That has never been the definition of estimate. If you had actual data there's absolutely no reason why one would want to estimate. Rounding has it's own term, rounding or sometimes precision.
Estimates are often times just Fermi problems with a tad bit more information coming in.
That is patently untrue. I know that people like to say that sort of thing, but whether you care to admit it or not, regulated industry is a lot easier to get into than a system where the big guys call all of the shots.
Additionally it depends what sort of business you're talking about, a great deal of businesses are not like you're describing.
But then again, why question what the elites of industry want, I mean it's not like they're acting solely for themselves.
It'll turn out far better than that supply side economics crap that's led to the situation where wages are growing substantially slower than productivity.
This basically ends the subsidy on job creation off shore. Businesses will still be able to claim the deductions but they will have to book a profit first. Seems like a reasonable thing to me. On top of that there's an exemption for research, meaning that they could still deduct that. Forgive me for not calling the waaaambulance.
And for your information, they're not adding penalties they're putting the tax code back the way it was supposed to work. A company ought to be required to book profits before claiming deductions on investments made to earn those profits. I don't get to do that on my personal income tax, hence my skepticism as to why a corporation should be allowed to.
I know you're being funny, but goats are a lot more environmentally friendly than the other alternatives. We use them in the pacific NW to clear out blackberry patches and other weeds which would otherwise take a lot of effort or chemicals to keep clear.
And if it's done properly you get meat and milk out of the deal.
It's a matter of regulation. In the US we've been unwilling to regulate clearly deceptive or fraudulent advertising until it gets really out of hand. Basically assuming that the consumer will figure it out, but in many cases they haven't figured it out at all and so fraud continues.
This is a very similar problem to corruption, as long as the people are willing to tolerate it companies like MS will advertise in a way which is misleading but technically true.
We've been way to tolerant of fine print on TV or in magazines that's small enough that many or even all people are unable to actually read it.
The newspaper industry has been in disarray ever since the Weekly World News went under. Why on earth can't you find that kind of quality journalism anywhere other than Fox?
That depends upon your definition. Drivers and commercial support are probably what you're getting at, but what the GP was referring to was that Linux is still seen as geeky to many people. Which isn't really fair at all, sure there are some distros that are, but if you go mainstream like XUbuntu those distros are probably easier to use for the common man than Windows is. Certainly with less learning between releases.
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Production ready really depends upon what you're planning to do with it. It's definitely not ready for environments where the server needs to be up for long periods of time or probably dealing with large numbers of clients. But it does seem to be largely ready for smaller environments where you can turn off the computer at the end of the day and are only supporting a couple of computers.
I'm not aware with any data problems and I've been personally using it as a place to store my backups due to the self healing properties, but it's not a large environment and the important things are being backed up separately.
It's also worth noting that the warning message is mainly a matter of maintainer time, not the code itself, the message will probably remain until the maintainer has the resources to track down all bug reports of merit.
Yes, but unless you're maintaining the code you really shouldn't be thinking about a current project that way. There are some projects where it's legitimate to still be coding on it after years, but if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
A project conceived and executed in that fashion is going to be a serious pain in the ass to maintain later on, assuming that it does get finished. And further assuming that anybody still cares about it at that point. There's something to be said for somewhat less than perfect featurewise but finished.
And can you put forth a reliable way of telling the difference between bad teaching, lazy/incompetent students and poor support? I ask because that's the crux of the matter, nobody's managed to put together an efficient way of monitoring performance in an accurate manner, hence we're sort of stuck in a quagmire.
As long as we're cheaping out on the education and allowing politicians to screw around in curricula, there's going to be problems. (And yes, I did mean the plural there contrary to popular belief there is more than just one here;) )
NCLB wasn't inherently wrong, requiring standards is good, but when you add on an additional unfunded mandate to an already underfunding set of programs there's going to be trouble.
Because they're largely an unregulated monopoly. The reason why they require you to pay for the basic tier is so that they can make more money. There may also be a bit of money from cable TV being used to subsidize the cable internet, but it's mostly a matter of profit.
The DSL here is a bit the same way, except that you get a $5 a month discount for having a phone line on top of the internet connection. That's a savings of ~$8.50 a month over having both. I'm guessing it has something to do with the way that they bill for the maintenance of the telephone lines.
I'm surprised that it's taken this long for it to happen.
I don't personally mind paying for content provided that the price is reasonable and I'm getting what I want. But the problem is that there's been a shift towards ad support for things that I've presumably paid for. I can understand and appreciate why sites like hulu have advertisements on their videos, but what I don't get is why software I pay for wants to install a yahoo bar or similar. Or why the check box is automatically checked in many cases for that.
The a la carte option you're suggesting is definitely something that has potential, especially if it allows me to avoid cable altogether. Even at $110 MLB's streaming service is a pretty good buy if that's the main or only reason why one has cable. Sure it's expensive in some respects, but for a serious fan I'm sure that it's worth the cost. And I'm sure there's a similar model that would work for other types of programming.
Right, because Youtube is that much better. Sure there's a lot of stuff, but if you want anything of value, that's few and far between. And good luck if you want any semblance of consistency. It's not that the major networks don't produce crap it's that you're not really meant to watch absolutely everything. As much as I hate most programming there are still shows here and there that are worth watching.
Despite you're animosity towards the networks, there's a huge number of programs that wouldn't be available at all right now if not for sites like Hulu.
Last mile isn't a myth. I have exactly 1 cable company available and 1 phone company available. These two companies own the cabling up to my house. And the service has been getting worse with each successive buy out, I think Viacom was the last company here to do a decent job of it.
Perhaps you live in a part of the country where that isn't the case, but in many parts of the country it is a very serious problem.
Which is why the GP suggests that a third party like say a utility own and maintain that portion of service. As it is comcrap doesn't bother to maintain its infrastructure and Qwest gets money for pretty much any internet service not through comcrap or over the air.
This isn't a free market problem, this is really a problem with the free market. DSL service around here is much more reliable because the phone company provides the service and is regulated to a much higher degree.
As opposed to the system we have. You can knock populism all you want, but under the system that's been in place in the US the benefits of productivity have almost entirely gone to the rich elite while those at the bottom suffer from lack of opportunity.
You can say what you will about populism, but it's less dangerous than the alternatives.
I think it's interesting how it's ok to be really angry when workers want to organize or get some benefit out of increased work, but when the elite's want more it's entirely different.
Face it, supply side economics is at this point pining for the fjords.
Um, yes they do. They don't in the UK, but whenever I watch BBC America I'm pretty sure that I'm seeing commercials at various points. Although it's been a while since I watched anything on it.
How else are they going to pay for the content? In the UK there's that infamous tax, but outside of the UK there isn't a similar tax so something has to give.
I don't agree, having watched jeopardy in the past, I can definitely say that if you're just down to the "who" or "what" you're doing quite well on some of those categories, particularly towards the end of the show.
A computer is going to have a hard time getting to that point in the process. It's trivial to do, just know whether the subject is a person or not a person. Admittedly that would throw off IBM's 40s era algorithms when applied to Jewish people, but I doubt they're using anything other than the most recent code.
Actually if the machine were able to do that via Google in a reliable way that would be something pretty substantial. I don't think that AI is good enough at that for Jeopardy at this time.
I must be missing something, are you too good for zip ties and labels? Sure it's kind of time consuming, but I doubt it's that much more time consuming than making custom cables with the added bonus of having a bit of flexibility in the length.
You just have to be religious about it when you're doing it the first time and use some sort of a code for the cables which is meaningful and well documented. It's really not that much extra work you just label the cable right after you test the connectors.
The only way that you end up with true rat's nest status is if you allow the cables to commingle without any sort of cable management system.
But then again this sort of reminds me of what people say about comments in code.
What I find to be shocking is that people are making all kinds of unsubstantiated claims about what these medications can do for those that don't have a problem. The reality is that unless you've got a deficit in attention that you're unlikely to see much improvement in focus. And definitely no improvement in intellect.
People make all kinds of claims about these sorts of medications, but the effect isn't going to beat just eating a healthy diet, getting exercise and going to bed for a reasonable amount of time. These medications at best give a person back what they've already lost, they are unlikely affect neuroplasticity.
What they're complaining about is trademark dilution. They might very well be fine with virtual actual Tasers as that could possibly serve as advertising.
But in this case I really don't see how Taser is wrong, somebody is using their trademark to refer to something that isn't a Taser and apparently doesn't even function in the SL the way that a Taser would in real life.
Seriously... you don't understand the law; as much as it sucks to you, the person who rents a DVD from Netflix or RedBox ALSO legally has the right to make an archive copy, as they did, in fact, PAY for the right to view said performance.
Citation necessary. I don't believe that to be the case, and I don't believe that line of reasoning would hold up in court. Furthermore that would run counter to the point of copyright law in the first place. That's no different than ripping a friend's DVD.
What you're paying is compensation to the rental outlet for the period of time when they don't get to use the copy they've paid for; as well as the cost of doing business.
Think of it this way, have you ever heard of a rental outlet that provided a refund if you took the disc home and chose not to watch it? I'd be interested to learn how long a business like that would last.
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That has never been the definition of estimate. If you had actual data there's absolutely no reason why one would want to estimate. Rounding has it's own term, rounding or sometimes precision.
Estimates are often times just Fermi problems with a tad bit more information coming in.
That is patently untrue. I know that people like to say that sort of thing, but whether you care to admit it or not, regulated industry is a lot easier to get into than a system where the big guys call all of the shots.
Additionally it depends what sort of business you're talking about, a great deal of businesses are not like you're describing.
But then again, why question what the elites of industry want, I mean it's not like they're acting solely for themselves.
It'll turn out far better than that supply side economics crap that's led to the situation where wages are growing substantially slower than productivity.
This basically ends the subsidy on job creation off shore. Businesses will still be able to claim the deductions but they will have to book a profit first. Seems like a reasonable thing to me. On top of that there's an exemption for research, meaning that they could still deduct that. Forgive me for not calling the waaaambulance.
And for your information, they're not adding penalties they're putting the tax code back the way it was supposed to work. A company ought to be required to book profits before claiming deductions on investments made to earn those profits. I don't get to do that on my personal income tax, hence my skepticism as to why a corporation should be allowed to.
I know you're being funny, but goats are a lot more environmentally friendly than the other alternatives. We use them in the pacific NW to clear out blackberry patches and other weeds which would otherwise take a lot of effort or chemicals to keep clear.
And if it's done properly you get meat and milk out of the deal.
It's a matter of regulation. In the US we've been unwilling to regulate clearly deceptive or fraudulent advertising until it gets really out of hand. Basically assuming that the consumer will figure it out, but in many cases they haven't figured it out at all and so fraud continues.
This is a very similar problem to corruption, as long as the people are willing to tolerate it companies like MS will advertise in a way which is misleading but technically true.
We've been way to tolerant of fine print on TV or in magazines that's small enough that many or even all people are unable to actually read it.
The newspaper industry has been in disarray ever since the Weekly World News went under. Why on earth can't you find that kind of quality journalism anywhere other than Fox?
That depends upon your definition. Drivers and commercial support are probably what you're getting at, but what the GP was referring to was that Linux is still seen as geeky to many people. Which isn't really fair at all, sure there are some distros that are, but if you go mainstream like XUbuntu those distros are probably easier to use for the common man than Windows is. Certainly with less learning between releases.
Production ready really depends upon what you're planning to do with it. It's definitely not ready for environments where the server needs to be up for long periods of time or probably dealing with large numbers of clients. But it does seem to be largely ready for smaller environments where you can turn off the computer at the end of the day and are only supporting a couple of computers.
I'm not aware with any data problems and I've been personally using it as a place to store my backups due to the self healing properties, but it's not a large environment and the important things are being backed up separately.
It's also worth noting that the warning message is mainly a matter of maintainer time, not the code itself, the message will probably remain until the maintainer has the resources to track down all bug reports of merit.
Yes, but unless you're maintaining the code you really shouldn't be thinking about a current project that way. There are some projects where it's legitimate to still be coding on it after years, but if you have to rewrite the project from scratch more than once, you've botched something and really ought to sit down and plan it out.
A project conceived and executed in that fashion is going to be a serious pain in the ass to maintain later on, assuming that it does get finished. And further assuming that anybody still cares about it at that point. There's something to be said for somewhat less than perfect featurewise but finished.
And can you put forth a reliable way of telling the difference between bad teaching, lazy/incompetent students and poor support? I ask because that's the crux of the matter, nobody's managed to put together an efficient way of monitoring performance in an accurate manner, hence we're sort of stuck in a quagmire.
As long as we're cheaping out on the education and allowing politicians to screw around in curricula, there's going to be problems. (And yes, I did mean the plural there contrary to popular belief there is more than just one here ;) )
NCLB wasn't inherently wrong, requiring standards is good, but when you add on an additional unfunded mandate to an already underfunding set of programs there's going to be trouble.
Because they're largely an unregulated monopoly. The reason why they require you to pay for the basic tier is so that they can make more money. There may also be a bit of money from cable TV being used to subsidize the cable internet, but it's mostly a matter of profit.
The DSL here is a bit the same way, except that you get a $5 a month discount for having a phone line on top of the internet connection. That's a savings of ~$8.50 a month over having both. I'm guessing it has something to do with the way that they bill for the maintenance of the telephone lines.
I'm surprised that it's taken this long for it to happen.
I don't personally mind paying for content provided that the price is reasonable and I'm getting what I want. But the problem is that there's been a shift towards ad support for things that I've presumably paid for. I can understand and appreciate why sites like hulu have advertisements on their videos, but what I don't get is why software I pay for wants to install a yahoo bar or similar. Or why the check box is automatically checked in many cases for that.
The a la carte option you're suggesting is definitely something that has potential, especially if it allows me to avoid cable altogether. Even at $110 MLB's streaming service is a pretty good buy if that's the main or only reason why one has cable. Sure it's expensive in some respects, but for a serious fan I'm sure that it's worth the cost. And I'm sure there's a similar model that would work for other types of programming.
Right, because Youtube is that much better. Sure there's a lot of stuff, but if you want anything of value, that's few and far between. And good luck if you want any semblance of consistency. It's not that the major networks don't produce crap it's that you're not really meant to watch absolutely everything. As much as I hate most programming there are still shows here and there that are worth watching.
Despite you're animosity towards the networks, there's a huge number of programs that wouldn't be available at all right now if not for sites like Hulu.
Last mile isn't a myth. I have exactly 1 cable company available and 1 phone company available. These two companies own the cabling up to my house. And the service has been getting worse with each successive buy out, I think Viacom was the last company here to do a decent job of it.
Perhaps you live in a part of the country where that isn't the case, but in many parts of the country it is a very serious problem.
Which is why the GP suggests that a third party like say a utility own and maintain that portion of service. As it is comcrap doesn't bother to maintain its infrastructure and Qwest gets money for pretty much any internet service not through comcrap or over the air.
This isn't a free market problem, this is really a problem with the free market. DSL service around here is much more reliable because the phone company provides the service and is regulated to a much higher degree.
As opposed to the system we have. You can knock populism all you want, but under the system that's been in place in the US the benefits of productivity have almost entirely gone to the rich elite while those at the bottom suffer from lack of opportunity.
You can say what you will about populism, but it's less dangerous than the alternatives.
I think it's interesting how it's ok to be really angry when workers want to organize or get some benefit out of increased work, but when the elite's want more it's entirely different.
Face it, supply side economics is at this point pining for the fjords.
Yes indeed, because it's not like us in America have been living based largely upon borrowed money.
Um, yes they do. They don't in the UK, but whenever I watch BBC America I'm pretty sure that I'm seeing commercials at various points. Although it's been a while since I watched anything on it.
How else are they going to pay for the content? In the UK there's that infamous tax, but outside of the UK there isn't a similar tax so something has to give.
I don't agree, having watched jeopardy in the past, I can definitely say that if you're just down to the "who" or "what" you're doing quite well on some of those categories, particularly towards the end of the show.
A computer is going to have a hard time getting to that point in the process. It's trivial to do, just know whether the subject is a person or not a person. Admittedly that would throw off IBM's 40s era algorithms when applied to Jewish people, but I doubt they're using anything other than the most recent code.
Actually if the machine were able to do that via Google in a reliable way that would be something pretty substantial. I don't think that AI is good enough at that for Jeopardy at this time.
I was wondering what happens if the computer gets cracked or otherwise modified.
But then again, getting an advertisement for "low, low prices on hot teen pics" on jeopardy would be something of historical note.
I must be missing something, are you too good for zip ties and labels? Sure it's kind of time consuming, but I doubt it's that much more time consuming than making custom cables with the added bonus of having a bit of flexibility in the length.
You just have to be religious about it when you're doing it the first time and use some sort of a code for the cables which is meaningful and well documented. It's really not that much extra work you just label the cable right after you test the connectors.
The only way that you end up with true rat's nest status is if you allow the cables to commingle without any sort of cable management system.
But then again this sort of reminds me of what people say about comments in code.
Don't look now, buy your monster cables missed a byte. That should've been "Moron."
Moran.
That's, unfortunately, quite right.
What I find to be shocking is that people are making all kinds of unsubstantiated claims about what these medications can do for those that don't have a problem. The reality is that unless you've got a deficit in attention that you're unlikely to see much improvement in focus. And definitely no improvement in intellect.
People make all kinds of claims about these sorts of medications, but the effect isn't going to beat just eating a healthy diet, getting exercise and going to bed for a reasonable amount of time. These medications at best give a person back what they've already lost, they are unlikely affect neuroplasticity.
What they're complaining about is trademark dilution. They might very well be fine with virtual actual Tasers as that could possibly serve as advertising.
But in this case I really don't see how Taser is wrong, somebody is using their trademark to refer to something that isn't a Taser and apparently doesn't even function in the SL the way that a Taser would in real life.
Seriously... you don't understand the law; as much as it sucks to you, the person who rents a DVD from Netflix or RedBox ALSO legally has the right to make an archive copy, as they did, in fact, PAY for the right to view said performance.
Citation necessary. I don't believe that to be the case, and I don't believe that line of reasoning would hold up in court. Furthermore that would run counter to the point of copyright law in the first place. That's no different than ripping a friend's DVD.
What you're paying is compensation to the rental outlet for the period of time when they don't get to use the copy they've paid for; as well as the cost of doing business.
Think of it this way, have you ever heard of a rental outlet that provided a refund if you took the disc home and chose not to watch it? I'd be interested to learn how long a business like that would last.