Actually, it is. Since it is not being blown and washed around, it lacks the wear and rounding you find in mineral dust/sand on earth. It has all the sharp edges from intact from its creation, and is wildly abrasive.
Linkedin is useful because it makes the job of a recruiter easier. Be sure to include prominanetly any keywords they might search for that you shod score on.
Thank you for your well-intentioned and reasoned suggestion for stopping AIDS: encouraging people to not have sex.
Unfortunately, the empirical data after repeated trials of this technique is that it fails miserably.
You are welcome to try again. Some handy hints for the next round: try to focus on results rather than blame. The latter does not in fact improve anything.
In any market there will be some actors who are stronger than others. The strongest has no interest in the market remaining free, and occasionally attempts to bind it. This needs to be prevented. There is no shortage of examples of this happening, and even succeeding.
"The invisible hand" is a metapor for effects that occur in well-functioning free markets, it's not the actual disembodied hand of Santa Claus operating as a force of nature.
Forces that only exist in a free market cannot *create* a free market. That needs to be nurtured and guarded as an act of will. It is not a stable base state, never has been, and was not intended as one by the poeple who created the models.
Capitalism is is an (probably the most) efficient way of applying one's efforts to govern, but it still requires effort to not degrade into good old fashioned feudalism, complete with unaccountability, oppression, wars and assasinations.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources?
Yes, and most do (or at least, derive no real value from doing those things).
I don't get this obsession with "standby" power draw... My computer and display and TV and DVD player already draw zero watts when off, thanks to the magic of the switch on the power strip.
Uh-huh. Let me guess: You're one of those who also don't get the point of WYSIWYG tools because you master Emacs and TeX, aren't you?
I bring news: your strategy of solving real problems by hoping everyone will turn into you is not going to work.
When we're talking about the masses, the important question is not "What can people do?", it is "What happens when people do nothing, or act only to minimize cost to themselves?". If you can change that balance, that is when you get to make a real impact.
Do you know how easy it is to stumble across these things?
And what exactly is you think will happen to a child who sees them?
That said, if those really _were_ real threats to anyone, this: Do your jobs, you god forsakenly poor parents! is about as helpful to children with bad parents as as saying "Just stop it, you damn criminals!" is to crime victims.
Forget about flexible. Sure, it sounds sexy, but who really cares? The roll-up stuff will probably not withstand normal wear very well in any case.
Why are all the new display technologies like oled and e-paper mainly being marketed on the unimportant qulaities like flexibility?
The real appeal of OLED is the simplicity, i.e. thinness and low cost. Only incrementally from before at first, but the simplicity is really orders of magnitude away from everything else. So once the tech is solid (i.e. good lifetime and low defect rates) and production scaled up, they will be so cheap it's silly.
The real appeal of e-paper is good reflective contrast. i.e not only high contrast, but contrast that gets better in stronger light, and in general better contrast than any screen you have seen. This is something absolutely nothing else can offer right now (electrowetting might eventually, but it's still stricly lab stuff. It promises color, though, so stay tuned on that one). People tend to forget, or not understand, how important this is, even when they talk about books being better to tread than on-screen. But once most peopole have seen a really good one, I think the penny will drop. I wish they'd forget about flexibility and persistence for now and just focus on getting them fast, reliable, cheap and even higher resolution. this is something I'd want on my laptop right now. Work on that other stuff after they've become _good_, and popular.
On oleds I have the impression thay _are_ working on the right stuff, flexible is just a by-product and makes headlines. For e-paper, i'm not so sure.
The combination of the graphene on one end of the stick and the pink cylinder on the other promises to allow nearly unlimited read-write capabilities
Are you sure you don't mean "unlimited write-delete capabilities"? If you start with write-only memory, and then add the ability to delete it, you still can't read it.
...after reading the article I'm still wondering what the storage mechanism is.
OK, so it's made of graphene, but how does it remember anything, and how do you read and write it? It's like launching a new kind of engine, and only specifying what it's made of.
Anyone got a more detailed link?
We are actually given a lot more hints about how the main competitor works, albeit only by virtue of its name, not journalistic thoroughness.
The real failure here is in not teaching graspable examples and estimates.
For everyday tasks, simple but rough conversions convey a lot more understanding than tables of four-digit factors. And so here it is, from a native metric user who has had to parse some imperial in his time, unsuitable for exacrt measurements, but helps you understand your world: The rough imperial/metric survival guide
Basic equivalences:
* A litre and a quart is roughly the same * A yard and a meter is roughly the same * A imperial ton and a metric tonne (1000kg) are almost exactly the same.
Rules of thumb:
* A US quart is almost one liter. * A UK quart is a bit more than a liter.
=> a pint is about half a liter a liter is about 2 pints
=> a gallon is about 4 litres
=> a cup is about a quarter liter
* A pound is almost half a kilo * A stone is just over 6 kilos
* An ounce of weight (any kinds) is almost 30 grams
=> there are about 35 ounces in a kilo
=> 100grams is between 3 and 4 ounces.
* A CD is 12cm wide * The hole in the CD can contain a 1cm square
* A foot is about 30cm. A metric desk ruler is typically 30cm long.
=> an inch is about 2.5cm.
=> 10cm is about 4 inces
=> 1m is about 40inches
* A yard is about a meter
=> There are about 3 feet to a meter
=> A fathom is almost 2 meters
* An imperial mile is about one and a half kilometer * A league is almost exactly 5555m. * A league is roughly five and a half kilometers
* For typical oven temereatures Fahrenheit is roughly Celsius * 2
This is less than 10% off from 150C through 300C, but possibly not exact
enough for sensitive baked goods.
* For typical weather temperatures, don't even bother beyond some selcted
datapoints, choose the ones you feel are handy:
F and C equal. Awfully, fiercely cold weather, but can be found:
-40F = -40C
Temperature of a good home freezer. Skiing starts getting chilly:
0F = -18C
Reliably thaw-free. Lasting good skiing conditions:
25F = -4C
Water freezes/melts:
32F = 0C
Maximum density of water, commonly the temp of water below the ice:
39F = 4C
Standard "room temperature" in chemistry. A bit too cold for T-shirts though.
68F = 20C
Perfect balmy weather IMO, but then I am a northerner:
77F = 25C
Body temperature, or bloody hot weather:
100F = 37C
I can't really grasp how far a kilometre or mile is
If you do any walking, running, or cycling: measure your most common route on a map in kilometers or miles, that should give you a very intuitive scale on those.
And remember: Google is your friend! You can type straight in stuff like:
"2.4 us pints in l"
Umm, the question I was answering was one about whether unions are or are still likely to be important for workers rightis.
I completely agree that open ballots are evil. Provide, that is, that sufficient energy is put into eliminating the other types of cheating that become possible when voting is secret.
I'm very happy for you and your benevolent new owners, but it would not take long to find a very long list of similar cases where employee objections are routinely ignored.
At this point (in the U.S., I don't know about the UK), many of the worker protections are codified as law,
How did that come to be? How long do you think those laws would last under conservative government if the unions were gone?
and there is much greater recognition from employers that employees are an expensive resource, and that safety is often cheaper than training someone new.
Are you joking? This is supposed to be the sole drive for safety? What if somehow that equation changes? What if you're in a line of business where it does not work that way?
I don't consider unions a panacea either, but I do think a lot more people would be better off as members than currently are.
There will always be people who, as you say, are better off on their own. But most of the people who think they are in that group only think so because they haven't chanced to find out yet.
That unions were the mechanism that helped bring about safe working conditions and better wages doesn't mean that they were the only possible mechanism, just that they were the mechanism that became part of history.
Yeah, well, if they're the only mechanism in recorded history to achieve that in any significant way, that might be a good reason to take some note. Wouldn't it at least be a good idea to work out in very clear terms what other mechanisms are to take over and how and why they are likely to work, before kicking out the only thing we know works?
Have you checked which language flash is scripted with these days?
With the new javscript revision, the main difference will be the graphics library. That is admittedly important, but canvas+dom will enable quite a few nice things.
I don't believe you. Not claiming they would have been alike had you managed to, but I believe our cultural expectations run way deeper than can be suppressed simply through willpower.
Did they receive the same level and speed of attention when they cried? Absolutely no difference in what they were expected to endure? How about compliments on clothes, hair, looks, and cuteness? Rewards and expectations for bravery, endurance, humor, physical achievement, intellectual achievement, noise, talking? All exactly equal?
I've never seen anyone achieve that.
There's lots more than dolls and pink clothes that tell toddlers what is expected of them. I don't believe it explains all the differences, but it certainly amplifies them.
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Not that the dust is very different
Actually, it is. Since it is not being blown and washed around, it lacks the wear and rounding you find in mineral dust/sand on earth. It has all the sharp edges from intact from its creation, and is wildly abrasive.
You revealed you exist by posting.
Linkedin is useful because it makes the job of a recruiter easier. Be sure to include prominanetly any keywords they might search for that you shod score on.
Trying to capitalize on the runaway success of all those exciting first-person mining/farming simulators, are they?
Thank you for your well-intentioned and reasoned suggestion for stopping AIDS: encouraging people to not have sex.
Unfortunately, the empirical data after repeated trials of this technique is that it fails miserably.
You are welcome to try again. Some handy hints for the next round: try to focus on results rather than blame. The latter does not in fact improve anything.
Oh, bollocks.
In any market there will be some actors who are stronger than others. The strongest has no interest in the market remaining free, and occasionally attempts to bind it. This needs to be prevented. There is no shortage of examples of this happening, and even succeeding.
"The invisible hand" is a metapor for effects that occur in well-functioning free markets, it's not the actual disembodied hand of Santa Claus operating as a force of nature.
Forces that only exist in a free market cannot *create* a free market. That needs to be nurtured and guarded as an act of will. It is not a stable base state, never has been, and was not intended as one by the poeple who created the models.
Capitalism is is an (probably the most) efficient way of applying one's efforts to govern, but it still requires effort to not degrade into good old fashioned feudalism, complete with unaccountability, oppression, wars and assasinations.
Does anyone here really think you could run a large company without being able to monitor emails sent by company representatives, using company resources?
Yes, and most do (or at least, derive no real value from doing those things).
I don't get this obsession with "standby" power draw... My computer and display and TV and DVD player already draw zero watts when off, thanks to the magic of the switch on the power strip.
Uh-huh. Let me guess: You're one of those who also don't get the point of WYSIWYG tools because you master Emacs and TeX, aren't you?
I bring news: your strategy of solving real problems by hoping everyone will turn into you is not going to work.
When we're talking about the masses, the important question is not "What can people do?", it is "What happens when people do nothing, or act only to minimize cost to themselves?". If you can change that balance, that is when you get to make a real impact.
PIGS!
IN!
SPAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAaaaACE!
Do you know how easy it is to stumble across these things?
And what exactly is you think will happen to a child who sees them?
That said, if those really _were_ real threats to anyone, this:
Do your jobs, you god forsakenly poor parents!
is about as helpful to children with bad parents as as saying "Just stop it, you damn criminals!" is to crime victims.
Forget about flexible. Sure, it sounds sexy, but who really cares? The roll-up stuff will probably not withstand normal wear very well in any case.
Why are all the new display technologies like oled and e-paper mainly being marketed on the unimportant qulaities like flexibility?
The real appeal of OLED is the simplicity, i.e. thinness and low cost. Only incrementally from before at first, but the simplicity is really orders of magnitude away from everything else. So once the tech is solid (i.e. good lifetime and low defect rates) and production scaled up, they will be so cheap it's silly.
The real appeal of e-paper is good reflective contrast. i.e not only high contrast, but contrast that gets better in stronger light, and in general better contrast than any screen you have seen. This is something absolutely nothing else can offer right now (electrowetting might eventually, but it's still stricly lab stuff. It promises color, though, so stay tuned on that one). People tend to forget, or not understand, how important this is, even when they talk about books being better to tread than on-screen. But once most peopole have seen a really good one, I think the penny will drop. I wish they'd forget about flexibility and persistence for now and just focus on getting them fast, reliable, cheap and even higher resolution. this is something I'd want on my laptop right now. Work on that other stuff after they've become _good_, and popular.
On oleds I have the impression thay _are_ working on the right stuff, flexible is just a by-product and makes headlines. For e-paper, i'm not so sure.
The combination of the graphene on one end of the stick and the pink cylinder on the other promises to allow nearly unlimited read-write capabilities
Are you sure you don't mean "unlimited write-delete capabilities"? If you start with write-only memory, and then add the ability to delete it, you still can't read it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_Only_Memory
...after reading the article I'm still wondering what the storage mechanism is.
OK, so it's made of graphene, but how does it remember anything, and how do you read and write it? It's like launching a new kind of engine, and only specifying what it's made of.
Anyone got a more detailed link?
We are actually given a lot more hints about how the main competitor works, albeit only by virtue of its name, not journalistic thoroughness.
The real failure here is in not teaching graspable examples and estimates.
For everyday tasks, simple but rough conversions convey a lot more understanding than tables of four-digit factors. And so here it is, from a native metric user who has had to parse some imperial in his time, unsuitable for exacrt measurements, but helps you understand your world:
The rough imperial/metric survival guide
Basic equivalences:
* A litre and a quart is roughly the same
* A yard and a meter is roughly the same
* A imperial ton and a metric tonne (1000kg) are almost exactly the same.
Rules of thumb:
* A US quart is almost one liter.
* A UK quart is a bit more than a liter.
=> a pint is about half a liter a liter is about 2 pints
=> a gallon is about 4 litres
=> a cup is about a quarter liter
* A pound is almost half a kilo
* A stone is just over 6 kilos
* An ounce of weight (any kinds) is almost 30 grams
=> there are about 35 ounces in a kilo
=> 100grams is between 3 and 4 ounces.
* A CD is 12cm wide
* The hole in the CD can contain a 1cm square
* A foot is about 30cm. A metric desk ruler is typically 30cm long.
=> an inch is about 2.5cm.
=> 10cm is about 4 inces
=> 1m is about 40inches
* A yard is about a meter
=> There are about 3 feet to a meter
=> A fathom is almost 2 meters
* An imperial mile is about one and a half kilometer
* A league is almost exactly 5555m.
* A league is roughly five and a half kilometers
* For typical oven temereatures Fahrenheit is roughly Celsius * 2
This is less than 10% off from 150C through 300C, but possibly not exact
enough for sensitive baked goods.
* For typical weather temperatures, don't even bother beyond some selcted
datapoints, choose the ones you feel are handy:
F and C equal. Awfully, fiercely cold weather, but can be found:
-40F = -40C
Temperature of a good home freezer. Skiing starts getting chilly:
0F = -18C
Reliably thaw-free. Lasting good skiing conditions:
25F = -4C
Water freezes/melts:
32F = 0C
Maximum density of water, commonly the temp of water below the ice:
39F = 4C
Standard "room temperature" in chemistry. A bit too cold for T-shirts though.
68F = 20C
Perfect balmy weather IMO, but then I am a northerner:
77F = 25C
Body temperature, or bloody hot weather:
100F = 37C
I can't really grasp how far a kilometre or mile is
If you do any walking, running, or cycling: measure your most common route on
a map in kilometers or miles, that should give you a very intuitive scale on
those.
And remember: Google is your friend! You can type straight in stuff like:
"2.4 us pints in l"
You are also forgetting cocaine by the kee, and nine-millimeter guns.
Umm, the question I was answering was one about whether unions are or are still likely to be important for workers rightis.
I completely agree that open ballots are evil. Provide, that is, that sufficient energy is put into eliminating the other types of cheating that become possible when voting is secret.
I'm very happy for you and your benevolent new owners, but it would not take long to find a very long list of similar cases where employee objections are routinely ignored.
I know a badly run company. Companies are evil.
What exactly are you trying so clumsily to express?
At this point (in the U.S., I don't know about the UK), many of the worker protections are codified as law,
How did that come to be? How long do you think those laws would last under conservative government if the unions were gone?
and there is much greater recognition from employers that employees are an expensive resource, and that safety is often cheaper than training someone new.
Are you joking? This is supposed to be the sole drive for safety? What if somehow that equation changes? What if you're in a line of business where it does not work that way?
I don't consider unions a panacea either, but I do think a lot more people would be better off as members than currently are.
There will always be people who, as you say, are better off on their own. But most of the people who think they are in that group only think so because they haven't chanced to find out yet.
That unions were the mechanism that helped bring about safe working conditions and better wages doesn't mean that they were the only possible mechanism, just that they were the mechanism that became part of history.
Yeah, well, if they're the only mechanism in recorded history to achieve that in any significant way, that might be a good reason to take some note. Wouldn't it at least be a good idea to work out in very clear terms what other mechanisms are to take over and how and why they are likely to work, before kicking out the only thing we know works?
Their loyalty is to the union, NOT the company that actually pays them.
Why might that be, do you think?
Have you checked which language flash is scripted with these days?
With the new javscript revision, the main difference will be the graphics library.
That is admittedly important, but canvas+dom will enable quite a few nice things.
Bananas? Oranges?
How about we start with some quality... apples?
This research team is one of the many other ones
Whoah, we're talking seriously reality-twisting science here.
Everything was very gender neutral,
I don't believe you. Not claiming they would have been alike had you managed to, but I believe our cultural expectations run way deeper than can be suppressed simply through willpower.
Did they receive the same level and speed of attention when they cried? Absolutely no difference in what they were expected to endure? How about compliments on clothes, hair, looks, and cuteness? Rewards and expectations for bravery, endurance, humor, physical achievement, intellectual achievement, noise, talking?
All exactly equal?
I've never seen anyone achieve that.
There's lots more than dolls and pink clothes
that tell toddlers what is expected of them. I don't believe it explains all the differences, but it certainly amplifies them.