A CEO is going to be more then happy to throw the COMPANY'S money under the rugs to popular candidates, i don't see any CEO doing it with their personal funds.
There are plenty of CEO's throwing their own money around. Take a look at OpenSecrets and start plugging away.
I hate to be so cynical, but a large company doesn't care about whats good for the country, only whats good for its bottom line, as such, they donate expecting political favors for their "donations"
It may be a little twisted, and I don't know completely where I stand on the issue, but if it's good for the bottom line then presumably that will lead to growth, which will create more and better jobs. Which directly influences the American populace.
If a group of players can complete a difficult encounter, then how is it 'handed out for free'?
1) enter instance
2) pass or fail
3) if fail, drop instance and repeat
In other words, there's no risk, there is no wait and yet the same reward. The experience has been cheapened. Back in the good ol' days, before every fricking mob was instanced like in modern MMO's, yes, there was some level of competition for the major mobs. But this required a few things:
1) teamwork - a network of friends, perhaps a guild, who are competent the first time around. Because if you fucked up, you knew someone would clear the mob out before you got your corpses back.
2) timing
3) just a little bit of luck
Yes, maybe it took a week or two to get the mob you wanted dead and gone, but you know what? There was a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that is unparalleled in the newer MMO's.
Also, this was a direct result of retarded game design by Sony where by one dragon can only be killed by one group of people per week, unlike the current crop of MMOGs where everything is instanced and this is no longer a problem.
And there are a lot of us who wouldn't have it any other way, thanks. There should be competition for major targets and progression; handing it out for free to any group of N players just cheapens the game.
If people don't want to buy cloned meat, then so be it. That's just another factor in capitalism. Consumers should at least be able to know. Obscurity isn't much of a solution.
Yes, and capitalists provide the answer, not the government. If producers see a chunk of the market that's willing to pay for non-cloned meat, then there will be capitalistic producers of non-cloned meat who specifically label their meat "Not Cloned", and up the price accordingly.
I haven't worked on finance software, but when you are looking at time-dependant data on satellites you don't use unix time you generally use an algorithm. There are relatively straightforward algorithms that start from a pre-defined day-one and will generate a calendar at day x in the future.
even tho it would be a useful addition to gmail to be able to sort emails
Well, you can fake it easily enough by having mail skip the inbox and using tags like folders. I do that with high-traffic mailing lists that I don't want cluttering my inbox.
if there's one feature about Ubuntu that I love more than my Mac is that you can install a TON of applications from Synaptic or via the awesome Add/Remove app.
Not all of us need a ton of software. On my home computer, I have installed FireFox, Office, Skype and Visual C++. That's it. I paid for Office, the rest were free. I don't need a list of a thousand programs I don't want or need... I just need a few simple tools to get my work done. I have them and I'm happy. I think there are a lot of people who feel like I do.
If you were attempting to assign an IP to every molecule in the atmosphere, starting at the surface of the earth and working up, you'd only cover a thickness of 2.5 centimeters:
2^128 / 6.02E23 = 5.16E14 moles of IP-addressable gasses
5.16E14 * 22.4 = 1.226E16 liters worth of IP-addressable gasses at STP
1.226E16 / 1000 = 1.226E13 meters cubed of IP-addressable gasses at STP
1.226E13 / 5.1E14 = 0.024 meters height if you spread that volume over the surface of the earth.
How do my beliefs as a single individual factor into the status of the US at large? And how do you claim to know my beliefs, which by the way, are not as you state?
You might have picked the right field for short term gains.
I'm in Aerospace. The industry isn't going anywhere...
I've been fortunate in terms of funding and worked hard to maintain our position, but many junior (and senior) scientists are very worried about their funding.
I'll grant you, I work in engineering more than the science fields, but I haven't encountered that. In fact the school I attended is looking to hire 5 more professors in the next 5 years, in the Mechanical Engineering department. That's a staff increase of 20%, for a school not known for it's ME department. I think that's an excellent sign.
Then both you and he should know what a mess our current domestic airline industry is and unless he is a pilot for Delta
He's working for a courier service you've never heard of and I can't recall in the midwest. Flying for the big guys has its perks (and is his eventual goal) but the advantage of this job is he comes home to his own house (and fiancee) every night.
I can't really speak to medicine. I'll take your word on it. Other than seeing a specialist a few times a year for chronic migraine, I do my best to stay away from doctors:)
But ask anyone in the trenches of science and education and they would have to be honest with you and say how things are. From this scientists/educators perspective, we need to change our approach.
I won't argue, and I'll take your word on medicine, but at least in my end of the world (aerospace engineering), things are on a definite upswing, and it's not all application there is a lot of research going on as well. I interface with a lot of university professors and PhD's, I have three close relatives who teach at the grade and high school levels, and I just don't get the vibes from any of them that I read about here or other places. Maybe each of us is just blessed being where we are at.
Yeah, I mean, the US only has 10 of the top 16 supercomputers ahead of the UK.
And you may say "we here in the US have essentially dropped the ball on education and science funding for the past oh, six or seven years", but as a college graduate in engineering from (early in) that time frame, with younger siblings (my youngest is 11 years my junior) interested in education/scientific fields: one brother a pilot with a BS, one becoming a teacher, my sister studying to be a medical doctor and my youngest brother still in high school, but very into science - I'd have to disagree. I could go on and on...
Yup.. I had mine clocked to 450MHZ and used to read bp6.com.. but it should be noted that Celerons came out around Pentium II. There were Tyan boards that would allow the now fossilized non-MMX Pentium I to run in dual configuration.
Oh, yeah, I'd hang out on bp6.com as well. And you of course are right. I was working for a company that manufactured hospital software, working as a 'junior network administrator' (spent most of my day re-installing NT3.5/4.0 on broken/repurposed machines), and yes, we had a few servers that were dual Pentiums, you know, the processor on the card that plugged into the motherboard with the heatsink built in. I always thought that was a dumb design I'm glad Intel came around:)
Oh, yeah, I remember installing WinSock on 3.11 for Workgroups - my point was, he said 1996, and most of our customers in '96 had 95. Of course Netscape was around before then.
Man, though, I hated Winsock. PITA to troubleshoot over the phone with noobs who didn't know what they were doing:).
When I think of all the people with 300 watt + monitor desktop workstations out there, I think it is obvious as to why there is such a problem with energy in this world.
Some of us need a little more power:) we actually tank our computers on a day-in, day-out basis solving the worlds' problems. The medical industry, military, aerospace, other forms of engineering, financial industry, etc. just to name a few all need more horsepower than a 1.5 GHz celeron can provide... we can't all be web developers. My home computer has 2 cores, my work computer has 8. I peg all 10 processors for many hours a day, both to (a) feed my family and (b) advance the industry I work in. Low power web browsing workstations are great, but there are plenty of 'desktop users' who need a punch, and I'm not just talking gamers.
Yup, I was using 2 Intel 366 MHz Celeron processors (overclocked to 550MHz) back in high school, using an Abit BP6 motherboard. At $30 apiece for the processors and picking up the motherboard for $70 at a trade show, it wasn't a bad deal at the time for a gigahertz when most people were running less than half of that.
11 years at the pace technology moves in this day and age is ancient history. Remember the operating system it was running on for most users - Windows 95. We've had 4 iterations since then. And the way Netscape went out, becoming a shitty browser, driving people to IE or other solutions - left a bad taste in people's mouths.
(I do remember... I was 15 in 1997, working for an ISP who installed Netscape as a default browser)
The landmark decision by the Geneva-based trade watchdog means that the tiny islands are able to violate intellectual property protection worth up to $21 million as part of a dispute between the countries over online gambling.
So they get to "violate" $21M USD worth of IP, then they are infringing. So 21 million MP3's (if iTunes is considered fair market value). Apple claims 2.5 million downloads per week, so presuming everyone from iTunes now downloaded from Antigua at the same rate, they'd be done in 8.4 weeks. Anything past that would be punishable IP infringement.
But again, those numbers are all suspect, what is the real dollar amount of IP? The point being, though, this isn't a free flowing well, it is finite and capped each year. So enjoy it for a few weeks, Antigua. Christmas in January.
Meaning on a 32GB Drive, before you start seeing failures, you would have to (thanks to wear-leveling) write 32*100,000 GB, or 3.2Petabytes
NOT true, unless the drive is completely empty! If you have 31 gigs of data on that drive which you were using as long-term storage, then you'd only have to write (32-31)*100,000 GB of data before failure. You obviously wouldn't be overwriting any data already stored on the drive...
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A CEO is going to be more then happy to throw the COMPANY'S money under the rugs to popular candidates, i don't see any CEO doing it with their personal funds.
There are plenty of CEO's throwing their own money around. Take a look at OpenSecrets and start plugging away.
I hate to be so cynical, but a large company doesn't care about whats good for the country, only whats good for its bottom line, as such, they donate expecting political favors for their "donations"
It may be a little twisted, and I don't know completely where I stand on the issue, but if it's good for the bottom line then presumably that will lead to growth, which will create more and better jobs. Which directly influences the American populace.
If a group of players can complete a difficult encounter, then how is it 'handed out for free'?
1) enter instance
2) pass or fail
3) if fail, drop instance and repeat
In other words, there's no risk, there is no wait and yet the same reward. The experience has been cheapened. Back in the good ol' days, before every fricking mob was instanced like in modern MMO's, yes, there was some level of competition for the major mobs. But this required a few things:
1) teamwork - a network of friends, perhaps a guild, who are competent the first time around. Because if you fucked up, you knew someone would clear the mob out before you got your corpses back.
2) timing
3) just a little bit of luck
Yes, maybe it took a week or two to get the mob you wanted dead and gone, but you know what? There was a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment that is unparalleled in the newer MMO's.
Also, this was a direct result of retarded game design by Sony where by one dragon can only be killed by one group of people per week, unlike the current crop of MMOGs where everything is instanced and this is no longer a problem.
And there are a lot of us who wouldn't have it any other way, thanks. There should be competition for major targets and progression; handing it out for free to any group of N players just cheapens the game.
If people don't want to buy cloned meat, then so be it. That's just another factor in capitalism. Consumers should at least be able to know. Obscurity isn't much of a solution.
Yes, and capitalists provide the answer, not the government. If producers see a chunk of the market that's willing to pay for non-cloned meat, then there will be capitalistic producers of non-cloned meat who specifically label their meat "Not Cloned", and up the price accordingly.
There is no need for government intervention.
I haven't worked on finance software, but when you are looking at time-dependant data on satellites you don't use unix time you generally use an algorithm. There are relatively straightforward algorithms that start from a pre-defined day-one and will generate a calendar at day x in the future.
even tho it would be a useful addition to gmail to be able to sort emails
Well, you can fake it easily enough by having mail skip the inbox and using tags like folders. I do that with high-traffic mailing lists that I don't want cluttering my inbox.
I'll build my own beer-brewing-bender! With blackjack! and hookers! wait, forget about the beer-brewing-bender....
if there's one feature about Ubuntu that I love more than my Mac is that you can install a TON of applications from Synaptic or via the awesome Add/Remove app.
Not all of us need a ton of software. On my home computer, I have installed FireFox, Office, Skype and Visual C++. That's it. I paid for Office, the rest were free. I don't need a list of a thousand programs I don't want or need... I just need a few simple tools to get my work done. I have them and I'm happy. I think there are a lot of people who feel like I do.
If you were attempting to assign an IP to every molecule in the atmosphere, starting at the surface of the earth and working up, you'd only cover a thickness of 2.5 centimeters:
2^128 / 6.02E23 = 5.16E14 moles of IP-addressable gasses
5.16E14 * 22.4 = 1.226E16 liters worth of IP-addressable gasses at STP
1.226E16 / 1000 = 1.226E13 meters cubed of IP-addressable gasses at STP
1.226E13 / 5.1E14 = 0.024 meters height if you spread that volume over the surface of the earth.
BINGO!
How do my beliefs as a single individual factor into the status of the US at large? And how do you claim to know my beliefs, which by the way, are not as you state?
a Lucy Liu Robot, in a future when men date robots?
You might have picked the right field for short term gains.
...
:)
I'm in Aerospace. The industry isn't going anywhere
I've been fortunate in terms of funding and worked hard to maintain our position, but many junior (and senior) scientists are very worried about their funding.
I'll grant you, I work in engineering more than the science fields, but I haven't encountered that. In fact the school I attended is looking to hire 5 more professors in the next 5 years, in the Mechanical Engineering department. That's a staff increase of 20%, for a school not known for it's ME department. I think that's an excellent sign.
Then both you and he should know what a mess our current domestic airline industry is and unless he is a pilot for Delta
He's working for a courier service you've never heard of and I can't recall in the midwest. Flying for the big guys has its perks (and is his eventual goal) but the advantage of this job is he comes home to his own house (and fiancee) every night.
I can't really speak to medicine. I'll take your word on it. Other than seeing a specialist a few times a year for chronic migraine, I do my best to stay away from doctors
But ask anyone in the trenches of science and education and they would have to be honest with you and say how things are. From this scientists/educators perspective, we need to change our approach.
I won't argue, and I'll take your word on medicine, but at least in my end of the world (aerospace engineering), things are on a definite upswing, and it's not all application there is a lot of research going on as well. I interface with a lot of university professors and PhD's, I have three close relatives who teach at the grade and high school levels, and I just don't get the vibes from any of them that I read about here or other places. Maybe each of us is just blessed being where we are at.
Yeah, I mean, the US only has 10 of the top 16 supercomputers ahead of the UK.
...
And you may say "we here in the US have essentially dropped the ball on education and science funding for the past oh, six or seven years", but as a college graduate in engineering from (early in) that time frame, with younger siblings (my youngest is 11 years my junior) interested in education/scientific fields: one brother a pilot with a BS, one becoming a teacher, my sister studying to be a medical doctor and my youngest brother still in high school, but very into science - I'd have to disagree. I could go on and on
NASA anyone
NASA's gone and converted everything to PDF, and put the database online where anyone can search through it.
Yup.. I had mine clocked to 450MHZ and used to read bp6.com.. but it should be noted that Celerons came out around Pentium II. There were Tyan boards that would allow the now fossilized non-MMX Pentium I to run in dual configuration.
:)
Oh, yeah, I'd hang out on bp6.com as well. And you of course are right. I was working for a company that manufactured hospital software, working as a 'junior network administrator' (spent most of my day re-installing NT3.5/4.0 on broken/repurposed machines), and yes, we had a few servers that were dual Pentiums, you know, the processor on the card that plugged into the motherboard with the heatsink built in. I always thought that was a dumb design I'm glad Intel came around
Oh, yeah, I remember installing WinSock on 3.11 for Workgroups - my point was, he said 1996, and most of our customers in '96 had 95. Of course Netscape was around before then.
:).
Man, though, I hated Winsock. PITA to troubleshoot over the phone with noobs who didn't know what they were doing
When I think of all the people with 300 watt + monitor desktop workstations out there, I think it is obvious as to why there is such a problem with energy in this world.
:) we actually tank our computers on a day-in, day-out basis solving the worlds' problems. The medical industry, military, aerospace, other forms of engineering, financial industry, etc. just to name a few all need more horsepower than a 1.5 GHz celeron can provide... we can't all be web developers. My home computer has 2 cores, my work computer has 8. I peg all 10 processors for many hours a day, both to (a) feed my family and (b) advance the industry I work in. Low power web browsing workstations are great, but there are plenty of 'desktop users' who need a punch, and I'm not just talking gamers.
Some of us need a little more power
Yup, I was using 2 Intel 366 MHz Celeron processors (overclocked to 550MHz) back in high school, using an Abit BP6 motherboard. At $30 apiece for the processors and picking up the motherboard for $70 at a trade show, it wasn't a bad deal at the time for a gigahertz when most people were running less than half of that.
you can use your wii-mote as god intended
To play Sudoku in the snow?
11 years at the pace technology moves in this day and age is ancient history. Remember the operating system it was running on for most users - Windows 95. We've had 4 iterations since then. And the way Netscape went out, becoming a shitty browser, driving people to IE or other solutions - left a bad taste in people's mouths.
(I do remember... I was 15 in 1997, working for an ISP who installed Netscape as a default browser)
That's why I said:
what is the real dollar amount of IP?
I'll leave it for the lawyers to wrangle.
track your pizza from Papa John's to your doorstep.
The landmark decision by the Geneva-based trade watchdog means that the tiny islands are able to violate intellectual property protection worth up to $21 million as part of a dispute between the countries over online gambling.
So they get to "violate" $21M USD worth of IP, then they are infringing. So 21 million MP3's (if iTunes is considered fair market value). Apple claims 2.5 million downloads per week, so presuming everyone from iTunes now downloaded from Antigua at the same rate, they'd be done in 8.4 weeks. Anything past that would be punishable IP infringement.
But again, those numbers are all suspect, what is the real dollar amount of IP? The point being, though, this isn't a free flowing well, it is finite and capped each year. So enjoy it for a few weeks, Antigua. Christmas in January.
Meaning on a 32GB Drive, before you start seeing failures, you would have to (thanks to wear-leveling) write 32*100,000 GB, or 3.2Petabytes
...
NOT true, unless the drive is completely empty! If you have 31 gigs of data on that drive which you were using as long-term storage, then you'd only have to write (32-31)*100,000 GB of data before failure. You obviously wouldn't be overwriting any data already stored on the drive