FFS why is it that people these days are so incapable of any form of critical thinking, research, or observation?
So, VW cheated, which is shitty, however if you look at their figures they are STILL massively better than American diesel engines (you know, those ones that get a nice dispensation as they are in a 'truck' even though its really an SUV mum uses to take the kids to school).
Go and have a look at BMW diesel engines, they DO pass all the most stringent levels of test, without any problems, and are of similar efficiency. They *do* kick petrols butt so far an environmentally clean..
This is all primarily a political move, by VW group to try and claim they were forced to cheat (which is untrue) and by governments in general as diesel cars often slip into tax holes they have to support heavy trucks (which generally are pollution monsters, but get tax breaks anyway, go figure). They want you back on petrol because they make more money!
If you want to clean up diesel, simply get the old diesel vehicles off the road (and the old petrol ones also!) Force checks on trucks! stop running empty buses around your cities!
But for god sake learn something about real modern clean diesel, because its one hell of a lot better than petrol.
Ah yes, even as a 'right winger' myself, I wonder if you realise just how silted and contrived that 'article' is.
What is basically boils down to is the story you will hear from both sides of the political fence these days - 'For your own good, we know best - and we need more control! trust us! fear each other!'
People have forgotten that there are two axis to politics, left/right, and Totalitarian/libertarian. Do we so quickly forget the second axis because the labels are 'harder'? You can certainly have left and/or right totalitarian regimes, and we seem to be busy constructing quite a few at present. You can also have left and/or right Libertarian regimes. (For the Americans in the audience, Libertarianism is confusing to you I know, it has very little to do with your liberal party, or your odd view of political/religious matters, so try and allow for that).
That article is a pretty simple attack in support of the new Totalitarianism - what a surprise. The message is 'You need us, your government, to force the nogoods to do the right thing, or they will take advantage of you! give us more power!' Because apparently society itself is incapable of social pressure - oh how times have changed, apparently.
On the idea of basic income? why not, the transition would be the problem - but I doubt we will see it in any major implementation for a long long time, because governments worldwide are on a power trip right now, and giving up an area of control of their people is not part of that playbook now, is it.
One of the more interesting parts however of a solid basic income package, which hardly ever gets mentioned, is removal of minimum wage. This frees up a whole pile of minor jobs which are simply not economic (looking after the neighbors kids after school, mowing lawns, etc) and are often now done under the table.. minimum wage becomes much less needed, as there is less 'force' for people to have a job at any cost.
But hey, it doesnt help grow state control, so good luck with that. We are better worrying terribly about the reds under the bed - oh sorry, I mean ISIS, or whomever they choose in another year or so.
The German 'carpet bombing' of Rotterdam killed less than 1000 people, and involved 90 bombers... The Blitz in London (which never even got close to 'carpet bombing' killed less than 500 people.
Our lovely Americans killed around 100,000 Japanese in Tokyo with incendiary raids (basically burnt them to death), Hiroshima and Nagasaki averaged about 100,000 each also, but of course those were single bombs.. Other 25,000 in Dresden, pretty much the same method, 40,000 in Hamburg. While the British assisted on such raids, they were very much American designed and lead. There failure is also well documented (it was supposed to 'break' the Germans, instead of course it just strengthened their resolve), but the lessons have pretty much been ignored.
For the Germans you would have been better to perhaps actually learn some history, Warsaw and Stalingrad were their big cases of bombing,although neither was at all typical carpet bombing (more a long sustained attack over weeks), and a large number of the casualties there are considered secondary (disease, starvation, exposure, etc) (around 25,000 and 40,000, similar to Dresden and Hamburg, however fatalities from actual bombing are estimated to be closer to 1/3 of those numbers).
Does this really surprise anyone? This is one of the primary features of most IoT type setups - you dont own what you have bought, you are just using a service, and therefore of course they feel free to redefine that service as they wish.
They here of course is not limited to Phillips, but people will continue to be surprised by this.
Until we see some (haha! yeah right) legislation that makes it illegal for terms, level, or functionality of service to not be reduced or removed without agreement from BOTH parties, this is what we will have.
Consumers were enough for a while, but the hunger has increased, and you only paid once then! It is immoral for the middle class to be allowed to save, so more ways must be invented to empty there wallets weekly to fund the top (rulers) and the bottom (troublemakers who must be paid to stay in check)... Welcome to the machine.
Ok, so, what happens if their one sample is taken 5 mm from where the bacteria in question is?
You do understand that such bacteria are not a continuous coating over all surfaces of the food, right?
This is just companies learning from your wonderful government.
People have accepted security theater, this is just health safety theater. Impress people with advanced sounding technology (DNA testing! yes, really, they will use that well known library of evil bacteria DNA library.. oh wait, that doesnt exist).
Wont make one scrap of difference. After all, improved washing, and communicating to your customers that no food can be made perfectly safe, so sometimes things will happen, both hit profits! than simple cannot be allowed.
Luckily the shepple are so indoctrinated these days they dare not even try and actually think about such things, so it will work...
You know Bruce..
As much as you are pushing back against people drawing parallels to software the more I read the more I have to agree with them.. What you are doing is selecting one specific case for your hardware and trying to use that to make a general point. That case is not especially general.
It is easy to find software cases where knowledge and monetary investments are at least as high as your hardware investments.. And the people who point out that your evangelical claims over opening software apply equally (no matter if valid or invalid) to hardware are correct. 'Open' is pretty much as good or bad for everyone in either case. And no. 50k is not a bare minimum for hardware design and not all boards cost 2k to respin and not all Chinese hardware houses are child labor slave pits either.. I'm afraid your biases are showing through rather strongly here.
I have designed and build hardware micrometer resolution electronic distance sensors which are analogue digital hybrid on $20 per spin boards with less than $2k of diagnostic hardware. My software development setup costs more and takes more time..
Also.. Have your forgotten time equals money? That is a huge factor in software.. Your seen to want to ignore that. Do you not value developers time? Do you think learning hardware design is more special than software somehow? Are we all equal but hardware designers are more equal?
I see valid function on both sides of the open argument.. For software and for hardware.. And I contribute and work with both. Anything else would take some serious cherry picking of 'facts' sorry to say.
It's worse than that. Actual measurements show the islands are growing not shrinking. It's all just an attempt to extort money based on lies. However the bleeding hearts just never bother to do any actual research.. They just want to feel self important by 'supporting the cause'.
Interesting to see what people consider a robots breakthrough these days.
It seems little more than the old follow the white line 'robots' (that have existed for for at least 50+ years, and primary school kids build with a couple of photodiodes, motors, etc) a monitor for them to run on (and not even a very large one), and a simple feedback camera to 'draw' from one of the robots. They could do pretty much the same thing by tying a pen to the first damn 'bot' and putting them on a normal floor.
This has exactly ZERO do to with pheromones, swarms, or I would suggest breakthroughs.
I would expect something like this from a high school science project, not a damn PhD.
Hell, whats wrong with some actual chemical sensors, and droplet sprayers on the robots? would be more interesting and allow for different mixing, trail lifespan testing, etc. Or they could have used a virtual trail system using radio location and swam communication, but that may have involved actual development.
I am not sure which is sadder, this 'research', that a university actually allowed it, or that slashdot reported on it.
With the current rates of progress.. Will gegl based gimp as a full release with clean 16 bit be available before or after the heat death of the universe?
I suspect it will be a close call either way.
Development more these days has quite clearly moved into 'tinker with what the development god decided is flavor of the year' mode rather than any actual progress plan. Has been like that for a long long time.
And Sadly its about 10 years since the developers pretty much stopped listening to the users, and 5 years since development ground to a halt.
Pity really, it was hijacked by a group of people with 'certain ideas' of how everything must be, and no willingness to compromise with the general user base. After that, less and less developers contribute, the user base shrunk (or at best stopped growing).
3.0 has become a sad joke.
All of which is a great great pity. Compare it with Blender, with a healthy and energetic user and developer base, a continuous flow of real and useful new features, and a rapidly growing and actively using user base.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
Ah, but that would cut in to their *profits!* The thing to remember here is of course these Salmon will be significantly cheaper to produce. Will they be qualitatively different? of course! faster grown species are always noticeably different. Their trick of course is they will market them as the original species, which they now are not. Just require them to be marketed under a new name...
Oh, and if you think GM labeling will ever get anywhere in the US, good luck with that, it would cut in to profits. The dream of the GM growers is lower production costs for the same selling prices, nothing more, nothing less.
However what you actually did, rather than create a brand and market a product, was to cheaply troll the internet and get a cheap boost at the cost of lowering things one step further into the cesspool of marketing-no-matter-the-lie. Tell me, what value do you think you have created here?
Once NASA was a driven motivated organisation that excelled at achieving its goals, worked with external entities and well and achieved impressively. Long has it lived on the reputation it earnt then, however..
Times have long since changed. It has become a bureaucratic slow moving monolith that fights for total control of everything it can get its hands on, participates happily in pork barrel politics, and appears to primarily exist to build its own empire where possible. It is permanently decrying its lack of funding, while playing silly PR games (do we really need the publics input on the best fashion design for spacesuits) and doing exactly NOTHING to address its massive internal inefficiency, bureaucracy and waste.
Of course this is not really surprising - most organisations of that size, when funded as deeply and not always given clear targets will degenerate in this way, however it is sad to see.
It is rather sad of course, because it was such a powerhouse of innovation in its heyday, and IMHO space exploration and research is very important.
I know that some people with howl and gnash their teeth and anyone daring to state the obvious, because they only want to see NASA through the glasses of times past, but that is not a way to move forward.
Not to mention the fact that you better not be carrying anything magnetizable or magnetically erasable while you drive anywhere near these things. The power density would have to be astronomical - have this really got past back of the envelope analysis?
Even if you assume a vehicle is only using 15HP to maintain itself in steady state cruise, thats a little over 11kW. Allow for inefficiency in the motors and storage/drive, call it 15kW steady state Allow for losses in the transmission and reception of the energy over a decent airgap and with a moving target, you are probably looking well over 20kW. Now, say the charging stations are 5 minutes drive apart, and you spend 30 second over their 'charge grids' (those will be some LONG grids..) you will now need a power rate of around 200kW to be transfered continuously for 30 seconds to provide enough energy.
Could all the people willing to sit in close proximity to a 200kW field, at speed, for 10% of their driving time please raise their hands?
Even the idea of stationary contactless charging is just foolish - why not simply attach contacts and increase the safety/efficiency massively.
I smell pork, lots and lots of nice fat goverment funded pork. Facts never get in the way of pork..
What maked you think its about the '1%'? do you think they even care?
Have a look at the teachers, the administrators, the associated unions, the 'think of the children' reactionary crowd, and you soon see that education is pretty much doomed before it begins.
The majority working in education, especially younger grades, now just see it as a meal ticket, and the kids as an annoyance to be avoided as much as possible. Standardised testing is a threat to their ability to do as little as possible for this paychecks.
The truly sad part of all of this is the teachers (and administrators) who do really care, are being pushed out by this - they get drowned in a system where there is more and more administrative overhead designed to 'measure' everything (and do nothing), which makes is close to impossible to both do a good job and to meet 'requirements'. They tend to either burn out or give up.
What we desperately need is: A return of a path for good teachers to become administrators - and a removal of 'career' administrators who are just collecting a paycheck. A strong message to the unions that our childrens schools do NOT exist to give their members a chushy ride, and 'think of the children' cries mixed with 'we can hold them to ransom' threats of action are not acceptible. A return of GENDER BALANCE in teachers - it is not healthy that 90% of lower school teachers are now female, and male teachers are being actively removed. A removal of teachers 'tenure', which is just an attcak on the kids, combined with: Active performance measurement of teachers RESULTS (not self assessed). A teacher who is not performing for her students must not be allowed to continue damaging childrens education!, and note: THIS is why teachers cannot self-assess their students! The good teachers judge students harshly, to motivate them, but therefore they look bad - poor teachers however are free to judge their students very easily (this is very very widely documented), making the bad teacher look good... And finally, school costs not DIRECTLY related to education need to be taken to, harshly. Large fancy off-site administration buildings do NOT help kids learn better.
Teachers need respect, and teachers need to EARN respect. Teaching children is a critical role - however we seem to be doing everything possible to damage the profession in return for making teachers lives more comfortable. Imagine if we did the same for pilots or surgeons..
Nice to see you avoid the obvious proving point of populations LIVING in high radiation levels - just keep avoiding facts why dont you..
But since you asked. A good starting point to learn about the assumption of linear ionising radiation damage: http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/radiation-the-no-safe-level-myth.html
But you just keep believing your reds-under-the-bed propoganda view of radiation.. because science stopped in the 50s, really it did.
For bonus points I suggest you keep working hard to stop development/deployment of new generation nuclear power, to maximise the length of time we keep running old gen reactors, and block any attempts to minimise waste through reprocessing/breeding! yeah, thats the ticket!
And yes, I spend plenty of time in Tokyo myself, so I get to have an opinion... Mind you, as you are posting anonymous, I suspect you are actually an american scaremonger posting BS, but thats pretty common.
It would, for example, be pretty damn hard to get a nuclear power incident more incompetently managed and 'dirty' as Chernobyl, and I am pretty sure that the human race has not yet been wiped out by it (although the local wildlife population is devastatingly healthy thanks to less people around).
Perhaps you would prefer a mountain of radioactive ash from coal plants?
You seem to forget that the US dropped NUCLEAR FUCKING BOMBS on two Japanese cities only 70 odd years ago, and both are thriving cities these days.
What goes on for so long is the bs paranoia that is so deeply ingrained that people refuse to look at the scientific facts that low levels of radiation are not lethal, and in fact are quite common naturally.
Or perhaps you suggest we should require people to block up all basements in bedrock due to the natural radon levels? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon
Not to mention banning bananas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
People living in Ramsir, Iran of course must be dead by now, but somehow they have been surviving for centuries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran
But dont let actual facts get in the way of your cold war radiation terror..
We push close to 1k TPS through a reasonably setup postgres database (large and highly structured) with hardware levels I would say a bit less than oracle would throw at a similar oracle setup, and it is a fast rock. We have zero problems with it. Throw that kind of load at any system untuned and it will fall over - oracle included.
People often compare postgres benchmarked on someones PC to oracle running on a large unix server - of course oracle will win there, but postgres can scale up pretty damn solidly these days also. Unless you have very specific requirements that require of of the niches postgres does not (yet) address it is great.
Are you kidding? This is just the continuation of another avenue US funds Israel to the tune of billions to further develop its 'defensive capabilities'.
Thank god that NASA cannot cooperate with the Chinese, who are actually actively working on space systems, because of their HORRIFIC human rights records. Much much better to work with those lovely fluffy Israelis. What have THEY ever done against human rights?
No No! you dont understand the land of the free obviously. The answer is more guns. The answer is ALWAYS more guns. Then the general public would have been free to shoot the toddler with the gun before they had a chance to shoot themselves, saving the day!
No, you are right. These days you just sell/give them to others to use.. Usually to destabilise governments you dont agree with. Because arming such dissident groups is a good idea, right?
I don't know if you've kept up with the latest and greatest when it comes to maintaining a car, but the mandatory and open OBD-II interface that is required on all vehicles since 1996 (in the USA). This standardised plug must be located in the interior withing 2 feet of the driver. It provides all this data, in real time, and more.
A bluetooth interface to get this to your smartphone costs approximately $5.
Sounds pretty damn hard to me.. you may have to look in your owners manual, and open a little plastic door to get to it!
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FFS why is it that people these days are so incapable of any form of critical thinking, research, or observation?
So, VW cheated, which is shitty, however if you look at their figures they are STILL massively better than American diesel
engines (you know, those ones that get a nice dispensation as they are in a 'truck' even though its really an SUV mum uses
to take the kids to school).
Go and have a look at BMW diesel engines, they DO pass all the most stringent levels of test, without any problems, and
are of similar efficiency. They *do* kick petrols butt so far an environmentally clean..
This is all primarily a political move, by VW group to try and claim they were forced to cheat (which is untrue) and by governments
in general as diesel cars often slip into tax holes they have to support heavy trucks (which generally are pollution monsters, but
get tax breaks anyway, go figure). They want you back on petrol because they make more money!
If you want to clean up diesel, simply get the old diesel vehicles off the road (and the old petrol ones also!)
Force checks on trucks! stop running empty buses around your cities!
But for god sake learn something about real modern clean diesel, because its one hell of a lot better than petrol.
Ah yes, even as a 'right winger' myself, I wonder if you realise just how silted and contrived that 'article' is.
What is basically boils down to is the story you will hear from both sides of the political fence these days -
'For your own good, we know best - and we need more control! trust us! fear each other!'
People have forgotten that there are two axis to politics, left/right, and Totalitarian/libertarian.
Do we so quickly forget the second axis because the labels are 'harder'?
You can certainly have left and/or right totalitarian regimes, and we seem to be busy constructing quite a few at present.
You can also have left and/or right Libertarian regimes.
(For the Americans in the audience, Libertarianism is confusing to you I know, it has very little to do with your liberal party, or
your odd view of political/religious matters, so try and allow for that).
That article is a pretty simple attack in support of the new Totalitarianism - what a surprise. The message is 'You need us, your
government, to force the nogoods to do the right thing, or they will take advantage of you! give us more power!' Because apparently
society itself is incapable of social pressure - oh how times have changed, apparently.
On the idea of basic income? why not, the transition would be the problem - but I doubt we will see it in any major implementation for
a long long time, because governments worldwide are on a power trip right now, and giving up an area of control of their people is not
part of that playbook now, is it.
One of the more interesting parts however of a solid basic income package, which hardly ever gets mentioned, is removal of minimum
wage. This frees up a whole pile of minor jobs which are simply not economic (looking after the neighbors kids after school, mowing lawns,
etc) and are often now done under the table.. minimum wage becomes much less needed, as there is less 'force' for people to have a job
at any cost.
But hey, it doesnt help grow state control, so good luck with that. We are better worrying terribly about the reds under the bed - oh sorry, I
mean ISIS, or whomever they choose in another year or so.
The German 'carpet bombing' of Rotterdam killed less than 1000 people, and involved 90 bombers...
The Blitz in London (which never even got close to 'carpet bombing' killed less than 500 people.
Our lovely Americans killed around 100,000 Japanese in Tokyo with incendiary raids (basically burnt them to death), Hiroshima and Nagasaki averaged about 100,000 each also, but of course those were single bombs.. Other 25,000 in Dresden, pretty much the same method, 40,000 in Hamburg. While the British assisted on such raids, they were very much American designed and lead. There failure is also well documented (it was supposed to 'break' the Germans, instead of course it just strengthened their resolve), but the lessons have pretty much been ignored.
For the Germans you would have been better to perhaps actually learn some history, Warsaw and Stalingrad were their big cases of bombing,although neither was at all typical carpet bombing (more a long sustained attack over weeks), and a large number of the casualties there are considered secondary (disease, starvation, exposure, etc) (around 25,000 and 40,000, similar to Dresden and Hamburg, however fatalities from actual bombing are estimated to be closer to 1/3 of those numbers).
Sorry to let facts get in the way..
Does this really surprise anyone? This is one of the primary features of most IoT type setups - you dont own what you have bought, you are just using a service, and therefore of course they feel free to redefine that service as they wish.
They here of course is not limited to Phillips, but people will continue to be surprised by this.
Until we see some (haha! yeah right) legislation that makes it illegal for terms, level, or functionality of service to not be reduced or removed without agreement from BOTH parties, this is what we will have.
Consumers were enough for a while, but the hunger has increased, and you only paid once then! It is immoral for the middle class to be allowed to save, so more ways must be invented to empty there wallets weekly to fund the top (rulers) and the bottom (troublemakers who must be paid to stay in check)... Welcome to the machine.
Ok, so, what happens if their one sample is taken 5 mm from where the bacteria in question is?
You do understand that such bacteria are not a continuous coating over all surfaces of the food, right?
This is just companies learning from your wonderful government.
People have accepted security theater, this is just health safety theater. Impress people with advanced sounding
technology (DNA testing! yes, really, they will use that well known library of evil bacteria DNA library.. oh wait, that doesnt exist).
Wont make one scrap of difference. After all, improved washing, and communicating to your customers that no food can be
made perfectly safe, so sometimes things will happen, both hit profits! than simple cannot be allowed.
Luckily the shepple are so indoctrinated these days they dare not even try and actually think about such things, so it will work...
You know Bruce..
As much as you are pushing back against people drawing parallels to software the more I read the more I have to agree with them..
What you are doing is selecting one specific case for your hardware and trying to use that to make a general point. That case is not especially general.
It is easy to find software cases where knowledge and monetary investments are at least as high as your hardware investments.. And the people who point out that your evangelical claims over opening software apply equally (no matter if valid or invalid) to hardware are correct.
'Open' is pretty much as good or bad for everyone in either case.
And no. 50k is not a bare minimum for hardware design and not all boards cost 2k to respin and not all Chinese hardware houses are child labor slave pits either.. I'm afraid your biases are showing through rather strongly here.
I have designed and build hardware micrometer resolution electronic distance sensors which are analogue digital hybrid on $20 per spin boards with less than $2k of diagnostic hardware. My software development setup costs more and takes more time..
Also.. Have your forgotten time equals money? That is a huge factor in software.. Your seen to want to ignore that. Do you not value developers time? Do you think learning hardware design is more special than software somehow? Are we all equal but hardware designers are more equal?
I see valid function on both sides of the open argument.. For software and for hardware.. And I contribute and work with both. Anything else would take some serious cherry picking of 'facts' sorry to say.
It's worse than that. Actual measurements show the islands are growing not shrinking.
It's all just an attempt to extort money based on lies.
However the bleeding hearts just never bother to do any actual research.. They just want to feel self important by 'supporting the cause'.
Interesting to see what people consider a robots breakthrough these days.
It seems little more than the old follow the white line 'robots' (that have existed for for at least 50+ years, and primary school kids build with a couple of photodiodes, motors, etc) a monitor for them to run on (and not even a very large one), and a simple feedback camera to 'draw' from one of the robots.
They could do pretty much the same thing by tying a pen to the first damn 'bot' and putting them on a normal floor.
This has exactly ZERO do to with pheromones, swarms, or I would suggest breakthroughs.
I would expect something like this from a high school science project, not a damn PhD.
Hell, whats wrong with some actual chemical sensors, and droplet sprayers on the robots? would be more interesting and allow for different
mixing, trail lifespan testing, etc.
Or they could have used a virtual trail system using radio location and swam communication, but that may have involved actual development.
I am not sure which is sadder, this 'research', that a university actually allowed it, or that slashdot reported on it.
Yes.. But that opens another question.
With the current rates of progress.. Will gegl based gimp as a full release with clean 16 bit be available before or after the heat death of the universe?
I suspect it will be a close call either way.
Development more these days has quite clearly moved into 'tinker with what the development god decided is flavor of the year' mode rather than any actual progress plan. Has been like that for a long long time.
And Sadly its about 10 years since the developers pretty much stopped listening to the users, and 5 years since development ground to a halt.
Pity really, it was hijacked by a group of people with 'certain ideas' of how everything must be, and no willingness to compromise with the general user base.
After that, less and less developers contribute, the user base shrunk (or at best stopped growing).
3.0 has become a sad joke.
All of which is a great great pity. Compare it with Blender, with a healthy and energetic user and developer base, a continuous flow of real and useful new features, and a rapidly growing and actively using user base.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
Ah, but that would cut in to their *profits!*
The thing to remember here is of course these Salmon will be significantly cheaper to produce.
Will they be qualitatively different? of course! faster grown species are always noticeably different.
Their trick of course is they will market them as the original species, which they now are not. Just require them
to be marketed under a new name...
Oh, and if you think GM labeling will ever get anywhere in the US, good luck with that, it would cut in to profits.
The dream of the GM growers is lower production costs for the same selling prices, nothing more, nothing less.
However what you actually did, rather than create a brand and market a product, was to cheaply troll the internet and get a cheap boost at the cost of lowering things one step further into the cesspool of marketing-no-matter-the-lie.
Tell me, what value do you think you have created here?
I wonder if you feel proud?
Of course you do, you are America. Go America!
Once NASA was a driven motivated organisation that excelled at achieving its goals, worked with external entities and well and achieved impressively.
Long has it lived on the reputation it earnt then, however..
Times have long since changed. It has become a bureaucratic slow moving monolith that fights for total control of everything it can get its hands on, participates happily in pork barrel politics, and appears to primarily exist to build its own empire where possible. It is permanently decrying its lack of funding, while playing silly PR games (do we really need the publics input on the best fashion design for spacesuits) and doing exactly NOTHING to address its massive internal inefficiency, bureaucracy and waste.
Of course this is not really surprising - most organisations of that size, when funded as deeply and not always given clear targets will degenerate in this way, however it is sad to see.
It is rather sad of course, because it was such a powerhouse of innovation in its heyday, and IMHO space exploration and research is very important.
I know that some people with howl and gnash their teeth and anyone daring to state the obvious, because they only want to see NASA through the glasses of times past, but that is not a way to move forward.
with regard to the inmotion charging..
Not to mention the fact that you better not be carrying anything magnetizable or magnetically erasable while you drive anywhere near these things.
The power density would have to be astronomical - have this really got past back of the envelope analysis?
Even if you assume a vehicle is only using 15HP to maintain itself in steady state cruise, thats a little over 11kW.
Allow for inefficiency in the motors and storage/drive, call it 15kW steady state
Allow for losses in the transmission and reception of the energy over a decent airgap and with a moving target, you are probably looking well over 20kW.
Now, say the charging stations are 5 minutes drive apart, and you spend 30 second over their 'charge grids' (those will be some LONG grids..)
you will now need a power rate of around 200kW to be transfered continuously for 30 seconds to provide enough energy.
Could all the people willing to sit in close proximity to a 200kW field, at speed, for 10% of their driving time please raise their hands?
Even the idea of stationary contactless charging is just foolish - why not simply attach contacts and increase the safety/efficiency massively.
I smell pork, lots and lots of nice fat goverment funded pork. Facts never get in the way of pork..
What maked you think its about the '1%'? do you think they even care?
Have a look at the teachers, the administrators, the associated unions, the 'think of the children' reactionary crowd, and you soon see that education is pretty much doomed before it begins.
The majority working in education, especially younger grades, now just see it as a meal ticket, and the kids as an annoyance to be avoided as much as possible.
Standardised testing is a threat to their ability to do as little as possible for this paychecks.
The truly sad part of all of this is the teachers (and administrators) who do really care, are being pushed out by this - they get drowned in a system where there is more and more administrative overhead designed to 'measure' everything (and do nothing), which makes is close to impossible to both do a good job and to meet 'requirements'. They tend to either burn out or give up.
What we desperately need is:
A return of a path for good teachers to become administrators - and a removal of 'career' administrators who are just collecting a paycheck.
A strong message to the unions that our childrens schools do NOT exist to give their members a chushy ride, and 'think of the children' cries mixed with 'we can hold them to ransom' threats of action are not acceptible.
A return of GENDER BALANCE in teachers - it is not healthy that 90% of lower school teachers are now female, and male teachers are being actively removed.
A removal of teachers 'tenure', which is just an attcak on the kids, combined with:
Active performance measurement of teachers RESULTS (not self assessed). A teacher who is not performing for her students must not be allowed to continue damaging childrens education!, and note:
THIS is why teachers cannot self-assess their students! The good teachers judge students harshly, to motivate them, but therefore they look bad - poor teachers however are free to judge their students very easily (this is very very widely documented), making the bad teacher look good...
And finally, school costs not DIRECTLY related to education need to be taken to, harshly. Large fancy off-site administration buildings do NOT help kids learn better.
Teachers need respect, and teachers need to EARN respect. Teaching children is a critical role - however we seem to be doing everything possible to damage the profession in return for making teachers lives more comfortable. Imagine if we did the same for pilots or surgeons..
Is it really that difficult?
Nice to see you avoid the obvious proving point of populations LIVING in high radiation levels - just keep avoiding facts why dont you..
But since you asked.
A good starting point to learn about the assumption of linear ionising radiation damage:
http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/radiation-the-no-safe-level-myth.html
But you just keep believing your reds-under-the-bed propoganda view of radiation.. because science stopped in the 50s, really it did.
For bonus points I suggest you keep working hard to stop development/deployment of new generation nuclear power, to maximise the length
of time we keep running old gen reactors, and block any attempts to minimise waste through reprocessing/breeding! yeah, thats the ticket!
Try a banana on your Geiger counter..
And yes, I spend plenty of time in Tokyo myself, so I get to have an opinion...
Mind you, as you are posting anonymous, I suspect you are actually an american scaremonger posting BS, but thats pretty common.
I beg to differ, no it cannot.
It would, for example, be pretty damn hard to get a nuclear power incident more incompetently managed and 'dirty' as Chernobyl, and I am pretty sure that the human race has not yet been wiped out by it (although the local wildlife population is devastatingly healthy thanks to less people around).
Perhaps you would prefer a mountain of radioactive ash from coal plants?
You seem to forget that the US dropped NUCLEAR FUCKING BOMBS on two Japanese cities only 70 odd years ago, and both are thriving cities these days.
What goes on for so long is the bs paranoia that is so deeply ingrained that people refuse to look at the scientific facts that low levels of radiation are not lethal, and in fact are quite common naturally.
Or perhaps you suggest we should require people to block up all basements in bedrock due to the natural radon levels?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon
Not to mention banning bananas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose
People living in Ramsir, Iran of course must be dead by now, but somehow they have been surviving for centuries
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran
But dont let actual facts get in the way of your cold war radiation terror..
Sorry, but the FUD is strong in this one.
We push close to 1k TPS through a reasonably setup postgres database (large and highly structured) with hardware levels I would say a bit less than oracle would throw at a similar oracle setup, and it is a fast rock. We have zero problems with it.
Throw that kind of load at any system untuned and it will fall over - oracle included.
People often compare postgres benchmarked on someones PC to oracle running on a large unix server - of course oracle will win there, but postgres can scale up pretty damn solidly these days also. Unless you have very specific requirements that require of of the niches postgres does not (yet) address it is great.
Are you kidding?
This is just the continuation of another avenue US funds Israel to the tune of billions to further develop its 'defensive capabilities'.
Thank god that NASA cannot cooperate with the Chinese, who are actually actively working on space systems, because of their HORRIFIC human rights records.
Much much better to work with those lovely fluffy Israelis. What have THEY ever done against human rights?
No No! you dont understand the land of the free obviously.
The answer is more guns. The answer is ALWAYS more guns.
Then the general public would have been free to shoot the toddler with the gun before they had a chance to shoot themselves, saving the day!
No, you are right.
These days you just sell/give them to others to use..
Usually to destabilise governments you dont agree with.
Because arming such dissident groups is a good idea, right?
Not even close.
Look at mental health/psychology for a start.
That is just a joke when it comes to scientific method.
I suspect this is more a case of follow the money than actual bad science.. politics...
I don't know if you've kept up with the latest and greatest when it comes to maintaining a car, but the mandatory and open OBD-II interface that is required on all vehicles since 1996 (in the USA). This standardised plug must be located in the interior withing 2 feet of the driver.
It provides all this data, in real time, and more.
A bluetooth interface to get this to your smartphone costs approximately $5.
Sounds pretty damn hard to me.. you may have to look in your owners manual, and open a little plastic door to get to it!