Now, I want to see what happens when a flight sim buff gets in the cockpit of a real fighter jet.
Will they take off and do acrobatics easily?
I'm a licensed pilot and a flight sim buff. Some time ago, I had a chance to fly a T-34 Mentor (military trainer, that prior to an AD was legal for aerobatics). I flew the heck out of one in the sim, and then tried it in the real plane to test exactly this theory and to hopefully be more comfortable in some of the really unusual attitudes that aerobatic flying can produce.
Granted, a T-34 isn't a fighter jet, but it's as close as anybody with a realistic budget can get.
I was able to perform nearly all of the maneuvers that I'd practiced in the sim and other then a headache afterwords was also quite pleased with the outcome. Pleased enough that I flew it subsequently.
To answer your question directly, I wouldn't suggest someone with only sim experience trying to fly without proper training. I also wouldn't advocate trying aerobatics without a proper aircraft, some solid previous real world training in recoveries and a parachute. All of that being said, YES, sim experience definitely translates to the real world up to the point that you have the balls to test it.
"This is based on thousands of stories I've heard over many years."
Wait.. you have no first hand experience? Do you mean that you never lived in China? My guess is that you're a silver-spoon Hong Kongease who's parents paid your way into the US and now you look down on the Americans that come to China.
"You won't find any discussion about it on Chinese sites, sure. But it's all over overseas Chinese forums."
That tells the story right there. You think that you can speak for the Chinese people since you are a member of an overseas Chinese forum?
Live here for a while and then maybe you can have some credibility.
The op wants to know if the output is distinguishable from random garbage. He doesn't ask about the difficulty of decrypting.
One of the goals of most crypto systems is to generate output that approaches random garbage.
The question isn't whether the file with the AES'd data can be decoded, it's whether a third party can detect which file is which. To that end, I would say the odds are fairly low. Especially if the OP is embedding the encrypted data inside a block of noise.
The GP is dead on, AES was designed with exactly this in mind.
In the business telecom world, we've had CIR as long as I can remember. We don't have the ambiguities that plague residential communications. Of course, we pay substantially more for the privilege.
I think the label that they suggest is s GREAT idea, just put a CIR on it and we're good to go.
Disclosure: I'm writing this from a Mac. I like my Macs. I like Apple. I'm not delusional like this guy.
If you didn't RTFA, there's no need. It's just some Apple fanboi trying to find genius and conspiracy where there isn't any.
Are you serious? Constricting developers because you're going to change the platform? Really? I wonder if the article author even believes this crap.
Emulating a cpu you could just as easily install for real? Never mind going back to an architecture (POWER) that you've already EOL and that is wholly unsuited for the platform (high power consumption, high heat output).
He's right that Apple is a story in vertical integration. They're doing it the same way Rockefeller did. They want to control the entire platform.
It's taken nearly 10 years and more money then I'm going to disclose on/.
However, we now have the big stick to beat the people that copied our product into submission.
My suggestion above all else is this:
Don't just hire a lawyer, hire a GOOD lawyer. You don't say where you're based, so I can't give you any direct suggestions. We spent a boatload of money preparing our patent only to find out that the lawfirm (well regarded in the area) we hired to do it didn't have a clue WTF they were doing. They resulting patent was shit. We fought with the USPTO for 2 more years before finally deciding to retain alternate council. Once we hired a GOOD lawyer, we had it within 6 months.
Because of this I discarded NAS and similar solutions.I have external hard drives and I plug them as I need using USB. Put them away from kids, sun and humidity and they will be fine.
And what happens to you in a drive failure? Instead of even having the option to recover your data, you just automatically loose it.
For the record, I've recovered lots of HW and SW raids over the years. It's been a pain in the ass a few times, but I've yet to loose data.
Those of you that backup to single external drives can't say that, or will soon not be able to say that once one of them fails.
I'd rather have to fight a recovery procedure then automatically know I'm going to loose data.
Stuff it full of drives, set up software raid and keep everything there.
In addition to providing a nice place to store backups, you can also use it for primary storage. I assume since you're ripping video that this is an HT-PC.
I prefer not to have a bunch of loud HDD's in my HT-PC. Put that crap in a closet.
You act like corporations have no profit margins at all. As if every dollar they spend goes directly to labor and expenses.
It's quite simple. Profits from a corporation become the property of the shareholders. Either as retained earnings or dividends. Now, dividends are taxed at a flat 15%. Compare that to what you pay in taxes. If you owned the company, and could receive your pay in dividends, your total tax bill would be 15%.
The other option is to leave the money in the business as retained earnings or to spend it on assets. Want a new 20M aircraft? Instead of taking the money yourself and paying taxes on it before buying the plane, let the company buy the plane and book it as an asset. They get to depreciate it (150% right now thanks to bonus depreciation on aircraft) and not pay any tax on the money used to purchase it. (Simplification, but you get the general idea)
Corporate income tax exists as some kind of a counterbalance to this sort of behavior. It's intended to discourage principals from leaving most of what is really their profits in the company to avoid paying income tax on them. Now if the company is retaining earnings for a legitimate business purpose (saving for assets, rainy day, etc..) then they'll get the taxes back when they actually spend that money. (If they spend a lot, they can even back claim a net operating loss and get back money from previous years)
At the end of the day, this is all about making them accountable for the money they should pay tax on.
It also has NOTHING to do with employees or their ability to hire more. Employees are an expense. Money spent on employees is deductible. If anything, hiring more people would be a good way to AVOID paying the additional tax.
Again, for those of you that are really dense, or have drunk a lot of red koolaid:
CORPORATE INCOME TAX IS A TAX ON RETAINED EARNINGS. RE IS CALCULATED AFTER EMPLOYEE COSTS ARE REMOVED.
Don't let the pundits convince you that it's going to reduce employment. What it will do is force the super-high income bracket that derives most of their income from dividends to pay their fair share.
My effective tax rate was 38% last year, since my company doesn't make enough to pay me mostly through dividends. Most of my customers effective tax rates were less then 20%. On twice or more income, they pay about 5% total tax more then I did.
The usual slashdot meme is RTFA. In this case, read a fscking accounting book, or the 1041 instructions before you start spouting off about corporate income tax and what it does.
We have farm subsides primarily as a result of the soil conservation movements that cured the dustbowl.
Numerous times, clouds of dust the size of several states roamed all the way to the east cost. Taking with them, all of the top soil from the midwest. This was on top of a very long drought.
As soon as we implemented soil conservation, the dust storms stopped and the rain came back. Had we not done that, it's very likely the US would have faced a famine.
So, the next time you eat something, be glad that we have farm subsides. Without them, it's unlikely that your parents would have been able to feed you.
Average starting wage for a high school teacher in the US is 34,687. That's not very far from the average wage for an entry level IT position, or any other entry level job.
Factor that up by the fact that teachers can have a summer job, and that puts the average around 45k/yr.
I'm sorry, but that's a decent living. I live in Chicago, and have a friend that's a teacher. She's been at it 4 years and is almost to 75k for 9 months of work.
There are many reactor designs (CANDU in particular) that don't require any enrichment at all. What he's talking about is no longer producing highly enriched U235 and/or PU239.
Of course, that's great and all, but there are already fairly sizable stockpiles of both within the established nuclear powers.
When Hulu is ALLOWED to discover the rest of the planet.
Several people have said this, but it needs to be pointed out. Hulu is a corporation with a LEGAL licensing agreement for their content. They have to bow to the whims of the MPAA, etc.
While the ideologues among you will say that they should just tell the media companies to screw themselves, we all know that isn't going to happen.
Both the issue at bar here and the one you present are directly the fault of the content providers. They'll continue to learn their lessons the hard way, just like they always have.
Did you expect them to show any more knowledge of the internet world working with Hulu then they do with anyone else?
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Now, I want to see what happens when a flight sim buff gets in the cockpit of a real fighter jet.
Will they take off and do acrobatics easily?
I'm a licensed pilot and a flight sim buff. Some time ago, I had a chance to fly a T-34 Mentor (military trainer, that prior to an AD was legal for aerobatics). I flew the heck out of one in the sim, and then tried it in the real plane to test exactly this theory and to hopefully be more comfortable in some of the really unusual attitudes that aerobatic flying can produce.
Granted, a T-34 isn't a fighter jet, but it's as close as anybody with a realistic budget can get.
I was able to perform nearly all of the maneuvers that I'd practiced in the sim and other then a headache afterwords was also quite pleased with the outcome. Pleased enough that I flew it subsequently.
To answer your question directly, I wouldn't suggest someone with only sim experience trying to fly without proper training. I also wouldn't advocate trying aerobatics without a proper aircraft, some solid previous real world training in recoveries and a parachute. All of that being said, YES, sim experience definitely translates to the real world up to the point that you have the balls to test it.
I was going to give you hell about your terrible pinyin, but then I realized that you're in HK and pinyin doesn't apply.
"This is based on thousands of stories I've heard over many years."
Wait.. you have no first hand experience? Do you mean that you never lived in China? My guess is that you're a silver-spoon Hong Kongease who's parents paid your way into the US and now you look down on the Americans that come to China.
"You won't find any discussion about it on Chinese sites, sure. But it's all over overseas Chinese forums."
That tells the story right there. You think that you can speak for the Chinese people since you are a member of an overseas Chinese forum?
Live here for a while and then maybe you can have some credibility.
Once people have something worth defending they become very attached to the status quo that gave it to them.
"We (Chinese) know your kind, and we know why you live in China. We despise you"
Does that mean I have to give back all the food?
The op wants to know if the output is distinguishable from random garbage. He doesn't ask about the difficulty of decrypting.
One of the goals of most crypto systems is to generate output that approaches random garbage.
The question isn't whether the file with the AES'd data can be decoded, it's whether a third party can detect which file is which. To that end, I would say the odds are fairly low. Especially if the OP is embedding the encrypted data inside a block of noise.
The GP is dead on, AES was designed with exactly this in mind.
In the business telecom world, we've had CIR as long as I can remember. We don't have the ambiguities that plague residential communications. Of course, we pay substantially more for the privilege.
I think the label that they suggest is s GREAT idea, just put a CIR on it and we're good to go.
Come across the border into the mainland...
I'd kill for 1.5Mbps!
http://diyefi.org/
Get rid of the proprietary crap and tinkering can be just as much fun!
As a scotch drinker and cigar smoker, I take offense to your condescension.
Oh wait, you're saying something I agree with.
Shit.
Let's try this then:
1. Smoke
2. Drink
3. Profit?
Disclosure: I'm writing this from a Mac. I like my Macs. I like Apple. I'm not delusional like this guy.
If you didn't RTFA, there's no need. It's just some Apple fanboi trying to find genius and conspiracy where there isn't any.
Are you serious? Constricting developers because you're going to change the platform? Really? I wonder if the article author even believes this crap.
Emulating a cpu you could just as easily install for real? Never mind going back to an architecture (POWER) that you've already EOL and that is wholly unsuited for the platform (high power consumption, high heat output).
He's right that Apple is a story in vertical integration. They're doing it the same way Rockefeller did. They want to control the entire platform.
It's taken nearly 10 years and more money then I'm going to disclose on /.
However, we now have the big stick to beat the people that copied our product into submission.
My suggestion above all else is this:
Don't just hire a lawyer, hire a GOOD lawyer. You don't say where you're based, so I can't give you any direct suggestions. We spent a boatload of money preparing our patent only to find out that the lawfirm (well regarded in the area) we hired to do it didn't have a clue WTF they were doing. They resulting patent was shit. We fought with the USPTO for 2 more years before finally deciding to retain alternate council. Once we hired a GOOD lawyer, we had it within 6 months.
So, don't just hire a lawyer, hire a good one.
I've got countless Zebra printers in horrible industrial environments. They run and run and run and run and run
Well, short of a little bunny banging a drum, you get the idea.
Put this in your intelligent designed pipe and smoke it.
I'd say that the bigger win here is the additional proof of evolution.
When you need to back up, turn on the machine.
When you're done, shut it down.
Offline storage at it's finest.
I also bought one of those when I ran out of internal bays.
They're a little slow compared to internal, but kick the shit out of USB.
Awesome little boxes.
It's only energy inefficient when it's on...
Because of this I discarded NAS and similar solutions.I have external hard drives and I plug them as I need using USB. Put them away from kids, sun and humidity and they will be fine.
And what happens to you in a drive failure? Instead of even having the option to recover your data, you just automatically loose it.
For the record, I've recovered lots of HW and SW raids over the years. It's been a pain in the ass a few times, but I've yet to loose data.
Those of you that backup to single external drives can't say that, or will soon not be able to say that once one of them fails.
I'd rather have to fight a recovery procedure then automatically know I'm going to loose data.
Granted, this isn't pertinent to the OP...
But, they're also SLOW. I've never found a NAS box that could even come close to a even a P4 running linux.
Use a faster box with multiple SATA channels on PCI-E cards and we're talking real performance.
I'm loathe to even think about how iSCSI would work off a cheap NAS box. I don't think I'd want to try it.
Buy a cheap used box from a local shop.
You can get P4 class boxes for around $100.
Stuff it full of drives, set up software raid and keep everything there.
In addition to providing a nice place to store backups, you can also use it for primary storage. I assume since you're ripping video that this is an HT-PC.
I prefer not to have a bunch of loud HDD's in my HT-PC. Put that crap in a closet.
Oops... I was a little fired up and I listed the wrong form.
1041 is estates/trusts
1120 is corporate return
Can you people possibly be this naive?
Funny, I was going to ask you the same question.
You act like corporations have no profit margins at all. As if every dollar they spend goes directly to labor and expenses.
It's quite simple. Profits from a corporation become the property of the shareholders. Either as retained earnings or dividends. Now, dividends are taxed at a flat 15%. Compare that to what you pay in taxes. If you owned the company, and could receive your pay in dividends, your total tax bill would be 15%.
The other option is to leave the money in the business as retained earnings or to spend it on assets. Want a new 20M aircraft? Instead of taking the money yourself and paying taxes on it before buying the plane, let the company buy the plane and book it as an asset. They get to depreciate it (150% right now thanks to bonus depreciation on aircraft) and not pay any tax on the money used to purchase it. (Simplification, but you get the general idea)
Corporate income tax exists as some kind of a counterbalance to this sort of behavior. It's intended to discourage principals from leaving most of what is really their profits in the company to avoid paying income tax on them. Now if the company is retaining earnings for a legitimate business purpose (saving for assets, rainy day, etc..) then they'll get the taxes back when they actually spend that money. (If they spend a lot, they can even back claim a net operating loss and get back money from previous years)
At the end of the day, this is all about making them accountable for the money they should pay tax on.
It also has NOTHING to do with employees or their ability to hire more. Employees are an expense. Money spent on employees is deductible. If anything, hiring more people would be a good way to AVOID paying the additional tax.
Again, for those of you that are really dense, or have drunk a lot of red koolaid:
CORPORATE INCOME TAX IS A TAX ON RETAINED EARNINGS. RE IS CALCULATED AFTER EMPLOYEE COSTS ARE REMOVED.
Don't let the pundits convince you that it's going to reduce employment. What it will do is force the super-high income bracket that derives most of their income from dividends to pay their fair share.
My effective tax rate was 38% last year, since my company doesn't make enough to pay me mostly through dividends. Most of my customers effective tax rates were less then 20%. On twice or more income, they pay about 5% total tax more then I did.
The usual slashdot meme is RTFA. In this case, read a fscking accounting book, or the 1041 instructions before you start spouting off about corporate income tax and what it does.
Go to wikipedia and look it up if you haven't.
We have farm subsides primarily as a result of the soil conservation movements that cured the dustbowl.
Numerous times, clouds of dust the size of several states roamed all the way to the east cost. Taking with them, all of the top soil from the midwest. This was on top of a very long drought.
As soon as we implemented soil conservation, the dust storms stopped and the rain came back. Had we not done that, it's very likely the US would have faced a famine.
So, the next time you eat something, be glad that we have farm subsides. Without them, it's unlikely that your parents would have been able to feed you.
"then why do teacher's make so little?"
From:
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=High_School_Teacher/Salary
Average starting wage for a high school teacher in the US is 34,687. That's not very far from the average wage for an entry level IT position, or any other entry level job.
Factor that up by the fact that teachers can have a summer job, and that puts the average around 45k/yr.
I'm sorry, but that's a decent living. I live in Chicago, and have a friend that's a teacher. She's been at it 4 years and is almost to 75k for 9 months of work.
It won't.
There are many reactor designs (CANDU in particular) that don't require any enrichment at all. What he's talking about is no longer producing highly enriched U235 and/or PU239.
Of course, that's great and all, but there are already fairly sizable stockpiles of both within the established nuclear powers.
He's either posturing or pipe-dreaming.
More like..
When Hulu is ALLOWED to discover the rest of the planet.
Several people have said this, but it needs to be pointed out. Hulu is a corporation with a LEGAL licensing agreement for their content. They have to bow to the whims of the MPAA, etc.
While the ideologues among you will say that they should just tell the media companies to screw themselves, we all know that isn't going to happen.
Both the issue at bar here and the one you present are directly the fault of the content providers. They'll continue to learn their lessons the hard way, just like they always have.
Did you expect them to show any more knowledge of the internet world working with Hulu then they do with anyone else?