All I want to know is, how many copies of this game has the company sold? Now, how many copies would they have sold if there was 100% unbreakable DRM? Obviously that data is impossible to gather... But I'd bet that most people who pirate games weren't going to buy them anyways. I have a job and when I want something, I just go to the store and get it. I don't bother with Warez anymore as it really is just kind of a pain. But those with no financial resources to buy whatever they want? Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income pirates a game, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
What scares me is, what happens if/when all of Monsanto's crops spread to nearly _every_ field and there is nothing you can do about it? Say every (insert vegetable here) is now of Monsanto patented variety and some grows in your field/garden. Will Monsanto still be able to sue you into the ground? Will the government ever realize that plants are plants and _especially_ if they are able to reproduce on their own, they can't possibly be considered "property" of anyone that doesn't own the land they happen to grow on? Imagine a grass seed company selling a patented seed that can't be used for commercial reasons without paying them. I'd assume selling your house with a nice lawn would be considered as such. If the grass is spreading all on its own, is it still _legal_ to claim it as property of the grass company? I don't know, this whole, releasing patented crops essentially into the wild and then suing anyone caught "growing" it is absolutely absurd.
Say I'm in my basement (well, I'm always there so that's a given) and I "create" a dandelion that is resistant to all known forms of weed killer and I release it with a giggle into my back yard, obviously in a few months/years every dandelion in the neighborhood is of my variety. Is this illegal?
How about if I only like to look at grass that is purple (ignoring the fact that purple grass would probably just up and die, but for arguments sake lets say it thrives) and I release that into the wild, maybe by throwing a few seeds along all the borders of my property with the intent that it will cross the property line? How about if I didn't mean for it to do so? Is that illegal?
Now say I run a company that makes weed killer and I release a variant that is _only_ susceptible to my weed killer? Is this illegal?
I'm not arguing for or against what Monsanto is doing and merely questioning the legality of releasing modified plants into the wild, of which can reproduce on their own for my personal benefit (monetarily or asthetically). I'm honestly curious here.
"In my day, we knew what the suffix "gate" really meant. You young whipper snappers shouldn't be using a word when you don't really know where it comes from!"
I think that point is obvious. The point the OP made was that as a collaboration tool, you _need_ your coworkers to have access to the beta to even try to figure out it's purpose in your day to day work. Wave wasn't testable in environments it could have thrived in. Hey, lets put everyone on our team onto wave for a month and see what we can do with it! Oh, I'm the only one with an invite? Damn. Scratch that.
Seems like a good idea until you start imagining rush hour traffic.
You're the driver of this "bus" and someone is stopped in between lanes as he's trying to merge/switch. But there is a long line of traffic and a bunch of people are switching. Now the "bus" is stopped waiting for the cars to clear the track. And the cars underneath it are unable to switch as well. Imagine a stalled vehicle or accident and now all cars underneath are now, stuck.
If everything works flawlessly, great, but it seems it would get very problematic very quickly once you put real traffic into the scenario.
Willful or malicious - User intentionally made the change, that's willful.
destruction - We'll have to define this in the context of modifying the OS of an iPhone you don't own.
of public or private property - Definitely private property the user does not own.
So, define destruction as it pertains to modifying the OS of someone else's property. It's obvious to even the most anti-apple people that changing the OS isn't a wallpaper change or a font color change. It's a basic breaking of the OS in such a way as to run non sanctioned software. So is that "destruction", not really sure. In my opinion, in this context, yes. YMMV.
If you came over my house and updated the OS on my HTPC, I'd be pissed and call that destruction of the box. I have it setup perfectly for my needs. One could argue the same thing for Apple about their display model phones.
Modifying something without the owners consent is vandalism. I can modify your car with a brick or with a new engine. You may dislike both of those options as your old engine got you 40mpg while the new one is so much more awesome (your opinion) at 500hp and 15mpg (yay for car analogies!).
Same thing is happening here. Apple wants things a certain way and it makes no difference what your (or anybodies besides Apple's) opinion is about what is being done to the phone. No matter how much "better" _you_ think it is, it is theirs and they don't want you mucking with it in that way. I'm no Apple fan, far from it, but even I can see this isn't something you want to make a habit out of as the police will eventually make their presence known when Apple catches on.
(I know you're trying to be funny and not entirely serious, but I thought it still needed to be said).
I agree with everything you said except limiting software to accommodate hardware design flaws and/or environmental variables.
What is an acceptable frame rate today, may not be acceptable tomorrow. Artificially limiting frame rate to accommodate sub-par environmental conditions and/or hardware designs simply shouldn't be needed.
If you're coding a game, you shouldn't have to sit there and guess up an arbitrary number of frames that you should force people to use because 1) the hardware _might_ fail of which is entirely dependent on the architecture and fabrication process among other factors, of which, _will_ change over time. And 2) environmental considerations. Those are already explicitly stated in the documentation for the hardware. If my card can't operate in ambient temperatures above 90F, why in the world would you blame software for failures above that limit? And why as a software dev would you ever need to worry about that in the first place? One card might be fine at 80F and fail at 90F and another might fail at 128F but be fine at 115F. Each one could have entirely different levels of power consumption required to run your game. How in the world are you going to prepare for that?
Simply put, hardware needs to run at max during normal operating conditions without failing. Software need not worry about either of those issues as they are entirely moving targets and would serve to only bandaid a problem that isn't theirs to solve in the first place.
Scenario 1:
Hardware fails under normal operating conditions because software loads it heavily.
Who's fault is this? Hardware manufacturers, plain as day. Software, sooner or later, will run your hardware at max. Design for it.
Scenario 2:
Hardware fails under operating conditions not supported (high temp environment).
Who's fault is this? Users fault. They stressed the hardware past designed limits.
I'm going to have to disagree here. It's not up to software developers to go around making sure hardware x and y won't just roll over and die during certain sections of their game.
It's up to hardware manufacturers to make sure their hardware works under all normal conditions. I mean really, if you make hardware that can fry itself, maybe you're pushing it to far.
Gee whiz guys! We can render this game at 4839483 FPS! But don't do it for more than 2 seconds or it'll melt! Woot, time to release them en masse! The benchmarks will look awesome!
Pushing a card to its max should _never_ cause it to "crash", let alone get damaged.
I do understand you and I'm sorry your imagination isn't able to come up with scenarios where there could be information that people normally wouldn't give out that also wouldn't be considered sensitive.
What version of MS/Open Office are you running?
Who do you use for offsite backup?
Who supplies your cat5e/6 cable?
Try cold calling a business and getting one of those answered let alone all 3. The "wtf are you asking for" alarm will go off insanely fast. So now you have to come up with a scenario where you need to know this information and they need to feel compelled to give it to you. All on the same call.
Keep in mind that the number you ring will likely get you a secretary and/or help desk that won't really care what your question is and will try to find a person that might know. Now _those_ people will (hopefully) question who you are and why you need to know.
Sure, it's kind of "chit chatty" but frankly, if you're interrupting my day and asking me about specifics that are out of place for a normal/routine call, I'm going to be extremely curious if not frustrated that you're bothering me with such drivel.
Ya, it might not be information such as admin passwords or firewall rules, but it's information that businesses simply aren't accustomed to giving out and will be hesitant to do so, even if the information has _zero_ value whatsoever. I mean, what damage could you possibly do knowing who supplies their cabling? But on the other hand, why the hell would you want to know and why should I even tell you in the first place?
Careful, that creaking sound that comes from your chair isn't actually a creak.. The gubment put a listening device in it and sometimes you hear feedback from their end. In fact, that's how you can tell it's a new version of the bug. They can whisper suggestive things to you as a form of mild brainwashing. I mean, really, your libido isn't that great, they're just failing to get you to go to the kiddie porn sites. Sadly they only keep catching you viewing the granny porn.
Not everything needs to be about obtaining damaging information. Imagine talking to a random stranger and trying to solicit information from them. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Seriously, try this some time, just go up to a stranger and get their middle name. It will be harder than you think in most cases, if not impossible.
Social Engineering is a skill. You have to be very good to go under the "what the fuck does this guy want" radar. You have to be able to read people without seeing them and be able to think very quickly in a very dynamic situation. Again, all while staying under their radar.
Getting confidential, personally sensitive, or business critical information isn't the point nor appears to be the goal. Merely being good with your social skills (and we're talking a special breed of nerds here, no offense to them though), no great with them, is the point. Having a laundry list of weird and/or "not normally given out" information and trying to gain it, that's going to be hard.
For those that never wanted to pay for apps that the developers wanted to _sell_.
DRM isn't a requirement here. If two apps exist in an equally functional form and one has DRM while the other doesn't, I know what one I'm picking. If I don't like the DRM, I have a choice to not get DRM'd apps.
It's still consumer choice at this point. Google is just offering a way for developers to DRM their apps if they so choose to do so. If it ends up not being popular, the developers can choose to remove the DRM.
Entirely agree. I muck with networks all day. Setting up vlans, bringing servers online, working with the facilities guys on building out new rows in the datacenter, etc.
I did not need a BS to do this. A couple cisco certs and that's all my boss cares about.
Boss: Can you get the job done?
Me: Yes.
Boss: When can you start?
College did not prepare me for my job in any way shape or form. Now, I'm not knocking the experience, but it was entirely unnecessary to gain the salary I have now.
*Although, I can't say for certain whether or not I'd have my job (or the ones prior) without the magical piece of BS that is my BS. Still proud of earning it, but it might as well have been in English or Communication.
If you had watched the video you would have noticed that this is mainly for mobile devices with no physical keyboard (read: zero tactile feedback). If you can take a mobile device with an on screen keyboard and type perfectly fine without looking at it you've got great motor skills. But what happens if it is slightly askew since your fingers are drifting slightly due to no tactile feedback? This fixes that and allows you to literally have no keyboard displayed on the screen and still type coherent words and sentences.
This isn't about learning to type on a real keyboard, it's about not needing one all together. Just know the basic layout and type away on the screen with no keyboard visual.
I'm seriously hoping for one to come out with a small camera you mount on the screen that watches your fingers and allows you to type without the need to project a keyboard. Spacing wouldn't matter anymore and you could just type away with your eyes closed and the software is smart enough to guess what word you meant.
So BlindType is pretty spot on. You can't see a keyboard (blind) and you can't feel one yet you're typing just fine.
But my point isn't if it will happen. It _will_ happen and the problems associated with it _will_ happen as the planet goes through these cycles all on its own. The real question is, does it really matter if we delay the inevitable? If so, how?
Human Resources states my title as "Network Engineer". So that's what I posted. And for the record, it wasn't posted for vanities sake. It was to show that I'm not a physicist. Plain and simple.
It seems you want me to make up my own title in lieu of the one HR gives me. I guess I could have made it up to something like "Internetworking tubes maker and cleaner as well as designer dude".
Wouldn't have changed a damn thing with regards to my original post.
And yes, nitpicking about job titles when the title itself had little to nothing to do with the post and drumming on about the meaning of the word "Engineer" was entirely out of context and entirely pedantic.
It's all about causation and whether or not it's worthwhile to stop the trend that is naturally occurring anyways.
Think about it. The planet goes into warming trends which peak and then crash into an ice age. Repeat ad nausium.
The question I have, and seems to be the only relevant question, is are we going to survive the hottest hot and coldest cold. It makes no difference to the planet either way. It will warm and cool throughout time (or at least until our sun burns out or some other catastrophic event happens).
If we can survive it, it really makes little difference. If we can't, delaying it would be in our best interest.
For those not in Canada, ignore the preceding posts except to understand the social differences in terminology and/or Title usage. But for the sake of my original post, it most certainly is meaningless except to show that I am not a physicist or in a related field.
Also interesting to note however, the understanding of the Canadian ramifications of the title "Engineer" apparently has nothing to do with basic reading comprehension and understanding basic context.
It was an interesting diversion though, even if entirely OT and _extremely_ pedantic.
Contact my boss and HR to have my title changed to meet your, apparently, delicate sensibilities. Either that, or get off your high horse and stop complaining about arbitrary job titles that change at the mere whim of the aforementioned persons.
Or, to put it another way, stop being so damn pedantic. I've honestly never seen a rant so serious about something so meaningless.
If you would have asked me how it would react as it rolled faster and faster, I would have just assumed it would have gotten "rounder" and possibly larger (elastic) due to centrifugal force.
Always amazes me how things don't always work as expected. Nature, physics, etc, are truly interesting... no, fascinating. Now if only I had a better grasp of higher level maths and wasn't a Network Engineer (data plumber).
That's because the morons who make decisions to put yield signs at the end of _on_ ramps onto major interstates create a system where you learn to ignore them.
If you actually stop and yield to traffic on an interstate, one of two things will happen. Either you will be stopped forever, or you will be plowed into by the guy behind you.
Now, on normal roads, at least I yield to traffic when I see them. I know they have their place, but interstate on ramps, no.
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All I want to know is, how many copies of this game has the company sold? Now, how many copies would they have sold if there was 100% unbreakable DRM? Obviously that data is impossible to gather... But I'd bet that most people who pirate games weren't going to buy them anyways. I have a job and when I want something, I just go to the store and get it. I don't bother with Warez anymore as it really is just kind of a pain. But those with no financial resources to buy whatever they want? Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income pirates a game, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
What scares me is, what happens if/when all of Monsanto's crops spread to nearly _every_ field and there is nothing you can do about it? Say every (insert vegetable here) is now of Monsanto patented variety and some grows in your field/garden. Will Monsanto still be able to sue you into the ground? Will the government ever realize that plants are plants and _especially_ if they are able to reproduce on their own, they can't possibly be considered "property" of anyone that doesn't own the land they happen to grow on? Imagine a grass seed company selling a patented seed that can't be used for commercial reasons without paying them. I'd assume selling your house with a nice lawn would be considered as such. If the grass is spreading all on its own, is it still _legal_ to claim it as property of the grass company? I don't know, this whole, releasing patented crops essentially into the wild and then suing anyone caught "growing" it is absolutely absurd.
Say I'm in my basement (well, I'm always there so that's a given) and I "create" a dandelion that is resistant to all known forms of weed killer and I release it with a giggle into my back yard, obviously in a few months/years every dandelion in the neighborhood is of my variety. Is this illegal?
How about if I only like to look at grass that is purple (ignoring the fact that purple grass would probably just up and die, but for arguments sake lets say it thrives) and I release that into the wild, maybe by throwing a few seeds along all the borders of my property with the intent that it will cross the property line? How about if I didn't mean for it to do so? Is that illegal?
Now say I run a company that makes weed killer and I release a variant that is _only_ susceptible to my weed killer? Is this illegal?
I'm not arguing for or against what Monsanto is doing and merely questioning the legality of releasing modified plants into the wild, of which can reproduce on their own for my personal benefit (monetarily or asthetically). I'm honestly curious here.
Should we all get off your lawn now?
"In my day, we knew what the suffix "gate" really meant. You young whipper snappers shouldn't be using a word when you don't really know where it comes from!"
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=youtube+is+slow+with+fios
It's not the first couple links but there are a few hits on that page plus the pages after the first.
I think that point is obvious. The point the OP made was that as a collaboration tool, you _need_ your coworkers to have access to the beta to even try to figure out it's purpose in your day to day work. Wave wasn't testable in environments it could have thrived in. Hey, lets put everyone on our team onto wave for a month and see what we can do with it! Oh, I'm the only one with an invite? Damn. Scratch that.
Seems like a good idea until you start imagining rush hour traffic.
You're the driver of this "bus" and someone is stopped in between lanes as he's trying to merge/switch. But there is a long line of traffic and a bunch of people are switching. Now the "bus" is stopped waiting for the cars to clear the track. And the cars underneath it are unable to switch as well. Imagine a stalled vehicle or accident and now all cars underneath are now, stuck.
If everything works flawlessly, great, but it seems it would get very problematic very quickly once you put real traffic into the scenario.
Willful or malicious - User intentionally made the change, that's willful.
destruction - We'll have to define this in the context of modifying the OS of an iPhone you don't own.
of public or private property - Definitely private property the user does not own.
So, define destruction as it pertains to modifying the OS of someone else's property. It's obvious to even the most anti-apple people that changing the OS isn't a wallpaper change or a font color change. It's a basic breaking of the OS in such a way as to run non sanctioned software. So is that "destruction", not really sure. In my opinion, in this context, yes. YMMV.
If you came over my house and updated the OS on my HTPC, I'd be pissed and call that destruction of the box. I have it setup perfectly for my needs. One could argue the same thing for Apple about their display model phones.
Frankly, I think vandalism fits perfectly here.
Modifying something without the owners consent is vandalism. I can modify your car with a brick or with a new engine. You may dislike both of those options as your old engine got you 40mpg while the new one is so much more awesome (your opinion) at 500hp and 15mpg (yay for car analogies!).
Same thing is happening here. Apple wants things a certain way and it makes no difference what your (or anybodies besides Apple's) opinion is about what is being done to the phone. No matter how much "better" _you_ think it is, it is theirs and they don't want you mucking with it in that way. I'm no Apple fan, far from it, but even I can see this isn't something you want to make a habit out of as the police will eventually make their presence known when Apple catches on.
(I know you're trying to be funny and not entirely serious, but I thought it still needed to be said).
I agree with everything you said except limiting software to accommodate hardware design flaws and/or environmental variables.
What is an acceptable frame rate today, may not be acceptable tomorrow. Artificially limiting frame rate to accommodate sub-par environmental conditions and/or hardware designs simply shouldn't be needed.
If you're coding a game, you shouldn't have to sit there and guess up an arbitrary number of frames that you should force people to use because 1) the hardware _might_ fail of which is entirely dependent on the architecture and fabrication process among other factors, of which, _will_ change over time. And 2) environmental considerations. Those are already explicitly stated in the documentation for the hardware. If my card can't operate in ambient temperatures above 90F, why in the world would you blame software for failures above that limit? And why as a software dev would you ever need to worry about that in the first place? One card might be fine at 80F and fail at 90F and another might fail at 128F but be fine at 115F. Each one could have entirely different levels of power consumption required to run your game. How in the world are you going to prepare for that?
Simply put, hardware needs to run at max during normal operating conditions without failing. Software need not worry about either of those issues as they are entirely moving targets and would serve to only bandaid a problem that isn't theirs to solve in the first place.
Scenario 1:
Hardware fails under normal operating conditions because software loads it heavily.
Who's fault is this? Hardware manufacturers, plain as day. Software, sooner or later, will run your hardware at max. Design for it.
Scenario 2:
Hardware fails under operating conditions not supported (high temp environment).
Who's fault is this? Users fault. They stressed the hardware past designed limits.
I'm going to have to disagree here. It's not up to software developers to go around making sure hardware x and y won't just roll over and die during certain sections of their game.
It's up to hardware manufacturers to make sure their hardware works under all normal conditions. I mean really, if you make hardware that can fry itself, maybe you're pushing it to far.
Gee whiz guys! We can render this game at 4839483 FPS! But don't do it for more than 2 seconds or it'll melt! Woot, time to release them en masse! The benchmarks will look awesome!
Pushing a card to its max should _never_ cause it to "crash", let alone get damaged.
I do understand you and I'm sorry your imagination isn't able to come up with scenarios where there could be information that people normally wouldn't give out that also wouldn't be considered sensitive.
What version of MS/Open Office are you running?
Who do you use for offsite backup?
Who supplies your cat5e/6 cable?
Try cold calling a business and getting one of those answered let alone all 3. The "wtf are you asking for" alarm will go off insanely fast. So now you have to come up with a scenario where you need to know this information and they need to feel compelled to give it to you. All on the same call.
Keep in mind that the number you ring will likely get you a secretary and/or help desk that won't really care what your question is and will try to find a person that might know. Now _those_ people will (hopefully) question who you are and why you need to know.
Sure, it's kind of "chit chatty" but frankly, if you're interrupting my day and asking me about specifics that are out of place for a normal/routine call, I'm going to be extremely curious if not frustrated that you're bothering me with such drivel.
Ya, it might not be information such as admin passwords or firewall rules, but it's information that businesses simply aren't accustomed to giving out and will be hesitant to do so, even if the information has _zero_ value whatsoever. I mean, what damage could you possibly do knowing who supplies their cabling? But on the other hand, why the hell would you want to know and why should I even tell you in the first place?
Careful, that creaking sound that comes from your chair isn't actually a creak.. The gubment put a listening device in it and sometimes you hear feedback from their end. In fact, that's how you can tell it's a new version of the bug. They can whisper suggestive things to you as a form of mild brainwashing. I mean, really, your libido isn't that great, they're just failing to get you to go to the kiddie porn sites. Sadly they only keep catching you viewing the granny porn.
Shhhh!
Not everything needs to be about obtaining damaging information. Imagine talking to a random stranger and trying to solicit information from them. It's not as easy as it sounds.
Seriously, try this some time, just go up to a stranger and get their middle name. It will be harder than you think in most cases, if not impossible.
Social Engineering is a skill. You have to be very good to go under the "what the fuck does this guy want" radar. You have to be able to read people without seeing them and be able to think very quickly in a very dynamic situation. Again, all while staying under their radar.
Getting confidential, personally sensitive, or business critical information isn't the point nor appears to be the goal. Merely being good with your social skills (and we're talking a special breed of nerds here, no offense to them though), no great with them, is the point. Having a laundry list of weird and/or "not normally given out" information and trying to gain it, that's going to be hard.
For those that never wanted to pay for apps that the developers wanted to _sell_.
DRM isn't a requirement here. If two apps exist in an equally functional form and one has DRM while the other doesn't, I know what one I'm picking. If I don't like the DRM, I have a choice to not get DRM'd apps.
It's still consumer choice at this point. Google is just offering a way for developers to DRM their apps if they so choose to do so. If it ends up not being popular, the developers can choose to remove the DRM.
Entirely agree. I muck with networks all day. Setting up vlans, bringing servers online, working with the facilities guys on building out new rows in the datacenter, etc.
I did not need a BS to do this. A couple cisco certs and that's all my boss cares about.
Boss: Can you get the job done?
Me: Yes.
Boss: When can you start?
College did not prepare me for my job in any way shape or form. Now, I'm not knocking the experience, but it was entirely unnecessary to gain the salary I have now.
*Although, I can't say for certain whether or not I'd have my job (or the ones prior) without the magical piece of BS that is my BS. Still proud of earning it, but it might as well have been in English or Communication.
If you had watched the video you would have noticed that this is mainly for mobile devices with no physical keyboard (read: zero tactile feedback). If you can take a mobile device with an on screen keyboard and type perfectly fine without looking at it you've got great motor skills. But what happens if it is slightly askew since your fingers are drifting slightly due to no tactile feedback? This fixes that and allows you to literally have no keyboard displayed on the screen and still type coherent words and sentences.
This isn't about learning to type on a real keyboard, it's about not needing one all together. Just know the basic layout and type away on the screen with no keyboard visual.
I'm seriously hoping for one to come out with a small camera you mount on the screen that watches your fingers and allows you to type without the need to project a keyboard. Spacing wouldn't matter anymore and you could just type away with your eyes closed and the software is smart enough to guess what word you meant.
So BlindType is pretty spot on. You can't see a keyboard (blind) and you can't feel one yet you're typing just fine.
But my point isn't if it will happen. It _will_ happen and the problems associated with it _will_ happen as the planet goes through these cycles all on its own. The real question is, does it really matter if we delay the inevitable? If so, how?
Irrelevant.
Human Resources states my title as "Network Engineer". So that's what I posted. And for the record, it wasn't posted for vanities sake. It was to show that I'm not a physicist. Plain and simple.
It seems you want me to make up my own title in lieu of the one HR gives me. I guess I could have made it up to something like "Internetworking tubes maker and cleaner as well as designer dude".
Wouldn't have changed a damn thing with regards to my original post.
And yes, nitpicking about job titles when the title itself had little to nothing to do with the post and drumming on about the meaning of the word "Engineer" was entirely out of context and entirely pedantic.
Not sure why this got marked AC as I didn't click the box. Oh well, thanks Slashdot!
It's all about causation and whether or not it's worthwhile to stop the trend that is naturally occurring anyways.
Think about it. The planet goes into warming trends which peak and then crash into an ice age. Repeat ad nausium.
The question I have, and seems to be the only relevant question, is are we going to survive the hottest hot and coldest cold. It makes no difference to the planet either way. It will warm and cool throughout time (or at least until our sun burns out or some other catastrophic event happens).
If we can survive it, it really makes little difference. If we can't, delaying it would be in our best interest.
"It's not meaningless."
In Canada.
For those not in Canada, ignore the preceding posts except to understand the social differences in terminology and/or Title usage. But for the sake of my original post, it most certainly is meaningless except to show that I am not a physicist or in a related field.
Also interesting to note however, the understanding of the Canadian ramifications of the title "Engineer" apparently has nothing to do with basic reading comprehension and understanding basic context.
It was an interesting diversion though, even if entirely OT and _extremely_ pedantic.
Contact my boss and HR to have my title changed to meet your, apparently, delicate sensibilities. Either that, or get off your high horse and stop complaining about arbitrary job titles that change at the mere whim of the aforementioned persons.
Or, to put it another way, stop being so damn pedantic. I've honestly never seen a rant so serious about something so meaningless.
If you would have asked me how it would react as it rolled faster and faster, I would have just assumed it would have gotten "rounder" and possibly larger (elastic) due to centrifugal force.
Always amazes me how things don't always work as expected. Nature, physics, etc, are truly interesting... no, fascinating. Now if only I had a better grasp of higher level maths and wasn't a Network Engineer (data plumber).
That's because the morons who make decisions to put yield signs at the end of _on_ ramps onto major interstates create a system where you learn to ignore them.
If you actually stop and yield to traffic on an interstate, one of two things will happen. Either you will be stopped forever, or you will be plowed into by the guy behind you.
Now, on normal roads, at least I yield to traffic when I see them. I know they have their place, but interstate on ramps, no.