My wife and I have been struggling with infertility for a few years. Target's nice little data mining algorithm evidently thinks we are getting pregnant, all the time. We aren't, and Target is a constant reminder of the fact (and typically at just the wrong time, like when we get a negative test).
This is one of the main reasons I want this country to abandon its two-party system.
With three or more parties of nearly-equal size, you can't completely vote on party lines and expect a victory. You can't piss off everyone who isn't in your party and expect to get anywhere. Congress might have to, I don't know, think.
I think this is why in my state (Alabama), being pulled over is legally an arrest. It doesn't really make a difference in 99% of case, but it removes doubt if the situation gets more complicated.
It was about marketing. Microsoft controlled the default home page of anyone who used IE. This in turn helped promote their monopoly and push away competition.
They also knew that controlling standard document formats (in this case, HTML; also, see Office) meant that others would always be judged against Microsoft's offering, placing Microsoft on a pedestal. No wonder IE didn't conform to the actual HTML standards until Microsoft no longer held the de facto standard.
In the Start menu, just start typing and it will pop up application search. Or if you'd rather go to the Search charm directly, Win+Q will take you there.
And it's not as simple as just saying that all humans are equal regardless of gender.
Men cannot typically compete in women's sports, because human males tend to have an advantage in several areas of athleticism. Mothers tend to have default parental and custodial rights beyond those of the father. There are a multitude of medical reasons to categorize humans as male and female.
Obama and Bush are both good people. We handed them power based on the assumption that they are good people. But what if the next President, or the one after that, or the one after that, is the next Hitler or Stalin in waiting?
The more powers we remove from our truest balance on the federal government, the individual governments of the many states and the well-known freedoms of the people, the more likely we prepare a power that can enslave us all or wipe humanity off earth.
The states need to stand up to this and enact constitutional change, in order to provide recourse against such acts and logistically enable that power to be used.
It is taking the rotting corpse of the dead horse out of its horse casket, standing it up so that some horse believers can still hope it is alive, and beating it.
This is the only OS in the world that people complain about NOT having a menu to access applications. It's ok that OS X has never had a Start menu. And I thought Windows was dumb, Linux rules. But all these "expert" users who claim to run Linux or OS X as their primary OS sure seem distraught by something that shouldn't affect them often because, after all, they wouldn't use Windows if their life depended on it.
That depends on whether it is something work keeping. If it isn't, then it wasn't worth it at the old price either.
You're right in this case, where the customer can consent to removing the cap. I'm more concerned about what happens when regulators forget the consent portion, and force both the company and the customer into a situation neither wanted.
This is more applicable when caps are too low, but in any case, it could be those customers that would happily pay more than the cap that keep the service profitable via economies of scale.
In other words, government regulation can do a lot to bring fairness and transparency to business. But it can do nothing to force a business to support or continue an unprofitable venture.
I think I would like the changes overall, but any regulation has trickle-down effects. For instance, capping the price of certain services may be realized by capping the ability to use the service, or removing the service altogether if it is no longer profitable.
And of course, FTA:
There's a good chance, however, that Canadians could see the price they pay for their cellphones up front rise as a consequence of their newly won long-term freedom.
the IPv4 shortage is not as acute there since the US has a lot of blocks allocated to it
Just reposting this for emphasis. Nobody's wife or mom is complaining about IPv4 block shortage; just like anything else in life, that's really all that matters.
But still, he is spending his time doing so. It's likely that he refines his entry each time. Unless he's simply being lazy and the project has no scientific value, let him be. Encourage his persistence at scientific achievement.
And frankly, a scientist will often do the same with a research publication. If it isn't accepted, the paper is refined and proposed at a different venue.
Besides, are they kicking out other students who use the same tactic, but try fewer times? How many entries is too many? Is he being singled out?
Our society encourages people who refuse to learn or take responsibility for their education or that of their children, by throwing money to them every chance we can.
If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, why not just pack all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skip the obvious latency problems?
was:
If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, they could have just packed all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skipped the obvious latency problems.
I'm so truly sorry that the meaning was so lost in my unapproved use of the English language. Oops, just did it again, sarcasm...
Indeed. If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, why not just pack all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skip the obvious latency problems?
For Christianity, specific belief in the divinity of Jesus seems to often be more important than adhering to his teachings.
Why would someone listen to the teachings of an individual but deny his most central message? Why would you say, "This guy is a complete liar about being God! But I'll follow everything else he says."
To quote C.S. Lewis:
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
AC's got a point. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The most hard-core gaming is, and will always be, on your own rig using the very latest and most expensive components.
But don't be surprised, or get into a hissy-fit rant on the Internet, just because there exist multitudes of people who are casual gamers and would rather not drop a couple grand and spend days or weeks configuring a system that only gets them better graphics and frame rates. Some people simply don't care about such things.
The whole 3D printed gun scare is just that. A scare. It's headlines. That is all.
Those who should be scared are those who live in disarmed societies.
Their governments controlled gun use for generations, and firearm scarcity was the result. But technology has caught up, and scarcity will no longer be able to keep guns away from criminals.
Perhaps there is a positive; many of those countries may go to hell before America has the chance to disarm its law-abiding citizens. It should be a valuable lesson.
One side says that global warming exists and is manmade. They go too far and decide that your personal car and incandescent lights are solely to blame. You are selfish and should give back to society and the government for your misdeeds.
One side looks at that stance as foolish. But they go to far and reject global warming completely in an effort to distance themselves from their political opponents. And then when shown results that contradict their position, they say that it isn't manmade.
If you ignore the politics and let the science do the talking, you might actually get somewhere.
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Sorry, meant for this to be a reply to the GP.
No, and it can completely turn off people.
My wife and I have been struggling with infertility for a few years. Target's nice little data mining algorithm evidently thinks we are getting pregnant, all the time. We aren't, and Target is a constant reminder of the fact (and typically at just the wrong time, like when we get a negative test).
This is one of the main reasons I want this country to abandon its two-party system.
With three or more parties of nearly-equal size, you can't completely vote on party lines and expect a victory. You can't piss off everyone who isn't in your party and expect to get anywhere. Congress might have to, I don't know, think.
I think this is why in my state (Alabama), being pulled over is legally an arrest. It doesn't really make a difference in 99% of case, but it removes doubt if the situation gets more complicated.
It was about marketing. Microsoft controlled the default home page of anyone who used IE. This in turn helped promote their monopoly and push away competition.
They also knew that controlling standard document formats (in this case, HTML; also, see Office) meant that others would always be judged against Microsoft's offering, placing Microsoft on a pedestal. No wonder IE didn't conform to the actual HTML standards until Microsoft no longer held the de facto standard.
You have two choices: the Windows key, or Win+Q.
In the Start menu, just start typing and it will pop up application search. Or if you'd rather go to the Search charm directly, Win+Q will take you there.
And it's not as simple as just saying that all humans are equal regardless of gender.
Men cannot typically compete in women's sports, because human males tend to have an advantage in several areas of athleticism. Mothers tend to have default parental and custodial rights beyond those of the father. There are a multitude of medical reasons to categorize humans as male and female.
This is why I'm in favor of states' rights.
Obama and Bush are both good people. We handed them power based on the assumption that they are good people. But what if the next President, or the one after that, or the one after that, is the next Hitler or Stalin in waiting?
The more powers we remove from our truest balance on the federal government, the individual governments of the many states and the well-known freedoms of the people, the more likely we prepare a power that can enslave us all or wipe humanity off earth.
The states need to stand up to this and enact constitutional change, in order to provide recourse against such acts and logistically enable that power to be used.
It is taking the rotting corpse of the dead horse out of its horse casket, standing it up so that some horse believers can still hope it is alive, and beating it.
It's done. If you want a Start menu, pay $5 to Stardock.
This is the only OS in the world that people complain about NOT having a menu to access applications. It's ok that OS X has never had a Start menu. And I thought Windows was dumb, Linux rules. But all these "expert" users who claim to run Linux or OS X as their primary OS sure seem distraught by something that shouldn't affect them often because, after all, they wouldn't use Windows if their life depended on it.
That depends on whether it is something work keeping. If it isn't, then it wasn't worth it at the old price either.
You're right in this case, where the customer can consent to removing the cap. I'm more concerned about what happens when regulators forget the consent portion, and force both the company and the customer into a situation neither wanted.
This is more applicable when caps are too low, but in any case, it could be those customers that would happily pay more than the cap that keep the service profitable via economies of scale.
In other words, government regulation can do a lot to bring fairness and transparency to business. But it can do nothing to force a business to support or continue an unprofitable venture.
I think I would like the changes overall, but any regulation has trickle-down effects. For instance, capping the price of certain services may be realized by capping the ability to use the service, or removing the service altogether if it is no longer profitable.
And of course, FTA:
There's a good chance, however, that Canadians could see the price they pay for their cellphones up front rise as a consequence of their newly won long-term freedom.
the IPv4 shortage is not as acute there since the US has a lot of blocks allocated to it
Just reposting this for emphasis. Nobody's wife or mom is complaining about IPv4 block shortage; just like anything else in life, that's really all that matters.
But still, he is spending his time doing so. It's likely that he refines his entry each time. Unless he's simply being lazy and the project has no scientific value, let him be. Encourage his persistence at scientific achievement.
And frankly, a scientist will often do the same with a research publication. If it isn't accepted, the paper is refined and proposed at a different venue.
Besides, are they kicking out other students who use the same tactic, but try fewer times? How many entries is too many? Is he being singled out?
Our society encourages people who refuse to learn or take responsibility for their education or that of their children, by throwing money to them every chance we can.
The point of my question:
If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, why not just pack all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skip the obvious latency problems?
was:
If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, they could have just packed all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skipped the obvious latency problems.
I'm so truly sorry that the meaning was so lost in my unapproved use of the English language. Oops, just did it again, sarcasm...
My question was rhetorical.
Indeed. If it were 4 times the power of every Xbox sold, why not just pack all those extra processing units into each Xbox and skip the obvious latency problems?
For Christianity, specific belief in the divinity of Jesus seems to often be more important than adhering to his teachings.
Why would someone listen to the teachings of an individual but deny his most central message? Why would you say, "This guy is a complete liar about being God! But I'll follow everything else he says."
To quote C.S. Lewis:
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.
AC's got a point. If you don't like it, don't buy it. The most hard-core gaming is, and will always be, on your own rig using the very latest and most expensive components.
But don't be surprised, or get into a hissy-fit rant on the Internet, just because there exist multitudes of people who are casual gamers and would rather not drop a couple grand and spend days or weeks configuring a system that only gets them better graphics and frame rates. Some people simply don't care about such things.
The whole 3D printed gun scare is just that. A scare. It's headlines. That is all.
Those who should be scared are those who live in disarmed societies.
Their governments controlled gun use for generations, and firearm scarcity was the result. But technology has caught up, and scarcity will no longer be able to keep guns away from criminals.
Perhaps there is a positive; many of those countries may go to hell before America has the chance to disarm its law-abiding citizens. It should be a valuable lesson.
Obviously, people on Slashdot don't understand the concept of hyperbole.
And this goes for both sides.
One side says that global warming exists and is manmade. They go too far and decide that your personal car and incandescent lights are solely to blame. You are selfish and should give back to society and the government for your misdeeds.
One side looks at that stance as foolish. But they go to far and reject global warming completely in an effort to distance themselves from their political opponents. And then when shown results that contradict their position, they say that it isn't manmade.
If you ignore the politics and let the science do the talking, you might actually get somewhere.
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Meanwhile, I found data that completely reverses your assertion.
Average Wage in US:
Dec. 1970 = $3.70
Dec. 2010 = $19.24
Are you sure your source wasn't already inflation adjusted?
Their tax revenue (aside from red light cameras and other scams) is mainly driven by property taxes and income taxes.
Where I live, the municipal government gets zero income taxes and very little in property taxes. Their main source of revenue is sales taxes.