Tai Chi.... Unlike yoga, you get to move around and if bandits come while you're meditating, you'll be able to kick their asses and send them on their way.
... and discipline - something many youngsters (like, apparently, OP) seem to be lacking. Perhaps they did, or would do, poorly in the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Mastering patience and deferred gratification can be beneficial - grasshoppers.
I'm 51 and get paid over $125K (in southeastern Virginia) and generally work when and on what as I please. There are 3 senior and 1 junior people on my team and we develop/support a ~300k lines of code for our cross-platform application.
Its productivity potential is so powerful it will deliver a new era of prosperity.
... Michael Porter isn't over-selling it./sarcasm I imagine that his company has a vested interest in the IoT, so he's totally objective.
Seriously, how did we, as a species, ever get by without an Internet-connected refrigerator that can track milk usage? Or a WiFi thermostat? Like a fool, I've simply set mine to a low of 70 and high of 78, letting my 16 SEER heat-pump auto-switch as needed. Curse my short-sightedness; I have been blinded by my comfortable room temperatures!!
What kind of person buys medals? The point of a Nobel Prize (or a military decoration, or whatever) is not the shiny thing, it's the reminder of an achievement.
You question is based on the assumption that the intelligence of said collectors is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really. (to paraphrase something I heard somewhere from someone)
Well that's fine, I guess, if "ignored" is in not in the sense of humans ignoring ants aka easily destroyed without remorse when necessary or annoying.
Arroway: The human civilization poses no threat to them, and that it would be like us being hell-bent on obliterating some microbes on an anthill in Africa.
Drumlin: Interesting analogy. And how guilty would we feel after obliterating some microbes on an anthill in Africa?
Get a new bank. My transfers are available to me immediately.
It depends a lot on where you live. In America, a money transfer from one bank to another can take days to clear. In China, I am able to do it in seconds.
In reality, the transfer probably clears immediately, but American banks are only required by law to make the funds available within a specific number of days, so they hold that money - probably to their financial benefit.
The judge ordered the manufacturer to offer 'reasonable technical assistance' to make the phone's contents available." What will happen when this collides with Apple and Google deliberately creating encryption that they themselves cannot break?
Then the vendors won't be able to offer "reasonable technical assistance". What's so hard to understand able that? The existence of the law doesn't prevent them from creating said, unbreakable, encryption.
According to Darlin, when you are out shopping, it's the wallet, not the credit card, that is the annoyance. It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost.
A cell phone is bulky and can be forgotten or lost. In addition, my wallet isn't big or bulky and contains my ID - which I'm required to carry, at least to drive, and won't be electronic for quite some time, if ever.
"If I were to make a bet, I'd say that 10 years from now the most popular answer from young shoppers about how they make small payments would be: thumbprint. And you'll get a dull shrug when you ask what a wallet is.
Merchants can have my thumbprint when they pry it from my cold dead hand. P.S. Cash and CC work even when my cell phone has no bars or is dead - if I carried a cell phone, which I don't.
Besides, aren't things like Apple Pay simply a credit-card proxy with, you know, Apple (or whoever) watching/tracking in between?
Want to work in a decent, non-dead-end job, with the opportunity to advance your career and make a meaningful difference to the world? Learn to interact with people. Learn empathy, learn communications skills, learn to temper your urge towards condescension and dismissal. If you're a coder, it's 50% of your job, assuming you're doing your job right.
If you're a hooker (or manager?), it's 100% of your job, assuming you're doing your job right...
I think it's because FIOS, U-Verse, and Google Fiber all had good years worth of picking up subscribers, so customers want their pages faster and the server-side people didn't upgrade.
It's because every web page wants to load a metric fuck-ton of third-party Javascript and Ajax code from 10 different sources - just to display their banner and navigation panels...
According to the report The State of the Global Coatings Industry, the world produced 34 billion liters of paints and coatings in 2012....
If we assume paint production has, in recent decades, followed the economy and grown at about 3% per year, that means the total amount of paint produced equals the current yearly production times 34.[6]\((1+\tfrac{1}{0.03})\) That comes out to a little over a trillion liters of paint. At 30 square meters per gallon, "Square meters per gallon" is a pretty obnoxious unit, but I think it's not quite as bad as acre-foot (a foot by a chain by a furlong), which is an actual unit used in technical papers I was trying to read this week. that's enough to cover 9 trillion square meters—about the area of the United States.
So the answer is no; there's not enough paint to cover the Earth's land, and—at this rate—probably won't be enough until the year 2100.
The pits on a blu ray disc are optimized for reading with a blue laser. Sun's output have more energy at the other end (red spectrum). I'm thinking they might get even better efficiency if they tried a disc pitting pattern that was meant for reading with a red laser.
Actually, it works by simply reflecting the Sun in high-def. They tried this previously with DVDs (regular and superbit), Laserdisc, Betamax and VHS, with less efficiencies.
a choice between an incompetent Republican and an ultra-competent one.
You'd regret having an "ultra-competent" person as POTUS? Your political beliefs that rigid? Having a competent people in office is more important than ideology, especially with regard to the entire country as a whole. Extreme partisanship and narrow-minded thinking is what's most troubling us now.
I live in a rural area. Rural areas were specifically excluded from the study.... I have personally gone on a cardiac call, where the person was asystole when we arrived on scene...
I was on Ariel, which was also excluded from the study, and we applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
Hmmm... what movie are you talking about? 'Cuz I wasn't referencing one.
I know; I threw in a reference to a line/scene in Interstellar - as it annoyed me. I understand Nolan's (possible) motivation, but having anyone deny the Moon landings is simply dumb. The Moon landings can be demonstrated by (a) the reflectors astronauts placed for Laser ranging the Earth-Moon distance and (b) telescopes can see (barely) the lower lander sections left behind.
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Tai Chi. ... Unlike yoga, you get to move around and if bandits come while you're meditating, you'll be able to kick their asses and send them on their way.
Slow-motion bandits anyway.
Don't become a leaf in the wind. Take charge.
Better than being a "leaf on the wind" -- that didn't work out so well for Wash
For its part, Apple said the system was a safety measure installed to protect users.
Yes. Music files can be very dangerous. Many injuries and deaths have been reported...
(Or am I to assume a different meaning from the words "safety" and "protect"?)
Which Programming Language Pays the Best?
Seriously, just one? I use several languages, on the same project:
I'm 51 and get paid over $125K (in southeastern Virginia) and generally work when and on what as I please. There are 3 senior and 1 junior people on my team and we develop/support a ~300k lines of code for our cross-platform application.
Its productivity potential is so powerful it will deliver a new era of prosperity.
Seriously, how did we, as a species, ever get by without an Internet-connected refrigerator that can track milk usage? Or a WiFi thermostat? Like a fool, I've simply set mine to a low of 70 and high of 78, letting my 16 SEER heat-pump auto-switch as needed. Curse my short-sightedness; I have been blinded by my comfortable room temperatures!!
Your list sounds like it could also be applied to Iraq, Syria, etc...
What kind of person buys medals? The point of a Nobel Prize (or a military decoration, or whatever) is not the shiny thing, it's the reminder of an achievement.
You question is based on the assumption that the intelligence of said collectors is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really. (to paraphrase something I heard somewhere from someone)
Well that's fine, I guess, if "ignored" is in not in the sense of humans ignoring ants aka easily destroyed without remorse when necessary or annoying.
From the movie Contact:
Get a new bank. My transfers are available to me immediately.
It depends a lot on where you live. In America, a money transfer from one bank to another can take days to clear. In China, I am able to do it in seconds.
In reality, the transfer probably clears immediately, but American banks are only required by law to make the funds available within a specific number of days, so they hold that money - probably to their financial benefit.
The judge ordered the manufacturer to offer 'reasonable technical assistance' to make the phone's contents available." What will happen when this collides with Apple and Google deliberately creating encryption that they themselves cannot break?
Then the vendors won't be able to offer "reasonable technical assistance". What's so hard to understand able that? The existence of the law doesn't prevent them from creating said, unbreakable, encryption.
According to Darlin, when you are out shopping, it's the wallet, not the credit card, that is the annoyance. It's bulky. It can be forgotten, or lost.
A cell phone is bulky and can be forgotten or lost. In addition, my wallet isn't big or bulky and contains my ID - which I'm required to carry, at least to drive, and won't be electronic for quite some time, if ever.
"If I were to make a bet, I'd say that 10 years from now the most popular answer from young shoppers about how they make small payments would be: thumbprint. And you'll get a dull shrug when you ask what a wallet is.
Merchants can have my thumbprint when they pry it from my cold dead hand. P.S. Cash and CC work even when my cell phone has no bars or is dead - if I carried a cell phone, which I don't.
Besides, aren't things like Apple Pay simply a credit-card proxy with, you know, Apple (or whoever) watching/tracking in between?
Want to work in a decent, non-dead-end job, with the opportunity to advance your career and make a meaningful difference to the world? Learn to interact with people. Learn empathy, learn communications skills, learn to temper your urge towards condescension and dismissal. If you're a coder, it's 50% of your job, assuming you're doing your job right.
If you're a hooker (or manager?), it's 100% of your job, assuming you're doing your job right...
I think it's because FIOS, U-Verse, and Google Fiber all had good years worth of picking up subscribers, so customers want their pages faster and the server-side people didn't upgrade.
It's because every web page wants to load a metric fuck-ton of third-party Javascript and Ajax code from 10 different sources - just to display their banner and navigation panels ...
I would not call it theory work, if the question is which 'machine' might be able to create a worm hole.
Machine? Farscape 1 of course.
I get it when Neil deGrasse Tyson complains about things like, in some movie the Earth spins the wrong way,
It spins the wrong way in the opening sequence of The Daily Show and he has previously remarked about this to Jon Stewart.
According to the report The State of the Global Coatings Industry, the world produced 34 billion liters of paints and coatings in 2012. ...
If we assume paint production has, in recent decades, followed the economy and grown at about 3% per year, that means the total amount of paint produced equals the current yearly production times 34.[6]\((1+\tfrac{1}{0.03})\) That comes out to a little over a trillion liters of paint. At 30 square meters per gallon, "Square meters per gallon" is a pretty obnoxious unit, but I think it's not quite as bad as acre-foot (a foot by a chain by a furlong), which is an actual unit used in technical papers I was trying to read this week. that's enough to cover 9 trillion square meters—about the area of the United States.
So the answer is no; there's not enough paint to cover the Earth's land, and—at this rate—probably won't be enough until the year 2100.
The pits on a blu ray disc are optimized for reading with a blue laser. Sun's output have more energy at the other end (red spectrum). I'm thinking they might get even better efficiency if they tried a disc pitting pattern that was meant for reading with a red laser.
Actually, it works by simply reflecting the Sun in high-def. They tried this previously with DVDs (regular and superbit), Laserdisc, Betamax and VHS, with less efficiencies.
Add one to that count. I tried building a fusion generator last night when I was drunk. Just like all the other attempts mine didn't work either.
Perhaps you just suck at building fusion generators, like the Apollo 13 astronauts sucked at stirring.
a choice between an incompetent Republican and an ultra-competent one.
You'd regret having an "ultra-competent" person as POTUS? Your political beliefs that rigid? Having a competent people in office is more important than ideology, especially with regard to the entire country as a whole. Extreme partisanship and narrow-minded thinking is what's most troubling us now.
none of those will be taken seriously. Its all about Rand Paul in 2016
No. It's Sarah Palin 2015 - on the road to 1400 Pennsylvania Ave ... :-)
Throw a bunch of stuff on the wall and hope something sticks. Prosecutors don't really care what that is as long as it's something and they "win".
or patches by people who just want an old feature back and think Mozilla should listen to them because... just because.
Just because newer doesn't always mean better - that's why. Too bad Mozilla doesn't understand this.
("Awesome" Bar my ass, but I digress.)
I live in a rural area. Rural areas were specifically excluded from the study. ... I have personally gone on a cardiac call, where the person was asystole when we arrived on scene...
I was on Ariel, which was also excluded from the study, and we applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.
Hmmm ... what movie are you talking about? 'Cuz I wasn't referencing one.
I know; I threw in a reference to a line/scene in Interstellar - as it annoyed me. I understand Nolan's (possible) motivation, but having anyone deny the Moon landings is simply dumb. The Moon landings can be demonstrated by (a) the reflectors astronauts placed for Laser ranging the Earth-Moon distance and (b) telescopes can see (barely) the lower lander sections left behind.