The whole bloody point is to drive down wages and replace American workers.
The sad thing is that there are plenty of unemployed American programmers and IT workers willing to work for less than the prevailing wage, many of them as equally incompetent as the immigrants.
In the old days they would hire some kid out of high school and TRAIN HIM. What the hell happened to that?
THe Job creators are starving the monster, as they put it.
And the reason they don't hire people to train is that accountants have sucked up 100 percent of the overhead. Company has to have someone keeping track of the 500 dollars worth of pencils a year, so they hire a 100K accountant to perform that vital task.
Depending on what you use the lens for, that may be ok.
The mounting and physics of the lens is the same (give or take focal length for the lens), it still works, you just lose the ability of the camera to control it.
But it should actually still work... it's still a lens. I'd be surprised if you couldn't use a 40 year old lens on a modern Nikon.
That's why a lot of us buy Nikon - because of the lenses
They do work - some of the old ones need a small modification but a really small one indeed.
Some of the old Nikon lenses were tremendous as well. The old 55mm Micro Nikkor f3.5 was a simply magnificent lens, had a seriously flat field as well. So I'm happy to use it on my DSLR. Focus is manual of course.
Unless a person is working with alternative processes or with 4 by 5 and above formats, there's really no reason to use film any more. I love the relatively flat response although I'll threow an S curve on an image in photoshop if I want it to look like asilver based photo.
Cell phone cameras just show that you can have lots of Pixels, and the photos can still suck. People will have to argue with the laws of physics about that one.
Yes, nothing like difficult to prove scientific theories! Being difficult to prove is working well for global warming/climate change, so why not for this as well!
All hail how making things harder helps science!
I wrote "I see they have been having difficulty getting participants."
Umm, "difficulty getting participants" != "difficult to prove." Thanks for the Jeremiad though, cowardly denier.
It appears to me that the most intensive work is still done by human, chopping and weighing all the ingredients...
And tasting the food as it is being prepared. Smelling the ingredients to be certain they are fresh. flipping flippy things when they need flipped.
Foodstuff is remarkably inprecise. Two different veggies of any type might have very different flavors. A robot chef that just takes some tomatoes and some other precisely measured spices to make tomato sauce, will output wildly different tasting results - some of them pretty awful
Watching a good chef cook is watching constant watching and tasting, putting out a product that is consistent, and tastes great, based on adjusting the end flavor, because the base flavors vary all over the place.
After I started cooking food myself, I understood why my mother never seemed to eat a whole lot. She had filled up getting dinner ready, and was mostly eating a bit while we were eating to socialize.
You have so many options available to you that doesn't involve cruelty and environmental devastation.
Come back when you are a chemoautotroph. If not, you're still killing things in order to live, and smugly acting like plants aren't alive. Animalist bigot!
How does it benefit you not to have regulations that prevent devices from buzzing about over your head? In my mind there should be no weight minimums. I simply do not want these things flying around without well enforced rules.
that actually seems reasonable to me something over half a pound going 30 miles an hour could do some damage. Simply having to register heavier drones seems like threshold to encourage less hazards in the sky.,
Pfft This is just step on in taking our drones away from us. Soon the jack booted thugs will be busting into our houses at night to relive os of our rightful property.
Well, they can take my drone when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
Creating jobs in other countries. But fear not citizens, with just a few more tax breaks, and easing of those Marxist regulations, they will be soon creating more jobs.
Yeah - in other countries. But don't do all class warfare on them, it's hard being really really rich.
Probably the only people who would volunteer for this sort of thing are prisoners looking at a life sentence reduction and who wouldn't mind being dead if it meant they were getting out of the pokey.
IIRC, the people that typically volunteer for this are those with degenerative neurological/nerve diseases and those with brain injuries.
They have to have healthy brains to compare with though.
I am certain that you will volunteer today to be a test subject for a risky clinical trial, since all that suffering and death in the world means so much to you.
Not today. But there's a good chance I will at some point in the future. I'll die of something and there's a good chance it'll be something which we can develop an experimental treatment for. Might as well do something productive with that death, right?
Oh ain't you just the savior of humanity. And you breezily sidestepped the issue. I'm talking about healthy volunteers who risk their lives. Just being ill and desparate is not what is needed, or dead and who gives a damn - we need control subjects, and like the FA, healthy people willing to die for medicine to help others.
After your are dead - hey, that's really being a saint. I think more highly of you with every post you make.
I am certain that you will volunteer today to be a test subject for a risky clinical trial, since all that suffering and death in the world means so much to you.
Khallow is channelling Mother Theresa today, and would gladly give his life if just one person could be helped.
Brought tears to my eyes, If I could only be so altruistic.
The problem with your breezy assertions about lawsuits, ethics, and Nazi experiments is that there are apparently millions of people in the world with some form of crippling paralysis or muscle weakness that prevents them from walking and/or using their arms. Brain implants are probably a core technology to getting them human-level mobility again.
Tell me khallow, do you plan on volunteering for medical research that might just kill you? Or leave you a quadriplegic?
Brezy my ass pal, I know all about debilitating problems. Good to see a man of your principles has shown me up , and is volunteering at great personal risk to make humanity better and more healthy.
What is the brain research program you are signing up for?
...and that Angels exist, and Elvis can get your wash whiter with this one weird trick.
Science is INTERESTING, chaos theory even more so, and it's easy to see the changes if you know what to look for.
As well, we wouldn't exist without the greenhouse effect. Without some of the thermoregulation it provides, the earth would be a slightly cooler version of Mercury, hot on the day side, and really cold on the nightside.
I've found the arguments tend to shorten dramatically when I point this out, then ask why the greenhouse effect fails on a global scale, when it has to work for us to exist.
The deniers have long relied on cherry picking anomalies, and calling research scientists names instead of coming up with any science.
Ironically, just like creationists, as soon as they cherry pick something out, the scientists walk over to find the explanation. So they are kinda helpful in that regard.
africans are not like us. We have the only civilization that is worthy of the name, nobody else on Earth ever came close to it. That is a fact: Europeans >>> anybody else. Europeans are Herrenvolk, and are therefore the only culture that should legitimately rule the world.
That ended so well for you the first two times you tried that shit, Going for a third?
Unfortunately the electrodes had to be removed due to complications and he can't continue these tests on himself. I wonder if the fda is preventing research on people who would volunteer for such a procedure, and why the fda would stop people from doing it voluntarily if to doesn't harm anyone else?
Ethics.
Lawsuits
Finding people who don't mind a good chance they will end up dead, or worse, paralyzed.
Probably the only people who would volunteer for this sort of thing are prisoners looking at a life sentence reduction and who wouldn't mind being dead if it meant they were getting out of the pokey.
And lawsuits. Signing a piece of paper doesn't protect the doctor from "gross negligence" lawsuits. Some one on a ventilator and immobile in the courtroom maks almost as unbeatable and sympathetic a victim as an aggrieved mother who lost her baby. Which is related to why there aren't many drugs approved for pregnant women - way too dangerous to do the testing.
There has been a rather spotty record on medical ethics in research, so I'm not surprised the FDA clamps down on brain surgery on healthy people for shits and giggles.
Even my prisoner example has extreme oversight issues. Some folks still aren't all that happy about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, when they decided to see what happened to men when purposely leaving their disease untreated while pretending to treat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's definitely not a simple "We need to know this stuff" matter. No holds barred experimentation, and it starts to resemble this: https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/...
We actually learned a lot of stuff from those high altitude evil experiments, which is a bit disturbing on many levels.
No fueling system is unlimited, but for people who need extremely long range with a gasoline vehicle, it's affordable to add an auxillary tank. I could put one in the bed of my truck that would give me a thousand mile range.
Nobody can add the batteries to an electric vehicle for that range and have a vehicle that won't twist the wheels off it's axles when they put it in gear.
I have 4 vehicles now, because not one meets all my needs. I have my little Jeep to go offeroad. I have a higher end Jeep for the missus and trips. I have a motorcycle, and I have an RV for camping. And if Jeep ever comes out with an EV, I'm buying one. Trade in one of the others, depending on the specific type of EV they make.
Then if I have to drive from Alaska to Mexico, or portland Maine to San Diego, I'll probably take one of the gas vehicles. For now anyhow.
But since I only take a couple thousand mile plus trips year- if that, the EV vould get the overwhelming majority of the driving.
My point in all this is that relying on old paradigms like EV's will never have the range, EV's will always need long periods of charging is like saying computers will never get faster, or have higher performance. If you don't want an EV, don't buy one. But the utter failure model is getting harder and harder to support.
And it's odd. I love technology. And this is tremendous technology developing before our eyes. But it seems that Slashdot is as up in arms about it as John Broder. It's almost like slashdot has become an cadre of the old shits sitting at the bar, bitching about the good old days before they took lead out of gasoline.
Building the hardest individual part and asking for more funding to make the full device, having shown that it works is a perfectly respectable strategy, unless you have a budget larger than most governments or can pull the whole thing of at once using magic, is that what you are asking for?
I thinnk the animation is the finished product. It indeed works pretty well.
Slashdot Mirror
The sad thing is that there are plenty of unemployed American programmers and IT workers willing to work for less than the prevailing wage, many of them as equally incompetent as the immigrants.
In the old days they would hire some kid out of high school and TRAIN HIM. What the hell happened to that?
THe Job creators are starving the monster, as they put it.
And the reason they don't hire people to train is that accountants have sucked up 100 percent of the overhead. Company has to have someone keeping track of the 500 dollars worth of pencils a year, so they hire a 100K accountant to perform that vital task.
Start by going after Disney, they're replacing all their tech workers with H1B visa workers.
Start by never going to Disney.
Depending on what you use the lens for, that may be ok.
The mounting and physics of the lens is the same (give or take focal length for the lens), it still works, you just lose the ability of the camera to control it.
But it should actually still work ... it's still a lens. I'd be surprised if you couldn't use a 40 year old lens on a modern Nikon.
That's why a lot of us buy Nikon - because of the lenses
They do work - some of the old ones need a small modification but a really small one indeed.
Some of the old Nikon lenses were tremendous as well. The old 55mm Micro Nikkor f3.5 was a simply magnificent lens, had a seriously flat field as well. So I'm happy to use it on my DSLR. Focus is manual of course.
Unless a person is working with alternative processes or with 4 by 5 and above formats, there's really no reason to use film any more. I love the relatively flat response although I'll threow an S curve on an image in photoshop if I want it to look like asilver based photo.
Cell phone cameras just show that you can have lots of Pixels, and the photos can still suck. People will have to argue with the laws of physics about that one.
If there were a better place to go, of course they'd move, currently there isn't.
Currently. Just remember though, the Job creators are not finished yet, we must allow them to create more jobs.
Yes, nothing like difficult to prove scientific theories! Being difficult to prove is working well for global warming/climate change, so why not for this as well!
All hail how making things harder helps science!
I wrote "I see they have been having difficulty getting participants."
Umm, "difficulty getting participants" != "difficult to prove." Thanks for the Jeremiad though, cowardly denier.
Second challenge accepted.
You imply it throughout this post: http://news.slashdot.org/comme... At the very least you implied that all of Mississippi is racist. http://slashdot.org/comments.p... There you go implying Indiana to be racist. Implying is not saying. You lose Coward.
It appears to me that the most intensive work is still done by human, chopping and weighing all the ingredients...
And tasting the food as it is being prepared. Smelling the ingredients to be certain they are fresh. flipping flippy things when they need flipped.
Foodstuff is remarkably inprecise. Two different veggies of any type might have very different flavors. A robot chef that just takes some tomatoes and some other precisely measured spices to make tomato sauce, will output wildly different tasting results - some of them pretty awful
Watching a good chef cook is watching constant watching and tasting, putting out a product that is consistent, and tastes great, based on adjusting the end flavor, because the base flavors vary all over the place.
After I started cooking food myself, I understood why my mother never seemed to eat a whole lot. She had filled up getting dinner ready, and was mostly eating a bit while we were eating to socialize.
You have so many options available to you that doesn't involve cruelty and environmental devastation.
Come back when you are a chemoautotroph. If not, you're still killing things in order to live, and smugly acting like plants aren't alive. Animalist bigot!
How does it benefit you not to have regulations that prevent devices from buzzing about over your head? In my mind there should be no weight minimums. I simply do not want these things flying around without well enforced rules.
Safety culture is strong in you.
that actually seems reasonable to me something over half a pound going 30 miles an hour could do some damage. Simply having to register heavier drones seems like threshold to encourage less hazards in the sky.,
Pfft This is just step on in taking our drones away from us. Soon the jack booted thugs will be busting into our houses at night to relive os of our rightful property.
Well, they can take my drone when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.
Jon the NDA today!
I see they have been having difficulty getting participants.
Good.
Model it after fantasy football, you pick your team of scientists and win or lose based on how they do.
Draft kings is on the job as we speak.
Yeah - in other countries. But don't do all class warfare on them, it's hard being really really rich.
When the career path people are looking at the choice between McDonald's or Wendy's, there is going to be an American version of a brain drain.
Probably the only people who would volunteer for this sort of thing are prisoners looking at a life sentence reduction and who wouldn't mind being dead if it meant they were getting out of the pokey.
IIRC, the people that typically volunteer for this are those with degenerative neurological/nerve diseases and those with brain injuries.
They have to have healthy brains to compare with though.
I am certain that you will volunteer today to be a test subject for a risky clinical trial, since all that suffering and death in the world means so much to you.
Not today. But there's a good chance I will at some point in the future. I'll die of something and there's a good chance it'll be something which we can develop an experimental treatment for. Might as well do something productive with that death, right?
Oh ain't you just the savior of humanity. And you breezily sidestepped the issue. I'm talking about healthy volunteers who risk their lives. Just being ill and desparate is not what is needed, or dead and who gives a damn - we need control subjects, and like the FA, healthy people willing to die for medicine to help others.
After your are dead - hey, that's really being a saint. I think more highly of you with every post you make.
I am certain that you will volunteer today to be a test subject for a risky clinical trial, since all that suffering and death in the world means so much to you.
Khallow is channelling Mother Theresa today, and would gladly give his life if just one person could be helped.
Brought tears to my eyes, If I could only be so altruistic.
The problem with your breezy assertions about lawsuits, ethics, and Nazi experiments is that there are apparently millions of people in the world with some form of crippling paralysis or muscle weakness that prevents them from walking and/or using their arms. Brain implants are probably a core technology to getting them human-level mobility again.
Tell me khallow, do you plan on volunteering for medical research that might just kill you? Or leave you a quadriplegic?
Brezy my ass pal, I know all about debilitating problems. Good to see a man of your principles has shown me up , and is volunteering at great personal risk to make humanity better and more healthy.
What is the brain research program you are signing up for?
...and that Angels exist, and Elvis can get your wash whiter with this one weird trick.
Science is INTERESTING, chaos theory even more so, and it's easy to see the changes if you know what to look for.
As well, we wouldn't exist without the greenhouse effect. Without some of the thermoregulation it provides, the earth would be a slightly cooler version of Mercury, hot on the day side, and really cold on the nightside.
I've found the arguments tend to shorten dramatically when I point this out, then ask why the greenhouse effect fails on a global scale, when it has to work for us to exist.
The deniers have long relied on cherry picking anomalies, and calling research scientists names instead of coming up with any science.
Ironically, just like creationists, as soon as they cherry pick something out, the scientists walk over to find the explanation. So they are kinda helpful in that regard.
africans are not like us. We have the only civilization that is worthy of the name, nobody else on Earth ever came close to it. That is a fact: Europeans >>> anybody else. Europeans are Herrenvolk, and are therefore the only culture that should legitimately rule the world.
That ended so well for you the first two times you tried that shit, Going for a third?
Unfortunately the electrodes had to be removed due to complications and he can't continue these tests on himself. I wonder if the fda is preventing research on people who would volunteer for such a procedure, and why the fda would stop people from doing it voluntarily if to doesn't harm anyone else?
Ethics.
Lawsuits
Finding people who don't mind a good chance they will end up dead, or worse, paralyzed.
Probably the only people who would volunteer for this sort of thing are prisoners looking at a life sentence reduction and who wouldn't mind being dead if it meant they were getting out of the pokey.
And lawsuits. Signing a piece of paper doesn't protect the doctor from "gross negligence" lawsuits. Some one on a ventilator and immobile in the courtroom maks almost as unbeatable and sympathetic a victim as an aggrieved mother who lost her baby. Which is related to why there aren't many drugs approved for pregnant women - way too dangerous to do the testing.
There has been a rather spotty record on medical ethics in research, so I'm not surprised the FDA clamps down on brain surgery on healthy people for shits and giggles.
Even my prisoner example has extreme oversight issues. Some folks still aren't all that happy about the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, when they decided to see what happened to men when purposely leaving their disease untreated while pretending to treat it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's definitely not a simple "We need to know this stuff" matter. No holds barred experimentation, and it starts to resemble this: https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/...
We actually learned a lot of stuff from those high altitude evil experiments, which is a bit disturbing on many levels.
You're hilarious. I bet you're chuckling away at just how gosh-darn funny that post was. Well done you.
Consider that it might not have been a joke, or meant to be funny.
"So tell me, exactly which vehicles have unlimited range?"
Sailboat
As long as you don't hit the doldrums, and stay off of land - but a very interesting answer.
No fueling system is unlimited, but for people who need extremely long range with a gasoline vehicle, it's affordable to add an auxillary tank. I could put one in the bed of my truck that would give me a thousand mile range.
Nobody can add the batteries to an electric vehicle for that range and have a vehicle that won't twist the wheels off it's axles when they put it in gear.
I have 4 vehicles now, because not one meets all my needs. I have my little Jeep to go offeroad. I have a higher end Jeep for the missus and trips. I have a motorcycle, and I have an RV for camping. And if Jeep ever comes out with an EV, I'm buying one. Trade in one of the others, depending on the specific type of EV they make.
Then if I have to drive from Alaska to Mexico, or portland Maine to San Diego, I'll probably take one of the gas vehicles. For now anyhow.
But since I only take a couple thousand mile plus trips year- if that, the EV vould get the overwhelming majority of the driving.
My point in all this is that relying on old paradigms like EV's will never have the range, EV's will always need long periods of charging is like saying computers will never get faster, or have higher performance. If you don't want an EV, don't buy one. But the utter failure model is getting harder and harder to support.
And it's odd. I love technology. And this is tremendous technology developing before our eyes. But it seems that Slashdot is as up in arms about it as John Broder. It's almost like slashdot has become an cadre of the old shits sitting at the bar, bitching about the good old days before they took lead out of gasoline.
Building the hardest individual part and asking for more funding to make the full device, having shown that it works is a perfectly respectable strategy, unless you have a budget larger than most governments or can pull the whole thing of at once using magic, is that what you are asking for?
I thinnk the animation is the finished product. It indeed works pretty well.