"Total Cost of Ownership". Yes, I always laugh about that. There is no ownership, just cost. With open source software, you have at least one aspect of ownership: the fact that you can repair your own stuff.
We have a complete profession out here that manipulates prices. We call them valuers and they "determine" house prices. Only they are paid a percentage of their own answer, so the price is never too low and in the meanwhile at least 5 times what a house is worth. What you describe is called "trading". The one who is at fault here is the one who puts a computer in charge of the trade. Not the one who finds a client who is too stupid to take responsibility for his own actions and gives that responsibility to a computer.
Why do you hate the French? France is the USA of Europe. Americans think they are the world, the French think they are Europe. And both are known for their foul international politics.
Nothing new. Around here, house prices are determined by professional valuers who have collectively inflated the prices to at least 5 times what they are worth. What did you think caused the crisis? It is just the belief in made-up value, followed by a cold-turkey reality check.
Or Across projects. So you can see which developer / client / manager is the most destructive to projects. Or how projects are given to others (like the One Ring in the XKCD example) before ending up in/mnt/doom.
Well, the military might help to make Stirling engines cheaper. Those engines are already used for transforming solar heat into electricity and seem to have a good effectiveness into doing so. The main problem of this way of capturing power is that the engines are quite expensive to make. This could be an opportunity for the military to make the world a better place.
If only for the fact that the police officer who can help me is far away in some command centre. A camera is not a substitute for human presence, yet they are usually implemented as a substitution for human presence or at least as an excuse to drastically decrease that presence.
Gas turbines are powerful for their weight, but not exactly economical in fuel use. The power-to-weight ratio makes them suitable for aircraft, but for cars they are just a thirsty show-off.
Should builders be accountable if your back door can be cracked with a simple crowbar? Breaking in is easier then keeping things or people out. In fact, it is so difficult to keep people out, that security is only added for "too easy" breaches. And then raised as necessary. And off course it must be used wisely. For a lot of vulnerabilities, you still have to invite the vampire in first.
Funny. Reading their project goals, they want to implement a "demo" on a real piece of society. That's way over the line of any privacy regulation and a minute step to a total police continent. Not a flamebait at all!
So they have covered themselves. I worked in a medical study environment, and the entire ethical committee was provided by the medicine factory who ordered the clinical trial. The only thing I expect from them is a conflict of interests.
It's good that the Pirate Party does the work that the ethics board should be doing.
I think wildly flailing your arms does seem to do the trick. A pity it scares off everyone. The nice thing is that this discovery also says how to be a really bad dancer when you want it. This can come in handy...
Yes, the safety of its waste. That said, I wonder if the wings could be fitted with solar cells. Not necessarily enough to fly continuously on, but just enough to charge the batteries when parked outside. I don't know how heavy solar cells are though, and what impact they have on the strength of the structure (can you laminate them on or do you have to drill holes?).
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far. If you can choose between naming and commenting, use naming. For example, a parameter called ZeroBasedIntegerIndex will be in your editor's autocompletion and therfore visible where you use it. A comment is only visible where you define it, and therefore gets lost in usage. And if the ZeroBasedIntegerIndex happens to be defined as a string, you'd change it immediately. The comment would probably stay wrong for a very long time.
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... by as much as 40 feet
It's a good thing drones don't have feet then.
"Total Cost of Ownership". Yes, I always laugh about that. There is no ownership, just cost. With open source software, you have at least one aspect of ownership: the fact that you can repair your own stuff.
We have a complete profession out here that manipulates prices. We call them valuers and they "determine" house prices. Only they are paid a percentage of their own answer, so the price is never too low and in the meanwhile at least 5 times what a house is worth. What you describe is called "trading". The one who is at fault here is the one who puts a computer in charge of the trade. Not the one who finds a client who is too stupid to take responsibility for his own actions and gives that responsibility to a computer.
Off course. And like any "smart" option in MS-Office, you don't want to be use it.
Rumour has it that these guys realised that there was a flawed algorithm
No, you just pointed out how wrong it is to use an algorithm at all. That is the flaw.
In this case, it is the victim who figured out what the gun did with his attacker's head.
And name it Totally Ripped Off Language Learner.
No. But it knows all about certain medications. And how to get rich!
Why do you hate the French? France is the USA of Europe. Americans think they are the world, the French think they are Europe. And both are known for their foul international politics.
Nothing new. Around here, house prices are determined by professional valuers who have collectively inflated the prices to at least 5 times what they are worth. What did you think caused the crisis? It is just the belief in made-up value, followed by a cold-turkey reality check.
Or Across projects. So you can see which developer / client / manager is the most destructive to projects. Or how projects are given to others (like the One Ring in the XKCD example) before ending up in /mnt/doom.
Well, the military might help to make Stirling engines cheaper. Those engines are already used for transforming solar heat into electricity and seem to have a good effectiveness into doing so. The main problem of this way of capturing power is that the engines are quite expensive to make. This could be an opportunity for the military to make the world a better place.
If only for the fact that the police officer who can help me is far away in some command centre. A camera is not a substitute for human presence, yet they are usually implemented as a substitution for human presence or at least as an excuse to drastically decrease that presence.
rich people with money to burn.
One that runs on bank notes comes to mind.
Gas turbines are powerful for their weight, but not exactly economical in fuel use. The power-to-weight ratio makes them suitable for aircraft, but for cars they are just a thirsty show-off.
Should builders be accountable if your back door can be cracked with a simple crowbar? Breaking in is easier then keeping things or people out. In fact, it is so difficult to keep people out, that security is only added for "too easy" breaches. And then raised as necessary. And off course it must be used wisely. For a lot of vulnerabilities, you still have to invite the vampire in first.
Seeing how the US politics are run by companies, I'd say that the dollar is stronger than ever.
The common vision is usually: We want to sue every last penny out of you.
Funny. Reading their project goals, they want to implement a "demo" on a real piece of society. That's way over the line of any privacy regulation and a minute step to a total police continent. Not a flamebait at all!
So they have covered themselves. I worked in a medical study environment, and the entire ethical committee was provided by the medicine factory who ordered the clinical trial. The only thing I expect from them is a conflict of interests.
It's good that the Pirate Party does the work that the ethics board should be doing.
I think wildly flailing your arms does seem to do the trick. A pity it scares off everyone. The nice thing is that this discovery also says how to be a really bad dancer when you want it. This can come in handy...
Yes, the safety of its waste. That said, I wonder if the wings could be fitted with solar cells. Not necessarily enough to fly continuously on, but just enough to charge the batteries when parked outside. I don't know how heavy solar cells are though, and what impact they have on the strength of the structure (can you laminate them on or do you have to drill holes?).
... or the world is an awful place where governments world-wide don't care for anything important.
No. They are not compiled and therefore lag behind the state of the code in almost every software project I have encountered so far. If you can choose between naming and commenting, use naming. For example, a parameter called ZeroBasedIntegerIndex will be in your editor's autocompletion and therfore visible where you use it. A comment is only visible where you define it, and therefore gets lost in usage. And if the ZeroBasedIntegerIndex happens to be defined as a string, you'd change it immediately. The comment would probably stay wrong for a very long time.
Some of us are aliens who do not even live in the USA. And we certainly did not vote for a world-wide police state.