Crime is mostly based on opportunity.
Imagine someone with a fat wallet willingly getting into your car and you get to drive them somewhere they may not have been before.
I know the Slashdot crowd leans liberal... so this may come off as a long shot.
But this is basic economics...if you make apples more accessible by lowering the price and making them more accessible, more people want them. What happens when more people want them, yet supply is limited...
* wait for it *
the price goes up!
Just replace 'apples' with 'college' and bob's your uncle.
The uncertainty is pretty clear. First it was X date, now it's Y date... who knows when the party moves to Z date. I operate a business and can tell you that a lot of this crap changes on a weekly basis.
In other words... it could be used for good. Educating a specific population to be more careful about their turtle encounters.
OTOH... it will probably just be used for evil.
"... they actually record images in stereoscopic format, using two 2D images to create the illusion of depth"
My eyes work the same way.... dammit... if I want to see around something I have to actually move my damn head!
That is a meaningless distinction.
Employees get benefit from insurance that they themselves do not purchase... therefore they have no stake in how it is used or abused. There is a big distinction.
It is based on how much you earn, it simply happens to be capped.
That's a very low cap that includes about anyone called an employee, from part time to full time to seasonal to CEO.
You pay for it depending on your salary...
Again... YOU do not pay for it. And... it is based on the first $7000 you make. If you make $10k, $50k, or $250k... it's the same amount. Why should a person not pay more into it (themselves) to guarantee a greater payout should the so-called "disaster" of unemployment happen. Why not purchase it individually like home insurance? Because then the employee would REALLY have to find a job instead of milking the payout while watching Oprah. Sorry... Ive seen this scenario many times.
Get over it... it's a handout as it stands.
There are union companies that abuse it and get more out of it for their employees by "laying them off" for a week for training. The contribution percent for companies is capped too. These companies operate at the cap and abuse the system for the benefit of their employees. This is to the detriment of companies that have a good layoff history and end up paying more into the system to benefit others.
Sorry... I write the checks on this... it's a horrible system.
Couple misconceptions here... at least for US unemployment insurance.
1) EmployEEs don't pay for unemployment insurance... the employER (does though there is talk of changing that).
2) Unemployment insurance is a fixed rate (that changes yearly) charged against the first $7000 (usually) that an employer pays an employee... so it is not based on how much you earn... just on what you earn... up to $7000.
Employer's have an experience account where unemployment insurance contributions accumulate. When an employee gets laid off and starts to collect benefits, the employer's experience account is charged for that. If the experience account gets low (or is emptied) the employer is charged a higher rate the next year to compensate.
...Thus, there may be fewer people who can trouble-shoot their own problems.
This creates a situation where lots of people complain about poor UI and UI gets improved as a result.
Put a decent piece of software in front of the crazies and the crazies will complain, but I think the software will be better for it.
I was just watching Hoarders... and I think this would be the digital equivalent. Why on Dawkin's green earth would you possibly want to keep all that email???
Why bother creating a new title when you can make money on the heels of the old. The difference between vid game and movie sequels is that vid game sequels tend to get better because they BUILD on the old technology and the old storyline. Unless consumers demand new stuff (i.e. they stop buying), they will keep getting the old games in a new package. New costs money. Old is a sunk cost.
How many people do you know that actually read the daily paper that would be willing to stuff a CD in a computer? I don't know any.
CD's and paper don't mix... two completely different media... two completely different markets.
The only place that it makes sense to put a CD is a computing magazine or a gaming magazine... where the content of one is directly related to the other.
People read newspapers to get quick news and to scan the headlines. You can't scan a CD in a split second.
I don't get it... magnetic fields don't penetrate superconductors. So how is a field "bath" supposed to limit the current? From what I remember of my Solid State Physics class, magnetic fields don't penetrate more than a fraction of an atoms length into the material.
It seems like nowadays, bells and whistles on the computer system get in the way of doing anything truly special. This is not to say that OS or hardware vendors are to blame. Look at your own system and see all the bells and whistles that you have that collectively get in the way of doing anything special with your computer. I'm not just talking about the slow-downs... I'm talking about the constant distraction from stuff like XMMS, or IE, or email, or (Heaven forbid!) Slashdot.
You'll never be truly happy as a "user" unless you are using your system to CREATE something yourself. Of course... that's it's most difficult and most rewarding use.
"...due to very low Reynolds numbers on model planes, they need wings with much larger coords compared to full scale planes."
That is not true. A larger chord (not coord), simply raises the local reynolds number, but either a High AR or Low AR wing will be operating in the laminar regime (under about Re=200,000). A higher aspect ratio wing will be more efficent and will have reduced drag regardless if it is a model or a full-size aircraft.
"So this plane is precisely built as it should be."
I said that the plane needed a higher aspect ratio wing. Reynolds number will go down, but not by that much. In either case, it will be in the laminar regime.
"BTW, this is the reason that scale models usually fly quite different compared to the full scale version."
No kidding?! It's because full size aircraft take advantage of different aerodynamic characteristics -> mostly laminar flow (models) versus mostly turbulent flow (full-size aircraft).
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Crime is mostly based on opportunity. Imagine someone with a fat wallet willingly getting into your car and you get to drive them somewhere they may not have been before.
This is just another redistribution system without the push and pull of a free market to keep prices in check.
Yep... Haiti is a perfect example of how throwing money at a problem really helps... oh wait...
Confusing much? Welcome to the hell that is sales tax.
I know the Slashdot crowd leans liberal... so this may come off as a long shot. But this is basic economics...if you make apples more accessible by lowering the price and making them more accessible, more people want them. What happens when more people want them, yet supply is limited... * wait for it * the price goes up! Just replace 'apples' with 'college' and bob's your uncle.
The uncertainty is pretty clear. First it was X date, now it's Y date... who knows when the party moves to Z date. I operate a business and can tell you that a lot of this crap changes on a weekly basis.
If I can do all this, why would I want to remain a tester? Why wouldn't I get into development?
Maybe you like breaking things, not building them.
I hate to bring this up... but city councils / local municipalities, etc have no authority over airspace. That would belong to the FAA. As evidenced in a recent case: http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2013/130117lessons-learned-from-glider-arrest.html
I read the tags: eff yro copyright as: Fuck your copyright.
In other words... it could be used for good. Educating a specific population to be more careful about their turtle encounters. OTOH... it will probably just be used for evil.
...news at 11!
http://www.clickondetroit.com/video/26615971/index.html
"... they actually record images in stereoscopic format, using two 2D images to create the illusion of depth" My eyes work the same way.... dammit... if I want to see around something I have to actually move my damn head!
That is a meaningless distinction. Employees get benefit from insurance that they themselves do not purchase... therefore they have no stake in how it is used or abused. There is a big distinction. It is based on how much you earn, it simply happens to be capped. That's a very low cap that includes about anyone called an employee, from part time to full time to seasonal to CEO. You pay for it depending on your salary... Again... YOU do not pay for it. And... it is based on the first $7000 you make. If you make $10k, $50k, or $250k... it's the same amount. Why should a person not pay more into it (themselves) to guarantee a greater payout should the so-called "disaster" of unemployment happen. Why not purchase it individually like home insurance? Because then the employee would REALLY have to find a job instead of milking the payout while watching Oprah. Sorry... Ive seen this scenario many times. Get over it... it's a handout as it stands. There are union companies that abuse it and get more out of it for their employees by "laying them off" for a week for training. The contribution percent for companies is capped too. These companies operate at the cap and abuse the system for the benefit of their employees. This is to the detriment of companies that have a good layoff history and end up paying more into the system to benefit others. Sorry... I write the checks on this... it's a horrible system.
Couple misconceptions here... at least for US unemployment insurance. 1) EmployEEs don't pay for unemployment insurance... the employER (does though there is talk of changing that). 2) Unemployment insurance is a fixed rate (that changes yearly) charged against the first $7000 (usually) that an employer pays an employee... so it is not based on how much you earn... just on what you earn... up to $7000. Employer's have an experience account where unemployment insurance contributions accumulate. When an employee gets laid off and starts to collect benefits, the employer's experience account is charged for that. If the experience account gets low (or is emptied) the employer is charged a higher rate the next year to compensate.
...Thus, there may be fewer people who can trouble-shoot their own problems.
This creates a situation where lots of people complain about poor UI and UI gets improved as a result. Put a decent piece of software in front of the crazies and the crazies will complain, but I think the software will be better for it.
I was just watching Hoarders... and I think this would be the digital equivalent. Why on Dawkin's green earth would you possibly want to keep all that email???
Why bother creating a new title when you can make money on the heels of the old. The difference between vid game and movie sequels is that vid game sequels tend to get better because they BUILD on the old technology and the old storyline. Unless consumers demand new stuff (i.e. they stop buying), they will keep getting the old games in a new package. New costs money. Old is a sunk cost.
Go here and type "software" into the search box in the upper right.
CFA
How many people do you know that actually read the daily paper that would be willing to stuff a CD in a computer? I don't know any.
CD's and paper don't mix... two completely different media... two completely different markets.
The only place that it makes sense to put a CD is a computing magazine or a gaming magazine... where the content of one is directly related to the other.
People read newspapers to get quick news and to scan the headlines. You can't scan a CD in a split second.
I don't get it... magnetic fields don't penetrate superconductors. So how is a field "bath" supposed to limit the current? From what I remember of my Solid State Physics class, magnetic fields don't penetrate more than a fraction of an atoms length into the material.
It seems like nowadays, bells and whistles on the computer system get in the way of doing anything truly special. This is not to say that OS or hardware vendors are to blame. Look at your own system and see all the bells and whistles that you have that collectively get in the way of doing anything special with your computer. I'm not just talking about the slow-downs... I'm talking about the constant distraction from stuff like XMMS, or IE, or email, or (Heaven forbid!) Slashdot.
You'll never be truly happy as a "user" unless you are using your system to CREATE something yourself. Of course... that's it's most difficult and most rewarding use.
So this is like... a mouse on top of a mouse?
RMFA (read my ******* answer). Having a high aspect ratio wing does not mean that they need to go to a larger span (though that would be nice).
You can get a High AR wing by simply reducing the chord length of the wing. This will increase the wing loading and increase the stall speed.
"...due to very low Reynolds numbers on model planes, they need wings with much larger coords compared to full scale planes."
That is not true. A larger chord (not coord), simply raises the local reynolds number, but either a High AR or Low AR wing will be operating in the laminar regime (under about Re=200,000). A higher aspect ratio wing will be more efficent and will have reduced drag regardless if it is a model or a full-size aircraft.
"So this plane is precisely built as it should be."
I said that the plane needed a higher aspect ratio wing. Reynolds number will go down, but not by that much. In either case, it will be in the laminar regime.
"BTW, this is the reason that scale models usually fly quite different compared to the full scale version."
No kidding?! It's because full size aircraft take advantage of different aerodynamic characteristics -> mostly laminar flow (models) versus mostly turbulent flow (full-size aircraft).