Overall statistical laws don't say much about free will or not. There are always going to be regular patterns in behaviour (caused by things like the fact that most people don't want to walk 10 miles to work every day).
Kind of like how Heisenberg's principle and statistical mechanics aren't mutually exclusive, for the physics crowd out there.
Example-based arguments are weak. There is much stupidity in France as well, where everyone goes on strike when asked to work more than 20 hours a weak. See, I can make idiotic generalizations too!
Not to mention that there are well-supported far-right parties in Europe as well. Austria comes to mind.
Right, but that's ignoring the obvious conclusion that they should replace him with someone who is qualified.
I think that's ignoring the obvious conclusion that the company would have already done so if they weren't too cheap. If they won't pay for training, they won't hire someone with training.
But does it benefit the company more, or does it benefit the employee more? If she gets training, she'll be better able to demand a higher salary from the company he's working for now, or a higher salary in his next job.
In this case, neither, but it benefits the employee the least. The company is being shortsighted by forcing an (admittedly) underqualified employee to manage something beyond training. They're also forcing said employee to "train" during free time from manuals and such instead of investing in real training.
It would be fair for the company to send the employee to real training, which would benefit both. If the company's not willing to invest in the employee, they shouldn't expect the employee to give up a ton of free time.
It just so happens that Kelvin coincides nicely with an unobtainable measuring point.
No, it's actually much more fundamental than that. Essentially, it's the point at which a given substance has zero internal energy - which is to say, a temperature of 0. It's not a coincidence - absolute zero is the point at which a given substance literally has no temperature as we know it. I can't think of a more appropriate zero point for a scale.
if we had pure uncontrolled capitalism we would have a thing known as fascism
Methinks you need a polisci class - there's no relationship between fascism and capitalism.
Fasicm: A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
If you notice, there's no mention there of economic policy *except* that of "stringent socioeconomic controls" which would be dead-set *against* capitalism. Not saying that unbridled capitalism is the best thing necessarily, but that it's a tad over-the-top to say that it leads to fascism. That comparison is way overdone here on slashdot.
You can't tell me it doesn't exist. I've seen it too many times. Although the practice seems to have died down in the last few years, for a while that phrase was on every credit offer I received.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, just that it isn't accepted usage. The fact that it's only used by car salesman for confusion purposes would tend to support that, I think. It's a scam, period.
My father believes that APR still stands for "annual percentage rate", when most of the time it actually means "above the prime rate".
I question that, actually. I've *never* seen APR stand for "Above Prime Rate." And if they use it to stand for that they're morons, as that would be insanely confusing.
I mean, we're talking about a company that said no one wanted flash players until they made one, that no one wanted to watch video on an iPod until they made an iPod that played video, and that said all x86 architecture and CISC processors sucked until they switched to them.
It seems your tinfoil is successful in blocking the Reality Distortion Field (TM).
Rather, they just didn't think they should have to worry about gathering the logs...
Oh, c'mon...they could have complied with that request in 20 minutes. If there's one thing that google DOES have, it's stats on absolutely everything to do with their business. Including search term frequency without a doubt. And that's the kind of thing they'd have available to analysts pretty much instantaneously.
So if Google didn't comply with this, it's because they specifically opposed it, not because it will be a hassle. So I say, Go Google!
People who have vulnerable shit underground pay to be notified about excavation. Then when someone excavates, they are notified. Everyone with an interest in the area shows up and spraypaints the pavement. If you would like to point out where the flaws are in this system (certainly there are flaws) then I'm all fucking ears. So to speak.
The flaw is in the fact that all these people have to do the right thing. In this case, if some low-level Sprint employee reads the map wrong, a whole state can be without internet access. If some dipshit with a jackhammer doesn't call first, a whole block can be without access.
The better method is to devise a system with sufficient redundancy so that this is more rare than it is. The question is whether consumers are willing to pay for it in the form of somewhat higher rates.
To encapsulate all the potential bacterial variance, you would need an intractably enormous population for your study. Otherwise you'd have an enormous hole in your study in which your results might be skewed since most bacterial *are* relateively innocuous. You'd have no way to determine whether any suitably virulent bacteria were present in a smaller study. You would also need to overcome the significant variance in illness rates derived from other sources outside your study, which would necessitate another increase in group sizes. I'd estimate such a study, to generate any reasonable results, would require group sizes in the thousands.
The reason that bacteria count is used is because it's the simplest way to estimate bacterial risk without convoluting the results with a ton of other variables. It's also reasonable to estimate that risk is proportional to count, at least to first order.
To do better than that, one would need to better control the study, probably using (again) specific strains deliberately applied to a keyboard.
How can it be measured when you don't know the actual species of bacteria? The bacterial count would be related to the probability of illness, since it increases the overall probability that, over time, some of the bacteria will be dangerous.
Snail mail disappearing as email takes over? Eheh, tell that to the poor guy slumping a ton of mail with all the christmas cards.
Um, snail mail volume is way down for basically everything except Christmas cards, causing the post office to abandon a lot of public mail boxes and even branches from lack of volume.
Brick and Mortar stores a thing of the past? Oh sure, tell your girlfriend that there is no need to go shopping with her, she can just browse on the laptop while you play Battlefield 2 and it will be just the same.
True, but for guys who hate Christmas shopping and such, there's never any reason to ever venture to the mall alone.
I generally agree with your sentiment though. People aren't doing new things online, they're just doing the same things they've always done, only faster and without going anywhere. And that's good enough for me.
So, in option 1, who will users switch to from BellSouth? The cable companies? They'll be doing the same thing eventually. It will be a rare ISP that doesn't charge content providers if it passes muster in the courts.
Considering where Google is going with their business, and the significant fees this would impose upon them - I wouldn't be surprised to see them enter the ISP market in some way. Especially since they could run it at-cost (or very low margin), as it wouldn't be their core business but protection for it.
MS does similar things, taking losses on many projects (hello XBox!) to ensure they keep their competitors weak.
First, I agree with what you said, windows is less secure, etc. But it's a matter of complacency. Any Windows user who can distinguish a computer from a tire knows that Windows is insecure, and probably (hopefully) secured his/her box. On the other hand, few Mac owners have.
Second, I wonder whether it really would be impossible to spread a Mac worm. Guess we'll see. For what it's worth, I am a Mac owner, so it's not a case of envy here.
it's actually useful when you run a non-administrator account,
True, but updating it requires frequent enough use of the admin password that users get used to putting in the password when prompted. To me, the one easy way to hack a mac would be to do a man-in-the-middle or similar upstream, and pretend that you're the Update server. One would replace an actual update with an attack, which would be installed on the system when the user is prompted for the password.
But an OS X (or Linux) malware author would have to be much more skilled than most Windows-targeting skript kiddies to do a lot of damage.
I wonder about that - not more skilled, I think, but more creative. One would just target the weakest link in the security chain, which would be the user in this case. As above, trick them into giving the admin password. Don't hack the system, hack the user. I'm sure you've seen the studies on how many users will give away their paswords at the drop of a hat.
In today's real world, if you run a Mac (or Linux), you're going to suffer far less than your average Windows user.
Yes, but that's little comfort if you DO get hacked. No one's saying that Windows is safer than Mac, just that Macs aren't immune.
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Kind of like how Heisenberg's principle and statistical mechanics aren't mutually exclusive, for the physics crowd out there.
Not to mention that there are well-supported far-right parties in Europe as well. Austria comes to mind.
Yeah, your elected officials are freaking geniuses. Tool.
I think that's ignoring the obvious conclusion that the company would have already done so if they weren't too cheap. If they won't pay for training, they won't hire someone with training.
In this case, neither, but it benefits the employee the least. The company is being shortsighted by forcing an (admittedly) underqualified employee to manage something beyond training. They're also forcing said employee to "train" during free time from manuals and such instead of investing in real training.
It would be fair for the company to send the employee to real training, which would benefit both. If the company's not willing to invest in the employee, they shouldn't expect the employee to give up a ton of free time.
Those are technicians. Doing actual science requires a great deal of creativity.
No, it's actually much more fundamental than that. Essentially, it's the point at which a given substance has zero internal energy - which is to say, a temperature of 0. It's not a coincidence - absolute zero is the point at which a given substance literally has no temperature as we know it. I can't think of a more appropriate zero point for a scale.
Also, there's a limit to what's considered "citing." When you're doing more citing than actual writing, that's still not kosher
Methinks you need a polisci class - there's no relationship between fascism and capitalism.
If you notice, there's no mention there of economic policy *except* that of "stringent socioeconomic controls" which would be dead-set *against* capitalism. Not saying that unbridled capitalism is the best thing necessarily, but that it's a tad over-the-top to say that it leads to fascism. That comparison is way overdone here on slashdot.
I'm not saying it doesn't exist, just that it isn't accepted usage. The fact that it's only used by car salesman for confusion purposes would tend to support that, I think. It's a scam, period.
I question that, actually. I've *never* seen APR stand for "Above Prime Rate." And if they use it to stand for that they're morons, as that would be insanely confusing.
It seems your tinfoil is successful in blocking the Reality Distortion Field (TM).
Oh, c'mon...they could have complied with that request in 20 minutes. If there's one thing that google DOES have, it's stats on absolutely everything to do with their business. Including search term frequency without a doubt. And that's the kind of thing they'd have available to analysts pretty much instantaneously.
So if Google didn't comply with this, it's because they specifically opposed it, not because it will be a hassle. So I say, Go Google!
The flaw is in the fact that all these people have to do the right thing. In this case, if some low-level Sprint employee reads the map wrong, a whole state can be without internet access. If some dipshit with a jackhammer doesn't call first, a whole block can be without access.
The better method is to devise a system with sufficient redundancy so that this is more rare than it is. The question is whether consumers are willing to pay for it in the form of somewhat higher rates.
If they didn't, they'd have no business. They depend on targeted ads.
Actually, I believe that very thing happened here as well, and they sued to get it back.
Hey - whoa - is that my navel down there?
The reason that bacteria count is used is because it's the simplest way to estimate bacterial risk without convoluting the results with a ton of other variables. It's also reasonable to estimate that risk is proportional to count, at least to first order.
To do better than that, one would need to better control the study, probably using (again) specific strains deliberately applied to a keyboard.
How can it be measured when you don't know the actual species of bacteria? The bacterial count would be related to the probability of illness, since it increases the overall probability that, over time, some of the bacteria will be dangerous.
Um, snail mail volume is way down for basically everything except Christmas cards, causing the post office to abandon a lot of public mail boxes and even branches from lack of volume.
Brick and Mortar stores a thing of the past? Oh sure, tell your girlfriend that there is no need to go shopping with her, she can just browse on the laptop while you play Battlefield 2 and it will be just the same.
True, but for guys who hate Christmas shopping and such, there's never any reason to ever venture to the mall alone.
I generally agree with your sentiment though. People aren't doing new things online, they're just doing the same things they've always done, only faster and without going anywhere. And that's good enough for me.
Because lots of programs don't run correctly in Wine?
Considering where Google is going with their business, and the significant fees this would impose upon them - I wouldn't be surprised to see them enter the ISP market in some way. Especially since they could run it at-cost (or very low margin), as it wouldn't be their core business but protection for it.
MS does similar things, taking losses on many projects (hello XBox!) to ensure they keep their competitors weak.
GPL 2 seems to be a better version...
Second, I wonder whether it really would be impossible to spread a Mac worm. Guess we'll see. For what it's worth, I am a Mac owner, so it's not a case of envy here.
True, but updating it requires frequent enough use of the admin password that users get used to putting in the password when prompted. To me, the one easy way to hack a mac would be to do a man-in-the-middle or similar upstream, and pretend that you're the Update server. One would replace an actual update with an attack, which would be installed on the system when the user is prompted for the password.
But an OS X (or Linux) malware author would have to be much more skilled than most Windows-targeting skript kiddies to do a lot of damage.
I wonder about that - not more skilled, I think, but more creative. One would just target the weakest link in the security chain, which would be the user in this case. As above, trick them into giving the admin password. Don't hack the system, hack the user. I'm sure you've seen the studies on how many users will give away their paswords at the drop of a hat.
In today's real world, if you run a Mac (or Linux), you're going to suffer far less than your average Windows user.
Yes, but that's little comfort if you DO get hacked. No one's saying that Windows is safer than Mac, just that Macs aren't immune.