Sale on Atari 800 Series and Commodore C64 Series
joysticks Nov 18th, 2010 one day only at $16.99 USD. Only 250 were made of these and only 50 of each will be available for the sale. Have a few of these at home and they work well with Stella, etc.
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My wife stays up to the same time, sleeps late, and has not shown the same decrease in IQ.
But, here are a few mentions of study results on lack of sleep causing lower IQ and light keeping people awake:
http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/1999/03/20/sleep990320.html
http://www.livescience.com/health/teens-sleep-morning-light-...
And here are some alarm clocks that wake people up with light:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...
The problem I see with this is that when the U.S. pumps more money into circulation by buying up U.S. treasury bonds, etc., it further devalues the dollar. The Chinese (and Russia, India, etc.) know this well, and are perfectly happy with this. They'll continue to watch us devalue the dollar. Later, if we try to pull anything, they'll use the money they've amassed to buy up an overwhelming military force. But obviously, they'd rather own us than fight us. Not that they are set on world domination, but when the idiot on the block keeps lowering the cost of his mansion, and you'd like to have that mansion, you'd be stupid not to let him lower the cost until you can buy it for 20% off (or more).
But, if the dollar tanks in worth, couldn't that cause inflation? The cost of most of our goods and services in the U.S. are based on goods and services overseas which would go up if the dollar devalued by 20% as some say it might.
What would you propose that would eliminate most of our debt in a reasonable manner that congress and the people would back?
B.S. Unthoughtful reactionary leadership can be some of the worst.
Nik_2213 mentions in http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-racetrack-memory.html : "Sounds like bubble memory again... Big problem with that was organising data to access it efficiently. FIFO does have a significant latency as block sizes rise..."
I'm betting existing SSD technology though.
HN posts on these two: http://searchyc.com/arrington http://searchyc.com/calacanis
Ouch. When a lawyer doesn't want to sign a contract, you should know something is up.
To Jason: best of luck at this. While I'm all for the underdog, I don't think you are making much of a case for your marketing ability in LAUNCH with this forward-to-friend.com "email". A more concise blog post with spelling, etc. corrected would have been a lot better. But, it's still interesting.
Update: Ugh, the same crappily formatted crap in the blog post: http://calacanis.com/2010/11/15/why-im-suing-mike-arrington/
Article: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/24525/14-Reasons-Why-Yo...
"I intend to help grow large, leaderless, open organizations, and so I’d do almost anything for a chance to work with Caterina Fake, or Linus Torvalds."
Even nomadic tribes have strong leaders. Look at Afghanistan.
If some "over-educated" employees still happy and perhaps have substantially greater output than their "less-educated" counterparts, then there could be a significant enough ROI on their education to justify it. However, you can't differentiate those from the "over-educated" workers that are unhappy that would be more productive in other roles. This is why I think a work happiness index would be a better indicator of how well those that are employed are fairing.
I think a job happiness index would be better. You could just ask, "From 1-10 how happy are you with your current job (1=couldn't be more unhappy, 10=couldn't be happier)," would be enough. If this score dipped, morale is lower overall, and productivity will suffer.
I spent years in Java prior to Ruby and through the various frameworks in Java, I never remember making the mistake or working with anyone who made the mistake of blowing away the production data when running tests.
Since working in Rails, have had at least 2-3 experiences on the team with truncated/dropped tables or mangled data in production, and it isn't just the current team.
Many other languages and frameworks don't have it as part of the normal process used by most developers to accidentally do this as much as it has seemed to happen in Rails 2, due to the conventions used.
With Rails, the same project for the most part is in dev, test, and prod. Developers want database.yml revisioned with the rest of the app. Many Rails developers at some point run production against production DB locally, in order to run migrations on production prior to Capistrano deploys, etc., or maybe just to run a production console to run reports or tweak data. So, there is a very real chance for wild things to happen in such a risky environment. I'm not anti-Rails by any means, but I've not heard of this happening as much as it has historically with Rails in other frameworks.
For example, if a scientist knows that a drug caused a side effect that included brain damage, but chose to hide that fact through manipulation of the data to get the drug approved, and two out of four on his small team knew (were accomplices) but two were not in the know, then the two not in the know could claim innocence, and the rest of company as a whole could claim as a whole (a single document that all agree to) that the aforementioned team was responsible.
Assuming that federal investigation (FBI for example) was assisting, they could help prove the innocence of others in the company as well as the innocence of the two on the team that were unaware of cover-up. The three involved would be imprisoned.