This is why I like Nine Inch Nails. If it is not a remix, it sounds totally unique: Pretty Hate Machine Broken The Downward Spiral The Fragile Year Zero Ghosts The Slip
If I hear that Panic Switch song one more time... Ever notice how it sounds like a Garbage song? I studied that, and made the decision that it just sounds like all of them.
Yes, you are right, but there is plenty to be gained.
By having the code written to your standards, and int he way you describe, you already have insight into the application internals. You don't need to learn it because you designed it! Its not blind development.
So what you get is parallelism, your internal team gets it with the ground running. You get product to market faster. I've done two projects this exact way. We were ready to take it over and run with it the day of delivery. During that time our internal resources were finishing other projects and tending to other concerns. Good planning meant that they were done as the product outsourcing was completed.
And there is some cost savings going to foreign help. There are no import tariffs or customs on code. That said, we used one foreign company and one domestic.
For those of us that do know martial arts, it is the approach that is most important. You assuredly could pound the life out of someone or kick in their skull, or choke them, without any special knowledge. But all those presuppose you have a dominant and controlling position.
If you over commit, under commit, or miss, you're setting yourself up for all that nasty stuff to happen to you. If you let your emotions run out of control, the adrenalin rush would turn your muscles to jello.
In fact, the reason why I don't walk up ans assault someone is because I now know how, and how much I am making my self vulnerable when I commit to initiating an attack. But I now can read people better, and I have strategies on blocking and evading strikes. The biggest thing was I used to lock up or even flinch when I saw a punch coming. Now, I can think and act through it.
I'm a smaller guy, and not that strong. I have a friend who says muscle will always win. After a couple sparring matches, he's the first one to flinch now.
Murder and aggression are part of humanity. Being against is like saying you think anuses should be removed because they stink. You can remove the guns, people will still commit murder and aggression (though I would argue that murder is 99% of the time "successful" aggression as in taken to its fullest extent.) with whatever they have on hand. In olden days, we used bones, rocks, then spears and arrows and knives. Absent any sufficiently effective object, a few hours of martial arts training is all that is needed to end a life. Though this does bring in a greater risk to the attacker, and does discourage a lot of violence, but aggression is ever present.
The majority of violence that happens is because of conflict, and you can never eliminate that.
A loan guarantee is NOT a subsidy. Loan - you have to pay it back, with interest. Subsidy - it is taken from the taxpayers. There is no requirement to repay.
Usually frozen stuff floats, in comparison to its liquid state. (Apples, churches, very small rocks.)
Most things (water, metals) are polarized and will create a crystal lattice when cooled. The slower the cool, the bigger the crystals. This is what makes the "temper" of metals - the size of the crystals. When you crystallize anything, the atoms become locked and pulled into a lattice. This then roughs up the surface and destroys the reflection. By having mobile molecules or atoms, you allow a very fine, uniform surface needed for reflection.
The reason why it floats is because with the lattice mesh, it creates voids, which lowers the density.
Well, if you're willing to ignore facts like the existence of negative externalities, you can believe anything...
Well, its not just me. You're attempting to look at it as a TCO (total cost of operation) however this is completely counter to human reasoning for the most part.
Ideas where TCO concept has failed: Windows (In Win/Linux/OSX debate) Automobiles Health care
Those are the big three. You arguing an approach that isn't successful. People will pay to fulfill their immediate desires. If costs come later, they will deal with that later. It may even be a defensible strategy. That if you factor the disposal costs in now, conditions may change which invalidate the original costs. If others share the same costs, then we'll team up to find a cheaper, more efficient solution when it becomes a problem.
I'm not arguing against energy source diversification, just wind mills. (And FWIW, I am also against coal.) But nuclear produces far less waste and a problem that is very discrete - the rods aren't distributed globally in the atmosphere.
I am also a fan of solar, provided that you can do it so it does not affect the environment in the first couple meters by the ground (blocking light for plants, etc)
I'm not a fan of cats either. They are feral pests that should go. High-rises are stationary. Windmills are natural. The bird brain has eveloved some capabilities: Either it is a tree, rock or land and is largely stationary. Or it is alive and highly mobile. Wind mill blades never deviate from course. It falls between a tree and being alive, and the birds lack sufficient understanding/collision avoidance systems. I am open to the possibility that these may be learned over the long term.
You have all those same costs with wind farms. Have you considered the Toshiba 4S Reactor?
Even AWEA admits that it is not cost-competitive. They instead invoke unquantified "hidden subsidies" (really post-market costs, subject to customer mitigation) to justify their front-loaded costs.
Go nuclear. -Modern reactor designs won't meltdown. -There are no transportation risks -There really are no long-term storage problems with storing it in the earth. -There really are no long-term storage problems once we get reliable and inexpensive orbital insertions. (Hurl it at the Sun, or other body) -There is little risk from radiation problems if material burns up on accidental re-entry. This can also be addressed in packaging.
Really the whole wind farm thing is a ploy by special interests to get government subsidies for building these things, which they can then bill you at a higher electric rate.
Lastly, they aren't as green as you think. Just ask this vulture.
Well for commercial places, you can get variable pricing. But residential is, and will probably always be averaged. The reason is houses during the day aren't a drain as compared to businesses. Especially since peak rates (and draw) is about 2pm. at the hottest part of the day.
I think y our mistake is expecting how many homes can be wind-powered. It is pitifully small.
Just get a killawatt, plug it in, turn the drier on for a cycle, and you've got its usage. Do this for your other appliances and you'll have all the data you will ever need.
There is no reason to have on-going monitoring in your house, as appliances don't change their electrical usage over time. However, the simplest solution won't lead to profits for Intel. In fact, you'll use more energy constantly powering the monitoring device hob, the sensors, the Ethernet network, etc... All these parasitic monitors will raise your bill. Not by much, it could even save on your bill, if you put the information to good use. But I can think of no reason why a killawatt won't be cheaper and just as useful.
What you haven't done is read the Kinetic.pdf paper.
You find that gravitational shielding allows for faster than light travel, as well as many other UFO phenomenon. Why wouldn't an advanced race already have control over gravity? Why wouldn't they exploit it to its fullest extent.
The physics of miracles and spirits books similarly fall out of the same math. What he is alluding to here, is that the phenomenons come from a wave collapse function, and these wave collapses can add up, when coordinated to non-trivial effects. You should read the material before you criticize it. That being said, you can skip it because it is not critical for creating anti-gravity, but the math does provide some closure. What he does, is describe something called a "quantum" consciousness, which is his terminology for how the photon slit experiment works out... that a photon needs to decide which way to go. And remember this guy is Brazilian. There's bound to be some stuff lost in translation. Still never mind the man, and look at the math...
Too true. In the Kinetic.pdf paper, he devises a "imaginary space-time imager", with "imaginary space-time" being where you go between +/-0.159g.
That would lead to quite a similar effect. You would be cloaked. But others in imaginary time without t he detector could see you.
Also, the paper goes on to explain faster-than light travel (because "light" is no in "imaginary space-time" and instant communications, again FTL.) Actually it solves a ton of mysteries regarding UFOs - how they could be here despite vast distances, how they could vanish and appear, how they can be agile without killing occupants, and how they can communicate with their home world in a meaningful way across the distance.
What he has discovered is that it is the PLASMA above the properly charged surface that creates a gravity shielding effect, and shielding includes inversion. Yes, -1g is possible.
One of the more awesome things is that when you are at +/-0.159g, you disappear from regular space-time because you are too weakly interacting with it, like a neutrino.
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The problem is, not everyone is cut our for science.
From a young age, about 4, once I got my hands on a screw driver set, everything that could be taken apart was. I wanted to learn how it worked. My friends did not care. They wanted matchbox cars, then RC cars. I got Lincoln Logs, Transformers, Capsella, Erector sets, Robotech models and eventually a computer. In 1990, I got a IBM PC (8088) and went to town. I spent thousands of hours learning how to "make it work" (programming) while other boys were out pursuing girls. I started wrenching on engines about the same time... I never had friends because of my intellectual pursuits...
I just don't see anyone taking such an interest in this stuff unless they are born with an interest for it. Maybe you could attract some more people with better compensation/making the work sexier, but I doubt it. In Alberta, CAN, they have vast oil reserves which the oil companies make a ton on. Working for then does not require a 4 year degree, and most people come back being able to afford a house and at least one bad-ass car (Viper, Vette, BMW M) in addition to a daily driver.
If you want to make engineering sexy, what is needed is a revamp to the way employment is done. We are essentially inventors, but we are paid hourly. Real inventors get residuals from multiple inventions. If you want to see some real creativity, change it to residuals and watch as engineers pump value into products for their ow benefit. I've added single features that I know resulted in $100k of additional sales the first year. But did I see any of that? Nope. What was my bonus? Less than 3%, before taxes. I worked on another project that was: the project lead, a doctor, a lawyer, and me. Everyone but me had an equity agreement for 10% of sales. They put in about 100 hours total, I put in 1000 hours myself, and the company still sells the product. They still see checks and don't work for the company. I don't work for the company and even when I did work for them, I never saw a check.
When we treat engineers as vital as doctors and lawyers, we'll get a few more for the money , but only a few will be naturals.
There are plenty of companies that want local in-house developers. There is an immediacy to having local help, as well as not having a language barrier. Stuff that can be "waterfall" spec'd is a candidate for outsourcing, provided that the person writing the specs is competent enough, and you have the resources to continuously check what is being delivered.
As a SW Engineering manager, I have fought to both: 1) keep projects in-house and 2) out-source projects. For 2, it has to have several factors: - A well-defined result. This requires good contract writing and specifications, as well as your company NOT changing the requirements. Language barriers must be addressed. - To be a peripheral need. That is, not a primary concern of the company. Not the leading product, or mission-critical service. - Not to be mission-sensitive. You never can trust any company not to leak or re-use your stuff, even if it is in the contract. If you are working with developers in a 3rd world country, there is NO legal recourse to their breach of contract.
Any "Agile" development must be done in house. You're going to need a developer to review any changes to requirements, as well as the code coming in for compliance to company specifications and standards. You might as well do it in house by the time it is all said and done. There is a lot to be said about getting your hands around someone' neck, proverbially speaking. You also get to dictate time allotment/management in a more detailed way. With contractors, you never can tell when they are actually working on it and how they are prioritizing. Too many firms work under the threat of breach of contract to actually start or deliver work on something, with the goal of keeping the client satiated and paying...
For those reasons, there will always be domestic programming positions.
I always took that to mean that there is no thing as national security, categorizing the NSA's mission statement as impossible.
I have always preferred the idea that total security is impossible (because it is) and that rather than costly defense programs, it is far better to be a favorite among nations, than to adopt imperialistic policies and meddle in the affairs of other religions and nations. Of course, this requires one to subscribe to the idea of "blow-back" which, according to the 2008 elections, only one candidate - Ron Paul subscribes to. What the NSA is, is a blow-back mitigation team.
But I digress. Even if we eliminate all the foreign threats, if we do not operationally respect our citizenry, they too will turn on us, as did the "uni-bomber" and the two people who attacked the IRS buildings (one by a truck bomb, the other by plane)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but there's more money in the cure.
Slashdot Mirror
The Island (2005) was already a remake. I was pissed because in LR you got to see tits. Not so with Scarlett Johansson. Damn Hollywood.
This is why I like Nine Inch Nails. If it is not a remix, it sounds totally unique:
Pretty Hate Machine
Broken
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Year Zero
Ghosts
The Slip
Was it the Silversun Pickups? [rimshot!]
If I hear that Panic Switch song one more time... Ever notice how it sounds like a Garbage song? I studied that, and made the decision that it just sounds like all of them.
Yes, you are right, but there is plenty to be gained.
By having the code written to your standards, and int he way you describe, you already have insight into the application internals. You don't need to learn it because you designed it! Its not blind development.
So what you get is parallelism, your internal team gets it with the ground running. You get product to market faster. I've done two projects this exact way. We were ready to take it over and run with it the day of delivery. During that time our internal resources were finishing other projects and tending to other concerns. Good planning meant that they were done as the product outsourcing was completed.
And there is some cost savings going to foreign help. There are no import tariffs or customs on code. That said, we used one foreign company and one domestic.
For those of us that do know martial arts, it is the approach that is most important. You assuredly could pound the life out of someone or kick in their skull, or choke them, without any special knowledge. But all those presuppose you have a dominant and controlling position.
If you over commit, under commit, or miss, you're setting yourself up for all that nasty stuff to happen to you. If you let your emotions run out of control, the adrenalin rush would turn your muscles to jello.
In fact, the reason why I don't walk up ans assault someone is because I now know how, and how much I am making my self vulnerable when I commit to initiating an attack. But I now can read people better, and I have strategies on blocking and evading strikes. The biggest thing was I used to lock up or even flinch when I saw a punch coming. Now, I can think and act through it.
I'm a smaller guy, and not that strong. I have a friend who says muscle will always win. After a couple sparring matches, he's the first one to flinch now.
Murder and aggression are part of humanity. Being against is like saying you think anuses should be removed because they stink. You can remove the guns, people will still commit murder and aggression (though I would argue that murder is 99% of the time "successful" aggression as in taken to its fullest extent.) with whatever they have on hand. In olden days, we used bones, rocks, then spears and arrows and knives. Absent any sufficiently effective object, a few hours of martial arts training is all that is needed to end a life. Though this does bring in a greater risk to the attacker, and does discourage a lot of violence, but aggression is ever present.
The majority of violence that happens is because of conflict, and you can never eliminate that.
A loan guarantee is NOT a subsidy.
Loan - you have to pay it back, with interest.
Subsidy - it is taken from the taxpayers. There is no requirement to repay.
I didn't make it disappear by hand waving. We've made it disappear by privatizing space flight.
Usually frozen stuff floats, in comparison to its liquid state. (Apples, churches, very small rocks.)
Most things (water, metals) are polarized and will create a crystal lattice when cooled. The slower the cool, the bigger the crystals. This is what makes the "temper" of metals - the size of the crystals. When you crystallize anything, the atoms become locked and pulled into a lattice. This then roughs up the surface and destroys the reflection. By having mobile molecules or atoms, you allow a very fine, uniform surface needed for reflection.
The reason why it floats is because with the lattice mesh, it creates voids, which lowers the density.
Well, if you're willing to ignore facts like the existence of negative externalities, you can believe anything...
Well, its not just me. You're attempting to look at it as a TCO (total cost of operation) however this is completely counter to human reasoning for the most part.
Ideas where TCO concept has failed:
Windows (In Win/Linux/OSX debate)
Automobiles
Health care
Those are the big three. You arguing an approach that isn't successful. People will pay to fulfill their immediate desires. If costs come later, they will deal with that later. It may even be a defensible strategy. That if you factor the disposal costs in now, conditions may change which invalidate the original costs. If others share the same costs, then we'll team up to find a cheaper, more efficient solution when it becomes a problem.
I'm not arguing against energy source diversification, just wind mills. (And FWIW, I am also against coal.) But nuclear produces far less waste and a problem that is very discrete - the rods aren't distributed globally in the atmosphere.
I am also a fan of solar, provided that you can do it so it does not affect the environment in the first couple meters by the ground (blocking light for plants, etc)
I'm not a fan of cats either. They are feral pests that should go. High-rises are stationary. Windmills are natural. The bird brain has eveloved some capabilities: Either it is a tree, rock or land and is largely stationary. Or it is alive and highly mobile. Wind mill blades never deviate from course. It falls between a tree and being alive, and the birds lack sufficient understanding/collision avoidance systems. I am open to the possibility that these may be learned over the long term.
Ah, yes, but what about bats?
You have all those same costs with wind farms. Have you considered the Toshiba 4S Reactor?
Even AWEA admits that it is not cost-competitive. They instead invoke unquantified "hidden subsidies" (really post-market costs, subject to customer mitigation) to justify their front-loaded costs.
Go nuclear.
-Modern reactor designs won't meltdown.
-There are no transportation risks
-There really are no long-term storage problems with storing it in the earth.
-There really are no long-term storage problems once we get reliable and inexpensive orbital insertions. (Hurl it at the Sun, or other body)
-There is little risk from radiation problems if material burns up on accidental re-entry. This can also be addressed in packaging.
Really the whole wind farm thing is a ploy by special interests to get government subsidies for building these things, which they can then bill you at a higher electric rate.
Lastly, they aren't as green as you think. Just ask this vulture.
That's easy. Go outside and look at the rotating disk on your meter. The faster it spins, the more your usage.
Well for commercial places, you can get variable pricing. But residential is, and will probably always be averaged. The reason is houses during the day aren't a drain as compared to businesses. Especially since peak rates (and draw) is about 2pm. at the hottest part of the day.
I think y our mistake is expecting how many homes can be wind-powered. It is pitifully small.
Just get a killawatt, plug it in, turn the drier on for a cycle, and you've got its usage. Do this for your other appliances and you'll have all the data you will ever need.
There is no reason to have on-going monitoring in your house, as appliances don't change their electrical usage over time. However, the simplest solution won't lead to profits for Intel. In fact, you'll use more energy constantly powering the monitoring device hob, the sensors, the Ethernet network, etc... All these parasitic monitors will raise your bill. Not by much, it could even save on your bill, if you put the information to good use. But I can think of no reason why a killawatt won't be cheaper and just as useful.
Ah, yes, ignore the reality, perpetuate the myth as to justify current conditions. I like it! It sounds just like something NKorea would do.
It is not nice to call Maria a ho, much less one of the penta variety. That's not just calling her a ho, but calling her a ho for 5 distinct reasons.
I think you got confused.
The GPS is ours, we use it on our bombs. Them having their lights out doesn't mean diddly.
They are called humidors.
What you haven't done is read the Kinetic.pdf paper.
You find that gravitational shielding allows for faster than light travel, as well as many other UFO phenomenon. Why wouldn't an advanced race already have control over gravity? Why wouldn't they exploit it to its fullest extent.
The physics of miracles and spirits books similarly fall out of the same math. What he is alluding to here, is that the phenomenons come from a wave collapse function, and these wave collapses can add up, when coordinated to non-trivial effects. You should read the material before you criticize it. That being said, you can skip it because it is not critical for creating anti-gravity, but the math does provide some closure. What he does, is describe something called a "quantum" consciousness, which is his terminology for how the photon slit experiment works out... that a photon needs to decide which way to go. And remember this guy is Brazilian. There's bound to be some stuff lost in translation. Still never mind the man, and look at the math...
Too true. In the Kinetic.pdf paper, he devises a "imaginary space-time imager", with "imaginary space-time" being where you go between +/-0.159g.
That would lead to quite a similar effect. You would be cloaked. But others in imaginary time without t he detector could see you.
Also, the paper goes on to explain faster-than light travel (because "light" is no in "imaginary space-time" and instant communications, again FTL.) Actually it solves a ton of mysteries regarding UFOs - how they could be here despite vast distances, how they could vanish and appear, how they can be agile without killing occupants, and how they can communicate with their home world in a meaningful way across the distance.
Professor Fran De Aquino's Webpage explains in detail what is going on, and how to do it. He even has the paper "Engineering the Simplest Gravity Cell"
What he has discovered is that it is the PLASMA above the properly charged surface that creates a gravity shielding effect, and shielding includes inversion. Yes, -1g is possible.
One of the more awesome things is that when you are at +/-0.159g, you disappear from regular space-time because you are too weakly interacting with it, like a neutrino.
The problem is, not everyone is cut our for science.
From a young age, about 4, once I got my hands on a screw driver set, everything that could be taken apart was. I wanted to learn how it worked. My friends did not care. They wanted matchbox cars, then RC cars. I got Lincoln Logs, Transformers, Capsella, Erector sets, Robotech models and eventually a computer. In 1990, I got a IBM PC (8088) and went to town. I spent thousands of hours learning how to "make it work" (programming) while other boys were out pursuing girls. I started wrenching on engines about the same time... I never had friends because of my intellectual pursuits...
I just don't see anyone taking such an interest in this stuff unless they are born with an interest for it. Maybe you could attract some more people with better compensation/making the work sexier, but I doubt it. In Alberta, CAN, they have vast oil reserves which the oil companies make a ton on. Working for then does not require a 4 year degree, and most people come back being able to afford a house and at least one bad-ass car (Viper, Vette, BMW M) in addition to a daily driver.
If you want to make engineering sexy, what is needed is a revamp to the way employment is done. We are essentially inventors, but we are paid hourly. Real inventors get residuals from multiple inventions. If you want to see some real creativity, change it to residuals and watch as engineers pump value into products for their ow benefit. I've added single features that I know resulted in $100k of additional sales the first year. But did I see any of that? Nope. What was my bonus? Less than 3%, before taxes. I worked on another project that was: the project lead, a doctor, a lawyer, and me. Everyone but me had an equity agreement for 10% of sales. They put in about 100 hours total, I put in 1000 hours myself, and the company still sells the product. They still see checks and don't work for the company. I don't work for the company and even when I did work for them, I never saw a check.
When we treat engineers as vital as doctors and lawyers, we'll get a few more for the money , but only a few will be naturals.
This is not correct
There are plenty of companies that want local in-house developers. There is an immediacy to having local help, as well as not having a language barrier. Stuff that can be "waterfall" spec'd is a candidate for outsourcing, provided that the person writing the specs is competent enough, and you have the resources to continuously check what is being delivered.
As a SW Engineering manager, I have fought to both: 1) keep projects in-house and 2) out-source projects. For 2, it has to have several factors:
- A well-defined result. This requires good contract writing and specifications, as well as your company NOT changing the requirements. Language barriers must be addressed.
- To be a peripheral need. That is, not a primary concern of the company. Not the leading product, or mission-critical service.
- Not to be mission-sensitive. You never can trust any company not to leak or re-use your stuff, even if it is in the contract. If you are working with developers in a 3rd world country, there is NO legal recourse to their breach of contract.
Any "Agile" development must be done in house. You're going to need a developer to review any changes to requirements, as well as the code coming in for compliance to company specifications and standards. You might as well do it in house by the time it is all said and done. There is a lot to be said about getting your hands around someone' neck, proverbially speaking. You also get to dictate time allotment/management in a more detailed way. With contractors, you never can tell when they are actually working on it and how they are prioritizing. Too many firms work under the threat of breach of contract to actually start or deliver work on something, with the goal of keeping the client satiated and paying...
For those reasons, there will always be domestic programming positions.
I always took that to mean that there is no thing as national security, categorizing the NSA's mission statement as impossible.
I have always preferred the idea that total security is impossible (because it is) and that rather than costly defense programs, it is far better to be a favorite among nations, than to adopt imperialistic policies and meddle in the affairs of other religions and nations. Of course, this requires one to subscribe to the idea of "blow-back" which, according to the 2008 elections, only one candidate - Ron Paul subscribes to. What the NSA is, is a blow-back mitigation team.
Now just today we find out the real reason we are in Afghanistan. despite reports that bin Laden is in Iran and has been for 5 years. Clearing the way to Halliburton mining operations? We will see. If so is war necessary? China just buys the property then moves everyone out. We "sweep and clear".
But I digress. Even if we eliminate all the foreign threats, if we do not operationally respect our citizenry, they too will turn on us, as did the "uni-bomber" and the two people who attacked the IRS buildings (one by a truck bomb, the other by plane)
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but there's more money in the cure.