It only shows that the person answering the survey said they go online. This is assuming that the person administering the survey recorded the answer properly, and the software didn't fail, etc. As far as your slashdot comment goes, this has potential merit.
Women who go online may be more likely than men who go online to answer a phone call from an unkown number. According to the last page of the PDF, they attempted to adjust for this and other factors and most likely would have added it into the margin of error.
"Imagine you've got motor neurone disease and you've got no movement below your neck. You hear reports of benefits from stem cells in news reports, on the internet. That person would be very enthusiastic."
Imagine that the treatment fails to restore movement, but also gives you horrible shakes that make your life unbearable or simply just kills you when other treatments may have worked.
Like any medical treatment, stem cells have the potential to do more harm than good. Dying people should be allowed to try whatever treatments they want, as long as they understand the risks of the treatment rather than just the hype. Those which are not dying should stick with standard medical procedures and wait until stem cells have been proven to do more good than harm on animals and those with terminal illnesses.
But with ubiquitous high speed connections of the future only a fool would actually want to own and maintain his own computer.
With ultra-reliable, redundant, and cheap computers of the future, only a fool would want to pay for the 1.6Gb/s bandwidth required for a large display.
I bet a number of these get completed by people in developing countries where wages are not be as high. Some of the current bounties pay what I'd estimate to be about $100 per 8 hours of work. Not a great wage for most American programmers, but very high for a developing country.
Nature is a much greater force than mankind. My worry is that all the efforts lead by environmentalists will lead to a massive ice age due to over compensation and Mother Nature's bad disposition about being screwed with.
If nature is a greater force than mankind, then how would the efforts of environmentalists have any impact at all?
So we will not be surprised if some day, we will see the scientists "scrapping" long-held views on Evolution?
It's always a possibility. If another theory should emerge which fits the observed data better, it will become the new accepted theory. This would also hold true for Intelligent Design if it was considered a scientific theory.
Like all scientific theories, the people supporting "intelligent design" would have to be willing to abandon the idea should evidence come along which better supported an entirely different theory.
You wouldn't buy a lawnmower that only worked on 'Black & Decker' grass, you wouldn't buy a knife that only cut 'Chicago Cutlery' brand onions, so why the hell would you do business with a bank that forces you to use tools that you don't want to, namely, Windows and IE?
I hope this will get more sites to work with non IE browsers aas well, but a lot of people will just think "why buy a computer which might not work with your bank?"
He also neglects to mention that "disposing" of the old tube cannot be done by throwing it in the garbage, as mercury containing lamps are classified as hazardous waste in the US (40 CFR part 273). The mercury in the lamp is the reason why most scanners and LCD monitors contain a "do not dispose" symbol, which is a trash can labelled with Hg, containing an X over it.
Unless you like mercury in your food and drinking water, it's best to dispose of these items properly.
Have you tried buying ball bearing fans? You'll pay a very small amount extra, but they'll last several times as long as sleeve bearing fans. Your current CPU fan is also trying to dissipate a lot more heat than your ppro fan, so it's going to wear faster.
Chernobyl was terrible, the IAEA estimates that it will eventually cause several thousand deaths due to thyroid cancer. This is because contamination can only be prevented, not treated once it has happened.
As far as TMI goes, there was a lot of concern at the time that they hydrogen bubble in the reactor core at TMI would cause a breach of containment. The accident did not prevent development of safer reactor designs, the newer designs are far safer. Even today, however, we still don't fully understand all of the materials science which occurs in a pressurized water reactor, so it's tough to say how safe the newer designs can actually be.
The real reason why nuclear power has not become more prevalent in the US is cost. It's currently much cheaper to generate power by other means, but only because nuclear plants are very well regulated while other types are not. Having worked at a company in the nuclear industry, nuclear reactors scare me. But while there is a certain amount of unknown risk in operating them, it's better than the alternative of coal which exposes the public to high radiation doses while it poisons the air and contributes huge amounts of global warming gasses. Solar power could also help out quite a bit if its costs were lowered, I'd love to see the US government invest a higher portion than 0.5% of its energy budget into research and conservation to help realize this goal.
The problem with UPC is that you've only got 10 digits to work with for the "custom" codes (upc type digit 8), which isn't a whole lot. You're also adding a lot of overhead, which may not be worth the savings from decreased cost. I remember some storves having a system where you'd take a ticket up to the register and get your items after paying. They were sent down from the stockroom on the second floor. Sometimes it took an extra 20 minutes in order to get your purchased items. I believe Service Merchandise, Jewelcor and BeST used to do this. None of these chains are still in business.
The grocery store ones have scales where you put your items. I've had items come up as "wrong weight" before and the cashier has to clear it on their screen. Sometimes they'll walk over and take a look to double check.
Your hummer is also half price if you own a large enough business, courtesy of the tax payers. Thank you Bush administration for this great transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich!
Spending a couple hundred hours to bolt boxes to a street light and wire it in is far different in terms of cost than giving thousands of business each thousands of dollars in tax breaks.
As far as the cronyism goes, that could be best taken care of by requiring the contract to be re-bid each year and going with the cheapest bid from a qualified agency. You can't just force the lowest bid by law in these situations. I've seen numerous occassions where "lowest bid" regulations waste money by giving the contract to a shady company which deliver substandard products or sometimes nothing at all.
Free WiFi while significant portions of their population are still displaced and / or homeless.
According to TFA, this will provide a huge time savings for inspectors and police. The WiFi is directly improving rebuilding efforts in a number of ways. It's likely much easier and cheaper to provide free wireless for it all than it is to set up a security mechanism to give access only to government officials.
Did you EVER have a job where you had to haul tools and material around? Where every job you get might be two counties over from where you live? The entire planet is NOT just people who only need to haul a laptop or some schoolbooks from the apartment to some convenient office or school.
Nope, and neither do a lot of people I know, yet they still drive. Some are forced to use cars due to stupid (sub)urban design. Others just don't realize exactly how easy it is to use an alternative, such as biking for a work commute (for me it's faster and i don't have to worry about finding a rare legal spot or risk a $50 ticket). Some people can't do their job without access to gas guzzling equipment, but they should be the exception and subsidized rather than our current system of subsidizing driving for everyone.
If the music was free instead of $1 and just as convenient, most people would pick the free choice. If RIAA did nothing at all this is the situation they'd be in. Some of the early mp3 trading programs with centralized searches made it very fast and convenient. It took mere seconds to find and queue a song on Audiogalaxy, even if another user with the song was not online at the time. Some people would do the right thing, but I doubt the vast majority would.
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It only shows that the person answering the survey said they go online. This is assuming that the person administering the survey recorded the answer properly, and the software didn't fail, etc. As far as your slashdot comment goes, this has potential merit.
Women who go online may be more likely than men who go online to answer a phone call from an unkown number. According to the last page of the PDF, they attempted to adjust for this and other factors and most likely would have added it into the margin of error.
"Imagine you've got motor neurone disease and you've got no movement below your neck. You hear reports of benefits from stem cells in news reports, on the internet. That person would be very enthusiastic."
Imagine that the treatment fails to restore movement, but also gives you horrible shakes that make your life unbearable or simply just kills you when other treatments may have worked.
Like any medical treatment, stem cells have the potential to do more harm than good. Dying people should be allowed to try whatever treatments they want, as long as they understand the risks of the treatment rather than just the hype. Those which are not dying should stick with standard medical procedures and wait until stem cells have been proven to do more good than harm on animals and those with terminal illnesses.
But with ubiquitous high speed connections of the future only a fool would actually want to own and maintain his own computer.
With ultra-reliable, redundant, and cheap computers of the future, only a fool would want to pay for the 1.6Gb/s bandwidth required for a large display.
I bet a number of these get completed by people in developing countries where wages are not be as high. Some of the current bounties pay what I'd estimate to be about $100 per 8 hours of work. Not a great wage for most American programmers, but very high for a developing country.
Nature is a much greater force than mankind.
My worry is that all the efforts lead by environmentalists will lead to a massive ice age due to over compensation and Mother Nature's bad disposition about being screwed with.
If nature is a greater force than mankind, then how would the efforts of environmentalists have any impact at all?
So we will not be surprised if some day, we will see the scientists "scrapping" long-held views on Evolution?
It's always a possibility. If another theory should emerge which fits the observed data better, it will become the new accepted theory. This would also hold true for Intelligent Design if it was considered a scientific theory.
Like all scientific theories, the people supporting "intelligent design" would have to be willing to abandon the idea should evidence come along which better supported an entirely different theory.
Why not tax the shipping then?
5) Force you to participate in the system whether you like it or not.
While I disagree with the nature of this system, nobody is forcing you to own a car and drive it.
You wouldn't buy a lawnmower that only worked on 'Black & Decker' grass, you wouldn't buy a knife that only cut 'Chicago Cutlery' brand onions, so why the hell would you do business with a bank that forces you to use tools that you don't want to, namely, Windows and IE?
I hope this will get more sites to work with non IE browsers aas well, but a lot of people will just think "why buy a computer which might not work with your bank?"
Could they at least make it so I can initiate a direct connection on AIM or use all the commands on IRC without installing a plugin?
He also neglects to mention that "disposing" of the old tube cannot be done by throwing it in the garbage, as mercury containing lamps are classified as hazardous waste in the US (40 CFR part 273). The mercury in the lamp is the reason why most scanners and LCD monitors contain a "do not dispose" symbol, which is a trash can labelled with Hg, containing an X over it.
Unless you like mercury in your food and drinking water, it's best to dispose of these items properly.
Does ECMA release its specifications to the public for free? IEEE's are all copyrighted and must be purchased.
The processor would have to be slowed in order to give the electrical signals extra time to travel farther.
Have you tried buying ball bearing fans? You'll pay a very small amount extra, but they'll last several times as long as sleeve bearing fans. Your current CPU fan is also trying to dissipate a lot more heat than your ppro fan, so it's going to wear faster.
Most computers these days have an odd number of CPUs...
Chernobyl was terrible, the IAEA estimates that it will eventually cause several thousand deaths due to thyroid cancer. This is because contamination can only be prevented, not treated once it has happened.
As far as TMI goes, there was a lot of concern at the time that they hydrogen bubble in the reactor core at TMI would cause a breach of containment. The accident did not prevent development of safer reactor designs, the newer designs are far safer. Even today, however, we still don't fully understand all of the materials science which occurs in a pressurized water reactor, so it's tough to say how safe the newer designs can actually be.
The real reason why nuclear power has not become more prevalent in the US is cost. It's currently much cheaper to generate power by other means, but only because nuclear plants are very well regulated while other types are not. Having worked at a company in the nuclear industry, nuclear reactors scare me. But while there is a certain amount of unknown risk in operating them, it's better than the alternative of coal which exposes the public to high radiation doses while it poisons the air and contributes huge amounts of global warming gasses. Solar power could also help out quite a bit if its costs were lowered, I'd love to see the US government invest a higher portion than 0.5% of its energy budget into research and conservation to help realize this goal.
The problem with UPC is that you've only got 10 digits to work with for the "custom" codes (upc type digit 8), which isn't a whole lot. You're also adding a lot of overhead, which may not be worth the savings from decreased cost. I remember some storves having a system where you'd take a ticket up to the register and get your items after paying. They were sent down from the stockroom on the second floor. Sometimes it took an extra 20 minutes in order to get your purchased items. I believe Service Merchandise, Jewelcor and BeST used to do this. None of these chains are still in business.
The grocery store ones have scales where you put your items. I've had items come up as "wrong weight" before and the cashier has to clear it on their screen. Sometimes they'll walk over and take a look to double check.
Your hummer is also half price if you own a large enough business, courtesy of the tax payers. Thank you Bush administration for this great transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich!
Spending a couple hundred hours to bolt boxes to a street light and wire it in is far different in terms of cost than giving thousands of business each thousands of dollars in tax breaks.
As far as the cronyism goes, that could be best taken care of by requiring the contract to be re-bid each year and going with the cheapest bid from a qualified agency. You can't just force the lowest bid by law in these situations. I've seen numerous occassions where "lowest bid" regulations waste money by giving the contract to a shady company which deliver substandard products or sometimes nothing at all.
Free WiFi while significant portions of their population are still displaced and / or homeless.
According to TFA, this will provide a huge time savings for inspectors and police. The WiFi is directly improving rebuilding efforts in a number of ways. It's likely much easier and cheaper to provide free wireless for it all than it is to set up a security mechanism to give access only to government officials.
Perhaps their priorities are thought out well?
Did you EVER have a job where you had to haul tools and material around? Where every job you get might be two counties over from where you live? The entire planet is NOT just people who only need to haul a laptop or some schoolbooks from the apartment to some convenient office or school.
Nope, and neither do a lot of people I know, yet they still drive. Some are forced to use cars due to stupid (sub)urban design. Others just don't realize exactly how easy it is to use an alternative, such as biking for a work commute (for me it's faster and i don't have to worry about finding a rare legal spot or risk a $50 ticket). Some people can't do their job without access to gas guzzling equipment, but they should be the exception and subsidized rather than our current system of subsidizing driving for everyone.
It's pretty easy to train a dog to bark on command, even if that command isn't noticeable by others.
Only if you choose to drive a car. The US isn't much different, searches don't require a warrant if you're in a vehicle.
If the music was free instead of $1 and just as convenient, most people would pick the free choice. If RIAA did nothing at all this is the situation they'd be in. Some of the early mp3 trading programs with centralized searches made it very fast and convenient. It took mere seconds to find and queue a song on Audiogalaxy, even if another user with the song was not online at the time. Some people would do the right thing, but I doubt the vast majority would.