stated the metric system was "the Preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce".
Which has absolutely no practical meaning as far as I can determine, unless you can cite some actual concrete consequences of this declaration.
Also said the federal government has a responsibility to assist industry and especially small business, as it voluntarily converts to the metric system
Which, once again, means what? Are there grants? Is the US offering any kind of money to anybody to help fund their conversion to metric?
A few hundred dollars will get you a quadcopter that flies for ten minutes, flies at about half the speed of this, and won't carry anything like its payload, and you'll have to supply any payload yourself.
If you think about it, a computer is generating it from an algorithm, which may be complex, but is essentially a set of rules that can be determined.
Absolutely true. That is why any rigorous discussion of random number generators will always call numbers produced by a deterministic process (such as a computer program) "pseudorandom". To get true random numbers you need a piece of hardware that measures a truly random physical process. The classic one is radioactive decay, which is guaranteed random by the laws of quantum physics. My physics isn't strong enough to tell whether this light through diffusive glass technique is correct.
Hurd has been in "development" for thirty years without ever coming close to moving to production. Aside from that and Minix (which was never intended to be a production system), name me a microkernel that can number its user base in five figures.
From the perspective of design, Hurd has some good ideas
From the perspective of design, Hurd, has some interesting ideas. Unfortunately, they have for the most part, not turned out to be good ones. Microkernels have failed.
Also, why is a microkernel OS so apparently difficult to construct?
In the final analysis, a modular message-passing architecture posed performance problems they were never able to adequately solve, pretty much as the nay-sayers predicting when microkernels were first proposed.
OK. So we have a world where people can sneak around with.22 caliber one shot pistols that are not visible to metal detectors. I mean, everyone will want one, no? This changes the entire security dynamic, no?
This is like arguing the Wright brothers' first airplane didn't change anything because it could only fly a few dozen feet.
You don't understand. They aren't going to ask you. They're going to ask the people who make your communication devices. If they get their way, every one who makes phones, computer, and so on will include backdoors for law enforcement because they are required to. And they will not be removable by the user.
I find the idea that robots wil be able to replicate imagination or creativity utterly laughable though, in any field.
The idea that people could fly was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that people could go to the Moon was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that you could carry an entire library's worth of books in your shirt pocket was laughable. Until it wasn't. Now the idea of creative or imaginative computers is laughable. For now.
Creating a company costs some 150$ or so. Can Tesla Motor Corporation set up a wholly owned subsidiary Tesla Motor Sales and Service Corporation of North Carolina and sell it through them?
No, because the dealership laws require independent dealers--i.e., the manufacturer can't own any piece of them.
They also save a nice bundle of tax money. Profits that are paid out to shareholders in dividends have to have income tax paid on them by the corporation, and the shareholders then have to pay income tax on those dividends themselves. Interest on debt is an expense and the corporation doesn't pay tax on it (although the debtholder still does when he collects it).
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But apparently it didn't succeed in that, either. They're discovering massive failure only after three years and billions of pounds.
Which has absolutely no practical meaning as far as I can determine, unless you can cite some actual concrete consequences of this declaration.
Which, once again, means what? Are there grants? Is the US offering any kind of money to anybody to help fund their conversion to metric?
Ah yes, the Earl of Sandwich was truly one of the great Americans, wasn't he?
If a car has double the efficiency, then the l/Km gets *halved*. Maybe we'd better just stick with mpg.
A few hundred dollars will get you a quadcopter that flies for ten minutes, flies at about half the speed of this, and won't carry anything like its payload, and you'll have to supply any payload yourself.
Try again. The pound is a unit of *weight* (or force, since weight is a type of force).
Yeah, but if you own it outright, you can sell it. Thirty year lease, and you have to figure out what to do with it.
I dunno. Seems like kind of a gray area, to me.
Absolutely true. That is why any rigorous discussion of random number generators will always call numbers produced by a deterministic process (such as a computer program) "pseudorandom". To get true random numbers you need a piece of hardware that measures a truly random physical process. The classic one is radioactive decay, which is guaranteed random by the laws of quantum physics. My physics isn't strong enough to tell whether this light through diffusive glass technique is correct.
AHHHHH!!!!
i can haz cold fusion?
A data center with no operators for a service with no users.
Hurd has been in "development" for thirty years without ever coming close to moving to production. Aside from that and Minix (which was never intended to be a production system), name me a microkernel that can number its user base in five figures.
From the perspective of design, Hurd, has some interesting ideas. Unfortunately, they have for the most part, not turned out to be good ones. Microkernels have failed.
I suppose there's a first time for everything.
In the final analysis, a modular message-passing architecture posed performance problems they were never able to adequately solve, pretty much as the nay-sayers predicting when microkernels were first proposed.
No worries. That's what they make duct tape for.
This is like arguing the Wright brothers' first airplane didn't change anything because it could only fly a few dozen feet.
You don't understand. They aren't going to ask you. They're going to ask the people who make your communication devices. If they get their way, every one who makes phones, computer, and so on will include backdoors for law enforcement because they are required to. And they will not be removable by the user.
The idea that people could fly was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that people could go to the Moon was laughable. Until it wasn't. The idea that you could carry an entire library's worth of books in your shirt pocket was laughable. Until it wasn't. Now the idea of creative or imaginative computers is laughable. For now.
You're nothing but a pack of cards!
But it is *not* good for government to enforce this "support" by law.
Let's get a boilerplate acknowledgement from the White House that doesn't accomplish anything at all! *That'll* show 'em!
No, because the dealership laws require independent dealers--i.e., the manufacturer can't own any piece of them.
They also save a nice bundle of tax money. Profits that are paid out to shareholders in dividends have to have income tax paid on them by the corporation, and the shareholders then have to pay income tax on those dividends themselves. Interest on debt is an expense and the corporation doesn't pay tax on it (although the debtholder still does when he collects it).