Somewhere along the line (possibly before those Mac vs PC commercials) PC came to be assumed Windows on Intel . . .
The shift in usage started when IBM came out with the "IBM PC" personal computer, and then IBM competitors copied, I mean, reverse-engineered IBM's BIOS and sold "IBM PC compatible" computers. When the clones became popular, the phrase was shortened in general use to "PC".
A contractor can support systems all over the USA, globally using the free internet and only need a few people with clearances and lawyers in any on nation.
Not as "free", but you could do the same thing with dedicated connections, rather than thru the open internet. For a lot of stuff, POTS would be enough.
Well, at least they have a long way to go to get there.
If you were at the top 10% of your high school and the top 10% in ACT/SAT scores, you would be below average at the UofC.
No, he's right - you're the one with a problem in reading comprehension. They are a predictor of success, but
"Once we looked at a student's grades and transcripts, the SAT and ACT added very little to explain how well they were going to do in college."
So he's not saying that they're un-predictive, but that the grades and transcripts are more predictive. That is, no matter how smart you are, if you didn't do the work to get good HS grades, you might not do the necessary work in college, either.
Actual top percentile students, not the students in the top percentile of scores, do not do very well on standardized tests. They tend to score closer to the median and some times in the bottom percentiles.
. . . we're not going to turn illiterate motherfuckers into literate motherfuckers by relaxing the standards
This is the University of Chicago. I doubt this is going to relax their standards, but if they did relax their standards, 90% of college students still couldn't get in.
OK, it has nothing to do with fonts, but Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect, coined the phrase "form follows function" in the late 1800s, well before the Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 30s.
In many if not most cases, they didn't raise buildings. They just filled in streets, created vaulted sidewalks, and changed the name of the "ground floor" to "basement".
Considering O'Hare gets around 60,000,000 passengers a year, 2,000 an hour would be a good hunk (maybe 25% on average). And many of the 60 million passengers are making connecting flights and many others not going downtown.
What I don't get is the need. You can already get to O'Hare on the Blue Line for $2.50 and about 40 minutes; or take the Metra, which costs more and has fewer trains, but is more comfortable and faster, or drive; or take a taxi, Uber, Lyft; or take a limo; or one of the several hotel shuttle buses. There's already plenty of ways to get between downtown and O'Hare for various prices and convenience. (Actually, most people get to O'Hare by flying.)
What would really be interesting is a line between O'Hare and Midway.
RTFA, he's offering to build it out of his own (company's) pocket, in exchange for most or all of the income from it.
The deal is not done, yet anyway, he's just the "winner" that gets to negotiate for a contract.
That low liability rate doesn't mean they're rarely at fault. That means they rarely cause as much damage to other vehicles as cars, SUVs, & trucks do.
I would really like to see statistics showing how much surge pricing increases ride availability. In my opinion, cab drivers need fares to make a living, and so they will pick up rides when there's demand whether there's surge pricing or not. Sure, some cabbies will be more inclined to work when there's surge pricing, but I'm not convinced that would be enough to make a great difference, especially if it only lasts a few minutes to a half hour as said above in cayenne8's anecdote.
The government makes it illegal to pass on the price differential between the cost to the merchant of paying in cash and paying by credit card?
In my hazy memory, it is not government regulations that prevent the store from charging differently for cash or credit, it is the merchant agreement with the card issuer - except that some governments have passed laws preventing that sort of contract.
Anyway, nowadays merchants don't mind dealing with credit cards as much as cash, except where the purchases are small enough that the credit card fee is too high to make a profit.
No, because generating electricity from oil will still be one of the most expensive, and rare, ways of doing it. Might help out some isolated islands, though, if they don't switch to renewables first.
Immunotherapy is not breast cancer specific. It can be used on most types of cancer.
Most immunotherapies are tested on specific types of cancer, and are not developed to attack just any type of cancer. The whole point of TFA was that this treatment was tailored to this woman's particular tumor. So, no, this particular immunotherapy treatment could not be used on "most types of cancer". In fact, it relied on re-injecting the women's own immune cells, and those cells could not have been used on anyone else even if they had the same type of cancer.
You can't usually get a building permit without licensed engineers' stamps for structural, mechanical, and electrical. (Sometimes only an Architect's stamp is required, and for simpler jobs, maybe only a contractor's license.) However, the majority of the engineers doing the actual work are not licensed, but are rather working "under the direct supervision and responsibility" of the licensed engineer. This often means the person stamping the drawings has only a vague knowledge about the details of the design. Because of that, I've often said that a PE is a license to hire other people to do the work - but, of course, that's an exaggeration.
Not only that, modern CFC replacements are toxic enough to kill everyone in the car if the coils develop a fast leak.
Bullshit.. For example, the LC50 for R134a is more than 500,000 parts per million while the LC50 for R12 is around 750,000 parts per million. In either case, that's a mighty big leak in an automobile to displace most of the air.
Your cars and refrigerators can use a an isobutane/propane mix. They do not require R-12.
Yeah, but a leak can then be quite exciting, which is a big reason why the industry switched to non-toxic, non-flammable chloroflourocarbons in the first place.
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The shift in usage started when IBM came out with the "IBM PC" personal computer, and then IBM competitors copied, I mean, reverse-engineered IBM's BIOS and sold "IBM PC compatible" computers. When the clones became popular, the phrase was shortened in general use to "PC".
Please apply for citizenship and vote.
Not as "free", but you could do the same thing with dedicated connections, rather than thru the open internet. For a lot of stuff, POTS would be enough.
Well, at least they have a long way to go to get there.
If you were at the top 10% of your high school and the top 10% in ACT/SAT scores, you would be below average at the UofC.
Bullshit. Grade inflation predates "diversity" by decades.
No, he's right - you're the one with a problem in reading comprehension. They are a predictor of success, but
" Once we looked at a student's grades and transcripts, the SAT and ACT added very little to explain how well they were going to do in college."
So he's not saying that they're un-predictive, but that the grades and transcripts are more predictive. That is, no matter how smart you are, if you didn't do the work to get good HS grades, you might not do the necessary work in college, either.
This is not true.
This is the University of Chicago. I doubt this is going to relax their standards, but if they did relax their standards, 90% of college students still couldn't get in.
OK, it has nothing to do with fonts, but Louis Sullivan, the Chicago architect, coined the phrase "form follows function" in the late 1800s, well before the Bauhaus school in the 1920s and 30s.
"Margin of Error" is not synonymous with "Just as Likely".
In many if not most cases, they didn't raise buildings. They just filled in streets, created vaulted sidewalks, and changed the name of the "ground floor" to "basement".
I vote for that 4th one.
No, I'll take the CTA Blue Line train or, schedule permitting, the Metra North Central train.
Considering O'Hare gets around 60,000,000 passengers a year, 2,000 an hour would be a good hunk (maybe 25% on average). And many of the 60 million passengers are making connecting flights and many others not going downtown.
What I don't get is the need. You can already get to O'Hare on the Blue Line for $2.50 and about 40 minutes; or take the Metra, which costs more and has fewer trains, but is more comfortable and faster, or drive; or take a taxi, Uber, Lyft; or take a limo; or one of the several hotel shuttle buses. There's already plenty of ways to get between downtown and O'Hare for various prices and convenience. (Actually, most people get to O'Hare by flying.)
What would really be interesting is a line between O'Hare and Midway.
RTFA, he's offering to build it out of his own (company's) pocket, in exchange for most or all of the income from it.
The deal is not done, yet anyway, he's just the "winner" that gets to negotiate for a contract.
Don't worry, Musk will keep costs down by using innovative subtractive 3-D printing technology to make the tunnel.
That low liability rate doesn't mean they're rarely at fault. That means they rarely cause as much damage to other vehicles as cars, SUVs, & trucks do.
I would really like to see statistics showing how much surge pricing increases ride availability. In my opinion, cab drivers need fares to make a living, and so they will pick up rides when there's demand whether there's surge pricing or not. Sure, some cabbies will be more inclined to work when there's surge pricing, but I'm not convinced that would be enough to make a great difference, especially if it only lasts a few minutes to a half hour as said above in cayenne8's anecdote.
In my hazy memory, it is not government regulations that prevent the store from charging differently for cash or credit, it is the merchant agreement with the card issuer - except that some governments have passed laws preventing that sort of contract.
Anyway, nowadays merchants don't mind dealing with credit cards as much as cash, except where the purchases are small enough that the credit card fee is too high to make a profit.
No, because generating electricity from oil will still be one of the most expensive, and rare, ways of doing it. Might help out some isolated islands, though, if they don't switch to renewables first.
Most immunotherapies are tested on specific types of cancer, and are not developed to attack just any type of cancer. The whole point of TFA was that this treatment was tailored to this woman's particular tumor. So, no, this particular immunotherapy treatment could not be used on "most types of cancer". In fact, it relied on re-injecting the women's own immune cells, and those cells could not have been used on anyone else even if they had the same type of cancer.
You can't usually get a building permit without licensed engineers' stamps for structural, mechanical, and electrical. (Sometimes only an Architect's stamp is required, and for simpler jobs, maybe only a contractor's license.) However, the majority of the engineers doing the actual work are not licensed, but are rather working "under the direct supervision and responsibility" of the licensed engineer. This often means the person stamping the drawings has only a vague knowledge about the details of the design. Because of that, I've often said that a PE is a license to hire other people to do the work - but, of course, that's an exaggeration.
Bullshit.. For example, the LC50 for R134a is more than 500,000 parts per million while the LC50 for R12 is around 750,000 parts per million. In either case, that's a mighty big leak in an automobile to displace most of the air.
Which could just mean they had insufficient airflow or were low on refrigerant.
Yeah, but a leak can then be quite exciting, which is a big reason why the industry switched to non-toxic, non-flammable chloroflourocarbons in the first place.