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I want a home that cooks and cleans. Cooks and cleans. I can take care of the rest.
I want a home that cooks and cleans. Cooks and cleans. I can take care of the rest.
It has pushed back against inequality, essentially redistributing income
So it is an income redistribution plan. What we really need is a prosperity plan and other than getting out of the way, that is not something government can do.
But banks have long relied on ATMs, and grocery stores, including Walmart, have deployed self-service checkouts.
In both cases, automation has resulted in both better customer service and lower labor costs. A higher minimum wage has made the fast food industry finally get off the dime. So to speak.
Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas.
It is now headline news when a software release works as designed.
Perhaps they should start with an annual walrus census (see story following this one).
Mass haulouts of Pacific walrus and stampede deaths are not new, not due to low ice cover
http://polarbearscience.com/20...
Large haulouts of walruses -- such as the one making news at Point Lay, Alaska on the Chukchi Sea (and which happened before back in 2009) -- are not a new phenomenon for this region over the last 45 years and thus cannot be due to low sea ice levels. Nor are deaths by stampede within these herds (composed primarily of females and their young) unusual, as a brief search of the literature reveals.
Includes references, links and copies of contemporary reports.
Isn't Sesame Street the original, and most successful, MOOC?
For another point of view
This week, Russ Roberts chatted with former Stanford professor and Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller about the present and future of online education.
http://www.econtalk.org/archiv...
Interestingly, six of Code.org's ten biggest donors are also Founders of Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us tech immigration reform PAC.
Why is this interesting?
Famous last words.
The rebar thing is important because the material being printed is great in compression but not so great in tension.
This post and the linked article say, "Because of the bug's severity, Microsoft is recommending that anyone who updated go and uninstall a couple of the specific updates, or rollback using Windows Restore."
I note that neither this post nor the linked article reference or link to a specific instruction from Microsoft. Is this a joke?
And all those great new Tesla batteries will cut the cost of producing steel in electric arc and induction furnaces. And then there's converting bauxite into aluminum.
Cars will be (almost) free. Bridges will be cheap. There will be an airplane in every garage. I can't wait.
It's really about Xbox. From the linked article
Microsoft is getting some free TV advertising by outfitting the tablets with sky-blue cases clearly labeled "Surface." But Microsoft's main motivation is what the Redmond, Wash., company receives from its partnership with the NFL: a reported $400 million, five-year deal. That includes interactive content to help sell Xbox home video game consoles.
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... ] When the regular season starts, Microsoft's Xbox Live network will offer services that include video feeds of game highlights and fantasy football data. Xbox owners will also gain access to NFL Sunday Ticket, the league's package of out-of-market game telecasts that was previously available only to DirecTV satellite service subscribers.
The reasons why are varied, but most come down to the perverse incentives driving research. Scientific journals typically view "positive" findings that announce a novel relationship or support a theoretical claim as more interesting than "negative" findings
This applies to all science, not just psychology.
The Martin JRM Mars has more impressive specs
General characteristics
o Crew: four (with accommodations for a second relief crew)
o Capacity: 133 troops, or 84 litter patients and 25 attendants
o Payload: 32,000 lb (15,000 kg) of cargo, including up to seven jeeps
o Length: 117 ft 3 in (35.74 m)
o Wingspan: 200 ft 0 in (60.96 m)
o Height: 38 ft 5 in (11.71 m)
o Wing area: 3,686 ft (342.4 mÂ)
o Empty weight: 75,573 lb (34,279 kg)
o Loaded weight: 90,000 lb (40,820 kg)
o Max. takeoff weight: 165,000 lb (74,800 kg)
o Powerplant: 4 x Wright R-3350-24WA Duplex Cyclone 18-cylinder radial engines, 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) each
Performance
o Maximum speed: 192 knots (221 mph, 356 km/h)
o Cruise speed: 165 knots (190 mph, 305 km/h)
o Range: 4,300 nautical miles (5,000 mi, 8,000 km)
o Service ceiling: 14,600 ft (4,450 m)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Still at work.
http://www.martinmars.com/airc...
Dynamically binding, you realize the magic. Statically binding, you see only the hierarchy.