Or, instead of trying to stop the earth from moving, consider the following:
3% of earth's above-water landmass is covered in urban areas. Counting any part of the earth's surface that has any human or agricultural footprint, 43% of the earth's land surface is "inhabited."
Instead of pouring national economy's resources into protecting a fraction of a fraction's percent of landmass, they could all just move somewhere else. 57% of the earth's land surface doesn't even have anyone on it to say otherwise.
They wouldn't even have to move around the world. You could stick the entire population of California, let alone just the Bay area into Montana, invite the ocean to sweep in and wash away the grime of the west coast, and turn Vegas and Phoenix into new port cities.
Seriously? Have you never had a four hour Halo/CoD/pick-your-pleasure "OMGWTFBBQPWNED HEADSHOT BITCH TEABAG TEABAG YOUR MAWM SUCKS MY BALLS LOLWUT ORLY YOU STUPID NOOB I JUST KILLED YOU" marathon and THEN tried to go perpetrate real world violence?
San Francisco is becoming a city without a middle class.
Most people who work for Google, Apple, etc. are middle class. Sure a few of them got in early and made a bundle on stock options, but most are just well paid but still very much middle class.
You must not read slash-dot.
Go back a couple pages to the article about Obama giving a speech to migratory workers in an Amazon warehouse about how their minimum wage, unsecured, manual-labor intensive jobs are his vision of middle-class.
If you're not a part-time or temp worker making minimum wage, you're not part of the 99% anymore.
I don't think multi-tasking is the right conclusion to make here.
The human brain can process ~450 words per minute. The human mouth speaks at ~60 words per minute. If you've ever watched or participated in collegiate debate, that is why most debaters speak so quickly; people can process input faster than others can verbally output.
I can write 15-25 words per minute. I can type 90-105 words per minute.
If you're talking to me, and I'm taking notes via penmanship, I need to carefully listen and process everything you say in order to pick and choose words to write that will convey the meaning of your message. I can't write as fast as you can talk. When I type, I can word for word record every syllable of our conversation, at conversational or lecture speed.
One of these activities requires listening, comprehension, simplification, translation and reference recording notes. One of these activities requires listening and muscle memory.
Which activity does common sense suggests leaves more of an impact in my short term or long term memory?
So it's not wrong for your wife to lie to and cheat on you, since it's not illegal?
Bad analogy.
Better analogy: You're cheating on your wife. I tell your wife that you're cheating on her. Am I wrong? Analogy +1: In this case, you're the government and the wife is the American people. As it happens, you've made a law that no one is allowed to disclose if you cheat on your wife. Analogy +2: Our marriage contract says that you don't have the power to make that law.
So: You've broken our marriage contract by making a law stating that no one can tell anyone if you cheated on your wife. Then you cheated on your wife, breaking the covenant of marriage. Then you locked up the guy who tattled that you cheated on your wife.
Torture has come so far in the last 200 years that when the defendant gets dragged into the court room, there isn't even visible evidence of Iron Maiden puncture marks, the flopping limbs that come from the rack, the rapid flinching from water boarding, or the glossy eyed stare from being subjected to countless hours of network TV.
It would be nice if online accounts like this had some sort of "longevity health" that was a function of how often they were updated (and when they were last updated). Every tweet, for example, would add some length of time onto the lifespan of an account, based on some kind of metric on how often people should be interacting with their stream (ie. 1/day or something like that).
When a user does not log into their account, a clock ticks down and when it hits zero, the account is archived and deactivated. The user can "reset" the countdown by logging into their account. And the more interacting they do while logged in the longer the countdown lasts while they are logged out.
May not be the best implementation, but it would just be nice to see some kind of auto-culling behavior on networks like these. Not just for spammers but for people who create an account, send three tweets about "what do I do on here?" and then never log in again. #namespacewaste
Various MMOs have tried this; logging, captchas, interactive buttons to push on the screen to ensure you're online and not a bot....
All that really happens is that a few lines get rewritten in a bot to make it click the right place on the screen, or log-in every 24 hours, etc.
every other candidate self-destructed as an actual looney or otherwise unsuited to lead.
Disagree. Our extremely liberal media worked hard to discredit conservative candidates to turn the race into Obama vs. a middling flip-flopper. Don't forget that Obama is a flip-flopper too. Look at his senatorial run - his votes primarily consisted of "present." He didn't vote "yes" or "no" to anything for fear of taking the side of anything that might later be construed as the wrong side. Even during his campaign, his affected opinions were presented to him by his staff, and changed enough that "Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry could have been his theme song.
I'm extremely conservative. Don't confuse that with Republican.
In the last election, I voted for Obama. I firmly believed, and still do that both candidates would follow approximately the same course in office. I disagree with that course, and realize that if a labeled "Republican" were in office doing what Obama is doing now, the Republican party would take the blame for it.
If either candidate is going to pursue an evil agenda, I would choose to put a Democrat into office to pursue it, in hopes that his evil agenda will push future opinion towards bringing a conservative candidate to the forefront.
It's not prior art that concerns me, it's the intentional rewriting of history.
History 101, post Bill-Gates Video Learning:
Final Exam Essay: Describe the Battle of Waterloo:
In 1815, an Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Jean-Claude Van Damm was defeated by the armies of the Dirrrty South, comprised of a coalition of Lil Jon and East Side Boyz, Britney Spears, and Leonidas' 300. Emperor Van Damm's Universal Soldiers blitzkrieged the 300, who's phalanx withstood repeated attacks until Lil Jon got crunk up in there and broke through and skeeted up the French lines. Britney Spears' forces then hit that baby one more time.
Mozilla isn't making ads go away. They will remain. However, they will no longer be invasive or able to track you. Ads will pay for content like they always have.
HeLa didn't give permission for the cells to be harvested because (FTFA) it was neither required nor even customary in 1952. Laws change. Humanity is not positioned to retroactively go back to the beginning of recorded history to attempt to "correct" everything that should be different had that law existed in the first place.
Mathematically speaking I would think that it's impossible that all bugs will get caught eventually, no ?
Night 0 : 100 bedbugs run around
Night 1 : 100 *.77 bugs get caught, 100 *.23 remain Night 2 : (100 *.23 ) *.77 bugs get caught, (100 *.23) *.23 remain... Night n : 100 * (.23 ^ n) bugs remain...
So you'll get an asymptote that borders on catching them all, but not ever really... Especially as we're not taking into account that the remaining bugs will probably multiply...
But I agree that for 'whole numbers of bedbugs' n should be smallish... might make a nice spreadsheet/graph to figure out, especially if you add variables like how long it takes for them to reproduce etc...
No trap can fix that. When:
Night n : 100 * (.23 ^ n) bugs remain = 1, the remaining bed bug is the Chuck Norris of the bedbug world. The only logical outcome is that you'll wake up on night n+1 to find yourself in that upside down black bowl.
1. Sit down on any unlocked computer. 2. Download and install Chrome. 3. Import IE/Mozilla bookmarks/saved info to Chrome. 4. Go to Chrome Settings. 5. Click "Managed Saved Passwords" 6. Passwords shown in clear text (verified) 7. Passwords are imported into Chrome from other browsers in clear text?
How many times have you seen someone respond to IRC, forum post, thread, etc with something along the following lines:
"The person disagreeing with me is 15 year old acne-crusted, coke-glasses-wearing, living in his mother's basement loser with no social life and blah blah blah....."
Reading Michael Hayden feels like reading an internet troll. I don't know if he's doing it because he's dumb troll, or because he used to be one of those 15 year old acne crusted, coke-glasses-wearing, living in his mother's basement loser with no social life before getting into the NSA so he could change venue to live in a government basement.
I learned in my mid-20s that money isn't everything - I took a job offer paying just shy of six figures, and was miserable. Miserable working conditions, miserable co-workers, office politics, backstabbing, crummy working space...I won't go into details, but a lot wasn't right.
Today, I'm still a project manager, I make less money than I did then (even less when allowing for inflation), but my co-workers are great, my team is professional where it counts, I'm valued for my contributions.....
There are many surveys out there detailing the amount of people unhappy with their work, or career, or workplace....enjoying what you do, where you do it, and who you're doing it with is definitely more valuable than a bigger paycheck.
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Or, instead of trying to stop the earth from moving, consider the following:
3% of earth's above-water landmass is covered in urban areas.
Counting any part of the earth's surface that has any human or agricultural footprint, 43% of the earth's land surface is "inhabited."
Instead of pouring national economy's resources into protecting a fraction of a fraction's percent of landmass, they could all just move somewhere else. 57% of the earth's land surface doesn't even have anyone on it to say otherwise.
They wouldn't even have to move around the world. You could stick the entire population of California, let alone just the Bay area into Montana, invite the ocean to sweep in and wash away the grime of the west coast, and turn Vegas and Phoenix into new port cities.
Actually, salesforce.com isn't really for outside sales / door to door salesmen.
I don't know who all their customers are, but I used to work for Ricoh, and now work for GE; the sales communities at both companies use it.
Seriously? Have you never had a four hour Halo/CoD/pick-your-pleasure "OMGWTFBBQPWNED HEADSHOT BITCH TEABAG TEABAG YOUR MAWM SUCKS MY BALLS LOLWUT ORLY YOU STUPID NOOB I JUST KILLED YOU" marathon and THEN tried to go perpetrate real world violence?
You're just too tired.
San Francisco is becoming a city without a middle class.
Most people who work for Google, Apple, etc. are middle class. Sure a few of them got in early and made a bundle on stock options, but most are just well paid but still very much middle class.
You must not read slash-dot.
Go back a couple pages to the article about Obama giving a speech to migratory workers in an Amazon warehouse about how their minimum wage, unsecured, manual-labor intensive jobs are his vision of middle-class.
If you're not a part-time or temp worker making minimum wage, you're not part of the 99% anymore.
You're commenting on the age old disconnect between managers and leaders.
Nothing new there.
I don't think multi-tasking is the right conclusion to make here.
The human brain can process ~450 words per minute.
The human mouth speaks at ~60 words per minute.
If you've ever watched or participated in collegiate debate, that is why most debaters speak so quickly; people can process input faster than others can verbally output.
I can write 15-25 words per minute.
I can type 90-105 words per minute.
If you're talking to me, and I'm taking notes via penmanship, I need to carefully listen and process everything you say in order to pick and choose words to write that will convey the meaning of your message. I can't write as fast as you can talk. When I type, I can word for word record every syllable of our conversation, at conversational or lecture speed.
One of these activities requires listening, comprehension, simplification, translation and reference recording notes.
One of these activities requires listening and muscle memory.
Which activity does common sense suggests leaves more of an impact in my short term or long term memory?
So it's not wrong for your wife to lie to and cheat on you, since it's not illegal?
Bad analogy.
Better analogy: You're cheating on your wife. I tell your wife that you're cheating on her. Am I wrong?
Analogy +1: In this case, you're the government and the wife is the American people. As it happens, you've made a law that no one is allowed to disclose if you cheat on your wife.
Analogy +2: Our marriage contract says that you don't have the power to make that law.
So: You've broken our marriage contract by making a law stating that no one can tell anyone if you cheated on your wife. Then you cheated on your wife, breaking the covenant of marriage. Then you locked up the guy who tattled that you cheated on your wife.
Who's in the wrong here?
Torture has come so far in the last 200 years that when the defendant gets dragged into the court room, there isn't even visible evidence of Iron Maiden puncture marks, the flopping limbs that come from the rack, the rapid flinching from water boarding, or the glossy eyed stare from being subjected to countless hours of network TV.
It would be nice if online accounts like this had some sort of "longevity health" that was a function of how often they were updated (and when they were last updated). Every tweet, for example, would add some length of time onto the lifespan of an account, based on some kind of metric on how often people should be interacting with their stream (ie. 1/day or something like that).
When a user does not log into their account, a clock ticks down and when it hits zero, the account is archived and deactivated. The user can "reset" the countdown by logging into their account. And the more interacting they do while logged in the longer the countdown lasts while they are logged out.
May not be the best implementation, but it would just be nice to see some kind of auto-culling behavior on networks like these. Not just for spammers but for people who create an account, send three tweets about "what do I do on here?" and then never log in again. #namespacewaste
Various MMOs have tried this; logging, captchas, interactive buttons to push on the screen to ensure you're online and not a bot....
All that really happens is that a few lines get rewritten in a bot to make it click the right place on the screen, or log-in every 24 hours, etc.
When the dust settles, the 50 people using twitter will be grateful that the bots have been kicked off their lawn.
every other candidate self-destructed as an actual looney or otherwise unsuited to lead.
Disagree. Our extremely liberal media worked hard to discredit conservative candidates to turn the race into Obama vs. a middling flip-flopper. Don't forget that Obama is a flip-flopper too. Look at his senatorial run - his votes primarily consisted of "present." He didn't vote "yes" or "no" to anything for fear of taking the side of anything that might later be construed as the wrong side. Even during his campaign, his affected opinions were presented to him by his staff, and changed enough that "Hot and Cold" by Katy Perry could have been his theme song.
I'm extremely conservative. Don't confuse that with Republican.
In the last election, I voted for Obama. I firmly believed, and still do that both candidates would follow approximately the same course in office. I disagree with that course, and realize that if a labeled "Republican" were in office doing what Obama is doing now, the Republican party would take the blame for it.
If either candidate is going to pursue an evil agenda, I would choose to put a Democrat into office to pursue it, in hopes that his evil agenda will push future opinion towards bringing a conservative candidate to the forefront.
It's not prior art that concerns me, it's the intentional rewriting of history.
History 101, post Bill-Gates Video Learning:
Final Exam Essay: Describe the Battle of Waterloo:
In 1815, an Imperial French army under the command of Emperor Jean-Claude Van Damm was defeated by the armies of the Dirrrty South, comprised of a coalition of Lil Jon and East Side Boyz, Britney Spears, and Leonidas' 300. Emperor Van Damm's Universal Soldiers blitzkrieged the 300, who's phalanx withstood repeated attacks until Lil Jon got crunk up in there and broke through and skeeted up the French lines. Britney Spears' forces then hit that baby one more time.
Citation: Video textbook.
You seem to be confused.
Mozilla isn't making ads go away. They will remain. However, they will no longer be invasive or able to track you. Ads will pay for content like they always have.
Having never snorted hot coffee onto my keyboard before, I'll mark that one off my bucket list now....
HeLa didn't give permission for the cells to be harvested because (FTFA) it was neither required nor even customary in 1952. Laws change. Humanity is not positioned to retroactively go back to the beginning of recorded history to attempt to "correct" everything that should be different had that law existed in the first place.
I think Al Gore has a lock box full of tubes that has room to store this. Lock boxes are safer than tunnels.
If the man is too strung out he obviously needs to refocus his efforts into personal cloning. Imagine what an army of Elon Musks could do.
Mathematically speaking I would think that it's impossible that all bugs will get caught eventually, no ?
Night 0 : 100 bedbugs run around
Night 1 : 100 * .77 bugs get caught, 100 * .23 remain .23 ) * .77 bugs get caught, (100 * .23) *.23 remain ...
Night 2 : (100 *
Night n : 100 * (.23 ^ n) bugs remain...
So you'll get an asymptote that borders on catching them all, but not ever really... Especially as we're not taking into account that the remaining bugs will probably multiply...
But I agree that for 'whole numbers of bedbugs' n should be smallish... might make a nice spreadsheet/graph to figure out, especially if you add variables like how long it takes for them to reproduce etc ...
No trap can fix that. When:
Night n : 100 * (.23 ^ n) bugs remain = 1, the remaining bed bug is the Chuck Norris of the bedbug world. The only logical outcome is that you'll wake up on night n+1 to find yourself in that upside down black bowl.
Let me get this right....
1. Sit down on any unlocked computer.
2. Download and install Chrome.
3. Import IE/Mozilla bookmarks/saved info to Chrome.
4. Go to Chrome Settings.
5. Click "Managed Saved Passwords"
6. Passwords shown in clear text (verified)
7. Passwords are imported into Chrome from other browsers in clear text?
That's awful.
The joke is on Mr. Hayden. Calling upstairs for your mom to bring you dinner totally counts as talking to members of the opposite sex.
How many times have you seen someone respond to IRC, forum post, thread, etc with something along the following lines:
"The person disagreeing with me is 15 year old acne-crusted, coke-glasses-wearing, living in his mother's basement loser with no social life and blah blah blah....."
Reading Michael Hayden feels like reading an internet troll. I don't know if he's doing it because he's dumb troll, or because he used to be one of those 15 year old acne crusted, coke-glasses-wearing, living in his mother's basement loser with no social life before getting into the NSA so he could change venue to live in a government basement.
Seconded.
I learned in my mid-20s that money isn't everything - I took a job offer paying just shy of six figures, and was miserable. Miserable working conditions, miserable co-workers, office politics, backstabbing, crummy working space...I won't go into details, but a lot wasn't right.
Today, I'm still a project manager, I make less money than I did then (even less when allowing for inflation), but my co-workers are great, my team is professional where it counts, I'm valued for my contributions.....
There are many surveys out there detailing the amount of people unhappy with their work, or career, or workplace....enjoying what you do, where you do it, and who you're doing it with is definitely more valuable than a bigger paycheck.
Forgive me while I make googly eyes at the three digit dinosaur. O.O
What you call classical, I call contemporary. Git off mah lawn.