Re:Japan has lowest teen pregnancy rate , USA high
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Without turning this into an abortion thread, I would just like to mention that there is a HUGE difference between teenage pregnancy rate and teenage birth rate. So... Did you ever consider that maybe Japan's culture is wrong?
And what makes you qualified to state this? Opterons were designed with EXACTLY this in mind, right off the drawing board - i'd dig up some old articles about it but I'm at work. Research Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), supercomputing, and the Opteron's architecture as it related to those two. AMD knew what they were doing when they designed the Opteron - Intel has been completely out-engineered.
1) You have an computer (which you dont actually need btw)
3) You have a broadband connection
3) Get a cheap UPS
3) You dont need to purchase an expensive phone - this is just one option, there are cheaper options available.
Amen. Far too many PHBs near the top take this attitude and "piss away" profits. I'm not saying the opposite is any better, but, as in everything, there is a happy medium here. There's anywhere from 5 to 10 (even more with part time techs) salaries wrapped up in that number - if you dont have time for anything else, such as a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis, perhaps someone else would?
I said nothing about anyone being better than anyone, its just the math that bothers me. Countries with GDP differences of that size should have have comparable space programs. But thanks for turning this into another anti-america post on slashdot - and thanks for proving my point about pride in our country.
Not to slight Russia, but with all of their economic troubles, its troubling that their space program is comparable to ours in many ways... and in some cases, like this one, actually ahead.
I wish the American public had some national pride and a desire to explore:(
I disagree - in fact its even more important at that age. You learn so much more in those years than do you in the later years, not in regurgitatable (word?) facts or theories, but in how to think and how to learn. Later on, education's returns (in my experience) are largely based on the drive and motivation picked up in those early years, especially in college, where the professor is quite often useless and you end up teaching yourself - kind of like the real world works, that whole becoming self-sufficient thing;)
Agreed - i guess that's sort of what i meant. A current teacher's license can be had in four years - all the regular BA stuff, and then a couple special courses on how to teach... and you're done. I'm saying after that, you should have an intensive program that teaches you how to teach for real - the few courses offered at the undergrad level are intros at best.
I'm not entirely sure, but it happens on my lappy, my gf's lappy, and my box at work... I've never seen anything on it either - but then again i havent looked closely. It seems like it works after 30 seconds or so.:/
Not trolling, but is the copy and paste issue finally fixed? You know, the one where cant copy and paste URLs from the location bar, or occasionally anything at all from within FF. From something else to FF works fine, but the other way around sometimes just doesnt work at all... That's really the only thing i dislike about FF...
What would be interesting (albeit scary) is to carry out virtual eugenics... see what could be in 10 generations, 30, 50, etc, by playing with a few sets of DNA. If nothing else it might shed some light on genetic disease propagation?
"An athlete and a model, seemingly superior breeding stock, frequently have children with horrible birth defects."
I like how that's totally a fact you can back up with data from the local library's copy of "kids of athletes and models - 2005 edition".
But seriously, although eugenics does not sit well with me or anyone most likely, and while your logic is correct - two idiots can breed a genius, I would wager statistics would prove that people with higher educations breed people who contribute more to society, and it probably helps to be more "well off", too.
Before I get flamed to death, I am definitely not advocating birth control in this sense (or eugenics) - the key is in the education, which brings with it the wealth.
To me its always been a shame that one of the most promising tools for improving society gets the shaft over and over again... Not to get offtopic, but its a shame that probably more than half the teachers in our institutions should not be teachers, and that the ones who should teach out of a desire to teach and make a difference (rather than for the small compensation) - most everyone has that really good teacher they remember that really made a difference.
To be a teacher should require as much education as it does to become a Doctor - possibly more, and they should be paid more, too. The day we see that is the day we see some real advances in society.
Correction (missed a 0 when calculating) - 99.9% uptime allows for 1.5 minutes of downtime a day. Still not acceptable for an operation of this magnitute, so we're looking at four nines, or less than 8.64 seconds, blah blah blah..
I'm sorry but it just bugs me how many people throw around uptime figures without knowing what they mean.
99.9% uptime allows for almost 15 minutes of downtime a day. Even for a mom n pop business, that is becoming unnacceptable.
I'm questioning who is submitting the post and if they are really "in charge" of this project... an email system this large should be designed to have "five nine's" of reliability - 99.999% or less than 8.64 seconds of downtime average per day.
There really isnt much of an excuse to not design a system for five nine's, as the costs of designing a system to that level of reliability are 1) In the short term, negligible, and 2) In the long term, FAR outweighed by the benefits, especially when you consider the lower labor costs due to the system being largely self-sufficient - at least to a higher degree than a system designed to be any less reliable.
"Linspire, via it's Education Program has a straight $500-per-school (not per-seat) cost, providing an incredibly-alluring price incentive for this to happen."
I dont think there are 300,000 schools in Indiana.
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Without turning this into an abortion thread, I would just like to mention that there is a HUGE difference between teenage pregnancy rate and teenage birth rate. So... Did you ever consider that maybe Japan's culture is wrong?
Ah, so I see you didnt get the memo...
I'm going to need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday, we're playing a bit of catch up..
But, it's not really designed for this.
And what makes you qualified to state this? Opterons were designed with EXACTLY this in mind, right off the drawing board - i'd dig up some old articles about it but I'm at work. Research Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), supercomputing, and the Opteron's architecture as it related to those two. AMD knew what they were doing when they designed the Opteron - Intel has been completely out-engineered.
Well lets see...
1) You have an computer (which you dont actually need btw)
3) You have a broadband connection
3) Get a cheap UPS
3) You dont need to purchase an expensive phone - this is just one option, there are cheaper options available.
Amen. Far too many PHBs near the top take this attitude and "piss away" profits. I'm not saying the opposite is any better, but, as in everything, there is a happy medium here. There's anywhere from 5 to 10 (even more with part time techs) salaries wrapped up in that number - if you dont have time for anything else, such as a rudimentary cost-benefit analysis, perhaps someone else would?
Three to five seconds eh? I've got scanners at work that can scan an A4 sheet in ONE! I'm surely going to jail...
Our economy is almost an order of magnitude larger than theirs according to the CIA world factbook:
/ us.html
/ rs.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
I said nothing about anyone being better than anyone, its just the math that bothers me. Countries with GDP differences of that size should have have comparable space programs. But thanks for turning this into another anti-america post on slashdot - and thanks for proving my point about pride in our country.
no, you could buy 10 at the typo'd price of $200,000 - it apparently was in reality $120 mil. Also, the ticket to space is $20 mil, not $2 :)
So, every number in your post is wrong, including the 2, Funny.
Not to slight Russia, but with all of their economic troubles, its troubling that their space program is comparable to ours in many ways... and in some cases, like this one, actually ahead.
:(
I wish the American public had some national pride and a desire to explore
I'm fairly certain the answer is yes - I believe one of the reasons for implementing the program was to offset some of the cost of missions.
The food and supplies arrive just in time for the current crew to leave in a few weeks...
:D
If I were them, I'd eat all the space ice-cream before I had to leave
I'd mod you up if i could - excellent point, and one i hadnt thought of :)
I disagree - in fact its even more important at that age. You learn so much more in those years than do you in the later years, not in regurgitatable (word?) facts or theories, but in how to think and how to learn. Later on, education's returns (in my experience) are largely based on the drive and motivation picked up in those early years, especially in college, where the professor is quite often useless and you end up teaching yourself - kind of like the real world works, that whole becoming self-sufficient thing ;)
oh my god you're right. That has got to be the stupidest thing ever.... i ALWAYS have rdc windows open.. :( Eh, well I guess i'll submit a bug.
Agreed - i guess that's sort of what i meant. A current teacher's license can be had in four years - all the regular BA stuff, and then a couple special courses on how to teach... and you're done. I'm saying after that, you should have an intensive program that teaches you how to teach for real - the few courses offered at the undergrad level are intros at best.
I'm not entirely sure, but it happens on my lappy, my gf's lappy, and my box at work... I've never seen anything on it either - but then again i havent looked closely. It seems like it works after 30 seconds or so. :/
hehe i knew you'd go and find a case - i'm just giving you a hard time.
Not trolling, but is the copy and paste issue finally fixed? You know, the one where cant copy and paste URLs from the location bar, or occasionally anything at all from within FF. From something else to FF works fine, but the other way around sometimes just doesnt work at all... That's really the only thing i dislike about FF...
What would be interesting (albeit scary) is to carry out virtual eugenics... see what could be in 10 generations, 30, 50, etc, by playing with a few sets of DNA. If nothing else it might shed some light on genetic disease propagation?
"An athlete and a model, seemingly superior breeding stock, frequently have children with horrible birth defects."
I like how that's totally a fact you can back up with data from the local library's copy of "kids of athletes and models - 2005 edition".
But seriously, although eugenics does not sit well with me or anyone most likely, and while your logic is correct - two idiots can breed a genius, I would wager statistics would prove that people with higher educations breed people who contribute more to society, and it probably helps to be more "well off", too.
Before I get flamed to death, I am definitely not advocating birth control in this sense (or eugenics) - the key is in the education, which brings with it the wealth.
To me its always been a shame that one of the most promising tools for improving society gets the shaft over and over again... Not to get offtopic, but its a shame that probably more than half the teachers in our institutions should not be teachers, and that the ones who should teach out of a desire to teach and make a difference (rather than for the small compensation) - most everyone has that really good teacher they remember that really made a difference.
To be a teacher should require as much education as it does to become a Doctor - possibly more, and they should be paid more, too. The day we see that is the day we see some real advances in society.
Good job. You wasted quite a bit of time proving in excruciating detail that i messed up, after everyone else alerted me about it.
Somehow i'm not surprised that, in your calc.exe fest, you missed the obvious - I missed a decimal space.
The solution to this problem is obvious.... only let the people with an IQ above X have sex :D
:D
If you mod me down or reply negatively, you lose sex priveledges too
Correction (missed a 0 when calculating) - 99.9% uptime allows for 1.5 minutes of downtime a day. Still not acceptable for an operation of this magnitute, so we're looking at four nines, or less than 8.64 seconds, blah blah blah..
I'm sorry but it just bugs me how many people throw around uptime figures without knowing what they mean.
99.9% uptime allows for almost 15 minutes of downtime a day. Even for a mom n pop business, that is becoming unnacceptable.
I'm questioning who is submitting the post and if they are really "in charge" of this project... an email system this large should be designed to have "five nine's" of reliability - 99.999% or less than 8.64 seconds of downtime average per day.
There really isnt much of an excuse to not design a system for five nine's, as the costs of designing a system to that level of reliability are 1) In the short term, negligible, and 2) In the long term, FAR outweighed by the benefits, especially when you consider the lower labor costs due to the system being largely self-sufficient - at least to a higher degree than a system designed to be any less reliable.
"Linspire, via it's Education Program has a straight $500-per-school (not per-seat) cost, providing an incredibly-alluring price incentive for this to happen."
I dont think there are 300,000 schools in Indiana.