That works as long as you don't need to train your staff.
Yes. However, in a lot of places, "training" is a terse statement to the worker to "figure it out [dumbass, or get fired]*" All that "self-motivated, quick learner" BS in the job description, remember? "Training" == "stressed out monkeys Googling shit like their next meal depended on it."
*The bit in square brackets is rarely said aloud, because HR, but there is a special low frequency managerial growl that gets this across quite succinctly.
1) Hire new STEM worker, reset pay scale to minimum.
2) Drive worker to burnout in two years or so, worker leaves/commits suicide/has heart attack.
3) PROFIT!!
4) Start process again at 1)
Keeping employees around that expect periodic raises and sensible work-life balance will never increase profit margins in the short term. Only companies concerned about the long term and brain drain (and few are) will do anything to change this. Most just want billable hours.
The spacecraft only has as many "moving parts" as an ordinary rocket with 4 engines. SpaceX happily flies a rocket with 9 engines and will likely be able to reuse its first stage in a cost effective way.
And you do realize that even these "ordinary rockets" still do explode, even though the basic technology has been around since the 1960s? See Orbital, see the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-1 mission. And even some of the simple "technologies" (tank support struts) fail in these operational extremes.
Every component, moving or not, has a non-zero chance of failure. More parts, higher failure probability. Put those parts into an extreme operating environment, probability of something unanticipated biting you in the ass goes up as well.
If they can launch and return the Skylon with the same maintenance as an airliner, I'll be happy and very impressed. However I really think it is too complicated to work repeatedly.
A single engine that can transition from air breathing jet to scramjet to rocket, all the way from runway to orbit and back!
Cons:
A single ungodly complex engine that might transition from air breathing jet to scramjet to rocket, all the way from runway to orbit. Or not.
Cool idea on paper, but I see way too many moving parts over a huge performance envelope for me to believe this will ever be a robust engine. It just seems too complex to be a "fuel-up-and-go" engine. Looks more like a engine that would need to be torn down and inspected after every flight, assuming it works once. But best of luck to them all the same.
Code must display the text "Hello World!" on the screen, followed by a line saying "Press to continue". The code will then read a text file containing the names Charlie, Art, and Barbara and sort them into alphabetical order.
So they made a Barbie out of pure white ABS plastic, plump and hairy in all the wrong places, dressed it in torn jeans, sneakers, and a stained IEEE sweater, and dusted with synthetic Dorito cheese dust, accessorized with 27 computers and a coffee maker? And the box it comes in converts into Computer Engineer Barbie's parent's basement?
You can buy enough netting (that will stand up to years of exposure) and support structure at Home Depot to cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100? Which home depot to you shop at?
At the Fucking Awesome Thank God the Irate Engineer Came By so We could Suck His Imperial Cock Home Depot. It's located in downtown Awesome. You certainly haven't been allowed anywhere near that place.
Why don't you, you lazy bastard? Why do I need to supply all your inadequacies? Go Google it.
When you admit that you fail (as you surely will, as you're lazy) I'll be happy to supply the necessary links. I'd hate to deny you an opportunity to learn, since you have so much to learn.
If you think that the data they are collecting is predominantly a result of things being typed into a form... you have no business acting so self-righteous. Instead, you should step back and re-think what privacy is, and how it pertains to the Internet.
Erm, privacy is fucking pulling down the curtains to cock-block anybody getting information that I do not want them to have?
I'm not being self righteous at all - I'm being a master of my own fucking information. Please master yours, or stop bitching about your loss of privacy. If you want to sell your info to get an app, have a nut, but don't bitch if you sold out yourself for a new shiny app.
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
The DOC of the states can comment to this post if they want to send me a check for (puts pinkie to mouth) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! for this technological masterpiece of innovation.
God, being a fucking brilliant Irate Engineer is fucking hard. Will all you nitwits shut to hell up and let me think? I'm trying to cure your pattern baldness and homosexuality, dammit, and it's not an easy problem. I might have to submit to a higher authority, which I hate.
Stop typing your own fucking personal information into websites! It's not like they're kicking in your door and raiding your house. STOP HANDING IT TO THEM!
I'm not sure how feeling up little girls and grandmothers with the government's blessing is making us any more safe, but if you like getting the TSA blue-gloved ball/clitoris rub from someone who couldn't hold a job at Taco Bell and that makes you feel safe, more power to you. You are easily placated. The TSA scares me a hell of a lot more than the "terrorists".
They're dreaming about not admitting culpability in the hope that they can just pay a big cash settlement and walk away. When they say "Yep, we cheated", they will be fighting and losing lawsuits for the next 20 years.
What's the big difference between physical alterations to the car and software alterations?
Software alterations are easier to hide, won't be caught by most wrench-swinging mechanics, and can enable changes in hardware state on an if/then/else basis - i.e. software is perfectly suited to cheating emissions rules.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. This is true with any sort of bureaucratic management system.
The only caveat is, it had better truly be an awesome thing that you're doing that will have the masses behind it. If it is something that just pisses off management/government, you have just stepped on your own dick wearing cleats, and will be screwed in short order.
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That works as long as you don't need to train your staff.
Yes. However, in a lot of places, "training" is a terse statement to the worker to "figure it out [dumbass, or get fired]*" All that "self-motivated, quick learner" BS in the job description, remember? "Training" == "stressed out monkeys Googling shit like their next meal depended on it."
*The bit in square brackets is rarely said aloud, because HR, but there is a special low frequency managerial growl that gets this across quite succinctly.
1) Hire new STEM worker, reset pay scale to minimum.
2) Drive worker to burnout in two years or so, worker leaves/commits suicide/has heart attack.
3) PROFIT!!
4) Start process again at 1)
Keeping employees around that expect periodic raises and sensible work-life balance will never increase profit margins in the short term. Only companies concerned about the long term and brain drain (and few are) will do anything to change this. Most just want billable hours.
Literally.
It's for meeting lightly battered women.
The spacecraft only has as many "moving parts" as an ordinary rocket with 4 engines. SpaceX happily flies a rocket with 9 engines and will likely be able to reuse its first stage in a cost effective way.
And you do realize that even these "ordinary rockets" still do explode, even though the basic technology has been around since the 1960s? See Orbital, see the SpaceX Falcon 9 CRS-1 mission. And even some of the simple "technologies" (tank support struts) fail in these operational extremes.
Every component, moving or not, has a non-zero chance of failure. More parts, higher failure probability. Put those parts into an extreme operating environment, probability of something unanticipated biting you in the ass goes up as well.
If they can launch and return the Skylon with the same maintenance as an airliner, I'll be happy and very impressed. However I really think it is too complicated to work repeatedly.
Pros:
A single engine that can transition from air breathing jet to scramjet to rocket, all the way from runway to orbit and back!
Cons:
A single ungodly complex engine that might transition from air breathing jet to scramjet to rocket, all the way from runway to orbit. Or not.
Cool idea on paper, but I see way too many moving parts over a huge performance envelope for me to believe this will ever be a robust engine. It just seems too complex to be a "fuel-up-and-go" engine. Looks more like a engine that would need to be torn down and inspected after every flight, assuming it works once. But best of luck to them all the same.
People who put their work up on the Internet for the world to see don't like people linking to their work for all the world to see?
Makes perfect sense, got it.
The code requirements:
Code must display the text "Hello World!" on the screen, followed by a line saying "Press to continue". The code will then read a text file containing the names Charlie, Art, and Barbara and sort them into alphabetical order.
So they made a Barbie out of pure white ABS plastic, plump and hairy in all the wrong places, dressed it in torn jeans, sneakers, and a stained IEEE sweater, and dusted with synthetic Dorito cheese dust, accessorized with 27 computers and a coffee maker? And the box it comes in converts into Computer Engineer Barbie's parent's basement?
I think all you proved is how uninteresting it is to have conversations with pedantic fuckwads like you. Typos give you boners. Girls do not.
So even if a user never types in a single thing, lots of info is logged, enought to
Oh God, the internet demons got him. Fuck. They're probably anally probing him as we speak in Guantanamo. Bastards! Life isn't fair.
So, as I said, don't put your personal shit out on the web, or you'll get butt-probed at Guantanamo. Just like Noah.
LOL U R DUM
"Put a net such that anything greater than 1-inch in size gets snagged."
DO YOU GET IT YET? DO U SEE UR FUCKUP?
Well, I can see that you can't spell worth a shit, but if I understand your patois correctly, no, not seeing a fuckup.
You can buy enough netting (that will stand up to years of exposure) and support structure at Home Depot to cover a large (1 acre? 2 acre?) Prison Yard for $100? Which home depot to you shop at?
At the Fucking Awesome Thank God the Irate Engineer Came By so We could Suck His Imperial Cock Home Depot. It's located in downtown Awesome. You certainly haven't been allowed anywhere near that place.
Snagging shit MORE than 1 inch across along its thinnest axis is easy.
Oh, and I'll go for the low hanging fruit in your post and say that you're a pro at this ;)
Google, turd-burglar! Google!
Why don't you, you lazy bastard? Why do I need to supply all your inadequacies? Go Google it.
When you admit that you fail (as you surely will, as you're lazy) I'll be happy to supply the necessary links. I'd hate to deny you an opportunity to learn, since you have so much to learn.
If you think that the data they are collecting is predominantly a result of things being typed into a form... you have no business acting so self-righteous. Instead, you should step back and re-think what privacy is, and how it pertains to the Internet.
Erm, privacy is fucking pulling down the curtains to cock-block anybody getting information that I do not want them to have?
I'm not being self righteous at all - I'm being a master of my own fucking information. Please master yours, or stop bitching about your loss of privacy. If you want to sell your info to get an app, have a nut, but don't bitch if you sold out yourself for a new shiny app.
Really, really? Put a net such that anything less than 1-inch in size gets snagged. $100 and a trip to Home Depot and you're fucking done.
The DOC of the states can comment to this post if they want to send me a check for (puts pinkie to mouth) ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! for this technological masterpiece of innovation.
God, being a fucking brilliant Irate Engineer is fucking hard. Will all you nitwits shut to hell up and let me think? I'm trying to cure your pattern baldness and homosexuality, dammit, and it's not an easy problem. I might have to submit to a higher authority, which I hate.
Stop typing your own fucking personal information into websites! It's not like they're kicking in your door and raiding your house. STOP HANDING IT TO THEM!
... giving you the feeling...
I'm not sure how feeling up little girls and grandmothers with the government's blessing is making us any more safe, but if you like getting the TSA blue-gloved ball/clitoris rub from someone who couldn't hold a job at Taco Bell and that makes you feel safe, more power to you. You are easily placated. The TSA scares me a hell of a lot more than the "terrorists".
Definitely a STEM worker. I'm an excellent STEM worker.
It's fines all the way down!
Or as my wife would put it: "*sigh*....FINE! Just FINE!"
They're dreaming about not admitting culpability in the hope that they can just pay a big cash settlement and walk away. When they say "Yep, we cheated", they will be fighting and losing lawsuits for the next 20 years.
What's the big difference between physical alterations to the car and software alterations?
Software alterations are easier to hide, won't be caught by most wrench-swinging mechanics, and can enable changes in hardware state on an if/then/else basis - i.e. software is perfectly suited to cheating emissions rules.
It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. This is true with any sort of bureaucratic management system.
The only caveat is, it had better truly be an awesome thing that you're doing that will have the masses behind it. If it is something that just pisses off management/government, you have just stepped on your own dick wearing cleats, and will be screwed in short order.