Another reason to ban beer: It would cost the taxpayers several thousand dollars to launch a pint of beer into LEO. The bill for a small Superbowl party on the ISS would easily exceed the average US worker's annual salary.
If they're going to send up any booze, make it 190 proof grain alchohol. That would only cost about $100 per drink.
Better yet, ditch the whole manned space flight boondoggle and use the savings to fund more real space science.
Since it's such an arduous process to track down a physical example of a classic arcade game, purchase it, get it delivered, then rip its ROM to obtain a legal image, it shouldn't be too hard to remember the 8.3 filename you give it.
In an ideal world, developers of this newly emerging industry would try to avoid the mistakes of the past. They would gravitate towards one of the "safer" low-level languages such as Rust or Ada instead of C.
Of course, from the news headlines it seems that IoT developers are already intent on recreating every bad security practice that's been described since the Morris Worm. So I'm not holding my breath.
I've seen you do this before. I'm not wasting my time going down your semantic rat hole.
The preconceived conclusions are so thoroughly baked in to your reactionary mind that there is no possible external input of information from the real world that could ever cause you to admit that you're wrong.
I don't know what rock you've been living under. For years, client scientists have been saying that AGW will bring about more droughts and more floods. Those two items are in no way mutually exclusive.
That's because machines have historically never had control systems that rival the power of the human brain. The main advantage of automation up to now been just dumb speed and power; you still needed human intelligence to ultimately manage the work.
That's changing quickly. As computing power increases, the realm of activity of more classes of jobs can be managed by a computer more efficiently than a human, and with very little need for supervision.
Sometimes things in this world are nonlinear, and in those cases, making the same old arguments based on past observations doesn't work.
The only thing I see different is the amount of complaining on the internet.
The problem is that much of the complaining on the internet is coming directly from the POTUS himself over trivial slights.
That doesn't bode well for the outcome of any kind of real crisis in a world full of nukes. Then you might not have any friends or shops left to keep you distracted.
Once you get a replacement CPU from Intel, it's easy to upgrade your system.
Get a small screwdriver, and insert it in the gap under the chip near pin 1. Gently rock the CPU out of its DIP socket; you may have to alternate pulling at each end of the chip.
The new chip's legs will be slightly splayed for use with automatic pick-and-place machines. You may need to gently bend them inwards before proceeding. Making sure that pin 1 is aligned with the marker on the motherboard silkscreen, gently push the new CPU straight down into the DIP socket. Your system is fixed!
I'm probably not ever going to buy a 9V battery again. As the current ones wear out in my detectors (which are all getting too old anyway), I'm replacing them with new detectors that have built-in 10 year lithium batteries. That cuts down the chore of tending to smoke detectors by 90%.
I assume that's the general trend, an 9V batteries are going to get even more overpriced as they get relegated to just a few obscure niche uses.
McKinsey - they rent analysts at $1k an hour. They are serious company
Gartner predicts that analysts will only cost $740/hour by 2021. In 2017, Netcraft rented analysts at $720/hr, and plans to drop that to $900/hr by 2022. 2018 was PwC $680/hr, up to $480. Forecast IBM/hr 5 year $.
I'm not talking about a digital process. RIAA equalization is done purely with analog filters, and has been in use since long before digital recording was even possible.
Well, even the best DAC available only can create a approximation from the original analog sound signal, while vinyl is an analog recording by nature.
The recording on vinyl is also only an approximation of the original signal. It's been processed throught the complex RIAA equalization filter to get a reasonable amount of music to fit on the LP. Your stereo's phono preamp has to apply an approximate inverse of that filter to try to reconstruct the original signal.
Anyone who knows about electrical engineering principles can tell you that doing analog signal processing like that in the real world will have undesirable side effects.
When you also consider that the random analog noise on an LP has more magnitude than the digital approximation errors on a CD, the CD is clearly superior (assuming that the CD mix wasn't intentionally ruined due to the loudness war).
Those were the good old days... when setting the all the IRQ, IO port, DMA and address jumpers for the the expansion cards in a decked-out PC was like solving a soduku puzzle.
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... all TVs were curved.
They also had rounded corners. Maybe the next hot thing will be TVs that have corners with acute angles.
Probably the same thing that happens to the ketchup residue that clings to today's bottles.
If only something similar would happen with operating systems....
I'd bet that most people would prefer it if Microsoft were still resting on its Windows 7 laurels.
Historically the A: drive was the floppy drive (not really floppy, but don't get me started on that).
When the "A:" terminology was invented, the disks and their containers really were floppy.
Another reason to ban beer: It would cost the taxpayers several thousand dollars to launch a pint of beer into LEO. The bill for a small Superbowl party on the ISS would easily exceed the average US worker's annual salary.
If they're going to send up any booze, make it 190 proof grain alchohol. That would only cost about $100 per drink.
Better yet, ditch the whole manned space flight boondoggle and use the savings to fund more real space science.
People are going to be scrambling for privacy after every sheet of drywall on the planet has been consumed by these voracious microbes.
Keep it classy.
Since it's such an arduous process to track down a physical example of a classic arcade game, purchase it, get it delivered, then rip its ROM to obtain a legal image, it shouldn't be too hard to remember the 8.3 filename you give it.
In my day, we had a simple and effective way to judge algorithms:
O(n log(n)) or faster: good
O(n^2) or slower: bad
In an ideal world, developers of this newly emerging industry would try to avoid the mistakes of the past. They would gravitate towards one of the "safer" low-level languages such as Rust or Ada instead of C.
Of course, from the news headlines it seems that IoT developers are already intent on recreating every bad security practice that's been described since the Morris Worm. So I'm not holding my breath.
I've seen you do this before. I'm not wasting my time going down your semantic rat hole.
The preconceived conclusions are so thoroughly baked in to your reactionary mind that there is no possible external input of information from the real world that could ever cause you to admit that you're wrong.
I don't know what rock you've been living under. For years, client scientists have been saying that AGW will bring about more droughts and more floods. Those two items are in no way mutually exclusive.
It's already happening. Within 20 years, you'll probably have to be above average to be able find a job that you could make a living at.
The one beating the same drum is you, pulling out the old argument "Automation has always created jobs!". As I pointed out, this time it's different.
That's because machines have historically never had control systems that rival the power of the human brain. The main advantage of automation up to now been just dumb speed and power; you still needed human intelligence to ultimately manage the work.
That's changing quickly. As computing power increases, the realm of activity of more classes of jobs can be managed by a computer more efficiently than a human, and with very little need for supervision.
Sometimes things in this world are nonlinear, and in those cases, making the same old arguments based on past observations doesn't work.
Once again, in the mind of an AC, "horse sense" trumps basic thermodynamic principles.
The only thing I see different is the amount of complaining on the internet.
The problem is that much of the complaining on the internet is coming directly from the POTUS himself over trivial slights.
That doesn't bode well for the outcome of any kind of real crisis in a world full of nukes. Then you might not have any friends or shops left to keep you distracted.
Let's eliminate left turns from government policy as well.
It's too late.
We just took the mother of all left turns, and we've ended up in some kind of creepy dystopian alternative universe.
Once you get a replacement CPU from Intel, it's easy to upgrade your system.
Get a small screwdriver, and insert it in the gap under the chip near pin 1. Gently rock the CPU out of its DIP socket; you may have to alternate pulling at each end of the chip.
The new chip's legs will be slightly splayed for use with automatic pick-and-place machines. You may need to gently bend them inwards before proceeding. Making sure that pin 1 is aligned with the marker on the motherboard silkscreen, gently push the new CPU straight down into the DIP socket. Your system is fixed!
I'm probably not ever going to buy a 9V battery again. As the current ones wear out in my detectors (which are all getting too old anyway), I'm replacing them with new detectors that have built-in 10 year lithium batteries. That cuts down the chore of tending to smoke detectors by 90%.
I assume that's the general trend, an 9V batteries are going to get even more overpriced as they get relegated to just a few obscure niche uses.
McKinsey - they rent analysts at $1k an hour. They are serious company
Gartner predicts that analysts will only cost $740/hour by 2021. In 2017, Netcraft rented analysts at $720/hr, and plans to drop that to $900/hr by 2022. 2018 was PwC $680/hr, up to $480. Forecast IBM/hr 5 year $.
I'm not talking about a digital process. RIAA equalization is done purely with analog filters, and has been in use since long before digital recording was even possible.
Well, even the best DAC available only can create a approximation from the original analog sound signal, while vinyl is an analog recording by nature.
The recording on vinyl is also only an approximation of the original signal. It's been processed throught the complex RIAA equalization filter to get a reasonable amount of music to fit on the LP. Your stereo's phono preamp has to apply an approximate inverse of that filter to try to reconstruct the original signal.
Anyone who knows about electrical engineering principles can tell you that doing analog signal processing like that in the real world will have undesirable side effects.
When you also consider that the random analog noise on an LP has more magnitude than the digital approximation errors on a CD, the CD is clearly superior (assuming that the CD mix wasn't intentionally ruined due to the loudness war).
The dim-witted hamsters don't realize that they need to nixtamize their maize to get adequate nutrition.
What makes this kind of thing any more desirable than it was back when it was called "ActiveX" or "Applet"?
Those were the good old days... when setting the all the IRQ, IO port, DMA and address jumpers for the the expansion cards in a decked-out PC was like solving a soduku puzzle.