From the article; >Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
let us let ol'papa bear poke some holes into this logic...
1. if i'm a big time car competitor i just buy a car that has a feature(s) that i like. i then get some of my hardware engineers to dismantle the car and see what the heck is going on inside. expensive, and time consuming.
2. if i'm even more curious, i hire a person(s) to go to repair school and learn the 'secret' codes. expensive, and time consuming.
3. if i'm in a hurry, i just go bribe a mechanic for the secret codes.
4. if i'm in a really big hurry, i hire some willing young lady to get the answers i have questions for.
its far easyer, cheaper, and faster to exploit a person's weakness for an invention, than invent it yourself. its been my own experience that exploitation works; but in order to survive, one has to invent also.
has anyone noticed that's illeagle to BUY a NEW car on the internet? that's from the car dealers, thankyou.
'papa bear' lives in southern california, and i prefer my cow 'medium well'.
your previous question was one of a level of computer understanding that is part of the knowledge base that senior level software engineers are comfortable with.
if your looking for questions to interview software engineers with; try this one, "how many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?" you'd be frighteningly amazed at the blank stares it generates. for me, i'm looking for a reaction, any reaction, not a blank stare. someone that thinks, will react. The software line of work is a 'service', a creative mind will find a way; others will not.
as for the 'india' reference. it takes a business, any business, 5 years to recover from a disaster. i've noticed that its the same for people also. i've pondered the nature of the cheap-labor/outsourcing problem, and have found that an equitable answer for the outsourcing of business products would be to not allow ANY tax benefits to those businesses that would use this method to generate funds; including ALL business expenses. with 3 million productive people out of work, this not a group of people that i can easily ignore.
ALL procesors, and chips of ANY kind are tested. testing is done with a machine called an 'intergrated circuit handler' used in conjuction with an 'intergrated circuit testor'.
but here's something funny. first ALL circuits are tested to military specifications for pass/fail. then to business specifications for pass/fail. then to 'hobby' specifications for pass/fail. if the chip cannot work at all, its more times than not recycled. what makes this kind of funny is that its cheaper to sell military grade than any other because the cost of testing is less.
one cannot ignore the fact that the volunteer pollster printed this data and handed IT to us. the error is at the data base input level; WHY!?
something else got my attention at the poles. i'm use to showing my drivers licence. but this time around the volunter said that they couldn't verify who we were. talk about furtal ground for voter fruad.
120 days of usage? what would the 'rover'/'beagle 2' look like if both were designed for 10 years of usage?
it looks like the above units could use a machine that cleans up after the units. its call sign could be 'hazel' - Handles Any Zoned Engineering Limitations.
i would have called it 'mother', but i couldn't figure out how to make a acronym for it...
off topic question:
given the water evidence, how do you search for fossils?
"why is it that it gets used for almost everything nowadays?"
for me its amazing to see the tree root structure of project definition creation, ( that's a mouthful). i don't think xml is an end-all solution. but for uses of organizing one's orientation of a project; its got lots of advantages.
uhmmmmmm, seems strange to me that there was 'no prior art' on this concept, or process. does this mean that any use images of objects with 'ronded' edges have to pay a royalty to wind-blows? someone should tell the nokia, (et.al.), folks they are in violation...
there are two points that keep flickering in my head about little billy's woes:
1. so what.
2. what would happen if writers of worms, or virii started making changes to the working parts of wind-blows-at-2K so that users were using open source replacements, and not knowing it? i can see the banner headlines now, "use crackers to fix broken windows".
to use someones computer system without their permission, and to not give back total usage of the computer to that person is 'conversion'. which is one of the hardest arguments to support in court. but those who take computer usage away from others weather in the form of virus, worm, and email are taking from a person unilaterally.
it looks like things have kinda worked out for folks. there's growing number of computer types in india, china, and the rest of the world. these other folks now have the ability to make, and grow their own computer systems. this is a good thing; and pro or con, everyday folks benefitted one way or another. maybe its time to stop extending h1b's and look to a new problem the world has that needs to be solved.
instead of filing your taxes, you can accept the state's tax bill. if you think you should pay less, then you file your return, else you pay the tax bill. i think there exists many tax billing methods like this that work more or less to everyone's benefit.
"which talked about high security applications of computing"
my work with the d.o.d. involved classes in how to avoid bad guys getting your software results. the one thing that the good-guy instructor stated was that its to expensive to bring in an expert on your hardware, its cheaper to exploit your fettish.
my soho network is linux. i have a win2k/.net box, not on the network. my wife, and children use linux/mozilla/openOffice; they don't have issues with functionality. i'm the one that developes software. personally, developing c# in linux would take a lot of pressure off my workload. i'm tired of the flippent solution presented by m$. if mono is not ready for prime time, it sure looks like its headed in the right direction.
uhmmmm, please let me address this reply on point.
with respect to: 1. cheap power to manufacture anything people use.
"Cheaper than the Third World slaves" ya, that's cheap all right, but what is even cheaper is a factory full of reprogrammable-robots. reprogrammable-robots don't even need air, or a crapper, or a food dispenser, but reprogrammable-robots do need electricity, and solar energy, no matter how inefficient is CHEAPER than a winy bunch of humans who want to go home because they're tired, hungry, and just plain bored putting nuts on bolts. And the sun will never rise its rates to furnish solar energy to the factory.
"cut-rate earth installations" they do exist, and they're cheap. until you have to breathe, eat, think, survive, and make the next generation of factory workers. what a lot of logistics p.h.b.'s fearfully ignore is the "law of the conservation of matter", their industrial waste is always somebody else's problem, not theirs. but a factory in space can send ALL of its waste to a nuclear incinerator 1 a.u. away.
"cheap surface vessels we currently use" there's nothing cheap about something you have to rebuild every 10 years because of environmental corrosion. rust doesn't occur naturally in hard vacuum.
"Cheaper than strip mining" there's a whole moon full of the following compounds: SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, Cr2O3, FeO, MnO, MgO, CaO, Na2O, K2O, P2O5, S. all you have to do is bend over and pick the stuff up.
"Dude, what are you smoking, pass the fucking blunt!" dude, i don't smoke; but two out of three isn't bad.
"Or perhaps you are referring only to gathering "energy" from space and bringing it to earth. " i am not. my entire argument is that in the long run, all industrial production will be cheaper to create in hard vacuum. and the added cost will be a few dollars per pound, with the added benefit of being 99.9% sure that the environmental damage will be zero.
with respect to: 2. more elbow room.
"Where, in the space vehicle?" gravity affects the size of objects. consider the size of objects were gravity is zero. apply the studies of animal reactions to room sizes. notice that your ship yard in space is effectively large enough to build what needs to be built. One can use inertial energy as a substitute for gravity.
"In the stationary space facilities?" "speed is relative".
"They look pretty cramped and uncomfortable to me." try crossing lake eerie in a canoe for a hamburger waiting on the other side. now try crossing lake eerie in a canoe for a packing crate of gold waiting on the other side. you'll notice your motivation is different each time. now compare the canoe to a passenger liner. a minor review of the history of transportation clearly shows that the passenger liner is superior to the canoe, but you can buy a canoe more easily than you can buy a passenger liner. a bass boat is a little bit more than a canoe.
"Shit, I'll take boring old suburbia." i use a land rover discovery myself, its more fun, and safer.
"over living in a large tin can any day" i don't believe materials in space will not be made of tin, but the outside may look like a tin can, its just the size of the rose bowl, or bigger.
"Yeah. Ain't thermodynamics and elementary physics a bitch?" ya, it is. that's why i love to slap it around. i've noticed that this bitch keeps coming back for more each time. i think it likes it. with respect to thermodynamics, slow down. With respect to elementary physics, do the math; elementary physics will always be second to math.
with respect to: 3. i hear that the space elevator is a cheap way to lift mass into space, that clearly makes sense.
"Yeah, and I hear that by running up half-trillion dollar deficits and giving half-trillion dollar tax cuts to wealthy peo
1. cheap power to manufacture anything people use.
2. more elbow room.
all i need is a cheap way to get there. i hear that the space elevator is a cheap way to lift mass into space, that clearly makes sense. and because of wind friction, the elevator will generate 'tons' of 'clean' electrical energy. hell, that alone is worth the endevor.
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From the article;
>Automakers are fighting the legislation; they believe the real goal is to obtain proprietary "calibration codes" that are the blueprints for how parts are made. With that information, Territo said, independent mechanics and parts manufacturers could duplicate major components such as fuel injectors that automakers have spent millions of dollars developing.
let us let ol'papa bear poke some holes into this logic...
1. if i'm a big time car competitor i just buy a car that has a feature(s) that i like. i then get some of my hardware engineers to dismantle the car and see what the heck is going on inside. expensive, and time consuming.
2. if i'm even more curious, i hire a person(s) to go to repair school and learn the 'secret' codes. expensive, and time consuming.
3. if i'm in a hurry, i just go bribe a mechanic for the secret codes.
4. if i'm in a really big hurry, i hire some willing young lady to get the answers i have questions for.
its far easyer, cheaper, and faster to exploit a person's weakness for an invention, than invent it yourself. its been my own experience that exploitation works; but in order to survive, one has to invent also.
has anyone noticed that's illeagle to BUY a NEW car on the internet? that's from the car dealers, thankyou.
'papa bear' lives in southern california, and i prefer my cow 'medium well'.
your previous question was one of a level of computer understanding that is part of the knowledge base that senior level software engineers are comfortable with.
if your looking for questions to interview software engineers with; try this one, "how many programmers does it take to screw in a light bulb?" you'd be frighteningly amazed at the blank stares it generates. for me, i'm looking for a reaction, any reaction, not a blank stare. someone that thinks, will react. The software line of work is a 'service', a creative mind will find a way; others will not.
as for the 'india' reference. it takes a business, any business, 5 years to recover from a disaster. i've noticed that its the same for people also. i've pondered the nature of the cheap-labor/outsourcing problem, and have found that an equitable answer for the outsourcing of business products would be to not allow ANY tax benefits to those businesses that would use this method to generate funds; including ALL business expenses. with 3 million productive people out of work, this not a group of people that i can easily ignore.
a couple of points in my wanderings through life.
1. most managers can't ask the question(s) you've submitted, then can't understand the answers given.
2. most maintenance/journey-men programmers don't know how to repeat the question(s) in a different way.
question: why do you wish to hire a senior level software engineer? just tell papa-bear, i'll point you in the right direction.
ALL procesors, and chips of ANY kind are tested. testing is done with a machine called an 'intergrated circuit handler' used in conjuction with an 'intergrated circuit testor'.
but here's something funny. first ALL circuits are tested to military specifications for pass/fail. then to business specifications for pass/fail. then to 'hobby' specifications for pass/fail. if the chip cannot work at all, its more times than not recycled. what makes this kind of funny is that its cheaper to sell military grade than any other because the cost of testing is less.
one cannot ignore the fact that the volunteer pollster printed this data and handed IT to us. the error is at the data base input level; WHY!?
something else got my attention at the poles. i'm use to showing my drivers licence. but this time around the volunter said that they couldn't verify who we were. talk about furtal ground for voter fruad.
"vote, and often" -- mayor daily
120 days of usage? what would the 'rover'/'beagle 2' look like if both were designed for 10 years of usage?
it looks like the above units could use a machine that cleans up after the units. its call sign could be 'hazel' - Handles Any Zoned Engineering Limitations.
i would have called it 'mother', but i couldn't figure out how to make a acronym for it...
off topic question:
given the water evidence, how do you search for fossils?
what does:
"Kimi, bukkake demo yoroshii desyou ka?"
translate to?
i'm thinking along the lines of, "round eye wants to know where the western toilet is"
"why is it that it gets used for almost everything nowadays?"
for me its amazing to see the tree root structure of project definition creation, ( that's a mouthful). i don't think xml is an end-all solution. but for uses of organizing one's orientation of a project; its got lots of advantages.
chairmen bill says to the menions, "make a virus scanner product".
why didn't he say, "fix the opeating system"?
with the pres'es pet monkey stating that the n.e.a. is a terrorist, obstructionist group. the 'patriot act' looks positively level headed.
"its because of people like me that thieves, liars, and cut throats have a bad name." -- michael thompson
uhmmmmmm, seems strange to me that there was 'no prior art' on this concept, or process. does this mean that any use images of objects with 'ronded' edges have to pay a royalty to wind-blows? someone should tell the nokia, (et.al.), folks they are in violation...
here little robot, i've got a broom with your name on it...
all joking aside, my lower back would be beholden if this little feller could hoe potatoes and such.
after looking at the prototype it occured to me how bad a day the pilot is going to have if their hands get tired.
wouldn't be the 'pocket protector to rule them all'?
there are two points that keep flickering in my head about little billy's woes:
1. so what.
2. what would happen if writers of worms, or virii started making changes to the working parts of wind-blows-at-2K so that users were using open source replacements, and not knowing it? i can see the banner headlines now, "use crackers to fix broken windows".
to use someones computer system without their permission, and to not give back total usage of the computer to that person is 'conversion'. which is one of the hardest arguments to support in court. but those who take computer usage away from others weather in the form of virus, worm, and email are taking from a person unilaterally.
i'm surprized this argument has never been used.
it looks like things have kinda worked out for folks. there's growing number of computer types in india, china, and the rest of the world. these other folks now have the ability to make, and grow their own computer systems. this is a good thing; and pro or con, everyday folks benefitted one way or another. maybe its time to stop extending h1b's and look to a new problem the world has that needs to be solved.
instead of filing your taxes, you can accept the state's tax bill. if you think you should pay less, then you file your return, else you pay the tax bill. i think there exists many tax billing methods like this that work more or less to everyone's benefit.
"which talked about high security applications of computing"
my work with the d.o.d. involved classes in how to avoid bad guys getting your software results. the one thing that the good-guy instructor stated was that its to expensive to bring in an expert on your hardware, its cheaper to exploit your fettish.
just a thought.
my favorite is the one on the bumper sticker:
how's my driving?
call 1-800-EAT-SHIT
i can't help but wonder if 1-900-EAT-SHIT is available, dogbert would be proud.
my soho network is linux. i have a win2k/.net box, not on the network. my wife, and children use linux/mozilla/openOffice; they don't have issues with functionality. i'm the one that developes software. personally, developing c# in linux would take a lot of pressure off my workload. i'm tired of the flippent solution presented by m$. if mono is not ready for prime time, it sure looks like its headed in the right direction.
uhmmmm, please let me address this reply on point.
with respect to: 1. cheap power to manufacture anything people use.
"Cheaper than the Third World slaves"
ya, that's cheap all right, but what is even cheaper is a factory full of reprogrammable-robots. reprogrammable-robots don't even need air, or a crapper, or a food dispenser, but reprogrammable-robots do need electricity, and solar energy, no matter how inefficient is CHEAPER than a winy bunch of humans who want to go home because they're tired, hungry, and just plain bored putting nuts on bolts. And the sun will never rise its rates to furnish solar energy to the factory.
"cut-rate earth installations"
they do exist, and they're cheap. until you have to breathe, eat, think, survive, and make the next generation of factory workers. what a lot of logistics p.h.b.'s fearfully ignore is the "law of the conservation of matter", their industrial waste is always somebody else's problem, not theirs. but a factory in space can send ALL of its waste to a nuclear incinerator 1 a.u. away.
"cheap surface vessels we currently use"
there's nothing cheap about something you have to rebuild every 10 years because of environmental corrosion. rust doesn't occur naturally in hard vacuum.
"Cheaper than strip mining"
there's a whole moon full of the following compounds: SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, Cr2O3, FeO, MnO, MgO, CaO, Na2O, K2O, P2O5, S. all you have to do is bend over and pick the stuff up.
"Dude, what are you smoking, pass the fucking blunt!"
dude, i don't smoke; but two out of three isn't bad.
"Or perhaps you are referring only to gathering "energy" from space and bringing it to earth. "
i am not. my entire argument is that in the long run, all industrial production will be cheaper to create in hard vacuum. and the added cost will be a few dollars per pound, with the added benefit of being 99.9% sure that the environmental damage will be zero.
with respect to: 2. more elbow room.
"Where, in the space vehicle?"
gravity affects the size of objects. consider the size of objects were gravity is zero. apply the studies of animal reactions to room sizes. notice that your ship yard in space is effectively large enough to build what needs to be built. One can use inertial energy as a substitute for gravity.
"In the stationary space facilities?"
"speed is relative".
"They look pretty cramped and uncomfortable to me."
try crossing lake eerie in a canoe for a hamburger waiting on the other side. now try crossing lake eerie in a canoe for a packing crate of gold waiting on the other side. you'll notice your motivation is different each time. now compare the canoe to a passenger liner. a minor review of the history of transportation clearly shows that the passenger liner is superior to the canoe, but you can buy a canoe more easily than you can buy a passenger liner. a bass boat is a little bit more than a canoe.
"Shit, I'll take boring old suburbia."
i use a land rover discovery myself, its more fun, and safer.
"over living in a large tin can any day"
i don't believe materials in space will not be made of tin, but the outside may look like a tin can, its just the size of the rose bowl, or bigger.
"Yeah. Ain't thermodynamics and elementary physics a bitch?"
ya, it is. that's why i love to slap it around. i've noticed that this bitch keeps coming back for more each time. i think it likes it. with respect to thermodynamics, slow down. With respect to elementary physics, do the math; elementary physics will always be second to math.
with respect to: 3. i hear that the space elevator is a cheap way to lift mass into space, that clearly makes sense.
"Yeah, and I hear that by running up half-trillion dollar deficits and giving half-trillion dollar tax cuts to wealthy peo
uhmmmm, i'm eating a hamburger right now, let me think about your pricing after i step on this 'roach'.
cheers!
my reasons for going into space:
1. cheap power to manufacture anything people use.
2. more elbow room.
all i need is a cheap way to get there. i hear that the space elevator is a cheap way to lift mass into space, that clearly makes sense. and because of wind friction, the elevator will generate 'tons' of 'clean' electrical energy. hell, that alone is worth the endevor.
put a blonde wig on it. enough said.