but given the same car in terms of e.g. weight, footprint (literal - i.e. tires-on-road), it doesn't matter whether you're super-efficient or the worst gas guzzler in the world... you're still putting the same wear-and-tear on that road.
That argument is true as far as it goes, but the "given" it's based on doesn't really reflect reality. By and large, fuel economy and road wear are both strongly correlated to vehicle weight.
They are a bunch of pretentious bourgeois twats who love imperialism and the CIA.
Seize the means of production! You have nothing to lose but your chains, brothers!
Seriously, are you for real? I'd have thought your type died out in the 90's--- if I didn't hear them regularly featured on NPR, decrying imperialism and the CIA. I think that's the beauty of NPR: they run the gamut of opinion to thoroughly, everyone thinks they're propaganda mouthpieces for "the opposition".
How is this model different... They have adds which bring in revenue for their site, also they sell merchandise based on their brand. So by creating a site that caters to pleasing many people they have created demand for their crap, and their popularity has became a profitable spot to advertise.
Well yeah, I think that's exactly the point. Too many 'tards out there think there oughtta be a way to put up a web site, wave a magic wand (google ads), and get rich, and then complain that providing free content doesn't pay the rent. PA demonstrates that nothing about making money via the internet is substantially any different than real life.
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So I guess they are in the middle now if both sides thinks they are to far in the other direction.
I guess you could call it the middle. It seems to me all they've done was add some commentary by right-wing nutjobs to complement their traditional slate of commentary by left-wing nutjobs. You do get a wide variety of interesting viewpoints, though, so I continue to listen.
I develop applications for my Windows-using employer. And before you suggest "get them to switch to Linux", let me add that my employer is ginormous school district and not only do all their machines run only Windows, but they require us to stay with Internet Explorer 6 because the awful web-based application we use for everything* won't run under IE7! Mine is an extreme example, but I think it reflects a common reality. Most of my machines run Linux, but I still have to have that Windows machine for development.
* They were sold a $50 million custom bandwidth-hogging crash-prone shitty-interfaced web-based system called Maximo which the salesmen promised would bring order and accountability to the Maintenance and Operations division. We like to joke that Maximo has indeed revealed a chunk of wasted productivity amounting to 30% of our man-hours--- and that 30% is the time spent dealing with the delays, inefficiencies, and idiocies of Maximo. This place is nothing BUT pointy-haired bosses.
While at work it may be acceptable to take a phone call at any time, such things usually aren't welcome by teachers.
Minor flaw in your reasoning: for the most part, phone use isn't permitted at all in school at the K-12 level, be it a voice call, text message, or anything else. The school district I work for even has a blanket "confiscation on sight" policy on cell phones.
Actually making one's case to a jury is not much different than making one's case to the public.
Considering jury duty is composed of people who couldn't think of a good excuse to get out of jury duty, it's quite different indeed.
What would I want an excuse for? Jury duty means my employer (local school district) pays my full wage, but I get to show up an hour later than my normal starting time, and at a nice heated/air conditioned courthouse. Jury duty isn't onerous for everyone.
...but with all of the challenges from labor prices and foreign competition, how exactly can the industry retool itself to be more competitive?...
To me, the solution is and has always been simple and it's just one solution:
Build cars that people want to buy.
What are the metrics that will bring about this? Here is how: -
1: Build cars that are appealing to the eye. I mean, cars that are as beautiful to look at as they are beautiful to sit into.
Yeah, this one I will never understand why the big 3 can't figure it out. You look at GM cars and you can tell which toyota model they were aping, but it's just.... ugly. I suspect there's a lot of "cargo cult" designing going on.
2: Build cars that do not break just after their warranty mileage.
How about cars that also don't break before the warranty?
3: Build cars that are easy to repair...cars that even the Joe Six Pack will "understand."
Never gonna happen. The requirements of emissions regulations and fuel economy are such that the sensor suite and electronic control necessary are beyond the education level of most "Joe Sixpack" types. I frequently help people on a VW listserv with troubleshooting the mid 80's Digifant fuel injection system, and even that simple four sensor, no memory system is surprisingly tough to nail down when it acts up.
4: Build cars that have excellent resale value. Not cars that lose 50% of their value in 1 year.
They could improve resale value a little by making 'em more reliable, but they'll still lose a huge chunk of their value the second they leave the lot. It's just the nature of new vs used. The manufacturers can't change that.
5: Build plants in USA. What these giants are doing is to close plants here while opening others in China in order to export to the USA. Absurd! Focusing on [short term] profits.
Eh. All auto makers are doing it. Toyota, Nissan, and VW have plants in China and Mexico.
This is a quote from one auto industry insider GM/Ford and Chrysler were so short sighted! This is what they did: -
"...[They] created multiple versions of every product under a bunch of different brand names, hoping that if buyers shun one, they'll take a more favorable view of another..."
Toyota-Lexus.... Nissan-Infiniti.... Honda-Acura.... US consumers actually are a bit dumb like that... though it's hard to say whether it's a cause or an effect of Detroit's attitude.
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!!! Yes I am screaming here, but this patriotic act is completely misguided. The issue here is that people are laid off and they would like to put food and bread on their table. And if they need to travel to Canada so be it! This is what competition and capitalism is all about.
How can we take you seriously when you don't talk sense? Bread is food!
Somewhere, though, there should be a balance between the $12k/year I enjoy now vs the $55k/year at my earning peak (with all the expense, hassle and stress that lifestyle mandates) to support a family. If the majority of people lived without consuming so much, this world would be a far better place, and we'd all be able to live well without demanding so much in income.
Heck, if everyone just scaled back and lived without TV, fancy cars, hairdos and nailjobs, fine clothes, or processed food, we'd all live happier, simpler lives.... unless we're TV installers, auto workers, hair stylists, garment workers, or food service workers, in which case wed be unemployed and living on $0. "Scaling back" is fine on a limited, individual basis, but you can't have the majority of people living "simplified" lives without actually reverting to pre-industrial subsistence farming. You're advocating throwing down the ladder by which we've ascended to our current level. You think your DSL is going to be maintained and operated by a bunch of guys working 2 hours a day? People aren't going to make do with less while working just as hard. I'm sure you're happy in your life, but it's not a panacea. The complicated lives of others are what makes much of your simplified life possible.
when a book has 1,000 pages and is well-received, then I'd posit that those 1,000 pages are there for a reason. There just isn't a way to do that justice in 120 minutes worth of film - even if a picture IS worth 1,000 words.
Film pedantry, I know, but there's actually a standard conversion. The general rule of thumb for movie scripts is a page a minute--- and that's with the "see spot run" double spaced, 8 lines of nothing or character name and camera angle separating every block of dialogue or action description script format. So at max, you're probably going to fit about 100 pages of book into a 2 hour movie.
Shame I don't have mod points to undo the bullshit "-1, Overrated/I don't like your viewpoint" mod you got. I can't say that I had a lot of exposure to reporters out in the sticks in Afghanistan (likely perceived as too dangerous), but I was regularly disappointed by the occasional news story emailed or snail-mailed to me. There were descriptions of events I was present for (and I guarantee the reporter heard about it second hand) that bore no real resemblance to what really happened. I hear the same from friends returning from Iraq to this day.
Maybe part of the reason print media is taking such a downturn is... the inability of many of the "top-flight journalists" to do anything that remotely resembles objective reporting.
Nah, the real problem is the pretense of objectivity. Historically, the press has never been particularly objective. No, I think what irritates people and drives them away is the thin veneer of ersatz objectivity overlaying screamingly obvious bias.
Soviet Russia achieved more under Stalin in 10 years than what took most of the Western hemisphere a century.
Not that hard when you're two centuries behind the rest of the world to begin with. He was playing catch-up, the rest of the world having already done the much of the scientific discovery legwork, and even then never achieved any sort of parity. Granted, organizing a giant country full of ignorant feudalism-era peasants and dragging them kicking and screaming through the industrial revolution is no mean feat, but it was largely just a matter of shooting enough recalcitrant people to get the rest moving, and it was Lenin and Trotsky which did the job of putting those guns in Stalin's hands.
Maybe I am day dreaming, but the back of LCD panel could be fully covered with Solar Cells and trickle charge the battery
Not really a good place to put solar panels. How much time does a laptop spend with its lid in the sun? Leaving it in the sun kinda' means leaving it out where people can see it... and steal it
I guess solar cells have not become that efficient yet, but, is anybody trying it?
Not really. Because--- just as you surmise--- the efficiency isn't there yet, solar is generally a larger stand alone power generation and storage system, which people then usually use to run their laptops via power cords.
I don't see how it's unconstitutional, since it's part of the federal government's authority to regulate interstate commerce.
The actual text from the constitution is:
"To regulate Commerce... among the several States"
This means that the federal government preempts the states on matters of commerce beyond the state level, so (for example) Vermont can't levy a 300% import tax on goods from Virginia. It has fuck-all to do with financing a national road system, or any of the other bullshit crap they've shoehorned behind it.
just the other day I helped yet another person who didn't understand that documents written with a specific program didn't live exclusively inside that program....
Without these basics, "Computer Science" is somewhat hopeless
Indeed. I wonder how they intend to teach CS to people who can't even grok how to "left click" when the mouse is in their right hand. The presumption that the only reason more people aren't CS majors is because no one ever "taught them about computers as a child" is complete idiocy. Most people aren't going to be computer scientists because they can't or don't want to learn it.
Schools should be accountable to local communities
Aka religious cults in >>90% of US.
and parents
Aka inbred rednecks in >>90% of US.
Good luck getting your society fixed with those ideas, idiots.
Hate to break it to you, but the [jackasses|politicians] at the federal level are subject to that same "90%" ratio. When's the last time we had a president elected who didn't go to church and invoke the imaginary man in the sky? Feds are no less beholden to religious idiocy than the locals.
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but given the same car in terms of e.g. weight, footprint (literal - i.e. tires-on-road), it doesn't matter whether you're super-efficient or the worst gas guzzler in the world... you're still putting the same wear-and-tear on that road.
That argument is true as far as it goes, but the "given" it's based on doesn't really reflect reality. By and large, fuel economy and road wear are both strongly correlated to vehicle weight.
They are a bunch of pretentious bourgeois twats who love imperialism and the CIA.
Seize the means of production! You have nothing to lose but your chains, brothers!
Seriously, are you for real? I'd have thought your type died out in the 90's--- if I didn't hear them regularly featured on NPR, decrying imperialism and the CIA. I think that's the beauty of NPR: they run the gamut of opinion to thoroughly, everyone thinks they're propaganda mouthpieces for "the opposition".
How is this model different... They have adds which bring in revenue for their site, also they sell merchandise based on their brand. So by creating a site that caters to pleasing many people they have created demand for their crap, and their popularity has became a profitable spot to advertise.
Well yeah, I think that's exactly the point. Too many 'tards out there think there oughtta be a way to put up a web site, wave a magic wand (google ads), and get rich, and then complain that providing free content doesn't pay the rent. PA demonstrates that nothing about making money via the internet is substantially any different than real life.
So I guess they are in the middle now if both sides thinks they are to far in the other direction.
I guess you could call it the middle. It seems to me all they've done was add some commentary by right-wing nutjobs to complement their traditional slate of commentary by left-wing nutjobs. You do get a wide variety of interesting viewpoints, though, so I continue to listen.
Meh. If you don't play games, why use windows?
I develop applications for my Windows-using employer. And before you suggest "get them to switch to Linux", let me add that my employer is ginormous school district and not only do all their machines run only Windows, but they require us to stay with Internet Explorer 6 because the awful web-based application we use for everything* won't run under IE7! Mine is an extreme example, but I think it reflects a common reality. Most of my machines run Linux, but I still have to have that Windows machine for development.
* They were sold a $50 million custom bandwidth-hogging crash-prone shitty-interfaced web-based system called Maximo which the salesmen promised would bring order and accountability to the Maintenance and Operations division. We like to joke that Maximo has indeed revealed a chunk of wasted productivity amounting to 30% of our man-hours--- and that 30% is the time spent dealing with the delays, inefficiencies, and idiocies of Maximo. This place is nothing BUT pointy-haired bosses.
While at work it may be acceptable to take a phone call at any time, such things usually aren't welcome by teachers.
Minor flaw in your reasoning: for the most part, phone use isn't permitted at all in school at the K-12 level, be it a voice call, text message, or anything else. The school district I work for even has a blanket "confiscation on sight" policy on cell phones.
Actually making one's case to a jury is not much different than making one's case to the public.
Considering jury duty is composed of people who couldn't think of a good excuse to get out of jury duty, it's quite different indeed.
What would I want an excuse for? Jury duty means my employer (local school district) pays my full wage, but I get to show up an hour later than my normal starting time, and at a nice heated/air conditioned courthouse. Jury duty isn't onerous for everyone.
Your computer is a television in that it allows you to view moving images transmitted over a distance:P
I don't even know what a computer is! This thing in front of me is clearly a TV typewriter.
...but with all of the challenges from labor prices and foreign competition, how exactly can the industry retool itself to be more competitive?...
To me, the solution is and has always been simple and it's just one solution:
Build cars that people want to buy.
What are the metrics that will bring about this? Here is how: -
1: Build cars that are appealing to the eye. I mean, cars that are as beautiful to look at as they are beautiful to sit into.
Yeah, this one I will never understand why the big 3 can't figure it out. You look at GM cars and you can tell which toyota model they were aping, but it's just.... ugly. I suspect there's a lot of "cargo cult" designing going on.
2: Build cars that do not break just after their warranty mileage.
How about cars that also don't break before the warranty?
3: Build cars that are easy to repair...cars that even the Joe Six Pack will "understand."
Never gonna happen. The requirements of emissions regulations and fuel economy are such that the sensor suite and electronic control necessary are beyond the education level of most "Joe Sixpack" types. I frequently help people on a VW listserv with troubleshooting the mid 80's Digifant fuel injection system, and even that simple four sensor, no memory system is surprisingly tough to nail down when it acts up.
4: Build cars that have excellent resale value. Not cars that lose 50% of their value in 1 year.
They could improve resale value a little by making 'em more reliable, but they'll still lose a huge chunk of their value the second they leave the lot. It's just the nature of new vs used. The manufacturers can't change that.
5: Build plants in USA. What these giants are doing is to close plants here while opening others in China in order to export to the USA. Absurd! Focusing on [short term] profits.
Eh. All auto makers are doing it. Toyota, Nissan, and VW have plants in China and Mexico.
This is a quote from one auto industry insider GM/Ford and Chrysler were so short sighted! This is what they did: -
"...[They] created multiple versions of every product under a bunch of different brand names, hoping that if buyers shun one, they'll take a more favorable view of another..."
Toyota-Lexus.... Nissan-Infiniti.... Honda-Acura.... US consumers actually are a bit dumb like that... though it's hard to say whether it's a cause or an effect of Detroit's attitude.
Seriously, Detroit and SE MI used to have trains, cable cars, etc. But they were killed off so that everyone would buy a car.
Myth. Become informed.
GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!!! Yes I am screaming here, but this patriotic act is completely misguided. The issue here is that people are laid off and they would like to put food and bread on their table. And if they need to travel to Canada so be it! This is what competition and capitalism is all about.
How can we take you seriously when you don't talk sense? Bread is food!
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Somewhere, though, there should be a balance between the $12k/year I enjoy now vs the $55k/year at my earning peak (with all the expense, hassle and stress that lifestyle mandates) to support a family. If the majority of people lived without consuming so much, this world would be a far better place, and we'd all be able to live well without demanding so much in income.
Heck, if everyone just scaled back and lived without TV, fancy cars, hairdos and nailjobs, fine clothes, or processed food, we'd all live happier, simpler lives.... unless we're TV installers, auto workers, hair stylists, garment workers, or food service workers, in which case wed be unemployed and living on $0. "Scaling back" is fine on a limited, individual basis, but you can't have the majority of people living "simplified" lives without actually reverting to pre-industrial subsistence farming. You're advocating throwing down the ladder by which we've ascended to our current level. You think your DSL is going to be maintained and operated by a bunch of guys working 2 hours a day? People aren't going to make do with less while working just as hard. I'm sure you're happy in your life, but it's not a panacea. The complicated lives of others are what makes much of your simplified life possible.
FTFA: "The open version does not compile to VHDL, C/C++, or Haskell, and does not produce the formal models used for equivalence checking."
So does this mean the open version (trial version) which we might have access to does not do much of what it is touted to be good for?
Just another advertisement for a commercial product methinks. Maybe cool, but still a slashvertisement.
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Yep. Two lines down from the above quote it states:
"Contact Galois to obtain a full-featured version for evaluation."
It's classic crippleware. Free version doesn't do anything useful, and the "full-featured" version costs money and uses a dongle or something.
Doesn't it seem probable that anything created with an NSA tool will be more reversible with other NSA tools?
How do you "back door" math?
when a book has 1,000 pages and is well-received, then I'd posit that those 1,000 pages are there for a reason. There just isn't a way to do that justice in 120 minutes worth of film - even if a picture IS worth 1,000 words.
Film pedantry, I know, but there's actually a standard conversion. The general rule of thumb for movie scripts is a page a minute--- and that's with the "see spot run" double spaced, 8 lines of nothing or character name and camera angle separating every block of dialogue or action description script format. So at max, you're probably going to fit about 100 pages of book into a 2 hour movie.
Shame I don't have mod points to undo the bullshit "-1, Overrated/I don't like your viewpoint" mod you got. I can't say that I had a lot of exposure to reporters out in the sticks in Afghanistan (likely perceived as too dangerous), but I was regularly disappointed by the occasional news story emailed or snail-mailed to me. There were descriptions of events I was present for (and I guarantee the reporter heard about it second hand) that bore no real resemblance to what really happened. I hear the same from friends returning from Iraq to this day.
Maybe part of the reason print media is taking such a downturn is... the inability of many of the "top-flight journalists" to do anything that remotely resembles objective reporting.
Nah, the real problem is the pretense of objectivity. Historically, the press has never been particularly objective. No, I think what irritates people and drives them away is the thin veneer of ersatz objectivity overlaying screamingly obvious bias.
Soviet Russia achieved more under Stalin in 10 years than what took most of the Western hemisphere a century.
Not that hard when you're two centuries behind the rest of the world to begin with. He was playing catch-up, the rest of the world having already done the much of the scientific discovery legwork, and even then never achieved any sort of parity. Granted, organizing a giant country full of ignorant feudalism-era peasants and dragging them kicking and screaming through the industrial revolution is no mean feat, but it was largely just a matter of shooting enough recalcitrant people to get the rest moving, and it was Lenin and Trotsky which did the job of putting those guns in Stalin's hands.
Maybe I am day dreaming, but the back of LCD panel could be fully covered with Solar Cells and trickle charge the battery
Not really a good place to put solar panels. How much time does a laptop spend with its lid in the sun? Leaving it in the sun kinda' means leaving it out where people can see it... and steal it
I guess solar cells have not become that efficient yet, but, is anybody trying it?
Not really. Because--- just as you surmise--- the efficiency isn't there yet, solar is generally a larger stand alone power generation and storage system, which people then usually use to run their laptops via power cords.
No, Twitter submitted the article, which consists of 9 words of his own, followed by a copy-paste quotation from Bruce.
...or are you saying that Twitter is a Bruce Perens sock puppet?!?!?! (ZOMGWTF!)
The Health Care and Credit crunch hit Europe too even with your vaunted government regulations.
yea, because everyone had the stupidity and foolishness to TRUST american corporations and do business with them.
American corps like Northern Rock (UK), Fortis NV (Benelux), UBS AG (Switzerland), and Deutsche Bank AG (Germany)?
All corporations are suckers for easy money schemes, not just American ones.
I don't see how it's unconstitutional, since it's part of the federal government's authority to regulate interstate commerce.
The actual text from the constitution is:
... among the several States"
"To regulate Commerce
This means that the federal government preempts the states on matters of commerce beyond the state level, so (for example) Vermont can't levy a 300% import tax on goods from Virginia. It has fuck-all to do with financing a national road system, or any of the other bullshit crap they've shoehorned behind it.
Keep your rocket under 600 mph, and you can use nearly any off-the-shelf [GPS] receiver to guide your rocket-bomb within 10m of it's target.
I'd love to see your idea of how a ballistic missile with any range could be kept under 600 mph...
just the other day I helped yet another person who didn't understand that documents written with a specific program didn't live exclusively inside that program.... Without these basics, "Computer Science" is somewhat hopeless
Indeed. I wonder how they intend to teach CS to people who can't even grok how to "left click" when the mouse is in their right hand. The presumption that the only reason more people aren't CS majors is because no one ever "taught them about computers as a child" is complete idiocy. Most people aren't going to be computer scientists because they can't or don't want to learn it.
Schools should be accountable to local communities
Aka religious cults in >>90% of US.
and parents
Aka inbred rednecks in >>90% of US.
Good luck getting your society fixed with those ideas, idiots.
Hate to break it to you, but the [jackasses|politicians] at the federal level are subject to that same "90%" ratio. When's the last time we had a president elected who didn't go to church and invoke the imaginary man in the sky? Feds are no less beholden to religious idiocy than the locals.