I'm sure all the middle class people in California giving thirty percent of their income to the government (soon to be more if we become an Obamanation) are really happy about it
Again, I already proposed a metric for desirability and economic well-being: housing prices. Where's yours? Are you going to formulate a reasoned response or not?
This is what happens when you have nanny state liberals in office.
Let California be a lesson to the remaining 49 on how *NOT* to run a state.
Did you forget to back that up with some compelling statistics you're saving for later? Let's compare housing values in silicon valley vs. detroit to see if you're right.
Adjusted for inflation, that is over $600 now. You can certainly buy one now for that money that sounds better than yours, just don't expect a $25 K-Mart special or even a $100 Sony to do so.
Untrue! I got a DVD (and incidentally, CD) player for about $40 that has a coaxial digital output. The sound it pumps out is identical to any fancy player you could buy.
Once the steam has done its work, lost its energy, and condensed back into water, it's not cold water. The most visible feature of a nuclear power plant is usually the cooling tower, not the containment vessel.
Why would you want to cool the water? If you can only extract energy down to the boiling point at 1 atmosphere, why not at least heat that water back up to steam instead of starting all over with cold water?
IBM seems amazingly successful at innovative fabrication techniques given that their business model leans more on business consulting services. Compared to Intel do they really make that many chips? I've never bought a IBM RAM stick that I know of. There can't be that many POWER supercomputers going out the door. (Granted, there is the PS3 Cell).
Ranking by total medials is absurd, because it gives equal weight to bronze as gold. If you believe that, why award medals at all, or bother to count them?
We've canceled out netflix and gone to useing redbox exclusivly...HOWEVER we did this for one main reasons. - We were'nt returning movies to netflx fast enough to make it worthwhile.
Huh? You're going to get killed by late fees with RedBox then. The reason you're switching to RedBox is the very reason I'm dropping it; $1.50 sounds like a cheap rental, but it's usually at least $3.50 by the time we return it (e.g. rent on Friday, return on Monday).
In an F-16 you can't have multiple pilots all pull shifts, but in an office you sure can. If having to concentrate on something for 13 hours is such a problem (and I have no doubt it is; I sure can't do it) it seems like sending in shrinks is the dumb way for the USAF to handle the problem. They don't need shrinks; they need relief crews.
I'm sure that's occurred to them, but shift handovers are a well known risk in occupational studies. Fields like medicine and nuclear power safety worry about them a lot. The battle space is complex, and when somebody who's been studying it for 8 hours walks out the door, that famiarization has to start all over and accidents are likely.
Where I work (large company), Program Manager is in the business and writes requirements. Project Manager is the I/T function that deals with the schedules. Program Managers need to understand the processes in the business in order to document them.
For the sake of "large company," I sure hope you're not talking about entry-level positions for bachelor's degrees here!
Even if a person with those qualifications landed the job, he or she would be miserable trying to run or manage programs with no experience in the corporate world and no track record on the technical side.
Honestly, in the poster's position I would consider an advanced degree - likely in something else. But even in CS, you can certainly go into teaching without exceptional programming skills, and your day-to-day work will be with people rather than devices.
"If he solves that problem, then Comcast won't care about using more stupid methods of throttling our celebrity midget porn."
Comcast doesn't just throttle P2P anymore. If I use P2P, my connection grinds to a halt completely (can't even surf the web). It pretty much stays that way until I unplug and re-plug my cable modem. This never used to happen. (Does somebody know how to run P2P without offending Comcast routers?)
Rather than casting aspersions on any particular (ideologically charged) theories, they should instead teach more broadly the philosophy of science. Here the students will learn critical thinking, and the assumptions behind the idea that we can "know" anything at all. It is misleading to say that evolution is "just" a theory since it implies other knowledge is not. Then again, I am not against teaching about religion either, so long as it is done so as to inform rather that convince. Nobody asks you to "believe" calculus in school, rather, you are graded on knowledge and ability rather than conviction.
"Can I teach anything as fact based on any religion? Not just 'Christianity'."
I didn't see anything in the article about teaching religion (Christian or other) as fact, apparently it's exclusively focused on promoting dissent on certain topics. Of the topics mentioned, evolution seems to be the one where religion and science collide. I'm not sure why human cloning is in there; the ethics are more in question than the science, and not only religious people are concerned about the ethics there. Not sure why global warming would have any tie to religion either way.
Maybe the amount of physics that would overwhelm the CPU (which can also kill framerate, BTW) is hardly lifting a finger for the GPU. It's certainly not impossible; GPUs do blow away CPUs for some calculations, which is why we have GPUs in the first place.
So, for instance, you don't think people would mind if iTunes only carried the Top 40? Or netflix could flourish carrying offering only hit films? I don't think so.
Honestly, I have decided the written law means very little at all. If enough people dislike what you do, they'll find a way to prosecute you for something or other. If you have enough support, they'll figure out a way to conclude you didn't break the law.
Not saying laws are pointless, but they seem to be more reminders of shared values rather than executable code.
What I meant was, the swamp cooler doesn't seem to filter dust from the air as well as A/C. At work we have A/C and when I take machines apart they look brand new inside. At home when I take them apart they look like the inside of a cave from Indiana Jones.
The PVR, no, because it records and plays TV, and is also a general-use PC for my wife and kids. I could buy a micro PC like you suggest and run it in addition to the PVR, but the administration burden isn't worth it for me. I've drawn the line at 1 home PC.
Since I run a PVR/Webserver at home anyways, I did just that (routed all traffic and ran lartc to prioritize VOIP) for a couple years. But in the end, I stopped because the uptime wasn't good enough for phone service. A fan in the PC fails = no phone until you get a new fan. In my experience a router device with no fans and no hard drives is much more reliable, so I took the PC out of the loop. The downside is now bittorrent messes up the phone again.
PS you don't need to statically reserve upstream for the phone, just set VOIP to have the highest priority, then limit total upstream to about 10% less than your ISP upstream so your modem buffers don't fill up. However, nothing will save you if your ISP isn't delivering reliable upstream bandwidth.
I have a friend from China that was excited to be able to find the sun. First spotting in 10 years.
Living in New Mexico, I find that mind-blowing. I am worried that, with all our concern about doing little things like switching to fluorescent lighting, there is little to no recognition of the root problem - human overpopulation. It's not just the pollution, I love wild natural places and they are all filling up with people and farmland. Our reliance on illegal immigration to support our economy shows that we are not ready to give up ponzi-scheme economics. Yet the Chinese, of all people, can hardly be criticized, since they're the ones taking draconian measures to level off. I don't want to get to that point. Disclaimer: I'm a hypocrite with 4 kids.
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Again, I already proposed a metric for desirability and economic well-being: housing prices. Where's yours? Are you going to formulate a reasoned response or not?
Besides, the price of homes there isn't just a measure of desirability, but also a measure of the ability of the economy to support those prices.
Did you forget to back that up with some compelling statistics you're saving for later? Let's compare housing values in silicon valley vs. detroit to see if you're right.
Untrue! I got a DVD (and incidentally, CD) player for about $40 that has a coaxial digital output. The sound it pumps out is identical to any fancy player you could buy.
Why would you want to cool the water? If you can only extract energy down to the boiling point at 1 atmosphere, why not at least heat that water back up to steam instead of starting all over with cold water?
IBM seems amazingly successful at innovative fabrication techniques given that their business model leans more on business consulting services. Compared to Intel do they really make that many chips? I've never bought a IBM RAM stick that I know of. There can't be that many POWER supercomputers going out the door. (Granted, there is the PS3 Cell).
Ranking by total medials is absurd, because it gives equal weight to bronze as gold. If you believe that, why award medals at all, or bother to count them?
Huh? You're going to get killed by late fees with RedBox then. The reason you're switching to RedBox is the very reason I'm dropping it; $1.50 sounds like a cheap rental, but it's usually at least $3.50 by the time we return it (e.g. rent on Friday, return on Monday).
I'm sure that's occurred to them, but shift handovers are a well known risk in occupational studies. Fields like medicine and nuclear power safety worry about them a lot. The battle space is complex, and when somebody who's been studying it for 8 hours walks out the door, that famiarization has to start all over and accidents are likely.
For the sake of "large company," I sure hope you're not talking about entry-level positions for bachelor's degrees here! Even if a person with those qualifications landed the job, he or she would be miserable trying to run or manage programs with no experience in the corporate world and no track record on the technical side.
Honestly, in the poster's position I would consider an advanced degree - likely in something else. But even in CS, you can certainly go into teaching without exceptional programming skills, and your day-to-day work will be with people rather than devices.
Comcast doesn't just throttle P2P anymore. If I use P2P, my connection grinds to a halt completely (can't even surf the web). It pretty much stays that way until I unplug and re-plug my cable modem. This never used to happen. (Does somebody know how to run P2P without offending Comcast routers?)
Verizion, please bring FIOS to my neighborhood!
My wife and I don't use cellphones much but both have a tracphone, so when we call each other it's 60 cents per minute. OUCH!
Rather than casting aspersions on any particular (ideologically charged) theories, they should instead teach more broadly the philosophy of science. Here the students will learn critical thinking, and the assumptions behind the idea that we can "know" anything at all. It is misleading to say that evolution is "just" a theory since it implies other knowledge is not. Then again, I am not against teaching about religion either, so long as it is done so as to inform rather that convince. Nobody asks you to "believe" calculus in school, rather, you are graded on knowledge and ability rather than conviction.
I didn't see anything in the article about teaching religion (Christian or other) as fact, apparently it's exclusively focused on promoting dissent on certain topics. Of the topics mentioned, evolution seems to be the one where religion and science collide. I'm not sure why human cloning is in there; the ethics are more in question than the science, and not only religious people are concerned about the ethics there. Not sure why global warming would have any tie to religion either way.
Having their act together during Katrina sure would have helped. Sometimes a little organization is a good thing.
Maybe the amount of physics that would overwhelm the CPU (which can also kill framerate, BTW) is hardly lifting a finger for the GPU. It's certainly not impossible; GPUs do blow away CPUs for some calculations, which is why we have GPUs in the first place.
So, for instance, you don't think people would mind if iTunes only carried the Top 40? Or netflix could flourish carrying offering only hit films? I don't think so.
Not saying laws are pointless, but they seem to be more reminders of shared values rather than executable code.
What I meant was, the swamp cooler doesn't seem to filter dust from the air as well as A/C. At work we have A/C and when I take machines apart they look brand new inside. At home when I take them apart they look like the inside of a cave from Indiana Jones.
I have fans fail all too often. Wild guess here, but perhaps it's because I live in a desert and my home has a "swamp cooler" rather than A/C.
The PVR, no, because it records and plays TV, and is also a general-use PC for my wife and kids. I could buy a micro PC like you suggest and run it in addition to the PVR, but the administration burden isn't worth it for me. I've drawn the line at 1 home PC.
PS you don't need to statically reserve upstream for the phone, just set VOIP to have the highest priority, then limit total upstream to about 10% less than your ISP upstream so your modem buffers don't fill up. However, nothing will save you if your ISP isn't delivering reliable upstream bandwidth.
Actually I think evolution is a much more obvious explanation of the drive to overpopulate than religion is.
I have a feeling we're in for a big letdown on this one. I guess he will just skip the vote altogether to avoid the controversy.