The average household is swamped in debt because our usury economic system is engineered to funnel wealth into banks and wealthy landowner and capitalists. It's easy to blame the fool who borrows money. The fact is, a large portion of the average person's income in capitalist societies goes into rent. Wealth disparity drives up prices of general necessities like a home, because rich people have much more disposable income than poor people have total income. Poor people are forced to borrow to have a place to live, because they have to compete against a rich person's desire for a vacation home or a golf course or nature reserve. Although a poor person needs a primary house more than a rich person needs those other things, a rich person is likely willing to pay more for a useless addition.
Any calculation of sustainability HAS to take into account non-renewable resources that are being used up. Can we maintain our current population without using resources faster than their renewal rate? I don't know. Do you?
Well, it depends on whether you are basing your measure of quality on (geologically) short term human prosperity or on environmental sustainability. They aren't entirely orthogonal. Higher sustainability will cut into some prosperity.
To me, the debate on suicide is not about suffering, but about human rights. If we do not own our own physical bodies, what do we own at all? There is nothing more unequivocally yours than you. For a state to take control of your own body away from you is capital theft, akin to slavery.
I read Slashdot for politics. If you don't like it, why don't you hide the politics articles in your options. Frankly, I think geeks are generally more rational than the common folk, and I value their opinions.
It certainly does someone some good. Seriously, you are neglecting the fact that there is someone out there who needs a kidney, and probably will die without one. How can you be so sure that this is harmful for society? If there aren't enough people willing to donate a kidney for no compensation, then you can increase the pool of donors by offering some compensation. That's capitalism, isn't it?
strangely enough, I found the Walgreens brand whitening toothpaste (which had a text blurb: Compare to Crest Whitening) to be far superior to Crest's Whitening toothpaste. go figure.
What the hell? There's plenty of avenues for fighting against the PATRIOT act. Why would anyone base an argument around some stupid triviality like how the president signed the paper? That doesn't matter. And everyone can see that it's a stupid argument, no matter if it is correct or not.
One of the benefits of sorted shelves are that you might find something you weren't looking for, but is related to what you were looking for. If I don't know which book is the best book on a subject, I'll just pick one and find it on the shelf, and look at the books near it on the shelf for something that looks appropriate to my level. I don't see how this is possible with a robot system.
AR coating does exist for monitors, I think. You just need to be able to cut through the marketing speech and get the facts. This claims to use some kind of AR coating. Is it real or just marketing? I don't know! http://www.screentekinc.com/pixelbright-lcds.shtml
I guess JSON is a response to Powershell's.COM piping. It does add more power, but also more complexity. The terminal is already pretty scary to people. I hope it isn't too difficult to use.
Even if I agree with your conclusion, I object to the exaggeration. When you call out all these exaggerated problems, you draw attention away from real problems. I doubt if your problems were all fixed in all universities, it would solve any issues with a discrepancy between university education and professional requirements.
Talk about exaggerations. Yeah, there are some bad professors, but you assert that this is the norm for the entire U.S.. Pretty much any university has this thing called office hours where one can talk to the professor on a one and one basis. And most professors are open to scheduling another period of time. Of course, it does require some effort on the student's part. And what's wrong with utilizing the grad students to answer questions? The grad students should be qualified.
Is it a dirty little secret that most profs aim for a raw score of less than 0.70? I fail to see the problem with this. If the median score is around 0.50, then that leaves the most room for distinguishing a good student from a bad one. (Now if the median score is 0.10, then that's a problem.)
The CS curriculum is geared toward theoretical concepts rather than practical knowledge applicable to the industry. This kind of bias is expected, since the professors are all academics! The point of a CS degree is to train you in more difficult problem solving, not the basic programming that you could train a monkey to do.
You are conflating the "right to say something" with the "right to not be held accountable for saying something."
No, you are the one who is diluting the meaning of freedom of speech. If you are persecuted for saything things, then you don't have freedom of speech, even if you have the physical capability to say things. You are conflating "freedom" with "free will". By your argument, you could have the right to steal and destroy, even if such things are outlawed.
No, the real reason for price inflation is banks. The reason why houses are so expensive is because you aren't competing against other people when you go to buy one. You are competing against banks, which have pretty much unlimited pockets. When you borrow money to pay for a house, that means you are spending more than you can afford for the house. Well, when everyone is doing that, that raises the price of houses to become unaffordable. Banks and rich people win in this situation, because a common house buyer will pick up a debt that he or she will be paying off for the rest of the life, with all the wealth funneled into top tier bankers and people with large bank accounts.
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They figured it would be easier to print them out and go through them with a black marker than edit the text files.
The average household is swamped in debt because our usury economic system is engineered to funnel wealth into banks and wealthy landowner and capitalists. It's easy to blame the fool who borrows money. The fact is, a large portion of the average person's income in capitalist societies goes into rent. Wealth disparity drives up prices of general necessities like a home, because rich people have much more disposable income than poor people have total income. Poor people are forced to borrow to have a place to live, because they have to compete against a rich person's desire for a vacation home or a golf course or nature reserve. Although a poor person needs a primary house more than a rich person needs those other things, a rich person is likely willing to pay more for a useless addition.
Now, which place imports more food?
Any calculation of sustainability HAS to take into account non-renewable resources that are being used up. Can we maintain our current population without using resources faster than their renewal rate? I don't know. Do you?
Well, it depends on whether you are basing your measure of quality on (geologically) short term human prosperity or on environmental sustainability. They aren't entirely orthogonal. Higher sustainability will cut into some prosperity.
So, did Sony actually patent this thing? And is there actually prior art in the gaming forums? Some links would be nice.
If patches can be run automatically, then viruses can be run automatically. An operating system that requires patches is not secure.
To me, the debate on suicide is not about suffering, but about human rights. If we do not own our own physical bodies, what do we own at all? There is nothing more unequivocally yours than you. For a state to take control of your own body away from you is capital theft, akin to slavery.
He was a gun maker. He never pulled the trigger.
I read Slashdot for politics. If you don't like it, why don't you hide the politics articles in your options. Frankly, I think geeks are generally more rational than the common folk, and I value their opinions.
It certainly does someone some good. Seriously, you are neglecting the fact that there is someone out there who needs a kidney, and probably will die without one. How can you be so sure that this is harmful for society? If there aren't enough people willing to donate a kidney for no compensation, then you can increase the pool of donors by offering some compensation. That's capitalism, isn't it?
strangely enough, I found the Walgreens brand whitening toothpaste (which had a text blurb: Compare to Crest Whitening) to be far superior to Crest's Whitening toothpaste. go figure.
What the hell? There's plenty of avenues for fighting against the PATRIOT act. Why would anyone base an argument around some stupid triviality like how the president signed the paper? That doesn't matter. And everyone can see that it's a stupid argument, no matter if it is correct or not.
One of the benefits of sorted shelves are that you might find something you weren't looking for, but is related to what you were looking for. If I don't know which book is the best book on a subject, I'll just pick one and find it on the shelf, and look at the books near it on the shelf for something that looks appropriate to my level. I don't see how this is possible with a robot system.
What's the danger of solar power tower?
(slightly) more realistically, the heliostats could be aimed at overhead flying objects to destroy them. (at least during the day)
Do you really want more detail? Look at the plan of development. It was too much detail for me to handle. http://www.tonopahsolar.com/pdfs/Tonopah_Crescent_Dunes_POD_2009_11_23.pdf
AR coating does exist for monitors, I think. You just need to be able to cut through the marketing speech and get the facts. This claims to use some kind of AR coating. Is it real or just marketing? I don't know! http://www.screentekinc.com/pixelbright-lcds.shtml
The colors are brighter, the blacks are darker. It's not all washed out looking (no doubt due to scattering of light at the front of the screen.
Plus, I don't need to buy a mirror.
I guess JSON is a response to Powershell's .COM piping. It does add more power, but also more complexity. The terminal is already pretty scary to people. I hope it isn't too difficult to use.
Even if I agree with your conclusion, I object to the exaggeration. When you call out all these exaggerated problems, you draw attention away from real problems. I doubt if your problems were all fixed in all universities, it would solve any issues with a discrepancy between university education and professional requirements.
I just assumed it was just a historical artifact and a big misunderstanding that got propagated beyond it's usefulness.
Talk about exaggerations. Yeah, there are some bad professors, but you assert that this is the norm for the entire U.S.. Pretty much any university has this thing called office hours where one can talk to the professor on a one and one basis. And most professors are open to scheduling another period of time. Of course, it does require some effort on the student's part. And what's wrong with utilizing the grad students to answer questions? The grad students should be qualified.
Is it a dirty little secret that most profs aim for a raw score of less than 0.70? I fail to see the problem with this. If the median score is around 0.50, then that leaves the most room for distinguishing a good student from a bad one. (Now if the median score is 0.10, then that's a problem.)
The CS curriculum is geared toward theoretical concepts rather than practical knowledge applicable to the industry. This kind of bias is expected, since the professors are all academics! The point of a CS degree is to train you in more difficult problem solving, not the basic programming that you could train a monkey to do.
You are conflating the "right to say something" with the "right to not be held accountable for saying something."
No, you are the one who is diluting the meaning of freedom of speech. If you are persecuted for saything things, then you don't have freedom of speech, even if you have the physical capability to say things. You are conflating "freedom" with "free will". By your argument, you could have the right to steal and destroy, even if such things are outlawed.
No, the real reason for price inflation is banks. The reason why houses are so expensive is because you aren't competing against other people when you go to buy one. You are competing against banks, which have pretty much unlimited pockets. When you borrow money to pay for a house, that means you are spending more than you can afford for the house. Well, when everyone is doing that, that raises the price of houses to become unaffordable. Banks and rich people win in this situation, because a common house buyer will pick up a debt that he or she will be paying off for the rest of the life, with all the wealth funneled into top tier bankers and people with large bank accounts.