So, we're to understand that now that they're going to produce actual episodic content, which is more in the style of old serials that the original were intended to homage, they're going to drop the episodic titling for something else?
The problem is that you take a portion of each worker's productivity and apply it to the "union leaders" who do all the negotiating. The same cult of authority applies that does with CEOs and CEO pay, so now you have TWO overpaid "top-leader" structures sucking your production away.
We wouldn't need to raise the minimum wage if the real problem was addressed - the FED's target of 2% inflation per year, which is not a goal for an upper limit, but a goal on its own.
If you're wealthy, it's no problem. The TSA is inside the terminal, not at the small airports or the section of tarmac where the private and charter jets are parked...
I don't know, it seems like some of the algorithms are only technically more complex, in that they have implemented mersenne twister or MD5 somewhere, rather than being genuinely interesting interactions of surprisingly simple behaviors (a la Pac Man monsters).
For the cost of one year of her salary, how many people could they send through business school themselves and just pick the best one when the dust settles?
What kind of nice, quiet airplanes do YOU fly on? There is plenty of white noise to drown all of that out. The only noises that people make that I can ever hear over the din of the plane itself from more than a seat or two away are the piercing cries of babies with nasal congestion who can't be taught the valsalva maneuver and have no other way to equalize pressure than to cry out in pain for hours.
Unfortunately, given how we are all asleep at the wheel, there's a snowball's chance in hell of that actually happening. As long as the average citizen has food, booze, sex, and "Ow, My Balls!" on the TV, why would they want anything more?
That's actually by design, too. Why else do you think we have been so interested in importing vast, uncountable numbers of people from countries where they're already accepting of overbearing government....
Markers are superior to #2 pencils, whose principle "feature" is that they are pretty hard on the pencil hardness scale, and therefore will last longer in daily use. Someone with a weak grip might not be able to make a dark enough mark. Worse, pencil marks can be erased. Great for a student taking a test, not so great for a municipality having an election....
That doesn't make any sense at all.. the setup time for the huge voting machines is much bigger than for the *one* much smaller counting machine per precinct and the several collapsible tables with velcro markers. Further, the mechanical machines require an election worker to prep the machine by pulling a side-lever before each vote.
People tend to type their passwords out quickly without much thought as it is...
Isn't that what you're supposed to do - type to mitigate some of the shoulder-surfing issue by making it that much more difficult for someone to notice where your fingers are.
Kickstarter is terrible advertising, because their discovery interface is not well designed. I've literally never found anything on kickstarter I was interested in that I did not already know about from other sources (such as here...).
I've tried to find stuff on my own, but I don't have the time or inclination to drill into one of their overly broad categories and browse through everything. You can't even do an intersection of categories like music and <my town> which should be a pretty obvious one to make available.
The most prominent stuff you can find is also the stuff that is already past the funding date...
Yet the whole thing was tossed away because the Star Wreck guy who scraped it together couldn't or wouldn't hand over Iron Sky to a capable director, and instead did it himself.
That's not unique to indie films. That's not even unique to films with the word, "star" in the title...
If your principle is that you really don't want facebook to track you, the right way would be to not use facebook and if all possible,block it as much as you can. If you are still going to allow them some tracking with the hope they cant puzzle together that its you, your principle really isn't worth all that much.
Also, you need to not have any friends who use facebook, or you'll get a "shadow account" created for you if you don't sign up....
If you were using bitcoins for everyday purchases, you could potentially have hundreds of transactions in which you would have "realized the value" that you would then need to calculate your taxes on.
If you buy a sandwich worth of bitcoin, and a month later you spend it to buy two sandwiches, have you not realized gains which the government will feel ought to be taxed?
Eh, even if he made up this usage case for discretizing, it's a reasonable interpretation of the word, especially given the context - take something that is continuous (say, the range of possible values a thing being measured) and transform it to something that is a series of discrete values (the actual measurement of that thing).
Communication happened in that post, and the use of the word in that context does not preclude its usage in other contexts with more precise meaning, so other communication was not prevented or limited by the connotations established. Does there need to be an issue over this?
That statement is true, but it fails to capture the real problem -
most people don't think that there is anything wrong with what the TSA is doing..
Perhaps they haven't read the constitution. Perhaps they have and think it's a reasonable tradeoff because 9/11 is such a powerful fear-button that they shut off rational examination of the issues in favor of rationalization.
I don't know the reason. I do know that I have yet to be able to convince one member of my extended family to even opt out of the rapey-scanners, and the argument I get back isn't that they're in a hurry. It's, "well, you gotta be safe." They think it makes them safe!
Why do we even have "over drive" systems in digital displays? The signal is digital and has a specific pixel size, as does the screen. If those sizes match, why scale the signal to larger than the screen size for the dubious benefit of chopping off bits of it?
The tech specs for the range of motion are listed on the linked page. Tilt requires more force than rotation and moving around, probably because it would generally be set less and you want it to stay, but it is not difficult, and does not require un-screwing anything.
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So, we're to understand that now that they're going to produce actual episodic content, which is more in the style of old serials that the original were intended to homage, they're going to drop the episodic titling for something else?
And we don't even have to worry about it. Solving that problem can be the first question we ask it!
The problem is that you take a portion of each worker's productivity and apply it to the "union leaders" who do all the negotiating. The same cult of authority applies that does with CEOs and CEO pay, so now you have TWO overpaid "top-leader" structures sucking your production away.
We wouldn't need to raise the minimum wage if the real problem was addressed - the FED's target of 2% inflation per year, which is not a goal for an upper limit, but a goal on its own.
If you're wealthy, it's no problem. The TSA is inside the terminal, not at the small airports or the section of tarmac where the private and charter jets are parked...
I don't know, it seems like some of the algorithms are only technically more complex, in that they have implemented mersenne twister or MD5 somewhere, rather than being genuinely interesting interactions of surprisingly simple behaviors (a la Pac Man monsters).
For the cost of one year of her salary, how many people could they send through business school themselves and just pick the best one when the dust settles?
What kind of nice, quiet airplanes do YOU fly on? There is plenty of white noise to drown all of that out. The only noises that people make that I can ever hear over the din of the plane itself from more than a seat or two away are the piercing cries of babies with nasal congestion who can't be taught the valsalva maneuver and have no other way to equalize pressure than to cry out in pain for hours.
Congratulations on your choice of Blue. When Red is in office, you guys can switch.
Unfortunately, given how we are all asleep at the wheel, there's a snowball's chance in hell of that actually happening. As long as the average citizen has food, booze, sex, and "Ow, My Balls!" on the TV, why would they want anything more?
That's actually by design, too. Why else do you think we have been so interested in importing vast, uncountable numbers of people from countries where they're already accepting of overbearing government....
Markers are superior to #2 pencils, whose principle "feature" is that they are pretty hard on the pencil hardness scale, and therefore will last longer in daily use. Someone with a weak grip might not be able to make a dark enough mark. Worse, pencil marks can be erased. Great for a student taking a test, not so great for a municipality having an election....
That doesn't make any sense at all.. the setup time for the huge voting machines is much bigger than for the *one* much smaller counting machine per precinct and the several collapsible tables with velcro markers. Further, the mechanical machines require an election worker to prep the machine by pulling a side-lever before each vote.
If my neighbor's "RoundUp Ready" (yuk, btw) crop of soybeans pollinates my field, am I just screwed?
Soybeans are also yuk. It seems fitting that they'd be combined with roundup readyness.
People tend to type their passwords out quickly without much thought as it is...
Isn't that what you're supposed to do - type to mitigate some of the shoulder-surfing issue by making it that much more difficult for someone to notice where your fingers are.
The first couple seasons were far superior, but the original at least didn't get to the point of having a disappointing and non-sensical ending.
Kickstarter is terrible advertising, because their discovery interface is not well designed. I've literally never found anything on kickstarter I was interested in that I did not already know about from other sources (such as here...).
I've tried to find stuff on my own, but I don't have the time or inclination to drill into one of their overly broad categories and browse through everything. You can't even do an intersection of categories like music and <my town> which should be a pretty obvious one to make available.
The most prominent stuff you can find is also the stuff that is already past the funding date...
Yet the whole thing was tossed away because the Star Wreck guy who scraped it together couldn't or wouldn't hand over Iron Sky to a capable director, and instead did it himself.
That's not unique to indie films. That's not even unique to films with the word, "star" in the title...
If your principle is that you really don't want facebook to track you, the right way would be to not use facebook and if all possible ,block it as much as you can. If you are still going to allow them some tracking with the hope they cant puzzle together that its you, your principle really isn't worth all that much.
Also, you need to not have any friends who use facebook, or you'll get a "shadow account" created for you if you don't sign up....
If you were using bitcoins for everyday purchases, you could potentially have hundreds of transactions in which you would have "realized the value" that you would then need to calculate your taxes on.
If you buy a sandwich worth of bitcoin, and a month later you spend it to buy two sandwiches, have you not realized gains which the government will feel ought to be taxed?
Eh, even if he made up this usage case for discretizing, it's a reasonable interpretation of the word, especially given the context - take something that is continuous (say, the range of possible values a thing being measured) and transform it to something that is a series of discrete values (the actual measurement of that thing).
Communication happened in that post, and the use of the word in that context does not preclude its usage in other contexts with more precise meaning, so other communication was not prevented or limited by the connotations established. Does there need to be an issue over this?
That statement is true, but it fails to capture the real problem -
most people don't think that there is anything wrong with what the TSA is doing..
Perhaps they haven't read the constitution. Perhaps they have and think it's a reasonable tradeoff because 9/11 is such a powerful fear-button that they shut off rational examination of the issues in favor of rationalization.
I don't know the reason. I do know that I have yet to be able to convince one member of my extended family to even opt out of the rapey-scanners, and the argument I get back isn't that they're in a hurry. It's, "well, you gotta be safe." They think it makes them safe!
Those are the domain of state governments.
The role of the state governments does not justify the federal government. What does the federal government do for you?
There are a few things. Enough to justify its bloated budget... I'm not sure.
Does it really take surgery to fool, or does it just take a photocopied piece of paper held with the toner side away from the scanner?
Why do we even have "over drive" systems in digital displays? The signal is digital and has a specific pixel size, as does the screen. If those sizes match, why scale the signal to larger than the screen size for the dubious benefit of chopping off bits of it?
The tech specs for the range of motion are listed on the linked page. Tilt requires more force than rotation and moving around, probably because it would generally be set less and you want it to stay, but it is not difficult, and does not require un-screwing anything.