Most building mass would I imagine be taken from the surface of the destination.
More likely would be sealing off an underground cave or tunnel. Digging requires no more than the equipments mass. Sealing would require material for airtight foam.
Noone in the US could live on $290 a month (Foxconn wages for iPad line person).
You are delusional to think that we would be better off making the hardware than using it. How many Chinese workers can afford an iPad or mid-range generic PC at 2 months pay? To continue the comparison it's as if a 40k/year US worker had to pay $6,800.
If we made iPads here that's likely how much they would cost retail. $6,800. Sounds great right?
I would set up a meshed cacheing network as well. Most people visit the same sites over and over. Have a dynamic cache that propagates to where it is most requested and updates as efficiently as possible. Most content is old by the time you see it anyways.
Wired is overrated. Too much hardware to maintain too many bad plugs, wires all over, fixed locations, etc. The speed isn't used, nor the bandwidth.
My AppleTV is wired. That's it. I only have a 20 MB/sec plan so N is fast enough for 2-3 devices at a time and doesn't saturate with a single device pulling torrents down.
Also anecdotally I've rarely had the issues you mention. Quickly remedied with a channel change or power cycle.
On the bonus side my printer is in a room on its own, no PC hanging off and no network port required. I can print from my phone and pick up the print at my leisure. It's nice.
IE9 the only relevant point in your post is not a really good browser. It is way better than its predecessors but is still well behind the field in every way.
IE10 may be better but will still be behind. It's not the browser it's the render engine and lack of pluggable architecture mixed with the fact that its render engine is not cross platform.
Chrome runs on all major OS distributions and WebKit is by far the top render engine on the desktop but especially on mobile.
Doesn't work like that. The best you could do would be to giver her a loaner, preferably a P4 with 256MB RAM. If she's got pull she might be able to get that swapped out for a brand new laptop though, which might also be okay - then you give her a few days to get used to a good system, then yank it away and give her back her old one. She'll be miserable either way.
What's needed is a second 4 digit pass code. When that is entered the long pass code goes into effect. The best of both worlds. Use your day to day PIN for casual use, then "lock" the phone with the second PIN anytime you're not in complete control. Could also be set on a timer eg if 4 hours go by the device goes into secure locked mode.
India recently nationalized a drug under patent protection. They cut the price to a fraction of the market price and gave a percent of that back as a royalty.
If there is a drug that will save as much money in an economy as this drug could, it will not last long on the market without being cloned and made available.
Curing cancer will bring fame and a small fortune (billions in revenue - profit???) but it will not finance any empires.
And? Speculation without depositing funds against it (making those funds unavailable for other things) is a perfect example of a lack of checks and balances. Quite literally the speculators are allowed to write a check but are not required to hold the balance to cover that check. They "float" it and rely on inertia to keep their investment of imaginary funds from being called on, eg they sell the investment and get the profit before having to pony up the cash.
The Backstrret Boys were at their peak in 1999 (Wikipedia). That was the beginning of the end for the music industry. The rise of manufactured pop music. Does anyone still listen to any of the heavily marketed groups they (the recording industry) put all their money into? No. The music industry cashed in on a niche that had no staying power and continued that policy until that generation stopped caring. In the meanwhile all the good musicians got tired of it and left, starting their own labels, accepting less revenue for more profit.
They killed their cow. Piracy had nothing to do with it.
I'm 34 and TMNT was a Darkhorse Comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It was black and white ink and the titles were fucked up psychopaths out for revenge (and pizza, granted). They cussed up and down, cut down anyone in their path and lay waste to entire rooms of people with blood spray like a Kill Bill movie.
Then they cashed out to Archie and I stopped caring.
Some Americans have lots of money as do some Chinese and some Russians and at least one Mexican. The rest of us are poor schlubs living hand to mouth like everyone else. Granted there are probably more documented rich in America.
Teachers need an incentivized bonus program. Something based on school performance and individual performance. This is a typical bonus program. This would encourage teamwork within the faculty but would allow healthy competition as well.
Junior teachers (less than 5 years experience) would get 5/7/10 percent bonus based on meets/exceeds/outstanding performance. Senior teaching staff would get 7/10/15 percent. Leadership would get 10/15/20 percent. The percent is of the total available based on school overall performance goals. So if the school achieves 90% of its annual goal then individuals get 90% of their bonus potential.
50k salary with an exceeds rating for a junior teacher (7%) at 90% payout = $3,150. If the school meets 100% goals, then $3,500.
Schools should be funded to meet 100% goals with a proportional number of meets/exceed/outstanding at 60/30/10 for each group. With a school of 50 teachers, 15 junior, 30 senior and 5 in leadership you would have the following:
Junior 9/5/1
Senior 18/9/3
Leadership 3/2/1
Again, this is typical in any large organization (ymmv).
Any money left on the table would be put towards training for teachers who underperformed or as hiring bonuses to find new better teachers. Goals would be set based on prior year achievements, not absolute goals. KPIs would be used including test scores but also parent reviews, safety scores, student health scores, participation in district wide events (spelling bees, mathletics, science fairs, debates, etc).
How could something like the above fail worse than the current system?
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Most building mass would I imagine be taken from the surface of the destination.
More likely would be sealing off an underground cave or tunnel. Digging requires no more than the equipments mass. Sealing would require material for airtight foam.
Noone in the US could live on $290 a month (Foxconn wages for iPad line person).
You are delusional to think that we would be better off making the hardware than using it. How many Chinese workers can afford an iPad or mid-range generic PC at 2 months pay? To continue the comparison it's as if a 40k/year US worker had to pay $6,800.
If we made iPads here that's likely how much they would cost retail. $6,800. Sounds great right?
$800? Try $99 for an AppleTV. Stream to it from wherever. Transcoding is quick and easy for any H.264 codec.
I would set up a meshed cacheing network as well. Most people visit the same sites over and over. Have a dynamic cache that propagates to where it is most requested and updates as efficiently as possible. Most content is old by the time you see it anyways.
This solves both congestion and latency issues.
Wired is overrated. Too much hardware to maintain too many bad plugs, wires all over, fixed locations, etc. The speed isn't used, nor the bandwidth.
My AppleTV is wired. That's it. I only have a 20 MB/sec plan so N is fast enough for 2-3 devices at a time and doesn't saturate with a single device pulling torrents down.
Also anecdotally I've rarely had the issues you mention. Quickly remedied with a channel change or power cycle.
On the bonus side my printer is in a room on its own, no PC hanging off and no network port required. I can print from my phone and pick up the print at my leisure. It's nice.
IE9 the only relevant point in your post is not a really good browser. It is way better than its predecessors but is still well behind the field in every way.
IE10 may be better but will still be behind. It's not the browser it's the render engine and lack of pluggable architecture mixed with the fact that its render engine is not cross platform.
Chrome runs on all major OS distributions and WebKit is by far the top render engine on the desktop but especially on mobile.
All that other stuff is nice though.
Except that squirrels eat nuts and mongoose eat snakes. Otherwise spot on.
I highly recommend the video. You could not describe it effectively with words even combined with static images.
So you do want me spreading blatant lies about your actions with goats, use of drugs, racial bias and incompetence at your chosen profession?
I could do so on about 50 different related social networks and use 50 aliases to promote them.
No censorship is acceptable?
My kids are all perfectly typical and have the same response. That's just kids.
I can tell you've not been out of the basement in while.
I grew up on worse.
Surely you've seen YoGabbaGabba or even Spongebob Squarepants (8+ years old now) or WowWow Wubbzy?
Back in the day it was ScoobyDoo and and let's not forget the venerable Winnie the Pooh and the Hephalumps...
Doesn't work like that. The best you could do would be to giver her a loaner, preferably a P4 with 256MB RAM. If she's got pull she might be able to get that swapped out for a brand new laptop though, which might also be okay - then you give her a few days to get used to a good system, then yank it away and give her back her old one. She'll be miserable either way.
Office is installed on all corporate machines, PC and Mac. Corporate espionage is the likely agenda.
They become Capital Holdings companies
What's needed is a second 4 digit pass code. When that is entered the long pass code goes into effect. The best of both worlds. Use your day to day PIN for casual use, then "lock" the phone with the second PIN anytime you're not in complete control. Could also be set on a timer eg if 4 hours go by the device goes into secure locked mode.
India recently nationalized a drug under patent protection. They cut the price to a fraction of the market price and gave a percent of that back as a royalty.
If there is a drug that will save as much money in an economy as this drug could, it will not last long on the market without being cloned and made available.
Curing cancer will bring fame and a small fortune (billions in revenue - profit???) but it will not finance any empires.
The last time I bought a display was in 2004. I paid $2400 for it. I made about 50k back then so it was a big purchase for me.
I still have it and it works perfectly. I've been using it daily for 8 years now. Since then I've spent $100 on a new adaptor for a new laptop.
30 in. Apple Cinema Display. 2560 x 1600, matte screen. Better than anything available today or then (for the price ).
Sometimes it's worth it to invest in quality.
And? Speculation without depositing funds against it (making those funds unavailable for other things) is a perfect example of a lack of checks and balances. Quite literally the speculators are allowed to write a check but are not required to hold the balance to cover that check. They "float" it and rely on inertia to keep their investment of imaginary funds from being called on, eg they sell the investment and get the profit before having to pony up the cash.
The Backstrret Boys were at their peak in 1999 (Wikipedia). That was the beginning of the end for the music industry. The rise of manufactured pop music. Does anyone still listen to any of the heavily marketed groups they (the recording industry) put all their money into? No. The music industry cashed in on a niche that had no staying power and continued that policy until that generation stopped caring. In the meanwhile all the good musicians got tired of it and left, starting their own labels, accepting less revenue for more profit.
They killed their cow. Piracy had nothing to do with it.
I'm 34 and TMNT was a Darkhorse Comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It was black and white ink and the titles were fucked up psychopaths out for revenge (and pizza, granted). They cussed up and down, cut down anyone in their path and lay waste to entire rooms of people with blood spray like a Kill Bill movie.
Then they cashed out to Archie and I stopped caring.
I preferred Geriatric Jujitsu Gerbils myself (look it up, was a real title :).
Many US banks have pay by email now. Try that out. No service fees unless you have general account fees.
I'll take a Beowulf cluster of those please. But in Soviet Russia...
1 iPOP
2 IMAX
3 ???
4 Profit!!!
Some Americans have lots of money as do some Chinese and some Russians and at least one Mexican. The rest of us are poor schlubs living hand to mouth like everyone else. Granted there are probably more documented rich in America.
Teachers need an incentivized bonus program. Something based on school performance and individual performance. This is a typical bonus program. This would encourage teamwork within the faculty but would allow healthy competition as well.
Junior teachers (less than 5 years experience) would get 5/7/10 percent bonus based on meets/exceeds/outstanding performance. Senior teaching staff would get 7/10/15 percent. Leadership would get 10/15/20 percent. The percent is of the total available based on school overall performance goals. So if the school achieves 90% of its annual goal then individuals get 90% of their bonus potential.
50k salary with an exceeds rating for a junior teacher (7%) at 90% payout = $3,150. If the school meets 100% goals, then $3,500.
Schools should be funded to meet 100% goals with a proportional number of meets/exceed/outstanding at 60/30/10 for each group. With a school of 50 teachers, 15 junior, 30 senior and 5 in leadership you would have the following:
Junior 9/5/1
Senior 18/9/3
Leadership 3/2/1
Again, this is typical in any large organization (ymmv).
Any money left on the table would be put towards training for teachers who underperformed or as hiring bonuses to find new better teachers. Goals would be set based on prior year achievements, not absolute goals. KPIs would be used including test scores but also parent reviews, safety scores, student health scores, participation in district wide events (spelling bees, mathletics, science fairs, debates, etc).
How could something like the above fail worse than the current system?