I get the same thing... And they all come out of the same pool. Management knows I am taking 19 days off work this year. They don't care if I'm sick for 19 days, or take a 4 week vacation, or any combination thereof.
But you can equate the cost of fighting/avoiding the spam with the cost of preventing the loss of some number of other lives. If you take the $3B that this man cost America this year and spend it on police and/or hospitals, you would certainly save a significant number of lives.
At a small non-tech company with about a hundred computers and users, I was the whole IT department. I would say that I probably spent 2-4 hours per week dealing with spam. That included tweaking our spam filters, maintaining SPF entries and monitoring third party blacklists for our domains, helping users mitigate spam that reached their inbox, tracking down false positives, etc. If my experience was typical, then for 100M working adults with computers in America, there are 1M people like me spending 2-4M hours per week on the problem. Let's call that 150M hours per year, which, at even minimum wage, is $1.5B per year. There, a half-assed extrapolation for you:)
But there is no way to "moderate it +1". You only get to select the description of the type of moderation you are applying, you don't have control over the +/-.
People didn't want tablets and PDAs because of a lack of software. Apple made a PDA and then a tablet with very little software available for them. Apple fanboys bought them, wrote software, and now there's a product that other people want.
What can you[1] do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago?
[1] A hypothetical version of yourself who is not biased against anything that doesn't have a little white apple stenciled on it. I know, paying twice as much for the same hardware gives you a feeling of superiority that makes you happy, so you ENJOY owning apple products, but that position makes the whole debate moot.
I hear this sort of response occasionally. I'm forced to ask if you've used a beginner-friendly distro of linux in the last few years? There are distros where you can't even get to a command line. Nothing but pretty buttons and touch interfaces, widgets you can drag around, docks, etc.
What? There were $300-500 tablets five years ago, effectively x86 laptops with no keyboard and a resistive touchscreen. And there were PDAs cheaper than that, offering the same sort of form factor as the iPhone/iTouch.
Again, the market took off because Apple is a marketing company. They created a market where there wasn't one, by convincing people to buy a product that no one else had convinced people to buy before.
What can you do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago? Or, if you don't want a challenge that hard, what is easier?
You are positing a person who can handle the app store on their own, but couldn't handle any of a dozen all-GUI package managers for linux, with a tablet-oriented distro (such as the ones that run on PDAs, or Android). I believe this is false. Apple succeeded because of marketing, not because of superiority of their product.
I've paid $5000 to take course A and $5000 to take course B, and halfway through the semester I find out that course A requires a 3-day camping trip at the same time that course B requires an crunch-time project and in-class presentation. It is whining for me to complain, or demand a tuition refund and/or transcript redaction, when I cannot complete both courses?
Without such documents, a student can't risk taking a full semester of "hard" courses, because all of them might assign mutually incompatible projects during the same part of the semester. Or, even worse, might require trips (foreign language courses, wildlife and nature course, etc) that overlap.
Your idea of an STD does not match that of the majority of sexually active adults, at least in my part of the world. Most people consider sex-or-blood transmittable diseases (such as HIV) to be STDs. Many, possibly most, consider sex-or-kissing transmittable diseases (such as Herpes) to be STDs.
I've always been curious, mostly as a fan of zombie movies... What common ailments are sexually transmittable? Can you give someone a cold by having sex with them? The flu? Hemorrhagic fevor? etc.
At Vcar=Vwind, with arbitrarily low rolling friction, and without coupling the wheels to the propeller, there is no force acting on the car.
A 1000kg car moving at 100m/s with a tailwind of 100m/s (that is, 0m/s relative to the car) applies a braking force of 1000N against the ground. That braking produces power proportional to the difference in velocity of the car and the ground. That power is applied to the propeller (in this case, nearly perfectly, by a drive train, but if it helps you can pretend it was converted to electricity by a generator at the wheels then back to thrust by a motor on the propeller). At an airspeed of zero, how much thrust (accelerating force) will that of power applied to a propeller produce?
I think that in answering that question, you will discover why all of the little bits of friction along the way are important, but there is a wide gap between the lowest friction we can produce and the highest friction at which acceleration still happens. Once you accelerate to Vcar>Vwind then wind resistance becomes an issue, which also affects your top speed, but at Vcar=Vwind there is no wind resistance.
Imagine that the device has a transmission that is disengaged during initial acceleration[1]. At the point you describe, where the vehicle is traveling at the same speed as the wind, and thus the relative windspeed is zero, you engage the wheels to the propeller with a gearing such that the wheels turning at [windspeed] cause the propeller to turn at [windspeed*110%]. The wheels will apply a braking effect to the vehicle of force X, and the propeller will apply an accelerating force Y. Y>X for a small but practical range of gearing and friction values.
[1] The transmission is not required because the device operates in a physical feedback loop. If you didn't care about the inertia of the prop driving the wheels in some cases you could even do without the one-way drive bracket that NALSA installed.
The argument put forward in the suit is that restricting the offerings to only MS products, regardless of who the middleman is, amounts to a single-source RFQ. I think this argument has merit, since no matter who wins the contract MS will get the majority of the money.
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You missed the part where she didn't want to have sex without a condom. So far no one has claimed that that is untrue.
You're saying he should self censor when he offers the govt a chance to censor and they decline?
If you think there's nothing wrong with doing things that upset your wife, at least half of your relationship has issues.
I get the same thing... And they all come out of the same pool. Management knows I am taking 19 days off work this year. They don't care if I'm sick for 19 days, or take a 4 week vacation, or any combination thereof.
But you can equate the cost of fighting/avoiding the spam with the cost of preventing the loss of some number of other lives.
If you take the $3B that this man cost America this year and spend it on police and/or hospitals, you would certainly save a significant number of lives.
At a small non-tech company with about a hundred computers and users, I was the whole IT department. I would say that I probably spent 2-4 hours per week dealing with spam. That included tweaking our spam filters, maintaining SPF entries and monitoring third party blacklists for our domains, helping users mitigate spam that reached their inbox, tracking down false positives, etc. :)
If my experience was typical, then for 100M working adults with computers in America, there are 1M people like me spending 2-4M hours per week on the problem. Let's call that 150M hours per year, which, at even minimum wage, is $1.5B per year.
There, a half-assed extrapolation for you
But there is no way to "moderate it +1". You only get to select the description of the type of moderation you are applying, you don't have control over the +/-.
Why do people say "+N [Moderation]"? I have Funny set to -3, so "+1 Funny" makes no sense to me.
People didn't want tablets and PDAs because of a lack of software. Apple made a PDA and then a tablet with very little software available for them. Apple fanboys bought them, wrote software, and now there's a product that other people want.
I agree, re weight. What you are/were probably looking for, in marketing terminology, is a "slate" instead of a "tablet".
What can you[1] do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago?
[1] A hypothetical version of yourself who is not biased against anything that doesn't have a little white apple stenciled on it. I know, paying twice as much for the same hardware gives you a feeling of superiority that makes you happy, so you ENJOY owning apple products, but that position makes the whole debate moot.
I hear this sort of response occasionally. I'm forced to ask if you've used a beginner-friendly distro of linux in the last few years? There are distros where you can't even get to a command line. Nothing but pretty buttons and touch interfaces, widgets you can drag around, docks, etc.
What? There were $300-500 tablets five years ago, effectively x86 laptops with no keyboard and a resistive touchscreen. And there were PDAs cheaper than that, offering the same sort of form factor as the iPhone/iTouch.
Again, the market took off because Apple is a marketing company. They created a market where there wasn't one, by convincing people to buy a product that no one else had convinced people to buy before.
Simplicity and seamlessness seems to describe classic PDAs to a much greater degree than iDevices
What can you do with an iPad that I can't do with linux on any other tablet from 5 years ago? Or, if you don't want a challenge that hard, what is easier?
You are positing a person who can handle the app store on their own, but couldn't handle any of a dozen all-GUI package managers for linux, with a tablet-oriented distro (such as the ones that run on PDAs, or Android). I believe this is false. Apple succeeded because of marketing, not because of superiority of their product.
I've paid $5000 to take course A and $5000 to take course B, and halfway through the semester I find out that course A requires a 3-day camping trip at the same time that course B requires an crunch-time project and in-class presentation. It is whining for me to complain, or demand a tuition refund and/or transcript redaction, when I cannot complete both courses?
Without such documents, a student can't risk taking a full semester of "hard" courses, because all of them might assign mutually incompatible projects during the same part of the semester. Or, even worse, might require trips (foreign language courses, wildlife and nature course, etc) that overlap.
I like this plan. I'm in, if the departure point is somewhere in the southeast USA.
Your idea of an STD does not match that of the majority of sexually active adults, at least in my part of the world. Most people consider sex-or-blood transmittable diseases (such as HIV) to be STDs. Many, possibly most, consider sex-or-kissing transmittable diseases (such as Herpes) to be STDs.
If you buy a game (or anything else), and it's broken, take it back.
I've always been curious, mostly as a fan of zombie movies... What common ailments are sexually transmittable? Can you give someone a cold by having sex with them? The flu? Hemorrhagic fevor? etc.
At Vcar=Vwind, with arbitrarily low rolling friction, and without coupling the wheels to the propeller, there is no force acting on the car.
A 1000kg car moving at 100m/s with a tailwind of 100m/s (that is, 0m/s relative to the car) applies a braking force of 1000N against the ground. That braking produces power proportional to the difference in velocity of the car and the ground. That power is applied to the propeller (in this case, nearly perfectly, by a drive train, but if it helps you can pretend it was converted to electricity by a generator at the wheels then back to thrust by a motor on the propeller). At an airspeed of zero, how much thrust (accelerating force) will that of power applied to a propeller produce?
I think that in answering that question, you will discover why all of the little bits of friction along the way are important, but there is a wide gap between the lowest friction we can produce and the highest friction at which acceleration still happens. Once you accelerate to Vcar>Vwind then wind resistance becomes an issue, which also affects your top speed, but at Vcar=Vwind there is no wind resistance.
Imagine that the device has a transmission that is disengaged during initial acceleration[1]. At the point you describe, where the vehicle is traveling at the same speed as the wind, and thus the relative windspeed is zero, you engage the wheels to the propeller with a gearing such that the wheels turning at [windspeed] cause the propeller to turn at [windspeed*110%]. The wheels will apply a braking effect to the vehicle of force X, and the propeller will apply an accelerating force Y. Y>X for a small but practical range of gearing and friction values.
[1] The transmission is not required because the device operates in a physical feedback loop. If you didn't care about the inertia of the prop driving the wheels in some cases you could even do without the one-way drive bracket that NALSA installed.
The argument put forward in the suit is that restricting the offerings to only MS products, regardless of who the middleman is, amounts to a single-source RFQ. I think this argument has merit, since no matter who wins the contract MS will get the majority of the money.