baltimore-DC area was hit by a hurricane about 10 months ago, and had a near identical outage&response to what we're seeing this week. people with power out for 3-7 days, communication sporadic, centralized/managed sources of ice/water/etc generally minimal if existing at all. AND, this time it's been averaging 95-100F, whereas last year it was actually pleasant having the windows open and no AC going.
The local authority 'investigated' the local utility's response. don't recall the outcome. but now, less than a year later, and we have almost the same level of damage, and same response time... maybe the latter makes sense. (we'd have done better than last time with at the same warning as last time). but why is the level of outage the same? Maybe that's what needs to be investigated. shouldn't a good hurricane have taken out most of the weak spots last year? did the hurricane create new weak spots that this storm caused to fail? Having grown up in an area with predominantly buried power lines, are there any preventative ways other than burying lines that can help? What about identifying certain projects to bury lines that frequently fail? A 'greatest net benefit' analysis?
"can back-order at the price of the stock when the order was given."
interesting, but if someone else already got that stock at that price, by what right can they give you someone else's stock at a price different than they were offering? where's that price difference getting made up?
It's not just the PhDs their bringing in (and unemployment in high tech fields requiring advanced degrees is a good deal lower than the rest.) Still, FTFA:
"With youth unemployment being as high as it is, the Obama administration should be focusing on attracting the smartest immigrants that will add value and complement the workforce," said Costa.
"Adding workers with ordinary skills from vocational schools that few people have ever heard of - just because they hold STEM degrees - does nothing to further that goal," he added.
spending my tax money in a way antithetical to the betterment of the country, economy, etc., in order to improve the profit margins of certain industries? yes, I believe those could be termed evil profits. or at a minimum rather unethical profits if we don't want to paint with just black and white.
I can see it now. there will be a paper clearinghouse. it'll be like Digg for academics. Better start planning on exploiting the system now, I'm sure there's money to be made in this somewhere.
last time I looked through the Elsevier policy, you have rights to the manuscript, you have rights to the modified manuscript after peer review, and they have rights to the version of the peer reviewed article that they typeset for publication. they may also ask you to agree to certain limitations to your distribution of the pre-prints, but many of those are fairly tame.
mod parent up! I was just about to post about the problem of maintaining the anonymity of the peer review process while guaranteeing peer review. Science and Nature obviously have a different levels of rigor from the Journal of Your Mom's Basement. Your idea has merit.
likely it would stack up rather well, as his differential for staying late is likely zero. (salaried mid-upper management, you get paid to get the job done even if it's 60+hrs a week). That, and the fact that a ridiculously large number of Americans have tapped out their income, piled up mounds of debt, and feel pressure to maintain a lucrative lifestyle, and 30k could make a big difference.)
but, are they rebroadcasting it at all? or are they delivering it upon request to one individual? I station with an antenna broadcasts the signal to everyone capable of receiving that signal over the broadcast medium. Same with Cable, it's just a better contained medium. Oec you stop broadcasting, and you start delivering requested content, things have changed. or, at least, things should be considered to be different, whether or not they actually are in your particular jurisdiction.
"I'm skeptical that there are any business models that can undercut piracy which don't also involve a large cut in revenues."
Sounds like a false assumption is made in your decision process. The way people consume media has changed. That will likely require a change in business model and/or revenue stream. money for media will fall, people trying to innovate and make money will do so within the parameters available. then money for media may climb again. for those people, and the landscape will likely look a bit different. such is progress.
The majority of students would be transferred to the hardware-oriented ECE department The CISE department would be converted to a teaching-only department 50% of faculty would be transferred to other engineering departments (ECE, ISE, and BME)
so, if it will be a teaching only department, that doesn't seem the same as eliminated. They'll move the engineering in with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and it seems leave CISE to teach programming.
the braindead will want a way to fix it, quick, without thinking hard. if you want this as default, but don't want them turning it completely off, then you need to provide a really easy way of them to think they've fixed their immediate problem. They won't think beyond that. Maybe a "whitelist this page so your scripts work?" popup the first time you visit a site? may get annoying on every other page, though.
just remember, the first 'cable' systems were just that: some guy put a good antenna way up on a hill or mountain near town where it could get good reception of the nearest broadcasts, and it would 'redistribute' that signal down to the town. I.e., Community Antenna Television (CATV). It was only a bit later that they cabled content directly from the broadcast station. I'm not sure at what point they found a way of imposing a redistribution fee, but if they have grounds for it, and Aereo is claiming to be doing the same thing people did 60 years ago and paid fees for... methinks they'll have to pay fees too.
It ain't new just 'cause you're using the internet.
congratulations. everyone just answered like car guys. fits in well where everyone normally answers like superior computer geeks. You're expecting the average soccer mom to respond properly to an emergency situation where the car isn't behaving as she expected. Or grandma. or the new 16 year old kid behind the wheel of a minivan.
Some automatic override of a recognized possible fault condition sounds reasonable.
specifically, ask them who they'll be inviting instead to provide counterpoint, if not Mr. Schneier. Ask them how they can assume the TSA, which must provide a biased story to (1) avoid contradicting previous statements, (2) to protect their future budget and (3) to successfully defend the lawsuit for which Mr. Schneier was removed, can be considered an unbiased source of information. (Oh wait, they're federal employees, altruism must be taken for granted)
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baltimore-DC area was hit by a hurricane about 10 months ago, and had a near identical outage&response to what we're seeing this week. people with power out for 3-7 days, communication sporadic, centralized/managed sources of ice/water/etc generally minimal if existing at all. AND, this time it's been averaging 95-100F, whereas last year it was actually pleasant having the windows open and no AC going.
The local authority 'investigated' the local utility's response. don't recall the outcome. but now, less than a year later, and we have almost the same level of damage, and same response time... maybe the latter makes sense. (we'd have done better than last time with at the same warning as last time). but why is the level of outage the same? Maybe that's what needs to be investigated. shouldn't a good hurricane have taken out most of the weak spots last year? did the hurricane create new weak spots that this storm caused to fail? Having grown up in an area with predominantly buried power lines, are there any preventative ways other than burying lines that can help? What about identifying certain projects to bury lines that frequently fail? A 'greatest net benefit' analysis?
or maybe they set the bar just high enough to rule out those who can't spell the name of the school.
"can back-order at the price of the stock when the order was given."
interesting, but if someone else already got that stock at that price, by what right can they give you someone else's stock at a price different than they were offering? where's that price difference getting made up?
"...guarantee that it wasn't doing anything sensitive, though possibly classified... "
you just might not quite understand the meaning of classified.
yes. as opposed to manned robots in space. the Japanese beat us to that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundam
It's not just the PhDs their bringing in (and unemployment in high tech fields requiring advanced degrees is a good deal lower than the rest.) Still, FTFA:
"With youth unemployment being as high as it is, the Obama administration should be focusing on attracting the smartest immigrants that will add value and complement the workforce," said Costa.
"Adding workers with ordinary skills from vocational schools that few people have ever heard of - just because they hold STEM degrees - does nothing to further that goal," he added.
spending my tax money in a way antithetical to the betterment of the country, economy, etc., in order to improve the profit margins of certain industries? yes, I believe those could be termed evil profits. or at a minimum rather unethical profits if we don't want to paint with just black and white.
FIRST?
Having started involvement with FIRST over a decade ago, I would like to thank you for the OT advertising.
I think we should just go back to calling them all Philosophy. Then I could stop explaining to people why they're called PhD's.
I can see it now. there will be a paper clearinghouse. it'll be like Digg for academics. Better start planning on exploiting the system now, I'm sure there's money to be made in this somewhere.
last time I looked through the Elsevier policy, you have rights to the manuscript, you have rights to the modified manuscript after peer review, and they have rights to the version of the peer reviewed article that they typeset for publication. they may also ask you to agree to certain limitations to your distribution of the pre-prints, but many of those are fairly tame.
mod parent up! I was just about to post about the problem of maintaining the anonymity of the peer review process while guaranteeing peer review. Science and Nature obviously have a different levels of rigor from the Journal of Your Mom's Basement. Your idea has merit.
also there in Opera Mini, a godsend for web browsing over a feature phone without hitting your 75MB/month cap.
likely it would stack up rather well, as his differential for staying late is likely zero. (salaried mid-upper management, you get paid to get the job done even if it's 60+hrs a week). That, and the fact that a ridiculously large number of Americans have tapped out their income, piled up mounds of debt, and feel pressure to maintain a lucrative lifestyle, and 30k could make a big difference.)
but, are they rebroadcasting it at all? or are they delivering it upon request to one individual? I station with an antenna broadcasts the signal to everyone capable of receiving that signal over the broadcast medium. Same with Cable, it's just a better contained medium. Oec you stop broadcasting, and you start delivering requested content, things have changed. or, at least, things should be considered to be different, whether or not they actually are in your particular jurisdiction.
"I'm skeptical that there are any business models that can undercut piracy which don't also involve a large cut in revenues."
Sounds like a false assumption is made in your decision process. The way people consume media has changed. That will likely require a change in business model and/or revenue stream. money for media will fall, people trying to innovate and make money will do so within the parameters available. then money for media may climb again. for those people, and the landscape will likely look a bit different. such is progress.
bubble v1 had Flooz with Whoopi Goldberg. who will get the first big Bitcoin sponsorship?
150W = 0.15kW x 24hrs/day = 3.6kWh/day x $0.10/kWh = $0.36 / day x 30 days/month = $10.80 / month.
Rescale according to your local electricity cost and actual number of hours per day.
I haven't seen it, but based on the topic I figured it would basically be: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The College Years.
how close is that?
FTFA:
The majority of students would be transferred to the hardware-oriented ECE department
The CISE department would be converted to a teaching-only department
50% of faculty would be transferred to other engineering departments (ECE, ISE, and BME)
so, if it will be a teaching only department, that doesn't seem the same as eliminated. They'll move the engineering in with the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and it seems leave CISE to teach programming.
the braindead will want a way to fix it, quick, without thinking hard. if you want this as default, but don't want them turning it completely off, then you need to provide a really easy way of them to think they've fixed their immediate problem. They won't think beyond that. Maybe a "whitelist this page so your scripts work?" popup the first time you visit a site? may get annoying on every other page, though.
just remember, the first 'cable' systems were just that: some guy put a good antenna way up on a hill or mountain near town where it could get good reception of the nearest broadcasts, and it would 'redistribute' that signal down to the town. I.e., Community Antenna Television (CATV). It was only a bit later that they cabled content directly from the broadcast station. I'm not sure at what point they found a way of imposing a redistribution fee, but if they have grounds for it, and Aereo is claiming to be doing the same thing people did 60 years ago and paid fees for... methinks they'll have to pay fees too.
It ain't new just 'cause you're using the internet.
congratulations. everyone just answered like car guys. fits in well where everyone normally answers like superior computer geeks. You're expecting the average soccer mom to respond properly to an emergency situation where the car isn't behaving as she expected. Or grandma. or the new 16 year old kid behind the wheel of a minivan.
Some automatic override of a recognized possible fault condition sounds reasonable.
there's always civil court. look at OJ.
Here's the committee, see any of yours on there? Send 'em an angrygram.
http://oversight.house.gov/committee-members/
specifically, ask them who they'll be inviting instead to provide counterpoint, if not Mr. Schneier.
Ask them how they can assume the TSA, which must provide a biased story to (1) avoid contradicting previous statements, (2) to protect their future budget and (3) to successfully defend the lawsuit for which Mr. Schneier was removed, can be considered an unbiased source of information. (Oh wait, they're federal employees, altruism must be taken for granted)