Juts for kicks I used to enter strings of random words into google just to see what sort of associations popped out.. it made for minutes of harmless fun but it always produced interesting results.
Dont buy important technology from foreign countries, do it yourself. Especially if you ever under any way, shape or form could cross paths with said foreign country.
And in TFA they say that only 20% of chips are manufactured in the US - so that makes it kinda hard not to buy goods from foreign countries.
However what you are suggesting is that 100% of goods used by the US military should be made in the US - and that might be a good reason in itself as that would certainly stimulate the US economy
The problem is that the choice before the executives is between doing something good for the business or possible for humanity and lining their own pockets.
And that was identified by one of the presenters as being a problem with capitalism. He was contending that perhaps we should be looking to a system that worked for the good of all rather than the short term benefit of some (Note that this person was also pushing his book that discussed this belief)
I was listening to NPR yesterday and they were talking about executive pay bonuses in the financial industry. The point was made that in an industry where you make tangible goods or supply tangible services you can invest profits in upgrading what-ever it is you do (IE CSIRO invests back into research). However in the financial sector, there is no tangible goods or services other than making money. So the only place for the profits to go is to bonuses or shareholder profits.
I think that I smell a market for some bendy bit of wire that sits on the outside of the car and funnels the radio waves to the inside compartment . I might call it...
If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?
It is probably one of the spinning mirror type displays. They project different 96 x 128 pixel images onto a spinning mirror depending on the angular position of the mirror. So the 3rd dimension that is probably missing is the minimum angular feature within the 360 degrees.
This story puts a slightly different slant on the "no money" aspect. They had bridging finance that was late in showing up, so union says that they have to shut down for the duration.
Yes we all agree that the woman should get locked up for breaching a restraining order.. IF SHE DID IT.
The question I have is how do you prove this?
She could have simply been stalking her victim on facebook and her cat walked across the keyboard at an inappropriate moment et voila one cat induced restraining order breach.
Any number of things from another household member to a hacked computer could have done this, so what is the level of proof required to lock her away. I hope that it is not just "well she says she didn't do it, but she was in the house with the computer at the time - just forget the fact that other people were in the same house as well".
My tram ride to work takes 40 minutes. Honestly, what am I going to do with that time? I have a eeepc 701 loaded with ubuntu. On the tram I write code. It makes the commute bearable for me,
If you can't see what else you could be doing with that time other than coding the I would suggest that you need to step back from it and take a look at the bigger picture. But don't take this as meaning I am saying you shouldn't code - just that you should be aware of the tradeoffs you are making in order to code.
But not coding in your free time also shows balance.
If you assume that X straight hours will lead to a greater risk of burnout, then reducing X by not coding when you don't have to could allow you to remain fresh for when you have to put your code on the line.
This is analogous to the proverb stating the difference between Europeans and Americans:
"Americans live to work, but Europeans work to live"
Hopefully your second Terabyte drive isn't sitting physically next to your first one. Otherwise you are not getting one of the benefits touted by offsite storage.. namely being offsite
See Isaac Asimov for the exact quote, but it basically says robots may not harm humans. Because the law is encoded *in the hardware* there's no way that it can be altered.
Except that pretty well all of Asimovs stories were about how the 3 laws could be subverted by finding complex interactions that were not and could not be covered by the application of those simplistic laws
A super computer *is* a small well defined system that does not have to account for a wide variety of different types hardware. There may be a lot of iron behind it, but that iron is fairly homogenous
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Juts for kicks I used to enter strings of random words into google just to see what sort of associations popped out .. it made for minutes of harmless fun but it always produced interesting results.
How do they define "reasonable suspicion"? I couldn't find that information in the article.
By asking that question I think you just became entitled to be placed on the list .. so perhaps you can do an FOI request and answer your own question?
Dont buy important technology from foreign countries, do it yourself. Especially if you ever under any way, shape or form could cross paths with said foreign country.
And in TFA they say that only 20% of chips are manufactured in the US - so that makes it kinda hard not to buy goods from foreign countries.
However what you are suggesting is that 100% of goods used by the US military should be made in the US - and that might be a good reason in itself as that would certainly stimulate the US economy
For the movie to go from the big screen to DVD so I can see it on netflix. Another month of waiting is not going to kill me
Now now .. don't let common sense get in the way of a first post rant
That is Marketing Droid speak for
Lets screw everyone else.
No .. this is fundamental capitalism for lets see how much the market can bear
So says Yahoo execs falling over each other to appologize
Found some pics of the Firebird III showing the "joystick"
Actually .. late '50s, not '60s
GM tried it even earlier. In the '60s there was the Firebird III although that was not a production car.
The problem is that the choice before the executives is between doing something good for the business or possible for humanity and lining their own pockets.
And that was identified by one of the presenters as being a problem with capitalism. He was contending that perhaps we should be looking to a system that worked for the good of all rather than the short term benefit of some (Note that this person was also pushing his book that discussed this belief)
I was listening to NPR yesterday and they were talking about executive pay bonuses in the financial industry. The point was made that in an industry where you make tangible goods or supply tangible services you can invest profits in upgrading what-ever it is you do (IE CSIRO invests back into research). However in the financial sector, there is no tangible goods or services other than making money. So the only place for the profits to go is to bonuses or shareholder profits.
[places pinky finger to mouth]
An .. Aerial !!!!
96 pixels wide by 128 pixels tall
If this thing is a 3D display, shouldn't there be another pixel dimension quoted here?
It is probably one of the spinning mirror type displays. They project different 96 x 128 pixel images onto a spinning mirror depending on the angular position of the mirror. So the 3rd dimension that is probably missing is the minimum angular feature within the 360 degrees.
This story puts a slightly different slant on the "no money" aspect. They had bridging finance that was late in showing up, so union says that they have to shut down for the duration.
I'm not sure if I am looking forward to learning the "Astro Glide"
(Playing devil's advocate here)
Yes we all agree that the woman should get locked up for breaching a restraining order .. IF SHE DID IT.
The question I have is how do you prove this?
She could have simply been stalking her victim on facebook and her cat walked across the keyboard at an inappropriate moment et voila one cat induced restraining order breach.
Any number of things from another household member to a hacked computer could have done this, so what is the level of proof required to lock her away. I hope that it is not just "well she says she didn't do it, but she was in the house with the computer at the time - just forget the fact that other people were in the same house as well".
My tram ride to work takes 40 minutes. Honestly, what am I going to do with that time? I have a eeepc 701 loaded with ubuntu. On the tram I write code. It makes the commute bearable for me,
If you can't see what else you could be doing with that time other than coding the I would suggest that you need to step back from it and take a look at the bigger picture. But don't take this as meaning I am saying you shouldn't code - just that you should be aware of the tradeoffs you are making in order to code.
But not coding in your free time also shows balance.
If you assume that X straight hours will lead to a greater risk of burnout, then reducing X by not coding when you don't have to could allow you to remain fresh for when you have to put your code on the line.
This is analogous to the proverb stating the difference between Europeans and Americans:
"Americans live to work, but Europeans work to live"
Hopefully your second Terabyte drive isn't sitting physically next to your first one. Otherwise you are not getting one of the benefits touted by offsite storage .. namely being offsite
I just saw this video on CNN
There are also a bunch of videos on you tube
See Isaac Asimov for the exact quote, but it basically says robots may not harm humans. Because the law is encoded *in the hardware* there's no way that it can be altered.
Except that pretty well all of Asimovs stories were about how the 3 laws could be subverted by finding complex interactions that were not and could not be covered by the application of those simplistic laws
If a programmer needs to use an IDE, as opposed to just using one for convenience, something is very wrong.
Once you cover the basic needs of food and shelter, everything after that becomes a convenience
I prefer to use a Mac, but I make lots of $$$ with Windows based software (which is s staple of my industry)
A super computer *is* a small well defined system that does not have to account for a wide variety of different types hardware. There may be a lot of iron behind it, but that iron is fairly homogenous