What's the average deviation? Last time I heard expert meteorologists talking like this, it was right after Katrina, predicting the next year would be severe, too, which it wasn't, demonstrating complete ignorance of statistics, regression to the mean, and chaos theory.
Given it was attempts to simulate and predict weather that lead to the discovery of chaos theory and the butterfly effect, this is particularly shameful.
Politicians in California had to be threatened wih political death before they backed off much of the costly, time-consuming regulatory bullshit in the way of new electric plants.
Let that be a lesson for the cumulative weight of piecemeil-that-sounds-good ideas adding up to grind things to a halt. You don't need a corrupt system of government officials for government to end up in the same place -- smashed economy because nobody can do anything without permission.
They knew it was the custom coded file only he downloaded.
They knew the IP sharing it was his.
"I was hacked and rooted!" Well, here's a video you uploaded to YouTube with you talking about sharing porn from that web site and daring "coppers" to come "getcha".
One could add up the discrepancies over a long trip and see if they even out, or if they drift you further and further.
Still, GPS is used for direct positioning, and not for dead reckoning, which is guessing where you are based on speed and acceleration and turn, which is what more accurate gyros are all about.
Wtf, this wasn't done already? Phones have unique IDs, stolen ones should be tracked down and owners jailed.
If IDs are changed there will be collisions or IDs that don't exist or haven't been released from some pool yet. Somebody pays by CC, track that way. If by generic CC or time card, shut the damned phone off, tough.
So the chick is a mole scanning millioms of incming packages a day?
Crook: I just reorpgeammed cards for x and y.
Guy on other end of phone in bed in London: Cool! Hey honey, he just reprogrammed cards for x and y.
Crook: Telling your gf? Cool.
GF: Those names sound familiar. While 10,000 packages whipped by on my shift tonight, I glimpsed their name on one. It was going to...hmmm...to person z.
Politics and religion are the exact same thing, as far as Dawkins' memes are concerned. Both have giant, virual structures in your head that pretend to describe reality but are actually rallying impetus for the spread of the meme.
As in freedom of religion, which is to say freedom from religion, so, too, should there be freedom from politics, which is to say, freedom from masses following some leader's reasoning as to why you should be forced to walk this way under penalty of jail.
It has ever been thus, and the wise nation has a strong constitution limiting the number of things those with power can enforce throuh government. The power itself is the problem, not what's done with it.
Forth isn't bad. And the GDP one is useless because that's not a correct measure*. How much do we spend as a percent of money we spend on Halloween costumes each year?
* Government also likes to borrow, thinking in terms of percent of GDP. As the economy grows more efficient, they can inhale a big chunk of that efficiency as more borrowing. Yet it seems reasonable to the clueless because the fraction of GDP remains constant.
Private insurance or medicare. The same issue occurs with respect to glucose meters. Anybody buying it themselves has long since gone to True Track or some other equivalently cheap thing. Yet companies continue to make new ones that are more expensive with test strips that are closer to a dollar a strip instead of 50 cents. Why?
Government will pay for it and has a declared amount they'll pay. Companies design products to suck on that tit, and provide it to you for "free". Note this also keeps the rate the government pays up because who wants to murder people with draconian cuts and forcing you to go to a cheaper meter?
Not true. When approaching full employment, which is usually about 4% unemployment due to churn, wages start going up to attract people. Fine, but it also means work goes undone from shortage as only the more profitable projects can afford it. Good for you, bad for the country as a whole.
If you find yourself being turned down for a job which is then filled by an import, point it out to your local state. They're very cognizant of monitoring contracting companies that import workers while citizens are unemployed.
Still, Apple spreading FUD on Microsoft instead of the other way around makes me wanna think Microsoft is cool. Probably not a good strategy on Apple's part.
Seriously, why does nerd arrogance need rectification?
May I remind you of these sarcasms:
* In Heinlein's Starship Troopers, the brain bugs only existed intermittantly, being bred the way a bee colony breeds a new queen if necessary, to magically (from the nonintelligent bugs' perspective) solve problems hurting the colony. Engineer/scientist caste as subservient to nonsentient powers.
* The engineer caste in Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven, also mute with respect to anything except astounding engineering feats, themselves often at the instruction or command of the political caste, whom they only interact with to receive commands and never issue political feeeback. By design.
* The engineers and scientists who kept society moving forward, while the political class sat on their back hindering them, and were questioned as to why they put up with it instead of withdrawing their support and letting the political class and followers collapse inevitably amd rapidly, as the engineers and businessmen "shrugged".
Of course, in the real world, you are given nominal control, which, if you are an engineer, you will realize is approximately a 1/120 millionth of the steering wheel, from the back seat, where the two in the front swap it back and forth from time to time.
"Disney World or Cedar Point?" "No! I will take us to both!"
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What's the average deviation? Last time I heard expert meteorologists talking like this, it was right after Katrina, predicting the next year would be severe, too, which it wasn't, demonstrating complete ignorance of statistics, regression to the mean, and chaos theory.
Given it was attempts to simulate and predict weather that lead to the discovery of chaos theory and the butterfly effect, this is particularly shameful.
Politicians in California had to be threatened wih political death before they backed off much of the costly, time-consuming regulatory bullshit in the way of new electric plants.
Let that be a lesson for the cumulative weight of piecemeil-that-sounds-good ideas adding up to grind things to a halt. You don't need a corrupt system of government officials for government to end up in the same place -- smashed economy because nobody can do anything without permission.
Storage Liason: One book, "Swedish-made penis pumps and me. This sort of thing is my bag, baby!" by Austin Powers.
They knew it was the custom coded file only he downloaded.
They knew the IP sharing it was his.
"I was hacked and rooted!" Well, here's a video you uploaded to YouTube with you talking about sharing porn from that web site and daring "coppers" to come "getcha".
Eh, many nerds do consider nuts after years of no GF.
Yes they can. How exciting!
It'll be just like this!
Well, except for the friends, party, and wife.
One could add up the discrepancies over a long trip and see if they even out, or if they drift you further and further.
Still, GPS is used for direct positioning, and not for dead reckoning, which is guessing where you are based on speed and acceleration and turn, which is what more accurate gyros are all about.
Gps + dead reckoning + map matching.
Wtf, this wasn't done already? Phones have unique IDs, stolen ones should be tracked down and owners jailed.
If IDs are changed there will be collisions or IDs that don't exist or haven't been released from some pool yet. Somebody pays by CC, track that way. If by generic CC or time card, shut the damned phone off, tough.
Wow, 665 posts and counting! Did Obama and Romney get in a fistfight over using Linux or Windowss as a platform to study global warming?
As with polygraph, it can be misused by misinterpreting the dog, accidentally or deliberately.
Also, just as with IR cameras, which are passive, too, it should be forbidden to government by a free people sans warrant.
So the chick is a mole scanning millioms of incming packages a day?
Crook: I just reorpgeammed cards for x and y.
Guy on other end of phone in bed in London: Cool! Hey honey, he just reprogrammed cards for x and y.
Crook: Telling your gf? Cool.
GF: Those names sound familiar. While 10,000 packages whipped by on my shift tonight, I glimpsed their name on one. It was going to...hmmm...to person z.
A little convenent.
A spy organization monitoring the situation would note the increase in "chatter" and activity in the US government, suggesting something is up.
I wonder.
Except that this knowledge is decades old. This isn't the first research like this.
Politics and religion are the exact same thing, as far as Dawkins' memes are concerned. Both have giant, virual structures in your head that pretend to describe reality but are actually rallying impetus for the spread of the meme.
As in freedom of religion, which is to say freedom from religion, so, too, should there be freedom from politics, which is to say, freedom from masses following some leader's reasoning as to why you should be forced to walk this way under penalty of jail.
It has ever been thus, and the wise nation has a strong constitution limiting the number of things those with power can enforce throuh government. The power itself is the problem, not what's done with it.
At least there weren't cubicle walls blocking the windows, too, like every damned place I've ever worked.
Welcome to Nashville, "A city waiting to die." when not a 5 but a 7+ smashes it.
Actually, Forth kind of sucks. I prefer LISP.
Forth isn't bad. And the GDP one is useless because that's not a correct measure*. How much do we spend as a percent of money we spend on Halloween costumes each year?
* Government also likes to borrow, thinking in terms of percent of GDP. As the economy grows more efficient, they can inhale a big chunk of that efficiency as more borrowing. Yet it seems reasonable to the clueless because the fraction of GDP remains constant.
Consoles died at least 2x before.
I assume lots of people are clicking thru to TFA and Wired is getting ad money from peeps.
Private insurance or medicare. The same issue occurs with respect to glucose meters. Anybody buying it themselves has long since gone to True Track or some other equivalently cheap thing. Yet companies continue to make new ones that are more expensive with test strips that are closer to a dollar a strip instead of 50 cents. Why?
Government will pay for it and has a declared amount they'll pay. Companies design products to suck on that tit, and provide it to you for "free". Note this also keeps the rate the government pays up because who wants to murder people with draconian cuts and forcing you to go to a cheaper meter?
"Eat shit and live!"
Not true. When approaching full employment, which is usually about 4% unemployment due to churn, wages start going up to attract people. Fine, but it also means work goes undone from shortage as only the more profitable projects can afford it. Good for you, bad for the country as a whole.
If you find yourself being turned down for a job which is then filled by an import, point it out to your local state. They're very cognizant of monitoring contracting companies that import workers while citizens are unemployed.
Still, Apple spreading FUD on Microsoft instead of the other way around makes me wanna think Microsoft is cool. Probably not a good strategy on Apple's part.
Seriously, why does nerd arrogance need rectification?
May I remind you of these sarcasms:
* In Heinlein's Starship Troopers, the brain bugs only existed intermittantly, being bred the way a bee colony breeds a new queen if necessary, to magically (from the nonintelligent bugs' perspective) solve problems hurting the colony. Engineer/scientist caste as subservient to nonsentient powers.
* The engineer caste in Mote In God's Eye by Larry Niven, also mute with respect to anything except astounding engineering feats, themselves often at the instruction or command of the political caste, whom they only interact with to receive commands and never issue political feeeback. By design.
* The engineers and scientists who kept society moving forward, while the political class sat on their back hindering them, and were questioned as to why they put up with it instead of withdrawing their support and letting the political class and followers collapse inevitably amd rapidly, as the engineers and businessmen "shrugged".
Of course, in the real world, you are given nominal control, which, if you are an engineer, you will realize is approximately a 1/120 millionth of the steering wheel, from the back seat, where the two in the front swap it back and forth from time to time.
"Disney World or Cedar Point?" "No! I will take us to both!"