This is why it would be better if insurance companies provided coverage for preventative health care. Give gym membership discounts if you attend regularly, subsidize the cost of home exercise equipment if it is used regularly, etc. I think that one of the problems is that we try and treat symptoms and not causes. I believe that it would be cheaper for the insurance companies to help people stay healthy instead of waiting until they are sick to do something about it.
Thank you. In discussions about women in any work field this is a topic that often gets overlooked. It is important to look at what can be done to make the work environment more comfortable for the women but the reverse needs to be considered too. If you do have a 'Sensitive Sally' in your workplace then it can make it hard for the males to speak out and be vocal for fear of offending. It also makes it hard for management because anything that you do that she doesn't like will turn into a 'you are doing that because I am a woman' argument.
I am not saying that all women are like that or that it is necessarily bad to have women in the workplace, but you have to consider all of the consequences (that you can) of your ideas.
I am just curious if he is still living in his mother's basement? If so, that may have been the incentive to run that high of a capacity line to a 75 year old woman's house.
You are missing the point of the article. The list from the FBI is not for each and every student, it is those with security clearances. Many universities are doing research projects for the government that require security clearances in order to do the research. If you are given access to secure information then it makes sense that you would be asked to document your communications and travels to foreign countries. If you have access to confidential information your supervisor is justified in getting a little suspicious if you suddenly start coming into work late at night when no one else is around. It would look kind of suspicious if you are asking about information regarding the classified project that you have no need to know.
This list has nothing to do with your average student. A humanities major taking a welding class is not suspicious neither is a group of students taking a spring break to China, nor are students pulling all nighters suspicious. Most students don't have any information that a foreign government would be interested in. This list is focused on students who have access to classified information. If you are working on a classified project and suddenly decide to emigrate to another country, well, don't you think that might look suspicious?
Actually it would be light not lite. Lite is an informal spelling for people too lazy that they feel the need to type 4 letters and save themselves from the extra effort of typing 5 letters.
I can see your point but the problem is where to draw the line. It is invasion of privacy to take pictures of the inside of someones house using a telephoto lens? True it is something that can be seen from the street, the photographer doesn't have to go onto the property, they don't have to try and look through blinds, but they are seeing more than someone walking down the street would ever see. As the technology increases and bandwidth and storage increases the possible resolution of available images will increase. If the zoom gets to the point where you can read the titles of books on peoples shelves then, in my opinion, it is invasion of privacy.
Now is when the issue needs to be addressed before things go to far, and precedent is set, and no one can do anything about it. There is the option of closing blinds but if it gets to the point where high resolution close-ups of the the inside of peoples homes becomes available, are we going to start building homes without windows?
I have always wondered what would happen if two sex offenders tried picking each other up. It just might be a priceless moment when they they realize that neither one of them is 16.
...promote insightful, comprehensible thoughts it would be perfect. There are so many tools out there for communication it is just a shame to see that the quality of the ideas communicated seems to be decreasing. How many times have we noticed with cell phones, and now blogs, that people are talking and communicating just to hear their own voice and don't contribute anything by their communication.
That aside, I am glad that it is finally complete. Yes, there are many worthless blogs posted but it makes it all worth it when you get that one gem.
The other problem is that the big guys have lawyers that just hang around patent offices and wait until they get the details sent to them to file the patent. Even if I had an idea 6 months before the big guys it would take me that long to figure out how to file the patent and I would still lose.
What would be nice is if you could convince industry to 'give up' an employee for a few hours a week. Even if they only taught one class per semester it would allow for students interested in the math and science fields to have an AP class from someone who is a professional in that field. They wouldn't be a full-time teacher so the school wouldn't have to worry about discontent among the teachers and the school wouldn't have to pay out that much extra per year. I know that if I had the option to work in the industrial setting and teach a class on the side I would love it.
With all of the paranoia being caused by jobs being shipped to other countries, I don't see how this is going to help things any. One of the job areas that has been staying in the US/UK is the research and development market. Many companies are keeping their research here and moving their production facilities to other countries. With the surge in scientists and engineers that China and Asia are producing it would be a small wonder if companies didn't start moving their R/D facilities out as well. If there aren't any incentives for people to become engineers/scientists here (through cutting in research funding or cutting in education grants) then we could start losing more jobs to other countries, some of our higher-paying, technical jobs.
Not quite. He is not basing his assumptions on our current capabilities. His assumption that their probes can travel at.1c makes them faster than our probes. There is also no way that our technology could last 10 billion years, most of our space missions have life expectancies less than 10 years (some are longer, but that doesn't make a difference when you compare it to billions of years).
I will grant that he does make some pretty crazy assumptions, but is findings aren't totally off. Even if a planet were to develop interplanetary travel at the dawn of their civilization that can travel at c while being able to scan entire solar systems on the fly and not needing any repair for the extent of their lives, it is still pretty unlikely that they could have scanned the entire galaxy by this point in time unless they made swarms of the things.
While it is true that this isn't a very through investigation I think the point is that there is a correlation. Once this has been established it is easier to get funding to do additional, more thorough, testings. So while this article isn't stating facts I think that it would be interesting for them to get funding and do additional research in this area.
The author of this article makes a very good point. I am one of those gamers that has very little to play between work, school, and family. It is very frustrating to start a game and have it take months to beat, if I ever finish it. Yet I have friends who can beat the game in one weekend (although they don't do anything else that weekend). I don't know that there really is a solution to this problem unless they make the easy level of play easier and the hard level of play harder. I know that with some games I have had to turn to cheat codes and/or walkthroughs just to be able to beat it in a finite amount of time, yet I lose the fun and satisfaction of beating the game outright. It would be interesting to find out what solutions can be found.
I am glad that they started including a secret compartment for valuables. That way if someone tries mugging me then they will only see the 120 carrats of diamonds and not think that I have anything worth stealing.
This might be off topic but...what would be the disadvantages of Apple starting their own recording studio? They could charge 80 cents per download, give the artists 30 cents of that and still come out on top. I don't know that much about the recording industry but it seems that if the recording industries are being that unfair most artists would gladly make a switch.
The problem with using laptops here in the US is what the children use the laptops for. It is really obnoxious when you are trying to teach a class and the students are using their laptops to play games, surf the internet, chat with friends, cheat on tests, and so on. I am sure that there are many people who would love to help fund a project like this in the US as there are many benefits that laptops provide (how much better is math when you can plug an equation into a graph and then make changes to the equation and see how the graph changes, or to see 3-d models of molecules and see how a reaction takes place). The big hold-up is how much less learning kids do when they sit down in front of a computer.
I know, there are many exceptions and many kids use computers for learning, but the fact reamains that many don't, and those who don't can be distracting to those who do.
Yes, they could make this be a paid service, but they would probably make a lot more money off of advertising. If they have every music video then it will be the default place for most people to go when they want to watch a music video. Then if they offer a play-list type feature to store all of your favorites that you can just play through, it would be great. This could draw in a lot of people which would make a perfect place to post advertisements.
It also shouldn't be too much of a problem to get past the RIAA. Look at Yahoos music videos. As long as there isn't a way for people to download them and keep them for personal use, I don't see that there would be a problem (but what do I know, if there is a way to make money the RIAA will be all over it). I think that they could have a really good thing starting here.
Or are most Mac and Linux users not gamers because there aren't many great games out on Mac or Linux? If there were some of the big games available on Linux or Mac I would be a lot more likely to switch from Windows on my home computer. But since there aren't many games for other platforms then I will keep suffering through Windows at home so that I can keep playing my games. I know, I can dual boot or run emulators, but most of the time it just isn't worth the hassel.
When lots of mainstream software becomes available on other platforms I am sure that the rate of migration will increase.
What makes them think that chatting is going to cause the kids grammer to be worse? After looking at some of the papers coming in from kids I don't think that their grammer could get much worse no matter what they did. Of course, some of the teachers that I know spend so much time chatting too, they probably think that writing like that is normal.
I am glad that the viruses have started coming out for RFID devices before they started implanting them in my head. But it doesn't suprise me that people were able to find a way to create a virus for them. Hopefully it will cause those who are thinking about using RFID in everything (implanting in people, using as gun safety devices etc...)to reconsider before doing a wide distribution.
I, for one, would rather not have electronics malfunctioning in my body. Sometimes I have a hard enough time just keeping my body functioning. Who knows, before too long we may need to staff doctors and engineers in hospitals.
If laying off 1000 managers is going to save them $1billion per year I want to be a manager there.
I guess this means though that either quite a few more people are going to go too or else those managers that they lay off are really underperforming and should be going anyway, no matter how the company is doing.
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This is why it would be better if insurance companies provided coverage for preventative health care. Give gym membership discounts if you attend regularly, subsidize the cost of home exercise equipment if it is used regularly, etc. I think that one of the problems is that we try and treat symptoms and not causes. I believe that it would be cheaper for the insurance companies to help people stay healthy instead of waiting until they are sick to do something about it.
Thank you. In discussions about women in any work field this is a topic that often gets overlooked. It is important to look at what can be done to make the work environment more comfortable for the women but the reverse needs to be considered too. If you do have a 'Sensitive Sally' in your workplace then it can make it hard for the males to speak out and be vocal for fear of offending. It also makes it hard for management because anything that you do that she doesn't like will turn into a 'you are doing that because I am a woman' argument.
I am not saying that all women are like that or that it is necessarily bad to have women in the workplace, but you have to consider all of the consequences (that you can) of your ideas.
I am just curious if he is still living in his mother's basement? If so, that may have been the incentive to run that high of a capacity line to a 75 year old woman's house.
You are missing the point of the article. The list from the FBI is not for each and every student, it is those with security clearances. Many universities are doing research projects for the government that require security clearances in order to do the research. If you are given access to secure information then it makes sense that you would be asked to document your communications and travels to foreign countries. If you have access to confidential information your supervisor is justified in getting a little suspicious if you suddenly start coming into work late at night when no one else is around. It would look kind of suspicious if you are asking about information regarding the classified project that you have no need to know.
This list has nothing to do with your average student. A humanities major taking a welding class is not suspicious neither is a group of students taking a spring break to China, nor are students pulling all nighters suspicious. Most students don't have any information that a foreign government would be interested in. This list is focused on students who have access to classified information. If you are working on a classified project and suddenly decide to emigrate to another country, well, don't you think that might look suspicious?
Actually it would be light not lite. Lite is an informal spelling for people too lazy that they feel the need to type 4 letters and save themselves from the extra effort of typing 5 letters.
I can see your point but the problem is where to draw the line. It is invasion of privacy to take pictures of the inside of someones house using a telephoto lens? True it is something that can be seen from the street, the photographer doesn't have to go onto the property, they don't have to try and look through blinds, but they are seeing more than someone walking down the street would ever see. As the technology increases and bandwidth and storage increases the possible resolution of available images will increase. If the zoom gets to the point where you can read the titles of books on peoples shelves then, in my opinion, it is invasion of privacy.
Now is when the issue needs to be addressed before things go to far, and precedent is set, and no one can do anything about it. There is the option of closing blinds but if it gets to the point where high resolution close-ups of the the inside of peoples homes becomes available, are we going to start building homes without windows?
I have always wondered what would happen if two sex offenders tried picking each other up. It just might be a priceless moment when they they realize that neither one of them is 16.
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...promote insightful, comprehensible thoughts it would be perfect. There are so many tools out there for communication it is just a shame to see that the quality of the ideas communicated seems to be decreasing. How many times have we noticed with cell phones, and now blogs, that people are talking and communicating just to hear their own voice and don't contribute anything by their communication.
That aside, I am glad that it is finally complete. Yes, there are many worthless blogs posted but it makes it all worth it when you get that one gem.
The other problem is that the big guys have lawyers that just hang around patent offices and wait until they get the details sent to them to file the patent. Even if I had an idea 6 months before the big guys it would take me that long to figure out how to file the patent and I would still lose.
If your girlfriend calls and tells you that you need to get there as quickly as possible I am sure that you do have 'other things' on your mind.
What would be nice is if you could convince industry to 'give up' an employee for a few hours a week. Even if they only taught one class per semester it would allow for students interested in the math and science fields to have an AP class from someone who is a professional in that field. They wouldn't be a full-time teacher so the school wouldn't have to worry about discontent among the teachers and the school wouldn't have to pay out that much extra per year. I know that if I had the option to work in the industrial setting and teach a class on the side I would love it.
With all of the paranoia being caused by jobs being shipped to other countries, I don't see how this is going to help things any. One of the job areas that has been staying in the US/UK is the research and development market. Many companies are keeping their research here and moving their production facilities to other countries. With the surge in scientists and engineers that China and Asia are producing it would be a small wonder if companies didn't start moving their R/D facilities out as well. If there aren't any incentives for people to become engineers/scientists here (through cutting in research funding or cutting in education grants) then we could start losing more jobs to other countries, some of our higher-paying, technical jobs.
Not quite. He is not basing his assumptions on our current capabilities. His assumption that their probes can travel at .1c makes them faster than our probes. There is also no way that our technology could last 10 billion years, most of our space missions have life expectancies less than 10 years (some are longer, but that doesn't make a difference when you compare it to billions of years).
I will grant that he does make some pretty crazy assumptions, but is findings aren't totally off. Even if a planet were to develop interplanetary travel at the dawn of their civilization that can travel at c while being able to scan entire solar systems on the fly and not needing any repair for the extent of their lives, it is still pretty unlikely that they could have scanned the entire galaxy by this point in time unless they made swarms of the things.
While it is true that this isn't a very through investigation I think the point is that there is a correlation. Once this has been established it is easier to get funding to do additional, more thorough, testings. So while this article isn't stating facts I think that it would be interesting for them to get funding and do additional research in this area.
The author of this article makes a very good point. I am one of those gamers that has very little to play between work, school, and family. It is very frustrating to start a game and have it take months to beat, if I ever finish it. Yet I have friends who can beat the game in one weekend (although they don't do anything else that weekend). I don't know that there really is a solution to this problem unless they make the easy level of play easier and the hard level of play harder. I know that with some games I have had to turn to cheat codes and/or walkthroughs just to be able to beat it in a finite amount of time, yet I lose the fun and satisfaction of beating the game outright. It would be interesting to find out what solutions can be found.
I am glad that they started including a secret compartment for valuables. That way if someone tries mugging me then they will only see the 120 carrats of diamonds and not think that I have anything worth stealing.
This might be off topic but...what would be the disadvantages of Apple starting their own recording studio? They could charge 80 cents per download, give the artists 30 cents of that and still come out on top. I don't know that much about the recording industry but it seems that if the recording industries are being that unfair most artists would gladly make a switch.
The problem with using laptops here in the US is what the children use the laptops for. It is really obnoxious when you are trying to teach a class and the students are using their laptops to play games, surf the internet, chat with friends, cheat on tests, and so on. I am sure that there are many people who would love to help fund a project like this in the US as there are many benefits that laptops provide (how much better is math when you can plug an equation into a graph and then make changes to the equation and see how the graph changes, or to see 3-d models of molecules and see how a reaction takes place). The big hold-up is how much less learning kids do when they sit down in front of a computer.
I know, there are many exceptions and many kids use computers for learning, but the fact reamains that many don't, and those who don't can be distracting to those who do.
Yes, they could make this be a paid service, but they would probably make a lot more money off of advertising. If they have every music video then it will be the default place for most people to go when they want to watch a music video. Then if they offer a play-list type feature to store all of your favorites that you can just play through, it would be great. This could draw in a lot of people which would make a perfect place to post advertisements.
It also shouldn't be too much of a problem to get past the RIAA. Look at Yahoos music videos. As long as there isn't a way for people to download them and keep them for personal use, I don't see that there would be a problem (but what do I know, if there is a way to make money the RIAA will be all over it). I think that they could have a really good thing starting here.
show me the average home user who doesn't runs XP as administrator. Do they think that anything is going to change for Vista?
Or are most Mac and Linux users not gamers because there aren't many great games out on Mac or Linux? If there were some of the big games available on Linux or Mac I would be a lot more likely to switch from Windows on my home computer. But since there aren't many games for other platforms then I will keep suffering through Windows at home so that I can keep playing my games. I know, I can dual boot or run emulators, but most of the time it just isn't worth the hassel.
When lots of mainstream software becomes available on other platforms I am sure that the rate of migration will increase.
What makes them think that chatting is going to cause the kids grammer to be worse? After looking at some of the papers coming in from kids I don't think that their grammer could get much worse no matter what they did. Of course, some of the teachers that I know spend so much time chatting too, they probably think that writing like that is normal.
I am glad that the viruses have started coming out for RFID devices before they started implanting them in my head. But it doesn't suprise me that people were able to find a way to create a virus for them. Hopefully it will cause those who are thinking about using RFID in everything (implanting in people, using as gun safety devices etc...)to reconsider before doing a wide distribution.
I, for one, would rather not have electronics malfunctioning in my body. Sometimes I have a hard enough time just keeping my body functioning. Who knows, before too long we may need to staff doctors and engineers in hospitals.
If laying off 1000 managers is going to save them $1billion per year I want to be a manager there. I guess this means though that either quite a few more people are going to go too or else those managers that they lay off are really underperforming and should be going anyway, no matter how the company is doing.