Dude, the casino will never ever let you have better odds than the house. So forget about skill.
You just have to admit to yourself that anytime you step into a casino you will be gambling with inferior odds. You do not like it, do not go into a casino.
If you want to use your skill to make money try having a job.
Unfortunately, it does not work all the time. For example, there are ways to improve corporate stock prices and yet doom the company in the long term. They are very well known (but not always available). But if such an avenue is available, it is usually much easier to follow than genuinely improving the value of the corporation. This is essentially what happened to the US auto-makers.
Not really. You do not need eminent domain to take contaminated sites. Owners of contaminated sites are usually praying that the government will take those sites off of their hands. You see, when you own land that is contaminated you are responsible for cleaning it up, and you can pay pretty hefty fines if the contamination spreads or affects the groundwater. There have been many cases where people will sell contaminated sites for negative money (i.e., pay money for someone to get them off their hands). So yes, the owners will be quite happy to give them to the government for free.
The concern is actually quite the opposite. It is possible that the Obama admin may use this program as a hidden subsidy. That is they may let owners of contaminated land off the hook for the clean-up costs and get the federal taxpayer on the hook for the clean-up costs. But in general it seems like a good idea as long as environmental groups watch the implementation carefully.
Wouldn't it be funny if Apple loses their lead in smart-phones for the same reason they lost their lead in personal computers. I.e., in that they did not have the system open enough and kept the hardware proprietary. Well I am not sure it would happen. Phones are tricky things and in them some close hardware/software integration is actually beneficial. But if it does happen it would be really funny. Especially considering that the same guy would have been the head of Apple on both occasions.
I guarantee you that Google had the history of PCs in mind when they were thinking up the Android strategy.
The essay should be axed as should be pretty much all essays for all major colleges.
The problem with essays is not that they are a negative or a positive indicator of whatever they are supposed to be indicating, its that they cannot be graded properly they are not graded properly so presently they are a cruel joke perpetrated on poor applicants that work their asses off to write an essay that will be read for 4 minutes by some professional grader and graded on some completely random basis.
Essays are a relic from the time when classes are small the applicants were few and a single person could read all the essays and at least attempt to grade them on a common basis. Right now colleges receive tens of thousands of essays that are graded by multiple professional graders that can only spend minimal time reading each essay and there is really no way to ensure that the same standards are kept from grader to grader.
So even if the essay is a wonderful way to differentiate applicants it should be scrapped everywhere because it simply cannot be graded properly.
I mean how could you possible ensure that your grader will like your essay? There are some people out there that dislike even Shakespeare's writing. How can you be sure that your grader will like yours?
It's as if they made people forget about this little thing called the Internet. Pretty soon they will tell me that I can look at lol cats and porn via twitter and expect me to be super excited.
Well, it would be great if these things help the disabled, but none of the people in the test were disabled. And the article did not say that these would help the disabled. In fact it said that the exo-skeleton "is not ready for grandma yet."
See title. I did not see anything in the video which could not be done by relying solely on your ordinary inner skeleton. Except of looking silly, which judging from western media's coverage of Japanese culture must be Japan's most popular pastime.
But I will give some props to the exoskeletons -- they did not keep that girl from swaying her ass so nicely. Maybe they even enhanced it.
I have to say this is completely idiotic. Think about why you would want to send humans to Mars in this particular stage of scientific development. It is clear that there is not a practical reason. Anything useful that can be done on mars at this point of technological development of the human race can be done easier by robots than by humans. Even if your goal is to prepare mars for human colonization you will do this faster if you send robots first until you can build a base on mars that produces its own oxygen, food, water as well as fuel for the humans' return trip.
So why send humans now? Well the obvious answer is you do not send humans now. But let us assume for the moment that that we are to send humans. What is the only possible benefit for it? Well the only possible benefit is psychological, or spiritual or what have you. Just knowing that humans have stepped on Mars will make us all feel better about ourselves. And of course the country that sends the people first will have special propaganda benefits. Those were pretty much all the benefits of the moon landings. (And I am not knocking them, they were very real benefits, especially in the 60's when everyone in the US was scared of the Soviets)
Now lets think about it for a second. Will this benefit exist if we send someone on a ghastly mission to die on mars. Would we all feel better as human beings and/or as american citizens that we have sent someone on a suicide mission to mars. That we have exported one of our corpses to the red planet, if you will. Of course not. The idea of sending someone out all by themselves to die alone millions of miles from the nearest other human beings is just terrible. Nobody will be happy or uplifted by such a mission.
Therefore this type of mission would remove the only benefit of sending humans to Mars.
Why morally chiding? Was anything in the study morally chiding? Or did it just correctly report a correlation.
There is a difference between someone providing information that is inconvenient to you or that you do not want to hear and actually morally chiding you. The scientific community has no business passing moral judgements but neither does it have a duty to help people in denial.
Obesity is a significant problem in our society and it is important to determine what the effects are in order to provide the necessecary resources to address it.
Last time I checked a copy of the N.Y. Post was 25 cents. Well 25c is technically charging for a newspaper but that is below the cost of distribution and printing of the paper, not to mention content. In fact, the only purpose for those 25 cents is to ensure the papers are not used for insulation by homeless people, it is nowhere near paying for the running costs of the NY Post paper. The NY Post has hemorrhaged money for as long as Murdoch has owned it.
So Murdoch cannot even charge for content even when selling actual dead tree newspapers. How he thinks he can do it online where everyone is used to getting the news for free I do not know.
Projectors take a lot of power, so you will not be able to use this feature for a long time. In the spec sheet they claim projector life of one approximately hour which will probably translate to 30 min max in real world use and on a full charge. But since you need to take pictures with the camera before projecting them you will probably end up with no more than 10 min of real use before your batteries are dead.
Some electronic devices do not translate very well into wirelessness. Projectors are a prime example.
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Wow. I did not understand a word and I have actually read Huckleberry Finn. You are either some sort of savant or hard core meth user.
Are you sure you actually read the books, i.e., understand what in the world is happening?
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Wow, so you listen to 7.6 words per second when "reading" fiction. Let me guess, your favorite is steven king? (I heard he writes it at a slightly slower 6 words per second).
But all joking aside, KDE should be compatible with audio readers for the benefit of blind people.
A lot of modern office buildings have higher air pressure inside the building than the air pressure of the outside air. This is done to keep outside smells out of the building and to ensure higher AC efficiency by preventing hot outside air from coming in.
Thus, if the doors push open to the outside, the higher inside air pressure may just open the doors by itself, which would not be desirable.
Furthermore, a lot of office building doors open on busy walkable streets (imagine manhattan offices, for example). If the doors push to the outside there you can easily hit a pedestrian in the face with an opening door.
This is hilarious. My impression of artificial intelligence is that usually it has trouble outsmarting a cat. Being outsmarted by computers is the least of my worries. What AI scientists should worry about is that after thousandfold increases in computing power AI seems to be at exactly the same place it was 30 years ago -- i.e., nowhere.
no it wont. it requires extensive upgrades because the RAM or the skin of the aircraft cannot survive a rainstorm. it does not have a working heads up display on the helmet. the canopy blisters and peels with exposure to sunlight. it does not communicate with other aircraft because the electronics are deficient. it requires 44 HOURS of maint for every hour in the air. the raptor is a pile of crap and will eventually be phased out.
So it is a high maintenance dry night fighter. Reminds me of my girlfriend...
Only somewhat of a point though. I agree with pretty much everyone here that people should have the right to sell their sued games (as long as they do not try to play the game after selling it). And naturally other people should have a right to buy them.
But I agree that Gamestop is going over the line here. They do not merely sell used games they freaking push used games to the exclusion of anything else. So imagine you are game developer -- your main retail outlet is not even trying to sell your product (new games) but is instead using your product as a draw for customers so that they can sell them older, battered, dirty and maybe malfunctioning versions of your product that you make no money out of.
This of course results in two things (i) developers make less money and (ii) customers get pissed off at developers as they curse at the missing manuals, scratched CDs etc. of the used game they bought.
So here gamestop is acting like the classic monopolist. After becoming more or less the only specialty game seller and thus capturing the market they are trying hard to fuck over both their suppliers (the developers) and their customers. And believe me, their customers are getting screwed too considering the price the used games are sold for in game stop (especially compared to the price game stop buys these games for).
But this is ultimately the developers' fault. They should have never let game stop become the only chain. They should have made it clear to them that if they get too large, their wholesale prices will rise in comparison with independent shops and smaller chains. This is the same idiocy that resulted in other giants, such as walmart, etc. A smart producer knows that they have to keep their supply chain healthy and diverse, otherwise their suppliers will strangle them.
Well the thinking behind hate crimes legislation is that when an action is intended to scare or intimidate an entire group of people, it should be a crime.
For example, threatening a specific person with physical harm is a crime in the US, regardless of the first amendment. That is if someone prints a large poster that says "I will kill John Doe" (assuming John Doe is the name of a specific person) and plasters it all over town, he will be guilty of a crime (usually called assault or attempted assault) and can be sent to jail regardless of the first amendment.
So if you say the same thing about a group of people you should be guilty of a crime as well. And this is especially true if the writing scares everybody from that group just as much.
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Dude, the casino will never ever let you have better odds than the house. So forget about skill.
You just have to admit to yourself that anytime you step into a casino you will be gambling with inferior odds. You do not like it, do not go into a casino.
If you want to use your skill to make money try having a job.
Good job, you have figured it out. And you can generalise this rule of your for all casino games.
Unfortunately, it does not work all the time. For example, there are ways to improve corporate stock prices and yet doom the company in the long term. They are very well known (but not always available). But if such an avenue is available, it is usually much easier to follow than genuinely improving the value of the corporation. This is essentially what happened to the US auto-makers.
Not really. You do not need eminent domain to take contaminated sites. Owners of contaminated sites are usually praying that the government will take those sites off of their hands. You see, when you own land that is contaminated you are responsible for cleaning it up, and you can pay pretty hefty fines if the contamination spreads or affects the groundwater. There have been many cases where people will sell contaminated sites for negative money (i.e., pay money for someone to get them off their hands). So yes, the owners will be quite happy to give them to the government for free.
The concern is actually quite the opposite. It is possible that the Obama admin may use this program as a hidden subsidy. That is they may let owners of contaminated land off the hook for the clean-up costs and get the federal taxpayer on the hook for the clean-up costs. But in general it seems like a good idea as long as environmental groups watch the implementation carefully.
Wouldn't it be funny if Apple loses their lead in smart-phones for the same reason they lost their lead in personal computers. I.e., in that they did not have the system open enough and kept the hardware proprietary. Well I am not sure it would happen. Phones are tricky things and in them some close hardware/software integration is actually beneficial. But if it does happen it would be really funny. Especially considering that the same guy would have been the head of Apple on both occasions.
I guarantee you that Google had the history of PCs in mind when they were thinking up the Android strategy.
Yes, turn it off. And to be safe, also do not connect your laptop to the Internet on Tuesday.
The essay should be axed as should be pretty much all essays for all major colleges.
The problem with essays is not that they are a negative or a positive indicator of whatever they are supposed to be indicating, its that they cannot be graded properly they are not graded properly so presently they are a cruel joke perpetrated on poor applicants that work their asses off to write an essay that will be read for 4 minutes by some professional grader and graded on some completely random basis.
Essays are a relic from the time when classes are small the applicants were few and a single person could read all the essays and at least attempt to grade them on a common basis. Right now colleges receive tens of thousands of essays that are graded by multiple professional graders that can only spend minimal time reading each essay and there is really no way to ensure that the same standards are kept from grader to grader.
So even if the essay is a wonderful way to differentiate applicants it should be scrapped everywhere because it simply cannot be graded properly.
I mean how could you possible ensure that your grader will like your essay? There are some people out there that dislike even Shakespeare's writing. How can you be sure that your grader will like yours?
It's as if they made people forget about this little thing called the Internet. Pretty soon they will tell me that I can look at lol cats and porn via twitter and expect me to be super excited.
The guy is and has always been a compulsive liar and he is still getting an executive job on his way out of prison.
Makes you think, doesn't it.
Well, it would be great if these things help the disabled, but none of the people in the test were disabled. And the article did not say that these would help the disabled. In fact it said that the exo-skeleton "is not ready for grandma yet."
See title. I did not see anything in the video which could not be done by relying solely on your ordinary inner skeleton. Except of looking silly, which judging from western media's coverage of Japanese culture must be Japan's most popular pastime.
But I will give some props to the exoskeletons -- they did not keep that girl from swaying her ass so nicely. Maybe they even enhanced it.
I have to say this is completely idiotic. Think about why you would want to send humans to Mars in this particular stage of scientific development. It is clear that there is not a practical reason. Anything useful that can be done on mars at this point of technological development of the human race can be done easier by robots than by humans. Even if your goal is to prepare mars for human colonization you will do this faster if you send robots first until you can build a base on mars that produces its own oxygen, food, water as well as fuel for the humans' return trip.
So why send humans now? Well the obvious answer is you do not send humans now. But let us assume for the moment that that we are to send humans. What is the only possible benefit for it? Well the only possible benefit is psychological, or spiritual or what have you. Just knowing that humans have stepped on Mars will make us all feel better about ourselves. And of course the country that sends the people first will have special propaganda benefits. Those were pretty much all the benefits of the moon landings. (And I am not knocking them, they were very real benefits, especially in the 60's when everyone in the US was scared of the Soviets)
Now lets think about it for a second. Will this benefit exist if we send someone on a ghastly mission to die on mars. Would we all feel better as human beings and/or as american citizens that we have sent someone on a suicide mission to mars. That we have exported one of our corpses to the red planet, if you will. Of course not. The idea of sending someone out all by themselves to die alone millions of miles from the nearest other human beings is just terrible. Nobody will be happy or uplifted by such a mission.
Therefore this type of mission would remove the only benefit of sending humans to Mars.
It seems that the OP is smart enough not to stay in denial.
Why morally chiding? Was anything in the study morally chiding? Or did it just correctly report a correlation.
There is a difference between someone providing information that is inconvenient to you or that you do not want to hear and actually morally chiding you. The scientific community has no business passing moral judgements but neither does it have a duty to help people in denial.
Obesity is a significant problem in our society and it is important to determine what the effects are in order to provide the necessecary resources to address it.
Last time I checked a copy of the N.Y. Post was 25 cents. Well 25c is technically charging for a newspaper but that is below the cost of distribution and printing of the paper, not to mention content. In fact, the only purpose for those 25 cents is to ensure the papers are not used for insulation by homeless people, it is nowhere near paying for the running costs of the NY Post paper. The NY Post has hemorrhaged money for as long as Murdoch has owned it.
So Murdoch cannot even charge for content even when selling actual dead tree newspapers. How he thinks he can do it online where everyone is used to getting the news for free I do not know.
Projectors take a lot of power, so you will not be able to use this feature for a long time. In the spec sheet they claim projector life of one approximately hour which will probably translate to 30 min max in real world use and on a full charge. But since you need to take pictures with the camera before projecting them you will probably end up with no more than 10 min of real use before your batteries are dead.
Some electronic devices do not translate very well into wirelessness. Projectors are a prime example.
Wow. I did not understand a word and I have actually read Huckleberry Finn. You are either some sort of savant or hard core meth user.
Are you sure you actually read the books, i.e., understand what in the world is happening?
Wow, so you listen to 7.6 words per second when "reading" fiction. Let me guess, your favorite is steven king? (I heard he writes it at a slightly slower 6 words per second).
But all joking aside, KDE should be compatible with audio readers for the benefit of blind people.
A lot of modern office buildings have higher air pressure inside the building than the air pressure of the outside air. This is done to keep outside smells out of the building and to ensure higher AC efficiency by preventing hot outside air from coming in.
Thus, if the doors push open to the outside, the higher inside air pressure may just open the doors by itself, which would not be desirable.
Furthermore, a lot of office building doors open on busy walkable streets (imagine manhattan offices, for example). If the doors push to the outside there you can easily hit a pedestrian in the face with an opening door.
So things are not that simple.
Let me guess ... it was one of those internet IQ tests, wasn't it?
This is hilarious. My impression of artificial intelligence is that usually it has trouble outsmarting a cat. Being outsmarted by computers is the least of my worries. What AI scientists should worry about is that after thousandfold increases in computing power AI seems to be at exactly the same place it was 30 years ago -- i.e., nowhere.
no it wont. it requires extensive upgrades because the RAM or the skin of the aircraft cannot survive a rainstorm. it does not have a working heads up display on the helmet. the canopy blisters and peels with exposure to sunlight. it does not communicate with other aircraft because the electronics are deficient. it requires 44 HOURS of maint for every hour in the air. the raptor is a pile of crap and will eventually be phased out.
So it is a high maintenance dry night fighter. Reminds me of my girlfriend ...
If we ordered one more it would cost very very slightly under 339M. Which is still freaking expensive.
In any event, at this point since the program is stopped we can be sure that the ones we have cost 339m each.
Only somewhat of a point though. I agree with pretty much everyone here that people should have the right to sell their sued games (as long as they do not try to play the game after selling it). And naturally other people should have a right to buy them.
But I agree that Gamestop is going over the line here. They do not merely sell used games they freaking push used games to the exclusion of anything else. So imagine you are game developer -- your main retail outlet is not even trying to sell your product (new games) but is instead using your product as a draw for customers so that they can sell them older, battered, dirty and maybe malfunctioning versions of your product that you make no money out of.
This of course results in two things (i) developers make less money and (ii) customers get pissed off at developers as they curse at the missing manuals, scratched CDs etc. of the used game they bought.
So here gamestop is acting like the classic monopolist. After becoming more or less the only specialty game seller and thus capturing the market they are trying hard to fuck over both their suppliers (the developers) and their customers. And believe me, their customers are getting screwed too considering the price the used games are sold for in game stop (especially compared to the price game stop buys these games for).
But this is ultimately the developers' fault. They should have never let game stop become the only chain. They should have made it clear to them that if they get too large, their wholesale prices will rise in comparison with independent shops and smaller chains. This is the same idiocy that resulted in other giants, such as walmart, etc. A smart producer knows that they have to keep their supply chain healthy and diverse, otherwise their suppliers will strangle them.
Well the thinking behind hate crimes legislation is that when an action is intended to scare or intimidate an entire group of people, it should be a crime.
For example, threatening a specific person with physical harm is a crime in the US, regardless of the first amendment. That is if someone prints a large poster that says "I will kill John Doe" (assuming John Doe is the name of a specific person) and plasters it all over town, he will be guilty of a crime (usually called assault or attempted assault) and can be sent to jail regardless of the first amendment.
So if you say the same thing about a group of people you should be guilty of a crime as well. And this is especially true if the writing scares everybody from that group just as much.