The price of oranges probably wouldn't change much at all - if they could get a penny more for them they already would be doing so. The guys who own the farm would just make less money.
If you live where labor costs are not a significant portion of food costs and farmers are wealthy, then you do not live on planet Earth.
While I agree with your overall point, your fervor sent you into asshole-ism.
When the sexy girls fuck the geeks instead of the football studs, you're getting somewhere
Wow, that's the most sexist thing I've seen posted on Slashdot in quite a while. 1) Some of those smart people might actually be girls! 2) Please do not define a student's success by the number of "sexy girls" who want to have sex with them.
I produce about 80% of my families food by value, and about 50% by calories.
Based on what I have read that's not possible. The "usual" figure is that 1 person requires 1 acre, under optimal conditions. (Or 1 person requires 0.5 hectares).
If "family" = 3 people, and you are providing 50% of their calories, then you are feeding 1.5 people on that 1/4 acre. That would be 6 times more efficient than the "optimal" farm. Also, if it is possible to do this, it would require outside sources of water and fertilizer.
We mostly buy bulk cheap stuff like rice, soybeans, flour, and soybean oil, and get everything else from the backyard.
Then that is where you are getting most of your calories.
I honestly tried. I even got an old touch screen as a second monitor so I could try to use the start menu on it. I always try to drink the latest cool-aid. But the OS was unusable, so over the course of a few weeks I changed it to boot to desktop, and re-associated all file extensions to the desktop apps, one by one. Ultimately, the problem is the Metro apps simply don't have the features that the desktop apps have.
It varies from state to state! Stop saying "The ACA raise health care costs!" then "no it didn't!" "yes it did!" "no it didn't!"
If the ACA laws match what your state already had, then the plans will remain the same and the costs will remain the same. If the ACA requirements were higher/stricter than what your state required, then your insurance benefits and costs will increase. If the ACA requirements are lower than what your state required, then... I'm not sure...
I live in Maryland, where most but not all of the ACA rules were already in place. My individual health insurance plan will change very little. It was +/-10% from what my employer offered. The ACA now requires a few provisions that resulted in a nominal increase in my health care costs.
My local NPR station, WYPR, has had a program "Maryland Morning" where they have been going over this for months. They compared to other states where costs are going up because those states allowed health care plans that covered nothing but hangnails and scraped knees.
You have $50 billion to spend on green energy. Make your choice: 1) Give the $50 billion to coal executives and shareholders who will then use that money to create new coal companies and open new mines, since you have done nothing to eliminate with the demand. 2) Build $50 billion worth of green energy to put the coal companies out of business for good.
The entire article is illogical. You can't just eliminate the laws of supply and demand.
It is impossible for the web site operator to contact every Comcast user and provide them with instructions for alternate DNS. It is much more appropriate to pay $50 and submit an Ask Slashdot to solve the problem once and for all. FYI: A later post did solve the problem. It turned out to be a DNSSEC configuration issue.
Perhaps they should put a message on the web site saying that if you can't access it you should change... your DNS server... settings... Oh wait... no, that won't work.
For example, Microsoft used to have something called FxCop, but it hasn't been updated for current versions of the.NET framework
FxCop is still under active development and ships with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. They merely changed the name to "Code Analysis" http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visual...
I think the increased prevalence of HTTPS in the last 2 years has forced more companies to do it.
I work for a Fortune 500 and they quietly implemented this around the end of 2013. It breaks various installers that phone home to check licenses, it breaks automatic updates like Firefox, and secure file transfer sites don't work. But even the software engineers didn't notice it for quite a while since corporate IT pushed down certificates to everyone's machine. There are a few sites that they don't intercept, presumably because it would get them in trouble or interfere on too large of a scale. Ex: Some banks are not intercepted, neither is Microsoft.com since I bet that would break Windows Update.
I want to go back in time and ask my math teachers if they know these things. Because this is what math is about! Seeing the magical connections between reality and numbers.
Make a vaccination plan.... Every time you sign up for something involving lots of people, you may be asked for proof that you were actually vaccinated
It's the same in the US.
You can't attend a public school without vaccinations, or a doctor's exemption. There is a standard form that is used to record your vaccination schedule and any exemptions. Many summer camps are the same way. My employer won't let me into a lab unless I have certain vaccinations, or I must sign a waiver.
I don't understand the business model. Who is suing Aereo and why? I don't see how the TV broadcasting companies would be angry that someone has, for free, extended the range of their signal.
Here is my understanding of the industry: Content providers make content. TV broadcasters pay content providers for content. TV broadcasters sell ads to companies. TV broadcasters distribute content + ads.
So content providers profit from broadcasters. And broadcasters profit from advertisers. Aereo forwards the TV broadcasters' signal to more customers. That forwarding includes both the content and the ads. Since the ads are not stripped, the advertisers and TV broadcasters should be happy because each Aereo customer is one more person who sees the ad. I could see how the the content providers might be unhappy unless the TV broadcasters included those Aereo customers in their counts. Are the content licenses based on number of viewers? That's tough to count on a broadcast. If they are NOT then it makes no difference to the content providers. If they ARE, then Aereo would need to provide those numbers to the TV broadcasters.
I must be missing something because this looks like everyone wins.
Last time I went into a Radio Shack I was surprisingly impressed. Not only did they sell small electronics (LEDs, audio connectors, voltage regulators) which are hard to find retail, but they also sold Arduinos and "modern" hobbyist stuff. My 5-year-old's got the gimmies at the array of science projects like hydrogen rockets, RC vehicles, and etc. I said to myself that Christmas gifts would come from here now, instead of a more generic toy store. Yes, they were expensive, but I've come to expect that from retail.
By contrast, our local electronics and hobby shops continue to sell LEDs, radio antennas, and vacuum tubes -- but the staff have never heard of an Arduino and would never sell a finished good like a rocket or RC car.
...consistently finds that the U.S. produces many more STEM graduates than the workforce can absorb. Meanwhile, employers say managers are struggling to find qualified workers in STEM fields. What explains these apparently contradictory trends?
There is no contradiction between those two statements. Perhaps reading comprehension is what we are lacking. Let's remove the politics by replacing STEM graduates with oranges and see what happens:
1. The US produces more oranges than the citizens can eat. 2. Citizens are struggling to find quality oranges. Conclusion: We produce lots of poor quality oranges.
Now, this is not to say that we don't really need more good quality oranges. But if you forcibly increase production, you will probably have a greater percentage of poor quality product than you had before.
Caveat: I am judging from the summary here so perhaps there is some statistic that says these graduates are indeed quality.
A proposal by Samsung to the five largest U.S. carriers would have made the LoJack software, developed by Canada's Absolute Software, a standard component on many of its Android phones in the U.S.
Standardize on protocols, not implementations.
Does anyone have the text of the US Senate bill to see how it defines the kill switch?
In a corp environment nothing should be calling home ever, that is what they made licences servers for. Updates should be gotten from an update server, ya know something that IT approves. Installers calling home again should never happen.
Thinking like that is why everyone hates IT departments. You are saying that applications should be designed to support the IT departments way of doing things. In reality, lots and lots of apps call home and perform their own licensing. There's nothing wrong with that except that it interferes with the IT departments "vision" of perfect control.
Post SOX/HIPPA there is no secure file transfer your IT dept has a legal requirement to look and record things coming in and out the door.
Actually, HIPAA states the exact opposite. That is why our company has specific file transfer rules in place to prevent snooping. If our IT department intercepted that they would be out of compliance with our own policies!
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The price of oranges probably wouldn't change much at all - if they could get a penny more for them they already would be doing so. The guys who own the farm would just make less money.
If you live where labor costs are not a significant portion of food costs and farmers are wealthy, then you do not live on planet Earth.
While I agree with your overall point, your fervor sent you into asshole-ism.
When the sexy girls fuck the geeks instead of the football studs, you're getting somewhere
Wow, that's the most sexist thing I've seen posted on Slashdot in quite a while.
1) Some of those smart people might actually be girls!
2) Please do not define a student's success by the number of "sexy girls" who want to have sex with them.
I produce about 80% of my families food by value, and about 50% by calories.
Based on what I have read that's not possible. The "usual" figure is that 1 person requires 1 acre, under optimal conditions. (Or 1 person requires 0.5 hectares).
If "family" = 3 people, and you are providing 50% of their calories, then you are feeding 1.5 people on that 1/4 acre. That would be 6 times more efficient than the "optimal" farm. Also, if it is possible to do this, it would require outside sources of water and fertilizer.
We mostly buy bulk cheap stuff like rice, soybeans, flour, and soybean oil, and get everything else from the backyard.
Then that is where you are getting most of your calories.
I honestly tried. I even got an old touch screen as a second monitor so I could try to use the start menu on it. I always try to drink the latest cool-aid. But the OS was unusable, so over the course of a few weeks I changed it to boot to desktop, and re-associated all file extensions to the desktop apps, one by one. Ultimately, the problem is the Metro apps simply don't have the features that the desktop apps have.
I suggest that you enclose the spark gap so dried debris can't blow into it and ignite.
I plan on putting some power lines over my vegetable garden now. I wonder if I can make a solar powered UV flashing light to scare away animals?
It varies from state to state! Stop saying "The ACA raise health care costs!" then "no it didn't!" "yes it did!" "no it didn't!"
If the ACA laws match what your state already had, then the plans will remain the same and the costs will remain the same. If the ACA requirements were higher/stricter than what your state required, then your insurance benefits and costs will increase. If the ACA requirements are lower than what your state required, then... I'm not sure...
I live in Maryland, where most but not all of the ACA rules were already in place. My individual health insurance plan will change very little. It was +/-10% from what my employer offered. The ACA now requires a few provisions that resulted in a nominal increase in my health care costs.
My local NPR station, WYPR, has had a program "Maryland Morning" where they have been going over this for months. They compared to other states where costs are going up because those states allowed health care plans that covered nothing but hangnails and scraped knees.
You have $50 billion to spend on green energy. Make your choice:
1) Give the $50 billion to coal executives and shareholders who will then use that money to create new coal companies and open new mines, since you have done nothing to eliminate with the demand.
2) Build $50 billion worth of green energy to put the coal companies out of business for good.
The entire article is illogical. You can't just eliminate the laws of supply and demand.
It is impossible for the web site operator to contact every Comcast user and provide them with instructions for alternate DNS. It is much more appropriate to pay $50 and submit an Ask Slashdot to solve the problem once and for all. FYI: A later post did solve the problem. It turned out to be a DNSSEC configuration issue.
Perhaps they should put a message on the web site saying that if you can't access it you should change... your DNS server... settings... Oh wait... no, that won't work.
Mod this up! Someone actually found the root cause which is what the submitter was looking for.
I would rather see JPEG 2000 support.
For example, Microsoft used to have something called FxCop, but it hasn't been updated for current versions of the .NET framework
FxCop is still under active development and ships with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, and 2013. They merely changed the name to "Code Analysis"
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visual...
I think the increased prevalence of HTTPS in the last 2 years has forced more companies to do it.
I work for a Fortune 500 and they quietly implemented this around the end of 2013. It breaks various installers that phone home to check licenses, it breaks automatic updates like Firefox, and secure file transfer sites don't work. But even the software engineers didn't notice it for quite a while since corporate IT pushed down certificates to everyone's machine. There are a few sites that they don't intercept, presumably because it would get them in trouble or interfere on too large of a scale. Ex: Some banks are not intercepted, neither is Microsoft.com since I bet that would break Windows Update.
Thank you for posting these explanations!
I want to go back in time and ask my math teachers if they know these things. Because this is what math is about! Seeing the magical connections between reality and numbers.
Make a vaccination plan.... Every time you sign up for something involving lots of people, you may be asked for proof that you were actually vaccinated
It's the same in the US.
You can't attend a public school without vaccinations, or a doctor's exemption. There is a standard form that is used to record your vaccination schedule and any exemptions. Many summer camps are the same way. My employer won't let me into a lab unless I have certain vaccinations, or I must sign a waiver.
I don't understand the business model. Who is suing Aereo and why? I don't see how the TV broadcasting companies would be angry that someone has, for free, extended the range of their signal.
Here is my understanding of the industry:
Content providers make content.
TV broadcasters pay content providers for content.
TV broadcasters sell ads to companies.
TV broadcasters distribute content + ads.
So content providers profit from broadcasters. And broadcasters profit from advertisers. Aereo forwards the TV broadcasters' signal to more customers. That forwarding includes both the content and the ads. Since the ads are not stripped, the advertisers and TV broadcasters should be happy because each Aereo customer is one more person who sees the ad. I could see how the the content providers might be unhappy unless the TV broadcasters included those Aereo customers in their counts. Are the content licenses based on number of viewers? That's tough to count on a broadcast. If they are NOT then it makes no difference to the content providers. If they ARE, then Aereo would need to provide those numbers to the TV broadcasters.
I must be missing something because this looks like everyone wins.
Last time I went into a Radio Shack I was surprisingly impressed. Not only did they sell small electronics (LEDs, audio connectors, voltage regulators) which are hard to find retail, but they also sold Arduinos and "modern" hobbyist stuff. My 5-year-old's got the gimmies at the array of science projects like hydrogen rockets, RC vehicles, and etc. I said to myself that Christmas gifts would come from here now, instead of a more generic toy store. Yes, they were expensive, but I've come to expect that from retail.
By contrast, our local electronics and hobby shops continue to sell LEDs, radio antennas, and vacuum tubes -- but the staff have never heard of an Arduino and would never sell a finished good like a rocket or RC car.
The summary frames this as a false conundrum.
...consistently finds that the U.S. produces many more STEM graduates than the workforce can absorb. Meanwhile, employers say managers are struggling to find qualified workers in STEM fields. What explains these apparently contradictory trends?
There is no contradiction between those two statements. Perhaps reading comprehension is what we are lacking. Let's remove the politics by replacing STEM graduates with oranges and see what happens:
1. The US produces more oranges than the citizens can eat.
2. Citizens are struggling to find quality oranges.
Conclusion: We produce lots of poor quality oranges.
Now, this is not to say that we don't really need more good quality oranges. But if you forcibly increase production, you will probably have a greater percentage of poor quality product than you had before.
Caveat: I am judging from the summary here so perhaps there is some statistic that says these graduates are indeed quality.
Would you be better off programming with Notepad?
If having the most limiting tool available makes you a good programmer, then I recommend using Edlin. Or perhaps punch cards?
A proposal by Samsung to the five largest U.S. carriers would have made the LoJack software, developed by Canada's Absolute Software, a standard component on many of its Android phones in the U.S.
Standardize on protocols, not implementations.
Does anyone have the text of the US Senate bill to see how it defines the kill switch?
Technically, the US has a blank media tax too, but it is very weak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
This only applies to CDs which are labeled and sold for music use;
Only once have I ever seen CDs labeled in this way.
Apps that don't use the Microsoft certificate store:
In a corp environment nothing should be calling home ever, that is what they made licences servers for.
Updates should be gotten from an update server, ya know something that IT approves.
Installers calling home again should never happen.
Thinking like that is why everyone hates IT departments. You are saying that applications should be designed to support the IT departments way of doing things. In reality, lots and lots of apps call home and perform their own licensing. There's nothing wrong with that except that it interferes with the IT departments "vision" of perfect control.
Post SOX/HIPPA there is no secure file transfer your IT dept has a legal requirement to look and record things coming in and out the door.
Actually, HIPAA states the exact opposite. That is why our company has specific file transfer rules in place to prevent snooping. If our IT department intercepted that they would be out of compliance with our own policies!
Post SOX/HIPPA there is no secure file transfer your IT dept has a legal requirement to look and record things coming in and out the door.
Ironically, HIPAA requires that they NOT recording things coming in and out of the door. Yay for regulation!