One more time for the kiddies who don't know their history and cannot speak German.
The Nazi party has "socialist" in it's name and was founded on socialist principles. It did this to distinguish itself from the other two options, communist and Conservative.
I'm not saying that's all it pushed, nor am I saying that was the focus of it's ideology over all, only that it was how it STARTED. The Nazi party used socialist rhetoric and ideals to establish it's foot hold in Germany's political power structure. Eventually other of it's principles became more and more important, but it was started by building a base of socialist ideas and building on that.
So, you want to argue on their eventual destination, where they ended up, that it wasn't very socialist. But history is hardly ever cut and dried on such questions because things change over time. The Nazi party changed throughout it's existence. There is a reason "socialist" is in it's name that very much has to do with socialism it was pushing when it was named. They never really stopped being what they originally where, they just modified their emphasis over time. Socialistic programs and principles are in there still, just not as apparent towards the end.
So, if the press coverage all disagrees with your version of events, Just ignore it and go with your version? Even when there are legal rulings and transcripts that support the news reporting?
Why bother complaining about Fake News when we have stuff like this..
How many have you watched? I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that if you randomly pick a series rated TV-MA and watch it, within 2 episodes you will have a gratuitous sex scene or two in nearly all cases and/or enough "F-Words" you won't have fingers left to count them. Why do you need this garbage? Most of the story lines are good enough to watch without this stuff. Go look at how many "Netflix Original" offerings are rated TV-MA. I may be a bit prudish I suppose, but they are really pushing the boundaries too far for me. Write the engaging story and if that includes some sex, fine, but do you have to spend all the screen time actually showing it? I much prefer the old school way of just implying what happened, because let's face it, it isn't reality they are showing anyway with this.
So I'm guessing you've not watched much of the new stuff from Netflix, or you have and my point stands, that this garbage isn't adding to the story lines anyway, just taking up running time and you are not sensitive to it. I find it off putting, enough so I feel it ruins otherwise good work for me. If it doesn't bother you, enjoy the stories, some of them look pretty good.
I'd be wiling to bet that Apple monitors a number of hash tags related to it's business on Twitter. So you may not get Tim Cook's direct attention, but somebody at Apple is likely scanning for such tags, even if it's just Siri's mainframe based cousin who pays any attention.
This is Apple. Remember their refusal to help unlock the phone of the guy who shot up the staff Christmas party in California awhile back? Yea, they don't seem to be the type to do what ever law enforcement asks.
Therefore, I'm guessing this is a "bug" and not a planned feature. But, it's just a guess.
The demise of Java has been writing on the wall since Oracle acquired Sun and didn't open source it. You just KNEW that once Oracle blew through all the profit from Sun hardware they had optimized their product for, they'd be back at the well to monetize Java. Recently that's exactly what they've done by starting to charge for their flagship Java environment.
I expect the further fragmentation of the Java world (and the eventual death of Oracle too) because of this. Oracle will kill java and then the family name by eating it's children.
Recently gave Prime a whirl since I already subscribe for shipping purposes, hoping I could kill Netflix and save but realized, as you mentioned, about everything I could find included was complete garbage.
There were a few good movies included but I've already seen most several times. The content was just no where near the quality Netflix provides.
I have both and it's been at least 5 years. A few years ago I discovered that Netflix and I are diverging in tastes as they cycled out much of their library in favor of their own content. I find most of the "Netflix Originals" to be overly reliant on sex and nudity that's just not worth watching, even if the storylines are reasonably good. I like their non "TV-MA" offerings quite a bit, it's just that these offerings are few and far between. So I'm about to drop Netflix as I find myself watching Prime nearly all the time.
Yes, Prime has a huge pile of stuff that's pretty much chattel from bygone years. But if you are game to try watching some of the old black and white stuff, some of it's pretty good, at least in comparison to some of the trashy garbage on Netflix. Amazon has been going down hill with their Prime library too, but I've found a number of gems buried in there of late. I like the fact that I can watch pretty much ANYTHING on Prime, if I'm willing to pay for it. I also like the huge library where you can "take a chance" with some of the old B&W films from the golden age of Hollywood, which where not all that popular or well known, but still worth the time to watch.
I suppose that if the trashy part of the TV-MA stuff on Netflix doesn't put you off like it does me, I can see folks liking Netflix better. But in my opinion Prime is better suited to me and my preferences.
IF "profit" was the USA's motives in the middle east, then explain to me how it was profitable to eject Iraq from Kuwaiti then turn the country and their rich natural resources (mostly oil) back over to it's previous owners who sell oil to us? Also, Why would we basically lay waste to Iraq's armed forces TWICE in 20 years, yet again turn it back over to the people of Iraq so they can sell us oil too? Why didn't we just KEEP all that oil for ourselves if profit was our motive?
Why? Because it's not about profit. Sure, it may be about keeping stable supplies of oil flowing out of the middle east for us and the rest of the world, but we are not just pirates looking for profit and plunder to take by military force. Face it, if we where, we would basically dominate all the world's natural resources for we have unmatched military power. No, The USA isn't just about securing profit in the middle east, we are really about stability for the middle east and it's people, for living together with these countries in peace as they live among themselves in peace.
So I reject your claim that our efforts have been for profit. We have a long tradition in the USA of concurring territory using our treasure and blood, then returning the ground to it's rightful owners, whom we have rescued from ternary and oppression. We hand out the ability for self determination, for respect of basic human rights to others and ask for little in return. We have sent many young men and women to die on foreign soil, not for conquest and domination, but to grant freedom to people who didn't have it.
We haven't always done everything right in our efforts, but the mistakes made do not invalidate the effort nor do they define the purpose. So stop with the USA bashing. It is unfair and demeaning to the men and women who have shed their blood serving you and the cause of freedom for both you and for the people of the countries they liberated over the last 200+ years.
I'm saying that the concepts of socialism behind the rise of power of the Nazis are alive and well
Oh, fuck right off. Nazis killed socialists. Socialism was not the concept behind the rise of power of the Nazis.
Lay off the Infowars, my man.
Dude.. Learn your history.. Socialist is in the Nazi party name (The National Socialist German Workers' Party) for Pete's sake and they where anti-communist and anti-capitalist spewing (among other things) socialist clap trap. Basically the democrat party of their day.
I'm saying that the concepts of socialism behind the rise of power of the Nazis are alive and well, in South America, they just have Spanish and Portuguese names down there. Further these concepts where not unique to pre-WW2 Germany, they didn't originate there nor did they die there. They just keep taking root in poverty and desperate economic conditions, like in Germany (and many times before that), with the promise of a better, more fair way that some then have to force on the masses.
It's what is killing Venezuela and will lead to the bloody revolt that is almost sure to soon come at this point. It's what nearly killed other south American countries in violence and economic collapse.
I've been down there, I can tell you that the poverty they have is like nothing you can imagine if you are from the states. I've seen some BAD places in the back woods of North Carolina, shanty huts with dirt floors at wide places in the road, but those places are heaven compared to the poverty I've seen in South America where row upon row, block on top of block of desperately poor, even in *nice* places like Chilie where the economic conditions are not as bad as some. It's no wonder such ideas catch on down there.
Weren't you recently going off on slashdot about how the US has a glorious past punching Nazis in WWII? I'm pretty sure all the Nazis attacked in WWII were on foreign soil.
You will notice I specified "past 65 years". Plus, as you well know, Nazis are a special case. Whenever they appear, it is incumbent on all free peoples to come together to put them down.
Last I heard, there were no goosestep-incarnated Nazis down in Venezuela.
LOL.. You DO realize that South America was a favored place for the Nazi's to flee after WW2 right? I suspect more than one ended up in Venezuela and may still be there. The "Bolivar revelation" of Maduro is not exactly Nazi in name, but it shares many of the same concepts, principles and practice that brought Hitler and his party to power. Largely it's been successful in destroying the economies of most of South America, where socialism took deep root in the poverty ridden societies that once thrived down there. Rich in natural resources, squandered by social programs, no government can effectively spend more than it takes in, without eventually destroying the very economy that feeds it. Poverty and lower standards of living, with rebellion and bloodshed follows like the plague after the scourge of socialism takes root. It's happening in Venezuela right now.
The names may be different, but the results that follow as sure as the sun rises in the east, are the same.
Canada is supporting Israel's ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Canada is not a good example of doing the right thing.. and is becoming increasingly corrupt..
Israel isn't doing anything of the sort in Palestine or any other place. They are actually quite willing for the Palestinians to co-exist with them. The problem is that the Palestinians have adopted a "Death to Israel" motto and have tried to live up to it, forcing Israel to react in self defense. It's amazing, when the rockets and suicide bombers stop in Israel, the bombing stops in Palestine too. Wonder why that is?
But, I'm guessing that's not fitting your narrative very well.
As your self the following: Israel has the military capacity to lay waste to the Palestinians, they *could* kill every one of them in short order, yet they haven't. Do you really think that if the shoe was on the other foot, if the Palestinians had the ability to lay waste to Israel, that the Palestinians wouldn't be true to their profession of hate and destroy Israel in short order? Who do you blame then?
Hey man, the U.S. is just backing up what CANDA said - that Maduro is not the recognized president.
Seriously.. Not to mention that the Russians are supporting Maduro because they want that military base of operations in the next door neighbor's yard..... But you don't hear that discussed much. It supports the wrong narratives.
d. The Afghan government harboring Al Quada caused the US invasion, not the other way around.
I was about to laugh in his face (i.e. opium) but you beat me to it.
The West's MO has been to keep the Middle East destabilized; you can like it, love it or hate it... but a fact's a fact.
Why would we (the US) bother? Places like Afghanistan have been a mess for as long as I can remember and beyond by their own hands, not ours. What usually happens in the middle east is the USA sits back, waiting for them to police themselves and deal with the various despots who come to power until somebody gets delusions of greatness and invades somebody else, then the UN gets upset and we wade in busting heads, restoring the peace and returning things to normal for the sake of the world's access to fossil fuels at reasonable prices.
These folks have been hammering on each other for religious differences for over two thousand years, long before the USA existed. Our involvement has generally helped the region's stability (Though I expect some groups wouldn't agree with who got left in power). But generally the USA takes a very hands off stance and attempts to set the people of the countries we liberate on a course to self determination. Take Iraq... We fought TWO major conflicts with Iraq in my life time. The first one was to toss them out of Kuwait which Sadam had decided rightfully belonged to him (Why did he do this? Because he mistakenly thought the USA didn't have the will to protect Kuwait.) The second was to root out the terror network Sadam was hosting. However, even after taking the WHOLE country, we gave it back to the people of Iraq by establishing free and fair elections, not on our terms, but the terms determined by the people of Iraq.
We certainly didn't leave things worse than we found them, even if we didn't do everything right. Generally the middle east is better off because of US intervention.
It's hot in Texas, but I've never been able to bring a pot of water to boiling water just by putting it in a truck...
Yea, but you can get to nearly 180 degrees F in there pretty quick in the Texas Sun on the hotter days. One needs a bit of additional headroom to actually operate in such conditions, which is why the "automobile" standard runs from -40 to 125 C.
Given how long past it's warranty this little rover lasted, what an achievement for JPL.
I hope they can get things working again, but even if the effort fails, this little rover has gone over and above. It's hard to say good bye and we are sad about it, but we all knew this day was coming. Remember what JPL accomplished with these two rovers and revel in that. This isn't a failure, it's but the end a huge success.
Way to go JPL, you really out did all our expectations and have contributed to a volume of scientific observations that will provide invaluable science and research for decades to come, not to mention some really impressive pictures which are very interesting to just look at. Thank You! Job well done.
They used to make things like screws in and around Rockford IL. There are a pile of unemployed folks with experience as machinists just sitting there waiting for work and I'll bet there are empty factory buildings just ready to go back into production too. IL may not be your state of choice for such an operation, but Madison WI is very close to Rockford and is generally open for business if you want to leave the tax pit of IL.
So I believe they will, assuming that the total price for such US made parts is competitive. Of course, it's really hard to compete with the labor rates in the back woods of China, even with the transportation costs involved.
It doesn't matter WHERE you build stuff, you have unique supply chain logistics to work out.
What do you bet that if Apple has a need for screws in Austin and is willing to pay enough, some bright business person will set up a screw manufacturing business that's closer and sell what Apple needs? That's what supply and demand will do in a free market system. This means that IF you can pull manufacturing back into the USA, you will also pull the parts supply chain back to the USA as a secondary effect.
So I see Apple's trouble with it's supply chain being a good thing. There are a lot of places in the USA where they used to make screws, but now don't as this moved off shore. Now there is a chance of puling those jobs back, shortening the logistics supply chain, lowering transportation costs and making inventory management less difficult. In the mean time, Apple just needs to manage their supply chain a bit better so they don't run out of parts.
Personally, I want mill spec storage and operating specs before all that. Heck, I'd settle for automotive spec stuff.
I have a number of applications where extended temperature operation is pretty much necessary, but I'm not able to use the Pi because it doesn't work very well at say 100 C or at -20 C. What are these applications? Well think automobiles and entertainment for the back seat, providing data service though a small network in the vehicle, one that includes Bluetooth hands free operation of phones and radios and ham radio running digital modes on Packet and HSMM based repeaters while parked out in the Texas sun in August.
Two of the best programmers I ever knew, never went to college. Another two had high level degrees (one was an MSCC the other had his PHD).
You are correct, no amount of education will help if you don't have talent and if you have talent and drive you can do well as a programmer. However, I will point out that not having a STEM degree will lock you out of a lot of programming jobs. Many places won't even look at you w/o the degree. So the degree may not make you a better programmer, but it does open doors.
Well, being an over 50 white male, I'm not going to count, but it sure looks like about 50/50 to me, but it's mostly foreign students.
Is it me or are they minting Graduate students that look like high school students these days? And to hear them talk, oh my word, if these kids are the best and brightest, I'm not holding out much hope for the future of CS. Some of them are down right nuts, all sorts of knowledge but no skills. You'd think a CS student would at least know what recursion is and what calling a subroutine logically does and how stuff gets returned... I get they don't understand pointers and linked lists yet, but shouldn't they at least understand what the code they are writing really does?
Sorry, rant over.. I have to keep telling myself they have all sorts of facts banging around and no experience to help them organize all the stuff they know.
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One more time for the kiddies who don't know their history and cannot speak German.
The Nazi party has "socialist" in it's name and was founded on socialist principles. It did this to distinguish itself from the other two options, communist and Conservative.
I'm not saying that's all it pushed, nor am I saying that was the focus of it's ideology over all, only that it was how it STARTED. The Nazi party used socialist rhetoric and ideals to establish it's foot hold in Germany's political power structure. Eventually other of it's principles became more and more important, but it was started by building a base of socialist ideas and building on that.
So, you want to argue on their eventual destination, where they ended up, that it wasn't very socialist. But history is hardly ever cut and dried on such questions because things change over time. The Nazi party changed throughout it's existence. There is a reason "socialist" is in it's name that very much has to do with socialism it was pushing when it was named. They never really stopped being what they originally where, they just modified their emphasis over time. Socialistic programs and principles are in there still, just not as apparent towards the end.
So, if the press coverage all disagrees with your version of events, Just ignore it and go with your version? Even when there are legal rulings and transcripts that support the news reporting?
Why bother complaining about Fake News when we have stuff like this..
How many have you watched? I'll bet you dollars to doughnuts that if you randomly pick a series rated TV-MA and watch it, within 2 episodes you will have a gratuitous sex scene or two in nearly all cases and/or enough "F-Words" you won't have fingers left to count them. Why do you need this garbage? Most of the story lines are good enough to watch without this stuff. Go look at how many "Netflix Original" offerings are rated TV-MA. I may be a bit prudish I suppose, but they are really pushing the boundaries too far for me. Write the engaging story and if that includes some sex, fine, but do you have to spend all the screen time actually showing it? I much prefer the old school way of just implying what happened, because let's face it, it isn't reality they are showing anyway with this.
So I'm guessing you've not watched much of the new stuff from Netflix, or you have and my point stands, that this garbage isn't adding to the story lines anyway, just taking up running time and you are not sensitive to it. I find it off putting, enough so I feel it ruins otherwise good work for me. If it doesn't bother you, enjoy the stories, some of them look pretty good.
Don't forget free video streaming!
Wouldn't that be @timcook?
I'd be wiling to bet that Apple monitors a number of hash tags related to it's business on Twitter. So you may not get Tim Cook's direct attention, but somebody at Apple is likely scanning for such tags, even if it's just Siri's mainframe based cousin who pays any attention.
Bug or feature for law enforcement etc.?
This is Apple. Remember their refusal to help unlock the phone of the guy who shot up the staff Christmas party in California awhile back? Yea, they don't seem to be the type to do what ever law enforcement asks.
Therefore, I'm guessing this is a "bug" and not a planned feature. But, it's just a guess.
The demise of Java has been writing on the wall since Oracle acquired Sun and didn't open source it. You just KNEW that once Oracle blew through all the profit from Sun hardware they had optimized their product for, they'd be back at the well to monetize Java. Recently that's exactly what they've done by starting to charge for their flagship Java environment.
I expect the further fragmentation of the Java world (and the eventual death of Oracle too) because of this. Oracle will kill java and then the family name by eating it's children.
Java Script is more popular than Java?
No! It's not true! It can't be true!
Search your feelings... You KNOW it's true....
So, are you really trying to claim the Nazi's where not socialist, yet claimed they where? LOL.. And I'm being called stupid....
Those who know their history are condemned to watch while others repeat it over their objections.
Recently gave Prime a whirl since I already subscribe for shipping purposes, hoping I could kill Netflix and save but realized, as you mentioned, about everything I could find included was complete garbage.
There were a few good movies included but I've already seen most several times. The content was just no where near the quality Netflix provides.
I have both and it's been at least 5 years. A few years ago I discovered that Netflix and I are diverging in tastes as they cycled out much of their library in favor of their own content. I find most of the "Netflix Originals" to be overly reliant on sex and nudity that's just not worth watching, even if the storylines are reasonably good. I like their non "TV-MA" offerings quite a bit, it's just that these offerings are few and far between. So I'm about to drop Netflix as I find myself watching Prime nearly all the time.
Yes, Prime has a huge pile of stuff that's pretty much chattel from bygone years. But if you are game to try watching some of the old black and white stuff, some of it's pretty good, at least in comparison to some of the trashy garbage on Netflix. Amazon has been going down hill with their Prime library too, but I've found a number of gems buried in there of late. I like the fact that I can watch pretty much ANYTHING on Prime, if I'm willing to pay for it. I also like the huge library where you can "take a chance" with some of the old B&W films from the golden age of Hollywood, which where not all that popular or well known, but still worth the time to watch.
I suppose that if the trashy part of the TV-MA stuff on Netflix doesn't put you off like it does me, I can see folks liking Netflix better. But in my opinion Prime is better suited to me and my preferences.
IF "profit" was the USA's motives in the middle east, then explain to me how it was profitable to eject Iraq from Kuwaiti then turn the country and their rich natural resources (mostly oil) back over to it's previous owners who sell oil to us? Also, Why would we basically lay waste to Iraq's armed forces TWICE in 20 years, yet again turn it back over to the people of Iraq so they can sell us oil too? Why didn't we just KEEP all that oil for ourselves if profit was our motive?
Why? Because it's not about profit. Sure, it may be about keeping stable supplies of oil flowing out of the middle east for us and the rest of the world, but we are not just pirates looking for profit and plunder to take by military force. Face it, if we where, we would basically dominate all the world's natural resources for we have unmatched military power. No, The USA isn't just about securing profit in the middle east, we are really about stability for the middle east and it's people, for living together with these countries in peace as they live among themselves in peace.
So I reject your claim that our efforts have been for profit. We have a long tradition in the USA of concurring territory using our treasure and blood, then returning the ground to it's rightful owners, whom we have rescued from ternary and oppression. We hand out the ability for self determination, for respect of basic human rights to others and ask for little in return. We have sent many young men and women to die on foreign soil, not for conquest and domination, but to grant freedom to people who didn't have it.
We haven't always done everything right in our efforts, but the mistakes made do not invalidate the effort nor do they define the purpose. So stop with the USA bashing. It is unfair and demeaning to the men and women who have shed their blood serving you and the cause of freedom for both you and for the people of the countries they liberated over the last 200+ years.
Oh, fuck right off. Nazis killed socialists. Socialism was not the concept behind the rise of power of the Nazis.
Lay off the Infowars, my man.
Dude.. Learn your history.. Socialist is in the Nazi party name (The National Socialist German Workers' Party) for Pete's sake and they where anti-communist and anti-capitalist spewing (among other things) socialist clap trap. Basically the democrat party of their day.
Of course not.
I'm saying that the concepts of socialism behind the rise of power of the Nazis are alive and well, in South America, they just have Spanish and Portuguese names down there. Further these concepts where not unique to pre-WW2 Germany, they didn't originate there nor did they die there. They just keep taking root in poverty and desperate economic conditions, like in Germany (and many times before that), with the promise of a better, more fair way that some then have to force on the masses.
It's what is killing Venezuela and will lead to the bloody revolt that is almost sure to soon come at this point. It's what nearly killed other south American countries in violence and economic collapse.
I've been down there, I can tell you that the poverty they have is like nothing you can imagine if you are from the states. I've seen some BAD places in the back woods of North Carolina, shanty huts with dirt floors at wide places in the road, but those places are heaven compared to the poverty I've seen in South America where row upon row, block on top of block of desperately poor, even in *nice* places like Chilie where the economic conditions are not as bad as some. It's no wonder such ideas catch on down there.
You will notice I specified "past 65 years". Plus, as you well know, Nazis are a special case. Whenever they appear, it is incumbent on all free peoples to come together to put them down.
Last I heard, there were no goosestep-incarnated Nazis down in Venezuela.
LOL.. You DO realize that South America was a favored place for the Nazi's to flee after WW2 right? I suspect more than one ended up in Venezuela and may still be there. The "Bolivar revelation" of Maduro is not exactly Nazi in name, but it shares many of the same concepts, principles and practice that brought Hitler and his party to power. Largely it's been successful in destroying the economies of most of South America, where socialism took deep root in the poverty ridden societies that once thrived down there. Rich in natural resources, squandered by social programs, no government can effectively spend more than it takes in, without eventually destroying the very economy that feeds it. Poverty and lower standards of living, with rebellion and bloodshed follows like the plague after the scourge of socialism takes root. It's happening in Venezuela right now.
The names may be different, but the results that follow as sure as the sun rises in the east, are the same.
Canada is supporting Israel's ethnic cleansing in Palestine.
Canada is not a good example of doing the right thing.. and is becoming increasingly corrupt..
Israel isn't doing anything of the sort in Palestine or any other place. They are actually quite willing for the Palestinians to co-exist with them. The problem is that the Palestinians have adopted a "Death to Israel" motto and have tried to live up to it, forcing Israel to react in self defense. It's amazing, when the rockets and suicide bombers stop in Israel, the bombing stops in Palestine too. Wonder why that is?
But, I'm guessing that's not fitting your narrative very well.
As your self the following: Israel has the military capacity to lay waste to the Palestinians, they *could* kill every one of them in short order, yet they haven't. Do you really think that if the shoe was on the other foot, if the Palestinians had the ability to lay waste to Israel, that the Palestinians wouldn't be true to their profession of hate and destroy Israel in short order? Who do you blame then?
Hey man, the U.S. is just backing up what CANDA said - that Maduro is not the recognized president.
Seriously.. Not to mention that the Russians are supporting Maduro because they want that military base of operations in the next door neighbor's yard..... But you don't hear that discussed much. It supports the wrong narratives.
d. The Afghan government harboring Al Quada caused the US invasion, not the other way around.
I was about to laugh in his face (i.e. opium) but you beat me to it.
The West's MO has been to keep the Middle East destabilized; you can like it, love it or hate it... but a fact's a fact.
Why would we (the US) bother? Places like Afghanistan have been a mess for as long as I can remember and beyond by their own hands, not ours. What usually happens in the middle east is the USA sits back, waiting for them to police themselves and deal with the various despots who come to power until somebody gets delusions of greatness and invades somebody else, then the UN gets upset and we wade in busting heads, restoring the peace and returning things to normal for the sake of the world's access to fossil fuels at reasonable prices.
These folks have been hammering on each other for religious differences for over two thousand years, long before the USA existed. Our involvement has generally helped the region's stability (Though I expect some groups wouldn't agree with who got left in power). But generally the USA takes a very hands off stance and attempts to set the people of the countries we liberate on a course to self determination. Take Iraq... We fought TWO major conflicts with Iraq in my life time. The first one was to toss them out of Kuwait which Sadam had decided rightfully belonged to him (Why did he do this? Because he mistakenly thought the USA didn't have the will to protect Kuwait.) The second was to root out the terror network Sadam was hosting. However, even after taking the WHOLE country, we gave it back to the people of Iraq by establishing free and fair elections, not on our terms, but the terms determined by the people of Iraq.
We certainly didn't leave things worse than we found them, even if we didn't do everything right. Generally the middle east is better off because of US intervention.
It's hot in Texas, but I've never been able to bring a pot of water to boiling water just by putting it in a truck...
Yea, but you can get to nearly 180 degrees F in there pretty quick in the Texas Sun on the hotter days. One needs a bit of additional headroom to actually operate in such conditions, which is why the "automobile" standard runs from -40 to 125 C.
Given how long past it's warranty this little rover lasted, what an achievement for JPL.
I hope they can get things working again, but even if the effort fails, this little rover has gone over and above. It's hard to say good bye and we are sad about it, but we all knew this day was coming. Remember what JPL accomplished with these two rovers and revel in that. This isn't a failure, it's but the end a huge success.
Way to go JPL, you really out did all our expectations and have contributed to a volume of scientific observations that will provide invaluable science and research for decades to come, not to mention some really impressive pictures which are very interesting to just look at. Thank You! Job well done.
What ever works....
They used to make things like screws in and around Rockford IL. There are a pile of unemployed folks with experience as machinists just sitting there waiting for work and I'll bet there are empty factory buildings just ready to go back into production too. IL may not be your state of choice for such an operation, but Madison WI is very close to Rockford and is generally open for business if you want to leave the tax pit of IL.
So I believe they will, assuming that the total price for such US made parts is competitive. Of course, it's really hard to compete with the labor rates in the back woods of China, even with the transportation costs involved.
It doesn't matter WHERE you build stuff, you have unique supply chain logistics to work out.
What do you bet that if Apple has a need for screws in Austin and is willing to pay enough, some bright business person will set up a screw manufacturing business that's closer and sell what Apple needs? That's what supply and demand will do in a free market system. This means that IF you can pull manufacturing back into the USA, you will also pull the parts supply chain back to the USA as a secondary effect.
So I see Apple's trouble with it's supply chain being a good thing. There are a lot of places in the USA where they used to make screws, but now don't as this moved off shore. Now there is a chance of puling those jobs back, shortening the logistics supply chain, lowering transportation costs and making inventory management less difficult. In the mean time, Apple just needs to manage their supply chain a bit better so they don't run out of parts.
Personally, I want mill spec storage and operating specs before all that. Heck, I'd settle for automotive spec stuff.
I have a number of applications where extended temperature operation is pretty much necessary, but I'm not able to use the Pi because it doesn't work very well at say 100 C or at -20 C. What are these applications? Well think automobiles and entertainment for the back seat, providing data service though a small network in the vehicle, one that includes Bluetooth hands free operation of phones and radios and ham radio running digital modes on Packet and HSMM based repeaters while parked out in the Texas sun in August.
Two of the best programmers I ever knew, never went to college. Another two had high level degrees (one was an MSCC the other had his PHD).
You are correct, no amount of education will help if you don't have talent and if you have talent and drive you can do well as a programmer. However, I will point out that not having a STEM degree will lock you out of a lot of programming jobs. Many places won't even look at you w/o the degree. So the degree may not make you a better programmer, but it does open doors.
How many females? Curious
Well, being an over 50 white male, I'm not going to count, but it sure looks like about 50/50 to me, but it's mostly foreign students.
Is it me or are they minting Graduate students that look like high school students these days? And to hear them talk, oh my word, if these kids are the best and brightest, I'm not holding out much hope for the future of CS. Some of them are down right nuts, all sorts of knowledge but no skills. You'd think a CS student would at least know what recursion is and what calling a subroutine logically does and how stuff gets returned... I get they don't understand pointers and linked lists yet, but shouldn't they at least understand what the code they are writing really does?
Sorry, rant over.. I have to keep telling myself they have all sorts of facts banging around and no experience to help them organize all the stuff they know.