this was developed by some disgruntled IT employee.
Hello, this is Bob your friendly local IT representative, how my I help you?
Yes, my computer broke after spilling coffee in the cup-holder. Can you fix it?
* facepalm
* launches satellite displacement missile
Ok, just give me a sec... ****CARRIER LOST****
This is slashdot, we don't want to date them, we just want to check out the specs under their chasis, mount a few drives, overclock the hardware, and install linux. The threads we'll spawn will be beautiful.
Batman is the dark knight. The one who stands outside the law, foiling each side's attempts to control humanity. Clearly he's the snarky slashdotter who points out inconvenient flaws in their arguments through example. The public will quietly cheer him on while, the TSA agents who do not understand sarcasm, will think he's a terrorist out to undermine decent American ideals.They'll attempt to capture and tazer him into submission, which will ultimately lead to a riveting segway chase scene; with people screaming... and lots of explosions... and a innocent damsel caught up in the middle of this.
As a programmer, I've found statistics to be another useful branch of mathematics. It can be more functional when collaborating with others to do number crunching and can having varying degrees of difficulty from drop-dead-easy to omgwtfbbq. Also, probability and statistics in general, are often incorporated in machine learning to make the computer handle non-deterministic problems; good for programming AIs and such. Personally, I always liked learning the 'harder' thing as that might expose my brain to concepts or ways of thinking that I wasn't already familiar with. But regardless, math isn't too bad if you take the time and effort to understand it.
Everyone tends to vote for the name they recognize the most rather than the person that contributes the most. However, to be fair, Jobs did oversee the rise of Apple; helped develop Pixar which helped create the new genre of computer animation; and pretty much ushered in digital music while gatekeepers (RIAA) sought to prove its illegitimacy and stop it. If all Apple did, was simply produce a music-based e-store, they'd be on the same level as napster or pandora. Fact is, Jobs has done a lot to change Apple, which has in turn, changed our culture. Personally, though, I would have picked Sergey Brin and Larry Page (for information distribution) or Warren Buffet.(for distribution of resources). While their names are less visible, think their work has been more essential in improving the fundamental aspects of our society.
I don't know if I entirely agree with that. If outsourcing helps industrialize another nation, those people now have the ability to consume goods at a greater rate. If they end up producing more than they take in, then their citizens become wealthy which may lead them to value their work more or for the cost of their goods to go up relative to our purchasing power. What I think will happen is the economies will reach an equilibrium with, hopefully, a reasonable standard of living for each, such that each nation's peoples can continue to produce and consume goods. It's of no benefit to either group to lose a trading partner if they each deem the trades worthwhile. To put it another way, there are aspects of the economy that are not a zero-sum game, since two groups can enter into an agreement and have both be better off then when they started. This is possible since money is simply an abstract concept of work and not entirely based on tangible, finite resources.
Or like someone who wants to buy a sammich from Subway. Oh you don't give them $20 for a footlong sub? Greedy pig.
Your comment is sadly, more insightful than someone quoting Karl Marx. Individual customers try to maximize the utility of their dollar by buying the cheapest thing and as a consequence lower the value of another person's work. When everyone does this, wages get minimized. Hence, outsourcing is popular because we can usually pay cheaper wages to someone else. CEOs who do the min/max-ing get paid a lot, but how much they're paid is probably small compared to how much they save; usually in the short term. Though the nice thing is that this helps produce the most amount of work and goods can be distributed efficiently. Wee capitalism. There are probably some corner cases where this model breaks, hence government regulation tries to establish a baseline pay so low-skill workers don't get too screwed creating subclasses and pockets of poverty.
from spamming the dissatisfied feature or even abusing it to remove competitors? The former might make it harder to filter out the true complaints and the latter hurts businesses in general.
If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
And all of the side quests are so damned repetitive:
Fetch a rare necklace from the lower recesses of the dungeon mall.
Safely escort a pack of wild children to their soccer game.
Wash 20 dishes
Take out the trash with this bag of holding
You'll get experience, but it'll never be enough to reach the next level.
I'm not quite sure of the direction you're taking with that statement:
The mean annual incomes of professionals in the fields of computer science and football might call into question the "monetarily rewarding" part of that statement.
The average monetary reward in professional football is probably greater than the average in computer science. However, there are probably more people making a living through computer science, or some computer oriented venture than through football. Also, the incomes of the super successful in computer science can outstrip the super successful in football by a fair margin. I think we just hear more about how much money a football player is making versus an engineer because for the former, it turns into a dick measuring contest and for the latter, building cool things takes that place. I'm sure if someone solved the riemann hypothesis, he or she would be the most impressive member of the scientific community. That being said, I know of a few professors who get multi-million dollar grants which gets spent on research instead of fancy cars.
Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity?
It's actually amusing to see how the Galactic Empire came about given that their military forces are so incompetent: storm troopers that can't hit the broadside of a barn, a planet-buster that gets destroyed due to shoddy architectural design, and a critical output taken out by care-bears. If you think about it, the great empire only lasts for about 20 years before it's taken out by a small group of rebels. WTF?
We have more trees here in Oregon now than were here 100 years ago or even 200 years ago. (Unlike nature, we don't let forest fires burn them down.)
Well, it helps that Oregon has rain 60% of the time throughout the year. In California the state has to do controlled burning to limit the damage a wildfire might cause. Plus Oregon's heavy rain system makes it easier to grow plants there; the only other place I've seen that has the same capacity have been the Hawaiian islands. Those benefit from frequent rains and fertility from volcanic soil. But, overall you make a good point. Planting more trees than you cut down leads to a more sustainable and pretty environment.
From UCSF
Risk of stroke in children: ethnic and gender disparities.
From National Center of Birth Defects...
Characterization of beta-globin haplotypes using blood spots from a population-based cohort of newborns with homozygous HbS.
From the University of Minnesota
Characterization of beta-globin haplotypes using blood spots from a population-based cohort of newborns with homozygous HbS.
If you said that you'd be lynched. Name a single university professor in the last decade that hasn't been lynched for making a racial claim! Facts are not important!
All of the authors in these papers seem to be doing fine...
You could claim that blacks are less prone to sunburn and you would be vilified!
If I had a randomized control trial (which helps remove bias) to back up my claim, sure.
So explain to me how people with medical or genetic issues are not treated with the same kid gloves as blacks?
They are not treated with "kid gloves" per-say as they are considered a population, whose genetic make-up might make a drug more or less effective. It's not race, but economics and a desire to improve quality of life that makes this happen. If, say a white person was more prone to Huntington's disease, they might be interested in studies that show they are more prone to the disease or drugs that attempt to prevent it. Similarly, Asians might get their blood pressure checked more often if studies show they are more prone to hypertension. Professor's are generally not lynched for making racial claims because they are backed by peer-reviewed science that attempts to remove bias through randomization and help the racial groups in question. There's a difference in context, intent, methodology, and rigor, that allow researchers to make claims based on genetic make-up that is drastically different from making random comments about one groups ability versus another. If you want to know how or why, beyond me attempting to tell you, I suggest you read more scientific literature about methodologies and ethics. Pubmed and Google scholar are a wonderful starting points.
He was using the 'Mexicans can't drive' statement as an example; not saying that you specifically hold that stereotype. And, the reason one might not use racial stereotypes as opposed to the symptoms of a genetic disorder is that the former has not undergone rigorous testing through randomized control trials. Rather historically, they've just been used to bring people down. If I say black people are more prone to sickle cell, then that statement could be validated through a literature search on the topic. You, however, are acting too much like a self-righteous ass to tell the difference.
Me specifically? No. But in terms of caffeine providing a general cognitive boost:
Caffeine's effects on true and false memory.
Capek S, Guenther RK.
Sensitivity to change in cognitive performance and mood measures of energy and fatigue in response to morning caffeine alone or in combination with carbohydrate.
Maridakis V, O'Connor PJ, Tomporowski PD.
[The effects of energy drinks on cognitive performance]
[Article in Dutch]
van den Eynde F, van Baelen PC, Portzky M, Audenaert K.
Actually, what I think would be interesting would be to have the option to consolidate a number of open windows/applications into one tabbed collection or not. I find when I'm working with many open documents applications with many open windows get consolidated into a single list item in the task bar. This can be annoying if I need to toggle through multiple text files.
For example, I do a bit of programming using python and idle (when I'm too lazy to open up a full-blown ide). I'll usually have 2-5 code windows up and a console window or two. Along with these python windows, I'll have a browser for navigating code apis open along with two or three file navigators. At this point, the code windows will collapse and I'll have to go through two clicks, instead of one to navigate between them. I tend to switch through code files more often, so the amount of extra navigation adds up.
It would be kinda cool and unique if they explored this. Currently, *nix's workspace framework helps manage this situation very well. But alternative tools for organization would be nice. One suggestion would be to add a right-click feature to group and ungroup applications into a tabbed interface.
Fair enough, I concede that point. I meant to convey that the whole healthcare thing is going through a more diplomatic/peaceful process. And yes, it does kinda suck that the general populace, regular doctors in particular, doesn't have much of a say.
What the fuck does that have to do with Iranian's pushing for their freedom. No, seriously, you just insert some random-ass non-sequitur on political policies you don't personally agree with, particularly policies that have to be VOTED in, and you equate that to the martial law going on in Iran?! People are arrested, beaten, and killed for peacefully protesting a fraudulent election and the lack of any investigation. If you go out in front of the white house to protest and get beaten, physically not verbally, for your point of view, then I might see your point of view. But until then, at least keep your neo-conservative views on topic.
Sorry, the AC (maybe it was just a fan) thing was true, the CD thing came in when I was watching a special about tankers in Desert Storm. Suffice to say, the tanks provided certain creature comforts but at the expense of being an exposed target.
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this was developed by some disgruntled IT employee.
Hello, this is Bob your friendly local IT representative, how my I help you?
Yes, my computer broke after spilling coffee in the cup-holder. Can you fix it?
* facepalm
* launches satellite displacement missile
Ok, just give me a sec... ****CARRIER LOST****
This is slashdot, we don't want to date them, we just want to check out the specs under their chasis, mount a few drives, overclock the hardware, and install linux. The threads we'll spawn will be beautiful.
Batman is the dark knight. The one who stands outside the law, foiling each side's attempts to control humanity. Clearly he's the snarky slashdotter who points out inconvenient flaws in their arguments through example. The public will quietly cheer him on while, the TSA agents who do not understand sarcasm, will think he's a terrorist out to undermine decent American ideals.They'll attempt to capture and tazer him into submission, which will ultimately lead to a riveting segway chase scene; with people screaming ... and lots of explosions ... and a innocent damsel caught up in the middle of this.
As a programmer, I've found statistics to be another useful branch of mathematics. It can be more functional when collaborating with others to do number crunching and can having varying degrees of difficulty from drop-dead-easy to omgwtfbbq. Also, probability and statistics in general, are often incorporated in machine learning to make the computer handle non-deterministic problems; good for programming AIs and such. Personally, I always liked learning the 'harder' thing as that might expose my brain to concepts or ways of thinking that I wasn't already familiar with. But regardless, math isn't too bad if you take the time and effort to understand it.
I knew those clouds were up to something, blocking satellite images and all. And here I thought the CIA was shady.
Everyone tends to vote for the name they recognize the most rather than the person that contributes the most. However, to be fair, Jobs did oversee the rise of Apple; helped develop Pixar which helped create the new genre of computer animation; and pretty much ushered in digital music while gatekeepers (RIAA) sought to prove its illegitimacy and stop it. If all Apple did, was simply produce a music-based e-store, they'd be on the same level as napster or pandora. Fact is, Jobs has done a lot to change Apple, which has in turn, changed our culture. Personally, though, I would have picked Sergey Brin and Larry Page (for information distribution) or Warren Buffet.(for distribution of resources). While their names are less visible, think their work has been more essential in improving the fundamental aspects of our society.
Are the microbial cells really something like 1% the weight on average of a human cell?
Yes, they are. See Procaryote vs Eukaryote.
It's a small world after all.
I don't know if I entirely agree with that. If outsourcing helps industrialize another nation, those people now have the ability to consume goods at a greater rate. If they end up producing more than they take in, then their citizens become wealthy which may lead them to value their work more or for the cost of their goods to go up relative to our purchasing power. What I think will happen is the economies will reach an equilibrium with, hopefully, a reasonable standard of living for each, such that each nation's peoples can continue to produce and consume goods. It's of no benefit to either group to lose a trading partner if they each deem the trades worthwhile. To put it another way, there are aspects of the economy that are not a zero-sum game, since two groups can enter into an agreement and have both be better off then when they started. This is possible since money is simply an abstract concept of work and not entirely based on tangible, finite resources.
Or like someone who wants to buy a sammich from Subway. Oh you don't give them $20 for a footlong sub? Greedy pig.
Your comment is sadly, more insightful than someone quoting Karl Marx. Individual customers try to maximize the utility of their dollar by buying the cheapest thing and as a consequence lower the value of another person's work. When everyone does this, wages get minimized. Hence, outsourcing is popular because we can usually pay cheaper wages to someone else. CEOs who do the min/max-ing get paid a lot, but how much they're paid is probably small compared to how much they save; usually in the short term. Though the nice thing is that this helps produce the most amount of work and goods can be distributed efficiently. Wee capitalism. There are probably some corner cases where this model breaks, hence government regulation tries to establish a baseline pay so low-skill workers don't get too screwed creating subclasses and pockets of poverty.
from spamming the dissatisfied feature or even abusing it to remove competitors? The former might make it harder to filter out the true complaints and the latter hurts businesses in general.
If only the real-life girlfriend quest was as easy as finding a girl with a giant exclamation point over her head.
And all of the side quests are so damned repetitive:
Fetch a rare necklace from the lower recesses of the dungeon mall.
Safely escort a pack of wild children to their soccer game.
Wash 20 dishes
Take out the trash with this bag of holding
You'll get experience, but it'll never be enough to reach the next level.
The mean annual incomes of professionals in the fields of computer science and football might call into question the "monetarily rewarding" part of that statement.
The average monetary reward in professional football is probably greater than the average in computer science. However, there are probably more people making a living through computer science, or some computer oriented venture than through football. Also, the incomes of the super successful in computer science can outstrip the super successful in football by a fair margin. I think we just hear more about how much money a football player is making versus an engineer because for the former, it turns into a dick measuring contest and for the latter, building cool things takes that place. I'm sure if someone solved the riemann hypothesis, he or she would be the most impressive member of the scientific community. That being said, I know of a few professors who get multi-million dollar grants which gets spent on research instead of fancy cars.
Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity?
It's actually amusing to see how the Galactic Empire came about given that their military forces are so incompetent: storm troopers that can't hit the broadside of a barn, a planet-buster that gets destroyed due to shoddy architectural design, and a critical output taken out by care-bears. If you think about it, the great empire only lasts for about 20 years before it's taken out by a small group of rebels. WTF?
Handling charges included.
We have more trees here in Oregon now than were here 100 years ago or even 200 years ago. (Unlike nature, we don't let forest fires burn them down.)
Well, it helps that Oregon has rain 60% of the time throughout the year. In California the state has to do controlled burning to limit the damage a wildfire might cause. Plus Oregon's heavy rain system makes it easier to grow plants there; the only other place I've seen that has the same capacity have been the Hawaiian islands. Those benefit from frequent rains and fertility from volcanic soil. But, overall you make a good point. Planting more trees than you cut down leads to a more sustainable and pretty environment.
Risk of stroke in children: ethnic and gender disparities.
From National Center of Birth Defects
Characterization of beta-globin haplotypes using blood spots from a population-based cohort of newborns with homozygous HbS.
From the University of Minnesota
Characterization of beta-globin haplotypes using blood spots from a population-based cohort of newborns with homozygous HbS.
If you said that you'd be lynched. Name a single university professor in the last decade that hasn't been lynched for making a racial claim! Facts are not important!
All of the authors in these papers seem to be doing fine...
You could claim that blacks are less prone to sunburn and you would be vilified!
If I had a randomized control trial (which helps remove bias) to back up my claim, sure.
So explain to me how people with medical or genetic issues are not treated with the same kid gloves as blacks?
They are not treated with "kid gloves" per-say as they are considered a population, whose genetic make-up might make a drug more or less effective. It's not race, but economics and a desire to improve quality of life that makes this happen. If, say a white person was more prone to Huntington's disease, they might be interested in studies that show they are more prone to the disease or drugs that attempt to prevent it. Similarly, Asians might get their blood pressure checked more often if studies show they are more prone to hypertension. Professor's are generally not lynched for making racial claims because they are backed by peer-reviewed science that attempts to remove bias through randomization and help the racial groups in question. There's a difference in context, intent, methodology, and rigor, that allow researchers to make claims based on genetic make-up that is drastically different from making random comments about one groups ability versus another. If you want to know how or why, beyond me attempting to tell you, I suggest you read more scientific literature about methodologies and ethics. Pubmed and Google scholar are a wonderful starting points.
He was using the 'Mexicans can't drive' statement as an example; not saying that you specifically hold that stereotype. And, the reason one might not use racial stereotypes as opposed to the symptoms of a genetic disorder is that the former has not undergone rigorous testing through randomized control trials. Rather historically, they've just been used to bring people down. If I say black people are more prone to sickle cell, then that statement could be validated through a literature search on the topic. You, however, are acting too much like a self-righteous ass to tell the difference.
The study found that the top 5% would digest over 70 GiB a day
And, they were given lots of fiber to poop out their stolen bits.
I was aware your comment was in jest. I just tend to answer normally, if it doesn't pass a certain 'funny' threshold.
Me specifically? No. But in terms of caffeine providing a general cognitive boost:
Caffeine's effects on true and false memory.
Capek S, Guenther RK.
Sensitivity to change in cognitive performance and mood measures of energy and fatigue in response to morning caffeine alone or in combination with carbohydrate.
Maridakis V, O'Connor PJ, Tomporowski PD.
[The effects of energy drinks on cognitive performance] [Article in Dutch]
van den Eynde F, van Baelen PC, Portzky M, Audenaert K.
Just to name a few : P.
It depends on if I've had my morning caffeine or not.
Actually, what I think would be interesting would be to have the option to consolidate a number of open windows/applications into one tabbed collection or not. I find when I'm working with many open documents applications with many open windows get consolidated into a single list item in the task bar. This can be annoying if I need to toggle through multiple text files.
For example, I do a bit of programming using python and idle (when I'm too lazy to open up a full-blown ide). I'll usually have 2-5 code windows up and a console window or two. Along with these python windows, I'll have a browser for navigating code apis open along with two or three file navigators. At this point, the code windows will collapse and I'll have to go through two clicks, instead of one to navigate between them. I tend to switch through code files more often, so the amount of extra navigation adds up.
It would be kinda cool and unique if they explored this. Currently, *nix's workspace framework helps manage this situation very well. But alternative tools for organization would be nice. One suggestion would be to add a right-click feature to group and ungroup applications into a tabbed interface.
Fair enough, I concede that point. I meant to convey that the whole healthcare thing is going through a more diplomatic/peaceful process. And yes, it does kinda suck that the general populace, regular doctors in particular, doesn't have much of a say.
What the fuck does that have to do with Iranian's pushing for their freedom. No, seriously, you just insert some random-ass non-sequitur on political policies you don't personally agree with, particularly policies that have to be VOTED in, and you equate that to the martial law going on in Iran?! People are arrested, beaten, and killed for peacefully protesting a fraudulent election and the lack of any investigation. If you go out in front of the white house to protest and get beaten, physically not verbally, for your point of view, then I might see your point of view. But until then, at least keep your neo-conservative views on topic.
Sorry, the AC (maybe it was just a fan) thing was true, the CD thing came in when I was watching a special about tankers in Desert Storm. Suffice to say, the tanks provided certain creature comforts but at the expense of being an exposed target.