I remember someone talking about how they could order lifesavers from webvan with free delivery and they'd actually drop this off in a small packet! And these were the days of 99 cent gas.
I'd guess it should be $20 order minimum. Maybe more.
I wish there were more Aldis around. One thing I noticed about supermarkets is that they make you run around the entire perimeter of the store and then some to get the basics just so you can much more food than intended. An aldi is about 1/6 to 1/9 the size of a modern supermarket I would estimate (1/3 width * 1/3-1/2 depth). There are about 5 aisles but have what I need 90% of the time. Unlike most mom/pops or convenience stores, they're very cheap, even compared to the supermarkets. The cashiers are fast. I can get in and out within 5-10 mins (but they are rather far away). Very little bullshit to put up with.
Online shopping generally has 3 advantages imo. Selection - if the store you are looking at doesn't have it, it's easy to go to the next. Easy price comparison. And information, there are sites generally much more knowlegeable about what they are selling without the dumbass commission-base salesman hassling you.
Offline shopping generally has some advantages. Easy returns, nothing to ship back. The "I want it now!" factor. No registration, pay by cash.
Time spent factor usually lends to the online experience. Although it can make small purchases seem big and make you research them too much.
My gripe with irl shopping in general is that it takes too much time but everything lends to groceries being sold the old way. For me, I'm talking 25 mins just to get there and back, parking, waiting in line for a minimal purchase. More time otherwise. But I do not want to look online for purchases of butter, read reviews on it, or even think about it. I would gladly take delivery from walmart for my staples (eggs, milk, cereal, juice, some frozen items) on a subsciption basis. My brother does this with amazon already for his coffee beans - once a month he gets a package. If I could get the same service once a week without thinking about it (until I need to adjust it or put it on hold due to vacation, etc) I would gladly do so. Even if only spares me one shopping trip a week, it would be worth it.
Driving is not a "privilege". The state cannot revoke your license because the governor or one of his officers just feels like it. It can only be taken under due process of law. That is the difference between a right and a privilege. Privileges can be revoked by the executive (doing what they feel like, not following any legislation.)
"The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by horse drawn carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city can prohibit or permit at will, but a common Right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thompson vs. Smith, 154 SE 579.
Okay, first, Netbooks==Smallish Notebooks. They're nothing different. They are not particularly good for school. No one writes essays during class 99% of the time. I can see instances where a tablet may work but not convinced.
Most of my ideas how education should be reformed don't run along electronic gadgets anyway. I think the textbook racket should be abolished. I think the teachers of a nation or state can come together and make their own thing that would be distributed for free. Just do a wikibooks for arithmetic, trig, history, whatever. How often do these fundamental subjects change? Not that much. Then when they get printed up, go for the Japanese model, where they are split up into 80-120 page booklets so they're good for 6-8 weeks. Make them into disposable so the kids actually own and can write and draw in since they keep in.
I alway despised these huge textbooks, where on average, only 1/3 of it, at best, was used throughout the year. Initimidating, heavy, expensive, and a waste of every year wrapping them in some stupid cover.
Frankly, the future of education will be something like Khan academy, with students learning at their own pace, with the understanding that they have to meet milestones to pass tests or work in groups on projects. An iPad or similiar MAY be useful towards this, but it require planning/coordination on the part of the school and its administration and teachers and not just buying the tablet as the answer in itself.
(I'm also wary of such a relatively expensive item and would wait until it or something like it can be driven down to $100 per student. Yes, yes, OLPC.)
They seem to be more numerous than they were before the Europeans moved into the area, but that's based on pre-Columbus population estimates that may be wildly off. Or not, since their pre-Columbian tech wouldn't support much population at the best of times.
Considering that the population of the US colonies was 2.5M in 1776 (much less 1492) and it being 300M, that's not exactly an achievement to have more people 500 years later.
It wasn't a stupid statement, it was a poorly worded statement.
Holocaust denial is illegal in Germany. So are swastikas, and pretty much anything related to the nazis outside of "bad things, very bad things, happened in the early half of the 20th century". I'm exaggerating but this is fucking slashdot and only a mindless pedant would misinterpret me as badly as you have.
No, what you said is fucking stupid and so is this. Swastikas are not "illegal", the public display for glorification is. If you have old WW2 stuff with symbold, you have to cover up the symbol (like with a sticker). It's not illegal to own. They just do not want the past glorified.
But they don't deny it. They won't block wikipedia or other articles on it. The media can print the symbols (if it isn't for glorification purposes - i.e. a neo-Nazi rag) and examine that time period.
Stop talking out of your ass and then getting mad when called out on it.
I have never got a convincing reason as to why individuals and companies develop iOS applications before Android applications even when Android is clearly more popular than iOS...at least in the USA. Why?
Because iPhone users are actually paying money for the apps.
The app market is expected to exceed 15 billion dollars in revenues. It is estimated that there will be roughly 17.2 billion app downloads worldwide. The iPhone app market is expected to score about one billion in sales, while Android app sales will generate some 100 million dollars.
MSFT has plateaued since the early 00s because people have seen it really can't innovate beyond OS/Office line. The whole Xbox division has lost money to gain it's prominent position this generation of consoles. The Zune was mostly meh. It came out early in tablets/smartphones but despite that couldn't make anything people needed to have.
The day Steve Ballmer steps down is the day that stock will start gaining again. Even better if they get a CEO with an iota of division and the power/desire to kill the bureacracy that is stifling that company. I wonder how much of their workforce are just leeches who have a cushy job that produces little/no value to the company.
I would like to make a counterpoint. I have some animes that came out in the 90s and the quality of the recently released Blu-Rays IS SO MUCH CLEARER. You can do frame by frame comparisons and on the DVD just see endless artifacting and on the Bluray, in addition to that being gone, the text on certain things is much clearer and they did a much better job on the colors. I really love anime on Blu-Ray, just much better.
Besides, I don't see how you're criticism wouldn't apply seeing this movie in the theater or Imax, where besides the resolution, it's blown up many times bigger?
All the major new releases at my walmart are featured in Blu-Ray. The HP movies as well now that the Deathly Hallow's is out. All the Redboxes in my area got Blu-Ray releases alongside the DVD releases now. And the players have gotten cheap finally.
I still only have DVD players but since I only rent now-a-days (or buy the DVDs I want when Redbox sells them for $5 after the rental run is over) so it's rental that will get me to buy a Blu-Ray player. And I'll probably only acquire Blu-Rays if I can help it. I really do like the extra resolution.
I would have gotten a player sooner if HD-DVDs prevailed. I wish they did. It kinda sucks bringing a Blu-Ray to someone's place and find out they only have a DVD player - that's still pretty common. HD-DVDs would have solved that problem by having both formats.... but I guess it was a lost game with the Playstation pushing early sales numbers of this format even if the buyers couldn't care less about Blu-Ray movies at the time.
I guess the malaise is about the whole thing is knowing the next format isn't going to be physical at all and Blu-Ray feels like a stop-gap measure in between then. It won't ever have the impact or ubiquity DVDs did.
is to tell a good story. The concept, no matter how compelling, can't make a story. It's always just the launching pad - some have better foundations than others but the rocket can still fail spectacularly.
The problem with origin stories is that you run the risk is violating what some fans filled in by themselves - it runs counter to their sensibilities and cherished beliefs and what they see in the character. Consider midichlorians as destroying the mysteriousness of the force and making it something rather mundane.
The second problem is that the character may be cool and all that, but isn't the hook to a series. Essentially you're writing a story nobody demands or wants to see. Joey from Friends with his spin-off, for instance.
I think resetting a story constantly, when done maybe 30+years apart, like the new Star Wars, can keep a series fresh and with the times. But doing it with something like Spiderman (which I heard talk of) really just tosses away any attachment the existing audience had rather prematurely - it would be like rebooting HP right after movie 7 in the cynical hope to hook the next wave of children. And then sometimes its time to do some hard work and come up with entirely new characters and stories!
I wonder when these consolidations will stop being a good idea?
Long before this. There definitely needs to be more than 3 HDD manufacturers in the world. I wouldn't even consider 7 an especially healthy number.
Unlike the car market, computer component makers aren't especially under pressure from the used market. Almost any used car the last 40+ years goes highway speeds. Other things are a bonus most of the time. Can't say the same with computers - a drive from 5 years ago is beyond suspect in terms of reliability and often just doesn't cut it in terms of speed and capacity. Other than reliability, the same goes with all other components except maybe monitors and cases/psu.
Continually chiseling down manufacturers is not a good thing. Only thing worse is the CPU market but thankfully arm CPUs became viable for more than dumb phones within the last decade. Small comfort if Intel were to kill AMD but at least an alternate route.
there is no electronic version of it available, it's gonna have to be the Word of God newly etched on tablets for either of us to even consider buying it.
No, God isn't a very good writer. His last work etched on tablet, he couldn't even bother to edit it down. It's like he released his first draft. Even Carlin was able to enact a 10 to 2 reduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEs2nj7iZM
Collaboration only works when you have colleagues of a similiar caliber. If one is a know-nothing mooch who'd fail his ass off otherwise, it's just an ugly extortion of both fellow students and demeaning of the value of a degree.
I think tests should be open book (see my previous post), but they should test your ability to solve problems. Not simply knowing the right people who will let you cheat off their test.
I and many of my professors were of the opinion that memorizing functions and random facts was useless (Hey, didn't Watson just show us this?). What's the point? Won't you have a book in real life? Why not?
I'm of the opinion that math/physics/chemistry tests should be open book. Education should teach you to be able to think and solve problems, not be a walking encyclopedia. That way you can make TOUGHER questions where the student has to recognize the elements of the problems and put it all together to solve it without them being able to complain about the mean professor making them memorize esoteric lists. Put in extraneous information that's just there to distract the people who don't know what they're doing.
Then make the limiting factor is simply TIME. Like a real job. Let the person who needs to google everything dither about, flailing his arms as they only solved 30% of the test question. Trust me, if you weren't paying attention in class in most of these course, the google won't help you unless the question are unerringly simple and straightforward.
Then simply randomize the order of the questions, make extra questions so each class (or class) draws different ones, and allow randomized values for the variables so kids from one class can't just email kids of another and get answers to an identical or near identical test.
BTW, the graphical calculator racket is little different than the textbook racket.
I don't know what you read into my post but you're assuming opposition to stances I never took. Having the right connections isn't mutually exclusive to hard work/talent.
But being a genius isn't the end all/be all of all things. Look at Tesla and how he faired. Outside of his engineering, he often did all the wrong things.
In Germany, if an artwork is sold through auction and the artist is still living, they get a cut of the sale regardless of past ownership or transactions of the piece. It's a distasteful fetishism to me, to elevate this type of worker above others as if their efforts are supreme compared to us simpletons.
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I remember someone talking about how they could order lifesavers from webvan with free delivery and they'd actually drop this off in a small packet! And these were the days of 99 cent gas.
I'd guess it should be $20 order minimum. Maybe more.
I wish there were more Aldis around. One thing I noticed about supermarkets is that they make you run around the entire perimeter of the store and then some to get the basics just so you can much more food than intended. An aldi is about 1/6 to 1/9 the size of a modern supermarket I would estimate (1/3 width * 1/3-1/2 depth). There are about 5 aisles but have what I need 90% of the time. Unlike most mom/pops or convenience stores, they're very cheap, even compared to the supermarkets. The cashiers are fast. I can get in and out within 5-10 mins (but they are rather far away). Very little bullshit to put up with.
Online shopping generally has 3 advantages imo. Selection - if the store you are looking at doesn't have it, it's easy to go to the next. Easy price comparison. And information, there are sites generally much more knowlegeable about what they are selling without the dumbass commission-base salesman hassling you.
Offline shopping generally has some advantages. Easy returns, nothing to ship back. The "I want it now!" factor. No registration, pay by cash.
Time spent factor usually lends to the online experience. Although it can make small purchases seem big and make you research them too much.
My gripe with irl shopping in general is that it takes too much time but everything lends to groceries being sold the old way. For me, I'm talking 25 mins just to get there and back, parking, waiting in line for a minimal purchase. More time otherwise. But I do not want to look online for purchases of butter, read reviews on it, or even think about it. I would gladly take delivery from walmart for my staples (eggs, milk, cereal, juice, some frozen items) on a subsciption basis. My brother does this with amazon already for his coffee beans - once a month he gets a package. If I could get the same service once a week without thinking about it (until I need to adjust it or put it on hold due to vacation, etc) I would gladly do so. Even if only spares me one shopping trip a week, it would be worth it.
Driving is not a "privilege". The state cannot revoke your license because the governor or one of his officers just feels like it. It can only be taken under due process of law. That is the difference between a right and a privilege. Privileges can be revoked by the executive (doing what they feel like, not following any legislation.)
"The Right of the Citizen to travel upon the public highways and to transport his property thereon, either by horse drawn carriage or by automobile, is not a mere privilege which a city can prohibit or permit at will, but a common Right which he has under the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." - Thompson vs. Smith, 154 SE 579.
Okay, first, Netbooks==Smallish Notebooks. They're nothing different. They are not particularly good for school. No one writes essays during class 99% of the time. I can see instances where a tablet may work but not convinced.
Most of my ideas how education should be reformed don't run along electronic gadgets anyway. I think the textbook racket should be abolished. I think the teachers of a nation or state can come together and make their own thing that would be distributed for free. Just do a wikibooks for arithmetic, trig, history, whatever. How often do these fundamental subjects change? Not that much. Then when they get printed up, go for the Japanese model, where they are split up into 80-120 page booklets so they're good for 6-8 weeks. Make them into disposable so the kids actually own and can write and draw in since they keep in.
I alway despised these huge textbooks, where on average, only 1/3 of it, at best, was used throughout the year. Initimidating, heavy, expensive, and a waste of every year wrapping them in some stupid cover.
Frankly, the future of education will be something like Khan academy, with students learning at their own pace, with the understanding that they have to meet milestones to pass tests or work in groups on projects. An iPad or similiar MAY be useful towards this, but it require planning/coordination on the part of the school and its administration and teachers and not just buying the tablet as the answer in itself.
(I'm also wary of such a relatively expensive item and would wait until it or something like it can be driven down to $100 per student. Yes, yes, OLPC.)
Considering that the population of the US colonies was 2.5M in 1776 (much less 1492) and it being 300M, that's not exactly an achievement to have more people 500 years later.
No, what you said is fucking stupid and so is this. Swastikas are not "illegal", the public display for glorification is. If you have old WW2 stuff with symbold, you have to cover up the symbol (like with a sticker). It's not illegal to own. They just do not want the past glorified.
But they don't deny it. They won't block wikipedia or other articles on it. The media can print the symbols (if it isn't for glorification purposes - i.e. a neo-Nazi rag) and examine that time period.
Stop talking out of your ass and then getting mad when called out on it.
For what it's worth:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Germany
and:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_by_country
No.
That's a pretty stupid statement. If you want to look to active denial of past activities, look to Japan.
BTW, how's the native population doing in the States?
Because iPhone users are actually paying money for the apps.
http://www.mydroid.info/android-apps/guest-post-iphone-vs-android-apps-whos-making-more-money/
Martha Stewart did not go to jail on stock fraud charges alone. She mostly went to jail for lying to investigators.
Do not talk to the police. Do not give them statements. Do not give them ammo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
It's P/E is not extravagant or that high.
MSFT has plateaued since the early 00s because people have seen it really can't innovate beyond OS/Office line. The whole Xbox division has lost money to gain it's prominent position this generation of consoles. The Zune was mostly meh. It came out early in tablets/smartphones but despite that couldn't make anything people needed to have.
The day Steve Ballmer steps down is the day that stock will start gaining again. Even better if they get a CEO with an iota of division and the power/desire to kill the bureacracy that is stifling that company. I wonder how much of their workforce are just leeches who have a cushy job that produces little/no value to the company.
I would like to make a counterpoint. I have some animes that came out in the 90s and the quality of the recently released Blu-Rays IS SO MUCH CLEARER. You can do frame by frame comparisons and on the DVD just see endless artifacting and on the Bluray, in addition to that being gone, the text on certain things is much clearer and they did a much better job on the colors. I really love anime on Blu-Ray, just much better.
Besides, I don't see how you're criticism wouldn't apply seeing this movie in the theater or Imax, where besides the resolution, it's blown up many times bigger?
All the major new releases at my walmart are featured in Blu-Ray. The HP movies as well now that the Deathly Hallow's is out. All the Redboxes in my area got Blu-Ray releases alongside the DVD releases now. And the players have gotten cheap finally.
I still only have DVD players but since I only rent now-a-days (or buy the DVDs I want when Redbox sells them for $5 after the rental run is over) so it's rental that will get me to buy a Blu-Ray player. And I'll probably only acquire Blu-Rays if I can help it. I really do like the extra resolution.
I would have gotten a player sooner if HD-DVDs prevailed. I wish they did. It kinda sucks bringing a Blu-Ray to someone's place and find out they only have a DVD player - that's still pretty common. HD-DVDs would have solved that problem by having both formats.... but I guess it was a lost game with the Playstation pushing early sales numbers of this format even if the buyers couldn't care less about Blu-Ray movies at the time.
I guess the malaise is about the whole thing is knowing the next format isn't going to be physical at all and Blu-Ray feels like a stop-gap measure in between then. It won't ever have the impact or ubiquity DVDs did.
is to tell a good story. The concept, no matter how compelling, can't make a story. It's always just the launching pad - some have better foundations than others but the rocket can still fail spectacularly.
The problem with origin stories is that you run the risk is violating what some fans filled in by themselves - it runs counter to their sensibilities and cherished beliefs and what they see in the character. Consider midichlorians as destroying the mysteriousness of the force and making it something rather mundane.
The second problem is that the character may be cool and all that, but isn't the hook to a series. Essentially you're writing a story nobody demands or wants to see. Joey from Friends with his spin-off, for instance.
I think resetting a story constantly, when done maybe 30+years apart, like the new Star Wars, can keep a series fresh and with the times. But doing it with something like Spiderman (which I heard talk of) really just tosses away any attachment the existing audience had rather prematurely - it would be like rebooting HP right after movie 7 in the cynical hope to hook the next wave of children. And then sometimes its time to do some hard work and come up with entirely new characters and stories!
Long before this. There definitely needs to be more than 3 HDD manufacturers in the world. I wouldn't even consider 7 an especially healthy number.
Unlike the car market, computer component makers aren't especially under pressure from the used market. Almost any used car the last 40+ years goes highway speeds. Other things are a bonus most of the time. Can't say the same with computers - a drive from 5 years ago is beyond suspect in terms of reliability and often just doesn't cut it in terms of speed and capacity. Other than reliability, the same goes with all other components except maybe monitors and cases/psu.
Continually chiseling down manufacturers is not a good thing. Only thing worse is the CPU market but thankfully arm CPUs became viable for more than dumb phones within the last decade. Small comfort if Intel were to kill AMD but at least an alternate route.
Oh.
I was going to say, if Google wanted to teach their computers regret, they should just let it date my ex-wife.
No, God isn't a very good writer. His last work etched on tablet, he couldn't even bother to edit it down. It's like he released his first draft. Even Carlin was able to enact a 10 to 2 reduction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzEs2nj7iZM
And let's not mention all the plot holes.
You have to let us spy on you."
Collaboration only works when you have colleagues of a similiar caliber. If one is a know-nothing mooch who'd fail his ass off otherwise, it's just an ugly extortion of both fellow students and demeaning of the value of a degree.
I think tests should be open book (see my previous post), but they should test your ability to solve problems. Not simply knowing the right people who will let you cheat off their test.
I and many of my professors were of the opinion that memorizing functions and random facts was useless (Hey, didn't Watson just show us this?). What's the point? Won't you have a book in real life? Why not?
I'm of the opinion that math/physics/chemistry tests should be open book. Education should teach you to be able to think and solve problems, not be a walking encyclopedia. That way you can make TOUGHER questions where the student has to recognize the elements of the problems and put it all together to solve it without them being able to complain about the mean professor making them memorize esoteric lists. Put in extraneous information that's just there to distract the people who don't know what they're doing.
Then make the limiting factor is simply TIME. Like a real job. Let the person who needs to google everything dither about, flailing his arms as they only solved 30% of the test question. Trust me, if you weren't paying attention in class in most of these course, the google won't help you unless the question are unerringly simple and straightforward.
Then simply randomize the order of the questions, make extra questions so each class (or class) draws different ones, and allow randomized values for the variables so kids from one class can't just email kids of another and get answers to an identical or near identical test.
BTW, the graphical calculator racket is little different than the textbook racket.
I don't know what you read into my post but you're assuming opposition to stances I never took. Having the right connections isn't mutually exclusive to hard work/talent.
But being a genius isn't the end all/be all of all things. Look at Tesla and how he faired. Outside of his engineering, he often did all the wrong things.
Achievement or Nepotism?
Bush.
Their regulators can do a lot of damage.
In Germany, if an artwork is sold through auction and the artist is still living, they get a cut of the sale regardless of past ownership or transactions of the piece. It's a distasteful fetishism to me, to elevate this type of worker above others as if their efforts are supreme compared to us simpletons.
Basically, an elitist's georgism.
I have a hard time believing little Bush could have passed either.