Can you charge parking fees for an airport enforced quarantine?
The business people are allowed to come and go, even when planes aren't moving. They are still making money from trapped passengers.
Airlines never compensate passengers for any inconvenience caused by missed flights or connections due to security reasons. I thing you are over stating the case.
No, we wouldn't. Tunguska was roughly 10m in diameter. Additionally orbiting the moon it's relative speed would be lower, so it'd have less energy if hitting the earth.
Nobody has any real clue exactly how big Tunguska was, because at the time that estimate was done nobody had any clear idea of the composition of asteroids or other rogue rocky bodies. Further, Tunguska is thought to have been an air burst, rather than a single penetrator, and some estimates have it as big as 20 meters. Has it hit any large metropolitan area it would have been the single largest disaster to humans on earth.
The question is perfectly reasonable for anyone on earth to ask. This idea that you can't ask rocket scientists to justify anything is pretty elitist if you ask me.
How precisely can the place it in orbit. You've got something on the order of 417 metric tons of material (if measured on earth) assuming its a loosely packed ball of rock, which many asteroids of that size are. That could do a lot of damage if it became uncontrolled.
Can you bag that without it changing shape? Can the bag and tethers withstand the amount of strain necessary to decelerate it from its current orbit to earth orbit, then to the moon's orbit? Can the engine last that long? What happens when (not if) the engine fails? Would it burn up on entry into earth's atmosphere if the engine failed, or a tether broke? If you lose control of the package for any reason, where does it end up? In 5 years, in 25 years?
If you, and they are so certain of their calculations and abilities, why not put it in earth orbit as others have suggested?
The books will not be "off by several hundred dollars" because the rounding will go down 50% of the time, and up 50% of the time, averaging out to a net zero loss/gain.
What is this concept of rounding DOWN? I've never encountered that in the market place. Is it some new Canukistan voodoo?
If the idea was to save the government 11 million by dropping the penny, and government suffers from lower tax revenue as a result, then the savings are imaginary at best. They are bound to come back and raise the taxes to make up the difference.
Give the guy a book on the subject, explain in detail the difficulty in maintaining or interacting with his code. Do it in a helpful and non confrontational way in a private setting.
I'm sure he can be convinced that making everyone else's job harder isn't beneficial to the company.
Maybe something like Hey Bob, I wonder if we could break this monolithic program into four parts for easier maintenance.... Can we break this function out to a stand alone routine, because I call this function it loads in this ton of code that I don't need, and puts the database at risk... Bob, I can't follow this code, what would you say to this re-write I sketched out...
Old dogs can be taught new tricks, but don't dismiss the possibility that the young pup doesn't quite know everything he thinks he does.
I've often seen kid programmers using some high level function without a clue about the mountain of code it drags into the application, or use a language "feature" that generates a ton of code that is slow and imprecise, when discrete operations would be much faster in execution and more accurate even at the expense of more source lines.
People working on the same project have to act as a team. Approached properly, the old geezer might actually appreciate it.
Did you miss the part where it said only CASH transactions would be rounded? Seems to me that cash transactions themselves are becoming increasingly rare and this is a pretty big non-issue in a plastic money world.
Have you ever run a business? Having a books balancing issue because a even few transactions are in cash will encourage all prices to the nearest nickle. Its just too much of a hassle to have every transaction in the cash register off by a couple cents. Cash businesses would go nuts trying to get their books to balance.
Plus, the rounding will present such a hassle, that pricing will all be to the nickle, nobody is going to want to balance books that could be off by several hundred dollars over the course of a busy day.
All prices will end in 0 or 5 and no merchant is going to go down, everyone will just set prices directly to the next higher multiple.
More of interest, is the sales tax. Does Canada have sales taxes anywhere? Are they going to be adjusted to the nickle as well? Will the tax authority accept taxes that are rounded, or will the merchant have to make up the rounding when forwarding the tax?
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle? My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
I suggest your experience will prove to be atypical.
In most cases rounding will go UP by a penny or four, because of the tendency to price things at xxx.99. Over the course of the a typical year, I suspect this will cost the Canadian tax payers much more than the 11 million that dropping the penny was supposed to save, because retailers will round ALL prices up to the next nickle, whether payment is by cash, credit, or check.
Yes, I know the definition of rounding, but mark my words, nobody will be rounding down.
Don't be silly. The government isn't on your side. Your Lawyer is supposed to be, but then if you think the Government should control all lawyers, what do you have left?
I'd be surprised if any new drivers show up for any video cards out in the field until a couple years of sales of new cards (same old cards sporting new drivers). After all, they have no incentive to keep you using your old card if they can convince you to buy a newer one. AMD has a pretty long record of abandonware when it comes to video cards.
Computerized game tape analysis should shorten the time required by quite a lot. HD tv cams are becoming so cheap and so good, that teams could put time-synced cameras in two (high) mounts for each game. The league could assure that both teams have access to the video to do their own analysis, or maybe just the digitized results. I don't think it takes 20 employees to do this.
Too often the quarterback takes a bum rap for butter fingers down field, just like pitchers gain poor ERAs due to bad defense that allows easily defended ground balls to become runs scored, or pitchers that have bad win/loss records while playing with a horrible bunch of hitters.
Entire new measurements must be defined for football. How do you measure if the pass was catch-able by a competent receiver? Is it anything within arms length? Or is it more complex, taking into account direction of player motion? What about defensive coverage? Every one of these has to be assigned some form of measurement and then you have to start digitizing game tapes. It will take years to develop anything approximating what baseball has, but its probably long past due.
Computers can do a lot of this data encoding from game tapes.
Statistics aren't confused with talent and smarts, any more than the weight on a bag of potatoes is confused with actual potatoes. Statistics simply measure talent and smarts.
The fine grained statistics that you can pull out of baseball go back over a hundred years. Every game has these gathered more or less automatically these days, and even from a box score one can piece together stats on each player's abilities.
As a result there are plays that are never even attempted anymore because the stats are so precise at describing the likelihood of success/failure that they virtually dictate how the game is played. A player's value at any given point in time can be measured very precisely.
This level of detail is missing from Football, in part simply because too many bodies are in motion at once making it hard and tedious to map them, evaluate them, describe them, measure them, etc. Modern TV gear changes everything. Now all of this is possible after the fact by combining a few camera angles.
It will probably take 10years of game tape analysis just to define meaningful measures (statistics). Some will be useful, others will fall into disuse. But how we evaluate football players today will change drastically over time.
Why not post links? Its the best way to invoke the Streisand Effect so that dog plus world can educate them on just how stupid their plan is. The sooner they get bitchslapped in court the better. The sooner they try to take someone to court the better. The farther they have to reach to take someone to court the better.
If they want a pay wall let them put up a pay wall instead of simply declaring one exists and threatening to charge money.
You might be on to something there, since Slashdot just yesterday had a story about how net books were dead. Most poster didn't realize that the netbook simple morphed into chrombooks.
Slashdot Mirror
What the chance of a merchant vessel streaking though the atmosphere and cratering into a city?
Can you charge parking fees for an airport enforced quarantine?
The business people are allowed to come and go, even when planes aren't moving.
They are still making money from trapped passengers.
Airlines never compensate passengers for any inconvenience caused by missed flights or connections due to security reasons.
I thing you are over stating the case.
They are content to encourage wider adoption thru price and yield improvements.
Nothing else matters. The only deceit is in the fear mongering of anti-GMO quacks.
Exactly.
We don't even label food as to genus and species, why bother with this level of detail?
Food labels are there to serve a specific purpose: nutritional information.
Labeling for superstition is simply wrong headed.
And don't even get me started on "organic" labeling.
Cost who a million dollars?
Did they have to hire additional TSA agents?
Did they pay compensation to anyone for the delay?
Why can't these stupid TSA agents realize that if you hear buzzing its not a bomb. You won't hear the bomb that kills you.
No, we wouldn't. Tunguska was roughly 10m in diameter. Additionally orbiting the moon it's relative speed would be lower, so it'd have less energy if hitting the earth.
Nobody has any real clue exactly how big Tunguska was, because at the time that estimate was done nobody had any clear idea of the composition of asteroids or other rogue rocky bodies. Further, Tunguska is thought to have been an air burst, rather than a single penetrator, and some estimates have it as big as 20 meters. Has it hit any large metropolitan area it would have been the single largest disaster to humans on earth.
The question is perfectly reasonable for anyone on earth to ask. This idea that you can't ask rocket scientists to justify anything is pretty elitist if you ask me.
How precisely can the place it in orbit. You've got something on the order of 417 metric tons of material (if measured on earth) assuming its a loosely packed ball of rock, which many asteroids of that size are. That could do a lot of damage if it became uncontrolled.
Can you bag that without it changing shape?
Can the bag and tethers withstand the amount of strain necessary to decelerate it from its current orbit to earth orbit, then to the moon's orbit?
Can the engine last that long?
What happens when (not if) the engine fails?
Would it burn up on entry into earth's atmosphere if the engine failed, or a tether broke?
If you lose control of the package for any reason, where does it end up? In 5 years, in 25 years?
If you, and they are so certain of their calculations and abilities, why not put it in earth orbit as others have suggested?
The books will not be "off by several hundred dollars" because the rounding will go down 50% of the time, and up 50% of the time, averaging out to a net zero loss/gain.
What is this concept of rounding DOWN? I've never encountered that in the market place. Is it some new Canukistan voodoo?
Depends on who is saving does it not?
If the idea was to save the government 11 million by dropping the penny, and government suffers from lower tax revenue as a result,
then the savings are imaginary at best.
They are bound to come back and raise the taxes to make up the difference.
I disagree.
Give the guy a book on the subject, explain in detail the difficulty in maintaining or interacting with his code.
Do it in a helpful and non confrontational way in a private setting.
I'm sure he can be convinced that making everyone else's job harder isn't beneficial to the company.
Maybe something like
Hey Bob, I wonder if we could break this monolithic program into four parts for easier maintenance....
Can we break this function out to a stand alone routine, because I call this function it loads in this ton of code that I don't need, and puts the database at risk...
Bob, I can't follow this code, what would you say to this re-write I sketched out...
Old dogs can be taught new tricks, but don't dismiss the possibility that the young pup doesn't quite know everything he thinks he does.
I've often seen kid programmers using some high level function without a clue about the mountain of code it drags into the
application, or use a language "feature" that generates a ton of code that is slow and imprecise, when discrete operations would
be much faster in execution and more accurate even at the expense of more source lines.
People working on the same project have to act as a team. Approached properly, the old geezer might actually appreciate it.
Did you miss the part where it said only CASH transactions would be rounded? Seems to me that cash transactions themselves are becoming increasingly rare and this is a pretty big non-issue in a plastic money world.
Have you ever run a business? Having a books balancing issue because a even few transactions are in cash will encourage all prices to the nearest nickle. Its just too much of a hassle to have every transaction in the cash register off by a couple cents. Cash businesses would go nuts trying to get their books to balance.
This.
Plus, the rounding will present such a hassle, that pricing will all be to the nickle, nobody is going to want to balance books that could be off by several hundred dollars over the course of a busy day.
All prices will end in 0 or 5 and no merchant is going to go down, everyone will just set prices directly to the next higher multiple.
More of interest, is the sales tax. Does Canada have sales taxes anywhere? Are they going to be adjusted to the nickle as well?
Will the tax authority accept taxes that are rounded, or will the merchant have to make up the rounding when forwarding the tax?
Did you miss the part where it said purchases would be rounded to the nearest nickle?
My breakfast comes to $3.66 total, and I am always asked for $3.65
I suggest your experience will prove to be atypical.
In most cases rounding will go UP by a penny or four, because of the tendency to price things at xxx.99.
Over the course of the a typical year, I suspect this will cost the Canadian tax payers much more than the 11 million that dropping the penny was supposed to save, because retailers will round ALL prices up to the next nickle, whether payment is by cash, credit, or check.
Yes, I know the definition of rounding, but mark my words, nobody will be rounding down.
Yes, you're right, it costs 1.6 cents per penny.
citation: metro news
No, that is not right. Your own source specifies that 1.6 cents is the MANUFACTURING cost, not the price of the metal in the penny.
If the metal in the penny was worth more than the penny people would be melting them down, as they did with gold coins. Clearly that is not happening.
Don't be silly. The government isn't on your side.
Your Lawyer is supposed to be, but then if you think the Government should control all lawyers, what do you have left?
I'd be surprised if any new drivers show up for any video cards out in the field until a couple years of sales of new cards (same old cards sporting new drivers).
After all, they have no incentive to keep you using your old card if they can convince you to buy a newer one. AMD has a pretty long record of abandonware when it comes to video cards.
Computerized game tape analysis should shorten the time required by quite a lot.
HD tv cams are becoming so cheap and so good, that teams could put time-synced cameras in two (high) mounts for each game. The league could assure that both teams have access to the video to do their own analysis, or maybe just the digitized results. I don't think it takes 20 employees to do this.
Good example.
Too often the quarterback takes a bum rap for butter fingers down field, just like pitchers gain poor ERAs due to bad defense that allows easily defended ground balls to become runs scored, or pitchers that have bad win/loss records while playing with a horrible bunch of hitters.
Entire new measurements must be defined for football. How do you measure if the pass was catch-able by a competent receiver? Is it anything within arms length? Or is it more complex, taking into account direction of player motion? What about defensive coverage? Every one of these has to be assigned some form of measurement and then you have to start digitizing game tapes. It will take years to develop anything approximating what baseball has, but its probably long past due.
Computers can do a lot of this data encoding from game tapes.
Statistics aren't confused with talent and smarts, any more than the weight on a bag of potatoes is confused with actual potatoes.
Statistics simply measure talent and smarts.
This!
The fine grained statistics that you can pull out of baseball go back over a hundred years. Every game has these gathered more or less automatically these days, and even from a box score one can piece together stats on each player's abilities.
As a result there are plays that are never even attempted anymore because the stats are so precise at describing the likelihood of success/failure that they virtually dictate how the game is played. A player's value at any given point in time can be measured very precisely.
This level of detail is missing from Football, in part simply because too many bodies are in motion at once making it hard and tedious to map them, evaluate them, describe them, measure them, etc. Modern TV gear changes everything. Now all of this is possible after the fact by combining a few camera angles.
It will probably take 10years of game tape analysis just to define meaningful measures (statistics). Some will be useful, others will fall into disuse. But how we evaluate football players today will change drastically over time.
Why not post links? Its the best way to invoke the Streisand Effect so that dog plus world can educate them on just how stupid their plan is. The sooner they get bitchslapped in court the better. The sooner they try to take someone to court the better. The farther they have to reach to take someone to court the better.
If they want a pay wall let them put up a pay wall instead of simply declaring one exists and threatening to charge money.
A1: Lawyers
A2: Yes.
Counter Question: Would you want to live in a society where the Government had total power to control Lawyers?
You might be on to something there, since Slashdot just yesterday had a story about how net books were dead. Most poster didn't realize that the netbook simple morphed into chrombooks.
If you're living in a predominately Mormon area, and you're not one of them, you're a lot less likely to be part of their circle,
Thank you Captain Obvious.
You just have to keep hands out of the work envelope
there would be literally leashes on one's wrists that took your hands out the of the work envelope
Thanks for proving my point.
I reiterate: Industrial systems today rely on humans shutting off the robots when there is a need to approach them, not the other way around.