First, the libertarian / conservative approach would be to de-fund public education. In this case, all schools would be private and could therefore censor to their owners' content.
That said, it is just one example and doesn't prove a trend. Proving a trend such as this is hard. In the 1960's the US government was foisting conscription for an unpopular war onto college-age students. Extreme racism was also still pretty pervasive, including government-supported, in certain parts of the US. Since these things are not happening now, the level of protest should be different. If the level of discontent stays the same regardless of the actual seriousness of the causes, something else is going on.
Well, it is certainly easier to find a career in computer science than physics. CS is great because there is such a wide and forgiving spectrum of success - you could earn tenure at a prestigious university and then perhaps get hired into a top corporate research group for big bucks; you could end up at the other end of the scale doing boring business programming, but still make a decent living; or (most likely) somewhere in between, doing technical development on reasonably interesting projects at a big company, or carrying a heavy teaching load.
In physics, it seems to me there is very little in the way of consolation prizes, at least within the field. (But in the end they always seem to do well enough outside their own field).
This seems awfully risky, since there is nothing stopping netflix or amazon from licensing any particular catalogue of movies at any time. Will there still be movies available on DVD but unavailable via streaming even five years from now?
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Moreover the business strategy of serving the long tails as you suggested requires a vast catalog, which places the fixed expense of physical media at a big immediate disadvantage.
3 kW is crazy for an electric kettle because a standard home electric circuit cannot provide it. 2 kW is pushing it; you will not find an electric kettle or hair dryer that draws more than that. You will notice your electric water heater or clothes dryer is on a 220V circuit with a different plug.
What do skinheads actually do all day? I would imagine this type of thing reduces employment opportunities for counter work at McDonald's. So... web-surfing message boards for the most part?
Basically, Congress is making the USPS prepay pensions so many years out, that the beneficiaries of it haven't even started working for the USPS yet!
Of course they're doing badly, no other company on earth is required by government to do that.
Where I work, in about 2001 I was told, "there is such a huge surplus in the pension plan that they don't know what to do with it." So a year later, you know what they did? They have existing pensioners a raise.
Within 7 years, the pension plan investments had crashed. They cancelled the pension plan for new hires, slashed future contributions for on-roll employees, and cancelled pre-medicare healthcare benefits for future retirees. (Existing retirees, of course, are drawing their full pensions, including the "raise," to this day).
I disagree. Sometimes it really is better to draw a line, say "no," and move on towards something better. If workers continue caving to never-ending demands for lower wages and benefits, then there is no floor. If a company can't make enough money to keep producing what it sells, then it should go out of business. It happens. People haven't stopped needing to eat food and the jobs lost here will be recouped producing some other food, which can't be any worse than twinkies.
The cute trick is that this technology is extremely slow, as in, low bandwidth, per TFA. We are talking 100 bps. (Not 100 kilobytes per second, but 100 bits per second).
So, no, nobody is dumping their cellular data plan for this. But for a weather station, or "where is the bus right now?", or burglar alarms, it could be interesting.
The main "problem" I see is that more expensive, more capable networks (cellular and wifi) are already so pervasive.
I never did understand why Americans were always lamenting about China taking all the manufacturing jobs. Seems like if we weren't losing them to the Chinese then we would have lost them to automation.
According to the American Heritage Foundation (yeah, I know...) that's not what would have happened, but what actually did happen.
No, the question isn't whether it would be hard to post your pictures elsewhere, but rather how hard would it be hard to get your audience to follow you there.
Not yet, but latest Crysis 3 benchmarks are showing 28 avg FPS (15 min FPS) for single GTX 690. With 1 screen setup.
Well, that one screen is at 2560x1600. Not that many people have 30" screens. (Then again, Apple's "retina" display may start a long-overdue megapixel war in PC displays, if we are lucky).
Also this is "VHQ" quality. I see nothing wrong with releasing a new top title that cannot be played smoothly at max settings with current cards, so long as the game looks at least as good as any other game on current cards.
My entire computer uses less power than one of these cards.
Does the person who wrote this know how much a TFLOP actually is, let alone 5.9 TFLOPS (single precision) and 1.48 TFLOPS (double)?
As an example, an Intel Core i7 980 XE does 109 GFLOPS double-precision. This is over 13 times that! It is really exciting to see the power of GPUs broadened to scientific computing in general. I doubt these cards would be cost-effective or are really intended for gaming.
Sucks that its all going to get pushed down to the consumer. (with a suitable markup)..
That's not true, unless the price increase also hits Apple's competitors. The price for Apple products is in no way directly tied to the cost of producing them. Look at their profit margins.
Sure, that's the kind of "substantive racism" I'm talking about. Nobody would argue that nonwhites are somehow incapable of such things, when they get the chance, or that it's OK when it happens... that's just misconstruing the argument, which is, minorities have suffered and still do suffer the vast majority of problems of this type you describe.
I don't think there's any question there must still be dealerships; only whether they are independently owned, or owned by the manufacturer.
The two models seem to compete OK with restaurants, so I'm curious what the history of the law is. (Maybe because there are so few auto manufacturers?)
Obviously depends on what you want to do. 3d Graphics on VMWare Fusion (for the Mac) does not work well - mainly problems with bugs, not (just) speed. Google Earth plugin for example is not usable because the controls do not render at all.
I'm surprised 1TB drives are still even relevant; they've been available since 2007 - five years ago. Six years before that, in 2001, 100 GB drives were the latest thing. Go back another 5 years to 1996 and 2.5 GB was it! The 1990s, those were the days for PCs. Your $3000 PC was obsolete by the time you un-boxed it.
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First, the libertarian / conservative approach would be to de-fund public education. In this case, all schools would be private and could therefore censor to their owners' content.
Second, here's an example of right-leaning censorship at a state school.
That said, it is just one example and doesn't prove a trend. Proving a trend such as this is hard. In the 1960's the US government was foisting conscription for an unpopular war onto college-age students. Extreme racism was also still pretty pervasive, including government-supported, in certain parts of the US. Since these things are not happening now, the level of protest should be different. If the level of discontent stays the same regardless of the actual seriousness of the causes, something else is going on.
In physics, it seems to me there is very little in the way of consolation prizes, at least within the field. (But in the end they always seem to do well enough outside their own field).
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Moreover the business strategy of serving the long tails as you suggested requires a vast catalog, which places the fixed expense of physical media at a big immediate disadvantage.
Oops, you're right that what I said is invalid outside the US.
3 kW is crazy for an electric kettle because a standard home electric circuit cannot provide it. 2 kW is pushing it; you will not find an electric kettle or hair dryer that draws more than that. You will notice your electric water heater or clothes dryer is on a 220V circuit with a different plug.
What do skinheads actually do all day? I would imagine this type of thing reduces employment opportunities for counter work at McDonald's. So... web-surfing message boards for the most part?
Where I work, in about 2001 I was told, "there is such a huge surplus in the pension plan that they don't know what to do with it." So a year later, you know what they did? They have existing pensioners a raise.
Within 7 years, the pension plan investments had crashed. They cancelled the pension plan for new hires, slashed future contributions for on-roll employees, and cancelled pre-medicare healthcare benefits for future retirees. (Existing retirees, of course, are drawing their full pensions, including the "raise," to this day).
So, I am wary.
I disagree. Sometimes it really is better to draw a line, say "no," and move on towards something better. If workers continue caving to never-ending demands for lower wages and benefits, then there is no floor. If a company can't make enough money to keep producing what it sells, then it should go out of business. It happens. People haven't stopped needing to eat food and the jobs lost here will be recouped producing some other food, which can't be any worse than twinkies.
Fun fact: government spending consumed the majority of the US GDP (53%) at its peak during WWII. (And that's in the US, which had it easy compared to the combatant nations that were actually in the war, as in, fought within their borders).
So... impressive effort? Yes. Expensive? Hell, yes.
Since it is completely different, and originates from a different group at a different university, I would guess, no.
So, no, nobody is dumping their cellular data plan for this. But for a weather station, or "where is the bus right now?", or burglar alarms, it could be interesting.
The main "problem" I see is that more expensive, more capable networks (cellular and wifi) are already so pervasive.
According to the American Heritage Foundation (yeah, I know...) that's not what would have happened, but what actually did happen.
And everything will be just terrific!
No, the question isn't whether it would be hard to post your pictures elsewhere, but rather how hard would it be hard to get your audience to follow you there.
Well, that one screen is at 2560x1600. Not that many people have 30" screens. (Then again, Apple's "retina" display may start a long-overdue megapixel war in PC displays, if we are lucky).
Also this is "VHQ" quality. I see nothing wrong with releasing a new top title that cannot be played smoothly at max settings with current cards, so long as the game looks at least as good as any other game on current cards.
Does the person who wrote this know how much a TFLOP actually is, let alone 5.9 TFLOPS (single precision) and 1.48 TFLOPS (double)? As an example, an Intel Core i7 980 XE does 109 GFLOPS double-precision. This is over 13 times that! It is really exciting to see the power of GPUs broadened to scientific computing in general. I doubt these cards would be cost-effective or are really intended for gaming.
Why would the Chinese government do it so half-assed?
That's not true, unless the price increase also hits Apple's competitors. The price for Apple products is in no way directly tied to the cost of producing them. Look at their profit margins.
Yes, except that was already completely feasible with conventional wire electrodes.
Sure, that's the kind of "substantive racism" I'm talking about. Nobody would argue that nonwhites are somehow incapable of such things, when they get the chance, or that it's OK when it happens... that's just misconstruing the argument, which is, minorities have suffered and still do suffer the vast majority of problems of this type you describe.
Focusing on the more substantive aspects of racism denies us whites of our "fair share" of victimhood.
Racism isn't just about mere feelings. It's about a group wielding power against others in ways that cause real harm.
The two models seem to compete OK with restaurants, so I'm curious what the history of the law is. (Maybe because there are so few auto manufacturers?)
Obviously depends on what you want to do. 3d Graphics on VMWare Fusion (for the Mac) does not work well - mainly problems with bugs, not (just) speed. Google Earth plugin for example is not usable because the controls do not render at all.
I'm surprised 1TB drives are still even relevant; they've been available since 2007 - five years ago. Six years before that, in 2001, 100 GB drives were the latest thing. Go back another 5 years to 1996 and 2.5 GB was it! The 1990s, those were the days for PCs. Your $3000 PC was obsolete by the time you un-boxed it.