Suggestions
1984
Brave New World
Paris in the Twentieth Century, by Jules Verne
The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White
The English Language | A User's Guide – oh so readable...
The Art of War, Clavell edition
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
The Cogito (Cogito er sum my ass!)
The Selfish Gene
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Distinction, by Bordieu
The Feynman Lectures on Physics,V1–3
A People's History of the United States
Asian American Dreams
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
The Demon-haunted World, by Sagan
The Oxford English Dictionary, two-volume micro-text complete version as a reference
You Can Negotiate Anything
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stranger in a Strange Land
Zen and the Art off Motorcycle Maintenance (at east until 2/3 through)
The Structure of Science, by Nagel
A Rocky & Bullwinkle coloring-book!
There is more to read than you can but go for it anyway!
Bill Gates' twee The Road Ahead is definitely a book that should not be on your list. That dweeb completely missed the importance of the internet.
Suggestions 1984
Brave New World
Paris in the Twentieth Century, by Jules Verne
The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White
The English Language | A User's Guide – oh so readable...
The Art of War, Clavell edition
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
The Cogito (Cogito er sum my ass!)
The Selfish Gene
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Distinction, by Bordieu
The Feynman Lectures on Physics,V1–3
A People's History of the United States
Asian American Dreams
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
The Demon-haunted World, by Sagan
The Oxford English Dictionary, two-volume micro-text complete version as a reference
You Can Negotiate Anything
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stranger in a Strange Land
Zen and the Art off Motorcycle Maintenance (at east until 2/3 through)
The Structure of Science, by Nagel
A Rocky & Bullwinkle coloring-book!
"Keep pushing, and know that I am with you... (The) key is to keep learning and improving." -- Inc.
Tay was about as technically sophisticated as Racter, a stand-alone chat-bot released in 1984 by Mindscape. It just remembered everything you typed to it, and randomly brought up things that you had mentioned before. It was basically ELIZA with a phrase-learning function.
That was why Tay was so easily punked by internet pranksters. It was, like, a mere 30 years later, but the Microsoft "AI Team" simply 'phoned it in' (probably at 2400 baud), and Microsoft just shoveled it out the door like all of the other half-assed 'me-too' that it famously does. Actual currency or competitiveness of the product was irrelevant.
Whoever owns the IP of Mindscape should sue Microsoft for copyright infringement for the whole Tay thing.
Take a look at LabView. It is drag-and-drop, but you still have to know what you're doing. It's oriented to automating experiments in the lab, but is a true programming language. And, although I haven't tried it, am told that it can compile programs (which typically run inside the LabView environment) into binaries.
One of my students made an accounting, inventory, and customer database program for his business, for example, in LabView.
Google's core competency is processing huge amounts of data... so why can't they compile a spreadsheet?
Somehow, this DoL request it "too much" for their data-analysis engineers to handle? I thought you guys were good with data, Google. Are you publicly proclaiming incompetency?
I've seen plenty of wars over which standard comes to dominate. Beta-VHS, MS-keyboard vs USB (initially), SCSI vs. RS-232 (as a philosophical choice of parallel vs serial). But I don't understand this one.
Why competition between Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C? Aren't they nominally identical in all respects? Or are they exactly identical (?), in which case I am exposing my ignorance.
I've seen the amazing landscape and scenery that enthusiasts have been able to get aside from probably the fun of flying a drone. I've owned and got good at flying coaxial helicopters for years but with the paranoid laws in Canada and all these crazy restrictions even by the manufacturers, I think they're killing their own bread and butter. It's made me think this isn't worth investing in, and to think I've used model rockets that have blown way over those height restrictions.
Loved model rockets! 9/11 killed the industry, and the things we used to do with them as kids... if done today would put us in handcuffs.
I had an Estes "Big Bertha" for a while. Two-inch diameter, and ran on a D engine. It could carry a small payload, so I replaced the parachute with a baggie of gasoline, which the parachute-deployment charge would ignite. Shot it off on a farm way out in the boonies.
Aside from the warranty policy being illegal in NZ there's discussions on the forum as well as many people who have received the same email.
Just because ${business_killing_thing} isn't displayed on ${evil_company_front_page} doesn't make something anything less true.
My point was that The Sun is an unreliable source, meaning I withhold judgment until confirmation of the ${business_killing_thing} from an independent, second source. Responding to a 'fake news' article would be a waste of everyone's time.
The AC above found confirmation in their forums. Now we know it is a real thing. Confirmed, so discuss the topic if you have input. It sure as hell ought to be discussed––what an idiotic thing for a company to do... in many ways, which the main thread covers.
I found the official announcement on the DJI forums, posted by DJI Joe. Took me about a minute, but I'd never been to the site before.
Hate to say it, but this time Sun's got it about half right. The next round of firmware / apps will require you to register to download appropriate GEO info for your location, or the device will be restricted in height and range.
They don't answer what happens if you try to fly it somewhere you weren't registered from however. While the company is almost certainly engaging in CYA mode, it seems that this is a knee-jerk "least possible" response.
In the online forums? Not the "publication of record" that a company usually chooses, eh?
I can see the CYA angle. Absolutely. But the issue is something best handled by regulation, not by vendor-first action. They could have handled the CYA in a less Orwellian manner.
Wow, I am SO happy that CBS not only bleeped "cock", but also blurred Stephen's mouth while uttering the word "cock", just in case I was a lip-reader. My my, how considerate.
I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.
Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?
No, probably not. The Chinese espionage model is to send over 'graduate students' as spies, who then report everything they see back home. That is, China doesn't need to hire locals, since they have thousands of moles in our University system already. I don't know about the pay, but at a guess, I'd wager that no US citizen would find the $$ amount appealing. Just a guess.
Come on guys -_-. All a story like this is going to do is take pressure off of another "certain" person. People really are that dumb. Place your bets; one week? Two weeks? I wonder what Bills the U.S. will pass or people will be fired in the meantime. I also like how it's normal to talk about a country we aren't at war with like we are. Conservatives have the weirdest ways of expressing nostalgia. All of the world's leaders are ego maniacs and placing blame in a generalizing way is playing a dangerous game of Jenga.
Yeah, the geezers trying to restart a "Cold War" with Russia are so misguided and stupid.
Russia is a competitor, just like China, India, or Germany. But there is no comprehensible reason that Russia is the sworn enemy of the US. Unless our politicians continue to behave that way, creating an enemy... [Source: 1984, George Orwell]
Is this the best you paid russian goons can come up with?
Really? Russia (USSR) was the first to launch an earth-orbiting satellite. That is kind of a big deal. No, it is a really big deal.
It led to the formation of ARPA, now DARPA, which has a $3B annual budget, with a mission of the US not getting caught by surprise (by anyone, technologically) again. Most would consider a $3B to be lot of cash to lay out annually, in perpetuity, for the aforementioned core mission – all because of Sputnik.
Except, of course, this had nothing to do with the Russians. They didn't try to buy secrets. This was all FBI acting like they believed the Russian boogeymen would.
Yep, it was a USA home-made sting. And, apparently, in the legal process of sorting this out, it had to have been determined that it was not entrapment.
The article is really short on details, but I just don't see a random search of a guy's car, which turned up a scrap of paper with the Russian embassy address on it, led the FBI to set up a (complicated) and expensive sting.
It just makes me wonder if the FBI "always getting their man" would be better stated as, "We always get a man."
Hell, when I lived in DC, I had the addresses of lots of embassies in my home and car. They throw great cultural-awareness soirees on occasion, and I went to them for the free cultural experience (food, drink, an artist, dancers, whatever). So... just having the address to an embassy on you does not automagically make you a spy. (In LA, where he got busted, "Embassy Row" is along Wilshire Blvd. They're clustered.)
There is far more to this story than has been reported, so we can only guess at why, how, when, and what for the guy who plead guilty of speaking with the FBI.
HINT: Never speak to law enforcement. Ever. Google it.
"And I can tell you folks. Nobody knows more about math and numbers than me. Nobody. I 'get' it, and I will just tell you the answers because I know. Trust me."
Slashdot Mirror
... Fuck, having to DRIVE instead of FLY because the airports are so fucking toxic kills more people, I'm sure.
Your drive TO the airport is more dangerous than the flight itself.
A 9-volt battery is simply six AAAA batteries connected in series, and stuck into a rectangular package.
But 'the terrorists' are too dumb to buy a six-AAA holder with solder-leads. Or six 1.5 V watch batteries, for that matter.
Suggestions ,V1–3
1984
Brave New World
Paris in the Twentieth Century, by Jules Verne
The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White
The English Language | A User's Guide – oh so readable...
The Art of War, Clavell edition
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
The Cogito (Cogito er sum my ass!)
The Selfish Gene
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Distinction, by Bordieu
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
A People's History of the United States
Asian American Dreams
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
The Demon-haunted World, by Sagan
The Oxford English Dictionary, two-volume micro-text complete version as a reference
You Can Negotiate Anything
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stranger in a Strange Land
Zen and the Art off Motorcycle Maintenance (at east until 2/3 through)
The Structure of Science, by Nagel
A Rocky & Bullwinkle coloring-book!
There is more to read than you can but go for it anyway!
Bill Gates' twee The Road Ahead is definitely a book that should not be on your list. That dweeb completely missed the importance of the internet.
Suggestions ,V1–3
1984
Brave New World
Paris in the Twentieth Century, by Jules Verne
The Elements of Style, by Strunk & White
The English Language | A User's Guide – oh so readable...
The Art of War, Clavell edition
The Concise 48 Laws of Power
The Cogito (Cogito er sum my ass!)
The Selfish Gene
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Distinction, by Bordieu
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
A People's History of the United States
Asian American Dreams
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Abridged Edition
The Demon-haunted World, by Sagan
The Oxford English Dictionary, two-volume micro-text complete version as a reference
You Can Negotiate Anything
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Stranger in a Strange Land
Zen and the Art off Motorcycle Maintenance (at east until 2/3 through)
The Structure of Science, by Nagel
A Rocky & Bullwinkle coloring-book!
The Lakers are LA. Everybody knows that.
The Clippers are. . . LA? . . . Really? I've lived in LA for 10 years and never knew that.
Nadella:
"Keep pushing, and know that I am with you ... (The) key is to keep learning and improving." -- Inc.
Tay was about as technically sophisticated as Racter, a stand-alone chat-bot released in 1984 by Mindscape. It just remembered everything you typed to it, and randomly brought up things that you had mentioned before. It was basically ELIZA with a phrase-learning function.
That was why Tay was so easily punked by internet pranksters. It was, like, a mere 30 years later, but the Microsoft "AI Team" simply 'phoned it in' (probably at 2400 baud), and Microsoft just shoveled it out the door like all of the other half-assed 'me-too' that it famously does. Actual currency or competitiveness of the product was irrelevant.
Whoever owns the IP of Mindscape should sue Microsoft for copyright infringement for the whole Tay thing.
Take a look at LabView. It is drag-and-drop, but you still have to know what you're doing. It's oriented to automating experiments in the lab, but is a true programming language. And, although I haven't tried it, am told that it can compile programs (which typically run inside the LabView environment) into binaries.
One of my students made an accounting, inventory, and customer database program for his business, for example, in LabView.
Wow. Thanks to both of you for clearing this up!
If you see a bee sitting on the ground, it is probably just resting for a while.
It will fly on after taking its little break.
Google's core competency is processing huge amounts of data... so why can't they compile a spreadsheet?
Somehow, this DoL request it "too much" for their data-analysis engineers to handle? I thought you guys were good with data, Google. Are you publicly proclaiming incompetency?
There are very few graves that I look forward to pissing on as eagerly as Disney's.
He's been dead for a while now...
This sounds like something where I will have to pay for a physical piece of hardware.
And it will spy on me continuously, whether I am using the pay-per-view or not?
And I'll probably have to pay for a monthly 'base' subscription?
Where do I sign up? I'll take three!
I've seen plenty of wars over which standard comes to dominate. Beta-VHS, MS-keyboard vs USB (initially), SCSI vs. RS-232 (as a philosophical choice of parallel vs serial). But I don't understand this one.
Why competition between Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C? Aren't they nominally identical in all respects? Or are they exactly identical (?), in which case I am exposing my ignorance.
I've seen the amazing landscape and scenery that enthusiasts have been able to get aside from probably the fun of flying a drone. I've owned and got good at flying coaxial helicopters for years but with the paranoid laws in Canada and all these crazy restrictions even by the manufacturers, I think they're killing their own bread and butter. It's made me think this isn't worth investing in, and to think I've used model rockets that have blown way over those height restrictions.
Loved model rockets! 9/11 killed the industry, and the things we used to do with them as kids... if done today would put us in handcuffs.
I had an Estes "Big Bertha" for a while. Two-inch diameter, and ran on a D engine. It could carry a small payload, so I replaced the parachute with a baggie of gasoline, which the parachute-deployment charge would ignite. Shot it off on a farm way out in the boonies.
I don't have that rocket any more...
Not made up:
http://www.dji.com/newsroom/ne...
I stand corrected. DJI's 'Newsroom' is where I started my search, but I missed what you found.
Aside from the warranty policy being illegal in NZ there's discussions on the forum as well as many people who have received the same email.
Just because ${business_killing_thing} isn't displayed on ${evil_company_front_page} doesn't make something anything less true.
My point was that The Sun is an unreliable source, meaning I withhold judgment until confirmation of the ${business_killing_thing} from an independent, second source. Responding to a 'fake news' article would be a waste of everyone's time.
The AC above found confirmation in their forums. Now we know it is a real thing. Confirmed, so discuss the topic if you have input. It sure as hell ought to be discussed––what an idiotic thing for a company to do... in many ways, which the main thread covers.
Whirled Peas are the answer.
Yes, exactly!
(this message may have been filtered by the Grammar Police).
"Whirled peas" is ambiguous, so either form of the verb is acceptable.
In your reading, it's a bunch of individual peas whirling around, a plurality.
In my reading, it is a fluid that results from having stuck them in a blender, a single portion of a fluid.
We shouldn't let this come between us. I don't need more enemies.
I found the official announcement on the DJI forums, posted by DJI Joe. Took me about a minute, but I'd never been to the site before.
Hate to say it, but this time Sun's got it about half right. The next round of firmware / apps will require you to register to download appropriate GEO info for your location, or the device will be restricted in height and range.
They don't answer what happens if you try to fly it somewhere you weren't registered from however. While the company is almost certainly engaging in CYA mode, it seems that this is a knee-jerk "least possible" response.
In the online forums? Not the "publication of record" that a company usually chooses, eh?
I can see the CYA angle. Absolutely. But the issue is something best handled by regulation, not by vendor-first action. They could have handled the CYA in a less Orwellian manner.
Wow, I am SO happy that CBS not only bleeped "cock", but also blurred Stephen's mouth while uttering the word "cock", just in case I was a lip-reader. My my, how considerate.
Cock-holster.
I think the Chinese know how to play game better than anyone else. Gather all the trade secrets and intel that you can, while "systematically dismantling" anyone leaking the same to the world.
Sometimes I wonder what the going market rates are for this sort of thing. Did this guy try to sell to Russians, because they pay more than the Chinese?
No, probably not. The Chinese espionage model is to send over 'graduate students' as spies, who then report everything they see back home. That is, China doesn't need to hire locals, since they have thousands of moles in our University system already. I don't know about the pay, but at a guess, I'd wager that no US citizen would find the $$ amount appealing. Just a guess.
Come on guys -_-. All a story like this is going to do is take pressure off of another "certain" person. People really are that dumb. Place your bets; one week? Two weeks? I wonder what Bills the U.S. will pass or people will be fired in the meantime. I also like how it's normal to talk about a country we aren't at war with like we are. Conservatives have the weirdest ways of expressing nostalgia. All of the world's leaders are ego maniacs and placing blame in a generalizing way is playing a dangerous game of Jenga.
Yeah, the geezers trying to restart a "Cold War" with Russia are so misguided and stupid.
Russia is a competitor, just like China, India, or Germany. But there is no comprehensible reason that Russia is the sworn enemy of the US. Unless our politicians continue to behave that way, creating an enemy... [Source: 1984, George Orwell]
Is this the best you paid russian goons can come up with?
Really? Russia (USSR) was the first to launch an earth-orbiting satellite. That is kind of a big deal. No, it is a really big deal.
It led to the formation of ARPA, now DARPA, which has a $3B annual budget, with a mission of the US not getting caught by surprise (by anyone, technologically) again. Most would consider a $3B to be lot of cash to lay out annually, in perpetuity, for the aforementioned core mission – all because of Sputnik.
YEAH!! Ronald Reagan was totally right when he called them an Evil Empire in the 80s.
All the Democrats stood in complete unity with him and sang God Bless America at his brave brave patriotism and standing up to those Soviets!
Just look at Teddy Kennedy's 1984 campaign for proof that he totally agreed with Reagan. Totally.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/...
1984.
The book was a warning, not a manual.
Except, of course, this had nothing to do with the Russians. They didn't try to buy secrets. This was all FBI acting like they believed the Russian boogeymen would.
Yep, it was a USA home-made sting. And, apparently, in the legal process of sorting this out, it had to have been determined that it was not entrapment.
The article is really short on details, but I just don't see a random search of a guy's car, which turned up a scrap of paper with the Russian embassy address on it, led the FBI to set up a (complicated) and expensive sting.
It just makes me wonder if the FBI "always getting their man" would be better stated as, "We always get a man."
Hell, when I lived in DC, I had the addresses of lots of embassies in my home and car. They throw great cultural-awareness soirees on occasion, and I went to them for the free cultural experience (food, drink, an artist, dancers, whatever). So... just having the address to an embassy on you does not automagically make you a spy. (In LA, where he got busted, "Embassy Row" is along Wilshire Blvd. They're clustered.)
There is far more to this story than has been reported, so we can only guess at why, how, when, and what for the guy who plead guilty of speaking with the FBI.
HINT: Never speak to law enforcement. Ever. Google it.
"And I can tell you folks. Nobody knows more about math and numbers than me. Nobody. I 'get' it, and I will just tell you the answers because I know. Trust me."
"And don't listen to those Losers."