Before Xerox rating agencies would charge investment banks for copies of their data. But once Xerox copying machines came out, the rating agencies feared that they would only have one customer and investment banks would just make copies of the data and pass it around.
The problem with that assumption was that it would be good enough for banks. But that type of data needs to be up to date to be effective, can't pass around 10 year old files, or even 6 month old - someone could suddenly become a bad investment due to life problems. I think, if it was that big of an expense, that the rating agencies were gouging, that the major banks would simply have combined together and chartered their own rating agency.
Goddamn I like Tray and Matt but I hated the man bear pig legacy they stuck on Gore (although there is enough wrong with that guy).
Look, the human body is a massively complex thing, but we can still say that calorines in > calories spent it = weight gain. So yes, something like the climate is complex, but the green house effect isn't... and climate change scientists are concerned about "forcings", that is, if everything else is equal, what is forcing the climate to change.
We've been measuring arctic ice the late 70s. It's at it's maximum in March, melts during the summer, and sees it's minimum in September. 2012 was the record year we had so far for the LEAST amount of artic ice. 2007 has second place and 2011 has 3rd. This year we have more than 2012. This was expected among scientists because of something called regression towards the mean. That concept basically says when an extreme outlier event occurs, we expect the next event to be closer to the average. Basically, the entire hoopla is about playing math games to appear more impressive than it is.
When the story came out, it was premature the typical September lowpoint, so don't expect the 60% figure to quite hold that high, but it is higher than last year none the less. However, you can see it's still well below 00s average and that every decade has since the measurements started have less and less ice.
So there you have it? Maybe the heat is going into the oceans? Then melting the poles as the currents do a good job of distributing the equator heat around via currents. The ice melts, breaks off whatever, and like icecubes in a warm drink, cool it down.... until there is no ice left?
Come on, what is with the propraganda here? Last year was an obsolute low point in Arctic Ice extent.... and we get stories of so called "rebounds"? Just look at the graph and tell me that it trend isn't clear.
Oh, is that based on the Time news cover back then? That's cute. I also get all my knowledge of those devious "hackers" from the mainstream media as well.
Survey of 68 Scientific Studies from 1965 to 1979, 10% predicted cooling, 62% predicted warming, 28% had no stance. Today, more than 97% scientist agree on warming.
I believe mythbusters showed how trivial it was to bypass fingerprint protections by making your own "finger" from said prints? (This time on an electronic door lock).
those who study mass shootings say they are not becoming more common.
"There is no pattern, there is no increase," says criminologist James Allen Fox of Boston's Northeastern University, who has been studying the subject since the 1980s, spurred by a rash of mass shootings in post offices.
The random mass shootings that get the most media attention are the rarest, Fox says. Most people who die of bullet wounds knew the identity of their killer....
Grant Duwe, a criminologist with the Minnesota Department of Corrections who has written a history of mass murders in America, said that while mass shootings rose between the 1960s and the 1990s, they actually dropped in the 2000s. And mass killings actually reached their peak in 1929, according to his data. He estimates that there were 32 in the 1980s, 42 in the 1990s and 26 in the first decade of the century.
In the mean time and as a developer, I have no use for SSD in my desktop system.
Dude, you don't know what you're missing. I use both, HDDs are now my data drives for archives, and SSDs are my primary boot drives and the data I'm immediately working on. I'm glad I'm working on HDDs anymore.
I never said it was. Hence, saying that even some 40-50s year old (vs this 96 yo) don't use computers.
But there is definitely several generational gaps or cutoffs at play, from where computers were a luxury/novelty to something optional to something necessary.
I don't count the average American person today being able to use a manual transmission for much the same reason.
To be fair, I know people in their 40s and 50s that don't even know how to email. Computers and their connections can be a daunting things, especially if you just didn't grow up with it or have a kid around to teach you and fix things. If tech competence were common, all those overpriced computer repair shops wouldn't be around.
Plus if the guy was running a business sucessfully, there probably wasn't all that much personal incentive for him to learn although Computers benefit the elderly greatly.
Traditional disks are STILL about 10x the capacity and 1/10th the price-per-capacity of SSDs, as they have been since they arrived.
We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back: Slashdot comment system for Drupal
But one of the things I stumbled upon trying to learn some asian languages is the logographic writing. Unlike our alphabet, where you can sound it out, in logographic systems you either know the 1 of many thousands of symbols or you don't. Which is why in Japanese writing, particularly geared for younger folk, the more advanced kanji (for that age group) usually has kana (a type of phonographic alphabet) over the Kanji, so they can sound out the words. Don't know how it works in Chinese.
Anyway, a long while back I was watching what I thought was a Jackie Chan movie as touted by Redbox "Looking for Jackie" which was really just a few minutes of him and a story of a 15y/o circa 10th grader idolizing him and trying to find him. The kid had "bad" grades, particularly in Chinese, bad here being Cs. It was essentially an afterschool special for kids. Anyway, one scene in the movie was that he was in a city and some tourist asked him to read a name off a map and he couldn't do it or any of the names in fact.
Idk how realistic that is, but it made me question the writing systems of the country that a 10th grader with "bad" grades had problems I think no 5th grader with normal grades would have. Growing up, my reading reinforced my writing and my speaking. I'm sure without it, I would be relegated to speak as badly as some of the people around me, which in a big country, especially in rural area, probably would decline quickly to some backwood dialect.
In fact, I think the communists in the 1960-1970s toyed with the idea of dropping the traditionally written language in favor of romanization as an official reform but it never quite got the push it needed.
I don't think this will enable a net increase in jobs, quite the opposite.
But that isn't a bad thing. In the far future, few people might have jobs. We'll have occupations, things that occupy us. But jobs? Idk.
I think it's a good thing when computers take mundane tasts out of human's hands. Is it good for truck drivers? Not in the short term. But there is no way to get from here to there without someone experiencing pain, otherwise we'll still be in the world where we pick cotton by hand, for instance, because of the fear that a machine will take away jobs.
It's delusional because instead of following the advice of "When in Rome" and minimize wasted time, you advocate all this do-gooder shit and when some shit results and hope for the best but unlikely result.
You don't have to waste any time in court... you have their driver's information
HAHAHAHA! I can't believe you're being modded up with this delusional advice. If they don't have insurance, and it's a fender bender as you say, they will try to drive away. I have seen it happen before.
Thanks for the fairy tale version of events though.
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Stating the app is only for entertainment/educational purposes only.
The problem with that assumption was that it would be good enough for banks. But that type of data needs to be up to date to be effective, can't pass around 10 year old files, or even 6 month old - someone could suddenly become a bad investment due to life problems. I think, if it was that big of an expense, that the rating agencies were gouging, that the major banks would simply have combined together and chartered their own rating agency.
Yeah, that really stuck.
Slashfooter? What the heck are you talking about?
If it's human, it's biased.
Citation?
Goddamn I like Tray and Matt but I hated the man bear pig legacy they stuck on Gore (although there is enough wrong with that guy).
Look, the human body is a massively complex thing, but we can still say that calorines in > calories spent it = weight gain. So yes, something like the climate is complex, but the green house effect isn't... and climate change scientists are concerned about "forcings", that is, if everything else is equal, what is forcing the climate to change.
Also, the inconvenient truth was largely accurate:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/al-gore-inconvenient-truth-errors.htm
Just a few days ago, there was a story how the ice in the arctic "rebounded" 60%.
The real story is in this graph:
http://postimg.org/image/hcadakghv/
We've been measuring arctic ice the late 70s. It's at it's maximum in March, melts during the summer, and sees it's minimum in September. 2012 was the record year we had so far for the LEAST amount of artic ice. 2007 has second place and 2011 has 3rd. This year we have more than 2012. This was expected among scientists because of something called regression towards the mean. That concept basically says when an extreme outlier event occurs, we expect the next event to be closer to the average. Basically, the entire hoopla is about playing math games to appear more impressive than it is.
When the story came out, it was premature the typical September lowpoint, so don't expect the 60% figure to quite hold that high, but it is higher than last year none the less. However, you can see it's still well below 00s average and that every decade has since the measurements started have less and less ice.
So there you have it? Maybe the heat is going into the oceans? Then melting the poles as the currents do a good job of distributing the equator heat around via currents. The ice melts, breaks off whatever, and like icecubes in a warm drink, cool it down.... until there is no ice left?
Come on, what is with the propraganda here? Last year was an obsolute low point in Arctic Ice extent.... and we get stories of so called "rebounds"? Just look at the graph and tell me that it trend isn't clear.
Oh, is that based on the Time news cover back then? That's cute. I also get all my knowledge of those devious "hackers" from the mainstream media as well.
Now for real science:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s.htm
Survey of 68 Scientific Studies from 1965 to 1979, 10% predicted cooling, 62% predicted warming, 28% had no stance. Today, more than 97% scientist agree on warming.
That your fingerprints are all over your phones.
I believe mythbusters showed how trivial it was to bypass fingerprint protections by making your own "finger" from said prints? (This time on an electronic door lock).
Please don't.
Just pardon him and stop wasting government time and taxpayer money and frivolous dog and pony shows.
I feel the same way about Plan 9 / Inferno.
http://reason.com/blog/2012/12/17/are-mass-shootings-becoming-more-common
http://www.thesurvivalistblog.net/build-your-own-faraday-cage-heres-how/
Idk about 4TB, but you can get a 1TB system for $635.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147251
Dude, you don't know what you're missing. I use both, HDDs are now my data drives for archives, and SSDs are my primary boot drives and the data I'm immediately working on. I'm glad I'm working on HDDs anymore.
I never said it was. Hence, saying that even some 40-50s year old (vs this 96 yo) don't use computers.
But there is definitely several generational gaps or cutoffs at play, from where computers were a luxury/novelty to something optional to something necessary.
I don't count the average American person today being able to use a manual transmission for much the same reason.
To be fair, I know people in their 40s and 50s that don't even know how to email. Computers and their connections can be a daunting things, especially if you just didn't grow up with it or have a kid around to teach you and fix things. If tech competence were common, all those overpriced computer repair shops wouldn't be around.
Plus if the guy was running a business sucessfully, there probably wasn't all that much personal incentive for him to learn although Computers benefit the elderly greatly.
We don't have 10 years of history of SSDs, but we do have of flash which are obviously closely related. 10 years back:
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Flash at around 128MB @$50.
And HDD at around 160GB @150.
Today it's flash around 128 @$55.
And HDD at 3TB @$150.
1024x increase in flash for the same price point. 18.75 increase in HDD capacity for the same price point.
I decided to see the halfway point, in 2008:
Flash at 16GB @ $55
HDD at 1TB @ $140
8x growth from flash, paltry 3x from HDD in 5 years.
Both seem to be slowing but Flash seems like it going to be stronger and the winner eventually.
And makes this year look good in comparison but the overall trend is still downwards.
What exactly was the crime here though?
Sounds like a blatant 1st amendment breach.
But one of the things I stumbled upon trying to learn some asian languages is the logographic writing. Unlike our alphabet, where you can sound it out, in logographic systems you either know the 1 of many thousands of symbols or you don't. Which is why in Japanese writing, particularly geared for younger folk, the more advanced kanji (for that age group) usually has kana (a type of phonographic alphabet) over the Kanji, so they can sound out the words. Don't know how it works in Chinese.
Anyway, a long while back I was watching what I thought was a Jackie Chan movie as touted by Redbox "Looking for Jackie" which was really just a few minutes of him and a story of a 15y/o circa 10th grader idolizing him and trying to find him. The kid had "bad" grades, particularly in Chinese, bad here being Cs. It was essentially an afterschool special for kids. Anyway, one scene in the movie was that he was in a city and some tourist asked him to read a name off a map and he couldn't do it or any of the names in fact.
Idk how realistic that is, but it made me question the writing systems of the country that a 10th grader with "bad" grades had problems I think no 5th grader with normal grades would have. Growing up, my reading reinforced my writing and my speaking. I'm sure without it, I would be relegated to speak as badly as some of the people around me, which in a big country, especially in rural area, probably would decline quickly to some backwood dialect.
In fact, I think the communists in the 1960-1970s toyed with the idea of dropping the traditionally written language in favor of romanization as an official reform but it never quite got the push it needed.
Preaches the anonymous coward.
Okay, j/k.
But did they name it after John McCain or Sarah Palin?
I don't think this will enable a net increase in jobs, quite the opposite.
But that isn't a bad thing. In the far future, few people might have jobs. We'll have occupations, things that occupy us. But jobs? Idk.
I think it's a good thing when computers take mundane tasts out of human's hands. Is it good for truck drivers? Not in the short term. But there is no way to get from here to there without someone experiencing pain, otherwise we'll still be in the world where we pick cotton by hand, for instance, because of the fear that a machine will take away jobs.
It's delusional because instead of following the advice of "When in Rome" and minimize wasted time, you advocate all this do-gooder shit and when some shit results and hope for the best but unlikely result.
HAHAHAHA! I can't believe you're being modded up with this delusional advice. If they don't have insurance, and it's a fender bender as you say, they will try to drive away. I have seen it happen before.
Thanks for the fairy tale version of events though.