Startup rocket company Space Exploration Technologies, which flies NASA cargo to the International Space Station, has landed its first launch contracts for the U.S. military, the company said on Wednesday.
The U.S. Air Force will pay $97 million for a Falcon 9 rocket to launch in 2014 the Deep Space Climate Observatory, a solar telescope that will be operated by NASA. It will also pay $165 million for a Falcon Heavy rocket for the military's Space Test Program-2 satellite, which is expected to fly in 2015.
If you get back on your medication the voices won't bother you so much. All those people who are out to get you will not seem so threatening, and the hidden messages ont TV that only you can understand will not be broadcast any more.
"I am the senator. You are the citizen. You need to be quiet."
-- North Carolina State Senator Tommy Tucker (R), quoted by the Raleigh News and Observer, to Goldsboro News-Argus publisher Hal Tanner who was opposing legislation to change public notice requirements for local government.
Change blindness, called choice blindness here, is a psychological phenomena that can occur in almost any context. Putting it in the political realm and claiming that it shows something meaningful is stupid. You could do the same thing with food on a plate, and it would not prove anything about taste.
In the Luis Buñuel film That Obscure Object of Desire two actress play the same role. They don't look very much alike, and there is no logic behind which actress appears in which scene. Many people see the film, and if no one points this out they don't notice anything is strange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Obscure_Object_of_Desire
The phenomena is interesting in and of itself, but this is clearly not research, but a stunt to get publicity.
I'm sure this will catch on, but my cynical self knows it's almost complete bullshit.
It's a case of the Golden Child vs. the Goat. I've seen this stupidity in action for decades.
Take two coders of roughly the same skill. One has flash and a high reputation, the other is plain spoken and just says what works and what doesn't. Management gives them both a task that has an unexpected issue and delivery is delayed. When the Golden Child has trouble management goes "that was much harder then we thought, lucky we had our ace working on it, or things would have have been much worse." When The Goat is late it's "so-and-so is just average, it's not a surprise they can't get the job done in time."
Now add in the cost and visibility of the 10x or 25x parachute in super coder who is so extra special they have an agent!!! No matter what happen management is going to conclude that they made a good investment in the high priced person. If they say otherwise then it would reflect badly on them. Any internal dissent by existing staff will be seen as sour grapes/incompetence. If there is a failure it will be laid at the feet of anyone but the Golden Child. No manager is ever going to admit they made that kind of mistake.
I wish I had understood this better earlier in my career. I could be sitting on my yacht right now if I had understood how much you can get for the right kind of hype.
It's one or the other. As long as he is in charge they will continue to make bonehead moves..
Windows 8 is a tribute Android/IOS envy. They have a culture arising from Balmer that is fixated on Jobs and Google, and they can't really compete with either.
Gates, Allen, Myhrvold and others realized it was time to move on. They knew they could accomplish things after Microsoft. Balmer knows he was just lucky, and if he tries to do something else it will flop. He has a stranglehold on the company, and he would rather run it into the ground rather then give up his power base.
That's why I posted a link to the patent application. In theory, if you post on Slashdot you should be smart enough to follow the link and be able to figure this out yourself.
Here's an overview from the patent:
The systems and methods described herein include in an example embodiment an electromechanical micro-assembler, described below, to fabricate a micro-assembly from a set of one or more micro-objects. An example fabrication process includes the following basic steps:1) encoding each micro-object with a charge that identifies the micro-object and specifies its orientation; 2) transporting the micro-objects from a sorting unit (that acts as a reservoir) to an imaging device using a dynamic electrostatic field; 3) writing an electrostatic image onto a substrate using an xerographic imaging unit; 4) delivering and interfacing the micro-objects to the substrate; and 5) performing post-processing of the micro-objects and the substrate form the final micro-assembly.
They put a structured electrostatic charge on each chiplet using xerographic technology. They put opposite matching charge on the substrate, also using xerography. The mechanism coveys the chiplet to the target position on the substrate, where electrostatic forces move the chiplet to it's final position. They then fix the chiplet to the substrate.
I know that not everyone who looks at stuff here is an uber-geek, but at least try and find things out for yourself. You'll learn more in the long run.
It has the same components as a traditional Xerox machine. There is a drum that rotates and their positioning technology put the chiplets in precise locations on the substrate. The chiplets are in a fluid that acts like toner.
It appears that the performance depends on how fast the substrate conducts signals. At this point it seems unlikely that this is as fast as an on chip connection, but there seems to be no intrinsic reason that it would be any slower then the wires that hook a chip pad to a package pin. In aggregate the speed might be faster then a circuit board because the chiplits could be closer together then chips on a board.
One possible deployment would be to use this to assemble components which are then packaged in a standard IC. It's like an SOIC, except the parts are not all on one piece of silicon.
There are potential economies of scale. With an inventory of chiplets, and automation to make the interconnect substrate with CAD, a custom assembly line can create vast numbers of different configurations and not have to include a foundry in the loop.
Despite all the naysayers that have already posted, this is a potentially game changing technology.
Wow, so the universe does revolve around what you think is the proper way to do things. I wondered who was in charge, and it's nice that you've let mere mortals in on the secret.
I assume that you've never seen a red light stopping your progress, you've never got stuck in a traffic jam, they always have you size when you go shopping, you're never late, no one has ever kept you waiting, and your shit doesn't stink.
Grow up, you puerile fool. Your opinion has all the gravitas of a fart.
It was confirmed by Tepco to have amounts of radioactive cesium equal to 254,000 becquerels per kilogram, or 2540 times the limit of 100 becquerels/kg set for seafood by the government.
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On 21 August last year, Tepco announced that rockfish caught in the Pacific Ocean within the circular area of 20 km around the plant, which is closed to all human activity, had a level of 25,800 becquerels of cesium per kilogram .
It's painfully obvious that this is caused by ongoing leakage of radioactive water from the plant. In contrast, there has be a reduction in radiatons levels on land http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201303120107. It's unlikely that biological concentration in the food chain is the primary cause after two years of radiation decay and sea water dilution.
If you don't trust the Japanese government, this would explain why they are prohibiting non-government organizations from sampling the ocean near the plant location. They say it's still too dangerous.
The motivation for a coverup is that ongoing radioactive ocean contamination would be a huge international incident. China, Korea, Taiwan, Viet Nam, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines would all protest. There would be reputational repercussions, diplomatic turmoil and possibly economic sanctions. There is still a lot of hostility in the region from WW2, and this would be just the issue to reopen those wounds. Not to mention current rivalry over ocean areas that have China, Tiawan and Japan sending naval vessels to tiny islands with disputed ownership.
The Republican Party spouts "Hate Speech" continuously.
Priebus accuses Democrats of supporting infanticide
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus took a break from rebranding the Republican party to accuse Democrats of supporting infanticide.
He writes on Red State: "The President, the Senate Majority Leader, the House Democratic Leader, and the Chair of the Democratic National Committee (in whose home state this hearing occurred) made funding Planned Parenthood an issue in the 2012 campaign. They should now all be held to account for that outspoken support. If the media won't, then voters must ask the pressing questions: Do these Democrats also believe a newborn has no rights? Do they also endorse infanticide?"
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) linked his opposition to any gun control legislation to gay marriage and bestiality on a conference call, a recording of which was obtained by Right Wing Watch.
Said Gohmert: "In fact, I had this discussion with some wonderful, caring Democrats earlier this week on the issue of, well, they said "surely you could agree to limit the number of rounds in a magazine, couldn't you? How would that be problematic?"
"And I pointed out, well, once you make it ten, then why would you draw the line at ten? What's wrong with nine? Or eleven? And the problem is once you draw that limit ; it's kind of like marriage when you say it's not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?"
Both of these were just in the last week, by a current member of the House, and the head of the Republican National Committee. These aren't some fringe types yelling from the sidelines, they are mainstream and one is in a national leadership position. This kind of stupid crap is being said by mainstream Republican officials every day. It's so common that it takes a particularly inspired bout of vile accusations to even get reported.
An before you try and justify this slanderous shit by claiming that the Democrats do the same thing: No they don't. No serving Democratic official says anything like this. Note that these are actual quotes from the individuals, not some perverse made up fantasy on Fox News, or as it should be called Fox Pravda
So I'm going to look into this project, and I may contribute some examples like this. It's not like I would have any trouble finding material.
Keynes was not the first by any means. Marx also observed how society is influenced by the rich and powerful so that they benefit at the expense of the "masses".
Marx was a pretty good observer, but he was horribly wrong when it came to effecting change. After the demise of Marxism, ideologues on the right effectively rewrote history so no one would question the intrinsic failings of predatory capitalism. They falsely claimed that since the left was defeated capitalism had no flaws.
In the US, the regulation of business that started with Teddy Roosevelt, and was extended after the Great Depression, was dismantled starting with Ronald Regan. From the end of WW2 until the mid 1980's the US economic system benefited all levels of society.
Since then we've evolved into a system that transfers wealth from the vast bulk of the population to the ultra wealthy. It's not the 99% vs the 1%, it's the 99.998% vs the 0.002%. Our economic and political life revolves around the fractional billionaires. If your net worth is $100 million or more (i.e. $0.1 Billion plus) then you have an effective guarantee of unlimited future wealth for you and your decedents.
This is exactly the scenario that Marx observed at the end of the 19th century. H.G. Wells saw it as the Eloi vs. the Morlocks. In Fritz Lang's Metropolis there are the owners vs the dehumanized workers.
If the current trend continues then the US will become like the rest of the Western hemisphere. (Sorry Canada, you fate is not in your own hands.) We will oscillate between repressive inefficient right wing governments and repressive inefficient left wing governments. A choice between Argentina's Pinochet and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Imagin Orwell's 1984 as a popular weekly TV show, or A Clockwork Orange, to continue the literary references.
This opens an opportunity for corporations to fund this research and eventually monetize it. According to TFA, they can induce addictive behavior in previously unaddicted rats with the combination of rhodopsins and lasers. All they have to do is extend the technique to work with television illumination. Then they can load up processed food with the rhodopsin and get viewers addicted to anything they put in their mouths.
Think about nicotine style consumer addition on things that are normal and legal. Genus! They can move beyond the current list of salt, sugar and fat without have to bother with laws against opiates or stimulants. If you consider how much drug companies are raking in with "legal" oxycontin/oxycodone, other market segments would go crazy for that kind of "customer loyalty".
It wouldn't be a stretch to see soft drink makers use this to bring consumers back to sugar laden beverages. Sales have been dropping, and this could reverse the trend. Corporate manipulation at it's finest. The US is wonderland if you can use "campaign contributions" and PACs to keep those pesky regulators out of your hair.
Maybe there could be a following for this in the US. Right wingers could play to loose, and fulfill their fantasies about blotting Castro's Cuba out of history. Plus, if they can get it for free on the web, they could feel like they're ripping off Cuba.
I wonder if it has DRM? Is it FOSS? What does that mean in a socialist state?
Maybe the Cubans could give the game platform to Viet Nam, and they could come up with a plotline where you follow Ho Chi Min to his defeat of the imperialist US invaders. There's jungles and tropical climate in both situations, right.
In China, they could have the Long March MMOG.
On a somewhat more serious note, this is somewhat an exercise in jumping the shark. If you're at the point where you promote your history/ideology by turning it into a video game, it's ceased to be current experience, and has moved into the realm of cultural myths.
In the US, the number of people who have combat experience is dwarfed by the the ranks of the FPS gamers. The real experience of war has been eclipsed by the glamorized painless video version. It's likely that the sanitized version has displaced reality in the minds of a lot of people. This can't be a good thing.
One conditioned response to pervasive electronic stimulation is a shallow attention span. There has been some published research in this area, but I can't find it right now,
Attention span is the ability to concentrate on a subject for an extended period of time. If you are only able to concentrate when there is continuous external stimulation, it's shallow concentration. This is the difference between reading a book and playing a first person shooter video game. In the video game you are continually reacting. Reading requires mentally retaining the subject matter as you read, and relating what you are reading now to previous material. One is externally organized, the other is internally organized.
Obviously, it's possible to read an ebook on a smart phone, so the device itself is not intrinsically in one mode or the other. This is why so many of the previous posts point to creative activity enabled by electronics.
Having the ability to maintain internal concentration is a learned skill. The problem with pervasive electronics is that chronic users substitute external stimulation for internal concentration. They don't know how to concentrate on their own.
This is ultimately a deficit. It's why people do really stupid things like texting while driving. There are some activities that demand a high degree of internal concentration, like doing mathematics, coding, or surgery. I guarantee that you don't want someone cutting you open who suddenly starts texting about the procedure, or a judge who is not paying attention to the trail proceeding because they are playing a game with the cellphone in their lap.
If this is true, the logical culprits are Iran along with their allies.
They have the animus and the motives. Iran is internally attempting to heavily censor/eliminate internet access. They are the target of network enabled attacks: Stuxnet. It would fit their profile to attack the same kind of international infrastructure, even if Stuxnet was injected by USB memory, not network connections.
The Assad regime is an ally of Iran, and has been receiving military aid. An attack on internet cables is an attack on the West, which is supporting the anti-Assad forces.
Reduced internet bandwidth could be seen as a way to decrease US force effectiveness in the region. Even if the US military has connectivity that is not directly impacted, it still makes things harder for Western interests.
If the three divers are terrorists, they will be associated with something like Hamas. Iran is too smart to have their nationals in a direct attack in another country, or in international waters. I would guess they are Egyptian/Gulf region nationals. Anyone but Iranians.
On the other hand, they could be three guys out diving for fun. The cable could be undamaged, or it could have been damaged in an accident unrelated to terrorism. Even if they are tried and convicted, they could still be innocent. A confession means nothing at all. Remember, the US has used torture to get confessions, and places like Egypt have a history of torture for political gain going back at least to WW One (yes, before WW 2).
If this is not picked up by the western press it is not likely to be actual terrorism. The west is so primed to see these types of events as the result of evil opponents, that even when accidental explosions occur the first reports always talk about terrorist connections.
The original post has it right, you have it wrong: mega-business has co-opted the government. Every real world example shows this pattern.
The bank bailout of 2008. Even though the banks failed the most basic rules of capitalism, there was no meaningful penalty for institutions or individuals. All the whining about Dodd-Frank regulation is crocodile tears. The big Wall Street firms have not changed in any way. They still engage in appallingly bad behavior because of unbridled greed. JPMorgan just got caught effectively breaking the new regulations and lost $6 billion as a result. There were still casino gambling, but they called it something else. The fallout: nothing. No legal or regulatory action. Dead silence after one day of hearings. Jamie Dimon just got a big vote of confidence from his board, and retains the titles of both CEO and Chairman. He was personally aware of what went on. Yes, at some point an underling will be thrown under the bus and go to jail, but the big crooks are untouched.
DCMA in general and this legislation in particular. It criminalizes the most innocuous actions so that business can crush anyone at any time. This is the government doing the bidding of mega corps.
Fracking. Ever increasing areas of the country are having their water supplies poisoned forever so that Big Oil can make more money. It's worse then Chernobyl or Fukushima, because radioactivity has a half life. Fracking is a irreversible change to geologic structure. It will take geologic time to recover. These are the same companies that were the most profitable businesses in the history of the world in the 2000 decade. They still get obscene tax brakes that go back to 1926.
Monsanto and GM crops. First they said the the manipulated genes would not get into non-GM crops. Then when it happened the courts ruled that the non-GM planing farmers could be sued for stealing their IP. So if GM crops are used in an area, either you plant a different crop, or are forced to use the GM seeds to avoid being sued. The Mafia is envious.
In addition: Big Pharma and Oxycontin. HDMI cables. EULA. "Clean Coal". Mandatory ethanol from corn. Increasing the number of 1-HB visas.
The constant feature is that big business can buy damn near any legislation they want. The government is the enforcement arm of corporations. In the real world the law goes to the highest bidder, and all the money and power resides in corporations. When you blame the government your corporate owners are delighted. They can keep right on going because their disinformation campaign is working perfectly. Any fix requires understanding who is in charge, and you have it completely wrong.
Yep, just as creative as Bezos's "One Click" patent. Perfect technology for a legal regime dominated by lawyers with patent examiners recruited from regions that have only horses, and people go to town to use the only telephone.
Just imagine how great it will be when Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, HP, IBM, etc get in a automated patent race where they each file millions of patents applications a month.
They'll just do to patents what they did to taxes; change the rules so that the more you file, the less you pay, and the big players make the government pick up the tab.
Why should intellectual property be any less corrupt then Wall Street? After all, big bank profits are derived from direct subsidies, so why should big tech have to pay for patents? They deserve to be on the corporate gravy train just as much as Goldman and JPMorgan.
Anything else would be unamerican. Don't you want to win the war on drugs, terrorism, the environment, free speech, privacy,...?
The track record of this type of technology has not been good. Ovonic device have never seen any significant deployment. They change state via an electric pulse that heats a cell and causes it to change between a crystalline and amorphous form. The cell holds the state without power consumption, and reading the value requires very little power.
The HP memristor is similar. The energy pulse moves oxygen ions in titanium dioxide which changes the conduction properties of the TiO2, which is a semiconductor. This has not hit the market so far either.
The IBM ionic liquid is even farther away from deployment. All they've shown is a phase change. They haven't even figured out how to do logic or non-volatile memory. It's interesting research, but nothing more so far.
Apple is a hardware company, and they are hugely successful.
All the other hulking giants, (Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Google) want that kind of reach. Even wannabe failing giants (Barns and Nobel) thought that hardware would be their salvation.
Hardware domination is, for want of a better word, hard. Even companies with good track records with hardware products like Nokia and Sony have failed. IBM has gotten out of the hardware business to a large extent, except for mainframes and supercomputing. HP is toast. Badly burnt toast. The MS Surface does not seem to have been that well received.
An Amazon purchase of Liquivista will not go well if history is any indication. But the smell of those big Apple style profits is irresistible for big corporations that want to get bigger. Greed is often the precursor to stupidity.
The best way to scare a potential manager is to have more experience then they do. It literally throws them into a panic.
Smart people want to work with people who are in the same league. Really smart people want to work with people who are smarter then they are. They figure some of it will rub off.
The typical manager in a US company is so insecure that they insist they are treated as the smartest person around. If you want to survive you need to work to keep that illusion in place. If you can't maintain this facade you won't last.
This often manifests itself as refusal to take criticism. The moment you disagree with management and you are correct you're doomed. Showing they're wrong is a way of committing job suicide.
I'm an expert as this. I have a lot of experience, and I can't keep from telling the truth. If something is bound to fail I end up saying so, and I never last.
Being good at your job is a detriment. What management really wants are dullards who do barely adequate work and put up with everything.
The federal judge hearing the case is a real piece of work. He is a former US Marine and LAPD police officer. He was appointed to the bench by first by Schwarzenegger and then by George W. Bush.
Here is a site where people can anonymously comment on their experiences in his court room. He gets a score of 2.5 out of 10. He has a few high ratings, and lots of one and two ratings: http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=1555
This is a rather articulate comment from the site:
Judge Wright, a jurist largely devoid of judicial, or "people" skills, is an equal opportunity abuser. Routinely arrogant and abrasive, he pontificates down at the lawyers unfortunate enough to have to appear before him. He rules with an iron fist, and a tin-foil mind. He has demonstrated beyond doubt that that he has a short fuse, a hair-trigger, and poor marksmanship (because he rarely manages to hit the right target) with his slings and arrows. What he does hit, however, he hits hard and hits mercilessly! He appears to delight in making lawyers come in for motion "hearings," which are nothing more than a 45 second diatribe by a judge who clearly has not read the papers or done his homework. If Charles Dickens were still alive and writing today, he would be hard-pressed not to create a judge-character based upon this bench-warmer. I also have no doubt that his % of cases reaching trial is very low, caused by parties who have either precipitously been thrown out of Court during motion practice, or by parties settling in a last-ditch effort to avoid the caprice, uncertainties, vagaries, and whims which a trial with Otis presiding portends. There should be a flashing red neon sign above his Courtroom door that warns lawyers, in Dantean terms: "All hope abandon ye who enter here."
I can't imagine a more appropriate court for Prenda Law. It will be a collision between out of control bottom of the barrel scum sucking lawyers and a judge who's legal background is inadequate and has a tendency to use the bench to crush anyone who appears before him. It's literally karma in action, with Biblical style thunderclaps and lightning. What could possibly go wrong?
The next step for the Belgrade physicists is to see how many of their new solutions are stable and will stay on track if perturbed a little. If some of the solutions are stable, then they might even be glimpsed in real life.
The authors are, in fact, smarter then you. They are well aware of this issue. RTFA. You just make yourself look stupid when you post the obvious.
Your argument is deliberately misleading. You are conflating scientists with science.
Individual scientists are often wrong. This is occasionally due to malfeasance, but more often it is just the state of the art. The truth is not always completely self evident and often multiple theories compete.
Science, as a human endeavor, makes progress because results are always being verified by multiple parties. Funding proposals and peer reviewed publication are only a part of the progress. The key operation is reproducible results. Other people use existing results as part of their own work. If the outcome differs from previously known work, it will be reported. This is normal and expected. Eventually there is a consensus and and the scientific community moves forward.
Bad behavior by individuals slows down the process, but it does not derail it. Resources and time are wasted, but as long as the scientific method is employed, the results are trustworthy.
Your positions is one sometimes taken by jealous members of the social sciences and humanities, particularity in academia. (This is one of my problems with Michel Foucault and postmodernism/structuralism.) They see the respect, status and money going to technical fields, so they try and reframe science as having no more validity then any other intellectual area. The existence of modern society proves this wrong, but since they reject the scientific paradigm they seem to have no trouble ignoring external facts. (Actually Foucault has a lot of value when his work is applied to culture and society, so I should not be quite so harsh.)
That's the long answer. The short answer is that you're a troll, and appear to short in mental stature and emotional maturity.
The Core Network, which is standard on the 787, uses computing servers and networks based on commercial open standards. It also has a variety of third-party applications to manage the onboard data flow to improve airline efficiency.
The Common Data Network (CDN from Rockwell Collins is a, bi-directional copper and fiber optic network that utilizes ARINC 664 standards and protocols to manage the data flowing between the 787's onboard systems. It is based on Ethernet technology and enabled for avionics systems. The CDN has higher data rates, expanded connectivity, and reductions in overall aircraft weight when it is contrasted with point to point topologies, Rockwell Collins officials say.
AFDX is a next-generation aircraft data network (ADN). It is based upon IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and utilizes commercial off-the-shelf hardware thereby reducing costs and development time. AFDX is one implementation of deterministic Ethernet defined by ARINC Specification 664 Part 7. AFDX was developed by Airbus Industries for the A380, initially to address real-time issues for flight-by-wire system development. A similar implementation of deterministic Ethernet is used on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. AFDX bridges the gap on reliability of guaranteed bandwidth from the original ARINC 664 standard. It utilizes a cascaded star topology network, where each switch can be bridged together to other switches on the network. By utilizing this form of network structure, AFDX is able to significantly reduce wire runs thus reducing overall aircraft weight. Additionally, AFDX provides dual link redundancy and Quality of Service (QoS).
So both the Airbus 380 and the 787 use COTS hardware and Ethernet, as does the Internet. Although slightly sloppy, describing the network as an "internet" is technically correct. Asserting that the data is "bloated XML" or that their is bad scripting, spam or cookies involved is grossly stupid.
I have worked with previous ARINC formats, and the data is very compact. It fact, it is positively cryptic, and generally you use software to turn it into a more human friendly form, like a line graph. So if there is a half terabyte per flight, it is all "real" data. Any of the posts that assume otherwise are a combination of arrogance and ignorance, which is typical for what passes as comments on Slashdot these days. Hence my sig:
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If you get back on your medication the voices won't bother you so much. All those people who are out to get you will not seem so threatening, and the hidden messages ont TV that only you can understand will not be broadcast any more.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/17/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html
In the Luis Buñuel film That Obscure Object of Desire two actress play the same role. They don't look very much alike, and there is no logic behind which actress appears in which scene. Many people see the film, and if no one points this out they don't notice anything is strange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Obscure_Object_of_Desire
The phenomena is interesting in and of itself, but this is clearly not research, but a stunt to get publicity.
It's a case of the Golden Child vs. the Goat. I've seen this stupidity in action for decades.
Take two coders of roughly the same skill. One has flash and a high reputation, the other is plain spoken and just says what works and what doesn't. Management gives them both a task that has an unexpected issue and delivery is delayed. When the Golden Child has trouble management goes "that was much harder then we thought, lucky we had our ace working on it, or things would have have been much worse." When The Goat is late it's "so-and-so is just average, it's not a surprise they can't get the job done in time."
Now add in the cost and visibility of the 10x or 25x parachute in super coder who is so extra special they have an agent!!! No matter what happen management is going to conclude that they made a good investment in the high priced person. If they say otherwise then it would reflect badly on them. Any internal dissent by existing staff will be seen as sour grapes/incompetence. If there is a failure it will be laid at the feet of anyone but the Golden Child. No manager is ever going to admit they made that kind of mistake.
I wish I had understood this better earlier in my career. I could be sitting on my yacht right now if I had understood how much you can get for the right kind of hype.
Windows 8 is a tribute Android/IOS envy. They have a culture arising from Balmer that is fixated on Jobs and Google, and they can't really compete with either.
Gates, Allen, Myhrvold and others realized it was time to move on. They knew they could accomplish things after Microsoft. Balmer knows he was just lucky, and if he tries to do something else it will flop. He has a stranglehold on the company, and he would rather run it into the ground rather then give up his power base.
Here's an overview from the patent:
They put a structured electrostatic charge on each chiplet using xerographic technology. They put opposite matching charge on the substrate, also using xerography. The mechanism coveys the chiplet to the target position on the substrate, where electrostatic forces move the chiplet to it's final position. They then fix the chiplet to the substrate.
I know that not everyone who looks at stuff here is an uber-geek, but at least try and find things out for yourself. You'll learn more in the long run.
It has the same components as a traditional Xerox machine. There is a drum that rotates and their positioning technology put the chiplets in precise locations on the substrate. The chiplets are in a fluid that acts like toner.
It appears that the performance depends on how fast the substrate conducts signals. At this point it seems unlikely that this is as fast as an on chip connection, but there seems to be no intrinsic reason that it would be any slower then the wires that hook a chip pad to a package pin. In aggregate the speed might be faster then a circuit board because the chiplits could be closer together then chips on a board.
One possible deployment would be to use this to assemble components which are then packaged in a standard IC. It's like an SOIC, except the parts are not all on one piece of silicon.
There are potential economies of scale. With an inventory of chiplets, and automation to make the interconnect substrate with CAD, a custom assembly line can create vast numbers of different configurations and not have to include a foundry in the loop.
Despite all the naysayers that have already posted, this is a potentially game changing technology.
I assume that you've never seen a red light stopping your progress, you've never got stuck in a traffic jam, they always have you size when you go shopping, you're never late, no one has ever kept you waiting, and your shit doesn't stink.
Grow up, you puerile fool. Your opinion has all the gravitas of a fart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2265732/Mike-Murasoi-fish-contaminated-radiation-Fukushima-nuclear-disaster-2-500-times-legal-limit.html
It's painfully obvious that this is caused by ongoing leakage of radioactive water from the plant. In contrast, there has be a reduction in radiatons levels on land http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201303120107. It's unlikely that biological concentration in the food chain is the primary cause after two years of radiation decay and sea water dilution.
If you don't trust the Japanese government, this would explain why they are prohibiting non-government organizations from sampling the ocean near the plant location. They say it's still too dangerous.
The motivation for a coverup is that ongoing radioactive ocean contamination would be a huge international incident. China, Korea, Taiwan, Viet Nam, Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines would all protest. There would be reputational repercussions, diplomatic turmoil and possibly economic sanctions. There is still a lot of hostility in the region from WW2, and this would be just the issue to reopen those wounds. Not to mention current rivalry over ocean areas that have China, Tiawan and Japan sending naval vessels to tiny islands with disputed ownership.
Priebus accuses Democrats of supporting infanticide
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/03/priebus_accuses_democrats_of_supporting_infanticide.html
Republican links gun control to bestiality
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/04/02/lawmaker_links_gun_control_to_bestiality.html
Both of these were just in the last week, by a current member of the House, and the head of the Republican National Committee. These aren't some fringe types yelling from the sidelines, they are mainstream and one is in a national leadership position. This kind of stupid crap is being said by mainstream Republican officials every day. It's so common that it takes a particularly inspired bout of vile accusations to even get reported.
An before you try and justify this slanderous shit by claiming that the Democrats do the same thing: No they don't. No serving Democratic official says anything like this. Note that these are actual quotes from the individuals, not some perverse made up fantasy on Fox News, or as it should be called Fox Pravda
So I'm going to look into this project, and I may contribute some examples like this. It's not like I would have any trouble finding material.
Marx was a pretty good observer, but he was horribly wrong when it came to effecting change. After the demise of Marxism, ideologues on the right effectively rewrote history so no one would question the intrinsic failings of predatory capitalism. They falsely claimed that since the left was defeated capitalism had no flaws.
In the US, the regulation of business that started with Teddy Roosevelt, and was extended after the Great Depression, was dismantled starting with Ronald Regan. From the end of WW2 until the mid 1980's the US economic system benefited all levels of society.
Since then we've evolved into a system that transfers wealth from the vast bulk of the population to the ultra wealthy. It's not the 99% vs the 1%, it's the 99.998% vs the 0.002%. Our economic and political life revolves around the fractional billionaires. If your net worth is $100 million or more (i.e. $0.1 Billion plus) then you have an effective guarantee of unlimited future wealth for you and your decedents.
This is exactly the scenario that Marx observed at the end of the 19th century. H.G. Wells saw it as the Eloi vs. the Morlocks. In Fritz Lang's Metropolis there are the owners vs the dehumanized workers.
If the current trend continues then the US will become like the rest of the Western hemisphere. (Sorry Canada, you fate is not in your own hands.) We will oscillate between repressive inefficient right wing governments and repressive inefficient left wing governments. A choice between Argentina's Pinochet and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez. Imagin Orwell's 1984 as a popular weekly TV show, or A Clockwork Orange, to continue the literary references.
Think about nicotine style consumer addition on things that are normal and legal. Genus! They can move beyond the current list of salt, sugar and fat without have to bother with laws against opiates or stimulants. If you consider how much drug companies are raking in with "legal" oxycontin/oxycodone, other market segments would go crazy for that kind of "customer loyalty".
It wouldn't be a stretch to see soft drink makers use this to bring consumers back to sugar laden beverages. Sales have been dropping, and this could reverse the trend. Corporate manipulation at it's finest. The US is wonderland if you can use "campaign contributions" and PACs to keep those pesky regulators out of your hair.
I wonder if it has DRM? Is it FOSS? What does that mean in a socialist state?
Maybe the Cubans could give the game platform to Viet Nam, and they could come up with a plotline where you follow Ho Chi Min to his defeat of the imperialist US invaders. There's jungles and tropical climate in both situations, right.
In China, they could have the Long March MMOG.
On a somewhat more serious note, this is somewhat an exercise in jumping the shark. If you're at the point where you promote your history/ideology by turning it into a video game, it's ceased to be current experience, and has moved into the realm of cultural myths.
In the US, the number of people who have combat experience is dwarfed by the the ranks of the FPS gamers. The real experience of war has been eclipsed by the glamorized painless video version. It's likely that the sanitized version has displaced reality in the minds of a lot of people. This can't be a good thing.
Attention span is the ability to concentrate on a subject for an extended period of time. If you are only able to concentrate when there is continuous external stimulation, it's shallow concentration. This is the difference between reading a book and playing a first person shooter video game. In the video game you are continually reacting. Reading requires mentally retaining the subject matter as you read, and relating what you are reading now to previous material. One is externally organized, the other is internally organized.
Obviously, it's possible to read an ebook on a smart phone, so the device itself is not intrinsically in one mode or the other. This is why so many of the previous posts point to creative activity enabled by electronics.
Having the ability to maintain internal concentration is a learned skill. The problem with pervasive electronics is that chronic users substitute external stimulation for internal concentration. They don't know how to concentrate on their own.
This is ultimately a deficit. It's why people do really stupid things like texting while driving. There are some activities that demand a high degree of internal concentration, like doing mathematics, coding, or surgery. I guarantee that you don't want someone cutting you open who suddenly starts texting about the procedure, or a judge who is not paying attention to the trail proceeding because they are playing a game with the cellphone in their lap.
They have the animus and the motives. Iran is internally attempting to heavily censor/eliminate internet access. They are the target of network enabled attacks: Stuxnet. It would fit their profile to attack the same kind of international infrastructure, even if Stuxnet was injected by USB memory, not network connections.
The Assad regime is an ally of Iran, and has been receiving military aid. An attack on internet cables is an attack on the West, which is supporting the anti-Assad forces.
Reduced internet bandwidth could be seen as a way to decrease US force effectiveness in the region. Even if the US military has connectivity that is not directly impacted, it still makes things harder for Western interests.
If the three divers are terrorists, they will be associated with something like Hamas. Iran is too smart to have their nationals in a direct attack in another country, or in international waters. I would guess they are Egyptian/Gulf region nationals. Anyone but Iranians.
On the other hand, they could be three guys out diving for fun. The cable could be undamaged, or it could have been damaged in an accident unrelated to terrorism. Even if they are tried and convicted, they could still be innocent. A confession means nothing at all. Remember, the US has used torture to get confessions, and places like Egypt have a history of torture for political gain going back at least to WW One (yes, before WW 2).
If this is not picked up by the western press it is not likely to be actual terrorism. The west is so primed to see these types of events as the result of evil opponents, that even when accidental explosions occur the first reports always talk about terrorist connections.
The bank bailout of 2008. Even though the banks failed the most basic rules of capitalism, there was no meaningful penalty for institutions or individuals. All the whining about Dodd-Frank regulation is crocodile tears. The big Wall Street firms have not changed in any way. They still engage in appallingly bad behavior because of unbridled greed. JPMorgan just got caught effectively breaking the new regulations and lost $6 billion as a result. There were still casino gambling, but they called it something else. The fallout: nothing. No legal or regulatory action. Dead silence after one day of hearings. Jamie Dimon just got a big vote of confidence from his board, and retains the titles of both CEO and Chairman. He was personally aware of what went on. Yes, at some point an underling will be thrown under the bus and go to jail, but the big crooks are untouched.
DCMA in general and this legislation in particular. It criminalizes the most innocuous actions so that business can crush anyone at any time. This is the government doing the bidding of mega corps.
Fracking. Ever increasing areas of the country are having their water supplies poisoned forever so that Big Oil can make more money. It's worse then Chernobyl or Fukushima, because radioactivity has a half life. Fracking is a irreversible change to geologic structure. It will take geologic time to recover. These are the same companies that were the most profitable businesses in the history of the world in the 2000 decade. They still get obscene tax brakes that go back to 1926.
Monsanto and GM crops. First they said the the manipulated genes would not get into non-GM crops. Then when it happened the courts ruled that the non-GM planing farmers could be sued for stealing their IP. So if GM crops are used in an area, either you plant a different crop, or are forced to use the GM seeds to avoid being sued. The Mafia is envious.
In addition: Big Pharma and Oxycontin. HDMI cables. EULA. "Clean Coal". Mandatory ethanol from corn. Increasing the number of 1-HB visas.
The constant feature is that big business can buy damn near any legislation they want. The government is the enforcement arm of corporations. In the real world the law goes to the highest bidder, and all the money and power resides in corporations. When you blame the government your corporate owners are delighted. They can keep right on going because their disinformation campaign is working perfectly. Any fix requires understanding who is in charge, and you have it completely wrong.
Just imagine how great it will be when Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, HP, IBM, etc get in a automated patent race where they each file millions of patents applications a month.
They'll just do to patents what they did to taxes; change the rules so that the more you file, the less you pay, and the big players make the government pick up the tab.
Why should intellectual property be any less corrupt then Wall Street? After all, big bank profits are derived from direct subsidies, so why should big tech have to pay for patents? They deserve to be on the corporate gravy train just as much as Goldman and JPMorgan.
Anything else would be unamerican. Don't you want to win the war on drugs, terrorism, the environment, free speech, privacy, ...?
The track record of this type of technology has not been good. Ovonic device have never seen any significant deployment. They change state via an electric pulse that heats a cell and causes it to change between a crystalline and amorphous form. The cell holds the state without power consumption, and reading the value requires very little power.
The HP memristor is similar. The energy pulse moves oxygen ions in titanium dioxide which changes the conduction properties of the TiO2, which is a semiconductor. This has not hit the market so far either.
The IBM ionic liquid is even farther away from deployment. All they've shown is a phase change. They haven't even figured out how to do logic or non-volatile memory. It's interesting research, but nothing more so far.
All the other hulking giants, (Microsoft, Amazon, Sony, Google) want that kind of reach. Even wannabe failing giants (Barns and Nobel) thought that hardware would be their salvation.
Hardware domination is, for want of a better word, hard. Even companies with good track records with hardware products like Nokia and Sony have failed. IBM has gotten out of the hardware business to a large extent, except for mainframes and supercomputing. HP is toast. Badly burnt toast. The MS Surface does not seem to have been that well received.
An Amazon purchase of Liquivista will not go well if history is any indication. But the smell of those big Apple style profits is irresistible for big corporations that want to get bigger. Greed is often the precursor to stupidity.
Yep, just another stupid waste of time by DARPA, just like the internet.
Smart people want to work with people who are in the same league. Really smart people want to work with people who are smarter then they are. They figure some of it will rub off.
The typical manager in a US company is so insecure that they insist they are treated as the smartest person around. If you want to survive you need to work to keep that illusion in place. If you can't maintain this facade you won't last.
This often manifests itself as refusal to take criticism. The moment you disagree with management and you are correct you're doomed. Showing they're wrong is a way of committing job suicide.
I'm an expert as this. I have a lot of experience, and I can't keep from telling the truth. If something is bound to fail I end up saying so, and I never last.
Being good at your job is a detriment. What management really wants are dullards who do barely adequate work and put up with everything.
Here is a site where people can anonymously comment on their experiences in his court room. He gets a score of 2.5 out of 10. He has a few high ratings, and lots of one and two ratings: http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=1555
This is a rather articulate comment from the site:
I can't imagine a more appropriate court for Prenda Law. It will be a collision between out of control bottom of the barrel scum sucking lawyers and a judge who's legal background is inadequate and has a tendency to use the bench to crush anyone who appears before him. It's literally karma in action, with Biblical style thunderclaps and lightning. What could possibly go wrong?
The authors are, in fact, smarter then you. They are well aware of this issue. RTFA. You just make yourself look stupid when you post the obvious.
My sig says it all:
Individual scientists are often wrong. This is occasionally due to malfeasance, but more often it is just the state of the art. The truth is not always completely self evident and often multiple theories compete.
Science, as a human endeavor, makes progress because results are always being verified by multiple parties. Funding proposals and peer reviewed publication are only a part of the progress. The key operation is reproducible results. Other people use existing results as part of their own work. If the outcome differs from previously known work, it will be reported. This is normal and expected. Eventually there is a consensus and and the scientific community moves forward.
Bad behavior by individuals slows down the process, but it does not derail it. Resources and time are wasted, but as long as the scientific method is employed, the results are trustworthy.
Your positions is one sometimes taken by jealous members of the social sciences and humanities, particularity in academia. (This is one of my problems with Michel Foucault and postmodernism/structuralism.) They see the respect, status and money going to technical fields, so they try and reframe science as having no more validity then any other intellectual area. The existence of modern society proves this wrong, but since they reject the scientific paradigm they seem to have no trouble ignoring external facts. (Actually Foucault has a lot of value when his work is applied to culture and society, so I should not be quite so harsh.)
That's the long answer. The short answer is that you're a troll, and appear to short in mental stature and emotional maturity.
Another quick search on ARINC 664 yields the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_Full-Duplex_Switched_Ethernet
So both the Airbus 380 and the 787 use COTS hardware and Ethernet, as does the Internet. Although slightly sloppy, describing the network as an "internet" is technically correct. Asserting that the data is "bloated XML" or that their is bad scripting, spam or cookies involved is grossly stupid.
I have worked with previous ARINC formats, and the data is very compact. It fact, it is positively cryptic, and generally you use software to turn it into a more human friendly form, like a line graph. So if there is a half terabyte per flight, it is all "real" data. Any of the posts that assume otherwise are a combination of arrogance and ignorance, which is typical for what passes as comments on Slashdot these days. Hence my sig: