I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
I'm up in Canada. Around here, if you order something online and the store doesn't collect the provincial sales tax you're actually supposed to fill out a form and send it in yourself. I've never actually heard of anyone doing this though....
It's well documented that some animals have the mental capacity of a typical 3 year old human child. (See Alex the african grey parrot, Koko the gorilla, etc.)
And I do not know why people banter about about "dishonest" trading -- the trades themselves are public record, and only executed because the seller and buyer agreed on a price. There is no coercion or manipulation in the trade itself.
The reason why people don't like it is that they see the high-speed traders as a man-in-the-middle attack.
Hypothetically if both parties were on the network at the same time they could sell to each other at a mutually agreed-upon price. The high speed trader in the middle gets one party to pay a bit more to buy and the other party to accept a bit less to sell, and pockets the difference while doing very little in return.
The real market maker usefulness is when both parties are not on the market at the same time, but that requires them to hold onto the asset for longer, which they generally don't want to do.
It's *really hard* to prove that something is safe, you pretty much need to test every possible interaction.
It's relatively simple to prove that something is not safe--you just need to find one thing demonstrating lack of safety and then you're done.
That said, I think there should be some level of due diligence required before bringing a GM food to market. That said, the current alternative to GMOs is irradiating DNA to force it to mutate, which causes way more changes in unrelated areas and offers all the dangers of GMOs, but currently has basically no labelling requirements.
If you're working on a very specific project, you need someone with a specific skillset.
I worked for a decade in linux kernel development for embedded telecom systems. The linux kernel has 12 million lines of code...you want someone who has experience with it, at least enough that they know where to start looking when they run into an issue.
My current company is looking for people with experience with a particular open-source project, because it takes months to get up to speed and we're on an aggressive schedule.
My own job is programming Moodle, an LMS with over a million lines of code. That's roughly equal to an entire Linux distribution.
What are you smoking? Just the linux *kernel* is roughly 12 million lines of code. Firefox is 10 million lines of code. The GNOME desktop framework is 8 million lines of code. The GNU compiler is 6 million lines of code. Chromium is 7 million lines of code.
That's just a smattering of the packages that can be found in a linux distribution...
There are ARM and MIPS boards that are even cheaper, and if you're doing it from scratch they're not much more work since you'd need to rebuild everything for this board anyway (it's not 586-compatible).
If you reflash your computer BIOS with something random that you cooked up, do you think the manufacturer should be on the hook to fix it? You screwed it up, you're responsible.
Embedded devices are *not standardized*. Alternate kernels could cause things to overheat, raise the voltage too high (or drop it too low), apply voltage to the wrong pins, etc. If you do this and damage your device, do you really think that the manufacturer should fix it for you?
And conveniently enough, just booting an alternate OS *doesn't* void your warranty. It only does so if it actually causes damage.
Techncially they only deny warranty coverage if the different operating system damaged the product, caused it to be unsafe, or caused it to malfunction.
The patch to make the car ride higher is going to mess with the handling and is probably mostly just a publicity stunt. I'd be happier if they hadn't done anything at all and just continued saying 'the car is safe, only the engine bay was damaged by the fire'.
The main issue is that Apple doesn't have a product in the low end of the market.
So yes, if you're shopping in the upper end of the market and you want all the features they offer, then they're good.
However, if all you want is a basic machine for surfing the web, watching videos, writing emails, and doing basic office documents, then Apple is way more expensive because it's overkill for the purpose. I can find a crappy Acer with 6GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for under $300. The bottom-end Macbook is $1000.
Also running linux, but work gave me the version with Nvidia+Intel graphics. Grr... There's no benefit to having Nvidia graphics for a coding machine, all it does is use more power.
Have you *seen* how much Apple/Dell/IBM etc want for RAM? They're charging double (or more) what it costs to get the equivalent stuff elsewhere.
I can save a hundred bucks getting 16GB of RAM from elsewhere, it's absolutely worth the 10 minutes of my time spent ordering and installing it.
Similarly, if I want 5GHz wifi but the manufacturer doesn't offer it in the specific model I want, it's only about $25 to buy a wifi card and minutes to install it...assuming the machine uses standard parts.
I've never had a problem buying memory within a few years. If you let it go really long then it can be an issue, but as long as you're only one generation behind the current then you're likely still fine.
According to Wikipedia, "In left-right politics, right-wing describes an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social hierarchy or social inequality."
Rand Paul is all about small government--which pretty much by definition means right-wing according to the definition above.
Rand Paul calls himself a "constitutional conservative" and a "libertarian conservative." He opposes federal government involvement in health care, thinks it should be entirely privatized. He thinks the 14th Amendment shouldn't apply to kids of illegal immigrants. He shares some of the views of the religious right--he is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and he is opposed to same sex marriage.
10" cabinet saw with 72" rails 18" bandsaw 8" jointer 15" planer with carbide cutterhead 16-speed drill press 1.5HP dust collector with micron filtering the usual set of small power tools pretty decent set of hand tools (full-sized saws, joinery saws, hand planes, several sets of different kinds of chisels, rasps, files, mallets, etc) power-tool oriented workbench along the wall hand-tool workbench in the center (2.5" thick maple slab top with twin-screw face vice and quick-release end vise) clamps going up to 8-foot pipe clamps bench grinder belt grinder
On the electronic side things are a lot simpler...just a DMM that can handle capacitance, and a Weller temp-controlled soldering station. That was enough to do some decent headphone amp design and construction including custom board etching. I'd love to get a 'scope, but I just don't have enough of a need for one right now, and if I needed one I could probably borrow one.
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I'm guessing myself, like many people put up with the 2x day delay in getting something (delayed gratification) due to not having to pay sales tax on orders from Amazon.
I'm up in Canada. Around here, if you order something online and the store doesn't collect the provincial sales tax you're actually supposed to fill out a form and send it in yourself. I've never actually heard of anyone doing this though....
It's well documented that some animals have the mental capacity of a typical 3 year old human child. (See Alex the african grey parrot, Koko the gorilla, etc.)
And I do not know why people banter about about "dishonest" trading -- the trades themselves are public record, and only executed because the seller and buyer agreed on a price. There is no coercion or manipulation in the trade itself.
The reason why people don't like it is that they see the high-speed traders as a man-in-the-middle attack.
Hypothetically if both parties were on the network at the same time they could sell to each other at a mutually agreed-upon price. The high speed trader in the middle gets one party to pay a bit more to buy and the other party to accept a bit less to sell, and pockets the difference while doing very little in return.
The real market maker usefulness is when both parties are not on the market at the same time, but that requires them to hold onto the asset for longer, which they generally don't want to do.
It's *really hard* to prove that something is safe, you pretty much need to test every possible interaction.
It's relatively simple to prove that something is not safe--you just need to find one thing demonstrating lack of safety and then you're done.
That said, I think there should be some level of due diligence required before bringing a GM food to market. That said, the current alternative to GMOs is irradiating DNA to force it to mutate, which causes way more changes in unrelated areas and offers all the dangers of GMOs, but currently has basically no labelling requirements.
A brain surgeon doesn't just get hired as a heart surgeon.
A brain surgeon also doesn't get hired as "10 years of experience doing brain surgery with brand X scalpels and brand Y CT scanning equipment".
They're expected to train as part of the job, and they're given a certain amount of time and money to keep current.
If you're working on a very specific project, you need someone with a specific skillset.
I worked for a decade in linux kernel development for embedded telecom systems. The linux kernel has 12 million lines of code...you want someone who has experience with it, at least enough that they know where to start looking when they run into an issue.
My current company is looking for people with experience with a particular open-source project, because it takes months to get up to speed and we're on an aggressive schedule.
My own job is programming Moodle, an LMS with over a million lines of code. That's roughly equal to an entire Linux distribution.
What are you smoking? Just the linux *kernel* is roughly 12 million lines of code. Firefox is 10 million lines of code. The GNOME desktop framework is 8 million lines of code. The GNU compiler is 6 million lines of code. Chromium is 7 million lines of code.
That's just a smattering of the packages that can be found in a linux distribution...
And rather than reinvent the wheel they're looking for someone who has done it before.
There are ARM and MIPS boards that are even cheaper, and if you're doing it from scratch they're not much more work since you'd need to rebuild everything for this board anyway (it's not 586-compatible).
If you reflash your computer BIOS with something random that you cooked up, do you think the manufacturer should be on the hook to fix it? You screwed it up, you're responsible.
Embedded devices are *not standardized*. Alternate kernels could cause things to overheat, raise the voltage too high (or drop it too low), apply voltage to the wrong pins, etc. If you do this and damage your device, do you really think that the manufacturer should fix it for you?
And conveniently enough, just booting an alternate OS *doesn't* void your warranty. It only does so if it actually causes damage.
Techncially they only deny warranty coverage if the different operating system damaged the product, caused it to be unsafe, or caused it to malfunction.
The patch to make the car ride higher is going to mess with the handling and is probably mostly just a publicity stunt. I'd be happier if they hadn't done anything at all and just continued saying 'the car is safe, only the engine bay was damaged by the fire'.
Doesn't have Iris graphics
Doesn't have PCIe SSD
7hrs battery vs 9hrs
only available in 13"
The main issue is that Apple doesn't have a product in the low end of the market.
So yes, if you're shopping in the upper end of the market and you want all the features they offer, then they're good.
However, if all you want is a basic machine for surfing the web, watching videos, writing emails, and doing basic office documents, then Apple is way more expensive because it's overkill for the purpose. I can find a crappy Acer with 6GB RAM and a 500GB hard drive for under $300. The bottom-end Macbook is $1000.
Also running linux, but work gave me the version with Nvidia+Intel graphics. Grr... There's no benefit to having Nvidia graphics for a coding machine, all it does is use more power.
and it's still going strong...
Have you *seen* how much Apple/Dell/IBM etc want for RAM? They're charging double (or more) what it costs to get the equivalent stuff elsewhere.
I can save a hundred bucks getting 16GB of RAM from elsewhere, it's absolutely worth the 10 minutes of my time spent ordering and installing it.
Similarly, if I want 5GHz wifi but the manufacturer doesn't offer it in the specific model I want, it's only about $25 to buy a wifi card and minutes to install it...assuming the machine uses standard parts.
I've never had a problem buying memory within a few years. If you let it go really long then it can be an issue, but as long as you're only one generation behind the current then you're likely still fine.
Politicians are public servents. "We" pay "them", and I absolutely want some of my money supporting people that are critical of those in power.
Here in Canada we have a long history of publicly funded shows (satire and serious) whose main goal is holding the people in power accountable.
So if you desperately need a charge you can pay extra to get it right away.
Around here, after all the fees are averaged out it works out to roughly 1 dollar per Watt per year, which makes it easy to estimate.
Just hook up a resistor and measure the voltage over that.
This is also why you generally want to measure alkaline battery voltage when it's actually under load, not just sitting there.
In many cases it would be sufficient to just make sure all the ALT tags are set correctly for navigable images.
According to Wikipedia, "In left-right politics, right-wing describes an outlook or specific position that accepts or supports social hierarchy or social inequality."
Rand Paul is all about small government--which pretty much by definition means right-wing according to the definition above.
Rand Paul calls himself a "constitutional conservative" and a "libertarian conservative." He opposes federal government involvement in health care, thinks it should be entirely privatized. He thinks the 14th Amendment shouldn't apply to kids of illegal immigrants. He shares some of the views of the religious right--he is against abortion even in cases of rape or incest, and he is opposed to same sex marriage.
10" cabinet saw with 72" rails
18" bandsaw
8" jointer
15" planer with carbide cutterhead
16-speed drill press
1.5HP dust collector with micron filtering
the usual set of small power tools
pretty decent set of hand tools (full-sized saws, joinery saws, hand planes, several sets of different kinds of chisels, rasps, files, mallets, etc)
power-tool oriented workbench along the wall
hand-tool workbench in the center (2.5" thick maple slab top with twin-screw face vice and quick-release end vise)
clamps going up to 8-foot pipe clamps
bench grinder
belt grinder
On the electronic side things are a lot simpler...just a DMM that can handle capacitance, and a Weller temp-controlled soldering station. That was enough to do some decent headphone amp design and construction including custom board etching. I'd love to get a 'scope, but I just don't have enough of a need for one right now, and if I needed one I could probably borrow one.