Nonononono, this just proves how clever the Yellow Peril really is! We'll never, ever find any one of these magical unicorn chips, because they're just so clever at hiding them from us. And we know that they've hidden them on our motherboards (even though no-one has ever seen one) because they're so good at this. There, try shooting holes in that irrefutable logic.
Newsflash: Chromefox decides to copy what Google is doing. In other breaking news, water is still wet, the sun still rises every day, and Windows 10 still sucks. Film at 11.
It's not good or bad, it's unknown. While we know the effects at higher levels, at low levels it's pure extrapolation. In terms of displaying radiation dose vs. harm on a graph, the straight line turns into a dotted one at low levels, with three theories: It continues as a straight line to zero, it jumps up a bit before going to zero (disproportionate harm at low dose levels), or it jumps down a bit before returning to zero (slight benefit at low dose levels). We just don't know, because the dose levels are too low to provide any meaningful data. I've seen arguments in favour of all three of the above, all are well-reasoned, but none are convincing enough to override the other two.
A tip for Hollywood - if you want to maximise sales stop excluding half of your potential audience.
There were a considerable number of films made for that other half, unfortunately though Leni Riefenstahl and Veit Harlan have both passed away since then.
I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago.
They figured out how to squeeze more out of their drivers while paying them less. This is Uber we're talking about here, not Facebook or Google. If they could drive their empl^H^H^H^Hindependent contractors pay down to zero while they took the remaining 100%, they would.
The surrounding discussion indicates something ablative, or at least some form of sacrificial material in general:
Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick into a useable & commercialy viable product. The problem he had was although the powder component did exactly as it said on the tin, he had found no way of applying a lasting coating. All he really has was some powder mixed with PVA glue, the problem being that although you could apply it to certain objects it's longevity was no more than 2 weeks. While testing we discovered that a sample he'd kept for almost 10 years could be destroyed in a matter of minutes under a methylacetylene-propadiene propane blowtorch. Unfortunately after many samples & tests we where unable to find a effective application method & we parted company on good terms. Sadly this is the true reason why Mr Ward was never able to sell or bring his incomplete product to market
As for the nuke-proof claims? Pure fantasy, unless you're quite a long distance from ground zero, but in that case vehicular armour or similar will provide the same level of protection.
That'd be a neat idea for either an app or built into the OS, a device santiser, which cleans out your device to external storage before crossing the border, and restores it once you're in, or out.
Yes, he was talking about genders and science, but his talk wasn't scientific.
Where's his data?
His talk was almost entirely analysis of data. Lots of it. He's a physicist, that's what he does.
Sorry if this interferes with your SJW agenda.
A telling quote from the BBC article:
"There were young women and men exchanging ideas and their experiences on how to encourage more women into the subject and to combat discrimination in their careers. Then this man gets up, saying all this horrible stuff."
He said all these horrible things! Facts, data, analysis, all disagreeing with our established dogma! It was horrible! If we weren't so busy chanting "lalalalala we're not listening" then we'd almost be forced to rethink our ideas! Oh the SJW-ity!
No, I was moved out during a regular upgrade cycle. Always the same story. Join the Air Force, they said. It's an attack helicopter's life, they said. Now I'm moonlighting as a crop duster, and me with four little drones to feed and put through college.
Hehe.. In these "define your own gender" times.. you can just make up a new gender for yourself and then get yourself on any board you wish.. ROTFLMAO!
I'm an attack helicopter, and I'm just waiting for the new law requiring at least one attack helicopter on boards. In case anyone from Apple, Intel or Google/Alphabet is reading this, PM me, my rates are very reasonable.
Yep. Updated Skype recently to 8, it was essentially unusable. Went back to 7 fairly quickly. Given the choice between Skype 8 and nothing, I choose nothing. Or at least something that isn't Skype.
Yeah, I was surprised at this too. Tax evasion is the national pastime in Greece. Everyone, and I mean everyone, cheats on taxes in any way they can. Every house is half-built in order to avoid property taxes. Heck, governments frequently don't even try and collect taxes in election years. This is just some posturing to make it look like someone's doing something. Or maybe a cousin of the minister had a falling out, and he happens to operate a charter boat company.
Oh, and speaking of "all bits transmitted are received 100% of the time", been there, seen that. There was one standard that was (literally) never tested outside a local LAN segment, and failed completely in the presence of any kind of network error. It was eventually released as version 2.0 for its first release, when they patched a hacked-up "transport protocol" wrapper around the original to deal with the fact that it didn't, you know, actually work in the field. Problem was, the transport wrapper made the original effort look like a piece of genius protocol design....
Ah, yep, I knew there was a third one. And as a corollary, the fact that you can upgrade your entire installed base via online software updates within a few days of releasing a new version. Mentioning that some of our stuff is never upgradeable once deployed due to it being, oh, buried inside 10ft of reinforced concrete, or has an operational lifetime of ten to twenty years minimum once deployed just gets blank looks.
There is one place where people still produce stuff like the OP wants, and that's embedded. Not IoT wank, but real embedded, running on CPUs clocked at tens of MHz with RAM in two-digit kilobyte (not megabyte or gigabyte) quantities. And a lot of that stuff is written to very exacting standards, particularly where something like realtime control and/or safety is involved.
The one problem in this area is the endless battle with standards morons who begin each standard with an implicit "assume an infinitely fast CPU with infinite RAM...". The number of standards meetings I've sat through where we've been met with total incomprehension, I mean literally a total inability to comprehend, that something has to operate on anything less than a multi-GHz CPU with gigabytes of RAM....
After I posted this I realised what the real problem is, and how to fix it: Every term you want to use contains connotations of control over something, e.g. A controlling B (master/slave, whatever). No matter what terms you use, in some language or some culture it'll upset someone.
With one exception: There is a specific term for which the controlled not only don't mind, but actively seek it. That's "dom" and "sub". So I think Python should replace all occurrences of "master" and "slave" with "dom" and "sub". And then sit back while the SJWs come up with something else to be offended by, perhaps the blatantly pornographic nature of the letter "B" or the subtly suggestive "J".
The same year, Django traded "master" and "slave" for "leader" and "follower."
Or, in its German translation, Fuehrer and AnhÃnger, but the latter can also mean "trailer" so we'll use a more people-specific term, Volk. Fuehrer and Volk, that's it, no-one will be offended by that. It's a good thing there's such a rich (in German, "Reich") set of words to choose from for Django: Fuehrer, Volk, und Reich.
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Nonononono, this just proves how clever the Yellow Peril really is! We'll never, ever find any one of these magical unicorn chips, because they're just so clever at hiding them from us. And we know that they've hidden them on our motherboards (even though no-one has ever seen one) because they're so good at this. There, try shooting holes in that irrefutable logic.
Newsflash: Chromefox decides to copy what Google is doing. In other breaking news, water is still wet, the sun still rises every day, and Windows 10 still sucks. Film at 11.
Sorry, bad phrasing, I meant they effectively squeezed more money out of their drivers by paying them less, so Uber got a larger cut of the revenue.
It's not good or bad, it's unknown. While we know the effects at higher levels, at low levels it's pure extrapolation. In terms of displaying radiation dose vs. harm on a graph, the straight line turns into a dotted one at low levels, with three theories: It continues as a straight line to zero, it jumps up a bit before going to zero (disproportionate harm at low dose levels), or it jumps down a bit before returning to zero (slight benefit at low dose levels). We just don't know, because the dose levels are too low to provide any meaningful data. I've seen arguments in favour of all three of the above, all are well-reasoned, but none are convincing enough to override the other two.
A tip for Hollywood - if you want to maximise sales stop excluding half of your potential audience.
There were a considerable number of films made for that other half, unfortunately though Leni Riefenstahl and Veit Harlan have both passed away since then.
It was quite an achievement, and one which hasn't been reproduced to date.
Google "intumescent coating", you can buy it by the tanker-load from a range of vendors.
I still wonder what happened to uber. Their rates have gone up, not down, yet drivers seem to be making substantially less than just a few years ago.
They figured out how to squeeze more out of their drivers while paying them less. This is Uber we're talking about here, not Facebook or Google. If they could drive their empl^H^H^H^Hindependent contractors pay down to zero while they took the remaining 100%, they would.
Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick into a useable & commercialy viable product. The problem he had was although the powder component did exactly as it said on the tin, he had found no way of applying a lasting coating. All he really has was some powder mixed with PVA glue, the problem being that although you could apply it to certain objects it's longevity was no more than 2 weeks. While testing we discovered that a sample he'd kept for almost 10 years could be destroyed in a matter of minutes under a methylacetylene-propadiene propane blowtorch. Unfortunately after many samples & tests we where unable to find a effective application method & we parted company on good terms. Sadly this is the true reason why Mr Ward was never able to sell or bring his incomplete product to market
As for the nuke-proof claims? Pure fantasy, unless you're quite a long distance from ground zero, but in that case vehicular armour or similar will provide the same level of protection.
the reason, his name is unfortunately similar to a known criminal.
Harry Rodham Clinton?
That'd be a neat idea for either an app or built into the OS, a device santiser, which cleans out your device to external storage before crossing the border, and restores it once you're in, or out.
Yes, he was talking about genders and science, but his talk wasn't scientific. Where's his data?
His talk was almost entirely analysis of data. Lots of it. He's a physicist, that's what he does.
Sorry if this interferes with your SJW agenda.
A telling quote from the BBC article:
"There were young women and men exchanging ideas and their experiences on how to encourage more women into the subject and to combat discrimination in their careers. Then this man gets up, saying all this horrible stuff."
He said all these horrible things! Facts, data, analysis, all disagreeing with our established dogma! It was horrible! If we weren't so busy chanting "lalalalala we're not listening" then we'd almost be forced to rethink our ideas! Oh the SJW-ity!
No, I was moved out during a regular upgrade cycle. Always the same story. Join the Air Force, they said. It's an attack helicopter's life, they said. Now I'm moonlighting as a crop duster, and me with four little drones to feed and put through college.
Hehe.. In these "define your own gender" times.. you can just make up a new gender for yourself and then get yourself on any board you wish.. ROTFLMAO!
I'm an attack helicopter, and I'm just waiting for the new law requiring at least one attack helicopter on boards. In case anyone from Apple, Intel or Google/Alphabet is reading this, PM me, my rates are very reasonable.
Yep. Updated Skype recently to 8, it was essentially unusable. Went back to 7 fairly quickly. Given the choice between Skype 8 and nothing, I choose nothing. Or at least something that isn't Skype.
Yeah, I was surprised at this too. Tax evasion is the national pastime in Greece. Everyone, and I mean everyone, cheats on taxes in any way they can. Every house is half-built in order to avoid property taxes. Heck, governments frequently don't even try and collect taxes in election years. This is just some posturing to make it look like someone's doing something. Or maybe a cousin of the minister had a falling out, and he happens to operate a charter boat company.
Or they could persuade McAssange to stick his head down a loaded cannon. Worked for Blackadder.
Also, opinion is running against him presenting a viable proof, see e.g. this commentary (in German however).
Oh, and speaking of "all bits transmitted are received 100% of the time", been there, seen that. There was one standard that was (literally) never tested outside a local LAN segment, and failed completely in the presence of any kind of network error. It was eventually released as version 2.0 for its first release, when they patched a hacked-up "transport protocol" wrapper around the original to deal with the fact that it didn't, you know, actually work in the field. Problem was, the transport wrapper made the original effort look like a piece of genius protocol design....
Ah, yep, I knew there was a third one. And as a corollary, the fact that you can upgrade your entire installed base via online software updates within a few days of releasing a new version. Mentioning that some of our stuff is never upgradeable once deployed due to it being, oh, buried inside 10ft of reinforced concrete, or has an operational lifetime of ten to twenty years minimum once deployed just gets blank looks.
There is one place where people still produce stuff like the OP wants, and that's embedded. Not IoT wank, but real embedded, running on CPUs clocked at tens of MHz with RAM in two-digit kilobyte (not megabyte or gigabyte) quantities. And a lot of that stuff is written to very exacting standards, particularly where something like realtime control and/or safety is involved.
The one problem in this area is the endless battle with standards morons who begin each standard with an implicit "assume an infinitely fast CPU with infinite RAM...". The number of standards meetings I've sat through where we've been met with total incomprehension, I mean literally a total inability to comprehend, that something has to operate on anything less than a multi-GHz CPU with gigabytes of RAM....
They run the clock three minutes slow to save wear on the gears. Yep, definitely Scottish.
CoCs kill.
Only if they're really big and you choke on them.
After I posted this I realised what the real problem is, and how to fix it: Every term you want to use contains connotations of control over something, e.g. A controlling B (master/slave, whatever). No matter what terms you use, in some language or some culture it'll upset someone.
With one exception: There is a specific term for which the controlled not only don't mind, but actively seek it. That's "dom" and "sub". So I think Python should replace all occurrences of "master" and "slave" with "dom" and "sub". And then sit back while the SJWs come up with something else to be offended by, perhaps the blatantly pornographic nature of the letter "B" or the subtly suggestive "J".
The same year, Django traded "master" and "slave" for "leader" and "follower."
Or, in its German translation, Fuehrer and AnhÃnger, but the latter can also mean "trailer" so we'll use a more people-specific term, Volk. Fuehrer and Volk, that's it, no-one will be offended by that. It's a good thing there's such a rich (in German, "Reich") set of words to choose from for Django: Fuehrer, Volk, und Reich.
a battery with about the capacity of 3-4 old-Sokol "D" cell flashlight batteries
Sokol batteries? So a bunch of Czech gymnasts turn up and run on a treadmill to power your flashlight?