If you are going to be wishing for things like the perfect employee (knows lots of languages, is proficient in all of them, is cheap) then you might as well just wish for peace on earth, good will to mankind.. and a pony.
And while you are doing that, take a look a what people with experience in only a few areas are being paid, and then factor in some overheads. Or in other words, is that $100k as salary to them and you will have a bunch of overheads to carry, or is the $100k including overheads? Because if it is the latter then you are going to realistically be offering well less than $100k salary.
You get what you pay for, and if you cheap out on a salary you are not going to get people anywhere near as good as you think you need which has the potential to damage you business.
While cameras may be more cost effective than Lidar, they have problems that lidar doesn't. For example, what does the camera sensor do when it's under direct sunlight and can't make sense of what it's seeing? What about rain / fog? I have a feeling google is has the right idea here.
What do *you* do when you're driving and there is direct sunlight in your eyes, or you encounter rain/fog?
If you could get the software to be half as near as good as peoples eyes and simply take peoples stupidity out of the equation then you'd end up with a system that was miles ahead of manual driving.
The modern geek way is to clean up the act, keep it really funny, and promote it on Youtube.
That isn't geeky.. thats just common sense as every man and his dog is posting on youtube now days . And I for one have not heard of the dead terrorist routine because I prefer David Strassman over Jeff Dunham.
First of all.. WTF is "Promote Stage Comedy in a Geeky way?" . To paraphrase a short green hairy dude "Promote or don't promote.. there is no geek in it".
Secondly.. he doesn't have an HBO special because (by your own and his estimation) he is not mainstream. No matter how much promotion you do, your potential audience will always be small if you only fill a niche.
Thirdly WTF is this doing here?!??!?
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So, you're waiting for the version where the developers say: "This documents that there are no bugs in this version"
First of all.. your reply is a perfect example of a straw-man logical fallacy. I never said anything about 100% correct software, or your boss presenting you with documentary evidence that you have been paid.
What I was saying was that there is a world of difference between a wishy-washy statement of "I guess" and an explicit "I believe". Sure it doesn't change the facts of what happened, but it does imply that the boss is actually in charge of the process, and is aware of the current disposition of his business.
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What's wrong with that?
It's not the process, its the description.. which doesn't lend much credence to the quality of the release.
How would you feel if your boss said "I guess we paid you", at the end of your pay period. Sure the accountants did their work and you did get paid, and you can go to your bank account and see the deposit, but what would your bosses comments make you feel about the entire pay process?
You're kidding me, right?!?!?
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This seems more like it belongs on the DailyWTF
Anyway. Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which makes me much more comfortable doing the final 3.9 release, so I guess the last -rc8 ended up working.
Say it ain't so. I wonder when they'll squeeze this into the schedule between all the wrestling and other ratings-chasing dreck.
But we won't know if it's a true SciFi series until it gets unceremoniously cancelled for no good reason.
My latest guilty pleasure is on SyFy channel.. Robot Combat League. Yes it is cheesy. Yes it has the typical reality show emphasis on personalities. Yes they overdo the pyrotechnics. Yes there is probably about 15 minutes tops of real footage in the hour long show (Ya Tivo!) . Yes the robots are all the same basic platform (Nascar of robotics?), but it is fun to watch 8 foot tall, 800 lb tele-operated robots walking around and arena and wailing into each other and spewing hydraulic fluid when valves and cylinders give way. And then seeing the attempts at repairs in between rounds.
While it may seem like a superficial show its fun to sit back and try to understand the engineering that went into the combatants, and given that this is a first-of-its-kind series I hope the quality can only go up.. if there is a next season.
What's with the "f_ck" and "a_s"? If you thought the word and probably say the word, why not type the word?
Fuck and Ass. There, no one died.
As far as I am concerned.. an Ass is a four legged animal that is a subgenus of Equus. Now if you were talking Arse.. you'd be heading into a much darker void.
That guy is over thinking it. A wine bottle and a roll of duct tape can be used to make a good knife - and on international flights they serve wine in glass bottles. Credit cards can have their edges honed to the point of being as sharp as box cutters.
About the only thing worthwhile is using a remote controlled toy to trigger something.
Not related to TFA per se, but from what I am understanding of exoplanet spotting is that it is predicated on a star and planet pair being observed being on an orbital plane of which Kepler can observe the edge. As otherwise how would the star light be seen to dim/brighten. Is this a fair statement? And if so does that mean that we are only capable (at the moment - I'm sure the future Lunar observatories will change things) of discovering exoplanets that lie on a plane whose edge points to Earth? And are the orbital planes of exoplanets parallel to our own solar system, or are they distributed all over the place?
I want to know for both the science, plus pretty well every science fiction book I have read has the protagonists entering planetary systems along the orbital plane (except for the sneaky bad guys who attack from above or below).
After reading TFA.. yes the newly minted SIM card was receiving premium SMS before even being inserted into a phone. But from TFA, they talk about how phone numbers are recycled, so there is a chance that the previous owner's profile was not properly scrubbed before the number was re-issued and that previous owner had subscribed to that service.
The TFS and TFA are beat ups based on the complainer speculating that because they were given the run around by customer service that T-Mobile is acting in a nefarious manner. That and *gasp* they had to give their elderly family member's birthdate over as a part of the activation , and that the horoscopes being received matched the birthdate.
So as far as I see.. it's all speculation and conjecture.
(And yes I admit that I am a happy T-mobile customer, but that has nothing to do with this hatchet job)
You must be new here. Pointing out that the editors are clueless idiots and then having them ignore any valid criticism is just a part of "charm" of the site.
Calling it "hosting politically incendiary content" isn't going to make it so.
I'm getting the feeling that we are only talking about this because he is an attention-whore who is slinging around some meaningless words in order to drive traffic to his site.
Except for logos, there's not a lot of gun IP left.
I don't think its the lack of gun IP that will do him in, rather the opportunity by other parties (such as Disney for want of a better example) to take him down, which *co-incidently* takes down the gun stuff.
I took that to mean that he would fight. Not that he would necessarily be innocent or win. For all I know he may be taking an extreme stance on " [stuff] needs to be free"
However also from TFA this new site is meant as a revenue generating source - most likely for himself ("a guys gotta eat") so I am more inclined to believe that he is on more of an egotistical/screw you stance than flowers and cute ponies [wielding AK-47's].
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If you are going to be wishing for things like the perfect employee (knows lots of languages, is proficient in all of them, is cheap) then you might as well just wish for peace on earth, good will to mankind .. and a pony.
And while you are doing that, take a look a what people with experience in only a few areas are being paid, and then factor in some overheads. Or in other words, is that $100k as salary to them and you will have a bunch of overheads to carry, or is the $100k including overheads? Because if it is the latter then you are going to realistically be offering well less than $100k salary.
You get what you pay for, and if you cheap out on a salary you are not going to get people anywhere near as good as you think you need which has the potential to damage you business.
While cameras may be more cost effective than Lidar, they have problems that lidar doesn't. For example, what does the camera sensor do when it's under direct sunlight and can't make sense of what it's seeing? What about rain / fog? I have a feeling google is has the right idea here.
What do *you* do when you're driving and there is direct sunlight in your eyes, or you encounter rain/fog?
If you could get the software to be half as near as good as peoples eyes and simply take peoples stupidity out of the equation then you'd end up with a system that was miles ahead of manual driving.
The modern geek way is to clean up the act, keep it really funny, and promote it on Youtube.
That isn't geeky .. thats just common sense as every man and his dog is posting on youtube now days . And I for one have not heard of the dead terrorist routine because I prefer David Strassman over Jeff Dunham.
First of all .. WTF is "Promote Stage Comedy in a Geeky way?" . To paraphrase a short green hairy dude "Promote or don't promote .. there is no geek in it".
Secondly .. he doesn't have an HBO special because (by your own and his estimation) he is not mainstream. No matter how much promotion you do, your potential audience will always be small if you only fill a niche.
Thirdly WTF is this doing here?!??!?
So, you're waiting for the version where the developers say: "This documents that there are no bugs in this version"
First of all .. your reply is a perfect example of a straw-man logical fallacy. I never said anything about 100% correct software, or your boss presenting you with documentary evidence that you have been paid.
What I was saying was that there is a world of difference between a wishy-washy statement of "I guess" and an explicit "I believe". Sure it doesn't change the facts of what happened, but it does imply that the boss is actually in charge of the process, and is aware of the current disposition of his business.
What's wrong with that?
It's not the process, its the description .. which doesn't lend much credence to the quality of the release.
How would you feel if your boss said "I guess we paid you", at the end of your pay period. Sure the accountants did their work and you did get paid, and you can go to your bank account and see the deposit, but what would your bosses comments make you feel about the entire pay process?
From the almighty google (but yeah a link in theTFS would be the least you'd expect)
What's new in Linux 3.9
This seems more like it belongs on the DailyWTF
Anyway. Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which
makes me much more comfortable doing the final 3.9 release, so I guess
the last -rc8 ended up working.
It wouldn't be disastrous for military applications, because military navigators are all trained on how to navigate without GPS
Tell that to the operators of a certain drone that landed in Iran and see how far you get.
Unfortunately, the Treaty of Algeron prohibits the Federation from researching certain technology, including cloaking devices and fuses.
More disclosure is needed here .. that treaty also forbids seat belts.
Say it ain't so. I wonder when they'll squeeze this into the schedule between all the wrestling and other ratings-chasing dreck.
But we won't know if it's a true SciFi series until it gets unceremoniously cancelled for no good reason.
My latest guilty pleasure is on SyFy channel .. Robot Combat League. Yes it is cheesy. Yes it has the typical reality show emphasis on personalities. Yes they overdo the pyrotechnics. Yes there is probably about 15 minutes tops of real footage in the hour long show (Ya Tivo!) . Yes the robots are all the same basic platform (Nascar of robotics?), but it is fun to watch 8 foot tall, 800 lb tele-operated robots walking around and arena and wailing into each other and spewing hydraulic fluid when valves and cylinders give way. And then seeing the attempts at repairs in between rounds.
While it may seem like a superficial show its fun to sit back and try to understand the engineering that went into the combatants, and given that this is a first-of-its-kind series I hope the quality can only go up .. if there is a next season.
Is how many of these fake accounts have real followers!
What's with the "f_ck" and "a_s"? If you thought the word and probably say the word, why not type the word?
Fuck and Ass. There, no one died.
As far as I am concerned .. an Ass is a four legged animal that is a subgenus of Equus. Now if you were talking Arse .. you'd be heading into a much darker void.
That guy is over thinking it. A wine bottle and a roll of duct tape can be used to make a good knife - and on international flights they serve wine in glass bottles. Credit cards can have their edges honed to the point of being as sharp as box cutters.
About the only thing worthwhile is using a remote controlled toy to trigger something.
Not related to TFA per se, but from what I am understanding of exoplanet spotting is that it is predicated on a star and planet pair being observed being on an orbital plane of which Kepler can observe the edge. As otherwise how would the star light be seen to dim/brighten. Is this a fair statement? And if so does that mean that we are only capable (at the moment - I'm sure the future Lunar observatories will change things) of discovering exoplanets that lie on a plane whose edge points to Earth? And are the orbital planes of exoplanets parallel to our own solar system, or are they distributed all over the place?
I want to know for both the science, plus pretty well every science fiction book I have read has the protagonists entering planetary systems along the orbital plane (except for the sneaky bad guys who attack from above or below).
**woosh***
I thought that this technology had been suppressed by "Big Oil"?
If this works as well as it is claimed to, then be prepared for an aggressive change in US policy towards Israel!
One of the better robotics ideas of the 1980s was a pair of small (about 1 cubic foot) robots with small forklifts.
I think I saw that movie .. you're describing Wall-E aren't you?
After reading TFA .. yes the newly minted SIM card was receiving premium SMS before even being inserted into a phone. But from TFA, they talk about how phone numbers are recycled, so there is a chance that the previous owner's profile was not properly scrubbed before the number was re-issued and that previous owner had subscribed to that service.
The TFS and TFA are beat ups based on the complainer speculating that because they were given the run around by customer service that T-Mobile is acting in a nefarious manner. That and *gasp* they had to give their elderly family member's birthdate over as a part of the activation , and that the horoscopes being received matched the birthdate.
So as far as I see .. it's all speculation and conjecture.
(And yes I admit that I am a happy T-mobile customer, but that has nothing to do with this hatchet job)
These companies have agreements with online merchants like Amazon to block sales of US-priced products to Australia.
And there is a whole industry of re-shippers in the US who will receive goods and then forward it on to another (foreign) address.
as the shoppers walk on it they squeeze these tubes and the air gets compressed and it turns a turbine that produces electricity.
Unfortunately truth is stranger than fiction. This is the first linked I picked off google. The technology has been around for a while.
Power-generating tiles to light Olympic walkway using footsteps
Or at least with correct punctuation and grammar.
You must be new here. Pointing out that the editors are clueless idiots and then having them ignore any valid criticism is just a part of "charm" of the site.
Calling it "hosting politically incendiary content" isn't going to make it so.
I'm getting the feeling that we are only talking about this because he is an attention-whore who is slinging around some meaningless words in order to drive traffic to his site.
Except for logos, there's not a lot of gun IP left.
I don't think its the lack of gun IP that will do him in, rather the opportunity by other parties (such as Disney for want of a better example) to take him down, which *co-incidently* takes down the gun stuff.
to the full extent of the law.
I took that to mean that he would fight. Not that he would necessarily be innocent or win. For all I know he may be taking an extreme stance on " [stuff] needs to be free"
However also from TFA this new site is meant as a revenue generating source - most likely for himself ("a guys gotta eat") so I am more inclined to believe that he is on more of an egotistical/screw you stance than flowers and cute ponies [wielding AK-47's].