There are ideas I have had ideas over 30 years ago that no one has implemented. There are others that have been implemented, but, owing to my terms of employment, I have not been paid much for, but have made millions for others.
Perhaps I did not make it clear, but the companies I listed explicitly rejected the idea of ideas they did not wait around to find out what the ideas actually were!
However, I am with you on the value of execution, and, through many hours of vigorous contemplation, now have an idea which I can afford to implement without having to invest in PHBs, machinery, or other "assets".
I have hundreds of fine ideas - many of them could be enormously profitable for someone - some have been. However, it is my experience that no one wants new ideas. I have been explicitly told by large corporations - including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, TRW, Xerox Corp, to name but a few "We don't want any more ideas - we are fine with the ones we already have.
Some of my ideas have made large sums of money for others, but not for me. I suspect many engineers are pissed at having been ripped off - possibly by companies included in the list above - and don't want to give away their ideas for peanuts.
Let me know if you are willing to pay for new ideas, and we can talk.
Our job is to transport the data equivalent of highly enriched Uranium. To save money, instead of getting specialists to construct secure containment vessels, we will send it by public transport. Then when people find out that the NORKs are getting on the buses, and building missiles on the back seats, we can blame the Greyhound bus company.
Equifux punishes people because of their own blunders and corrupt database contents all the time.
In other news, Granny said "don't put all your eggs in one basket".
Why was their data not compartmentalised? Its not that hard to do, and ought to be compulsory for data on this scale.
Public floggings are totally inadequate for scum like this. These people are a clear and present danger to civilisation as we know it, even in the absence of data loss like this. Now is the time to make this obvious to everyone.
Yes. Everyone in my family who has one still uses it. In my case, with LineageOS. Others may differ. They are really good. We have at least 6 batteries in my house, and three chargers - you can leave the house with a fully charged battery, and when you return, replace it with another fully charged battery.
Of course we have other phones. Do you have more than one watch? I don't, but a lot of people do. A second phone is sometimes useful for your "secret identity" as sometimes you have to deal with organisations you don't trust (Equifux?)
While I accept that my understanding of the article is not perfect, it seems to me that what they are proposing is essentially passive logic.
Passive logic predates active logic by many hundreds of years. However, although it theoretically requires less energy than active logic using the same technology*, it requires energy. As a result, after a few layers of passive logic (generally two) you require active logic to restore the noise margin. You then discover that the passive logic is slower because the losses in it, while small, are effectively series resistance, and what ever follows it is effectively a capacitance, however small. This is an RC delay circuit. The result is the more layers of passive logic, the slower the whole thing is. To make it go faster, you reduce the passive layers and increase the number of active stages.
There is another issue too - all the stray Rs and Cs are somewhat indeterminate in value (generally very temperature sensitive), so, in order to make sure everything is in sync, you use clocked logic, and to make it go faster, you keep the layers of logic between registers short (that is what pipelining does).
In short, in the real world there is a tradeoff between pumping power in to make it go faster, and not pumping power in, and having it go slow.
This was well known by 1970, and most probably known by all interested parties in 1941.
Anyone who thinks that logic requires data to be cleared before it is over-written, is still using core memories from the 1970's. No one clears the old result and then writes a new one. The new result overwrites the old one. Preferably with due allowance to avoid the data being used during the transition (requires clocking, requires active devices).
In short, unless I am completely wrong - in which case, much better written documents are required - the authors of the report have no clue at all.
* Passive logic as implemented in Victorian railway signalling requires at least a million times more energy per signal transition than (active) 1970's TTL.
This is the most appalling shite news. The single bar approach is just to disguise the extremely evil hijacking of your searches.
If you have an intranet, with a local DNS server, you won't be able to access your intranet, because your URLs will all be exported for Google (or nearest equivalent scumbags) to do the lookup. They obviously do not have access to your private internet (unless you really have no security at all).
Of course, its Chrome's job to be evil, but it is not compulsory for Mozilla to copy them. The reason their market share is dwindling is not because they have not cloned Chrome, its because they keep removing features users want (or hiding them so users think they are removed).
If they do it, it will probably be the end of Firefox for good.
re you the buggy-whip manufacturer? That is not how mechanisation works. Replacing nurses with robots (for example) means installing high tech diagnostic stuff that enables high tech medical treatments which reduce the need for nurses. Nurses then face the problem of declining income because there are more nurses than needed.
eg patient treated after CAT scan has massively less invasive treatment than before CAT scan was invented, leaves hospital after one week instead of 3 months (other high tech stuff involved too). Result: nursing requirement falls to 10% of previous level. However, since double the number of patients survive with the less invasive treatment, (a) nursing requirement only falls to 20% of previous level, and (b) Everyone insists on the new treatment because they prefer to stay alive, and will pay more for it - so the manufacturer can charge a lot for his machine, and the hospital can't say no!.
I have just come from the bank: the tellers were replace by ATM machines, and not friendly sexbots. That is normal.
A major component of "capitalism" (how would you define capitalism?) is that people can use the wealth (capital) they have, to generate more capital. This is called positive feedback which inherently leads to exponential runaway unless restrained by something (called regulation).
A system with positive feedback will grow and grown until it explodes (think amplifier howl). In social terms the result is the French (or Russian) Revolution, or ISIS.
In Europe, we have socialists and social security providing restraint so we get there slower.
You really don't get what conservatives are. Conservatives always believe in a fixed pie, and getting a larger slice.
Then there is a massive difference between the UK and the USA. Here in the UK, it is the conservatives (right) that think the pie (capital) grows as a result of investing capital - which explains why the rich get richer, and Labour (the left) who think if some else has more than they do (mostly nothing) then its because that other person took their share, and the rich get richer because the poor get poorer.
Of course, the difference of opinion is partly explained by using different definitions of poor, and partly by lack of understanding that value is created by jealousy - a thing is only valuable if the people who don't have it, want it. The rich want people to be jealous of them and their belongings, because it makes them richer, and the (left wing) poor want people to be jealous of the rich, cos then more people will support their world view.
Nollywood is HUGE but I bet the Americans don't even know it exists.
You ought to watch some: it is more realistic than anything out of Hollywood! (Assuming you can understand the English subtitles;-) And the "special effects" are really "special"!
Nope. Not even that. The reason we don't have lorries over 44 tons (and very few over 38t) is that the damage goes up with weight in an accident - the energy has to be dissipated somewhere.
See the Youtube video of Jeremy Clarkson driving an empty truck strait through a brick building, and then imagine Jeremy Clarkson driving three, fully loaded trucks!
And, as the AA pointed out, they will cause huge problems when people want to get on/off slip roads - same way bendy buses completely clogged the side roads in London.
It might work in America, where people often drive hundreds of miles non stop - but with the density of traffic on UK motorways and having to brake every couple of hundred yards, I can see this offering little to no benefit, and is probably worse than physically coupling the trucks. I'd trust a Westinghouse brake (no failures other than safe failures ever recorded in 150 years) over Wifi (no day without issues) any day.
If you can't figure out how high up a wall a 10' ladder goes at a 70 angle, it's not trigonometry!
That is what it does do. However, it requires that you have a ladder an integer number of units high, and place the bottom an integer number of units from the wall, and those integers must be in a predetermined ratio.
Basically, it is a list of triangles like 3,4,5 and 13,12,5 but, because they used base 60, there are a lot more of them in a given range.
However, the strategy for finding the answers in the table, and the way in which the table is laid out, are way more useful to builders and surveyors than the tables we used prior to calculators being invented, and the answers (for the values in the table) are more accurate than many tables generated before the use of computers, as the method relied entirely on manipulating integers, rather than 4 figure log tables generating decimals to a fixed number of figures by expounding a power series to a limited number of terms.
I was skeptical at first, but I am inclined to agree that it actually IS a different trigonometry, and it gives useful and practical results - but it does so by not solving the general case. However, it covers most cases that would be encountered by people using the technology of the day. (eg pyramid builders, land surveyors, and very probably boat builders). It is likely woefully inadequate for celestial navigation, but I have not tried it;-)
Slashdot Mirror
No. The statistics I have here in my hand show that dead people are 133% deader than live people. Except for immortals.
Perhaps I did not make it clear, but the companies I listed explicitly rejected the idea of ideas they did not wait around to find out what the ideas actually were!
However, I am with you on the value of execution, and, through many hours of vigorous contemplation, now have an idea which I can afford to implement without having to invest in PHBs, machinery, or other "assets".
And it is not an appy app.
Some of my ideas have made large sums of money for others, but not for me. I suspect many engineers are pissed at having been ripped off - possibly by companies included in the list above - and don't want to give away their ideas for peanuts.
Let me know if you are willing to pay for new ideas, and we can talk.
Our job is to transport the data equivalent of highly enriched Uranium. To save money, instead of getting specialists to construct secure containment vessels, we will send it by public transport. Then when people find out that the NORKs are getting on the buses, and building missiles on the back seats, we can blame the Greyhound bus company.
There is a difference between profits and conspiracy to defraud, even if Trump supporters don't know..
In other news, Granny said "don't put all your eggs in one basket".
Why was their data not compartmentalised? Its not that hard to do, and ought to be compulsory for data on this scale.
Public floggings are totally inadequate for scum like this. These people are a clear and present danger to civilisation as we know it, even in the absence of data loss like this. Now is the time to make this obvious to everyone.
Yes. Everyone in my family who has one still uses it. In my case, with LineageOS. Others may differ. They are really good. We have at least 6 batteries in my house, and three chargers - you can leave the house with a fully charged battery, and when you return, replace it with another fully charged battery.
Of course we have other phones. Do you have more than one watch? I don't, but a lot of people do. A second phone is sometimes useful for your "secret identity" as sometimes you have to deal with organisations you don't trust (Equifux?)
Passive logic predates active logic by many hundreds of years. However, although it theoretically requires less energy than active logic using the same technology*, it requires energy. As a result, after a few layers of passive logic (generally two) you require active logic to restore the noise margin. You then discover that the passive logic is slower because the losses in it, while small, are effectively series resistance, and what ever follows it is effectively a capacitance, however small. This is an RC delay circuit. The result is the more layers of passive logic, the slower the whole thing is. To make it go faster, you reduce the passive layers and increase the number of active stages.
There is another issue too - all the stray Rs and Cs are somewhat indeterminate in value (generally very temperature sensitive), so, in order to make sure everything is in sync, you use clocked logic, and to make it go faster, you keep the layers of logic between registers short (that is what pipelining does).
In short, in the real world there is a tradeoff between pumping power in to make it go faster, and not pumping power in, and having it go slow.
This was well known by 1970, and most probably known by all interested parties in 1941.
Anyone who thinks that logic requires data to be cleared before it is over-written, is still using core memories from the 1970's. No one clears the old result and then writes a new one. The new result overwrites the old one. Preferably with due allowance to avoid the data being used during the transition (requires clocking, requires active devices).
In short, unless I am completely wrong - in which case, much better written documents are required - the authors of the report have no clue at all.
* Passive logic as implemented in Victorian railway signalling requires at least a million times more energy per signal transition than (active) 1970's TTL.
If you have an intranet, with a local DNS server, you won't be able to access your intranet, because your URLs will all be exported for Google (or nearest equivalent scumbags) to do the lookup. They obviously do not have access to your private internet (unless you really have no security at all).
Of course, its Chrome's job to be evil, but it is not compulsory for Mozilla to copy them. The reason their market share is dwindling is not because they have not cloned Chrome, its because they keep removing features users want (or hiding them so users think they are removed).
If they do it, it will probably be the end of Firefox for good.
Businesses still use Windows where you are? How quaint!
You predict a rise in the population of zombie robots?
Only of nobody finds out about Alexa and sexbots.
No. They will die cos damn fool anti-vaxxers will influence more and more illiterates as "workforce" is replaced by "idleforce"..
eg patient treated after CAT scan has massively less invasive treatment than before CAT scan was invented, leaves hospital after one week instead of 3 months (other high tech stuff involved too). Result: nursing requirement falls to 10% of previous level. However, since double the number of patients survive with the less invasive treatment, (a) nursing requirement only falls to 20% of previous level, and (b) Everyone insists on the new treatment because they prefer to stay alive, and will pay more for it - so the manufacturer can charge a lot for his machine, and the hospital can't say no!.
I have just come from the bank: the tellers were replace by ATM machines, and not friendly sexbots. That is normal.
A major component of "capitalism" (how would you define capitalism?) is that people can use the wealth (capital) they have, to generate more capital. This is called positive feedback which inherently leads to exponential runaway unless restrained by something (called regulation).
A system with positive feedback will grow and grown until it explodes (think amplifier howl). In social terms the result is the French (or Russian) Revolution, or ISIS.
In Europe, we have socialists and social security providing restraint so we get there slower.
Then there is a massive difference between the UK and the USA. Here in the UK, it is the conservatives (right) that think the pie (capital) grows as a result of investing capital - which explains why the rich get richer, and Labour (the left) who think if some else has more than they do (mostly nothing) then its because that other person took their share, and the rich get richer because the poor get poorer.
Of course, the difference of opinion is partly explained by using different definitions of poor, and partly by lack of understanding that value is created by jealousy - a thing is only valuable if the people who don't have it, want it. The rich want people to be jealous of them and their belongings, because it makes them richer, and the (left wing) poor want people to be jealous of the rich, cos then more people will support their world view.
(and 3% are Amish).
http://www.andrewgrillet.uk/
You ought to watch some: it is more realistic than anything out of Hollywood! (Assuming you can understand the English subtitles ;-) And the "special effects" are really "special"!
Evidently global warming leads to widespread megalomania.
We all know that most drivers are better than average. Unfortunately a quick view of Dash Cam footage on Youtube reveals that some are not.
Nope. Not even that. The reason we don't have lorries over 44 tons (and very few over 38t) is that the damage goes up with weight in an accident - the energy has to be dissipated somewhere.
See the Youtube video of Jeremy Clarkson driving an empty truck strait through a brick building, and then imagine Jeremy Clarkson driving three, fully loaded trucks!
And, as the AA pointed out, they will cause huge problems when people want to get on/off slip roads - same way bendy buses completely clogged the side roads in London.
It might work in America, where people often drive hundreds of miles non stop - but with the density of traffic on UK motorways and having to brake every couple of hundred yards, I can see this offering little to no benefit, and is probably worse than physically coupling the trucks. I'd trust a Westinghouse brake (no failures other than safe failures ever recorded in 150 years) over Wifi (no day without issues) any day.
Unfortunately for Apple shareholders, yes.
That is what it does do. However, it requires that you have a ladder an integer number of units high, and place the bottom an integer number of units from the wall, and those integers must be in a predetermined ratio.
Basically, it is a list of triangles like 3,4,5 and 13,12,5 but, because they used base 60, there are a lot more of them in a given range.
However, the strategy for finding the answers in the table, and the way in which the table is laid out, are way more useful to builders and surveyors than the tables we used prior to calculators being invented, and the answers (for the values in the table) are more accurate than many tables generated before the use of computers, as the method relied entirely on manipulating integers, rather than 4 figure log tables generating decimals to a fixed number of figures by expounding a power series to a limited number of terms.
I was skeptical at first, but I am inclined to agree that it actually IS a different trigonometry, and it gives useful and practical results - but it does so by not solving the general case. However, it covers most cases that would be encountered by people using the technology of the day. (eg pyramid builders, land surveyors, and very probably boat builders). It is likely woefully inadequate for celestial navigation, but I have not tried it ;-)
They probably won't. 59 seconds after the warranty expires, they will be dead as dodos.
And security bug fixes will stop after the third one - just like phones.