What's the name of your club? I'd like to join too. If you don't yet have a name, I'd steer away from Depublican and Remocrat. Can we call our club The Adventurers?
BadAnalogyGuy did use small words, three in fact, that described exactly what he what trying to convey. Yes, they were long words but there were only three. When I read "symmetry and orthogonality of conceptualization," I immediately understood that indeed context changes (switching applications) had the same look and feel yet it is very obvious that you are in a different application. A powerful idea that all too often only Apple understands and worse, sometimes forgets.
While I assume RealErmin was just ribbing BadAnalogyGuy, the truth is this is the reason I dislike Slashdot so much: one post out of fifty will really have something insightful or interesting to say and it will immediately devolve into semantics or off topic banter. For christ's sake, this is a story about Windows 7 Mobile and every post is about how the iPhone is devine or Bantha Fodder. While I feel a little like the hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn old guy, can't we all act a little more grown up.
World War I was won by the chemists. World War II was won by the physicists. World War III will be won by the mathematicians. I heard this twenty years ago and didn't really understand how it could matter. Now think about how the internet and computer security have become the center piece of our society. I'm not too worried about some bunker of bombs that might be launched against us (well, I'm a little worried). I'm more worried about an army of hackers that can have access to our entire financial system, power system, transportation systems, and communication systems at will.
I would have to agree. GEB was the first book I though of as an answer to your question. I only read it a couple of years ago, but I wish I would have been introduced to it in high school. Not that I would have read it then, I only started reading for pleasure about ten years ago. I still have a file of about five programs I wrote while reading the book to solve problems or try to answer questions. fun fun.
My other answer would Chaos by james Glick. The only book I've ever more than once. It really inspired me to be a physicist. I missed and landed on Engineer but as soon as I'm done with this management gig I'm going to complete my Masters in Applied Physics.
The A330 also has much more powerful engines but neither of those really matter. The reason the pilot controls didn't respond is a matter of fly-by-wire philosophy. Do you allow the pilot to put the plane is a situation that will stall the plane or worse break it, or do you prevent the pilot from flying outside the capabilities of the plane. Airbus's philosophy is the latter. The only problem is - what if the flight control computer is wrong.
You do *not* need an autopilot to fly at that altitude. And yes I am an autopilot engineer.
To extend your analogy, what happens if France dutifully produces wool for the English Lords thereby building their manufacturing base and slowly eroding England's. And then what if one day France decides to stop raising sheep and instead switches to raising lamas.
Now France has all of the materials and technology and England has only worthless IOUs. This is the very situation I fear America is headed towards. We are loosing our ability to manufacture basic necessities to support our country and are reliant on the third world. We have become the fat lazy English lords (no offence to English lords).
What would happen if China decided that they were going to produce only Chinese designed Intelyen chips tomorrow? I really feel that China is on the better end of the deal.
For this reason, I have avoided "Made in China" as much as possible for the last year. I can afford to buy "Made in America" and it is generally of much better quality. I believe the only things I have bought in the last year from China are an iPhone, a pair of shoes, and this weekend a ceiling fan. I'm not sure why I caved on the ceiling fan. I even bought my latest PCB from 4PCB.com manufactured in Colorado rather than a cheaper offshore site. And that's my hobby money that I need to go as far as possible.
I'm certainly no economics expert and perhaps I'm wrong but it seems to me that having a strong manufacturing base is at the heart of a country's strength.
I think the real question we should be asking wrt to diet is 'How can we make farming and agriculture a green process?'
I can't believe anyone would ever ask this question. Agriculture is inherently a green process, that is until the oil industry adulterated it. It used to be you plant a seed in the ground in the spring and pick your crop in the fall. Now you gas up your truck to go buy the seeds, gas up the tractor to plow the field, gas up the tractor to plant the field, gas up the tractor to fertilize the field with fertilizer made from gas, etc, etc, etc. All told today it takes 2 Calories of fossil fuel to get 1 Calorie of energy in food (according to Michael Pollan in Omnivore's Dilemma). And here in Iowa, we're taking that calorie deficit and turning it back into Ethanol. Now I will admit that we get significantly more food in today's process for much less effort, but at what cost?
Agriculture is solar energy at its finest, we just need to use sustainable local organic methods and expect less food from the same area of land. There will still be enough food to go around, it will just cost a little more but we've been on the oil free ride for far too long.
I agree. I've flown out of Orange County a lot in the last three years and I swear every time I'm there for the 6:45 am mad rush I hear the base ball announcer dude come on the PA asking someone to return to security to claim a forgotten laptop. I'm thinking 12,000 is a reasonable number.
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What's the name of your club? I'd like to join too. If you don't yet have a name, I'd steer away from Depublican and Remocrat. Can we call our club The Adventurers?
BadAnalogyGuy did use small words, three in fact, that described exactly what he what trying to convey. Yes, they were long words but there were only three. When I read "symmetry and orthogonality of conceptualization," I immediately understood that indeed context changes (switching applications) had the same look and feel yet it is very obvious that you are in a different application. A powerful idea that all too often only Apple understands and worse, sometimes forgets.
While I assume RealErmin was just ribbing BadAnalogyGuy, the truth is this is the reason I dislike Slashdot so much: one post out of fifty will really have something insightful or interesting to say and it will immediately devolve into semantics or off topic banter. For christ's sake, this is a story about Windows 7 Mobile and every post is about how the iPhone is devine or Bantha Fodder. While I feel a little like the hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn old guy, can't we all act a little more grown up.
World War I was won by the chemists. World War II was won by the physicists. World War III will be won by the mathematicians. I heard this twenty years ago and didn't really understand how it could matter. Now think about how the internet and computer security have become the center piece of our society. I'm not too worried about some bunker of bombs that might be launched against us (well, I'm a little worried). I'm more worried about an army of hackers that can have access to our entire financial system, power system, transportation systems, and communication systems at will.
I would have to agree. GEB was the first book I though of as an answer to your question. I only read it a couple of years ago, but I wish I would have been introduced to it in high school. Not that I would have read it then, I only started reading for pleasure about ten years ago. I still have a file of about five programs I wrote while reading the book to solve problems or try to answer questions. fun fun.
My other answer would Chaos by james Glick. The only book I've ever more than once. It really inspired me to be a physicist. I missed and landed on Engineer but as soon as I'm done with this management gig I'm going to complete my Masters in Applied Physics.
The A330 also has much more powerful engines but neither of those really matter. The reason the pilot controls didn't respond is a matter of fly-by-wire philosophy. Do you allow the pilot to put the plane is a situation that will stall the plane or worse break it, or do you prevent the pilot from flying outside the capabilities of the plane. Airbus's philosophy is the latter. The only problem is - what if the flight control computer is wrong.
You do *not* need an autopilot to fly at that altitude. And yes I am an autopilot engineer.
Dude, put the mouse down and back away from the compiler.
To extend your analogy, what happens if France dutifully produces wool for the English Lords thereby building their manufacturing base and slowly eroding England's. And then what if one day France decides to stop raising sheep and instead switches to raising lamas.
Now France has all of the materials and technology and England has only worthless IOUs. This is the very situation I fear America is headed towards. We are loosing our ability to manufacture basic necessities to support our country and are reliant on the third world. We have become the fat lazy English lords (no offence to English lords).
What would happen if China decided that they were going to produce only Chinese designed Intelyen chips tomorrow? I really feel that China is on the better end of the deal.
For this reason, I have avoided "Made in China" as much as possible for the last year. I can afford to buy "Made in America" and it is generally of much better quality. I believe the only things I have bought in the last year from China are an iPhone, a pair of shoes, and this weekend a ceiling fan. I'm not sure why I caved on the ceiling fan. I even bought my latest PCB from 4PCB.com manufactured in Colorado rather than a cheaper offshore site. And that's my hobby money that I need to go as far as possible.
I'm certainly no economics expert and perhaps I'm wrong but it seems to me that having a strong manufacturing base is at the heart of a country's strength.
hemi-roid. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
If you cut your commute in half, you get an extra 180 hours per year!
I could get double that per year if I stopped reading Slashdot.
I think the real question we should be asking wrt to diet is 'How can we make farming and agriculture a green process?'
I can't believe anyone would ever ask this question. Agriculture is inherently a green process, that is until the oil industry adulterated it. It used to be you plant a seed in the ground in the spring and pick your crop in the fall. Now you gas up your truck to go buy the seeds, gas up the tractor to plow the field, gas up the tractor to plant the field, gas up the tractor to fertilize the field with fertilizer made from gas, etc, etc, etc. All told today it takes 2 Calories of fossil fuel to get 1 Calorie of energy in food (according to Michael Pollan in Omnivore's Dilemma). And here in Iowa, we're taking that calorie deficit and turning it back into Ethanol. Now I will admit that we get significantly more food in today's process for much less effort, but at what cost?
Agriculture is solar energy at its finest, we just need to use sustainable local organic methods and expect less food from the same area of land. There will still be enough food to go around, it will just cost a little more but we've been on the oil free ride for far too long.
I agree. I've flown out of Orange County a lot in the last three years and I swear every time I'm there for the 6:45 am mad rush I hear the base ball announcer dude come on the PA asking someone to return to security to claim a forgotten laptop. I'm thinking 12,000 is a reasonable number.