But think of the Economy! All hail the Economy. Listen to your lobbyists. Listen to your advertisement. Buy, but don't complain. There is no other Economy than the one and only Economy. There is no alternative. All hail the Economy.
LOL, people wonder why the crisis does not end. The answer is right there. Because more and more people are leeching off the few people who actually produce something tangible.
If I am already struggling to understand politicians, then how the hell is a computer gonna do any better? Last time I checked humans were still better at understanding language than computers.
TFA seems a little irrelevant since the news today says that the batteries are not the problem. Instead, the electrical systems and monitoring systems are now being scrutinized.
What if the sensors were intended to search, find and track other satellites in any orbit (low, medium, high, geostationary or higher still, including eliptical orbits)? Then an asteroid is an excellent - if somewhat large - test.
But somehow I don't think that the USAF are up there to do any scientific missions. So they may as well test their space vehicle on the actual target?
The main reason the traders want microsecond responses is to respond to each other, not to developments in the real world.
Once one trader buys shares, these change in value, which can trigger automated responses from all the other traders. And frankly, the combined algorithm of all these traders is what makes the market behave as it does. And that's so complicated that nobody can test it for every eventuality (also, the algorithms are secret). I can see that some people think that there is an element of randomness in that.
I think it is more like a double pendulum, or the butterfly effect. Science can explain what happened, looking back, but science cannot easily predict what will happen in a few minutes. It does have an element of randomness. It is not completely random, but to a layman it sure seems to be random.
Unfortunately, recent history has shown that the traders understand the market just as well as any layman. And that means this is just a form of gambling.
Care to spread some more dangerous ignorance around, fanboi?
Meh, I wasn't even defending Apple. I was just saying that people who blindly follow their GPS deserve whatever misfortunes they get as a result. There are just too many people who switch off their brains when driving with GPS.
It's certainly not restricted to people who have Apple devices. Stupidity is far more common than Apple gadgets.
If we're so worried about China getting our jet engine tech (and we probably should be), then why is GE allowed to be in a joint Chinese venture to make engines?
If you are trying to get to a residential area, and instead take a dirt road into a wilderness area, while blindly following your GPS, and you get eaten by a crocodile, you deserve the Darwin award you're about to get.
Congratulations, and thank you for doing both man and crocodile a favor.
p.s. I have no clue if there are any crocs in that wilderness area. Also, I don't care.
No. Not at all. The base case is someone who got up, and has the plan to go to work. The article says that if you are ill, you should consider to work at home.
They actually say that we should lower the threshold of when we call in sick. But also that we should consider an intermediate solution for when you're not so sick: work from home. It is a win-win: you recover quicker, and you don't contaminate your colleagues.
There are plenty of ways to bribe people, perhaps you would like come out to this extremely nice 5* restaurant whilst we discuss the matter. Don't forget to bring your wife/mistress too.
Michelin stars which are the international restaurant rating system only go up to 3. Or, at least, the highest ever given is 3.
-- please mod this as off topic, because it is.:-)
If the GCSB have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear, right?
If they were using standard and allowed intelligence methods against this civilian, they have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear. If however, they were breaking laws, then there may be other consequences too.
The defense only claims that it cannot be touched. Somehow, I think this is not a strong defense.
Advantages: 1. Comfort. A big phone is just more comfortable. 2. Keeping everything separated. Work calls me at work, which means they don't bother me at home. 3. Speaker phone. As said before, speaker option on a mobile is (1) often still a little crappy and (2) drains the batteries, which means you need to plug it into your charger, which is inconvenient because the cable is just too damned short. 4. Name-based speed dial for the whole company. There's probably an app for that on smart phones too, but we have it on the desk phone, and it's very convenient. 5. Money. We already have this infrastructure. It's paid and depreciated. Especially internal calls cost practically nothing.
Disadvantages: 1. No smart phone to play with, i.e. no angry birds 2. My colleagues and business partners cannot reach me 24/7, but I don't call that a disadvantage.
Some people see "1984" as a guidebook, not as a warning.
But actually, this is just a company, who is trying to maximize profits (breaking laws generates a cash cost, which is taken into account in the optimization study). The spying is scary, but the results are just some ads, which in a worst case are very embarrassing.
Next week's article, which reports that multiple governments are interested in this same technology, will be more worrying.
In the Netherlands, we want to host our own data. Some want to build a national database for medical data. However, an American company is developing the software - so that might be enough for the Americans to demand access to whatever is put on that database.
So, essentially, when any US based company deals with another third party, all the data of this third party does is now declared property of the US.
This was front page news just a week ago. Not a really good advertisement for US based software developers. For the record, the project manager (who is Dutch) denies that the Americans would get access. And I guess that under the Patriot Act it is also illegal to claim that the US is snooping around. So, for the record, I deny writing this post, since this is hosted on an American server - or at least maintained by people who create American-centric polls.
If art critics and movie critics would just blindly follow the popular opinions, there would not be much point in having them around. We can check what's in the IMDB Top 250 without needing their help.
Same with Picasso... I'd much rather look at a peaceful picture of mountains than his morbid creations. It takes a critic to like it.
I did just that: bought a cheap laptop which had windows. Then I created a bootable linux mint usb, and installed it. It runs like a charm.:) So, my purchase was just the PC, and definitely not windows 8.
I have to say that Microsoft have a pretty sweet deal that they get paid for that. I would have bought the laptop if it came pre-installed with DOS 5.0 too - as I would have installed Linux anyway. It seems that the only way not to pay for windows is when you build your own desktop computer.
The Dutch railroads are among the best in the world, with huge double-decker passenger trains between major cities with the frequency that some large cities don't even get on their metro lines. The cost of a ticket on Dutch trains is significantly lower than on the French or UK trains, and they are easier to get (from the machines), without the need of a stupid reservation. Even if a train is delayed, this delay is mostly measured in mere minutes. Only real accidents or failures will result on longer delays. And snow. Snow f***s everything up, because the Dutch don't invest enough to avoid that. But this is a sensible choice, not a failure. It just happens that it snowed in the last 2 years.
I never understand why the Dutch complain so much about their train system. I guess this is just because they never take the trains abroad.
The VVD may be wrong on many things, but they haven't messed up the trains.
So in order to not offend ANYONE, NO ONE is allowed to say ANYTHING.
You will be surprised to find people in favor of this model of "freedom". Unfortunately, they really exist.
And there is no politician or CEO who will risk his career to reduce the amount of rules. It's safety first. Modern leadership is all about avoiding responsibility. Leadership is a skill where you hide behind a set of rules which seem to create the greatest security for the general population. The rules may obstruct progress, they may reduce freedom. But progress and freedom are abstract things, while one dead child or a lost job is a very concrete thing.
You're not a baby-killer, are you? Imagine it was your child...
It's the 100 $/barrel that should raise eyebrows, not the consumer price. The 40 billion dollar profits that some oil companies have booked should raise eyebrows, not the country that is loosely associated with an oil company.
The US is indeed run by a bunch of morons. And so are most other countries, btw. But they are not in control. In most Western countries, the big industry have a powerful lobby. And they are the ones making profits from the wars in the Middle East. Big Oil, Big Weapons and Big Security firms are gaining a sh*tload of money from those wars. And they don't really care which government is helping them, as long as that government is listening.
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But think of the Economy!
All hail the Economy. Listen to your lobbyists. Listen to your advertisement. Buy, but don't complain. There is no other Economy than the one and only Economy. There is no alternative. All hail the Economy.
LOL, people wonder why the crisis does not end. The answer is right there. Because more and more people are leeching off the few people who actually produce something tangible.
If I am already struggling to understand politicians, then how the hell is a computer gonna do any better? Last time I checked humans were still better at understanding language than computers.
They had to use the football field unit, because elephants don't fly so high.
TFA seems a little irrelevant since the news today says that the batteries are not the problem. Instead, the electrical systems and monitoring systems are now being scrutinized.
Here's one article, but the internet is full of it.
http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/morning_call/2013/01/batteries-not-a-problem-on-boeing-787.html
Insane is when you post this as AC, because you live in the Land of the Free.
Where I live, Freedom is a reality, not just a marketing slogan.
What if the sensors were intended to search, find and track other satellites in any orbit (low, medium, high, geostationary or higher still, including eliptical orbits)? Then an asteroid is an excellent - if somewhat large - test.
But somehow I don't think that the USAF are up there to do any scientific missions. So they may as well test their space vehicle on the actual target?
The main reason the traders want microsecond responses is to respond to each other, not to developments in the real world.
Once one trader buys shares, these change in value, which can trigger automated responses from all the other traders. And frankly, the combined algorithm of all these traders is what makes the market behave as it does. And that's so complicated that nobody can test it for every eventuality (also, the algorithms are secret). I can see that some people think that there is an element of randomness in that.
I think it is more like a double pendulum, or the butterfly effect. Science can explain what happened, looking back, but science cannot easily predict what will happen in a few minutes. It does have an element of randomness. It is not completely random, but to a layman it sure seems to be random.
Unfortunately, recent history has shown that the traders understand the market just as well as any layman. And that means this is just a form of gambling.
Care to spread some more dangerous ignorance around, fanboi?
Meh, I wasn't even defending Apple. I was just saying that people who blindly follow their GPS deserve whatever misfortunes they get as a result. There are just too many people who switch off their brains when driving with GPS.
It's certainly not restricted to people who have Apple devices. Stupidity is far more common than Apple gadgets.
If we're so worried about China getting our jet engine tech (and we probably should be), then why is GE allowed to be in a joint Chinese venture to make engines?
http://www.dailytech.com/GE+Announces+Chinese+Joint+Venture+for+Avionics+on+the+C919/article20681.htm
China and Iran don't need any fancy undercover operations - we'll happily shoot ourselves in the foot if it's called business.
Yeeeeeeeees.... but we make them sign a non disclosure agreement, so then they cannot reveal... oh, wait.
If you are trying to get to a residential area, and instead take a dirt road into a wilderness area, while blindly following your GPS, and you get eaten by a crocodile, you deserve the Darwin award you're about to get.
Congratulations, and thank you for doing both man and crocodile a favor.
p.s. I have no clue if there are any crocs in that wilderness area. Also, I don't care.
No. Not at all.
The base case is someone who got up, and has the plan to go to work. The article says that if you are ill, you should consider to work at home.
They actually say that we should lower the threshold of when we call in sick. But also that we should consider an intermediate solution for when you're not so sick: work from home. It is a win-win: you recover quicker, and you don't contaminate your colleagues.
There are plenty of ways to bribe people, perhaps you would like come out to this extremely nice 5* restaurant whilst we discuss the matter. Don't forget to bring your wife/mistress too.
Michelin stars which are the international restaurant rating system only go up to 3. Or, at least, the highest ever given is 3.
-- please mod this as off topic, because it is. :-)
If the GCSB have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear, right?
If they were using standard and allowed intelligence methods against this civilian, they have nothing to hide, and nothing to fear.
If however, they were breaking laws, then there may be other consequences too.
The defense only claims that it cannot be touched. Somehow, I think this is not a strong defense.
Advantages:
1. Comfort. A big phone is just more comfortable.
2. Keeping everything separated. Work calls me at work, which means they don't bother me at home.
3. Speaker phone. As said before, speaker option on a mobile is (1) often still a little crappy and (2) drains the batteries, which means you need to plug it into your charger, which is inconvenient because the cable is just too damned short.
4. Name-based speed dial for the whole company. There's probably an app for that on smart phones too, but we have it on the desk phone, and it's very convenient.
5. Money. We already have this infrastructure. It's paid and depreciated. Especially internal calls cost practically nothing.
Disadvantages:
1. No smart phone to play with, i.e. no angry birds
2. My colleagues and business partners cannot reach me 24/7, but I don't call that a disadvantage.
Some people see "1984" as a guidebook, not as a warning.
But actually, this is just a company, who is trying to maximize profits (breaking laws generates a cash cost, which is taken into account in the optimization study). The spying is scary, but the results are just some ads, which in a worst case are very embarrassing.
Next week's article, which reports that multiple governments are interested in this same technology, will be more worrying.
In the Netherlands, we want to host our own data. Some want to build a national database for medical data. However, an American company is developing the software - so that might be enough for the Americans to demand access to whatever is put on that database.
So, essentially, when any US based company deals with another third party, all the data of this third party does is now declared property of the US.
This was front page news just a week ago. Not a really good advertisement for US based software developers. For the record, the project manager (who is Dutch) denies that the Americans would get access. And I guess that under the Patriot Act it is also illegal to claim that the US is snooping around. So, for the record, I deny writing this post, since this is hosted on an American server - or at least maintained by people who create American-centric polls.
Source in Dutch: http://www.metronieuws.nl/nieuws/beheerder-patientendossier-vreest-patriot-act-niet/IWIlkD!AQnwumcZSKxKeH8VP9BZwQ/
If art critics and movie critics would just blindly follow the popular opinions, there would not be much point in having them around.
We can check what's in the IMDB Top 250 without needing their help.
Same with Picasso... I'd much rather look at a peaceful picture of mountains than his morbid creations. It takes a critic to like it.
I did just that: bought a cheap laptop which had windows. Then I created a bootable linux mint usb, and installed it. It runs like a charm. :)
So, my purchase was just the PC, and definitely not windows 8.
I have to say that Microsoft have a pretty sweet deal that they get paid for that. I would have bought the laptop if it came pre-installed with DOS 5.0 too - as I would have installed Linux anyway. It seems that the only way not to pay for windows is when you build your own desktop computer.
This cannot be! Denials are useless! America is always at fault for everything that goes wrong everywhere in the entire world.
That is true, unless they can blame another country for something it didn't do!
They didn't use Flame to spy on just the French president.
The Dutch railroads are among the best in the world, with huge double-decker passenger trains between major cities with the frequency that some large cities don't even get on their metro lines. The cost of a ticket on Dutch trains is significantly lower than on the French or UK trains, and they are easier to get (from the machines), without the need of a stupid reservation. Even if a train is delayed, this delay is mostly measured in mere minutes. Only real accidents or failures will result on longer delays. And snow. Snow f***s everything up, because the Dutch don't invest enough to avoid that. But this is a sensible choice, not a failure. It just happens that it snowed in the last 2 years.
I never understand why the Dutch complain so much about their train system. I guess this is just because they never take the trains abroad.
The VVD may be wrong on many things, but they haven't messed up the trains.
Arianespace is a private company, with private shareholders.
http://www.arianespace.com/about-us-corporate-information/shareholders.asp
So in order to not offend ANYONE, NO ONE is allowed to say ANYTHING.
You will be surprised to find people in favor of this model of "freedom". Unfortunately, they really exist.
And there is no politician or CEO who will risk his career to reduce the amount of rules. It's safety first. Modern leadership is all about avoiding responsibility. Leadership is a skill where you hide behind a set of rules which seem to create the greatest security for the general population. The rules may obstruct progress, they may reduce freedom. But progress and freedom are abstract things, while one dead child or a lost job is a very concrete thing.
You're not a baby-killer, are you? Imagine it was your child...
Aww! 4 $/gallon??
It's the 100 $/barrel that should raise eyebrows, not the consumer price.
The 40 billion dollar profits that some oil companies have booked should raise eyebrows, not the country that is loosely associated with an oil company.
The US is indeed run by a bunch of morons. And so are most other countries, btw. But they are not in control. In most Western countries, the big industry have a powerful lobby. And they are the ones making profits from the wars in the Middle East. Big Oil, Big Weapons and Big Security firms are gaining a sh*tload of money from those wars. And they don't really care which government is helping them, as long as that government is listening.
Looking at the capabilities of mobile phones today, I would suggest the tricorders arrived before the cloaking.
What I am saying is that it's one thing to develop an invisibility cloak. It's another thing altogether to avoid being tagged while wearing it.