Different country so different example. My first year of tertiary education back in the late 80's was (almost) free (token fee of about $100/semester from memory). I left when fees went up (change of govt introduced user pays and fees went up to $thousands/semester, then went back when I found I couldn't get a decent job, and my last year cost me about $10k in the mid 90's. The same course these days is about double that.
So yeah at some point in my country anyone could pay their way through Uni, now they can't.
And this point is so often missed on the great unwashed. It isn't even just restricted to human nature, it is the nature of all life to compete and protect your physical/social position/security. This is why I'm a bit blaise on the whole NSA drama. Sure it sounds bad on the surface, but better that it's us doing it to them and not the other way around (as it surely would be given the chance).
You have to admit though, that besides all the creepy stuff, the technology behind it all must be pretty cool. Every story I read about the NSA impresses me with how much reach they actually have, and how much tech must go into making it work. I'm reading Arthur C Clarke's Trigger right now, it's all very relevant for a 15 year old book.
I've faced similar situations, but taken the job anyway, exposed the hiring manager as the short sighted dimwit that he was and then taken his job. If you wait for conditions to be perfect before moving then you will probably miss out on a lot of opportunities that aren't immediately apparent. You don't get ahead by having a tantrum every time things don't go your way.
But you say that as if somewhere there exists a successful person who didn't have some luck along the way. All success stories are a combination of smarts, hard work and luck. Why single out Gates or Zuckerberg?
I saw that episode and thought his argument was solid. He was arguing for free speech, and that as soon as you put provisions into the law protecting certain minorities, where does it end? Racial vilification laws violate the concept of free speech, and none of the other hippies on the panel could see accept that fact.
I'm not a Liberal voter and think Tony Abbott is the stupidest PM we've had in a generation, but Brandis was logically correct and made those other panelists look like school children by comparison.
You say this yet here you are choosing to live with all the comforts that humanity provide. Perhaps you should go live in a jungle for a bit then tell us who provides the most "nice things".
Kind of reminds me of all the Bill Gates haters from 15 years ago... He was just lucky! He stole his ideas! It was some other guy that deserves what he has!
Gee you don't sound bitter at all...
My kids and their all their friends use Instagram. That critical mass already exists in demographics other than our own (I'm assuming we're all 30-50 year men who work in IT right?)
There's obviously a good number of well documented "bad cop" cases, but there's a lot of cops, and bad cop stories make news, because it's a big violation of our trust.
I tend not to pay much attention the news, but my problem is not so much good cop/bad cop but stupid cop. Maybe I have a nostalgia goggles, but when I grew up, cops wore blue trousers and a blue shirt and shoes, like an office worker. You'd see them walking the beat and they were friendly and said hello. Now every time I see cops they have commando boots, cargo pants and a combat vest with guns and tasers and all sorts of GI Joe paraphernalia. They have visible tattoos and wrap around sunglasses and all like look like wannabe gangster thugs. It makes it hard for me to teach my kids to respect the law when the create that image for themselves.
I'm not a big fan of cops, but that was justifiable IMO. The guy clearly looks like he is advancing on the police with what looks like a rifle.
I know from watching US cop shows that you generally stay in the car when pulled over. We don't do that here (Australia), I always get out, but I never advance to the police, and I'd never make it look like I was getting something out of my car or put my hand in my pockets, that is just stupid. Without the camera this story would sound like bully boys cops shooting and innocent old veteran. But the video clearly shows the cops were justified and so video works. This is a good thing.
Why does the next beast have to be a beast? Why can't the POTUS just drive around in a regular car like everyone else? Assassination? Fuck him he'll be replaced easily, that is the strength of the democracy. I say give the next POTUS a standard Tesla S and get over the crazy security theatre that treats the President like a king. He (she one day) is supposed to be a public servant not a rock star. It's time to start acting like a servant and less like a deity.
Who said they are dead? For all we know they could all be living it up on a tropical island somewhere (sure it sounds far fetched but so does every other hypothesis I've heard so far)
Recurring costs would be near zero. You already have qualified people doing regular maintenance on similar equipment they merely have to add one more item to the list. Another 10 minutes per plane every year wouldn't even show up on the ledger.
Firstly $100k seems awfully expensive for what is effectively basic satellite telemetry that you can buy from you local electronic shop for $1000. I'm pretty sure someone else could make the same thing for $10k-$20k. Secondly you don't need the expensive model for all 20k planes. Most of those jets do domestic short haul runs overland and can use existing cellular. I would imagine the requirement would only be for the thousand or so intercontinental jets flying over the 3 major oceans.
So your $2Bil turns into only a few million dollars over the entire industry, or chump change to people who are used to writing out cheques in hundreds of millions of dollars. And the requirement doesn't have to be immediate, like most sensible things, you phase them in over time to make the overall cost near zero over the long term.
Mod you up!
I've worked in IT all my life and recently taken up a role in a govt dept. Sure there is a lot of dead wood, and mind numbing banality, but there are some absolute guns upstairs running the show that make Slashdot seem like amateur hour. It's the height of irony for basement dwelling keyboard warriors to be knocking a high level govt official for their lack of knowledge of a specific field, when they so clearly suffer from the exact same problem when it comes to politics.
Politics is a skill, maybe not one you can relate too, but just as a Politician doesn't need to know what a crankshaft is when making transport policy, they probably can get by with knowing all our cutesy little TLAs either.
How about actually, you know, try being a teacher before spouting your mouth off about how you think it should be done? Try controlling 30 kids and get back to me when you succeed.
In our day, when that kid raided his dad's playboy it had possibly 3 naked women, all tastefully made up and posed with taste and no internal bits. Pretending the Internet is the same makes you sound like a cretin. All it takes is for one kid to click on the wrong thing and it can mean a lawsuit and possible criminal charges. I'm not sure how you got modded insightful for your completely uninsightful dribble, but that's where Slashdot seems to have gone lately.
The funny part is that eventually these kids will find out about evolution. Well, maybe not them, but maybe their kids or their kid's kids will, and they'll find out the hard way when society leaves them and their ignorant ways behind completely unemployable, then homeless and eventually unable to find and breeding partner and hence extinguished from the face of the earth.
So fear not, evolution wins either way:)
The Germans invaded France in May then attempted Britain in July of 1940. Even by WW2 rapid development standards, 2 months is awfully quick to turn an unflyable race prototype into a fully fledged battle-ready fighter aircraft. This is zero chance this would have made a difference to the Battle of Britain even if found.
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Different country so different example. My first year of tertiary education back in the late 80's was (almost) free (token fee of about $100/semester from memory). I left when fees went up (change of govt introduced user pays and fees went up to $thousands/semester, then went back when I found I couldn't get a decent job, and my last year cost me about $10k in the mid 90's. The same course these days is about double that. So yeah at some point in my country anyone could pay their way through Uni, now they can't.
And this point is so often missed on the great unwashed. It isn't even just restricted to human nature, it is the nature of all life to compete and protect your physical/social position/security. This is why I'm a bit blaise on the whole NSA drama. Sure it sounds bad on the surface, but better that it's us doing it to them and not the other way around (as it surely would be given the chance).
You have to admit though, that besides all the creepy stuff, the technology behind it all must be pretty cool. Every story I read about the NSA impresses me with how much reach they actually have, and how much tech must go into making it work. I'm reading Arthur C Clarke's Trigger right now, it's all very relevant for a 15 year old book.
I long for the day when websites will stop asking me to install Flash. I thought we had this debate already and Steve Jobs won?
I've faced similar situations, but taken the job anyway, exposed the hiring manager as the short sighted dimwit that he was and then taken his job. If you wait for conditions to be perfect before moving then you will probably miss out on a lot of opportunities that aren't immediately apparent. You don't get ahead by having a tantrum every time things don't go your way.
But you say that as if somewhere there exists a successful person who didn't have some luck along the way. All success stories are a combination of smarts, hard work and luck. Why single out Gates or Zuckerberg?
I saw that episode and thought his argument was solid. He was arguing for free speech, and that as soon as you put provisions into the law protecting certain minorities, where does it end? Racial vilification laws violate the concept of free speech, and none of the other hippies on the panel could see accept that fact. I'm not a Liberal voter and think Tony Abbott is the stupidest PM we've had in a generation, but Brandis was logically correct and made those other panelists look like school children by comparison.
You say this yet here you are choosing to live with all the comforts that humanity provide. Perhaps you should go live in a jungle for a bit then tell us who provides the most "nice things".
You have a strange definition of "advancing" and "looks like a rifle".
Or maybe you do? Good thing we have a jury so we don't need to decide this on an Internet comments section.
Kind of reminds me of all the Bill Gates haters from 15 years ago... He was just lucky! He stole his ideas! It was some other guy that deserves what he has! Gee you don't sound bitter at all...
. I told them to fuck off and find another graduate, because apparently the previous one was great, since he moved forward, wasn't he?
And you wonder why you got overlooked...
My kids and their all their friends use Instagram. That critical mass already exists in demographics other than our own (I'm assuming we're all 30-50 year men who work in IT right?)
There's obviously a good number of well documented "bad cop" cases, but there's a lot of cops, and bad cop stories make news, because it's a big violation of our trust.
I tend not to pay much attention the news, but my problem is not so much good cop/bad cop but stupid cop. Maybe I have a nostalgia goggles, but when I grew up, cops wore blue trousers and a blue shirt and shoes, like an office worker. You'd see them walking the beat and they were friendly and said hello. Now every time I see cops they have commando boots, cargo pants and a combat vest with guns and tasers and all sorts of GI Joe paraphernalia. They have visible tattoos and wrap around sunglasses and all like look like wannabe gangster thugs. It makes it hard for me to teach my kids to respect the law when the create that image for themselves.
I'd mod you up but I've already contributed to the thread. Well played.
I'm not a big fan of cops, but that was justifiable IMO. The guy clearly looks like he is advancing on the police with what looks like a rifle. I know from watching US cop shows that you generally stay in the car when pulled over. We don't do that here (Australia), I always get out, but I never advance to the police, and I'd never make it look like I was getting something out of my car or put my hand in my pockets, that is just stupid. Without the camera this story would sound like bully boys cops shooting and innocent old veteran. But the video clearly shows the cops were justified and so video works. This is a good thing.
Why does the next beast have to be a beast? Why can't the POTUS just drive around in a regular car like everyone else? Assassination? Fuck him he'll be replaced easily, that is the strength of the democracy. I say give the next POTUS a standard Tesla S and get over the crazy security theatre that treats the President like a king. He (she one day) is supposed to be a public servant not a rock star. It's time to start acting like a servant and less like a deity.
Who said they are dead? For all we know they could all be living it up on a tropical island somewhere (sure it sounds far fetched but so does every other hypothesis I've heard so far)
Recurring costs would be near zero. You already have qualified people doing regular maintenance on similar equipment they merely have to add one more item to the list. Another 10 minutes per plane every year wouldn't even show up on the ledger.
Firstly $100k seems awfully expensive for what is effectively basic satellite telemetry that you can buy from you local electronic shop for $1000. I'm pretty sure someone else could make the same thing for $10k-$20k. Secondly you don't need the expensive model for all 20k planes. Most of those jets do domestic short haul runs overland and can use existing cellular. I would imagine the requirement would only be for the thousand or so intercontinental jets flying over the 3 major oceans. So your $2Bil turns into only a few million dollars over the entire industry, or chump change to people who are used to writing out cheques in hundreds of millions of dollars. And the requirement doesn't have to be immediate, like most sensible things, you phase them in over time to make the overall cost near zero over the long term.
Mod you up! I've worked in IT all my life and recently taken up a role in a govt dept. Sure there is a lot of dead wood, and mind numbing banality, but there are some absolute guns upstairs running the show that make Slashdot seem like amateur hour. It's the height of irony for basement dwelling keyboard warriors to be knocking a high level govt official for their lack of knowledge of a specific field, when they so clearly suffer from the exact same problem when it comes to politics. Politics is a skill, maybe not one you can relate too, but just as a Politician doesn't need to know what a crankshaft is when making transport policy, they probably can get by with knowing all our cutesy little TLAs either.
How about actually, you know, try being a teacher before spouting your mouth off about how you think it should be done? Try controlling 30 kids and get back to me when you succeed. In our day, when that kid raided his dad's playboy it had possibly 3 naked women, all tastefully made up and posed with taste and no internal bits. Pretending the Internet is the same makes you sound like a cretin. All it takes is for one kid to click on the wrong thing and it can mean a lawsuit and possible criminal charges. I'm not sure how you got modded insightful for your completely uninsightful dribble, but that's where Slashdot seems to have gone lately.
The funny part is that eventually these kids will find out about evolution. Well, maybe not them, but maybe their kids or their kid's kids will, and they'll find out the hard way when society leaves them and their ignorant ways behind completely unemployable, then homeless and eventually unable to find and breeding partner and hence extinguished from the face of the earth. So fear not, evolution wins either way :)
1) are these expensive to make?
This is what I came here looking for. 100 cycles is perfectly acceptable if the battery costs 25 cents. But I guess I'll die wondering...
Reminds of a something I heard a professional gambler say. "The best way to win at a casino is to find a loser and bet against them."
The Germans invaded France in May then attempted Britain in July of 1940. Even by WW2 rapid development standards, 2 months is awfully quick to turn an unflyable race prototype into a fully fledged battle-ready fighter aircraft. This is zero chance this would have made a difference to the Battle of Britain even if found.