These days you seem to have forgotten that most of the truly physically productive jobs have already been outsourced to other countries (China, Mexico, etc), and you are now sliding down the slippery slope of those countries refining their ownership, capital, and trade situations to take advantage of this.
Japan was once the 'cheap labor' for the US.... and yet people never seem to see a trend.
My only suggestion? Stop damn well following the crowd and consuming every little luxury you can convince yourself you deserve on credit! Learn a practical skill or three (and no, manipulating office politics is not a practical skill). Live somewhere that is sustainable n what you can actually contribute. Take a walk in a park on a nice day and revel in the fact that you are alive.. and that doesnt actually cost (well, much). Oh, and perhaps treat your friends/family with due care and respect, because when shit happens - everyone needs some support.
Oh, sorry, not in line with the American Dream? oh well, good lucky with that.
And if he climbed over that fence because some crazed nutter was chasing him with a gun and he was trying to run away?
Or perhaps he is the new neighbor and his kids favorite toy had got over the fence - he had tried to knock on your door (you didnt hear), so he thought you were out and didnt want to cause a bother and just get it.
Dont worry, his wife and children should be quite happy after you explain it was just an accident.
You come out after a night with some friends in town, its dark and you wander over to your car in teh parking lot. The key doesnt seem to work well, and you just cannot get the damn door to unlock!
Unknown to you, your car is actually one row over, this just happens to be the same colour/model. The real owner, angry after a run-in earlier that evening, arrives behind you, sees you 'trying to steal his car' and shoots you. Dead. Police are called, but several people saw you trying to break in to his car.. He kind of feels bad, but hell, you shouldnt have been trying to steal his damn car!
Please, tell me, exactly what makes you think they wont also raise your taxes? You think the Smithsonian budget is going to reduced by this amount? You think they will somehow work harder and more efficiently because they have a bit more money to spend? You think there will be new and more effective accountability?
What impresses me is that there are apparently quite a few people willing to voluntarily pay a new tax. Good on them? hmm... not too sure about that.
Just wondering, after the first 6 months, where will you get your ammunition? If you can buy it, then why can people not buy guns? Or do you perhaps use flintlocks?
It means that these people are trying to RAM smoke up your arse, but cannot make it look convincing enough even then, so want help to polish the turd. They are trying hard to pull a 'correlation is causation' scam, but dont even have the ability to do that it seems.
The obvious problem here is that there is almost certainly a correlation between these locations and poorer communities, which also have a very well established correlation with increased health issues.
The scary thing is that this is even being reported. Congratulations Slashdot. It almost but not quite makes it to satire!
Depending on bitrates and content that is not particularly difficult to do, given good equipment (high quality headphones), however any claim that stream is the worst medium is just laughable. Both vinyl LPs (once used a few times) and FM radio are often significantly worse, not to mention AM radio. Just about all broadcast TV and satellite radio are also compressed as much, if not more.
So I figure he is limiting his music purely to CD and the rare 'HD' versions of that?
He is of course just trying to get some attention for his disastrous and rather technically foolish Ponoplayer (I wont even link to it, google it if you need).
I will however leave you with this to read: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html On why his snake oil is a bad bad idea.. but hey, if you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one I guess!
And if you picture it AS that, then you need a quick lesson in critical thinking. "aircraft with 1-2 orders of magnitude more payload are used to control wildfires" is patently false - at best they make many many runs to try and wet down areas to control the flow of wildfires in locations where they think that may help.
That and the fact the a drone could, for example, dump a small load of retardant foam on your nice (almost certainly not flammable) roof, while the fire enjoys spreading like 'wildfire' throughout the inside of the building....
Perhaps it could make a small dent on a few outdoor bbq fires - you know, the ones where a garden hose does the job also.
It wont buy you any time, what it is most likely to do is delay useful responses and add to costs significantly.
As of 2014, 44 people in TOTAL have died from rocket/mortar/explosive attacks launched at Israel (almost all from mortar attacks, btw, which is not the issue being discussed).
In 2012, 263 people died in car accidentsin Israel. Perhaps Israel should also nuke Detroit?
For reference Israeli security forces (NOT the army) kill more Palestinians than that per year in 'security checks' Last years 'summer offensive' by the Israeli army (you know, the one to protect themselves from the horrific bloodshed caused by the rockets) killed over 2300 Palestinians. many women and children.
Tell me, what exact definition of civil do you use, because that certainly doesnt look very civil to me.
Or perhaps you mean the version of civil where their navy turns away sanctioned food and medical aid to the Palestinians?
Or the one where the bulldoze Palestinian towns so they can move their own settlers in?
I'm confused, perhaps you can let me know which version of Civil they are.
And I can only assume that the author had never actually been to new Zealand.
Wtf makes him think new Zealand is an any way what he dreams of? I can assure him people there work damn hard, and life is most certainly not done easy street.
Perhaps he needs to climb down out of his ivory tower from time to time and visit the real world.
... And if you think the difference between lease and buy is exceeded by the difference between zero and 4 percent interest then you cannot do math.
The face is that leasing almost never makes financial success except in a short term use scenario. Lease companies generally make very good profits and there is a reason for that.
They also make a lot of money of people and companies who think they only need something for a short time but end up keeping it for a long time.. Very very common.
The only way this story makes sense is..
A. Slashdot is now it's own shill. B. People who live on credit (and lease deals are almost always used as a form of credit) will go a long way to convince themselves it makes sense.
There are of course some situations where it does make sense.. But never because it is cheaper over a long time period.
While we are at it, can we please ban other passengers from cars, especially children! They cause all sorts of distractions.
I also suggest banning all roadside signage, 'loud' paint jobs on cars, personalised number plates, DEFINATELY in car entertainment, anything within visibility of the road that can create light glare.
Oh, and could we PLEASE remove all the cup holders, what the hell are drivers doing eating or drinking in their cars?
And while we are at it, how about teaching people to drive, and removing the licenses of people without the required skills?
I leave it up to you to guess where I am taking the piss, and what is deadly serious. it may not be as easy as you think.
No, no it doesnt.. or are you perhaps planning to use a vehicle with no gearbox?
HP is all that matters (not just peak HP of course, but HP across your used engine rpm range) BECAUSE you have a gearbox... and therefore can choose run operate in the rev range you want.
'Torque is what matters' is the cry of the ye olde V8 lovin redneck.. but provably stupid.
Governments everywhere are printing money hand over fist and giving it to the banks to lend out (which they love). This keeps people with mortgages happy (a lot of voters) as interest rates stay low. This erodes the savings of anyone who dares not spend spend spend, which makes retailers and 'investment' sellers happy. This forces savers money into the 'economy' to help subsidise everyones sins of excess.
This, however cannot last. It is highly inflationary (every wondered why there is not that much inflation? because it is being offset by a continuing slump in many other areas, combined with an ever increasing cooking-of-the-books on how inflation is calculated.
I mean I can only assume that they must also cease operation if there are any large birds in the area (a duck, goose, hawk, eagle, etc would do at least as much damage to them if hit).
Then C++ is almost certainly not the language for you, unless it is a pure learning experience.
Really.. C++ is a relatively high commitment language, and performance is one of its mainstays, however you dont feel you will spend much time optimising it? If you cannot look quite quickly over the descriptions of Boost/ASIO and see what they do (and dont) bring to the table, then you will be fighting a very uphill battle.
The reference to TCP/IP being 'done for you' is worrying.. do you think people program raw TCP in C++?
If you value your project at all then I would suggest C++ is not sounding like your solution.. especially if you need cross platform. Your reasons seem almost to be reasons NOT to use an unfamiliar language.
As almost everything else has equal or better cross platform support, it seems to me like you need to look more closely to what you mean/need by 'granularity' and perhaps change your mentality using familiar languages, and the solutions for problems in those areas.
Someone has obviously not heard of Amdahl's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law Or thought about the issues with power consumption, data distribution, security, reliability, fault tolerance, and just about anything else.
That and the fact that IoT is NOT about active processing in devices (thats only an enabler to it), it is about the centralisation of control of those devices 'in the cloud', for whatever benifit that is supposed to bring (mostly to the bottom line of the suppliers by selling you a service rather than a device usually).
Smart devices have been around for a long time, and their average computational power is meager, to say the least.
What I suspect is confusing the parent poster (and I agree with you that they are completely wrong) is that these days, with the 'everyone has the god given right to a university degree!' mentality, people are getting degrees in all sorts of complete crap, and when you add alongside that the fact that universities have worked out they make money by turning over the maximum number of students (hence it is in their advantage to make it as easy as absolutely possible to graduate) what we end up with is a huge devaluing of the average value of a degree.
Once upon a time having a degree in many areas really meant something, and a bunch of companies WANTED you. Now it means next to nothing since just about any monkey can get one, hence the employers dont want to pay through the nose just for the degree, you have to have something else to actually show some value/usefulness/talent.
The AVERAGE starting salary of graduates is therefore hugely eroded, because there are many more lower value graduates now. The good graduates are damaged by this, but not to the same extent.
The only solution is for society as a whole to get over its 'you are a failure if you dont get a degree' alongside universities operating on turnover based economics, and we may actually one day see a return to their true purpose (training those more special minds that need such exposure), and then perhaps technical colleges can also return to what they once did (train the middle ground of practical workers), and apprenticeships can be seen as the right fit for yet a different set of workers.
But I wouldn't hold your breath, that would take a sensible approach - good luck with that.
So the result is that the value of a 'degree' is reduced, but thats the fault of the universities themselves.
824,297 is the total number of cellular sites opensignal has data for, ON THE PLANET. It is estimated all operators in the UK have around 23,000 cell sites (including microcells). There appear to be between 100 and 150 TOTAL sites in London.
So no, they could catch a fair bit of all of the trafic in say Central London with those, lets say one per embassy zone, a couple around Parliment, one for the Queen, etc - they could drag a nice little bit of data for their colonial cousins with those..
Oh, wait, how foolish of me, they are only used to fight active terrorist groups who are working to kill us all! how easy to forget.
No.. He was quite clearly attacking the idea of taxes as a source of charity and wealth redistribution.. Not all taxes. If you cannot see the difference then you have no place in any discussion about taxes.. Except as an example of the problem. The point is very clearly that poorly run private charity is easily fixed (move your donations). Publicly run charity is next to impossible to fix and rapidly devices into a self serving politically motivated disaster.
1 - as others have pointed out, you are barking up the wrong tree - these are bussard ramjets, not the type you are thinking of. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
2 - normal ramjets are alive and well and very functional thank you very much - not even new tech. Several countries have been using RAMJETS for some time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos
3 - what I suspect you are thinking about SCRAMjets (supersonic combustion..), while rare, are also functional now and have passed the point of being considered a scam as they once were, for example you can watch one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_rzuSuqIg The Russians and Indians seem quite happy with their SCRAMJETS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos-II
Your first claim is false. Any storage can act as a backup, including printing things out. You are making a personal judgement over quality. Your second claim is false. Recycled backups are perfectly valid and highly used (for example cycled daily backups as part of a tape rota).
What you mean in the first claim is that a hard drive may not be THE most reliable form of backup storage (but then, its not the least either).
What you mean in the second claim is that a backup should act as a separate snapshot of data, and only be updated at known timepoints, not continuously.
Hard Drives are validly used in a range of backup systems,. including some rather high ends ones. RAID, however, is not a backup.
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That would have been true about 15 years ago.
These days you seem to have forgotten that most of the truly physically productive jobs have already been outsourced to other countries (China, Mexico, etc), and you are now sliding down the slippery slope of those countries refining their ownership, capital, and trade situations to take advantage of this.
Japan was once the 'cheap labor' for the US.... and yet people never seem to see a trend.
My only suggestion? Stop damn well following the crowd and consuming every little luxury you can convince yourself you deserve on credit!
Learn a practical skill or three (and no, manipulating office politics is not a practical skill).
Live somewhere that is sustainable n what you can actually contribute.
Take a walk in a park on a nice day and revel in the fact that you are alive.. and that doesnt actually cost (well, much).
Oh, and perhaps treat your friends/family with due care and respect, because when shit happens - everyone needs some support.
Oh, sorry, not in line with the American Dream? oh well, good lucky with that.
And if he climbed over that fence because some crazed nutter was chasing him with a gun and he was trying to run away?
Or perhaps he is the new neighbor and his kids favorite toy had got over the fence - he had tried to knock on your door (you didnt hear),
so he thought you were out and didnt want to cause a bother and just get it.
Dont worry, his wife and children should be quite happy after you explain it was just an accident.
You come out after a night with some friends in town, its dark and you wander over to your car in teh parking lot. The key doesnt seem to work well, and you just cannot get the damn door to unlock!
Unknown to you, your car is actually one row over, this just happens to be the same colour/model.
The real owner, angry after a run-in earlier that evening, arrives behind you, sees you 'trying to steal his car' and shoots you. Dead.
Police are called, but several people saw you trying to break in to his car.. He kind of feels bad, but hell, you shouldnt have been trying
to steal his damn car!
Have a nice day.
and not raise my taxes.
I was kind of with you up to there.
Please, tell me, exactly what makes you think they wont also raise your taxes?
You think the Smithsonian budget is going to reduced by this amount?
You think they will somehow work harder and more efficiently because they have a bit more money to spend?
You think there will be new and more effective accountability?
What impresses me is that there are apparently quite a few people willing to voluntarily pay a new tax. Good on them? hmm... not too sure about that.
Just wondering, after the first 6 months, where will you get your ammunition?
If you can buy it, then why can people not buy guns?
Or do you perhaps use flintlocks?
Just wondering....
Only on my old XP machines.. cannot seem to find any on my Linux machines though, damnit! ;)
It means that these people are trying to RAM smoke up your arse, but cannot make it look convincing enough even then,
so want help to polish the turd.
They are trying hard to pull a 'correlation is causation' scam, but dont even have the ability to do that it seems.
Perhaps they need to ban Icecream first.
Killer Icecream
The obvious problem here is that there is almost certainly a correlation between these locations and poorer communities,
which also have a very well established correlation with increased health issues.
The scary thing is that this is even being reported. Congratulations Slashdot. It almost but not quite makes it to satire!
Depending on bitrates and content that is not particularly difficult to do, given good equipment (high quality headphones), however any claim that stream is the worst medium is just laughable.
Both vinyl LPs (once used a few times) and FM radio are often significantly worse, not to mention AM radio.
Just about all broadcast TV and satellite radio are also compressed as much, if not more.
So I figure he is limiting his music purely to CD and the rare 'HD' versions of that?
He is of course just trying to get some attention for his disastrous and rather technically foolish Ponoplayer (I wont even link to it, google it if you need).
I will however leave you with this to read:
http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
On why his snake oil is a bad bad idea.. but hey, if you are going to tell a lie, make it a big one I guess!
And if you picture it AS that, then you need a quick lesson in critical thinking.
"aircraft with 1-2 orders of magnitude more payload are used to control wildfires" is patently false - at best they make many many runs to try and wet down areas to control the flow of wildfires in locations where they think that may help.
That and the fact the a drone could, for example, dump a small load of retardant foam on your nice (almost certainly not flammable) roof, while the fire enjoys spreading like 'wildfire' throughout the inside of the building....
Perhaps it could make a small dent on a few outdoor bbq fires - you know, the ones where a garden hose does the job also.
It wont buy you any time, what it is most likely to do is delay useful responses and add to costs significantly.
As of 2014, 44 people in TOTAL have died from rocket/mortar/explosive attacks launched at Israel (almost all from mortar attacks, btw, which is not the issue being discussed).
In 2012, 263 people died in car accidentsin Israel.
Perhaps Israel should also nuke Detroit?
For reference Israeli security forces (NOT the army) kill more Palestinians than that per year in 'security checks'
Last years 'summer offensive' by the Israeli army (you know, the one to protect themselves from the horrific bloodshed caused by the rockets) killed over 2300 Palestinians. many women and children.
Tell me, what exact definition of civil do you use, because that certainly doesnt look very civil to me.
Or perhaps you mean the version of civil where their navy turns away sanctioned food and medical aid to the Palestinians?
Or the one where the bulldoze Palestinian towns so they can move their own settlers in?
I'm confused, perhaps you can let me know which version of Civil they are.
And I can only assume that the author had never actually been to new Zealand.
Wtf makes him think new Zealand is an any way what he dreams of? I can assure him people there work damn hard, and life is most certainly not done easy street.
Perhaps he needs to climb down out of his ivory tower from time to time and visit the real world.
The face is that leasing almost never makes financial success except in a short term use scenario. Lease companies generally make very good profits and there is a reason for that.
They also make a lot of money of people and companies who think they only need something for a short time but end up keeping it for a long time.. Very very common.
The only way this story makes sense is..
A. Slashdot is now it's own shill.
B. People who live on credit (and lease deals are almost always used as a form of credit) will go a long way to convince themselves it makes sense.
There are of course some situations where it does make sense.. But never because it is cheaper over a long time period.
Yes! Absolutely!
While we are at it, can we please ban other passengers from cars, especially children! They cause all sorts of distractions.
I also suggest banning all roadside signage, 'loud' paint jobs on cars, personalised number plates, DEFINATELY in car entertainment, anything within visibility of the road that can create light glare.
Oh, and could we PLEASE remove all the cup holders, what the hell are drivers doing eating or drinking in their cars?
And while we are at it, how about teaching people to drive, and removing the licenses of people without the required skills?
I leave it up to you to guess where I am taking the piss, and what is deadly serious. it may not be as easy as you think.
No, no it doesnt.. or are you perhaps planning to use a vehicle with no gearbox?
HP is all that matters (not just peak HP of course, but HP across your used engine rpm range)
BECAUSE you have a gearbox... and therefore can choose run operate in the rev range you want.
'Torque is what matters' is the cry of the ye olde V8 lovin redneck.. but provably stupid.
I think the answer is 'because the previous poster doesnt know what they are talking about', mostly.
Having said that, making a great chassis DOES require a lot more than using fancy construction techniques - they may or may not have got it right.
Yes, and it was them who changed the name, with no public input and rather shall we say 'shaky' reasoning, no?
This, exactly this.
Governments everywhere are printing money hand over fist and giving it to the banks to lend out (which they love).
This keeps people with mortgages happy (a lot of voters) as interest rates stay low.
This erodes the savings of anyone who dares not spend spend spend, which makes retailers and 'investment' sellers happy.
This forces savers money into the 'economy' to help subsidise everyones sins of excess.
This, however cannot last. It is highly inflationary (every wondered why there is not that much inflation? because it is being offset by
a continuing slump in many other areas, combined with an ever increasing cooking-of-the-books on how inflation is calculated.
That must make their operations damn difficult.
I mean I can only assume that they must also cease operation if there are any large birds in the area (a duck, goose, hawk, eagle, etc would do at least as much
damage to them if hit).
Must make fighting forest fires very difficult..
Then C++ is almost certainly not the language for you, unless it is a pure learning experience.
Really.. C++ is a relatively high commitment language, and performance is one of its mainstays, however you dont feel you will spend much time optimising it?
If you cannot look quite quickly over the descriptions of Boost/ASIO and see what they do (and dont) bring to the table, then you will be fighting a very
uphill battle.
The reference to TCP/IP being 'done for you' is worrying.. do you think people program raw TCP in C++?
If you value your project at all then I would suggest C++ is not sounding like your solution.. especially if you need cross
platform. Your reasons seem almost to be reasons NOT to use an unfamiliar language.
As almost everything else has equal or better cross platform support, it seems to me like you need to look more closely to what you mean/need by
'granularity' and perhaps change your mentality using familiar languages, and the solutions for problems in those areas.
Agree 100%.
Someone has obviously not heard of Amdahl's law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
Or thought about the issues with power consumption, data distribution, security, reliability, fault tolerance, and just about anything else.
That and the fact that IoT is NOT about active processing in devices (thats only an enabler to it), it is about the centralisation of control
of those devices 'in the cloud', for whatever benifit that is supposed to bring (mostly to the bottom line of the suppliers by selling you a
service rather than a device usually).
Smart devices have been around for a long time, and their average computational power is meager, to say the least.
What I suspect is confusing the parent poster (and I agree with you that they are completely wrong) is that these days, with the
'everyone has the god given right to a university degree!' mentality, people are getting degrees in all sorts of complete crap, and
when you add alongside that the fact that universities have worked out they make money by turning over the maximum number
of students (hence it is in their advantage to make it as easy as absolutely possible to graduate) what we end up with is a huge
devaluing of the average value of a degree.
Once upon a time having a degree in many areas really meant something, and a bunch of companies WANTED you. Now it means
next to nothing since just about any monkey can get one, hence the employers dont want to pay through the nose just for the
degree, you have to have something else to actually show some value/usefulness/talent.
The AVERAGE starting salary of graduates is therefore hugely eroded, because there are many more lower value graduates now.
The good graduates are damaged by this, but not to the same extent.
The only solution is for society as a whole to get over its 'you are a failure if you dont get a degree' alongside universities operating on
turnover based economics, and we may actually one day see a return to their true purpose (training those more special minds that
need such exposure), and then perhaps technical colleges can also return to what they once did (train the middle ground of practical
workers), and apprenticeships can be seen as the right fit for yet a different set of workers.
But I wouldn't hold your breath, that would take a sensible approach - good luck with that.
So the result is that the value of a 'degree' is reduced, but thats the fault of the universities themselves.
Way to intentionally try and mislead readers!
824,297 is the total number of cellular sites opensignal has data for, ON THE PLANET.
It is estimated all operators in the UK have around 23,000 cell sites (including microcells).
There appear to be between 100 and 150 TOTAL sites in London.
So no, they could catch a fair bit of all of the trafic in say Central London with those, lets
say one per embassy zone, a couple around Parliment, one for the Queen, etc - they could
drag a nice little bit of data for their colonial cousins with those..
Oh, wait, how foolish of me, they are only used to fight active terrorist groups who are working
to kill us all! how easy to forget.
No.. He was quite clearly attacking the idea of taxes as a source of charity and wealth redistribution.. Not all taxes.
If you cannot see the difference then you have no place in any discussion about taxes.. Except as an example of the problem.
The point is very clearly that poorly run private charity is easily fixed (move your donations). Publicly run charity is next to impossible to fix and rapidly devices into a self serving politically motivated disaster.
1 - as others have pointed out, you are barking up the wrong tree - these are bussard ramjets, not the type you are thinking of.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
2 - normal ramjets are alive and well and very functional thank you very much - not even new tech.
Several countries have been using RAMJETS for some time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos
3 - what I suspect you are thinking about SCRAMjets (supersonic combustion..), while rare, are also functional now and have passed
the point of being considered a scam as they once were, for example you can watch one here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K_rzuSuqIg
The Russians and Indians seem quite happy with their SCRAMJETS : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos-II
Your first claim is false. Any storage can act as a backup, including printing things out. You are making a personal judgement over quality.
Your second claim is false. Recycled backups are perfectly valid and highly used (for example cycled daily backups as part of a tape rota).
What you mean in the first claim is that a hard drive may not be THE most reliable form of backup storage (but then, its not the least either).
What you mean in the second claim is that a backup should act as a separate snapshot of data, and only be updated at known timepoints, not continuously.
Hard Drives are validly used in a range of backup systems,. including some rather high ends ones.
RAID, however, is not a backup.