* and should you succede against all odds, we would all benefit.
It's possible they have a small team who has overcome all the corner cases discovered by the Xorg, XBC, and Wayland folks over the past couple decades by fundamentally re-factoring the problem into a more correct solution and have achieved excellent performance by doing so.
It's also possible that space aliens gave them this technology, but that's only slightly more likely.
I'm willing to bet that Prenda is going to get owned pretty badly.
If I were a copyright blogger I'd be interested in blogging, not putting out large sums of money (which I might not have) and being dragged through the court system to possibly be made whole in a counter-suit.
Prenda has raised the bar to exclude such blogging from people who are are unwilling to put up with that sort of abuse. Certainly kudos to those who can, but many cannot.
Too many entrenched managers who provide nothing to the company.
It's funny, I was listening to one of the economics podcasts the other day and they were talking about a study of middle managers. In teams of about 10 people, they were measuring the impact of the manager on the team. It sounded like a decently designed study and all.
What they found is that managers are effective. They increased the work product of their team members by about 10%, vs. the un-managed team.
My suspicion is that the podcast was done by people who are themselves managers, because they never once reflected on the idea that the total contribution of the manager was equal to the total contribution of one additional team member, nor considered that the manager was probably a more expensive HR unit and that the team members may have been happier being unmanaged.
My take-away: always just hire one extra worker rather than a middle manager. They're more flexible and less expensive.
That being said, companies certainly need management - people to deal with all the organizational aspects of the company. It's just that team managers seem to be the wrong place to spend money. And company management is probably something that can be refactored and spun out to small teams rather than a hierarchy.
But the laptop monitor probably has a very different pixel density as the large monitor, so even if you place it at the right height, it'll probably be difficult to use them together.
Nah, I did this for years and it was barely noticeable. One does not overlap windows between screens.
When dealing with a worker as expensive as a programmer, getting a second monitor of the right size, or even go all they way up to three, pays off extremely quickly.
Absolutely. The best I've seen is one big 16:10 in the center with a pair of 16:10's vertically on the side. But I don't think there's a laptop that can power this - perhaps one of the new ones with a PCIe port on the side could do it with an external video card box.
No, because you use ion engines on the tug which are tremendously more efficient per launch weight than chemical thrusters.
This isn't a strategy for an "OMG - it's going to wipe us out next week!" asteroid - it's for ones where the orbit shows a near hit of Earth fairly far into the future. Small gravitational tugs over a long period of time are all that's required.
Now, ideally those asteroids can be brought into a useful orbit where they can be mined for more mass to deflect more and more asteroids. In the mid-term perhaps only the ion engines need to be sent up from Earth.
Tyson isn't inventing this - it's a well-accepted strategy in the community that he's trying to explain to a larger audience.
The JVM might be wonderful but, empirically, the browser plugin is a pile of junk, at least in terms of code quality.
Could somebody, e.g. Apache, incubate a project to replace the Oracle Java web plugin? I don't use Windows but imagine if each company was willing to pay $2/user/year for a better plugin for their mission critical apps. The IcedTea plugin on Linux seems to be in a decent state these days, after quite a rough start - perhaps it could be a basis for a new Windows Java plugin.
Selfishly, I hope Mozilla never adopts WebKit because both the Gecko and WebKit teams tend to stagnate when nobody is out-classing them, but they both have strong competitive instincts and everybody benefits from that.
And, frankly, I think the aesthetics of Gecko are much nicer on Linux than Webkit. I use Chromium for Google Apps because I pretty much have to, but the text layout and rendering really has room for improvement. I do too much work in a browser all day to use that as a primary tool until the necessary work is completed on my platform.
Aiding the enemy doesn't have to be a deliberate choice. You don't have to say "today I will aid the enemy."
By that standard, George W. Bush should be locked up for life - he may not have intended to launch the most effective recruiting campaign for Al Qu'aeda ever thought possible, but he surely did anyway.
What? No. Anal gang rape prison is disproportionate to being too dumb to hash passwords.
This should be a simple matter of strong liability for misdeeds. With actual liability, website owners would be strongly incentivized to take out insurance, and those insurance companies would be strongly incentivized to see that their insured has good security practices.
If you have to mandate something, make it displaying their compliance certificate on their website, preferably in a machine-readable format. But even that is pushing it, because what would the consequences be?
Financial incentives are plenty here - there's no need for putting people in cages because they're bad at running a website.
If you have a popular blog, there's no need to pay for network backup anymore - just drop enough 5MB blocks encrypted and with decent FEC to each of your readers. If you ever have a failure, just throw up a basic page with a funny cat picture and start restoring from your distributed backup.
Except now the various F-35's have essentially different airframes.
Ostensibly this means that the F-35 is a failure, in relation to its original intent. Still, though, if R&D is limited to one basic group of planes, then perhaps there could still be overall savings, even with a higher per-unit cost. Programs aren't limited in cost to the per-unit acquisition cost - there is at least R&D to consider in addition to maintenance and supply.
The bigger trouble, though, is that these things don't seem to be very good at anything. For instance, the -B model, which can do VTOL for the USMC can't do that at austere locations. The USMC says it will have to pour special high-strength concrete pads for F-35 VTOL to work. OK, it's smaller than an air strip, but by time you secure an air base, get a concrete pumper in there, and let it cure, the Marines' job should be well over for a given operation.
The Marines should use an Osprey if they need VTOL. The Navy can get them close enough and the Air Force can provide actual air combat.
I say all this in light of the USG needing even more war planes, while it is threatening to cut Meals on Wheels, heating assistance, and air traffic controllers today instead of discarding unneeded weapons platforms.
If the matter on the outer edge of the disc is spinning near the speed of light, and if that matter is gravitationally bound to the rest of the disc and the black hole itself, then eventually the outer edge of the disc should act as a brake on the entire black hole's spin rate (because it can't exceed c). If it were to experience additional imparted momentum, what would happen to spacetime at the edge? I'm curious what the frame-dragging implications of this are.
Is this simply a matter of the amount of energy needed to approach c is so large that even galactic-sized energies aren't significant?
Encryption software needs to be inspectable and verifiable in order to be trusted with anything worth protecting. Closed-source software burned into the firmware of a USB drive does not meet that requirement.
That said, somebody make a programmable USB drive with open source encryption that can be flashed to it (probably with a fused write protect) and *that* would be a compelling product.
In fact, some models consider the effect of that humidity not going down over night and show it has (or can have; depends on location and replenishment) the effect of drying an area out, cause the water vapor doesnt get reabsorbed into the local environment. IE, desertification.
And in other models, a drying atmosphere causes a drying biosphere, because of, y'know, equilibrium. Seeing how the Sahara has desertified during the period of time that saw massive ice accretion on Antarctica (3+ miles now!) during a long-term cooling trend, those models have a decent explanation and evidence.
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* and should you succede against all odds, we would all benefit.
It's possible they have a small team who has overcome all the corner cases discovered by the Xorg, XBC, and Wayland folks over the past couple decades by fundamentally re-factoring the problem into a more correct solution and have achieved excellent performance by doing so.
It's also possible that space aliens gave them this technology, but that's only slightly more likely.
I'm willing to bet that Prenda is going to get owned pretty badly.
If I were a copyright blogger I'd be interested in blogging, not putting out large sums of money (which I might not have) and being dragged through the court system to possibly be made whole in a counter-suit.
Prenda has raised the bar to exclude such blogging from people who are are unwilling to put up with that sort of abuse. Certainly kudos to those who can, but many cannot.
Isn't what the summary says exactly what people have always said?
Yeah, the summary could have been written by anybody who put Dogs Decoded into their Watch Instantly queue (great show, recommended).
Maybe the paper was more interesting but the submitter failed to make the sale.
Bzzt. Subspace communicator. And error correction algorithms are still required (but perhaps good enough, like modern hard drives).
That is not how the world works.
The chilling effect has already been imposed. It is how the world works.
It's not how the world ought to work, but somewhere along the line we decided that the lawyers should run society, and the results are predictable.
Most judges are former litigators. Seems like a conflict of interest to me.
Too many entrenched managers who provide nothing to the company.
It's funny, I was listening to one of the economics podcasts the other day and they were talking about a study of middle managers. In teams of about 10 people, they were measuring the impact of the manager on the team. It sounded like a decently designed study and all.
What they found is that managers are effective. They increased the work product of their team members by about 10%, vs. the un-managed team.
My suspicion is that the podcast was done by people who are themselves managers, because they never once reflected on the idea that the total contribution of the manager was equal to the total contribution of one additional team member, nor considered that the manager was probably a more expensive HR unit and that the team members may have been happier being unmanaged.
My take-away: always just hire one extra worker rather than a middle manager. They're more flexible and less expensive.
That being said, companies certainly need management - people to deal with all the organizational aspects of the company. It's just that team managers seem to be the wrong place to spend money. And company management is probably something that can be refactored and spun out to small teams rather than a hierarchy.
But the laptop monitor probably has a very different pixel density as the large monitor, so even if you place it at the right height, it'll probably be difficult to use them together.
Nah, I did this for years and it was barely noticeable. One does not overlap windows between screens.
When dealing with a worker as expensive as a programmer, getting a second monitor of the right size, or even go all they way up to three, pays off extremely quickly.
Absolutely. The best I've seen is one big 16:10 in the center with a pair of 16:10's vertically on the side. But I don't think there's a laptop that can power this - perhaps one of the new ones with a PCIe port on the side could do it with an external video card box.
The laptop screen is still useful for a secondary monitor - think tool palettes, documentation, log file, etc.
Just be sure to logically position it to match where it is physically with the DE's display management tools.
No, because you use ion engines on the tug which are tremendously more efficient per launch weight than chemical thrusters.
This isn't a strategy for an "OMG - it's going to wipe us out next week!" asteroid - it's for ones where the orbit shows a near hit of Earth fairly far into the future. Small gravitational tugs over a long period of time are all that's required.
Now, ideally those asteroids can be brought into a useful orbit where they can be mined for more mass to deflect more and more asteroids. In the mid-term perhaps only the ion engines need to be sent up from Earth.
Tyson isn't inventing this - it's a well-accepted strategy in the community that he's trying to explain to a larger audience.
It's not God who opens a hell mouth to claim payment on his deals. But, yes, the other guy is fallible.
The JVM might be wonderful but, empirically, the browser plugin is a pile of junk, at least in terms of code quality.
Could somebody, e.g. Apache, incubate a project to replace the Oracle Java web plugin? I don't use Windows but imagine if each company was willing to pay $2/user/year for a better plugin for their mission critical apps. The IcedTea plugin on Linux seems to be in a decent state these days, after quite a rough start - perhaps it could be a basis for a new Windows Java plugin.
Here's a pretty good discussion of the issue.
Selfishly, I hope Mozilla never adopts WebKit because both the Gecko and WebKit teams tend to stagnate when nobody is out-classing them, but they both have strong competitive instincts and everybody benefits from that.
And, frankly, I think the aesthetics of Gecko are much nicer on Linux than Webkit. I use Chromium for Google Apps because I pretty much have to, but the text layout and rendering really has room for improvement. I do too much work in a browser all day to use that as a primary tool until the necessary work is completed on my platform.
Aiding the enemy doesn't have to be a deliberate choice. You don't have to say "today I will aid the enemy."
By that standard, George W. Bush should be locked up for life - he may not have intended to launch the most effective recruiting campaign for Al Qu'aeda ever thought possible, but he surely did anyway.
Blowback is a bitch.
[Citation needed]
Hey, he knows things the State Department doesn't even know. I'm sure he can't tell us.
"But it only says they have to try, not actually do it."
- Failed 5th Grade Reading Comprehension
What? No. Anal gang rape prison is disproportionate to being too dumb to hash passwords.
This should be a simple matter of strong liability for misdeeds. With actual liability, website owners would be strongly incentivized to take out insurance, and those insurance companies would be strongly incentivized to see that their insured has good security practices.
If you have to mandate something, make it displaying their compliance certificate on their website, preferably in a machine-readable format. But even that is pushing it, because what would the consequences be?
Financial incentives are plenty here - there's no need for putting people in cages because they're bad at running a website.
If you have a popular blog, there's no need to pay for network backup anymore - just drop enough 5MB blocks encrypted and with decent FEC to each of your readers. If you ever have a failure, just throw up a basic page with a funny cat picture and start restoring from your distributed backup.
Except now the various F-35's have essentially different airframes.
Ostensibly this means that the F-35 is a failure, in relation to its original intent. Still, though, if R&D is limited to one basic group of planes, then perhaps there could still be overall savings, even with a higher per-unit cost. Programs aren't limited in cost to the per-unit acquisition cost - there is at least R&D to consider in addition to maintenance and supply.
The bigger trouble, though, is that these things don't seem to be very good at anything. For instance, the -B model, which can do VTOL for the USMC can't do that at austere locations. The USMC says it will have to pour special high-strength concrete pads for F-35 VTOL to work. OK, it's smaller than an air strip, but by time you secure an air base, get a concrete pumper in there, and let it cure, the Marines' job should be well over for a given operation.
The Marines should use an Osprey if they need VTOL. The Navy can get them close enough and the Air Force can provide actual air combat.
I say all this in light of the USG needing even more war planes, while it is threatening to cut Meals on Wheels, heating assistance, and air traffic controllers today instead of discarding unneeded weapons platforms.
If the matter on the outer edge of the disc is spinning near the speed of light, and if that matter is gravitationally bound to the rest of the disc and the black hole itself, then eventually the outer edge of the disc should act as a brake on the entire black hole's spin rate (because it can't exceed c). If it were to experience additional imparted momentum, what would happen to spacetime at the edge? I'm curious what the frame-dragging implications of this are.
Is this simply a matter of the amount of energy needed to approach c is so large that even galactic-sized energies aren't significant?
Encryption software needs to be inspectable and verifiable in order to be trusted with anything worth protecting. Closed-source software burned into the firmware of a USB drive does not meet that requirement.
That said, somebody make a programmable USB drive with open source encryption that can be flashed to it (probably with a fused write protect) and *that* would be a compelling product.
In fact, some models consider the effect of that humidity not going down over night and show it has (or can have; depends on location and replenishment) the effect of drying an area out, cause the water vapor doesnt get reabsorbed into the local environment. IE, desertification.
And in other models, a drying atmosphere causes a drying biosphere, because of, y'know, equilibrium. Seeing how the Sahara has desertified during the period of time that saw massive ice accretion on Antarctica (3+ miles now!) during a long-term cooling trend, those models have a decent explanation and evidence.
Keep telling yourself that if it makes it easier for you to sleep at night.
But the Supreme Court will protect us from the Federal Government because it's ... oh, wait.
The article seems incomplete without at least mentioning the Open Invention Network.
C'mon, even an accidental Teltack crash would cause more damage than that.