Even a robotic truck would benefit from a more aerodynamic front than what is in use today. With the current aero enhancements available for standard trailers all the low hanging fruit have been picked.
From browsing the list of his patents it looks like most of them are written with overly generalized broad claims which don't actually describe anything that wasn't obvious at the time. This gem filed in 1972 describes a "Machine control system operating from remote commands". Whoopty do. Remotely operable computers existed before the filing date. Why the USPTO awarded him so many patents on obvious things is beyond comprehension.
but it does give tech shuttles a free pass at using city bus stops that, if you or I stopped at (and were caught), we'd have to pay a fine.
Google using a community resource in this way has the side effect of making it convenient for Googlers who would otherwise choose not to live in the city. That bolsters its tax base while contributing to a reduction of traffic and vehicle emissions during the daily rush hours. That's all a win-win for the city.
The real issue is that the opposition is using the bus stops as a pretext to combat the looming gentrification of the city that will raise rents and property values. Those who are vested in the status quo will find any way possible to obstruct that transformation.
Water doesn't "soften" concrete. H2O is molecularly bound into its structure and is a necessary part of maintaining the strength of concrete. Water invading earthen dams, on the other hand, is a more serious problem.
American colleges are in a competitive arms race to attract more customers. The easy solution is to dump money into glitzy things like athletics and a construction spree of gold plated facilities. That money comes from foreign rich kids parents and from taxpayer subsidies for the rest.
Critical engine management and safety functions are already controlled on isolated busses today. The people "hacking" their vehicles through the OBDII diagnostic port are not able to gain full access to all internal communication. Airbag systems for instance are controlled by their own dedicated low latency protocol on an isolated bus. This is necessary to guarantee that malfunctioning external equipment doesn't saturate safety critical busses with traffic. The proposals for high speed internal networks are limited to expendable features like entertainment, Wifi, navigation, and external cameras. If the network goes down you car will still keep driving.
Don't worry. He's in for a nice surprise the next time he travels abroad and tries to reenter the country. He may as well prelube before hitting customs. Emperors don't like the peons who point out that they have no clothes.
What is really repugnant is people with medical degrees hawking snake oil and "alternative" therapies. I cringe every time I see Dr. Oz legitimizing some quack idea posited by a guest and he never challenges them on their BS. Then there's the MD quack Dr. Richard Becker who's show is effectively infomercial for his noni juice and vitamin supplements. These type of doctors are even more evil than traditional snake oil salesman because, rather than outright lying, they string together a series of unrelated/uncorrelated facts to influence their viewers into believing something that isn't true. You can't assail them on any one statement because taken piecewise everything is true.
For instance, transcoding a CD to MP3 is not legal in AU.
It's not legal in the US either. The AHRA which allows single copies of digital media to be made requires the implementation of serial copy management to enforce that rule. The no copy flags on CDs are ignored by computer burning software and MP3 has no support for copy restrictions so transcoding without permission is a copyright violation. Only Canada is permissive enough to allow unfettered copying on the pretext that a "license" is paid for through the writable media levy.
It depends on how strict your country is on the definition of "cheese". In the EU it's more common because of protectionist policies. The world supply of rennet is too low, however, to meet the demand for cheese so most cheeses are curdled with synthetic rennet or alternative coagulants. Currently only 35% of world cheese production uses animal rennet.
You can easily get a 32-bit processor running at 50-100MHz on current low end parts. Linux runs perfectly well at such speeds. A modern compositing Xorg desktop will likely be bog slow but a console will run just fine. These aren't supposed to be used as general purpose desktop replacements.
IBM has cut back heavily on blue sky R&D. Everything done in the last 10 years or so has been required to have some business case to get funding. If anything, I think MS research is the last institution where people can be fully employed doing whatever interests them.
How is the chip open source if you need a multi-billion dollar plant to make computer processors of any kind?
It is implemented in a hardware description language. You can target the logic towards an ASIC OR you can synthesize it into an FPGA. In ASIC-land the development tools cost mega bucks but the nice thing is that the major FPGA vendors provide their tool suites for free with some reduced functionality that is largely inconsequential to hobbyist users.
You can grab off the shelf FPGAs these days for $5 with sufficient resources to implement a variety microprocessors and whatever custom logic you need. These can range from tiny 8-bit micros that can be replicated hundreds or thousands of times in a single device to more sophisticated 32-bit processors. Every major processor architecture has open source clones available. They are commonly used in places underserved by the commercial industry like the freely available Sparc clone, Leon, which is used for rad hardened FPGAs in space applications.
Exactly. Joe Manchin could have cared less about Bitcoin last month. Now he has an easy way to demonstrate how hard he's working to serve the people of WV.
The female hostile tech work environment is largely a myth nowadays. I've heard atrocious war stories from older female engineers who were treated like secretaries at former employers... and then they proclaim how much better they are treated at their current job. I've also heard numerous women with no actual experience paint an unappealing picture of what they perceive to be the work environment in (non-bio) science and engineering.
The reality is that the majority of women just aren't as interested in doing that type of work, either due to social conditioning (Barbie: "Math is hard") or innate lack of interest. There have been decades of effort to promote women in STEM positions with no real results other than the biology related sciences. Is that the fault of men or it is just because women aren't interested no matter how much boostering is directed their way? Is it really that important to put so much effort to create an artificially level paying field? Nobody is complaining about the paucity of male elementary school teachers. Why aren't there alarmists crying over that?
In my experience, the technical women are treated fairly and the negative image is just an outdated stereotype perpetuated by women themselves. I'm sure there is still a level of unfair bias and inappropriate behavior but from my observation the modern male tech worker is the most welcoming to women compared to other fields. I can't enumerate all the times I've heard inappropriate comments come from female coworkers that any male compatriot would not dare say for fear of going to a reeducation camp.
The excess female graduates from 2001-2 were the ones at the tail end of the pipeline following the.com boom to become HTML programmers just like the excess men from that time frame. Once they got their degree they had to face the cold reality of a job environment that they didn't have the capacity to work in.
The push for critical thinking in education is an application of social engineering to mold a population of people that question what they are told. It isn't an outdated parochial model but rather an important part of having a functioning democracy. Before the advent of modern education this was done by having students learn Greek, Latin, and logic. For most people these were and are largely useless skills in their own right but still valuable in their secondary effects on the application of knowledge.
Not for EEs who are currently at 6.5% unemployment when 1.5% is the historical trend. Also, the official unemployment figures are lower than the real number since the government can't accurately track these people.
It's more comfortable because you have less weight bearing on the saddle. With a sufficiently high cadence your legs will support most of your upper body so your arms aren't as burdened as you might suspect. With the sit up and beg riding position your leg muscles are not configured to bear the bulk of your weight on the pedals.
I ride a road bike with my hands on the drops 99.9% of the time and it is not tiring unless I ride with slow people who prevent me from using a high enough cadence to support my upper body. I have a sport touring motorcycle with less forward lean that is more fatiguing in the arms because of the lack of pedaling.
Two reasons: One is that the target user base are people who want an assistive utility bike or are too out of shape to ride at a safe speed in traffic. The people who buy these are pedal mashers who want as little effort as possible to make the bike go.
The other reason is that E-bikes are legally restricted to 20-25 MPH which a competent road/racing cyclist can exceed with ease without the burden of carrying around a heavy motor and battery pack. It would be sweet to be able to do 35 MPH hill climbs without breaking a sweat on a road bike but that isn't going to happen in a commercial product.
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Even a robotic truck would benefit from a more aerodynamic front than what is in use today. With the current aero enhancements available for standard trailers all the low hanging fruit have been picked.
Then wean yourself off. If you restrict yourself to moderate consumption on alternate days you will break the cycle.
There is always the option to give up on substance abuse.
From browsing the list of his patents it looks like most of them are written with overly generalized broad claims which don't actually describe anything that wasn't obvious at the time. This gem filed in 1972 describes a "Machine control system operating from remote commands". Whoopty do. Remotely operable computers existed before the filing date. Why the USPTO awarded him so many patents on obvious things is beyond comprehension.
but it does give tech shuttles a free pass at using city bus stops that, if you or I stopped at (and were caught), we'd have to pay a fine.
Google using a community resource in this way has the side effect of making it convenient for Googlers who would otherwise choose not to live in the city. That bolsters its tax base while contributing to a reduction of traffic and vehicle emissions during the daily rush hours. That's all a win-win for the city.
The real issue is that the opposition is using the bus stops as a pretext to combat the looming gentrification of the city that will raise rents and property values. Those who are vested in the status quo will find any way possible to obstruct that transformation.
Water doesn't "soften" concrete. H2O is molecularly bound into its structure and is a necessary part of maintaining the strength of concrete. Water invading earthen dams, on the other hand, is a more serious problem.
American colleges are in a competitive arms race to attract more customers. The easy solution is to dump money into glitzy things like athletics and a construction spree of gold plated facilities. That money comes from foreign rich kids parents and from taxpayer subsidies for the rest.
Critical engine management and safety functions are already controlled on isolated busses today. The people "hacking" their vehicles through the OBDII diagnostic port are not able to gain full access to all internal communication. Airbag systems for instance are controlled by their own dedicated low latency protocol on an isolated bus. This is necessary to guarantee that malfunctioning external equipment doesn't saturate safety critical busses with traffic. The proposals for high speed internal networks are limited to expendable features like entertainment, Wifi, navigation, and external cameras. If the network goes down you car will still keep driving.
He's one lucky bastard to get away with that.
Don't worry. He's in for a nice surprise the next time he travels abroad and tries to reenter the country. He may as well prelube before hitting customs. Emperors don't like the peons who point out that they have no clothes.
What is really repugnant is people with medical degrees hawking snake oil and "alternative" therapies. I cringe every time I see Dr. Oz legitimizing some quack idea posited by a guest and he never challenges them on their BS. Then there's the MD quack Dr. Richard Becker who's show is effectively infomercial for his noni juice and vitamin supplements. These type of doctors are even more evil than traditional snake oil salesman because, rather than outright lying, they string together a series of unrelated/uncorrelated facts to influence their viewers into believing something that isn't true. You can't assail them on any one statement because taken piecewise everything is true.
I found it here. I assume the cheese heads maintaining that wiki have reasonably up to date figures.
For instance, transcoding a CD to MP3 is not legal in AU.
It's not legal in the US either. The AHRA which allows single copies of digital media to be made requires the implementation of serial copy management to enforce that rule. The no copy flags on CDs are ignored by computer burning software and MP3 has no support for copy restrictions so transcoding without permission is a copyright violation. Only Canada is permissive enough to allow unfettered copying on the pretext that a "license" is paid for through the writable media levy.
Most modern cheeses still use animal rennet.
It depends on how strict your country is on the definition of "cheese". In the EU it's more common because of protectionist policies. The world supply of rennet is too low, however, to meet the demand for cheese so most cheeses are curdled with synthetic rennet or alternative coagulants. Currently only 35% of world cheese production uses animal rennet.
You can easily get a 32-bit processor running at 50-100MHz on current low end parts. Linux runs perfectly well at such speeds. A modern compositing Xorg desktop will likely be bog slow but a console will run just fine. These aren't supposed to be used as general purpose desktop replacements.
IBM has cut back heavily on blue sky R&D. Everything done in the last 10 years or so has been required to have some business case to get funding. If anything, I think MS research is the last institution where people can be fully employed doing whatever interests them.
How is the chip open source if you need a multi-billion dollar plant to make computer processors of any kind?
It is implemented in a hardware description language. You can target the logic towards an ASIC OR you can synthesize it into an FPGA. In ASIC-land the development tools cost mega bucks but the nice thing is that the major FPGA vendors provide their tool suites for free with some reduced functionality that is largely inconsequential to hobbyist users.
You can grab off the shelf FPGAs these days for $5 with sufficient resources to implement a variety microprocessors and whatever custom logic you need. These can range from tiny 8-bit micros that can be replicated hundreds or thousands of times in a single device to more sophisticated 32-bit processors. Every major processor architecture has open source clones available. They are commonly used in places underserved by the commercial industry like the freely available Sparc clone, Leon, which is used for rad hardened FPGAs in space applications.
So you need a dataset for your "automated facial recognition" experiments. Do you:
A) Go to YouTube and collect videos from the millions of talking heads freely available for the taking.
or B) Illegally hack into the private communications of others for the sake of your "experiment".
I smell more than a little BS coming from Minitrue here.
Exactly. Joe Manchin could have cared less about Bitcoin last month. Now he has an easy way to demonstrate how hard he's working to serve the people of WV.
How can someone who performed in a work-for-hire claim copyright? They own nothing other than the cash they were paid for their services.
Rather than Streisand herself she should just change her name. It sucks to have to do so but that's her only recourse.
The female hostile tech work environment is largely a myth nowadays. I've heard atrocious war stories from older female engineers who were treated like secretaries at former employers... and then they proclaim how much better they are treated at their current job. I've also heard numerous women with no actual experience paint an unappealing picture of what they perceive to be the work environment in (non-bio) science and engineering.
The reality is that the majority of women just aren't as interested in doing that type of work, either due to social conditioning (Barbie: "Math is hard") or innate lack of interest. There have been decades of effort to promote women in STEM positions with no real results other than the biology related sciences. Is that the fault of men or it is just because women aren't interested no matter how much boostering is directed their way? Is it really that important to put so much effort to create an artificially level paying field? Nobody is complaining about the paucity of male elementary school teachers. Why aren't there alarmists crying over that?
In my experience, the technical women are treated fairly and the negative image is just an outdated stereotype perpetuated by women themselves. I'm sure there is still a level of unfair bias and inappropriate behavior but from my observation the modern male tech worker is the most welcoming to women compared to other fields. I can't enumerate all the times I've heard inappropriate comments come from female coworkers that any male compatriot would not dare say for fear of going to a reeducation camp.
The excess female graduates from 2001-2 were the ones at the tail end of the pipeline following the .com boom to become HTML programmers just like the excess men from that time frame. Once they got their degree they had to face the cold reality of a job environment that they didn't have the capacity to work in.
The push for critical thinking in education is an application of social engineering to mold a population of people that question what they are told. It isn't an outdated parochial model but rather an important part of having a functioning democracy. Before the advent of modern education this was done by having students learn Greek, Latin, and logic. For most people these were and are largely useless skills in their own right but still valuable in their secondary effects on the application of knowledge.
Not for EEs who are currently at 6.5% unemployment when 1.5% is the historical trend. Also, the official unemployment figures are lower than the real number since the government can't accurately track these people.
It's more comfortable because you have less weight bearing on the saddle. With a sufficiently high cadence your legs will support most of your upper body so your arms aren't as burdened as you might suspect. With the sit up and beg riding position your leg muscles are not configured to bear the bulk of your weight on the pedals.
I ride a road bike with my hands on the drops 99.9% of the time and it is not tiring unless I ride with slow people who prevent me from using a high enough cadence to support my upper body. I have a sport touring motorcycle with less forward lean that is more fatiguing in the arms because of the lack of pedaling.
Two reasons: One is that the target user base are people who want an assistive utility bike or are too out of shape to ride at a safe speed in traffic. The people who buy these are pedal mashers who want as little effort as possible to make the bike go.
The other reason is that E-bikes are legally restricted to 20-25 MPH which a competent road/racing cyclist can exceed with ease without the burden of carrying around a heavy motor and battery pack. It would be sweet to be able to do 35 MPH hill climbs without breaking a sweat on a road bike but that isn't going to happen in a commercial product.