Why not spend it on something that will generate electricity for many many years and give us a hard currency export.
Generation isn't the issue, outages are caused by trees falling on wires, usually in the "last mile" to the house. No on-site generation system (PV, wind, etc) can be depended on to provide power when you need it.
Not quite. They kick you off the Cisco Cloud, which appears to mean they will also turn off some of the "advanced" features in your router. You'll still have a router, but not necessarily what you thought you would have when you paid for it...
It's hard to tell from the article, but I got the impression these two were carefully buried in the cave by other humans. Articles that are buried along with a body tell a lot about the culture. These ornaments depict red deer, which they very likely hunted.
“These are the oldest partial genomes from modern human prehistory,” said researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogeneticist at the Spanish National Research Council.
He qualifies it with "modern human", which makes sense for a 7000 year old skeleton.
...at least according to their mathematical model.
Conclusion. Our MD simulations indicate that nanoporous
graphene membranes are able to reject salt ions while letting
water flow at permeabilities several orders of magnitude higher
than existing RO membranes.
Whether it can be made to actually work and whether it scales is left as an exercise for the reader.
Todd Humphreys and his colleagues from the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin hacked the GPS system of a drone belonging to the university...They demonstrated the technique to DHS officials, using a mini helicopter drone
So they were able to take control of their own model helicopter. And they hypothesize that IF they could break the encryption of a military drone they could do the same thing. But that's a huge IF.
It didn't happen in Iran, several drones have crashed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and I assume several more have crashed in the US. Without a pilot onboard a fairly minor electronic or mechanical problem will bring them down.
Everyone knows that the public option is socialized medicine. While there are good arguments that private healthcare should be essentially eliminated and replaced with a public health system, that was never going to pass. So instead, Pelosi pushed through legislation that has the goal of paying for private healthcare though taxes, which is absurd (as Medicare and Medicaid already prove) but it makes the next step toward socialized medicine smaller and more attainable.
Salary survey reveals that in in the midst of the deepest and longest recession the world has seen in two generations, some salaries are coming down off the stratospheric highs they reached during the dot com bubble.
Not sure what you mean by that; it's part of the total package. My point was that in Germany you pay for it out of base salary (as taxes), in the US you pay for it as reduced base salary but added insurance coverage.
that pales in comparison with an actual pension offering
I've had both and will take matching 401k every time. Pension involves vesting, which often means that if you resign or are laid off you lose the pension. 401k is yours. Plus you'll do better with an IRA or 401k in the long run (unless you have a extremely generous retirement plan like the ones that are driving states and municipalities bankrupt).
The old HP was a great company, but it was always atypical. Suggesting the there has been a shift because few if any other companies followed Mr. Hewlett's and Mr. Packard's model is a bit of a stretch.
These numbers are only "Base Salary", they don't include additional compensation such as Health Insurance or Pension benefits which generally add quite a bit to an employee's total compensation.
FTFA (page 4): "This chart also shows that the average wage differential between staff and managers in software development remains constant at approximately 27%. "
Did you read the article? Or just post your prejudiced opinion without bothering to look at the data?
NPR's bills are mostly paid by Congress. They play a shell game to make people think it's listener supported. Do you really think they would scream so loud if they only got the 2% or so of their budget that they claim is public?
Their bias comes through in subliminal ways, once you look for it you'll see it everywhere. E.g. a news report will have quotes from two politicians: first a recording of Obama talking for about 30 seconds, then the counterpoint consisting of the reporter reading a quote that takes about 5 seconds. Factual? Yes, but blatantly biased.
Look at the curriculum at any parochial school, any religion, and you'll see courses and textbooks that are unscientific. Nothing special about this one, except it's that this is an election year so it gets called out by the Slashdot editors.
I don't see any mistake in his observation. I had a similar experience in a Logic course that was cross listed in Philosophy and Comp Sci.; the semester I took it the course was taught by an engineering professor who stated that, as in all engineering courses, the average grade for the class would be a C+. About 1/3 of the students immediately got up and walked out.
Price/performance is a better question. If it's fast enough that you don't need the Raid 10 SSD then it could be a good choice. Throw hardware at any DBMS and you'll get good throughput.
BT Cotton linked to a death of an Indian farmer every 30 minutes.
Your entire post is BS. The only "link" is this organic farming website's unsubstantiated claim. There's no connection to Monsanto or GMO, just the observation that crop failures are driving Indian farmers to commit suicide, so let's blame GMO. Makes perfect sense to you I suppose.
Supply and demand doesn't apply to oil the same way it does to other products. The OPEC countries decide what the price of oil should be and they adjust how much they pump based on that
What part of restricting supply to drive up prices isn't consistent with supply and demand? It's the same as any other mechanism used to restrict supply (e.g. labor unions, quotas, whatever).
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Why not spend it on something that will generate electricity for many many years and give us a hard currency export.
Generation isn't the issue, outages are caused by trees falling on wires, usually in the "last mile" to the house. No on-site generation system (PV, wind, etc) can be depended on to provide power when you need it.
Maybe, but most people I know who work outdoors carry a thermos full of coffee...
Not quite. They kick you off the Cisco Cloud, which appears to mean they will also turn off some of the "advanced" features in your router. You'll still have a router, but not necessarily what you thought you would have when you paid for it...
It's hard to tell from the article, but I got the impression these two were carefully buried in the cave by other humans. Articles that are buried along with a body tell a lot about the culture. These ornaments depict red deer, which they very likely hunted.
“These are the oldest partial genomes from modern human prehistory,” said researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox, a paleogeneticist at the Spanish National Research Council.
He qualifies it with "modern human", which makes sense for a 7000 year old skeleton.
Because they've solved all their traffic problems I suppose.
Conclusion. Our MD simulations indicate that nanoporous graphene membranes are able to reject salt ions while letting water flow at permeabilities several orders of magnitude higher than existing RO membranes.
Whether it can be made to actually work and whether it scales is left as an exercise for the reader.
Rented videos? Noted. Subscribed to a magazine? Noted. Visited a web site? Noted. Searched for something? Noted.
FTFA:
Todd Humphreys and his colleagues from the Radionavigation Lab at the University of Texas at Austin hacked the GPS system of a drone belonging to the university...They demonstrated the technique to DHS officials, using a mini helicopter drone
So they were able to take control of their own model helicopter. And they hypothesize that IF they could break the encryption of a military drone they could do the same thing. But that's a huge IF.
It didn't happen in Iran, several drones have crashed in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and I assume several more have crashed in the US. Without a pilot onboard a fairly minor electronic or mechanical problem will bring them down.
Roberts correctly pointed out that if it fits the description of a tax, it's a tax whether Congress called it that or not.
Everyone knows that the public option is socialized medicine. While there are good arguments that private healthcare should be essentially eliminated and replaced with a public health system, that was never going to pass. So instead, Pelosi pushed through legislation that has the goal of paying for private healthcare though taxes, which is absurd (as Medicare and Medicaid already prove) but it makes the next step toward socialized medicine smaller and more attainable.
Salary survey reveals that in in the midst of the deepest and longest recession the world has seen in two generations, some salaries are coming down off the stratospheric highs they reached during the dot com bubble.
you are the one who pays for the benefit,
Not sure what you mean by that; it's part of the total package. My point was that in Germany you pay for it out of base salary (as taxes), in the US you pay for it as reduced base salary but added insurance coverage.
that pales in comparison with an actual pension offering
I've had both and will take matching 401k every time. Pension involves vesting, which often means that if you resign or are laid off you lose the pension. 401k is yours. Plus you'll do better with an IRA or 401k in the long run (unless you have a extremely generous retirement plan like the ones that are driving states and municipalities bankrupt).
The old HP was a great company, but it was always atypical. Suggesting the there has been a shift because few if any other companies followed Mr. Hewlett's and Mr. Packard's model is a bit of a stretch.
The numbers still don't show that; the gap is actually closing according to this survey:
Staff Salary / Manager Salary = staffs' salary as percentage of managers'
2010: 93/123 = 75.6%
2011: 96/126 = 76%
2012: 100/128 = 78%
These numbers are only "Base Salary", they don't include additional compensation such as Health Insurance or Pension benefits which generally add quite a bit to an employee's total compensation.
FTFA (page 4): "This chart also shows that the average wage differential between staff and managers in software development remains constant at approximately 27%. "
Did you read the article? Or just post your prejudiced opinion without bothering to look at the data?
NPR's bills are mostly paid by Congress. They play a shell game to make people think it's listener supported. Do you really think they would scream so loud if they only got the 2% or so of their budget that they claim is public?
Their bias comes through in subliminal ways, once you look for it you'll see it everywhere. E.g. a news report will have quotes from two politicians: first a recording of Obama talking for about 30 seconds, then the counterpoint consisting of the reporter reading a quote that takes about 5 seconds. Factual? Yes, but blatantly biased.
Look at the curriculum at any parochial school, any religion, and you'll see courses and textbooks that are unscientific. Nothing special about this one, except it's that this is an election year so it gets called out by the Slashdot editors.
I don't see any mistake in his observation. I had a similar experience in a Logic course that was cross listed in Philosophy and Comp Sci.; the semester I took it the course was taught by an engineering professor who stated that, as in all engineering courses, the average grade for the class would be a C+. About 1/3 of the students immediately got up and walked out.
Price/performance is a better question. If it's fast enough that you don't need the Raid 10 SSD then it could be a good choice. Throw hardware at any DBMS and you'll get good throughput.
BT Cotton linked to a death of an Indian farmer every 30 minutes.
Your entire post is BS. The only "link" is this organic farming website's unsubstantiated claim. There's no connection to Monsanto or GMO, just the observation that crop failures are driving Indian farmers to commit suicide, so let's blame GMO. Makes perfect sense to you I suppose.
Agreed. But the point is that just because it happened with a gun doesn't mean it should be a Slashdot story.
Here's a good explanation of how to start a fire with a gun by Mark Twain
Supply and demand doesn't apply to oil the same way it does to other products. The OPEC countries decide what the price of oil should be and they adjust how much they pump based on that
What part of restricting supply to drive up prices isn't consistent with supply and demand? It's the same as any other mechanism used to restrict supply (e.g. labor unions, quotas, whatever).