If Obama averages a golf trip and vacation every 4 months then that would make the number of trips taken around 16

Obama averages a lot more trips than that. You aren't counting his golf outings, his record number of fundraisers (or taxpayer-paid political events), some of which he flies in for an hour and leaves.

He certainly is not the king of vacation days. That honor falls to President George W. Bush

Not analogous, since Bush never presided over a sequester, let alone was one his idea, let alone did Bush threaten to veto a bill offering him budgeting discretion on a sequester, and then close the White House to tours and stop the Blue Angels, and then cry, "we have no money!"

And those golf trips and vacations every 4 months Obama takes? How much do those cost taxpayers? Like a million dollars each flight?

Any sentient being knows Obama threatened to veto congressional bills to give him some budgeting discretion in the sequester, so he can blame Republicans for the arbitrary cuts. So far, based on polls, the public doesn't seem to be falling for it, despite the media not reporting this key little fact.

Who doesn't save up at least a tiny bit of money (say 3 months salary) in case of a fucking emergency?

Most of America, it turns out.

Nearly half of America has less than $500 saved. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/22/americans-savings-500_n_2003285.html

The average American - including all those billionaires - has less than $6000. http://finance.zacks.com/much-money-average-american-family-savings-7304.html

What the fuck would you have fucking done if your fucking roof had fucking leaked?

There's no need for this level of rage. Take it down several notches, please; we can be civil in disagreement.

Yeah, the more expensive fingerprint readers have done this since the late 1980s. They can also tell if a retina was in a removed eye, et cetera.

Then you should probably stop reading Apple sites for your Microsoft reviews, because you appear to not be interested in basic skepticism. There are, you know, actual numbers you can look up. It's not heavy, it's not power hungry, it's not a tablet, and it's not expensive by comparison with laptops (or even the new iPad.)

So I mean. C'mon. Stop being a blind mouthpiece.

Oh, Dell? You're fucked.

They've walked away from valid warrantees on me twice now, once when I had a tape recording of the employee on tech support instructing me to do something obviously wrong - on a high price machine still under base warranty which had also had an extended warranty purchased - and promising he'd make sure it was handled if it destroyed the machine as I said it was going to.

Why? Because their service company "Quixstar" or whatever decided they didn't feel like it, and Dell decided that meant they were off the hook.

I've talked various employers, many already heavy Dell customers, out of buying hundreds of servers since. I expect that walking away from that $2000 laptop has cost them something like $300,000 by now, and I'm not done.

Hewlett Packard is just as bad.

Sorry, man. :(

Those who attempt cultural war with America quickly find themselves protesting from around a mouth full of double cheeseburger.

The AAPS is a fringe group with less than 3000 doctors. It's like the American Osteopathy Association: its members are whack jobs, not real doctors.

Of course there's evidence that vaccination reduces transmission. Did OP even try to research that claim or its source before reprinting it? Did we think the pertussis wave in northern California came from some reason other than that non-vax transmit where vax don't?

So tired of this knee-jerk "well let's give time to the other side" bullcrap. No. Figure out if they're insane first.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vaccinated+less+likely+to+transmit

A common choice is to choose units such that the maximum possible efficacy, 683 lm/W

It's way, way, way more complex than this ... but that's green light ... near-solar (or tungsten) identical bulbs to more limited 'whites' ... truly wretched colour reproduction.

You seem confused by the phrase "maximum possible."

Send them an invoice with the maximum late payment penalty that the law AT BOTH SIDES allows, with a giant red statement that they're half a year late, and send it it to the person responsible, with a clear explanation of how much each increased payment delay costs.

If they delay you even one month beyond that, send a new invoice with the expected increase, and cc: it with a copy of all the others you've sent to the person responsible, their manager, accounts receivable, and the office of the president.

Isn't making the elevator go faster a job for an engineer?

It's a job for anyone who can do it safely.

For example, Southwest Airlines got a lot out of a psychologist in these regards, by reforming how they discussed lines, so that there was less jostling.

You don't shut jobs off from people who can do them for having the wrong title unless you're the Federal Government or a Silicon Valley VC.

Elevator software is probably the most obvious use case for software with correctness proofs.

And here I would have thought it would be things where loss of life could follow failure.

The problem is light timing is a very hard problem

It is not even slightly difficult to beat today's results with a simple annealer. I would *love* for someone to pay me to fix this.

Man, you didn't learn anything from CmdrTaco's pan of the iPod, did you?

There's more to life than picking a few random metrics and declaring fail.

Why would anyone buy a graphing calculator when a tablet is 1/3 the price for so much more hardware, and can have some equivalent calculator software installed for a dollar or two?

This is a market propped up by the expectations of out of date teachers. These devices have no natural sales anymore.