Don't you remember when you'd get multiple calls per week from long distance providers trying to get you to switch? Ma Bell charged, what, a dollar a minute or something along those lines? I don't know how important it is for it to stay broken up now (keeping in mind that cable can provide internet access), but it pretty obviously brought down long distance prices back when that actually mattered a lot (no widely available email in those days).
I'd personally rather they stay broken up, but I'm not an economist.
Your comment piqued my interest. I wasn't sure whether the rest of the world drove on the left or not, so I decided to google for the answer.
See drivings sides. There are 74 left driving countries and 166 right driving countries. Furthermore, it lists populations. 66% of the people in the world live in areas where driving is done on the right had side of the road.
I think you're thinking of the metric system. Most nations apparently use it, although I didn't find a page with the nice stats I found about the driving sides.
I don't really understand the whole love 2 speakers thing. I have a 5.1 setup for my PC. If I set it up to use only the front left and front right speaker, game sounds sound like they're being projected at me. When I have 5.1 turned on I feel like I'm inside the sound. I find it hard to believe that two super awesome speakers would be able to properly give me that inside the sound feeling.
As far as 7.1 goes, I have no idea if that would get me anything at all.
The idea is also that even if it were less efficient, it'd still be better to use fuel cells just so long as the energy doesn't come from oil. With fuel cells you can pick and choose the ultimate energy source.
Green people should really start pushing that angle. There are lots of people who don't care about the environment who do care about saving money (by choosing the cheapest energy source) and about not funding terrorists.
Are vi vs. Emacs flame wars actually real or are they always done for fun? It always seems to me that these sorts of messages are written by people who remember the old days when such arguments were real and are just having fun. But maybe I'm misinterpreting the tone of the messages.
I've never been certain because to my eyes both programs are so ancient, anachronistic, and underpowered compared to modern IDEs that no sane person would ever pick them over pretty much ANY modern IDE.
I only use vi when I'm editing config files in an ssh/telnet session. It's about as tolerable as using notepad is to do the same thing on a windows box.
Let's see. To get to 1/10m precision at light speed would mean you'd need to have a timer accurate to:
1 / 2,997,924,580 s
That means the timer would need to operate at at least 3GHz.
That's well beyond a kitchen timer's typical clock frequency, but it's doable.
Of course, there's also the issue of time dilation to be taken into account. Near light speed the accuracy of the clock would need to be much higher than that depending on how close to light speed the rocket is moving.
So, with that taken into account, I'm guessing that you're right that it's not possible unless you have a timer that can run much faster than 3GHz. And even then there's the issue of the speed of the explosion. It would probably be best to explode only after entering the asteroid (like a bunker buster). What would happen in that case? Once the explosion goes off, wouldn't the exploding atoms continue on through the asteroid and out the other side before the diameter got too big?
If it's solid then that wouldn't be an issue and we wouldn't need the timer anyway.
Hmmm. IANAP. Are there any around that can help?
I recall reading about killer asteroids before and I'm pretty sure the conclusion was that you want to push them, not blow them up since the blown up chunks would then hit earth. So this discussion is a bit silly to begin with anyway.:)
That would only be true for a non-explosive weapon. You wouldn't even need to explode on impact. If the asteroid's trajectory is well known then it would probably be possible to just set a timer on the rocket and have it explode at a certain time (the time at which it is inches away from the asteroid).
Those two links are very convincing. The only thing I don't understand is why no one has done studies with animals. Surely it would be beneficial to try and infect an animal in the lab with HIV. That sort of thing is done all the time in labs when testing medications for other diseases. Why hasn't it been done with HIV so that the AIDS drugs can be tested on those animals? I assume that if such a thing had been done that one of those links would have mentioned it.
If no one has tried this then why not? If someone has tried this and failed then it should be mentioned alongside the other evidence. Failing to infect mice with HIV wouldn't prove anything, but it should definitely be mentioned so that readers know that there's a reason for the lack of animal studies.
Your post is a non sequitur. The grandparent was arguing for private funding of schools as opposed to government funding of schools. The political party that does that funding isn't relevant.
In any case, the republicans in power aren't capitalists. They're state-loving totalitarians as opposed to state loving socialists. No one has ever been elected to power on the platform that they're going to cut government spending. Some have been elected to power in order to cut some government spending on some things and then dramatically increase spending on other things, but no one ever gets significant votes as a result of doing a uniform x% cut in the budget across the board.
I personally agree that Halo 2 is a pretty average game. I'd probably give it an 8 as well. But, the fans apparently disagree. At IGN the reader average (with 9461 user scores) is 9.2 http://xbox.ign.com/objects/482/482228.html. Assuming that editorial ratings are meant to reflect what gamers want, it seems to me that the editorial scores above 9 are probably reasonable.
Then again, maybe review sites should be rating things as they are even if their readers disagree. I'm not sure how long the readers would continue reading if that was the case though.
I wrote the code for IGN.com which makes these sorts of links. The process is entirely statistical and has no bias whatsoever. I wrote the code and then sat back and watched as associations occurred like "Ultima V" being linked up with "Ultima IV" and "Ultima III". The program didn't do any text comparisons. It didn't check genre or anything like that. It just made associations between games that people like based on statistical correlation.
It sort of seems magical, but it's really just statistics.
So apparently you have never told anyone that you thought someone else was an asshole? If you have then is it reasonable that no one should want anything to do with you in whatever line of work you are in?
Get a grip. He didn't like a professor and called him names in a blog. He didn't go up to the guy and hit him. He didn't stalk him. He didn't sneak into the guy's house and write threatening notes in blood on his walls. He just vented in a personal blog.
I personally want the most knowledgeable and capable doctor to operate on me. If that person happens to have an irritating personality then I don't give a damn.
There's nothing illegal about what the university did, but the reason for that is that the student has 0% freedom of speech within the university.
By your definition the people of China have freedom of speech. They are free to say what they want, but then they'll be carted off to prison or killed. They have 100% freedom to say whatever they want. They just had to deal with the consequences.
That's a pretty silly definition of freedom of speech.
I don't think you know what libel is. Calling someone names isn't libel.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=libel
If I say that you kill babies in your spare time then that would be libel (assuming you don't kill babies). If I say you're a fucking asshole then that's not libel. There's nothing illegal about stating your opinion of someone.
Some guy couldn't just set up a booth. Paying for votes it absolutely illegal. Obviously, many try to do this in more subtle ways (even with no way to verify that the voting occurred), but there's no way that anyone could publicly declare that they were paying for votes and stay out of jail for very long.
Assuming your assertion is correct, you'd still have the same problem as nuclear waste disposal does. Nuclear power creates very little waste for the amount of power it gives us, and it does it by concentrating all waste into one spot. But even so it takes decades to get anyone anywhere on earth to allow a dump near them.
No city would allow a 3 cubic mile dump near their city. No environmentalist would allow a 3 cubic mile dump in a rural place. Personally, I think a 3 cubic mile dump in the middle of a Nevada desert would be great, but I'm sure there's a town of 100 people nearby that would prevent it from happening.
I think we're getting into General Relativity territory now. You experience zero-gravity when there is no gravity (because you're nowhere near any mass) or when you're in free fall around a mass in an environment where it's the only mass close enough for you to feel its gravity. Inside of a windowless box you wouldn't be able to tell the difference (I think).
We experience gravity now even though we are in free fall around the sun (which itself is in free fall around the center of the galaxy. That's because we're near the mass of the earth.
Zero gravity is the default state. That's what you would have in an empty universe. Add some mass and you have gravity. Travel far enough from the earth without getting too close to anything else and you have free fall around the sun. But, travel to the empty space in between galaxies and you are weightless due to lack of mass, not due to free fall.
Why not buy both? The Revolution will be cheap enough for that not to be too big a deal if you're already willing to spend ~$400 on another console. I plan on getting a PS3 and a Revolution. That gives me the best of all worlds.
I have an Xbox, but it's by far the least used of the 3 consoles I have, so I don't plan on getting a 360.
Casual dress is a job benefit like the health plan. Some people think it's a big deal while others don't care at all. You'd have to give me a 50% bump in salary to compensate for wearing a uniform/suit. I don't have a bad attitude about it. I just consider it an important benefit that I wouldn't want to do without.
You're bringing up a lot of different issues. It sounds to me like the super intense schooling is the symptom of many other problems. It sounds like school exclusivity, a bad job market, and a lack of women's rights are the real problems.
The US is obviously at the far other end of the scale where people just waste time until college (and some people continue to waste time after that, but they're penalized for that behavior in college). I'd really like US highschools to become more like good US colleges for kids rather than the day care centers that they are now.
In terms of results though, what happens once they get jobs? Does all that intense schooling get them jobs that pay poorly compared to US wages? How do such people do if they emigrate to the US?
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Don't you remember when you'd get multiple calls per week from long distance providers trying to get you to switch? Ma Bell charged, what, a dollar a minute or something along those lines? I don't know how important it is for it to stay broken up now (keeping in mind that cable can provide internet access), but it pretty obviously brought down long distance prices back when that actually mattered a lot (no widely available email in those days).
I'd personally rather they stay broken up, but I'm not an economist.
See drivings sides. There are 74 left driving countries and 166 right driving countries. Furthermore, it lists populations. 66% of the people in the world live in areas where driving is done on the right had side of the road.
I think you're thinking of the metric system. Most nations apparently use it, although I didn't find a page with the nice stats I found about the driving sides.
I don't really understand the whole love 2 speakers thing. I have a 5.1 setup for my PC. If I set it up to use only the front left and front right speaker, game sounds sound like they're being projected at me. When I have 5.1 turned on I feel like I'm inside the sound. I find it hard to believe that two super awesome speakers would be able to properly give me that inside the sound feeling.
As far as 7.1 goes, I have no idea if that would get me anything at all.
The idea is also that even if it were less efficient, it'd still be better to use fuel cells just so long as the energy doesn't come from oil. With fuel cells you can pick and choose the ultimate energy source.
Green people should really start pushing that angle. There are lots of people who don't care about the environment who do care about saving money (by choosing the cheapest energy source) and about not funding terrorists.
I don't get it.
Or, are you saying that it just doesn't make sense?
Are vi vs. Emacs flame wars actually real or are they always done for fun? It always seems to me that these sorts of messages are written by people who remember the old days when such arguments were real and are just having fun. But maybe I'm misinterpreting the tone of the messages. I've never been certain because to my eyes both programs are so ancient, anachronistic, and underpowered compared to modern IDEs that no sane person would ever pick them over pretty much ANY modern IDE. I only use vi when I'm editing config files in an ssh/telnet session. It's about as tolerable as using notepad is to do the same thing on a windows box.
Let's see. To get to 1/10m precision at light speed would mean you'd need to have a timer accurate to: 1 / 2,997,924,580 s That means the timer would need to operate at at least 3GHz. That's well beyond a kitchen timer's typical clock frequency, but it's doable. Of course, there's also the issue of time dilation to be taken into account. Near light speed the accuracy of the clock would need to be much higher than that depending on how close to light speed the rocket is moving. So, with that taken into account, I'm guessing that you're right that it's not possible unless you have a timer that can run much faster than 3GHz. And even then there's the issue of the speed of the explosion. It would probably be best to explode only after entering the asteroid (like a bunker buster). What would happen in that case? Once the explosion goes off, wouldn't the exploding atoms continue on through the asteroid and out the other side before the diameter got too big? If it's solid then that wouldn't be an issue and we wouldn't need the timer anyway. Hmmm. IANAP. Are there any around that can help? I recall reading about killer asteroids before and I'm pretty sure the conclusion was that you want to push them, not blow them up since the blown up chunks would then hit earth. So this discussion is a bit silly to begin with anyway. :)
That would only be true for a non-explosive weapon. You wouldn't even need to explode on impact. If the asteroid's trajectory is well known then it would probably be possible to just set a timer on the rocket and have it explode at a certain time (the time at which it is inches away from the asteroid).
Has anyone been convicted? I thought that all of the RIAA cases were either settled or dismissed. Has any of these cases gone the distance?
Those two links are very convincing. The only thing I don't understand is why no one has done studies with animals. Surely it would be beneficial to try and infect an animal in the lab with HIV. That sort of thing is done all the time in labs when testing medications for other diseases. Why hasn't it been done with HIV so that the AIDS drugs can be tested on those animals? I assume that if such a thing had been done that one of those links would have mentioned it. If no one has tried this then why not? If someone has tried this and failed then it should be mentioned alongside the other evidence. Failing to infect mice with HIV wouldn't prove anything, but it should definitely be mentioned so that readers know that there's a reason for the lack of animal studies.
Your post is a non sequitur. The grandparent was arguing for private funding of schools as opposed to government funding of schools. The political party that does that funding isn't relevant. In any case, the republicans in power aren't capitalists. They're state-loving totalitarians as opposed to state loving socialists. No one has ever been elected to power on the platform that they're going to cut government spending. Some have been elected to power in order to cut some government spending on some things and then dramatically increase spending on other things, but no one ever gets significant votes as a result of doing a uniform x% cut in the budget across the board.
Then again, maybe review sites should be rating things as they are even if their readers disagree. I'm not sure how long the readers would continue reading if that was the case though.
I wrote the code for IGN.com which makes these sorts of links. The process is entirely statistical and has no bias whatsoever. I wrote the code and then sat back and watched as associations occurred like "Ultima V" being linked up with "Ultima IV" and "Ultima III". The program didn't do any text comparisons. It didn't check genre or anything like that. It just made associations between games that people like based on statistical correlation. It sort of seems magical, but it's really just statistics.
How can you have heterosexual feelings if there's only one gender?
So apparently you have never told anyone that you thought someone else was an asshole? If you have then is it reasonable that no one should want anything to do with you in whatever line of work you are in? Get a grip. He didn't like a professor and called him names in a blog. He didn't go up to the guy and hit him. He didn't stalk him. He didn't sneak into the guy's house and write threatening notes in blood on his walls. He just vented in a personal blog. I personally want the most knowledgeable and capable doctor to operate on me. If that person happens to have an irritating personality then I don't give a damn.
There's nothing illegal about what the university did, but the reason for that is that the student has 0% freedom of speech within the university. By your definition the people of China have freedom of speech. They are free to say what they want, but then they'll be carted off to prison or killed. They have 100% freedom to say whatever they want. They just had to deal with the consequences. That's a pretty silly definition of freedom of speech.
I don't think you know what libel is. Calling someone names isn't libel. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=libel If I say that you kill babies in your spare time then that would be libel (assuming you don't kill babies). If I say you're a fucking asshole then that's not libel. There's nothing illegal about stating your opinion of someone.
Some guy couldn't just set up a booth. Paying for votes it absolutely illegal. Obviously, many try to do this in more subtle ways (even with no way to verify that the voting occurred), but there's no way that anyone could publicly declare that they were paying for votes and stay out of jail for very long.
and Clark had to give in and let them have the ending the way they wanted.
Assuming your assertion is correct, you'd still have the same problem as nuclear waste disposal does. Nuclear power creates very little waste for the amount of power it gives us, and it does it by concentrating all waste into one spot. But even so it takes decades to get anyone anywhere on earth to allow a dump near them. No city would allow a 3 cubic mile dump near their city. No environmentalist would allow a 3 cubic mile dump in a rural place. Personally, I think a 3 cubic mile dump in the middle of a Nevada desert would be great, but I'm sure there's a town of 100 people nearby that would prevent it from happening.
Perhaps they might do it in order to differentiate themselves? I personally prefer Opera to Mozilla or IE.
I think we're getting into General Relativity territory now. You experience zero-gravity when there is no gravity (because you're nowhere near any mass) or when you're in free fall around a mass in an environment where it's the only mass close enough for you to feel its gravity. Inside of a windowless box you wouldn't be able to tell the difference (I think). We experience gravity now even though we are in free fall around the sun (which itself is in free fall around the center of the galaxy. That's because we're near the mass of the earth. Zero gravity is the default state. That's what you would have in an empty universe. Add some mass and you have gravity. Travel far enough from the earth without getting too close to anything else and you have free fall around the sun. But, travel to the empty space in between galaxies and you are weightless due to lack of mass, not due to free fall.
Why not buy both? The Revolution will be cheap enough for that not to be too big a deal if you're already willing to spend ~$400 on another console. I plan on getting a PS3 and a Revolution. That gives me the best of all worlds. I have an Xbox, but it's by far the least used of the 3 consoles I have, so I don't plan on getting a 360.
Casual dress is a job benefit like the health plan. Some people think it's a big deal while others don't care at all. You'd have to give me a 50% bump in salary to compensate for wearing a uniform/suit. I don't have a bad attitude about it. I just consider it an important benefit that I wouldn't want to do without.
You're bringing up a lot of different issues. It sounds to me like the super intense schooling is the symptom of many other problems. It sounds like school exclusivity, a bad job market, and a lack of women's rights are the real problems. The US is obviously at the far other end of the scale where people just waste time until college (and some people continue to waste time after that, but they're penalized for that behavior in college). I'd really like US highschools to become more like good US colleges for kids rather than the day care centers that they are now. In terms of results though, what happens once they get jobs? Does all that intense schooling get them jobs that pay poorly compared to US wages? How do such people do if they emigrate to the US?