Sounds like this guy's plan was a bit too large in scale.
Wait was that a pun? I thought this was the pun thread?
Perhaps your pun was just carp. Or maybe I am just being a pike-r.
With all of this angling for puns, it's time to give this thread the hook.
teachers, in general, don't get paid what they would if they were in *any* related industry. As a result, most of the people you get who teach do so because they *want* to be teachers.
That's one way of looking at it. The other way of looking at it, is that by not paying teachers very much, the teachers you get are the ones that couldn't do any better (i.e. they are worse than the teachers you would get if you doubled teacher salaries and could attract better talent).
You can't get a *babysitter* for $1.08/hour (it's actually illegal to pay them that little)
You can't pay a teacher $1.08 an hour either... I'm not sure where or why the jump from $1.08/student/hour to $1.08/hour happened...
If we paid teachers $10/student per hour, they'd be making $300/hour which would probably be more than what the CEO of the company I work for makes. So really it makes sense that the $/student/hour number would seem low given that you need to multiply by 30 to get the hourly wage.
In addition, teachers get 3+ months paid time off each year when you factor in federal and state holidays, winter vacation, spring break, summer vacation, etc. This is a major benefit that is very rarely factored into the salary equation...
And unfortunately, this is why the reliability of the Nissan Pathfinder has become utter shit. I wanted to buy a 2014 model, but the horrific reviews of failing transmissions at 30k miles scared me and many others off. For good reason I might add.
I had the 2013 Murano which came out with CVT. 2013-2015 models had CVT problems. Nissan has pretty much solved this and have since added the CVT to even more models. I did lose my transfer case when it was 8 years old and that is still a weak point today for the Murano.
Its one of the reasons why I replaced it with a Jeep last year. The Jeep Grand Cherokee has an 8-speed transmission. The Cherokee now has a 9-speed transmission. At the time that I was researching the Jeep, ZF was saying that they were working on a 10-speed transmission. With that many shift points, they rival CVT in regards to being in the most efficient power band. Only time will tell if these transmissions will be more reliable than the CVT.
When I find open source programs that I use on a daily basis, I will usually donate money instead of time. I spend enough time on the computer at work as it is.
I used to contribute, 7 or 8 years ago, to a program called jalbum by building a couple of different skins. Jalbum is a java based program that lets you build customized photo albums for your web site. However, the program got picked up as an internal engine for a couple of applications and then there was a rapid growth spurt in features and capabilities. I just didn't have the time to keep the skins up to date and have a life away from the computer, so I stopped contributing.
I did learn a lot about Java, photo manipulation, HTML, etc.
For sufficiently loose definitions of "all".
The Kindle Voyage does not appear to be included in this sale, which is a shame.
I agree that the definition of "all" is being somewhat loosely used. However, anyone thinking that the "all Kindles" would include the Voyage would just be deluding themselves. After all, the Kindle Voyage was only released a month or so ago.
And 15 years ago I bought a massive 2GB drive for $350.
Computer stuff gets cheaper over time. There's no reason the same won't be true for SSDs. At some point SSDs will be cheap enough that even if HDD are still 1/100th of the price, SSDs will still win because of all their other advantages.
I agree, eventually SSDs will become cheap enough that it won't be worth it to manufacture spinning hard-drives anymore. It's kinda like Plasma TVs today. They are being dropped by TV manufacturers because it's cheaper to scale up LED TVs.
That being said, it's not going to happen overnight. The drive manufacturers need to make their R&D money back, at the very least....
Yeah, because nuclear is real clean and stuff.
The spent fuel is piling up at a rate of about 2,200 tons a year at U.S. power-plant sites. The industry and government decline to say how much waste is currently stored at individual plants. The U.S. nuclear industry had 69,720 tons of uranium waste as of May 2013, with 49,620 tons in pools and 20,100 in dry storage, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute industry group.
Spent nuclear fuel is about 95 percent uranium. About 1 percent is other heavy elements such as curium, americium and plutonium-239. Each has an extremely long half-life — some take hundreds of thousands of years to lose all of their radioactive potency.
And all of those sites are close to 50 years old with no maintenance and with no fuel storage because of the veto of Yucca mountain, etc....
Yes, there are some nasty by-products of nuclear power. But we have the technology to clean these sites up and store or re-process the waste. The only reason why these sites are left to fester is due to politics. It's pretty bad when the people who complain about these sites and nuclear power are the exact same people who block the solutions....
I would think that the office of the future would consist of people working from home and connecting to VR environments. The only reason why people still go into work is because the boss requires a presence and it aids in ad-hoc communications. If you can accomplish the same thing through VR (i.e. walk around the office, stop at the water cooler, catch side conversations, etc.) then most information workers (those that don't require interaction with physical objects) can simply work from home and pocket the transportation savings. Plus, it would ease road congestion.
I'd add that the UPSs I have purchased in the past have failed more often than the computers I had plugged into them. No more UPSs for me, thanks.
I have two APC UPS devices. One for my desktop and one for my other accessories (cable router, switch, Vonage router, and phones). My area has short power outages every so often when they are working on lines, etc. Plus, using Vonage, I need to power my internet devices for phone service during power outages. I also have my cell phone and could use it as an emergency battery for charging as well.
I've had both for about 4 years now with no problems or issues. I have had to replace UPSs (or the batteries, depending on which costs less) as, like a car battery, the batteries last between 3 to 5 years. Most UPS that fail tend to be either under powered for the devices that are plugged into them or people don't maintain the batteries. Running the batteries down too low will damage them. That's why you are better off configuring your devices to shut down after being on battery for about half the run time. Mine is 13000VA and I get about 20 minutes of run time with my PC (300W during normal usage). I also run the APC battery software which checks the batteries once a week.
APC does have some crappy low end units but the Back-UPS XS models have been reliable for me.
I figure you could still drive on dedicated tracks, much like people can still ride horses.
Which doesn't help much if you need to tow things like boats, jetskis, trailers, etc.
The people who think that self-driving cars and not owning cars are a good idea tend to be people who live in dense urban areas and know little to nothing about the rest of the world. What they fail to understand are all of the circumstances where a generic rental and/or self-driving just will not cut it. Like it or not, any self-driving highway is going to have to make accommodations for human guided vehicles.
In addition, I somehow don't think that police, fire, ambulance, politicians, etc. would be willing to use self-driving cars. Just imagine the first political assassination through car hacking....
Hats off.
Indeed. This is the kind of story I like to see here now and then, although I was surprised that the headline didn't start off with "10 year old genius builds super computer on a bread board..." as has been the trend here.
I remember taking logic gate classes in University using Motorola 68000 chips and assembler. It gave me a decent understanding of how things work at the hardware level vs the abstracted software level.
I'm guessing that you are trolling... I too took the NT 4.0 exams and not one of the answers were ever "reinstall Windows". Microsoft also never had answers that ever involved editing the registry.
I do agree that many of the questions could be solved in multiple ways, if you knew how, and that the exams expected the answers from the book or exam guide. That part was very annoying, especially when they listed both correct answers.
AI is made to invent magic tricks.
AI starts creating more and more complex magic tricks.
Magician stops understanding the tricks but keeps following the given steps and is as surprised as the audience about the result.
After a while, the AI starts giving really strange steps and it becomes clear that there is no explanation in current science that justifies the results of the tricks.
Humanity has meddled with incomprehensible forces, awakening He who was never dead.
When the "AI" can invent magic tricks outside of the basic programming, then I'll be scared.
Basically, they programmed in one trick and then programmed it to compute more variations of the trick. Not much different than programming a computer to fill out a matrix based on the calculations for a single square.
We'll know that we have a true AI when it can go from calculating new card tricks to counting cards in Vegas.....
in places like Denmark, the average hour of sunshine in cloudless sky per day is, -- let me be generous and put it as, -- 5 hours a day
I understand we're all geeks here. However, I think we can be expected to have a basic academic knowledge of environmental facts. For example, even though from my basement I may see very little of The Big Fireball in the Sky, I still know, based on YouTube videos, that clouds don't entomb us in pitch darkness.
True... While that works quite well in a fantasy world where storing and moving energy doesn't involve cost, energy loss, and other real world factors. The sun shining in California doesn't help Denmark as there is no efficient way to transport that energy. Also, with today's solar energy conversion rates, you'll end up covering large swathes of nature with solar panels and wind mills.
If you're relying on the MTA to keep your email communications secure, you're doing it wrong. If data is important enough to encrypt, encrypt it at the sender side first.
This....! Anyone who trusts a network to pass traffic untouched, maintaining privacy, etc. that is not owned by them is just fooling themselves.
I've noticed several design suggestions in your code.
