1) Somebody writes a manifesto that says that new college grads that don't come from Stanford are less likely to succeed in tech in general and Google in particular.
2) Enginneers at Google and other places are required to interview other people as part of the interview process.
3) A person that doesn't graduate from Stanford comes in for an interview, and is interviewed by somebody, who has said that by default that person is less likely to succeed.
This is BY DEFINITION a hostile work environment. It's hostile for incoming people that didn't graduate from Stanford, as well as those who work there.
Although this is all hypothetical, (from what I know, nobody wrote such a manifesto), in the earlier days of Google, this was quite a pervasive thought process (quite a few Stanford "snobs" in the early days of Google) but probably nobody was stupid enough to write a manifesto... But had they done so, I'm not so sure it would pass your logic.
Sometimes what is true or makes sense isn't logic or isn't legal. You might be correct about him, but your logic fails you. What he said was simply bad because it was both illegal and against the political tide. Saying the same thing about non-Stanford graduates even if true wouldn't be illegal and might not tickle the political tides and would probably simply only be stupid, even if hostile to non-Stanford grads BY DEFINITION...
FWIW, even if he *had* completed his PhD, how does that make him an expert?
Anecdotally, in my experience PhD's that have no additional experience aren't any more "expert" than PhD drop-outs. It appears that navigating the academic politics and simply the luck of getting your adviser to approve a research project for your doctorate that won't bore you to tears until you drop-out is about the only "skill" PhD's have on PhD drop-outs in most fields. Of course give me a post-Doc with 5 years doing real research, and then you might find a real statistical difference on the "expert" scale.
Someone living somewhere that UK libel laws don't apply might think that this could be paraphrased as, "Stop! You're demanding the company is run properly! We'll lose all our money if the company has to obey the law and not have a toxic working environment!"
Personally, living in the UK, I merely think that this is a cynical attempt to avoid the share price plummeting to its more natural level.
There is no "share" price. Uber is not a public company. Their unicorn valuation is simply the price/share that the last sucker paid in the latest financing round (and they paid a pretty good premium for the opportunity to invest). There is no secondary market for shares that you can stamp a market value for the share price. The valuation is all in the "opportunity" to accept your investment dollars into the moneysink that is Uber.
This is simply a disagreement that is a matter of "contracts". I'm pretty sure Benchmark Capital likely put in their offer terms a requirement for a board seat (as all VC companies do in early investment rounds to presumably to "protect" the value of their investment). Just because other investors don't like this, they should have known about this going in. Unfortunately not being a public traded company means their "investment" is Uber is not a liquid investment and they knew that fact going in as well. This is why you need to be "qualified" as an investor to invest in non-public offerings in pre-ipo companies.
Minority shareholders (which describes some of the employee shareholders that are complaining) w/o board seats basically have very little protecting their "investment" in a non-public company (other than claiming investment fraud). The fact that they are complaining publicly is simply pouting. The only real hope they have is to organize a leveraged buyout of Benchmark Capital's share (for presumably ~$8B) and I don't see that is a likely path. Whoever would be financing this would likely severely dilute everyone's share (given the current risk/reward of Uber relative to the current valuation). I'm sure the complainers don't want that outcome either (since they are clearly financially motivated as well). VC's write both the checks and the rules so they own your ass when you start a company with their money. That's the price of selling out to them.
The so-called "sweat" equity mere-mortals get for working is simply the minimum the board thinks it will take to keep the people they want to keep, it has no basis in share price or the valuation (and as many insiders will tell you gets "adjusted" all the time with each funding round by dilution).
If only voices saying just that were louder when Brendan Eich was forced out... but the thirst for scalps by the diversity gods can never be quenched.
Foreach $class (@classes_of_people_not_like_me, $my_class) {
they->came_for($class);
if ($class ne $my_class) {
self->speak_for($class) or they->delete($class);
} else {
null->speak_for($class) or die "there was no one left to speak for me.";
} }
Anyways it makes me wonder if this #1 gigantic radio telescope (which western scientists say is not even that useful) is another sign of China's economic bubble about to burst.
As a result of the decades long one-child policy, China has an excess of unmarried young males (with limited familial prospects). Gotta keep them busy. Having the government favoring making skyscrapers and radio-telescopes seems like a good way to keep people busy and out of trouble...
People said the same stuff about the International Space Station which was basically conceived to keep a bunch of Russian scientists who knew have to make rockets busy and out of trouble after an economic collapse. I'm not sure how much useful science has been accomplished by the ISS, but it's certainly kept some key Roscosmos/Energia people busy and out of some trouble...
Also as trivia for./-ers, Sears also happened to be the exclusive distributors of the first home edition of Atari-Pong (which they called Telegames)
In contrast, Costco (yet another Seattle based retailer) has had pretty good success keeping things straightforward with a single Kirkland brand. Apparently, you don't have to make up all sorts of "secret" house-brands to be successful with this strategy...
I would have thought Silicon Valley would have supported this proposal. More (legal) high-skilled domestic labor means downward pressure on wages.
What exactly are tech leaders railing against?? Higher wages in the future for their gardeners and nannies?
Maybe. If the "merit" system for proposed green cards makes it harder for low skilled gardeners and nannies to get green cards...
The proposal sharply reduces the green cards available for so-called "chain" immigration by limiting them to spouses and minor children, eliminating the green-cards currently reserved for parents, siblings, and adult-children that have no quota. It also cuts the number of refugee green cards in half and eliminates the diversity green card (aka lottery green card) and puts everyone else including those that don't get employment based green cards because of quota limits into a new points based system.
The reason that it is predicted that the number of green cards will go down is that "chain" green cards did not have a quota (diversity had a 50,000 quota), but now the new combination of "chain" + "diversity" will be capped at somewhere between 120,000 and 250,000
Not that I'm in favor of limiting immigration, but I think most of these folks are simply objecting on political grounds. By making "chain" immigration harder they think it will be more difficult to attract the "skilled" people to the US. I'm not so sure about that actually being the case in reality (hard to say, there are conflicting studies), but it certainly fits their political narrative...
FWIW, here's the green card proposal they are making. There are two tiers proposed, each would have a crack at 50% of the total green cards allocated on points. As far as I can determine here are how the points are allocated.
For Tier 1 (aimed at college/professional level folks, 50% of green cards)
15 points for PhD (10 for a masters, 5 for a bachelors) 2 or 3 points per year up to 20 for employment in the US (e.g, legally under another work visa like H1 or H2) 10 points for employment (or job offer) in a job requiring a PhD/masters (8 points for a Bachelors degree) 10 points for entrepreneurs employing at least 2 people 10 points for a high demand occupation 2 points for civic involvement 10 points for English skills 10 points for being a sibling or adult child of a citizen 8 points if you are under 25 (6 points for under 33, 4 points for under 38) 5 points for a being from a diversity country (e.g., less than 50,000 immigrants/5years)
For Tier 2 (every one else, 50% of green cards)
2 points/year up to 20 points for employment in the US (e.g, legally under another work visa like H2 or H3) 10 points for high-demand occupation employment (or job offer in those occupations) 10 points for being a caregiver 10 points for getting a promotion or having long-term employment 2 points for civic involvement 10 points for English skills (5 points for basic "knowledge" of English) 10 points for being a sibling or adult child of a citizen 8 points if you are under 25 (6 points for under 33, 4 points for under 38) 5 points for a being from a diversity country (e.g., less than 50,000 immigrants/5years)
They have a massive lead today in price/performance.
CPU's that are within 90-95% of Intel cores, per clock per core, but vastly more cores per dollar in some cases(1700x vs i7), and simply much cheaper in others (4 core/8 thread)
Stock clocks are close enough to not matter except for the highest end i7 gaming cpu.
They aren't the best, no. They DO, without debate, factually, get you far more CPU per dollar and a stones throw from Intel performance numbers.
They'll be what I upgrade my Haswell to in a few years for sure.
The problem for AMD isn't perf/dollar** it is perf/watt. Most data centers care about perf/watt. Most home enthusiasts don't care as much about that and don't think much about the cost of electricity (both power and cooling).
**AMD mostly just takes it in the shorts on their gross margins to make their products cheaper...
So are ALi, Via and SiS out of the chipset market?
Yes. Everyone is out of the chipset market. Since Lynnfield/Clarksfield introduced in 2009, Intel integrated their northbridge and moved to their proprietary DMI (aka direct media interconnect) for their southbridge, so there are no alternative Intel chipset vendors. That's coming up on a decade ago...
AFAIK, Nvidia was the last alternative intel chipset supplier with their MCP89 in the 2010 version of the Macbook Air...
Interesting they seemed to pick a name corresponding to a dried up barren lake bed... Maybe there's probably some sort of subtle subconscious thing going on there...
Been-there done-that. You know there have been wars fought over byrd poop. Mostly because byrd poop (aka guano) was very helpful in making bombs (as well as being fertilizer for food)
Fortunately (unfortunately?), we discovered how to industrialize a process to fix nitrogen straight from the air (haber-bosch), so we don't need to annex and dig up islands for byrd poop anymore. We just need to burn natural gas...
How much CO2 does the average AGW nutter produce every time they try to find scapegoats and employ their scare tactics?
By the way AGW nutters, you contribute more to pollution than a "denier" like me. My energy is all green, I recycle, I don't drive a car, my home is spartan and practical, I don't burn wood or gas, I bring my own cloth shopping bags, I am a vegetarian and I don't smoke.
I'm sure they are thinking about you when they fly in CO2 belching airplanes to their international conferences (which generate a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person) and stay in hotels that generate 5-10x the resources and waste as living in a private home...
It is estimated that if you live in an apartment and don't drive very much (short commute, work from home), taking 3 international trips a year, will likely account for more than 50% of your annual carbon footprint. I suspect they could cut their own carbon footprint in 1/2 by not attending these conferences (just think of the children, oh wait, there aren't supposed to be any of those)...
Scale is a bit off... You need a bigass pringles can for VHF or UHF.
Pringles can work pretty good for 5GHz, but UHV is 1GHz and VHF is only 100MHz... (wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency, so 1/5 the frequency is 5x the wavelength so you do the math).
FWIW, the way a cantenna (aka waveguide antenna) works is you need a can with a circumference large enough to let the desired wavelength in (to avoid cutoff, but not too much larger) and long enough to make 3/4 of a standing wave mode so you can tap the standing wave at 1/4 wavelength off the closed end with your antenna tap... If the can is of the right dimensions so that the dominate mode in the can is the frequency that you want to receive, you get lots of antenna gain with this setup.
Dude, you won't believe it but there's another music streaming device built into your car: push on the AM/FM button! Just make sure to open ports 540 to 1600 on your car router.
That streaming device doesn't stream music, it just streams a bunch a windbags whining about the government or talking about some sporting even that may or may not even be live... Kind of like if someone was doing a dictation of a sub-reddit, but generally less entertaining...
As a consumer, I, and many other people, won't touch e-bay with a 10ft pole. Jet on the otherhand, if it had better variety, like maybe even 1/3 of what Amazon has, would be an excellent place to shop.
Don't "worry", pretty soon Jet will be just like Walmart (since they bought Jet)... They are phasing out Kirkland brands for Sam's products and are adding some Walmart to boost their variety, but I suspect the end goal is to close Jet (kind of like Amazon killed Quidsi).
Backpage.com has already been pressured into eliminating their escort/massage section. "Escorts" just moved their ads to the "Women seeking Men" dating section. All websites need is positive deniability and you can't touch them. "What, you expected us to READ everything that anybody posts? Even slashdot doesn't do that!"
FWIW, you can read the proposed change here... Basically the bill is proposing to remove the CDA's safe harbor provisions for specifically enforcing sex trafficking laws. I suppose the theory is simply to allow the state (and the victim) to hit the websites in the pocketbook to modify their behaviour. But as you speculate, their behaviour is likely modified in a direction to promote more elaborate deniability, not elimination...
This should be a big wakeup call to all C[E|O|I|T|X]O's to not use Microsoft products. Ever.
FWIW, you can generally use Helvetica (1957) or Ariel (1982) fonts (even on Microsoft products). But if you want an "open" font,... your options are limited.
Only DejaVu Sans (2004) would probably be the only font that fit the appropriate required timeframe, but it isn't the most popular default today on open source only distributions which are LiberationSans(2010), FreeSans (2010) Open Sans (2011). In addition to the Carlito font which is their replacement for Calibri (which by definition places it even later in time than Calibri.
If they had enough technical insight to change the default font, they could have just use Ariel or Helvetica, even on Microsoft products. Not that there aren't other reason to steer clear of the MSFT tax (aka product), but this ain't one of them.
I remember that there where one game on either C64 or Spectrum where you could press a "the boss is coming" key which would present a fake spreadsheet page:). Don't remember which game it was though.
I remember the game GATO had a fake spreadsheet when you hit the DELETE key...
Then of course, there was the reverse. Office 97, had a couple easter-egg games. Excel had a flight-simulator and Word had a pinball game...
Nothing thwarts Darwin. In other words, change in allele frequency is happening in human populations all the time. There are still a few "Social Darwinists", who don't understand the first thing about evolutionary biology, who imagine certain types of medical intervention somehow magically defy nature, but these people are simply morons, and should be ignored, or treated with the contempt that vile halfwits earn.
Although normally, I'm quite the Luddite, we *have* changed evolution with technology and defied nature. Even mundane technologies like "soap" and "spectacles/glasses" have helped our species avoid certain evolutionary paths... You can argue what the limit of "certain types" of intervention might be or if such intervention is actually beneficial (or moral), but to claim that we should ignore it, is equivalently half-witted...
Not exactly a pay phone, but I saw a suicide hotline phone in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. Unfortunately, it had an "out of order" sign on it... ouch.
Apparently for the youngin's, they can text 'GGB' to 741741 after they take their selfie and be connected to a suicide prevention councilor. For the oldies with no phone, well, gotta save money somewhere to build the $211M suicide net...
Although Intel does contract manufacturing (achronix, altera, spreadtrum, LG, panasonic), they really are only competitive in the leading edge process nodes, and aren't very competitive in providing N-2 generation foundry service where the pure-play companies make the bulk of their money.
I suspect that's mainly because they've only recently licensed the Artisan library cells (owned by ARM) which are used by nearly all fab-less semiconductor design houses. Because they were vertical for so long, I'm guessing the existing Artisan cell design aren't parametrically optimized to run on their process and their N-2 fabs were never optimized to yield these cells. It's a big effort to resynthesize/recharacterized/redesign a bunch of the "chicklet" IP and analog cells that goes into a modern SoC chip to an "intel-proprietary" library and it is difficult if not impossible to hide yield hits and NRE costs of re-engineering to a new foundry process by simply discounting die to your potential customers unless they are really big customers that are willing to target your N-2 foundry and invest a bunch of money to retarget parts of old designs. That is why all their newly engaged foundry customers are targetting their leading edge process nodes with new designs.
Historically, Intel has effectively filled their fully depreciated N-1 and N-2 fabs to run their own chipset and embedded business designs (saving the N generation for cpus). Getting new customers to target these N-2 fabs will be more challenging until a few more tick-tocks pass and the current designs become N-2 legacy designs.
I'm sure they can do it eventually, but the question will be can they be as profitable this way? Will customers trust Intel as much as TSMC to be a reliable die provider for N-2? They probably need to fill N, N-1, and N-2 fabs to make this work. Simply increasing capacity on N generation fabs will create more N-1 and N-2 fabs in the future. Only time will tell if they can work this out.
I wouldn't call that a leading candidate, unless I wanted to push an altcoin based on PoS.
Well, Ethereum (what you might dismiss as an "alt-coin") is making good progress on it's Proof Of Stake system called Casper. An implementation of this called RocketPool is now in the alpha testing stage.
FWIW, that's my definition of "leading candidate". What's your definition of "altcoin"?
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1) Somebody writes a manifesto that says that new college grads that don't come from Stanford are less likely to succeed in tech in general and Google in particular.
2) Enginneers at Google and other places are required to interview other people as part of the interview process.
3) A person that doesn't graduate from Stanford comes in for an interview, and is interviewed by somebody, who has said that by default that person is less likely to succeed.
This is BY DEFINITION a hostile work environment. It's hostile for incoming people that didn't graduate from Stanford, as well as those who work there.
Although this is all hypothetical, (from what I know, nobody wrote such a manifesto), in the earlier days of Google, this was quite a pervasive thought process (quite a few Stanford "snobs" in the early days of Google) but probably nobody was stupid enough to write a manifesto... But had they done so, I'm not so sure it would pass your logic.
Sometimes what is true or makes sense isn't logic or isn't legal. You might be correct about him, but your logic fails you. What he said was simply bad because it was both illegal and against the political tide. Saying the same thing about non-Stanford graduates even if true wouldn't be illegal and might not tickle the political tides and would probably simply only be stupid, even if hostile to non-Stanford grads BY DEFINITION...
FWIW, even if he *had* completed his PhD, how does that make him an expert?
Anecdotally, in my experience PhD's that have no additional experience aren't any more "expert" than PhD drop-outs. It appears that navigating the academic politics and simply the luck of getting your adviser to approve a research project for your doctorate that won't bore you to tears until you drop-out is about the only "skill" PhD's have on PhD drop-outs in most fields. Of course give me a post-Doc with 5 years doing real research, and then you might find a real statistical difference on the "expert" scale.
Someone living somewhere that UK libel laws don't apply might think that this could be paraphrased as, "Stop! You're demanding the company is run properly! We'll lose all our money if the company has to obey the law and not have a toxic working environment!"
Personally, living in the UK, I merely think that this is a cynical attempt to avoid the share price plummeting to its more natural level.
There is no "share" price. Uber is not a public company. Their unicorn valuation is simply the price/share that the last sucker paid in the latest financing round (and they paid a pretty good premium for the opportunity to invest). There is no secondary market for shares that you can stamp a market value for the share price. The valuation is all in the "opportunity" to accept your investment dollars into the moneysink that is Uber.
This is simply a disagreement that is a matter of "contracts". I'm pretty sure Benchmark Capital likely put in their offer terms a requirement for a board seat (as all VC companies do in early investment rounds to presumably to "protect" the value of their investment). Just because other investors don't like this, they should have known about this going in. Unfortunately not being a public traded company means their "investment" is Uber is not a liquid investment and they knew that fact going in as well. This is why you need to be "qualified" as an investor to invest in non-public offerings in pre-ipo companies.
Minority shareholders (which describes some of the employee shareholders that are complaining) w/o board seats basically have very little protecting their "investment" in a non-public company (other than claiming investment fraud). The fact that they are complaining publicly is simply pouting. The only real hope they have is to organize a leveraged buyout of Benchmark Capital's share (for presumably ~$8B) and I don't see that is a likely path. Whoever would be financing this would likely severely dilute everyone's share (given the current risk/reward of Uber relative to the current valuation). I'm sure the complainers don't want that outcome either (since they are clearly financially motivated as well). VC's write both the checks and the rules so they own your ass when you start a company with their money. That's the price of selling out to them.
The so-called "sweat" equity mere-mortals get for working is simply the minimum the board thinks it will take to keep the people they want to keep, it has no basis in share price or the valuation (and as many insiders will tell you gets "adjusted" all the time with each funding round by dilution).
If only voices saying just that were louder when Brendan Eich was forced out... but the thirst for scalps by the diversity gods can never be quenched.
Foreach $class (@classes_of_people_not_like_me, $my_class) {
they->came_for($class);
if ($class ne $my_class) {
self->speak_for($class) or they->delete($class);
} else {
null->speak_for($class) or die "there was no one left to speak for me.";
}
}
(apologies to Martin Niemöller)
What if Amazon secretly own Wal-Mart.
It's no secret that, Amazon currently *owns* Wal-Mart...
That's why Amazon "made" Wal-Mart buy Jet.
(yes, it's all part of the bigger illusion)
Anyways it makes me wonder if this #1 gigantic radio telescope (which western scientists say is not even that useful) is another sign of China's economic bubble about to burst.
As a result of the decades long one-child policy, China has an excess of unmarried young males (with limited familial prospects). Gotta keep them busy. Having the government favoring making skyscrapers and radio-telescopes seems like a good way to keep people busy and out of trouble...
People said the same stuff about the International Space Station which was basically conceived to keep a bunch of Russian scientists who knew have to make rockets busy and out of trouble after an economic collapse. I'm not sure how much useful science has been accomplished by the ISS, but it's certainly kept some key Roscosmos/Energia people busy and out of some trouble...
Sears has DieHard, Kenmore, Craftsman, etc.
FWIW, Sears started some interesting things before that...
Allstate (until 1995)
Prodigy (until 1996)
Dean Witter, Coldwell Banker, Discover Card (until 2007)
Also as trivia for ./-ers, Sears also happened to be the exclusive distributors of the first home edition of Atari-Pong (which they called Telegames)
In contrast, Costco (yet another Seattle based retailer) has had pretty good success keeping things straightforward with a single Kirkland brand. Apparently, you don't have to make up all sorts of "secret" house-brands to be successful with this strategy...
I would have thought Silicon Valley would have supported this proposal. More (legal) high-skilled domestic labor means downward pressure on wages.
What exactly are tech leaders railing against?? Higher wages in the future for their gardeners and nannies?
Maybe. If the "merit" system for proposed green cards makes it harder for low skilled gardeners and nannies to get green cards...
The proposal sharply reduces the green cards available for so-called "chain" immigration by limiting them to spouses and minor children, eliminating the green-cards currently reserved for parents, siblings, and adult-children that have no quota. It also cuts the number of refugee green cards in half and eliminates the diversity green card (aka lottery green card) and puts everyone else including those that don't get employment based green cards because of quota limits into a new points based system.
The reason that it is predicted that the number of green cards will go down is that "chain" green cards did not have a quota (diversity had a 50,000 quota), but now the new combination of "chain" + "diversity" will be capped at somewhere between 120,000 and 250,000
Not that I'm in favor of limiting immigration, but I think most of these folks are simply objecting on political grounds. By making "chain" immigration harder they think it will be more difficult to attract the "skilled" people to the US. I'm not so sure about that actually being the case in reality (hard to say, there are conflicting studies), but it certainly fits their political narrative...
FWIW, here's the green card proposal they are making. There are two tiers proposed, each would have a crack at 50% of the total green cards allocated on points. As far as I can determine here are how the points are allocated.
For Tier 1 (aimed at college/professional level folks, 50% of green cards)
15 points for PhD (10 for a masters, 5 for a bachelors)
2 or 3 points per year up to 20 for employment in the US (e.g, legally under another work visa like H1 or H2)
10 points for employment (or job offer) in a job requiring a PhD/masters (8 points for a Bachelors degree)
10 points for entrepreneurs employing at least 2 people
10 points for a high demand occupation
2 points for civic involvement
10 points for English skills
10 points for being a sibling or adult child of a citizen
8 points if you are under 25 (6 points for under 33, 4 points for under 38)
5 points for a being from a diversity country (e.g., less than 50,000 immigrants/5years)
For Tier 2 (every one else, 50% of green cards)
2 points/year up to 20 points for employment in the US (e.g, legally under another work visa like H2 or H3)
10 points for high-demand occupation employment (or job offer in those occupations)
10 points for being a caregiver
10 points for getting a promotion or having long-term employment
2 points for civic involvement
10 points for English skills (5 points for basic "knowledge" of English)
10 points for being a sibling or adult child of a citizen
8 points if you are under 25 (6 points for under 33, 4 points for under 38)
5 points for a being from a diversity country (e.g., less than 50,000 immigrants/5years)
They have a massive lead today in price/performance.
CPU's that are within 90-95% of Intel cores, per clock per core, but vastly more cores per dollar in some cases(1700x vs i7), and simply much cheaper in others (4 core/8 thread)
Stock clocks are close enough to not matter except for the highest end i7 gaming cpu.
They aren't the best, no. They DO, without debate, factually, get you far more CPU per dollar and a stones throw from Intel performance numbers.
They'll be what I upgrade my Haswell to in a few years for sure.
The problem for AMD isn't perf/dollar** it is perf/watt. Most data centers care about perf/watt. Most home enthusiasts don't care as much about that and don't think much about the cost of electricity (both power and cooling).
**AMD mostly just takes it in the shorts on their gross margins to make their products cheaper...
So are ALi, Via and SiS out of the chipset market?
Yes. Everyone is out of the chipset market. Since Lynnfield/Clarksfield introduced in 2009, Intel integrated their northbridge and moved to their proprietary DMI (aka direct media interconnect) for their southbridge, so there are no alternative Intel chipset vendors. That's coming up on a decade ago...
AFAIK, Nvidia was the last alternative intel chipset supplier with their MCP89 in the 2010 version of the Macbook Air...
Also... "Coffee Lake"? What were they drinking when they came up with... oh. Right.
On the lake?
Interesting they seemed to pick a name corresponding to a dried up barren lake bed... Maybe there's probably some sort of subtle subconscious thing going on there...
Been-there done-that. You know there have been wars fought over byrd poop. Mostly because byrd poop (aka guano) was very helpful in making bombs (as well as being fertilizer for food)
Fortunately (unfortunately?), we discovered how to industrialize a process to fix nitrogen straight from the air (haber-bosch), so we don't need to annex and dig up islands for byrd poop anymore. We just need to burn natural gas...
How much CO2 does the average AGW nutter produce every time they try to find scapegoats and employ their scare tactics?
By the way AGW nutters, you contribute more to pollution than a "denier" like me. My energy is all green, I recycle, I don't drive a car, my home is spartan and practical, I don't burn wood or gas, I bring my own cloth shopping bags, I am a vegetarian and I don't smoke.
I'm sure they are thinking about you when they fly in CO2 belching airplanes to their international conferences (which generate a warming effect equivalent to 2 or 3 tons of carbon dioxide per person) and stay in hotels that generate 5-10x the resources and waste as living in a private home...
It is estimated that if you live in an apartment and don't drive very much (short commute, work from home), taking 3 international trips a year, will likely account for more than 50% of your annual carbon footprint. I suspect they could cut their own carbon footprint in 1/2 by not attending these conferences (just think of the children, oh wait, there aren't supposed to be any of those)...
Is an empty Pringles can VHF or UHF?
Scale is a bit off... You need a bigass pringles can for VHF or UHF.
Pringles can work pretty good for 5GHz, but UHV is 1GHz and VHF is only 100MHz... (wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency, so 1/5 the frequency is 5x the wavelength so you do the math).
FWIW, the way a cantenna (aka waveguide antenna) works is you need a can with a circumference large enough to let the desired wavelength in (to avoid cutoff, but not too much larger) and long enough to make 3/4 of a standing wave mode so you can tap the standing wave at 1/4 wavelength off the closed end with your antenna tap... If the can is of the right dimensions so that the dominate mode in the can is the frequency that you want to receive, you get lots of antenna gain with this setup.
Dude, you won't believe it but there's another music streaming device built into your car: push on the AM/FM button! Just make sure to open ports 540 to 1600 on your car router.
That streaming device doesn't stream music, it just streams a bunch a windbags whining about the government or talking about some sporting even that may or may not even be live... Kind of like if someone was doing a dictation of a sub-reddit, but generally less entertaining...
ebay is still a big place to sell your products.
As a consumer, I, and many other people, won't touch e-bay with a 10ft pole. Jet on the otherhand, if it had better variety, like maybe even 1/3 of what Amazon has, would be an excellent place to shop.
Don't "worry", pretty soon Jet will be just like Walmart (since they bought Jet)... They are phasing out Kirkland brands for Sam's products and are adding some Walmart to boost their variety, but I suspect the end goal is to close Jet (kind of like Amazon killed Quidsi).
Backpage.com has already been pressured into eliminating their escort/massage section. "Escorts" just moved their ads to the "Women seeking Men" dating section. All websites need is positive deniability and you can't touch them. "What, you expected us to READ everything that anybody posts? Even slashdot doesn't do that!"
FWIW, you can read the proposed change here... Basically the bill is proposing to remove the CDA's safe harbor provisions for specifically enforcing sex trafficking laws. I suppose the theory is simply to allow the state (and the victim) to hit the websites in the pocketbook to modify their behaviour. But as you speculate, their behaviour is likely modified in a direction to promote more elaborate deniability, not elimination...
This should be a big wakeup call to all C[E|O|I|T|X]O's to not use Microsoft products. Ever.
FWIW, you can generally use Helvetica (1957) or Ariel (1982) fonts (even on Microsoft products). But if you want an "open" font,... your options are limited.
Only DejaVu Sans (2004) would probably be the only font that fit the appropriate required timeframe, but it isn't the most popular default today on open source only distributions which are LiberationSans(2010), FreeSans (2010) Open Sans (2011). In addition to the Carlito font which is their replacement for Calibri (which by definition places it even later in time than Calibri.
If they had enough technical insight to change the default font, they could have just use Ariel or Helvetica, even on Microsoft products. Not that there aren't other reason to steer clear of the MSFT tax (aka product), but this ain't one of them.
I remember that there where one game on either C64 or Spectrum where you could press a "the boss is coming" key which would present a fake spreadsheet page :). Don't remember which game it was though.
I remember the game GATO had a fake spreadsheet when you hit the DELETE key...
Then of course, there was the reverse. Office 97, had a couple easter-egg games. Excel had a flight-simulator and Word had a pinball game...
Nothing thwarts Darwin. In other words, change in allele frequency is happening in human populations all the time. There are still a few "Social Darwinists", who don't understand the first thing about evolutionary biology, who imagine certain types of medical intervention somehow magically defy nature, but these people are simply morons, and should be ignored, or treated with the contempt that vile halfwits earn.
Although normally, I'm quite the Luddite, we *have* changed evolution with technology and defied nature. Even mundane technologies like "soap" and "spectacles/glasses" have helped our species avoid certain evolutionary paths... You can argue what the limit of "certain types" of intervention might be or if such intervention is actually beneficial (or moral), but to claim that we should ignore it, is equivalently half-witted...
Not exactly a pay phone, but I saw a suicide hotline phone in the middle of the Golden Gate Bridge. Unfortunately, it had an "out of order" sign on it... ouch.
Apparently for the youngin's, they can text 'GGB' to 741741 after they take their selfie and be connected to a suicide prevention councilor. For the oldies with no phone, well, gotta save money somewhere to build the $211M suicide net...
Did I miss a link or does TFA have absolutely no information on how they actually reduce the sonic boom signature?
News for nerds, right? Where is the nerd part?!
Apparently it's just technology... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This Nasa/Lockheed deal was signed back in 2016...
Intel does contract manufacturing now.
Although Intel does contract manufacturing (achronix, altera, spreadtrum, LG, panasonic), they really are only competitive in the leading edge process nodes, and aren't very competitive in providing N-2 generation foundry service where the pure-play companies make the bulk of their money.
I suspect that's mainly because they've only recently licensed the Artisan library cells (owned by ARM) which are used by nearly all fab-less semiconductor design houses. Because they were vertical for so long, I'm guessing the existing Artisan cell design aren't parametrically optimized to run on their process and their N-2 fabs were never optimized to yield these cells. It's a big effort to resynthesize/recharacterized/redesign a bunch of the "chicklet" IP and analog cells that goes into a modern SoC chip to an "intel-proprietary" library and it is difficult if not impossible to hide yield hits and NRE costs of re-engineering to a new foundry process by simply discounting die to your potential customers unless they are really big customers that are willing to target your N-2 foundry and invest a bunch of money to retarget parts of old designs. That is why all their newly engaged foundry customers are targetting their leading edge process nodes with new designs.
Historically, Intel has effectively filled their fully depreciated N-1 and N-2 fabs to run their own chipset and embedded business designs (saving the N generation for cpus). Getting new customers to target these N-2 fabs will be more challenging until a few more tick-tocks pass and the current designs become N-2 legacy designs.
I'm sure they can do it eventually, but the question will be can they be as profitable this way? Will customers trust Intel as much as TSMC to be a reliable die provider for N-2? They probably need to fill N, N-1, and N-2 fabs to make this work. Simply increasing capacity on N generation fabs will create more N-1 and N-2 fabs in the future. Only time will tell if they can work this out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Can't be denying those rich Commonwealth folk (e.g., Mitt Romney, John Kerry, and the Kennedy clan) views from their oceanfront properties...
I wouldn't call that a leading candidate, unless I wanted to push an altcoin based on PoS.
Well, Ethereum (what you might dismiss as an "alt-coin") is making good progress on it's Proof Of Stake system called Casper. An implementation of this called RocketPool is now in the alpha testing stage.
FWIW, that's my definition of "leading candidate". What's your definition of "altcoin"?