After reading 2600 off and on for at least 20 years, it's getting hard to find. Their publisher went insane, B&N doesn't seem to want to carry it. Frustrating.
Agreed. PhD graduates should especially be understanding of this. Unless their dissertations were without scrutiny, in which case they should consider themselves fortunate to have escaped the scrutiny of their peers, and members of the club of good-ol-boys.
"if human height were evolving as fast as these lizards' toes, the height of an average American man would increase from about 5 foot 9 inches today to about 6 foot 4 inches within 20 generations"
I'm still trying to work out what environmental pressure would reward height.
The CEO that can keep 60,000 employees working in industry that punishes failures with bankruptcy is worth, what, maybe 1/60,000 of each employee's income?
And that post explains the Olympics, art, and literature. And virtually every other endeavor where one compares their work to another's.
What BS.
A thing measured improves.
True competitors don't slow down when they reach the top. They never give their competition a chance to catch up.
Your peers are your competition . Your customers, clients, or fans are your audience. Your peers are not your judge, your audience is. Listening to your competitors for advice is fraught with peril.
You need not deal with competitive people. Just buy their product, that's really all they ever wanted anyways.
And yes, in the US, we have room to improve how we regulate ISPs. They should be either carriers that set honest expectations and adhere to them, or purely competitive entities that receive no subsidies from the public and need none. Think Universal Service Fund, for instance. But that doesn't mean other nations are so much better. South Korea is approximately the size of Virginia, with six times the population, and has fabulous Internet. If Virginia had a population of 50 million, their Internet service might be a lot different than it is. Comparing Internet service in the US to other nations is mostly pointless.
"Republicans are even MORE in favor of a corporatocracy than their opposition"
Don't bother. there is no functional or philosophical difference between the leadership of the two major parties. Making that point labels you as blinded by your own partisanship, and perpetuating the root problem - our political system is co-opted by lobbies of various constituents, industries, and others. A wholly owned subsidiary of interests that do not have our best interests at heart.
Really. if you don't get this, you don't get IT. At all.
Let's put it differently. If Verizon/AT&T/etc all decide to charge for incoming data from the heavy hitters, and they say no, when do customers stop actually using the service at all?
As in cancelling their cable TV subscription and relying on the Internet for media - paying more, but in the end lowering their costs.
Naw. the ISPs really don't care. They will jack your bill back up to where it was before. Until they reach the limits of elasticity.
Residential ISP service is pretty much asymmetrical. I click here and there, and get a few gigs of movie as data. It;'s been this way forever, since when I ran an ISP off of a pair of T-1s, a Cisco 2600, and a Livingston box. One of the T-1s was all dial in ports. those were the days...
Not only did my customers show asymmetric data (10% up, 90% down often) but they railed about speed that only exceeded expectations by 10-25%. Customers.
Complaints that the business is so asymmetrical that it's unfair are nearly specious. That is the definition of the business. You're just extorting form the media providers, and lying to your customers. It ought to be regulated, but I don't yet know if we can get that done.
I met the man who continues to provide US paper mills with a crucial part, and he accepts only cash on delivery. And he's happy to drive his truck home without payment, because they will eventually pay him, and pay him for the wasted trip as well. There is no substitute for this part, and the other sources are somewhat more difficult to deal with - they like to sell new, he refurbishes old.
He would retire if the gummint told him cash was not possible. and he's a bit of an extremist in every other way.
As of May 30, 2009, 167,289 $1,000 bills were known to exist. Let's Make a Deal game-show host Monty Hall occasionally gave away $1,000 bills as prizes.
As of May 30, 2009, 342 $5,000 bills were known to exist. Currently, there are no known 1928 $5,000 Gold Certificates in existence except the unique specimen (# A00000001A) in the Smithsonian Institution.
"The U.S. Constitution—written approximately 100 years before the germ theory of disease was proven by French chemist Louis Pasteur and German physician Robert Koch — places responsibility for public health squarely on the shoulders of local and state political leaders"
Tell that to our President and the Congressional representatives that enacted the ACA. And the Supreme Court that then remade it into a tax.
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"Measurement is what causes the event to resolve itself."
So it really isn't definite until measured, or interacted with?
How close is this to stating it doesn't exist unless it is interacted with?
After reading 2600 off and on for at least 20 years, it's getting hard to find. Their publisher went insane, B&N doesn't seem to want to carry it. Frustrating.
Unadjusted. Yeah I know.
Ecclesiastes is also often misunderstood.
Should be a short presentation. Not so harmful as it seems.
Agreed. PhD graduates should especially be understanding of this. Unless their dissertations were without scrutiny, in which case they should consider themselves fortunate to have escaped the scrutiny of their peers, and members of the club of good-ol-boys.
More than a few atheists and agnostics similarly admit they can NEVER be convinced.
Reason and debate? Are these the exclusive province of secular society? Clearly dedication to your beliefs cannot be the defining factor, eh?
You can guess from the comments that many universities and colleges are not places of learning.
They are places of teaching.
Is that a critical skill where you live?
"if human height were evolving as fast as these lizards' toes, the height of an average American man would increase from about 5 foot 9 inches today to about 6 foot 4 inches within 20 generations"
I'm still trying to work out what environmental pressure would reward height.
I'm pretty much where I was in 2009. Which isn't so bad.
My last salary negotiation went like this:
"We're trying to get you enough money to stay here"
"Well, let's start where I was before the reduction that I never got back"
"Yes, we're working from the current market rate"
"Good. I'm looking to be in the upper range"
"Yes, we want you to stay...."
They did.
Not everyone is trapped in a 'lowest possible cost' position. You should develop better and more useful skills and attitude if you are.
The CEO that can keep 60,000 employees working in industry that punishes failures with bankruptcy is worth, what, maybe 1/60,000 of each employee's income?
How you value skilled work is interesting...
Certainly the other QSRs (quick service restaurants) pay so much better.
And that post explains the Olympics, art, and literature. And virtually every other endeavor where one compares their work to another's.
What BS.
A thing measured improves.
True competitors don't slow down when they reach the top. They never give their competition a chance to catch up.
Your peers are your competition . Your customers, clients, or fans are your audience. Your peers are not your judge, your audience is. Listening to your competitors for advice is fraught with peril.
You need not deal with competitive people. Just buy their product, that's really all they ever wanted anyways.
And yes, in the US, we have room to improve how we regulate ISPs. They should be either carriers that set honest expectations and adhere to them, or purely competitive entities that receive no subsidies from the public and need none. Think Universal Service Fund, for instance. But that doesn't mean other nations are so much better. South Korea is approximately the size of Virginia, with six times the population, and has fabulous Internet. If Virginia had a population of 50 million, their Internet service might be a lot different than it is. Comparing Internet service in the US to other nations is mostly pointless.
"Republicans are even MORE in favor of a corporatocracy than their opposition"
Don't bother. there is no functional or philosophical difference between the leadership of the two major parties. Making that point labels you as blinded by your own partisanship, and perpetuating the root problem - our political system is co-opted by lobbies of various constituents, industries, and others. A wholly owned subsidiary of interests that do not have our best interests at heart.
Really. if you don't get this, you don't get IT. At all.
Let's put it differently. If Verizon/AT&T/etc all decide to charge for incoming data from the heavy hitters, and they say no, when do customers stop actually using the service at all?
As in cancelling their cable TV subscription and relying on the Internet for media - paying more, but in the end lowering their costs.
Naw. the ISPs really don't care. They will jack your bill back up to where it was before. Until they reach the limits of elasticity.
Residential ISP service is pretty much asymmetrical. I click here and there, and get a few gigs of movie as data. It;'s been this way forever, since when I ran an ISP off of a pair of T-1s, a Cisco 2600, and a Livingston box. One of the T-1s was all dial in ports. those were the days...
Not only did my customers show asymmetric data (10% up, 90% down often) but they railed about speed that only exceeded expectations by 10-25%. Customers.
Complaints that the business is so asymmetrical that it's unfair are nearly specious. That is the definition of the business. You're just extorting form the media providers, and lying to your customers. It ought to be regulated, but I don't yet know if we can get that done.
When gasoline goes to $20/gallon, people;
- stop eating out just to save on the fuel
- start combining trips to the grocery to avoid fuel costs, which coincidentally reduces those impulse purchases as as fraction of the total
- stop taking their kids to soccer three times a week. And piano classes, gymnastics, robot league, etc...
And school systems start surcharging for the bus for field trips.
The analogy breaks down a little.
But, if Netflix does go to $50/month, do we start watching something else? Hell yeah.
And Netflix programming is uplifting, educational, and inspiring?
House of Cards makes me want to storm Washington. the rest is, well, pretty much a lot like what Verizon is peddling.
Come to think of it, HoC is too.
I met the man who continues to provide US paper mills with a crucial part, and he accepts only cash on delivery. And he's happy to drive his truck home without payment, because they will eventually pay him, and pay him for the wasted trip as well. There is no substitute for this part, and the other sources are somewhat more difficult to deal with - they like to sell new, he refurbishes old.
He would retire if the gummint told him cash was not possible. and he's a bit of an extremist in every other way.
Um, a few notes (pun alert):
As of May 30, 2009, 167,289 $1,000 bills were known to exist. Let's Make a Deal game-show host Monty Hall occasionally gave away $1,000 bills as prizes.
As of May 30, 2009, 342 $5,000 bills were known to exist. Currently, there are no known 1928 $5,000 Gold Certificates in existence except the unique specimen (# A00000001A) in the Smithsonian Institution.
Courtesy of Wikipedia. Must be true.
Not any time soon.
"The U.S. Constitution—written approximately 100 years before the germ theory of disease was proven by French chemist Louis Pasteur and German physician Robert Koch — places responsibility for public health squarely on the shoulders of local and state political leaders"
Tell that to our President and the Congressional representatives that enacted the ACA. And the Supreme Court that then remade it into a tax.
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
Not so much bad code as a lesson in testing software.