Reminds me of when I had a long dinner conversation I had with a lady who was nearly finished with her MBA and was due to launch her new career. Without all the details, I ended up expressing my opinion that an MBA was the modern day equivalent of a Carpet-Bagger -- they are hired by corporations to learn how to cheat. On taxes, on pay to employees, on what costs can be driven out of the company by sacrificing quality and focusing on marketing. I said that on paper, it looks like they are efficiency experts, but that's like going into politics as a Poly-Sci major and thinking that long-winded papers on the role of government and the bill process are going to impress a politician to hire you. No, you call a constituent in Cuthbert Georgia and you suddenly gain a southern Drawl -- THAT is someone who understand political science. Not since Jimmy Carter has Georgia elected a governor who doesn't sound like he has marbles in his mouth and there is a reason for that. The more marbles, the more personal graft they can manage.
I apologized for my bad attitude to her, but I was working at a Financial Services company that just laid me off after my wife got Cancer.
MBA is all about having the right attitude -- how smart do you have to be to realize; "we get more productivity if we buy larger whips"?
The quick answer -- again with 30 seconds of thought on the matter; is both.
It impacted the air and exploded above the ground.
Could have been fine burning through the stratosphere, but then it hit that heavy cloud, smog or a duck -- whatever it was, it was the last straw for that asteroid...
At first the prior post "Are these people dim-witted? " seemed to make sense.
Then I thought for 30 more seconds and realized; if there is an "explosion" of a comet, doesn't that means the energy of that event "blows up" the comet? It's not like skipping a stone across a pond, because the water isn't exploding when the rock makes its little hops. So yes, you should see debris from the comet in a trajectory from the point of the explosive impact of the air (or whatever) if there is enough energy to cause a 3600 F shockwave, even if the asteroid is coming in at an angle. Of course, it it were a fullerine carbon diamond, maybe it might have skipped...
Thanks for the helpful note: "If a conclusion depends on the experts being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the experts already took into account and dismissed as part of their reasoning." That should help a lot of experts feel a great relief that casual bloggers spending less than 30 seconds of thought on an issue are going to discover they were clueless.
I find it hard to believe that people STILL think NORAD cannot find a plane since that's what it was designed to do.
They let that bit of nonsense go after 9/11 and people swallowed it. Really? They design a multi billion dollar system to detect an invasion by nukes and planes and people believe that nukes and planes just flutter by without alarms going off.
That's kind of a tough question. If it were another administration, say Nixon or Reagan -- Hell yeah they'd blame the Commies.
But a lot of people still think Kennedy planned the Bay of Pigs invasion. Not considering how NEW to his term he was when it happened and the fact that he gave it ZERO support. So basically, the copped to it so Americans wouldn't think that the CIA and parts of our military could go rogue and try and start wars, just like a lot of people cannot conceive that false flags is how we ALWAYS get into wars with the exception of the War for Independence, the Civil War, and WW II.
I find it fairly hard to believe, however, that there would be a government after accidentally nuking a few million people and telling everyone "Oops, our bad!" The motivation to lie would be huge.
This is ridiculous. FRAND patents MUST BE SHARED and in exchange a company gets to have their component used in all devices; Samsung gets to have that bit in nearly every phone so we can have some kind of a standard If we didn't have standards, you'd have to have a different set-up on every tower for phones from every vendor OR the phones would cost too much to buy. Either way, it would be a mess.
Because Samsung has the privilege of FRAND, it does not allow them to extort the ability for more than the current rate and it doesn't allow them to extort for access to someone else's patents -- that defeats the whole purpose of FRAND. If other companies share IP with Samsung (usually ubiquitous stuff) -- that's their business. But it doesn't translate as some right to take by Samsung.
Apple didn't protect their IP before and Microsoft boldly and wholesale ripped them off, and now they are protecting it and everyone is jumping on their case as if they were patent trolls -- and yet they are still getting ripped off. It's the system we have -- what are they supposed to do? And now everyone roots for a clone company that has nothing but sweat shops and considers Samsung a paragon of innovation; What Cool Aid is everyone drinking and did they bring enough to share?
This is hyperbole. I'm pretty sure that what is in question when he says; "Ubiquitous" and would "harm trade" is basically in reference to FRAND patents. In the case where a bunch of companies could have every flavor of chip to connect with a tower (for instance) one design gets awarded "the standard" and in exchange for not price gouging, they get to make parts that go into a lot of devices.
Now if Motorola or Samsung or a dozen other companies started gouging for components -- nobody could afford to buy the phones being built.
The courts probably got ridiculous bending over for Samsung and the US Government had to step in otherwise all manner of devices could be shut down and new component prices extorted.
And PLEASE would someone just make a note that "Apple isn't the only company using FoxConn?" They are one of the only companies that pushed many years ago to improve conditions. And just an FYI, at about 900,000 employees -- the suicide rate there isn't any higher than postal workers in the US, which is another big employer and their suicide rate isn't any bigger than the average -- it's just employing more people means more people to commit suicide if you maintain an average.
This actually does help students get ready for the real world; Your employer is going to spy on you. Get used to it.
If you're frustrated in your efforts to cut the "liberty manacles" off your foot, facial recognition will pick that up and an assistant will come by to help you put a new, more form-fitting manacle on your leg.
Students and workers who are too shy to ask for a higher quality leg manacle don't need to overcome shyness. In fact, this shyness is seen as a quality in many workers.
They have to have the cameras using facial recognition to HELP people who are confused. Even if using a timer is very straightforward - this is SO IMPORTANT that they've got to spend every effort to get the last confused person.
Kind of like how the NSA spends billions of dollars to track everything, so we can get the last person who doesn't like America.
And the XBox One doesn't want you to turn off the Kinect camera because otherwise Al Qaeda might get training by playing Black Ops 2.
Just helping to inform people so we can keep America safe and less confused. You're welcome.
>> I also don't work for the NSA as a subcontractor. Trust me.
What people don't seem to realize is that the 5th amendment; "a person cannot incriminate themselves" is to prevent coerced testimony. A person is not a great witness against themselves -- unless they are confessing, so the "5th" is really a stopgap against the abuse of police or judicial power.
If a person says; "I did it" then fine. But if you want to coerce them to say; "I did it" then it's likely by force. Better ten guilty people go free than one innocent go to jail. People who don't agree, obviously don't think they'll ever be falsely accused -- it's a comfortable and convenient point of view.
Yeah I dabble -- but I cannot rent myself out as a programmer. So I don't have baggage here. The following sentence however scares me; "But how can I make that transition? The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now. Ideas?" "
Transition? This guy sounds like the Art director who hires me because I know all the apps, and can do everything including put it on the web and make it dance in multimedia. So he writes "specs" that are perfect? That's like a description of the "perfect art piece for the client" without anyone being the artist and seeing the art. Neither of the people in this situation has the ability to 'visualize" what they want or they wouldn't hire you.
The "transition" is difficult because finding that perfect programmer who doesn't need OTHER programmers is a person who doesn't need a glorified agent.
I would appreciate a well specced out job -- but I'm not going to long suffer doing 90% of the work for someone taking 90% of the profit.
There isn't enough to PAY both you and the perfect developer.
>> The PERFECT SPEC here, is obviously under-budgeting the De-Buggging process. Having done graphics work for people who don't know what they want -- 50% of the work occurs AFTER they say; "I like it, but can we try this other thing for a second?" I suspect programmers spend 50% of their time in debugging as the application meets the real-world. So this person is has a little bit of knowledge which is more dangerous than none. He THINKS he could be the programmer but doesn't have time for the "details".
I don't know for sure, however, but the problem described here would "send my spider senses tingling." We have a delusional dabbler coupled with pimp/contractor.
True story; we just went into a used computer place to look at what we could pick up in a slightly used machine. The salesman said; "And if this were new, you'd have to have Windows 8." I mentioned that Microsoft did have an update -- but we agreed; "It still forced Metro on people."
The UPGRADE for many would be a box that doesn't suddenly stop working. Of course, I currently have Xbox Gold and the networking on the XBox SUCKS. It spends as much time "searching for server" as it does playing a multiplayer. Now they want to add another layer of complexity without guaranteeing the QOS on their current platform. Bravo. *slow clap*
So the XBox One is going to raise the price of used XBox 360s? I for one, welcome the new evil overlord!
True story; we just went into a used computer place to look at what we could pick up in a slightly used machine. The salesman said; "And if this were new, you'd have to have Windows 8." I mentioned that Microsoft did have an update -- but we agreed; "It still forced Metro on people."
So the XBox One is going to raise the price of used XBox 360s? I for one, welcome the new evil overlord!
I don't blame the conspiracy theorists for coming up with nonsense, or on occasion, very valid questions.
We have for VERY GOOD REASON lost faith in our institutions like government and the media, because they have been dishonest with us.
By being more transparent and letting the public know MORE -- the Boston police and investigators got much better data than when they say; "report to us anything suspicious and we'll keep a database -- no need to tell us about yourself, we already know."
No but you see; "Google has promised NOT TO SUE FIRST, and the artist lives in a country that respects creative works and doesn't blindly fall at the feet of big money and the ownership society."
No, no. I've got to stop. I think I might pee myself if I make any more of these jokes.
... but I don't watch it. Not that I don't think it's good -- but I tend to watch these kinds of shows in a cluster. It's annoying to get into a story, and then wait 6 months for its resolution.
So I pay for it, and Honey Boo Boo, and thousands of other things I don't watch to get the few things I do.
So for me, as I'm sure it is for a lot of people; we already have a small portion of our budget set aside for "entertainment" -- and it's not going to go up, just because an exec somewhere wants 15% growth, or is upset that people don't pay $15 for a DVD anymore.
Dish Network has my $85 a month -- but I don't use their "service" to watch things any time, it stinks and I'd rather not use a bandwidth noisy, badly designed wifi to download back shows or overpriced new content - I already have the XBox for that and their network barely works as well.
Media is a "service" -- you pay for a stream, not a single show. If I paid "a la carte" I'd probably spend a lot less than $85 a month. The Media sellers want their cake and eat it too but they can't have it -- not unless they want to start actual journalistic news again and uncover the bank frauds, and all the other fat cat criminals who abuse the system.
Americans have lower wages. We have entertainment fees. So therefore, some of you are going to have to lose our money -- there's just less of it. If the Media wants more, they have to push for higher wages, and that means tariffs and higher taxes on the wealthy.
Or they can arrest people who barely have enough money for an internet connection for downloading crap that they charged me for but I didn't watch yet.
What would be COOL, is if credit card debt were looked at the same way as you and I speculating on the stock market. In fact, the bank knows more about you than we know about some company we invest in.
If you and I pick wrong, we lose money on a stock -- so why can't we just say; if someone doesn't pay back a credit card, the only recourse of the credit card company is that they can NOT give them more credit. That would solve the situation where my dog gets 0 interest for 3 month offers with a page of lawyer type.
Nobody is forcing banks to give people credit -- so the banks should not be able to use the law to GET MONEY back from those they gave credit -- they already can club you with a bad credit rating, after all.
Either that, or we should get guaranteed stock performance - and the banks can pay if Apple or IBM shares lose 50% of value -- it's about the same racket they have going so it must be fair.
How is this better and cheaper than a $35 microwave oven? Have you seen what these do to a CD or any other kind of disk?
And it's cost competitive with a bullet.
I can read that many slashdot posters are quite creative in finding cheaper and easier ways to destroy data -- so I can only suppose that the business model here is; "We make you look cooler so you can pad that giant budget."
Hex stochastic noise scrambling of a drive before repeated degaussing and then Regulation level 5 shredding just sounds more responsible on a budget than; "Chunked that thing in the microwave and watched the sparks, dude!"
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I don't know, it depends on the strength of the gravity well you are in when doing this metres per second analysis.
Unless you are near a super massive black hole, your nit is going to be less than .00001 microns. Not even a full sized nit you are picking here.
Reminds me of when I had a long dinner conversation I had with a lady who was nearly finished with her MBA and was due to launch her new career. Without all the details, I ended up expressing my opinion that an MBA was the modern day equivalent of a Carpet-Bagger -- they are hired by corporations to learn how to cheat. On taxes, on pay to employees, on what costs can be driven out of the company by sacrificing quality and focusing on marketing. I said that on paper, it looks like they are efficiency experts, but that's like going into politics as a Poly-Sci major and thinking that long-winded papers on the role of government and the bill process are going to impress a politician to hire you. No, you call a constituent in Cuthbert Georgia and you suddenly gain a southern Drawl -- THAT is someone who understand political science. Not since Jimmy Carter has Georgia elected a governor who doesn't sound like he has marbles in his mouth and there is a reason for that. The more marbles, the more personal graft they can manage.
I apologized for my bad attitude to her, but I was working at a Financial Services company that just laid me off after my wife got Cancer.
MBA is all about having the right attitude -- how smart do you have to be to realize; "we get more productivity if we buy larger whips"?
The quick answer -- again with 30 seconds of thought on the matter; is both.
It impacted the air and exploded above the ground.
Could have been fine burning through the stratosphere, but then it hit that heavy cloud, smog or a duck -- whatever it was, it was the last straw for that asteroid...
At first the prior post "Are these people dim-witted? " seemed to make sense.
Then I thought for 30 more seconds and realized; if there is an "explosion" of a comet, doesn't that means the energy of that event "blows up" the comet? It's not like skipping a stone across a pond, because the water isn't exploding when the rock makes its little hops. So yes, you should see debris from the comet in a trajectory from the point of the explosive impact of the air (or whatever) if there is enough energy to cause a 3600 F shockwave, even if the asteroid is coming in at an angle. Of course, it it were a fullerine carbon diamond, maybe it might have skipped...
Thanks for the helpful note: "If a conclusion depends on the experts being dumb or incompetent, your conclusion is most probably a step the experts already took into account and dismissed as part of their reasoning." That should help a lot of experts feel a great relief that casual bloggers spending less than 30 seconds of thought on an issue are going to discover they were clueless.
"A quick google comes up with at least 5 similar incidents in 2011 and 2012."
I don't think "not new" means what you think it means.
I find it hard to believe that people STILL think NORAD cannot find a plane since that's what it was designed to do.
They let that bit of nonsense go after 9/11 and people swallowed it. Really? They design a multi billion dollar system to detect an invasion by nukes and planes and people believe that nukes and planes just flutter by without alarms going off.
That's kind of a tough question. If it were another administration, say Nixon or Reagan -- Hell yeah they'd blame the Commies.
But a lot of people still think Kennedy planned the Bay of Pigs invasion. Not considering how NEW to his term he was when it happened and the fact that he gave it ZERO support. So basically, the copped to it so Americans wouldn't think that the CIA and parts of our military could go rogue and try and start wars, just like a lot of people cannot conceive that false flags is how we ALWAYS get into wars with the exception of the War for Independence, the Civil War, and WW II.
I find it fairly hard to believe, however, that there would be a government after accidentally nuking a few million people and telling everyone "Oops, our bad!" The motivation to lie would be huge.
This is ridiculous. FRAND patents MUST BE SHARED and in exchange a company gets to have their component used in all devices; Samsung gets to have that bit in nearly every phone so we can have some kind of a standard If we didn't have standards, you'd have to have a different set-up on every tower for phones from every vendor OR the phones would cost too much to buy. Either way, it would be a mess.
Because Samsung has the privilege of FRAND, it does not allow them to extort the ability for more than the current rate and it doesn't allow them to extort for access to someone else's patents -- that defeats the whole purpose of FRAND. If other companies share IP with Samsung (usually ubiquitous stuff) -- that's their business. But it doesn't translate as some right to take by Samsung.
Apple didn't protect their IP before and Microsoft boldly and wholesale ripped them off, and now they are protecting it and everyone is jumping on their case as if they were patent trolls -- and yet they are still getting ripped off. It's the system we have -- what are they supposed to do? And now everyone roots for a clone company that has nothing but sweat shops and considers Samsung a paragon of innovation; What Cool Aid is everyone drinking and did they bring enough to share?
Yeah, that in a nutshell is how I understand this situation.
However, to safe space in my brain I condensed it down to; "Samsung is extorting with FRAND and they enjoy their clone business very much."
"everybody else pays" -- right, got any names of those companies that pay the 12x price?
Just curious if this is true or not. It seems without actual prices and names of companies paying the higher toll, it's a battle of he said, she said.
This is hyperbole. I'm pretty sure that what is in question when he says; "Ubiquitous" and would "harm trade" is basically in reference to FRAND patents. In the case where a bunch of companies could have every flavor of chip to connect with a tower (for instance) one design gets awarded "the standard" and in exchange for not price gouging, they get to make parts that go into a lot of devices.
Now if Motorola or Samsung or a dozen other companies started gouging for components -- nobody could afford to buy the phones being built.
The courts probably got ridiculous bending over for Samsung and the US Government had to step in otherwise all manner of devices could be shut down and new component prices extorted.
And PLEASE would someone just make a note that "Apple isn't the only company using FoxConn?" They are one of the only companies that pushed many years ago to improve conditions. And just an FYI, at about 900,000 employees -- the suicide rate there isn't any higher than postal workers in the US, which is another big employer and their suicide rate isn't any bigger than the average -- it's just employing more people means more people to commit suicide if you maintain an average.
OK, carry on with the ranting.
We just assume that the sensors were upside down -- but does anyone ask if the rocker wasn't upside down and the sensors right side up?
No. No they do not. Installing sensors is a thankless job and nobody says; "Great sensor." They only talk to you if something goes wrong."
>> Brought to you by the Anti Sensor Installer Defamation League
This actually does help students get ready for the real world;
Your employer is going to spy on you. Get used to it.
If you're frustrated in your efforts to cut the "liberty manacles" off your foot, facial recognition will pick that up and an assistant will come by to help you put a new, more form-fitting manacle on your leg.
Students and workers who are too shy to ask for a higher quality leg manacle don't need to overcome shyness. In fact, this shyness is seen as a quality in many workers.
No, no, no!
They have to have the cameras using facial recognition to HELP people who are confused. Even if using a timer is very straightforward - this is SO IMPORTANT that they've got to spend every effort to get the last confused person.
Kind of like how the NSA spends billions of dollars to track everything, so we can get the last person who doesn't like America.
And the XBox One doesn't want you to turn off the Kinect camera because otherwise Al Qaeda might get training by playing Black Ops 2.
Just helping to inform people so we can keep America safe and less confused. You're welcome.
>> I also don't work for the NSA as a subcontractor. Trust me.
What people don't seem to realize is that the 5th amendment; "a person cannot incriminate themselves" is to prevent coerced testimony. A person is not a great witness against themselves -- unless they are confessing, so the "5th" is really a stopgap against the abuse of police or judicial power.
If a person says; "I did it" then fine. But if you want to coerce them to say; "I did it" then it's likely by force. Better ten guilty people go free than one innocent go to jail. People who don't agree, obviously don't think they'll ever be falsely accused -- it's a comfortable and convenient point of view.
Yeah I dabble -- but I cannot rent myself out as a programmer. So I don't have baggage here. The following sentence however scares me;
"But how can I make that transition? The guy I'd need to hire would have to know a lot of languages and be proficient in all of them. Plus, I can't afford to pay someone $100k/year right now. Ideas?"
"
Transition? This guy sounds like the Art director who hires me because I know all the apps, and can do everything including put it on the web and make it dance in multimedia. So he writes "specs" that are perfect? That's like a description of the "perfect art piece for the client" without anyone being the artist and seeing the art. Neither of the people in this situation has the ability to 'visualize" what they want or they wouldn't hire you.
The "transition" is difficult because finding that perfect programmer who doesn't need OTHER programmers is a person who doesn't need a glorified agent.
I would appreciate a well specced out job -- but I'm not going to long suffer doing 90% of the work for someone taking 90% of the profit.
There isn't enough to PAY both you and the perfect developer.
>> The PERFECT SPEC here, is obviously under-budgeting the De-Buggging process. Having done graphics work for people who don't know what they want -- 50% of the work occurs AFTER they say; "I like it, but can we try this other thing for a second?" I suspect programmers spend 50% of their time in debugging as the application meets the real-world. So this person is has a little bit of knowledge which is more dangerous than none. He THINKS he could be the programmer but doesn't have time for the "details".
I don't know for sure, however, but the problem described here would "send my spider senses tingling." We have a delusional dabbler coupled with pimp/contractor.
True story; we just went into a used computer place to look at what we could pick up in a slightly used machine. The salesman said; "And if this were new, you'd have to have Windows 8." I mentioned that Microsoft did have an update -- but we agreed; "It still forced Metro on people."
The UPGRADE for many would be a box that doesn't suddenly stop working. Of course, I currently have Xbox Gold and the networking on the XBox SUCKS. It spends as much time "searching for server" as it does playing a multiplayer. Now they want to add another layer of complexity without guaranteeing the QOS on their current platform. Bravo. *slow clap*
So the XBox One is going to raise the price of used XBox 360s? I for one, welcome the new evil overlord!
True story; we just went into a used computer place to look at what we could pick up in a slightly used machine. The salesman said; "And if this were new, you'd have to have Windows 8." I mentioned that Microsoft did have an update -- but we agreed; "It still forced Metro on people."
So the XBox One is going to raise the price of used XBox 360s? I for one, welcome the new evil overlord!
This research shows one more reason that licking both your wounds and your young is a good idea.
I think you just found a new defense that Jerry Sandusky's lawyers can use...
I don't blame the conspiracy theorists for coming up with nonsense, or on occasion, very valid questions.
We have for VERY GOOD REASON lost faith in our institutions like government and the media, because they have been dishonest with us.
By being more transparent and letting the public know MORE -- the Boston police and investigators got much better data than when they say; "report to us anything suspicious and we'll keep a database -- no need to tell us about yourself, we already know."
No but you see; "Google has promised NOT TO SUE FIRST, and the artist lives in a country that respects creative works and doesn't blindly fall at the feet of big money and the ownership society."
No, no. I've got to stop. I think I might pee myself if I make any more of these jokes.
... but I don't watch it. Not that I don't think it's good -- but I tend to watch these kinds of shows in a cluster. It's annoying to get into a story, and then wait 6 months for its resolution.
So I pay for it, and Honey Boo Boo, and thousands of other things I don't watch to get the few things I do.
So for me, as I'm sure it is for a lot of people; we already have a small portion of our budget set aside for "entertainment" -- and it's not going to go up, just because an exec somewhere wants 15% growth, or is upset that people don't pay $15 for a DVD anymore.
Dish Network has my $85 a month -- but I don't use their "service" to watch things any time, it stinks and I'd rather not use a bandwidth noisy, badly designed wifi to download back shows or overpriced new content - I already have the XBox for that and their network barely works as well.
Media is a "service" -- you pay for a stream, not a single show. If I paid "a la carte" I'd probably spend a lot less than $85 a month. The Media sellers want their cake and eat it too but they can't have it -- not unless they want to start actual journalistic news again and uncover the bank frauds, and all the other fat cat criminals who abuse the system.
Americans have lower wages. We have entertainment fees. So therefore, some of you are going to have to lose our money -- there's just less of it. If the Media wants more, they have to push for higher wages, and that means tariffs and higher taxes on the wealthy.
Or they can arrest people who barely have enough money for an internet connection for downloading crap that they charged me for but I didn't watch yet.
I have to agree.
What would be COOL, is if credit card debt were looked at the same way as you and I speculating on the stock market. In fact, the bank knows more about you than we know about some company we invest in.
If you and I pick wrong, we lose money on a stock -- so why can't we just say; if someone doesn't pay back a credit card, the only recourse of the credit card company is that they can NOT give them more credit. That would solve the situation where my dog gets 0 interest for 3 month offers with a page of lawyer type.
Nobody is forcing banks to give people credit -- so the banks should not be able to use the law to GET MONEY back from those they gave credit -- they already can club you with a bad credit rating, after all.
Either that, or we should get guaranteed stock performance - and the banks can pay if Apple or IBM shares lose 50% of value -- it's about the same racket they have going so it must be fair.
I just want to say; "Kudos, your thread was f-ing awesome."
There are a lot of ways to say that the system isn't necessarily fair -- but you hit the major points with clarity and not too much fluff.
How is this better and cheaper than a $35 microwave oven? Have you seen what these do to a CD or any other kind of disk?
And it's cost competitive with a bullet.
I can read that many slashdot posters are quite creative in finding cheaper and easier ways to destroy data -- so I can only suppose that the business model here is; "We make you look cooler so you can pad that giant budget."
Hex stochastic noise scrambling of a drive before repeated degaussing and then Regulation level 5 shredding just sounds more responsible on a budget than; "Chunked that thing in the microwave and watched the sparks, dude!"