Your analogy is invalid for one very obvious reason...
*sigh* OK, the analogy isn't perfect. I was simply trying to illustrate by example the principle that expensive new technology tends to get cheaper with time. It's true that we may never cure all cancers but I firmly believe that the available treatments will get better and dramatically cheaper given enough time.
the price of treating cancer is not going to decrease to any reasonable level...
You clearly have more thoughts on this issue, but we'll have to agree to disagree with one another. I trying to help you see GP's point, not debate the merits of his argument.
The first commercially-available computer was the UNIVAC I priced at $159,000 in 1951 ($1.5M 2018 dollars). Compare that cost to the computer you're using now. ANY new technology starts prohibitively high-cost and decreases as the state of the art improves, or patents expire, or competition increases.
It's a shame that cancer treatments are so expensive, and it's a shame that the costs aren't decreasing more quickly, but that's how it is.
My interpretation of that line is more like "I don't want people to think I'm associated with the Nazis." or "I don't want people to think I sympathize with the Nazis."
Compare that to your interpretation, "I don't want people to think I'm a Nazi."
English is funny like that, and I suspect that OP interpreted it the same way I did.
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? I'm not trying to simply add to the sea of negative responses, I'm just very much out of the loop when it comes to the Linux dev team.
The highest court in NYS is, somewhat confusingly, the Court of Appeals (source). So NY Supreme Court would likely be the court of original jurisdiction.
Someone who doesn't know the difference could certainly mistake the two, but Iridium flares are MUCH slower. They last on the order of (5s-20s), and the brightness profile is a smooth fade-in, peak, fade-out rather than a meteor's quick rise and slower fade.
This site will give you a prediction for your location of when you can see them.
The proper role of the Supreme Court is to determine whether laws passsed are in line with the Constitution and general human rights.
The Supreme Court (as does any court) also has the authority to determine whether a certain law is applicable to a particular situation. It seems that many people forget this aspect.
Loss of consciousness is caused by the sudden drop in blood pressure in the brain.
Blood brings oxygen to the brain, and oxygen is what allows the brain to maintain consciousness, so the loss of blood pressure leads to oxygen deprivation. You're talking about one step farther up the chain than GP is.
Getting a full-time firefighting job is harder than you might think.
My brother-in-law was in the military, was deployed in a combat zone, and upon discharge (honorable and with multiple letters of recommendation) spent ~5 years trying to get into a decent firefighting academy. He went up and down the east coast and despite being in the top 10% of the test-takers, both academic and physical, he was frequently turned away because of the rampant nepotism and one person just "not liking him" (the ones who DID like him there told him he could appeal the decision or sue, but it was basically the same person who ran the appeals board and he'd just be wasting his time - but would he like another letter of recommendation?).
He did end up with his dream job as a firefighter and is happy and secure now, but the competition is fierce and not even close to fair.
Why not start a "Sane Rifles of America" / SRA then? In general, I'm not opposed to all guns, though guns like the AR-15 with extended mags do cause me heartburn. But if there's people who want to support gun rights without being absolute idiots about it, why can't you start your own group?
Why don't I start such an organization? A few reasons:
- I didn't think of it.
- I'm not much of a leader and I have no desire to venture into politics.
- The NRA is already out there defending the 2nd amendment, which would make me/my organization simultaneously redundant, and a target (no pun intended) of the criticism of an increasingly polarized populace.
- I'm too busy, and it would be a big job.
- I don't care enough (this one requires a few words of explanation). I hold conservative views on some topics and liberal views on others, but I'm somewhere in the middle on most; gun rights is one of those topics where I'm somewhat middle-of-the-road. There are other, more pressing, topics that I might be inclined to act on first.
- It would involve legalized bribery (lobbying) and I won't be a part of it. To hell with the "it's just how things work" argument.
It's not a bad idea though, for someone who has the right motivation. Are you that person?
Why do you feel there needs to be an "us / NRA" or "them / everyone else"?
You misunderstand. I very much DON'T think there needs to be an "us/them". Quite the opposite actually, which is why I chose to disassociate myself from the NRA.
I shot competitively for a few years and I was a member of the NRA to keep track of my progress. I didn't agree with them 100%, but I supported their defense of the 2nd amendment in principle - and on a number of their talking points - so I was fine with paying for membership. Then they started going in the direction of being a mouthpiece for the far right with shit like this.
There are many moderates and even *gasp* liberals who like guns! If my experience is an indication of the rest of the country's gun-owning-but-not-far-right population, the NRA is going to continue losing membership and support. I may consider renewing my membership if they ever go back to what they used to be, but in the meanwhile I'll direct my money and energies elsewhere.
You're technically true on all points, but you're missing some details:
The peering provider had upgraded to switch toward comcast with a higher bandwidth network card and asked comcast to do the same to their switch.
This, by itself, was not newsworthy because this is what they had done in the past. What was different was that Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).
Also of note is that Netflix tried to get ISPs to join their Open Connect program, where Netflix would install servers within Comcast's own network (at no cost to Comcast) so the switches wouldn't need to handle the traffic, but Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).
Netflix was trying to deal with its growing data usage as inexpensively as possible. Without the above details, though, it looks like they were trying to do so at Comcast's expense. IMO Comcast was in the wrong here because Comcast's customers were the ones paying for the network/data, but again, that's just my opinion.
Even sampling at 1kHz (the actual rate that Cloudflare uses), the predictive errors propagate rather quickly.
For just one lamp, you would need impractically accurate information of the lamp at a known time to feed into an impractically accurate model of the thermal and fluid dynamics of the lamp to predict its state. Then you'd need to frequently update said impractically accurate information to correct for the drift over time due to other factors that affect the state of the lamp (outside heating/cooling, vibrations, power source fluctuations, etc) or else you'd need to be able to factor those variables into your model.
Just like with open source software, if you want to know what's going on under the hood, don't buy proprietary. Set up encryption on each end of the communication stream and the authorities can only jam, they can't intercept.
Helicopter operations may be conducted below the minimum altitudes set for fixed-wing aircraft. The reason? The helicopter's unique operating characteristics, the most important of which is its ability to execute pinpoint emergency landings during power failure. Further, the helicopter's increased use by law enforcement and emergency medical service agencies requires added flexibility in the application of many FAA provisions.
"The Stone Sky" is the 3rd book in Jemisin's "Broken Earth" trilogy and so far (I'm ~100 pages in) it is living up to the first two. When I say that, keep in mind that the first two books each won the Hugo for best novel (2015 & 2016) so I had high hopes.
You seem to think that "everyone knows" about corporate legalese half-truths, and you seem upset that it is posted as news. Well, the reason that "everyone knows" is because of these kind of news stories. Slashdot has a long history of posting this type of article, so of course old-timers like you and me know about it. At some point in the past though, you didn't know; so let others learn instead of berating the teacher for repeating a lesson you've heard before.
There's even a relevant XKCD about this phenomenon, but I'm willing to bet you already knew about it.
While you might be still living the wild 60s, the rest of the world moved on. We invented something called catalytic converter that at least since mid 80s made this a non-issue.
Catalytic converters need expensive Platinum to work, and they reduce performance by forcing the exhaust through their baffles. Why would a competitive car manufacturer install a device that simultaneously increased the price and decreased the performance of their product? It certainly wasn't through pure benevolence.
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Your analogy is invalid for one very obvious reason...
*sigh* OK, the analogy isn't perfect. I was simply trying to illustrate by example the principle that expensive new technology tends to get cheaper with time. It's true that we may never cure all cancers but I firmly believe that the available treatments will get better and dramatically cheaper given enough time.
the price of treating cancer is not going to decrease to any reasonable level ...
You clearly have more thoughts on this issue, but we'll have to agree to disagree with one another. I trying to help you see GP's point, not debate the merits of his argument.
I fail to see your point here. At all.
OK, let me try to make an analogy.
The first commercially-available computer was the UNIVAC I priced at $159,000 in 1951 ($1.5M 2018 dollars). Compare that cost to the computer you're using now. ANY new technology starts prohibitively high-cost and decreases as the state of the art improves, or patents expire, or competition increases.
It's a shame that cancer treatments are so expensive, and it's a shame that the costs aren't decreasing more quickly, but that's how it is.
My interpretation of that line is more like "I don't want people to think I'm associated with the Nazis." or "I don't want people to think I sympathize with the Nazis."
Compare that to your interpretation, "I don't want people to think I'm a Nazi."
English is funny like that, and I suspect that OP interpreted it the same way I did.
The 7th Guest is one of the first video games that I played through to completion, so it has a special place in my sig^H^H^Hheart.
Do you have any evidence to back up your claim? I'm not trying to simply add to the sea of negative responses, I'm just very much out of the loop when it comes to the Linux dev team.
The highest court in NYS is, somewhat confusingly, the Court of Appeals (source). So NY Supreme Court would likely be the court of original jurisdiction.
Someone who doesn't know the difference could certainly mistake the two, but Iridium flares are MUCH slower. They last on the order of (5s-20s), and the brightness profile is a smooth fade-in, peak, fade-out rather than a meteor's quick rise and slower fade.
This site will give you a prediction for your location of when you can see them.
The proper role of the Supreme Court is to determine whether laws passsed are in line with the Constitution and general human rights.
The Supreme Court (as does any court) also has the authority to determine whether a certain law is applicable to a particular situation. It seems that many people forget this aspect.
Loss of consciousness is caused by the sudden drop in blood pressure in the brain. That happens instantaneously.
When GP said,
you don't die from oxygen deprivation for up to 5 minutes
Loss of consciousness != death.
Loss of consciousness is caused by the sudden drop in blood pressure in the brain.
Blood brings oxygen to the brain, and oxygen is what allows the brain to maintain consciousness, so the loss of blood pressure leads to oxygen deprivation. You're talking about one step farther up the chain than GP is.
Getting a full-time firefighting job is harder than you might think.
My brother-in-law was in the military, was deployed in a combat zone, and upon discharge (honorable and with multiple letters of recommendation) spent ~5 years trying to get into a decent firefighting academy. He went up and down the east coast and despite being in the top 10% of the test-takers, both academic and physical, he was frequently turned away because of the rampant nepotism and one person just "not liking him" (the ones who DID like him there told him he could appeal the decision or sue, but it was basically the same person who ran the appeals board and he'd just be wasting his time - but would he like another letter of recommendation?).
He did end up with his dream job as a firefighter and is happy and secure now, but the competition is fierce and not even close to fair.
Why not start a "Sane Rifles of America" / SRA then? In general, I'm not opposed to all guns, though guns like the AR-15 with extended mags do cause me heartburn. But if there's people who want to support gun rights without being absolute idiots about it, why can't you start your own group?
Why don't I start such an organization? A few reasons:
- I didn't think of it.
- I'm not much of a leader and I have no desire to venture into politics.
- The NRA is already out there defending the 2nd amendment, which would make me/my organization simultaneously redundant, and a target (no pun intended) of the criticism of an increasingly polarized populace.
- I'm too busy, and it would be a big job.
- I don't care enough (this one requires a few words of explanation). I hold conservative views on some topics and liberal views on others, but I'm somewhere in the middle on most; gun rights is one of those topics where I'm somewhat middle-of-the-road. There are other, more pressing, topics that I might be inclined to act on first.
- It would involve legalized bribery (lobbying) and I won't be a part of it. To hell with the "it's just how things work" argument.
It's not a bad idea though, for someone who has the right motivation. Are you that person?
Why do you feel there needs to be an "us / NRA" or "them / everyone else"?
You misunderstand. I very much DON'T think there needs to be an "us/them". Quite the opposite actually, which is why I chose to disassociate myself from the NRA.
I shot competitively for a few years and I was a member of the NRA to keep track of my progress. I didn't agree with them 100%, but I supported their defense of the 2nd amendment in principle - and on a number of their talking points - so I was fine with paying for membership. Then they started going in the direction of being a mouthpiece for the far right with shit like this.
There are many moderates and even *gasp* liberals who like guns! If my experience is an indication of the rest of the country's gun-owning-but-not-far-right population, the NRA is going to continue losing membership and support. I may consider renewing my membership if they ever go back to what they used to be, but in the meanwhile I'll direct my money and energies elsewhere.
You're technically true on all points, but you're missing some details:
The peering provider had upgraded to switch toward comcast with a higher bandwidth network card and asked comcast to do the same to their switch.
This, by itself, was not newsworthy because this is what they had done in the past. What was different was that Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).
Also of note is that Netflix tried to get ISPs to join their Open Connect program, where Netflix would install servers within Comcast's own network (at no cost to Comcast) so the switches wouldn't need to handle the traffic, but Comcast refused (source 1, source 2).
Netflix was trying to deal with its growing data usage as inexpensively as possible. Without the above details, though, it looks like they were trying to do so at Comcast's expense. IMO Comcast was in the wrong here because Comcast's customers were the ones paying for the network/data, but again, that's just my opinion.
Even sampling at 1kHz (the actual rate that Cloudflare uses), the predictive errors propagate rather quickly.
For just one lamp, you would need impractically accurate information of the lamp at a known time to feed into an impractically accurate model of the thermal and fluid dynamics of the lamp to predict its state. Then you'd need to frequently update said impractically accurate information to correct for the drift over time due to other factors that affect the state of the lamp (outside heating/cooling, vibrations, power source fluctuations, etc) or else you'd need to be able to factor those variables into your model.
Good luck with that.
Just like with open source software, if you want to know what's going on under the hood, don't buy proprietary. Set up encryption on each end of the communication stream and the authorities can only jam, they can't intercept.
Helicopter operations may be conducted below the minimum altitudes set for fixed-wing aircraft. The reason? The helicopter's unique operating characteristics, the most important of which is its ability to execute pinpoint emergency landings during power failure. Further, the helicopter's increased use by law enforcement and emergency medical service agencies requires added flexibility in the application of many FAA provisions.
"The Stone Sky" is the 3rd book in Jemisin's "Broken Earth" trilogy and so far (I'm ~100 pages in) it is living up to the first two. When I say that, keep in mind that the first two books each won the Hugo for best novel (2015 & 2016) so I had high hopes.
You seem to think that "everyone knows" about corporate legalese half-truths, and you seem upset that it is posted as news. Well, the reason that "everyone knows" is because of these kind of news stories. Slashdot has a long history of posting this type of article, so of course old-timers like you and me know about it. At some point in the past though, you didn't know; so let others learn instead of berating the teacher for repeating a lesson you've heard before.
There's even a relevant XKCD about this phenomenon, but I'm willing to bet you already knew about it.
I have mod points, but there's no "-1 unintelligible" so I'm leaving it un-modded.
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I've been saying this since Nov 9. It's nice to have validation that someone else thinks the same way!
Not even close. OP is suggesting better working conditions, not pay.
*fist bump*
While you might be still living the wild 60s, the rest of the world moved on. We invented something called catalytic converter that at least since mid 80s made this a non-issue.
Catalytic converters need expensive Platinum to work, and they reduce performance by forcing the exhaust through their baffles. Why would a competitive car manufacturer install a device that simultaneously increased the price and decreased the performance of their product? It certainly wasn't through pure benevolence.