Iran stated that they will drive destroy Israel and drive the Israelis into the sea. They will continue what Hitler tried to do. They threaten to use the bomb to destroy Israel, because this country is a true democracy.
Iran is a religious state, following an aged leader that is truly intolerant of other religions. Eliminating Iran from SWIFT, will increase their resolve to live without the USA and the European community. SWIFT will not stop the financial industry or Iran from selling oil. The most willing customers are China, India, Russia, and the diversion of oil to these countries will result in a stronger and more flourishing Iran.
Iran does want the bomb, and they do want nuclear reactors for electricity. So far the world believes that the number of countries with the bomb should be limited to the existing few. This is the major problem for the world. Tell Iran to recognize that the big powers do not want it to have the bomb and that they should respect other societies. Let Iranians travel and speak freely, and then and only then do I think that there will be strong efforts to normalize relationships.
You hit the nail on the head with your comments. Bravo.
For a few years, when my younger son (3 siblings) was a teenager, I had to work for a long time as a consultant, supporting a product. The customers were in different timezones, (gmt-4 to gmt-8). You can imagine the 5:30am start and the 8pm end. My wife and I decided that the family was more important than this job, and I changed careers. I can say that saved my son, because dad was home to act as the role model. The son also needed to ask questions that mom could not answer, and I was there.
Today, my wife and three siblings and grandkids all live in my city. We do without tablets, vacations to the south or boat cruises, and we note that we do not miss these material based things. My wife and I have no lack of any essentials, and we have the love of our children and their significant others.
I hate CFLs for the following reason "The 5000 hour bulbs fail after about 6 months of use, because we turn them on and off about twice a day (For light at breakfast, and after supper). The CFLs have filaments that need to heat up the vapor in the tube before glow starts. The filaments fail.
Here is another problem for we who have very cold winters. These lights cannot work outdoors if it is around freezing. They will not start. Only leds or filament bulbs work.
So, we are back to incandescents for the following reason. In winter, the bulbs contribute to the heating in the house. In summer, with the prolonged daylight hours, they are not used much (perhaps 1 hour per day). I live in Montreal Canada, and our electricity is water generated from James Bay. Thus the province has the majority of the 3/4 million homes and all the millions of businesses heated and cooled with electricity. If I switch to gas for the furnace when the temp is around 0F, and use electricity when warmer, my rate is $0.04 cents.
If I am with fully using electricity, without resorting to gas, my rate is 7cents. Incandescents are the best deal. The bulbs last a few years before failing.
Ever since the storms in the mid-west, the atomic clock from Bolder Colorado has stopped transmitting its signal. My three radio receiver (atomic) wall clocks use these signals to keep precision to 1/10th second a day. Now my clocks are out of tolerance and one is running fast, while the others are running slow.
In jest, if all were running slow, I would probably miss the bus to take me to the office.
What is the purpose of creating drugs, if it is not to provide cures for illnesses. Should a company be humanitarian, or say, no money, no drug. The drug will generate a profit ratio of about 1000 times or 1/(1-.97) times more expensive than the cost of manufacture and distribution.
We have a strange thing taking place, where the FDA is closing down generic manufacturers, seemingly because the quality of the generic is not within certain tolerances. I agree with this if the standard deviation was.05 milligram per tablet, but the manufacturer has a.5 mg spread per tablet. Oh yes, the body can tolerate ± 2 mg per day differences without bad effects.
So, the question is, if high precison is required (possibly due to alergies to a drug), then prescribe the original, otherwise prescribe the generic. Just dont stop the manufacture.
For you who are ill, be prepared to see your insurance plan run out of money.
Thank you. Sometimes we get irritated with dangling prepositions' and sometimes it seems to be OK. I just dont know anymore, how to end a sentence. With the flow, it is good to go with.
I teacher is someone who has teaching in his blood. He enjoys transferring knowledge, and letting students do research and do analysis.
The burned out teacher is one who had too many classrooms and too many students. He is a victim, and like it or not, he can be revitalized by giving him the tools and the class size of 20 or so. I taught classes of 22, and that was on the threshold of being swamped.
As for tenure making individuals bad teachers, I would say blame the school board for not insisting the teacher take courses in order to achieve merit increases. Courses should pertain to pedagogy
At this stage of politics, with new North Koreas next generation, I believe the world will side with the society that is opening up and slowly (however slowly), is opening it up to the world. The USA will be shipping huge quantities of food in compensation for certain positive NK actions. So, the USA would be on the side of NK.
Perhaps that is why Gates got out early. -- It is very stressful, with sleepless nights if your company is slip-sliding away. I wonder about the stress levels in MS management.
Microsoft's future is with introducing new features to the office product. Without MS Office, there is really no need to purchase a Windows Machine.
Their mainframe (server) software may cause a lock-in to windows, but in the end, it is Outlook and Office that requires Windows.
LibreOffice current version (today is 10March2012) or some later releases is/will be nothing to snear at. With LO, I replaced MS Office and only make use of Excel from Windows, as all the rest of LO is functionally competitive to Office. (And a lot cheaper too)
I am a redhead (now white), and I always had a high threshold for physical pain. On the emotional side, I was a sucker, and could sob or laugh with situations that others would fail to be influenced.
I had to struggle to phrase the sentence so as to not end in a preposition or with the word "with".
A CPU vendor will have a backdoor capability to update the CPU. Intel does it with all their processors, and normally the bios vendors insert the corrective code into the cpu at boot time. AMD will have a bios update or a windows / linux/ Mac/whatever patch forthcoming. Otherwise they will have to ask compiler writers to insert a no-operation instruction to resolve the problem, which is probably due to timing.
Failing that kind of update, the alternative is to replace the CPU. CPUs are not normally soldered to motherboards.
I beg to differ in this regard. "A Fourier analysis of a sine wave is the sine wave itself. A Fourier analysis of a square wave or saw-tooth wave shows harmonics and subharmonics." We can hear those subharmonics.
So, then the next thing to look at are the Fletcher - Munson curves. These curves are averages over a population, without stipulating, by frequency the standard deviation. While I can hear to 15780hz, my wife can hear to 16,200hz, and my father, to 12,500hz. What I have as a threshold, such as hearing the ticking of my watch, my father is unable to hear his watch, even when pressed against his ear.
FM curves should be broken down by age groups, with groups being 1 year apart for people over age 60.
No, I believe that anything over 60hz sampling is a waste of bandwidth. My high quality earphone diaphrams are resonant at 20 cycles, so in theory they should vibrate at 20khz, and they do, but with tremendous mechanical loss. And my ears as well have tremendous loss above 15khz. If I need to hear above 15khz, I should have electrical connections directly to nerve endings in my body, with the belief that nerves transmit messages at the speed of light.
With the wikapaedia and google display that internet censoring is a no-no, what the industry is now trying to do is surround the USA with countries that it has convinced to do said censoring. Then the USA will have to follow to be in accordance.
Dont let the music industry dictate that the ISPs must do censoring, or that they can do a takedown, without a federal judge permit. The takedown must have the same rules as a search warrant, and no less.
Have you considered Scientific Linux 6.x (Community is keeping it current, and they intend supporting the current version to 2017. In one way you cannot distinguish between CENTOS and Scientific Linux, except by the frequency of maintenance.
I have a problem with saying they hate your for your beliefs. They do not. They hate you for your federally sponsored corporate greed which allows Enron, Shell and all the corps who make deals with dictators, take the wealth of that nation, and actually make so very few wealthy beyond dreams, and the rest of the population poor.
When you have wealth, you own the army and the police.
That is why Americans are despised in these countries.American use of Christian religion that does not practice charity in the lands being raped is a supporting factor.
The price of gasoline in Montreal Canada is almost $6.00 ($1.42 per litre * 4). So it is a problem because much of the north's fruits and vegetables are shipped in via 53 foot refrigerated transport trailers or via air cargo. Therefore we expect a substantial increase in food costs. Already flour and eggs have doubled in the past two years. The increase does not hurt working people, but it does hurt people on pension (like myself)
I guess that if we are not happy with the internet, then a second internet system could be setup. If you then want the controls, join the first one. If you want freedom and innovation, join the second
Where I live, with the salt, snow, slush, and road grime, a return trip to work gurantees that the rear license plate is not decypherable from the layer of salt, mud and whatever it is that covers the letters.
Where would the cam be mounted so its lens would not suffer the same fate.
Hatred is learned at home, and in some cases, in the church and the mosque. Many religions now recognize gays as humans (the ones I met were more human than some non-gays that I knew). More human means, understanding and caring about others and the world around.
If child porn is incriminating, then moreso should be adult porn. I am not into porn, but I believe that it can serve a good purpose.
If someone has a tendancy to be a child molester, and by viewing the porn, he can relieve himself, (in some healthy abnormal way), then the porn is medicinal.
I am probably too stupid to consider alternatives to what people with child porn could do.
Creating it and possessing it are two things, and can one consider that possing it leads to creating more by the same individual?
We have a plastic hundred dollar bill that has braile, has transparency, has holigraphics, and is certainly more difficult if not impossible to reproduce illegally. The paper currency in Canada will be fully replaced by the new technology. The new plastic currency can be washed, is very durable, outlasting the paper currency by 2 to 3 times. Soon the 20's, 10's and 5's will be in circulation. I found them great.
have not tried them out in the 20 to 30 below zero temperatures, but I am sure this bill will remain flexible at that cold cold environment.
I think the teacher's union would have more credibility if teachers were ever fired for poor performance. If there appeared to be any kind of performance-based accountability, the public might not care about this.
That's the core of the argument, but the part the union is fighting. This is the kind of fight which erodes the union's credibility.
Back when I lived in Michigan the auto workers unions were busy blaming the car companies for their eroding market share, quality of cars, etc. Then an amazing magazine, as part of the Detroit Free Press, was published containing several accounts by former auto workers, who seemed to be lacking a lot of guile or simply felt there was nothing to lose, confessing how overstaffed the assembly lines where - because the union would never back down. At the least little action by companies the workers would go on strike, so they hamstrung the automakers. Now it's a different generation of auto workers and a leaner, more competitive several auto companies. The excesses forced upon the manufacturers have taken decades to undo, nearly bringing GM and Chrysler to the end in 2008, because they were still saddled with retirement and benefit plans, negotiated decades before, which were crushing the companies.
The teachers unions should take a page from this: Don't ruin the education or the credibility of all teachers for the sake of a few - embrase performance review and become a part of it.
Yes, teachers should be evaluated, but I believe that their evaluations are private, between the evaluators and the teacher. If you post the evaluations, you are invading the privacy of the teacher. Fire or force the teacher to take additional training, but dont publically post an individual's score. By the way, sometimes teachers are forced to teach subjects for which they are unfamiliar, and are teaching those subjects because there are no other teachers on staff and the school can't hire.
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Here are some facts.
Iran stated that they will drive destroy Israel and drive the Israelis into the sea. They will continue what Hitler tried to do. They threaten to use the bomb to destroy Israel, because this country is a true democracy.
Iran is a religious state, following an aged leader that is truly intolerant of other religions. Eliminating Iran from SWIFT, will increase their resolve to live without the USA and the European community. SWIFT will not stop the financial industry or Iran from selling oil. The most willing customers are China, India, Russia, and the diversion of oil to these countries will result in a stronger and more flourishing Iran.
Iran does want the bomb, and they do want nuclear reactors for electricity. So far the world believes that the number of countries with the bomb should be limited to the existing few. This is the major problem for the world. Tell Iran to recognize that the big powers do not want it to have the bomb and that they should respect other societies. Let Iranians travel and speak freely, and then and only then do I think that there will be strong efforts to normalize relationships.
You hit the nail on the head with your comments. Bravo.
For a few years, when my younger son (3 siblings) was a teenager, I had to work for a long time as a consultant, supporting a product. The customers were in different timezones, (gmt-4 to gmt-8). You can imagine the 5:30am start and the 8pm end. My wife and I decided that the family was more important than this job, and I changed careers. I can say that saved my son, because dad was home to act as the role model. The son also needed to ask questions that mom could not answer, and I was there.
Today, my wife and three siblings and grandkids all live in my city. We do without tablets, vacations to the south or boat cruises, and we note that we do not miss these material based things. My wife and I have no lack of any essentials, and we have the love of our children and their significant others.
Bravo again to cpu6502. Call me rich.
I hate CFLs for the following reason "The 5000 hour bulbs fail after about 6 months of use, because we turn them on and off about twice a day (For light at breakfast, and after supper). The CFLs have filaments that need to heat up the vapor in the tube before glow starts. The filaments fail.
Here is another problem for we who have very cold winters. These lights cannot work outdoors if it is around freezing. They will not start. Only leds or filament bulbs work.
So, we are back to incandescents for the following reason.
In winter, the bulbs contribute to the heating in the house. In summer, with the prolonged daylight hours, they are not used much (perhaps 1 hour per day).
I live in Montreal Canada, and our electricity is water generated from James Bay. Thus the province has the majority of the 3/4 million homes and all the millions of businesses heated and cooled with electricity. If I switch to gas for the furnace when the temp is around 0F, and use electricity when warmer, my rate is $0.04 cents.
If I am with fully using electricity, without resorting to gas, my rate is 7cents. Incandescents are the best deal. The bulbs last a few years before failing.
Ever since the storms in the mid-west, the atomic clock from Bolder Colorado has stopped transmitting its signal. My three radio receiver (atomic) wall clocks use these signals to keep precision to 1/10th second a day. Now my clocks are out of tolerance and one is running fast, while the others are running slow.
In jest, if all were running slow, I would probably miss the bus to take me to the office.
What is the purpose of creating drugs, if it is not to provide cures for illnesses. Should a company be humanitarian, or say, no money, no drug. The drug will generate a profit ratio of about 1000 times or 1/(1-.97) times more expensive than the cost of manufacture and distribution.
We have a strange thing taking place, where the FDA is closing down generic manufacturers, seemingly because the quality of the generic is not within certain tolerances. I agree with this if the standard deviation was .05 milligram per tablet, but the manufacturer has a .5 mg spread per tablet. Oh yes, the body can tolerate ± 2 mg per day differences without bad effects.
So, the question is, if high precison is required (possibly due to alergies to a drug), then prescribe the original, otherwise prescribe the generic. Just dont stop the manufacture.
For you who are ill, be prepared to see your insurance plan run out of money.
Thank you. Sometimes we get irritated with dangling prepositions' and sometimes it seems to be OK. I just dont know anymore, how to end a sentence. With the flow, it is good to go with.
I teacher is someone who has teaching in his blood. He enjoys transferring knowledge, and letting students do research and do analysis.
The burned out teacher is one who had too many classrooms and too many students. He is a victim, and like it or not, he can be revitalized by giving him the tools and the class size of 20 or so. I taught classes of 22, and that was on the threshold of being swamped.
As for tenure making individuals bad teachers, I would say blame the school board for not insisting the teacher take courses in order to achieve merit increases. Courses should pertain to pedagogy
At this stage of politics, with new North Koreas next generation, I believe the world will side with the society that is opening up and slowly (however slowly), is opening it up to the world. The USA will be shipping huge quantities of food in compensation for certain positive NK actions. So, the USA would be on the side of NK.
Perhaps that is why Gates got out early. -- It is very stressful, with sleepless nights if your company is slip-sliding away. I wonder about the stress levels in MS management.
Microsoft's future is with introducing new features to the office product. Without MS Office, there is really no need to purchase a Windows Machine.
Their mainframe (server) software may cause a lock-in to windows, but in the end, it is Outlook and Office that requires Windows.
LibreOffice current version (today is 10March2012) or some later releases is/will be nothing to snear at. With LO, I replaced MS Office and only make use of Excel from Windows, as all the rest of LO is functionally competitive to Office. (And a lot cheaper too)
Lets wait for a death, or gunfire attack before we decide that the code of conduct is in fact a good thing.
I am a redhead (now white), and I always had a high threshold for physical pain. On the emotional side, I was a sucker, and could sob or laugh with situations that others would fail to be influenced.
I had to struggle to phrase the sentence so as to not end in a preposition or with the word "with".
A CPU vendor will have a backdoor capability to update the CPU. Intel does it with all their processors, and normally the bios vendors insert the corrective code into the cpu at boot time. AMD will have a bios update or a windows / linux/ Mac /whatever patch forthcoming. Otherwise they will have to ask compiler writers to insert a no-operation instruction to resolve the problem, which is probably due to timing.
Failing that kind of update, the alternative is to replace the CPU. CPUs are not normally soldered to motherboards.
I get 245ms to slashdot.org and 40 ms to yahoo.com
I beg to differ in this regard. "A Fourier analysis of a sine wave is the sine wave itself. A Fourier analysis of a square wave or saw-tooth wave shows harmonics and subharmonics." We can hear those subharmonics.
So, then the next thing to look at are the Fletcher - Munson curves. These curves are averages over a population, without stipulating, by frequency the standard deviation. While I can hear to 15780hz, my wife can hear to 16,200hz, and my father, to 12,500hz. What I have as a threshold, such as hearing the ticking of my watch, my father is unable to hear his watch, even when pressed against his ear.
FM curves should be broken down by age groups, with groups being 1 year apart for people over age 60.
No, I believe that anything over 60hz sampling is a waste of bandwidth. My high quality earphone diaphrams are resonant at 20 cycles, so in theory they should vibrate at 20khz, and they do, but with tremendous mechanical loss. And my ears as well have tremendous loss above 15khz. If I need to hear above 15khz, I should have electrical connections directly to nerve endings in my body, with the belief that nerves transmit messages at the speed of light.
With the wikapaedia and google display that internet censoring is a no-no, what the industry is now trying to do is surround the USA with countries that it has convinced to do said censoring. Then the USA will have to follow to be in accordance.
Dont let the music industry dictate that the ISPs must do censoring, or that they can do a takedown, without a federal judge permit. The takedown must have the same rules as a search warrant, and no less.
Have you considered Scientific Linux 6.x (Community is keeping it current, and they intend supporting the current version to 2017. In one way you cannot distinguish between CENTOS and Scientific Linux, except by the frequency of maintenance.
I have a problem with saying they hate your for your beliefs. They do not. They hate you for your federally sponsored corporate greed which allows Enron, Shell and all the corps who make deals with dictators, take the wealth of that nation, and actually make so very few wealthy beyond dreams, and the rest of the population poor.
When you have wealth, you own the army and the police.
That is why Americans are despised in these countries.American use of Christian religion that does not practice charity in the lands being raped is a supporting factor.
The price of gasoline in Montreal Canada is almost $6.00 ($1.42 per litre * 4). So it is a problem because much of the north's fruits and vegetables are shipped in via 53 foot refrigerated transport trailers or via air cargo.
Therefore we expect a substantial increase in food costs. Already flour and eggs have doubled in the past two years. The increase does not hurt working people, but it does hurt people on pension (like myself)
I guess that if we are not happy with the internet, then a second internet system could be setup. If you then want the controls, join the first one. If you want freedom and innovation, join the second
Where I live, with the salt, snow, slush, and road grime, a return trip to work gurantees that the rear license plate is not decypherable from the layer of salt, mud and whatever it is that covers the letters.
Where would the cam be mounted so its lens would not suffer the same fate.
Hatred is learned at home, and in some cases, in the church and the mosque. Many religions now recognize gays as humans (the ones I met were more human than some non-gays that I knew). More human means, understanding and caring about others and the world around.
I think he learned this at home.
Shades of Archie Bunker.
If child porn is incriminating, then moreso should be adult porn. I am not into porn, but I believe that it can serve a good purpose.
If someone has a tendancy to be a child molester, and by viewing the porn, he can relieve himself, (in some healthy abnormal way), then the porn is medicinal.
I am probably too stupid to consider alternatives to what people with child porn could do.
Creating it and possessing it are two things, and can one consider that possing it leads to creating more by the same individual?
We have a plastic hundred dollar bill that has braile, has transparency, has holigraphics, and is certainly more difficult if not impossible to reproduce illegally. The paper currency in Canada will be fully replaced by the new technology. The new plastic currency can be washed, is very durable, outlasting the paper currency by 2 to 3 times. Soon the 20's, 10's and 5's will be in circulation. I found them great.
have not tried them out in the 20 to 30 below zero temperatures, but I am sure this bill will remain flexible at that cold cold environment.
I think the teacher's union would have more credibility if teachers were ever fired for poor performance. If there appeared to be any kind of performance-based accountability, the public might not care about this.
That's the core of the argument, but the part the union is fighting. This is the kind of fight which erodes the union's credibility.
Back when I lived in Michigan the auto workers unions were busy blaming the car companies for their eroding market share, quality of cars, etc. Then an amazing magazine, as part of the Detroit Free Press, was published containing several accounts by former auto workers, who seemed to be lacking a lot of guile or simply felt there was nothing to lose, confessing how overstaffed the assembly lines where - because the union would never back down. At the least little action by companies the workers would go on strike, so they hamstrung the automakers. Now it's a different generation of auto workers and a leaner, more competitive several auto companies. The excesses forced upon the manufacturers have taken decades to undo, nearly bringing GM and Chrysler to the end in 2008, because they were still saddled with retirement and benefit plans, negotiated decades before, which were crushing the companies.
The teachers unions should take a page from this: Don't ruin the education or the credibility of all teachers for the sake of a few - embrase performance review and become a part of it.
Yes, teachers should be evaluated, but I believe that their evaluations are private, between the evaluators and the teacher. If you post the evaluations, you are invading the privacy of the teacher. Fire or force the teacher to take additional training, but dont publically post an individual's score. By the way, sometimes teachers are forced to teach subjects for which they are unfamiliar, and are teaching those subjects because there are no other teachers on staff and the school can't hire.