Well, that's why I'm holding out hope for the Surface Pro. It seems to me that Microsoft is really trying to make something that can replace both a tablet and a computer. Even if you end up using separate applications when the keyboard/mouse is connected, that would be fine. I just don't like having my stuff being spread around, which is why I'm using the Macbook Pro for everything right now. But if I could pull off its screen and have all my stuff on a tablet too, it would be handy.
A controlled study including longitudinal outcome measures is a good way to build evidence for or against Head Start, as the case may be. Leaping from evidence of a genetic factor in intelligence to an attack on Head Start is not.
In fact that study indicates that less intelligent kids benefit more from the program (whereas you quoted results for the population as a whole):
Selected subgroups of children showed patterns of favorable impacts, including
favorable impacts through 1st
grade in the cognitive, social-emotional, or health
domains.
Among the 4-year-old cohort, these subgroups include children of parents with
mild depressive symptoms, children who were Dual Language Learners, and
children with lower cognitive skills.
I do have a 4k display on my Mac Pro, but I don't have a tablet because I like having one device that can do it all. A Surface Pro with this new chip might end up being that device.
I will admit what triggered suspicion - I forgot to bring a birth certificate for my 15-year-old son, and my wife wasn't with us. I don't see what a photocopied birth certificate proves (with regard to either kidnapping or smuggling contraband on my motorcycle) - but either way it was made abundantly clear to me that "privacy" is not a relevant concept at an international checkpoint. In fact the Canadian agent even claimed I shouldn't be taking him between US states without documentation, since I had no way to prove I had "permission", which really made my head spin.
Yeah, I guess. It's like pointing out that overseas freight might be opened by Customs - which is to say, yeah, it might. I practically got a proctological exam just crossing over into Canada this summer. What is more secretive and nefarious is the tapping of a line between 2 nations (or within one nation) by a third party.
Despite the mountains of hard scientific evidence to the contrary, the political dogma, at least where I live, is that we are all born as blank slates and any measurable difference between individuals is due to environment. We would all be as good as Tiger Woods at golf if we lived his life. This includes differences between the sexes, and isn't hyperbole or an exaggeration.
How do you claim to know what people are thinking? There is a vast difference between feeling that people are (in whatever sense) identical, vs. believing they should be treated equally, especially in the political sphere. When you advocate discrimination, you not only assert that there is a difference, but that you, or society (will be a just arbiter) in assigning people to differential treatment. And that differential treatment will not cause even further divergence over time.
If history has shown anything, it's that those assumptions are absolutely false.
"That omission has wasted millions of dollars for higher education for those that can't learn."
- Bzzt, wrong. There's nothing in this research that claims anybody "can't learn."
"Not to mention the money wasted on 'equal opportunity' and 'head start' programs." - Bzzt, wrong again, and 0 for 2. There's nothing in this research that shows equal opportunity or head start programs don't help, much less that they are a "waste."
Your post, and the one we are responding to, are good examples of why people have become "PC" and afraid of certain facts - because history is so full of people with political ends who (unconsciously) twist the facts to support their subjective beliefs, sometimes with disastrous results.
You are confusing two different things: 1) the assumption that all people have equal intellectual ability (which practically nobody believes), with: 2) the assertion that only those with high potential are deserving of the nourishment needed to reach one's own personal potential. I can see different levels of intellectual ability in my own children; do I pull the less-able one from math? No! If anything, she will benefit more from the extra time devoted to mastering times tables than my other kids would benefit from learning a little more geometry.
Secondly, you completely confused about equal opportunity. There is nothing in this study that says people of equal potential will reach equal levels of attainment if the potential of one is developed while the potential of the other is neglected or discouraged.
Perhaps it might have enjoyed more success if they had added x86 emulation and LLVM-esque runtime support to Visual Studio and C++ so a large portion of desktop apps could be recompiled for it.
The whole reason Microsoft was arm-twisted into making RT in the first place was because processors that could fit in a tablet form factor (with a tablet-sized battery) did not have enough power to run desktop applications - let alone through an emulator! Only with Pro 3 is Microsoft (thanks to Intel) finally able to fit a PC into a tablet - and still with a rather high cost, and it could still be smaller / lighter than it is.
I don't think that figure can be correct. Using a rate of $0.10 / kWh (it actually starts at $0.0906 for the first 450kWh used each month and goes up from there), you would make $483 of electricity if there were only the equivalent of 4 hours of peak sunshine per day. (483*10/365/3.3 = 4.0100) The link I posted claims the equivalent of 6 hours of peak sunshine per day on average, which is actually conservative based on this table.
I just looked up St Petersburg and Los Angeles in the NREL Prospector and the average annual DNI for St Petersburg is 5.22 kWh/m2/day vs. 5.72 for Los angeles, so only 10% less.
(Lucky me, it is 7.54 here in Albuquerque. Now excuse me while I put on another layer of sunscreen.)
The cost for 3 cottages was quoted as 106,000 dollars but I keep seeing where in California people are installing panels for a tiny fraction of that. I guess that shows just how much of the cost is being subsidized.
Nah, here is what the prices are where I live - both before and after the credits. For my house (2 adults and 4 kids) we need the 3.3 kWh system which is $13.8K before credits, $8.3K after. That is parts + installation + 25 year warranty on inverter and panels. (This works out to a break-even of 7 years after the credits because it would offset $100/mo in electricity bills.)
I am left wondering how it could be $35K / cottage in Florida. Maybe it's to go off-grid altogether, thus requiring storage? I'm getting just enough to ensure I'll rarely produce a net excess in any single month. The rate at which the power company buys excess electricity isn't attractive so I don't want to over-produce long-term, but you can over-produce during the day and 'bank' it until night, and carry a little (up to $50 worth) over from one month to the next.
I got lasik and my doctor kept saying, over and over and over again, "you will still need reading glasses eventually, just like anybody else!" I guess he was worried I'd come after him or something.
But for running and skiing, and especially for motorcycle riding (wind, dust and grit) it is SO much better than glasses or contacts (which I never could really get comfortable with). And I can use $10 Walmart sunglasses again.
The reason this study found a higher cost for solar was they accounted for intermittency - the basic problem is that even if solar were generating 50% everybody's power, you'd still need about the same amount of baseline power available - nuclear or fossil fuels - for when the sun isn't out.
Early solar adopters aren't bearing this cost because the power company charges them same amount for power whether or not the sun is shining - it's not really an issue until solar is a bigger power source. Germany IS already there, leading the way with solar and wind, and has been paying outrageous prices for electricity at certain moments when there is a crunch - up to 400 times the normal rate! But as you can imagine this is a huge financial incentive to create new solutions.
I question the study because the transition to solar will be gradual, and it's hard to say what more efficient means we might come up with to store power. If we had a smart grid that could communicate fluctuating electricity prices to devices, there might be a lot they could do.
I do think there's a risk of not getting our money's worth from the F35 if the missions we need to do all continue to be more suitable for cruise missiles (is that a drone?)
the F-35 now looks like even more of a gigantic waste of money.
I wouldn't jump immediately to that conclusion. Every advance has some countermeasure, but just because you can build a research prototype that's somewhat (we don't know how much) effective at this, does NOT mean that all the eastern bloc air defenses around the world suddenly have that capability. It doesn't even mean they will get it within the next 20 years.
For example the longer wavelength might require large antennae and multiple fixes from different positions that are far apart, which is a big limitation, especially if you want to build an radar that can fit on an aircraft or missile. I am just guessing here what the limitations might be. But there are always countermeasures, but almost never 100% effective and without added cost and other drawbacks.
Anyways, stealth is far from all the F35 brings to the table. The summary criticizes it for perhaps not being a good dogfighter, but if all aircraft are easy to track, that's even more irrelevant, because something easy to track is easy to shoot down at long range.
A single particle would have a different temperature relative to any other single particle, would it not? Essentially just the closure rate? So temperature is a relation between particles, not a property of a individual particles.
If neuron-like processing turns out to be advantageous, there will be much more efficient ways to implement them than using tens of thousands logic gates to simulate each one.
Exactly. If Comcast is sending people a new cable modem with this extra functionality built in, then the question is not how much power it uses, but how much more than your old gear it uses.
This story can only be taken literally if Comcast is sending a new, separate device used in addition to whatever else you used previously.
Hmm, maybe they should re-direct some of that construction overcapacity to something more economically useful, like a new canal to reduce shipping costs to western markets.
Well, that strategy was a home run with the Wii, not so much lately. Selling hardware to run graphically unimpressive games was an entirely different business before smartphones became ubiquitous, because they largely fill that role.
I also heard China is investing heavily in Africa and the Middle East, basically for leverage against the US and Europe.
What do you mean by "leverage"? The reason China is investing heavily in Africa and the Middle East is because there's where there are the most goodies still buried in the ground waiting for the taking.
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Is it any stranger than designer t-shirts? Or needlessly large homes? The point is to show everybody you have money.
Well, that's why I'm holding out hope for the Surface Pro. It seems to me that Microsoft is really trying to make something that can replace both a tablet and a computer. Even if you end up using separate applications when the keyboard/mouse is connected, that would be fine. I just don't like having my stuff being spread around, which is why I'm using the Macbook Pro for everything right now. But if I could pull off its screen and have all my stuff on a tablet too, it would be handy.
In fact that study indicates that less intelligent kids benefit more from the program (whereas you quoted results for the population as a whole):
I do have a 4k display on my Mac Pro, but I don't have a tablet because I like having one device that can do it all. A Surface Pro with this new chip might end up being that device.
I will admit what triggered suspicion - I forgot to bring a birth certificate for my 15-year-old son, and my wife wasn't with us. I don't see what a photocopied birth certificate proves (with regard to either kidnapping or smuggling contraband on my motorcycle) - but either way it was made abundantly clear to me that "privacy" is not a relevant concept at an international checkpoint. In fact the Canadian agent even claimed I shouldn't be taking him between US states without documentation, since I had no way to prove I had "permission", which really made my head spin.
Yeah, I guess. It's like pointing out that overseas freight might be opened by Customs - which is to say, yeah, it might. I practically got a proctological exam just crossing over into Canada this summer. What is more secretive and nefarious is the tapping of a line between 2 nations (or within one nation) by a third party.
How do you claim to know what people are thinking? There is a vast difference between feeling that people are (in whatever sense) identical, vs. believing they should be treated equally, especially in the political sphere. When you advocate discrimination, you not only assert that there is a difference, but that you, or society (will be a just arbiter) in assigning people to differential treatment. And that differential treatment will not cause even further divergence over time.
If history has shown anything, it's that those assumptions are absolutely false.
You have to be very careful attributing things to genes rather than environment. Testosterone level, since you mentioned it, rises and drop in response to winning or losing in competitions, and increases in response to exercise. The nature of our encounters with others (dominance) and exercise (which depends on job function) are both clearly culturally influenced.
"That omission has wasted millions of dollars for higher education for those that can't learn." - Bzzt, wrong. There's nothing in this research that claims anybody "can't learn."
"Not to mention the money wasted on 'equal opportunity' and 'head start' programs." - Bzzt, wrong again, and 0 for 2. There's nothing in this research that shows equal opportunity or head start programs don't help, much less that they are a "waste."
Your post, and the one we are responding to, are good examples of why people have become "PC" and afraid of certain facts - because history is so full of people with political ends who (unconsciously) twist the facts to support their subjective beliefs, sometimes with disastrous results.
Secondly, you completely confused about equal opportunity. There is nothing in this study that says people of equal potential will reach equal levels of attainment if the potential of one is developed while the potential of the other is neglected or discouraged.
The whole reason Microsoft was arm-twisted into making RT in the first place was because processors that could fit in a tablet form factor (with a tablet-sized battery) did not have enough power to run desktop applications - let alone through an emulator! Only with Pro 3 is Microsoft (thanks to Intel) finally able to fit a PC into a tablet - and still with a rather high cost, and it could still be smaller / lighter than it is.
I don't think that figure can be correct. Using a rate of $0.10 / kWh (it actually starts at $0.0906 for the first 450kWh used each month and goes up from there), you would make $483 of electricity if there were only the equivalent of 4 hours of peak sunshine per day. (483*10/365/3.3 = 4.0100) The link I posted claims the equivalent of 6 hours of peak sunshine per day on average, which is actually conservative based on this table.
(Lucky me, it is 7.54 here in Albuquerque. Now excuse me while I put on another layer of sunscreen.)
Nah, here is what the prices are where I live - both before and after the credits. For my house (2 adults and 4 kids) we need the 3.3 kWh system which is $13.8K before credits, $8.3K after. That is parts + installation + 25 year warranty on inverter and panels. (This works out to a break-even of 7 years after the credits because it would offset $100/mo in electricity bills.)
I am left wondering how it could be $35K / cottage in Florida. Maybe it's to go off-grid altogether, thus requiring storage? I'm getting just enough to ensure I'll rarely produce a net excess in any single month. The rate at which the power company buys excess electricity isn't attractive so I don't want to over-produce long-term, but you can over-produce during the day and 'bank' it until night, and carry a little (up to $50 worth) over from one month to the next.
But for running and skiing, and especially for motorcycle riding (wind, dust and grit) it is SO much better than glasses or contacts (which I never could really get comfortable with). And I can use $10 Walmart sunglasses again.
Early solar adopters aren't bearing this cost because the power company charges them same amount for power whether or not the sun is shining - it's not really an issue until solar is a bigger power source. Germany IS already there, leading the way with solar and wind, and has been paying outrageous prices for electricity at certain moments when there is a crunch - up to 400 times the normal rate! But as you can imagine this is a huge financial incentive to create new solutions.
I question the study because the transition to solar will be gradual, and it's hard to say what more efficient means we might come up with to store power. If we had a smart grid that could communicate fluctuating electricity prices to devices, there might be a lot they could do.
I do think there's a risk of not getting our money's worth from the F35 if the missions we need to do all continue to be more suitable for cruise missiles (is that a drone?)
I wouldn't jump immediately to that conclusion. Every advance has some countermeasure, but just because you can build a research prototype that's somewhat (we don't know how much) effective at this, does NOT mean that all the eastern bloc air defenses around the world suddenly have that capability. It doesn't even mean they will get it within the next 20 years.
For example the longer wavelength might require large antennae and multiple fixes from different positions that are far apart, which is a big limitation, especially if you want to build an radar that can fit on an aircraft or missile. I am just guessing here what the limitations might be. But there are always countermeasures, but almost never 100% effective and without added cost and other drawbacks.
Anyways, stealth is far from all the F35 brings to the table. The summary criticizes it for perhaps not being a good dogfighter, but if all aircraft are easy to track, that's even more irrelevant, because something easy to track is easy to shoot down at long range.
Cheap, fast, and unreliable, like overclocking your CPU and RAM.
A single particle would have a different temperature relative to any other single particle, would it not? Essentially just the closure rate? So temperature is a relation between particles, not a property of a individual particles.
If neuron-like processing turns out to be advantageous, there will be much more efficient ways to implement them than using tens of thousands logic gates to simulate each one.
This story can only be taken literally if Comcast is sending a new, separate device used in addition to whatever else you used previously.
Hmm, maybe they should re-direct some of that construction overcapacity to something more economically useful, like a new canal to reduce shipping costs to western markets.
Well, that strategy was a home run with the Wii, not so much lately. Selling hardware to run graphically unimpressive games was an entirely different business before smartphones became ubiquitous, because they largely fill that role.
What do you mean by "leverage"? The reason China is investing heavily in Africa and the Middle East is because there's where there are the most goodies still buried in the ground waiting for the taking.