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Tech Vs. Business?
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I think the single biggest reason for the conflict between Business and Techies is one of motivation.
Those on the business side are typically there to make stupid amounts of money. The technology is there to make money, end of story.
On the other side of the coin, is the techies who are there to do "cool shit" and generally have fun and learn. While the money is nice, and they usually wouldn't do the work for free, it's not the primary motivation.
This leads to the natural collision of worldviews. The techies want to do cool stuff, get it done right, and then maybe sell it. The business folk want to get it out the door for as littl emoney as possible.
Your vote counts just fine for selecting the electors from your own state. Lest you forget, the United States is a Republic made up of 50 states that retain their sovereignty. One of the points behind the Electoral College and US Senate is to prevent the domination of small/sparsely populated states by large/heavily populated ones.
So some people's opinions and votes are worth more than others? Why should a person's vote in California be worth any less than a person's vote in Wyoming? Funny way to run a democracy.
This country needs a deep cleaning of its nanny infection. Then we need the equivalent of mouse traps or prophylactic rings of poison around the legal system so they can't come back and re-infect us.
Replace "nanny" with "lawyer" and that's about right. IMHO, all this dumbing down and what not is due to people's fear of liability. They don't want to be the one left holding the bag when some moron blows his fingers off. It's pure CYA rather than nannyism.
Sadly, this lawsuit fettish is starting to invade Canada too... Though thankfully the courts are still somewhat sane.
I'll do you one simpler... I had a router that needed to be rebooted on a daily basis to be reliable... I wound up just getting a lamp timer (like what you'd use to turn lamps on and off on schedule) and set it to power the router off at 4am, and power it back on at 4:30.
Yeah it was ugly as sin, but worked well enough on a student budget.
It's sad, but I almost look forward to the time I spend sitting in an airline seat.. (I fly roughly 100 000 miles a year for work).. means people can't phone me. I've been on call 24/7 for the past two and a half years, and it's a testament to our product that I have kept my sanity. Maybe 2 or so middle of the night calls a week.
Debris further away from the sun is moving faster than debris closer, Really? Kepler's laws of planetary motion (specifically the third law) state that the closer an object is to the sun, the faster the orbit. Only if you consider angular velocity. In strict distance traveled per unit time, the further away you are, faster you are moving.
This is why in orbital mechanics you add velocity to allow something to catch up to you, and reduce velocity if you want to catch up to something. It's totally counter-intuitive, but in the grand scheme, that's how it works.
If you want to try to persuade them that they are wrong, with logic not violence, fine.
Seriously, do you have ANY idea how ironic this statement is?
Just a few examples of how Christians "persuade" people that they are wrong:
The Crusades
The Spanish Inquisition
Jewish Blood Libel
Forced Conversion of Conquered Peoples
Abortion Clinic Bombings / Murders of Doctors
Well, here goes pissing into the wind.:P
The trouble with your examples are that they have very little to do with Christianity in and of itself. In nearly every case you mentioned, the tragedy/horror is due to the quest for power, whether it be those of the reigning monarch of the time, or of the Pope in Rome. Religion was simply abused and perverted to suit ambitions of those in power.
If you actually go and read the Gospels, you will see that there is no basis for any of this tripe. The authors of the writings repeatedly tell stories of Jesus reaching out to the outcasts of the society at the time, having fun (water into wine anyone?), and generally rejecting all the existing forms of discrimination and exclusion at the time.
Throughout history, religion has been an extremely powerful force, and tragically it has often been abused. However, do not confuse these actions with what it means to be "Christian".
Typically only a small fraction of a Museum's collection is ever put on display, or even ever looked at. There are a lot of researchers who spend their entire careers doing field work in the basements of museums, rather than getting dirty out in the jungles or deserts.
With objects such as these, despite how rare they are, the knowledge contained within them is already well known. There are very few things that I don't think should be privately owned... The Rosetta Stone comes to mind, as would unpublished works of any of these great minds.
Never mind that nice, big 10"x6"? metal plate on both the front of the vehicle with a unique identifier string on it... why bother with this RFID crap when you can just read the plates?
Uh... if this was possible, our planet would never have existed. Cosmic rays whack our atmosphere all the time with far more energy than the LHC could hope to generate. Even if this causes a momentary microscopic black hole, it obviously doesn't matter, since we're still here.
Ok...I can see ineffective...but, unethical?? What does biofuel have to do with being ethical??? You got me on that one....
Other people have mentioned it already, but my ethical objections are primarily related to the fact that the increased demand for grains and other crops has caused the price of those staples to approach their equivalent energy value in fuel. Basically, last I checked, the price for corn was now worth roughly what that corn would be worth if converted into fuel. While this is obviously good for the farmers that produce these crops, I would argue that it's not benificial for the greater population.
The first and most obvious example where this causes issues is in terms of forign aid, such as the world food program and the like. Now some below have said "well maybe dumping cheap food on them is bad?" and yeah, that's true (Look at what's happening to Mexican corn farmers now that the final protections have been ended for their local corn industry), a lot of places (Darfur, Chad, Etheopia (back in the day) simply have no capacity to grow enough of their own food right now, and/or may be tempted to switch to cash crops that maximize personal profit, but don't nessisarily work to feed their populations.
This linking also has an effect locally to the rest of us. As this growth continues, we're going to see all our food prices increase. Even if the product is not corn based (or soy, or canola, or whatever other fuel crop), the rise in price of the fuel crops will shift demand for other grains, and raise their prices as well.
In short, the net effect is that the cost of food, for everyone, will become much more strongly linked to the price of oil/energy.
While I've always thought that using cropland to produce biofuels is unethical and ineffective. On the other hand, small scale production can make a huge amount of sense.
For example, the biodiesel I run in my Jetta is made locally at a rendering plant out of waste fats. So, not only am I being a little more carbon neutral compared to buying fossil fuels that have been transported long distances, I'm also keeping what would otherwise be wastes from going into the landfill.
Just prior to the "Return To Flight" mission after the Columbia mission, I had the opportunity to talk to two retired shuttle astronauts, one of whom had been involved in the first Hubble servicing mission. I asked them whether given the opportunity, they'd be willing to fly another mission to the Hubble even without the post-Columbia modifications. To a man, they both said "Absolutely, In a heartbeat." In their eyes, the Hubble was one of the few truly useful missions performed by the space shuttle.
I've bricked hardware using software. I was testing some telecom equipment at one point, and if I exercised the firmware just right, it would cause a bus contention and thus cause a couple of the chips to burn out their bus drivers and, in two cases, release the magic smoke. Fortunately we caught in testing, after only destroying 4 copies of the hardware.:P
I have to disagree on that. I've pulled psk31 seemingly out of nowhere with good copy.
I know of at least one person who was setting up to do psk31, opened their laptop, tuned the radio, then saw that the psk software was already decoding an ongoing QSO... without hooking up the audio cable. Turns out, the software was pulling the audio off the laptop's built in microphone, which was in turn picking up the audio from the radio's speaker. That's how rugged this mode is.
It's very simple. They had the opportunity to put on a panel cleaning system that may or may not be effective, or launch another scientific instrument. The weight and power budget did not allow for both. They made the right choice.
Case in point is the so-called Gimli Glider. Back in 1983, an Air Canada 767 ran out of fuel, at 41000 feet, over Manitoba. Due to the Ram Air Turbine, the pilot was able to successfully pull off an unpowered landing at a former airport in Gimli Manitoba. By a sheer stroke of luck, the pilot was also an accomplished glider pilot, which is probably what kept the incident from turning into a tragedy.
FYI, you're never on battery on a plane. While power supplies are limited, it's generated by the engines, either directly or by bleed air. (I can't remember which). Also, all modern aircraft have an air startable APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) on board that can be used to power the hydraulics and onboard electrics when the aircraft is on the ground, or should the main engines fail during flight.
Now when something goes wrong, 133 server apps go down all at once! I know, Linux is stable, but a machine hosting 133 apps just sounds like a recipe for a molly-guard type disaster.
These are machines that don't break, period. We're talking the types of machines that run the major banking systems of the world and the like. They simply do not go down. In this situation, if one of the 133 apps buggers up, it's only that VM that's shot. You just nuke it and restart it, the rest of the machine just keeps ticking along.
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In a Puritan society such as the United States where the human body is generally seen as filthy, this is what we get. Besides, THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
I challenge you to find a baby that hasn't seen two naked breasts. :)
I, for one, welcome our new moosen overlords.
Just stay klear of der mouds. Møøse bites kan be pretty nasti...
I think the single biggest reason for the conflict between Business and Techies is one of motivation. Those on the business side are typically there to make stupid amounts of money. The technology is there to make money, end of story. On the other side of the coin, is the techies who are there to do "cool shit" and generally have fun and learn. While the money is nice, and they usually wouldn't do the work for free, it's not the primary motivation. This leads to the natural collision of worldviews. The techies want to do cool stuff, get it done right, and then maybe sell it. The business folk want to get it out the door for as littl emoney as possible.
Your vote counts just fine for selecting the electors from your own state. Lest you forget, the United States is a Republic made up of 50 states that retain their sovereignty. One of the points behind the Electoral College and US Senate is to prevent the domination of small/sparsely populated states by large/heavily populated ones.
So some people's opinions and votes are worth more than others? Why should a person's vote in California be worth any less than a person's vote in Wyoming? Funny way to run a democracy.
This country needs a deep cleaning of its nanny infection. Then we need the equivalent of mouse traps or prophylactic rings of poison around the legal system so they can't come back and re-infect us.
Replace "nanny" with "lawyer" and that's about right. IMHO, all this dumbing down and what not is due to people's fear of liability. They don't want to be the one left holding the bag when some moron blows his fingers off. It's pure CYA rather than nannyism. Sadly, this lawsuit fettish is starting to invade Canada too... Though thankfully the courts are still somewhat sane.
How does the corporation get the software to it's end users without distributing it?
If it's only done internally within the corporation, then it's not re-distribution. Redistribution implies selling/giving the software to customers.
A good sacking would do.
Can we mod the editors out of office?
The editors responsible for this story have just been sacked....
I'll do you one simpler... I had a router that needed to be rebooted on a daily basis to be reliable... I wound up just getting a lamp timer (like what you'd use to turn lamps on and off on schedule) and set it to power the router off at 4am, and power it back on at 4:30. Yeah it was ugly as sin, but worked well enough on a student budget.
It's sad, but I almost look forward to the time I spend sitting in an airline seat.. (I fly roughly 100 000 miles a year for work).. means people can't phone me. I've been on call 24/7 for the past two and a half years, and it's a testament to our product that I have kept my sanity. Maybe 2 or so middle of the night calls a week.
GPS satellites aren't 26000km up, that would be geo-synchronous (roughly). GPS satellites make two orbits per day, putting them roughly 20000km up.
Admitedly, the difference between 26000 and 20200km isn't all that great, but I felt like being pedantic this morning. :)
This is why in orbital mechanics you add velocity to allow something to catch up to you, and reduce velocity if you want to catch up to something. It's totally counter-intuitive, but in the grand scheme, that's how it works.
Seriously, do you have ANY idea how ironic this statement is?
Just a few examples of how Christians "persuade" people that they are wrong:
- The Crusades
- The Spanish Inquisition
- Jewish Blood Libel
- Forced Conversion of Conquered Peoples
- Abortion Clinic Bombings / Murders of Doctors
Well, here goes pissing into the wind.The trouble with your examples are that they have very little to do with Christianity in and of itself. In nearly every case you mentioned, the tragedy/horror is due to the quest for power, whether it be those of the reigning monarch of the time, or of the Pope in Rome. Religion was simply abused and perverted to suit ambitions of those in power.
If you actually go and read the Gospels, you will see that there is no basis for any of this tripe. The authors of the writings repeatedly tell stories of Jesus reaching out to the outcasts of the society at the time, having fun (water into wine anyone?), and generally rejecting all the existing forms of discrimination and exclusion at the time.
Throughout history, religion has been an extremely powerful force, and tragically it has often been abused. However, do not confuse these actions with what it means to be "Christian".
Typically only a small fraction of a Museum's collection is ever put on display, or even ever looked at. There are a lot of researchers who spend their entire careers doing field work in the basements of museums, rather than getting dirty out in the jungles or deserts.
With objects such as these, despite how rare they are, the knowledge contained within them is already well known. There are very few things that I don't think should be privately owned... The Rosetta Stone comes to mind, as would unpublished works of any of these great minds.
Never mind that nice, big 10"x6"? metal plate on both the front of the vehicle with a unique identifier string on it... why bother with this RFID crap when you can just read the plates?
Uh... if this was possible, our planet would never have existed. Cosmic rays whack our atmosphere all the time with far more energy than the LHC could hope to generate. Even if this causes a momentary microscopic black hole, it obviously doesn't matter, since we're still here.
Other people have mentioned it already, but my ethical objections are primarily related to the fact that the increased demand for grains and other crops has caused the price of those staples to approach their equivalent energy value in fuel. Basically, last I checked, the price for corn was now worth roughly what that corn would be worth if converted into fuel. While this is obviously good for the farmers that produce these crops, I would argue that it's not benificial for the greater population.
The first and most obvious example where this causes issues is in terms of forign aid, such as the world food program and the like. Now some below have said "well maybe dumping cheap food on them is bad?" and yeah, that's true (Look at what's happening to Mexican corn farmers now that the final protections have been ended for their local corn industry), a lot of places (Darfur, Chad, Etheopia (back in the day) simply have no capacity to grow enough of their own food right now, and/or may be tempted to switch to cash crops that maximize personal profit, but don't nessisarily work to feed their populations.
This linking also has an effect locally to the rest of us. As this growth continues, we're going to see all our food prices increase. Even if the product is not corn based (or soy, or canola, or whatever other fuel crop), the rise in price of the fuel crops will shift demand for other grains, and raise their prices as well.
In short, the net effect is that the cost of food, for everyone, will become much more strongly linked to the price of oil/energy.
While I've always thought that using cropland to produce biofuels is unethical and ineffective. On the other hand, small scale production can make a huge amount of sense.
For example, the biodiesel I run in my Jetta is made locally at a rendering plant out of waste fats. So, not only am I being a little more carbon neutral compared to buying fossil fuels that have been transported long distances, I'm also keeping what would otherwise be wastes from going into the landfill.
Just prior to the "Return To Flight" mission after the Columbia mission, I had the opportunity to talk to two retired shuttle astronauts, one of whom had been involved in the first Hubble servicing mission. I asked them whether given the opportunity, they'd be willing to fly another mission to the Hubble even without the post-Columbia modifications. To a man, they both said "Absolutely, In a heartbeat." In their eyes, the Hubble was one of the few truly useful missions performed by the space shuttle.
I've bricked hardware using software. I was testing some telecom equipment at one point, and if I exercised the firmware just right, it would cause a bus contention and thus cause a couple of the chips to burn out their bus drivers and, in two cases, release the magic smoke. Fortunately we caught in testing, after only destroying 4 copies of the hardware. :P
I have to disagree on that. I've pulled psk31 seemingly out of nowhere with good copy.
I know of at least one person who was setting up to do psk31, opened their laptop, tuned the radio, then saw that the psk software was already decoding an ongoing QSO... without hooking up the audio cable. Turns out, the software was pulling the audio off the laptop's built in microphone, which was in turn picking up the audio from the radio's speaker. That's how rugged this mode is.
It's very simple. They had the opportunity to put on a panel cleaning system that may or may not be effective, or launch another scientific instrument. The weight and power budget did not allow for both. They made the right choice.
Case in point is the so-called Gimli Glider. Back in 1983, an Air Canada 767 ran out of fuel, at 41000 feet, over Manitoba. Due to the Ram Air Turbine, the pilot was able to successfully pull off an unpowered landing at a former airport in Gimli Manitoba. By a sheer stroke of luck, the pilot was also an accomplished glider pilot, which is probably what kept the incident from turning into a tragedy.
FYI, you're never on battery on a plane. While power supplies are limited, it's generated by the engines, either directly or by bleed air. (I can't remember which). Also, all modern aircraft have an air startable APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) on board that can be used to power the hydraulics and onboard electrics when the aircraft is on the ground, or should the main engines fail during flight.
These are machines that don't break, period. We're talking the types of machines that run the major banking systems of the world and the like. They simply do not go down. In this situation, if one of the 133 apps buggers up, it's only that VM that's shot. You just nuke it and restart it, the rest of the machine just keeps ticking along.