$10,000 wouldn't cover any of those things listed. And I agree with the increasing poverty thing and already have ideas how to make money from it should it ever be implemented, so don't care if it is or isn't.
Who the fuck complains about a company not letting some random outsiders touch their property?
About twenty years ago, I was visiting Seattle and told my friends I wanted to get a picture in front of Microsoft. We were met by three cars of security guards with flashy lights and asked to leave. I got my picture just before they showed up.
I raise turkeys. The heritage breeds can fly, but they are much smaller and lighter than the kind you eat for Thanksgiving. And by fly, I mean flap their wings enough to jump over a 2m fence.
I do astronomy as a hobby and am very familiar with large numbers, math and all things sciency and it's still still all abstract to me. The only other reasonable comparison is how many times further Pluto is than Neptune (and I don't know). Unless you are an astronomer, what would a Earth or Pluto distance reference do for you exactly other than trying to impress people. And if this is all that you're going for, just make up numbers. No one is going to check or even remember what you said. Pluto is 112,765,532,001,875,993 times as far from me right now as the grocery store. There, now you still know nothing but can look smarter to people who are impressed by such things.
I got a GPS for my car ten years ago and haven't looked at a road mileage sign in a decade. What would be the point of renumbering all the road signs if we're all going to have self driving cars next year. Other than being a jobs program?
The biggest problem is that cities are laid out in mile grids, so saying 'go 4 miles' is the same as saying go four stop lights. Same goes for freeway ramps. Seven miles - take the 7th offramp. Saying get off in 11.2km would be very confusing for most people and necessarily pointless.
Scaled integer math is still very common. I still use it regularly, especially with angle formats. My favorite job ever was writing a 56bit integer math package. Had to keep the precision of a 429bus after numerous operations. I never checked, but it was probably higher precision than IEEE754. Since the range of the numbers was known, some of the mantissa bits could be used for the characteristic part and it was very fast, even on low end hardware.
This code has been available for a long time. I downloaded it and got it to run in the simulator about ten years ago. I think I probably even read about it first here on slashdot. It was on some guy's website. He even built a copy of the original hardware.
It's not always about 1% more performance. For a lot of specialized MCU's, there is no other language. Assembly is not that difficult and for control systems, I've never seen complex code. It's always:
start:;; start of frame
if overrun == 1 ; check for frame overrun
goto frame_err
overrun = 1
read value1 ; read all data at start of 10ms frame
read value 2
...
read valuen
output1 = 2*value1
...
outputn = 4.17*valuen
write output1, output2,..., outputn
wait for interrupt
read radaltswitch
if radaltswitch == 1
call procradalt
overrun = 0 ; clear frame dirty bit
for(;;) ; wait for interrupt to return to start:
Not much optimization to be done. Not a difficult piece of software, even in assembly
That's the only reason I do computers anymore. The new stuff is not so fun, even with arduino and rpi. I recently (re)started with my old atari computer. Still works after 36 years. Reading the retro sites, I never realized how much it was targeted toward gaming.
Slashdot Mirror
And if China gets 4x more for the same amount of money.
$1million x 200million people = 200trillion dollars. That's about four times the total amount of money on Earth
What happens to someone with an income of $20k/year but owns a million dollars of assets. Do they get confiscated?
I've never been forced to work for Robert Greenstein.
$10,000 wouldn't cover any of those things listed. And I agree with the increasing poverty thing and already have ideas how to make money from it should it ever be implemented, so don't care if it is or isn't.
Who the fuck complains about a company not letting some random outsiders touch their property?
About twenty years ago, I was visiting Seattle and told my friends I wanted to get a picture in front of Microsoft. We were met by three cars of security guards with flashy lights and asked to leave. I got my picture just before they showed up.
The horror
Ask any child of five. And they could have told you this was going to be a problem. I had one of these when I was five and learned a lot about solar.
Same here in Arizona. I only need the generator for pumping water or occasional heavy power tool. Maybe 4L/month.
I raise turkeys. The heritage breeds can fly, but they are much smaller and lighter than the kind you eat for Thanksgiving. And by fly, I mean flap their wings enough to jump over a 2m fence.
But Asians are counted as white, only sometimes as asian, depending on the point you are trying to make.
50% of the population has an IQ less than 100. When are these companies going to start hiring more dumb people?
people and animals are squishy bugs
I believe the appropriate description is
ugly bags of mostly water
I do astronomy as a hobby and am very familiar with large numbers, math and all things sciency and it's still still all abstract to me. The only other reasonable comparison is how many times further Pluto is than Neptune (and I don't know). Unless you are an astronomer, what would a Earth or Pluto distance reference do for you exactly other than trying to impress people. And if this is all that you're going for, just make up numbers. No one is going to check or even remember what you said. Pluto is 112,765,532,001,875,993 times as far from me right now as the grocery store. There, now you still know nothing but can look smarter to people who are impressed by such things.
No, but it is SI. And pedanticism is what it's all about, not usefulness or practicality.
AFAIK, we don't have to tell the government our weight in the US. Dr's always record it in Kg for personal use.
The biggest problem is that cities are laid out in mile grids, so saying 'go 4 miles' is the same as saying go four stop lights. Same goes for freeway ramps. Seven miles - take the 7th offramp. Saying get off in 11.2km would be very confusing for most people and necessarily pointless.
processed foods have provably been harmful to our health
Maybe. But uncooked rice sucks.
I worked on a system with about a dozen different angle formats, depending on who was using the data...SAF8, SAF11, SAF13,...
It's commonly called scaled integer. Except with angles, then it's SAF, for scaled angle format. Wraparound @360 is handled very cleanly.
Scaled integer math is still very common. I still use it regularly, especially with angle formats. My favorite job ever was writing a 56bit integer math package. Had to keep the precision of a 429bus after numerous operations. I never checked, but it was probably higher precision than IEEE754. Since the range of the numbers was known, some of the mantissa bits could be used for the characteristic part and it was very fast, even on low end hardware.
Not really. You need a lot of altitude. Acceleration from gravity is about 60% that on the surface as far out as geosynchronous orbit.
This code has been available for a long time. I downloaded it and got it to run in the simulator about ten years ago. I think I probably even read about it first here on slashdot. It was on some guy's website. He even built a copy of the original hardware.
start: ;; start of frame
if overrun == 1 ; check for frame overrun
goto frame_err
overrun = 1
read value1 ; read all data at start of 10ms frame
read value 2
read valuen
output1 = 2*value1
outputn = 4.17*valuen
write output1, output2, ..., outputn
wait for interrupt
read radaltswitch
if radaltswitch == 1
call procradalt
overrun = 0 ; clear frame dirty bit
for(;;) ; wait for interrupt to return to start:
Not much optimization to be done. Not a difficult piece of software, even in assembly
Reminds me of the old days..
That's the only reason I do computers anymore. The new stuff is not so fun, even with arduino and rpi. I recently (re)started with my old atari computer. Still works after 36 years. Reading the retro sites, I never realized how much it was targeted toward gaming.