Comment Re:What after one year? (Score 2) 374
is it still valid for Microsoft to ask 100$+ for their OS?
Define "valid."
is it still valid for Microsoft to ask 100$+ for their OS?
Define "valid."
From Wilipedia: "It is the successor to Windows NT 4.0... During development, Windows 2000 was known as Windows NT 5.0"
By that logic, Windows 10 is, in fact, Windows 9. So we're good.
And what's the cost for XP or new Windows users?
For XP or a 'build your own PC' scenario I would expect an OEM disk from your favourite corner computer shop will be about the same as you pay for Win8.
For other 'new Windows users' it will be 'free' with their new PC, same as it has been for millions upon millions of users over the years.
this highlights how well software engineers are compensated even compared to other types of engineers.
Is "Engineer" a protected term in the USA?
Here is Canada there is no such thing as a "software engineer."
Chemical Engineer, Electrical Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, sure... But not "Software Engineer."
I'd like to see the stats for how many get sent back once they're off parole, and possibly correlate those to how many got send back for BS parole violations.
Those might be useful stats. What would constitute a "BS parole violation"? I do not doubt that parole restrictions can be strict, but aren't they better than the alternative of being in jail?
American "justice" is more about getting revenge and punishing criminals Puritan style
Incarceration is an admission that the convicted person is a threat to society and needs to be removed. We don't know how to rehabilitate felons, but we do know how to lock them up so they can't hurt people, at least for a while.
Maybe that should be "We don't know, and we are not particularly interested in finding out" - there are lots of examples of things that are more effective at rehabilitation both within and without the USA borders. We just do not have great enough interest in implementing any of them, and there are enough individuals and groups with incentives to keep the system as-is that it is challenging to build any such interest.
So, by that token, it doesn't even matter that we have "no-go zones" then, as the people in them don't get up to much anyway... Police presence or not...
Aha, so you admit you have no-go zones then.
You are supposed to put a little "smiley" thing when you intentionally misstate someone's posting.
Space is the past, why are countries so hell-bent on these big symbolic Pyramids in the sky?
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation many never come again. But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
My concern is, if this stuff works, how much will it work? Will it repair itself in the same area more than once? What is to stop the bacteria from forming a big lump on the surface after they bridge the crack's gap. Is the replacement material even nearly as strong as the original concrete or will it just break again under less stress? If the intended use of this for building construction or surfaces to walk on? I can see it being used in 1-3 story buildings as material, but any where solid concrete has to be used instead of those hollow cinder blocks, I can't see it being possible, much less if water is needed to activate it.
Being able to repair small cracks to keep water out would go a long way to minimize the freeze/thaw damage that makes small cracks into big cracks. Even without the same strength as uncracked concrete, concrete with some small filled cracks will perform much better and last much longer than concrete with growing numbers of growing sized cracks.
Honestly, you can say it wasn't their fault, but nearly 10% of them in 6 months have been involved in accidents. Even if it wasn't the fault of the technology itself, why is the accident rate so high?
One does need to factor in the number of hours/distance driven. I would not be too suprised if their per mile or per hour accident rate was much lower than the average. Of course, small numbers of vehicles will tend to give larger variance - this 6 month period might just be a statistical outlyer.
So much for theory of gun states having less crime.
When I looked at the estimated per-capita gun ownership rates by state, and the per-capita homicide rates per state, I didn't find a clear correlation.
Interestingly, it does appear that states with a higher gun homicide rates also have a correlation with higher non-gun homicide rates.
I think that there is a pretty strong correlation between a "culture of honor" and interpersonal violence. The social norms that insist on retribution and payback for transgressions, outside the pervue of established law inforcement can also contribute.
If I see a Black Person, I see someone that belongs to a group statistically way, way more likely to murder or injure me. They are more likely to do drugs, be poorly educated and be a deadbeat father.
It simply doesn't matter what the root cause was, I know they should be avoided.
If you were interested in designing and/or implementing public policies to reduce crime, drug abuse, etc, then understanding the root causes is probably pretty important. If your only interest is in minimizing your personal exposure to risk, then understanding the actual statisctical underpinings of your fears might also be of use. Is your actual risk actually changed if you avoid ALL blacks? Should you be looking at relative risk changes or absolute risk changes? Are the risks worth worrying about in any case given your current risk parctices in terms of driving, eating, smoking or other potentially dangerous activits. Worring about 5 murders per 100,000 population might not be as important to worry about when you compare it to more than twice that rate in automobile deaths for example.
Plus that many "businessmen" use business travel as an excuse to bill a vacation to the company, or enjoy an out of town mistress.
What the hell do you think this is, 1974? In my industry (software product management) I travel quite a bit and I don't know any other road warriors like you describe.
Phi Sigma Sigma secrets are:
Phi Sigma Sigma (PSS) secretly stands for Philanthropic Social Society. However, this is never written down or recorded (until now) because it is so "sacred". The Handshake consists of a series of motions. Member A first begins
Assuming that you can find the poster, and that the poster is in fact a PSS member who might possibly have some sort of obligation to keep the secrets, how would the complainants ever hope to establish that these were the actual secrets if they have never been documented? Wouldn't they need to have testomony from the people who shared the rituals with "Jane Doe", and wouldn't that testomony have to go into the public record during the trial?
I suppose the judge might order the trail records sealed like is sometimes done when a vunerable minor dis involved with the courts, but it doesn't seem likely the courts would care much about such things in this type of case. Is there a "Greek Friendly" court in Washington somewhere like the "patent friendly" on in Texas?
John Oliver bit on patents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
