Funny, that's not what the homeopathy literature that I've seen distributed says, especially since most of it was claiming to cure or relieve various conditions that you have. Preventative treatment needs to be done before you acquire said medical issues, not afterwards.
The US military is about saving lives by being ready to fight anyone trying to take US lives. You can complain about the political shitheads that give them their orders all you want, but the US military personnel all signed up to protect Americans. Dissing them is like badmouthing the older older brother that's keeping the high school bullies from kicking your ass at grade school.
Besides, you are off-topic. As to the military satellites, you know the military isn't going to give away their capabilities, even if it does mean a crashed plane won't be found. On the other hand, it's not as perfect as Hollywood would have you believe, and it's mostly pointed at places of interest, like foreign countries ports and bases, not the middle of the freaking ocean. Odds that the military have a pic that would help are slightly above zero, but not by much.
Add streaming data to satellites, wonderful. However, getting rid of the black boxes would be really dumb. In case you hadn't noticed, there are plenty of things that can disrupt satellite communications, including solar flares, and just plain normal storms. To have a recorded record of when shit really hits the fan is of a value beyond reasonable measurements for finding out what happened so you can take steps to prevent it occurring again. After all, it's not one or the other, you actually an have both.
The battery was probably working, but it no longer had the same capacity it should have. If so, then when the drain increased due to additional activity, like having to ping or something, it died far quicker than it should have.
Did a battery issue in the black box cause the crash? No way. Does a maintenance error of something basic like that indicate the possibility that there could be other far more serious issues? Emphatically yes.
I read some ancient American sci-fi from the 30s and 40s, and you'd be amazed at what ideas they cover. I apologize for not being able to remember the names of any of them right now, but one story springs to mind rather easily. A guy ends up going to the future (don't worry about how) from the when the author wrote the story. It's about the characters experiences in the imagined future. In it, everyone was rather well off as your income was essentially a production dividend from the government. As one character put it, the populace is so productive the government is always looking for new and expensive projects to spend money on, they have too much and have to use it.
I know some people will freak out over that for various reason, but the idea is sound, even if it would never work with humans the way they are, just like any utopian ideal. However, one of the points on it is based on economics. Saving or hoarding money, especially by the government, just locks up potential resources for no good reason. If it is spent, it is in circulation and helps the entire economy. Anyone who has taken sufficient economics knows that the value of stashed cash is virtually zero to an economy, and can easily become a negative, while money in circulation is powerful.
Honestly, other than Liu Cixin being heavily influenced by his countrys political propaganda (all countries have that to varying degrees) I don't really seen any new ideas in his works, just variations. Still, I wish him success in his writing career.
If you want to read some other stuff that is eerily similar to his on occasion, hit up some of the old Soviet sci-fi.
Some gear has something called a chemical battery. A chemical battery is a one use short duration power supply. I've never heard of one being used in a satellite, but the military doesn't give out specs on their satellites, which conceivably might have a need for such a resource.
Too late, the military was publicly talking about doing something like that years ago with one making metallic parts for vehicles in the field. This definitely does not reach the threshold of being non-obvious to someone versed in the field.
From a review I saw a while ago, it's still faster than if you didn't have the last.5mb since otherwise it would have to pull it off the system memory and that's even slower.
Telling marketing to "put some lipstick on the Pig" is kind of pointless as they've already done that, and body shimmer, and stuffed it into a slinky red mini-dress. (Don't ever ask anyone in tech support what they honestly think about the marketing people.)
Considering they got a judge to rule that "news" can be non-factual, aka shit they just made up for ratings, they'll just label it "news".
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Alright sir, I see you are here to defend patent XJ82934952H28354. Why isn't the inventor here? > It is judge, I have it running on my smartphone. Really? Let's see, name Random Global Search And Replace Thesaurus Based Script Bot For Patents. That's a rather long name for a person, as well as a rather odd one. What were your parents named Mr Patents? > I'm sorry judge, but it doesn't have patents, it's a piece of software. Software? So you mean it's one of those AI thingies? A sentient machine like C3PO? Able think, imagine, and create new ideas? >Ummm... Not as such. It just changes words with other synonyms and sometimes reorders the steps in a sequence of steps. So let me get this straight. You patented someone elses work, after making minor modifications to it with something that has no more creativity or understanding than throwing random words into a jumble and expect to invent this despite patent laws requirement for it to be something that an expert in the field would not find obvious and yet "running an app" is something that anyone can do, even my two year old daughter that can't read, and absolutely in no way reaches that simple, though often argued over, benchmark? >I, uh, wouldn't put it that way your honor... Well I did. Patent revoked. In fact, all "patents" submitted that are creations of that stupid script are hereby revoked, and don't try it again or I'm going to throw the book at you for wasting everyones time you stupid little troll! . (Ok, I'd expect everything after the word "revoked" would just be in the judges head, but the thought counts, right?):)
You can download "On the origin of species" by Charles Darwin for free from many different places. That sucker was published in 1859 and not even Mickey Mouse can keep it out of the public domain.
Perhaps, but with the increased production of lower fat hamburger, the cows are getting skinnier. (Maybe that's just skinny, they were just fattened cows before.)
Easy, this is Slashdot. If the guys in charge think it's interesting, it's here. You knew that when you hit the site the first day so stop bitching. Thanks.:)
If there's shit in literature, it was created by the writer. The editor is just there to try and clean some of that shit up. A good editor can make it clean, a great one can make it shine, but there's only so much you can do if it's already a pile of shit.
Of course, here's a biggie, they haven't provided any "proof" of their claims yet. They may be pulling a SCO, and merely making unsubstantiated claims to fuel an ultimately futile and unfounded lawsuit in an attempt to make money.
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Funny, that's not what the homeopathy literature that I've seen distributed says, especially since most of it was claiming to cure or relieve various conditions that you have. Preventative treatment needs to be done before you acquire said medical issues, not afterwards.
I remember one that required 5 years experience on a particular software package. Too bad it had only been available for 2 years at that point.
The US military is about saving lives by being ready to fight anyone trying to take US lives.
You can complain about the political shitheads that give them their orders all you want, but the US military personnel all signed up to protect Americans.
Dissing them is like badmouthing the older older brother that's keeping the high school bullies from kicking your ass at grade school.
Besides, you are off-topic.
As to the military satellites, you know the military isn't going to give away their capabilities, even if it does mean a crashed plane won't be found. On the other hand, it's not as perfect as Hollywood would have you believe, and it's mostly pointed at places of interest, like foreign countries ports and bases, not the middle of the freaking ocean. Odds that the military have a pic that would help are slightly above zero, but not by much.
Add streaming data to satellites, wonderful.
However, getting rid of the black boxes would be really dumb.
In case you hadn't noticed, there are plenty of things that can disrupt satellite communications, including solar flares, and just plain normal storms. To have a recorded record of when shit really hits the fan is of a value beyond reasonable measurements for finding out what happened so you can take steps to prevent it occurring again.
After all, it's not one or the other, you actually an have both.
The battery was probably working, but it no longer had the same capacity it should have. If so, then when the drain increased due to additional activity, like having to ping or something, it died far quicker than it should have.
Did a battery issue in the black box cause the crash? No way.
Does a maintenance error of something basic like that indicate the possibility that there could be other far more serious issues? Emphatically yes.
I read some ancient American sci-fi from the 30s and 40s, and you'd be amazed at what ideas they cover.
I apologize for not being able to remember the names of any of them right now, but one story springs to mind rather easily.
A guy ends up going to the future (don't worry about how) from the when the author wrote the story. It's about the characters experiences in the imagined future.
In it, everyone was rather well off as your income was essentially a production dividend from the government. As one character put it, the populace is so productive the government is always looking for new and expensive projects to spend money on, they have too much and have to use it.
I know some people will freak out over that for various reason, but the idea is sound, even if it would never work with humans the way they are, just like any utopian ideal. However, one of the points on it is based on economics. Saving or hoarding money, especially by the government, just locks up potential resources for no good reason. If it is spent, it is in circulation and helps the entire economy. Anyone who has taken sufficient economics knows that the value of stashed cash is virtually zero to an economy, and can easily become a negative, while money in circulation is powerful.
Honestly, other than Liu Cixin being heavily influenced by his countrys political propaganda (all countries have that to varying degrees) I don't really seen any new ideas in his works, just variations. Still, I wish him success in his writing career.
If you want to read some other stuff that is eerily similar to his on occasion, hit up some of the old Soviet sci-fi.
Some gear has something called a chemical battery.
A chemical battery is a one use short duration power supply.
I've never heard of one being used in a satellite, but the military doesn't give out specs on their satellites, which conceivably might have a need for such a resource.
Too late, the military was publicly talking about doing something like that years ago with one making metallic parts for vehicles in the field.
This definitely does not reach the threshold of being non-obvious to someone versed in the field.
So those intending criminal activities will just find a way around it. I wonder if there is an ulterior motive for collecting all those fingerprints.
After all, who's going to arrest the cops?
There's a guy in jail for armed robbery who was unarmed. It's now possible to get convicted based on the belief of the victim instead of the facts. :(
sorry, .5gb, got distracted and typed the wrong thing.
From a review I saw a while ago, it's still faster than if you didn't have the last .5mb since otherwise it would have to pull it off the system memory and that's even slower.
Telling marketing to "put some lipstick on the Pig" is kind of pointless as they've already done that, and body shimmer, and stuffed it into a slinky red mini-dress.
(Don't ever ask anyone in tech support what they honestly think about the marketing people.)
That's ok, the linux fanboys got more wedgies.
From the looks on their faces, I'd say some of them actually liked it.
Sure, it's not free, but the potential profit for patent trolling is enormous and the fees in no way hinders them from abusing the process.
Considering they got a judge to rule that "news" can be non-factual, aka shit they just made up for ratings, they'll just label it "news".
Alright sir, I see you are here to defend patent XJ82934952H28354. Why isn't the inventor here? :)
> It is judge, I have it running on my smartphone.
Really? Let's see, name Random Global Search And Replace Thesaurus Based Script Bot For Patents. That's a rather long name for a person, as well as a rather odd one. What were your parents named Mr Patents?
> I'm sorry judge, but it doesn't have patents, it's a piece of software.
Software? So you mean it's one of those AI thingies? A sentient machine like C3PO? Able think, imagine, and create new ideas?
>Ummm... Not as such. It just changes words with other synonyms and sometimes reorders the steps in a sequence of steps.
So let me get this straight. You patented someone elses work, after making minor modifications to it with something that has no more creativity or understanding than throwing random words into a jumble and expect to invent this despite patent laws requirement for it to be something that an expert in the field would not find obvious and yet "running an app" is something that anyone can do, even my two year old daughter that can't read, and absolutely in no way reaches that simple, though often argued over, benchmark?
>I, uh, wouldn't put it that way your honor...
Well I did. Patent revoked. In fact, all "patents" submitted that are creations of that stupid script are hereby revoked, and don't try it again or I'm going to throw the book at you for wasting everyones time you stupid little troll!
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(Ok, I'd expect everything after the word "revoked" would just be in the judges head, but the thought counts, right?)
You can download "On the origin of species" by Charles Darwin for free from many different places.
That sucker was published in 1859 and not even Mickey Mouse can keep it out of the public domain.
Unless maybe you are capable of parthenogentic reproduction, something mammals seem to be incapable of.
Perhaps, but with the increased production of lower fat hamburger, the cows are getting skinnier. (Maybe that's just skinny, they were just fattened cows before.)
Easy, this is Slashdot. If the guys in charge think it's interesting, it's here. :)
You knew that when you hit the site the first day so stop bitching.
Thanks.
If there's shit in literature, it was created by the writer.
The editor is just there to try and clean some of that shit up.
A good editor can make it clean, a great one can make it shine, but there's only so much you can do if it's already a pile of shit.
stupid (L)users.
Of course, here's a biggie, they haven't provided any "proof" of their claims yet.
They may be pulling a SCO, and merely making unsubstantiated claims to fuel an ultimately futile and unfounded lawsuit in an attempt to make money.