Actually that is not true. When you apply Newtonian physics on a large scale you have to deal with things like infinite velocity, and things get pretty weird.
I used to be a chemist but gave up and moved to IT when our company hired an Indian PHD making 35K per year. The manager I worked for (Harvard PHD and sharp as a tack) ended up formulating paint at a paint company after they shut the plant down. I doubt he makes more than 100k.
Face it, Americans hate smart people. You are better off getting a bunch of piercing and becoming a rock star.
Congress doesn't get notified when a coal miner is endangered in an accident. Why is nuclear different? We pay for nuclear hysteria by dumping tons of mercury in the air.
`It is likely that at least one worker would have received an exposure high enough to cause acute health effects or death,'' the agency wrote.
How many people die in coal mining accidents every year? Do shoddy mining practices get released to the public every day?
This thing is way overblown in my opinion.
I think a better solution would be for corporations to meter, document and budget power expenditures in the server room. Once costs like this are recognized corporations will be more motivated to do something about it.
You can justify the cost of switching to a 12 volt setup if you have the numbers to back it up.
Not to mention that there is are huge pipelines feeding/receiving from the fab. It's not like switching channels on a television.
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The hardest problem with the really bright kids as outlined in the article is providing them with peers. There is simply not enough children in a given area (except maybe NYC). They should have boarding/magnet schools at the state level; this would probably be the most cost effective solution as well.
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If family history plays out he will most likely be 6'6" and over 200 pounds, and although school gives him quite a bit of trouble he is pretty sharp in his own way. What is the real cost to society if he 'slips through the cracks'?
If you counted all the people in prison our unemployment rate is 15%.
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My son has autism and receives special classes and tutoring that must be very expensive. I am glad that they are helping to 'fix a retard'.
Let me ask you this, how many PHD level people burn out/tune out and contribute nothing to society? I would guess many more than you think.
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my experience has been that smart kids learn to teach themselves. My brother taught himself calculus in 8th grade and got a westinghouse scholarship to caltech. Was there a better path for him?
A more reasonable stance would be for them to certify that x.xx version or earlier of linux contains no code that they claim ownership of now or in the future.
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Articles about this thing were in popular mechanics when I was a kid.
I would suspect that heat has something to do with the failures. Houston is pretty hot.
Actually that is not true. When you apply Newtonian physics on a large scale you have to deal with things like infinite velocity, and things get pretty weird.
In Korea, only old people have gaping holes....
I used to be a chemist but gave up and moved to IT when our company hired an Indian PHD making 35K per year. The manager I worked for (Harvard PHD and sharp as a tack) ended up formulating paint at a paint company after they shut the plant down. I doubt he makes more than 100k.
Face it, Americans hate smart people. You are better off getting a bunch of piercing and becoming a rock star.
Burning coal does. Every year American plants pump 96,000 pounds of mercury into the air.
So we shouldn't take any risks so we can stop knowingly dumping tons of CO2 and mercury into the air? Sounds pretty dumb to me.
Congress doesn't get notified when a coal miner is endangered in an accident. Why is nuclear different? We pay for nuclear hysteria by dumping tons of mercury in the air.
`It is likely that at least one worker would have received an exposure high enough to cause acute health effects or death,'' the agency wrote.
How many people die in coal mining accidents every year? Do shoddy mining practices get released to the public every day? This thing is way overblown in my opinion.
I think a better solution would be for corporations to meter, document and budget power expenditures in the server room. Once costs like this are recognized corporations will be more motivated to do something about it. You can justify the cost of switching to a 12 volt setup if you have the numbers to back it up.
This should be marked 'redundant', because it pops up in every CPU article since /. began.
Karma whoring at it's best.
Not to mention that there is are huge pipelines feeding/receiving from the fab. It's not like switching channels on a television.
The hardest problem with the really bright kids as outlined in the article is providing them with peers. There is simply not enough children in a given area (except maybe NYC). They should have boarding/magnet schools at the state level; this would probably be the most cost effective solution as well.
If family history plays out he will most likely be 6'6" and over 200 pounds, and although school gives him quite a bit of trouble he is pretty sharp in his own way. What is the real cost to society if he 'slips through the cracks'? If you counted all the people in prison our unemployment rate is 15%.
My son has autism and receives special classes and tutoring that must be very expensive. I am glad that they are helping to 'fix a retard'. Let me ask you this, how many PHD level people burn out/tune out and contribute nothing to society? I would guess many more than you think.
my experience has been that smart kids learn to teach themselves. My brother taught himself calculus in 8th grade and got a westinghouse scholarship to caltech. Was there a better path for him?
I use a junky old 366 thinkpad to access the internet. It(firefox) crawls to a halt when I hit pages with flash, so I added a flash blocker.
I use ivory soap. Have I missed something or is this still the plain old thing?
You forget too that not everyone that visits /. is from the US. This may mean more to readers from Eastern Europe.
I for one
think this
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news.
Lightning from thunderstorms do this on a grand scale every day. Probably won't be an issue outdoors, or in a confined area with ventilation.
A more reasonable stance would be for them to certify that x.xx version or earlier of linux contains no code that they claim ownership of now or in the future.
Actually I have started noticing mpeg artifacts while listening to the radio.
That's bs. I find 128k hardly listenable and I am no audio snob.
Until corporations start offering telecommute jobs in the US, this really doesn't matter much, does it?