Well, this was also for regulatory and safety testing, not just for signal quality to the end user. You also want to ensure every seat on the aircraft at least has a decent signal to not compound potential backhaul problems. Finally next gen ground data service is in development for both ground and AC users, as well there is decently high speed satellite service for AC like Row44.
The ideal conditions for bread mold are in a bag retaining moisture. Bread with no preservatives in a dry climate will not mold if it dessicates fast enough. Open behind a warm stove isideal conditions for that to happen.
The ribbon is not an upgrade. at best it should have been an optional menu enhancement. It together with new Excel 2007 and 10 bugs killed my productivity to no good affect, and I am still constantly hitting the wrong ribbon tab and wasting my screen real estate. And I have barely used OO, so I am not one of those OO lovers.
I used to have the same complaint at MS Word compared to WordPerfect where you could easily turn on and off the hidden formatting characters and fix the atrocious Word formatting assumptions and model. Haven't had as much trouble with it since 2003, though I write a lot less now. Amusing it took MS abat least years to catch up to the best in class.
The problem would be making the school schedule that flexible would either require independent study (which I think I would have excelled at, but probably less than half the kids in school could manage that without intensive guidance) or a radical change in how school is structured, how subjects are taught, how teachers facilitate, how the school day and year is planned, with the monetary and political will to make it happen. I might like to see it, but I think it will happen outside of a few progressive private schools on a cold day in hell.
I still think 9 month schooling should be available for high school kids if they need/want to work, or want to take advanced classes in summer school. Taking geometry in 3 weeks my sophomore year is still one of my fondest summer memories. But otherwise, I think you summed up how to fix the US education system. Though I'd also add some form of teacher pay to performance as well.
I'm one of the kids that hated school so much, even since elementary, that I needed a 2 month break to reduce my depression and maintain my sanity. But honestly I can't say I did much productive with them. Up until high school, I can see the advantage of having a month off at Christmas, spring break, and summer, rather than a 11 week summer.
But I still dont' think it is a good idea for high school kids to have year round schooling. Once you get to that age, you have the maturity and ability to get summer jobs, or take summer classes for advanced high school or college credit. Despite hating school, one of my favorite summers was taking Geometry ahead of schedule over the summer at Rice University in 3 weeks. We went to class for 7 hours a day, would do a whole chapter per day and take the test on it the first thing each morning. It was the best time I had in school.
I want other kids to have the opportunity to work to save money for college, or take extra courses, without the additional stress of their regular schooling day. I feel like there is a lot of wasted time in schools taking roll, dealing with problem kids, doing route unnessary work. If schools would rethink their classes, I think an hour could be chopped out of the school day and given back to the kids to do homework, so they aren't going to class for 7 hours, commute for an hour or more, then be expected to do an hour or 2 of homework at night.
There have been several accidents caused by, or a significant contributing factor, of software glitches. Boeing and Airbus and their systems builders do have tight coding and testing controls for flight critical code, at least partly driven by FAA and EASA requirements. Have there been more critical or expensive failures of financial trading code?
Taco Bell that you tried to hate on, has an even stronger case. You can't get out of a standard mexican restaurant under $15. (remember tips?) They have SEVEN of the best low cost meals I have ever had at fast food outlets.
Taco Bell is not Mexican food. It is Tex-Mex inspired junk food. That's not to say I don't enjoy it on occasion, especially a green buritto and a MexiMelt. But there are at least 30 good Mexican restaurants in Dallas I can go to for under $15 (food, non alcoholic drink, tax and tip), many under even $10. And there isn't a single meal at Taco Bell I would consider one of my favorite low cost meals. Del Taco just opened in Dallas, and I personally like it better.
you mean he smacked the starter? That works not because the motor was frozen, but because the high temp grease in the starter relay gets sticky, and that is frequently enough to break it loose.
I took flying lessons in high school, and though it has been a couple years I'm working on my A license at a private airport of the drop zone. I've watched an aircraft fly over the airport while I was in freefall. It is unnerving. But uncontrolled aircraft without radios have as much right to the airspace as divers, who you point out operate as VFR no radio as well. It is a historical artifact of regulation for back when radios were expensive, large, and power hungry, and there were still a significant number of aircraft that didn't even have electrical systems (like Piper Cubs). Personally, I hope this doesn't change. It is a relic of the golden age of aviation, of a simpler time with less regulation. One hopes that pilots who fly without radios are paying attention to their nav charts (which list drop zones). But there are plenty of stupid pilots, just like there are plenty of stupid skydivers.
Airlines used to be able to sell anonymous plane tickets. There were no laws against it. Though I don't know that airlines had official published policies. But if you were famous, or could otherwise justify it to the reservation agent, they would book your ticket under a pseudonym (and freqently put comments in the reservation on who you were) so any ticket or gate agent would know to accept your ticket not matching your ID. Now with the new laws and TSA regulations, your full name and birth date and gender (as on your license or passport you will use to board) must be in the reservation. This information is used to automatically clear you against the additional security and no-fly lists.
No, planes and cars create an ecological disaster in slow motion as part of their normal operation, along with coal plants which are estimated to kill or contribute to the deaths of 10,000-20,000 people yearly.
An Airframe & Powerplant training program that gets you eligible to take the FAA license test takes just under 2 years, and costs between $8,000 for community college programs, up to $30,000 for private schools.
and I don't believe that lower income people are under "full assault". I do believe that the standard leaning of the republican party is that people in general are rational (in psychological speak). People will make the rational decision to do nothing and get paid rather than expend energy and get paid.... but 99 weeks for most people means they got paid close to 100k as long as they said they were looking for jobs.
99 weeks of unemployment would vary depending on your original salary and the state you live in, but it would be closer to $40k (or $20k/yr) than it would be to $100k.
I think the intention of the statement of lower income people being under "full assault" is that many of these people were gainfully employed during the good economic times, and now despite the fact many if not most want to work, and may not have the resouces to "make their own luck", they can't find jobs. Some of this was inflated by a failure of GB43 administration to monitor the financial industry to ensure they were acting lawfully and in the best interest of the country. Yes I know this goes back to Clinton (and really before even him). But the problem became clear in the GB43 era, and rather than addressing it early enough to provide a "soft landing" they turned their back and believed the free-market would allow everything to work out. Not so much.
Instead we are in a lagging economy where employers aren't hiring back, and public debt inflated by 2 unnecessary wars, NOW the Republican party wants to balance the budget and do it by cutting social programs that protect workers vulnerable to downturns and protect our economy from going into a real tailspin. AND they want to lower taxes on the rich, so the rich don't have to shoulder their fair share of debt our country has already wracked up, and help pay for the society and governmental security that they have received outsized benefits to (along with their own hard work). But those 2 aspects aren't mutually exclusive. If these "rich" people were born and raised in Uganda instead of the USA, probably 90% wouldn't have been successful in a different social regime.
I didn't bother to look up this company in Britain to see if it was a true ISP, or a proxying service, or etc. I was just pointing out it may be fine in Britain to have some true ISPs doing this, where from my understanding (at least in metropolitan areas) there are plenty of high speed ISP options. But here in the USA we don't have that luxury. I'd never want to allow any of our ISPs to do it carte blanche to their subscribers without it being an opt-in service, or a separate proxying company as you point out it sounds like this is. Our options are much more limited due to lack of regulation requiring incumbents to wholesale service on lines using public right of ways.
If a US company started (and they have by the way) which has a set of rules you don't like you change ISP companies right?
It isn't unusual in the US for there to be one practical option for reasonably priced broadband, the cable company at around 10mbs. That runs about $65 a month after taxes in my area. There might be a second option if you are lucky enough to be in one of the few Verizon FiOS or AT&T Uverse areas (though they are pricier), or one of the few municipal high speed service areas that haven't been quashed by ISPs suing the states to shut them down.
Your local incumbent telephone provider may offer internet at half the speed (around 5mbs) for close to the same cost, though that isn't guaranteed if you are too far from the neighborhood switch. Then you could also get dial up at a pokey 50kbs for about the same cost when you take into account a dedicated phone line. Of course there is clear.net and satellite internet, which are both pretty slow and expensive for what you get, but better than dialup.
And history shows: if your government can't keep any secrets, it will be replaced by one that can (often quite violently replaced).
Does history show this? I'm generally curious. My guess is that most governments can't keep secrets well, and even the ones that are particularly bad and have also failed, have other more significant causes of the failure.
I'm not sure why you seem so upset with what I said. It is true that this happens. But of course it doesn't happen every day to 100% of the grow houses out there. There are repeated stories about it in reliable local newspapers. And yes, the cops who do it try to have a damn good idea that they are busting down an actual grow house, and not grandma's orchid grow house. It is highly unlikely they'd go to jail. But there would be a huge public stink and the chief of police could lose his job.
Regarding how much further you have to go, 3x energy usage is not sufficient absent other indicators. Try +10 times the average for comparable size homes in your neighborhood. Or having semi-frequent coming and goings of passenger style vans with no windows, that your neighbors start wondering about and call the police to report because they are curious/concerned about what is going on, or many other unusual indicators, especially if you have nosy neighbors who distrust you. None of this is right, but it does happen.
Well some police departments do use thermal imaging cameras and power records to identify potential grow houses. But 800 watts wouldn't be a very big one, it'd be way under their radar and completely within an order of magnitude for a normal largish household or one of several hobbies. But if you were ever to come under the suspicion of being a grow house, you can bet the police department would subpoena your power records and use it as one element of probable cause to justify a warrant.
And that's your opinion based on your viewing of what you consider conspicuous consumer propaganda. I wouldn't know either way because I am not in the market to purchase that product. It was an off the cuff comparison based on what I know of the products. There are at least 5 other reasonably well respected sports luxury car makers I could have used instead. This has been the longest and most completely off topic conversation I've had on Slashdot about something that doesn't matter. Strange...
No I haven't driven a Porsche, nor paid attention to their advertising, since I'm not a perspective buyer, so I don't have a clue as you say. I do know that many of their products are well respected in the automotive press. Not sure why you felt the need to be snarky when I was just making a casual comparison to 2 well known but different market segment brands.
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That is an excellent reply to the posters question wrapped in a snarky response.
Well, this was also for regulatory and safety testing, not just for signal quality to the end user. You also want to ensure every seat on the aircraft at least has a decent signal to not compound potential backhaul problems. Finally next gen ground data service is in development for both ground and AC users, as well there is decently high speed satellite service for AC like Row44.
You haven't used GoGo on Southwest, they use Row44 satellite. Maybe you've used GoGo on AirTran their wholly owned subsidiary?
The ideal conditions for bread mold are in a bag retaining moisture. Bread with no preservatives in a dry climate will not mold if it dessicates fast enough. Open behind a warm stove isideal conditions for that to happen.
The ribbon is not an upgrade. at best it should have been an optional menu enhancement. It together with new Excel 2007 and 10 bugs killed my productivity to no good affect, and I am still constantly hitting the wrong ribbon tab and wasting my screen real estate. And I have barely used OO, so I am not one of those OO lovers.
I used to have the same complaint at MS Word compared to WordPerfect where you could easily turn on and off the hidden formatting characters and fix the atrocious Word formatting assumptions and model. Haven't had as much trouble with it since 2003, though I write a lot less now. Amusing it took MS abat least years to catch up to the best in class.
The problem would be making the school schedule that flexible would either require independent study (which I think I would have excelled at, but probably less than half the kids in school could manage that without intensive guidance) or a radical change in how school is structured, how subjects are taught, how teachers facilitate, how the school day and year is planned, with the monetary and political will to make it happen. I might like to see it, but I think it will happen outside of a few progressive private schools on a cold day in hell.
I still think 9 month schooling should be available for high school kids if they need/want to work, or want to take advanced classes in summer school. Taking geometry in 3 weeks my sophomore year is still one of my fondest summer memories. But otherwise, I think you summed up how to fix the US education system. Though I'd also add some form of teacher pay to performance as well.
I'm one of the kids that hated school so much, even since elementary, that I needed a 2 month break to reduce my depression and maintain my sanity. But honestly I can't say I did much productive with them. Up until high school, I can see the advantage of having a month off at Christmas, spring break, and summer, rather than a 11 week summer.
But I still dont' think it is a good idea for high school kids to have year round schooling. Once you get to that age, you have the maturity and ability to get summer jobs, or take summer classes for advanced high school or college credit. Despite hating school, one of my favorite summers was taking Geometry ahead of schedule over the summer at Rice University in 3 weeks. We went to class for 7 hours a day, would do a whole chapter per day and take the test on it the first thing each morning. It was the best time I had in school.
I want other kids to have the opportunity to work to save money for college, or take extra courses, without the additional stress of their regular schooling day. I feel like there is a lot of wasted time in schools taking roll, dealing with problem kids, doing route unnessary work. If schools would rethink their classes, I think an hour could be chopped out of the school day and given back to the kids to do homework, so they aren't going to class for 7 hours, commute for an hour or more, then be expected to do an hour or 2 of homework at night.
There have been several accidents caused by, or a significant contributing factor, of software glitches. Boeing and Airbus and their systems builders do have tight coding and testing controls for flight critical code, at least partly driven by FAA and EASA requirements. Have there been more critical or expensive failures of financial trading code?
Taco Bell is not Mexican food. It is Tex-Mex inspired junk food. That's not to say I don't enjoy it on occasion, especially a green buritto and a MexiMelt. But there are at least 30 good Mexican restaurants in Dallas I can go to for under $15 (food, non alcoholic drink, tax and tip), many under even $10. And there isn't a single meal at Taco Bell I would consider one of my favorite low cost meals. Del Taco just opened in Dallas, and I personally like it better.
you mean he smacked the starter? That works not because the motor was frozen, but because the high temp grease in the starter relay gets sticky, and that is frequently enough to break it loose.
We don't need it. It is another authoritarian police state overreaction to 9/11. And another example of how we allowed the terrorists to win.
I took flying lessons in high school, and though it has been a couple years I'm working on my A license at a private airport of the drop zone. I've watched an aircraft fly over the airport while I was in freefall. It is unnerving. But uncontrolled aircraft without radios have as much right to the airspace as divers, who you point out operate as VFR no radio as well. It is a historical artifact of regulation for back when radios were expensive, large, and power hungry, and there were still a significant number of aircraft that didn't even have electrical systems (like Piper Cubs). Personally, I hope this doesn't change. It is a relic of the golden age of aviation, of a simpler time with less regulation. One hopes that pilots who fly without radios are paying attention to their nav charts (which list drop zones). But there are plenty of stupid pilots, just like there are plenty of stupid skydivers.
Airlines used to be able to sell anonymous plane tickets. There were no laws against it. Though I don't know that airlines had official published policies. But if you were famous, or could otherwise justify it to the reservation agent, they would book your ticket under a pseudonym (and freqently put comments in the reservation on who you were) so any ticket or gate agent would know to accept your ticket not matching your ID. Now with the new laws and TSA regulations, your full name and birth date and gender (as on your license or passport you will use to board) must be in the reservation. This information is used to automatically clear you against the additional security and no-fly lists.
No, planes and cars create an ecological disaster in slow motion as part of their normal operation, along with coal plants which are estimated to kill or contribute to the deaths of 10,000-20,000 people yearly.
An Airframe & Powerplant training program that gets you eligible to take the FAA license test takes just under 2 years, and costs between $8,000 for community college programs, up to $30,000 for private schools.
99 weeks of unemployment would vary depending on your original salary and the state you live in, but it would be closer to $40k (or $20k/yr) than it would be to $100k.
I think the intention of the statement of lower income people being under "full assault" is that many of these people were gainfully employed during the good economic times, and now despite the fact many if not most want to work, and may not have the resouces to "make their own luck", they can't find jobs. Some of this was inflated by a failure of GB43 administration to monitor the financial industry to ensure they were acting lawfully and in the best interest of the country. Yes I know this goes back to Clinton (and really before even him). But the problem became clear in the GB43 era, and rather than addressing it early enough to provide a "soft landing" they turned their back and believed the free-market would allow everything to work out. Not so much.
Instead we are in a lagging economy where employers aren't hiring back, and public debt inflated by 2 unnecessary wars, NOW the Republican party wants to balance the budget and do it by cutting social programs that protect workers vulnerable to downturns and protect our economy from going into a real tailspin. AND they want to lower taxes on the rich, so the rich don't have to shoulder their fair share of debt our country has already wracked up, and help pay for the society and governmental security that they have received outsized benefits to (along with their own hard work). But those 2 aspects aren't mutually exclusive. If these "rich" people were born and raised in Uganda instead of the USA, probably 90% wouldn't have been successful in a different social regime.
I didn't bother to look up this company in Britain to see if it was a true ISP, or a proxying service, or etc. I was just pointing out it may be fine in Britain to have some true ISPs doing this, where from my understanding (at least in metropolitan areas) there are plenty of high speed ISP options. But here in the USA we don't have that luxury. I'd never want to allow any of our ISPs to do it carte blanche to their subscribers without it being an opt-in service, or a separate proxying company as you point out it sounds like this is. Our options are much more limited due to lack of regulation requiring incumbents to wholesale service on lines using public right of ways.
It isn't unusual in the US for there to be one practical option for reasonably priced broadband, the cable company at around 10mbs. That runs about $65 a month after taxes in my area. There might be a second option if you are lucky enough to be in one of the few Verizon FiOS or AT&T Uverse areas (though they are pricier), or one of the few municipal high speed service areas that haven't been quashed by ISPs suing the states to shut them down.
Your local incumbent telephone provider may offer internet at half the speed (around 5mbs) for close to the same cost, though that isn't guaranteed if you are too far from the neighborhood switch. Then you could also get dial up at a pokey 50kbs for about the same cost when you take into account a dedicated phone line. Of course there is clear.net and satellite internet, which are both pretty slow and expensive for what you get, but better than dialup.
The choices are ok, pretty bad, and terrible.
Does history show this? I'm generally curious. My guess is that most governments can't keep secrets well, and even the ones that are particularly bad and have also failed, have other more significant causes of the failure.
I'm not sure why you seem so upset with what I said. It is true that this happens. But of course it doesn't happen every day to 100% of the grow houses out there. There are repeated stories about it in reliable local newspapers. And yes, the cops who do it try to have a damn good idea that they are busting down an actual grow house, and not grandma's orchid grow house. It is highly unlikely they'd go to jail. But there would be a huge public stink and the chief of police could lose his job.
Regarding how much further you have to go, 3x energy usage is not sufficient absent other indicators. Try +10 times the average for comparable size homes in your neighborhood. Or having semi-frequent coming and goings of passenger style vans with no windows, that your neighbors start wondering about and call the police to report because they are curious/concerned about what is going on, or many other unusual indicators, especially if you have nosy neighbors who distrust you. None of this is right, but it does happen.
Well some police departments do use thermal imaging cameras and power records to identify potential grow houses. But 800 watts wouldn't be a very big one, it'd be way under their radar and completely within an order of magnitude for a normal largish household or one of several hobbies. But if you were ever to come under the suspicion of being a grow house, you can bet the police department would subpoena your power records and use it as one element of probable cause to justify a warrant.
And that's your opinion based on your viewing of what you consider conspicuous consumer propaganda. I wouldn't know either way because I am not in the market to purchase that product. It was an off the cuff comparison based on what I know of the products. There are at least 5 other reasonably well respected sports luxury car makers I could have used instead. This has been the longest and most completely off topic conversation I've had on Slashdot about something that doesn't matter. Strange...
No I haven't driven a Porsche, nor paid attention to their advertising, since I'm not a perspective buyer, so I don't have a clue as you say. I do know that many of their products are well respected in the automotive press. Not sure why you felt the need to be snarky when I was just making a casual comparison to 2 well known but different market segment brands.