And suburbs are based on a presupposition of cheap oil. What happens to suburbs when the people living in them can't afford to drive? Remember, using public transit *instead* of a car is much cheaper, and that gulf gets wider as oil prices go up (especially if we're talking about electric trains you can power from a non-oil source).
Oh, don't worry about that. I save much more in taxes by living where I do than I pay for gas each year. And, conviently enough, gas is about $.20 cheaper in my neighborhodd than in the city - again because of taxes. You're theories don't match reality. Gas could be $10 a gallon and it'd still be cheaper over all for me to live where I do. At $10 a gallon, I'd spend about $4K a year in gas. My last raise almost covers that. Besides, I would choose to live where I do even if it were more expensive. There are better schools, better living conditions, less crime, faster police and fire response (I used to be an alarm dispatcher - this I know), less crowds, fresh air, lower taxes (property and sales), etc. Living in the city is not "worth" it to me.
That's because you live in a suburb. They'll go away as it becomes too expensive to live there.
Interesting that you say that... because every example I can think of where public transportation systems are well developed and regularly used are in cities where the cost of living is much higher than it is in the suburbs. It's one of the reasons people move to the suburbs - to get more for less money.
It's not worth driving 20 miles (or 100) for things when you can do it for much cheaper on shared transportation.
I live outside a largish city (Memphis, TN). Public transportation to every home in the suburbs is not practical. Even within the city where MATA buses run so regularly I always seem to be stuck behind one, few people ride the bus. I guarantee I will see three buses before I get the one block to the interstate. On those three desiel chugging buses there might be 10-15 people total. Far from efficient.
Then there's only being able to travel at specific times, the cost of bus fare, the inconvience especially when grocery shopping or the like, and so on and so forth. Most cities are not laid out in such a way as to make public transit practical - Memphis surely isn't. In rural communities it'd be outrageously inefficient. And MATA's not going to come pick me up if I get called into work in the middle of the night.
As to being "worth" it... it's absolutely worth it for me to drive my SUV wherever I go. Sure, I wish gas was cheaper. I also wish computers, houses, and meals at 5 star restaurants were cheaper. Worth is a value judgement. The hassels of public transportation is not -worth- it to me.
This has always struck me as an anthropocentric, 'faith-based' element in modern physics. Why should the universe be simple and elegant? Because it's 'beautiful'? Because we don't like doing hard math problems?
The reason is that simple explanations are easier to falsify. If something is wrong with a simple theory it is easier to find that fault - if it exists.
When postulates become complex, one can always add more complexity to explain the things that don't seem to fit. It's a slippery slope.
Dark matter is one of those complexities added to try to make observations jive with Newtonian physics. It now appears that the complexity was wrongly added. A less complex theory describes it better.
And if this holds up, we don't have to assume some exotic matter we can't detect nor figure out how it was formed or where it is. There is now a reason to chunk this problematic idea.
I what proactive MBA envisioned the synergies that would allow flock to become a knowledge portal center of excellence for podcasting core competencies of leveraging mindshare and paradigm shifts to achieve superlinear ROI.
Oh boy! That's just what our IT department needs more of. Where do I send the check?
From my perspective, the first thing that needs to be done is add Calendaring to something like Google Mail. I think web based editors are feasable (check out FCKeditor - a lot of functinality is already there), but a calendaring system makes a heck of a lot more sense as a web based app than an office suite. It would seriously challenge Outlook. And Outlook is one of the things keeping a lot of companies on Windows.
I do not consider them at all, and am definitely prejudiced against someone who puts them on their resume.
Let's forget for a a minute that that is illegal.
Illegal? I can't tell from your email address if you are outside the US, but it certainly is not illegal in the US.
You can decide to not hire a person for any number of reasons. There are some laws preventing hiring discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, and the like.... but certification is certainly not on that list.
Having said that though, I agree with you that it is foolish to prejudice youself against someone with a certification. I personally would treat them as a non-issue.
David Hasslehof was TEN YEARS AGO! Are we Germans ever going to be forgiven for that? Or are we forever doomed to be the nation that assists foreigners whose names begin with H in committing unimaginable horrors?
I don't know... I'm still traumatized by Knight Rider. But Hasselhof also brought us bouncy babes on beaches.
Although, my boss called the next Monday, and asked why I had left her a voicemail asking for a black chicken, a white chicken, a silver knife, and a bucket (not only SCO Open Server, but Open Server 5.0.1 with a differential SCSI bus)
It's no wonder you had problems. You need to sacrifice the white chicken first, not the black chicken. And you completely left out the eye of newt.
Remember the song?
o/~ White Chicken, Black Chicken, Eye of newt. In the bucket, in the bucket, then reboot o/~
Because then you'd have to make individual one-dollar payments to a couple hundred organizations that you're likely to consider worthwhile if you were to look into them, and they'd have to spend a lot of money advertizing their worthiness to you. Having a government you pay taxes to which pays departments is an O(n) process, while having individuals pay them directly is O(n^2). If you think your taxes are complicated now, just think how much it would suck if you had to essentially work out the federal budget yourself each year.
There's nothing to figure out. I'd support the things I like and wouldn't support the things I didn't. Everyone else would do the same thing. The things enough people support survive, the rest don't. But no one could complain about having to support something they don't want to support.
There are certain things necessary to the functioning of a government. A fair tax system is arguably appropriate for those things. Beyond that, it's just plain robbery.
If you're not willing to rob someone at gunpoint to use their money for the benifit of someone else, you shouldn't be willing to vote for politicians willing to use police power to do it for you.
$250,000 sounds like very little money compared to other NASA projects. Why can't my tax dollars go to these projects instead of the military?
Why can't my tax dollars stay in my pocket so I can decide how to spend them?
Yes, I know, too many people think they know better than I do how my money needs to be spent... and they keep electing politicians willing to take it away from me to give to someone else.
Honestly, it's plain as day: JanneM 1:1 -- Invisible magical blue-scaled lizard midgets. How can you not believe the book? It was written by the lizard-midgets themselves.
We who worship the invisible magical muave-scaled lizard midgets are sick and tired of the obvious bias expressed here on Slashdot in favor of invisible magical blue-scaled lizard midgets. Your theories are obviously all wrong and the hatred you constantly express towards us muaves will not be tolerated!
If StuffIt really does compress jpegs 25-30% that is a massive leap forward over the previous state-of-the-art compressors
I noticed the chart at the bottom of the whitepaper showed their "25-30%" figure was based on tests done on PNGs converted to JPGs at 50% quality. There is a lot of data degredation at 50% and I don't think many people regularly use anything below about 70%. I'd be much more interested in seeing what compression would be on a JPG straight out of a Digital Rebel or other camera set to highest JPG quality. They seem to have skirted that issue. They also don't explain why it doesn't work on PNGs. It makes me think the existance of the "noise" is what makes the compression possible.
I could be wrong, that's just the impression I get.
People want to slaughter. It's in their nature. Religion often provides a reasonable excuse for it, but so does racism, or any ideology. (Including Capitalism).
Capitalists don't intentionally kill their customers. It's not profitable. Capitalists succeed by providing people with things they are willing to purchase.
What about those of us with a BA who work in the IT industry? We too bring a balanced, yet completely different view to the workplace - one of the reasons I was hired at my current job. Computer geek + history geek means a man who can do mental backflips.
Oh, so that's the other thing you can do with a history degree.
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Oh, don't worry about that. I save much more in taxes by living where I do than I pay for gas each year. And, conviently enough, gas is about $.20 cheaper in my neighborhodd than in the city - again because of taxes. You're theories don't match reality. Gas could be $10 a gallon and it'd still be cheaper over all for me to live where I do. At $10 a gallon, I'd spend about $4K a year in gas. My last raise almost covers that.
Besides, I would choose to live where I do even if it were more expensive. There are better schools, better living conditions, less crime, faster police and fire response (I used to be an alarm dispatcher - this I know), less crowds, fresh air, lower taxes (property and sales), etc. Living in the city is not "worth" it to me.
Interesting that you say that... because every example I can think of where public transportation systems are well developed and regularly used are in cities where the cost of living is much higher than it is in the suburbs. It's one of the reasons people move to the suburbs - to get more for less money.
I live outside a largish city (Memphis, TN). Public transportation to every home in the suburbs is not practical. Even within the city where MATA buses run so regularly I always seem to be stuck behind one, few people ride the bus. I guarantee I will see three buses before I get the one block to the interstate. On those three desiel chugging buses there might be 10-15 people total. Far from efficient.
Then there's only being able to travel at specific times, the cost of bus fare, the inconvience especially when grocery shopping or the like, and so on and so forth. Most cities are not laid out in such a way as to make public transit practical - Memphis surely isn't. In rural communities it'd be outrageously inefficient. And MATA's not going to come pick me up if I get called into work in the middle of the night.
As to being "worth" it... it's absolutely worth it for me to drive my SUV wherever I go. Sure, I wish gas was cheaper. I also wish computers, houses, and meals at 5 star restaurants were cheaper. Worth is a value judgement. The hassels of public transportation is not -worth- it to me.
Everyone on here looks like black text on a white background to me.
The reason is that simple explanations are easier to falsify. If something is wrong with a simple theory it is easier to find that fault - if it exists.
When postulates become complex, one can always add more complexity to explain the things that don't seem to fit. It's a slippery slope.
Dark matter is one of those complexities added to try to make observations jive with Newtonian physics. It now appears that the complexity was wrongly added. A less complex theory describes it better.
And if this holds up, we don't have to assume some exotic matter we can't detect nor figure out how it was formed or where it is. There is now a reason to chunk this problematic idea.
Unfortunately the site was hacked, thereby preventing anyone from responding to this story.
Yes, let's remove all responsibility from individuals and beg the big friendly government to make someone else take care of us.
While we're at it, let's make Slashdot responsible for trolls.
Oh boy! That's just what our IT department needs more of. Where do I send the check?
From my perspective, the first thing that needs to be done is add Calendaring to something like Google Mail. I think web based editors are feasable (check out FCKeditor - a lot of functinality is already there), but a calendaring system makes a heck of a lot more sense as a web based app than an office suite. It would seriously challenge Outlook. And Outlook is one of the things keeping a lot of companies on Windows.
As a postscript to the comment above, read and perhaps help contribute to this site: http://www.grokdoc.net/
Well, this is attached to a story about an article about how people write about things they don't understand and get it totally wrong....
It almost makes it appropriate.
Illegal? I can't tell from your email address if you are outside the US, but it certainly is not illegal in the US.
You can decide to not hire a person for any number of reasons. There are some laws preventing hiring discrimination based on race, gender, national origin, and the like.... but certification is certainly not on that list.
Having said that though, I agree with you that it is foolish to prejudice youself against someone with a certification. I personally would treat them as a non-issue.
I don't know... I'm still traumatized by Knight Rider. But Hasselhof also brought us bouncy babes on beaches.
I'm so conflicted at this point.
It's no wonder you had problems. You need to sacrifice the white chicken first, not the black chicken. And you completely left out the eye of newt.
Remember the song?
o/~ White Chicken, Black Chicken, Eye of newt. In the bucket, in the bucket, then reboot o/~
Ok, is it just me?
Or is everyone else singing in their head "And the meek shall inherit the Earth"?
There's nothing to figure out. I'd support the things I like and wouldn't support the things I didn't. Everyone else would do the same thing. The things enough people support survive, the rest don't. But no one could complain about having to support something they don't want to support.
There are certain things necessary to the functioning of a government. A fair tax system is arguably appropriate for those things. Beyond that, it's just plain robbery.
If you're not willing to rob someone at gunpoint to use their money for the benifit of someone else, you shouldn't be willing to vote for politicians willing to use police power to do it for you.
Why can't my tax dollars stay in my pocket so I can decide how to spend them?
Yes, I know, too many people think they know better than I do how my money needs to be spent... and they keep electing politicians willing to take it away from me to give to someone else.
Yes, the exec did. Google didn't sign a non-compete with MS. Why is MS sueing Google?
Or when the major game companies realize they can write for a Knoppix-like CD and have it run on everything.
It's kind of a chicken-and-egg thing I know, but I believe the market share will come when the games do.
We who worship the invisible magical muave-scaled lizard midgets are sick and tired of the obvious bias expressed here on Slashdot in favor of invisible magical blue-scaled lizard midgets. Your theories are obviously all wrong and the hatred you constantly express towards us muaves will not be tolerated!
I noticed the chart at the bottom of the whitepaper showed their "25-30%" figure was based on tests done on PNGs converted to JPGs at 50% quality. There is a lot of data degredation at 50% and I don't think many people regularly use anything below about 70%. I'd be much more interested in seeing what compression would be on a JPG straight out of a Digital Rebel or other camera set to highest JPG quality. They seem to have skirted that issue. They also don't explain why it doesn't work on PNGs. It makes me think the existance of the "noise" is what makes the compression possible.
I could be wrong, that's just the impression I get.
Which is why they take Friday off, hide colored eggs, and eat chocolate bunnies - it helps them remember... uh..
What is it exactly it helps them remember?
Capitalists don't intentionally kill their customers. It's not profitable. Capitalists succeed by providing people with things they are willing to purchase.
Oh, so that's the other thing you can do with a history degree.
Make them use Firefox with this extension. Then they only use IE for the sites that require it. Those, one would hope, should be reasonably safe.