For many years there was a bar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, Joe's "Club Elkhart". On the menu were a steak sandwich and a hamburger. Also french fries. Steak sandwich was tenderloin. I went back in the kitchen one day to see my hamburger made. Joe's wife took a handful of tenderloin tips and ran them through the hand grinder, then fried (sauteed really, I guess) in butter. Served on a hard roll. The fries were made from a freshly-scrubbed Idaho sliced lengthwise by hand and fried in a couple of inches of beef tallow in the bottom of a Dutch oven on the stovetop. It was a pricey burger; in 1965 I think they were about $1.50.
Did you see the part in the submission where phlawed says he'd be willing to pay, that he can't realistically pay enough all by himself, and was asking for suggestions useful to his plaint?
I wonder if phlawed subscribed to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icewm-user whether he might then be able to send out a request for members willing to kick in towards paying a maintainer. With enough users they might also have fewer hops than six-degrees towards finding one.
While I take your point, I have to wonder if the difference between a daydream and a physical experiment might be mathematics which bear out the results of a given though experiment. If memory serves, Einstein used thought experiments to provide him with a [often visual] framework upon which to build the math which would either bear out the results or deny them (and I forget the name of the guy who for decades helped him with the math.) It was only after a theory was established that he'd use the thought experiment to illustrate a concept for others.
Did Ashordi et al have math to go with their pipe dream?
I rather expect that the public's current lower regard for science is down to several things - unsupported scientific musing, as you say, but also more of them effectively slept through all their science classes, a thorough-going misapplication of the word "theory" and a wholly unsupported notion that their prejudice and superstition is somehow deserving of equal-time and equal regard as making up a valid worldview. In other words, the conceit lies not with a group of theoretical physicists but with a public membered by scientifically illiterate idiots thinking that what they think is somehow equally valid.
To help the uninitiated I posted this in a thread devoted to dealing with the dangers of HAARP. I repost in the fervent hope it may be of use to enhancing the safety and sagacity of those who might otherwise be afflicted.
"There is a bit more to it. First, about the "tin-foil" - it's obvious to most, of course, that we're really speaking of aluminium foil (how that got originally termed 'tin-foil' is curious). Standard weight is OK for most.
"Here's the trick. It really requires a sandwich or layered approach. Wear any kind of soft cloth head cover - handkerchief, skullcap, welder's cap. The hat itself starts with the foil. Then a layer of waxed paper. Then, and this is very important, a layer of Mylar (or other brand of aluminized plastic film). Over that, as the top and final layer, newsprint. The colored comics section is alright, but avoid the glossy photographs from the magazine section.
"One last thing. If you live very near a principal Ley line, you are advised to add an additional layer each of waxed-paper and Mylar."
a relevant portion "In the latest status report, published on November 2012 and available here, the scientists reported that several compounds had been found to inhibit the virus activity. 20 compounds were ordered, 19 actually arrived, of which 3 were not soluble. From the remaining 16, 7 inhibited Mtb InhA(Mycobacterium tuberculosis). The best hit displayed an IC50 value of approximately 40 micro-Molar. The discovery of this compound is important because of the drug resistant superbugs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
This is not my field by a long stretch. After reading the pdf this morning, what I got from the paper was a method to undetectably make relatively easily-done changes to various transistors such that those changes offer an entry point for external reading and possibly manipulation to potentially useful effect within real-world manufacturing methods. Do this, pwn chips. Profit.
What these guys have done strikes me as impressive - and wonderfully, elegantly sneaky. I know there are some design and fab people here - what say you?
Hey, if it doesn't show a profit "going forward".... [WTF, they're going to go backwards? I hate that fucking phrase and all like it - it's ridiculous and weak-minded besides. Does no one understand future tense and such any more?]
Besides, what has science ever done for us? Especially space science? I mean, we've got GPS for driving directions, we've got plenty of comms satellites - how many channels of "I Love Lucy" re-runs do we need? We sure as hell don't need any goddam asteroids for resources. Biggest copper mines are above ground already, in buildings. Ditto a bunch of other stuff. As for the rest, a bit of population control will fix things.
Screw it, ya know? Man's place is on Earth. Get over it. Get over yourself. Resign yourself to Fate, the way things are meant to be. We have no business anywhere else.
Yah, yah, Voyager. Enough already. Gorram NASA toy. Make money and screw hindmost, I say.
[sigh] The Gorshkov quote was popularized by Clancy, but I came across it some years before (not from Polmer) in another book, but I no longer have it, and recall is not dredging the memory. A bad day for memory, sorry. I wish to hell that I could recall the translation of the Chinese saying, it's elegant. Please, do go on.
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I figure a metal detector or so for firearms, strengthened and locked cockpit doors and a sky marshal should be sufficient, else disallow flammables after the gate as well. The current TSA crap came from scared, weak-minded politicians who shirked leadership (and possibly those with the hidden agenda of a police state.) All it would've taken, beyond proposing the above changes, is for a few of the heavies in House and Senate to have stood up in front of the CNN cameras and flipped the bird to "the terrorists", showing some spine. Dean Ing in Soft Targets discusses some other approaches, humor being one - basically, ridicule the bastards, make 'em a laughingstock.
Either way, you've got the best P.S. I've seen in a long while. Sci-fi writers had some of this long before Hollywood, but who takes that seriously? Other than some of us, maybe.
Perhaps it doesn't matter; I've the scary thought that even if the bulk of the populace got angry and demanded an end to such practice that it would make no difference to outcome.
It used to be that legislators tended to behave well in being responsive to their constituents in order to get the votes to get re-elected; now I suspect they have more fear of having the past five or ten years of their emails and phone calls outed than they fear having to return to private life to try to make an honest living.
"Secret courts and secret laws are an existential threat to democratic society...."
By which I take it to mean that since we do have secret laws and secret courts then we do not have a democratic society, only some of its superficial trappings.
That's where I think it went wrong, when a cable company would come to a city with a take-it-or-leave-it deal. The city should have let out for bids, and then let the voters decide. That way the cable companies - and now the ISPs - would be really competing to get the consumers, rather than the common occurrence of the b.s. choice of cable or ADSL at exorbitant fees and limits. (Yes, I'm leaving out dial-up and satellite, each, for various reasons.)
With a load capacity ~5 tons and 450nm combat range (800+otherwise), the V-22 could be useful for some on what is envisioned for the Aeroscraft - at least for such things as crew and small supplies replenishment.
In-air refueling is cool and all, but as with helicopters there is a limit (don't know hours for Osprey, sorry) of flight hours before maintenance; a helo may have as few as ten hours of flight before mandated down time. See also http://www.justhelicopters.com/HELIARTICLES/tabid/433/ID/13287/Helicopter-In-Flight-Refueling.aspx for a fascinating excellent account, and a history of helicopter aerial refueling.
The Aeroscraft (the big one, if after this prototype proves out) in contrast is designed to be able to shift _66_ tons out to several thousand km. So, for its designed role, the Aeroscraft looks a winner in all respects. It will remain to be seen how it fares in heavy weather, tho. To put it another way, for its intended missions it has no competition.
Bingo. As for bringing raw materials back, I have to wonder - if the Aeroscraft can take in machinery for extraction of a resource, if it's one that can be readily pre-processed by straightforward mechanical or chemical means perhaps that could be done on site as well. I suppose the airship could be used for many 'outback' construction needs besides mineral extraction sites also - remote weather stations come to mind.
Existing heavy-lift helicopters such as the later Chinooks and S-64 are range-limited to several hundred miles, last I looked. I don't know if either one can be refueled in flight.
I've been following Pasternak's project with great interest since he started it and hope everything pans out.
While it took money to write the algorithms and manage the projects, the use of World Community Grid for the genome comparison project and human proteome folding one and two got a lot of work done affordably, according to the projects' authors. I'd think similar approach could help here.
"If you're advising the user to "try ping host xyz" you need to explain why and what to do if it returns the expected or unexpected results and what conclusions he can draw from them."
This.
You can show and tell what and even how all day long to little avail; telling why educates both writer and user and lets one get on with solving problems.
Overall the top 500 paid an average of half the 35% rate. The GAO report is a good place to start if you really want to know, or one of the news story summaries. Roughly half the entries on a screen and a half of search results were for articles on companies paying zero or less federal tax.
I've shoveled manure, mucked out barns, dug ditches and footings, all by hand, and pumped septic tanks and cleaned sewers with low-end power tools and a pump truck. Not my all-time favorite work but it's honest and at the time paid just about enough to survive on (rent, food, utilities, maybe some books and brewskis.) When you're young and healthy it's OK. Later, no. This was all thirty to fifty years ago; I've no idea the spread of pay these days.
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For many years there was a bar in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, Joe's "Club Elkhart". On the menu were a steak sandwich and a hamburger. Also french fries. Steak sandwich was tenderloin. I went back in the kitchen one day to see my hamburger made. Joe's wife took a handful of tenderloin tips and ran them through the hand grinder, then fried (sauteed really, I guess) in butter. Served on a hard roll. The fries were made from a freshly-scrubbed Idaho sliced lengthwise by hand and fried in a couple of inches of beef tallow in the bottom of a Dutch oven on the stovetop. It was a pricey burger; in 1965 I think they were about $1.50.
Congrats, Chris, that's fine turn-about.
"How do we pay to get this done?
"I know, we'll _charge_ for it!"
Slick, man.
Did you see the part in the submission where phlawed says he'd be willing to pay, that he can't realistically pay enough all by himself, and was asking for suggestions useful to his plaint?
I wonder if phlawed subscribed to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icewm-user whether he might then be able to send out a request for members willing to kick in towards paying a maintainer. With enough users they might also have fewer hops than six-degrees towards finding one.
While I take your point, I have to wonder if the difference between a daydream and a physical experiment might be mathematics which bear out the results of a given though experiment. If memory serves, Einstein used thought experiments to provide him with a [often visual] framework upon which to build the math which would either bear out the results or deny them (and I forget the name of the guy who for decades helped him with the math.) It was only after a theory was established that he'd use the thought experiment to illustrate a concept for others.
Did Ashordi et al have math to go with their pipe dream?
I rather expect that the public's current lower regard for science is down to several things - unsupported scientific musing, as you say, but also more of them effectively slept through all their science classes, a thorough-going misapplication of the word "theory" and a wholly unsupported notion that their prejudice and superstition is somehow deserving of equal-time and equal regard as making up a valid worldview. In other words, the conceit lies not with a group of theoretical physicists but with a public membered by scientifically illiterate idiots thinking that what they think is somehow equally valid.
Yeah, you're right; I was saving that for the kits I was gonna sell.
To help the uninitiated I posted this in a thread devoted to dealing with the dangers of HAARP. I repost in the fervent hope it may be of use to enhancing the safety and sagacity of those who might otherwise be afflicted.
"There is a bit more to it. First, about the "tin-foil" - it's obvious to most, of course, that we're really speaking of aluminium foil (how that got originally termed 'tin-foil' is curious). Standard weight is OK for most.
"Here's the trick. It really requires a sandwich or layered approach. Wear any kind of soft cloth head cover - handkerchief, skullcap, welder's cap. The hat itself starts with the foil. Then a layer of waxed paper. Then, and this is very important, a layer of Mylar (or other brand of aluminized plastic film). Over that, as the top and final layer, newsprint. The colored comics section is alright, but avoid the glossy photographs from the magazine section.
"One last thing. If you live very near a principal Ley line, you are advised to add an additional layer each of waxed-paper and Mylar."
Re: Gates Foundation and malaria.
Also worthy of note is the GO Fight Against Malaria Project at World Community Grid and the research done at Scripps in La Jolla. From the Wikipedia article,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid#GO_Fight_Against_Malaria_Project
a relevant portion
"In the latest status report, published on November 2012 and available here, the scientists reported that several compounds had been found to inhibit the virus activity. 20 compounds were ordered, 19 actually arrived, of which 3 were not soluble. From the remaining 16, 7 inhibited Mtb InhA(Mycobacterium tuberculosis). The best hit displayed an IC50 value of approximately 40 micro-Molar. The discovery of this compound is important because of the drug resistant superbugs of Mycobacterium tuberculosis."
The "here" link is
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,34265_offset,0#401213
and current status as of 10 July 2013 at
http://gofightagainstmalaria.scripps.edu/index.php/how-we-will-discover-potential-malaria-drugs
Their data is open and available.
This is not my field by a long stretch. After reading the pdf this morning, what I got from the paper was a method to undetectably make relatively easily-done changes to various transistors such that those changes offer an entry point for external reading and possibly manipulation to potentially useful effect within real-world manufacturing methods. Do this, pwn chips. Profit.
What these guys have done strikes me as impressive - and wonderfully, elegantly sneaky. I know there are some design and fab people here - what say you?
Hey, if it doesn't show a profit "going forward".... [WTF, they're going to go backwards? I hate that fucking phrase and all like it - it's ridiculous and weak-minded besides. Does no one understand future tense and such any more?]
Besides, what has science ever done for us? Especially space science? I mean, we've got GPS for driving directions, we've got plenty of comms satellites - how many channels of "I Love Lucy" re-runs do we need? We sure as hell don't need any goddam asteroids for resources. Biggest copper mines are above ground already, in buildings. Ditto a bunch of other stuff. As for the rest, a bit of population control will fix things.
Screw it, ya know? Man's place is on Earth. Get over it. Get over yourself. Resign yourself to Fate, the way things are meant to be. We have no business anywhere else.
Yah, yah, Voyager. Enough already. Gorram NASA toy. Make money and screw hindmost, I say.
Forgot:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheBestIsTheEnemyOfTheGood
has some good comments and stories, many relating to tech and programming - it's worth giving a look
a quibble: "_Better_ is the enemy of good enough." From the Russian proverb; they got it from the Chinese, which I don't remember. ,although
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Gorshkov
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. Voltaire, Dictionnaire Philosophique depends on how one wishes to interpret "le mieux";
http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/meilleur-mieux.htm provides some discussion.
[sigh] The Gorshkov quote was popularized by Clancy, but I came across it some years before (not from Polmer) in another book, but I no longer have it, and recall is not dredging the memory. A bad day for memory, sorry. I wish to hell that I could recall the translation of the Chinese saying, it's elegant. Please, do go on.
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I figure a metal detector or so for firearms, strengthened and locked cockpit doors and a sky marshal should be sufficient, else disallow flammables after the gate as well. The current TSA crap came from scared, weak-minded politicians who shirked leadership (and possibly those with the hidden agenda of a police state.) All it would've taken, beyond proposing the above changes, is for a few of the heavies in House and Senate to have stood up in front of the CNN cameras and flipped the bird to "the terrorists", showing some spine. Dean Ing in Soft Targets discusses some other approaches, humor being one - basically, ridicule the bastards, make 'em a laughingstock.
Black Sunday '77, from the novel by Thomas Harris in 1975 (his first, btw) comes to mind. Read the book before the movie, they're both good.
Either way, you've got the best P.S. I've seen in a long while. Sci-fi writers had some of this long before Hollywood, but who takes that seriously? Other than some of us, maybe.
Perhaps it doesn't matter; I've the scary thought that even if the bulk of the populace got angry and demanded an end to such practice that it would make no difference to outcome.
It used to be that legislators tended to behave well in being responsive to their constituents in order to get the votes to get re-elected; now I suspect they have more fear of having the past five or ten years of their emails and phone calls outed than they fear having to return to private life to try to make an honest living.
"Secret courts and secret laws are an existential threat to democratic society...."
By which I take it to mean that since we do have secret laws and secret courts then we do not have a democratic society, only some of its superficial trappings.
Indeed.
That's where I think it went wrong, when a cable company would come to a city with a take-it-or-leave-it deal. The city should have let out for bids, and then let the voters decide. That way the cable companies - and now the ISPs - would be really competing to get the consumers, rather than the common occurrence of the b.s. choice of cable or ADSL at exorbitant fees and limits. (Yes, I'm leaving out dial-up and satellite, each, for various reasons.)
With a load capacity ~5 tons and 450nm combat range (800+otherwise), the V-22 could be useful for some on what is envisioned for the Aeroscraft - at least for such things as crew and small supplies replenishment.
In-air refueling is cool and all, but as with helicopters there is a limit (don't know hours for Osprey, sorry) of flight hours before maintenance; a helo may have as few as ten hours of flight before mandated down time. See also
http://www.justhelicopters.com/HELIARTICLES/tabid/433/ID/13287/Helicopter-In-Flight-Refueling.aspx
for a fascinating excellent account, and a history of helicopter aerial refueling.
The Aeroscraft (the big one, if after this prototype proves out) in contrast is designed to be able to shift _66_ tons out to several thousand km. So, for its designed role, the Aeroscraft looks a winner in all respects. It will remain to be seen how it fares in heavy weather, tho. To put it another way, for its intended missions it has no competition.
Bingo. As for bringing raw materials back, I have to wonder - if the Aeroscraft can take in machinery for extraction of a resource, if it's one that can be readily pre-processed by straightforward mechanical or chemical means perhaps that could be done on site as well. I suppose the airship could be used for many 'outback' construction needs besides mineral extraction sites also - remote weather stations come to mind.
Existing heavy-lift helicopters such as the later Chinooks and S-64 are range-limited to several hundred miles, last I looked. I don't know if either one can be refueled in flight.
I've been following Pasternak's project with great interest since he started it and hope everything pans out.
TANSTAAFL
According to their report (take it as you will) false positives as of 2012 were 9.7% of reported defects.
Warning: pdf
http://wpcme.coverity.com/wp-content/uploads/2012-Coverity-Scan-Report.pdf
explains much if not all that you ask
For a good article and a fun read that goes into the background of Coverity and what it does, see
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/2/69354-a-few-billion-lines-of-code-later/fulltext
it's written by some of the developers and founders
While it took money to write the algorithms and manage the projects, the use of World Community Grid for the genome comparison project and human proteome folding one and two got a lot of work done affordably, according to the projects' authors. I'd think similar approach could help here.
"If you're advising the user to "try ping host xyz" you need to explain why and what to do if it returns the expected or unexpected results and what conclusions he can draw from them."
This.
You can show and tell what and even how all day long to little avail; telling why educates both writer and user and lets one get on with solving problems.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ous&q=fortune+500+average+tax+paid
Overall the top 500 paid an average of half the 35% rate. The GAO report is a good place to start if you really want to know, or one of the news story summaries. Roughly half the entries on a screen and a half of search results were for articles on companies paying zero or less federal tax.
I've shoveled manure, mucked out barns, dug ditches and footings, all by hand, and pumped septic tanks and cleaned sewers with low-end power tools and a pump truck. Not my all-time favorite work but it's honest and at the time paid just about enough to survive on (rent, food, utilities, maybe some books and brewskis.) When you're young and healthy it's OK. Later, no. This was all thirty to fifty years ago; I've no idea the spread of pay these days.