It's good in people who can self teach but I know a family where the first kid really pushed himself to keep up with his peers academically and did a lot of self instruction. His brothers didn't have the same academically driven peers and the parent teaching didn't force the issue so long story short in highschool 3 of the four needed reading intervention since they were way behind on literacy.
I say the same thing about College vs. self teaching. While it is important to learn how to learn, some people do really just need a lot of structure. So if someone does home school it's important that the parent provides it if your kids need it and aren't providing it for themselves.
To liberals, there are no zero-sum games. Giving things out for free will never cost more money. The "free" community college education will not draw money out of other programs. The examples are endless.
Did you mean that as an insult to liberals? Because our educational system that ensures people are properly trained to find work and not live off of charity seems like the most obvious of programs which aren't zero-sum.
You're right Liberals do champion tons of programs: - Education to keep people out of jail and off of welfare. - Loans to help people afford education. - Energy Efficiency programs to ensure that cars cost slightly more but save their buyers tens of thousands. - Anti-Monopoly efforts to prevent price fixing. - R&D investments in the sciences to boost our nation's attractiveness to the brightest minds on the planet. - A transportation system that has been proven in numerous studies to provide substantially more economic stimulus than it costs to build.
My guess is that they are attempting to direct language. For instance spelling bees in Spanish would be absurd since Spanish has had a pretty vigorously defended spelling system. English has always(Old-English) been (Proto-Germanic) a bit of a hodgepodge (Anglo-French) of disparate (latin) bits and pieces (French). As a result there is no consistency. I agree that it would be nice to clean up and standardize our spelling/grammar but obviously it's a futile task.
Almost all of the design and administration of Apple is done in California. But surprisingly the "Company" is a foreign company where they have no factories, no designers, no corporate officers and just a bank account.
So yes, by using the talent and ingenuity of US workers and then claiming that they're an Irish Company they are stealing the value that US Society has invested into its workforce (and supplied the infrastructure for that workforce to get to the job site etc).
Personally I believe that we should tax not based on where they are located but where most of the value is created. If you are Microsoft and 90% of your workforce is in Washington State but you are incorporate in "Nevada" because you have a PO Box there then you should be taxed at 90% Washington 8% California and 2% Nevada tax rates. Similarly if 80% of your operations are in the US then you are 80% a US company and 80% of your revenue is taxable under US tax law.
Everybody knows that Apple is a California company. To say otherwise is dishonesty. It might legally be correct that Apple is a subsidiary of an Irish shell corporation but they're cheating the system and doing something that doesn't pass any sort of sniff test of truthfulness.
Especially when p includes small arms fire. A bullet can only hit one engine at a time. If the president was taking off and an armed group shot out one engine during takeoff that would not be great with 2 engines. With 4 engines there are 4 discreet locations they have to hit.
Don't purchase something that is about to be EOL'ed. There are a number of other problems first and foremost in my mind would be runway access. The a380 limits where the president could go. Everybody and their mother can still accept a 747.
The DOJ always hoovered up massive amounts of data. Metadata collection is absolutely nothing new. It's interesting watching The Wolf of Wall Street and reading up on the case that it's based on--call logs were prolific in the case. "It says here that you called so and so at 8AM and talked for 45 minutes."
The problem isn't so much in my opinion the mass collection it's the fact that the collection isn't encrypted. The software should be designed and audited such that the info can only be searched with an encryption key issued for a limited time. And then all searches and results should be logged and reviewed by an independent body.
I agree with this sentiment to a large extent. We don't get mad when TCP/IP is used in an authoritarian country. At some point Facebook is like any other infrastructure on the internet--it's a conduit. I don't really blame Vint Cerf or Cisco for the great firewall of China. If anything the fact that Turkey's government has to go to Facebook and demand that they filter content is already a win of sorts in an authoritarian anti-free speech zone. If we replaced Facebook with something like email the Turkish could simply block all TCP/IP traffic that matches banned images or words. At least this way you have a company like Facebook running the filtering which will presumably do the very absolute minimum filtering required by law as opposed the absolute maximum that they can get away with before a court orders them to back off on the filtering.
It's because we've put up with 30 years of FOSS community trumpeting the fact that Linux isn't hacked, only Microsoft needs anti-virus, Open Source means that "something like this will never happen".
If a community spends decades puffing its chest and talking shit it's going to get 10x the scorn when it's revealed to be as vulnerable as the next guy. The fact is that all software can be hacked. And at any given time there is a zero day exploit that can probably penetrate any system. Commercial tools used to be the target of this research and and attack and now that open source is gaining traction it's getting the same scrutiny--and similarly failing.
Not maybe 1:1 but I know people who sold software and as soon as the crack would go wild their sales immediately plummeted. Custom DRM was the best way to extend the time from release to crack but also releasing stripped down trial versions helped a lot since it reduced the demand for a cracked version.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the Games industry has chosen DLC to be its mode of extracting revenue. Release a game for free and buy that horse armor.
Correct me if I'm wrong but without knowing the voltage isn't comparing amperage hours to one another useless?
5v * 1Ah = 5watt hours 12v * 1Ah = 12watt hours
Amp-hour isn't actually a unit of energy potential.
One AA battery has about 2.6ah * 1.5v = 3.9 watt/hr One D Battery has about 18ah * 1.5v = 27 watt/hr
175 years = 1533000 hours * 7200 nanoampere seconds per hour = 11.06 ah. Which if it's.1 volt would be 1 watt/hr of capacity. Or if it was 10v it would be 100 watt hour. Makes a pretty big difference. And without knowing voltage we can't compare.
If we're talking about NLEs for VFX then the obvious choice would be Nuke Studio (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/studio/) It's integrated with Nuke which is used everywhere and it's a multiplatform app which runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.
Davinci is also for Linux and it's got pretty decent editing capabilities now. And like Nuke Studio it also has lots of VFX friendly features like handles and solid EDL support.
Another obvious option are the Autodesk (Discreet) systems. Flame Premium 2013 supports Linux. For a while there Flame/Inferno were exclusively linux.
So there is plenty of VFX editing on Linux, it's just pricey for the most part and not at all open source.
Blender is not going to address the needs of a VFX facility. Having a python checkbox isn't enough to handle the sorts of scenes and needs of a feature film vfx shot in most situations. There is a reason CG supervisors still pick Max, Maya or Houdini over "free" software and that's the cost of productivity. $3,000 is a small price to pay compared to being even 10% more productive. The average VFX artist is paid at least $65,000. So if you need 10% more artists to do the same thing in the same amount of time then you're paying $6,500 per year in lost productivity. That's substantially more expensive than $1,000 per year for maintenance. Which isn't to say that there aren't good video editing applications for Linux. For VFX studio editing needs Nuke Studio is enough and it runs on Linux:
In fact from a VFX facility's perspective it integrates better into a pipeline than any of the other commercial editing applications and it works well with Nuke which is the defacto standard for compositing.
Or this is the exact same policy they've had for what... nearly 20 years and they want to get people onto an OS which supports their new Universal Application runtime in order to encourage adoption and by extension Microsoft App Store revenue.
If you're getting that much back on your refund then you're probably doing it wrong.
I did do it wrong, but I also spent a lot more than I anticipated after already paying. But it *does* create a bit of a loophole. 10% is a pretty good return. Especially since you can theoretically put it in the final quarter. So if you want to buy a big screen TV on Amazon for $3,000: overpay $2800 on your final quarter. File your taxes in February. Get your return entirely in Amazon gift certificates and you just got 10% off your TV.
I bought the Professional Turbo Tax on Amazon and it cost $64. And I get 10% extra on everything from my refund that I Put into Amazon Gift Certificates. So with TurboTax this year I could theoretically take my whole refund as Amazon Gift Certificates and pay off Turbotax a few times over. But I don't think I spend enough on Amazon even with my prolific Amazon Purchasing to justify taking all of it back in Gift Card Balance.
I'm a Global Entry card holder. There's almost no line at all for customs. If they're doing Quarantine and smuggling checks they can do it on the train en-route. It would be like gate-checking. Check in at the train station. Then have a white glove security service run your luggage through adequate screening and then take it directly from the train to the spacecraft.
This is a fair point. I just flew from my home town to my current city.
Time to drive to airport: 15 minutes Time to wait in security/waiting area: 40 minutes Time to taxi: 5 minutes Flight time: 45 minutes Taxi Time: 15 minutes Time to get to Taxi stand: 10 minutes Time for taxi to get downtown: 35 minutes.
Total time to/from runway: 1.75 hours. Flight time: 45 minutes.
Then again LA to Sydney Australia is about a 15 hour flight. If this is the future and you had a maglev/hyperloop type transport you could get to a remote spaceport in under an hour completely isolated from an urban area. That would be about equal to traffic to/from the nearest small airfield for a private jet. Also it wouldn't have that much security since the only threat would be a bomb and they could pre-screen your luggage while in route to make things efficient. All in all with a good highspeed rail solution you could best a business jet easily. The fixed time tables are harder though. But with an 18 hour flight time to beat you would stay overnight in a hotel and be productive then leave the next day and still beat the flight in the morning.
A flight from New York to Singapore is usually around $1,300. A Suite Class ticket from New York to Singapore is $23,000. https://medium.com/travel-adve...
People already pay 20x coach to fly comfortably for 18 hours. If you reduced the flight time to 2-3 hours and people didn't need a bed, shower and other amenities associated with a full day in the sky then you would be price competitive.
Here is another example. I rent a camera for $1,500+ for about 36 hours. If you hard a cargo flight that could do a point-to-point delivery from Indonesia to my door and it cost 1/10th of 10x the price of a ticket ($10,000) per 160lbs for a 16lb package then it would cost them $1,000 for shipping vs $1,500 for an extra day of rental. That would save them $500. You could even include a courier to the spaceport and back. I'm certain that there are items today that could use a sub-orbital delivery and save money at $100 per lb.
The Concord could have continued flying. Virgin Atlantic offered to operate the aircraft but British Airways didn't want someone else operating them if they didn't.
Apparently, contrary to all those science fiction stories, people in general really don't want videophones after all, even after they became practical. To my knowledge, only uber-geeks are using it, and only because they can.
Phone calls period are barely used. People prefer asynchronous communication.
But video chat obviously has two big fans: 1) People showing someone something (real estate, christmas presents, things in a store, etc.) 2) Long distance romantic partners.
The advantages are pretty obvious for both use cases.:D
Game developers waste less processor power than just about any other developer I know of short of super-computer developers. When you have 16ms to render a frame and you have to recreate the entire universe in those 16ms you have to be extremely judicious in your use of cycles.
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It's good in people who can self teach but I know a family where the first kid really pushed himself to keep up with his peers academically and did a lot of self instruction. His brothers didn't have the same academically driven peers and the parent teaching didn't force the issue so long story short in highschool 3 of the four needed reading intervention since they were way behind on literacy.
I say the same thing about College vs. self teaching. While it is important to learn how to learn, some people do really just need a lot of structure. So if someone does home school it's important that the parent provides it if your kids need it and aren't providing it for themselves.
To liberals, there are no zero-sum games. Giving things out for free will never cost more money. The "free" community college education will not draw money out of other programs. The examples are endless.
Did you mean that as an insult to liberals? Because our educational system that ensures people are properly trained to find work and not live off of charity seems like the most obvious of programs which aren't zero-sum.
You're right Liberals do champion tons of programs:
- Education to keep people out of jail and off of welfare.
- Loans to help people afford education.
- Energy Efficiency programs to ensure that cars cost slightly more but save their buyers tens of thousands.
- Anti-Monopoly efforts to prevent price fixing.
- R&D investments in the sciences to boost our nation's attractiveness to the brightest minds on the planet.
- A transportation system that has been proven in numerous studies to provide substantially more economic stimulus than it costs to build.
My guess is that they are attempting to direct language. For instance spelling bees in Spanish would be absurd since Spanish has had a pretty vigorously defended spelling system. English has always(Old-English) been (Proto-Germanic) a bit of a hodgepodge (Anglo-French) of disparate (latin) bits and pieces (French). As a result there is no consistency. I agree that it would be nice to clean up and standardize our spelling/grammar but obviously it's a futile task.
Almost all of the design and administration of Apple is done in California. But surprisingly the "Company" is a foreign company where they have no factories, no designers, no corporate officers and just a bank account.
So yes, by using the talent and ingenuity of US workers and then claiming that they're an Irish Company they are stealing the value that US Society has invested into its workforce (and supplied the infrastructure for that workforce to get to the job site etc).
Personally I believe that we should tax not based on where they are located but where most of the value is created. If you are Microsoft and 90% of your workforce is in Washington State but you are incorporate in "Nevada" because you have a PO Box there then you should be taxed at 90% Washington 8% California and 2% Nevada tax rates. Similarly if 80% of your operations are in the US then you are 80% a US company and 80% of your revenue is taxable under US tax law.
Everybody knows that Apple is a California company. To say otherwise is dishonesty. It might legally be correct that Apple is a subsidiary of an Irish shell corporation but they're cheating the system and doing something that doesn't pass any sort of sniff test of truthfulness.
Especially when p includes small arms fire. A bullet can only hit one engine at a time. If the president was taking off and an armed group shot out one engine during takeoff that would not be great with 2 engines. With 4 engines there are 4 discreet locations they have to hit.
People are down-modding but if he had said Algeria there would have been a bit of a precedent.
http://time.com/3664161/france...
The split of France and Algeria nearly caused a civil war in France in France's fragile post-war era.
This headline should be enough to remove the A380 from running:
Airbus A380 could be discontinued in 2018 says Airbus CFO http://www.themanufacturer.com...
Don't purchase something that is about to be EOL'ed. There are a number of other problems first and foremost in my mind would be runway access. The a380 limits where the president could go. Everybody and their mother can still accept a 747.
The DOJ always hoovered up massive amounts of data. Metadata collection is absolutely nothing new. It's interesting watching The Wolf of Wall Street and reading up on the case that it's based on--call logs were prolific in the case. "It says here that you called so and so at 8AM and talked for 45 minutes."
The problem isn't so much in my opinion the mass collection it's the fact that the collection isn't encrypted. The software should be designed and audited such that the info can only be searched with an encryption key issued for a limited time. And then all searches and results should be logged and reviewed by an independent body.
I agree with this sentiment to a large extent. We don't get mad when TCP/IP is used in an authoritarian country. At some point Facebook is like any other infrastructure on the internet--it's a conduit. I don't really blame Vint Cerf or Cisco for the great firewall of China. If anything the fact that Turkey's government has to go to Facebook and demand that they filter content is already a win of sorts in an authoritarian anti-free speech zone. If we replaced Facebook with something like email the Turkish could simply block all TCP/IP traffic that matches banned images or words. At least this way you have a company like Facebook running the filtering which will presumably do the very absolute minimum filtering required by law as opposed the absolute maximum that they can get away with before a court orders them to back off on the filtering.
It's because we've put up with 30 years of FOSS community trumpeting the fact that Linux isn't hacked, only Microsoft needs anti-virus, Open Source means that "something like this will never happen".
If a community spends decades puffing its chest and talking shit it's going to get 10x the scorn when it's revealed to be as vulnerable as the next guy. The fact is that all software can be hacked. And at any given time there is a zero day exploit that can probably penetrate any system. Commercial tools used to be the target of this research and and attack and now that open source is gaining traction it's getting the same scrutiny--and similarly failing.
Sounds more like authoritarian dictatorships fail while a robust democratic government that responds to its citizens succeeds.
Not maybe 1:1 but I know people who sold software and as soon as the crack would go wild their sales immediately plummeted. Custom DRM was the best way to extend the time from release to crack but also releasing stripped down trial versions helped a lot since it reduced the demand for a cracked version.
It shouldn't be a surprise that the Games industry has chosen DLC to be its mode of extracting revenue. Release a game for free and buy that horse armor.
Correct me if I'm wrong but without knowing the voltage isn't comparing amperage hours to one another useless?
5v * 1Ah = 5watt hours
12v * 1Ah = 12watt hours
Amp-hour isn't actually a unit of energy potential.
One AA battery has about 2.6ah * 1.5v = 3.9 watt/hr
One D Battery has about 18ah * 1.5v = 27 watt/hr
175 years = 1533000 hours * 7200 nanoampere seconds per hour = 11.06 ah. Which if it's .1 volt would be 1 watt/hr of capacity. Or if it was 10v it would be 100 watt hour. Makes a pretty big difference. And without knowing voltage we can't compare.
If we're talking about NLEs for VFX then the obvious choice would be Nuke Studio (http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/nuke/studio/) It's integrated with Nuke which is used everywhere and it's a multiplatform app which runs on Linux, OSX and Windows.
Davinci is also for Linux and it's got pretty decent editing capabilities now. And like Nuke Studio it also has lots of VFX friendly features like handles and solid EDL support.
Another obvious option are the Autodesk (Discreet) systems. Flame Premium 2013 supports Linux. For a while there Flame/Inferno were exclusively linux.
So there is plenty of VFX editing on Linux, it's just pricey for the most part and not at all open source.
Blender is not going to address the needs of a VFX facility. Having a python checkbox isn't enough to handle the sorts of scenes and needs of a feature film vfx shot in most situations. There is a reason CG supervisors still pick Max, Maya or Houdini over "free" software and that's the cost of productivity. $3,000 is a small price to pay compared to being even 10% more productive. The average VFX artist is paid at least $65,000. So if you need 10% more artists to do the same thing in the same amount of time then you're paying $6,500 per year in lost productivity. That's substantially more expensive than $1,000 per year for maintenance. Which isn't to say that there aren't good video editing applications for Linux. For VFX studio editing needs Nuke Studio is enough and it runs on Linux:
http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/pr...
In fact from a VFX facility's perspective it integrates better into a pipeline than any of the other commercial editing applications and it works well with Nuke which is the defacto standard for compositing.
Or this is the exact same policy they've had for what... nearly 20 years and they want to get people onto an OS which supports their new Universal Application runtime in order to encourage adoption and by extension Microsoft App Store revenue.
If you're getting that much back on your refund then you're probably doing it wrong.
I did do it wrong, but I also spent a lot more than I anticipated after already paying. But it *does* create a bit of a loophole. 10% is a pretty good return. Especially since you can theoretically put it in the final quarter. So if you want to buy a big screen TV on Amazon for $3,000: overpay $2800 on your final quarter. File your taxes in February. Get your return entirely in Amazon gift certificates and you just got 10% off your TV.
I bought the Professional Turbo Tax on Amazon and it cost $64. And I get 10% extra on everything from my refund that I Put into Amazon Gift Certificates. So with TurboTax this year I could theoretically take my whole refund as Amazon Gift Certificates and pay off Turbotax a few times over. But I don't think I spend enough on Amazon even with my prolific Amazon Purchasing to justify taking all of it back in Gift Card Balance.
I'm a Global Entry card holder. There's almost no line at all for customs. If they're doing Quarantine and smuggling checks they can do it on the train en-route. It would be like gate-checking. Check in at the train station. Then have a white glove security service run your luggage through adequate screening and then take it directly from the train to the spacecraft.
This is a fair point. I just flew from my home town to my current city.
Time to drive to airport: 15 minutes
Time to wait in security/waiting area: 40 minutes
Time to taxi: 5 minutes
Flight time: 45 minutes
Taxi Time: 15 minutes
Time to get to Taxi stand: 10 minutes
Time for taxi to get downtown: 35 minutes.
Total time to/from runway: 1.75 hours.
Flight time: 45 minutes.
Then again LA to Sydney Australia is about a 15 hour flight. If this is the future and you had a maglev/hyperloop type transport you could get to a remote spaceport in under an hour completely isolated from an urban area. That would be about equal to traffic to/from the nearest small airfield for a private jet. Also it wouldn't have that much security since the only threat would be a bomb and they could pre-screen your luggage while in route to make things efficient. All in all with a good highspeed rail solution you could best a business jet easily. The fixed time tables are harder though. But with an 18 hour flight time to beat you would stay overnight in a hotel and be productive then leave the next day and still beat the flight in the morning.
A flight from New York to Singapore is usually around $1,300. A Suite Class ticket from New York to Singapore is $23,000.
https://medium.com/travel-adve...
People already pay 20x coach to fly comfortably for 18 hours. If you reduced the flight time to 2-3 hours and people didn't need a bed, shower and other amenities associated with a full day in the sky then you would be price competitive.
Here is another example. I rent a camera for $1,500+ for about 36 hours. If you hard a cargo flight that could do a point-to-point delivery from Indonesia to my door and it cost 1/10th of 10x the price of a ticket ($10,000) per 160lbs for a 16lb package then it would cost them $1,000 for shipping vs $1,500 for an extra day of rental. That would save them $500. You could even include a courier to the spaceport and back. I'm certain that there are items today that could use a sub-orbital delivery and save money at $100 per lb.
The Concord could have continued flying. Virgin Atlantic offered to operate the aircraft but British Airways didn't want someone else operating them if they didn't.
Apparently, contrary to all those science fiction stories, people in general really don't want videophones after all, even after they became practical. To my knowledge, only uber-geeks are using it, and only because they can.
Phone calls period are barely used. People prefer asynchronous communication.
But video chat obviously has two big fans:
1) People showing someone something (real estate, christmas presents, things in a store, etc.)
2) Long distance romantic partners.
The advantages are pretty obvious for both use cases. :D
Nonsense, my dad couldn't fix our car or an appliance. He could build houses though.
If people were soooooo handy why were there so many appliance repair shops and car mechanics?
Game developers waste less processor power than just about any other developer I know of short of super-computer developers. When you have 16ms to render a frame and you have to recreate the entire universe in those 16ms you have to be extremely judicious in your use of cycles.