Repeat after me: prices are set by supply and demand, not by cost.
The minimum costs of providing labor are extremely low, yet workers keep insisting on making a profit instead of working at indentured servitude rates.
I've received obviously personalized replies from Senator Kyl's office on multiple occasions. He happened to be my own senator, but that's not bad for the #2 republican in the Senate, even if it was just a staff member composing the letter. The president I've never gotten more than a form letter and a Christmas card. Other representatives are somewhere in between.
The trick is not to write on the night before a vote, but to write when a bill for their committee just got introduced, when they still have time to influence it, and maybe make improvements based on constituent input. Once a bill gets out on the floor, it's all a dog and pony show.
As far as local and state representatives go, they are usually accessible enough to be able to just go and talk to them at local events. Even your federal congressman can answer your questions in person at town halls. You just have to know where to go.
I use safesearch, and likewise haven't seen that site in the search results. However, I tried in an incognito window, which removes all cookies and history, and the objectionable site does indeed come up as the first result by default.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a widespread emergency. Last April several tornadoes tore through our state, knocking out high voltage power lines and a lot of communications infrastructure. The few mobile towers that were still functioning were jammed with calls. 911 was flooded with minor emergencies. It took a couple days to get more than a handful of radio stations on the air, and we didn't have the power to run a TV. We heard that power would likely not be restored for more than a week. Our cell phone batteries were halfway drained when we woke up under these conditions, without the means to charge it.
Are you seriously going to spend all day wearing down your battery trying to make one phone call? No. You send out a tweet or a facebook post that says you're all right, but communication is terrible and you'll post an update in 8 hours or so.
Maybe our lives weren't directly saved by social networking, but I like to think saving bandwidth for people with true emergencies helped.
Ah, the brilliant circular argument: I use windows because all my apps are windows apps. Good thing I learned English, because all the books I read are in English.
It's not that simple on a wireless connection where everyone shares the medium. For communications originating at the phone, the network provider can't do any throttling until the packet has already been received at their equipment, because they don't control the phone's transmitter. By that time, the bandwidth on the wireless link has already been consumed and wasn't available to other users. If the control signals originate at the server, the network provider could throttle it, but setting it up isn't trivial, and then you have problems like the servers sending retries because they aren't getting responses from the phone. The best solution requires cooperation from the OS and/or application writers.
It's not crazy. A major board redesign will set a schedule back three months or more, so if you have two options and aren't sure which one will work, it's not uncommon to design for both if you have the room. Maybe you're evaluating two vendors. There are also usually components that are only used during development. Sometimes there's an experimental or premium feature that requires an extra chip, but you don't want to make two boards. Of course, most of the time unused components get left off in mass production, but developer's boards or ones from prototype runs might still have them.
For all you smug people, how about trying a sample for the real test (pdf)? They are all 10th grade level geometry and algebra. This surprised me a little, because even the GRE you take for graduate school has a few questions of the sort in the test the OP linked to.
That's why I think nuclear armageddon won't be started by heads of state and their military advisors, but by some disrespected IT guy who constantly has to reset the passwords to the launch codes.
If you're not emotionally involved, these discussions are fascinating. The number one factor people list for using an operating system is the one factor the OS has no control over: the apps available for it. What's also fascinating is the circular logic people employ about their apps: they use Windows because all the apps they use are for Windows. Well, duh.
I guess it depends on how long habits from other operating systems were ingrained before you switched. There are a lot of people who accept whatever defaults they're given, and who also do a clean install for every upgrade. For them, it's just as easy to clean install a new distro.
What I like about Google is they aren't afraid to fail, and their failures often have beneficial side effects for the internet as a whole. Even if all that comes from google+ is facebook being a little less annoying to use, I think there are people at Google who consider it worth the investment.
Only 3 of the 25 deal with missing requirements or design. The rest are implementation details. Sure, you can make a design that makes writing code vulnerable to SQL injection more difficult, but it's still something the programmer has to watch out for. Also, I expect programmers to bring up glaring omissions in the requirements or design, just like I would hope a worker on a car manufacturing floor would bring issues to the attention of engineering. They are on the front lines and see things designers miss.
The reason it's commonly used in finance is that it makes clear the subtle distinction between "percent decrease" and "decrease in a value reported as a percentage." A 0.84% decrease from 55.11% brings you only to 54.65% (55.11 * (1-0.0084)), a drop of 46 basis points. A decrease of 84 basis points from 55.11% is a 1.52% decrease. The author used it appropriately except for that factor of 100 error.
I really like the unity shell too, for casual computing. Trying to do serious work on it actually pushed me back to KDE for the first time in ten years.
Tornadoes ravage the area in the worst local storm in recorded history, knocking out transmission lines to nearly a half million people, taking a week to repair. Browns Ferry responds perfectly.
News reports an issue first discovered last year that might potentially have been a serious problem together with other unlikely failures, but it was caught in time to avoid that.
No, I don't sense an anti-nuclear bias in the media at all.
I've been pretty impressed by the training my company has been able to put together lately.
Seth Hallem, founder and former CEO of Coverity came to teach us about their static analysis tool.
Dan Saks came to teach us about embedded software best practices.
Scott Meyers came to teach us about using the STL effectively.
James Grenning came to teach us about test driven development.
Michael Barr came to teach us about real time scheduling.
Most of these guys are well respected in their fields, and while not exactly famous, are names I had seen more than once in connection with those topics. All of them spent some time looking at our company's needs specifically before doing the training in order to customize it for us. Our company isn't small, but not huge either. We have around 1600 employees, a few hundred of which took the training. It has really helped us revitalize a lot of our old school techniques. If a company our size can put a line up of training like that together, it ought to be within reach of most mid-size organizations.
Stuff costs money because there isn't enough stuff for everyone to have as much as they want. Breathing air is free because there's plenty of it. Land and water used to be free until things became crowded enough that communities had to make trade offs. Radio broadcasts and a lot of software is free because making additional copies of it has negligible cost and there are people willing to bear the cost of making the first copy.
Health care costs money because there's not enough available for everyone to have as much as they want. The shortage may not be visible or easily definable, but we know it's there because it's not free. Prices are set accordingly. Some people choose not to purchase health care. Shortage solved.
Prices mean some people can't afford to purchase health care even if they want it. This makes people sad. The government seizes money from some people to pay for other people's health care. Access solved.
Shortage created again. Patients respond by consuming as much free health care as they can get away with. Doctors react by charging the government more, spending less time with each patient, or refusing to take on new patients. Government responds with onerous quotas and regulations. Health care rationing being enforced by inefficient and far-removed bureaucrats instead of patients.
Ideally you want consumers to efficiently and equitably ration their own health care. This would require instead of using general taxes to make health care free for the poor, that people's health care prices increase both proportional to their ability to pay and to the amount of health care they consume. If we have enough resources to do cholesterol screenings every year for 95% of the people, then the price Warren Buffet is charged should make him decide against it 5% of the time, and the price some random poor person pays should make him decide against it 5% of the time. Unfortunately, no one is smart enough to make that work.
Here I am impressed that a site whose vast majority of readers are in the US or UK, most of whom have rarely or never even had the occasion to dial emergency services in their own country, let alone abroad, actually gives a nod of recognition that 911 and 999 aren't the only emergency numbers out there, and we still have someone whining that the specific number isn't mentioned. Someone who "arrogantly didn't spend a single thought on it" wouldn't have mentioned other numbers in the first place. If you go that far out of your way to get offended, maybe slashdot isn't the best site for you.
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Repeat after me: prices are set by supply and demand, not by cost.
The minimum costs of providing labor are extremely low, yet workers keep insisting on making a profit instead of working at indentured servitude rates.
I've received obviously personalized replies from Senator Kyl's office on multiple occasions. He happened to be my own senator, but that's not bad for the #2 republican in the Senate, even if it was just a staff member composing the letter. The president I've never gotten more than a form letter and a Christmas card. Other representatives are somewhere in between.
The trick is not to write on the night before a vote, but to write when a bill for their committee just got introduced, when they still have time to influence it, and maybe make improvements based on constituent input. Once a bill gets out on the floor, it's all a dog and pony show.
As far as local and state representatives go, they are usually accessible enough to be able to just go and talk to them at local events. Even your federal congressman can answer your questions in person at town halls. You just have to know where to go.
I use safesearch, and likewise haven't seen that site in the search results. However, I tried in an incognito window, which removes all cookies and history, and the objectionable site does indeed come up as the first result by default.
Spoken like someone who has never been in a widespread emergency. Last April several tornadoes tore through our state, knocking out high voltage power lines and a lot of communications infrastructure. The few mobile towers that were still functioning were jammed with calls. 911 was flooded with minor emergencies. It took a couple days to get more than a handful of radio stations on the air, and we didn't have the power to run a TV. We heard that power would likely not be restored for more than a week. Our cell phone batteries were halfway drained when we woke up under these conditions, without the means to charge it.
Are you seriously going to spend all day wearing down your battery trying to make one phone call? No. You send out a tweet or a facebook post that says you're all right, but communication is terrible and you'll post an update in 8 hours or so.
Maybe our lives weren't directly saved by social networking, but I like to think saving bandwidth for people with true emergencies helped.
Ah, the brilliant circular argument: I use windows because all my apps are windows apps. Good thing I learned English, because all the books I read are in English.
It's not VoIP calls that are the cited problem, it's the periodic signals when it's not in use that tell the server, "Hey, I'm still here!"
It's not that simple on a wireless connection where everyone shares the medium. For communications originating at the phone, the network provider can't do any throttling until the packet has already been received at their equipment, because they don't control the phone's transmitter. By that time, the bandwidth on the wireless link has already been consumed and wasn't available to other users. If the control signals originate at the server, the network provider could throttle it, but setting it up isn't trivial, and then you have problems like the servers sending retries because they aren't getting responses from the phone. The best solution requires cooperation from the OS and/or application writers.
It's not crazy. A major board redesign will set a schedule back three months or more, so if you have two options and aren't sure which one will work, it's not uncommon to design for both if you have the room. Maybe you're evaluating two vendors. There are also usually components that are only used during development. Sometimes there's an experimental or premium feature that requires an extra chip, but you don't want to make two boards. Of course, most of the time unused components get left off in mass production, but developer's boards or ones from prototype runs might still have them.
Yeah, but at least your power gamer with 20 splatbooks is reset back to zero so you have half a hope of an actually balanced encounter.
For all you smug people, how about trying a sample for the real test (pdf)? They are all 10th grade level geometry and algebra. This surprised me a little, because even the GRE you take for graduate school has a few questions of the sort in the test the OP linked to.
That's why I think nuclear armageddon won't be started by heads of state and their military advisors, but by some disrespected IT guy who constantly has to reset the passwords to the launch codes.
If you're not emotionally involved, these discussions are fascinating. The number one factor people list for using an operating system is the one factor the OS has no control over: the apps available for it. What's also fascinating is the circular logic people employ about their apps: they use Windows because all the apps they use are for Windows. Well, duh.
I guess it depends on how long habits from other operating systems were ingrained before you switched. There are a lot of people who accept whatever defaults they're given, and who also do a clean install for every upgrade. For them, it's just as easy to clean install a new distro.
What I like about Google is they aren't afraid to fail, and their failures often have beneficial side effects for the internet as a whole. Even if all that comes from google+ is facebook being a little less annoying to use, I think there are people at Google who consider it worth the investment.
Only 3 of the 25 deal with missing requirements or design. The rest are implementation details. Sure, you can make a design that makes writing code vulnerable to SQL injection more difficult, but it's still something the programmer has to watch out for. Also, I expect programmers to bring up glaring omissions in the requirements or design, just like I would hope a worker on a car manufacturing floor would bring issues to the attention of engineering. They are on the front lines and see things designers miss.
The reason it's commonly used in finance is that it makes clear the subtle distinction between "percent decrease" and "decrease in a value reported as a percentage." A 0.84% decrease from 55.11% brings you only to 54.65% (55.11 * (1-0.0084)), a drop of 46 basis points. A decrease of 84 basis points from 55.11% is a 1.52% decrease. The author used it appropriately except for that factor of 100 error.
That's actually a really good question. You'd think if they could count them they could stop them.
I really like the unity shell too, for casual computing. Trying to do serious work on it actually pushed me back to KDE for the first time in ten years.
Tornadoes ravage the area in the worst local storm in recorded history, knocking out transmission lines to nearly a half million people, taking a week to repair. Browns Ferry responds perfectly.
News reports an issue first discovered last year that might potentially have been a serious problem together with other unlikely failures, but it was caught in time to avoid that.
No, I don't sense an anti-nuclear bias in the media at all.
I've been pretty impressed by the training my company has been able to put together lately.
Most of these guys are well respected in their fields, and while not exactly famous, are names I had seen more than once in connection with those topics. All of them spent some time looking at our company's needs specifically before doing the training in order to customize it for us. Our company isn't small, but not huge either. We have around 1600 employees, a few hundred of which took the training. It has really helped us revitalize a lot of our old school techniques. If a company our size can put a line up of training like that together, it ought to be within reach of most mid-size organizations.
Stuff costs money because there isn't enough stuff for everyone to have as much as they want. Breathing air is free because there's plenty of it. Land and water used to be free until things became crowded enough that communities had to make trade offs. Radio broadcasts and a lot of software is free because making additional copies of it has negligible cost and there are people willing to bear the cost of making the first copy.
Health care costs money because there's not enough available for everyone to have as much as they want. The shortage may not be visible or easily definable, but we know it's there because it's not free. Prices are set accordingly. Some people choose not to purchase health care. Shortage solved.
Prices mean some people can't afford to purchase health care even if they want it. This makes people sad. The government seizes money from some people to pay for other people's health care. Access solved.
Shortage created again. Patients respond by consuming as much free health care as they can get away with. Doctors react by charging the government more, spending less time with each patient, or refusing to take on new patients. Government responds with onerous quotas and regulations. Health care rationing being enforced by inefficient and far-removed bureaucrats instead of patients.
Ideally you want consumers to efficiently and equitably ration their own health care. This would require instead of using general taxes to make health care free for the poor, that people's health care prices increase both proportional to their ability to pay and to the amount of health care they consume. If we have enough resources to do cholesterol screenings every year for 95% of the people, then the price Warren Buffet is charged should make him decide against it 5% of the time, and the price some random poor person pays should make him decide against it 5% of the time. Unfortunately, no one is smart enough to make that work.
Here I am impressed that a site whose vast majority of readers are in the US or UK, most of whom have rarely or never even had the occasion to dial emergency services in their own country, let alone abroad, actually gives a nod of recognition that 911 and 999 aren't the only emergency numbers out there, and we still have someone whining that the specific number isn't mentioned. Someone who "arrogantly didn't spend a single thought on it" wouldn't have mentioned other numbers in the first place. If you go that far out of your way to get offended, maybe slashdot isn't the best site for you.
In addition to what the other guys said, someone who knows what they are doing would install perl instead of downloading the script over and over.
You can actually see what commands he copy/pastes and what he types himself, because the entire line appears at once.
It's easy to find everyone who defriended you. Of course, I have no idea who any of those people are, let alone why they want to hide my posts.
Anyone else think facebook would be a lot more interesting with disliking, foes, and freaks?