What sane king or queen would seriously want to associate themselves with the hucksters at Mayflower Enterprises?
They've as much chance of getting you to the New World and back as Delft Pottery Barn.
Look at their Sunday sermons, it's mostly full of invitations to contribute cash and otherwise "contribute"...
On the overall cost and technology, it's suspiciously thin, apart from saying it can pretty much be done with available, commercial technology. Kind of. Yeah right.
I'd love to go to the the New World, but I don't have a spare 200,000 lying around, (the rough cost of each previous landing). My guess is few people do.
“We’re much more dependent on electricity now than we were in 1859,” explains Neil Smith, an emerging-risks researcher at Lloyd’s and co-author of the report. “The same event today could have a huge financial impact” — which the insurer pegs at up to $2.6 trillion for an especially severe storm. (To put that in context, Hurricane Sandy caused about $68 billion in damage.)
(To put that in context, $2.6 trillion is about two years worth of federal borrowing. So in other words, don't sweat it. Congress won't bat an eye heaving it onto the debt.)
So in the near future when people watch sporting events on a tablet in their laps, live, they can just touch on the athlete and pull up this or that link, I suppose.
Funny, I thought dynamic tagging like that had already been invented.
because the shipping company doesn't worry at all about overloaded containers or ships at all.
Why should they? They're insured.
Except insurance companies don't treat this like you insuring your car. Similarly they're not going to insure a $20 million diamond for shipment without making sure you send some guards along with it.
So, shame on them for not requiring weighing of containers. It's also possible they did but there was bribery going on on the loading docks.
Finally, if this software is worth a rat's ass, it should make estimates on the mass of the ship based on how long it takes to tilt back and forth vs. wave height and period. Initial weight entered by hand should just be a jumping off point.
Actually, it's not hard to analyze one way or the other. Are earthquakes increasing in magnitude or quantity beyond normal statistical variance?
One would have to use the same type of sensor data for equivalence over decades. This is how they know breast implants are safe, and vitamins in healthy people are absolutely useless, both decade+ long studies with over a hundred thousand people.
Once an invrease in quakes is detected, then you can explore why.
By the way, it is fine to decide a certain risk is worth it. Massive pollution controls during the industrial revolution would have cost many times more lives than it would have saved.
The government granted immunity already to phone companies feeding them 100% of phone calls without a warrant already.
Except...government cannot grant immunity to unconstitutional activity it has no authority to do to begin with. Like me granting immunity for my dog to bite you.
ANCHORY, AMHS, NUCLEON, TRAFFICTHIEF imagine two dozen more, which you will have to, because Slashdot's asinine caps filter prevents them. Then imagine the following in all caps for sarcastic effect:
Better to teach programmers to make the effort to write test fixtures to exercise the hell out of things.
Why, for the past six months, does YouTube and everything else using that video player system (flash?) crash when doing a jump, about 1 out of 10 times? A simple fixture clicking different spots randomly every 5 to 1/10th second should make finding problems easy. When it can survive overnight, then you can relax a little.
Have a deadline for new features or bug fixes for that week.
Proper engineering (engineering is about how you build things, not about just crafting the thing itself) typically should look like this:
- Requirement deadline (Specify bug to fix or new feature) - Software domain deadline (To do the above) - Integration deadline. (Integrate above into larger project) - Test deadline (verify bug fix or feature. Without getting fancy, must budget time for repairs) - Customer delivery deadline.
The key is to work this stuff backwards.
Software moves a lot faster than hardware, but it does not move infinitely fast. Normal hardware works on the order of months for these things, working backwards from Job 1 to factory tooling to a half-dozen proveouts of HW and assembly line.
Software needs to recognize this and stop playing the infinitely fast "It should work." famous last words game.
they go fuck themselves since the moon isn't America's
From TFA:
“The government would also have to submit the Apollo 11 lunar landing site to the United Nations for designation as a World Heritage site.”
I'd think they've got a legitimate case for that being accepted. Terminology gets a little interesting though, with "World" referring to the moon as well.
How about the UN go fuck itself because the moon isn't theirs, either.
There are plenty who support gay marriage who are also opppsed to government institutions like schools expelling people for hate speech (or giving them a second chance after a forced re-education camp).
Marriage has always been a public commitment to each other. Government insinuated itself to enforce cultiral standards as to what this meant.
It's ironic gay people could get married in a religious ceremony, but not get to take advantage of the government aspect of this. Religious folk, is it the government piece you consider as the important piece?
1. If it was an IRS computer glitch that prevented the IRS from collecting a few extra dollars from everybody, you can be damned sure it would be fixed in less than a year.
But, as usual, it's someone else's money.
2. I'm surprised someone doesn't sue -- the law says one thing, the software does another -- the government has no power whatsoever to force you to behave (and lose money) according to faulty software.
I haven't heard anything this idiotic since Microsoft was allowed to trademark "Windows" to cover their particular version of already well and long-established concept of a computerized windowing system.
There was another group that published in the school paper a list of all male students with a similar label. IIRC, they got their ass handed to them in court for defamation.
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What sane king or queen would seriously want to associate themselves with the hucksters at Mayflower Enterprises?
They've as much chance of getting you to the New World and back as Delft Pottery Barn.
Look at their Sunday sermons, it's mostly full of invitations to contribute cash and otherwise "contribute"...
On the overall cost and technology, it's suspiciously thin, apart from saying it can pretty much be done with available, commercial technology. Kind of. Yeah right.
I'd love to go to the the New World, but I don't have a spare 200,000 lying around, (the rough cost of each previous landing).
My guess is few people do.
(To put that in context, $2.6 trillion is about two years worth of federal borrowing. So in other words, don't sweat it. Congress won't bat an eye heaving it onto the debt.)
So in the near future when people watch sporting events on a tablet in their laps, live, they can just touch on the athlete and pull up this or that link, I suppose.
Funny, I thought dynamic tagging like that had already been invented.
Then I'm filing for the funnier "except in bed".
How wonderfully appropriate.
Except insurance companies don't treat this like you insuring your car. Similarly they're not going to insure a $20 million diamond for shipment without making sure you send some guards along with it.
So, shame on them for not requiring weighing of containers. It's also possible they did but there was bribery going on on the loading docks.
Finally, if this software is worth a rat's ass, it should make estimates on the mass of the ship based on how long it takes to tilt back and forth vs. wave height and period. Initial weight entered by hand should just be a jumping off point.
Cape Canaveral
Formerly Cape Kennedy.
Formerly Cape Arbuckle.
Actually, it's not hard to analyze one way or the other. Are earthquakes increasing in magnitude or quantity beyond normal statistical variance?
One would have to use the same type of sensor data for equivalence over decades. This is how they know breast implants are safe, and vitamins in healthy people are absolutely useless, both decade+ long studies with over a hundred thousand people.
Once an invrease in quakes is detected, then you can explore why.
By the way, it is fine to decide a certain risk is worth it. Massive pollution controls during the industrial revolution would have cost many times more lives than it would have saved.
Why yes. Yes we are. Things that advance technology the fastest override other concerns, as memasured by actual wellbeing.
The problem is how do you measure the deaths that occur because a cure or a new surgical technique dependent on computers, is delayed by two years?
From a politician's point of view, a death in front of the cameras is worth more than a million because a heart treatmemt was delayed 3 years.
The government granted immunity already to phone companies feeding them 100% of phone calls without a warrant already.
Except...government cannot grant immunity to unconstitutional activity it has no authority to do to begin with. Like me granting immunity for my dog to bite you.
Wtf is right. We haven't gotten this much attention since the Great Lakes Avengers branch.
imagineabootsteppingonahumanfacedotdotdotforever
You've already left 90% of humanity in the dust.
Better to teach programmers to make the effort to write test fixtures to exercise the hell out of things.
Why, for the past six months, does YouTube and everything else using that video player system (flash?) crash when doing a jump, about 1 out of 10 times? A simple fixture clicking different spots randomly every 5 to 1/10th second should make finding problems easy. When it can survive overnight, then you can relax a little.
Well, yes, but Eastern Europe, East Asia, and India don't have the benefits of our television telling them they suck at games.
Have a deadline for new features or bug fixes for that week.
Proper engineering (engineering is about how you build things, not about just crafting the thing itself) typically should look like this:
- Requirement deadline (Specify bug to fix or new feature)
- Software domain deadline (To do the above)
- Integration deadline. (Integrate above into larger project)
- Test deadline (verify bug fix or feature. Without getting fancy, must budget time for repairs)
- Customer delivery deadline.
The key is to work this stuff backwards.
Software moves a lot faster than hardware, but it does not move infinitely fast. Normal hardware works on the order of months for these things, working backwards from Job 1 to factory tooling to a half-dozen proveouts of HW and assembly line.
Software needs to recognize this and stop playing the infinitely fast "It should work." famous last words game.
There will be no shortage of tracking either, vs. trends expected in Kapan vs. reality, and w.r.t. the rest of the world.
How about the UN go fuck itself because the moon isn't theirs, either.
It:s advertising for a nascent political position and/or produce.
Now imagine a picture of Willy Wonka saying you must be new here.
There are plenty who support gay marriage who are also opppsed to government institutions like schools expelling people for hate speech (or giving them a second chance after a forced re-education camp).
Heinlein, in his adult (not teen) later books assumed widespread acceptance of homosexuality and plural marriage.
At least Lazarus Long's giant freakin' harems of women following him seemed like a plural marriage.
Marriage has always been a public commitment to each other. Government insinuated itself to enforce cultiral standards as to what this meant.
It's ironic gay people could get married in a religious ceremony, but not get to take advantage of the government aspect of this. Religious folk, is it the government piece you consider as the important piece?
How bizarre, and sad, if you do.
1. If it was an IRS computer glitch that prevented the IRS from collecting a few extra dollars from everybody, you can be damned sure it would be fixed in less than a year.
But, as usual, it's someone else's money.
2. I'm surprised someone doesn't sue -- the law says one thing, the software does another -- the government has no power whatsoever to force you to behave (and lose money) according to faulty software.
> 'App Store'
I haven't heard anything this idiotic since Microsoft was allowed to trademark "Windows" to cover their particular version of already well and long-established concept of a computerized windowing system.
My not even quite bald tires hydroplane going around a corner entering a highway at 35 mph. They also hydroplane straight on at the highway at 60+.
There was another group that published in the school paper a list of all male students with a similar label. IIRC, they got their ass handed to them in court for defamation.