Only your second point is valid. First one doesnt apply because if you look at bitcoin as an investment vehicle, its the same as all the other, good old demand and supply mechanics apply to all investment vehicles the same, be it rocks or bitcoins. Last one doesnt apply because, well banks and investors dont really think much of bitcoin other than looking at this wierd newfangled thing with puzzlement. Only engieneers and programmers who actually bother to find out how it works say "hey this is something i have never seen before - interesting"
So easy to call for something, so hard to understand that solutions to problems like public key cryptography or totally decentralised currencies dont pop up all that often, or atleast they dont work all that often.
Coming up with a solution like this is like solving a never before solved math problem. You never know if or when someone will come up with a solution. Until someone does it you usually dont even know if its possible. Over the decades i wonder how many have figured "hey lets make my very own currency". If you look at the lack of success stories out there it should be painfully obvious that this is a very hard problem.
And please dont say "look at all the altcoins" - they are just bitcoin copies, differences only in design decisions, not in basic principles. Lets give respect where respect is due, bitcoin is not just a program, its a solution for a very hard problem that has never been solved before. Sure there will be improvements now that there is that first solution out there, but i wouldnt expect some entirely new solution to that same problem any time soon. And for truly anon cryptocurrency you would need a totally new solution.
You cant really build on bitcoin to make it truly anon. Its pseudoanon and if you use it correctly its anonymous enough. Cant really excpect for more because entire system depends on keeping track of every transaction ever - publically. You could centralize the ledger and keep contents secret, but really, that defeats the whole point.
While there is no obvious personality cult, i would argue based on legislative actions of usa (and usa actions outside domestic and international law) that usa already lives in a functional dictatorship
If you have time to not pay attention, fiddle with phone etc you probably shouldnt be in that meeting in the first place, if there is nothing you want to hear or say in the meeting, dont go. Meetings are so often pointless waste of time because people who are not even needed are asked to attend. Sometimes only part of the meeting concerns you, in that case only attend for this part.
With enough buck you can buy a google server farm. Theoretically 20 years ago you could have bought a computer with the capabilities of todays PC, only it would have been very large and very expensive.
Well richer parts of the word tend to have better traffic culture and you get to guess three times where most of the customer base will be for the fancy and probably very expensive self driving cars
Moores law applies to computer price vs capability. You can bet that the PC-s doing the control are not the bulk of the cost in that 150k$. Sure mass production cuts cost per unit, but it wont make it insignificant. Cutting 150k$ down to something reasonable is not going to be easy
Labview is meant for a very specific environment and set of problems - what the name says, that is lab techs who are not really programmers setting up test and measurement setups. Its a right tool for that, and works pretty well for these kinds on problems in that kind of environment. Use it for anything else at your own risk. Remember to always have the right tool for the right job.
If you have a uni degree, of any kind, you should easily understand all of it(lot of it are really high school topics). If you don't, something must be wrong with your degree, check if the warranty is still valid.
Not bullshit, apple plug is extremely compact ac adapter. And if you have a chinese knockoff that doesnt have half the safety features it should the compactness and closeness of the components makes it more dangerous. Chinese have made copies of every other cellphone charger for decades and you really dont hear of people getting electrocuted by them - because these designs are not packed as tightly and therefore saving on quality and safety is not as dangerous.
Duh, a businessman in the end is aways about the businessman, what did you expect? That doesnt mean these endavours are not worthwhile. Paypal ripoffs, seriously? In paying over internet ripoff is an inherent risk no matter how you do it, paypal is a pretty good product nonetheless. Tesla - yeah electric car range cant beat gas, so? It sells, what else do you want, nobody says you have to buy one. And you forgot SpaceX, first private company to build their own orbital rocket on their own budget, if that is not a huge achievment what is?
Sure Musk did very little of it, the real work is done by the engineers. But no engineer can do good work if there are no men like Musk finding funds, making contracts and bringing engineers together.
He certainly pulled off Paypal, Tesla is doing quite well and SpaceX is a revolution in space transport industry(price wise). That is one hell of a track record. Sure risky busness pays off well - if you succeed. But keep taking risks and one day you fail, I hope he has a good contingency plan.
"I came across one employer trying to combine a mechanical and electrical engineer.'
That's called mechatronics and its quite an interesting field. Even tho electrical and electronics engineers would love to live in their nice white and black schematic world, reality is that any electrical equipment has shape and size - therefore any electronics or electrical specialist should know a bit about mechanics. At least enough to get the requierements about their electrical equipment over to mech engineer or to figure out the layout of components in principle.
Likely from huge effort, no amount of leaning will stabilise something like this. Little disturbances in air, variations in rotor profile, imperfections in transmissions, quaqcopters are notoriously unstable. If you take the electronic stabilisation out of quadcopter(the regular electric kind) its basically uncontrollable.
This could go into guiness records, on more grounds than one. What i dont quite see is how this thing is stabilized, there must be more than steampunk behind the scenes.
The book is good - one of the best scifi out there. You can bet anything i will be watching the movie. I could not possibly care less about the authors views one way or other. The story is awesome, thats about all that matters here.
This is the first stage of a rocket, you can bet it will never lift of from Mars. That is not even the point of it. The point if for the spent rocket stage to come back in one piece and be reusable.
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Only your second point is valid. First one doesnt apply because if you look at bitcoin as an investment vehicle, its the same as all the other, good old demand and supply mechanics apply to all investment vehicles the same, be it rocks or bitcoins. Last one doesnt apply because, well banks and investors dont really think much of bitcoin other than looking at this wierd newfangled thing with puzzlement. Only engieneers and programmers who actually bother to find out how it works say "hey this is something i have never seen before - interesting"
aye mate, thats why there is bitcoinlaundry(or 100 alternatives), have fun tracking that.
Coming up with a solution like this is like solving a never before solved math problem. You never know if or when someone will come up with a solution. Until someone does it you usually dont even know if its possible. Over the decades i wonder how many have figured "hey lets make my very own currency". If you look at the lack of success stories out there it should be painfully obvious that this is a very hard problem.
And please dont say "look at all the altcoins" - they are just bitcoin copies, differences only in design decisions, not in basic principles. Lets give respect where respect is due, bitcoin is not just a program, its a solution for a very hard problem that has never been solved before. Sure there will be improvements now that there is that first solution out there, but i wouldnt expect some entirely new solution to that same problem any time soon. And for truly anon cryptocurrency you would need a totally new solution.
You cant really build on bitcoin to make it truly anon. Its pseudoanon and if you use it correctly its anonymous enough. Cant really excpect for more because entire system depends on keeping track of every transaction ever - publically. You could centralize the ledger and keep contents secret, but really, that defeats the whole point.
While there is no obvious personality cult, i would argue based on legislative actions of usa (and usa actions outside domestic and international law) that usa already lives in a functional dictatorship
If you have time to not pay attention, fiddle with phone etc you probably shouldnt be in that meeting in the first place, if there is nothing you want to hear or say in the meeting, dont go. Meetings are so often pointless waste of time because people who are not even needed are asked to attend. Sometimes only part of the meeting concerns you, in that case only attend for this part.
With enough buck you can buy a google server farm. Theoretically 20 years ago you could have bought a computer with the capabilities of todays PC, only it would have been very large and very expensive.
Well richer parts of the word tend to have better traffic culture and you get to guess three times where most of the customer base will be for the fancy and probably very expensive self driving cars
Moores law applies to computer price vs capability. You can bet that the PC-s doing the control are not the bulk of the cost in that 150k$. Sure mass production cuts cost per unit, but it wont make it insignificant. Cutting 150k$ down to something reasonable is not going to be easy
Moores law is about price vs capability.
Labview is meant for a very specific environment and set of problems - what the name says, that is lab techs who are not really programmers setting up test and measurement setups. Its a right tool for that, and works pretty well for these kinds on problems in that kind of environment. Use it for anything else at your own risk. Remember to always have the right tool for the right job.
what you need is not a criminal lawyer, but a criminal lawyer
Every engineering failiure starts with an managment failiure
If you have a uni degree, of any kind, you should easily understand all of it(lot of it are really high school topics). If you don't, something must be wrong with your degree, check if the warranty is still valid.
Working 12h and billing for 13h doesnt seem that dumb to me.
Not bullshit, apple plug is extremely compact ac adapter. And if you have a chinese knockoff that doesnt have half the safety features it should the compactness and closeness of the components makes it more dangerous. Chinese have made copies of every other cellphone charger for decades and you really dont hear of people getting electrocuted by them - because these designs are not packed as tightly and therefore saving on quality and safety is not as dangerous.
My guess would be that it smells like an astronaut(or taikonaut or cosmonaut) who has not had a bath for a while.
Duh, a businessman in the end is aways about the businessman, what did you expect? That doesnt mean these endavours are not worthwhile. Paypal ripoffs, seriously? In paying over internet ripoff is an inherent risk no matter how you do it, paypal is a pretty good product nonetheless. Tesla - yeah electric car range cant beat gas, so? It sells, what else do you want, nobody says you have to buy one. And you forgot SpaceX, first private company to build their own orbital rocket on their own budget, if that is not a huge achievment what is? Sure Musk did very little of it, the real work is done by the engineers. But no engineer can do good work if there are no men like Musk finding funds, making contracts and bringing engineers together.
He certainly pulled off Paypal, Tesla is doing quite well and SpaceX is a revolution in space transport industry(price wise). That is one hell of a track record. Sure risky busness pays off well - if you succeed. But keep taking risks and one day you fail, I hope he has a good contingency plan.
"I came across one employer trying to combine a mechanical and electrical engineer.' That's called mechatronics and its quite an interesting field. Even tho electrical and electronics engineers would love to live in their nice white and black schematic world, reality is that any electrical equipment has shape and size - therefore any electronics or electrical specialist should know a bit about mechanics. At least enough to get the requierements about their electrical equipment over to mech engineer or to figure out the layout of components in principle.
Likely from huge effort, no amount of leaning will stabilise something like this. Little disturbances in air, variations in rotor profile, imperfections in transmissions, quaqcopters are notoriously unstable. If you take the electronic stabilisation out of quadcopter(the regular electric kind) its basically uncontrollable.
This could go into guiness records, on more grounds than one. What i dont quite see is how this thing is stabilized, there must be more than steampunk behind the scenes.
The book is good - one of the best scifi out there. You can bet anything i will be watching the movie. I could not possibly care less about the authors views one way or other. The story is awesome, thats about all that matters here.
cant be all that bad, there must be thousands of departments of anything out there not admitting they have a problem
Oh yeah, break the protocol and you will be fired at
This is the first stage of a rocket, you can bet it will never lift of from Mars. That is not even the point of it. The point if for the spent rocket stage to come back in one piece and be reusable.