These boxes aren't exactly powerhouses. In an industrialsed country with a normal second hand market for computers, this box is probably not the best way to spend your $200.
Umm, I think you're missing what the goal here is. The point is getting these laptops into the hands of poor kids. Selling them to you for $100 won't help that. Using them as bait for donations might. Whether the latter qualifies as charity or not in your or anyone else's opinion doesn't even enter the equation.
If you need that "true charity" kick so bad, just donate some cash and don't order the box.
Of course, you never see any of the workers or potential workers in those countries complaining, and there's a reason for that: Nike and other "sweatshop" owners provided far better jobs than were normally available to people in those countries. People FOUGHT to get a spot in one of those factories.
Aren't you skipping the part about if you complain, you're out, and if you try to organize complaints, you're possibly even dead.
When I was a kid in the 70s they said the same thing about television. My grandmother told me once that they said the same thing about radio when she was a kid.
And during the time from then till now the population as a whole did grow worryingly fat and unhealthy.
Not just books but also physical games, sports and "sound" toys like legos are losing out to videogames. Sure, videogames can eercise your mind too, but very o few of them do, and none can teach you hands on physics and practical thinking as well as using our body or building stuff with your hands. Videogames themselves and their content don't worry me much with regard ro children, but the way they are displacing a lot of other activity actually does, a bit. Yeah, TV did the same thing, but I suspect it's not a zero-sum game: TV and games together take up more of kids' time than TV did alone.
No, "vaporwear" would mean you're shrouded in smoke. This here is not smoke but plasma, and it's not doing the shrouding, it is itself shrouded in a magnetic field ("fluxwear", if you will), which following this discovery can be made more hardwearing than before, which will in turn protect from damage the hardware, which encloses the whole system and as such might be referred to as "hardwear" for the contents. It is important to be wary of the difference lest the reader grow weary. It's not really all that hard.
It is quite common to post ones little thoughts around a subject without reading TFA, and that is, if not OK then at least human. But when your ambition is to reveal supposedly fatal flaws with a product, you really should check your facts about what it claims to do, or at the very least re-read the abstact to make sure you at least understood that correctly.
Hint: it doesn't discover it is stolen, you (the owner) report it as such to the company.
I don't buy that. The diet of low-income Britain is generally terrible. Chips with everything, with the "everything" part often being deep-fried too. And that combination being characterised as "proper food". Crisps and a chocolate bar considered an adequate meal for a kid. Last I was there, business at McDonalds seemed quite brisk in the UK as well.
America placing around 25th amongst industrialized countries on chronic disease prevention, but it had been assumed that minorities and economics were skewing the results.
I really don't believe that was assumed by most public health experts, and certianly not ones outside the US. The US does not just have greater socioeconmic differences, but since thay have no proper pubic heathcare, those differences matter a lot more. And even if you belong to the group that can afford proper care, you still have to go get it; there is little follow-up by default. It would really be quite shocking if the US system resulted in high a level of public health as the more proactive systems found in western Europe. Now, I know that there are varying opinions on what are the responsibilities of society and of the individual, and I'm not going to go into that. But of there are effects. I assume that most of those against public healthcare accept those consquences as a fair price (for someone else) to pay, but if this result came as an unwelcome suprise, I would call that a tad naïve.
No, the wrong thing to do would be to allow rampant and completely predictable sickness and injury, even when it could be easily be prevented, just out of fear of insulting the kind of poeple who will obviously be insulted about something in any case.
That statement is flawed in that it jumps to the conclusion that correlation implies causation.
You're right. The result far from implies that Fox News makes people ignorant. It could just as well be that ignorant people tend to prefer Fox News, or that there is a third, unkown, common factor that causes people to both be ignorant and watch Fox News.
I'm not sure I'd trust a system like this for a language like C, C++ or Java with its icky grammar full of parentheses, braces, commas and other types of pointless noise.
I imagine part of the point is to not have to worry about that noise: "if-block. Condition flag equals true. body. " etc. etc.
That doesn't sound like pair programming to me; more like a small team working indpeendently. If they truly are pair programming and the less experienced one is doing the typing, he will be writing what the mentor telles him to, not some crap that will have to be rewritten later.
The moral of the story will either way: it never pays to give up.
BZZZT! Non sequitur. Your analysis doesn't cover any scenarios that involve giving up, and so your conclusion has no backing in your argument.
If the fusion stuff turns out to be bogus, it could very well be that "giving up" (i.e. moving on and applying his talent and effort to something more promising) would be the path that "pays" the best for Fleischman and everyone else.
If it works, of course, then your two success scenarios probably beat any others rather soundly. And a heater is a brilliant place to start, requiring only the very core functionality and only a small temperature gradient in order to do its job well and pay for itself.
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Why Australia first, you say? Well, they've got all those sharks they're goin to need.
These boxes aren't exactly powerhouses. In an industrialsed country with a normal second hand market for computers, this box is probably not the best way to spend your $200.
Forced charity is no charity at all.
Umm, I think you're missing what the goal here is. The point is getting these laptops into the hands of poor kids. Selling them to you for $100 won't help that. Using them as bait for donations might. Whether the latter qualifies as charity or not in your or anyone else's opinion doesn't even enter the equation.
If you need that "true charity" kick so bad, just donate some cash and don't order the box.
So I guess by ths time, this comment is redundant, huh?
I'd be more interested if I could use shoes to charge the iPod.
Of course, you never see any of the workers or potential workers in those countries complaining, and there's a reason for that: Nike and other "sweatshop" owners provided far better jobs than were normally available to people in those countries. People FOUGHT to get a spot in one of those factories.
Aren't you skipping the part about if you complain, you're out, and if you try to organize complaints, you're possibly even dead.
When I was a kid in the 70s they said the same thing about television. My grandmother told me once that they said the same thing about radio when she was a kid.
And during the time from then till now the population as a whole did grow worryingly fat and unhealthy.
Not just books but also physical games, sports and "sound" toys like legos are losing out to videogames. Sure, videogames can eercise your mind too, but very o few of them do, and none can teach you hands on physics and practical thinking as well as using our body or building stuff with your hands. Videogames themselves and their content don't worry me much with regard ro children, but the way they are displacing a lot of other activity actually does, a bit. Yeah, TV did the same thing, but I suspect it's not a zero-sum game: TV and games together take up more of kids' time than TV did alone.
No, "vaporwear" would mean you're shrouded in smoke. This here is not smoke but plasma, and it's not doing the shrouding, it is itself shrouded in a magnetic field ("fluxwear", if you will), which following this discovery can be made more hardwearing than before, which will in turn protect from damage the hardware, which encloses the whole system and as such might be referred to as "hardwear" for the contents. It is important to be wary of the difference lest the reader grow weary. It's not really all that hard.
You're right. Let's just cancel the whole project.
It is quite common to post ones little thoughts around a subject without reading TFA, and that is, if not OK then at least human. But when your ambition is to reveal supposedly fatal flaws with a product, you really should check your facts about what it claims to do, or at the very least re-read the abstact to make sure you at least understood that correctly.
Hint: it doesn't discover it is stolen, you (the owner) report it as such to the company.
Dissipates? Do you even know what that means? Hint: it doesn't mean it's gone.
Dust and aerosols are heavier than air too.
Being inert is precisely the problem: the compound survives long enough to get to where it can do harm.
Indeed it does, and not only do you get full color, you even save the energy of having to stand up! Man has truly come a long way.
I wonder if any of them can withstand the +5 lenses of seeing that I wear every day?
Um, maybe you didn't read the article, but the results are in...
I don't buy that. The diet of low-income Britain is generally terrible. Chips with everything, with the "everything" part often being deep-fried too. And that combination being characterised as "proper food". Crisps and a chocolate bar considered an adequate meal for a kid. Last I was there, business at McDonalds seemed quite brisk in the UK as well.
It was "pubic heathcare", you insensitive clod.
No, no, any good gardening text will tell you about the rather "particular" procedures required to cultivate heath successfully in your garden.
America placing around 25th amongst industrialized countries on chronic disease prevention, but it had been assumed that minorities and economics were skewing the results.
I really don't believe that was assumed by most public health experts, and certianly not ones outside the US. The US does not just have greater socioeconmic differences, but since thay have no proper pubic heathcare, those differences matter a lot more. And even if you belong to the group that can afford proper care, you still have to go get it; there is little follow-up by default. It would really be quite shocking if the US system resulted in high a level of public health as the more proactive systems found in western Europe. Now, I know that there are varying opinions on what are the responsibilities of society and of the individual, and I'm not going to go into that. But of there are effects. I assume that most of those against public healthcare accept those consquences as a fair price (for someone else) to pay, but if this result came as an unwelcome suprise, I would call that a tad naïve.
No, the wrong thing to do would be to allow rampant and completely predictable sickness and injury, even when it could be easily be prevented, just out of fear of insulting the kind of poeple who will obviously be insulted about something in any case.
That statement is flawed in that it jumps to the conclusion that correlation implies causation.
You're right. The result far from implies that Fox News makes people ignorant. It could just as well be that ignorant people tend to prefer Fox News, or that there is a third, unkown, common factor that causes people to both be ignorant and watch Fox News.
Thanks for saving Fox's honour there.
..so my computer won't let me use it when I'm stoned or tripped out :-/
Or if I just don't feel quite myself today...
I'm not sure I'd trust a system like this for a language like C, C++ or Java with its icky grammar full of parentheses, braces, commas and other types of pointless noise.
I imagine part of the point is to not have to worry about that noise:
"if-block. Condition flag equals true. body. " etc. etc.
That doesn't sound like pair programming to me; more like a small team working indpeendently. If they truly are pair programming and the less experienced one is doing the typing, he will be writing what the mentor telles him to, not some crap that will have to be rewritten later.
The moral of the story will either way: it never pays to give up.
BZZZT! Non sequitur.
Your analysis doesn't cover any scenarios that involve giving up, and so your conclusion has no backing in your argument.
If the fusion stuff turns out to be bogus, it could very well be that "giving up" (i.e. moving on and applying his talent and effort to something more promising) would be the path that "pays" the best for Fleischman and everyone else.
If it works, of course, then your two success scenarios probably beat any others rather soundly. And a heater is a brilliant place to start, requiring only the very core functionality and only a small temperature gradient in order to do its job well and pay for itself.
Even more astonishing... there will be motels.
Yeah, someone is obviously stretching the "build it and they will come" credo way too far.