IQ tests simply fail this; they presuppose that everybody is a well-mannered urban European middle-class authority-fearing white-coat-deferring sit-downer, who is just delighted to sit down and perform decontextualized, pointless intellectual exercise on command.
In high school I was voted the most likely to be a well-mannered urban European middle-class authority-fearing white-coat-deferring sit-downer, who is just delighted to sit down and perform decontextualized, pointless intellectual exercise on command.
I, for one, appreciate the explicit acknowledgment that the GP is extrapolating from a single data-point. It may still be foolish, but at least it's intellectually honest.
It's free for the taking because as of yet there is no value to freshly cut hair (unless it's long enough to make a wig out of). Even though this article has an overwhelming stench of bullshit, if it were true and human hair became an energy source, the price of that hair would rise dramatically. "Goldilocks" would take on a whole new meaning...
We ought to just make sure that we are always doing our best to further the fields of science and technology, and not worry about whether our growth is faster or slower than in the past.
But then how would you collect funding for your cause of choice?
It can work. TubGirl and I have been together for three years now. Sure, we've got to replace our linens more often than your average couple, but what relationship is without its problems? Overall it's going better than I could have hoped!
Breathing generally happens on its own. If you do focus on your breathing, it will be to the detriment of other activities you are trying to do. Controlled breathing is a staple of meditation and relaxation techniques for a reason. It stops your brain from thinking about all those other distractions.
While I don't like Verizon's response after the incident--the guy clearly should have lost his job--why should they have done a background check? Is it some job with access to sensitive information? Do Verizon techs carry weapons? Are they responsible for the well being of children or the elderly? I can't see any reason why Verizon should have a general policy of running background checks on their employees.
So what you're saying is that we only have a 25% chance of being able to digest the alien species, but a 75% chance of being able to use them as a calorie-free artificial sweetener?
Queue the countdown to NutraSweet funding the SETI program in 3...2...1..
State tax laws will vary, but as a general rule, yes, we have a progressive tax system. Found a handy link on google that shows the federal tax brackets. http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm When I lived in CA, my total tax burden (fed+state+social security+medicare) was close to 40%.
Exactly. The only way I can think of to even start to consider a "worst evolutionary design" would have to be in terms of adaptability. I.e., how sensitive is the life form to small changes in its environment? Even that is full of problems though, as "best" and "worst" are measured only relative to the current environment. Any stable population could be considered the best solution for its environment--at least a local maximum, if not global.
As a side note, this thread is also why you should never invite a pedant to a party. We have the capability of sucking the joy out of nearly any conversation.
It won't lower the price. That is set by external market forces--supply and demand. The company's goal is then to minimize their costs to improve their margins. This will get them a few extra pennies of profit. You, as a consumer, will only see a benefit if you happen to be an Apple stock-holder.
It would be interesting to see how a traditionally constructed wooden building fares in that test. If, built out to the same level, a traditional structure collapses like it's made of toothpicks, then this proves something quite significant.
Same deal with my convertible. After the top got slashed, I just stopped putting the top up when I parked. The only thing of value in the passenger compartment was the stereo, and that cost less than my insurance deductible. I still locked to the doors to activate the alarm, since that also triggered if the trunk or hood were opened.
I also thought it was interesting how he referred to a copy of a music file on his hard drive as a "hard copy". It seems to indicate to me a pretty big change in the perceived transience of digital data.
I don't buy it. You're not much older than me, and I remember there being plenty of distractions around when I was a kid. We had TV, movies on VHS, NES, Sega Master System, and the great big outdoors where you could play MMRL(real life) RPGs like Cops 'n' Robbers and Cowboys 'n' Indians. I didn't pick up programming for a lack of other (presumably better) things to do. I did it because I had a fascination with figuring out how things worked. The thing my dad did that got me going was to buy a computer--original Macintosh with an external 20 MB hard drive that was the size of a VCR--and then installed TrueBasic. He showed me how to get the interpreter up and running and how to use the reference manual that came with it. He just about wrote my entire first program for me, a simple Tic Tac Toe game, and I took it from there. A few years later when he had a work terminal set up at our house, he got me a couple C/C++ and OO books, and gave me a quick overview on Unix and Vi and let me loose. Very brave of him considering I was logged in as his user account on his work machine and could quite easily have royally screwed him up or gotten him in a lot of trouble. Incidentally, this was also when he started showing me some of the tools he used as an EE. Cadence, SignalScan, Verilog, and I started playing around a little bit with logic design. He also gave me a little project to try to write a SignalScan replacement. I never made a full replacement, but did get a decent waveform viewer up and running. I was only 12, so no surprise really:).
Kids will find the things they like to do. As a parent, your best bet is just to make sure you have as many options available as possible. You won't be able to shoehorn them into any old thing you think will be good. I have two other brothers who were all given the same treatment. I took to programming, the others did not. We were also given plenty of exposure to other activities, and one of my brothers took to visual arts and would draw and paint all the time. He's now working in FE web design.
Clippy: You look like you're trying to grow your crops.
Would you like help?
-- Help provide rain to water crops
-- Help provide sunshine to make them grow
-- Just leave the goddamn meteorological ecosystem alone already!
According to their Q1 earnings report, Google spent $1.52 BILLION in just one quarter and their website is just a logo, text box, and a couple of buttons, right?
They're not spending the $18 million on a CSS template and a Ruby script to access a MySQL database. There're going to be costs associated with the servers and bandwidth necessary to both search and serve up the information. There're going to be huge costs just in getting all of the data together into some kind of format that is parseable. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the data isn't even in any electronic form yet. Then there're the costs to maintain and support the whole thing over the next 5+ years. $18 million may still be a rip-off, I don't know, but this is not a small project by any means.
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IQ tests simply fail this; they presuppose that everybody is a well-mannered urban European middle-class authority-fearing white-coat-deferring sit-downer, who is just delighted to sit down and perform decontextualized, pointless intellectual exercise on command.
In high school I was voted the most likely to be a well-mannered urban European middle-class authority-fearing white-coat-deferring sit-downer, who is just delighted to sit down and perform decontextualized, pointless intellectual exercise on command.
I also like crosswords and sudoku.
I, for one, appreciate the explicit acknowledgment that the GP is extrapolating from a single data-point. It may still be foolish, but at least it's intellectually honest.
I'm assuming their equation looks like this:
$value = $large_number * rand() + $symantec_license_cost
It's free for the taking because as of yet there is no value to freshly cut hair (unless it's long enough to make a wig out of). Even though this article has an overwhelming stench of bullshit, if it were true and human hair became an energy source, the price of that hair would rise dramatically. "Goldilocks" would take on a whole new meaning...
BS. That cartoon series was never popular. :)
We ought to just make sure that we are always doing our best to further the fields of science and technology, and not worry about whether our growth is faster or slower than in the past.
But then how would you collect funding for your cause of choice?
It can work. TubGirl and I have been together for three years now. Sure, we've got to replace our linens more often than your average couple, but what relationship is without its problems? Overall it's going better than I could have hoped!
Breathing generally happens on its own. If you do focus on your breathing, it will be to the detriment of other activities you are trying to do. Controlled breathing is a staple of meditation and relaxation techniques for a reason. It stops your brain from thinking about all those other distractions.
While I don't like Verizon's response after the incident--the guy clearly should have lost his job--why should they have done a background check? Is it some job with access to sensitive information? Do Verizon techs carry weapons? Are they responsible for the well being of children or the elderly? I can't see any reason why Verizon should have a general policy of running background checks on their employees.
So what you're saying is that we only have a 25% chance of being able to digest the alien species, but a 75% chance of being able to use them as a calorie-free artificial sweetener?
Queue the countdown to NutraSweet funding the SETI program in 3...2...1..
I hope he gets caught philandering his flounder. Then maybe he'd do a little time in one of this Tent Cities.
There's no one out there making a good living by creating webpages that browsers can't display.
I thought that was the definition of an IE-centric web developer.
State tax laws will vary, but as a general rule, yes, we have a progressive tax system. Found a handy link on google that shows the federal tax brackets. http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm When I lived in CA, my total tax burden (fed+state+social security+medicare) was close to 40%.
Exactly. The only way I can think of to even start to consider a "worst evolutionary design" would have to be in terms of adaptability. I.e., how sensitive is the life form to small changes in its environment? Even that is full of problems though, as "best" and "worst" are measured only relative to the current environment. Any stable population could be considered the best solution for its environment--at least a local maximum, if not global.
As a side note, this thread is also why you should never invite a pedant to a party. We have the capability of sucking the joy out of nearly any conversation.
It won't lower the price. That is set by external market forces--supply and demand. The company's goal is then to minimize their costs to improve their margins. This will get them a few extra pennies of profit. You, as a consumer, will only see a benefit if you happen to be an Apple stock-holder.
Relatedly, a "Couric" is now a measure of energy density, as well as mass.
Only one, but the catch is you have to pass it your own 'print' function.
It would be interesting to see how a traditionally constructed wooden building fares in that test. If, built out to the same level, a traditional structure collapses like it's made of toothpicks, then this proves something quite significant.
Same deal with my convertible. After the top got slashed, I just stopped putting the top up when I parked. The only thing of value in the passenger compartment was the stereo, and that cost less than my insurance deductible. I still locked to the doors to activate the alarm, since that also triggered if the trunk or hood were opened.
I also thought about making a 1D camera joke, but figured, "what's the point?"
If you can't find any openings as an OB/GYN, then you are woefully unqualified for the job.
I also thought it was interesting how he referred to a copy of a music file on his hard drive as a "hard copy". It seems to indicate to me a pretty big change in the perceived transience of digital data.
I don't buy it. You're not much older than me, and I remember there being plenty of distractions around when I was a kid. We had TV, movies on VHS, NES, Sega Master System, and the great big outdoors where you could play MMRL(real life) RPGs like Cops 'n' Robbers and Cowboys 'n' Indians. I didn't pick up programming for a lack of other (presumably better) things to do. I did it because I had a fascination with figuring out how things worked. The thing my dad did that got me going was to buy a computer--original Macintosh with an external 20 MB hard drive that was the size of a VCR--and then installed TrueBasic. He showed me how to get the interpreter up and running and how to use the reference manual that came with it. He just about wrote my entire first program for me, a simple Tic Tac Toe game, and I took it from there. A few years later when he had a work terminal set up at our house, he got me a couple C/C++ and OO books, and gave me a quick overview on Unix and Vi and let me loose. Very brave of him considering I was logged in as his user account on his work machine and could quite easily have royally screwed him up or gotten him in a lot of trouble. Incidentally, this was also when he started showing me some of the tools he used as an EE. Cadence, SignalScan, Verilog, and I started playing around a little bit with logic design. He also gave me a little project to try to write a SignalScan replacement. I never made a full replacement, but did get a decent waveform viewer up and running. I was only 12, so no surprise really :).
Kids will find the things they like to do. As a parent, your best bet is just to make sure you have as many options available as possible. You won't be able to shoehorn them into any old thing you think will be good. I have two other brothers who were all given the same treatment. I took to programming, the others did not. We were also given plenty of exposure to other activities, and one of my brothers took to visual arts and would draw and paint all the time. He's now working in FE web design.
You forgot to add:
Clippy: You look like you're trying to grow your crops.
Would you like help?
-- Help provide rain to water crops
-- Help provide sunshine to make them grow
-- Just leave the goddamn meteorological ecosystem alone already!
According to their Q1 earnings report, Google spent $1.52 BILLION in just one quarter and their website is just a logo, text box, and a couple of buttons, right?
They're not spending the $18 million on a CSS template and a Ruby script to access a MySQL database. There're going to be costs associated with the servers and bandwidth necessary to both search and serve up the information. There're going to be huge costs just in getting all of the data together into some kind of format that is parseable. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the data isn't even in any electronic form yet. Then there're the costs to maintain and support the whole thing over the next 5+ years. $18 million may still be a rip-off, I don't know, but this is not a small project by any means.