One paid $40,000 a year for it, one paid $100 a year. Which is the smarter one?
That's a good question.
One hundred dollars buys two or three hours of time from a professional tutor or teaching assistant.
Assuming no laboratory or administrative costs, how valuable is an education that you got for the cost of two or three hours of one-on-one attention (including teaching and evaulation) per year?
There's also name stealing. Missouri has a town called "Versailles." I hear the way it's pronounced in Missouri is "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sai." Probably to cut down on confusion.
My favorite among these may be Calais, Maine. On a road trip a couple of decades ago, talking to a local at a tourist information booth:
but nobody gives a shit because it's not a new scary technology used by the damn kids ruining everything.
I'm pretty sure that failure to properly signal turns and lane changes is actually illegal in more states than using a cell phone or texting while driving. So this must the be some newfangled we'll-fine-you-heavily-and-raise-your-insurance-rates kind of "nobody gives a shit".
Most states are discouraging teens from driving at all. Death is better than an empty life.
Source?
In any case, the best possible world would be one where "most states are discouraging driving". Build liveable, walkable communities, with proper mixed-use development, green spaces, multi-use trails for pedestrians and bicycles, and good connections to public transit.
If the only way for a teen to buy groceries is by driving ten miles to a big-box Wal-Mart as the sole occupant of a seven-passenger SUV, then something is fundamentally broken.
In theory, a program could add a revision for every keystroke. But if you want to revert to a previous revision, it'd be tedious to find the right revision that way.
Whereas it's easy to find a previous revision now, particularly if you didn't save the specific version that you're looking for under a separate filename? Come now. Search for changes by date and time. Search for changes that add or remove specific phrases. Display overall document length as a function of time. Zoomable, scrollable display of changes over time, with annotated marks at each 'save' point.
In addition, it'd need to keep the hard drive spinning all the time to store all the diffs in case of power failure.
The twentieth century called; they want their storage technology back. Hard drives don't have to spin anymore. Portable devices are all operating off batteries (or backed up by batteries) anyway, so power outages aren't the bogeyman they once were. Worst case scenario a memory cache is flushed to disk every five or ten minutes and we're no worse off than the current 'autosave'.
Even in an application with automatic saving, the "save" button still has a purpose, namely to mark a revision as worth keeping.
True, but not really a problem. Use the 'save' button to insert an annotation in the editing history instead of creating or fixing a file.
Dude, get a grip. In your ranting, it looks like you've lost track of what you're arguing about.
You seem to be operating under the impression that, when faced with two bad choices (in this case, the status quo versus the grotesquely-misnamed Fair Tax), it's never possible to have a reasonable discussion about which is worse without also endorsing one of the choices.
Your reasoning continues to be nonsensical.
Incidentally, I'm not from the United States; I neither live there nor hold U.S. citizenship. I don't know where you're from either, but I assume their principal export is asshattery.
Ah, of course. Being opposed to a proposal to punch more holes in the hull means that I'm "going to support the sinking of the ship". What bizarre logic you employ.
The parent poster's point, which you seem to be entirely missing, is that the so-called, deceptively-named 'Fair Tax' would make the situation significantly worse.
There is a significant difference between "This particular proposal for change is bad" - which is what was actually said - and "The current situation is good" -- which is what you're imagining you heard.
I don't know what's more disappointing--that you put Martin Niemöller up next to Ayn Rand and pretended that those quotes pulled out of context belong side by side, or that someone with mod points didn't know better than to tag your post as 'Insightful'.
Rand's philosophy embraced selfishness as its highest ideal.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but if you get the tax credit, you can be even more generous if you want.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, though--that strategy means that he would be choosing to fund his own preferred charities at the expense of other people funding the government services (from which he would still benefit...).
The design already calls for dishes scattered across a circular region roughly 3000 km wide (though the highest density of dishes will be in patches 5 km across in the center of the array) to create a very large synthetic aperture.
The problem with an interferometer having just two widely-separated points is that it only provides high angular resolution along the axis between those points. (It's not useless, but it is very limited.) The two sites are about 10,000 km apart, which somewhat limits the amount of sky that both sites will be able to see simultaneously (and observe continuously for any extended period of time). If a large number of telescopes are involved in the interferometer array, one needs some very high bandwidth data connections, which I'm not certain exist between South Africa and Australia. In practice, I suspect that what you'd be getting would be more like two Half-Kilometer-Arrays rather than a long-baseline SKA.
What has been proposed, and should be technically feasible, is dividing the array up by frequency band. The plan already calls for three overlapping arrays of different types of telescopes in order to capture three different frequency bands. (Phased array dipole antennas work great at 100 MHz, whereas you need dishes for 10 GHz.) In principle, one could put the low- and mid-frequency arrays on one site and the high-frequency arrays on another. That avoids the problems with bandwidth associated with long-baseline interferometry, and it allows each array to scan its entire local sky without worrying about what's over the distant station's horizon.
The downside is that this increases overall costs. Two sites need to be prepared; two sets of computing facilities need to be built; two different national governments have to be placated. Scientifically, it means that the entire array can't always be 'pointed' in the same place across its entire frequency spectrum--sometimes the high- or low-frequency portion of the array will be below the horizon.
I'm not sure what's confusing you here. The power objectively costs more to supply during peak hours. Either the power company charges a flat rate, in which case the off-peak users subsidize the peak users, or the power company charges tiered rates, so that people using more expensive electricity pay more.
The price you're paying more closely represents the costs incurred to provide you with electricity. Either change your lifestyle - which may well be very difficult for you - or accept that some other people who have made different choices from you will pay less for their power.
You've been enjoying a free ride for years; now you're not. Suck it up.
...China’s generals are ambitious. The country is on course to become the world’s largest military spender in just 20 years or so.
So a country with four times the population of the United States may match the U.S.'s military spending two decades from now...shocking.
Look, what exactly did you think was going to happen when China became a developed country with a modern economy and a fully-educated workforce? They're going to have money to spend. When did not having the absolute most-powerful military become a disaster for the U.S.?
The claim is that apart from the copyright in the particular photographs, the choice of a bear to illustrate the laws of thermodynamics is itself sufficiently original.
Honestly, that does sound like the (big, evil, monstrous, yadda, yadda, yadda) textbook publisher may have a point. There are some concepts in physics that are always illustrated in (nearly) the same way, with (nearly) identical examples. You can't talk about Maxwell's demon without a demon. Schrodinger will always have his half-dead cat. Every first-year dynamics textbook will have a race car travelling a banked, circular track riding on tires with a certain coefficient of friction.
On the other hand, I've spent a couple of decades studying and working in physics-related fields, and I've yet to come across a famous or canonical bear-catching-a-fish story in any branch of physics, let alone thermodynamics. The choice of a novel illustrative example certainly seems like a genuinely creative act on the part of the textbook's authors, and could form the basis of a legitimate complaint.
I'm sorry but what you feel is not love. People fight to save/protect the things they love. They don't run from them at the first sign of trouble - Coward.
If you're going to quote that report, you could just as easily point to this figure.
In inflation-adjusted dollars, defense spending has been higher in the last five budgets than at any other point in the last fifty. The last time the DOD was spending more money in terms of real buying power was World War 2.
Direct flights that do not enter US Airspace would not be affected.
No, you're quite mistaken. While the U.S. previously only demanded passenger information for flights entering U.S. airspace, this new policy now covers flights that never overfly U.S. territory. The article notes that direct flights from the UK to the Canadian cities of Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto are affected, and the U.S. authorities intend to include western Canadian destinations in the near future.
'The only source of getting a song' has _never_ been buying an album. At least in by far the most common case, which is 'wanting to buy that popular song that you keep hearing on the radio'. All those songs on the radio are called 'singles'. And you've _always_ been able to buy them...as singles. CD singles, record singles, whatever - you get the song you wanted, and a couple of tracks of filler, for about 1/8th the cost of the album.
I call bullshit, unless the typical album was selling for $30 or more where you lived.
Actually, I call bullshit on the rest of your comment, too, unless you can back up what you're saying with sources.
Brick and mortar record stores are disincentivized from carrying all but the most popular singles, and it is in their interest to make even those relatively hard to find on their shelves. They'd much rather stock and sell a $15-20 album over a $4 single, especially given that both take up the same physical space, and both have the same labor and handling overhead. Listeners who didn't want to wait weeks for mail-order or special-order singles were stuck with whatever limited selection their neighborhood record store happened to carry. Not everyone who buys music lives in a city with large, well-stocked record stores.
Moreover, for the casual home listener, physical singles were a nuisance to listen to. Unless you wanted to listen to the same three tracks ad nauseam four to six times an hour, you had to keep changing tapes (or discs) or you had to compile your singles into mix tapes (or mix CDs), or you had to acquire a large multi-disc changer and program it to pick out the 'good' tracks from the filler. A lot of manipulation of physical media was required.
I'm just not sure where this phantom image of millions of sad people buying entire albums just to get single tracks comes from...
Probably from the millions of people buying singles on iTunes instead of albums, now that they have a clear, unencumbered, sensibly-priced choice.
If you do a bunch of comparisons, you're occasionally going to hit a result that's a couple of standard deviations out. That's what the first experimenters did, and the press went nuts over the green jelly beans.
This device outputs 12 joules of energy per second. This is two orders of magnitude less.
The output specified in the article was 12 joules per square centimeter per second. That's 1000 watts over an area of about 80 square centimeters--an area smaller than your face, or one side of a couple of Pizza Pops.
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And there has never been a heart transplant recipient who has lived more than 10 years.
Bollocks. The current record is 31 years, set when 1978 transplant recipient Tony Huesman died in 2009. Dwight Kroening finished his first Ironman triathlon 22 years after his transplant. Five-year survival runs around 70%, and ten-year survival for heart transplants is about 50%.
A heart transplant certainly isn't a panacea; it's not a magical cure, and it carries serious and ongoing risks--but it's also not the unmitigated disaster that you seem to think it is.
If you think knowing the right thing implies doing the right thing you're either hopelessly naïve or you're one of the extra terrestrials they're looking for.
While "knowing the right thing" isn't a sufficient condition for "doing the right thing", I think that most people here would understand that it's at least necessary.
Those are good suggestions, but I'm going to have to call shenanigans on the "largely forgotten" claim.
You've named three of the best-known science fiction authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
The Foundation trilogy, The Caves of Steel, and Childhood's End all made NPR's top 100 science fiction and fantasy stories of all time list. (And it wasn't obscure critics or academics who assembled NPR's list; it was based on open public voting.) I suspect that Have Space Suit might have made the list too, except that the criteria barred young adult fiction.
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One paid $40,000 a year for it, one paid $100 a year. Which is the smarter one?
That's a good question.
One hundred dollars buys two or three hours of time from a professional tutor or teaching assistant.
Assuming no laboratory or administrative costs, how valuable is an education that you got for the cost of two or three hours of one-on-one attention (including teaching and evaulation) per year?
There's also name stealing. Missouri has a town called "Versailles." I hear the way it's pronounced in Missouri is "Ver-sales" rather than "Ver-sai." Probably to cut down on confusion.
My favorite among these may be Calais, Maine. On a road trip a couple of decades ago, talking to a local at a tourist information booth:
"So, if we take Route 1 to Calais..."
"Ca-LAY? Where's...oh, you mean CALLOUS!"
"I suppose I do..."
Montpelier, Virginia gets a similar treatment.
but nobody gives a shit because it's not a new scary technology used by the damn kids ruining everything.
I'm pretty sure that failure to properly signal turns and lane changes is actually illegal in more states than using a cell phone or texting while driving. So this must the be some newfangled we'll-fine-you-heavily-and-raise-your-insurance-rates kind of "nobody gives a shit".
Most states are discouraging teens from driving at all. Death is better than an empty life.
Source?
In any case, the best possible world would be one where "most states are discouraging driving". Build liveable, walkable communities, with proper mixed-use development, green spaces, multi-use trails for pedestrians and bicycles, and good connections to public transit.
If the only way for a teen to buy groceries is by driving ten miles to a big-box Wal-Mart as the sole occupant of a seven-passenger SUV, then something is fundamentally broken.
In theory, a program could add a revision for every keystroke. But if you want to revert to a previous revision, it'd be tedious to find the right revision that way.
Whereas it's easy to find a previous revision now, particularly if you didn't save the specific version that you're looking for under a separate filename? Come now. Search for changes by date and time. Search for changes that add or remove specific phrases. Display overall document length as a function of time. Zoomable, scrollable display of changes over time, with annotated marks at each 'save' point.
In addition, it'd need to keep the hard drive spinning all the time to store all the diffs in case of power failure.
The twentieth century called; they want their storage technology back. Hard drives don't have to spin anymore. Portable devices are all operating off batteries (or backed up by batteries) anyway, so power outages aren't the bogeyman they once were. Worst case scenario a memory cache is flushed to disk every five or ten minutes and we're no worse off than the current 'autosave'.
Even in an application with automatic saving, the "save" button still has a purpose, namely to mark a revision as worth keeping.
True, but not really a problem. Use the 'save' button to insert an annotation in the editing history instead of creating or fixing a file.
You seem to be operating under the impression that, when faced with two bad choices (in this case, the status quo versus the grotesquely-misnamed Fair Tax), it's never possible to have a reasonable discussion about which is worse without also endorsing one of the choices.
Your reasoning continues to be nonsensical.
Incidentally, I'm not from the United States; I neither live there nor hold U.S. citizenship. I don't know where you're from either, but I assume their principal export is asshattery.
Ah, of course. Being opposed to a proposal to punch more holes in the hull means that I'm "going to support the sinking of the ship". What bizarre logic you employ.
There is a significant difference between "This particular proposal for change is bad" - which is what was actually said - and "The current situation is good" -- which is what you're imagining you heard.
Rand's philosophy embraced selfishness as its highest ideal.
Not trying to be a dick or anything, but if you get the tax credit, you can be even more generous if you want.
Playing devil's advocate for a moment, though--that strategy means that he would be choosing to fund his own preferred charities at the expense of other people funding the government services (from which he would still benefit...).
There is a guy with a metal detector at the airport door, and he gives you an extremely brief patdown.
And this system works extremely well, as long as no terrorists figure out that they can put bombs, firearms, and other weapons in a suitcase....
The problem with an interferometer having just two widely-separated points is that it only provides high angular resolution along the axis between those points. (It's not useless, but it is very limited.) The two sites are about 10,000 km apart, which somewhat limits the amount of sky that both sites will be able to see simultaneously (and observe continuously for any extended period of time). If a large number of telescopes are involved in the interferometer array, one needs some very high bandwidth data connections, which I'm not certain exist between South Africa and Australia. In practice, I suspect that what you'd be getting would be more like two Half-Kilometer-Arrays rather than a long-baseline SKA.
What has been proposed, and should be technically feasible, is dividing the array up by frequency band. The plan already calls for three overlapping arrays of different types of telescopes in order to capture three different frequency bands. (Phased array dipole antennas work great at 100 MHz, whereas you need dishes for 10 GHz.) In principle, one could put the low- and mid-frequency arrays on one site and the high-frequency arrays on another. That avoids the problems with bandwidth associated with long-baseline interferometry, and it allows each array to scan its entire local sky without worrying about what's over the distant station's horizon.
The downside is that this increases overall costs. Two sites need to be prepared; two sets of computing facilities need to be built; two different national governments have to be placated. Scientifically, it means that the entire array can't always be 'pointed' in the same place across its entire frequency spectrum--sometimes the high- or low-frequency portion of the array will be below the horizon.
The price you're paying more closely represents the costs incurred to provide you with electricity. Either change your lifestyle - which may well be very difficult for you - or accept that some other people who have made different choices from you will pay less for their power.
You've been enjoying a free ride for years; now you're not. Suck it up.
...China’s generals are ambitious. The country is on course to become the world’s largest military spender in just 20 years or so.
So a country with four times the population of the United States may match the U.S.'s military spending two decades from now...shocking.
Look, what exactly did you think was going to happen when China became a developed country with a modern economy and a fully-educated workforce? They're going to have money to spend. When did not having the absolute most-powerful military become a disaster for the U.S.?
Since when is it my responsibility, as the customer, to spend my money and time making devices that save the power company money?
It's not.
On the other hand, you can't bitch about it when you're charged more for usage that costs the power company more money.
Or did you think that it was the responsibility of the people who use cheap, off-peak power to subsidize your lifestyle?
The claim is that apart from the copyright in the particular photographs, the choice of a bear to illustrate the laws of thermodynamics is itself sufficiently original.
Honestly, that does sound like the (big, evil, monstrous, yadda, yadda, yadda) textbook publisher may have a point. There are some concepts in physics that are always illustrated in (nearly) the same way, with (nearly) identical examples. You can't talk about Maxwell's demon without a demon. Schrodinger will always have his half-dead cat. Every first-year dynamics textbook will have a race car travelling a banked, circular track riding on tires with a certain coefficient of friction.
On the other hand, I've spent a couple of decades studying and working in physics-related fields, and I've yet to come across a famous or canonical bear-catching-a-fish story in any branch of physics, let alone thermodynamics. The choice of a novel illustrative example certainly seems like a genuinely creative act on the part of the textbook's authors, and could form the basis of a legitimate complaint.
I'm sorry but what you feel is not love. People fight to save/protect the things they love. They don't run from them at the first sign of trouble - Coward.
I love my husband, but he beats me.
In inflation-adjusted dollars, defense spending has been higher in the last five budgets than at any other point in the last fifty. The last time the DOD was spending more money in terms of real buying power was World War 2.
Direct flights that do not enter US Airspace would not be affected.
No, you're quite mistaken. While the U.S. previously only demanded passenger information for flights entering U.S. airspace, this new policy now covers flights that never overfly U.S. territory. The article notes that direct flights from the UK to the Canadian cities of Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto are affected, and the U.S. authorities intend to include western Canadian destinations in the near future.
'The only source of getting a song' has _never_ been buying an album. At least in by far the most common case, which is 'wanting to buy that popular song that you keep hearing on the radio'. All those songs on the radio are called 'singles'. And you've _always_ been able to buy them...as singles. CD singles, record singles, whatever - you get the song you wanted, and a couple of tracks of filler, for about 1/8th the cost of the album.
I call bullshit, unless the typical album was selling for $30 or more where you lived.
Actually, I call bullshit on the rest of your comment, too, unless you can back up what you're saying with sources.
Brick and mortar record stores are disincentivized from carrying all but the most popular singles, and it is in their interest to make even those relatively hard to find on their shelves. They'd much rather stock and sell a $15-20 album over a $4 single, especially given that both take up the same physical space, and both have the same labor and handling overhead. Listeners who didn't want to wait weeks for mail-order or special-order singles were stuck with whatever limited selection their neighborhood record store happened to carry. Not everyone who buys music lives in a city with large, well-stocked record stores.
Moreover, for the casual home listener, physical singles were a nuisance to listen to. Unless you wanted to listen to the same three tracks ad nauseam four to six times an hour, you had to keep changing tapes (or discs) or you had to compile your singles into mix tapes (or mix CDs), or you had to acquire a large multi-disc changer and program it to pick out the 'good' tracks from the filler. A lot of manipulation of physical media was required.
I'm just not sure where this phantom image of millions of sad people buying entire albums just to get single tracks comes from...
Probably from the millions of people buying singles on iTunes instead of albums, now that they have a clear, unencumbered, sensibly-priced choice.
If you do a bunch of comparisons, you're occasionally going to hit a result that's a couple of standard deviations out. That's what the first experimenters did, and the press went nuts over the green jelly beans.
This device outputs 12 joules of energy per second. This is two orders of magnitude less.
The output specified in the article was 12 joules per square centimeter per second. That's 1000 watts over an area of about 80 square centimeters--an area smaller than your face, or one side of a couple of Pizza Pops.
And there has never been a heart transplant recipient who has lived more than 10 years.
Bollocks. The current record is 31 years, set when 1978 transplant recipient Tony Huesman died in 2009. Dwight Kroening finished his first Ironman triathlon 22 years after his transplant. Five-year survival runs around 70%, and ten-year survival for heart transplants is about 50%.
A heart transplant certainly isn't a panacea; it's not a magical cure, and it carries serious and ongoing risks--but it's also not the unmitigated disaster that you seem to think it is.
If you think knowing the right thing implies doing the right thing you're either hopelessly naïve or you're one of the extra terrestrials they're looking for.
While "knowing the right thing" isn't a sufficient condition for "doing the right thing", I think that most people here would understand that it's at least necessary.
You've named three of the best-known science fiction authors of the second half of the twentieth century.
The Foundation trilogy, The Caves of Steel, and Childhood's End all made NPR's top 100 science fiction and fantasy stories of all time list. (And it wasn't obscure critics or academics who assembled NPR's list; it was based on open public voting.) I suspect that Have Space Suit might have made the list too, except that the criteria barred young adult fiction.