With the appropriate farming techniques, which have pretty much been forgotten in the age of high-volume industrial farming,...
It frustrates me beyond measure how our society tends to want to solve things with big, sweeping high-cost measures,...
Absolutely agree, with the elaboration that "what society (acts like it) wants" is too often far different from "what most of the people want". The issue of "what is best for everyone" is right out. My take on the reason for this anomaly is that big sweeping measures create concentrations of funds, marvelously rich and convenient food sources for the legion of parasites to siphon away. These same parasites orchestrate the fear-mongering campaigns to build pseudo-demand for their big solutions.
The sibling post by Ferret refers to the same process but is more gentle with the attribution. It would be nice if being gentle worked but I think the perpetrators just take advantage of it.
Even worse, as I have read, the plastic bits are dispersed in a huge volume. Roughly one bit per cubic meter to depths in tens of meters.
Also, the amounts of plastic debris are not increasing because tiny crustaceans are drilling tunnels into the plastic and feasting on the rich carbs, safe inside their tough little homes.
I think they are trying to avoid more negative PR given the current state of the campaign. Past petitions along the same lines have received exactly the treatment you describe. We can 'hope'* that removing the petition will instead draw more attention to it. *[The word 'hope' is now cringe-worthy and has been deprecated.]
Although I did not RTFA I must comment that the summary was notably terrible in identifying what was compromised: "That key is what the Chrome browser would look for in order to ensure that the extension is legitimate and authentic, and so it should never be disclosed publicly."
How about this: "The value of this key depends solely on everyone else trusting that only Yahoo knows it."
Just sacrifice the weirdo screws. Use metal tube, small enough to go down the hole and long enough to grip above the surface, for each screw. Mix a blob of epoxy putty and put a small cylindrical bead of it in each tube end. Put tubes in holes, ram the epoxy bead to form it to the screw top and to the inside of the tube. Go have a beer. When you come back, grab the tube top with any convenient pliers and turn the screws out. To reassemble, replace the screws with something standard.
but most printers have embedded DRM related to IP purchase of the models.
Not if you build your own 3D printer. You can download the complete software toolchain, all open source, free and actively supported by enthusiasts. Fabbers are actually easier to design and build than an equivalent-size CNC milling machine since the forces involved are much smaller. Not really much different from an ink-jet printer, actually.
Filament feedstock is still ridiculously expensive but only because it is not manufactured in commercial quantities. Current prices for 3mm filament in 1kg spools are 100X the bulk material cost. Fabbing directly from raw pellets is problematic for a number of reasons. Converters are already tooled up to handle those problems in truly amazing volume. When the market for filament becomes large enough for them to engage, prices will drop dramatically.
clearly anyone with a DRM free printer has got to be some sort of criminal
IANAL so this is likely to be horribly oversimplified: you can build a copy of any patented device for your own personal use, not for sale. I have no idea what the equivalent rules for copyright might be and would appreciate any correction or clarification from an actual IP attorney.
Your reaction sounds more like a contact irritant, poison ivy|oak|sumac or any of the other weeds and flowers containing irritants. Systemic allergies seem to show up first in mucous membranes, not necessarily at point of exposure.
Maybe the explanation is in TFA and it went over my head but are the two atoms actually quantum entangled? The process seemed to me more like ordinary synchronization. One photon carrying information (at exactly the speed of light, natch) from one of the atoms to the other, somehow making the quantum value of the recipient the same as the value of the sender at the time it was sent. Isn't "entanglement" more that a copy-and-assign?
Not that maintaining the total information in a qbit over a link could not be valuable: even if you just encoded values in the different spins palimpset-style you could get more than one ordinary bit per photon.
It just seems to miss the whole 'bi-directional spooky action at a distance' thing. What did I miss?
One word: "disintermediation". Banks and their avatars will oppose any purchase/payment mechanism in which they don't automatically get a slice of the pie. It would be in place already but the banks have yet to make someone else put all the infrastructure in place so they can start raking in profits from day one.
Anonymous authentication? Has been demonstrated multiple times; BTDT myself and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.
ad454 I believe you but think you are missing something. You, as the technical person, are not seeing any candidates because the generation who cut that technology with their own teeth are too old to get past HR.
My experience spans the development of those protocols; there is a veritable museum's worth of 7816 prototypes in my basement; there are ARM, PIC and MSP430 projects-in-process in front of me right now and I would very much like a job as you describe. You would never even see my resume because I am sixty-something. Anyone who is not sixty-something would not have my experience. Anyone trained in 'software' now would have started with GUI toolkits and unlimited memory. Hardware people are using UML design leading to implementation in astonishingly capable programmable logic devices.
Many of the posts above hit the nail on the head: the MBA managers deliberately under-value the contribution of engineering to their own wealth. They pretend that they somehow create wealth by having meetings. The same people use some of that money to buy politicians at all levels. They also write business textbooks to further solidify their dogma.
IMHO, the involvement of Oracle would be enough to make me avoid Java even if I liked the language. Developing applications is stressful enough without having to worry about what Larry Ellison might do. And I don't like the language either. The nature of its widespread use only strengthens my feeling it is the 'new' BASIC, a dead-end educational toy that is used far beyond its capacities. Worse, this has gone on long enough for its oversimplified world view to affect what often masquerades as "design". Stitching together great steaming piles of independently mutating libraries doesn't seem to produce good applications, does it?
A couple more things to preempt the fanbois: No, Java is not fast. Java is a programming language. Virualized RISC machines can be fast within their own arenas and a lot of good work has gone into JIT compilers and the machines running underneath "Java". The claim does nothing but reveal your lack of knowledge and perspective. And no, grunting out low-content scripts for a few years does not make anyone a designer or an architect. Building kludged-together boxes using Lego blocks doesn't make you a civil engineer or an architect either.
Verizon, Sprint, et. al. are most certainly NOT paying anything for your phone. They are merely fronting the money. You, the users, are paying it all back with more than enough profit.
What this arrangement does, however, is to make the phone companies Google's immediate customers. Users are somewhere in the background, with no voice at the deal-cutting table.
They became 'famous' -- within the world of EE's -- and their only response was pure delight that they got to talk with more people about analog design. Jim helped me with some digital analog interplay noise issues that did not mean sales for LT, he just loved design and troubleshooting.
I fear this is true. The remarkable shortage of visionaries in leadership positions handicaps US relative to nearly everyone else. Add the effect of the Wall Street/investment shysters and We are scrod (past pluperfect for the grammar nazis). IMHO, this is the problem the./ crowd should be working to counter. Much more important than which window manager to use.
2012 will certainly not be a happy new year unless We make it better. That is as cheerful as I can be.
It seems that no government lab ever reaches end-of-life. They just keep operating even as their science base evaporates. Eventually they become administration-only, breaking big funding pipes into smaller ones and passing them along.
Definitely agree with this! Promoting wireless for this application sounds like either a buzzword-driven Pointy-Haired Boss or a paid shill for a wireless chipset. Induction coupling works if the signal needs to come out through the skin (and power needs to get in.) It can be shielded easily too, with a thin mu-metal pad on the outside of the external coil.
This is exactly what 'business management' has become in the US. If you don't believe it, do some Googling on the managers and boards of large corporations over the last twenty years. You can see individuals cycling through that very process. It is on the list "Things that make me madder than hell."
If you like aircraft at all, the collection at Wright-Pat is simply amazing. Like the Smithsonian, a one-day visit is just a tantalizing sample. Wear good walking shoes, it is enormous.
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With the appropriate farming techniques, which have pretty much been forgotten in the age of high-volume industrial farming, ...
It frustrates me beyond measure how our society tends to want to solve things with big, sweeping high-cost measures, ...
Absolutely agree, with the elaboration that "what society (acts like it) wants" is too often far different from "what most of the people want". The issue of "what is best for everyone" is right out. My take on the reason for this anomaly is that big sweeping measures create concentrations of funds, marvelously rich and convenient food sources for the legion of parasites to siphon away. These same parasites orchestrate the fear-mongering campaigns to build pseudo-demand for their big solutions.
The sibling post by Ferret refers to the same process but is more gentle with the attribution. It would be nice if being gentle worked but I think the perpetrators just take advantage of it.
Even worse, as I have read, the plastic bits are dispersed in a huge volume. Roughly one bit per cubic meter to depths in tens of meters.
Also, the amounts of plastic debris are not increasing because tiny crustaceans are drilling tunnels into the plastic and feasting on the rich carbs, safe inside their tough little homes.
I think they are trying to avoid more negative PR given the current state of the campaign. Past petitions along the same lines have received exactly the treatment you describe. We can 'hope'* that removing the petition will instead draw more attention to it. *[The word 'hope' is now cringe-worthy and has been deprecated.]
Very well said, AC!
you have never seen the aurora borealis, have you.
Although I did not RTFA I must comment that the summary was notably terrible in identifying what was compromised:
"That key is what the Chrome browser would look for in order to ensure that the extension is legitimate and authentic, and so it should never be disclosed publicly."
How about this:
"The value of this key depends solely on everyone else trusting that only Yahoo knows it."
Two different quantities. The machine weighs 16 million pounds -- aka 8000 tons -- and can apply 50,000 tons force to the workpiece.
Just sacrifice the weirdo screws. Use metal tube, small enough to go down the hole and long enough to grip above the surface, for each screw. Mix a blob of epoxy putty and put a small cylindrical bead of it in each tube end. Put tubes in holes, ram the epoxy bead to form it to the screw top and to the inside of the tube. Go have a beer. When you come back, grab the tube top with any convenient pliers and turn the screws out. To reassemble, replace the screws with something standard.
And adds latency.
but most printers have embedded DRM related to IP purchase of the models.
Not if you build your own 3D printer. You can download the complete software toolchain, all open source, free and actively supported by enthusiasts. Fabbers are actually easier to design and build than an equivalent-size CNC milling machine since the forces involved are much smaller. Not really much different from an ink-jet printer, actually.
Filament feedstock is still ridiculously expensive but only because it is not manufactured in commercial quantities. Current prices for 3mm filament in 1kg spools are 100X the bulk material cost. Fabbing directly from raw pellets is problematic for a number of reasons. Converters are already tooled up to handle those problems in truly amazing volume. When the market for filament becomes large enough for them to engage, prices will drop dramatically.
clearly anyone with a DRM free printer has got to be some sort of criminal
IANAL so this is likely to be horribly oversimplified: you can build a copy of any patented device for your own personal use, not for sale. I have no idea what the equivalent rules for copyright might be and would appreciate any correction or clarification from an actual IP attorney.
Your reaction sounds more like a contact irritant, poison ivy|oak|sumac or any of the other weeds and flowers containing irritants. Systemic allergies seem to show up first in mucous membranes, not necessarily at point of exposure.
They did what politicians do best -- lie without remorse.
Maybe the explanation is in TFA and it went over my head but are the two atoms actually quantum entangled? The process seemed to me more like ordinary synchronization. One photon carrying information (at exactly the speed of light, natch) from one of the atoms to the other, somehow making the quantum value of the recipient the same as the value of the sender at the time it was sent. Isn't "entanglement" more that a copy-and-assign?
Not that maintaining the total information in a qbit over a link could not be valuable: even if you just encoded values in the different spins palimpset-style you could get more than one ordinary bit per photon.
It just seems to miss the whole 'bi-directional spooky action at a distance' thing. What did I miss?
One word: "disintermediation". Banks and their avatars will oppose any purchase/payment mechanism in which they don't automatically get a slice of the pie. It would be in place already but the banks have yet to make someone else put all the infrastructure in place so they can start raking in profits from day one.
Anonymous authentication? Has been demonstrated multiple times; BTDT myself and all I got was a lousy T-shirt.
ad454 I believe you but think you are missing something. You, as the technical person, are not seeing any candidates because the generation who cut that technology with their own teeth are too old to get past HR.
My experience spans the development of those protocols; there is a veritable museum's worth of 7816 prototypes in my basement; there are ARM, PIC and MSP430 projects-in-process in front of me right now and I would very much like a job as you describe. You would never even see my resume because I am sixty-something. Anyone who is not sixty-something would not have my experience. Anyone trained in 'software' now would have started with GUI toolkits and unlimited memory. Hardware people are using UML design leading to implementation in astonishingly capable programmable logic devices.
Many of the posts above hit the nail on the head: the MBA managers deliberately under-value the contribution of engineering to their own wealth. They pretend that they somehow create wealth by having meetings. The same people use some of that money to buy politicians at all levels. They also write business textbooks to further solidify their dogma.
Meh. I'll get off your lawn now.
Maxwell, Tesla, Watt, etc.
Hmmmm ... My suggestion for Step 2 is to put a honeymoon hotel at the counterweight and have a high-speed shuttle for passengers.
IMHO, the involvement of Oracle would be enough to make me avoid Java even if I liked the language. Developing applications is stressful enough without having to worry about what Larry Ellison might do.
And I don't like the language either. The nature of its widespread use only strengthens my feeling it is the 'new' BASIC, a dead-end educational toy that is used far beyond its capacities. Worse, this has gone on long enough for its oversimplified world view to affect what often masquerades as "design". Stitching together great steaming piles of independently mutating libraries doesn't seem to produce good applications, does it?
A couple more things to preempt the fanbois:
No, Java is not fast. Java is a programming language. Virualized RISC machines can be fast within their own arenas and a lot of good work has gone into JIT compilers and the machines running underneath "Java". The claim does nothing but reveal your lack of knowledge and perspective.
And no, grunting out low-content scripts for a few years does not make anyone a designer or an architect. Building kludged-together boxes using Lego blocks doesn't make you a civil engineer or an architect either.
Verizon, Sprint, et. al. are most certainly NOT paying anything for your phone. They are merely fronting the money. You, the users, are paying it all back with more than enough profit.
What this arrangement does, however, is to make the phone companies Google's immediate customers. Users are somewhere in the background, with no voice at the deal-cutting table.
This. I had a lucky chance to meet Bob Pease in the 1980's and to converse with him several times over the years.
Another was Jim Williams at Linear Technologies. Jim died after attending Bob's funeral.
http://www.edn.com/article/518496-Analog_guru_Jim_Williams_dies_after_stroke.php
They became 'famous' -- within the world of EE's -- and their only response
was pure delight that they got to talk with more people about analog design. Jim helped me with some digital analog
interplay noise issues that did not mean sales for LT, he just loved design and troubleshooting.
Good people.
I fear this is true. The remarkable shortage of visionaries in leadership positions handicaps US relative to nearly everyone else. ./ crowd should be working to counter. Much more important than which window manager to use.
Add the effect of the Wall Street/investment shysters and We are scrod (past pluperfect for the grammar nazis).
IMHO, this is the problem the
2012 will certainly not be a happy new year unless We make it better.
That is as cheerful as I can be.
and I am fresh out of mod points. Rats!
It seems that no government lab ever reaches end-of-life. They just keep operating even as their science base evaporates.
Eventually they become administration-only, breaking big funding pipes into smaller ones and passing them along.
Definitely agree with this! Promoting wireless for this application sounds like either a buzzword-driven Pointy-Haired Boss or a paid shill for a wireless chipset. Induction coupling works if the signal needs to come out through the skin (and power needs to get in.) It can be shielded easily too, with a thin mu-metal pad on the outside of the external coil.
This is exactly what 'business management' has become in the US. If you don't believe it, do some Googling on the managers and boards of large corporations over the last twenty years. You can see individuals cycling through that very process. It is on the list "Things that make me madder than hell."
If you like aircraft at all, the collection at Wright-Pat is simply amazing. Like the Smithsonian, a one-day visit is just a tantalizing sample.
Wear good walking shoes, it is enormous.