No word on whether the thing was ever powered up, or is simply a neat toy.
From the gizmodo link:
According to Wu, the next step will be to fine-tune the finish of the components, with testing of a 3D-printed engine expected to take place within a couple of years.
So what the have produced right now could be considered a static display model, but their aim is produce a working engine.
Instead of using a multi million dollar Predator drone to scan the border, perhaps they should be using something smaller and cheaper like an office drone
I hear that office drones basically do anything for money as long as they can play candy crush or angry birds
Why didn't they land a bit closer? Seems Americans' awesome knowledge of geography isn't a new phenomenon.
Because if you read First Barbary War you learn that the expeditionary force consisted of 8 Marines and 500 local mercenaries. Given that the US navy was only about 7 years old at the time, I doubt that they had the ships available to transport all those people.
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost British Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. . . . In 1805, American Marines marched across the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all American slaves
I know I'll probably be moderated into the dark depths for being a troll, but there is a certain irony in this history.
I wonder if a similar thing could be made with a Koran-burning machine. The machine is configured so that every time the internet has a new message from Islamicists, the machine automatically dips a Koran in pig blood, burns it, posts the video on YouTube, and sends a Tweet giving credit to the Islamicists who triggered that action.
So your solution to extremists boasting about what they dream they could do, is to do something tangible that will piss off said extremists and give them grounds to point the finger at the west and say "See, they are a bunch of infidels that deserve what they get!". Which will do no less more than to push more people into extremism.
Have you ever heard of a positive feedback loop? Because that is what you are suggesting for "solving" the problem of terrorists.
Its been proven time and time again that red light cameras do more harm than good. how can anyone still support such bad use of tech???
OK.. simple question for you then. Given your position that red light cameras are simply a money grab, and do not do any good (something that I dispute, but is beside the point), what is your solution for controlling all the people who run red lights? I am regularly at a traffic light, watch it turn green, and then see some idiot fly though against the red well and truly after the light has changed. These people need to be "educated" about the dangers of their actions, and short of a T-bone accident I can see nothing other than a camera system to teach them.
For software, generally speaking the copy is exactly the same as the original. No one collects software (only their medium), and its unlimited.
I have known people in the warez scene who would beg to differ with you. They seemed to have pride in how many cracked software titles they had, regardless of whether or not they actually had any use for them.
Roll up, roll up, See the former champion fight the young contender! Who will consume who? Will Microsoft wipe out SystemD? Or will "the Borg" finally meet its match?
The issue has remained latent since Mark Hopkins, a Lenovo social media program manager, confirmed in January that the company was installing the Superfish Visual Discovery software on some of its products in order to serve ads.
1. Document the number of hours lost in a week for version control issues by your wife. Ensure that your data is representative of several weeks worth of work 2. Extrapolate this value by the number of people in the company and the number of weeks worked per year 3. Multiple this by the average hourly cost of these workers (the gross value to the company, not the net value paid to the workers) 4. Write a report that documents the $$$ lost to the company due to bad business practices. Include in that report a survey of possible technological and social solutions to the problem and document their estimated cost to the company. 5. Make a presentation to the CFO and CTO explaining how you can save the company big $$$ 6. If the CFO and CTO care about the lost $$$, they will create a new project number that you can bill to in order map out the preferred solutions in your report 7. Implement your preferred solution for a small group and measure how much it costs the company in real $$ in order to implement this pilot project 8. Write a new report to the CFO and CTO documenting your findings, and make a report 9. Sit back and wait for the CFO and CTO to argue where in the next budget the money for your solution will come from, versus doing nothing and simply wasting money that has already been allocated.
What do you mean you don't work for you wife's company?
how will the drones be able to fly through my pet door to deliver my bag of potato chips directly to my couch?
Oh, that is easily answered!
Step 1. Start with the pool of tech workers who have been displaced by the oversubscription of H1-B visa workers (The Pacific NW will be a great place to start!)
Step 2. Sign them up with brand new car ride-share service Druber (Drones R our Uber!) (that is, all the ones who own cars, and not those hipsters who eschew the Modern American Car)
Step 3. Using a new social networking App (DroneDrivers!), they check in at the automated, drone based delivery service's warehouse. (Let's call it DroneToHome!)
Step 4. When you order your bag of potato chips (baked of course, in olive oil, and only lightly salted), online, through the PCWS (Potato Chip Webservice), using DroneDrivers, it pings the all the Druber driver's nearest to the DroneToHome warehouse.
Step 5. Through a process of consensus, all but one of the Druber drivers decides that the proposed job is not worth their time. The remaining driver rocks up to the DroneToHome drive-through and and is handed a remote control to a drone. While this occurring, some minimum wage monkeys (formally wanna be rockstar programmers from defunct start ups) release the Kraken^W drone (that carries your potato chips) from the roof of the warehouse.
Step 6. The Druber driver then takes control of the drone, and simultaneously drives towards your house, while piloting the drone. This is achieved through the use of a special VR headset that overlays the flightpath of the drone on the surrounding view of the road, combined with a leftover Nintendo power glove that the Druber driver uses to punch virtual controls that only he/her can see in his/her field of vision[1]. The headset also incorporates a live camera feed from the drone. That camera feed also has a virtual map overlaid on the video that shows the route that the driver must take [2].
Step 7. When the Druber driver finally reaches your home, he simply flies the drone to your cat door, lands it, and in a transformer like way, converts it into a walking style robot that pushes through the cat door and makes its way to your couch!
Thus by outlawing non-direct view drone flights, the FAA has enabled at least (at least I tell you) 3 different startup opportunities!!! [3]:
1. Druber - Drones R our Uber delivery service! 2. DroneDrivers - Find the right person to drive your drone delivery! 3. DroneToHome - The only way to fly (your packages)
Notes:
[1] This step is predicated on the fact that no-one has yet outlawed flying drones while driving.
[2] A couple of months ago I was watching the NOVA program on landslides (Killer Landslides) and one fascinating part of it was film from inside a rescue chopper that showed a display in the chopper that has a live feed of the terrain overlaid with graphics showing where the roads were meant to be.
Exactly! I can't figure out why people get them in the first place.
Years ago I wanted to get a huge all-back Henna pic as a tribute to (my then) fiancé. Not knowing where to go for this, I started asking around some local tattoo parlors as I figured they would at least know the sort of people I should be talking to. One of the tattooists that I asked said to me "Why would you want something that is not permanent?".
He didn't understand me and I certainly didn't understand him.
Is that because it was named after a great hunter, or because it was named after the leader of the people that built the Tower of Babel - leading to the multitude of languages? Or are you going the Bugs Bunny route?
Because it has been a well known slur for a long time. Bugs' use of it only reflects society.
I was looking at the last link in TFS and in the comments to that link there was this little gem that should force you to take a large grain of salt before committing to a major Nim effort
Now, I am not familiar with how other, similar languages were at the same stage of development, but given things like this I would be putting Nim in the "Not ready for prime time YET" basket (which is also how I feel about Swift at the moment - there seems to be too many things in a state of flux right now)
Slashdot Mirror
I'm going to have to re-release my biorhythms app just because of their stupid 40 minute extra long days.
Why can't they just slow Mars' rotation down to to 24 hours????
No word on whether the thing was ever powered up, or is simply a neat toy.
From the gizmodo link:
According to Wu, the next step will be to fine-tune the finish of the components, with testing of a 3D-printed engine expected to take place within a couple of years.
So what the have produced right now could be considered a static display model, but their aim is produce a working engine.
Instead of using a multi million dollar Predator drone to scan the border, perhaps they should be using something smaller and cheaper like an office drone
I hear that office drones basically do anything for money as long as they can play candy crush or angry birds
How do you self-mummified???
It starts by reading the TFA.
After which you'll wish that you didn't read the TFA.
Certainly not something for those who are even the slightest bit claustrophobic to attempt.
It is called Russian Roulette . ( i.e. exploding kitten brains ) It was a favourite pastime in USSR and had to be kick - started in a bar.
But it kinda lost its appeal when people moved from using revolvers to playing it with a semi-automatic pistol with a single bullet in the magazine.
Why didn't they land a bit closer? Seems Americans' awesome knowledge of geography isn't a new phenomenon.
Because if you read First Barbary War you learn that the expeditionary force consisted of 8 Marines and 500 local mercenaries. Given that the US navy was only about 7 years old at the time, I doubt that they had the ships available to transport all those people.
Islamic history that they don't teach at Harvard:
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost British Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. . . . In 1805, American Marines marched across the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all American slaves
I know I'll probably be moderated into the dark depths for being a troll, but there is a certain irony in this history.
I wonder if a similar thing could be made with a Koran-burning machine. The machine is configured so that every time the internet has a new message from Islamicists, the machine automatically dips a Koran in pig blood, burns it, posts the video on YouTube, and sends a Tweet giving credit to the Islamicists who triggered that action.
So your solution to extremists boasting about what they dream they could do, is to do something tangible that will piss off said extremists and give them grounds to point the finger at the west and say "See, they are a bunch of infidels that deserve what they get!". Which will do no less more than to push more people into extremism.
Have you ever heard of a positive feedback loop? Because that is what you are suggesting for "solving" the problem of terrorists.
Its been proven time and time again that red light cameras do more harm than good. how can anyone still support such bad use of tech???
OK .. simple question for you then. Given your position that red light cameras are simply a money grab, and do not do any good (something that I dispute, but is beside the point), what is your solution for controlling all the people who run red lights? I am regularly at a traffic light, watch it turn green, and then see some idiot fly though against the red well and truly after the light has changed. These people need to be "educated" about the dangers of their actions, and short of a T-bone accident I can see nothing other than a camera system to teach them.
So what is your alternate solution?
that nasty pieve of Chinese spyware a/k/a Superfish.
If anything, the technology behind Superfish is Israeli
For software, generally speaking the copy is exactly the same as the original. No one collects software (only their medium), and its unlimited.
I have known people in the warez scene who would beg to differ with you. They seemed to have pride in how many cracked software titles they had, regardless of whether or not they actually had any use for them.
we will provide a tool that removes all traces of the app from people’s laptops;
So how I do trust that:
1. This tool will do as it says
2. You won't repeat the process in the future?
The trust with Lenovo has been broken and I can't see what they can ever do in order to restore it.
Roll up, roll up,
See the former champion fight the young contender!
Who will consume who?
Will Microsoft wipe out SystemD?
Or will "the Borg" finally meet its match?
From the ZDnet link
The issue has remained latent since Mark Hopkins, a Lenovo social media program manager, confirmed in January that the company was installing the Superfish Visual Discovery software on some of its products in order to serve ads.
It could have been the Asterix malware. That shit doesn't just spy on you, it beats the crap out of of you - and then has a nice feast to celebrate!
There is a huge assumption implicit in this question - the browser that you use.
Not all of those plugins are available for all browsers. And any recommended plugin really needs to identify the ecosystem that it works in.
1. Document the number of hours lost in a week for version control issues by your wife. Ensure that your data is representative of several weeks worth of work
2. Extrapolate this value by the number of people in the company and the number of weeks worked per year
3. Multiple this by the average hourly cost of these workers (the gross value to the company, not the net value paid to the workers)
4. Write a report that documents the $$$ lost to the company due to bad business practices. Include in that report a survey of possible technological and social solutions to the problem and document their estimated cost to the company.
5. Make a presentation to the CFO and CTO explaining how you can save the company big $$$
6. If the CFO and CTO care about the lost $$$, they will create a new project number that you can bill to in order map out the preferred solutions in your report
7. Implement your preferred solution for a small group and measure how much it costs the company in real $$ in order to implement this pilot project
8. Write a new report to the CFO and CTO documenting your findings, and make a report
9. Sit back and wait for the CFO and CTO to argue where in the next budget the money for your solution will come from, versus doing nothing and simply wasting money that has already been allocated.
What do you mean you don't work for you wife's company?
how will the drones be able to fly through my pet door to deliver my bag of potato chips directly to my couch?
Oh, that is easily answered!
Step 1. Start with the pool of tech workers who have been displaced by the oversubscription of H1-B visa workers (The Pacific NW will be a great place to start!)
Step 2. Sign them up with brand new car ride-share service Druber (Drones R our Uber!) (that is, all the ones who own cars, and not those hipsters who eschew the Modern American Car)
Step 3. Using a new social networking App (DroneDrivers!), they check in at the automated, drone based delivery service's warehouse. (Let's call it DroneToHome!)
Step 4. When you order your bag of potato chips (baked of course, in olive oil, and only lightly salted), online, through the PCWS (Potato Chip Webservice), using DroneDrivers, it pings the all the Druber driver's nearest to the DroneToHome warehouse.
Step 5. Through a process of consensus, all but one of the Druber drivers decides that the proposed job is not worth their time. The remaining driver rocks up to the DroneToHome drive-through and and is handed a remote control to a drone. While this occurring, some minimum wage monkeys (formally wanna be rockstar programmers from defunct start ups) release the Kraken^W drone (that carries your potato chips) from the roof of the warehouse.
Step 6. The Druber driver then takes control of the drone, and simultaneously drives towards your house, while piloting the drone. This is achieved through the use of a special VR headset that overlays the flightpath of the drone on the surrounding view of the road, combined with a leftover Nintendo power glove that the Druber driver uses to punch virtual controls that only he/her can see in his/her field of vision[1]. The headset also incorporates a live camera feed from the drone. That camera feed also has a virtual map overlaid on the video that shows the route that the driver must take [2].
Step 7. When the Druber driver finally reaches your home, he simply flies the drone to your cat door, lands it, and in a transformer like way, converts it into a walking style robot that pushes through the cat door and makes its way to your couch!
Thus by outlawing non-direct view drone flights, the FAA has enabled at least (at least I tell you) 3 different startup opportunities!!! [3]:
1. Druber - Drones R our Uber delivery service!
2. DroneDrivers - Find the right person to drive your drone delivery!
3. DroneToHome - The only way to fly (your packages)
Notes:
[1] This step is predicated on the fact that no-one has yet outlawed flying drones while driving.
[2] A couple of months ago I was watching the NOVA program on landslides (Killer Landslides) and one fascinating part of it was film from inside a rescue chopper that showed a display in the chopper that has a live feed of the terrain overlaid with graphics showing where the roads were meant to be.
[3] Will provide future workers for Step 5.
Exactly! I can't figure out why people get them in the first place.
Years ago I wanted to get a huge all-back Henna pic as a tribute to (my then) fiancé. Not knowing where to go for this, I started asking around some local tattoo parlors as I figured they would at least know the sort of people I should be talking to. One of the tattooists that I asked said to me "Why would you want something that is not permanent?".
He didn't understand me and I certainly didn't understand him.
Is that because it was named after a great hunter, or because it was named after the leader of the people that built the Tower of Babel - leading to the multitude of languages? Or are you going the Bugs Bunny route?
Because it has been a well known slur for a long time. Bugs' use of it only reflects society.
People still use IRC?.... It's probably not the Nim community so much as the kind of blowhards that are still hanging out on IRC in 2015.
Did you not notice that one of those "blowhards" on the IRC channel was the language creator?
There's no Wikipedia page on this language. Just an external link in the disamb page.
Well come on then you slacker, you could have created a new Wikipedia page in the same time that you wrote your comment here.
On the other hand, it probably would have been reverted 5 minutes later for some obscure reason.
Who cares? Do you want to use the language or chat with the community? Such people exist in most communities.
The problem with the toxicity is this:
19:04:02 Araq ldlework: I intend to "fix" it because I'm tired of arguing ... not because it's a particularly good idea
If solutions are being based on emotion and not what is correct, or best, then the language development is well and truly fucked.
I lurk on the Nim IRC channel sometimes. The toxicity there is unbelievable.
Given that the language's name was initially Nimrod, I find those IRC logs quite apropos.
I was looking at the last link in TFS and in the comments to that link there was this little gem that should force you to take a large grain of salt before committing to a major Nim effort
Nim High Priority Issues
Now, I am not familiar with how other, similar languages were at the same stage of development, but given things like this I would be putting Nim in the "Not ready for prime time YET" basket (which is also how I feel about Swift at the moment - there seems to be too many things in a state of flux right now)