...tax at 100% any income over 10x the typical wage...
BTW, this isn't Green Party, or even communist- it's Platonic and was originally proposed in The Republic 2500 years ago...
Ok- [taking 10x the average] is different than Platonic and I missed it the first time around- Platonic would be 10x the minimum income. Though I doubt for you would make any difference.
Actually, Plato wrote about this in Laws, not The Republic. What he proposed was dividing the assets of the city among several classes, giving the highest class between three and four times as much as the lowest class. It had nothing to do with income, especially when you consider that there would be no private ownership of gold or silver in this city, and only a token currency (The Republic was even more strict, the Guardians couldn't own anything, but Kallipolis is just an analogy anyway).
Aristotle later proposed something similar, but with the first class owning five times as much as the lower class. Either way, I think you've got to find someone else for your implicit appeal to authority.
I was just pulling a number from the dictionary I had on my desk, not trying to make a statement about said dictionary's authority as the ultimate worldwide reference for the language.
The OED has "over half a million words", which supports my previous argument even better. Nobody comes close to using all of those words, so predictive text input can make intelligent guesses based on which words you do use and how often you use them.
I'd be happy if they'd release the NES/SNES/N64 ROMS as a [series of] collection[s] for the GameCube. We know it can emulate the NES and probably the SNES as well, and they've been able to make small changes to N64 games to make them playable on the Cube. I think a lot of people would pay for that, and the development costs would be essentially zero.
You're incorrect when we say that what we write is only as predictable as it is redundant.
There are over 90,000 words in the English language (based on number of entries in the American Heritage Dictionary), but nobody uses all of them. Good predictive data entry is not just a matter of waiting until you've typed "tomor" and concluding that you're going to write "tomorrow" because no other words begin that way, it's a matter of noticing when you get to "tom" that, based on your past word usage, the most likely word for you to use is "tomorrow".
You can apply the same concepts to mathematics. When the professor in your example writes "X=..." on the board, you can guess that what's coming next is either another symbol, a literal number, or a mathematical expression. If the professor indicates that it's a mathematical expression, you can then guess that it will probably be the same kind of expression that he uses most often. For example, if you're in a calculus course, you could make a good guess that the expression will be an integral or derivative, and so on.
Apropos does this all with a point and click interface, which is, as mentioned before, much better than MS Equation Editor or writing out the MathML by hand.
Your link comparing Bush's IQ to Kerry's is, well, dubious at best. The results hinge on estimated scores of tests that have almost no relation to each other, or to IQ.
Also, since the AFOQT rarely comes up in conversation, I ought to point out that I totally kicked ass on that test.
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First, I agree that the article is essentially worthless. Allow me to summarize: "I set up my Windows computer to use two monitors. I'm proud of myself." There's really not much more to the article than that. Well, unless you count the exciting screen shot of (I kid you not) the Windows display properties dialog.
Second, and more importantly, I really detest people who post their own stories as if they were a third party. Look at the story above, and note that backBeat lists his email as salcan@gmail.com. Then go to the article and you'll see that it is written by one Sal Cangeloso. He claims that "after reading the snippet, I had to read the article", which is strange, since he wrote it in the first place. If you wrote something interesting, take credit for it. Say, "I recently did some experimenting with a dual monitor setup, and I wrote up some of my conclusions." But don't try to pass it off as anything except self-promotion, as if all of us are idiots who won't catch on.
I know, I just think that if you're going support your argumetn with quotes from a document that every American ought to have at least a passing familiarity with, you shouldn't mix it up.
"Terrorists could find out what has caused outages in the past, use that to find a weakness in the telecommunications network, and then cause a communication outage that coincides with a 9/11-type attack, thereby aggravating the effects of the attack."
An admittedly weak argument, but I bet that's the case.
Actually, none of the documents defining our Union use the phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people." That's from the Gettysburg Address, and while it's perhaps one of the most beautiful pieces of oratory ever delivered, it has no effect on the electoral college.
Finally, what do you mean by "And any other state could do so if it so chose"? I don't get that at all.
What he means is that each state gets to decide what method it uses to cast its electoral votes. Currently, 48 use a winner-take-all form, while two give two votes to the winner and divide the rest proportionally. There's a measure on the ballot in Colorado to move from winner-take-all to divide the state's 9 votes proportionally, and any other state could introduce similar measures if they so chose.
I'm disappointed that there is no GBA link port. I had been hoping that the DS could be hooked up to a GameCube for FF:CC and Four Swords, but it doesn't look like that's an option.
Oh well, I'll still probably have to get one.
My GBA SP gets at least the advertised 10 (backlight)/18 (no backlight) hours, so I've no reason not to believe the advertised battery life for the DS.
I'm not arguing that there wouldn't be a lot of potential for savings. Things that already have power, such as traffic signals or streetlights, could be made wifi-capable and you could get some neat savings or efficiency out of that.
In the case of reading the meters, though, you're not saving $1.3 million, you're saving ($1.3 million - [cost of wifi meters]). It costs money to install and operate that stuff, and you still need somebody (with the requisite vehicle, health plan, etc.) to provide maintenance when the things break or get unplugged.
Think of it, the city could reduce costs in other areas such as, say water meter reading - instead of having guy go out with a scanner to each meter, it could transmit to the office when necessary. That alone would probably save a few million.
This is back of the envelope:
Let's say one guy can read 6 meters per hour (intentionally low)
In a full day's work, he can read 48 meters.
He works 5 days/week, 4 weeks/month, so that's 960 meters per month.
We'll say he gets paid $15 (intentionally high)per hour. That's $2400 for reading 960 meters, or $2.50 per meter.
In order for the wireless self-reporting meters to save the city money, they need to have a monthly cost (including the amortized costs of purchase and installation) of less than $2.50--and even less if the meter-reader can check more than 6 meters in an hour or gets paid less than $15/hour. I really don't see how you'd get millions in savings from this. Furthermore, you still need someone to go out and check on the wireless meters that don't report in (for example, because the owner unplugged it). For the time being, I think some jobs are still best left to people.
(There are still probably lots of opportunities for savings and improvement, such as the traffic examples you cited. I just took issue with the wireless meter-reading part.)
You also have to add something like "without cooperation, we'd still be living in caves!" Then you'll have an argument as well-reasoned and supported as the parent.
Buy one consumer-grade wireless access point/router, and one consumer-grade router. The combination can be had for under $100.
All local machines go behind the non-wireless router. That router's WAN port is connected to one of the LAN ports of the wireless router, and the wireless router's WAN port goes to the Internet. Now you have the public Internet (unsafe), a wireless purgatory (unsafe in a different way), and a secure LAN (as safe as the non-wireless router/firewall box allows it to be).
Alternately, the non-wireless router can be a wireless router with the wireless features turned off.
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Yes, there's a limit on the number of overtime periods, and then the game is ruled a tie.
BTW, this isn't Green Party, or even communist- it's Platonic and was originally proposed in The Republic 2500 years ago...
Ok- [taking 10x the average] is different than Platonic and I missed it the first time around- Platonic would be 10x the minimum income. Though I doubt for you would make any difference.
Actually, Plato wrote about this in Laws, not The Republic. What he proposed was dividing the assets of the city among several classes, giving the highest class between three and four times as much as the lowest class. It had nothing to do with income, especially when you consider that there would be no private ownership of gold or silver in this city, and only a token currency (The Republic was even more strict, the Guardians couldn't own anything, but Kallipolis is just an analogy anyway).
Aristotle later proposed something similar, but with the first class owning five times as much as the lower class. Either way, I think you've got to find someone else for your implicit appeal to authority.
The OED has "over half a million words", which supports my previous argument even better. Nobody comes close to using all of those words, so predictive text input can make intelligent guesses based on which words you do use and how often you use them.
I'd be happy if they'd release the NES/SNES/N64 ROMS as a [series of] collection[s] for the GameCube. We know it can emulate the NES and probably the SNES as well, and they've been able to make small changes to N64 games to make them playable on the Cube. I think a lot of people would pay for that, and the development costs would be essentially zero.
There are over 90,000 words in the English language (based on number of entries in the American Heritage Dictionary), but nobody uses all of them. Good predictive data entry is not just a matter of waiting until you've typed "tomor" and concluding that you're going to write "tomorrow" because no other words begin that way, it's a matter of noticing when you get to "tom" that, based on your past word usage, the most likely word for you to use is "tomorrow".
You can apply the same concepts to mathematics. When the professor in your example writes "X=..." on the board, you can guess that what's coming next is either another symbol, a literal number, or a mathematical expression. If the professor indicates that it's a mathematical expression, you can then guess that it will probably be the same kind of expression that he uses most often. For example, if you're in a calculus course, you could make a good guess that the expression will be an integral or derivative, and so on.
Apropos does this all with a point and click interface, which is, as mentioned before, much better than MS Equation Editor or writing out the MathML by hand.
To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Also, since the AFOQT rarely comes up in conversation, I ought to point out that I totally kicked ass on that test.
John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory
Second, and more importantly, I really detest people who post their own stories as if they were a third party. Look at the story above, and note that backBeat lists his email as salcan@gmail.com. Then go to the article and you'll see that it is written by one Sal Cangeloso. He claims that "after reading the snippet, I had to read the article", which is strange, since he wrote it in the first place. If you wrote something interesting, take credit for it. Say, "I recently did some experimenting with a dual monitor setup, and I wrote up some of my conclusions." But don't try to pass it off as anything except self-promotion, as if all of us are idiots who won't catch on.
I know, I just think that if you're going support your argumetn with quotes from a document that every American ought to have at least a passing familiarity with, you shouldn't mix it up.
"Terrorists could find out what has caused outages in the past, use that to find a weakness in the telecommunications network, and then cause a communication outage that coincides with a 9/11-type attack, thereby aggravating the effects of the attack." An admittedly weak argument, but I bet that's the case.
I think he's using it a new "controlled by the very industry it was designed to regulate" sense.
Actually, none of the documents defining our Union use the phrase "of the people, by the people, for the people." That's from the Gettysburg Address, and while it's perhaps one of the most beautiful pieces of oratory ever delivered, it has no effect on the electoral college.
You're right, thanks for catching my mistake.
What he means is that each state gets to decide what method it uses to cast its electoral votes. Currently, 48 use a winner-take-all form, while two give two votes to the winner and divide the rest proportionally. There's a measure on the ballot in Colorado to move from winner-take-all to divide the state's 9 votes proportionally, and any other state could introduce similar measures if they so chose.
I'm disappointed that there is no GBA link port. I had been hoping that the DS could be hooked up to a GameCube for FF:CC and Four Swords, but it doesn't look like that's an option. Oh well, I'll still probably have to get one.
My GBA SP gets at least the advertised 10 (backlight)/18 (no backlight) hours, so I've no reason not to believe the advertised battery life for the DS.
There were 8 virtues, you're probably forgetting Humility.
This game offended me on a very deep level. Say what you will about the president, but do not speak ill of Voltron!
What about a board with a nail in the end of it?
So I guess there is savings in doing it automatically, but none of that will be included in savings for citywide wireless access.
In the case of reading the meters, though, you're not saving $1.3 million, you're saving ($1.3 million - [cost of wifi meters]). It costs money to install and operate that stuff, and you still need somebody (with the requisite vehicle, health plan, etc.) to provide maintenance when the things break or get unplugged.
This is back of the envelope:
Let's say one guy can read 6 meters per hour (intentionally low)
In a full day's work, he can read 48 meters.
He works 5 days/week, 4 weeks/month, so that's 960 meters per month.
We'll say he gets paid $15 (intentionally high)per hour.
That's $2400 for reading 960 meters, or $2.50 per meter.
In order for the wireless self-reporting meters to save the city money, they need to have a monthly cost (including the amortized costs of purchase and installation) of less than $2.50--and even less if the meter-reader can check more than 6 meters in an hour or gets paid less than $15/hour. I really don't see how you'd get millions in savings from this. Furthermore, you still need someone to go out and check on the wireless meters that don't report in (for example, because the owner unplugged it). For the time being, I think some jobs are still best left to people.
(There are still probably lots of opportunities for savings and improvement, such as the traffic examples you cited. I just took issue with the wireless meter-reading part.)
You also have to add something like "without cooperation, we'd still be living in caves!" Then you'll have an argument as well-reasoned and supported as the parent.
Buy one consumer-grade wireless access point/router, and one consumer-grade router. The combination can be had for under $100.
All local machines go behind the non-wireless router. That router's WAN port is connected to one of the LAN ports of the wireless router, and the wireless router's WAN port goes to the Internet. Now you have the public Internet (unsafe), a wireless purgatory (unsafe in a different way), and a secure LAN (as safe as the non-wireless router/firewall box allows it to be).
Alternately, the non-wireless router can be a wireless router with the wireless features turned off.