You can call it an eye-watering markup, or you can call it a fairly modest fee for twenty years' rent on storage space, plus the testing to make sure it still works as advertised...
Well, my phone today blows away all kinds of serious desktops from a while back... but try running a deep fractal rendering program at 60 fps even today.
Yeah, it's not completely insane to think that a really brilliant fractal technique could do some amazing lossy compression, but the amount of CPU required to encode and render it would be insane.
The editorial page leans fairly Republican. The actual reportage is substantially more liberal - though definitely in the Bloomberg/Clinton rather than the Sanders manner.
OTOH, some of us are in the fingerprint database anyway (work in healthcare). They can already do this to me, so I might as well enjoy the benefits. It's not that hard to wipe your stored fingerprints before going through a checkpoint and reprogram them later. I ended up getting Global Entry (Trusted Traveler is included, I always get the PreCheck line) and a concealed carry permit.
Typically, they are what makes up the ready-to-go stuff. Those cut up apples? They had a brown spot on one side, so no sale, but the other half is just fine. The rotisserie chickens? All the ones that were going to have to be marked down for quick sale end up there. The chicken salad? That's yesterday's rotisserie chicken. Supermarkets recycle a lot.
It's an injectable, not an oral consumable. So, chemically, it's no big deal, but it has to be produced in an FDA-licensed factory to guarantee sterility. Go ahead and try to repeal that, and you'll have thousands of people telling you that drug companies want to sell arsenic-laden rat dung as medicine, and the only thing holding them back is the FDA, so why do you want to kill children? It's not entirely wrong, but it's way overblown, and nobody can measure how many people die because the FDA didn't approve a drug that might have helped them, or (as in this case) because treatment was delayed due to shortages.
It's (((Zionist Jews))), FWIW, but mostly I just want to ask who the hell Vindoor is. Otherwise, complete agreement. Though you did forget to mention how HIV ties in. It's super secret!
Treason is the only crime whose definition is part of the US Constitution. There are a horde of lesser offenses under which someone who has committed treasonous acts might be convicted, but a conviction for treason itself requires either a confession in open court, or two eyewitnesses to the same overt act of treason. Stands to reason that a bunch of people who had recently rebelled against the authority of King and Parliament would be a bit touchy about the definition of "treason".
Regardless of what is wrong with public schools, a lack of funding is not the root of it. We're talking about something that has not significantly changed since I graduated high school over twenty years ago - less than $10/year/device, and said device can be an exam tool for several students per day (depending on how many classes a day are scheduled). If you coordinate test days among teachers, you could even share the calculators among different classes - chemistry on Monday, physics on Tuesday, algebra on Wednesday...
It's been a long time since I used one of those, but they weren't spitting out answers "instantly" when I did. Probably a reasonable compromise with battery life, but complex graphs really took a while.
The simple solution is this: if you're going to allow calculators at all during tests, then you use a batch of them (with bright orange cases) that are all owned by the school and fully reset after each use. Kids can use whatever they want for their homework, but they have to use those for the test.
At the beginning of the 80's, we had stagflation going on. The economy was a mess. Inflation was out of control. Volcker made the very hard decision to crush it - and the recession that ensued was horrible. Compare it to the 50's and 60's, and we're at around the same level of U3 now that they had at the worst of their recessions - and labor force participation is still declining even as the economy recovers. That's not a good thing.
His workers were paid enough to afford to buy the cars they were building.
But that's not why he got rich. He paid what he did in order to get the best workers. So, yeah, if you can identify the most productive workers in society, and use higher wages to get them all working for you, you will absolutely be well-positioned to beat your competitors. That's not the same as saying that raising the general level of wages will somehow automatically increase productivity. The best workers aren't going to stick around and deal with your demanding schedule if they can get the same amount of money for less work at another business down the street.
I've held out against getting an iPhone for years now, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to the 8 when it comes out. Nexus 6P is a decent phone, and I really do prefer the Android way of doing things, but the fact that Google is killing upgrades at exactly the two-year mark on a flagship phone is bullshit.
It doesn't cost very much (mine is $20/mo), it's a redundant method of being contacted that works even when the power is out, and the call quality is much, much better than my cell phone (weak service area). And you have a phone number that you can give out to people that doesn't hit your cell phone.
I use my cell phone for work. It's critical for that. I don't need people spamming me. If you spam my landline? Well, for starters, it doesn't take texts, so those fall into the bit bucket. They almost never leave a message, so I don't even have to go to the tiny trouble of deleting those. Srsly, young people, get a good-quality cordless phone system with answering machine. Hook it up to VOIP if you want (insanely cheap; the last VOIP service I used was something like $3/mo for the number and 1 cent per minute for outgoing calls), or get something with a little more redundancy. When you do make a call, you'll find it much more pleasant. Heck, get a Panasonic with Link2Cell even if you don't have another line - it's just so much nicer to use a real phone to make calls when you need to.
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You can call it an eye-watering markup, or you can call it a fairly modest fee for twenty years' rent on storage space, plus the testing to make sure it still works as advertised...
Yeah, I think it's the render side that kills this.
Well, my phone today blows away all kinds of serious desktops from a while back... but try running a deep fractal rendering program at 60 fps even today.
Yeah, it's not completely insane to think that a really brilliant fractal technique could do some amazing lossy compression, but the amount of CPU required to encode and render it would be insane.
The editorial page leans fairly Republican. The actual reportage is substantially more liberal - though definitely in the Bloomberg/Clinton rather than the Sanders manner.
The borderline is birth ca. 1980. My wife was born in 1977, her brother in 1981. Culturally, she is Gen X, he is Gen Y/millenial.
OTOH, some of us are in the fingerprint database anyway (work in healthcare). They can already do this to me, so I might as well enjoy the benefits. It's not that hard to wipe your stored fingerprints before going through a checkpoint and reprogram them later. I ended up getting Global Entry (Trusted Traveler is included, I always get the PreCheck line) and a concealed carry permit.
Typically, they are what makes up the ready-to-go stuff. Those cut up apples? They had a brown spot on one side, so no sale, but the other half is just fine. The rotisserie chickens? All the ones that were going to have to be marked down for quick sale end up there. The chicken salad? That's yesterday's rotisserie chicken. Supermarkets recycle a lot.
Botulism causes cans to expand. Dents are just dents.
No, he bought the company after the name was already established.
It's an injectable, not an oral consumable. So, chemically, it's no big deal, but it has to be produced in an FDA-licensed factory to guarantee sterility. Go ahead and try to repeal that, and you'll have thousands of people telling you that drug companies want to sell arsenic-laden rat dung as medicine, and the only thing holding them back is the FDA, so why do you want to kill children? It's not entirely wrong, but it's way overblown, and nobody can measure how many people die because the FDA didn't approve a drug that might have helped them, or (as in this case) because treatment was delayed due to shortages.
4000 lbs for a car isn't really ridiculous. My sedan weighs around 3500 pounds, our SUV is almost 5000. But neither has anything like 808 HP.
It's (((Zionist Jews))), FWIW, but mostly I just want to ask who the hell Vindoor is. Otherwise, complete agreement. Though you did forget to mention how HIV ties in. It's super secret!
Well, it worked. Not my preferred method, but hey, any port in a storm.
Treason is the only crime whose definition is part of the US Constitution. There are a horde of lesser offenses under which someone who has committed treasonous acts might be convicted, but a conviction for treason itself requires either a confession in open court, or two eyewitnesses to the same overt act of treason. Stands to reason that a bunch of people who had recently rebelled against the authority of King and Parliament would be a bit touchy about the definition of "treason".
Regardless of what is wrong with public schools, a lack of funding is not the root of it. We're talking about something that has not significantly changed since I graduated high school over twenty years ago - less than $10/year/device, and said device can be an exam tool for several students per day (depending on how many classes a day are scheduled). If you coordinate test days among teachers, you could even share the calculators among different classes - chemistry on Monday, physics on Tuesday, algebra on Wednesday...
It's been a long time since I used one of those, but they weren't spitting out answers "instantly" when I did. Probably a reasonable compromise with battery life, but complex graphs really took a while.
The TI calculators use, IIRC, a Z80. Pretty underpowered for anything beyond quadratic equations. Great for battery life, though.
The simple solution is this: if you're going to allow calculators at all during tests, then you use a batch of them (with bright orange cases) that are all owned by the school and fully reset after each use. Kids can use whatever they want for their homework, but they have to use those for the test.
At the beginning of the 80's, we had stagflation going on. The economy was a mess. Inflation was out of control. Volcker made the very hard decision to crush it - and the recession that ensued was horrible. Compare it to the 50's and 60's, and we're at around the same level of U3 now that they had at the worst of their recessions - and labor force participation is still declining even as the economy recovers. That's not a good thing.
His workers were paid enough to afford to buy the cars they were building.
But that's not why he got rich. He paid what he did in order to get the best workers. So, yeah, if you can identify the most productive workers in society, and use higher wages to get them all working for you, you will absolutely be well-positioned to beat your competitors. That's not the same as saying that raising the general level of wages will somehow automatically increase productivity. The best workers aren't going to stick around and deal with your demanding schedule if they can get the same amount of money for less work at another business down the street.
I've held out against getting an iPhone for years now, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to go to the 8 when it comes out. Nexus 6P is a decent phone, and I really do prefer the Android way of doing things, but the fact that Google is killing upgrades at exactly the two-year mark on a flagship phone is bullshit.
"Freeway" doesn't mean it's non-toll, it means that it's a limited-access highway with grade separation. Term of art.
It doesn't cost very much (mine is $20/mo), it's a redundant method of being contacted that works even when the power is out, and the call quality is much, much better than my cell phone (weak service area). And you have a phone number that you can give out to people that doesn't hit your cell phone.
I use my cell phone for work. It's critical for that. I don't need people spamming me. If you spam my landline? Well, for starters, it doesn't take texts, so those fall into the bit bucket. They almost never leave a message, so I don't even have to go to the tiny trouble of deleting those. Srsly, young people, get a good-quality cordless phone system with answering machine. Hook it up to VOIP if you want (insanely cheap; the last VOIP service I used was something like $3/mo for the number and 1 cent per minute for outgoing calls), or get something with a little more redundancy. When you do make a call, you'll find it much more pleasant. Heck, get a Panasonic with Link2Cell even if you don't have another line - it's just so much nicer to use a real phone to make calls when you need to.
Oh, man, bringing back some memories there. Too bad there wasn't an ftpd for the NCSA Telnet suite. Would have been really handy in the DOS days.