Fine, but I'd still hope the non-profits play hardball and the city loses money in the long run. Pittsburgh's institutions are not nearly so well endowed as Boston's. If they pass the law, institutions like MIT & Harvard will take an interest in the court case. I'd expect that eventually the courts will decide that taxing the users of the services of non-profits is unconstitutional.
Anyway, Pittsburgh has no reason for existing without those non-profit institutions. I assume the city has just failed to capitalize upon their presence, possibly by not offering tax havens to university incubated start ups, etc. Otoh, this move will embitter the student population, encouraging more to depart Pittsburgh upon graduation.
In fact, all local governments have extremely over bloated budgets from the bubble, that extra money largely flowed into non-essential government spending, but local governments usually threaten to cut essential spending over non-essential, just as an excuse to raise taxes. I'd think the cleanest solution is capping the city budget at existing levels, open classify all departments as essential vs. non-essential, and say that all cuts must effect non-essential twice as much as essential. All these universities instituting tuition hikes should institute similar approaches to cutting costs.
No, not NEMA L15, but similar. I'd say a small conical rubber plug with four ridges that contain the four leads, and the voltage and AC vs DC are `negotiated' through beveled ridges on the outlet and insets on the plug. 100-120v AC only has 2 ridges, 200-240v AC only has 3 ridges, and DC only has 5 ridges. All ridges and insets are placed symmetrically around the outlet and plug, meaning a device that can use 100-240v AC has 3 insets, a device that uses 110v AC or DC has 10 insets, a device that uses all has 30 insets, etc. So all devices use essentially the same smallish plug, either outlet or device may handle the power conversion, but no connection is possible if `negotiations' fail. Also, portable devices should attach the plug to the wall using magnets while some twist lock option exists for non-portable devices. Just one plug to rule them all!:)
Britain's plugs were designed around exceedingly bad home wiring decisions, based upon coper limitation. U.S. homes were wired correctly from the beginning.
You are obviously correct that Americans haven't added obvious safety features over time, blame our WallMart mentality. I also feel like the British plugs have really gone overboard on safety features, blame your nanny state mentality.
I think the only true point made by the article is that Edison was a self aggrandizing twit, and 220V has major advantages over 110V. The British plus is still by far the worst plug in existence for the excessive size alone.
I lived in England for several years, but bought all my equipment in France to have europlugs, and I used French power strips in both my home and office. Britian's electrical system just isn't livable any other way.
Otoh, I guess a British woman has more fat relative to a French woman than a British plug has relative to a French plug.:P
It depends upon your field of endeavor : A mildly talented and moderately hard working technical or business person will achieve considerable financial success during their lifetime. A highly talented and very hard working musician, artist, writer, academic, etc. will not necessarily achieve much success or even recognition. I think the dirty little secret in academia is in how many technical and scientific disciplines this holds too. I guess you can start a series of failed companies too, but that may mean your lacking "business talent."
Skype's front end & brand were sold to eBay for a shit ton of money, but the creators held onto the protocol. Skype's original creators recently threatened suit over the underlying protocol. An open source Skype could redevelop the underlying protocol.
Yes and no, big content is merely destroying thepiratebay "brand".
Internet distribution only threatens CD stores and movie theaters. So music eventually embraced internet distribution, while movie producers cannot so easily detach from their chains.
All the court cases against thepiratebay.org have brought literally millions more people to piracy! All those people who now realize that music and movies are free and convenient online will find the new sites. yey!:) I'm expect all these new pirates hurt the media company stock holders more than merely ignoring thepiratebay, but stock holders are largely sheep.
Otoh, media company CEOs must maintain relative or apparent market dominance to retain their jobs. So popular pirate brands directly threaten the media company CEOs control over the industry.
Imagine how many CEOs would lose their jobs if thepiratebay had pulled off a multibillion dollar IPO, bought the Swedish courts themselves, and created their own promotional framework for media.
I just love how all the Metallica fans derided the pop "hair metal" bands, but ultimately Metalica showed themselves as the ultimate "hair metal" band, i.e. they lost all their talent when they cut off their hair!
Except Apple has always been fashion darling, not a tech darling. Indeed, Apple's technology is always fairly far behind, but Jobs' 1-button obsession does create fashion conscious products. Apple will always find users who'll pay more for fewer features when existing features are presented more fashionably.
I dislike the closed source culture surrounding Apple's computers and strongly dislike the iPhone's restrictions, but Apple's fashion awareness has helped many people. Just look how Apple made incremental back up fashionable. Can you imagine how much time and how many irreplaceable family photo albums that move has saved?
Obama passed a law saying that all federally backed student loan debt is forgiven after like 10 years. I didn't really like the law myself. I felt reducing the payments for current students was more important. But anybody asking these questions, i.e. theodp the o.p., has not even tried using google to find their answer.
Yeah, I felt they should have passed measures aimed at tuition reduction instead, but obviously the original poster had no idea what he was talking about. You're federal student loans will eventually be forgiven.
I think we should draft a proposal for implementing this featuring (1) an NSA run internet authentication mechanism that provides baseline security, (2) any customer of a security company has the right to sue for damages linked to unclear or false promises that commercial security was significantly above the baseline provided for free by the NSA, and (3) individual non-incorporated security contractors are not subject to the additional liability. In other words, any security company loses its most profitable customers, i.e. those whose needs are limited, becomes liable for any "small lies" told by its sales guys, and loses oodls of profitable customers to numerous non-incorporated security contractors.;)
I'd frankly *love* seeing her win over ambiguities in the opt-in framework, i.e. no email tag line offering an opt back out link. I don't think her suffering is necessarily worth $10M, but punitive damages could easily go higher, given Toyota's finances.
I'm spending the year teaching in a poor country. gigapedia.com has rapidshare links for like every undergraduate text book. so all my students get the text book without spending hours at the xerox machine!:)
I'd imagine that you are correct, give people porn breaks like you'd give smoke breaks. But government agencies must keep the Christian wingnuts happy too. Btw, you realize these guys were almost surely appointed by Bush? lol!!!
p.s. I doubt the NSF work is particularly stressful, their main job is giving the money congress gives them to university researchers. I guess things get more stressful when they need to convince congress that university researchers need even more money, but they've massive help from university researchers.:)
Why are all these fools using Amazon's locked-in crappy reader? A Kindle simply isn't suitable for professional work, or even students. iRex iLiad is still the only ereader with *correct* pdf rendering and mark up.
Apple's genius is the 100% consumer glitter. but they have not invented even one new technology.
It took a stack of window over a starry sky before Mac users started using incremental back ups. But, by god, Apple's glitter effects have average computer users benefiting from this ancient technology.
By & large, consumer computer features follow the course : various developer's invent, Apple make it pretty & understandable, and Microsoft deploys it to the world.
By comparison, business features generally taken directly from inventors by Microsoft, who implements them incomprehensibly. But again the business world is happy since they pay for classes on finding the right buttons for the features they actually use.
Apple's lock-in & paranoia keep their computers off the office desk, but simplifies consumers' lives. I think Apple is basically happy selling "consumer electronics" over "business machines". I doubt they could realistically compete with Microsoft's "features for PHBs approach" anyway.
You know, the iPhone will makes a lovely video game platform, just don't use it if your office uses VoIP.
University education has already been made significantly cheaper! The universities are doing it themselves by hiring "adjunct" faculty.
You paid about $5k tuition for each of your freshman semesters, taking calculous, chemistry, english, and history. You had "instructors" for each classes, not professors. Each instructor was paid about $6k for the whole class. TAs are maybe paid slightly more. So the university need only 7 students for each course, the rest is profit.
You can get the same courses for far closer to cost form a community collage, taught by almost equally qualified adjunct instructors. Well, the university must use real professors for more advanced courses. Adjuncts simply won't cut it. So you'll transfer into the university to finish your degree. You still save a bundle.
Why don't you? Easy, social reasons. You'll never meet all the friends & contacts you might have met otherwise.
You can find a major privilege escalation hole in Finder quite easily : http://ask.metafilter.com/131473/Does-this-create-a-local-root-exploit-for-Mac-OS-X-using-Finder Finder isn't setgid but may access any gid!
Yes, tramways are lower speed than highways, and are longer than cars, but we could easily make this work for cars on highways too. Of course, electric cars would still need batteries for local roads which might not be wired.
You could even just forget about purchase price subsidy electric cars and give away the electricity for the first few years, while gas car owners are still paying out the ass.
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Will the BBC join? No! So international news is hopeless. Do people care about local news?
What if google endowed a nonprofit news organization? Or just bought wikinews the rights to use AP feeds?
Fine, but I'd still hope the non-profits play hardball and the city loses money in the long run. Pittsburgh's institutions are not nearly so well endowed as Boston's. If they pass the law, institutions like MIT & Harvard will take an interest in the court case. I'd expect that eventually the courts will decide that taxing the users of the services of non-profits is unconstitutional.
Anyway, Pittsburgh has no reason for existing without those non-profit institutions. I assume the city has just failed to capitalize upon their presence, possibly by not offering tax havens to university incubated start ups, etc. Otoh, this move will embitter the student population, encouraging more to depart Pittsburgh upon graduation.
In fact, all local governments have extremely over bloated budgets from the bubble, that extra money largely flowed into non-essential government spending, but local governments usually threaten to cut essential spending over non-essential, just as an excuse to raise taxes. I'd think the cleanest solution is capping the city budget at existing levels, open classify all departments as essential vs. non-essential, and say that all cuts must effect non-essential twice as much as essential. All these universities instituting tuition hikes should institute similar approaches to cutting costs.
No, not NEMA L15, but similar. I'd say a small conical rubber plug with four ridges that contain the four leads, and the voltage and AC vs DC are `negotiated' through beveled ridges on the outlet and insets on the plug. 100-120v AC only has 2 ridges, 200-240v AC only has 3 ridges, and DC only has 5 ridges. All ridges and insets are placed symmetrically around the outlet and plug, meaning a device that can use 100-240v AC has 3 insets, a device that uses 110v AC or DC has 10 insets, a device that uses all has 30 insets, etc. So all devices use essentially the same smallish plug, either outlet or device may handle the power conversion, but no connection is possible if `negotiations' fail. Also, portable devices should attach the plug to the wall using magnets while some twist lock option exists for non-portable devices. Just one plug to rule them all! :)
Britain's plugs were designed around exceedingly bad home wiring decisions, based upon coper limitation. U.S. homes were wired correctly from the beginning.
You are obviously correct that Americans haven't added obvious safety features over time, blame our WallMart mentality. I also feel like the British plugs have really gone overboard on safety features, blame your nanny state mentality.
I think the only true point made by the article is that Edison was a self aggrandizing twit, and 220V has major advantages over 110V. The British plus is still by far the worst plug in existence for the excessive size alone.
I lived in England for several years, but bought all my equipment in France to have europlugs, and I used French power strips in both my home and office. Britian's electrical system just isn't livable any other way.
Otoh, I guess a British woman has more fat relative to a French woman than a British plug has relative to a French plug. :P
It depends upon your field of endeavor : A mildly talented and moderately hard working technical or business person will achieve considerable financial success during their lifetime. A highly talented and very hard working musician, artist, writer, academic, etc. will not necessarily achieve much success or even recognition. I think the dirty little secret in academia is in how many technical and scientific disciplines this holds too. I guess you can start a series of failed companies too, but that may mean your lacking "business talent."
Napster died quickly because they were based where the copyright moguls already owned all the politicians. TPB required invading a whole country.
Skype's front end & brand were sold to eBay for a shit ton of money, but the creators held onto the protocol. Skype's original creators recently threatened suit over the underlying protocol. An open source Skype could redevelop the underlying protocol.
Yes and no, big content is merely destroying thepiratebay "brand".
Internet distribution only threatens CD stores and movie theaters. So music eventually embraced internet distribution, while movie producers cannot so easily detach from their chains.
All the court cases against thepiratebay.org have brought literally millions more people to piracy! All those people who now realize that music and movies are free and convenient online will find the new sites. yey! :) I'm expect all these new pirates hurt the media company stock holders more than merely ignoring thepiratebay, but stock holders are largely sheep.
Otoh, media company CEOs must maintain relative or apparent market dominance to retain their jobs. So popular pirate brands directly threaten the media company CEOs control over the industry.
Imagine how many CEOs would lose their jobs if thepiratebay had pulled off a multibillion dollar IPO, bought the Swedish courts themselves, and created their own promotional framework for media.
Why not just focus on improving GNUstep?
I just love how all the Metallica fans derided the pop "hair metal" bands, but ultimately Metalica showed themselves as the ultimate "hair metal" band, i.e. they lost all their talent when they cut off their hair!
Except Apple has always been fashion darling, not a tech darling. Indeed, Apple's technology is always fairly far behind, but Jobs' 1-button obsession does create fashion conscious products. Apple will always find users who'll pay more for fewer features when existing features are presented more fashionably.
I dislike the closed source culture surrounding Apple's computers and strongly dislike the iPhone's restrictions, but Apple's fashion awareness has helped many people. Just look how Apple made incremental back up fashionable. Can you imagine how much time and how many irreplaceable family photo albums that move has saved?
You just made my day! mpd looks awesome. Thank you :)
I hate AT&T with a passion, but I despise CDMA even more. :)
Obama passed a law saying that all federally backed student loan debt is forgiven after like 10 years. I didn't really like the law myself. I felt reducing the payments for current students was more important. But anybody asking these questions, i.e. theodp the o.p., has not even tried using google to find their answer.
Search for Income Based Repayment
Yeah, I felt they should have passed measures aimed at tuition reduction instead, but obviously the original poster had no idea what he was talking about. You're federal student loans will eventually be forgiven.
I think we should draft a proposal for implementing this featuring (1) an NSA run internet authentication mechanism that provides baseline security, (2) any customer of a security company has the right to sue for damages linked to unclear or false promises that commercial security was significantly above the baseline provided for free by the NSA, and (3) individual non-incorporated security contractors are not subject to the additional liability. In other words, any security company loses its most profitable customers, i.e. those whose needs are limited, becomes liable for any "small lies" told by its sales guys, and loses oodls of profitable customers to numerous non-incorporated security contractors. ;)
I'd frankly *love* seeing her win over ambiguities in the opt-in framework, i.e. no email tag line offering an opt back out link. I don't think her suffering is necessarily worth $10M, but punitive damages could easily go higher, given Toyota's finances.
I'm spending the year teaching in a poor country. gigapedia.com has rapidshare links for like every undergraduate text book. so all my students get the text book without spending hours at the xerox machine! :)
I'd imagine that you are correct, give people porn breaks like you'd give smoke breaks. But government agencies must keep the Christian wingnuts happy too. Btw, you realize these guys were almost surely appointed by Bush? lol!!!
p.s. I doubt the NSF work is particularly stressful, their main job is giving the money congress gives them to university researchers. I guess things get more stressful when they need to convince congress that university researchers need even more money, but they've massive help from university researchers. :)
Why are all these fools using Amazon's locked-in crappy reader? A Kindle simply isn't suitable for professional work, or even students. iRex iLiad is still the only ereader with *correct* pdf rendering and mark up.
Apple's genius is the 100% consumer glitter. but they have not invented even one new technology.
It took a stack of window over a starry sky before Mac users started using incremental back ups. But, by god, Apple's glitter effects have average computer users benefiting from this ancient technology.
By & large, consumer computer features follow the course : various developer's invent, Apple make it pretty & understandable, and Microsoft deploys it to the world.
By comparison, business features generally taken directly from inventors by Microsoft, who implements them incomprehensibly. But again the business world is happy since they pay for classes on finding the right buttons for the features they actually use.
Apple's lock-in & paranoia keep their computers off the office desk, but simplifies consumers' lives. I think Apple is basically happy selling "consumer electronics" over "business machines". I doubt they could realistically compete with Microsoft's "features for PHBs approach" anyway.
You know, the iPhone will makes a lovely video game platform, just don't use it if your office uses VoIP.
University education has already been made significantly cheaper! The universities are doing it themselves by hiring "adjunct" faculty.
You paid about $5k tuition for each of your freshman semesters, taking calculous, chemistry, english, and history. You had "instructors" for each classes, not professors. Each instructor was paid about $6k for the whole class. TAs are maybe paid slightly more. So the university need only 7 students for each course, the rest is profit.
You can get the same courses for far closer to cost form a community collage, taught by almost equally qualified adjunct instructors. Well, the university must use real professors for more advanced courses. Adjuncts simply won't cut it. So you'll transfer into the university to finish your degree. You still save a bundle.
Why don't you? Easy, social reasons. You'll never meet all the friends & contacts you might have met otherwise.
Yes, these just don't have the following of talk like a pirate day or caps lock day. ;)
You can find a major privilege escalation hole in Finder quite easily :
http://ask.metafilter.com/131473/Does-this-create-a-local-root-exploit-for-Mac-OS-X-using-Finder
Finder isn't setgid but may access any gid!
I've a much better idea : power electric cars using wires embedded in the roadways.
It's already being done for tramways in high pedestrian traffic areas of ancient Euroepan cities, merely to make things prettier.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tramway_de_Bordeaux
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-level_power_supply
Yes, tramways are lower speed than highways, and are longer than cars, but we could easily make this work for cars on highways too. Of course, electric cars would still need batteries for local roads which might not be wired.
You could even just forget about purchase price subsidy electric cars and give away the electricity for the first few years, while gas car owners are still paying out the ass.