If someone invents dirt-cheap power and replication, and if everyone could behave (or be medicated to behave), we get the ideal world of Star Trek (or Larry Niven's Known Space). Everyone can be comfortable, nobody needs to steal, any violent tendencies are obviously mental illness that needs "curing".
If we consider historical example, we get subsistence-level colonies like Star Wars (except for the Jedi, which are fantasy). Or, more realistically, big modern cities in the center of things and subsistence-level colonies like Firefly, which is itself a tramp steamer just like the "African Queen" in space.
It also depends how long it takes to get anywhere. If travel takes months or years, shipping is only worthwhile for durables like minerals and manufactured goods; and each colony has to become more independently technological. But if shipping is weeks, and perishables can be frozen like New Zealand lamb getting to the rest of the world, then colonies can remain more "backwards" farming suppliers.
That's the problem. Some things become a natural monopoly unless you're willing to spend a LOT of money. Well, no, the real problem is that building managers - like hotel phone service managers before most guests had cellphones - start to see everything as a profit center, including something that they aren't even paying costs for. For buildings that existed before cable, someone chose ONE cable company to come and retrofit cable everywhere, so it's a monopoly; for newer construction, with cable preinstalled, there is still only one cable preinstalled.
Maybe someday they will understand what we "techies" have been complaining about for years. Hackers and gamers don't elicit much sympathy; housewives following workout videos might get a different reaction.
The inch was defined as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise" in 1324. The metre was defined in 1793. The inch is definitely older, but neither is "derived" from the other. The ratio you mention was standardized in 1959, so technically the inch is now defined in terms of the speed of light, which sort of defeats the purpose of anthropocentric measurements.
At some point, any audio has to be analog sound for people to hear it. The audio industry, at the insistence of the music industry, has been trying to limit the distance and the quality of that audio so that it cannot be copied in the audio domain, while DRM controls the digital encoded domain. Same as HDMI eliminating the "analog hole" of composite or component video in the attempt to prevent copying.
Even worse,the "early adopters" will rush out and give an early sales bump that makes it look popular, and the "cool kids" will insist that it's BETTER.
Wrong. The "content" industry is asking for this. The music industry, and the film industry, and all of the the people who use (and abuse) the DMCA, are asking for this. This is one more step in covering the "analog hole". If they could, they would insist that every person have a serialized DAC chip implanted to be able to listen to any recorded audio, so there's no analog at all.
This is an example of political powers competing for authority, with the temporal one (the Communist party) making sure that there are no competing loyalties (the "religious" ones). The suggestion that "religion is the opiate of the people" does not mean that the people are either stupid or gullible; rather, it is a condemnation of anyone using "religion" as a cover for their particular message. While the stated intent of organized "religion" is often positive and social, and many good works have been done by people who attribute the inspiration for their altruism to religion, any authority structure is easily subverted by people who abuse authority once they have it. (Please note that I do not seek to dissuade anyone from following whatever inspiration leads them to positive, pro-social, constructive, and/or personally uplifting behavior. My objection is to the con artists who twist people's inspirations for good into hatred for anyone who does not share the identical inspirations.)
One does not need to "believe" that a thing with no presence in the physical world does not exist, any more than one needs to "believe" that a physical thing held on one's hand DOES exist. In fact, the whole concept of "belief" in a diety - the concept that "faith is the evidence of things unseen" - points out that there is no REAL evidence, which means no real reason to believe.
I hasten to add that "better, smarter, more productive methods" may be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from person to person. That's part of the verb "find". I have seen different approaches work for different people, and I'm sure there are more.
One would hope that " letting students know that it is common for students to struggle with the transition" does not mean "grin and bear it", but is more along the lines of your advice to find better, smarter, more productive methods more suitable to their new environment and workload.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Freshman Orientation, the Mean Dean said: "Over 90% of you were in the top 10% of your class at high school. Exactly 50% of you will be in the BOTTOM half of your class here . . . if you survive." I was in classes with multiple valedictorians from county high schools; OTOH their entire graduating class was less than 1/10th of my graduating class from a New York City specialized (magnet) school, so their competition pool had been a bit narrow.
MIT was offering four years of full scholarship for the disadvantaged students-.... The BSU went to the administration and said that one year is fine, to help students get started, but more than that is sending a message to the student that you're incapable of making it on your own.
There is another strategic angle to this approach: spreading the risk, and hopefully multiplying the reward. (4x) students get that opportunity to "get started" for the same money instead of just (x) students getting all four years. There will be more winners, all around.
If you've got 8 or 10 or more years in, and quitting cuts your paycheck today while staying continues your paycheck and gets you 16 or 20 or more weeks' pay as severance, and you have a mortgage or debt or a family to support, you think twice. OTOH maybe you drag your feet a little, and leave on time, and do the absolute minimum you can . . . . speaking from experience . . .
... even if it has been the convention that background processes do stay alive.
Go read the articles about the lawsuits and recalls because a new automatic transmission shift lever design behaves differently from the last 30 or 40 years of convention, and people have been leaving their cars in neutral instead of park, and cars roll unexpectedly. How about making the NEW behavior be the thing that is explicit? You can't even have the system ask you if it's not specified, because that will break scripts.
Please remember that people actually try to get WORK done on computer systems, and don't want them to suddenly be different in unexpected ways.
Bicycling on an empty stomach works for me, too. Some references say it's good to ensure burning off whatever sugars and nutrients are still in the body. I would think it depends a lot on the individual, and everyone should do what works for them.
Please tell me they gave EACH of them a new pair of socks, not one pair for all eight? I mean, it's kinky enough to be sniffing people's socks, but that would be just too weird.
You don't need a bomb big enough to take out "every single part". You need a bomb placed near the outer skin (and preferably near one of the main structural ribs) to blow a hole big enough for the 500+ MPH airflow to do the rest of the work of making the plane unstable and maybe ripping it apart. The classic movie placement is at the connection of a wing, which is more reinforced. If you can get more places than the cargo hold, there are locations closer to fuel tanks and lines, but that requires more knowledge of the plane and possibly a more sophisticated explosive.
Why unlikely? They do suicide missions. OTOH use a timer, install the bomb at one of the previous stops, and it blows on its own. I'm sure that bad guys know all of the airline mechanics and know exactly where their families live.
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If someone invents dirt-cheap power and replication, and if everyone could behave (or be medicated to behave), we get the ideal world of Star Trek (or Larry Niven's Known Space). Everyone can be comfortable, nobody needs to steal, any violent tendencies are obviously mental illness that needs "curing".
If we consider historical example, we get subsistence-level colonies like Star Wars (except for the Jedi, which are fantasy). Or, more realistically, big modern cities in the center of things and subsistence-level colonies like Firefly, which is itself a tramp steamer just like the "African Queen" in space.
It also depends how long it takes to get anywhere. If travel takes months or years, shipping is only worthwhile for durables like minerals and manufactured goods; and each colony has to become more independently technological. But if shipping is weeks, and perishables can be frozen like New Zealand lamb getting to the rest of the world, then colonies can remain more "backwards" farming suppliers.
That's the problem. Some things become a natural monopoly unless you're willing to spend a LOT of money. Well, no, the real problem is that building managers - like hotel phone service managers before most guests had cellphones - start to see everything as a profit center, including something that they aren't even paying costs for. For buildings that existed before cable, someone chose ONE cable company to come and retrofit cable everywhere, so it's a monopoly; for newer construction, with cable preinstalled, there is still only one cable preinstalled.
Maybe someday they will understand what we "techies" have been complaining about for years. Hackers and gamers don't elicit much sympathy; housewives following workout videos might get a different reaction.
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Then how could various charities have trademarks? Google "nonprofit trademark" and find lots of references.
The original Western Electric spec says 1/4 inch. Conversion to other measurement systems is irrelevant.
The inch was defined as "three grains of barley, dry and round, placed end to end, lengthwise" in 1324. The metre was defined in 1793. The inch is definitely older, but neither is "derived" from the other. The ratio you mention was standardized in 1959, so technically the inch is now defined in terms of the speed of light, which sort of defeats the purpose of anthropocentric measurements.
At some point, any audio has to be analog sound for people to hear it. The audio industry, at the insistence of the music industry, has been trying to limit the distance and the quality of that audio so that it cannot be copied in the audio domain, while DRM controls the digital encoded domain. Same as HDMI eliminating the "analog hole" of composite or component video in the attempt to prevent copying.
It's not 6.35mm. It's a quarter-inch.
It's not about being anti-Apple; it's about being anti-DRM, and anti-planned-obsolescence.
Even worse,the "early adopters" will rush out and give an early sales bump that makes it look popular, and the "cool kids" will insist that it's BETTER.
Wrong. The "content" industry is asking for this. The music industry, and the film industry, and all of the the people who use (and abuse) the DMCA, are asking for this. This is one more step in covering the "analog hole". If they could, they would insist that every person have a serialized DAC chip implanted to be able to listen to any recorded audio, so there's no analog at all.
This is an example of political powers competing for authority, with the temporal one (the Communist party) making sure that there are no competing loyalties (the "religious" ones). The suggestion that "religion is the opiate of the people" does not mean that the people are either stupid or gullible; rather, it is a condemnation of anyone using "religion" as a cover for their particular message. While the stated intent of organized "religion" is often positive and social, and many good works have been done by people who attribute the inspiration for their altruism to religion, any authority structure is easily subverted by people who abuse authority once they have it. (Please note that I do not seek to dissuade anyone from following whatever inspiration leads them to positive, pro-social, constructive, and/or personally uplifting behavior. My objection is to the con artists who twist people's inspirations for good into hatred for anyone who does not share the identical inspirations.)
One does not need to "believe" that a thing with no presence in the physical world does not exist, any more than one needs to "believe" that a physical thing held on one's hand DOES exist. In fact, the whole concept of "belief" in a diety - the concept that "faith is the evidence of things unseen" - points out that there is no REAL evidence, which means no real reason to believe.
I hasten to add that "better, smarter, more productive methods" may be COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from person to person. That's part of the verb "find". I have seen different approaches work for different people, and I'm sure there are more.
One would hope that " letting students know that it is common for students to struggle with the transition" does not mean "grin and bear it", but is more along the lines of your advice to find better, smarter, more productive methods more suitable to their new environment and workload.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Freshman Orientation, the Mean Dean said: "Over 90% of you were in the top 10% of your class at high school. Exactly 50% of you will be in the BOTTOM half of your class here . . . if you survive." I was in classes with multiple valedictorians from county high schools; OTOH their entire graduating class was less than 1/10th of my graduating class from a New York City specialized (magnet) school, so their competition pool had been a bit narrow.
MIT was offering four years of full scholarship for the disadvantaged students-.... The BSU went to the administration and said that one year is fine, to help students get started, but more than that is sending a message to the student that you're incapable of making it on your own.
There is another strategic angle to this approach: spreading the risk, and hopefully multiplying the reward. (4x) students get that opportunity to "get started" for the same money instead of just (x) students getting all four years. There will be more winners, all around.
I'll quit first.
If you've got 8 or 10 or more years in, and quitting cuts your paycheck today while staying continues your paycheck and gets you 16 or 20 or more weeks' pay as severance, and you have a mortgage or debt or a family to support, you think twice. OTOH maybe you drag your feet a little, and leave on time, and do the absolute minimum you can . . . . speaking from experience . . .
... even if it has been the convention that background processes do stay alive.
Go read the articles about the lawsuits and recalls because a new automatic transmission shift lever design behaves differently from the last 30 or 40 years of convention, and people have been leaving their cars in neutral instead of park, and cars roll unexpectedly. How about making the NEW behavior be the thing that is explicit? You can't even have the system ask you if it's not specified, because that will break scripts.
Please remember that people actually try to get WORK done on computer systems, and don't want them to suddenly be different in unexpected ways.
Bicycling on an empty stomach works for me, too. Some references say it's good to ensure burning off whatever sugars and nutrients are still in the body. I would think it depends a lot on the individual, and everyone should do what works for them.
Whoever said "not much of an express bus" must not live near a city.
Please tell me they gave EACH of them a new pair of socks, not one pair for all eight? I mean, it's kinky enough to be sniffing people's socks, but that would be just too weird.
You don't need a bomb big enough to take out "every single part". You need a bomb placed near the outer skin (and preferably near one of the main structural ribs) to blow a hole big enough for the 500+ MPH airflow to do the rest of the work of making the plane unstable and maybe ripping it apart. The classic movie placement is at the connection of a wing, which is more reinforced. If you can get more places than the cargo hold, there are locations closer to fuel tanks and lines, but that requires more knowledge of the plane and possibly a more sophisticated explosive.
Why unlikely? They do suicide missions. OTOH use a timer, install the bomb at one of the previous stops, and it blows on its own. I'm sure that bad guys know all of the airline mechanics and know exactly where their families live.