The problem is the powers that be, when implementing something like a smart power grid, can only imagine it as a centrally-planned "smart" power grid. So instead of distributing pricing information in intervals throughout the day so that you can decide when to run various equipment or charge an electric vehicle, they install meters that turn on your appliances when the power company deems it ok to run.
Firstly, the power company's schedule might not match your own, and secondly, doesn't it seem a bit lopsided to give the power a switch they can use to run your bill up?
If you can stop in 300 ft, you don't need to be 300 ft from the car in front of you unless one scenario you're envisioning is the car in front of you suddenly hitting an unexpected wall.
If you're the lead, "betting to tie" actually means a smaller bet than betting to guarantee a win if you both answer correctly. In that case, it's possible you might actually be better positioned in the event that you answer incorrectly.
Jeopardy has rule changes from time to time, for instance the rule change that eventually made Ken Jennings a millionaire.
If it becomes a problem, Jeopardy will change the rules to result in the game theoretic behavior aligning with the fun-to-watch behavior. I haven't watched in a while, but I might just tune in to see someone playing in the optimal way. That's something we've really not seen a tremendous amount of, so it's novel.
A vote by a black person, once allowed at all, was only counted as three-fifths (3/5) of a white vote.
A vote by a free black person was counted as one vote just like any other. It was the non-free persons whose numbers only counted for 3/5ths in the apportionment of representation in the national congress. They didn't get to vote, but the slave owners did, and their votes counted more, on the backs of the oppressed, than they ought to have.
It's worse than that. When you vote for a third party, one of the two parties still wins, and very likely it's the one from the party that is least aligned with your principles.
In other words, the lesson you're teaching the two parties is that they should encourage a third party to emerge that aligns somewhat with their opponent's typical voters....
The public financing was the real problem. Cablevision was just the hero with big enough pockets to get it cancelled.
I fail to understand why people who aren't interested in sports should be required to support an extremely profitable private business catering to people who are.
Every radio shack still has a tool chest full of assorted IC's, gates and connectors. They have several antenna products (that.. I'm not sure are really all that great, but you can still get mag-mount antennas), two or three different breadboards including at least one solderless, small spools of solid wire, and a few various other tools, including the classic 15W soldering pen. The last time I was there they even had a very cheap-looking soldering gun.
They often only have one of anything any more, and the floor space is constantly shrinking, which is unfortunate, but you never had a Digikey-level selection at radio shack anyway. I'm pretty sure you can at least still get some variation of the old 200-in-1 springboard kits, and thanks to nascar they still offer a decent collection of handheld vhf scanners.
Now that you've laughed about them, in a couple weeks you're going to forget about the "never buy" part and just remember the "felt strongly" part. Then when you're buying the products, the "brand you'll never buy" will be the brand you vaguely remember, so that's the one you'll put in the basket.
the Canadian subsidiaries of US and international oil companies that are making that oil in Alberta want to export it internationally because their only market for it now is the central US, and that area has a relative glut of supply. Great for the consumer-level of the game.
Unless you're a consumer outside the central US....
Maybe it's more efficient to transport one product to refineries all over and let them break it out into all the various end products closer to where they're actually being used?
For example, I've seen the kids taught to develop powerpoint presentations, where the emphasis was on the visual aspects of the presentation, rather than on the soundness or validity of their arguments.
You realize, of course, that this is also a valid skill in addition to having sound arguments or good information. The presentation of the information itself is something that is a valuable skill, and that includes how to insert various graphical features into a powerpoint presentation (or.. better.. some presentation software that doesn't bias toward powerpoint or keynote specifically) as well as when to use those features, and what to avoid.
It's really easy to become enamored with all the various features and wipes and whatnot and be distracted from the presentation itself by all the visual fluff. A good presentation segment will include that stuff and why to avoid it as well.
In your example, it actually sounds like it would have been beneficial for your client to have had just enough training to know that it was possible to automate that repetitive task. Something that would have made you the first to go to to check whether it was practical then to do the work.
I see this pretty much every day, too. People will spend hours doing some task on a computer over and over again and it never occurs to them that a computer is a machine designed to automate repetitive tasks.
It's not constant, it's "locked in" at the time a plant dies, though. So you can use the ratios that exist in various artifacts to learn the age of those objects by correlating with samples from known periods.
You can also guess based on whatever is a "typical" level of C-14.
C-14 has a half-life of 5,000 years, so without being constantly replenished by some process, we wouldn't have any of it at all. We are fortunate that it does exist, though, because it is a decent near-term dating method with its short half-life. Other radioisotope dating methods using chains of decay products are able to give us date estimates without needing a table of initial amounts, but those processes also are typically suited to much longer time-scales.
How do you figure? The money itself has no real value. The real value is in the time, effort and resources that have been directed through the use of that money. If that effort has been spent on useless things, then it also has not been spent on useful things.
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside façade of the building.
I just don't see this working, or being something anyone wants. At least not in a hotel.
Sounds like you give up your window view when a bigger bathroom gets bolted onto your room.
Or when someone above you orders a bigger bathroom. In a building of sufficient size, you could have your view blocked by an translating lavatory every few minutes.
That is the problem. The TV dramas are showing us that the cops are always right in whatever they do to catch the bad guy, and the the guy they're after is the bad guy, so it justifies everything. Including using his refusal to submit to a search or whatever being used as evidence that he must have something to hide.
I'm not sure there's a crime drama on TV today where the protagonists haven't, at one point in the series (often every single episode...) broken into a "suspect"'s house to peek around before coming back with a real search warrant.
Both, really. User sees the results of his actions, makes input to change the results to match what he wants. In a sense, the user transforms the screen output into keyboard input with additional input from "imagination." And the computer also transforms the keyboard into into monitor output.
Then there's a wider feedback loop from the results of the user's input affecting the real-world in some way and that information or effect reaching the user who transforms that into a desire for the computer to perform some task, and re-running the computer > monitor > person > keyboard > computer loop.
But putting the chair in the control flow mix implies an open-circuit input from the chair itself. I'm not sure that a chair is wise enough to make good computing decisions.
String sort is the proper default, because for the prime uses of javascript, "numbers" should really be thought of and handled as strings, especially when sorting.
If you need it to sort numerically, javascript's array sort method takes an argument for a sort function.
It implies that the user is a filter that takes input from the chair to input it into the computer, and does not use the monitor feedback system at all. Go ahead and draw the control flow diagram some time.
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The problem is the powers that be, when implementing something like a smart power grid, can only imagine it as a centrally-planned "smart" power grid. So instead of distributing pricing information in intervals throughout the day so that you can decide when to run various equipment or charge an electric vehicle, they install meters that turn on your appliances when the power company deems it ok to run.
Firstly, the power company's schedule might not match your own, and secondly, doesn't it seem a bit lopsided to give the power a switch they can use to run your bill up?
If you can stop in 300 ft, you don't need to be 300 ft from the car in front of you unless one scenario you're envisioning is the car in front of you suddenly hitting an unexpected wall.
kg isn't a weight. You're ruining the metric system.
If you're the lead, "betting to tie" actually means a smaller bet than betting to guarantee a win if you both answer correctly. In that case, it's possible you might actually be better positioned in the event that you answer incorrectly.
What about his super ego?
Jeopardy has rule changes from time to time, for instance the rule change that eventually made Ken Jennings a millionaire.
If it becomes a problem, Jeopardy will change the rules to result in the game theoretic behavior aligning with the fun-to-watch behavior. I haven't watched in a while, but I might just tune in to see someone playing in the optimal way. That's something we've really not seen a tremendous amount of, so it's novel.
A vote by a black person, once allowed at all, was only counted as three-fifths (3/5) of a white vote.
A vote by a free black person was counted as one vote just like any other. It was the non-free persons whose numbers only counted for 3/5ths in the apportionment of representation in the national congress. They didn't get to vote, but the slave owners did, and their votes counted more, on the backs of the oppressed, than they ought to have.
It's worse than that. When you vote for a third party, one of the two parties still wins, and very likely it's the one from the party that is least aligned with your principles.
In other words, the lesson you're teaching the two parties is that they should encourage a third party to emerge that aligns somewhat with their opponent's typical voters....
That depends on which way you're trying to turn it...
Cablevision wasn't the problem.
The public financing was the real problem. Cablevision was just the hero with big enough pockets to get it cancelled.
I fail to understand why people who aren't interested in sports should be required to support an extremely profitable private business catering to people who are.
Every radio shack still has a tool chest full of assorted IC's, gates and connectors. They have several antenna products (that.. I'm not sure are really all that great, but you can still get mag-mount antennas), two or three different breadboards including at least one solderless, small spools of solid wire, and a few various other tools, including the classic 15W soldering pen. The last time I was there they even had a very cheap-looking soldering gun.
They often only have one of anything any more, and the floor space is constantly shrinking, which is unfortunate, but you never had a Digikey-level selection at radio shack anyway. I'm pretty sure you can at least still get some variation of the old 200-in-1 springboard kits, and thanks to nascar they still offer a decent collection of handheld vhf scanners.
Now that you've laughed about them, in a couple weeks you're going to forget about the "never buy" part and just remember the "felt strongly" part. Then when you're buying the products, the "brand you'll never buy" will be the brand you vaguely remember, so that's the one you'll put in the basket.
the Canadian subsidiaries of US and international oil companies that are making that oil in Alberta want to export it internationally because their only market for it now is the central US, and that area has a relative glut of supply. Great for the consumer-level of the game.
Unless you're a consumer outside the central US....
The whole point of the Internet is to be decentralized, I never got why that didn't extend to the DNS system too. Fuck ICANN
Is it? When was the last time you peered with your neighbors?
Maybe it's more efficient to transport one product to refineries all over and let them break it out into all the various end products closer to where they're actually being used?
For example, I've seen the kids taught to develop powerpoint presentations, where the emphasis was on the visual aspects of the presentation, rather than on the soundness or validity of their arguments.
You realize, of course, that this is also a valid skill in addition to having sound arguments or good information. The presentation of the information itself is something that is a valuable skill, and that includes how to insert various graphical features into a powerpoint presentation (or.. better.. some presentation software that doesn't bias toward powerpoint or keynote specifically) as well as when to use those features, and what to avoid.
It's really easy to become enamored with all the various features and wipes and whatnot and be distracted from the presentation itself by all the visual fluff. A good presentation segment will include that stuff and why to avoid it as well.
In your example, it actually sounds like it would have been beneficial for your client to have had just enough training to know that it was possible to automate that repetitive task. Something that would have made you the first to go to to check whether it was practical then to do the work.
I see this pretty much every day, too. People will spend hours doing some task on a computer over and over again and it never occurs to them that a computer is a machine designed to automate repetitive tasks.
It's not constant, it's "locked in" at the time a plant dies, though. So you can use the ratios that exist in various artifacts to learn the age of those objects by correlating with samples from known periods.
You can also guess based on whatever is a "typical" level of C-14.
C-14 has a half-life of 5,000 years, so without being constantly replenished by some process, we wouldn't have any of it at all. We are fortunate that it does exist, though, because it is a decent near-term dating method with its short half-life. Other radioisotope dating methods using chains of decay products are able to give us date estimates without needing a table of initial amounts, but those processes also are typically suited to much longer time-scales.
How do you figure? The money itself has no real value. The real value is in the time, effort and resources that have been directed through the use of that money. If that effort has been spent on useless things, then it also has not been spent on useful things.
What about homes for people?
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside façade of the building.
I just don't see this working, or being something anyone wants. At least not in a hotel.
Sounds like you give up your window view when a bigger bathroom gets bolted onto your room.
Or when someone above you orders a bigger bathroom. In a building of sufficient size, you could have your view blocked by an translating lavatory every few minutes.
All of a sudden I want to re-watch Brazil.
That is the problem. The TV dramas are showing us that the cops are always right in whatever they do to catch the bad guy, and the the guy they're after is the bad guy, so it justifies everything. Including using his refusal to submit to a search or whatever being used as evidence that he must have something to hide.
I'm not sure there's a crime drama on TV today where the protagonists haven't, at one point in the series (often every single episode...) broken into a "suspect"'s house to peek around before coming back with a real search warrant.
Both, really. User sees the results of his actions, makes input to change the results to match what he wants. In a sense, the user transforms the screen output into keyboard input with additional input from "imagination." And the computer also transforms the keyboard into into monitor output.
Then there's a wider feedback loop from the results of the user's input affecting the real-world in some way and that information or effect reaching the user who transforms that into a desire for the computer to perform some task, and re-running the computer > monitor > person > keyboard > computer loop.
But putting the chair in the control flow mix implies an open-circuit input from the chair itself. I'm not sure that a chair is wise enough to make good computing decisions.
String sort is the proper default, because for the prime uses of javascript, "numbers" should really be thought of and handled as strings, especially when sorting.
If you need it to sort numerically, javascript's array sort method takes an argument for a sort function.
PEBCAK itself is an example of PEBCAK
It implies that the user is a filter that takes input from the chair to input it into the computer, and does not use the monitor feedback system at all. Go ahead and draw the control flow diagram some time.
I'd be cool with on-ramp to off-ramp, even, as long as it could handle traffic.