Well it's more like society is better off so we don't have to live at the edge of starvation and wild animals and disease. The average lifespan even as late as the 1700's was only 40 years for even wealthy people. People simply didn't live LONG enough to display these diseases until recently and only in the last 30 years have we developed the social conscience to not just write these people off as lost causes.
But you have to ask, if you are in a lecture with 200 other students and the lecturer is a TA, what is the REAL difference versus an online class? In fact, most online schools have more like 40 students max per teacher.
Ultimately the schools like Pheonix are doing 25 students with part-time teachers for considerably less money (when you figure that a public school is only 30% funded by tuition) those large lecture halls are padding the books with "mass production" that the schools are using for research work those students will never get to see.
In effect, the "mass production" using TAs has already created a whole market for capable people that work in their fields to teach in smaller class sizes. After all most professors don't want to TEACH undergrad classes anyway, but that's what these schools are there to do... Obviously they stopped DOING that a long time ago.
The point of asking content providers is that they are a fixed quantity with deep pockets. ISPs know they can't go to the regulators because if the books on the situation got opened they'd get smack from legislatures.
The big problem is that "the Internet" is still very much a series of nonuniform networks with lots of people trying to make toll booths rather than a "fabric" across the country. For instance my Comcast connection to the Internet shows up 30 miles away in the next city when the route is traced. When I had AT&T I think it went over 100 miles before it was "on the Internet".
This is a problem because when you use Skype to call your friend across town with a different ISP the ISPs are holding Skype up for cross-state traffic that should just go across town. That's the problem that needs to be addressed.
The point is that at the ISP level you buy bandwidth in large dollar amounts. If an ISP decided from historical data they needed 2 pipes they can't just get a third without massive outlay of dollars. On the best case they just increased fixed costs 50% (on longvterm contract) for pipe they don't have enough customers to pay for. In the worst case they have to pay for new fiber and digging.. A huge up front capital cost.
Exactly. Those cell towers in BFE all have to have 10x the pipes versus plain voice calling. If you have 7meg to your phone... A hundred other users on the same tower adds up to fat pipes... And lots of digging for new fiber.
In addition you have the politics going on. You'd think AT&T owning air and land could upgrade cheaply... But they made a lot of network decisions 5 years ago "for competition" ie to get more money out of other providers for simple upgrades. All those decisions add up to a bunch of the work that was "subsidized" needing to be dug up and replaced.
The problem is that things like the ACPI are by chipset, and manufacturer, model and firmware rev. PCI vendor and ID strings aren't enough to just make a table to check at start... Let alone all the hardware interactions in an end user machine.
Even trying to look up the settings on websites that track this stuff for some random PC you didn't build yourself is an hours long daunting task... And Big Box stuff often never makes those lists.
That was a series of leaked emails from 1999-ish where Microsoft had discussed that hardware was "too standard" so actually encouraged this as a way for OEMs that sell finished systems to look better... And to spike the budding Open Source as well.
Intel happily chipped in because the pushed specs like USB where every device can be super cheap... And controlled by the CPU... all those $39 printers, winmodems, GMA900, etc all sucked up CPU so Intel could sell more... And all those devices that used to be independant now were tied to windows.
The net effect was that all the device makers were spending time making the cheapest devices, and driver writers were spending all their time fighting windows.. And everybody else's drivers. It was simply impractical to support anything else.
I was looking at the link and that might actually work if you thing about a hybrid and not direct powered crankshafts.
In the picture you showed, a timing chain run around an electric generator would be a good mix. Use battery power to augument starting and a nice slow, lean engine to keep the battery charged. The engine shape would component battery shape. And it would seem to have fewer parts too.
I'd think this could be used in something like hydraulic power... Diggers and earthmovers. Again, direct drive the hydraulic pumps right off the corners and use hydraulic manifolds to distribute the power.
Somebody set their rolling mill up orientated north-south and not east-west. Depending on how the beams are manufactured it could be from a welding process as well.
I work for a company that makes steel bars and magnetized bars are a common known problem we must warranty for to our customers. I wouldnt expect a home owner to know jack about that in terms of buying a house, but I would expect a contractor using steel beams to understand their product. Home contractors don't use more than a few beams per home. They probably got these cheaper by using imported ones that aren't as careful as American mills. It's still a manufacturing defect, even if it's one or those fringe cases you never use outside elementary school classes about mating magnets.
That is probably closest to the truth. There are going to be LOTS of Steve fans wherever services might be... If the police are smart they will just keep letting people there for Steve push them back so the family doesn't have to see them. Although there are private cemeteries with security and such for people of celebrity. That rules out much of the harassment factor.
I think that a common pair of parents is the "engineer-schoolteacher" combo. Both groups that attract higher intelligences, both groups that attract list, detail, slightly socially reserved people. I think the combo brings out the effect more because they tend to be "by the numbers" type parents, but not overly touchy-feely. They have all the things around for the child to display the higher intelligence... But they miss the signs that the child's not acting and responding like a KID should. We tend to not worry about social interactions, or most kids only interact with adults, until kids go to school.. At which point you missed a chance to start therapy to adapt.
It's on the spectrum because modern understanding of Autism is more about the part of the head that interacts, mimics, copies, predicts what other people do seems to be broken. As they understand Autism, it is a separate thing from retardation. Most Autistic kids have reasonable normal IQs... The thing that automagically learns language, mannerisms, facial expressions is broken.
Asperger's kids share that link because they can only interact with what is spelled out.. Teasing about childish things becomes severe because they mentally think something is VERY wrong.. They are INCAPABLE of "getting the joke". The opposite is also true. They get fixated on something different about somebody and that "dog with a bone" reflex kicks in and the cannot understand that their inquiries hurt other people's feelings.
My son would take a LOT of work on social skills to "just work". But he would be VERY good at something like what is posted. Give him a clear checklist of expectations and good tools designed to stay on task and I could see him fitting that job.
With the state of the job markets now, my kid would never survive the modern sociopath interview process to get that exact same work at a "normal" company.
Actually, learning to leave mistakes in writing and "just write" is a big part of coping as a kid. I'd bet the GP that typed that could tell you every typo in the post. From memory. Getting past the errors is what Asperger's kids in particular cannot get over. They have mini panic attacks over every little mistake. It looks like ADD because they cannot process past life's little hiccups and retreat to something routine and familiar, like meaningless facts.
Because people with worse conditions physically cannot interact properly with other people to find that skill you talk about.
But I have to admit, Asperger's kids love checklists, predictability. They typically have higher IQs that put them as "gifted" until the "dealing with people" factor kicks in.
Personally, I think there are a LOT of accountants and engineers out there with milder versions of the disorder. They have hit a "ceiling" in their jobs because they can't get over the people skills. The aerospace industry of the 70's and 80's with armies of "heads down" engineering and drafting departments would have had high rates of Asperger's if they tested it then. The movie "Falling Down" is like a poster for how Asperger kids/adults feel every day (if a bit sensational)
Like so many other things since the 90's, all these jobs that have removed layers of management that used to insulate a lot of these people that are perfectly functional otherwise. School and work has become all about a much more "forward" teamwork... Less toleration of the guys you just kept in the office and fed work to all day.
My opinion is that it is a BREED trait because even 50 years ago lots of people lived in the country and men did work that required all sorts of skills... Planting, tending animals, fixing stuff, etc. As a kid you were just expected to wander around and "pick it up". Your "Maker" from the 1970's is now "anti-social weird kid" and don't have the "free range" options to do stupid crap like we did 30 years ago.. Somebody is always "worried about" kids playing with stuff they're not supposed to... "Phines an Pherb" crack jokes about that shift all the time.
it counts against THEIR unemployment insurance premiums. Typically for WORKERS it counts how long you've worked since you drew unemployment last. For employers it counts how many people you let go without "cause".
Effectively, the judge is saying he caused them to leave by creating a hostile environment rather than being a man and learning which ones were valuable and making for-cause terminations.
that assumes they all don't pick some number higher than their current wage and refuse to work for lower... a little "collusion" if you want. Boss can always do the job BY HIMSELF until he finds and trains more workers!
unilaterally firing everybody like that would also count toward Unemployment Insurance for the employees that didn't "win" the auction as they were "capriciously" and "unilaterally" let go. Unilaterally cutting pay by more than so many percent kicks in unemployment as well.
The main problem I'd that Brazil is missing the boat here big time. Apple wants Foxconn in Brazil so they can sell iThings IN BRAZIL for reasonable prices... That's the whole point of the extortionist tariffs and customs process... And their government is screwing up the deal.
I mean iPads, in the western hemisphere again... That's a big industrial coup even if it is Brazil.
The "10 key" layout has been a standard for number crunching for ages. It's more efficient to have the low numbers on the bottom because they are statistically used more often, speeding up input.
Exactly. Apple uses mainboards that are nearly vanilla Intel spec... They just make them a bit smaller than other companies. Who is VIA after? Apple doesn't use hardware different from anybody else... And if VIA already has a license with Intel what is there sueing Intel's customer? Unless they're after nVidia?
The issue is per unit costs, not startup. I also think there is also the profit angle.
Right now, if adding optical cost $5 in parts, that's $45 at retail... There's no clear use, so the "race to the bottom" starts befoe the tech is highly profitable. There is also the matter of handing Fiber Optic cables to the general public... It's just too fragile and users would rebel.
Also, 10Gb fiber cards are like $500 each right now... Why would intel kill that market?
Of course that was because of SOX. The design of most SCADA networks is so bad just about any normal computer security beraks them.. Especially when multiple vendors are involved. SOX auditors made everybody kick SCADA off the business network... Which has the side effect in most shops of keeping it off the Internet as well.. Or limited to point-to-point networking (dial up)
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Well it's more like society is better off so we don't have to live at the edge of starvation and wild animals and disease. The average lifespan even as late as the 1700's was only 40 years for even wealthy people. People simply didn't live LONG enough to display these diseases until recently and only in the last 30 years have we developed the social conscience to not just write these people off as lost causes.
But you have to ask, if you are in a lecture with 200 other students and the lecturer is a TA, what is the REAL difference versus an online class? In fact, most online schools have more like 40 students max per teacher.
Ultimately the schools like Pheonix are doing 25 students with part-time teachers for considerably less money (when you figure that a public school is only 30% funded by tuition) those large lecture halls are padding the books with "mass production" that the schools are using for research work those students will never get to see.
In effect, the "mass production" using TAs has already created a whole market for capable people that work in their fields to teach in smaller class sizes. After all most professors don't want to TEACH undergrad classes anyway, but that's what these schools are there to do... Obviously they stopped DOING that a long time ago.
I want to make out with Hatsune Miku!! And she can sing too!
Seriously, I'd bet she's at the top of the prototype list just for fandom.
The point of asking content providers is that they are a fixed quantity with deep pockets. ISPs know they can't go to the regulators because if the books on the situation got opened they'd get smack from legislatures.
The big problem is that "the Internet" is still very much a series of nonuniform networks with lots of people trying to make toll booths rather than a "fabric" across the country. For instance my Comcast connection to the Internet shows up 30 miles away in the next city when the route is traced. When I had AT&T I think it went over 100 miles before it was "on the Internet".
This is a problem because when you use Skype to call your friend across town with a different ISP the ISPs are holding Skype up for cross-state traffic that should just go across town. That's the problem that needs to be addressed.
The point is that at the ISP level you buy bandwidth in large dollar amounts. If an ISP decided from historical data they needed 2 pipes they can't just get a third without massive outlay of dollars. On the best case they just increased fixed costs 50% (on longvterm contract) for pipe they don't have enough customers to pay for. In the worst case they have to pay for new fiber and digging.. A huge up front capital cost.
Exactly.
Those cell towers in BFE all have to have 10x the pipes versus plain voice calling. If you have 7meg to your phone... A hundred other users on the same tower adds up to fat pipes... And lots of digging for new fiber.
In addition you have the politics going on. You'd think AT&T owning air and land could upgrade cheaply... But they made a lot of network decisions 5 years ago "for competition" ie to get more money out of other providers for simple upgrades. All those decisions add up to a bunch of the work that was "subsidized" needing to be dug up and replaced.
Sure... Then Linux takes 20 minutes to boot.
The problem is that things like the ACPI are by chipset, and manufacturer, model and firmware rev. PCI vendor and ID strings aren't enough to just make a table to check at start... Let alone all the hardware interactions in an end user machine.
Even trying to look up the settings on websites that track this stuff for some random PC you didn't build yourself is an hours long daunting task... And Big Box stuff often never makes those lists.
Um.. The "Halloween Documents"?
That was a series of leaked emails from 1999-ish where Microsoft had discussed that hardware was "too standard" so actually encouraged this as a way for OEMs that sell finished systems to look better... And to spike the budding Open Source as well.
Intel happily chipped in because the pushed specs like USB where every device can be super cheap... And controlled by the CPU... all those $39 printers, winmodems, GMA900, etc all sucked up CPU so Intel could sell more... And all those devices that used to be independant now were tied to windows.
The net effect was that all the device makers were spending time making the cheapest devices, and driver writers were spending all their time fighting windows.. And everybody else's drivers. It was simply impractical to support anything else.
I was looking at the link and that might actually work if you thing about a hybrid and not direct powered crankshafts.
In the picture you showed, a timing chain run around an electric generator would be a good mix. Use battery power to augument starting and a nice slow, lean engine to keep the battery charged. The engine shape would component battery shape. And it would seem to have fewer parts too.
I'd think this could be used in something like hydraulic power... Diggers and earthmovers. Again, direct drive the hydraulic pumps right off the corners and use hydraulic manifolds to distribute the power.
Somebody set their rolling mill up orientated north-south and not east-west. Depending on how the beams are manufactured it could be from a welding process as well.
I work for a company that makes steel bars and magnetized bars are a common known problem we must warranty for to our customers. I wouldnt expect a home owner to know jack about that in terms of buying a house, but I would expect a contractor using steel beams to understand their product.
Home contractors don't use more than a few beams per home. They probably got these cheaper by using imported ones that aren't as careful as American mills. It's still a manufacturing defect, even if it's one or those fringe cases you never use outside elementary school classes about mating magnets.
That is probably closest to the truth.
There are going to be LOTS of Steve fans wherever services might be... If the police are smart they will just keep letting people there for Steve push them back so the family doesn't have to see them.
Although there are private cemeteries with security and such for people of celebrity. That rules out much of the harassment factor.
I think that a common pair of parents is the "engineer-schoolteacher" combo. Both groups that attract higher intelligences, both groups that attract list, detail, slightly socially reserved people. I think the combo brings out the effect more because they tend to be "by the numbers" type parents, but not overly touchy-feely. They have all the things around for the child to display the higher intelligence... But they miss the signs that the child's not acting and responding like a KID should. We tend to not worry about social interactions, or most kids only interact with adults, until kids go to school.. At which point you missed a chance to start therapy to adapt.
It's on the spectrum because modern understanding of Autism is more about the part of the head that interacts, mimics, copies, predicts what other people do seems to be broken. As they understand Autism, it is a separate thing from retardation. Most Autistic kids have reasonable normal IQs... The thing that automagically learns language, mannerisms, facial expressions is broken.
Asperger's kids share that link because they can only interact with what is spelled out.. Teasing about childish things becomes severe because they mentally think something is VERY wrong.. They are INCAPABLE of "getting the joke". The opposite is also true. They get fixated on something different about somebody and that "dog with a bone" reflex kicks in and the cannot understand that their inquiries hurt other people's feelings.
My son would take a LOT of work on social skills to "just work". But he would be VERY good at something like what is posted. Give him a clear checklist of expectations and good tools designed to stay on task and I could see him fitting that job.
With the state of the job markets now, my kid would never survive the modern sociopath interview process to get that exact same work at a "normal" company.
Actually, learning to leave mistakes in writing and "just write" is a big part of coping as a kid. I'd bet the GP that typed that could tell you every typo in the post. From memory. Getting past the errors is what Asperger's kids in particular cannot get over. They have mini panic attacks over every little mistake. It looks like ADD because they cannot process past life's little hiccups and retreat to something routine and familiar, like meaningless facts.
Because people with worse conditions physically cannot interact properly with other people to find that skill you talk about.
But I have to admit, Asperger's kids love checklists, predictability. They typically have higher IQs that put them as "gifted" until the "dealing with people" factor kicks in.
Personally, I think there are a LOT of accountants and engineers out there with milder versions of the disorder. They have hit a "ceiling" in their jobs because they can't get over the people skills. The aerospace industry of the 70's and 80's with armies of "heads down" engineering and drafting departments would have had high rates of Asperger's if they tested it then. The movie "Falling Down" is like a poster for how Asperger kids/adults feel every day (if a bit sensational)
Like so many other things since the 90's, all these jobs that have removed layers of management that used to insulate a lot of these people that are perfectly functional otherwise. School and work has become all about a much more "forward" teamwork... Less toleration of the guys you just kept in the office and fed work to all day.
My opinion is that it is a BREED trait because even 50 years ago lots of people lived in the country and men did work that required all sorts of skills... Planting, tending animals, fixing stuff, etc. As a kid you were just expected to wander around and "pick it up". Your "Maker" from the 1970's is now "anti-social weird kid" and don't have the "free range" options to do stupid crap like we did 30 years ago.. Somebody is always "worried about" kids playing with stuff they're not supposed to... "Phines an Pherb" crack jokes about that shift all the time.
Needs a "popcorn" tag!
Stuff like this keeps Slashdot in business... Way better than discussing the betterment of humanity with Ipen Sources.
it counts against THEIR unemployment insurance premiums. Typically for WORKERS it counts how long you've worked since you drew unemployment last. For employers it counts how many people you let go without "cause".
Effectively, the judge is saying he caused them to leave by creating a hostile environment rather than being a man and learning which ones were valuable and making for-cause terminations.
that assumes they all don't pick some number higher than their current wage and refuse to work for lower... a little "collusion" if you want. Boss can always do the job BY HIMSELF until he finds and trains more workers!
unilaterally firing everybody like that would also count toward Unemployment Insurance for the employees that didn't "win" the auction as they were "capriciously" and "unilaterally" let go. Unilaterally cutting pay by more than so many percent kicks in unemployment as well.
The main problem I'd that Brazil is missing the boat here big time. Apple wants Foxconn in Brazil so they can sell iThings IN BRAZIL for reasonable prices... That's the whole point of the extortionist tariffs and customs process... And their government is screwing up the deal.
I mean iPads, in the western hemisphere again... That's a big industrial coup even if it is Brazil.
Work at a steel mill!
we have various items to get steel to the molten state... Something should do the trick!
I'd say the telephone pad is "upside down".
The "10 key" layout has been a standard for number crunching for ages. It's more efficient to have the low numbers on the bottom because they are statistically used more often, speeding up input.
Exactly.
Apple uses mainboards that are nearly vanilla Intel spec... They just make them a bit smaller than other companies. Who is VIA after? Apple doesn't use hardware different from anybody else... And if VIA already has a license with Intel what is there sueing Intel's customer? Unless they're after nVidia?
The issue is per unit costs, not startup. I also think there is also the profit angle.
Right now, if adding optical cost $5 in parts, that's $45 at retail... There's no clear use, so the "race to the bottom" starts befoe the tech is highly profitable. There is also the matter of handing Fiber Optic cables to the general public... It's just too fragile and users would rebel.
Also, 10Gb fiber cards are like $500 each right now... Why would intel kill that market?
Of course that was because of SOX. The design of most SCADA networks is so bad just about any normal computer security beraks them.. Especially when multiple vendors are involved. SOX auditors made everybody kick SCADA off the business network... Which has the side effect in most shops of keeping it off the Internet as well.. Or limited to point-to-point networking (dial up)