I guess I don't understand how 40 year old systems cannot be upgraded with more modern control systems that do not rely on obsolete or difficult to produce parts. Need motor controllers? There are lots of modern alternatives that run cooler and provide more power.
I also find it hard to believe the computer systems used in BART couldn't be replaced with modern industrial systems - I would think a proper "black box" spec could result in a modern replacement that costs a fraction of even the yearly maintenance costs of the current system and is more reliable.
I'm reminded of Electromotive's efforts to replace the aging and VERY PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE control systems Rockwell thought they had them locked into back in the mid-90s. EDS (yeah, those guys) delivered a system that was cost-effective and a considerable upgrade to Rockwell's ICE systems. It was cheaper to completely replace a system than it was to replace components to keep the old system running....but that's probably just crazy talk.
She idolizes Mayer and worships the ground she walks on. Without copying Mayer's every stupid move, Meg will be completely lost on what to do with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
PC, Playstation and Xbox support, Android and iOS in the wings... no specific mention of Windows Metro, Linux or OSX (I assume PC only means standard Windows).
Unity3D has all the bases covered, and a large number of third-party support through assets and plugins.
Well, it's possible, in certain countries, you might get banned or worse...
Of course, nobody has gotten sued for visiting The Pirate Bay, but if you can stream through your browser, you can bet your IP will be hanging out in the breeze to be picked up by outfits like Rightscorp to log and send through their subpoena mills.
While I'm bitching here on Slashdot... can anybody give me a reasonable explanation why Linux torrent clients had to lose their ability to use proxies? Yeah, I understand the libraries they used removed the functionality - WTF did the library maintainers remove the capability? I also realize the primary reason for proxies, but there are more than a few legitimate reasons for proxies, too.
Porsche's photovoltaic pylon discovered to be consuming megawatts of electricity from the grid when nobody is looking, and spewing large amounts of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.
My school was a rural school who had less funding per student than ANY of the urban schools in our state (I've seen the budget numbers), yet in 1983, we had CP/M machines and wrote real, useful code.
I was delighted to see that my old school also fields a robotics team in the FIRST competition. I have no idea of the state of computer education there, but when I see them again, I most certainly will ask about it.
For my son's school, I will be pressing for something more likened to AP Computer Science, rather than a class better suited to elementary students. I understand the CS teacher has been pressing this issue lately, as well.
Do I feel every student should learn programming? No... but they shouldn't be insulted with a building-block Playskool-level programming education when they express an interest. We need to encourage well-thought out courses that challenge and prepare students for real world development and college-level education.
Design patterns are about using the right tools, in the right way, for the right job. Going back to my shop class example, sure... a student might intuit that a table saw is useful to cut wood, but eventually, they start using the table saw for everything... even cutting lots of curves to make an intricate design, not realizing, because nobody taught them, that a band saw, used properly can safely allow them to cut those complex shapes in a piece of plywood.
I had to intuit a lot of the design patterns I used to develop in C++ back in the early days, because I didn't have the benefit of that book, but then, I consider myself a pretty decent software engineer (I'm well-regarded by my peers and sought after for teams). Still, the information in that book alone represents a solid progression in learning good practices in software development.
When I went to school, in the mid-80s, we were taught BASIC and Pascal, which was a good springboard to languages like C. Today, we have the benefit of more mature, object-oriented languages like Java which are great for educational use, but instead, my son's high school teaches with App Inventor, which is like teaching shop class with LEGOs.
We also have the benefit of great, now classic, books like the Gang Of Four's Design Patterns. We should be teaching kids something useful out of high school, yet we no longer do.
I'm mentoring on my son's Robotics Team, and find myself having to teach them Java programming from the ground up. I suppose it is good for them, but I'm not a teacher, I'm an engineer. Still, we are managing, and they are learning. I'd prefer it if a professional instructor had prepared them better, though.
Forgetting the stupid costs and such, the idea of waiting to read the next part of a book is incredibly bad.
I typically read a book in a few days; then I read another. I don't interleave books, so I'd be dependent on the 13 week release schedule to complete this book to get another one to read.
Multimedia doesn't excite me at all, either. That's not why I read books.
...because that guy calls me a couple of times a month from all over the country about how I'm in trouble with the IRS, and they'll sick the local police on me shortly if I don't send them thousands of dollars, presumably by Western Union or in gift cards.
Every few months, we get another one of these sort of questionable "studies" like "Your cat really doesn't love you" or "Your dog is really dumber than a pile of doornails". Somebody gets a wild hair up their ass to prove their pet theory that supports their own petty biased world view, looking to knock down someone or something a peg.
Psychological studies are the worst... they analyze a group of people and determine that they are somehow "defective" (in this case, narcissistic, by whatever measure they used). It's punditry, plain and simple, in the guise of pseudoscience backed by being "published".
Ultimately, these sort of "studies" are almost always tweaked in some fashion (demographics, location, etc...) to inevitably come to the desired conclusion.
That might be correct. It seems that scale model boat builders use the cube of the scale to calculate the displacement of their model boats versus the full size versions.
So this is a 1/10th scale model, fine... but only 50lbs? Doesn't that mean the full size can only weigh 500lbs to match the flight characteristics of the model?
"Improving Shareholder Value" is the new pyramid scheme.
Example: IBM is "too small" to turn things around... so they need to merge with another company, strip off the business, and let go of a bunch of employees (funny that the execs always seem to do great in those deals and the top-heavy organization always remains top heavy with execs and upper management). They'll see an uptick in the stock price. When things fall again, rinse, lather, repeat....until you can no longer reverse the trend, then bail out with that golden parachute, and land as a CEO in another corporation.
There are so many overlapping board members on all of these corporations - and all of them laugh at the fact that they are handed money by investors, venture capitalists and hedge fund managers to burn and burn some more. People like Mayer knows she'll land on her feet to victimize another company because she's played the game and was generous with the bonuses and options paid out to their directors and executives. Directors may sit on a half a dozen boards at any given time, with overlapping areas of responsibilities. They aren't even Generals - at least Generals devise real strategies and are held responsible for their actions. Executives have assistants (who hope to make the jump some day to the executive senior level) who do most of the grunt work, while directors do little actual work (I'd be surprised if they put in more than 10 hours a week, spread across all the boards they belong to and whatever corporate-specific position they hold)
Modern corporations are being run by the human equivalent of locusts. The leave broken companies (and broken people) in their wake.
Because it has to serve as a shining example of how to do business to Mayer's Number One Fan, Meg Whitman, who has aped everything Yahoo has been doing, using HP's bigger cash coffers.
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Well, Ubuntu, specifically... in Windows 10.
I think the numbers do say that Windows 10 dominates the desktop already, so Bash is going to sneak right in on the next major update.
I guess I don't understand how 40 year old systems cannot be upgraded with more modern control systems that do not rely on obsolete or difficult to produce parts. Need motor controllers? There are lots of modern alternatives that run cooler and provide more power.
I also find it hard to believe the computer systems used in BART couldn't be replaced with modern industrial systems - I would think a proper "black box" spec could result in a modern replacement that costs a fraction of even the yearly maintenance costs of the current system and is more reliable.
I'm reminded of Electromotive's efforts to replace the aging and VERY PROHIBITIVELY EXPENSIVE control systems Rockwell thought they had them locked into back in the mid-90s. EDS (yeah, those guys) delivered a system that was cost-effective and a considerable upgrade to Rockwell's ICE systems. It was cheaper to completely replace a system than it was to replace components to keep the old system running. ...but that's probably just crazy talk.
Petulant developers save the internets!
She idolizes Mayer and worships the ground she walks on. Without copying Mayer's every stupid move, Meg will be completely lost on what to do with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
The Pusher Robot will help you evacuate the top of the stairs.
Here's the latest I got, a week or so ago: https://mega.nz/#!O5NBkJZR!9AYwKr4lTSOauP5pgMXC-T4dF7KqpwhpBz9KwT_pcKw
This is an absolutely "must have" tool, and it's free.
I think that will be the case... these drives will be available, more often than not, for less than $50, perhaps as low as $35.
Samsung is great for driving down market prices.
At least they also invented the wheel.
Granted, it's a stone wheel with foot pegs, but you have to start somewhere.
PC, Playstation and Xbox support, Android and iOS in the wings... no specific mention of Windows Metro, Linux or OSX (I assume PC only means standard Windows).
Unity3D has all the bases covered, and a large number of third-party support through assets and plugins.
The CryEngine is certainly nice, though.
Well, it's possible, in certain countries, you might get banned or worse...
Of course, nobody has gotten sued for visiting The Pirate Bay, but if you can stream through your browser, you can bet your IP will be hanging out in the breeze to be picked up by outfits like Rightscorp to log and send through their subpoena mills.
While I'm bitching here on Slashdot... can anybody give me a reasonable explanation why Linux torrent clients had to lose their ability to use proxies? Yeah, I understand the libraries they used removed the functionality - WTF did the library maintainers remove the capability? I also realize the primary reason for proxies, but there are more than a few legitimate reasons for proxies, too.
Now outfits like Rightscorp have a larger number of targets of people dumb enough to torrent without a proxy or VPN to sue.
Porsche's photovoltaic pylon discovered to be consuming megawatts of electricity from the grid when nobody is looking, and spewing large amounts of nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.
...or "stranglehold"
Maybe it's one of those British-speak things, like boffins or wollygigs?
I think the box office returns have made their statement, but thanks for your opinion, which, of course, means absolutely nothing.
I liked the new Star Wars film. My family enjoyed it very much.
I look forward to many more movies to come.
My school was a rural school who had less funding per student than ANY of the urban schools in our state (I've seen the budget numbers), yet in 1983, we had CP/M machines and wrote real, useful code.
I was delighted to see that my old school also fields a robotics team in the FIRST competition. I have no idea of the state of computer education there, but when I see them again, I most certainly will ask about it.
For my son's school, I will be pressing for something more likened to AP Computer Science, rather than a class better suited to elementary students. I understand the CS teacher has been pressing this issue lately, as well.
Do I feel every student should learn programming? No... but they shouldn't be insulted with a building-block Playskool-level programming education when they express an interest. We need to encourage well-thought out courses that challenge and prepare students for real world development and college-level education.
Design patterns are about using the right tools, in the right way, for the right job. Going back to my shop class example, sure... a student might intuit that a table saw is useful to cut wood, but eventually, they start using the table saw for everything... even cutting lots of curves to make an intricate design, not realizing, because nobody taught them, that a band saw, used properly can safely allow them to cut those complex shapes in a piece of plywood.
I had to intuit a lot of the design patterns I used to develop in C++ back in the early days, because I didn't have the benefit of that book, but then, I consider myself a pretty decent software engineer (I'm well-regarded by my peers and sought after for teams). Still, the information in that book alone represents a solid progression in learning good practices in software development.
When I went to school, in the mid-80s, we were taught BASIC and Pascal, which was a good springboard to languages like C. Today, we have the benefit of more mature, object-oriented languages like Java which are great for educational use, but instead, my son's high school teaches with App Inventor, which is like teaching shop class with LEGOs.
We also have the benefit of great, now classic, books like the Gang Of Four's Design Patterns. We should be teaching kids something useful out of high school, yet we no longer do.
I'm mentoring on my son's Robotics Team, and find myself having to teach them Java programming from the ground up. I suppose it is good for them, but I'm not a teacher, I'm an engineer. Still, we are managing, and they are learning. I'd prefer it if a professional instructor had prepared them better, though.
Shame on educators for having gone this route.
Forgetting the stupid costs and such, the idea of waiting to read the next part of a book is incredibly bad.
I typically read a book in a few days; then I read another. I don't interleave books, so I'd be dependent on the 13 week release schedule to complete this book to get another one to read.
Multimedia doesn't excite me at all, either. That's not why I read books.
...because that guy calls me a couple of times a month from all over the country about how I'm in trouble with the IRS, and they'll sick the local police on me shortly if I don't send them thousands of dollars, presumably by Western Union or in gift cards.
Nigerian 419 scammers, south Asian call centers running those "PC Tech Support" and other scams, e-mail spammers...
The world would be a better place. All of those impact my life daily and far greater than any Al Qaida #2 in Yemen.
Every few months, we get another one of these sort of questionable "studies" like "Your cat really doesn't love you" or "Your dog is really dumber than a pile of doornails". Somebody gets a wild hair up their ass to prove their pet theory that supports their own petty biased world view, looking to knock down someone or something a peg.
Psychological studies are the worst... they analyze a group of people and determine that they are somehow "defective" (in this case, narcissistic, by whatever measure they used). It's punditry, plain and simple, in the guise of pseudoscience backed by being "published".
Ultimately, these sort of "studies" are almost always tweaked in some fashion (demographics, location, etc...) to inevitably come to the desired conclusion.
That might be correct. It seems that scale model boat builders use the cube of the scale to calculate the displacement of their model boats versus the full size versions.
So this is a 1/10th scale model, fine... but only 50lbs? Doesn't that mean the full size can only weigh 500lbs to match the flight characteristics of the model?
Still seems very much like vaporware.
"Improving Shareholder Value" is the new pyramid scheme.
Example: IBM is "too small" to turn things around... so they need to merge with another company, strip off the business, and let go of a bunch of employees (funny that the execs always seem to do great in those deals and the top-heavy organization always remains top heavy with execs and upper management). They'll see an uptick in the stock price. When things fall again, rinse, lather, repeat....until you can no longer reverse the trend, then bail out with that golden parachute, and land as a CEO in another corporation.
There are so many overlapping board members on all of these corporations - and all of them laugh at the fact that they are handed money by investors, venture capitalists and hedge fund managers to burn and burn some more. People like Mayer knows she'll land on her feet to victimize another company because she's played the game and was generous with the bonuses and options paid out to their directors and executives. Directors may sit on a half a dozen boards at any given time, with overlapping areas of responsibilities. They aren't even Generals - at least Generals devise real strategies and are held responsible for their actions. Executives have assistants (who hope to make the jump some day to the executive senior level) who do most of the grunt work, while directors do little actual work (I'd be surprised if they put in more than 10 hours a week, spread across all the boards they belong to and whatever corporate-specific position they hold)
Modern corporations are being run by the human equivalent of locusts. The leave broken companies (and broken people) in their wake.
Because it has to serve as a shining example of how to do business to Mayer's Number One Fan, Meg Whitman, who has aped everything Yahoo has been doing, using HP's bigger cash coffers.