I swear either Stephen Baxter modelled the character Reid Malenfant from Manifold: Time on Elon Musk, or Elon Musk is modelling himself on the fictional character and head of Bootstrap from Manifold: Time. Given Time was published in 1999... it must be the later. Because it looks like Tesla/SpaceX is just Bootstrap in real life, developing new technologies to bootstrap mankind off this pale blue dot and into space.
the same technology going into better longer lasting car batteries is also applicable for drones. There is a lot of effort to improve both motor efficiency and battery storage capability.
Current record for quadcopter drone endurance flight is around 2.5 hours, of course, it won't carry your Red Epic.
When was the last time you took 20 minutes of video or photos over 20 minutes? 2 hrs of flight time? that is a lot of looking up! somehow I doubt you *need* 2 hours of flight time.
I think there is a world of difference between a manager and a team leader, and in most organisations there is only really one manager, the CEO, everyone else is leading teams and taking resistibility for various roles in support of the manager. As a team leader you should be supporting your team in the first order to be the best they can, not crushing their spirits or micromanaging their every action. People respond better to trust, autonomy and knowledge that what they're doing is valuable and necessary. Care about your team, ask them what they need and give it to them so they can get on with the job at hand.
Yeah, its just amazing how tasteless so much fruit is from "fresh food" super markets here in Australia (not sure if it's the same in the USA but I'm guessing yes)... The fruit *looks* great, but it tastes unripened/bitter or just not much flavonoids at all.:/
Building a drone, over 1KG, and in the USA, over 250g! is trivial...
Requiring registration for people's toys is idiotic (what are they going to do, attach a sticker?! to what easily replaceable part?) and unwarranted (how many actual drones - excluding military - have been involved in actual accidents with aircraft? none).
We had one small installation of Oracle on a VM running some old legacy database. Oracle audited and noted that the default packages were installed. The poor DBA didn't realise he was supposed to remove all of the default install-time packages as we had only licensed the base installation, but despite the fact we were only actually using the base packages, Oracle kindly notified us we were under licensed and owed money for several years with all the out-of-the-box features. Also because we were running oracle on a small 1vCPU Virtual machine, we had licensed for 1 CPU, but Oracle doesn't recognise "soft partitioning" hypervisor like ESX, only Oracle VM or "Hard Partitioning"... so we also got hit up for the full count of CPUs on the underlying ESX host (8!). After a lot of wrangling, Legal departments going back and forth we made a deal and purchased double the licensing we actually needed (so they had a sale and we were out of pocket for software we will never use).
Needless to say, we have since divested in Oracle and will never use their products again.
Oh, that reminds me. Oracle Java is a pain in the arse now, and the sooner it dies the better.
Indeed, since metadata collection was first tabled I've firmly believed (educated guess) that this was the government just trying to legalise (or legitimise) what their already doing.
Petty much sums it up.
The only people winning here are the guys selling packet inspection and storage.
The other day a BT sales guy was tell me that the Australian government is one of their globally largest customers for packet inspection and mitm SSL packet inspection tools.
Sounds like "Grounding" or "Earthing". Pseudoscience dressed up for marketing as real science to people who lack any understanding for a product that does nothing but earn some money.
That sounds like a security argument that forgets the convenience part of the equation. If you have departments of 100+ staff and need them to have access to the same files... all it takes is one user falling for it, you're still left moping up. We had two staff fall for it from different departments... fun times.
We had two employees access the torrentlocker website, right through out proxy portal with Kaspersky and McAfee running, and they downloaded it to their PCs running McAfee and then ran the bloody thing. By the next morning, we had more than 50000 files encrypted.
I spent the next two days scripting deletion and restores across several multi-terabyte file shares.
What I REALLY don't get is, why the heck did a known piece of malware like that make it through all of those antivirus/antimalware systems and heuristics and succeed in ruining two perfectly good days? (just ignoring all of the staff downtime)....
Anybody?
Putting a new twist on Starships... Literally an Interstellar Star-ship.
If you measure civilisations on the Kardashev scale; then a Type 1 -> 2 civilisation should be capable of redirecting a candidate star to place it on a course to travel wherever they want... it might take a long time, but hey, if you want to go traveling across the universe, you'd better do it on a grand scale.
The world has gone insane!!!
Why would anyone threaten or rationally consider using nuclear weapons against any country all over the political leanings and chest thumping of the leadership of some other country?! It's insanity.
1. Install Ubuntu
2. Setup only the applications they need in the task bar.
3. Install teamviewer host and or just enable openssh with dyndns for location.
4. ???
5. Profit!!!
I've had this set-up for my mother for 4 years now. She had Windows beforehand, but it kept committing suicide and was a much easier target for would-be malicious agents (yeah, she gets her fair share of "Microsoft support" calls offering to fix her computer - she knows how to respond these days). It's just rock solid, runs a web browser (gmail, facebook, google searches) and it runs skype too.. she doesn't need anything more than that.... and it keeps her support requirements very low. I just do a system check whenever I see her and it's always just happy as larry.
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Especially in the Australian market!!! Cannot imagine how hot it works get when it's 45 degrees C in summer and the car is parked in the sun...
I swear either Stephen Baxter modelled the character Reid Malenfant from Manifold: Time on Elon Musk, or Elon Musk is modelling himself on the fictional character and head of Bootstrap from Manifold: Time. Given Time was published in 1999... it must be the later. Because it looks like Tesla/SpaceX is just Bootstrap in real life, developing new technologies to bootstrap mankind off this pale blue dot and into space.
About Fucking Time. Typed from my new Dell XPS 15.
minor correction: quadcopter hobby class (non commercial) endurance record is currently around 2 hours 9 minutes. http://www.rcgroups.com/forums...
the same technology going into better longer lasting car batteries is also applicable for drones. There is a lot of effort to improve both motor efficiency and battery storage capability. Current record for quadcopter drone endurance flight is around 2.5 hours, of course, it won't carry your Red Epic.
When was the last time you took 20 minutes of video or photos over 20 minutes? 2 hrs of flight time? that is a lot of looking up! somehow I doubt you *need* 2 hours of flight time.
I think there is a world of difference between a manager and a team leader, and in most organisations there is only really one manager, the CEO, everyone else is leading teams and taking resistibility for various roles in support of the manager. As a team leader you should be supporting your team in the first order to be the best they can, not crushing their spirits or micromanaging their every action. People respond better to trust, autonomy and knowledge that what they're doing is valuable and necessary. Care about your team, ask them what they need and give it to them so they can get on with the job at hand.
This.
Sure, assuming said interference isn't around 1.5GHz, taking out the gps. In which case, auto anything is useless other than descend (land).
Yeah, its just amazing how tasteless so much fruit is from "fresh food" super markets here in Australia (not sure if it's the same in the USA but I'm guessing yes)... The fruit *looks* great, but it tastes unripened/bitter or just not much flavonoids at all. :/
Building a drone, over 1KG, and in the USA, over 250g! is trivial... Requiring registration for people's toys is idiotic (what are they going to do, attach a sticker?! to what easily replaceable part?) and unwarranted (how many actual drones - excluding military - have been involved in actual accidents with aircraft? none).
We had one small installation of Oracle on a VM running some old legacy database. Oracle audited and noted that the default packages were installed. The poor DBA didn't realise he was supposed to remove all of the default install-time packages as we had only licensed the base installation, but despite the fact we were only actually using the base packages, Oracle kindly notified us we were under licensed and owed money for several years with all the out-of-the-box features. Also because we were running oracle on a small 1vCPU Virtual machine, we had licensed for 1 CPU, but Oracle doesn't recognise "soft partitioning" hypervisor like ESX, only Oracle VM or "Hard Partitioning"... so we also got hit up for the full count of CPUs on the underlying ESX host (8!). After a lot of wrangling, Legal departments going back and forth we made a deal and purchased double the licensing we actually needed (so they had a sale and we were out of pocket for software we will never use). Needless to say, we have since divested in Oracle and will never use their products again. Oh, that reminds me. Oracle Java is a pain in the arse now, and the sooner it dies the better.
Indeed, since metadata collection was first tabled I've firmly believed (educated guess) that this was the government just trying to legalise (or legitimise) what their already doing.
Petty much sums it up. The only people winning here are the guys selling packet inspection and storage. The other day a BT sales guy was tell me that the Australian government is one of their globally largest customers for packet inspection and mitm SSL packet inspection tools.
First posted about on the 3rd... http://diydrones.com/profiles/...
Sounds like "Grounding" or "Earthing". Pseudoscience dressed up for marketing as real science to people who lack any understanding for a product that does nothing but earn some money.
That sounds like a security argument that forgets the convenience part of the equation. If you have departments of 100+ staff and need them to have access to the same files... all it takes is one user falling for it, you're still left moping up. We had two staff fall for it from different departments... fun times.
We had two employees access the torrentlocker website, right through out proxy portal with Kaspersky and McAfee running, and they downloaded it to their PCs running McAfee and then ran the bloody thing. By the next morning, we had more than 50000 files encrypted. I spent the next two days scripting deletion and restores across several multi-terabyte file shares. What I REALLY don't get is, why the heck did a known piece of malware like that make it through all of those antivirus/antimalware systems and heuristics and succeed in ruining two perfectly good days? (just ignoring all of the staff downtime).... Anybody?
Someone mod this guy down too... there is no air in space and hence no sound... there is therefore no "whooshing" sound.
Someone mod him down.... if you're in orbit... mass has nothing to do with it.
Putting a new twist on Starships... Literally an Interstellar Star-ship. If you measure civilisations on the Kardashev scale; then a Type 1 -> 2 civilisation should be capable of redirecting a candidate star to place it on a course to travel wherever they want... it might take a long time, but hey, if you want to go traveling across the universe, you'd better do it on a grand scale.
The world has gone insane!!! Why would anyone threaten or rationally consider using nuclear weapons against any country all over the political leanings and chest thumping of the leadership of some other country?! It's insanity.
1. Install Ubuntu 2. Setup only the applications they need in the task bar. 3. Install teamviewer host and or just enable openssh with dyndns for location. 4. ??? 5. Profit!!! I've had this set-up for my mother for 4 years now. She had Windows beforehand, but it kept committing suicide and was a much easier target for would-be malicious agents (yeah, she gets her fair share of "Microsoft support" calls offering to fix her computer - she knows how to respond these days). It's just rock solid, runs a web browser (gmail, facebook, google searches) and it runs skype too.. she doesn't need anything more than that.... and it keeps her support requirements very low. I just do a system check whenever I see her and it's always just happy as larry.
Tragedy of the commons: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
Meh, don't worry about it, I'm sure some other Country is spending money tracking NEOs.