We need a Unix-like government: efficient, fast, responsive, cleanly designed, compartmentalized, and well documented. People need to feel like they can participate and have a voice, because when you don't have that people end up rioting in the streets.
It's a good goal, but this is near impossible. There's no way that information can travel from department to department being as well-documented as you want in a efficient, fast and responsive manner. The problem is the PEOPLE. A grade 36 bureaucrat is not going to be efficient, fast and responsive.
Is 'erroneous' a vanity name and I'm missing the joke? There is nothing Motorola that says "power to the people." Their tablets are locked down, their phones are ticking time bombs, their cable set-top boxes are crippled; all in the name of "for your protection."
I still have hope you are kidding, and I'm the butt of this joke...
Most phones have those annoyances, but our problem is that we constantly shift expectations of what "the basic things" are. Not long ago, basic meant "voice".
Basic still means "voice". Ask any AT&T Customer. BA-ZING!
Really? Count the number of times John Stewart makes direct fun of a Republican, then rewatch an episode and count the number of times he makes fun of a Democrat. Each episode is HEAVILY weighted to make fun of conservatives. (Colbert is a little more middle but still ridicules Republicans more.)
Comedy Central is just as left-leaning as CNN and MSNBC.
But computer science graduates don't go into IT. Thats a blue collar profession now. Installing windows and reloading printers.
As an employer, this is all too true. If you have mediocre skills, you get nothing. The commodity "institutes" churn out unemployable garbage, and the entitled college graduates throw around terms like "ERD" but have no actual skill and balk at Help Desk offers because they think it's beneath them.
You're absolutely correct IF you assume that the man is just describing one of his children. That is the logical interpretation of the problem. However, if someone went out and specifically selected a family with at least one boy...
I hate to be a smart ass on this one... but the question was posed by a man who was just describing (at least) one of his children.
This is a gambler's fallacy problem. The more tangents you throw at it, the closer you get to.5 (50%), while never reaching it. This is the limit, why? Because there's only two potential outcomes for the other child: boy or girl.
What you (or the website you copied and pasted the ratio from) fail to take into account (and why it's a Gambler's fallacy problem) is that when involving chance, anything that happened in the past is completely irrelevant to future probables. I could roll a die 99 times, and get 6, the probability of getting 100 6's when I've already got 99 6's is still 1 out of 6, not 6^100.
The reason the chi square doesn't come into play here is because it doesn't MATTER the order. Has she said "What is the probability my SECOND-BORN was a boy?" it would be perfectly logical to write the square because the boy who was born on Tuesday could be either the first born or the second born, she never stipulated.
We can say that the boy, who was born on a tuesday, was also a Gemini. Does this change the ratio? No, the probability of having two boys is still 50-50%, because the unknown only has two possible outcomes: boy or girl.
With all the stupid rubes in America, this does no good. Since their rebrand to Xfinity, idiots (and you wouldn't believe the amount of them) think it's a different company.
I'm mostly pissed that the guy making the mice is getting paid $0.52/hr but I have to pay $16 plus shipping to get one?!! I'm OUTRAGED! I don't think this would be such a big deal if the greedy corporations actually passed down some of the savings to us.
Yes, because of the pesky labor unions in the US, I can see a mouse needing to cost $16 if made here because some high-school dropout is entitled and thinks he should get $25/hr for putting self-adhesive feet on mice. But if you saving money on labor, how about the customer saves money too?
What exactly does "more random" mean in the summary? I think something is either random or it isn't. Perhaps this claim should just make us "more skeptical".
Nothing can be ever be considered random. If it is, it's just in a state of "we just don't have a means of measuring it's next value."
You can call me guessing a "number between 1 and 10" random, but that's just because you don't know my method of choosing. If you did, it wouldn't be random at all. If you knew the order of the deck of cards, and precisely each transition of the shuffle, then the next card could easily be predicted. Since you don't have that power, it's considered "random".
Same thing with network traffic, moving the mouse or memory contents; if you had a way to quickly and accurately measure all the inputs and knew it's method of generation, you could very easily guess the outputs. In all these cases, "random" only means "you cannot guess the outcome with any statistical significance."
They made one glaring design error with the Wacom (Daewoo) Bamboo Touch Tablet. When using in right hand mode, the buttons are on the left (so your thumb can hit it), unfortunately, so is the WIRE. Meaning you can't flush it up against your keyboard or something else. Regardless of where your computer is, in this design, the buttons and wire should be on opposite sides. If you want it on your left side, the wire should hang off the left side, not the right side. That alone says "cheap knockoff".
If the unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce, that's news to me. Link please.
It's not in there as words as you'd like it to be, but you don't need to be a lawyer to figure out the intent of the contract.
New manufacturing methods require new equipment and therefore training. The contracts require that the current workers must be trained by at the expense of the car companies rather than hiring new (and potentially cheaper) workers. So right out of the gate, it's a negative for two reasons. 1) I'm paying a highly-paid employee to sit in training and not be productive, and 2) He'll quit in a few years meaning I'll have to train him, and train his replacement rather than just training a replacement now. The union contract protects against being able to hire potentially better cheaper labor.
Secondly, If a new manufacturing method requires less workers, that will be picketed as "jobs will be cut".
So yes, in so many words, the "unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce".
I hate to be that curmudgeon old fart, but once they get something, they don't give it back. And once they start taxing something, it's easier for you to accept new taxes.
But just read and grasp what the whole concept of this is here. NY wants to TAX you for NOT shopping in their state. You want to save money by buying online, they want to TAX you for saving money.
I'm not going to get into any Republican vs Democrat ideals here; I just want everyone in NY to understand what is fundamentally happening. You exercised your right as a consumer to not shop somewhere, and you are being charged for it.
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We need a Unix-like government: efficient, fast, responsive, cleanly designed, compartmentalized, and well documented. People need to feel like they can participate and have a voice, because when you don't have that people end up rioting in the streets.
It's a good goal, but this is near impossible. There's no way that information can travel from department to department being as well-documented as you want in a efficient, fast and responsive manner. The problem is the PEOPLE. A grade 36 bureaucrat is not going to be efficient, fast and responsive.
I don't yet see Motorola as an evil company.
Is 'erroneous' a vanity name and I'm missing the joke? There is nothing Motorola that says "power to the people." Their tablets are locked down, their phones are ticking time bombs, their cable set-top boxes are crippled; all in the name of "for your protection."
I still have hope you are kidding, and I'm the butt of this joke...
Most phones have those annoyances, but our problem is that we constantly shift expectations of what "the basic things" are. Not long ago, basic meant "voice".
Basic still means "voice". Ask any AT&T Customer. BA-ZING!
CYBER-BULLYING!! *queue outrage*
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
I fully support the Church's right to burn all the Qur'ans they want, but I also support Rackspace's right to choose what content they host.
If they choose which content they host, isn't that dangerously close to saying they SUPPORT content they host?
Really? Count the number of times John Stewart makes direct fun of a Republican, then rewatch an episode and count the number of times he makes fun of a Democrat. Each episode is HEAVILY weighted to make fun of conservatives. (Colbert is a little more middle but still ridicules Republicans more.) Comedy Central is just as left-leaning as CNN and MSNBC.
Scorched Earth!!! The mother of all games!!! I would pay to have it multiplayer on Android.
But computer science graduates don't go into IT. Thats a blue collar profession now. Installing windows and reloading printers.
As an employer, this is all too true. If you have mediocre skills, you get nothing. The commodity "institutes" churn out unemployable garbage, and the entitled college graduates throw around terms like "ERD" but have no actual skill and balk at Help Desk offers because they think it's beneath them.
You're absolutely correct IF you assume that the man is just describing one of his children. That is the logical interpretation of the problem. However, if someone went out and specifically selected a family with at least one boy...
I hate to be a smart ass on this one... but the question was posed by a man who was just describing (at least) one of his children.
My older brother and I were both born on Tuesdays.
Nothing to see here, just a systemic anomaly. Move along, now.
This is a gambler's fallacy problem. The more tangents you throw at it, the closer you get to .5 (50%), while never reaching it. This is the limit, why? Because there's only two potential outcomes for the other child: boy or girl.
What you (or the website you copied and pasted the ratio from) fail to take into account (and why it's a Gambler's fallacy problem) is that when involving chance, anything that happened in the past is completely irrelevant to future probables. I could roll a die 99 times, and get 6, the probability of getting 100 6's when I've already got 99 6's is still 1 out of 6, not 6^100.
The reason the chi square doesn't come into play here is because it doesn't MATTER the order. Has she said "What is the probability my SECOND-BORN was a boy?" it would be perfectly logical to write the square because the boy who was born on Tuesday could be either the first born or the second born, she never stipulated.
We can say that the boy, who was born on a tuesday, was also a Gemini. Does this change the ratio? No, the probability of having two boys is still 50-50%, because the unknown only has two possible outcomes: boy or girl.
With all the stupid rubes in America, this does no good. Since their rebrand to Xfinity, idiots (and you wouldn't believe the amount of them) think it's a different company.
I'm mostly pissed that the guy making the mice is getting paid $0.52/hr but I have to pay $16 plus shipping to get one?!! I'm OUTRAGED! I don't think this would be such a big deal if the greedy corporations actually passed down some of the savings to us.
Yes, because of the pesky labor unions in the US, I can see a mouse needing to cost $16 if made here because some high-school dropout is entitled and thinks he should get $25/hr for putting self-adhesive feet on mice. But if you saving money on labor, how about the customer saves money too?
What exactly does "more random" mean in the summary? I think something is either random or it isn't. Perhaps this claim should just make us "more skeptical".
Nothing can be ever be considered random. If it is, it's just in a state of "we just don't have a means of measuring it's next value."
You can call me guessing a "number between 1 and 10" random, but that's just because you don't know my method of choosing. If you did, it wouldn't be random at all. If you knew the order of the deck of cards, and precisely each transition of the shuffle, then the next card could easily be predicted. Since you don't have that power, it's considered "random".
Same thing with network traffic, moving the mouse or memory contents; if you had a way to quickly and accurately measure all the inputs and knew it's method of generation, you could very easily guess the outputs. In all these cases, "random" only means "you cannot guess the outcome with any statistical significance."
See, xkcd is clearly getting better. Not a shitty comic for over a year!
They made one glaring design error with the Wacom (Daewoo) Bamboo Touch Tablet. When using in right hand mode, the buttons are on the left (so your thumb can hit it), unfortunately, so is the WIRE. Meaning you can't flush it up against your keyboard or something else. Regardless of where your computer is, in this design, the buttons and wire should be on opposite sides. If you want it on your left side, the wire should hang off the left side, not the right side. That alone says "cheap knockoff".
They were vigilant about blocking mailinator domains, so if you just want the direct link to download: http://www.connectify.me/a103dk/ConnectifyInstaller.exe Or visit: http://www.connectify.me/thanks.html
It will no longer be cheap, and no longer be common.
I hope nobody finds the old Davinci Virus which was written about 25 years ago...
If the unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce, that's news to me. Link please.
It's not in there as words as you'd like it to be, but you don't need to be a lawyer to figure out the intent of the contract. New manufacturing methods require new equipment and therefore training. The contracts require that the current workers must be trained by at the expense of the car companies rather than hiring new (and potentially cheaper) workers. So right out of the gate, it's a negative for two reasons. 1) I'm paying a highly-paid employee to sit in training and not be productive, and 2) He'll quit in a few years meaning I'll have to train him, and train his replacement rather than just training a replacement now. The union contract protects against being able to hire potentially better cheaper labor. Secondly, If a new manufacturing method requires less workers, that will be picketed as "jobs will be cut". So yes, in so many words, the "unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce".
I'm going to be wickedly pissed if all my hard re-CATPCHA work was all so they could sell a book.
Many websites which require email addresses discourage and in fact prevent the use of + while signing up.
As with most geeks, no browser will get our full attention until it gets adblock.
Remember, it's "princiPAL" because s/he's your "pal". ugh.
I hate to be that curmudgeon old fart, but once they get something, they don't give it back. And once they start taxing something, it's easier for you to accept new taxes.
But just read and grasp what the whole concept of this is here. NY wants to TAX you for NOT shopping in their state. You want to save money by buying online, they want to TAX you for saving money.
I'm not going to get into any Republican vs Democrat ideals here; I just want everyone in NY to understand what is fundamentally happening. You exercised your right as a consumer to not shop somewhere, and you are being charged for it.