I know I shouldn't tell someone with a 5-digit id to RTFA, but here I go anyway... FTFA:
Scherr left MIT in May 1965 to take a job at IBM, but 25 years later he confessed to Professor Fano in person. “He assured me that my Ph.D. would not be revoked.”
It's the internet, so insulting is too easy - I try not to get insulted... if you were sitting next to me at a bar it wouldn't have been insulting. I try to imagine I'm in a bar all the time:)
but anyone who lets themselves get carried away by urges and societal pressure is going to get a shock when they have to deal with a real relationship and find out that it's not the fairy tale they were hoping for.
That's probably why women go easier on the 2nd wedding if they get remarried after a divorce:)
Why you'd want to get yourself into another decade or so of debt (when you compare the price of a wedding to how much less interest you'd have to pay on a mortgage for example) just to have a more gaudy celebration is beyond me.
You are preaching to the choir, but in my case I didn't complain because it was my in-laws paying. I told everyone that would listen that it would be really nice to have extra money towards a down payment on a house instead, but it's their money:)
Prior to their cash, our "big wedding" was going to cost about $4000...
I can't call my wife a "bimbo", though. She has far more education than me and makes about 5 times my salary!
And you really think they won't go the next step and remove that as well?
Forgive me for only being outraged at their actual actions and not their potential actions.
I doubt anyone not familiar with Twitter will realize what that means
Probably a fair point - perhaps they should link directly to Chilling Effects from that grayed-out tweet. It's hard to say, since they haven't actually used this yet.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't still try to lay down a framework of law to prevent it happening.
Prevent is probably the wrong word... we punish AFTER it happens - in general, laws meant to "prevent" things have far more serious effects than was intended. Collateral damage, as it were.
I'm male, and a geek, but I'm also married. I personally think that marriage is silly, and the whole wedding business even more so.
That said, the idea that a woman who dreams of a big wedding is a "bimbo" is just hilarious. It's what little girls do when they role-play. A woman who has a different opinion than you (or me) is not a "bimbo". I have no doubt that there are plenty of women who do not dream of grand weddings, but it's not a character flaw if they do.
Totally valid point. I was not treating the car as an asset, because in general I run mine into the ground. If you typically turn a car over every 5 years, then yeah the Prius will almost certainly hold value better than a Sonic. I suspect the Sonic will pretty much work like a Nissan Versa on the used car market.
Base MSRP 2007 Versa: $15,555 Base MSRP 2007 Prius: $22,175 Trade-in value of Versa today assuming "Clean" condition and 60,000 miles: $5,905 Trade-in value of Prius today, same assumptions: $9,971
So now you spent $9650 on the Versa and $12,204 on the Prius. The delta is now down to $2554, which significantly changes the math. Using 48/45 MPG for the Prius and 26/32 MPG for the Versa... Payback point in miles @ $3/gallon: (city)48,293 / (highway)94,302 Payback point in miles @ $6/gallon: (city)24,146 / (highway)47,150
So still not worth it for highway driving (since the cars were traded with 60,000 miles) but worth it for city driving. If gas goes up, the math obviously favors the Prius. The magic gas price is $4.72/gallon on the highway and $2.41/gallon in the city.
Personally, what I find funny is not so much that she was ignorant of Linux, but that she tried to sound smart by assuming it was a fuel. If she'd just said, "What is Linux?" it wouldn't have been so funny. Or even funny at all.
Annnnnnnddd... here comes the memory leaks. It's been 15 minutes since I posted my response. I've done some surfing around and closed up all of my tabs except for 4. All of those 4 were the same pages that were open when I wrote my original reply. Now in about:memory I see: "329.45 MB (100.0%) -- explicit", "504.09 MB -- resident"... and it keeps going up! By tomorrow morning, I'm sure I'll have to restart it because it will be at 750MB.
You are lucky - I recently got so fed up that I created a fresh profile and got rid of some of my favorite extensions. Currently only running Adblock+, NoScript, and Tree Style Tabs. I currently have a session that was opened this morning with 16 tabs (one of them about:memory). Memory usage is "376.66 MB (100.0%) -- explicit", "437.17 MB -- resident". I'm on a Mac, so I won't mention the vsize:)
Anyway, this is acceptable to me performance-wise, but I really miss my other extensions! When I'm in "developing web page" mode, I have to re-enable a bunch of them.
Oddly, some of them behave just fine on my PC running Windows XP at work.
The problem is that two of my otherwise favorite applications, Firefox and Crashplan, each gobble up memory until my system shows a spinny beachball of death every time I try to do the simplest thing. Even when your system has plenty of memory, performance suffers when applications start hoarding gigabytes of it.
Me to friend: Use Firefox! It has these awesome extensions! Definitely install AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Tree-Style Tabs, Auto Pager, IE Tab2, GreaseMonkey, Firebug, and the Developer Toolbar!
Friend: Does your Firefox use every bit of your system's memory?
Me: Pffft, well, only if I use the extensions!
In all seriousness, they need to do something about the extensions. Refuse to host leaky ones or something. Extensions can't be Firefox's killer feature if they make it eat all of your RAM.
You speak the truth. Now to be fair, the trim and general quality of the Prius is better than the Sonic. But even if the Sonic were $16k, it wouldn't make sense to buy a Prius unless gas were in the $6 range or you put a WHOLE lot of city miles on your car. In the city, the Prius would use about half of the fuel of the Sonic.
I think the Prius is trendy and gets some serious feel-good dollars from people. There must be external reasons for it's success, because it has no economic benefit for most people (especially on the highway). Diesel falls into the same category. My wife puts less than 5000 miles on her car per year and I put well under 10,000 on mine - we could drive Hummers and not notice much difference in gas costs:)
Some math: Sonic: MSRP $14,500, 27/40MPG Prius: MSRP $23,520, 51/48MPG Delta: $9020 Payback point in miles @ $3/gallon: (city)172,508 / (highway)721,600 Payback point in miles @ $6/gallon: (city)86,254 / (highway)360,800
I didn't realize you were making a joke. I thought you were saying that booth babes aren't so completely tired of being hit on and flirted with all day long that they might actually have interest with some of the men at the event.
While I agree that being friendly and chatting won't ever hurt, the booth babes are doing this because they are paid to.
As for laughing "behind her back" - if you can't control your laughter, it is better to do it when out of earshot. It might have really hurt her feelings if they just busted out in laughter because she said something ignorant.
Finding it funny that someone thinks Linux is a fuel is OK, I think.
Though their Volt car seems like a decent idea; not sure why it isn't selling better?
Because they start at like $40 grand and a Prius is $23k. That's a LOT of gas - even the guy at work who has already has solar cells and was going to charge it for "free" couldn't justify the price given the current price of gas.
(We live in PA, so currently he is allowed to spin his electric meter backwards with the solar cells - that is why "free" is in quotes... it would actually cost him the going rate of electricity.)
I think other threads cover the topic of quality of instruction better, and we don't need to re-hash that here. I was just commenting on the economics of the effort. Once you've made videos and created message boards and figured out automatic online testing and scoring, the amount of effort moving from 100 to 100,000 people is not 1000x - it does not scale linearly. Mostly your costs will be additional bandwidth and hosting charges.
Granted, at some point even this won't scale... for instance maybe the discussion boards will get too big to be effective - but there is probably a solution to that as well, and in any event you are well past the point where you need each student to pay $50,000/year.
Of course $100 isn't the perfect amount on the supply/demand curve - the point is that you don't have to support a professor with a room full of maybe 100 people - you now have 100,000 people, and the work isn't that much greater. It's a problem that scales very well.
The same people that dig through hundreds of hours of worthless reality show footage and piece it together into a half-hour episode would be the ones going through the LOC and the National Archives. Only the juiciest bits, mostly out of context, would make it onto the news programs, talk shows, comedy shows, and political attack ads.
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I know I shouldn't tell someone with a 5-digit id to RTFA, but here I go anyway... FTFA:
Oh, and by the way, all it "proves" is that I'm dumber and make less than a bimbo :)
It's the internet, so insulting is too easy - I try not to get insulted... if you were sitting next to me at a bar it wouldn't have been insulting. I try to imagine I'm in a bar all the time :)
but anyone who lets themselves get carried away by urges and societal pressure is going to get a shock when they have to deal with a real relationship and find out that it's not the fairy tale they were hoping for.
That's probably why women go easier on the 2nd wedding if they get remarried after a divorce :)
Why you'd want to get yourself into another decade or so of debt (when you compare the price of a wedding to how much less interest you'd have to pay on a mortgage for example) just to have a more gaudy celebration is beyond me.
You are preaching to the choir, but in my case I didn't complain because it was my in-laws paying. I told everyone that would listen that it would be really nice to have extra money towards a down payment on a house instead, but it's their money :)
Prior to their cash, our "big wedding" was going to cost about $4000...
I can't call my wife a "bimbo", though. She has far more education than me and makes about 5 times my salary!
And you really think they won't go the next step and remove that as well?
Forgive me for only being outraged at their actual actions and not their potential actions.
I doubt anyone not familiar with Twitter will realize what that means
Probably a fair point - perhaps they should link directly to Chilling Effects from that grayed-out tweet. It's hard to say, since they haven't actually used this yet.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't still try to lay down a framework of law to prevent it happening.
Prevent is probably the wrong word... we punish AFTER it happens - in general, laws meant to "prevent" things have far more serious effects than was intended. Collateral damage, as it were.
I'm male, and a geek, but I'm also married. I personally think that marriage is silly, and the whole wedding business even more so.
That said, the idea that a woman who dreams of a big wedding is a "bimbo" is just hilarious. It's what little girls do when they role-play. A woman who has a different opinion than you (or me) is not a "bimbo". I have no doubt that there are plenty of women who do not dream of grand weddings, but it's not a character flaw if they do.
Removal of tabs-on-side was the reason I stopped using Chrome and went back to Firefox with Tree-Style-Tabs.
You probably won't own the Prius forever,
Totally valid point. I was not treating the car as an asset, because in general I run mine into the ground. If you typically turn a car over every 5 years, then yeah the Prius will almost certainly hold value better than a Sonic. I suspect the Sonic will pretty much work like a Nissan Versa on the used car market.
Base MSRP 2007 Versa: $15,555
Base MSRP 2007 Prius: $22,175
Trade-in value of Versa today assuming "Clean" condition and 60,000 miles: $5,905
Trade-in value of Prius today, same assumptions: $9,971
So now you spent $9650 on the Versa and $12,204 on the Prius. The delta is now down to $2554, which significantly changes the math.
Using 48/45 MPG for the Prius and 26/32 MPG for the Versa...
Payback point in miles @ $3/gallon: (city)48,293 / (highway)94,302
Payback point in miles @ $6/gallon: (city)24,146 / (highway)47,150
So still not worth it for highway driving (since the cars were traded with 60,000 miles) but worth it for city driving. If gas goes up, the math obviously favors the Prius. The magic gas price is $4.72/gallon on the highway and $2.41/gallon in the city.
Personally, what I find funny is not so much that she was ignorant of Linux, but that she tried to sound smart by assuming it was a fuel. If she'd just said, "What is Linux?" it wouldn't have been so funny. Or even funny at all.
Annnnnnnddd... here comes the memory leaks. It's been 15 minutes since I posted my response. I've done some surfing around and closed up all of my tabs except for 4. All of those 4 were the same pages that were open when I wrote my original reply. Now in about:memory I see: "329.45 MB (100.0%) -- explicit", "504.09 MB -- resident"... and it keeps going up! By tomorrow morning, I'm sure I'll have to restart it because it will be at 750MB.
You are lucky - I recently got so fed up that I created a fresh profile and got rid of some of my favorite extensions. Currently only running Adblock+, NoScript, and Tree Style Tabs. I currently have a session that was opened this morning with 16 tabs (one of them about:memory). Memory usage is "376.66 MB (100.0%) -- explicit", "437.17 MB -- resident". I'm on a Mac, so I won't mention the vsize :)
Anyway, this is acceptable to me performance-wise, but I really miss my other extensions! When I'm in "developing web page" mode, I have to re-enable a bunch of them.
Oddly, some of them behave just fine on my PC running Windows XP at work.
That is awesome - thanks. And I just read your team's memory presentation by Nicholas Nethercote :)
We live in a world where 8GB of RAM costs $50.
The problem is that two of my otherwise favorite applications, Firefox and Crashplan, each gobble up memory until my system shows a spinny beachball of death every time I try to do the simplest thing. Even when your system has plenty of memory, performance suffers when applications start hoarding gigabytes of it.
Me to friend: Use Firefox! It has these awesome extensions! Definitely install AdBlock Plus, NoScript, Tree-Style Tabs, Auto Pager, IE Tab2, GreaseMonkey, Firebug, and the Developer Toolbar!
Friend: Does your Firefox use every bit of your system's memory?
Me: Pffft, well, only if I use the extensions!
In all seriousness, they need to do something about the extensions. Refuse to host leaky ones or something. Extensions can't be Firefox's killer feature if they make it eat all of your RAM.
Then why does the Prius sell?
You speak the truth. Now to be fair, the trim and general quality of the Prius is better than the Sonic. But even if the Sonic were $16k, it wouldn't make sense to buy a Prius unless gas were in the $6 range or you put a WHOLE lot of city miles on your car. In the city, the Prius would use about half of the fuel of the Sonic.
I think the Prius is trendy and gets some serious feel-good dollars from people. There must be external reasons for it's success, because it has no economic benefit for most people (especially on the highway). Diesel falls into the same category. My wife puts less than 5000 miles on her car per year and I put well under 10,000 on mine - we could drive Hummers and not notice much difference in gas costs :)
Some math:
Sonic: MSRP $14,500, 27/40MPG
Prius: MSRP $23,520, 51/48MPG
Delta: $9020
Payback point in miles @ $3/gallon: (city)172,508 / (highway)721,600
Payback point in miles @ $6/gallon: (city)86,254 / (highway)360,800
I didn't realize you were making a joke. I thought you were saying that booth babes aren't so completely tired of being hit on and flirted with all day long that they might actually have interest with some of the men at the event.
While I agree that being friendly and chatting won't ever hurt, the booth babes are doing this because they are paid to.
As for laughing "behind her back" - if you can't control your laughter, it is better to do it when out of earshot. It might have really hurt her feelings if they just busted out in laughter because she said something ignorant.
Finding it funny that someone thinks Linux is a fuel is OK, I think.
Really? You think the booth babe wanted to be hit on? Oh, man - who's the socially inept one?
Though their Volt car seems like a decent idea; not sure why it isn't selling better?
Because they start at like $40 grand and a Prius is $23k. That's a LOT of gas - even the guy at work who has already has solar cells and was going to charge it for "free" couldn't justify the price given the current price of gas.
(We live in PA, so currently he is allowed to spin his electric meter backwards with the solar cells - that is why "free" is in quotes... it would actually cost him the going rate of electricity.)
I think other threads cover the topic of quality of instruction better, and we don't need to re-hash that here. I was just commenting on the economics of the effort. Once you've made videos and created message boards and figured out automatic online testing and scoring, the amount of effort moving from 100 to 100,000 people is not 1000x - it does not scale linearly. Mostly your costs will be additional bandwidth and hosting charges.
Granted, at some point even this won't scale... for instance maybe the discussion boards will get too big to be effective - but there is probably a solution to that as well, and in any event you are well past the point where you need each student to pay $50,000/year.
Of course $100 isn't the perfect amount on the supply/demand curve - the point is that you don't have to support a professor with a room full of maybe 100 people - you now have 100,000 people, and the work isn't that much greater. It's a problem that scales very well.
Oops, lol... yeah. House.
He wasn't going to Washington for a House session, according to his Twitter post he was going to speak at a pro-life event.
The same people that dig through hundreds of hours of worthless reality show footage and piece it together into a half-hour episode would be the ones going through the LOC and the National Archives. Only the juiciest bits, mostly out of context, would make it onto the news programs, talk shows, comedy shows, and political attack ads.
Can the cast of Jersey Shore get in on this?