your own screws, or buy someone else's solution. If my screws are not as valuable as the price I'm trying to charge (or extort, in your opinion), then nobody will buy them and I'll go out of business. If you pay for them, then they're clearly worth chat I'm charging you. That's what value is: whatever someone's willing to pay.
I don't expect many of you to realize that living in front of a computer or TV without real interaction isn't a natural human way of life.
What does that even mean? Not a "natural human way of life?" What's natural? What's "real interaction?" Living in caves, hunting and gathering? All technology exists to fulfill human desire which, by definition, is natural. Farming, homes, horses, cars, boats, planes, books, TVs, and computers all exist because someone had a natural desire for something. Someone sitting in front of a computer is no more unnatural than 10 guys in suits sitting in a board meeting instead of bashing each other over the head to compete for mates. If someone is living a satisfying life, who the hell are you to say it's "unnatural," implying that a) your life is "natural," and b) anything else is wrong.
I don't expect you to realize this, but a function of learning -- a natural process -- is that people develop different preferences. Some, such as the sex drive, are innate, but most are learned. Just because you want to sit in a sewing circle or run up and down a field doesn't make anyone else's preferences less correct.
Education is not a business, and students are not customers.
That's just naive. The textbook industry is probably the most glaring evidence of the profit-centric nature of education, but it's all business. Education is business, and students are buying little pieces of paper that say they know something.
Try to take away the money, and we'll end up going back to the days of unpaid apprenticeships, where the student practically begs to be taught, and lives like a slave for years while learning.
Nonsense. Information is no longer something that resides solely in the heads of skilled professionals or inaccessable monestary libraries. The most important reason to listen to an educator is to find out what they're going to test on. In other words, if there was no educator, there would be little reason to need one. Their primary purpose is to ensure the necessity of their own existance. Sure, they can occasionally answer questions, clarify points, etc., but for the most part, most educators are little more than organic text-to-speech systems. I have had engaging, thought provoking professors who developed their own cirriculum, but that was generally limited to liberal arts classes, and the biggest reason to pay attention was still to figure out what they wanted you to know. Generally, if you only read the textbook, you'll have all the information you need. Conversely, if you only pay attention to lectures and don't read the book, you'll probably be lost and missing key points.
I'm not saying education isn't important -- it is -- but it's most definately a business relationship, and the one thing every educator really teaches their students (albeit indirectly, perhaps) is to play by (or exploit) the rules in order to satisfy the desires and requirements of their superior in order to succeed.
Obviously I meant for the final version. Change "Feb 2007" to "1 month after release," if it's postponed again. I doubt it will be, but that's really not what I was talking about, at all.
You too can profit from your computer, in just a couple hours a day. My simple business plan teaches you step-by-step how to do just that, and earn up to $5,000, $20,000 or even up to $100,000 in just one day!!! Imagine, financial independance, buying that new home or car you've always wanted. And best of all, you don't need any experience or skills! Millions of people are making money every day selling products online, and using my patented* system you too can profit in the Information Age! And there's no inventory to maintain, no shipping required, and no complicated** forms to fill out. Don't miss this opportunity! If my ideas intrigue you, and you would like to subscribe to my FREE newsletter, simply send a self-addressed stamped envelope along with $12.95 for shipping & handling, and I'll tell you how you can get access to the business secrets that worked for me.
* In a small, third-world country.
** Compared to very complicated forms written in foreign languages.