At least one police force continuously record the main hum, which they claim both provides a unique signature and also enable to tell if the recording has been modified. Not sure if it would work for a battery-powered camcorder, tho'.
1. I've been told I write "excellent" specs before; notably on one project where the devs then went 3x over budget, (estimated AFTER they had read the specs). Even before this experience, I never believed such a thing as an "excellent" spec existed. A little humility, guy...I'm sure you're good, but is everything you do "excellent", everywhere and every day? Anyway, spec has very little to do with the ability of the team to translate into code. I've known plenty of people capable of turning a bad spec into good product, and vice versa.
2. As the OP said, add a realistic budget into your contracts for testing & bug-fixes. That will help you build loyalty into your core team of contract devs. You're better off sticking with a regular team who you can trust, especially as you're asking for a very wide competency base.
3. Don't hire fixed costs; they'll kill you, and it sounds like your hiring criteria are totally unrealistic anyway. Also, your logic is flawed; why would you be prepared to pay a salaried employee to fix (his/her) bugs, but not a contractor?
Both have a non-functional metal piece inserted in order to make them deliberately detectable, (and hence legal). The ungodly would leave that bit out, I assume.
In addition, this modified version has bore rifling to escape restrictive legislation on smoothbore weapons.
But, FTA:
"After each firing, the ammo cartridges expanded enough that they had to be pounded out with a hammer."
FTA: "According to researchers, the atmosphere shows especially low attenuation in this frequency range, and the technology has already been tested with distances over one kilometre."
Does not say if this includes in rainy conditions, since you're right that - normally - the higher the freqency the more it is impacted by atmospheric moisture. Still, you get TV and your cell phone works when it rains...
When Ubuntu introduced Unity, I switched to Cinnamon. It's a shame that a DE has divided the biggest desktop Linux community
Why?
That's the the whole benefit of open source right there in one sentence. They did something you didn't like, you weren't locked in.
Indeed. One of the biggest benefits, but also the biggest disadvantage. This is what stops Linux from gaining traction with a wider market. Buy a device for windows, (screen, printer, wifi key, whatever), plug it in, works. (Yeah OK, most of the time, especially if you ain't got 64bit). With Linux, it's harder, especially for the non-techie. One distro that all the major OEMs could aim for would really help. (Spoken as an old BSD wanker, so I suppose I'm part of the "problem"...)
While I'm all for doing my civic duty, I'm not sure people would be too happy about an app that, I'm guessing, would leave your camera on all the time, and phone home data using your bandwidth. (But would be fascinating to the the resulting croudsourced 'radiation map'...we'd probably find out a few things that govt and private institutions had forgotten about, or had hoped been forgotten.)
Anyway, my though was, would this work with the enormous number of suveillance cameras deployed by the authorities? 'Free' information with none of the power consumption and privacy concerns. Static network, of course, but they should be in the places that bombers would be targetting anyway, no?
Agree. Small comment, whilst I still love Google maps, Bing maps has really improved. Where I live, for example, (ouside USA), it's now better than Google maps, with more up to date aerial photos. Still no 'street view', of course.
Most thermal systems, be it in cogeneration/district heating, or even traditional power stations, still end up dumping some residual heat as waste into the environment. It seems nuts, but it gets to a point where the temperature differential/gradient is simply not enough to justify an industrial process to recover the heat efficiently. For example, if you were trying to heat your house with water that was only a few degrees above ambient, well, you'd probably not be very happy.
Still, sometimes it works out OK, like the example (in France, from memory), where waste heat from a nuclear reactor is used to heat ponds to grow tropical shrimps, and greenhouses for fruit.
By the time the water finally returns to the river, thermal impact is virtually zero, minimising local ecological disruption.
Well, he gets a lot of stick here for the "evil empire" he created, but let's not forget he started out as a programmer.
He gamed the system for all it was worth, in a very smart manner, and pretty much stuck to the letter of the law, if not the spirit. Along the way, DOS & Windows, with Intel, became the foundation of the "open" PC marketplace that radically transformed the computing marketplace.
So, kudos to him, especially if he dumps a few more $Bn into his foundation. (I mean, $76Bn, do you really need that much money?)
FTA: "Acxiom data can’t be used for employment background checks, credit verification, or insurance underwriting, she adds, because that would make it a consumer reporting company under Fair Credit Report Act. Companies regulated under the FCRA can’t use that data for marketing purposes."
Urm, "Chinese walls", anyone? Want to bet that they don't sell that information to other people for doing exactly that?
I've worked with professional buyers; the good ones can get you a great deal, if you give them time and all the factors.
The trouble is, how many managers are on top of the real cost of their processes & associated outputs? (Cost per transaction, Kw/h consumption, support etc.)
Hell, most of them don't even know these concepts.
So, most outsourcing is done on the basis of "saving costs". Surprise, surprise, instead of the expected "econmoies of scale", service level drops and costs, (after lock-in period) rise.
Do we really need this? I would guess "yes" only if it enables people to update their old Android devices, (those which have been orphaned by Google and/or their OEMs) to replace previous versions of Android with unpatched vulnerabilities.
Interesting argument, but incorrect. This crap was tipped into tanks a long time before Carter bacame POTUS. Superficially, your argument looks interesting from an efficiency and waste disposal point of view. After all, TFA says there's half a ton of plutonium mixed up in all the crap in the various tanks. Sure, "burn" it! Urm, but where? Nearly all he FB reactors have been shut down. Gonna build one in Hanford?
Also, it seems that it's already insanely difficult and expensive just to figure out how to get the crap out of the tanks and vitrified safely. Trying to separate out the various forms of waste further, and then reprocess into rods would add another layer of complexity and cost.
C'mon guys; give us a reference platform, or maybe even kickstart it, and I'll drive around with a device stuck to my car dashboard or bike windscreen. Hell, I'll even pay you - say - $100 bucks for the device. OK, twist my arm and I'll go to $150. Should pay for a cheapo camera, GPS, a battery and some memory.
But, pretty please, no fucking around with obscure stuff. I'll tell it where it starts, where it stops, and plug it into the 'net once a day, or week. Maybe if I have time, I'll name the streets, if I know them.
But again please, could you make it EASY.
All the commercial orgs piggybacking off this project should be able to kick in a few bucks for the servers and technology to stitch the raw material together, blur faces & plates, eh? Am I alone?
However, since the single-shot weapon is already quite bulky, (OK, they could make the pistol grip smaller, but I guess the barrel has to be that big to resist the pressure), a multiple barrel weapon would be hard to conceal. Making an 'automatic' version, which could be both more deadly and compact, is probably out of reach for printable plastics - just too much stress on the components.
I guess it could be a game-changer if they start making really tough printable plastics, and someone starts selling undetectable rounds, (which would be banned pretty fast, I guess...still, you could always make your own from plastic & fireworks...)
Agree that metal would be better, but that's defeating the entire purpose, eh? Gun exploded when a larger-capacity, (says "rifle") cartridge was used. Too much power for the plastic, I suppose.
But of course you're right in essence; it's a piece of crap.
From the video, looks like despite the modest cartridge used, there's quite a kick. Guess the plastic is rather light. So, no need to get excited folks; a one-shot weapon with really poor accuracy, which needs a 3D printer. Thus more difficult and costly to produce, yet no more effective, than a 'saturday night special', 'zip gun' or 'bang stick', plans for which have been freely available for a long time. Probably equally as likely to blow up in your face, too...
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At least one police force continuously record the main hum, which they claim both provides a unique signature and also enable to tell if the recording has been modified. Not sure if it would work for a battery-powered camcorder, tho'.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
Yeah; get your point. But we both bit the bait anyway...
Well, a little rude, but not totally wrong.
1. I've been told I write "excellent" specs before; notably on one project where the devs then went 3x over budget, (estimated AFTER they had read the specs). Even before this experience, I never believed such a thing as an "excellent" spec existed. A little humility, guy...I'm sure you're good, but is everything you do "excellent", everywhere and every day? Anyway, spec has very little to do with the ability of the team to translate into code. I've known plenty of people capable of turning a bad spec into good product, and vice versa.
2. As the OP said, add a realistic budget into your contracts for testing & bug-fixes. That will help you build loyalty into your core team of contract devs. You're better off sticking with a regular team who you can trust, especially as you're asking for a very wide competency base.
3. Don't hire fixed costs; they'll kill you, and it sounds like your hiring criteria are totally unrealistic anyway. Also, your logic is flawed; why would you be prepared to pay a salaried employee to fix (his/her) bugs, but not a contractor?
Both have a non-functional metal piece inserted in order to make them deliberately detectable, (and hence legal).
The ungodly would leave that bit out, I assume.
In addition, this modified version has bore rifling to escape restrictive legislation on smoothbore weapons.
But, FTA:
"After each firing, the ammo cartridges expanded enough that they had to be pounded out with a hammer."
Keep your Semmerling for the moment, Jack...
FTA: "According to researchers, the atmosphere shows especially low attenuation in this frequency range, and the technology has already been tested with distances over one kilometre."
Does not say if this includes in rainy conditions, since you're right that - normally - the higher the freqency the more it is impacted by atmospheric moisture.
Still, you get TV and your cell phone works when it rains...
As usual, be warned of the horrendous autoplaying video ads surrounding good content at the primary link.
Not a problem if you're running adblockers, noscript etc.
I opt IN for ads on the sites I wish to support, and I which I believe to be safe.
When Ubuntu introduced Unity, I switched to Cinnamon. It's a shame that a DE has divided the biggest desktop Linux community
Why?
That's the the whole benefit of open source right there in one sentence. They did something you didn't like, you weren't locked in.
Indeed. One of the biggest benefits, but also the biggest disadvantage. This is what stops Linux from gaining traction with a wider market.
Buy a device for windows, (screen, printer, wifi key, whatever), plug it in, works. (Yeah OK, most of the time, especially if you ain't got 64bit). With Linux, it's harder, especially for the non-techie. One distro that all the major OEMs could aim for would really help.
(Spoken as an old BSD wanker, so I suppose I'm part of the "problem"...)
While I'm all for doing my civic duty, I'm not sure people would be too happy about an app that, I'm guessing, would leave your camera on all the time, and phone home data using your bandwidth. (But would be fascinating to the the resulting croudsourced 'radiation map'...we'd probably find out a few things that govt and private institutions had forgotten about, or had hoped been forgotten.)
Anyway, my though was, would this work with the enormous number of suveillance cameras deployed by the authorities? 'Free' information with none of the power consumption and privacy concerns. Static network, of course, but they should be in the places that bombers would be targetting anyway, no?
Show me any moving device that had received no maintenance in 9 years and still works.
Never taken a taxi in Africa then, huh?
Clearly, you're not from North Korea.
Although given the fact that you seem to have had a sense-of-humour bypass operation, maybe you are...
Not a "gentle, painless electrical current applied to the brain ", more like a smack round the head.
Student performance often improved dramatically, and no permanent damage seemed to be done.
Agree. Small comment, whilst I still love Google maps, Bing maps has really improved. Where I live, for example, (ouside USA), it's now better than Google maps, with more up to date aerial photos. Still no 'street view', of course.
Most thermal systems, be it in cogeneration/district heating, or even traditional power stations, still end up dumping some residual heat as waste into the environment.
It seems nuts, but it gets to a point where the temperature differential/gradient is simply not enough to justify an industrial process to recover the heat efficiently.
For example, if you were trying to heat your house with water that was only a few degrees above ambient, well, you'd probably not be very happy.
Still, sometimes it works out OK, like the example (in France, from memory), where waste heat from a nuclear reactor is used to heat ponds to grow tropical shrimps, and greenhouses for fruit.
By the time the water finally returns to the river, thermal impact is virtually zero, minimising local ecological disruption.
Well, he gets a lot of stick here for the "evil empire" he created, but let's not forget he started out as a programmer.
He gamed the system for all it was worth, in a very smart manner, and pretty much stuck to the letter of the law, if not the spirit.
Along the way, DOS & Windows, with Intel, became the foundation of the "open" PC marketplace that radically transformed the computing marketplace.
So, kudos to him, especially if he dumps a few more $Bn into his foundation.
(I mean, $76Bn, do you really need that much money?)
FTA: "Acxiom data can’t be used for employment background checks, credit verification, or insurance underwriting, she adds, because that would make it a consumer reporting company under Fair Credit Report Act. Companies regulated under the FCRA can’t use that data for marketing purposes."
Urm, "Chinese walls", anyone? Want to bet that they don't sell that information to other people for doing exactly that?
I've worked with professional buyers; the good ones can get you a great deal, if you give them time and all the factors.
The trouble is, how many managers are on top of the real cost of their processes & associated outputs?
(Cost per transaction, Kw/h consumption, support etc.)
Hell, most of them don't even know these concepts.
So, most outsourcing is done on the basis of "saving costs". Surprise, surprise, instead of the expected "econmoies of scale", service level drops and costs, (after lock-in period) rise.
Do we really need this? I would guess "yes" only if it enables people to update their old Android devices, (those which have been orphaned by Google and/or their OEMs) to replace previous versions of Android with unpatched vulnerabilities.
Anyone got a take on this?
Interesting argument, but incorrect. This crap was tipped into tanks a long time before Carter bacame POTUS.
Superficially, your argument looks interesting from an efficiency and waste disposal point of view.
After all, TFA says there's half a ton of plutonium mixed up in all the crap in the various tanks.
Sure, "burn" it! Urm, but where? Nearly all he FB reactors have been shut down. Gonna build one in Hanford?
Also, it seems that it's already insanely difficult and expensive just to figure out how to get the crap out of the tanks and vitrified safely. Trying to separate out the various forms of waste further, and then reprocess into rods would add another layer of complexity and cost.
Kinda' true, but no business of any reasonable size is going to use Google for email and calendaring.
Urm, like KLM? (11k+ users...)
http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/customers.html
Not a Google shill, btw, (I use both G and Outlook, and agree G are not *quite* there yet).
But they're getting closer...
Stop moaning...
Here you go.
http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/Untangling_the_Web.pdf
40MB but downloads pretty fast.
Don't expect miracles - a quick peek shows a crappy-quality B&W PDF, (despite the file size). A pretty epub it's not.
C'mon guys; give us a reference platform, or maybe even kickstart it, and I'll drive around with a device stuck to my car dashboard or bike windscreen.
Hell, I'll even pay you - say - $100 bucks for the device. OK, twist my arm and I'll go to $150. Should pay for a cheapo camera, GPS, a battery and some memory.
But, pretty please, no fucking around with obscure stuff. I'll tell it where it starts, where it stops, and plug it into the 'net once a day, or week.
Maybe if I have time, I'll name the streets, if I know them.
But again please, could you make it EASY.
All the commercial orgs piggybacking off this project should be able to kick in a few bucks for the servers and technology to stitch the raw material together, blur faces & plates, eh? Am I alone?
Are you implying that the accuracy is poor because of the kick?
No, unrifled, short, probably ill-fitting barrel...of course does not matter if fired inches away from target...
Yes, I suppose they could do a Derringer-type weapon fairly easily.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derringer
However, since the single-shot weapon is already quite bulky, (OK, they could make the pistol grip smaller, but I guess the barrel has to be that big to resist the pressure), a multiple barrel weapon would be hard to conceal. Making an 'automatic' version, which could be both more deadly and compact, is probably out of reach for printable plastics - just too much stress on the components.
I guess it could be a game-changer if they start making really tough printable plastics, and someone starts selling undetectable rounds, (which would be banned pretty fast, I guess...still, you could always make your own from plastic & fireworks...)
Agree that metal would be better, but that's defeating the entire purpose, eh?
Gun exploded when a larger-capacity, (says "rifle") cartridge was used. Too much power for the plastic, I suppose.
But of course you're right in essence; it's a piece of crap.
Video here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22421185
From the video, looks like despite the modest cartridge used, there's quite a kick. Guess the plastic is rather light.
So, no need to get excited folks; a one-shot weapon with really poor accuracy, which needs a 3D printer.
Thus more difficult and costly to produce, yet no more effective, than a 'saturday night special', 'zip gun' or 'bang stick', plans for which have been freely available for a long time.
Probably equally as likely to blow up in your face, too...