They waste a lot of resources on copying what's not needed, then. Good for us, I think. I don't think they do okay on the results part. If they did, they'd realize the appearances in this case were not only unimportant -- they were negative in and of themselves.
This is exactly what Feynman warned about in his Cargo Cult speech. This is a cargo cult. They think that by copying the appearances, they can get the same results. They don't understand what the course is really about, what teaching strategies should be used, etc. It's sad, really.
Only if you assume that the downlink can cope with uninterrupted duty cycle of observations. I believe it used to be a problem: they couldn't run the cameras all the time. Eventually the on-board tape storage would get full, as the downlink wasn't as fast as the cameras. I hope these days it's not a problem anymore. Those birds generate insane amounts of data. A modern line scanning image sensor in front of a large aperture optics can push a gigabit a second.
I'd think the real intelligence agencies have people on their staff who know their shit and don't need to read novels for education. He's just a dick -- I consider every author who breaks his writing in this way to be a spineless dick. There's no excuse for it. None at all. Grow a spine or go for a different line of work. Proctology comes to mind.
I guess the only thing that's left for B&L is reputation at this point:( A lot of B&L is just a brand name these days, used in consumer healthcare -- kinda like RCA.
Breaking news: In a unique twist, The Basque Separatists, in their newest push for the region's differentiation and autonomy, are declaring the need for open-sourcing the governmental software. Such ideas are almost universally looked down upon by most countries and their thriving government contractors and suppliers. Having apparently gained widespread influence over the lawmakers in the region, the push is a further step in furthering the separatist agenda.
I don't think they recovered any of their stages from previous missions, so that would be a first. Recovery is hard, and it's a secondary objective for them. They are very slow on online publicity releases, too. Just look at their website.
They wouldn't get sucked anywhere unless there was an explosive failure of the pressurized shell that would break it apart. A hole/crack may suck all the air out, but it won't suck you out unless you put yourself right against it, and even then it must be big enough to generate sufficient shears to break apart your tissues.
The problem is that while in reality you can perhaps switch cafeteria providers with minimal fuss, an IT service provider needs to learn your infrastructure, and it's not really comparable to learning the layout of an industrial kitchen. If you're competent, you can walk into a cafeteria area and perhaps in an hour or two you can be fairly familiar with all the equipment, layout, etc. It should take no more than the first week of operation to shake things down to a smooth ride.
If you're very lucky as an IT provider, you'll be given a 400 page, version-controlled operations/configuration manual that was maintained up to the last minute by the previous team. It'll take you a month just to make sure you got everything that's there, and that they didn't miss anything out. I have just such a manual in the works for a 20 person small business. It's currently at 200 pages, and relevant parts are autogenerated from running system configuration. For a business with a couple hundred people in it, the manual would be a 1000 page work, and probably would require a dedicated person just to keep it current. Just so that you can do an IT team swapout in a couple months, if you're lucky.
The miniaturization and high intergration is the sole reason for that: the cost of physical goods is tiny compared to the cost of maintaining a human service person. Just look at how little goes into, say, an MP3 player. The main PCB is usually the size of a quarter and weighs less than that. A highly skilled, very well equipped service person could perhaps repair a couple of those a day. He/she needs food, clothing, housing and entertainment. All that to get a couple boards fixed that can be had off eBay for $40, and that cost maybe $0.25 in raw materials (silicon, fiberglass, resins, copper and gold), and where the value added in manufacturing adds barely two orders of magnitude.
Agreed. Cloud computing doesn't mean that you don't have a desktop PC that you have to log into just to use the web browser and the printer. Where are all those cloud-thin clients deployed? I somehow don't see them... These days, "thin clients" are often desktops with a 3270 terminal emulator, or an RDP or VNC client. It's interesting how many businesses still use mainframe tech. Sometimes I see thin intranet shims over 3270, and that's even funnier. A real 3270-like or RDP/VNC terminal with remote provisioning would probably be truly zero-support, but desktops sure as heck aren't.
I have never had an account with them, that's the problem. Whatever "settings" you refer to are off-limits if you don't have an account, or else you know something I don't. Those are legitimate LinkedIn emails, no pretender spam.
It's not necessary for them -- you've missed that. They won't do stuff that makes no business sense for them. Nobody forces their technology on you -- as an enterprise, you'd hopefully evaluate what's available and choose according to your needs. There's enough competition in the mobile device market that you can't claim you have to use their technology in spite of yourself.
There are various kinds of things that professional musicians do. Some perform classical instruments, some write music, some direct, some perform electronic music, some do live improv (DJ-style), etc. I'm not doing any of it myself, but V. -- a friend of mine is, and it's incredible what he can do with a couple of iPads. Admittedly, he wrote many apps for his own use, but you can pull off quite a show if you're into it. The hardware makes it possible, the software takes that possibility into the realm of reality.
Whether the app store has things you'd like to see there as a particular kind of a professional musician is another story. Perhaps there's a niche for you to come up with something fresh and useful, then. I've seen a beautifully done emulation of 4/5 string bowed/plucked instruments, and the touchscreen interface coupled with software logic enabled one to play things that'd require 2 or even 3 performers. Sounded amazing, too, I'd have to get some sample passages from V. and post them. Beats anything I've ever heard coming from modern electone keyboards -- even when played by virtuosos like maru.
Because it's much less risky to get it all up there in one piece than to do space assembly. For now, at least. Even simple "assembly" tasks such as orbital rendezvous and docking require utmost care. Doing actual assembly as in humans or robots bolting things together is way harder.
I think that you're entirely wrong in your assumption that SpaceX is somehow cutting corners safety-wise. They are not. Commercial bureaucracies, like those of the members of the Space Launch Alliance, are simply very inefficient at what they do. SpaceX does no more and no less than they'd do, safety wise, but is much better at it. They use engineers with same training, employ the same standardized part qualification and testing processes, etc.
I'd posit that bureaucratic long-drawn processes have to decrease safety due to inherent limitations of the human executors of the process. Over time, people forget. It's very hard to keep the details of the project in your head if meaningful progress is repeatedly stalled by paper pushing.
:( All I know is that LinkedIn spams me regularly and it pisses me off to no end. I haven't found a way yet that worked that would stop them from emailing me.
Apple of course doesn't care about enterprise, but it doesn't seem to make business sense for them to care. If it would make business sense, I'm sure as heck they'd care. I personally think it's quite cool that you can do quite serious music playing and editing on iDevices. It's cool that these days you can have a general purpose computer in your phone, with an interaction surface sensitive enough to simulate a dynamic instrument keyboard or a tracker/sequencer button array.
I do understand that RIM makes something that is supposed to fill a niche. All it'd take for a competitor to make them weep, though, would be for someone to clone RIM's email client for iDevices. Perhaps with a better on-screen keyboard than the built-in one. It's all in the software, after all.
Your argument somehow misses out on the fact that there is pleasure to be had in figuring things out. Pleasure of finding things out is a great purpose to have in life, IMHO. You seem to be repeating the old and boring talking points of religious and classical education proponents. Like how not knowing history and arts turns you into an automaton and other such first-class bullshit.
There's nothing empty about science, you're just telling yourself it's empty. Ethics and values don't have to come from science, they don't have to come from religion. You don't need to be religious to have human feelings, you know, and to be able to reason about what's wrong and what isn't. Please, stop repeating the old tired bullshit. It gets old real quick. It's the same silliness that Aquinas proffered in his argument for why there must be a God. All it's good for is to expose common logical fallacies and leaps in argument.
Relatively recently? As in 1950s recently? What are you talking about -- it's been known all over Europe that Enigma was in fact broken, and by 1950 I'm sure everyone got the message. Publicly. Perhaps the mathematical details weren't all widely disseminated, but that's it.
An hour of homework a day in elementary school -- that sounds about right. Most kids need some one-on-one tutoring, and homework time is very good for that. I'd much rather them be longer at home than at school.
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They waste a lot of resources on copying what's not needed, then. Good for us, I think. I don't think they do okay on the results part. If they did, they'd realize the appearances in this case were not only unimportant -- they were negative in and of themselves.
This is exactly what Feynman warned about in his Cargo Cult speech. This is a cargo cult. They think that by copying the appearances, they can get the same results. They don't understand what the course is really about, what teaching strategies should be used, etc. It's sad, really.
Only if you assume that the downlink can cope with uninterrupted duty cycle of observations. I believe it used to be a problem: they couldn't run the cameras all the time. Eventually the on-board tape storage would get full, as the downlink wasn't as fast as the cameras. I hope these days it's not a problem anymore. Those birds generate insane amounts of data. A modern line scanning image sensor in front of a large aperture optics can push a gigabit a second.
I'd think the real intelligence agencies have people on their staff who know their shit and don't need to read novels for education. He's just a dick -- I consider every author who breaks his writing in this way to be a spineless dick. There's no excuse for it. None at all. Grow a spine or go for a different line of work. Proctology comes to mind.
I guess the only thing that's left for B&L is reputation at this point :( A lot of B&L is just a brand name these days, used in consumer healthcare -- kinda like RCA.
Bad attempt at humor on my end is bad. News at 11. I love the idea of ETA pushing Win 8 w/o touchscreens :)
Breaking news: In a unique twist, The Basque Separatists, in their newest push for the region's differentiation and autonomy, are declaring the need for open-sourcing the governmental software. Such ideas are almost universally looked down upon by most countries and their thriving government contractors and suppliers. Having apparently gained widespread influence over the lawmakers in the region, the push is a further step in furthering the separatist agenda.
I don't think they recovered any of their stages from previous missions, so that would be a first. Recovery is hard, and it's a secondary objective for them. They are very slow on online publicity releases, too. Just look at their website.
Agreed on the Heavy requiring due diligence. The cost of losing one is close to the cost of losing three F9s.
They wouldn't get sucked anywhere unless there was an explosive failure of the pressurized shell that would break it apart. A hole/crack may suck all the air out, but it won't suck you out unless you put yourself right against it, and even then it must be big enough to generate sufficient shears to break apart your tissues.
The problem is that while in reality you can perhaps switch cafeteria providers with minimal fuss, an IT service provider needs to learn your infrastructure, and it's not really comparable to learning the layout of an industrial kitchen. If you're competent, you can walk into a cafeteria area and perhaps in an hour or two you can be fairly familiar with all the equipment, layout, etc. It should take no more than the first week of operation to shake things down to a smooth ride.
If you're very lucky as an IT provider, you'll be given a 400 page, version-controlled operations/configuration manual that was maintained up to the last minute by the previous team. It'll take you a month just to make sure you got everything that's there, and that they didn't miss anything out. I have just such a manual in the works for a 20 person small business. It's currently at 200 pages, and relevant parts are autogenerated from running system configuration. For a business with a couple hundred people in it, the manual would be a 1000 page work, and probably would require a dedicated person just to keep it current. Just so that you can do an IT team swapout in a couple months, if you're lucky.
The miniaturization and high intergration is the sole reason for that: the cost of physical goods is tiny compared to the cost of maintaining a human service person. Just look at how little goes into, say, an MP3 player. The main PCB is usually the size of a quarter and weighs less than that. A highly skilled, very well equipped service person could perhaps repair a couple of those a day. He/she needs food, clothing, housing and entertainment. All that to get a couple boards fixed that can be had off eBay for $40, and that cost maybe $0.25 in raw materials (silicon, fiberglass, resins, copper and gold), and where the value added in manufacturing adds barely two orders of magnitude.
Agreed. Cloud computing doesn't mean that you don't have a desktop PC that you have to log into just to use the web browser and the printer. Where are all those cloud-thin clients deployed? I somehow don't see them... These days, "thin clients" are often desktops with a 3270 terminal emulator, or an RDP or VNC client. It's interesting how many businesses still use mainframe tech. Sometimes I see thin intranet shims over 3270, and that's even funnier. A real 3270-like or RDP/VNC terminal with remote provisioning would probably be truly zero-support, but desktops sure as heck aren't.
I have never had an account with them, that's the problem. Whatever "settings" you refer to are off-limits if you don't have an account, or else you know something I don't. Those are legitimate LinkedIn emails, no pretender spam.
It's not necessary for them -- you've missed that. They won't do stuff that makes no business sense for them. Nobody forces their technology on you -- as an enterprise, you'd hopefully evaluate what's available and choose according to your needs. There's enough competition in the mobile device market that you can't claim you have to use their technology in spite of yourself.
There are various kinds of things that professional musicians do. Some perform classical instruments, some write music, some direct, some perform electronic music, some do live improv (DJ-style), etc. I'm not doing any of it myself, but V. -- a friend of mine is, and it's incredible what he can do with a couple of iPads. Admittedly, he wrote many apps for his own use, but you can pull off quite a show if you're into it. The hardware makes it possible, the software takes that possibility into the realm of reality.
Whether the app store has things you'd like to see there as a particular kind of a professional musician is another story. Perhaps there's a niche for you to come up with something fresh and useful, then. I've seen a beautifully done emulation of 4/5 string bowed/plucked instruments, and the touchscreen interface coupled with software logic enabled one to play things that'd require 2 or even 3 performers. Sounded amazing, too, I'd have to get some sample passages from V. and post them. Beats anything I've ever heard coming from modern electone keyboards -- even when played by virtuosos like maru.
Because it's much less risky to get it all up there in one piece than to do space assembly. For now, at least. Even simple "assembly" tasks such as orbital rendezvous and docking require utmost care. Doing actual assembly as in humans or robots bolting things together is way harder.
I think that you're entirely wrong in your assumption that SpaceX is somehow cutting corners safety-wise. They are not. Commercial bureaucracies, like those of the members of the Space Launch Alliance, are simply very inefficient at what they do. SpaceX does no more and no less than they'd do, safety wise, but is much better at it. They use engineers with same training, employ the same standardized part qualification and testing processes, etc.
I'd posit that bureaucratic long-drawn processes have to decrease safety due to inherent limitations of the human executors of the process. Over time, people forget. It's very hard to keep the details of the project in your head if meaningful progress is repeatedly stalled by paper pushing.
:( All I know is that LinkedIn spams me regularly and it pisses me off to no end. I haven't found a way yet that worked that would stop them from emailing me.
Apple of course doesn't care about enterprise, but it doesn't seem to make business sense for them to care. If it would make business sense, I'm sure as heck they'd care. I personally think it's quite cool that you can do quite serious music playing and editing on iDevices. It's cool that these days you can have a general purpose computer in your phone, with an interaction surface sensitive enough to simulate a dynamic instrument keyboard or a tracker/sequencer button array.
I do understand that RIM makes something that is supposed to fill a niche. All it'd take for a competitor to make them weep, though, would be for someone to clone RIM's email client for iDevices. Perhaps with a better on-screen keyboard than the built-in one. It's all in the software, after all.
Apparently, Blackberry-the-smartphone is not enough to keep RIM afloat. There you go.
Your argument somehow misses out on the fact that there is pleasure to be had in figuring things out. Pleasure of finding things out is a great purpose to have in life, IMHO. You seem to be repeating the old and boring talking points of religious and classical education proponents. Like how not knowing history and arts turns you into an automaton and other such first-class bullshit.
There's nothing empty about science, you're just telling yourself it's empty. Ethics and values don't have to come from science, they don't have to come from religion. You don't need to be religious to have human feelings, you know, and to be able to reason about what's wrong and what isn't. Please, stop repeating the old tired bullshit. It gets old real quick. It's the same silliness that Aquinas proffered in his argument for why there must be a God. All it's good for is to expose common logical fallacies and leaps in argument.
Relatively recently? As in 1950s recently? What are you talking about -- it's been known all over Europe that Enigma was in fact broken, and by 1950 I'm sure everyone got the message. Publicly. Perhaps the mathematical details weren't all widely disseminated, but that's it.
A lot of military development work is done on cost-plus basis. They cut corners in spite of that. Sigh.
An hour of homework a day in elementary school -- that sounds about right. Most kids need some one-on-one tutoring, and homework time is very good for that. I'd much rather them be longer at home than at school.
Yogi was crossing his legs allright :)
After a few beers. Naked, in the moonlight.