Not only that, but my understanding is that GPS timing was used only for time-transfer purposes, to calibrate the local cesium standards were used for the actual measurements.
The bug in the measurement, if there is one, cannot possibly be related to the use of GPS for timing.
Leadless packages most definitely can be soldered by hand (see the third photo from the bottom at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/sdr/) but it's not much fun. You make the connections using short bits of very thin solid wire, using the heat from the iron to solder both ends at once.
How the hell do you know that there is no evidence? Do you work for the CIA? This was purely a self defense action. This moron was traveling with the other moron that made the underwear bomb that they tried to blow up an airliner with and the printer cartridge bomb. I take it in your world the CIA will put all their evidence online so that you can certify their evidence. You sir are so full of shit it oozes through your pores and leaves brown on everything you touch.
Everything you're telling us has been said before, of course. Remember when George W. Bush explained why the Guantanamo Bay prison was needed in order to protect America from the "worst of the worst?"
Maybe you have the cojones to stake your life on the words of politicians, but some of the rest of us have been around a little too long for the kind of naivete your words exhibit.
Labor laws here are very protective of workers. It ensures that I get 30 days vacation every year (i always take only 20 though, and get money back for the other 10), get an extra salary once year (ie: get paid for 13 months in a given year). All overtime is paid (anything over 40 hours a week), and weekend/night shift work has all sorts of adders in my pay check. This is the law, I'm not lucky in my particular assignment.
Interesting. You know, it's almost as if all that "free" stuff you're getting isn't really "free," but has to be taken out of someone else's hide. Nah.... what am I saying, it doesn't work that way, right?
I've concluded that there are different kinds of nincompoops, though. Our politicians in the US are corrupt, greedy short-term thinkers who will sell their own mothers if approached by a lobbyist with a check. But they usually don't go out of their way to punish their constituents and make it impossible for anyone else to succeed
See the other reply to my post, where someone corrects the tariff percentage I mentioned. Apparently it's more like 60% than 20%. So: sorry, but your relativism (and Moore's), while not wrong per se, only goes so far. The simple truth is that nothing in the US is that fucked up. At least not yet.
In China they appear to have at least made the decision to try to do something useful with themselves. China is run by engineers, the US is run by lawyers, and Brazil is run by nincompoops.
Brazil punishes its own citizens by forcing them to pay something like 20% import duties on technological items, all while apparently considering it no big deal if everyone runs their own backyard mercury smelter, going by comments above.
Never mind tax breaks, they should be offering Foxconn free hookers and blow if that's what it takes to get them to come in and modernize their economy. Ultimately it is their own people who pay the price for their government's insane policies, not Foxconn.
I think they are leaping headlong into an unworkable business strategy - they are waving the white flag to the content owners.
I don't they're waving a white flag, necessarily. It's more like they are styling their hair in a bright red mohawk, taking off their pants, smearing marmalade on their eyebrows, and riding a unicycle with a flat tire up Interstate 5 while quacking like a duck into a CB radio.
Makes as much sense as what they're doing with this Quixstar thing. As a customer and a stockholder I'm utterly perplexed by this company's actions over the last six months. I don't know whether to sell now, or try to stick around long enough to see if they lurch back in a reasonable direction.
Not only that, but Windows 8 will have a "mode" that apparently tries its best to emulate iOS, and another "mode" that tries its best to look and feel like previous versions of Windows.
When, in the history of electronic computing, has such a strategy ever yielded anything but a smoking crater in the marketplace, with users standing around pointing and laughing?
That is not what "argument from authority" means, or at least, it's not what it should mean. Argument from authority is fallacious only if the authority is trying to use his reputation to add weight to his opinion in unrelated matters. If someone is a recognized authority in a field, his ex cathedra arguments should indeed carry more weight, and should require additional effort to refute credibly.
For instance, people tend to dredge up clever-sounding quotes from Einstein on everything from religion to nuclear disarmament, but since those areas are outside Einstein's professional qualifications, his opinions shouldn't carry any more weight in argument than yours and mine. But if I claim my new free-energy invention disproves relativity, it's legitimate for you to wave a whole book of Einstein's writings in my face.
HOW DARE THEY! You should write to your Congressman, demanding that everyone works themselves into the ground until you retire.
Whatever. The fact is, promising a lifetime of free hookers and blow for teachers, cops, mailmen, firemen, and other public-sector union workers is not sustainable, and never was. Deal with it and get over it.
Sure. But if something's on fire, and you don't want it to be, do you ordinarily throw more wood on it?
I'm not a Republican but there is a lot to be said for their stated philosophy of "starving the beast." If the Republican party actually behaved according to their stated positions I'd be more sympathetic to them, but as others have noted, they're just a bunch of power-mad theocrats who, while not "terrorists" per se, are not helping, either.
As for raising taxes on the rich, the government's failure to tax the rich isn't cutting into the C-130s the Bush/Cheney government "lost" (to some mobster). Those flights will continue forever, so long as Republicans like you keep voting for Republicans like them. But without raising taxes on the rich what gets cut off is education of everyone but the rich, investments in science that keep the US ahead of our competitors and worth believing in, and enforcing laws that put some limits on how the rich abuse you. How surprising that Warren Buffet knows this, but you - some random Slashdotter - don't.
So, first it's an allocation problem ("Those flights will continue forever"), and then it's a revenue problem ("what gets cut off is education.") I'm confused. Which is it?
How do we close the negative feedback loop if we keep shovelling more cash at these clowns?
Have you really thought this problem through as far as you seem to think you have?
I only wish they would run the country like mobsters running their day to day operations. Mobsters usually deliver the paid-for product. Mobsters don't pretend they're doing God's work. Mobsters don't go out of their way to start gunfights with uninvolved parties, and they don't irradiate their own customers in the name of "security." Mobsters keep two sets of books like the government does, but unlike the government's, one of them reflects reality. Someone who loses 22 C-130 cargo planes full of Mob cash can expect to be held to account for it.
We aren't run by mobsters, we're run by idiots. This is why I have no patience for people like Warren Buffett who prattle on about how taxes need to be raised on "the rich." Why? So the government can lose 23 C-130s full of $100 bills next time?
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OK, I agree, that's interesting, and disturbing as all hell.
Not only that, but my understanding is that GPS timing was used only for time-transfer purposes, to calibrate the local cesium standards were used for the actual measurements.
The bug in the measurement, if there is one, cannot possibly be related to the use of GPS for timing.
Mostly what comes to mind isn't a cloud crash, but the fact that it took Apple something like 3 attempts to write a fucking alarm clock that worked.
Hopefully, as much as anyone hates Apple, they'll be the only american company left that knows how to build a PC.
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Ridiculous. Freedom means nothing at all if it doesn't encompass your right to make faulty decisions.
Leadless packages most definitely can be soldered by hand (see the third photo from the bottom at http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ptdeboer/ham/sdr/) but it's not much fun. You make the connections using short bits of very thin solid wire, using the heat from the iron to solder both ends at once.
What model router do you use?
How the hell do you know that there is no evidence? Do you work for the CIA? This was purely a self defense action. This moron was traveling with the other moron that made the underwear bomb that they tried to blow up an airliner with and the printer cartridge bomb. I take it in your world the CIA will put all their evidence online so that you can certify their evidence. You sir are so full of shit it oozes through your pores and leaves brown on everything you touch.
Everything you're telling us has been said before, of course. Remember when George W. Bush explained why the Guantanamo Bay prison was needed in order to protect America from the "worst of the worst?"
Maybe you have the cojones to stake your life on the words of politicians, but some of the rest of us have been around a little too long for the kind of naivete your words exhibit.
Labor laws here are very protective of workers. It ensures that I get 30 days vacation every year (i always take only 20 though, and get money back for the other 10), get an extra salary once year (ie: get paid for 13 months in a given year). All overtime is paid (anything over 40 hours a week), and weekend/night shift work has all sorts of adders in my pay check. This is the law, I'm not lucky in my particular assignment.
Interesting. You know, it's almost as if all that "free" stuff you're getting isn't really "free," but has to be taken out of someone else's hide. Nah.... what am I saying, it doesn't work that way, right?
I've concluded that there are different kinds of nincompoops, though. Our politicians in the US are corrupt, greedy short-term thinkers who will sell their own mothers if approached by a lobbyist with a check. But they usually don't go out of their way to punish their constituents and make it impossible for anyone else to succeed
See the other reply to my post, where someone corrects the tariff percentage I mentioned. Apparently it's more like 60% than 20%. So: sorry, but your relativism (and Moore's), while not wrong per se, only goes so far. The simple truth is that nothing in the US is that fucked up. At least not yet.
In China they appear to have at least made the decision to try to do something useful with themselves. China is run by engineers, the US is run by lawyers, and Brazil is run by nincompoops.
Brazil punishes its own citizens by forcing them to pay something like 20% import duties on technological items, all while apparently considering it no big deal if everyone runs their own backyard mercury smelter, going by comments above.
Never mind tax breaks, they should be offering Foxconn free hookers and blow if that's what it takes to get them to come in and modernize their economy. Ultimately it is their own people who pay the price for their government's insane policies, not Foxconn.
I think they are leaping headlong into an unworkable business strategy - they are waving the white flag to the content owners.
I don't they're waving a white flag, necessarily. It's more like they are styling their hair in a bright red mohawk, taking off their pants, smearing marmalade on their eyebrows, and riding a unicycle with a flat tire up Interstate 5 while quacking like a duck into a CB radio.
Makes as much sense as what they're doing with this Quixstar thing. As a customer and a stockholder I'm utterly perplexed by this company's actions over the last six months. I don't know whether to sell now, or try to stick around long enough to see if they lurch back in a reasonable direction.
In other news, "insults" is not the plural of "datum."
The ozone hole was first mapped in the 1970s, and has since proven to grow and shrink regularly since that time.
So life would be better if bums with self-esteem issues ran everything?
He's using tricks he picked up on the Microsoft board. Wait'll he brings in Steve Ballmer to save the business...
Truth follows only from evidence and arguments, and the truth value of a position is independent of whoever states it.
True in principle but never possible in the real world. Otherwise, you'd never see academic degree requirements on job postings.
Not only that, but Windows 8 will have a "mode" that apparently tries its best to emulate iOS, and another "mode" that tries its best to look and feel like previous versions of Windows.
When, in the history of electronic computing, has such a strategy ever yielded anything but a smoking crater in the marketplace, with users standing around pointing and laughing?
That is not what "argument from authority" means, or at least, it's not what it should mean. Argument from authority is fallacious only if the authority is trying to use his reputation to add weight to his opinion in unrelated matters. If someone is a recognized authority in a field, his ex cathedra arguments should indeed carry more weight, and should require additional effort to refute credibly.
For instance, people tend to dredge up clever-sounding quotes from Einstein on everything from religion to nuclear disarmament, but since those areas are outside Einstein's professional qualifications, his opinions shouldn't carry any more weight in argument than yours and mine. But if I claim my new free-energy invention disproves relativity, it's legitimate for you to wave a whole book of Einstein's writings in my face.
HOW DARE THEY! You should write to your Congressman, demanding that everyone works themselves into the ground until you retire.
Whatever. The fact is, promising a lifetime of free hookers and blow for teachers, cops, mailmen, firemen, and other public-sector union workers is not sustainable, and never was. Deal with it and get over it.
Because the local Starbucks was already fully staffed.
Worse, Ron Paul is one of those fundamentalist loons.
I don't vote for Re-
Never mind, fresh out of time to feed trolls.
Sure. But if something's on fire, and you don't want it to be, do you ordinarily throw more wood on it?
I'm not a Republican but there is a lot to be said for their stated philosophy of "starving the beast." If the Republican party actually behaved according to their stated positions I'd be more sympathetic to them, but as others have noted, they're just a bunch of power-mad theocrats who, while not "terrorists" per se, are not helping, either.
As for raising taxes on the rich, the government's failure to tax the rich isn't cutting into the C-130s the Bush/Cheney government "lost" (to some mobster). Those flights will continue forever, so long as Republicans like you keep voting for Republicans like them. But without raising taxes on the rich what gets cut off is education of everyone but the rich, investments in science that keep the US ahead of our competitors and worth believing in, and enforcing laws that put some limits on how the rich abuse you. How surprising that Warren Buffet knows this, but you - some random Slashdotter - don't.
So, first it's an allocation problem ("Those flights will continue forever"), and then it's a revenue problem ("what gets cut off is education.") I'm confused. Which is it?
How do we close the negative feedback loop if we keep shovelling more cash at these clowns?
Have you really thought this problem through as far as you seem to think you have?
I only wish they would run the country like mobsters running their day to day operations. Mobsters usually deliver the paid-for product. Mobsters don't pretend they're doing God's work. Mobsters don't go out of their way to start gunfights with uninvolved parties, and they don't irradiate their own customers in the name of "security." Mobsters keep two sets of books like the government does, but unlike the government's, one of them reflects reality. Someone who loses 22 C-130 cargo planes full of Mob cash can expect to be held to account for it.
We aren't run by mobsters, we're run by idiots. This is why I have no patience for people like Warren Buffett who prattle on about how taxes need to be raised on "the rich." Why? So the government can lose 23 C-130s full of $100 bills next time?