I wouldn't be quiiiite that generous though I agree on the whole. But I think publicly announced raw data of this sort (very uncontrolled and could mean a wide wide range of different things) will be terrible. Why? Because the general populace is stupid. BUT mama-bears that want the best for their kids will turn it into a horrible horrible witch hunt. And it will just make a lot of teachers quit rather than improve.
So instead of crushing a bunch of teachers and be forced to spend lots extra retraining/educating new teachers and having to increase wages. Why not use this as the starting point for a study? Find out what they are doing and retrain current teachers. It may be a bunch of small things you can teach in a month during the summer.
Survival of the fittest while cruel would be effective. BUT it would cost way more to do it that way.
If my goal was to build the worlds fastest car would you be pissed at me building a car seat? It isn't exciting as a new engine or anything like that but they have to make one.
Also, their launch costs (listed on their site) to LEO are $2.3k/lb for cargo ($5.5k/lb to GTO). They aren't sending people up yet since their spacecraft isn't ready yet. And coincidentally this story is about them currently working on the dragon spacecraft (which is what they are sending people up in). So they ARE working on exactly what you want.....
They are actually bragging that a customer reached 2.7TB on their slow line saying that even our slow line is good for mega users. Too much North American news made you jump to conclusions a bit.
Uhhh I don't get 5~7 9s of uptime on my ISP you? I also don't get and fancy ass hosting stuff.
http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/ = $0.002/GB and that is a hosting solution not simply a line you get to use as an ISP is (also it is 50% off atm). Comes with a computer and all that shit... and given that this is an ISP they likely pay even less than this. (BTW when i started looking I expected to find like $0.02/GB which is sorta normal... I've no idea how 100tb can possibly exist without crushing its competition or going bankrupt)
Compared to Myers who apparently writes stories slamming third hand information? Seriously, that should completely invalidate almost all of Myer's arguments in general. If he doesn't bother checking sources, uses poor sources and proceeds without any caution. His points are going to be widely invalidated.
Kurzweil might come to the wrong conclusions but so what? That is wishful thinking at worst. At least he seems to do lots of research and is very well read.
A certain chunk of users on/. can't follow a story unless it has the word Apple or i___ in it or the story contains some highly reflective surface. Once in a while they will read something about the economy until they realize that Jobs was referring to reality not their glorious leader. Seriously this story has nothing to do with the iPhone at all.
I think he was being pessimistic about American security policies. Planes are a pain in the ass to use because of the retarded security in the states. Trains seem so much more efficient because that isn't there 'just look at that train in italy...' when it could really be that the US will just suck and ruin trains as well.
"... Cities can not support themselves. They require trains, trucks and ships to get food and supplies. A city without a transportation network is a tomb."
False assertion we'd still have those things. Fallacy dichotomy, the options aren't roads vs trains we can still have roads just less vehicles on them. Look at asia as a model. BTW you can ship supplies by train, really quite efficient so you know.
"Rural areas are generally capable of becoming self sufficient if need be in practically no time at all."
Red herring fallacy, we aren't in an end of times doomsday. This is totally irrelevant.
"Cities are in no way efficient, pretty much everything about them is inefficient."
Appeal to wishful thinking. It is false and not cited. Cities are far more efficient. They have economies of scale on their side. In well designed cities people can even walk to work. At least they have a bus service. A single building supports many more people and so on.
"You think because its only a short distance to where YOU get your supplies that it is efficient, and that is ignorant." Wrong. Shipments even done by truck are more efficient than the hundreds of people individually going further to get the product. A semi holds 100,000lbs of stuff which might mean 20,000customers, a semi gets 6mpg vs the individuals at 20... So the truck has to be going 5000x as far compared to individuals for the two parts to even out. (The sad part is that its far worse than that ratio in the country which you are suggesting people live in due to not being able to use a whole semi worth of stuff).
"You have to supply water, food and energy from the city. In rural areas where density is sustainable, one can provide all 3 for themselves. A major city on the other hand has to ship in all of those things from remote areas."
Red herring again same as before. Also probably wrong. Water treatment in the city is an efficiency gain over doing it yourself in the country. Also you seem to believe rural areas won't need crap shipped to them which is funny. The world of today is a huge interconnected net of reliance to live as we do.
"Its not that I'm going to 'get you wrong' its that you are wrong because you have no concept of how quickly your life would be over if you had to use the same set of resources as those that you are seem to think you're paying for luxuries for."
Appeal to emotion fallacy. Ugh, what seriously makes you think we'll all die if 50% of the people in rural areas moved to cities.
"You pay a tiny increase on a phone bill to a company that is completely ripping you off... and in exchange, they get Internet and phone... and you don't die in 3 days because they stopped giving a shit about feeding your ignorant selfish ass when they stopped communicating with you."
Fucking crazy person fallacy.:/ I've lost all track of what your argument might be.
Completely wrong. City dwellers produce more money and less carbon. And country folk won't be getting gouged. Currently they are riding the gravy train of subsidies. Ending some of those might suck for them but I sure as hell wouldn't call it getting gouged.
Feel free to increase the cost of the things on that list though, I imagine that they will go up. But you realize this is what you are saying there:
"Oh my god! If you stop giving us money to artificially lower prices then you'll have to pay more for the stuff!".
In first year i was sitting on a bench at mac studying for a calc exam and this nosy old guy sat beside me and asked what i was studying. After a few minutes of talking about the course/book I noticed he started subtly defending it. Turns out the guy wrote the book and he never mentioned it the whole time.
Sidenote: Its actually a pretty good calc text. Cheaper would be nice. And the many editions seems like a money grab.
Weirdly enough meeting coding standards set out in HTML is almost always good enough. Keep style separate from content. Have alt text for images. Braille readers will be able to ignore the css and make all that html goodness meaningful.
Government + gov affiliated + gov contracted sites should have a legal mandate to provide minimal accessibility. Other sites should get peer pressure. Paying to have good free tools developed to make this trivially easy to set up for private companies will probably be the most effective route though.
Well Barrie is by far the largest city on that list though. I'd even call it a city! I'm sure its population is similar to or greater than all the other towns on the list combined. And when you look at it from a global point of view it probably is around 5000th for city population.
If you think of it like stepmania or any timing game it is pretty easy. You pretty much have one button to press every 1-1.5seconds depending on gear. Better still you can spam buttons so you don't need timing. So it is more like hitting a button within 1.5seconds taking away the timing needed. If you l2 play your class (re. spend 10minutes at elitistjerks) and learn what your optimal rotation is then choosing which button to press isn't too tough since almost all classes work on an attack priority list. After that it is just moving out of fire/goo/acid and hitting the correct target.
The only thing outside of a raid that you do is make sure you repair and have potions/flasks on you and equip w/e the best gear your spreadsheet tells you to. I suppose making sure your lag isn't horrible is good too.
Doing just that when I'm dpsing I on average hit 150% what people in similar gear do. Last night I flat out doubled the dps of someone with better gear than me in one of the top raiding guilds on my terrible server (with 390ping).
Sidenote: Skill in wow is dealing with people, making them stick together and gathering a group that isn't terrible. If you are harsh and toss people that are really bad (re 4k dps in icc) people start to notice that your groups succeed.
Sidesidenote: PVP is still hard since it scales to your skill level. Good at arena and you face other good players. Good at BGs and you can face the whole enemy team if you want to. Buuut blizzard's unending upward spiral of gear has made fights last about 2seconds unless you have like 1k resilience. And stuns are horribly broken (they take away any need for skill since there is NOTHING your opponent can to to avoid death after they've used their trinket... so you can just use your stun/kill rotation).
To people that don't live in Ontario they could think TFA is referring to cities with a million people when they are more like... 20,000 people. Don't expect high-rises with 500 wireless routers in them like you would in a proper city.
Seriously? We have a Mac lab @ my uni which people use to play flash games on and browse email because they have giant ass glossy panel screens. Linux machines get the old shitty hardware. Really biased:S. Pretty sure the linux lab cost 1/8th that of the mac lab. But even so no body does work on them...
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I wouldn't be quiiiite that generous though I agree on the whole. But I think publicly announced raw data of this sort (very uncontrolled and could mean a wide wide range of different things) will be terrible. Why? Because the general populace is stupid. BUT mama-bears that want the best for their kids will turn it into a horrible horrible witch hunt. And it will just make a lot of teachers quit rather than improve.
So instead of crushing a bunch of teachers and be forced to spend lots extra retraining/educating new teachers and having to increase wages. Why not use this as the starting point for a study? Find out what they are doing and retrain current teachers. It may be a bunch of small things you can teach in a month during the summer.
Survival of the fittest while cruel would be effective. BUT it would cost way more to do it that way.
Meh to the teacher's union being the sole problem.
"You get what you pay for!"
True, but I'd be making damn certain to double check any information he uses or asserts as factual.
If my goal was to build the worlds fastest car would you be pissed at me building a car seat? It isn't exciting as a new engine or anything like that but they have to make one.
Also, their launch costs (listed on their site) to LEO are $2.3k/lb for cargo ($5.5k/lb to GTO). They aren't sending people up yet since their spacecraft isn't ready yet. And coincidentally this story is about them currently working on the dragon spacecraft (which is what they are sending people up in). So they ARE working on exactly what you want.....
And that is counting upstream only. And the punishment is a warning unless you do it repeatedly.
They are actually bragging that a customer reached 2.7TB on their slow line saying that even our slow line is good for mega users. Too much North American news made you jump to conclusions a bit.
Thats only NTT, most don't.
Uhhh I don't get 5~7 9s of uptime on my ISP you? I also don't get and fancy ass hosting stuff.
http://www.100tb.com/dedicated-hosting/ = $0.002/GB and that is a hosting solution not simply a line you get to use as an ISP is (also it is 50% off atm). Comes with a computer and all that shit... and given that this is an ISP they likely pay even less than this. (BTW when i started looking I expected to find like $0.02/GB which is sorta normal... I've no idea how 100tb can possibly exist without crushing its competition or going bankrupt)
Compared to Myers who apparently writes stories slamming third hand information? Seriously, that should completely invalidate almost all of Myer's arguments in general. If he doesn't bother checking sources, uses poor sources and proceeds without any caution. His points are going to be widely invalidated.
Kurzweil might come to the wrong conclusions but so what? That is wishful thinking at worst. At least he seems to do lots of research and is very well read.
A certain chunk of users on /. can't follow a story unless it has the word Apple or i___ in it or the story contains some highly reflective surface. Once in a while they will read something about the economy until they realize that Jobs was referring to reality not their glorious leader. Seriously this story has nothing to do with the iPhone at all.
I think he was being pessimistic about American security policies. Planes are a pain in the ass to use because of the retarded security in the states. Trains seem so much more efficient because that isn't there 'just look at that train in italy...' when it could really be that the US will just suck and ruin trains as well.
"... Cities can not support themselves. They require trains, trucks and ships to get food and supplies. A city without a transportation network is a tomb."
... and in exchange, they get Internet and phone ... and you don't die in 3 days because they stopped giving a shit about feeding your ignorant selfish ass when they stopped communicating with you."
:/ I've lost all track of what your argument might be.
False assertion we'd still have those things.
Fallacy dichotomy, the options aren't roads vs trains we can still have roads just less vehicles on them. Look at asia as a model. BTW you can ship supplies by train, really quite efficient so you know.
"Rural areas are generally capable of becoming self sufficient if need be in practically no time at all."
Red herring fallacy, we aren't in an end of times doomsday. This is totally irrelevant.
"Cities are in no way efficient, pretty much everything about them is inefficient."
Appeal to wishful thinking. It is false and not cited. Cities are far more efficient. They have economies of scale on their side. In well designed cities people can even walk to work. At least they have a bus service. A single building supports many more people and so on.
"You think because its only a short distance to where YOU get your supplies that it is efficient, and that is ignorant."
Wrong. Shipments even done by truck are more efficient than the hundreds of people individually going further to get the product. A semi holds 100,000lbs of stuff which might mean 20,000customers, a semi gets 6mpg vs the individuals at 20... So the truck has to be going 5000x as far compared to individuals for the two parts to even out. (The sad part is that its far worse than that ratio in the country which you are suggesting people live in due to not being able to use a whole semi worth of stuff).
"You have to supply water, food and energy from the city. In rural areas where density is sustainable, one can provide all 3 for themselves. A major city on the other hand has to ship in all of those things from remote areas."
Red herring again same as before. Also probably wrong. Water treatment in the city is an efficiency gain over doing it yourself in the country. Also you seem to believe rural areas won't need crap shipped to them which is funny. The world of today is a huge interconnected net of reliance to live as we do.
"Its not that I'm going to 'get you wrong' its that you are wrong because you have no concept of how quickly your life would be over if you had to use the same set of resources as those that you are seem to think you're paying for luxuries for."
Appeal to emotion fallacy. Ugh, what seriously makes you think we'll all die if 50% of the people in rural areas moved to cities.
"You pay a tiny increase on a phone bill to a company that is completely ripping you off
Fucking crazy person fallacy.
Your whole line of thought hurt my brain.
Completely wrong. City dwellers produce more money and less carbon. And country folk won't be getting gouged. Currently they are riding the gravy train of subsidies. Ending some of those might suck for them but I sure as hell wouldn't call it getting gouged.
Feel free to increase the cost of the things on that list though, I imagine that they will go up. But you realize this is what you are saying there:
"Oh my god! If you stop giving us money to artificially lower prices then you'll have to pay more for the stuff!".
Resulting in absolutely nothing.
In first year i was sitting on a bench at mac studying for a calc exam and this nosy old guy sat beside me and asked what i was studying. After a few minutes of talking about the course/book I noticed he started subtly defending it. Turns out the guy wrote the book and he never mentioned it the whole time.
Sidenote: Its actually a pretty good calc text. Cheaper would be nice. And the many editions seems like a money grab.
Net Neutrality would force all ISPs to allow in home servers. (though maybe not on port 80)
Weirdly enough meeting coding standards set out in HTML is almost always good enough. Keep style separate from content. Have alt text for images. Braille readers will be able to ignore the css and make all that html goodness meaningful.
Government + gov affiliated + gov contracted sites should have a legal mandate to provide minimal accessibility. Other sites should get peer pressure. Paying to have good free tools developed to make this trivially easy to set up for private companies will probably be the most effective route though.
Well Barrie is by far the largest city on that list though. I'd even call it a city! I'm sure its population is similar to or greater than all the other towns on the list combined. And when you look at it from a global point of view it probably is around 5000th for city population.
If you think of it like stepmania or any timing game it is pretty easy. You pretty much have one button to press every 1-1.5seconds depending on gear. Better still you can spam buttons so you don't need timing. So it is more like hitting a button within 1.5seconds taking away the timing needed. If you l2 play your class (re. spend 10minutes at elitistjerks) and learn what your optimal rotation is then choosing which button to press isn't too tough since almost all classes work on an attack priority list. After that it is just moving out of fire/goo/acid and hitting the correct target.
The only thing outside of a raid that you do is make sure you repair and have potions/flasks on you and equip w/e the best gear your spreadsheet tells you to. I suppose making sure your lag isn't horrible is good too.
Doing just that when I'm dpsing I on average hit 150% what people in similar gear do. Last night I flat out doubled the dps of someone with better gear than me in one of the top raiding guilds on my terrible server (with 390ping).
Sidenote: Skill in wow is dealing with people, making them stick together and gathering a group that isn't terrible. If you are harsh and toss people that are really bad (re 4k dps in icc) people start to notice that your groups succeed.
Sidesidenote: PVP is still hard since it scales to your skill level. Good at arena and you face other good players. Good at BGs and you can face the whole enemy team if you want to. Buuut blizzard's unending upward spiral of gear has made fights last about 2seconds unless you have like 1k resilience. And stuns are horribly broken (they take away any need for skill since there is NOTHING your opponent can to to avoid death after they've used their trinket... so you can just use your stun/kill rotation).
"that many holes" I doubt one or two tiny holes per school that may or may not be necessary will effect the air quality enough to have an effect.
To people that don't live in Ontario they could think TFA is referring to cities with a million people when they are more like... 20,000 people. Don't expect high-rises with 500 wireless routers in them like you would in a proper city.
If they are drilling that many holes to install WIRELESS routers they are seriously doing it wrong.
The places listed are kinda .... undeveloped. But even so they have plenty of wifi there.
Fine if you want to find something. How about doing analysis on 30things at once?
Seriously? We have a Mac lab @ my uni which people use to play flash games on and browse email because they have giant ass glossy panel screens. Linux machines get the old shitty hardware. Really biased :S. Pretty sure the linux lab cost 1/8th that of the mac lab. But even so no body does work on them...