Central banks are not funded by taxpayers. The IMF for example was funded by the US in a budget-neutral manner, as an exchange of assets. Translation: the IMF's money is created out of thin air. That the IMF won't give Greece any of their created money is shameful, sociopathic, criminal, and utterly unnecessary.
That is just plain asinine. Money doesn't come from nothing. Even wall street isn't that far out of touch with reality. If there is value there, it came from something. Consequently it is funded by something. Even if the money was printed and then given to the IMF, the moment the money was printed, the value it has came from devaluing all of the other money in circulation. In the case of the IMF, it is funded by the countries that are its members
Dude, I am greek and I work in Belgium, previously in the Netherlands, and you are so, but so wrong. If anything, the amount of time Belgians spend at work is ridiculous, even more compared to employees in Greece. They work so little, that we actually make fun of them. In fact, I don't even know where Belgium finds the money, as practically the state spends on everything there, from social security to public health.
Second, in Greece there have been traffic budget cuts, and everything was fine according to what was asked, it's just that the European plan was futile.
So, please spare me the melodrama, especially given that you come from Belgium.
People used to say that Americans are ignorant. At least, the average American cannot afford to go to the uni, plus they're ignorant of things on different continents. What is the excuse of the Europeans, who seem to have been so brainwashed, without even traces of critical judgment?
The judgemental attitude comes from the same place it comes from in America. In the US, a large portion of the population is vehemently opposed to welfare of any kind. The idea being that if someone needs money, they can damn well work for it. If they don't earn as much per hour, as someone else, tough luck. At the end of the day, the idea is that the free market can and will sort things out. Long term, that attitude may or may not be good fiscal policy, but it is easy to understand, and even easier to justify, after all they are the people actually earning money...
In answer to your statement about time spent working, there is a measure for that.. Funny that the top 10 nations on that list have close to double the productivity of Greece, including France which has a huge handicap by virtue of unemployment rates that rival some third world nations. In spite of that, the Greek pensions are higher than the European average! The reality is that The Greek GDP does not justify those pensions. Good bad or indifferent, the Greek people should expect to take a 40% paycut (including pensioners) based on the numbers that I have been seeing. This is simple standard of living math, and this is the reason the IMF and EU have been so hell bent on austerity and have been targeting pensions specifically. The GDP numbers in the link above mean that the Greek pensioners on average should be getting 20% less per year than their counterparts in the "northern" European countries. That means they should expect to give up a very large portion of their income. One way or another, when the well spring of money dries up, they *will* be taking that paycut.
But it was all good-and-well when Greece, amongst 20 other nations, forgave Germany a massive swathe of her crushing debts following World War 2 [news.com.au]
The alternative was to set up the exact same conditions in Germany that lead to the rise of the Nazis. The German people are an industrial people. Much like the Americans, the harder you try to keep them down, the stronger they become. Had the Allies not saddled Germany with crushing debts post WWI (a war which Germany did not start mind you), there could have been no rise to power of the Nazi party, and would probably not have been a second world war.
Germany’s debts were unjustly forced upon them as a result of loosing a war for which they had only marginally more responsibility than any other nation. Greeces debts are the result of internal mismanagement. In spite of that, the other nations of Europe including Germany had made concerted attempts to help Greece. Like a concerned parent however, a condition of the assistance was / is demonstrating fiscal responsibility by not wasting the money. This was especially important given Greece's well earned reputation for corruption. The European nations had absolutely no desire to line the pockets of the corrupt in an attempt to help the Greek people. Greece promised a lot of things, but failed to deliver, and is being petulant about it to boot. Time for some tough love. Cut them off, and post signs at the borders: Let that be a lesson to you.
Actually, they clearly understand that simple austerity isn't going to correct the situation.
Correcting the situation was never on the table. Greece F***ed up royal, and now the time has come to pay the piper. Their creditors insisted that they had to implement austerity to stop spending more money than they had in exchange for temporary loans. The alternative is enforced austerity vis-a-vis no more money to spend. Period. One way or another, the Greek people are going to balance their budget. Their apparent unwillingness does not change the fundamental reality they have to face. The other countries in EU, ECB, IMF are / were under no legal obligation to bailout Greece. Now, thanks to the Syriza governments popularly mandated behaviour, and their wholesale destruction of the Greek economy, Europe no longer has a moral obligation to Greece either, and there is nothing much more that Greece can do to financially harm Europe. The Damage has been done, let the Greeks drown in it.
What do you think this referendum was about? A "no" vote is effectively the equivalent of Greece saying "We will not accept your bailout deal, so if you do not give us a better one we are leaving the Euro". Unless the EU caves, Greece could be off of the Euro this week.
This referendum was about Tsipras trying to save his political (and possibly literal) skin. His government botched this thing so thoroughly that people are comparing Greece to a third world nation. Make no mistake, The lack of a renewed bailout was what Tsipras and his Left wing group wanted. They are communists. They want the existing capitalist system to collapse so they can build a new communist organization where Greece once stood. Given all of the various options available to Greece, this might not be that bad an option all things considered, but make no mistake, The citizens of Greece are going to see a dramatic reduction in standard of living no matter what the deal on the table is, or who is doing the offering. The only things that can be done for Greece now, are to make some kind of attempt to get the money back from the wealthy Greeks who took it and subsequently tucked it away in foreign banks where the Greek government couldn’t get at it even if they weren't too corrupt to bother, and try to keep the runaway income inequality from becoming institutionalized.
The irony of all this is that the Greek people themselves created this mess by electing governments that would promise anything, and never deliver. They have demonstrated perfectly why democracy is a failure, even while being a shining beacon of it. Like any other kind of government, democracy is subject to the same corruption that is the hallmark of all bad governments. It is funny that the birthplace of democracy should be such a prime example of its most potent failures.
I'm talking about average models, not massive ones. That one would hurt someone if it just fell on them, so there's already plenty of reason not to permit you to operate it in crowded areas even if it didn't have big fans on it.
Having actually built a large quad copter (15Lbs, 3 foot span), I can tell you the propellers are purpose designed to avoid damage to people. They have tremendous axial strength, but almost none in the direction of rotation. I have gotten fingers and limbs clipped by 14" blades, and didn't even draw blood for my trouble. A finger will smart a bit afterwards, but a limb wont even get a bruise for the trouble,
If you can't understand the danger of flying an upside down lawnmower with no safety guards
You were doing all right until that piece of incendiary bullshit. Having actually designed and built a quad copter, There are several things you should understand before you start making sensationalist claims. First, Even the largest of these are only about 5 - 6 Lbs. From a height of 15 feet, it will cause some minor injuries but poses zero threat to life from falling alone. Second, the propellers on these devices are extremely light weight plastic, or sometimes even wood. They are designed to have strength in the lifting direction only. In the direction of rotation, they have very little strength. At 10,000 RPM, they will not even break skin. I can speak to this first hand. The first one I designed had guards, but they were useless and unnecessary. Since then, I have only seen a rare few that still bother with the guards.
Note that if they are five year bulbs, the initial install needs to be replaced now.
These bulbs last 25 years, not 5 years. Leasing is an idiotic option that only an American mind could think of as being a good deal. If there is a private company leasing you the equipment, it is *by definition* going to be cheaper for you to buy it yourself, especially if you can get financing for less than the private company can.
It still cost money to send guys out on bucket trucks to replace lights.
It was money you would have to spend on replacing them when they burn out anyways. When one burns out, you replace the two closest to it as well, that way you cut your replacement labor costs in roughly 1/3, and you don't have the huge up front expense of replacing them all at once. You just begin to reduce your monthly costs gradually. After a year or so, you're saving so much that the program pays for its own continuation. After 3 years you have a significant reduction in monthly maintenance costs as well as significant savings in energy costs...
installation costs might be a big factor purposely not discussed. It may be easy to lease the lights, but the costs of installation (and maybe even maintenance) drive the real cost up and potential benefit down.
There are no additional installation costs. These LED lights are designed to be drop in replacements for the older halogen and sulfur types. These elected officials are just that stupid.
"bird ingestion tests are done with frozen birds" Have you been reading The Onion? This frozen bird thing is a joke, not fact.
They do actually use frozen chickens. After some amount of testing, they discovered that the frozen chickens behave only marginally different from the thawed ones, and by using frozen, they don't have to wait for the chickens to thaw out.
You do realise bird ingestion tests are done with frozen birds right?
Even frozen, pound for pound flesh and bone will do far less damage than aluminum or hardened plastics.
The chickens do massive damage to the engines. The test is not whether the engines survive undamaged, the test is whether they can still function to some limited degree after impact to allow for an emergency landing. In the bad old days, an engine that was struck by a bird would suffer damage in such a way that it would typically ignite and or explode. The result being a plane with a wing on fire, or outright missing. Since these kinds of impacts were determined to be a significant concern, the engines are designed to fail gracefully such that they don't catch fire when multiple fan blades are broken off. The blades themselves are designed to put less stress on the engine when a broken one passes through the engine.
There are plenty of parts on a drone that will behave much differently than a bird, or fan blade when passing through a turbofan. The motors for example are made of high density copper windings coupled with brittle earth magnets. Upon impact with a jet engine, the drone will essentially disintegrate, but the copper windings will tend to pass directly through instead of being deflected by the engines shielding. Like a bullet made out of copper instead of one made out of Jello. The behavior of the permanent magnets is very dangerous as well. Because they are powerful magnets, they will grab onto any metal parts in the engine and can cause some interesting problems. For example, if even a relatively small amount of magnetic dust makes it into one of the precision bearings, it will cause accelerated wear, and if there is enough it will cause extreme heating or vibration, either of which could completely destroy a jet engine. There are lots of failure modes that a drone strike can trigger that a bird strike simply cant.
Yeah, because nobody in the world had ever heard of Facebook. You really believe that crap you spouted? It makes me ill to have to defend them, but if I want a job at Facebook I think I might, you know, look for job postings at Facebook. I'm pretty sure I know how to find them.
If you're looking for a job, you're going to go look where jobs are posted. You generally will not go down the phone book looking for companies that are hiring and visit their website to find out what positions they have open. More often, a candidate will find an opening, that is not published on a jobs site, by way of a friend who works there. As the GP stated, this is a self selecting group, and will *absolutely* result in a lack of diversity. The only way to counter this is to suck it up, post the job on one of the job sites, and deal with the fact that you will get 50k - 100k resumes. Diversity costs money, and if the company is too cheap to pay the $$$ it costs to search for candidates, the right way, then they should not be at all surprised to discover their search results were lacking in one or more ways.
While it is a shortcoming of the education system, it's not because of money. We spend more than ever per student. The problem is government schools.
Then why is it that government schools in almost every other nation are providing better education than we see here in the states. The problem is *not* government nor is it business, it is societies views towards education and intelligence. There is a very strong anti-intelligence viewpoint in this country. This effect had seemed to be dwindling during the 50's and 60's with the advent of NASA, and the very clear results that science and technology could produce that stupidity could not. Today we are seeing a fundamental shift the other direction. The median American sees intelligence as something to be distrusted. Compare that to German, Japanese or Chinese culture where intelligence is recognized and prized, and you have all the information you need to explain the failings of the American education system. As harsh as it sounds, the reality is that the idiots are simply out breeding the intelligent people in this country, and for some reason our society seems to be quite content with that, in fact we have given celebrity status to the duggars because of their willingness to produce far more offspring than they can support, and then release them on the world with a piss poor education, consisting of only their siblings and cameras for teachers.
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown, and you might even notice that the computer would get slightly more snappy after each upgrade.
Thats is possibly the stupidest thing I have heard all week, and I spent much of this past week doing tech support...
That DC10 was designed to hit geese without sustaining damage. You think a 1 kg drone is going to do anything?
No, the DC10 is designed to not crash after hitting a goose. They make no claims about damage. After a typical bird strike, the plane will still fly, but after it lands they're going to need to spend a few weeks rebuilding the engine that got hit.
Drones are a bit more harsh on the engine, because geese are made of relatively soft stuff. Even the bones are remarkably flexible. The metal or plastic chassis of a drone on the other hand is actually designed to be very rigid. I would not be surprised in an engine, that survives a goose strike relatively intact, is completely destroyed by a medium sized drone.
You give the verbal offer and *then* do the background & reference checks?
Thats pretty normal. The offer is contingent upon favorable results of the various checks. It allows the hiring company to keep an applicant from straying, without having to commit the resources to the checks until after you know the employee will accept the position.
Then Samsung should make sure the drivers they supply to Microsoft work. Samsung holds the reins here. Microsoft can't help it if Samsung's drivers break stuff. If Samsung haven't provided their own drivers to be included in Windows Update, then that's their fault. If it is Microsoft's fault, why does this work flawlessly for all other manufacturers, and indeed Samsung until this incident?
First, this doesn't work flawlessly for other manufacturers. The problem is chipsets. When manufacturers are designing their products, they have to choose the chips that will go into those devices. Typically they will try to pick the least expensive and easiest to support devices, but this process begins at least 6 months (often far longer) before the product comes out. These chips normally have ways to identify themselves, and often times, one OEMs drivers will actually work with multiple OEMs products because of these basic chipsets. Not only that, but if one of those OEMs is sloppy about how they design their product, their drivers could mistakenly identify other products and install drivers for them that might not be 100% compatible. You tend to see that a lot with cheap printers. At the end of the day, it can happen that through no fault of anybody specific, the wrong driver will be identified and installed by an update. In reality, its Microsofts fault, as they should *never* allow driver updates without a user specifically requesting it, but here we are...
Having each manufacturer design their own chipsets would needlessly increase the costs for products and would provide very little advantage for anybody. Most chip design houses these days, try to duck the problem by providing generic driver themselves and will provide a reference design that will work with those drivers. That way anyone who uses that chipset and sticks to compatible variations on the reference design will enjoy less driver compatibility issues. The biggest hazzard is being the first one into the field with a product, as you bear the brunt of the compatibility problems without the benefit of hindsight.
Where I work, we had used exclusively freescale processors. The founder of the company had used them in school, and was unwilling to even consider alternatives. About 5 years ago, they had a massive product flop as a result, and he stepped away from daily involvement in the company. Since then, we have been dropping freescale as fast as we can design away from their processors.
Recently that process has been accelerated because freescale EOL'd the most frequently used processor, and with no pin-compatible part, it is worth our time to simply switch away from them as fast as we can now. We're going with the Cypress PSOC series. The dev environment is excellent, and some of the 5 series processors have so much stuff in them we have been able to reduce our parts count by half or better. They're also vastly cheaper than the freescale processors, which makes us conclude that the companies founders got where they are more by luck than skill.
Bottom line? I'd recommend Freescale 9 times out of 10 for any of the medium to small players if I was looking for a high end ARM SOC.
They'd be an idiot to listen to you. Freescale chips are more expensive, and less capable than almost every other player out there. They've been riding on inertia for the last ten years. They haven't done much by way of improvements in that time, their flagship development environment hasn't changed (not even bug fixes), and to boot they are the only chip vendor left who charges for their dev environment. If you want GHz+ processors for cheap, you want Broadcom. if you want SOC and / or large numbers of I/O, you want cypress. if you want both, you can buy both for less than the cost of the freescale chips, come out way ahead in development time, and have fewer problems with your PCBs being manufactured. In short, there is no compelling reason to even consider the MX7 series, and lots of reasons to dismiss freescale out of hand.
Freescale end-of-lifed the processors we used to use (in and of itself a bad sign). When we looked at the replacements, the freescale options were 2x-3x more expensive, availability was questionable, and freescale refused to make any lifecycle promises (as opposed to atmel and ST who both promised 15 years, and Cypress who haven't EOL'd a single processor without providing a pin-compatible replacement.
To add insult to injury, the Freescale dev tools (code warrior) cost big $$$ in yearly license fees, and they are buggy as hell. Their compiler still does some wickedly hokey shit. I can compile the exact same code on the same machine twice, and one compile works, while the other one fails. We had a license expire and instead of giving us a simple "Your license is expired" error, it gave us a never ending stream of cryptic errors. It took our IT guys a week on the phone with support to find out that the license was expired. even the codewarrior people were stumped at first...
At the end of the day, go with Cypress. you'll be happier in the short run and in 5 years you wont be scrambling to redesign your products because freescale EOL'd your processor on you without providing a pin-compatible replacement...
I don't believe that I've ever known anyone that either believed in or took homeopathic potions as cures. Who actually buys that stuff?
My neighbor for one. She's a nice older lady. Most ways pretty normal, but when it comes to homeopathy, shes just plain bat-shit crazy...
Got her associates in accounting, and handled the business side of her husbands heating and cooling company for 40 years. Somehow though she thinks shes qualified to explain to me how homeopathy uses quantum mechanics, and will be vindicated. She pointed me to a few websites, and out of sheer curiosity I looked at a few of them. Generally pretty low information content and even less actual intelligence, but hey.
Honestly, install Classic Shell, follow the instructions you can find on the intertubes to make the Metro crap almost completely go away, get rid of their stupid start screen altogether, disable the Windows store and the apps... and then just realize that the crap Microsoft has "innovated" is useful for touch screens, and beginning users and get on with their life.
Or, for the same amount of effort and frustration, just install one of the Linux variants and try an OS where at least you don't get charged for the privilege of being abused...
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Central banks are not funded by taxpayers. The IMF for example was funded by the US in a budget-neutral manner, as an exchange of assets. Translation: the IMF's money is created out of thin air. That the IMF won't give Greece any of their created money is shameful, sociopathic, criminal, and utterly unnecessary.
That is just plain asinine. Money doesn't come from nothing. Even wall street isn't that far out of touch with reality. If there is value there, it came from something. Consequently it is funded by something. Even if the money was printed and then given to the IMF, the moment the money was printed, the value it has came from devaluing all of the other money in circulation. In the case of the IMF, it is funded by the countries that are its members
Dude, I am greek and I work in Belgium, previously in the Netherlands, and you are so, but so wrong. If anything, the amount of time Belgians spend at work is ridiculous, even more compared to employees in Greece. They work so little, that we actually make fun of them. In fact, I don't even know where Belgium finds the money, as practically the state spends on everything there, from social security to public health. Second, in Greece there have been traffic budget cuts, and everything was fine according to what was asked, it's just that the European plan was futile. So, please spare me the melodrama, especially given that you come from Belgium. People used to say that Americans are ignorant. At least, the average American cannot afford to go to the uni, plus they're ignorant of things on different continents. What is the excuse of the Europeans, who seem to have been so brainwashed, without even traces of critical judgment?
The judgemental attitude comes from the same place it comes from in America. In the US, a large portion of the population is vehemently opposed to welfare of any kind. The idea being that if someone needs money, they can damn well work for it. If they don't earn as much per hour, as someone else, tough luck. At the end of the day, the idea is that the free market can and will sort things out. Long term, that attitude may or may not be good fiscal policy, but it is easy to understand, and even easier to justify, after all they are the people actually earning money...
In answer to your statement about time spent working, there is a measure for that.. Funny that the top 10 nations on that list have close to double the productivity of Greece, including France which has a huge handicap by virtue of unemployment rates that rival some third world nations. In spite of that, the Greek pensions are higher than the European average! The reality is that The Greek GDP does not justify those pensions. Good bad or indifferent, the Greek people should expect to take a 40% paycut (including pensioners) based on the numbers that I have been seeing. This is simple standard of living math, and this is the reason the IMF and EU have been so hell bent on austerity and have been targeting pensions specifically. The GDP numbers in the link above mean that the Greek pensioners on average should be getting 20% less per year than their counterparts in the "northern" European countries. That means they should expect to give up a very large portion of their income. One way or another, when the well spring of money dries up, they *will* be taking that paycut.
But it was all good-and-well when Greece, amongst 20 other nations, forgave Germany a massive swathe of her crushing debts following World War 2 [news.com.au]
The alternative was to set up the exact same conditions in Germany that lead to the rise of the Nazis. The German people are an industrial people. Much like the Americans, the harder you try to keep them down, the stronger they become. Had the Allies not saddled Germany with crushing debts post WWI (a war which Germany did not start mind you), there could have been no rise to power of the Nazi party, and would probably not have been a second world war.
Germany’s debts were unjustly forced upon them as a result of loosing a war for which they had only marginally more responsibility than any other nation. Greeces debts are the result of internal mismanagement. In spite of that, the other nations of Europe including Germany had made concerted attempts to help Greece. Like a concerned parent however, a condition of the assistance was / is demonstrating fiscal responsibility by not wasting the money. This was especially important given Greece's well earned reputation for corruption. The European nations had absolutely no desire to line the pockets of the corrupt in an attempt to help the Greek people. Greece promised a lot of things, but failed to deliver, and is being petulant about it to boot. Time for some tough love. Cut them off, and post signs at the borders: Let that be a lesson to you.
Actually, they clearly understand that simple austerity isn't going to correct the situation.
Correcting the situation was never on the table. Greece F***ed up royal, and now the time has come to pay the piper. Their creditors insisted that they had to implement austerity to stop spending more money than they had in exchange for temporary loans. The alternative is enforced austerity vis-a-vis no more money to spend. Period. One way or another, the Greek people are going to balance their budget. Their apparent unwillingness does not change the fundamental reality they have to face. The other countries in EU, ECB, IMF are / were under no legal obligation to bailout Greece. Now, thanks to the Syriza governments popularly mandated behaviour, and their wholesale destruction of the Greek economy, Europe no longer has a moral obligation to Greece either, and there is nothing much more that Greece can do to financially harm Europe. The Damage has been done, let the Greeks drown in it.
What do you think this referendum was about? A "no" vote is effectively the equivalent of Greece saying "We will not accept your bailout deal, so if you do not give us a better one we are leaving the Euro". Unless the EU caves, Greece could be off of the Euro this week.
This referendum was about Tsipras trying to save his political (and possibly literal) skin. His government botched this thing so thoroughly that people are comparing Greece to a third world nation. Make no mistake, The lack of a renewed bailout was what Tsipras and his Left wing group wanted. They are communists. They want the existing capitalist system to collapse so they can build a new communist organization where Greece once stood. Given all of the various options available to Greece, this might not be that bad an option all things considered, but make no mistake, The citizens of Greece are going to see a dramatic reduction in standard of living no matter what the deal on the table is, or who is doing the offering. The only things that can be done for Greece now, are to make some kind of attempt to get the money back from the wealthy Greeks who took it and subsequently tucked it away in foreign banks where the Greek government couldn’t get at it even if they weren't too corrupt to bother, and try to keep the runaway income inequality from becoming institutionalized.
The irony of all this is that the Greek people themselves created this mess by electing governments that would promise anything, and never deliver. They have demonstrated perfectly why democracy is a failure, even while being a shining beacon of it. Like any other kind of government, democracy is subject to the same corruption that is the hallmark of all bad governments. It is funny that the birthplace of democracy should be such a prime example of its most potent failures.
I'm talking about average models, not massive ones. That one would hurt someone if it just fell on them, so there's already plenty of reason not to permit you to operate it in crowded areas even if it didn't have big fans on it.
Having actually built a large quad copter (15Lbs, 3 foot span), I can tell you the propellers are purpose designed to avoid damage to people. They have tremendous axial strength, but almost none in the direction of rotation. I have gotten fingers and limbs clipped by 14" blades, and didn't even draw blood for my trouble. A finger will smart a bit afterwards, but a limb wont even get a bruise for the trouble,
If you can't understand the danger of flying an upside down lawnmower with no safety guards
You were doing all right until that piece of incendiary bullshit. Having actually designed and built a quad copter, There are several things you should understand before you start making sensationalist claims. First, Even the largest of these are only about 5 - 6 Lbs. From a height of 15 feet, it will cause some minor injuries but poses zero threat to life from falling alone. Second, the propellers on these devices are extremely light weight plastic, or sometimes even wood. They are designed to have strength in the lifting direction only. In the direction of rotation, they have very little strength. At 10,000 RPM, they will not even break skin. I can speak to this first hand. The first one I designed had guards, but they were useless and unnecessary. Since then, I have only seen a rare few that still bother with the guards.
Note that if they are five year bulbs, the initial install needs to be replaced now.
These bulbs last 25 years, not 5 years. Leasing is an idiotic option that only an American mind could think of as being a good deal. If there is a private company leasing you the equipment, it is *by definition* going to be cheaper for you to buy it yourself, especially if you can get financing for less than the private company can.
It still cost money to send guys out on bucket trucks to replace lights.
It was money you would have to spend on replacing them when they burn out anyways. When one burns out, you replace the two closest to it as well, that way you cut your replacement labor costs in roughly 1/3, and you don't have the huge up front expense of replacing them all at once. You just begin to reduce your monthly costs gradually. After a year or so, you're saving so much that the program pays for its own continuation. After 3 years you have a significant reduction in monthly maintenance costs as well as significant savings in energy costs...
installation costs might be a big factor purposely not discussed. It may be easy to lease the lights, but the costs of installation (and maybe even maintenance) drive the real cost up and potential benefit down.
There are no additional installation costs. These LED lights are designed to be drop in replacements for the older halogen and sulfur types. These elected officials are just that stupid.
Are we surrounded by idiots with no impulse control or long term thinking to think leasing is cheaper? Yes.
And we keep electing them to run things. How stupid does that make us?
"bird ingestion tests are done with frozen birds" Have you been reading The Onion? This frozen bird thing is a joke, not fact.
They do actually use frozen chickens. After some amount of testing, they discovered that the frozen chickens behave only marginally different from the thawed ones, and by using frozen, they don't have to wait for the chickens to thaw out.
You do realise bird ingestion tests are done with frozen birds right?
Even frozen, pound for pound flesh and bone will do far less damage than aluminum or hardened plastics.
The chickens do massive damage to the engines. The test is not whether the engines survive undamaged, the test is whether they can still function to some limited degree after impact to allow for an emergency landing. In the bad old days, an engine that was struck by a bird would suffer damage in such a way that it would typically ignite and or explode. The result being a plane with a wing on fire, or outright missing. Since these kinds of impacts were determined to be a significant concern, the engines are designed to fail gracefully such that they don't catch fire when multiple fan blades are broken off. The blades themselves are designed to put less stress on the engine when a broken one passes through the engine.
There are plenty of parts on a drone that will behave much differently than a bird, or fan blade when passing through a turbofan. The motors for example are made of high density copper windings coupled with brittle earth magnets. Upon impact with a jet engine, the drone will essentially disintegrate, but the copper windings will tend to pass directly through instead of being deflected by the engines shielding. Like a bullet made out of copper instead of one made out of Jello. The behavior of the permanent magnets is very dangerous as well. Because they are powerful magnets, they will grab onto any metal parts in the engine and can cause some interesting problems. For example, if even a relatively small amount of magnetic dust makes it into one of the precision bearings, it will cause accelerated wear, and if there is enough it will cause extreme heating or vibration, either of which could completely destroy a jet engine. There are lots of failure modes that a drone strike can trigger that a bird strike simply cant.
Yeah, because nobody in the world had ever heard of Facebook. You really believe that crap you spouted? It makes me ill to have to defend them, but if I want a job at Facebook I think I might, you know, look for job postings at Facebook. I'm pretty sure I know how to find them.
If you're looking for a job, you're going to go look where jobs are posted. You generally will not go down the phone book looking for companies that are hiring and visit their website to find out what positions they have open. More often, a candidate will find an opening, that is not published on a jobs site, by way of a friend who works there. As the GP stated, this is a self selecting group, and will *absolutely* result in a lack of diversity. The only way to counter this is to suck it up, post the job on one of the job sites, and deal with the fact that you will get 50k - 100k resumes. Diversity costs money, and if the company is too cheap to pay the $$$ it costs to search for candidates, the right way, then they should not be at all surprised to discover their search results were lacking in one or more ways.
While it is a shortcoming of the education system, it's not because of money. We spend more than ever per student. The problem is government schools.
Then why is it that government schools in almost every other nation are providing better education than we see here in the states. The problem is *not* government nor is it business, it is societies views towards education and intelligence. There is a very strong anti-intelligence viewpoint in this country. This effect had seemed to be dwindling during the 50's and 60's with the advent of NASA, and the very clear results that science and technology could produce that stupidity could not. Today we are seeing a fundamental shift the other direction. The median American sees intelligence as something to be distrusted. Compare that to German, Japanese or Chinese culture where intelligence is recognized and prized, and you have all the information you need to explain the failings of the American education system. As harsh as it sounds, the reality is that the idiots are simply out breeding the intelligent people in this country, and for some reason our society seems to be quite content with that, in fact we have given celebrity status to the duggars because of their willingness to produce far more offspring than they can support, and then release them on the world with a piss poor education, consisting of only their siblings and cameras for teachers.
Go through Vista, 7, 8, and then 10. There would be no meaningful slowdown, and you might even notice that the computer would get slightly more snappy after each upgrade.
Thats is possibly the stupidest thing I have heard all week, and I spent much of this past week doing tech support...
That DC10 was designed to hit geese without sustaining damage. You think a 1 kg drone is going to do anything?
No, the DC10 is designed to not crash after hitting a goose. They make no claims about damage. After a typical bird strike, the plane will still fly, but after it lands they're going to need to spend a few weeks rebuilding the engine that got hit.
Drones are a bit more harsh on the engine, because geese are made of relatively soft stuff. Even the bones are remarkably flexible. The metal or plastic chassis of a drone on the other hand is actually designed to be very rigid. I would not be surprised in an engine, that survives a goose strike relatively intact, is completely destroyed by a medium sized drone.
You give the verbal offer and *then* do the background & reference checks?
Thats pretty normal. The offer is contingent upon favorable results of the various checks. It allows the hiring company to keep an applicant from straying, without having to commit the resources to the checks until after you know the employee will accept the position.
I smelled formaldehyde from the exhaust following one of them.
I smelled something else coming form these guys. FTFA
"The vehicle, called the Blade, has 1/3 the emissions of an electric car and 1/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars."
Smells like bullshit to me...
Then Samsung should make sure the drivers they supply to Microsoft work. Samsung holds the reins here. Microsoft can't help it if Samsung's drivers break stuff. If Samsung haven't provided their own drivers to be included in Windows Update, then that's their fault. If it is Microsoft's fault, why does this work flawlessly for all other manufacturers, and indeed Samsung until this incident?
First, this doesn't work flawlessly for other manufacturers. The problem is chipsets. When manufacturers are designing their products, they have to choose the chips that will go into those devices. Typically they will try to pick the least expensive and easiest to support devices, but this process begins at least 6 months (often far longer) before the product comes out. These chips normally have ways to identify themselves, and often times, one OEMs drivers will actually work with multiple OEMs products because of these basic chipsets. Not only that, but if one of those OEMs is sloppy about how they design their product, their drivers could mistakenly identify other products and install drivers for them that might not be 100% compatible. You tend to see that a lot with cheap printers. At the end of the day, it can happen that through no fault of anybody specific, the wrong driver will be identified and installed by an update. In reality, its Microsofts fault, as they should *never* allow driver updates without a user specifically requesting it, but here we are...
Having each manufacturer design their own chipsets would needlessly increase the costs for products and would provide very little advantage for anybody. Most chip design houses these days, try to duck the problem by providing generic driver themselves and will provide a reference design that will work with those drivers. That way anyone who uses that chipset and sticks to compatible variations on the reference design will enjoy less driver compatibility issues. The biggest hazzard is being the first one into the field with a product, as you bear the brunt of the compatibility problems without the benefit of hindsight.
Where I work, we had used exclusively freescale processors. The founder of the company had used them in school, and was unwilling to even consider alternatives. About 5 years ago, they had a massive product flop as a result, and he stepped away from daily involvement in the company. Since then, we have been dropping freescale as fast as we can design away from their processors.
Recently that process has been accelerated because freescale EOL'd the most frequently used processor, and with no pin-compatible part, it is worth our time to simply switch away from them as fast as we can now. We're going with the Cypress PSOC series. The dev environment is excellent, and some of the 5 series processors have so much stuff in them we have been able to reduce our parts count by half or better. They're also vastly cheaper than the freescale processors, which makes us conclude that the companies founders got where they are more by luck than skill.
Of course except for Sitara and i.MX6 the GPIO on ARM processors tends to be pathetic.
Cypress PSOC 5. Theres a reason they sell more embedded processors than anyone else.
Bottom line? I'd recommend Freescale 9 times out of 10 for any of the medium to small players if I was looking for a high end ARM SOC.
They'd be an idiot to listen to you. Freescale chips are more expensive, and less capable than almost every other player out there. They've been riding on inertia for the last ten years. They haven't done much by way of improvements in that time, their flagship development environment hasn't changed (not even bug fixes), and to boot they are the only chip vendor left who charges for their dev environment. If you want GHz+ processors for cheap, you want Broadcom. if you want SOC and / or large numbers of I/O, you want cypress. if you want both, you can buy both for less than the cost of the freescale chips, come out way ahead in development time, and have fewer problems with your PCBs being manufactured. In short, there is no compelling reason to even consider the MX7 series, and lots of reasons to dismiss freescale out of hand.
Freescale end-of-lifed the processors we used to use (in and of itself a bad sign). When we looked at the replacements, the freescale options were 2x-3x more expensive, availability was questionable, and freescale refused to make any lifecycle promises (as opposed to atmel and ST who both promised 15 years, and Cypress who haven't EOL'd a single processor without providing a pin-compatible replacement.
To add insult to injury, the Freescale dev tools (code warrior) cost big $$$ in yearly license fees, and they are buggy as hell. Their compiler still does some wickedly hokey shit. I can compile the exact same code on the same machine twice, and one compile works, while the other one fails. We had a license expire and instead of giving us a simple "Your license is expired" error, it gave us a never ending stream of cryptic errors. It took our IT guys a week on the phone with support to find out that the license was expired. even the codewarrior people were stumped at first...
At the end of the day, go with Cypress. you'll be happier in the short run and in 5 years you wont be scrambling to redesign your products because freescale EOL'd your processor on you without providing a pin-compatible replacement...
I don't believe that I've ever known anyone that either believed in or took homeopathic potions as cures. Who actually buys that stuff?
My neighbor for one. She's a nice older lady. Most ways pretty normal, but when it comes to homeopathy, shes just plain bat-shit crazy...
Got her associates in accounting, and handled the business side of her husbands heating and cooling company for 40 years. Somehow though she thinks shes qualified to explain to me how homeopathy uses quantum mechanics, and will be vindicated. She pointed me to a few websites, and out of sheer curiosity I looked at a few of them. Generally pretty low information content and even less actual intelligence, but hey.
Honestly, install Classic Shell, follow the instructions you can find on the intertubes to make the Metro crap almost completely go away, get rid of their stupid start screen altogether, disable the Windows store and the apps ... and then just realize that the crap Microsoft has "innovated" is useful for touch screens, and beginning users and get on with their life.
Or, for the same amount of effort and frustration, just install one of the Linux variants and try an OS where at least you don't get charged for the privilege of being abused...