Violence? Will this be a real problem compared to conventional muggings. If they get your wallet and credit cards, you're equally screwed. Of course there are easy solutions to the mugging problem, like issuing concealed handgun licenses to anyone who meets certain qualification (like we do in Texas), or just carry a bogus card in your other pocket (for those who live in NYC).
This will destroy any possible resale value, but it will make sure that NO data can be recovered.
Find a suitable outdoor rifle range. Place the hard drive on the 100 yd. berm. Shoot the hard drive at least 10 times using a suitable high powered rifle. (An AR-15 is well suited to this activity.)
This will insure that no data will ever be recovered from any part of the hard drive. It's also great stress relief.
Can they make one that will retract into the desk if it detects that its user is really, really pissed off? This could save on some equipment repair costs at my company.
Screw the Three Laws of Robotics! I'm not buying one until I can get a lethal force option.
So, what are YOU going to do about it?
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Ok, so things may not be as rosy as they were four years ago. Some people may be out of work. Some of us who were going to retire at 40 may have to wait until they're 50 or 60.
Why should we retire anyway? I find my working life fulfilling and enjoyable, and intend to do it as long as I still enjoy it. Nobody in my family has ever truly retired, so that's not really what I'm looking forward to from life.
As for the lack of opportunity, make your own. I'm holding down a good job right now, making plans for my own business, and have just started writing a book. Even if I lose my job tomorrow, I am determined that I will land on my feet.
If you want opportunity, don't wait around for it, make it! If we really are the best educated generation in history, then let's use that brainpower to build a better world, not gripe about how things aren't so great right now.
Who's going to write a piece of software like that, and what would the requirements be?
First, you'd have to have a piece of software which can automate design processes. But it will have a lousy interface, makes no sense to the average user, requires at least four engineers and three IT guys to keep it running, and constantly gives wrong or incomprehensible output.
Oh, wait. We already have software like that. It's called Synopsis Physical Compiler.
Why not use an algorithm like this in a system that can improvise to work around system faults. If a system is built with enough extra circuitry, it could use an algorithm like this to deal with any failures it has to its subsystems.
Just imagine the possibilities for homeland security. We can broadcast the terror warnings and all of GWB and Tom Ridge's speeches to every citizen. Oh, and we can track your locations too.
It seems that none of you actually got through the first chapter of Lomborg's book. If you had, you would probably realize that his ideas are the middle ground. He puts forth three basic premises. 1) Things are not as good as they could be. 2) Things are not as bad as most of the environmentalists say they are. 3) A careful analysis of the data shows that in many respects, things are getting better, not worse.
I would recommend this book to anyone on either side of the argument. It does show a lot of effort to collect data from a variety of sources, and to make sense of the long term trends in the environment.
I know that in particle physics, you can find several binary relationships, (particle/anti-particle, left spin/right spin, etc.) but in the macroscopic world, things seem just a little bit too analog. Systems like weather, planetary motion, and biological systems seem like they would be hard to reduce to a series of bits, and are best represented by continuous functions. I'm sure such reductions could be done, but it seems philosophically unappealing.
I think that they should be allowed to patent the annoying things, and then they need to set a licensing fee of no less than $10,000 per ad. Maybe we can get rid of them that way.
As far as I know the slide lock on a pistol is what holds the slide open after a last round is fired. I haven't seen the pistol you're describing with a feature to hold the slide closed. Although it would make sense when using a supressor.
There is also a technique taught in some self defense classes for zero distance shooting where you hold the top of the slide with the palm of your hand. You don't put your thumb behind the slide, but the pressure of your palm will keep the slide from cycling. The reason you would do this is to keep the pistol from sliding out of battery when you put the muzzle against the target.
Some jobs are great, while others are down right awful. However, no matter how great your job is, there're going to be bad days, and some aspects of the job that you don't like.
I'm pretty happy with my current job. There are some people and situations that I have trouble with, but I've decided that I can cope with them because I enjoy what I'm doing.
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4. Verification of Large SOC designs
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Violence? Will this be a real problem compared to conventional muggings. If they get your wallet and credit cards, you're equally screwed. Of course there are easy solutions to the mugging problem, like issuing concealed handgun licenses to anyone who meets certain qualification (like we do in Texas), or just carry a bogus card in your other pocket (for those who live in NYC).
Isn't that basically going from one flavor of Unix to another flavor of Unix? How then does he consider this to be the death knell of Unix?
Okay, maybe I'm out of the loop on this completely, but how many people reading this story have actually heard of Joltage? I haven't before today.
You're probably right about this. I think they're just trying to make sure the captain can still issue orders while he's in the head.
This will destroy any possible resale value, but it will make sure that NO data can be recovered.
Find a suitable outdoor rifle range. Place the hard drive on the 100 yd. berm. Shoot the hard drive at least 10 times using a suitable high powered rifle. (An AR-15 is well suited to this activity.)
This will insure that no data will ever be recovered from any part of the hard drive. It's also great stress relief.
How about one that senses your girlfriends moods, and reports them to you?
Can they make one that will retract into the desk if it detects that its user is really, really pissed off? This could save on some equipment repair costs at my company.
Screw the Three Laws of Robotics! I'm not buying one until I can get a lethal force option.
Ok, so things may not be as rosy as they were four years ago. Some people may be out of work. Some of us who were going to retire at 40 may have to wait until they're 50 or 60.
Why should we retire anyway? I find my working life fulfilling and enjoyable, and intend to do it as long as I still enjoy it. Nobody in my family has ever truly retired, so that's not really what I'm looking forward to from life.
As for the lack of opportunity, make your own. I'm holding down a good job right now, making plans for my own business, and have just started writing a book. Even if I lose my job tomorrow, I am determined that I will land on my feet.
If you want opportunity, don't wait around for it, make it! If we really are the best educated generation in history, then let's use that brainpower to build a better world, not gripe about how things aren't so great right now.
Now get off your asses and get to work!
Who's going to write a piece of software like that, and what would the requirements be?
First, you'd have to have a piece of software which can automate design processes. But it will have a lousy interface, makes no sense to the average user, requires at least four engineers and three IT guys to keep it running, and constantly gives wrong or incomprehensible output.
Oh, wait. We already have software like that. It's called Synopsis Physical Compiler.
Why not use an algorithm like this in a system that can improvise to work around system faults. If a system is built with enough extra circuitry, it could use an algorithm like this to deal with any failures it has to its subsystems.
It still won't help their football team.
How are you supposed to charge the battery on this thing. Do I have to run an electrical cord to my mouth at night?
Just imagine the possibilities for homeland security. We can broadcast the terror warnings and all of GWB and Tom Ridge's speeches to every citizen. Oh, and we can track your locations too.
So does this mean that Greenpeace will be protesting against God for using nuclear power as part of the Earth's energy system?
It seems that none of you actually got through the first chapter of Lomborg's book. If you had, you would probably realize that his ideas are the middle ground. He puts forth three basic premises. 1) Things are not as good as they could be. 2) Things are not as bad as most of the environmentalists say they are. 3) A careful analysis of the data shows that in many respects, things are getting better, not worse.
I would recommend this book to anyone on either side of the argument. It does show a lot of effort to collect data from a variety of sources, and to make sense of the long term trends in the environment.
Just do what most corporations do. We have three or four Sysadmins who all know the root password.
Of course this leads to some other interesting policies. One company I worked for wouldn't even let them ride in the same vehicle.
I know that in particle physics, you can find several binary relationships, (particle/anti-particle, left spin/right spin, etc.) but in the macroscopic world, things seem just a little bit too analog. Systems like weather, planetary motion, and biological systems seem like they would be hard to reduce to a series of bits, and are best represented by continuous functions. I'm sure such reductions could be done, but it seems philosophically unappealing.
I don't know about the other suggestions, but I wouldn't mind seeing a Yoda vs. Luke Skywalker sparring match with lightsabers.
Any other ideas for what to do with a CGI Yoda?
And that would have been a great way to get rid of bin Laden.
I think that they should be allowed to patent the annoying things, and then they need to set a licensing fee of no less than $10,000 per ad. Maybe we can get rid of them that way.
I'm not calling in sick on the 16th, but I work at a high tech company, so someone probably will. I'll let you know then how empty our parking lot is.
As far as I know the slide lock on a pistol is what holds the slide open after a last round is fired. I haven't seen the pistol you're describing with a feature to hold the slide closed. Although it would make sense when using a supressor.
There is also a technique taught in some self defense classes for zero distance shooting where you hold the top of the slide with the palm of your hand. You don't put your thumb behind the slide, but the pressure of your palm will keep the slide from cycling. The reason you would do this is to keep the pistol from sliding out of battery when you put the muzzle against the target.
Some jobs are great, while others are down right awful. However, no matter how great your job is, there're going to be bad days, and some aspects of the job that you don't like.
I'm pretty happy with my current job. There are some people and situations that I have trouble with, but I've decided that I can cope with them because I enjoy what I'm doing.
1. Large SOC design: a guide for project managers
2. Embedded systems using ARM processors
3. Embedded systems using Linux
4. Verification of Large SOC designs
5. Synthesis of large digital designs.