Well, if you turn yourself in, it becomes your fault and you comply with the professor's plan. If the professor pushes the point against a stonewalling class, it becomes obvious that the professor didn't do his due diligence in writing his own exam, and he might be the one punished.
Offering amnesty allows the professor to handle it under the umbrella of his class, while offering punishment opens the gates to challenging the punishment, which would require a review of the professor's testing practices.
If you are a single person, why don't you have the SVN repository in your working environment? You know that you can use "svnadmin create" to create a file based repository without the need for a SVN server. You just checkout of the file:/// URL and you never have to worry about the network being down.
A commit in a non-DVCS is much more than a commit in a DVCS.
With DVCS, they rename the fast, easy part to "commit." The actual merging of your repository with another across a network is one of those items they never discuss, as it is to be performed later. Benchmark a Commit and a Push in a DVCS against a Commit in a non-DVCS, and you'll start gaining my respect as a person who's not fudging the numbers.
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The problem is that you don't know how much time it is going to give you until after you do the testing, so arguing that skipping the testing to get the cure out faster because it might give you years of extended life is wishful thinking. It could also kill you in the next week. Without the testing all you will have is anecdotal evidence.
Agreed, but it is very important to remember that evil is never done in the name of evil. It is always done in the name of good. If you know you're a scumbag acting like a scumbag, you'll eventually reform or kill yourself. If you know you're a genuinely good person, doing what has to be done for the better of society, you'll commit the worst kinds of crimes because it's for good cause.
Even the Nazis had the greater goal of bringing about unity, harmony, and peace on earth.... under their plan to eliminate everyone different, marginalize or kill the dissenters, and crush everyone who didn't fit into their plan. That's what made them so evil, they believed in the old mis-adage "the ends justify the means."
CBS is more interested in the commercials than the news. They probably were told quite quickly, but delayed in processing the information so they could get a few more people tuning in to either see what's going on or attempt to explain the obvious. This means more people, higher Nelson ratings, and more cash for the commercial slots.
Don't be too hard on CBS, all news agencies have devolved into the same. That's why Britney Spears is a news item, it's cheap to know where she is, and people tune in. Personally, no matter what she does (or did) she's not newsworthy. Entertainment channel news worthy perhaps, but what are we doing putting celebrities on the same channel we announce wars with?
Perhaps the DoD have had a bit too much experience with the public rushing off to some half-baked conclusion, so they ignore the public in events that don't raise their alarms.
I mean, it's not like the DoD hasn't had to put up with the hundreds of UFO sightings a year that get generated in the USA. If these UFO sightings were just "I couldn't identify it" then perhaps they wouldn't be so dismissive; but, when the sightings are more in line with "What do you mean it's not an INVASION from OUTER SPACE! You're already under control of the off-worlders, AREN'T YOU?!?!" it's a safe bet to ignore the whole lot.
Dr. Who didn't have out-and-out sex, but name one of his assistants that wasn't "hot". To juxtapose, try to imagine Mrs. Marple being the Dr.'s sidekick.
Well, due to the reform, they won't know what it is like to not have health insurance, nor will anyone else. Of course, the public won't stand for it, they need to have the right to know what it's like to not have health insurance.
I think it wouldn't be too difficult to do one for/. either. All it would have to do is post immediately after the article hits the front page, and say:
"The analysis here is hugely flawed. Sure, they say [something from the summary], but clearly haven't taken into account [something taken into account halfway through the article], so it can hardly be confirmed that [title]."
I could do the research to find out if the 3D enhances the film; buy, part of my enjoyment of film is not knowing 100% what the film presents. It's very hard to do that if you're researching whether the 3D enhances or detracts from the film. In the end, I just skip the 3D titles, as they have managed to mostly disappoint. Perhaps they would have disappointed in 2D, but there was no tightened sense of expectation (or cost) with 2D.
While the society's expectations of privacy fluctuate daily, there's no excuse for trust being transitive on facebook.
If I trust you, that certainly doesn't mean I trust everyone you trust. I also won't trust everyone they trust, nor will I trust the close and personal friends of the trusted friends of the trusted friends of the people you trust.
Transitive trust is just broken. It doesn't matter what society expects to be private; because, trust is not handled the way facebook has modeled their software. Just like it doesn't matter what society thinks a good car should look like, as driving is not handled by taking the shortest path between two points (a straight line that goes through buildings and obstructions).
In model aircraft lithium-polymer batteries are the batteries of choice due to their high energy storage densities. They also can catch fire while charging and sometimes explode.
I've been out of the electric model aircraft game for quite some time, could someone who's current mention if they've addressed the two "issues" which seem to cast doubt on seeing a production version of this car in this form?
The ideal battery is still more of a concept than a commodity. Manufacturers are attempting to out-engineer each other, as the ideal battery is still to be discovered and produced en mass. So what you will see with a battery swap program is a bunch of incompatible batteries.
If they could get the size down to a shoebox, the weight down to 20 pounds, the energy up to an average person's five day drive, and the duty cycle up to about 100 charges, and the battery design incapable of suffering from easy damage as it's being removed and attached, then you might have a chance at a swappable battery. Right now you might as well ask for a bag of pixie dust sitting on top of a large gold brick. It can't be had yet, and there's no guarantee it can be had in the future.
Note that the above just gets the battery into specs where it could replace gasoline, and a pure replacement has a negligible incentive for change. To actually see gas stations converting over, you would need to increase the gas station's profit margin and provide a large enough customer base for them to justify the overhaul. Without the larger profit margin, nobody's going to pull up one of the gas pumps to put in a battery swap station.
I expect that initially, an ideal battery swap program will cost the consumer just as much as gasoline, as the providers will be keen to soak as much profit as possible. Only when it becomes competitive will the consumer have an opportunity to see prices drop (if it is less expensive in the long run).
A long time ago, I had a separate desk and chair. It was called a "pocket desk" as it had a metal shelf/pocket attached to the underside of the desk. I think the desk/writing-pad replacement came about as a way to make such items even cheaper. That said, you can buy lots of the old desks for about $50 each on ebay.
There is no excuse for making a subject boring. I had bad history teachers till I hit University, then I regretted the years lost being bored in a subject that is as fascinating as the best of humanity can provide in any given year.
The national average wage index for 2009 is 40934.93. Median annual wages of kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers ranged from $47,100 to $51,180 in May 2008. That's $6,000 to $10,000 above the national average wage.
Average class size for a public school in 2000 was 23.6 students per teacher, not 40. Average student to teacher ratio was 15.6 (public schools). Private schools had similar to vastly lower numbers, Catholic schools were about on par with public schools, while non-Catholic private schools averaged a class size of 16.8 (or lower depending on category) and student teacher ratio of 12.5 (or lower depending on category).
Certainly there are classes that are over the average and teachers that are paid below the average, but that also implies that there are teacher being paid much more than the average and classes that are much smaller than the average. All-in-all, we need to vastly rethink this "poor and lowly" presentation of teaching as a profession.
I love how a person can't think of any reasonable alternative so it must be time travel. I mean, this guy can't even be certain if it's a woman or a man (which it's obviously a woman), but he KNOWS it's a cell phone.
Don't say that on Slashdot. This site demands that the most used and popular programming language of this time is nothing more than a bad fad which will die away leaving people the open space to write Perl scripts just like they way they used to.
Deserts have more to do with soil composition and mountain placement then longitude and latitude. That said, the US did manage to turn a lot of grassland into "the great dustbowl" due to mismanagement of its soil resources. I hope Africa never does the same, as it took nearly a decade of hard work to get it manageable and another decade after that to get it desirable.
The real problem with the Arctic rim isn't heat, although lack of heat is a challenge. The real problem is sunlight. The northern regions of the Arctic rim doesn't get enough sunlight to sustain trees, then there's a belt of pine needle like conifers, then there's a transient belt of broad leaved trees.
Personally, I hope that we never develop the Arctic rim in a meaningful way. The broad leaved trees produce an unbelievable amount of oxygen out of CO2 in the relatively short growing season. We've already decimated the rain forests, the oceanic regions of oxygen production are down a bit due to phosphorus posioning (or some other pollution, they think it's phosphor), and the Arctic region's oxygen contribution becomes more important every day.
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Well, if you turn yourself in, it becomes your fault and you comply with the professor's plan. If the professor pushes the point against a stonewalling class, it becomes obvious that the professor didn't do his due diligence in writing his own exam, and he might be the one punished.
Offering amnesty allows the professor to handle it under the umbrella of his class, while offering punishment opens the gates to challenging the punishment, which would require a review of the professor's testing practices.
It's a good thing that no two items have the same pH. It's like a fingerprint! Hahahaha!!!
If you are a single person, why don't you have the SVN repository in your working environment? You know that you can use "svnadmin create" to create a file based repository without the need for a SVN server. You just checkout of the file:/// URL and you never have to worry about the network being down.
That's a lie.
A commit in a non-DVCS is much more than a commit in a DVCS.
With DVCS, they rename the fast, easy part to "commit." The actual merging of your repository with another across a network is one of those items they never discuss, as it is to be performed later. Benchmark a Commit and a Push in a DVCS against a Commit in a non-DVCS, and you'll start gaining my respect as a person who's not fudging the numbers.
The problem is that you don't know how much time it is going to give you until after you do the testing, so arguing that skipping the testing to get the cure out faster because it might give you years of extended life is wishful thinking. It could also kill you in the next week. Without the testing all you will have is anecdotal evidence.
Agreed, but it is very important to remember that evil is never done in the name of evil. It is always done in the name of good. If you know you're a scumbag acting like a scumbag, you'll eventually reform or kill yourself. If you know you're a genuinely good person, doing what has to be done for the better of society, you'll commit the worst kinds of crimes because it's for good cause.
Even the Nazis had the greater goal of bringing about unity, harmony, and peace on earth.... under their plan to eliminate everyone different, marginalize or kill the dissenters, and crush everyone who didn't fit into their plan. That's what made them so evil, they believed in the old mis-adage "the ends justify the means."
Perhaps for the same reason we don't solder memory to our motherboards anymore? Think of the SD card as a DIMM.
CBS is more interested in the commercials than the news. They probably were told quite quickly, but delayed in processing the information so they could get a few more people tuning in to either see what's going on or attempt to explain the obvious. This means more people, higher Nelson ratings, and more cash for the commercial slots.
Don't be too hard on CBS, all news agencies have devolved into the same. That's why Britney Spears is a news item, it's cheap to know where she is, and people tune in. Personally, no matter what she does (or did) she's not newsworthy. Entertainment channel news worthy perhaps, but what are we doing putting celebrities on the same channel we announce wars with?
Perhaps the DoD have had a bit too much experience with the public rushing off to some half-baked conclusion, so they ignore the public in events that don't raise their alarms.
I mean, it's not like the DoD hasn't had to put up with the hundreds of UFO sightings a year that get generated in the USA. If these UFO sightings were just "I couldn't identify it" then perhaps they wouldn't be so dismissive; but, when the sightings are more in line with "What do you mean it's not an INVASION from OUTER SPACE! You're already under control of the off-worlders, AREN'T YOU?!?!" it's a safe bet to ignore the whole lot.
Dr. Who didn't have out-and-out sex, but name one of his assistants that wasn't "hot". To juxtapose, try to imagine Mrs. Marple being the Dr.'s sidekick.
Well, due to the reform, they won't know what it is like to not have health insurance, nor will anyone else. Of course, the public won't stand for it, they need to have the right to know what it's like to not have health insurance.
I think it wouldn't be too difficult to do one for /. either. All it would have to do is post immediately after the article hits the front page, and say:
"The analysis here is hugely flawed. Sure, they say [something from the summary], but clearly haven't taken into account [something taken into account halfway through the article], so it can hardly be confirmed that [title]."
That's a Score:5, Insightful comment right there.
Eliza, is that you?
Relative morality is no morality at all.
I'm glad you'll pay for it, as I won't.
I could do the research to find out if the 3D enhances the film; buy, part of my enjoyment of film is not knowing 100% what the film presents. It's very hard to do that if you're researching whether the 3D enhances or detracts from the film. In the end, I just skip the 3D titles, as they have managed to mostly disappoint. Perhaps they would have disappointed in 2D, but there was no tightened sense of expectation (or cost) with 2D.
If you can't divide your multiple personalities, how can you be sane?
While the society's expectations of privacy fluctuate daily, there's no excuse for trust being transitive on facebook.
If I trust you, that certainly doesn't mean I trust everyone you trust. I also won't trust everyone they trust, nor will I trust the close and personal friends of the trusted friends of the trusted friends of the people you trust.
Transitive trust is just broken. It doesn't matter what society expects to be private; because, trust is not handled the way facebook has modeled their software. Just like it doesn't matter what society thinks a good car should look like, as driving is not handled by taking the shortest path between two points (a straight line that goes through buildings and obstructions).
In model aircraft lithium-polymer batteries are the batteries of choice due to their high energy storage densities. They also can catch fire while charging and sometimes explode.
I've been out of the electric model aircraft game for quite some time, could someone who's current mention if they've addressed the two "issues" which seem to cast doubt on seeing a production version of this car in this form?
The ideal battery is still more of a concept than a commodity. Manufacturers are attempting to out-engineer each other, as the ideal battery is still to be discovered and produced en mass. So what you will see with a battery swap program is a bunch of incompatible batteries.
If they could get the size down to a shoebox, the weight down to 20 pounds, the energy up to an average person's five day drive, and the duty cycle up to about 100 charges, and the battery design incapable of suffering from easy damage as it's being removed and attached, then you might have a chance at a swappable battery. Right now you might as well ask for a bag of pixie dust sitting on top of a large gold brick. It can't be had yet, and there's no guarantee it can be had in the future.
Note that the above just gets the battery into specs where it could replace gasoline, and a pure replacement has a negligible incentive for change. To actually see gas stations converting over, you would need to increase the gas station's profit margin and provide a large enough customer base for them to justify the overhaul. Without the larger profit margin, nobody's going to pull up one of the gas pumps to put in a battery swap station.
I expect that initially, an ideal battery swap program will cost the consumer just as much as gasoline, as the providers will be keen to soak as much profit as possible. Only when it becomes competitive will the consumer have an opportunity to see prices drop (if it is less expensive in the long run).
A long time ago, I had a separate desk and chair. It was called a "pocket desk" as it had a metal shelf/pocket attached to the underside of the desk. I think the desk/writing-pad replacement came about as a way to make such items even cheaper. That said, you can buy lots of the old desks for about $50 each on ebay.
True, that said...
There is no excuse for making a subject boring. I had bad history teachers till I hit University, then I regretted the years lost being bored in a subject that is as fascinating as the best of humanity can provide in any given year.
What kind of poor wages are you talking about?
The national average wage index for 2009 is 40934.93. Median annual wages of kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary school teachers ranged from $47,100 to $51,180 in May 2008. That's $6,000 to $10,000 above the national average wage.
Average class size for a public school in 2000 was 23.6 students per teacher, not 40. Average student to teacher ratio was 15.6 (public schools). Private schools had similar to vastly lower numbers, Catholic schools were about on par with public schools, while non-Catholic private schools averaged a class size of 16.8 (or lower depending on category) and student teacher ratio of 12.5 (or lower depending on category).
Certainly there are classes that are over the average and teachers that are paid below the average, but that also implies that there are teacher being paid much more than the average and classes that are much smaller than the average. All-in-all, we need to vastly rethink this "poor and lowly" presentation of teaching as a profession.
I love how a person can't think of any reasonable alternative so it must be time travel. I mean, this guy can't even be certain if it's a woman or a man (which it's obviously a woman), but he KNOWS it's a cell phone.
Don't say that on Slashdot. This site demands that the most used and popular programming language of this time is nothing more than a bad fad which will die away leaving people the open space to write Perl scripts just like they way they used to.
Deserts have more to do with soil composition and mountain placement then longitude and latitude. That said, the US did manage to turn a lot of grassland into "the great dustbowl" due to mismanagement of its soil resources. I hope Africa never does the same, as it took nearly a decade of hard work to get it manageable and another decade after that to get it desirable.
Hahaha, yes it's been horrible.
The real problem with the Arctic rim isn't heat, although lack of heat is a challenge. The real problem is sunlight. The northern regions of the Arctic rim doesn't get enough sunlight to sustain trees, then there's a belt of pine needle like conifers, then there's a transient belt of broad leaved trees.
Personally, I hope that we never develop the Arctic rim in a meaningful way. The broad leaved trees produce an unbelievable amount of oxygen out of CO2 in the relatively short growing season. We've already decimated the rain forests, the oceanic regions of oxygen production are down a bit due to phosphorus posioning (or some other pollution, they think it's phosphor), and the Arctic region's oxygen contribution becomes more important every day.