60 light-nanoseconds is 18 meters (I actually have one light-nanosecond length of wire in a frame above my table). That's well within error margin of a handheld GPS receiver, and with prospector-grade equipment it's FAR within error margins.
Clock skew is more plausible, but again, 60ns is pretty big for modern atomic clocks. Radio interferometers are routinely synced with three orders of magnitude better precision across greater distances.
"When Indians (people from India, not Native Americans) are able to do my job better and for less money, I fully expect my employer to lay me off and hire them. That's why I work hard to make sure that I am more valuable than the outsource."
It doesn't need to take less money, it just needs to _appear_ to take less money.
"The problem with unions is that they build protections in for themselves that inflate the cost of employment, but do nothing to increase the value of the employee"
So? Employer is free to fire all union workers and hire new ones. That's a free market solution, why don't you like it? Ah, it's not feasible to do it? Tough luck, negotiate with unions then.
In reality, current form of unions are _probably_ a little bit over-powerful. I agree with that.
Probably, good labor laws can significantly diminish union power - there are much less unions in West European countries, thanks to much stricter labor laws.
With commercial prospector-grade GPS hardware one already can get sub-centimeter precision.
If they used things like laser-ranging satellites then sub-millimeter precision is quite easy to achieve (that's how we can view the continental drift in real time).
Guess what will happen when your employer decides that it's better to outsource your job than to keep paying you your large salar so you can sit all day and read Slashdot?
Alternatively, if you are self-employed imagine what would happen when all those union-employed napping-on-the-job hippies are fired and nobody has money to buy stupid shit you're producing?
Well, that's in YOUR country. In my country I can get replacement SIM card in 15 mins in any office of my phone operator (been there, done that) and then wait around 30 minutes for its activation. My phone is Galaxy S which is pretty common here as well, and I backup everything to my home PC.
And I believe that battery life will in future be improved (possibly by switch to fuel cells). Wallets can't really be improved.
Well, my wallet got stolen recently. So I've lost a couple hundreds of dollars, several bank cards, my driving license and several club cards.
Right now I have spare change in all pockets, about $100 in various banknotes, NYC MetroCard, Moscow Subway pass and Kiev subway card. I keep my driving license in a separate pocket along with my keys and my bank card.
I won't mind replacing all those subway passes and loose change with NFC and an app on my phone. Sure, I'll lose some privacy - but it's not like I care much (Google already knows what I purchase and I also use Google Latitude). It won't replace my credit card and I'll keep some money just in case, but everything that helps to get rid of clutter is welcome.
Not really, representation barrier distributes additional votes more or less fairly between the parties that overcome the hurdle. Small parties actually might get an extra seat or two because of rounding rules.
The situation you've described, however, is quite typical in parliaments. And there's nothing wrong with it per-se - it usually just reflects the problems in society. They can happen even without the hurdle.
I have a friend who is into hawking (hawk hunting). He says that hawks are notoriously picky, it's not likely that they'll be able to live in urban settings.
He says that the best bet are daytime-adapted owls.
5% barrier for parties is also a 'sanity barrier' (it can be lowered to about 3%, probably).
There are quite a lot of fringe parties out there which can be only characterized as 'insane'. But they can easily get a seat or two in a parliamentary election. And that can give them a power completely out of proportion with their popularity.
And construction workers would also make what they are worth. I.e.: "almost nothing". Who'd need all those construction workers when there'll be no construction to do?
Banks and bankers have their uses. They just need to be used correctly, as it is with any other tool.
Disclaimer: I'm experimenting on a Java compiler with reified generics. It seems to be possible to have reified generics on the current JVM, but it's neither pretty nor quite as powerful as in.NET.
You have to mangle type names - just storing type arguments in a variable is not enough to make inheritance work correctly (so you can inherit both from IList and IList interfaces, for example). And if you open the name mangling can of worms then you have a whole lot of problems: 1) When should be parametrized classes instantiated? During compilation (say 'hello' to horrible code bloat) or during class loading (which would require the modified system classloader). 2) How should co- and contravariance be handled? Generate a lot of proxy methods? Ugly.
Water is much more potent than CO2, but it does not cause climate forcing (in the sane temperature range, anyway). I.e. water vapor exists in the equilibrium condition - put more some additional vapor into the air and it will quite soon (hours to days) condense into water. So the more water you put into the atmosphere - the harder it'll going to rain down a few days after.
CO2 doesn't work that way. If you put it into the atmosphere - it just stays there (modulo CO2 sinks). It's not an equilibrium system (well, it is, but with very large reaction times) - more CO2 in the atmosphere will just give you more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Now, stratospheric water is yet another thing. It'll exist a a very fine snow ice particles (I won't call it 'snow' for the don't look like it) and in fact have the opposite effect - they reflect sunlight back into space. The greenhouse effect of stratospheric gases is mostly irrelevant, because 'stratosphere' is just another name for 'almost a hard vacuum'. AND stratosphere doesn't mix a lot with troposphere, so these ice particles are going to persist for a fair amount of time (probably months).
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"sequence of events is "Apple builds a phone that revolutionizes the smart phone market, everybody including HTC tries to rip off Apple, Apple uses patents to defend against the ripping off, and Google gives HTC patents to countersue with the goal that they can continue to rip off Apple". That is offensive in every meaning of the word."
Nope. That's a defensive use from Google and offensive use from Apple. The fact that you _think_ that Apple "deserves" to be a monopolist has nothing to do with it.
Marx nailed the problems behind unrestricted capitalism pretty good. The main problem with his analysis was that he had not predicted the consequences of technological (and resulting economical) growth.
Also, his way to deal with unequal distribution seems to be impossible to implement in practice.
Yeah sure. That's why oligarchic societies where only 'deserving ones' can vote inevitably devolve into hellholes. Your task is NOT to hold poor people at bay, but to make sure that there's very little of them.
My weather channel can give predictions with certain level of probability. It can not predict the future with 100% probability or see 21 million years into the past.
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No, I'm too young for that.
This piece of wire was given me as a gift by someone who attended her lecture.
60 light-nanoseconds is 18 meters (I actually have one light-nanosecond length of wire in a frame above my table). That's well within error margin of a handheld GPS receiver, and with prospector-grade equipment it's FAR within error margins.
Clock skew is more plausible, but again, 60ns is pretty big for modern atomic clocks. Radio interferometers are routinely synced with three orders of magnitude better precision across greater distances.
"When Indians (people from India, not Native Americans) are able to do my job better and for less money, I fully expect my employer to lay me off and hire them. That's why I work hard to make sure that I am more valuable than the outsource."
It doesn't need to take less money, it just needs to _appear_ to take less money.
"The problem with unions is that they build protections in for themselves that inflate the cost of employment, but do nothing to increase the value of the employee"
So? Employer is free to fire all union workers and hire new ones. That's a free market solution, why don't you like it? Ah, it's not feasible to do it? Tough luck, negotiate with unions then.
In reality, current form of unions are _probably_ a little bit over-powerful. I agree with that.
Probably, good labor laws can significantly diminish union power - there are much less unions in West European countries, thanks to much stricter labor laws.
With commercial prospector-grade GPS hardware one already can get sub-centimeter precision.
If they used things like laser-ranging satellites then sub-millimeter precision is quite easy to achieve (that's how we can view the continental drift in real time).
Guess what will happen when your employer decides that it's better to outsource your job than to keep paying you your large salar so you can sit all day and read Slashdot?
Alternatively, if you are self-employed imagine what would happen when all those union-employed napping-on-the-job hippies are fired and nobody has money to buy stupid shit you're producing?
Yeah. And you're going to waste at least several hundred thousands to prove it?
Well, that's in YOUR country. In my country I can get replacement SIM card in 15 mins in any office of my phone operator (been there, done that) and then wait around 30 minutes for its activation. My phone is Galaxy S which is pretty common here as well, and I backup everything to my home PC.
And I believe that battery life will in future be improved (possibly by switch to fuel cells). Wallets can't really be improved.
If my phone is stolen I can just buy another phone and have everything back up and running in about 1 hour.
Battery issue is the problem, but I'm already pretty much screwed if important calls can't get through to me. So I always carry a spare battery.
Well, my wallet got stolen recently. So I've lost a couple hundreds of dollars, several bank cards, my driving license and several club cards.
Right now I have spare change in all pockets, about $100 in various banknotes, NYC MetroCard, Moscow Subway pass and Kiev subway card. I keep my driving license in a separate pocket along with my keys and my bank card.
I won't mind replacing all those subway passes and loose change with NFC and an app on my phone. Sure, I'll lose some privacy - but it's not like I care much (Google already knows what I purchase and I also use Google Latitude). It won't replace my credit card and I'll keep some money just in case, but everything that helps to get rid of clutter is welcome.
Not really, representation barrier distributes additional votes more or less fairly between the parties that overcome the hurdle. Small parties actually might get an extra seat or two because of rounding rules.
The situation you've described, however, is quite typical in parliaments. And there's nothing wrong with it per-se - it usually just reflects the problems in society. They can happen even without the hurdle.
I have a friend who is into hawking (hawk hunting). He says that hawks are notoriously picky, it's not likely that they'll be able to live in urban settings.
He says that the best bet are daytime-adapted owls.
Nope. They can't because:
1) Demand is growing.
2) Wind/solar power needs backup.
And German industry knows it, that's why many new coal power plants are being built.
That's why it's highly doubtful that 35% of renewable energy production will be sustained.
And what should we use then to get rid of Bolivian tree lizards?
5% barrier for parties is also a 'sanity barrier' (it can be lowered to about 3%, probably).
There are quite a lot of fringe parties out there which can be only characterized as 'insane'. But they can easily get a seat or two in a parliamentary election. And that can give them a power completely out of proportion with their popularity.
And construction workers would also make what they are worth. I.e.: "almost nothing". Who'd need all those construction workers when there'll be no construction to do?
Banks and bankers have their uses. They just need to be used correctly, as it is with any other tool.
Disclaimer: I'm experimenting on a Java compiler with reified generics. It seems to be possible to have reified generics on the current JVM, but it's neither pretty nor quite as powerful as in .NET.
You have to mangle type names - just storing type arguments in a variable is not enough to make inheritance work correctly (so you can inherit both from IList and IList interfaces, for example). And if you open the name mangling can of worms then you have a whole lot of problems:
1) When should be parametrized classes instantiated? During compilation (say 'hello' to horrible code bloat) or during class loading (which would require the modified system classloader).
2) How should co- and contravariance be handled? Generate a lot of proxy methods? Ugly.
and so on.
The parent is clueless.
Java works just fine in Linux and Windows. Even for complex GUI apps (try IntelliJ IDEA sometime).
Water is much more potent than CO2, but it does not cause climate forcing (in the sane temperature range, anyway). I.e. water vapor exists in the equilibrium condition - put more some additional vapor into the air and it will quite soon (hours to days) condense into water. So the more water you put into the atmosphere - the harder it'll going to rain down a few days after.
CO2 doesn't work that way. If you put it into the atmosphere - it just stays there (modulo CO2 sinks). It's not an equilibrium system (well, it is, but with very large reaction times) - more CO2 in the atmosphere will just give you more CO2 in the atmosphere.
Now, stratospheric water is yet another thing. It'll exist a a very fine snow ice particles (I won't call it 'snow' for the don't look like it) and in fact have the opposite effect - they reflect sunlight back into space. The greenhouse effect of stratospheric gases is mostly irrelevant, because 'stratosphere' is just another name for 'almost a hard vacuum'. AND stratosphere doesn't mix a lot with troposphere, so these ice particles are going to persist for a fair amount of time (probably months).
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An off-by-one index had done it again.
I'm not against them. You can have all the effects you want.
But there should be an option to TURN THEM FUCKING OFF!!
Are you kidding? Kindle on Android is @#$@#$ unusable.
It's not even possible to remove the #(*@ing page change effect. WTF were they smoking?
"sequence of events is "Apple builds a phone that revolutionizes the smart phone market, everybody including HTC tries to rip off Apple, Apple uses patents to defend against the ripping off, and Google gives HTC patents to countersue with the goal that they can continue to rip off Apple". That is offensive in every meaning of the word."
Nope. That's a defensive use from Google and offensive use from Apple. The fact that you _think_ that Apple "deserves" to be a monopolist has nothing to do with it.
Marx nailed the problems behind unrestricted capitalism pretty good. The main problem with his analysis was that he had not predicted the consequences of technological (and resulting economical) growth.
Also, his way to deal with unequal distribution seems to be impossible to implement in practice.
Yeah sure. That's why oligarchic societies where only 'deserving ones' can vote inevitably devolve into hellholes. Your task is NOT to hold poor people at bay, but to make sure that there's very little of them.
People like YOU are the problem in this world.
Yes.
My weather channel can give predictions with certain level of probability. It can not predict the future with 100% probability or see 21 million years into the past.