I don't necessarily disagree with your main premise, but our medical system is head and shoulders above almost everyone else. Yes its financial burden may not be equitable, but in extreme situations no one really holds a candle. Is it best for the largest area of the bell curve? Maybe not. But an enormous amount of energy goes into servicing the tails; that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Try that another way... would you still be saying "the IRS didn't target a specific race!" if the tax guy doing keyword searches for people named Juan, Jose, Jesus, Javier, Maria, or Consuelo?
Religious institutions are tax exempt. Also, where is my cut of the student loan money?
... the engineering department (though, typically this is not a good idea, since CPEs/EEs look down on CS).
Reminds me of a joke my EE professor told us (our CS department is in the engineering school):
Why is the CS department part of the engineering school?
Every school has to have a special-ed program
Well I was refused a replacement inside of 2 years. Apple refused to admit the problem with my Macbook Pro (of the same series with the same GPU) was affected by the problem. It cost me quite a bit in gas to the nearest Apple store, where they said it wasn't their problem. Hours on the phone, again denying it was the same problem. Finally I got a hold of some secret-ish Apple customer complaint line, where I explained to them that I worked at an electronics packaging lab, and had the equipment to verify the problem (the defect was some sort of packaging problem). This was not entirely true, though it was within my university's department. They finally relented when I said that if this defect was indeed covered by the recall I would be bringing the results of the test to every news outlet I could. Still took 3 weeks to get the damn machine back, and it runs hot as fucking anything.
I worked in a Best Buy computer department from 2004-2006. The pushy salesmanship is completely a product of management (and I'm sure it's pushed on them just as hard.) I remember being told that every customer had to be greeted within 15 feet of entering a department area, or 30 seconds after entering. We were also strongly rebuked for a simple 'Hey can I help you out with anything today?'. Management would hawk around, and if they saw you interact with a customer, and it end quickly they would quiz you: what was the customer's name, what were they looking for, why was the interaction so short. If you told them the customer specifically said they would like to be left alone, it wasn't acceptable; go back and try again. Management also encouraged us to flat out lie about products (I assume a lot of it was due to their lack of education about technical specifications, though it is certainly plausible due to malice.) As a part timer, if you didn't do exactly as you were told in the above areas, your hours would quickly get diminished (4-6 hours a week of the worst possible shifts). Threats of termination weren't uncommon either. All in all it was an interesting experience for a teenage job, though I vowed never to work retail again.
As mentioned by someone above, Logo is being used in a lot of agent-based modeling research. One in particular came up time and time again in a seminar class I took on complex systems was NetLogo. Some poor economics PhD was working on modeling the relationship between groundwater depletion and policy approaches to curbing its overuse, and his simulations were taking weeks with something like 100 nodes. Too bad it isn't open source, might be fun to try to parallelize simulation runs.
I'd currently say I'm libertarian leaning, and that's exactly my stance on marriage. It's a religious ceremony, and the government has zero business in it at all. Straight couples and gay couples may both have a civil union, which takes care of all those tax and insurance issues but we could cut that crap too. What that federal court ban (I haven't read up on it) would do is stop the judiciary from legislating from the bench, overriding the decision made by the states. This is a crucial idea, as legislating from the judiciary has led to erosion of our Bill of Rights.
I tried when the Patriot Act was up for renewal. The form letter I received in return made it ostensibly clear that my representative did not read, nor care to address any of the points I made in my letter.
As much as he's been marred for his personal mishaps, Tiger Woods has set up Learning Centers in LA, DC, and a couple of other locations that focus on teaching STEM type curriculum, while providing some physical activity to break up any academic tedium (exercise is good for the mind). I have no accounts of the quality, however it is an option to be explored. www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org
Interesting? Really? So you'd prefer to have less competition in the operating system market? Granted Microsoft has been the demon around here for as long as I can remember, but with someone new at the helm, maybe Microsoft can contribute useful products to the marketplace. They certainly have a large amount of talent, and I would love to see the company leverage it with a new mission. Someone who could successfully translate things that come out of Microsoft R&D to the marketplace would be great. I am not a big fan of Microsoft, haven't used Windows in the last 5 years really, though I do enjoy the Xbox (despite all the problems that have plagued them).
Apple has been giving out iPod's with laptop purchases for years now. If anything this is MS just trying to counter balance that. Seems like a win-win for consumers. Maybe Apple will step up their offering and give iPad's with laptop purchases now.
Yeah the withholding of content which is already produced (or ported from older versions of the game) is ridiculous. In order to get all the courses in Tiger Woods 12, the overall cost becomes ~$110. Most of these DLC courses are ones that were included in previous years games, and you know that EA didn't rework them, maybe slapped on a new texture or something. Of the 34 courses available, 14 are included with your $60 purchase. Most of those were included in TW09. Same thing with one of the Call of Duty games where they released downloadable maps that were part of Call of Duty 1.
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I don't necessarily disagree with your main premise, but our medical system is head and shoulders above almost everyone else. Yes its financial burden may not be equitable, but in extreme situations no one really holds a candle. Is it best for the largest area of the bell curve? Maybe not. But an enormous amount of energy goes into servicing the tails; that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Try that another way... would you still be saying "the IRS didn't target a specific race!" if the tax guy doing keyword searches for people named Juan, Jose, Jesus, Javier, Maria, or Consuelo?
Religious institutions are tax exempt. Also, where is my cut of the student loan money?
You're taking a trip with him next week and you don't remember his name? Stop worrying about email and see a doctor.
They leave the nutshell intact
I agree, +5 Funny is underrated.
Well, I guess you just stumbled into the Great Liberal Conspiracy that all scientists are required to join before they are granted their PhDs.
Dude you weren't supposed to tell anyone.
And a real estate web site would naturally be location.location.location
... the engineering department (though, typically this is not a good idea, since CPEs/EEs look down on CS).
Reminds me of a joke my EE professor told us (our CS department is in the engineering school): Why is the CS department part of the engineering school? Every school has to have a special-ed program
Well I was refused a replacement inside of 2 years. Apple refused to admit the problem with my Macbook Pro (of the same series with the same GPU) was affected by the problem. It cost me quite a bit in gas to the nearest Apple store, where they said it wasn't their problem. Hours on the phone, again denying it was the same problem. Finally I got a hold of some secret-ish Apple customer complaint line, where I explained to them that I worked at an electronics packaging lab, and had the equipment to verify the problem (the defect was some sort of packaging problem). This was not entirely true, though it was within my university's department. They finally relented when I said that if this defect was indeed covered by the recall I would be bringing the results of the test to every news outlet I could. Still took 3 weeks to get the damn machine back, and it runs hot as fucking anything.
Meh I heard she's never worked a day in her life either
Only Sith deal in absolutes...
I worked in a Best Buy computer department from 2004-2006. The pushy salesmanship is completely a product of management (and I'm sure it's pushed on them just as hard.) I remember being told that every customer had to be greeted within 15 feet of entering a department area, or 30 seconds after entering. We were also strongly rebuked for a simple 'Hey can I help you out with anything today?'. Management would hawk around, and if they saw you interact with a customer, and it end quickly they would quiz you: what was the customer's name, what were they looking for, why was the interaction so short. If you told them the customer specifically said they would like to be left alone, it wasn't acceptable; go back and try again. Management also encouraged us to flat out lie about products (I assume a lot of it was due to their lack of education about technical specifications, though it is certainly plausible due to malice.) As a part timer, if you didn't do exactly as you were told in the above areas, your hours would quickly get diminished (4-6 hours a week of the worst possible shifts). Threats of termination weren't uncommon either. All in all it was an interesting experience for a teenage job, though I vowed never to work retail again.
Jeez man you don't have to be such a Nazi about it.
Maybe try Automator? It's included with OS X.
Pretty sure Ron Paul wants oversight on banking, just the largest one (the Fed) is where we should start in his opinion.
As mentioned by someone above, Logo is being used in a lot of agent-based modeling research. One in particular came up time and time again in a seminar class I took on complex systems was NetLogo. Some poor economics PhD was working on modeling the relationship between groundwater depletion and policy approaches to curbing its overuse, and his simulations were taking weeks with something like 100 nodes. Too bad it isn't open source, might be fun to try to parallelize simulation runs.
I'd currently say I'm libertarian leaning, and that's exactly my stance on marriage. It's a religious ceremony, and the government has zero business in it at all. Straight couples and gay couples may both have a civil union, which takes care of all those tax and insurance issues but we could cut that crap too. What that federal court ban (I haven't read up on it) would do is stop the judiciary from legislating from the bench, overriding the decision made by the states. This is a crucial idea, as legislating from the judiciary has led to erosion of our Bill of Rights.
I tried when the Patriot Act was up for renewal. The form letter I received in return made it ostensibly clear that my representative did not read, nor care to address any of the points I made in my letter.
As much as he's been marred for his personal mishaps, Tiger Woods has set up Learning Centers in LA, DC, and a couple of other locations that focus on teaching STEM type curriculum, while providing some physical activity to break up any academic tedium (exercise is good for the mind). I have no accounts of the quality, however it is an option to be explored. www.tigerwoodsfoundation.org
Even so, those $7700 come from US tax payers. So really (and at the same time not really) they are getting them back.
No that's quadratic.
Interesting? Really? So you'd prefer to have less competition in the operating system market? Granted Microsoft has been the demon around here for as long as I can remember, but with someone new at the helm, maybe Microsoft can contribute useful products to the marketplace. They certainly have a large amount of talent, and I would love to see the company leverage it with a new mission. Someone who could successfully translate things that come out of Microsoft R&D to the marketplace would be great. I am not a big fan of Microsoft, haven't used Windows in the last 5 years really, though I do enjoy the Xbox (despite all the problems that have plagued them).
Cloud data should be treated the same way that the contents of a safety deposit box are treated.
Apple has been giving out iPod's with laptop purchases for years now. If anything this is MS just trying to counter balance that. Seems like a win-win for consumers. Maybe Apple will step up their offering and give iPad's with laptop purchases now.
Yeah the withholding of content which is already produced (or ported from older versions of the game) is ridiculous. In order to get all the courses in Tiger Woods 12, the overall cost becomes ~$110. Most of these DLC courses are ones that were included in previous years games, and you know that EA didn't rework them, maybe slapped on a new texture or something. Of the 34 courses available, 14 are included with your $60 purchase. Most of those were included in TW09. Same thing with one of the Call of Duty games where they released downloadable maps that were part of Call of Duty 1.