I don't think measuring 62mph vs 45mph can be regarded as a "calibration error". That's 25% off. Who'd make measuring devices that wander off so much over time?
I can see a 5mph error. But not 17mph.
I think the cop was BS'ing and just trying to make his quota - note that in related articles it is pointed out that the particular stretch of road is known to be a speed trap.
Makes you wonder how many other people were caught speeding who simply did not have the technology to contest it.
There's a misconception that the law is increasingly siding with copyright holders. The "orphan works" act is all about stripping copyrights away from small copyright holders by large companies, providing the smallest penalties (if any) for their infringements possible.
The real statement should be: "the law is increasingly siding with large corporations".
Oh wait. That wouldn't be a new development either.
Look for analyst positions in financial or market research departments. It is usually work that requires the developments of large models and a lot of data handling.
The amount of programming that comes with it is moderate and you'll usually get ace reviews as you're the "wizard" who's able to handle data nobody else can since they don't have the skills to write scripts to process it.
I don't really see how they plan on using onboard generators to create power in an attempt to be grid-independent; many port authorities are pushing for legislation that forces ships to, when docked, use electricity that is landside provided, as running the ships generators needlessly pollutes the air.
One can argue that the biodiesel generators are cleaner than the ships' generators - but I don't think that your average PA is going to make an exception for that.
Actually, my point was that "the crook won" still didn't tell me who'd won the elections:)
If the people of Louisiana fucked themselves at the polls, then they're better off than the ones in New Jersey where it doesn't matter who gets chosen since he or she's going to screw you over anyway.
and how the idiosyncrasies of our election system left Louisiana voters to choose between a notoriously corrupt liberal and a former Ku Klux Klan leader for governor (the crook won)
It is still not clear to me who won those elections...
No, you don't have it right. We should do something about global warming.
But fixing the problem with a solution class that in virtually every single instance where it has been tried ('let's introduce species x') not only failed, but even made things worse, is not a good idea in my mind.
Solve the problem at the core: stop burning fossil fuels. I don't have incandescent light bulbs in my house for years. When it gets cold, I put on a sweater, and a vest, instead of turning up the heat. I drive 60MPH to work because it saves 10% gas over 65MPH (public transportation is, where I live, not an option). I'm sure there's a lot more that I can do, but it is a start.
By the way, the world is not going to an end. We're not that smart.
We might plunge the world into an ecological disaster, and as a species exterminate ourselves in doing that, but the world will still be there. Just without us. It might take a million years to recover, but that's only a blip on the life time on the planet anyway.
Because other experiments in the past to release some kind of life form to combat something we deem as inconvenient has worked soooooo well:
* introducing rabbits in Australia
* introducing foxes to eat said rabbits
* crossing European and African honey bees to get the best of both worlds...
* snakeheads in Eastern USA
* american frogs in europe
And about another 1000 examples of introducing animals outside their natural habitat have all worked out so well.
So, yeah, let's release those bugs!
Dubiously? As far as I remember they just didn't pay licensing fees to Fraunhofer Institute, the inventors of MP3, unlike the rest of the MP3 player industry.
Can't blame them for thinking "if we can't get away with that stuff, why would others"
Wow! The guy is multi-talented. So when he's not playing professional football he's developing educational software. And I always thought of most pro footballers as......well, barbarians, basically.
Tell your friend that:
(a) He should do research BEFORE committing two years of his life to something
(b) YOU didn't ruin his book - you saved him from embarresment
(c) Coating the sword with steel would give you the worst of two worlds - why not a steel sword coated with a solid layer of diamonds or something along those lines, or a hollow diamond reinforced with polonium-plated titanium? (I guess steel would not be exotic enough)
(d) If the book gets ruined because the plot evolves around a diamond sword. Mmmh. I dunno, but usually a book is built upon a good story, not a flashy gadget. He might want to reconsider that part as well...
I assume your statement comes from a lack of knowledge.
The 'crappy' architecture of the 8086 was a direct result of making it compatible with the 8080 and the CP/M code that runs on it. CP/M was the leading operating system at the time. Converting CP/M to DOS applications took - if I remember correctly - only 1 byte to be changed in the executable.
IBM understood perfectly that the availability of software would make or break the IBM PC. For many vendors entering the PC market was easy as their software didn't take that many changes. Which is why PC sales soared and the Apple Mac became a niche market as their was not a lot of software available. As a result, we're stuck with the legacy structure of the 8080. Lack of foresight? Maybe, but IBM's goal was to make a machine that sells, not a machine that has a beautiful architecture.
I loved the 68000 - programming it was clean, and almost C-like, as compared to the bit f*ck hacking that you need to do on a 8086. Similar, the Amiga was a fun machine with -it its days- superior hardware and architecture compared to the PC. But it never got a decent market share.
Too bad IBM didn't choose the 68000? But then again, if the IBM PC project had failed because of incompatibility with existing hardware, we still might have been stuck with CP/M now, or be in a PC market with 25 different operating systems. The monoculture of IBM/Microsoft *did* allow for an explosive growth in the PC market which would undoubtely be a lot smaller without it.
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I don't think measuring 62mph vs 45mph can be regarded as a "calibration error". That's 25% off. Who'd make measuring devices that wander off so much over time? I can see a 5mph error. But not 17mph. I think the cop was BS'ing and just trying to make his quota - note that in related articles it is pointed out that the particular stretch of road is known to be a speed trap. Makes you wonder how many other people were caught speeding who simply did not have the technology to contest it.
As long as they're the shape and size of DC-8's. Didn't Xenu use those 8 billion years ago?
There's a misconception that the law is increasingly siding with copyright holders. The "orphan works" act is all about stripping copyrights away from small copyright holders by large companies, providing the smallest penalties (if any) for their infringements possible. The real statement should be: "the law is increasingly siding with large corporations". Oh wait. That wouldn't be a new development either.
Look for analyst positions in financial or market research departments. It is usually work that requires the developments of large models and a lot of data handling. The amount of programming that comes with it is moderate and you'll usually get ace reviews as you're the "wizard" who's able to handle data nobody else can since they don't have the skills to write scripts to process it.
Mmmh. I'd better start selling counterfeit GPS satellites on E-bay then...
It's using advanced alien technology that contains an encrypted video. I managed to extract the message and I have posted it on youtube.
I don't really see how they plan on using onboard generators to create power in an attempt to be grid-independent; many port authorities are pushing for legislation that forces ships to, when docked, use electricity that is landside provided, as running the ships generators needlessly pollutes the air. One can argue that the biodiesel generators are cleaner than the ships' generators - but I don't think that your average PA is going to make an exception for that.
Actually, my point was that "the crook won" still didn't tell me who'd won the elections :)
If the people of Louisiana fucked themselves at the polls, then they're better off than the ones in New Jersey where it doesn't matter who gets chosen since he or she's going to screw you over anyway.
and how the idiosyncrasies of our election system left Louisiana voters to choose between a notoriously corrupt liberal and a former Ku Klux Klan leader for governor (the crook won) It is still not clear to me who won those elections...
No, you don't have it right. We should do something about global warming.
But fixing the problem with a solution class that in virtually every single instance where it has been tried ('let's introduce species x') not only failed, but even made things worse, is not a good idea in my mind.
Solve the problem at the core: stop burning fossil fuels. I don't have incandescent light bulbs in my house for years. When it gets cold, I put on a sweater, and a vest, instead of turning up the heat. I drive 60MPH to work because it saves 10% gas over 65MPH (public transportation is, where I live, not an option). I'm sure there's a lot more that I can do, but it is a start.
By the way, the world is not going to an end. We're not that smart.
We might plunge the world into an ecological disaster, and as a species exterminate ourselves in doing that, but the world will still be there. Just without us. It might take a million years to recover, but that's only a blip on the life time on the planet anyway.
Because other experiments in the past to release some kind of life form to combat something we deem as inconvenient has worked soooooo well: * introducing rabbits in Australia * introducing foxes to eat said rabbits * crossing European and African honey bees to get the best of both worlds... * snakeheads in Eastern USA * american frogs in europe And about another 1000 examples of introducing animals outside their natural habitat have all worked out so well. So, yeah, let's release those bugs!
For crying out loud, it is Micro$oft W*ndoze, not just "W*ndoze"
Dubiously? As far as I remember they just didn't pay licensing fees to Fraunhofer Institute, the inventors of MP3, unlike the rest of the MP3 player industry. Can't blame them for thinking "if we can't get away with that stuff, why would others"
Wow! The guy is multi-talented. So when he's not playing professional football he's developing educational software. And I always thought of most pro footballers as... ...well, barbarians, basically.
Tell your friend that: (a) He should do research BEFORE committing two years of his life to something (b) YOU didn't ruin his book - you saved him from embarresment (c) Coating the sword with steel would give you the worst of two worlds - why not a steel sword coated with a solid layer of diamonds or something along those lines, or a hollow diamond reinforced with polonium-plated titanium? (I guess steel would not be exotic enough) (d) If the book gets ruined because the plot evolves around a diamond sword. Mmmh. I dunno, but usually a book is built upon a good story, not a flashy gadget. He might want to reconsider that part as well...
I assume your statement comes from a lack of knowledge.
The 'crappy' architecture of the 8086 was a direct result of making it compatible with the 8080 and the CP/M code that runs on it. CP/M was the leading operating system at the time. Converting CP/M to DOS applications took - if I remember correctly - only 1 byte to be changed in the executable.
IBM understood perfectly that the availability of software would make or break the IBM PC. For many vendors entering the PC market was easy as their software didn't take that many changes. Which is why PC sales soared and the Apple Mac became a niche market as their was not a lot of software available. As a result, we're stuck with the legacy structure of the 8080. Lack of foresight? Maybe, but IBM's goal was to make a machine that sells, not a machine that has a beautiful architecture.
I loved the 68000 - programming it was clean, and almost C-like, as compared to the bit f*ck hacking that you need to do on a 8086. Similar, the Amiga was a fun machine with -it its days- superior hardware and architecture compared to the PC. But it never got a decent market share.
Too bad IBM didn't choose the 68000? But then again, if the IBM PC project had failed because of incompatibility with existing hardware, we still might have been stuck with CP/M now, or be in a PC market with 25 different operating systems. The monoculture of IBM/Microsoft *did* allow for an explosive growth in the PC market which would undoubtely be a lot smaller without it.