No. They think that new businesses hire people. And people working private enterprise job raise more taxes than people working government jobs. Having a huge government is wasteful and expensive and limits our ability as a nation to create wealth.
Also, it is not just intelligence that places people on the scale, but a variety of other factors. My brother is overweight and slightly socially awkward in person, but not on the phone. He has had a string of $10/hour jobs. But he finally excelled at mortgage. Because people can't see him, he gains confidence and does a great job. Then the housing market tanked and he was back to $10/hour jobs. And now, he again makes good money working as a mortgage officer.
I can give you an easy example. On Lego Star Wars II for PC, in coop mode, if you are using an AMD CPU and both players change screens at the same time, it will lock up the entire game. This does not happen on Intel chips.
I have a lot of friends that work as game testers at gaming companies and they HATE AMD chips. In fact, they don't even test the AMD until the Intel work perfectly and then they only fix about half the AMD-specific bugs.
The summary says that this Civic-turned-EV cost two years and fourteen thousand dollars. Then, it says that it's no comparison to a Tesla S, but to keep in mind the difference in costs. So, let us do just that.
Homebrew Civic EV: 45 miles per charge. Old, possibly structurally unsound body. No warranty. Seats 4 or 5. Acceleration is probably worse than the original car's lackluster performance. Possible voiding of homeowner's insurance (should something go wrong while charging). Cost -- $14,000 plus two years' time.
Tesla S (60kWh): 220 miles per charge. New car with warranty. Safer body to meet modern crash standards. Seats 5 to 7. Sub-6 seconds to 60. Cost -- $60,000.
The summary is right. There is no comparison between the two cars. The Tesla is not only a better car, but it's a better use of his money and time. It is more than five times the car for four times the money. Other than the street cred one gets for driving a sub-standard homebrew EV (if that gets you any in his circles), I can't see any justification for the time and money he pissed away.
Simple. Because he had $14,000 and time, not $60,000...
I wonder how many Slashdotters who are making claims like this are the same ones who mock Christians in other posts? If I had time, I would make the Slashdot hypocrisy list.
Most of the places I worked couldn't even set up a PC correctly. As a software engineer/architect, I can assure you that 90% of companies do NOT have the skill or time in the IT department to do MITM attacks. But if they ask for your passwords in the interview...
All that said, if I ever did what the coach in question did, I would not expect to get away with a wrist slap. Even as a mistake, it's a very serious offense. It's not the kind of mistake you can make without expecting to be hauled into a police station or (in my case) never running a children's musical again.
Why did he have the phone numbers of 13 and 14 year old students on his mobile phone?
I was running a musical at church with my wife and I had cell phone numbers of 3rd-6th graders, boys and girls. I would text them to remind them to come to practice. (Worked much better than texting the parents, because then the kids didn't show up.) And I'm in America.
Now that the musical is over, I don't contact them anymore, although I will say hi if I see them at church.
My daughter was a gymnast at age 8 and her coach would text her similarly. It's not as if every contact between an adult and a kid is suspicious or sexual in nature...
Nice theory. But in practice most of the apps for my Android phone worked just fine on my 1280x768 tablet. Android isn't lame like iOS. Stuff actually scales well with no intervention.
In this context, it would mean a guy from a jerkwater town. But I was under the impression it was short for jerk-off, which was somebody doing something to themselves...
This. I built my wife a machine with an i3 but also with 8GB RAM and an SSD. It has Intel HD 4000 graphics. It screams. Unless you are ripping MP3s, editing video or compiling Chrome, your CPU is easily able to handle any task instantly anyway. And my wife plays Facebook-style games, which are smooth and fast on an Intel HD 4000 anyway.
The HD 4000 is probably better than you think. It plays most modern games adequately--not at top rendering for all features on a 2560x1920 monitor--but better than any console.
What's strange is: my work just bought me an Asus Zenbook Prime and I'm running 150% on it (I nuked the OS to get rid of the crapware and to be able to log on to the domain, so I've actually never seen it stock). I can scale web pages easily by doing a pinch-zoom on the touchpad and they look terrific, including images. (I mean, sure, the images ARE scaled up, which never looks 100% perfect, but it's just not that noticeable, and doesn't look anything the article.)
What they may be noticing is ASUS Splendid Video Enhancement Technology which is turned on by default (I'm told, I didn't install it after reading that people were trying frantically to get rid of it). Basically, it's supposed to "fix" your graphics so they look "more lifelike". But I've seen cases where people report that web graphics were getting very blurred by it, exactly like what the article is showing.
After using 150% and browser scaling for the past week, I've been pleasantly surprised by just how "arrived" high-DPI scaling was in Windows 7. I really didn't think it would work, but it's terrific so far, with ultra-readable text that's incredibly easy on the eyes and looks just as good as Apple's Retina displays.
I haven't used ASCII art since I started coding on Windows about 20 years ago. I code in Verdana. All the other programmers tell me I'm wrong but they can't tell me why. Some of them switch and never go back.
And Canola Oil is the world's first GMO, but somehow that doesn't stop it from showing up in every health food store even though they wouldn't be caught dead with ANY OTHER GMO.
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No. They think that new businesses hire people. And people working private enterprise job raise more taxes than people working government jobs. Having a huge government is wasteful and expensive and limits our ability as a nation to create wealth.
Also, it is not just intelligence that places people on the scale, but a variety of other factors. My brother is overweight and slightly socially awkward in person, but not on the phone. He has had a string of $10/hour jobs. But he finally excelled at mortgage. Because people can't see him, he gains confidence and does a great job. Then the housing market tanked and he was back to $10/hour jobs. And now, he again makes good money working as a mortgage officer.
I can give you an easy example. On Lego Star Wars II for PC, in coop mode, if you are using an AMD CPU and both players change screens at the same time, it will lock up the entire game. This does not happen on Intel chips.
I have a lot of friends that work as game testers at gaming companies and they HATE AMD chips. In fact, they don't even test the AMD until the Intel work perfectly and then they only fix about half the AMD-specific bugs.
The summary says that this Civic-turned-EV cost two years and fourteen thousand dollars. Then, it says that it's no comparison to a Tesla S, but to keep in mind the difference in costs. So, let us do just that. Homebrew Civic EV: 45 miles per charge. Old, possibly structurally unsound body. No warranty. Seats 4 or 5. Acceleration is probably worse than the original car's lackluster performance. Possible voiding of homeowner's insurance (should something go wrong while charging). Cost -- $14,000 plus two years' time. Tesla S (60kWh): 220 miles per charge. New car with warranty. Safer body to meet modern crash standards. Seats 5 to 7. Sub-6 seconds to 60. Cost -- $60,000. The summary is right. There is no comparison between the two cars. The Tesla is not only a better car, but it's a better use of his money and time. It is more than five times the car for four times the money. Other than the street cred one gets for driving a sub-standard homebrew EV (if that gets you any in his circles), I can't see any justification for the time and money he pissed away.
Simple. Because he had $14,000 and time, not $60,000...
Maybe these ones will be resistant to Monsanto products...
Then we should make a Firefox plugin to add a query parameter of ax234gs2=\speedtest\ to every query...
So the Sheriff laughs at visitors for locking their cars, but tell the locals to lock their internet?
It's typical American financial management - Anything more than a quarter or two out just doesn't matter to anyone any more.
FTFY
You mean the Trade Federation. The Empire used clones to get around this problem.
So you are 100% certain that no phone calls were made from the DOJ to his parole officer saying, "Get him on something. Anything."?
Clearly, he's a dirtbag
I wonder how many Slashdotters who are making claims like this are the same ones who mock Christians in other posts? If I had time, I would make the Slashdot hypocrisy list.
Most of the places I worked couldn't even set up a PC correctly. As a software engineer/architect, I can assure you that 90% of companies do NOT have the skill or time in the IT department to do MITM attacks. But if they ask for your passwords in the interview...
All that said, if I ever did what the coach in question did, I would not expect to get away with a wrist slap. Even as a mistake, it's a very serious offense. It's not the kind of mistake you can make without expecting to be hauled into a police station or (in my case) never running a children's musical again.
Why did he have the phone numbers of 13 and 14 year old students on his mobile phone?
I was running a musical at church with my wife and I had cell phone numbers of 3rd-6th graders, boys and girls. I would text them to remind them to come to practice. (Worked much better than texting the parents, because then the kids didn't show up.) And I'm in America.
Now that the musical is over, I don't contact them anymore, although I will say hi if I see them at church.
My daughter was a gymnast at age 8 and her coach would text her similarly. It's not as if every contact between an adult and a kid is suspicious or sexual in nature...
Nice theory. But in practice most of the apps for my Android phone worked just fine on my 1280x768 tablet. Android isn't lame like iOS. Stuff actually scales well with no intervention.
In this context, it would mean a guy from a jerkwater town. But I was under the impression it was short for jerk-off, which was somebody doing something to themselves...
This. I built my wife a machine with an i3 but also with 8GB RAM and an SSD. It has Intel HD 4000 graphics. It screams. Unless you are ripping MP3s, editing video or compiling Chrome, your CPU is easily able to handle any task instantly anyway. And my wife plays Facebook-style games, which are smooth and fast on an Intel HD 4000 anyway.
The HD 4000 is probably better than you think. It plays most modern games adequately--not at top rendering for all features on a 2560x1920 monitor--but better than any console.
What's strange is: my work just bought me an Asus Zenbook Prime and I'm running 150% on it (I nuked the OS to get rid of the crapware and to be able to log on to the domain, so I've actually never seen it stock). I can scale web pages easily by doing a pinch-zoom on the touchpad and they look terrific, including images. (I mean, sure, the images ARE scaled up, which never looks 100% perfect, but it's just not that noticeable, and doesn't look anything the article.)
What they may be noticing is ASUS Splendid Video Enhancement Technology which is turned on by default (I'm told, I didn't install it after reading that people were trying frantically to get rid of it). Basically, it's supposed to "fix" your graphics so they look "more lifelike". But I've seen cases where people report that web graphics were getting very blurred by it, exactly like what the article is showing.
After using 150% and browser scaling for the past week, I've been pleasantly surprised by just how "arrived" high-DPI scaling was in Windows 7. I really didn't think it would work, but it's terrific so far, with ultra-readable text that's incredibly easy on the eyes and looks just as good as Apple's Retina displays.
I haven't used ASCII art since I started coding on Windows about 20 years ago. I code in Verdana. All the other programmers tell me I'm wrong but they can't tell me why. Some of them switch and never go back.
Exactly. That's why I code in Verdana. It's much easier to read than monospaced fonts and a lot more fits on the screen at one time.
I just wish some of the nice raster fonts were availble as TrueType so they can scale up nicely and be razor sharp on high res "retina" screens.
Well, there's always the FontSubstitutes Registry entry in Windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
I don't think I would trade with a guy that has been carrying bacon for 2000 miles...
I cut my carbs down to 120g/day and I have lost 70 lbs in 9 months. It really is all about cutting out the carbs.
And Canola Oil is the world's first GMO, but somehow that doesn't stop it from showing up in every health food store even though they wouldn't be caught dead with ANY OTHER GMO.
Only Hebrews was written by an unknown man (or some say woman) and it doesn't really talk about how God created the heavens. What are you getting at?