Why the hell is that unfortunate? Utilities should be nationalized....
Corporations (and Utilities) are separate from the Government so that they have an incentive to keep an eye on each other. If they are nationalized, then they are all one and there is no one left to keep an eye out.
Besides, what gives you the idea that the government doesn't want to make a profit even bigger then the corporations? 8-P
Most antennas turned for 2.4 Ghz are shorts to a ground plane.
For a DC OHM meter, but not for the RF signal.
By the way, you can probably get a "dummy load" for that cable connector and frequency band , on the web. Or make one yourself, if you can find a 50 ohm bulk carbon (old style) resistor.
Then there is the kind of Engineer who designed machines and electronics before they ever went to college (if only for themselves). And then got an Engineering degree. And a Technicians degree and a Comp Sci degree. And with a little scrap equipment can quite literally "call down the lightning".
But those voltages scared me "spitless", so now I program industrial computer systems. The voltages are much less scary, and don't attract demons! 8-)
... I laugh even harder at kids who think you have to have at least a microcontroller, if not a Raspberry Pi board, to make an LED blink on and off; they think I'm trolling them when I tell them that two bipolar transistors and a few passive components will do the same job.
Um... can you even get transistors and passive components anymore? At least in less that "thousand" lots? No wonder the kids do RP stuff, you can get them!
Should such behaviors simply be accepted as a sign of the times?
No more than a thirst for alchol should be accepted as a sign of the times. There will always be things that will attract you, but that also harm you. You must have the self-control to resist them, or you will fail. But, like many things, they may not be so harmful in moderation. So limit them to a level that you can control. Be aware, though, that your limit might be "zero".
Most here know, that statistics are not useful if the sample size is below a certain number. But, did you know that the statistic can not usefully be -applied- to a group less than that number?
In other words, statistics can not be applied to individuals. (Unless the samples were all that individual.)
-That- is what is wrong with "profiling" used wrongly. In fact it is the basis for racism. Humans have an instinct to assume the individual in front of them is the same as others that look the same, because that is safer in primitive wild conditions. But it is not a good way to think in civilized times, because it is often wrong.
The police should treat all people the same, because they can not know what they are facing. They should be polite but watch them carefully. Relaxing if the person looks one way and being tense when they look another way, is not good on either side. A criminal can maskerade as an honest person. An honest person can maskerade as a criminal, if they like the dress style.
The question does not actually have anything to do with race, religion or politics... 8-)
I think 60 Minutes got most of their info from the video game "Stalker, shadow of Chernobyl". I guess it was a lot easier than going there. (Oh, did they go there? Are you really sure?)
But the video game was not quite technically accurate... 8-P
... It's almost a helicopter. It doesn't need aerodynamic lift from the wings; it throws back enough air from the prop to keep it up. This isn't particularly odd for a model aircraft, especially a very light one.
There was an old saying among the R/C model airplane flyers: If you put a "60" on a Brick, it would fly.
"60" being a standard 0.60 Inch^3 Glo engine using Methanol and Nitro-methane fuel. Small but with an appalling amount of power, and capable of cutting fingers of the unwary. (For those of you who have never seen a real R/C engine. And get off my lawn!) 8-)
Don't forget to take into account the cost of living, where they want you to move to. I can live better here on 60,000 than you can live in New York City on 150,000.
Also, the best paying Computer Language is the one they use at the company you want to work for. Study how to learn computer systems and languages quickly. And learn more than one. 8-)
Relativistic effects are a non-issue because there is no preferred reference frame in the universe.... And every one of those thousands of different observations are all mathematically equivalent.
That's true, except: If / when a cloud of dust from our rapidly passing, high speed, galaxy hits the planet, it will do just as much damage as if it were the planet or star hitting the dust cloud. Ouch!! 8-)
Talk about bad weather.
And I wonder, would such a star system have it's own dust clouds? And have we perhaps already been hit by one?? 8-}
But to some degree, I guess that describes all jobs.
It describes all jobs, -from both sides-. A good deal is where -both- sides feel that they are taking advantage of the other, but are happy with what they are getting from them. And yes, it is possible. It's the Politicians that say it's not... 8-P
Making it illegal to pass on the right like on the Autobahn would separate traffic by speed with the fastest traffic always in the far left lane and the slowest traffic always in the far right lane. Separating traffic by speed makes roads safer even with a high difference in speed between the fastest cars and the slowest ones.
Um... No. That law (as stated here) would not force the slow driver to move to the right. It only prevents the fast driver from passing them. Traffic jam due to one car.
The way it should be stated is that the slow driver must move to the right. I have seen signs that say "Slower traffic keep right", that seemed to help. 8-)
Give me a break. This sounds exactly like a political meeting I went to (and I won't name which party) where they spent 30 minutes adding a "to do" item being reducing the speed limits on all roads (interstates, etc.) to a max of 45 miles/hour. Not 55, 45. The main assertions is that vehicles get their best MPG at 35, and if one person is saved, the slower time for everyone is worth it
I find this hard to believe. I've never heard anybody seriously suggest reducing the speed to 45mph on interstates. I hope you won't be offended if I ask you for a citation.
South Carolina, about 1969 I think, when the first big Oil Shortage hit and the Federal government started the 55 MPH speed limit. Before the Federal 55 limit, the South Carolina legislature voted to drop the speed limits to 45 MPH and changed all of the highway speed signs (Interstate and local). A few weeks later the Feds made the change to 55 MPH and South Carolina had to change all of the speed signs -again-, at a cost of lots of dollars!
But all this does remind me of the arguments back in the 1800's about "heavier than air" flying machines not being possible.
Or the arguments in the early 1900's about distribution of Electric Power being impossible. I've been through the math on that one, and the calculations are correct !!?! Of course the framing of the problem was a little "off"... 8-)
... Or are you asserting that computers do something other than what they are told to do?
Um... Yes.
Even assuming that the programming is perfect, which would be very unlikely, the Ram and CPU cores can have errors due to heat, impacts from subatomic particles and other reasons. The estimated incidence for errors due to particle impacts is about once a year, but even that is often enough to worry about in something like an automobile. Not to mention errors in the design of the hardware.
But my major concern is in the software, which would be suficiently large that it might be slower than humans to react to dangers. Also at that size the number of bugs will be quite significant, and debugging is not something that usually is taught in school.
It's basic queueing theory. Decelerating slightly on a free-flowing road can cause traffic jams a few miles behind you.
This is true, I have seen it. I have also seen the math.
But it is because the roads are to crowded. The effects propagate because the is not enough buffer space between cars. Just don't drive on crowded roads. i.e., Don't go near big cities. No one needs to live that close together anymore, anyway. 8-) (And besides, they stink! Really.)
Even perfect driving by an omniscient being isn't going to be much better than the usual near perfect, law abiding human driver.
Your human ideal doesn't exist. The computers do.
The idea that a Computer will always be better, is about on the level of the old myths about gods or a superman comic book.
Computers are often faster and they don't usually have wandering attention spans. But they can make just as bad decisions as people, sometimes a lot worse. I speak as someone with 40 years experience programming and designing them, and I know something about what is inside... 8-)
A base on the moon is at the bottom of a "gravity well". Not as bad as the one at Earth, but still a chore to climb out of. It would be like sleeping every night at the bottom of an old dry well, and having to climb a ladder to get out every morning.
A station is free orbit is much easier to get to and from. And also easier to move stuff to and from. Is is actually cheaper, in energy, to move in a ore meteor to a space station, than to move ore from the moon to earth.
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A sample size of one, seems a bit short of that needed to generalize to all other comets... 8-P
Why the hell is that unfortunate? Utilities should be nationalized. ...
Corporations (and Utilities) are separate from the Government so that they have an incentive to keep an eye on each other. If they are nationalized, then they are all one and there is no one left to keep an eye out.
Besides, what gives you the idea that the government doesn't want to make a profit even bigger then the corporations? 8-P
Most antennas turned for 2.4 Ghz are shorts to a ground plane.
For a DC OHM meter, but not for the RF signal.
By the way, you can probably get a "dummy load" for that cable connector and frequency band , on the web.
Or make one yourself, if you can find a 50 ohm bulk carbon (old style) resistor.
... It measure the actual data delivery speed by downloading from numerous web sites. ...
That is including the delays caused by the website server. If that is what you want to know, that's fine. But it is not the same thing.
In reality, most slow downs are due to the websites, not the ISP. But what we are talking about here is the different ISPs. 8-)
Then there is the kind of Engineer who designed machines and electronics before they ever went to college (if only for themselves). And then got an Engineering degree. And a Technicians degree and a Comp Sci degree. And with a little scrap equipment can quite literally "call down the lightning".
But those voltages scared me "spitless", so now I program industrial computer systems. The voltages are much less scary, and don't attract demons! 8-)
... I laugh even harder at kids who think you have to have at least a microcontroller, if not a Raspberry Pi board, to make an LED blink on and off; they think I'm trolling them when I tell them that two bipolar transistors and a few passive components will do the same job.
Um... can you even get transistors and passive components anymore? At least in less that "thousand" lots?
No wonder the kids do RP stuff, you can get them!
But maybe I was just on the wrong wesite... 8-}
Should such behaviors simply be accepted as a sign of the times?
No more than a thirst for alchol should be accepted as a sign of the times.
There will always be things that will attract you, but that also harm you. You must have the self-control to resist them, or you will fail.
But, like many things, they may not be so harmful in moderation. So limit them to a level that you can control. Be aware, though, that your limit might be "zero".
Most here know, that statistics are not useful if the sample size is below a certain number.
But, did you know that the statistic can not usefully be -applied- to a group less than that number?
In other words, statistics can not be applied to individuals. (Unless the samples were all that individual.)
-That- is what is wrong with "profiling" used wrongly.
In fact it is the basis for racism. Humans have an instinct to assume the individual in front of them is the same as others that look the same, because that is safer in primitive wild conditions. But it is not a good way to think in civilized times, because it is often wrong.
The police should treat all people the same, because they can not know what they are facing. They should be polite but watch them carefully. Relaxing if the person looks one way and being tense when they look another way, is not good on either side. A criminal can maskerade as an honest person. An honest person can maskerade as a criminal, if they like the dress style.
The question does not actually have anything to do with race, religion or politics... 8-)
I think 60 Minutes got most of their info from the video game "Stalker, shadow of Chernobyl". I guess it was a lot easier than going there.
(Oh, did they go there? Are you really sure?)
But the video game was not quite technically accurate... 8-P
... It's almost a helicopter. It doesn't need aerodynamic lift from the wings; it throws back enough air from the prop to keep it up. This isn't particularly odd for a model aircraft, especially a very light one.
There was an old saying among the R/C model airplane flyers:
If you put a "60" on a Brick, it would fly.
"60" being a standard 0.60 Inch^3 Glo engine using Methanol and Nitro-methane fuel. Small but with an appalling amount of power, and capable of cutting fingers of the unwary. (For those of you who have never seen a real R/C engine. And get off my lawn!) 8-)
Don't forget to take into account the cost of living, where they want you to move to. I can live better here on 60,000 than you can live in New York City on 150,000.
Also, the best paying Computer Language is the one they use at the company you want to work for. Study how to learn computer systems and languages quickly. And learn more than one. 8-)
Relativistic effects are a non-issue because there is no preferred reference frame in the universe. ... And every one of those thousands of different observations are all mathematically equivalent.
That's true, except:
If / when a cloud of dust from our rapidly passing, high speed, galaxy hits the planet, it will do just as much damage as if it were the planet or star hitting the dust cloud. Ouch!! 8-)
Talk about bad weather.
And I wonder, would such a star system have it's own dust clouds? And have we perhaps already been hit by one?? 8-}
Note that: None of this is an excuse to get you out of having to debug your code!!! 8-P
8-)
Exploiting the vulnerable.
But to some degree, I guess that describes all jobs.
It describes all jobs, -from both sides-.
A good deal is where -both- sides feel that they are taking advantage of the other, but are happy with what they are getting from them.
And yes, it is possible. It's the Politicians that say it's not... 8-P
Have faith, that Science does not already know everything in the universe.
And, the increase in the amount of stuff that we -do- know, is increasing rapidly!
Check out the NASA report, on the microwave resonators that produce thrust... and have hope. 8-)
What Firefox needs is an email client!
Why, what's wrong w/ Thunderbird? If you want an equivalent of Netscape Communicator 4 (remember that?), then SeaMonkey is the right choice
woosh.
Let me rephrase that for you: What Firefox needs is a Compiler for the Clarion language and a Flowchart Editor! 8-P
Making it illegal to pass on the right like on the Autobahn would separate traffic by speed with the fastest traffic always in the far left lane and the slowest traffic always in the far right lane. Separating traffic by speed makes roads safer even with a high difference in speed between the fastest cars and the slowest ones.
Um ... No.
That law (as stated here) would not force the slow driver to move to the right. It only prevents the fast driver from passing them. Traffic jam due to one car.
The way it should be stated is that the slow driver must move to the right. I have seen signs that say "Slower traffic keep right", that seemed to help. 8-)
Give me a break. This sounds exactly like a political meeting I went to (and I won't name which party) where they spent 30 minutes adding a "to do" item being reducing the speed limits on all roads (interstates, etc.) to a max of 45 miles/hour. Not 55, 45. The main assertions is that vehicles get their best MPG at 35, and if one person is saved, the slower time for everyone is worth it
I find this hard to believe. I've never heard anybody seriously suggest reducing the speed to 45mph on interstates. I hope you won't be offended if I ask you for a citation.
South Carolina, about 1969 I think, when the first big Oil Shortage hit and the Federal government started the 55 MPH speed limit. Before the Federal 55 limit, the South Carolina legislature voted to drop the speed limits to 45 MPH and changed all of the highway speed signs (Interstate and local). A few weeks later the Feds made the change to 55 MPH and South Carolina had to change all of the speed signs -again-, at a cost of lots of dollars!
I was there. 8-)
Ya'll are probably right.
But all this does remind me of the arguments back in the 1800's about "heavier than air" flying machines not being possible.
Or the arguments in the early 1900's about distribution of Electric Power being impossible.
I've been through the math on that one, and the calculations are correct !!?!
Of course the framing of the problem was a little "off"... 8-)
... Or are you asserting that computers do something other than what they are told to do?
Um ... Yes.
Even assuming that the programming is perfect, which would be very unlikely, the Ram and CPU cores can have errors due to heat, impacts from subatomic particles and other reasons. The estimated incidence for errors due to particle impacts is about once a year, but even that is often enough to worry about in something like an automobile. Not to mention errors in the design of the hardware.
But my major concern is in the software, which would be suficiently large that it might be slower than humans to react to dangers. Also at that size the number of bugs will be quite significant, and debugging is not something that usually is taught in school.
It's basic queueing theory. Decelerating slightly on a free-flowing road can cause traffic jams a few miles behind you.
This is true, I have seen it. I have also seen the math.
But it is because the roads are to crowded. The effects propagate because the is not enough buffer space between cars.
Just don't drive on crowded roads. i.e., Don't go near big cities. No one needs to live that close together anymore, anyway. 8-)
(And besides, they stink! Really.)
Even perfect driving by an omniscient being isn't going to be much better than the usual near perfect, law abiding human driver.
Your human ideal doesn't exist. The computers do.
The idea that a Computer will always be better, is about on the level of the old myths about gods or a superman comic book.
Computers are often faster and they don't usually have wandering attention spans. But they can make just as bad decisions as people, sometimes a lot worse. I speak as someone with 40 years experience programming and designing them, and I know something about what is inside... 8-)
I would question whether the actually law abiding human driver is common enough to be considered "usual".
If they were not usual, you and I would no doubt be long dead... 8-P
... The indoor mall is probably one of the most disgusting social developments in history.
But, it has a roof to keep out rain,snow and wind. That is important, sometimes. 8-)
A base on the moon is at the bottom of a "gravity well". Not as bad as the one at Earth, but still a chore to climb out of.
It would be like sleeping every night at the bottom of an old dry well, and having to climb a ladder to get out every morning.
A station is free orbit is much easier to get to and from. And also easier to move stuff to and from.
Is is actually cheaper, in energy, to move in a ore meteor to a space station, than to move ore from the moon to earth.