P.S. I'm sure that there would be safety measures to ensure that this does not happen. But it seems a lot unsafer than traditional transmissions and using a clutch.
Also, the demonstration is pretty cool. Watch the video if you get the chance!
How do you start this up from a dead stop? Somehow you have to exactly match the shaft rotation speeds to keep it in neutral before you start moving forward, otherwise there will be a lurch.
What worries me is that when the bottom shaft isn't moving, the output is at full power. This is essentially the natural state of the transmission, if the electric motor driving the bottom shaft were to fail, there would be no way to put the car into neutral. Reminds me of the runaway Toyotas... Perhaps all of these comparisons to the Pruis's planetary gear have a point.
Oh, and the point of this sort of reconciliation is that the writers would have had some of the characters discussing the absurdity of planting a virus in the alien computers, but have Goldblum respond explaining it.
Someone proposed a possible reconciliation of the absurdity of us penetrating their firewalls and implanting viruses in Independence Day: The aliens are telepathic, nothing between them is hidden, thus they never had the need for intelligence security amongst themselves. No one ever wrote a virus or anything malicious of that sort because it would have been pointless.
You know, when you look at each individual item in your list the idea of conquest becomes very unattractive. However, when you look at the bigger picture of human history you discover that each of these is precisely the reason for some human conflict. So when do things like this become the source of conflict? With enough time in a small enough space.
We've had wars over each of the items you've listed: water, food, rare minerals or materials, labor, and the earth itself. If the universe gets crowded enough, surely, some civilization will be in conflict with another. Whether its ours or another coming out way, there will be trouble. And the solution Hawking's proposes? Stay out of their way. Hide.
You don't think when Columbus came to America he was afraid for his life? That most of the actions of the consequent European conquerers came from fear? That the safest course of action was the conquest, and oppression of an entire continent of people? The burning of the Mayan Codecs. The dividing and conquering of the Aztec, and Incan empires. Religious conversions. Enslavement. Genocide. And, where applicable, the conscious spreading of disease among Native Americans.
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if the Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.
You either get payed $X and get to bill $Y certs to the business, or you get payed $X + $Y and get to handle paying for $Y certs yourself. If $X isn't high enough for you, don't work there.
This makes sense, if your only moral concern is money, and if your personal integrity is found in financial security.
A tautological answer. You haven't answered his question, nor given him real advice to take in order to get the answers he wants. He isn't referring to what companies can do, will do, or have done--he's asking what they should do. Referring to local laws (or consulting a lawyer about said laws) will tell you what is, but a bit more work is required to find perspective on what ought to be.
What constitutes work for a gardner? Is he working only when blades of grass are cut, only when he is moving, only when bushes are being trimmed?
Now, what constitutes work for a programmer? Is he working only when he is typing code, only when reading specifications, only when debugging?
It is hard to imagine that the gardner who works 20 hours a week but charges for 40 needs the extra 20 hours to plan out his next move. Yet, for the programer, the thought process is just as much work as the typing. And the vast majority of programs are the result of thinking done while resting or being distracted. Like a benefactor supporting an artist, the manager pays for the final product, which involves time beyond the simple manufacture of it.
Either you don't know anything about programming, or you're not fully explaining your job. What you describe, "spreadsheet programming, building unique relationships between cells, structuring tables to be presentable" is entirely possible to implement with MS Excel, VBScript, and some elbow-grease (that is, lots of if-then statements).
Open Enrollment. Escalante did not approve of programs for the gifted, academic tracking, or even qualifying examinations. If students wanted to take his classes, he let them.
His open-door policy bore fruit. Students who would never have been selected for honors classes or programs for the gifted chose to enroll in Escalante's math enrichment classes and succeeded there.
Unless the program Daley is advocating actually grows in cost per student, this would be a great idea. Larger class sizes, in Escalante's case, did not detriment his student's ability to work hard and learn.
But that's not our goal at all. You're looking at one tiny aspect, and without detail, of judging art.
There are plenty of criteria for judging art. You can examine, for example: skill and technique, fulfillment of author's intent, uniqueness, meaning, and beauty.
And indeed, beauty is subjective. But there are things to look for: shapes, pattern, and symmetry in art; alliteration, repetition, and metaphor in poetry; plot, fluidity, and symbolism in novels, and so on.
These things you look for when talking about beauty in a review are the things common to most works which are found beautiful by the vast majority of people. The point of a review on Amazon is not that you're reviewing things to tell people your opinion merely for the sake of sharing your opinion, but to give them some idea of how much they would appreciate it for themselves--to see whether they'd be willing to buy this work of art, movie, novel, etc.
Search engines to function on their own require large numbers of customers. However, a search engine built specifically for apple mobile products, such as the iPhone, iPad, etc. wouldn't require any customers outside the apple "cult". The point isn't to make money off of the search engine, it's to make the iPhone, iPad, etc. a wholly independent and completely functional platform, which Apple owns (and profits from) inside and out.
Not to mention it's impossible to rectify a mistake or miscarriage of justice. (Which is most of the reason why I'm against the death penalty, though that's somewhat beside the point)
I have to say, I've never understood this argument. I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life. Are you really going to tell me that the state can repay someone who spent 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit?
First Google, then GoDaddy. Now Dell? Or is all this just huff and puff?
I find it funny that the Prime Minister of India would announce this. The gap between rich and poor in India is so abysmal, I wonder if politicians have come under the spell of potential riches.
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P.S. I'm sure that there would be safety measures to ensure that this does not happen. But it seems a lot unsafer than traditional transmissions and using a clutch.
Also, the demonstration is pretty cool. Watch the video if you get the chance!
How do you start this up from a dead stop? Somehow you have to exactly match the shaft rotation speeds to keep it in neutral before you start moving forward, otherwise there will be a lurch.
What worries me is that when the bottom shaft isn't moving, the output is at full power. This is essentially the natural state of the transmission, if the electric motor driving the bottom shaft were to fail, there would be no way to put the car into neutral. Reminds me of the runaway Toyotas... Perhaps all of these comparisons to the Pruis's planetary gear have a point.
So I bought Torchlight to give it a whirl since it was only $10.
You didn't have to buy anything. As stated in the summary, Portal is free until May 24th.
(as an example, the principle of in loco parentis regarding school environments)
Is that spanish for "crazy parents"?
You were 14 when NES was out?
How ancient are you!
[Edit: Looks like the accepted solution on that thread simply increases the space allocated to System Restore! I could be right, maybe?]
Wait! You can edit slashdot posts after posting? I thought they were final! When did this happen?
[Edit: Wow. This is amazing. Looks like its working here on my end. How about you guys?]
Oh, and the point of this sort of reconciliation is that the writers would have had some of the characters discussing the absurdity of planting a virus in the alien computers, but have Goldblum respond explaining it.
Someone proposed a possible reconciliation of the absurdity of us penetrating their firewalls and implanting viruses in Independence Day: The aliens are telepathic, nothing between them is hidden, thus they never had the need for intelligence security amongst themselves. No one ever wrote a virus or anything malicious of that sort because it would have been pointless.
Don't panic.
You know, when you look at each individual item in your list the idea of conquest becomes very unattractive. However, when you look at the bigger picture of human history you discover that each of these is precisely the reason for some human conflict. So when do things like this become the source of conflict? With enough time in a small enough space.
We've had wars over each of the items you've listed: water, food, rare minerals or materials, labor, and the earth itself. If the universe gets crowded enough, surely, some civilization will be in conflict with another. Whether its ours or another coming out way, there will be trouble. And the solution Hawking's proposes? Stay out of their way. Hide.
Are these two options mutually exclusive?
You don't think when Columbus came to America he was afraid for his life? That most of the actions of the consequent European conquerers came from fear? That the safest course of action was the conquest, and oppression of an entire continent of people? The burning of the Mayan Codecs. The dividing and conquering of the Aztec, and Incan empires. Religious conversions. Enslavement. Genocide. And, where applicable, the conscious spreading of disease among Native Americans.
Reminds me of a quote from Life of Pi:
There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if the Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual." But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.
These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defence, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.
You either get payed $X and get to bill $Y certs to the business, or you get payed $X + $Y and get to handle paying for $Y certs yourself. If $X isn't high enough for you, don't work there.
This makes sense, if your only moral concern is money, and if your personal integrity is found in financial security.
A tautological answer. You haven't answered his question, nor given him real advice to take in order to get the answers he wants. He isn't referring to what companies can do, will do, or have done--he's asking what they should do. Referring to local laws (or consulting a lawyer about said laws) will tell you what is, but a bit more work is required to find perspective on what ought to be.
What constitutes work for a gardner? Is he working only when blades of grass are cut, only when he is moving, only when bushes are being trimmed?
Now, what constitutes work for a programmer? Is he working only when he is typing code, only when reading specifications, only when debugging?
It is hard to imagine that the gardner who works 20 hours a week but charges for 40 needs the extra 20 hours to plan out his next move. Yet, for the programer, the thought process is just as much work as the typing. And the vast majority of programs are the result of thinking done while resting or being distracted. Like a benefactor supporting an artist, the manager pays for the final product, which involves time beyond the simple manufacture of it.
Have you ever asked them not to?
Either you don't know anything about programming, or you're not fully explaining your job. What you describe, "spreadsheet programming, building unique relationships between cells, structuring tables to be presentable" is entirely possible to implement with MS Excel, VBScript, and some elbow-grease (that is, lots of if-then statements).
That's interesting. The GP mentions Jaime Escalante. Jaime's solution to your problem was to allow anyone who wanted to succeed to take his class.
From the reason.com article:
Open Enrollment. Escalante did not approve of programs for the gifted, academic tracking, or even qualifying examinations. If students wanted to take his classes, he let them.
His open-door policy bore fruit. Students who would never have been selected for honors classes or programs for the gifted chose to enroll in Escalante's math enrichment classes and succeeded there.
Unless the program Daley is advocating actually grows in cost per student, this would be a great idea. Larger class sizes, in Escalante's case, did not detriment his student's ability to work hard and learn.
Wyatt Earp? I think you meant to write, "Good and Bad and Ugly."
But that's not our goal at all. You're looking at one tiny aspect, and without detail, of judging art.
There are plenty of criteria for judging art. You can examine, for example: skill and technique, fulfillment of author's intent, uniqueness, meaning, and beauty.
And indeed, beauty is subjective. But there are things to look for: shapes, pattern, and symmetry in art; alliteration, repetition, and metaphor in poetry; plot, fluidity, and symbolism in novels, and so on.
These things you look for when talking about beauty in a review are the things common to most works which are found beautiful by the vast majority of people. The point of a review on Amazon is not that you're reviewing things to tell people your opinion merely for the sake of sharing your opinion, but to give them some idea of how much they would appreciate it for themselves--to see whether they'd be willing to buy this work of art, movie, novel, etc.
The problem with netbooks is that they suck... unless you stopped growing in kindergarten.
Even then they suck. They're slow, and have horrible battery life.
And that's where the iPad comes in.
Search engines to function on their own require large numbers of customers. However, a search engine built specifically for apple mobile products, such as the iPhone, iPad, etc. wouldn't require any customers outside the apple "cult". The point isn't to make money off of the search engine, it's to make the iPhone, iPad, etc. a wholly independent and completely functional platform, which Apple owns (and profits from) inside and out.
Yes, but how can pedophilia, as an orientation, not end in child abuse?
Are you saying that there are celibate pedophiles?
Not to mention it's impossible to rectify a mistake or miscarriage of justice. (Which is most of the reason why I'm against the death penalty, though that's somewhat beside the point)
I have to say, I've never understood this argument. I would regard the loss of my freedom as being as bad as the loss of my life. Are you really going to tell me that the state can repay someone who spent 30 years behind bars for a crime they didn't commit?
I don't get it. Aren't you two agreeing?
First Google, then GoDaddy. Now Dell? Or is all this just huff and puff?
I find it funny that the Prime Minister of India would announce this. The gap between rich and poor in India is so abysmal, I wonder if politicians have come under the spell of potential riches.