To echo what the other guy said: When someone is drowning they panic.
It has happened to me where someone I was swimming with paniced and grabbed onto me. This prevented me from swimming (I could not move my arms or legs enough to stay above water), and was leading into a double drowning situation fast! Fortunately I had heard about the only solution: dive - the drowner will not follow you down. Once I was underwater I was able to come up a safe distance away and help.
Not really. At least not in the pool I remember seeing it. Just swim one lap in water where it isn't over your head, in front of the life guard. (that is you don't seem from deep to shallow, you swim in the shallow part)
Life guards can recognize people. They didn't make everyone take the test, only those who were borderline. They wouldn't ask me to take any test today because from the moment I jump into the pool it is clear from my swimming style that I could pass. Back when I had to take the test I was a young kid who could just pass it (Actually the want to get into the adult section caused me to take it many times before I was strong enough to pass. Back then annoying to fail, in hindsite a good thing)
Come to think of it, the lifeguard in that chair probably watched a dozen tests an hour. But he wasn't in a part where people were likely to drown - not yet over year head, but only good swimmers allowed)
Do they dare? FreeBSD +KDE already does everything I need. Linux + GNOME/KDE + OpenOffice.org + WINE (if needed) is enough for 99% of the people out there. If Microsoft quits caving they will find that it isn't a bluff, and then they loose customers.
Now you might argue that Microsoft Windows is better. That might be true (depending on what you do), but is it worth the cost. For most people the differences are not significant, but they are used to Microsoft. Is sticking with what you know worth the cost? Every company and government should be counting the cost - if it is close you can threaten Microsoft, knowing that get a better deal.
Don't forget that this isn't all or nothing. You can switch some people but not others. Cutting your Microsoft Office fees in half can be big.
I don't want to work in the city, I want to earn enough money to pay for my life, have room for my hobbies, and neighbors that don't complain about my hobbies. (See the typical restrictions on a townhome) Jobs that will pay for that are much easier to find in the city, thus I live 50 miles from work.
Your right it sucks. It is a compromise. I'd love to work from home, but I'm not allowed with this job. I'd love to live next door to work, but their offices are not next door, and the other people I work with want to live elsewhere anyway.
Unless you can tell me where I can buy 100 acres of land, on a lake, next to a golf course, with good schools, with plenty of night life (bars, theaters, shopping), and several churches (in our small office of 15 I know of 5 different Christian sects, and 1 Muslim), plus it needs to be just as close to our spouse's job (for those co-workers who are married). I'm sure there are more factors that the various people I work with would love to have, but you get the idea.
15 years ago the MN state fair was handing out plastic bags made from corn. They were even bio-degradable.
Oil was a lot cheaper than corn back then, so little investment was made in it. However as oil goes up in price we will turn to corn and soybeans for our needs. (to name just a few potential sources of oil not from the ground)
It is unlikely that there are small nukes in the US not controlled by the US government. The parts of a nuke decay, so a small nuke becomes ineffective fast because of this.
The US used to rotate their small nukes in Europe every 3 months, back when they were considered the only way to stop the Soviet army. (back when this was a considered likely the goal was to slow them down long enough to build our armies)
Don't bet on it. Misinformation is about getting the other guy to think what you want him to. Sometimes that means right out telling him that you are pushing misinformation knowing he will think it is a cover for your bad security, and take the bad information that you told him he was getting.
Other times it is finding out who the spys are and feeding them misinformation without them knowing about it. Sometimes you turn the spy into a double agent (on threat of execution), sometimes you just make sure the spy only has access to your prepared information.
Feeding misinformation is hard - you need to make sure that the enemy believes it. Feed too much and they won't believe anything (though at least they won't act on the truth), feed too little, and they will know most of your get your secrets by spying.
Dump them for WHAT? US dollars are not backed by anything. China cannot call the US up and demand a few thousands pounds of gold (or whatever the value they hold is). They can either buy goods with them, or trade them for other currency. Massive trading will change the prices.
If they buy goods, the price of goods increases (supply and demand). Because they are buying with dollars, the price of goods from Europe will go up more than US goods, thus stimulating the US ecconomy, and crashing Europe's ecconony. (Europe sells are lot of goods to the US) Not just Europe, but most other countries. Of course the US will have trouble buying goods from elsewhere, but the US has many natural resources to draw from, so it isn't the end of the world. Just a difficult time until the US becomes more efficant. (In other words this would spell the end of the SUV)
Dumping currency can only be done by trading it to someone else. However the US currency floats, so by crashing the US currency, they also crash their own reserves. Paying $10 for (at today's rate) $1 worth of Euros isn't good business sense. Though Europe is not stupid enough to miss such a fire sale. In the mean time, the US can ride this out - we produce more than enough food, and plenty of oil. It would mean the end of the SUV (which is already coming), and would push alternative energy, but that is about it. Of course because the dollar is so cheap, goods from the US are now dirt cheap on the world market, and the US can make things like crazy.
Note that the US is help by both of these situations, more than hurt. (long term, there will be serious short term effects) Europe (and Japan...) is hurt by it.
Long term, yes China does have to reduce their US currency holdings. (well they don't have to, but there is no reason to believe they won't), but it won't crash the US.
No it is not okay to part a bright yellow hummer in the driveway. If you cannot fit it in the garrage then get rid of it. Don't get rid of it here though, cars in the driveway are not allowed.
I don't see why they care, most townhomes are a uniform ugly gray, so it isn't like cars in the driveway or a satellite dish make it worse. A 62 VW bug on blocks in the driveway would make most of those neighborhoods look better. IMHO of course, which is why I don't live in such a neighborhood.
Depends on how your work it. Your most profit per acre comes at 5-10 acres (depending on your family). Your greatest income is from ~3000 acres, though you make about half as much per acre.
5 acres is enough for someone dedicated to farming to make a living. All the food you need, and some to sell, to meet other expenses. You won't get rich though.
Most people just are not willing to do all their work by hand. Tractors save a lot of labor, but they cost money. On 5 acres a tractor doesn't pay, one 3000 you have no choice.
If you go back in time 40 years you will discover that the top party schools then were much easier than the top party schools now. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if MIT was easier 40 years ago than party schools today. 40 years ago you didn't need a degree to get a job, now you do, so schools don't have to compete for any student willing to come, they can compete for the best. (Of course MIT will get better students than a party school)
My mom just finished her degree. (after ~25 years) back then the party school she want to was easy, when she went back it was much harder.
Students may not be looking for quality, but they are getting it anyway - if they finish.
When boys are given dolls to play with, they push them along the floor and make vroom-vroom noises. When girls are given (toy) cars to play with they have the mommy car and the daddy car.
Of course there are exceptions, but the rule holds. In toyboxes filled with mixed toys the girls go to the dolls and boys to the cars in the majority of cases. Most boys will play with dolls (as a girl would) if they are in a group of girls, and most girls will play with cars (as a boy would) in a group of boys. However left to their they will not.
Don't ask me why, I don't understand girls. (afterall this is slashdot). It makes complete sense to my why someone would want to play with cars though.
Well I take my laptop to meetings. It is handy to be able to do work while the boss is talking about some other project, then when the topic changes I come back. Sometimes that is the most work I get done in a day. Not to mention I often start a long test before a meeting, the laptop lets me fix stupid mistakes so it runs. (I never come back to: "big-test.dat" not found, when I have the laptop to copy that file to the right location and restart the test)
Though if I could trade a laptop for dual LCDs I would.
Find some antique computer gear, and make it work. 9 track tapes, paper terminals that sit on the floor and are filled with real tubes. Not many, but they look impressive in a "we never throw anything away" way. (This can be good to show bankers as they don't like waste) Seeing (and hearing!) the auto-loader on a 9-track reel to reel tape is impressive. Put Adventure on the paper terminal.
Of course you do your work on modern computers, but sometimes it is fun to work on machines older than you are.
So don't start your business in a mature industry with high barriers to enter. There are plenty of industries that you can get into.
Though I'm not sure that there are industries that you can't compete in if you try. You will never compete with Microsoft Word on the international market (at least not in one year), but if you look you can find things that Word doesn't do and sell to those who need that feature.
The companies are about making money. Selling these drugs without perscription is illegal, and doing something illegal leads to fines are investigations which cost money (sometimes the company even gets shut down).
It isn't that the company doesn't want the money from time (they may or may not be that honest), it is that they don't dare get caught.
How many doctors are there on call on any given night? Of those, how many actually get called? Most people are not doctors, and most doctors are not in an area where they would get called in the middle of the night.
Sure I want my personal doctor to know if something happens to me, but that can wait until after the movie - the doctors in the emergency room are better at emergencies, and need to deal with that not my doctor.
Now how often are you in a theater where people get calls? Last time I was in a theater (so see a play - I never go to movies) there were 6 calls, and at least half came were not doctors. (it was a company outing - the theater manager thanked each large group for attending before the show started) This despite offers that the staff would hold your phone, and come get you if it was a real emergency.
"What if there is an emergency" sounds good. However emergencies explain a tiny minority of cell phone use. Most is just people who have an artificial idea of their own importance.
Hospitals maintain 24/7 staffs fully able to handle most situations. They cannot be a level 1 trauma center (ie the place where the worst emergencies go, often ambulances will bypass other hospitals on the way to one) withint having brain and heart specialists available 24/7. That is available, meaning if the specialist has surgery scheduled he is not available.
Banking is easy, you just apply thrust to turn your fighter on the side a little.
As for why: first, you can use big engines on the bottom to change direction, (along with the big engines on the back) and smaller fine maneuvering engines elsewhere to get the big engines pointed the right way. Second, you want thrust in directions that the human body is good at resisting forces. Down and Back are good vectors for high g thrusts, since you can survive thrust in those directions that would kill you in others.
I have no clue if real space fighters would work that way, but it is a factor the designers will consider.
Rumsfeld - that guy really makes sense if you like war as much as The Bush administration does...
Or if you read "the Art of War", like Rumsfeld has. That statement you quoted is a paraphase of the book. Of course most people haven't read the book, and have no clue what it says. (amazing how many of the best generals for the last several thousand years have read it and recommend it)
No logician would take this as an argument in favor of faith, no matter how you slice it.
Godel's theorems are not a argument in favor of faith, they are arguments against denial of faith. Godel proved there are things that we cannot prove (or that our universe is logically inconsistent depending on which alternative you choose to believe - but believing either requires faith)
In a pure logic system faith is something that cannot be proved or disproved. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but logic tells you nothing about the truth of faith.
When I say God exists, but you cannot prove it, logic affirms that I could be right.
God speaks to me. Not in words, so don't ask me to describe his voice. However God gives me a message from time to time, (Note, years between messages are normal) that cannot be ignored. Of course you from the outside will disagree that it is a message from God if I state them, so I won't.
Prove I really exist. We have not met. Someone could create a convincing hologram of me, or a really advanced robot... (This assumes the existence of technology that you know nothing about, so it is a stretch)
At least I can prove the socks definitely exist Or at least socks are a strong enough illusion that you think they exists and can find no way to disprove it.
doesn't that make your rational, hacker side deeply uneasy at the possibility you could be voluntarily (and fruitlessly) misleading yourself? Not exactly, it makes me uneasy that I could be misunderstanding the message.
There are also python wrappers for clucene. I was not able to get gcj to work on my system (FreeBSD - even "hello world" did not run and I don't know why), while clucene works. Well sort of, it is clearly alpha, but good enough.
Yep, codes. I'm pretty sure they are national not local.
You need them near or in each bedroom, and one on each level. When you have a vaulted ceiling the vault is a different level. (Thus the odd situation of many houses having smoke detectors just a few feet apart)
You want smoke detectors as far from kitchens and fireplaces as you can, without sacrificing good detection. These locations produce small amounts of smoke from time without there being a problem. False alarms need to minimized. These areas tend to not produce smoke when there is nobody there though, so it is assumed you can evaluate the danger without aid of a detector.
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To echo what the other guy said: When someone is drowning they panic.
It has happened to me where someone I was swimming with paniced and grabbed onto me. This prevented me from swimming (I could not move my arms or legs enough to stay above water), and was leading into a double drowning situation fast! Fortunately I had heard about the only solution: dive - the drowner will not follow you down. Once I was underwater I was able to come up a safe distance away and help.
Not really. At least not in the pool I remember seeing it. Just swim one lap in water where it isn't over your head, in front of the life guard. (that is you don't seem from deep to shallow, you swim in the shallow part)
Life guards can recognize people. They didn't make everyone take the test, only those who were borderline. They wouldn't ask me to take any test today because from the moment I jump into the pool it is clear from my swimming style that I could pass. Back when I had to take the test I was a young kid who could just pass it (Actually the want to get into the adult section caused me to take it many times before I was strong enough to pass. Back then annoying to fail, in hindsite a good thing)
Come to think of it, the lifeguard in that chair probably watched a dozen tests an hour. But he wasn't in a part where people were likely to drown - not yet over year head, but only good swimmers allowed)
Do they dare? FreeBSD +KDE already does everything I need. Linux + GNOME/KDE + OpenOffice.org + WINE (if needed) is enough for 99% of the people out there. If Microsoft quits caving they will find that it isn't a bluff, and then they loose customers.
Now you might argue that Microsoft Windows is better. That might be true (depending on what you do), but is it worth the cost. For most people the differences are not significant, but they are used to Microsoft. Is sticking with what you know worth the cost? Every company and government should be counting the cost - if it is close you can threaten Microsoft, knowing that get a better deal.
Don't forget that this isn't all or nothing. You can switch some people but not others. Cutting your Microsoft Office fees in half can be big.
I don't want to work in the city, I want to earn enough money to pay for my life, have room for my hobbies, and neighbors that don't complain about my hobbies. (See the typical restrictions on a townhome) Jobs that will pay for that are much easier to find in the city, thus I live 50 miles from work.
Your right it sucks. It is a compromise. I'd love to work from home, but I'm not allowed with this job. I'd love to live next door to work, but their offices are not next door, and the other people I work with want to live elsewhere anyway.
Unless you can tell me where I can buy 100 acres of land, on a lake, next to a golf course, with good schools, with plenty of night life (bars, theaters, shopping), and several churches (in our small office of 15 I know of 5 different Christian sects, and 1 Muslim), plus it needs to be just as close to our spouse's job (for those co-workers who are married). I'm sure there are more factors that the various people I work with would love to have, but you get the idea.
I'm glad I'm not the only fan on Stan around.
15 years ago the MN state fair was handing out plastic bags made from corn. They were even bio-degradable.
Oil was a lot cheaper than corn back then, so little investment was made in it. However as oil goes up in price we will turn to corn and soybeans for our needs. (to name just a few potential sources of oil not from the ground)
It is unlikely that there are small nukes in the US not controlled by the US government. The parts of a nuke decay, so a small nuke becomes ineffective fast because of this.
The US used to rotate their small nukes in Europe every 3 months, back when they were considered the only way to stop the Soviet army. (back when this was a considered likely the goal was to slow them down long enough to build our armies)
Don't bet on it. Misinformation is about getting the other guy to think what you want him to. Sometimes that means right out telling him that you are pushing misinformation knowing he will think it is a cover for your bad security, and take the bad information that you told him he was getting.
Other times it is finding out who the spys are and feeding them misinformation without them knowing about it. Sometimes you turn the spy into a double agent (on threat of execution), sometimes you just make sure the spy only has access to your prepared information.
Feeding misinformation is hard - you need to make sure that the enemy believes it. Feed too much and they won't believe anything (though at least they won't act on the truth), feed too little, and they will know most of your get your secrets by spying.
Dump them for WHAT? US dollars are not backed by anything. China cannot call the US up and demand a few thousands pounds of gold (or whatever the value they hold is). They can either buy goods with them, or trade them for other currency. Massive trading will change the prices.
If they buy goods, the price of goods increases (supply and demand). Because they are buying with dollars, the price of goods from Europe will go up more than US goods, thus stimulating the US ecconomy, and crashing Europe's ecconony. (Europe sells are lot of goods to the US) Not just Europe, but most other countries. Of course the US will have trouble buying goods from elsewhere, but the US has many natural resources to draw from, so it isn't the end of the world. Just a difficult time until the US becomes more efficant. (In other words this would spell the end of the SUV)
Dumping currency can only be done by trading it to someone else. However the US currency floats, so by crashing the US currency, they also crash their own reserves. Paying $10 for (at today's rate) $1 worth of Euros isn't good business sense. Though Europe is not stupid enough to miss such a fire sale. In the mean time, the US can ride this out - we produce more than enough food, and plenty of oil. It would mean the end of the SUV (which is already coming), and would push alternative energy, but that is about it. Of course because the dollar is so cheap, goods from the US are now dirt cheap on the world market, and the US can make things like crazy.
Note that the US is help by both of these situations, more than hurt. (long term, there will be serious short term effects) Europe (and Japan...) is hurt by it.
Long term, yes China does have to reduce their US currency holdings. (well they don't have to, but there is no reason to believe they won't), but it won't crash the US.
No it is not okay to part a bright yellow hummer in the driveway. If you cannot fit it in the garrage then get rid of it. Don't get rid of it here though, cars in the driveway are not allowed.
I don't see why they care, most townhomes are a uniform ugly gray, so it isn't like cars in the driveway or a satellite dish make it worse. A 62 VW bug on blocks in the driveway would make most of those neighborhoods look better. IMHO of course, which is why I don't live in such a neighborhood.
Depends on how your work it. Your most profit per acre comes at 5-10 acres (depending on your family). Your greatest income is from ~3000 acres, though you make about half as much per acre.
5 acres is enough for someone dedicated to farming to make a living. All the food you need, and some to sell, to meet other expenses. You won't get rich though.
Most people just are not willing to do all their work by hand. Tractors save a lot of labor, but they cost money. On 5 acres a tractor doesn't pay, one 3000 you have no choice.
If you go back in time 40 years you will discover that the top party schools then were much easier than the top party schools now. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if MIT was easier 40 years ago than party schools today. 40 years ago you didn't need a degree to get a job, now you do, so schools don't have to compete for any student willing to come, they can compete for the best. (Of course MIT will get better students than a party school)
My mom just finished her degree. (after ~25 years) back then the party school she want to was easy, when she went back it was much harder.
Students may not be looking for quality, but they are getting it anyway - if they finish.
When boys are given dolls to play with, they push them along the floor and make vroom-vroom noises. When girls are given (toy) cars to play with they have the mommy car and the daddy car.
Of course there are exceptions, but the rule holds. In toyboxes filled with mixed toys the girls go to the dolls and boys to the cars in the majority of cases. Most boys will play with dolls (as a girl would) if they are in a group of girls, and most girls will play with cars (as a boy would) in a group of boys. However left to their they will not.
Don't ask me why, I don't understand girls. (afterall this is slashdot). It makes complete sense to my why someone would want to play with cars though.
Well I take my laptop to meetings. It is handy to be able to do work while the boss is talking about some other project, then when the topic changes I come back. Sometimes that is the most work I get done in a day. Not to mention I often start a long test before a meeting, the laptop lets me fix stupid mistakes so it runs. (I never come back to: "big-test.dat" not found, when I have the laptop to copy that file to the right location and restart the test)
Though if I could trade a laptop for dual LCDs I would.
Find some antique computer gear, and make it work. 9 track tapes, paper terminals that sit on the floor and are filled with real tubes. Not many, but they look impressive in a "we never throw anything away" way. (This can be good to show bankers as they don't like waste) Seeing (and hearing!) the auto-loader on a 9-track reel to reel tape is impressive. Put Adventure on the paper terminal.
Of course you do your work on modern computers, but sometimes it is fun to work on machines older than you are.
So don't start your business in a mature industry with high barriers to enter. There are plenty of industries that you can get into.
Though I'm not sure that there are industries that you can't compete in if you try. You will never compete with Microsoft Word on the international market (at least not in one year), but if you look you can find things that Word doesn't do and sell to those who need that feature.
The companies are about making money. Selling these drugs without perscription is illegal, and doing something illegal leads to fines are investigations which cost money (sometimes the company even gets shut down).
It isn't that the company doesn't want the money from time (they may or may not be that honest), it is that they don't dare get caught.
How many doctors are there on call on any given night? Of those, how many actually get called? Most people are not doctors, and most doctors are not in an area where they would get called in the middle of the night.
Sure I want my personal doctor to know if something happens to me, but that can wait until after the movie - the doctors in the emergency room are better at emergencies, and need to deal with that not my doctor.
Now how often are you in a theater where people get calls? Last time I was in a theater (so see a play - I never go to movies) there were 6 calls, and at least half came were not doctors. (it was a company outing - the theater manager thanked each large group for attending before the show started) This despite offers that the staff would hold your phone, and come get you if it was a real emergency.
"What if there is an emergency" sounds good. However emergencies explain a tiny minority of cell phone use. Most is just people who have an artificial idea of their own importance.
Hospitals maintain 24/7 staffs fully able to handle most situations. They cannot be a level 1 trauma center (ie the place where the worst emergencies go, often ambulances will bypass other hospitals on the way to one) withint having brain and heart specialists available 24/7. That is available, meaning if the specialist has surgery scheduled he is not available.
Banking is easy, you just apply thrust to turn your fighter on the side a little.
As for why: first, you can use big engines on the bottom to change direction, (along with the big engines on the back) and smaller fine maneuvering engines elsewhere to get the big engines pointed the right way. Second, you want thrust in directions that the human body is good at resisting forces. Down and Back are good vectors for high g thrusts, since you can survive thrust in those directions that would kill you in others.
I have no clue if real space fighters would work that way, but it is a factor the designers will consider.
Rumsfeld - that guy really makes sense if you like war as much as The Bush administration does...
Or if you read "the Art of War", like Rumsfeld has. That statement you quoted is a paraphase of the book. Of course most people haven't read the book, and have no clue what it says. (amazing how many of the best generals for the last several thousand years have read it and recommend it)
No logician would take this as an argument in favor of faith, no matter how you slice it.
Godel's theorems are not a argument in favor of faith, they are arguments against denial of faith. Godel proved there are things that we cannot prove (or that our universe is logically inconsistent depending on which alternative you choose to believe - but believing either requires faith)
In a pure logic system faith is something that cannot be proved or disproved. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, but logic tells you nothing about the truth of faith.
When I say God exists, but you cannot prove it, logic affirms that I could be right.
God speaks to me. Not in words, so don't ask me to describe his voice. However God gives me a message from time to time, (Note, years between messages are normal) that cannot be ignored. Of course you from the outside will disagree that it is a message from God if I state them, so I won't.
Prove I really exist. We have not met. Someone could create a convincing hologram of me, or a really advanced robot... (This assumes the existence of technology that you know nothing about, so it is a stretch)
At least I can prove the socks definitely exist Or at least socks are a strong enough illusion that you think they exists and can find no way to disprove it.
doesn't that make your rational, hacker side deeply uneasy at the possibility you could be voluntarily (and fruitlessly) misleading yourself? Not exactly, it makes me uneasy that I could be misunderstanding the message.
There are also python wrappers for clucene. I was not able to get gcj to work on my system (FreeBSD - even "hello world" did not run and I don't know why), while clucene works. Well sort of, it is clearly alpha, but good enough.
Yep, codes. I'm pretty sure they are national not local.
You need them near or in each bedroom, and one on each level. When you have a vaulted ceiling the vault is a different level. (Thus the odd situation of many houses having smoke detectors just a few feet apart)
You want smoke detectors as far from kitchens and fireplaces as you can, without sacrificing good detection. These locations produce small amounts of smoke from time without there being a problem. False alarms need to minimized. These areas tend to not produce smoke when there is nobody there though, so it is assumed you can evaluate the danger without aid of a detector.
It is hard to boil cold water. Even in a total vacuum (or as close as we can get in the lab) water doesn't boil until you get it hot.