The dealers do it because they are selling cars to people who often don't pay their bills, take off cross-state with vehicles, and such. Your normal dealership doesn't do this...
it actually reminds me of the Nazi's Enigma code. They also rotated every week, although eventually England managed to capture a code book...still, Verizon using Nazi ideas is not suprising lol
"The idea that these NFC cards are faster somehow is a fallacy" this PROVES that it's faster! Faster at allowing thieves to rob you that is. Imagine, stress-less muggings...
you should watch Century of the Self if you haven't already. It gets into the "nuts and bolts" of how the modern marketing system has been created, starting with Sigmund Freud's cousin Edward Bernays in the 1930's. It's not just "more advertising", it's carefully crafted manipulation tested hundreds of times by various focus groups designed to affect our subconscious and get us to buy products and ideas that rationally we would reject. The part about the experimental marketing that convinced millions of women to smoke should make any freedom-loving person PISSED AS HELL at BOTH parties and the entire media as a whole. It's all so corrupt and anti-human sometimes I wonder if there isn't a greater force behind it all LOL.
If anything, if the stock market is going up and making tons of $$$ everyone on the planet should be very WORRIED since that usually indicates WS is doing something super-shady and semi-illegal again that will soon blow up.
We really shouldn't "blame" Obama for Benghazi. It finally blew up under his watch, but it started years before. Honestly I don't blame Bush either; if you look at the timeline it's pretty obvious the CIA took advantage of several changes in leadership to get their "Annex" going. I guess the CIA though that no one in Benghazi would notice 50-100 CIA agents, their support staff, and all the traffic that caused. I don't know their line of thinking, but it would appear that it was the CIA's choice to have just a few "contractors" on site as security, to ignore their own field agent's reports that they had been discovered by the "enemy" (which is pretty much everyone over there except them since they've pissed all over almost every group in the Middle East in the past 50 years), The CIA moves into a neighborhood that had the same families for hundreds of years next door and expected to stay hidden? The whole time they where desperately trying to move weapons out of Libya and into Syria; it's highly ironic that The Annex got attacked by the CIA's own weapon's shipments that got re-routed by one of the many factions in Libya. I wouldn't be surprised at all if David Petraeus was set up by his own agents in his "sex scandal" to shift attention off Benghazi.
Timeline:
Michael Morell July 1, 2011, to September 6, 2011
David Petraeus: September 6, 2011 to November 9, 2012
Michael Morell November 9, 2012 to June 12, 2013
Attack: September 11, 2012
Petraeus's affair went from late 2011 into the summer of 2012, right when the attack was set up and implemented. The CIA is notorious for doing whatever they feel like, and when the cat is away the mice will play. Petraeus was far too busy with his career in flames to notice that his Libyan agents had once again gone off on their own with little oversight.
lol thus why Enterprise Services is going it's own way. My division at HP is far more concerned with up-time, reliability, meeting SLA's, and 24/7/365 monitoring and troubleshooting than profit...probably stemming from the massive fine we got a few years ago from the Feds lol. Now every time I see some new product I wonder which side it is on...
But personally I think Meg's ideas are mostly working...the split puts both sides in better shape, faster reactions as a corp, and a finer tuned "vision". Of course I'm unhappy seeing some of my friends loose their jobs but that's just corporate life ESPECIALLY in IT and from what I've seen no one was "singled out" it is pretty random. Even while some divisions are laying off people others are hiring...we lost some help desk people but are adding mainframe operation techs and they get paid almost twice as much! Honestly I'd much rather see HP having more "mainframe" level activities going on than expanding contracted help desk operations but we have to leverage the capabilities we have in-office.
I think though that my location might be a "special case" since we're the site of IBM's 360 SABRE location and this system can't be "moved" easily. It's all underground, multiple bubble doors, iris scanners, password-of-the-day stuff. I work a few hundred feet away for almost two years and haven't seen the inside of it but walk around the top of it during my smoke breaks every night...yet I have worked deep inside the Cherokee Data Center for months on end so I have whatever "clearance" to be inside of it technically. Our location is quasi-government entangled and is kinda it's own entity inside of HP lol.
It's market is in places where you need cheap hardware. I used to have National Grid as a client; many hours trying to troubleshoot their mobile collection laptops (mostly toughbooks) that where honestly far over-powered and complex for that situation. Schools too; low-powered systems might be more secure and have less "after class chicanery" than with a fully-functional laptop. Unfortunately, this product doesn't fall under that idea since it's Windows 8.1 lol. I doubt it would even work for companies like National Grid since I doubt it supports various other requirements but really the "tough" part isn't really needed as much anymore since most of the linemen today comprehend the frailty of electronics (they all have smartphones and know how to keep them alive) and probably don't need the whole toughbook idea, or at least not for all of them. And those things are HEAVY...my gf on the other hand is sometimes quite clumsy and her Toughbook is still functioning even with chunks of the case missing from being dropped, and stepped on. Her new one was recently a victim of a cat attack that poured a glass of water all over the bottom it while it was upside down and closed on the floor...any other laptop would have been toast! Thus why I pushed her to get another one...I just said "look at this old one, no other laptop can withstand you" lol.
this is a direct result of the split; it's why HP did it (I think). This, along with the 3D printing, Moonshot, etc shows how much faster two smaller corps can move instead of one big corp going multiple directions.
Not as much of a design flaw as it was an unknown quality of the steel itself. They just didn't know about the changes in properties to steel when immersed for long periods in freezing water, no design using that type of steel would have survived probably. It became super brittle in the freezing water; that's why it sank so quickly. It was really bad luck; if they hadn't hit the iceberg the brittle steel would never have cracked.
It's only a "thrill ride" because there is nothing to deliver the humans to and it's not specifically made to do science. Eventually even a space plane could get high enough to dock with an inflated habitat that then goes up higher to the actual space hotel. And it's FAR more comfortable this route than to take a rocket with it's massive G push to the passengers. Can you not envision the future where the space plane takes you up to a hab that has been lowered just enough to pick up passengers?
The materials (and the production systems needed) are most definitely useful. In fact, some of the carbon-fiber pieces where made here in Tulsa, OK. A friend of mine has a left-over roll of some of it; the rest of it went to Virgin Galactic. This was something the Tulsa company had never done before; carbon fiber for space travel. I'm hoping Branson comes back and hires them again to build the next ones.
The sawmill was made a few thousand years ago, no one was building a sawmill trying to make a car. VG is trying to engage the people (the Rich) who can pay for space exploration since it's pretty obvious the USA can no longer afford to do it.
no, he's arguing that the tech from Virgin Galactic's space program is LIKE the sawmill and cars. The sawmill (if you had bothered to read the citation) was "the earliest evidence of a crank and connecting rod mechanism". Just like the "space plane" and "space tourism" is being called out as "nothing to do with space exploration", the Heirapolis sawmill contained the very first, basic demonstration of what would eventually be used by billions of people in billions of cars worldwide. Get it now? This Wired writer is very short-sited declaring that "not a vehicle for the exploration of frontiers". He's 100% wrong, VG has developed all sorts of interesting tech that will prove quite useful in the future. Just because, RIGHT NOW, it's being made for "rich people" in no way makes their system irrelevant.
I watched a three hour documentary about SpaceShipOne, White Knight, etc. Saying these guys are only trying to make a roller coaster for the rich "should make you angry". That is only the very beginning! Even though Branson is rich, even he knows he's not got enough $$$ to go all the way up on his own. He's trying to engage the other rich people who, together, MIGHT have the cash and capabilities. Eventually Virgin Galactic's space planes will deliver tourist's to Bigelow's habitats. They can't go that high YET, thus the testing of new engines...testing that lead to this tragedy.
Hearing this reporter say this really reminds me of when Buzz punched that conspiracy guy in the face. Just because he can't see the connections and comprehend the importance of VG doesn't give him a free pass to insult what these guys are trying to accomplish. Personally I'd like to punch Adam Rogers in the face and hope he wakes up. His previous space-based articles are nothing like this one.
I saw a show where they launched and turned the wings and floated back. They also were testing the solid boosters too, which was some type of recycled rubber. One thing I noticed was as they left the atmosphere the thrust vector was really sporadic, not smooth at all like other rockets. Oh, and at one point the on-board computer died but luckily the pilot was highly skilled and landed it anyway...and I don't think the pilot that died was that guy either; he was pretty old lol.
Ion drives are really low thrust, not too useful for moving around inside the Earth-Moon gravity well. It's big plus is that it hardly uses any fuel, so that low thrust can be applied for a long time to build up speeds for intra-system probes...very small ones lol.
Slashdot Mirror
The Yucca deposit has "attracted" Something that is slowly burrowing it's way through the Earth towards it.
lol, just by them saying it's "unclassifiable" they HAVE classified it, just under "we don't know".
If that was so, this would be sponsored by DARPA not NASA. DARPA does these contests all the time too...
The dealers do it because they are selling cars to people who often don't pay their bills, take off cross-state with vehicles, and such. Your normal dealership doesn't do this...
it actually reminds me of the Nazi's Enigma code. They also rotated every week, although eventually England managed to capture a code book...still, Verizon using Nazi ideas is not suprising lol
that makes way too much sense, therefor will never be allowed in either the US or the EU.
"The idea that these NFC cards are faster somehow is a fallacy" this PROVES that it's faster! Faster at allowing thieves to rob you that is. Imagine, stress-less muggings...
you should watch Century of the Self if you haven't already. It gets into the "nuts and bolts" of how the modern marketing system has been created, starting with Sigmund Freud's cousin Edward Bernays in the 1930's. It's not just "more advertising", it's carefully crafted manipulation tested hundreds of times by various focus groups designed to affect our subconscious and get us to buy products and ideas that rationally we would reject. The part about the experimental marketing that convinced millions of women to smoke should make any freedom-loving person PISSED AS HELL at BOTH parties and the entire media as a whole. It's all so corrupt and anti-human sometimes I wonder if there isn't a greater force behind it all LOL.
"Africa" is an entire continent made up by 53 different countries. We're not bombing all of them. We've got many bombs, but not THAT many.
If anything, if the stock market is going up and making tons of $$$ everyone on the planet should be very WORRIED since that usually indicates WS is doing something super-shady and semi-illegal again that will soon blow up.
And a Republican administration WILL result in thousands of our troops going over to Syria too probably.
the CIA doesn't need anyone's money, they have plenty of their own...thus why they can basically do whatever they want and cause problems like this.
We really shouldn't "blame" Obama for Benghazi. It finally blew up under his watch, but it started years before. Honestly I don't blame Bush either; if you look at the timeline it's pretty obvious the CIA took advantage of several changes in leadership to get their "Annex" going. I guess the CIA though that no one in Benghazi would notice 50-100 CIA agents, their support staff, and all the traffic that caused. I don't know their line of thinking, but it would appear that it was the CIA's choice to have just a few "contractors" on site as security, to ignore their own field agent's reports that they had been discovered by the "enemy" (which is pretty much everyone over there except them since they've pissed all over almost every group in the Middle East in the past 50 years), The CIA moves into a neighborhood that had the same families for hundreds of years next door and expected to stay hidden? The whole time they where desperately trying to move weapons out of Libya and into Syria; it's highly ironic that The Annex got attacked by the CIA's own weapon's shipments that got re-routed by one of the many factions in Libya. I wouldn't be surprised at all if David Petraeus was set up by his own agents in his "sex scandal" to shift attention off Benghazi.
Timeline:
Michael Morell July 1, 2011, to September 6, 2011
David Petraeus: September 6, 2011 to November 9, 2012
Michael Morell November 9, 2012 to June 12, 2013
Attack: September 11, 2012
Petraeus's affair went from late 2011 into the summer of 2012, right when the attack was set up and implemented. The CIA is notorious for doing whatever they feel like, and when the cat is away the mice will play. Petraeus was far too busy with his career in flames to notice that his Libyan agents had once again gone off on their own with little oversight.
lol thus why Enterprise Services is going it's own way. My division at HP is far more concerned with up-time, reliability, meeting SLA's, and 24/7/365 monitoring and troubleshooting than profit...probably stemming from the massive fine we got a few years ago from the Feds lol. Now every time I see some new product I wonder which side it is on...
But personally I think Meg's ideas are mostly working...the split puts both sides in better shape, faster reactions as a corp, and a finer tuned "vision". Of course I'm unhappy seeing some of my friends loose their jobs but that's just corporate life ESPECIALLY in IT and from what I've seen no one was "singled out" it is pretty random. Even while some divisions are laying off people others are hiring...we lost some help desk people but are adding mainframe operation techs and they get paid almost twice as much! Honestly I'd much rather see HP having more "mainframe" level activities going on than expanding contracted help desk operations but we have to leverage the capabilities we have in-office.
I think though that my location might be a "special case" since we're the site of IBM's 360 SABRE location and this system can't be "moved" easily. It's all underground, multiple bubble doors, iris scanners, password-of-the-day stuff. I work a few hundred feet away for almost two years and haven't seen the inside of it but walk around the top of it during my smoke breaks every night...yet I have worked deep inside the Cherokee Data Center for months on end so I have whatever "clearance" to be inside of it technically. Our location is quasi-government entangled and is kinda it's own entity inside of HP lol.
It's market is in places where you need cheap hardware. I used to have National Grid as a client; many hours trying to troubleshoot their mobile collection laptops (mostly toughbooks) that where honestly far over-powered and complex for that situation. Schools too; low-powered systems might be more secure and have less "after class chicanery" than with a fully-functional laptop. Unfortunately, this product doesn't fall under that idea since it's Windows 8.1 lol. I doubt it would even work for companies like National Grid since I doubt it supports various other requirements but really the "tough" part isn't really needed as much anymore since most of the linemen today comprehend the frailty of electronics (they all have smartphones and know how to keep them alive) and probably don't need the whole toughbook idea, or at least not for all of them. And those things are HEAVY...my gf on the other hand is sometimes quite clumsy and her Toughbook is still functioning even with chunks of the case missing from being dropped, and stepped on. Her new one was recently a victim of a cat attack that poured a glass of water all over the bottom it while it was upside down and closed on the floor...any other laptop would have been toast! Thus why I pushed her to get another one...I just said "look at this old one, no other laptop can withstand you" lol.
this is a direct result of the split; it's why HP did it (I think). This, along with the 3D printing, Moonshot, etc shows how much faster two smaller corps can move instead of one big corp going multiple directions.
without electricity you also run the risk of being eaten by a Grue in the darkness!
Not as much of a design flaw as it was an unknown quality of the steel itself. They just didn't know about the changes in properties to steel when immersed for long periods in freezing water, no design using that type of steel would have survived probably. It became super brittle in the freezing water; that's why it sank so quickly. It was really bad luck; if they hadn't hit the iceberg the brittle steel would never have cracked.
It's only a "thrill ride" because there is nothing to deliver the humans to and it's not specifically made to do science. Eventually even a space plane could get high enough to dock with an inflated habitat that then goes up higher to the actual space hotel. And it's FAR more comfortable this route than to take a rocket with it's massive G push to the passengers. Can you not envision the future where the space plane takes you up to a hab that has been lowered just enough to pick up passengers?
The materials (and the production systems needed) are most definitely useful. In fact, some of the carbon-fiber pieces where made here in Tulsa, OK. A friend of mine has a left-over roll of some of it; the rest of it went to Virgin Galactic. This was something the Tulsa company had never done before; carbon fiber for space travel. I'm hoping Branson comes back and hires them again to build the next ones.
The sawmill was made a few thousand years ago, no one was building a sawmill trying to make a car. VG is trying to engage the people (the Rich) who can pay for space exploration since it's pretty obvious the USA can no longer afford to do it.
no, he's arguing that the tech from Virgin Galactic's space program is LIKE the sawmill and cars. The sawmill (if you had bothered to read the citation) was "the earliest evidence of a crank and connecting rod mechanism". Just like the "space plane" and "space tourism" is being called out as "nothing to do with space exploration", the Heirapolis sawmill contained the very first, basic demonstration of what would eventually be used by billions of people in billions of cars worldwide. Get it now? This Wired writer is very short-sited declaring that "not a vehicle for the exploration of frontiers". He's 100% wrong, VG has developed all sorts of interesting tech that will prove quite useful in the future. Just because, RIGHT NOW, it's being made for "rich people" in no way makes their system irrelevant.
I watched a three hour documentary about SpaceShipOne, White Knight, etc. Saying these guys are only trying to make a roller coaster for the rich "should make you angry". That is only the very beginning! Even though Branson is rich, even he knows he's not got enough $$$ to go all the way up on his own. He's trying to engage the other rich people who, together, MIGHT have the cash and capabilities. Eventually Virgin Galactic's space planes will deliver tourist's to Bigelow's habitats. They can't go that high YET, thus the testing of new engines...testing that lead to this tragedy.
Hearing this reporter say this really reminds me of when Buzz punched that conspiracy guy in the face. Just because he can't see the connections and comprehend the importance of VG doesn't give him a free pass to insult what these guys are trying to accomplish. Personally I'd like to punch Adam Rogers in the face and hope he wakes up. His previous space-based articles are nothing like this one.
I saw a show where they launched and turned the wings and floated back. They also were testing the solid boosters too, which was some type of recycled rubber. One thing I noticed was as they left the atmosphere the thrust vector was really sporadic, not smooth at all like other rockets. Oh, and at one point the on-board computer died but luckily the pilot was highly skilled and landed it anyway...and I don't think the pilot that died was that guy either; he was pretty old lol.
Ion drives are really low thrust, not too useful for moving around inside the Earth-Moon gravity well. It's big plus is that it hardly uses any fuel, so that low thrust can be applied for a long time to build up speeds for intra-system probes...very small ones lol.
I came here to chew gum and kick ass...but I'm all outta gum.