In 180ish comments, I didn't see anyone chuckle at "the girls...learnt more about coding."
So to summarize:
-30 kiddies make up the sample set. -No controls on the experiment. -No prevention on collusion. -12 year old girls in the sample set develop more complex games than 12 year old boys in the sample set. -Arbitrary measure of complexity for measure. -12 year old literacy in the summary.
Yep, this is a scientific study that I'll be referencing.
ITT: Fools who are apoplectic over the idea of Apple exercising control of its app ecosystem and Microsoft bundling a browser with their OS find a way to contort themselves into the illogical stance that Google engaging in the same type of practices is "totally for our own good, fuck the EU."
You nerds never cease to amaze me.
IOS isn't free. Android is. Windows isn't free. Google is.
Perhaps you forget that you couldn't uninstall IE, choice was hard to come by, and today is nothing like then. You can choose to not use Chrome easily. You can not use google easily.
An alternative to "Post-Facebook" is to not use an all-encompassing social media tool/website instead of replacing it with a clone that offers better privacy.
Houston Texas - Lightning Storm? Voltage Sag. Loss of power for long enough for all clocks in the house to go to 0:00, and for computers to turn off. Never longer than for 5-10 seconds.
-Since the electric motors draw more current when they are starting than when they are running at their rated speed, starting an electric motor can be a reason of a voltage sag. -When a line-to-ground fault occurs, there will be a voltage sag until the protective switch gear operates. -Some accidents in power lines such as lightning or falling an object can be a cause of line-to-ground fault and a voltage sag as a result. -Sudden load changes or excessive loads can cause a voltage sag. -Depending on the transformer connections, transformers energizing could be another reason for happening voltage sags. -Voltage sags can arrive from the utility but most are caused by in-building equipment.
An actual power outage on the other hand can be caused by ANYTHING.
-Tree branch fell on a power line. -Someone drove into a utility pole and broke a wire. Again with the Houston Texas example....I work in Oil and Gas, and my shop was out of power for 7 hours because someone ran into a utility pole on the corner of the street that leads to my office. -Ground short. -Transformer either on a line or at the utility shorts. -Everything in between. -All the way to emergency outage with the base load generator at whomever your power production company is.
It is important to keep in mind that there is no factual proof that he lost his offer of employment at UoMMC or his tenure at Wayne due to the comments on PubPeer. Sarkar's lawyer claims that the retraction letter from UoMMC says this is why, but has declined to offer the letter as proof.
All that is factually known at this time is that the scientific integrity of Sarkar's articles have come under scrutiny, and that a potential job at UoMMC didn't pan out for him.
I ran into this once, but with a different outcome. I was in college, on a date at the Outback Steakhouse, and a big fella was smoking in the restaurant, which was non-smoking. People were muttering, but no one directly said anything to him, probably because he was intimidating looking.
I went over to his table, and asked him to put his cigarette out because it was a non-smoking establishment. He looked me up and down, then took a long drag on his cigarette and blew it at me. When he put it back in his mouth, I reached over and plucked it from his mouth....I was young, in the army, on a date trying to impress....and so the only logical thing was obviously to grind the cigarette out on the palm of my hand while glaring at him.
On the plus side, most of the restaurant - servers included - applauded. On the minus side, I still have a scar on my palm.
"French artificial heart maker Carmat says it will not perform another human implant until it has determined the cause of death of the first patient fitted with the device."
Six months later: Implanting a new heart, despite still not knowing what happened the first time."
There will not be teeth to this. There are no teeth to any NATO measures.
The summary could just as easily read:
At the upcoming NATO meeting, according to the NY Times, the 28 member states are expected to talk about some shit that no one will do anything about. Not for the first time, they will pass a meaningless resolution without teeth that no one will pay attention to.
Here's a link to the Dorchester County Board of Education members. There's an e-mail address there where you can tell them what you think of them as well.
There's a difference between "best games" and "best games for friends."
For best games, you can't go wrong with old school RPGs from Squaresoft back in the day. Any of them. Particular favorites: Chronotrigger and Final Fantasy III.
For friends, get "Risk" the board game. Hours of fun.
-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D. -Microsoft shifts ownership, or "Profit Rights" of product off-shore, to say....The Bahamas. -Microsoft Bahamas subsidiary sells U.S developed product to Americans. -Microsoft Bahamas claims all profit. Microsoft America gets all Tax Credits.
And that's how they avoid paying taxes. It's legal. It might not be "right," but it's legal, and won't change until our nation's useless politicians do something about it. This debate has been going on for a decade or more.
My wife's uncle until recently had a series of Apple Orchards in Michigan, with the processing plant on the same road. For years, it's been seasonal labor harvesting apples, and the orchards selling to the plant.
His orchards are now plowed under because he can't compete with China. Apparently China can ship Apples to the United States, have them offloaded from a boat, trucked to Michigan, and delivered to this processing plant cheaper for less money than it costs the orchards across the road to harvest apples with seasonal (read: Mexicans) labor.
But understand this: China ordered 2-3 AP1000 plants from Westinghouse. Westinghouse built them, but concurrently sold the design for the AP1000 plant to China, knowing that China would steal the design anyway.
China intends to go fully nuclear, using the AP1000 design; their major hiccup is that their internal chinese suppliers - the same ones that WE use for non-nuclear power utilities. Chinese vendors forge parts. They forge forgings, as in "Fake forgings." WCC instead of LCC, calling coated nickel SA316, faking coupons and CMTRs - it's not only the US that Chinese vendors screw, it's also China.
Chiming in here because I used to be directly involved with this project.
Supplier delays come down to government regulation, ASME and NRC interference, and I offer this as an example:
-Congress had to approve the specific design plan for this plant (and every other plant). -ASME randomly updates a portion of Section 8 code that changes the definition of SA316SS. -Supplier tasked with supplying 316SS components finds out that these components are no longer viable due to the changed definition of the material. -ONE YEAR of back and forth between supplier (who purchased $2,000,000 worth of SA316 bar stock to fulfill builder requirements) and builder. -Builder eventually approves the use of replacement material. -NRC steps in and revokes approval, because the revision does not have Congressional approval.
In sum: -ASME committees report to no one, and make industry changing decisions ad-hoc. -Suppliers and builders are aiming at shifting targets in compliance. -Response time from NRC and ASME takes months and years. Send a clarification request to ASME? Response time: 1 year+. -NRC equally confused about ASME shifting requirements. -It takes an act of Congress to change any design parameters.
If you want to know why we cannot build nuclear facilities in our country, look no further than the mess we've made in South Carolina and Georgia. Years behind schedule and billions over budget because regulatory bodies keep changing the targets.
Jesse has a point, but only so far as he takes it across the board. If we're pushing for affirmative action in tech, then it should apply everywhere. Including professional sports. I think it's only fair that NBA teams show a mandatory 10% white men with equal playtime on the court, 10% asian, and 5% latino.
TBH, the only reason I want to get on first is to make sure I can put my one bag in the overhead luggage, instead of getting on late and having to explain to a bunch of yahoos that their purse/satchel/gift/other trash belongs under the seat in front of them and not overhead blocking a bag that doesn't fit under the seat.
This, 100%. I secretly want to scream at people when bring "one carryon" as a carryon suitcase that has to be slotted in the overhead sideways to fit, the little bag that fits over the handle to make it two bags, plus their purse, and a shopping bag.
I would prefer to sit in a lounge drinking a bloody mary, except if I wait to board until the rush is gone, my little travel bag won't fit into the overhead. And I'm a tall mother****er, so putting it under my seat means that I'm going to have to wheelchair my way out at the other end because my legs are so cramped.
Amazon gets $3.00. Hatchette gets $5.25. The author gets $1.75.
When you buy an e-book from Hatchette on Amazon for $10: Amazon gets $3.00. Hatchette gets $5.25. The author gets $1.50.
When you buy a self-published title on Amazon for $10: Amazon gets $7.00 The author gets $3.00.
Hatchette gets 52.5% of revenue from the work authors do. E-books, which have no cost of production or distribution net Hachette 52.5% of the author's work. Hatchette, along with the other big five publishers have posted record profits over the last few years.
If you understand revenue vs. profit: Hatchette is operating at the SAME net profit that Amazon is, ~$260m. Hatchette makes as much net profit as Amazon does, for doing a fraction of the business.
I can't go so far as to say that Amazon is trying to help authors with their demand for lower prices from Hatchette, but I *can* definitively say that I have zero sympathy for Hatchette. Whether Hatchette can reasonably be expected to cut into their absurdly record-setting profit levels by giving up a point or two of margin to keep Amazon as a supplier remains to be seen via these unresolved contract disputes.
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In 180ish comments, I didn't see anyone chuckle at "the girls...learnt more about coding."
So to summarize:
-30 kiddies make up the sample set.
-No controls on the experiment.
-No prevention on collusion.
-12 year old girls in the sample set develop more complex games than 12 year old boys in the sample set.
-Arbitrary measure of complexity for measure.
-12 year old literacy in the summary.
Yep, this is a scientific study that I'll be referencing.
ITT: Fools who are apoplectic over the idea of Apple exercising control of its app ecosystem and Microsoft bundling a browser with their OS find a way to contort themselves into the illogical stance that Google engaging in the same type of practices is "totally for our own good, fuck the EU."
You nerds never cease to amaze me.
IOS isn't free. Android is.
Windows isn't free. Google is.
Perhaps you forget that you couldn't uninstall IE, choice was hard to come by, and today is nothing like then. You can choose to not use Chrome easily. You can not use google easily.
An alternative to "Post-Facebook" is to not use an all-encompassing social media tool/website instead of replacing it with a clone that offers better privacy.
Also, this has useful information, including a Customer Average Frequency Index, which lets you measure your utility against others.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Houston Texas - Lightning Storm? Voltage Sag. Loss of power for long enough for all clocks in the house to go to 0:00, and for computers to turn off. Never longer than for 5-10 seconds.
-Since the electric motors draw more current when they are starting than when they are running at their rated speed, starting an electric motor can be a reason of a voltage sag.
-When a line-to-ground fault occurs, there will be a voltage sag until the protective switch gear operates.
-Some accidents in power lines such as lightning or falling an object can be a cause of line-to-ground fault and a voltage sag as a result.
-Sudden load changes or excessive loads can cause a voltage sag.
-Depending on the transformer connections, transformers energizing could be another reason for happening voltage sags.
-Voltage sags can arrive from the utility but most are caused by in-building equipment.
An actual power outage on the other hand can be caused by ANYTHING.
-Tree branch fell on a power line.
-Someone drove into a utility pole and broke a wire. Again with the Houston Texas example....I work in Oil and Gas, and my shop was out of power for 7 hours because someone ran into a utility pole on the corner of the street that leads to my office.
-Ground short.
-Transformer either on a line or at the utility shorts.
-Everything in between.
-All the way to emergency outage with the base load generator at whomever your power production company is.
Welp, since there's no PC version of Destiny.....me and mine won't be playing it.
It is important to keep in mind that there is no factual proof that he lost his offer of employment at UoMMC or his tenure at Wayne due to the comments on PubPeer. Sarkar's lawyer claims that the retraction letter from UoMMC says this is why, but has declined to offer the letter as proof.
All that is factually known at this time is that the scientific integrity of Sarkar's articles have come under scrutiny, and that a potential job at UoMMC didn't pan out for him.
I ran into this once, but with a different outcome. I was in college, on a date at the Outback Steakhouse, and a big fella was smoking in the restaurant, which was non-smoking. People were muttering, but no one directly said anything to him, probably because he was intimidating looking.
I went over to his table, and asked him to put his cigarette out because it was a non-smoking establishment. He looked me up and down, then took a long drag on his cigarette and blew it at me. When he put it back in his mouth, I reached over and plucked it from his mouth....I was young, in the army, on a date trying to impress....and so the only logical thing was obviously to grind the cigarette out on the palm of my hand while glaring at him.
On the plus side, most of the restaurant - servers included - applauded.
On the minus side, I still have a scar on my palm.
Just wait until next week, when they announce that cigarettes are actually good for us!
From the article:
"French artificial heart maker Carmat says it will not perform another human implant until it has determined the cause of death of the first patient fitted with the device."
Six months later: Implanting a new heart, despite still not knowing what happened the first time."
There will not be teeth to this. There are no teeth to any NATO measures.
The summary could just as easily read:
At the upcoming NATO meeting, according to the NY Times, the 28 member states are expected to talk about some shit that no one will do anything about. Not for the first time, they will pass a meaningless resolution without teeth that no one will pay attention to.
Here's a link to the Dorchester County Board of Education members. There's an e-mail address there where you can tell them what you think of them as well.
http://www.dcps.k12.md.us/Boar...
There's a difference between "best games" and "best games for friends."
For best games, you can't go wrong with old school RPGs from Squaresoft back in the day. Any of them. Particular favorites: Chronotrigger and Final Fantasy III.
For friends, get "Risk" the board game. Hours of fun.
RTFA.
-Microsoft develops product in U.S, generating tax credit for R&D.
-Microsoft shifts ownership, or "Profit Rights" of product off-shore, to say....The Bahamas.
-Microsoft Bahamas subsidiary sells U.S developed product to Americans.
-Microsoft Bahamas claims all profit. Microsoft America gets all Tax Credits.
And that's how they avoid paying taxes. It's legal. It might not be "right," but it's legal, and won't change until our nation's useless politicians do something about it. This debate has been going on for a decade or more.
No longer.
My wife's uncle until recently had a series of Apple Orchards in Michigan, with the processing plant on the same road. For years, it's been seasonal labor harvesting apples, and the orchards selling to the plant.
His orchards are now plowed under because he can't compete with China. Apparently China can ship Apples to the United States, have them offloaded from a boat, trucked to Michigan, and delivered to this processing plant cheaper for less money than it costs the orchards across the road to harvest apples with seasonal (read: Mexicans) labor.
China is having delays too.
But understand this: China ordered 2-3 AP1000 plants from Westinghouse. Westinghouse built them, but concurrently sold the design for the AP1000 plant to China, knowing that China would steal the design anyway.
China intends to go fully nuclear, using the AP1000 design; their major hiccup is that their internal chinese suppliers - the same ones that WE use for non-nuclear power utilities. Chinese vendors forge parts. They forge forgings, as in "Fake forgings." WCC instead of LCC, calling coated nickel SA316, faking coupons and CMTRs - it's not only the US that Chinese vendors screw, it's also China.
Hopefully Morgan Freeman will still be around to save us from ELE!
Seconded. Nothing like an article that makes a false assertion. =D
Are new Soy products going to unseat McDonalds' Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese as the world's tastiest burger?
Or since we're talking about bitcoins, how about this for a tag:
Will the increased discussions about bitcoin finally reveal it as the scam it is?
Chiming in here because I used to be directly involved with this project.
Supplier delays come down to government regulation, ASME and NRC interference, and I offer this as an example:
-Congress had to approve the specific design plan for this plant (and every other plant).
-ASME randomly updates a portion of Section 8 code that changes the definition of SA316SS.
-Supplier tasked with supplying 316SS components finds out that these components are no longer viable due to the changed definition of the material.
-ONE YEAR of back and forth between supplier (who purchased $2,000,000 worth of SA316 bar stock to fulfill builder requirements) and builder.
-Builder eventually approves the use of replacement material.
-NRC steps in and revokes approval, because the revision does not have Congressional approval.
In sum:
-ASME committees report to no one, and make industry changing decisions ad-hoc.
-Suppliers and builders are aiming at shifting targets in compliance.
-Response time from NRC and ASME takes months and years. Send a clarification request to ASME? Response time: 1 year+.
-NRC equally confused about ASME shifting requirements.
-It takes an act of Congress to change any design parameters.
If you want to know why we cannot build nuclear facilities in our country, look no further than the mess we've made in South Carolina and Georgia. Years behind schedule and billions over budget because regulatory bodies keep changing the targets.
Oh, and I think that every Society for Black Engineers needs a counterpart Society for White Engineers.
Jesse has a point, but only so far as he takes it across the board. If we're pushing for affirmative action in tech, then it should apply everywhere. Including professional sports. I think it's only fair that NBA teams show a mandatory 10% white men with equal playtime on the court, 10% asian, and 5% latino.
TBH, the only reason I want to get on first is to make sure I can put my one bag in the overhead luggage, instead of getting on late and having to explain to a bunch of yahoos that their purse/satchel/gift/other trash belongs under the seat in front of them and not overhead blocking a bag that doesn't fit under the seat.
This, 100%. I secretly want to scream at people when bring "one carryon" as a carryon suitcase that has to be slotted in the overhead sideways to fit, the little bag that fits over the handle to make it two bags, plus their purse, and a shopping bag.
I would prefer to sit in a lounge drinking a bloody mary, except if I wait to board until the rush is gone, my little travel bag won't fit into the overhead. And I'm a tall mother****er, so putting it under my seat means that I'm going to have to wheelchair my way out at the other end because my legs are so cramped.
When you buy a Hatchette book for $10 on Amazon:
Amazon gets $3.00.
Hatchette gets $5.25.
The author gets $1.75.
When you buy an e-book from Hatchette on Amazon for $10:
Amazon gets $3.00.
Hatchette gets $5.25.
The author gets $1.50.
When you buy a self-published title on Amazon for $10:
Amazon gets $7.00
The author gets $3.00.
Hatchette gets 52.5% of revenue from the work authors do.
E-books, which have no cost of production or distribution net Hachette 52.5% of the author's work.
Hatchette, along with the other big five publishers have posted record profits over the last few years.
If you understand revenue vs. profit: Hatchette is operating at the SAME net profit that Amazon is, ~$260m. Hatchette makes as much net profit as Amazon does, for doing a fraction of the business.
I can't go so far as to say that Amazon is trying to help authors with their demand for lower prices from Hatchette, but I *can* definitively say that I have zero sympathy for Hatchette. Whether Hatchette can reasonably be expected to cut into their absurdly record-setting profit levels by giving up a point or two of margin to keep Amazon as a supplier remains to be seen via these unresolved contract disputes.
I have a T-Shirt that I got from jinx.com that basically says that.
Front: Social Engineering Expert:
Back: Because there is no patch for human stupidity
As a former M1A1 tank driver...Give it to the commander and let him play with the toy...
As a former M1A2 tank commander, I resent your request you insensitive clod!