If safety require 4 pumps to run the reactor, why don't they just install 5 pumps then? Then they can keep the reactor running if one dies.
Because then you've just redefined safety as requiring 5 pumps.
Your argument makes sense to you; and it is perfectly logical, but all the public will see is that "someone said 5 pumps were required" and "only 4 are currently working".
"Clearly if there are 5, then 5 are required for safety, and 4 is not enough." -- better shut it down.
There is no number of pumps you could install to overcome this silliness.
I bought a new 4port Dlink DIR-835 router the other day, and it doesn't have link lights for the 4 lan ports. Its got a power led, and an 'internet' led. Overall, I'm happy with the router, but I think network gear should have link lights. I find them indispensible for troubleshooting and determining which connections are active.
So I contacted support, and wrote:
Description Of Issue: There are no link lights for the LAN ethernet connections. What idiot thought that was a good idea? Please forward this as feedback to product development.
Now I fully admit I could have phrased it better; but really I just hoped my comment would add to some aggregate of customer feedback that customers want link led's on network gear.
And I didn't want to put time in to write a lengthy and thoughtful request as I had a feeling it was just going to get deleted at their end anyway since it wasn't actually a request for support.
The reply I got back... well like I said, I really didn't expect anything; maybe at most a "thank you for contacting Dlink"... but here's the copy paste:
Based on the description in the email it seems there are no link lights on the DIR-835. We would advise you to try changing the Ethernet cable, also try connecting the switch to different power socket. In case of still issue persists, it would be best if you speak with a live technician to resolve the issue. If they approve the product for RMA...
The question you are ignoring is, is the death penalty a deterrent against murder? If it's not a deterrent, then you've made your point. If it is a deterrent, then by refusing to execute, how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
The real question is whether flaying and vivisection are a deterrent against murder. If it is a deterrent then by refusing to flay and vivisect how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
We're talking about teaching in a poor country....You are not using your imagination....
I don't need to use my imagination. He set a budget:
"I am aiming to build a device that cost below USD 50. I also considered OLPC but it is double my anticipated budget."
Based on that he can buy some OLPCs, and then fill the rest of the classroom with disconnected keyboards. At pretty close to a 1:1 ratio. So every pair of kids will have an olpc and keyboard.
I finally found it in an icon hidden to the right of the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and it took at least twenty clicks to disable the awful, terrible clusterfuck of a "feature".
That's because tap-to-click (which I truly adore, along with two-finger-tap to right-click) is not a feature of windows but rather a feature of your trackpad, and so the controls for it are in the trackpad drivers/application support not in windows proper.
How well the controls are integrated into windows is up to the 3rd party; most good ones at least tie in enough that you can launch their driver applet from the logical control point -- nvidia and amd both let you get to their driver applets via the display control panel. Most sound cards do as well. But anything else is a crap shoot.
I don't disagree with you that there is no way an average user could know this. And I do agree its a PITA.
But Mac's really aren't any better with 3rd party hardware. Plug in a razer gaming mouse in a mac, and all the advanced button configuration programming has to be done via the razer application suite, not via the mouse control panel.
But here's the thing. That's apparently not what enough voters want to do. They apparently want a lot of free stuff paid for by rich people.
Not quite. They just want a lot of "free stuff". Same as anybody else.
Including the "rich people" who are also demanding "free stuff"... whether its protections on their monopolies, deregulation so they can be exploitive, a public bailout to cover their bad banking decisions, or a foreign war so they can sell ammunition to both sides to shoot each other with, loan money to both sides to fund it, and maybe even get lucrative reconstruction contracts to rebuild... everyone wants "free stuff from the government".
The fundamental problem with the government is that they keep telling people they can actually have free stuff to get re-elected.
I totally like your suggestion! It seems like a low tech, high efficiency solution. One can ALWAYS learn the layout on paper and then practice on an actual keyboard.
Why paper? Why not just use disconnected keyboards? They're dirt cheap new, and practically free used; and since they are disconnected they don't even have to work; electricity is a non-issue, etc.
Then rotate the kids onto live terminals for feedback and testing. gradually add more live terminals as budget allows.
True touch typing is done with pure tactile feedback; paper doesn't give them that. But a disconnected keyboard does.
And we already do that. What you're claiming is that we can tax more. What is that money going to be used for?
Balance the budget, then pay down the debt.
So don't treat them as a giant piggy bank which you can break open any time you feel like it.
You mean, like how the middle class is treated?
In fact, the middle class is being "overharvested" right now, which is why they are in decline; and it is in large part thanks to the actions of the upper class, while the upper class is largely spared from any pain or sacrifice.
As I see it, the case for increased taxation is pretty spurious and poorly thought out
So is out of control spending, but since we have already done that increased taxation is required to pay for it. The wealthy can readily afford helping the country that got them rich in the first place more than they are.
I see no attempt to be responsible with taxes that are already collected. Nor an effort to stay within any sort of budget. So what's going to happen when more taxes are collected? Looks to me like it will be squandered. I'm a big fan of starving the beast in that situation.
I guess the middle class should start paying the same low tax rates as the wealthy. Since the money is being sqaundered anyway. Tax breaks for everyone!
I mean, a guy with a camera crew shows up and hands you an object and says it is "X" and asks for thoughts. Are you going to disbelieve it's what they say it is??
Sure I'll probably believe its what they say it is, but that's not the really the point. Lets assume I beleive its an iphone 5:
On the one hand If I already have a 4S in my own pocket, then I'm probably not going to gush about how this "5" is lighter than the one in my pocket. Nor gush about how much faster it is. Nor gush about how much thinner it is etc. Because it isn't.
On the other hand if they hand me a 4S calling it a 5 and I am not particularly familiar with a 4S, then I might cheerfully say any number of complimentary things about it. But I wouldn't use relative adjectives like "lighter" or "faster" or "thinner"... I would just remark that its very "light" or "fast" or "thin".
But in what universe would I say its faster, lighter, and thinner than a 4S unless I already had a 4S to form some sort of basis for making those comparisons... and if I already had a 4S why on earth would I think an identical object is faster, lighter, and thinner?
You give them something that they assume is faster, lighter, and thinner than the 4S they currently have, and they'll agree that it is despite their own senses not beign able to tell them apart.
The emperor has no clothes, but we assume he can't possibly be naked and therefore compliment his new suit our own eyes tell us doesn't exist.
But that doesn't mean that we can get along without them.
We can however safely tax them without without worrying the country will collapse, because even if a few do turn out to whither up or explode paying the pre-Bush tax cut tax rates they will be easily replaced.
There'd be a new "upper class" inside of five years populated by newly wealthy "facilitators".
So... you are saying that if we simply removed the entire lot of them, they'd all be replaced within a couple years from the ranks of the middle class.
I agree.
But it does suggest that they aren't particularly unique or special and that we can get along without them.
My point all along wasn't that there isn't a place for people to facilitate the economy, my point was that the niche is easily filled. The people serving that function now aren't particularly irreplaceable. Indeed you yourself just argued for how quickly they'd be replaced. Hardly the most valuable role in society...
Wipe out our top 1% of scientists and we'll be set back a generation. Wipe out our top 1% 'faciliators' and we'll be humming along at full speed within a year or two.
And the facilitator is the most valuable role in society. Without them, there's no job and no product to buy.
Yes, because there is simply no way a producer and a consumer would ever manage to connect without some rich ass facilitating it?
Do you really believe that? Because even the homeless guy on the street, with mental problems and a 5th grade education selling shit he finds in dumpsters from a blanket on the sidewalk has figured it out.
Remove the upper class in one well targeted plague and the middle class would do just fine.
Who do you think employs those middle class people?
The other middle class customers that buy what the middle class people produce.
Realistically, the boss is little more than a facilitator. If there is no middle class to sell to, it doesn't matter how fucking rich your boss is. He's not going to pay you if there isn't any revenue coming in.
Q: Who really employs the middle class? A: The middle class.
The mustache might me. Maybe. But no, its a derivative work.
Would you say Andy Warhol was infringing upon Campbell's IP?
Yes. Absolutely. Without question. It was clearly a transformative but derivative work.
But that's not really the important question. The important question is whether it was fair use. The mustachioed mona lisa was parody and defendable as fair use.
The Warhol on the other hand... not so much... I expect Campbell's could have asserted trademark and copyright claims against warhol and won.
I installed Windows 8 yesterday on a test system; and the Internet Explorer setup made it very clear that by proceeding with the default settings that DNT would be turned on.
If we live in a world where clicking "I agree" on a scrollable wall of text that you can't otherwise skip amounts to accepting a contract then deciding to go with the default settings which has all of around 7 bullet points saying what it does... incluidng turning DNT on, then that absolutely counts as the user making an explicit choice to use DNT. The GP post is either uninformed about how IE 10 sets up or is pretty butt hurt that IE 10 makes DNT the path of "least resistance".
Every intelligent Engineer I know gets the best car for his money.... It's the marketing guys or the guys who spend all their money on the nice car
The implicit assumption is that the cars are more than they can really afford, and that intelligent people look for value over flash.
This is all true, engineering=smart and marketing=stupid stereotypes aside.
Only an idiots spend "all their money on a nice car", but what if one can buy nice car without using "all their money"? I own my 911 outright. Its marginally more expensive to insure; and markedly more expensive to operate. But I enjoy driving it far more than our Jetta, and it not a burden on us financially. So why not?
I drive a 911 myself; and I'll back the claim up. Some people see the cars and it says motivation and success to them, and that's enough to get them interested in at least starting the conversation.
I have friend in real estate who bought a Mercedes; and he thinks it directly impacted on his success. Clients see the car, assume he's successful... same idea.
Its just the old adage "dress for the job you want to have" with a new twist.
Of course, some people assume "spoiled trust fund baby" -- heh I wish. I just really like sports cars, and the Porsche is at least not completely impractical as a daily driver.
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If safety require 4 pumps to run the reactor, why don't they just install 5 pumps then? Then they can keep the reactor running if one dies.
Because then you've just redefined safety as requiring 5 pumps.
Your argument makes sense to you; and it is perfectly logical, but all the public will see is that "someone said 5 pumps were required" and "only 4 are currently working".
"Clearly if there are 5, then 5 are required for safety, and 4 is not enough." -- better shut it down.
There is no number of pumps you could install to overcome this silliness.
Meh, that's -nothing-
I bought a new 4port Dlink DIR-835 router the other day, and it doesn't have link lights for the 4 lan ports. Its got a power led, and an 'internet' led. Overall, I'm happy with the router, but I think network gear should have link lights. I find them indispensible for troubleshooting and determining which connections are active.
So I contacted support, and wrote:
Description Of Issue: There are no link lights for the LAN ethernet connections. What idiot thought that was a good idea? Please forward this as feedback to product development.
Now I fully admit I could have phrased it better; but really I just hoped my comment would add to some aggregate of customer feedback that customers want link led's on network gear.
And I didn't want to put time in to write a lengthy and thoughtful request as I had a feeling it was just going to get deleted at their end anyway since it wasn't actually a request for support.
The reply I got back... well like I said, I really didn't expect anything; maybe at most a "thank you for contacting Dlink"... but here's the copy paste:
Based on the description in the email it seems there are no link lights on the DIR-835. We would advise you to try changing the Ethernet cable, also try connecting the switch to different power socket. In case of still issue persists, it would be best if you speak with a live technician to resolve the issue. If they approve the product for RMA...
-facepalm-
Yeah, too bad about the people who lost their licenses because of false matches
Yes that would be pretty annoying. Now has it ever actually happened?
The question you are ignoring is, is the death penalty a deterrent against murder? If it's not a deterrent, then you've made your point. If it is a deterrent, then by refusing to execute, how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
The real question is whether flaying and vivisection are a deterrent against murder. If it is a deterrent then by refusing to flay and vivisect how many random innocent people have you sentenced to a grisly brutal death?
Posted this elsewhere deep in a thread... wanted to make sure you saw it:
I suggest:
50% of your students get OLPC @ 100$; 50% get a 5$ disconnected keyboard. They rotate between exercises.
Or 1/3rd get OLPC and 2/3rds with disconnected keyboards, and rotate. Every third exercise they're on the real keyboard.
We're talking about teaching in a poor country....You are not using your imagination....
I don't need to use my imagination. He set a budget:
"I am aiming to build a device that cost below USD 50. I also considered OLPC but it is double my anticipated budget."
Based on that he can buy some OLPCs, and then fill the rest of the classroom with disconnected keyboards. At pretty close to a 1:1 ratio. So every pair of kids will have an olpc and keyboard.
I finally found it in an icon hidden to the right of the status bar at the bottom of the screen, and it took at least twenty clicks to disable the awful, terrible clusterfuck of a "feature".
That's because tap-to-click (which I truly adore, along with two-finger-tap to right-click) is not a feature of windows but rather a feature of your trackpad, and so the controls for it are in the trackpad drivers/application support not in windows proper.
How well the controls are integrated into windows is up to the 3rd party; most good ones at least tie in enough that you can launch their driver applet from the logical control point -- nvidia and amd both let you get to their driver applets via the display control panel. Most sound cards do as well. But anything else is a crap shoot.
I don't disagree with you that there is no way an average user could know this. And I do agree its a PITA.
But Mac's really aren't any better with 3rd party hardware. Plug in a razer gaming mouse in a mac, and all the advanced button configuration programming has to be done via the razer application suite, not via the mouse control panel.
Remember that the govt said it was being used for a 'new' internal network.
Calling an IT project "new", that predates RFC1918 is stretching "new" well past the breaking point.
But here's the thing. That's apparently not what enough voters want to do. They apparently want a lot of free stuff paid for by rich people.
Not quite. They just want a lot of "free stuff". Same as anybody else.
Including the "rich people" who are also demanding "free stuff"... whether its protections on their monopolies, deregulation so they can be exploitive, a public bailout to cover their bad banking decisions, or a foreign war so they can sell ammunition to both sides to shoot each other with, loan money to both sides to fund it, and maybe even get lucrative reconstruction contracts to rebuild... everyone wants "free stuff from the government".
The fundamental problem with the government is that they keep telling people they can actually have free stuff to get re-elected.
I totally like your suggestion! It seems like a low tech, high efficiency solution. One can ALWAYS learn the layout on paper and then practice on an actual keyboard.
Why paper? Why not just use disconnected keyboards? They're dirt cheap new, and practically free used; and since they are disconnected they don't even have to work; electricity is a non-issue, etc.
Then rotate the kids onto live terminals for feedback and testing. gradually add more live terminals as budget allows.
True touch typing is done with pure tactile feedback; paper doesn't give them that. But a disconnected keyboard does.
And we already do that. What you're claiming is that we can tax more. What is that money going to be used for?
Balance the budget, then pay down the debt.
So don't treat them as a giant piggy bank which you can break open any time you feel like it.
You mean, like how the middle class is treated?
In fact, the middle class is being "overharvested" right now, which is why they are in decline; and it is in large part thanks to the actions of the upper class, while the upper class is largely spared from any pain or sacrifice.
As I see it, the case for increased taxation is pretty spurious and poorly thought out
So is out of control spending, but since we have already done that increased taxation is required to pay for it. The wealthy can readily afford helping the country that got them rich in the first place more than they are.
I see no attempt to be responsible with taxes that are already collected. Nor an effort to stay within any sort of budget. So what's going to happen when more taxes are collected? Looks to me like it will be squandered. I'm a big fan of starving the beast in that situation.
I guess the middle class should start paying the same low tax rates as the wealthy. Since the money is being sqaundered anyway. Tax breaks for everyone!
I mean, a guy with a camera crew shows up and hands you an object and says it is "X" and asks for thoughts. Are you going to disbelieve it's what they say it is??
Sure I'll probably believe its what they say it is, but that's not the really the point. Lets assume I beleive its an iphone 5:
On the one hand If I already have a 4S in my own pocket, then I'm probably not going to gush about how this "5" is lighter than the one in my pocket. Nor gush about how much faster it is. Nor gush about how much thinner it is etc. Because it isn't.
On the other hand if they hand me a 4S calling it a 5 and I am not particularly familiar with a 4S, then I might cheerfully say any number of complimentary things about it. But I wouldn't use relative adjectives like "lighter" or "faster" or "thinner" ... I would just remark that its very "light" or "fast" or "thin".
But in what universe would I say its faster, lighter, and thinner than a 4S unless I already had a 4S to form some sort of basis for making those comparisons... and if I already had a 4S why on earth would I think an identical object is faster, lighter, and thinner?
You give them something that they assume is faster, lighter, and thinner than the 4S they currently have, and they'll agree that it is despite their own senses not beign able to tell them apart.
The emperor has no clothes, but we assume he can't possibly be naked and therefore compliment his new suit our own eyes tell us doesn't exist.
But that doesn't mean that we can get along without them.
We can however safely tax them without without worrying the country will collapse, because even if a few do turn out to whither up or explode paying the pre-Bush tax cut tax rates they will be easily replaced.
I think maybe yahoo just doesn't want to run a BES anymore. :p
There'd be a new "upper class" inside of five years populated by newly wealthy "facilitators".
So... you are saying that if we simply removed the entire lot of them, they'd all be replaced within a couple years from the ranks of the middle class.
I agree.
But it does suggest that they aren't particularly unique or special and that we can get along without them.
My point all along wasn't that there isn't a place for people to facilitate the economy, my point was that the niche is easily filled. The people serving that function now aren't particularly irreplaceable. Indeed you yourself just argued for how quickly they'd be replaced. Hardly the most valuable role in society...
Wipe out our top 1% of scientists and we'll be set back a generation. Wipe out our top 1% 'faciliators' and we'll be humming along at full speed within a year or two.
And the facilitator is the most valuable role in society. Without them, there's no job and no product to buy.
Yes, because there is simply no way a producer and a consumer would ever manage to connect without some rich ass facilitating it?
Do you really believe that? Because even the homeless guy on the street, with mental problems and a 5th grade education selling shit he finds in dumpsters from a blanket on the sidewalk has figured it out.
Remove the upper class in one well targeted plague and the middle class would do just fine.
Who do you think employs those middle class people?
The other middle class customers that buy what the middle class people produce.
Realistically, the boss is little more than a facilitator. If there is no middle class to sell to, it doesn't matter how fucking rich your boss is. He's not going to pay you if there isn't any revenue coming in.
Q: Who really employs the middle class?
A: The middle class.
Never forget that.
You are describing -your- alarm clock.
There are any number of alarm clocks that do in fact just let you "whack" them anywhere.
Hell, there's even ones designed to be thrown...
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20080429/throw-alarm-clock/
Is it not an original work of art?
The mustache might me. Maybe. But no, its a derivative work.
Would you say Andy Warhol was infringing upon Campbell's IP?
Yes. Absolutely. Without question. It was clearly a transformative but derivative work.
But that's not really the important question. The important question is whether it was fair use. The mustachioed mona lisa was parody and defendable as fair use.
The Warhol on the other hand... not so much... I expect Campbell's could have asserted trademark and copyright claims against warhol and won.
But it sounds like they went the other way:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/4843441474_f175f96718_b.jpg
ie... they likely had rights, but chose not to assert them here. It was effectively an authorized work at that point.
How close were Zynga's copies
Pretty close to adding a mustache to the mona lisa and calling it an original work of art.
I installed Windows 8 yesterday on a test system; and the Internet Explorer setup made it very clear that by proceeding with the default settings that DNT would be turned on.
If we live in a world where clicking "I agree" on a scrollable wall of text that you can't otherwise skip amounts to accepting a contract then deciding to go with the default settings which has all of around 7 bullet points saying what it does ... incluidng turning DNT on, then that absolutely counts as the user making an explicit choice to use DNT. The GP post is either uninformed about how IE 10 sets up or is pretty butt hurt that IE 10 makes DNT the path of "least resistance".
Reduced friction and reduced turbulence might enable higher seek times.
By higher I meant better, which in the case of seek times is of course lower.
seek time is unchanged
Reduced friction and reduced turbulence might enable higher seek times.
Every intelligent Engineer I know gets the best car for his money. ... It's the marketing guys or the guys who spend all their money on the nice car
The implicit assumption is that the cars are more than they can really afford, and that intelligent people look for value over flash.
This is all true, engineering=smart and marketing=stupid stereotypes aside.
Only an idiots spend "all their money on a nice car", but what if one can buy nice car without using "all their money"? I own my 911 outright. Its marginally more expensive to insure; and markedly more expensive to operate. But I enjoy driving it far more than our Jetta, and it not a burden on us financially. So why not?
I drive a 911 myself; and I'll back the claim up. Some people see the cars and it says motivation and success to them, and that's enough to get them interested in at least starting the conversation.
I have friend in real estate who bought a Mercedes; and he thinks it directly impacted on his success. Clients see the car, assume he's successful... same idea.
Its just the old adage "dress for the job you want to have" with a new twist.
Of course, some people assume "spoiled trust fund baby" -- heh I wish. I just really like sports cars, and the Porsche is at least not completely impractical as a daily driver.