Corporations have incentive to provide timely, accurate information as long as there's competition. The government, on the other hand, don't give a crap about efficiency they only care about effectiveness. Much more bang for your buck with commercial launch and with commercial satellites. Weather satellites are a national defense issue but this could be farmed out to companies...the launch business is mostly companies the government contracts out to so why not weather satellites? Ask yourself, when's the last time the government did something and you were amazed at how little it cost.
Or have we reached you too late after you've drank the liberal Kool-Aid? Think for yourself and stop regurgitating the lies. Repeat after me (in a non-zombie-like voice), "companies not inherently bad...government not inherently good...fire hot..."
I was waiting for this as/. is a haven for liberals. Like him or hate him I think Rush is of above-average intelligence, don't let your dislike of him cloud your judgement.
Looks interesting but a little too much for my single standard phone line. Another option is to program answering machine to pick up on one ring and begin with the tone that signifies the number dialed has been either disconnected or is no longer in service. Robocallers listen to the line for the following:
1. Audio, pause, audio (e.g. "hello...hello...") --> GOOD NUMBER
2. Audio (e.g. "We are not able to come to the phone, leave message) --> ANSWERING MACHINE/SERVICE
3. Disconnect/not in service tone --> BAD NUMBER, HANGUP, DELETE FROM DB (?), AND CALL NEXT IN QUEUE
The trick is to add your answering machine/service message after the "number disconnected/not in service" tones and to let everyone you want to talk to know what you did. Do this for a month or two and you should greatly reduce the robocallers. Worked for me in past but wife doesn't want to do this...I think this is the concept behind that device they sold to limit robocallers (forgot what it was called but it intercepted phone calls, played the tone, then allowed phone to ring...or something like that).
When thousands of calls originate from the same location in a short period of time you could assume it was a robocaller. I get dozens of robocalls every week for the election (polls) and they either show up with no CID at all (e.g. blank) or a bogus number or something else that hides their identity. I wish phone manufacturers would allow home phones to only accept calls from the address book, like a white list.
Robocalling cell phones is illegal but how has that stopped them?
I was born in 1969 and taught myself various dialects of BASIC-like languages (e.g. Simon's BASIC, White Lightning, etc.) but by the time I went to High School I was proficient in assembly code on my Commodore-64. In High School we were taught BASIC on a Commodore PET which actually had five programming languages built-in. I hand jammed 8-bit machine code into the computer after I manually translated the commands the assembly code (e.g. converted "Load accumulator" command into the respective binary digit which I types into the computer). Later in HS I went to a vocational school since I was ahead of my peers a little and I learned Pascal and C where I wrote a program that wrote code in Pascal or C to enable users to have a Windows-like GUI using ASCII windows and menus.
Ironically, I'm a complete noob at current, modern programming. Not sure why assembly was so easy and modern languages like Objective-C is so much harder. Probably has to do with me being able to memorize lists of thousands of Spanish words, for example, and not being able to put them together to form a simple sentence. Same thing when I tried to learn Korean...easy to read, write, and remember words but I talked like a retarded Tarzan clone.
No...gave 'em to your mom when she left this morning.
I listen to lots of music and never get assimilated into the style of the music itself. I think I liked Dio's stories though they're kind of cheesy by today's standards which is why I've mostly moved on. Still enjoy an occasional Dio song when listening in random via iTunes though.
Isn't it recommended not to trust people do the right thing (e.g. wear helmets or other safety gear) and design a system so people can't do the wrong thing (e.g. run other people over with cars)? How about bike bike lanes and mandatory driver education along with no helmet requirements. I grew up never wearing a helmet but my parents taught me to be careful of those big metal things that go fast on roads.
Being religious or not shouldn't be held for you or against you in politics or anywhere else in life. It's another part of what makes people different and provides guidance to people through morals, parables, and examples of what to do as well as what not to do. Religion shouldn't be so polarizing but we have those like this politician who's an obvious wanker and on the flip-side we have others who immediately reject someone because they are religious.
I am Christian but I am not blinded by religion, it guides me and provides a foundation for my life along with what my parents taught me, what school and college taught me, and what I learned through living. It's not a threat to anyone but rather something I find comforting and helpful in my life.
Could be either I suppose, tell me why it couldn't be "epidemic" (e.g. widespread or extremely prevalent) as I think "epidemic" is a better match than "endemic".
People who want to be poor are like unicorns: They don't exist. I have yet to find a person who doesn't want to live comfortably, to have their medical needs looked after, food to eat, and a safe place to sleep. If they do exist, they need medical care, because there's something very, very wrong with them. Most people want to work because it carries certain rewards; But when the only reward is surviving until tomorrow, it's not surprising to find a lack of motivation, and innovation. Especially since they're told every night on TV about the lives of people who are so very much better than they are.
There are plenty of people satisfied with not working as long as they can get food stamps, WIC, and any other money they can get via government programs. There have been quite a few people admit that in the news a while back. I don't blame them for taking "free money" but we have to realize the government doesn't have an infinite amount of money so these programs need to be limited to those who truly need them.
Spreading the wealth isn't a dangerous position. Why is it so much easier for some people to believe that there are tens of millions of lazy people, rather than a few hundred greedy ones?
I think people, given the choice, would prefer to not work and collect money rather than work hard in hopes of making something of themselves...kind of human nature. I like to lounge around at home but I feel a responsibility to earn my living at work and get a strong sense of gratification from hard work. Heck, I even look forward to digging out stumps at my house as it's hard work but I like the result (other than my back pain).
Again, I'm not pointing my finger at anyone other the the government who needs to reform the rules and qualifications for determining who gets the money from these important programs to limit their abuse (e.g. buying iPhones with food stamps). We really need to look out for our fellow Americans but money's tight and we have to spend what we have wisely to make the most impact.
I think it's good to see that people can become rich as it motivates those who are willing to put in the time and effort to attain the same goal. "Spreading the wealth" is a dangerous position unless there's some way to motivate people to improve their situation or to ensure only those that truly need help get it (e.g. keeps the moochers and freeloaders out of the system).
Reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of the Simpsons where Homer joined the NRA and owned a gun. He said near the end of the episode when he stopped a robber using his gun, "Now I know hor God feels...when He has a gun!"
Everything starts off with great intentions then the scammers, conmen, assholes, advertisers, etc. get wind of it and exploit and otherwise screw it up (e.g. spam, tracking cookies, viruses, phishing, etc.). It's human nature. The funny thing is Apple, Microsoft, and others have built or are in the process of building walled off safe zones and people don't like that either as it's too restrictive. What can you do to make both sides happy? Maybe have a "prison rules Internet" and another Internet where everyone has to use some form of digital identification issued by a reputable source which would be used to sign everything (e.g. email, tweets, blog/slashdot postings, etc.). At least you'd know who to screw...other than the smart ones who just make or steal IDs...I give up, back to watching football and drinking beer in my bunker with a tinfoil hat on.
I think the problem may lie with the fact "Guru" Jim had to ask total strangers what his employees need as motivation. I'd suggest management get out and "manage by walking around"...talk to your people and see what motivates them or demotivates them and take it from there.
Good info. Since voice is just time sensitive data it makes sense to only charge for data so long as you can estimate minutes remaining based on data usage before you go over your monthly data limits (e.g. if I have 100MB remaining until I go over, how many minutes is that).
Right. I'm impressed the authors banged out a textbook in a couple days but does it encompass all the subject matter equally, does it not include errors, etc.? I think a more rigorous and structured approach for something as important as a textbook should be the preferred method.
And how the crap is this considered "hacking?" Putting up some drapes and foam isn't really hacking it's more along the lines of what MacGyver would do...
Why is this considered a hackathon? Seems like the term "hack" is a little too cliche...kind of like "epic", "epic fail", etc. They wrote a textbook, wow. I wonder how many errors are in it and how biased it is. Prolly could use a little peer review but 3 days to fill a couple hundred pages...I mean "three days to hack some paper and not epic fail is swell."
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Corporations have incentive to provide timely, accurate information as long as there's competition. The government, on the other hand, don't give a crap about efficiency they only care about effectiveness. Much more bang for your buck with commercial launch and with commercial satellites. Weather satellites are a national defense issue but this could be farmed out to companies...the launch business is mostly companies the government contracts out to so why not weather satellites? Ask yourself, when's the last time the government did something and you were amazed at how little it cost.
Or have we reached you too late after you've drank the liberal Kool-Aid? Think for yourself and stop regurgitating the lies. Repeat after me (in a non-zombie-like voice), "companies not inherently bad...government not inherently good...fire hot..."
No, just you and your invisible friends saw that.
I was waiting for this as /. is a haven for liberals. Like him or hate him I think Rush is of above-average intelligence, don't let your dislike of him cloud your judgement.
Looks interesting but a little too much for my single standard phone line. Another option is to program answering machine to pick up on one ring and begin with the tone that signifies the number dialed has been either disconnected or is no longer in service. Robocallers listen to the line for the following:
1. Audio, pause, audio (e.g. "hello...hello...") --> GOOD NUMBER
2. Audio (e.g. "We are not able to come to the phone, leave message) --> ANSWERING MACHINE/SERVICE
3. Disconnect/not in service tone --> BAD NUMBER, HANGUP, DELETE FROM DB (?), AND CALL NEXT IN QUEUE
The trick is to add your answering machine/service message after the "number disconnected/not in service" tones and to let everyone you want to talk to know what you did. Do this for a month or two and you should greatly reduce the robocallers. Worked for me in past but wife doesn't want to do this...I think this is the concept behind that device they sold to limit robocallers (forgot what it was called but it intercepted phone calls, played the tone, then allowed phone to ring...or something like that).
Reminds me of Rush Limbaugh's quote, "...with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair..."
When thousands of calls originate from the same location in a short period of time you could assume it was a robocaller. I get dozens of robocalls every week for the election (polls) and they either show up with no CID at all (e.g. blank) or a bogus number or something else that hides their identity. I wish phone manufacturers would allow home phones to only accept calls from the address book, like a white list.
Robocalling cell phones is illegal but how has that stopped them?
I was born in 1969 and taught myself various dialects of BASIC-like languages (e.g. Simon's BASIC, White Lightning, etc.) but by the time I went to High School I was proficient in assembly code on my Commodore-64. In High School we were taught BASIC on a Commodore PET which actually had five programming languages built-in. I hand jammed 8-bit machine code into the computer after I manually translated the commands the assembly code (e.g. converted "Load accumulator" command into the respective binary digit which I types into the computer). Later in HS I went to a vocational school since I was ahead of my peers a little and I learned Pascal and C where I wrote a program that wrote code in Pascal or C to enable users to have a Windows-like GUI using ASCII windows and menus.
Ironically, I'm a complete noob at current, modern programming. Not sure why assembly was so easy and modern languages like Objective-C is so much harder. Probably has to do with me being able to memorize lists of thousands of Spanish words, for example, and not being able to put them together to form a simple sentence. Same thing when I tried to learn Korean...easy to read, write, and remember words but I talked like a retarded Tarzan clone.
No...gave 'em to your mom when she left this morning.
I listen to lots of music and never get assimilated into the style of the music itself. I think I liked Dio's stories though they're kind of cheesy by today's standards which is why I've mostly moved on. Still enjoy an occasional Dio song when listening in random via iTunes though.
Funny, I did like Dio was liking Tesla and Dio mutually exclusive? I still have CDs from each but I never listen to Tesla.
Well if I "have to admit it" then I guess I will but Tesla the rock band was good to below average.
Isn't it recommended not to trust people do the right thing (e.g. wear helmets or other safety gear) and design a system so people can't do the wrong thing (e.g. run other people over with cars)? How about bike bike lanes and mandatory driver education along with no helmet requirements. I grew up never wearing a helmet but my parents taught me to be careful of those big metal things that go fast on roads.
From what I've read, "mach 1" is never higher than ~800mph regardless of altitude so he will in fact be falling faster than the speed of sound.
References:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/sound.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/atmosphere/q0112.shtml
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/elevation-speed-sound-air-d_1534.html
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mach+1&a=*MC.mach+1-_*Formula.dflt-&f2=120000+ft&f=MachAlt.H_120000+ft
I hope you're referring to Tesla the engineer and not Tesla the rock band. If so I concur...
Being religious or not shouldn't be held for you or against you in politics or anywhere else in life. It's another part of what makes people different and provides guidance to people through morals, parables, and examples of what to do as well as what not to do. Religion shouldn't be so polarizing but we have those like this politician who's an obvious wanker and on the flip-side we have others who immediately reject someone because they are religious.
I am Christian but I am not blinded by religion, it guides me and provides a foundation for my life along with what my parents taught me, what school and college taught me, and what I learned through living. It's not a threat to anyone but rather something I find comforting and helpful in my life.
Could be either I suppose, tell me why it couldn't be "epidemic" (e.g. widespread or extremely prevalent) as I think "epidemic" is a better match than "endemic".
People who want to be poor are like unicorns: They don't exist. I have yet to find a person who doesn't want to live comfortably, to have their medical needs looked after, food to eat, and a safe place to sleep. If they do exist, they need medical care, because there's something very, very wrong with them. Most people want to work because it carries certain rewards; But when the only reward is surviving until tomorrow, it's not surprising to find a lack of motivation, and innovation. Especially since they're told every night on TV about the lives of people who are so very much better than they are.
There are plenty of people satisfied with not working as long as they can get food stamps, WIC, and any other money they can get via government programs. There have been quite a few people admit that in the news a while back. I don't blame them for taking "free money" but we have to realize the government doesn't have an infinite amount of money so these programs need to be limited to those who truly need them.
Spreading the wealth isn't a dangerous position. Why is it so much easier for some people to believe that there are tens of millions of lazy people, rather than a few hundred greedy ones?
I think people, given the choice, would prefer to not work and collect money rather than work hard in hopes of making something of themselves...kind of human nature. I like to lounge around at home but I feel a responsibility to earn my living at work and get a strong sense of gratification from hard work. Heck, I even look forward to digging out stumps at my house as it's hard work but I like the result (other than my back pain). Again, I'm not pointing my finger at anyone other the the government who needs to reform the rules and qualifications for determining who gets the money from these important programs to limit their abuse (e.g. buying iPhones with food stamps). We really need to look out for our fellow Americans but money's tight and we have to spend what we have wisely to make the most impact.
I think it's good to see that people can become rich as it motivates those who are willing to put in the time and effort to attain the same goal. "Spreading the wealth" is a dangerous position unless there's some way to motivate people to improve their situation or to ensure only those that truly need help get it (e.g. keeps the moochers and freeloaders out of the system).
Reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of the Simpsons where Homer joined the NRA and owned a gun. He said near the end of the episode when he stopped a robber using his gun, "Now I know hor God feels...when He has a gun!"
Everything starts off with great intentions then the scammers, conmen, assholes, advertisers, etc. get wind of it and exploit and otherwise screw it up (e.g. spam, tracking cookies, viruses, phishing, etc.). It's human nature. The funny thing is Apple, Microsoft, and others have built or are in the process of building walled off safe zones and people don't like that either as it's too restrictive. What can you do to make both sides happy? Maybe have a "prison rules Internet" and another Internet where everyone has to use some form of digital identification issued by a reputable source which would be used to sign everything (e.g. email, tweets, blog/slashdot postings, etc.). At least you'd know who to screw...other than the smart ones who just make or steal IDs...I give up, back to watching football and drinking beer in my bunker with a tinfoil hat on.
I think the problem may lie with the fact "Guru" Jim had to ask total strangers what his employees need as motivation. I'd suggest management get out and "manage by walking around"...talk to your people and see what motivates them or demotivates them and take it from there.
Good info. Since voice is just time sensitive data it makes sense to only charge for data so long as you can estimate minutes remaining based on data usage before you go over your monthly data limits (e.g. if I have 100MB remaining until I go over, how many minutes is that).
Then do this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control
Right. I'm impressed the authors banged out a textbook in a couple days but does it encompass all the subject matter equally, does it not include errors, etc.? I think a more rigorous and structured approach for something as important as a textbook should be the preferred method.
And how the crap is this considered "hacking?" Putting up some drapes and foam isn't really hacking it's more along the lines of what MacGyver would do...
Why is this considered a hackathon? Seems like the term "hack" is a little too cliche...kind of like "epic", "epic fail", etc. They wrote a textbook, wow. I wonder how many errors are in it and how biased it is. Prolly could use a little peer review but 3 days to fill a couple hundred pages...I mean "three days to hack some paper and not epic fail is swell."