The United Steelworkers, in a September petition to the Obama administration, argue that China is unfairly subsidizing exports to encourage companies in the country to send their clean energy products around the world. At the same time, the union accuses China of limiting the exports of certain rare-earth minerals necessary to produce solar panels so that foreign companies will settle in the country.
So, how can I use phased array antennas to improve my OTA DTV reception?
Lots of ways. Re-point (electronically) for every channel, even multiple simultaneously. Phase-cancel an interfering signal based on its direction. A more complicated system with dynamically-changing phase delays could probably reduce the impact of dynamic multipath.
But while there's a right to criticize the things seen in the recordings, there's no right to abuse the person who did those things.
Abuse? Does Officer Bubbles have bruises as a result? Broken bones?
Nobody abused him. They just jeered at him and called him names. Suggesting that a cop who would arrest someone for blowing bubbles might abuse his authority in other was is NOT abuse.
I love the fact that the complaint includes transcripts of all the offending cartoons. They're hilarious and it saves me the trouble of tracking them down.
The rest of the time, you get on your bike (electric or cheesecake-powered at your preference) because it's far, far more efficient.
The problem is that bane of human-powered vehicles, the inclined plane... err, the hill. Cheesecake-powered bicycle motors get much slower, leak saline, and emit foul odors when required to provide the motive power to climb them. Electric-powered bicycle motors also become much slower, and greatly drop in range.
My backup plan for long distances would be to rent a gas car. We already do this in a manner of speaking for very long trips. Do you own a plane for those once or twice a year trips to visit family, or do you do like everybody else and just buy a ticket?
While it's easy to laugh at optimistic young people that want to "make the world a better place," I have nothing but total disdain and condemnation for those that want to make it worse.
There's a name for the kind of people who want to make the world worse. It is "successful".
The only thing that matters as far as weight is concerned is calories in versus calories out.
You're right, but the type of calories consumed can affect both. Fat and protein make you feel more satiated than carbs, for instance. On the other hand, on a very low carb diet you'll likely find you can't exercise hard; you just "bonk".
As for exercise, it can help lose weight. But to burn calories, you have to work hard. You can putter around on a bike for a long time without using much energy. Or you can do your maximum sustained effort and burn over a thousand calories in an hour. Personally I like to spend as little time exercising as possible, so I exercise as hard as I can.
And yeah, I'm in the camp of "Obj-C is better than C++". But then, I like Ruby, Lisp, Clojure, and Scala too. C++ really needs to die. Any further energy spent on C++ needs instead to be put into JVM and other abstraction technologies.
Why there? We need languages meant to run on the bare metal; if nothing else, the virtual machines need to be written. It would be really good to have a language which filled C++'s niche without being C++. The problem is that C++ is too entrenched, and worse, some of C++'s flaws are too entrenched. For instance, IMO, you'd have to discard templates in favor of some more limited generics mechanism to make a reasonable language.
...I think the authors are oversimplifying way too much.
OK, you take your flash, write it until it breaks, and use the resulting cells to determine an identity. How do you read it? Write it, then read back which cells aren't written. Uh, wait, if you read it by writing it, won't you cause more failures?
Furthermore, flash often doesn't fail so cleanly. Some cells will simply not write to 0. However, other times, they will become leaky and read as 0, but then flip back to 1 at some later time. So the apparent device identity may depend on the time between the write and the read, and other factors less controllable.
Also, I'd wonder how uniform the defects are. It's quite possible that defects in a flash memory block may be much more likely to occur in some parts of a block than others.
And, emulating it is easy assuming I can use something much faster than flash (e.g. SRAM) to do the emulation.
conclusion: balloons from a Times Square event promoting Spanish Tourism
The ones from ABC news were clearly balloons -- not weather balloons, just ordinary party balloons. The large object was a bunch of them still stuck together, the many smaller ones were individual balloons.
Fox news had an even sillier film. Against a dark sky, one bright light in the center, two dimmer lights on either side. An airplane viewed from almost head-on.
Chertoff was the head of DHS who hired Stasi officers - like Markus Wolf - to design plans fro a mandatory ID programme, like that used to control freedom of movement in the former East Germany.
Obviously, he understood the purpose of the program and wanted to hire people with a record of success in implementing similar programs. The logic is unassailable, though the morality may be flawed.
Part of the problem, however, is that for all the "control" we might have over the internet, it's a global network that by design can't just be turned off like that. Personally, I think that good old fashioned, "Oh, you shutdown our air traffic control system? Here, we'll shut down your airspace by destroying anything that gets more than five feet off the ground." is more effective. Excessive? You bet. That's the whole bloody point of MAD. Cyberwarfare cannot be part of a MAD policy unless you are prepared to destroy the physical connections.
MAD isn't going to work with cyberwarfare, because it was mutual assured DESTRUCTION. Not "you shut down our air traffic control system and we shut down your airspace" but "You attack us and we turn you into radioactive dust, knowing full well you'll do the same to us". There's no cyberwarfare equivalent.
Aggressively taking down botnets, even if it means collateral damage to the compromised machines, is a good idea IMO. But it's not MAD.
It's not harder to read well written C++ code than Java, however it is easier to read badly written Java than medicore C++.
Unless it's written using J2EE, Struts, Hibernate or any of a number of Java-world things which hide half the logic in a series of configuration files, each more diabolical than the last.
C++ seems kinda kludgy. Until you start writing programs in assembly. After that C++ looks elegant.
Having written both, I disagree. I will grant you most of my assembler has NOT been x86.
C++ is a disaster on many levels. Syntactically, it's obviously so; when a simple loop through an STL vector of int is for (std::vector::const_iterator citer = myvector.begin(); citer != myvector.end(); ++citer) {
switch (*citer) {// blah
} }
Semantically it's full of land mines. Copy and conversion constructors called when you least expect it. Temporaries galore. Idioms that work, but would be inefficient if compiler-writers hadn't developed specific work-arounds (RVO, NRVO). Byzantine rules about declaration and definition and scoping. The list goes on.
I expect the engineers to have the ability to be professionals.
A professional is merely one who is paid for his work. You're simply using it here to mean "have the set of skills I deem important". You've taken some basket of non-technical skills which you find to be important and rationalized them as universal requirements, which, fortunately, they are not.
In case it isn't obvious to you: understanding likely business risks and opportunities is, yes, a business skill. Communicating effectively with customers is a people skill, and in some cases a sales skill. In your OP, you even said you want people who 'can think as businessmen (as opposed to as "engineers")'. So there's very definitely a lack of separation of roles.
Why the hell anyone would want an engineer who thinks like a businessman is anyone's guess; usually people hire engineers precisely because they think like engineers.
Sorry, if you can't meet a customer, you have no place here.
Yeah, we got that. That's, IMO, a problem.
I'm not asking any engineer to do sales. My only requirement is that they be able to communicate effectively, look presentable, and understand the business on a broad scale as well as in the minutiae.
Gee, is that all?
That isn't about separation of roles, it's all about understanding business and acting as an agent of the company, not just being a code monkey.
It's all about separation of roles, or the lack thereof. You expect your engineers to have business skills and people skills as well as technical skills.
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From TFA, emphasis mine:
And I'm supposed to accept this on your authority? Or do your homework for you?
Arresting people for assault _when the arresting officer knows damn well they haven't committed it_ IS abuse.
Lots of ways. Re-point (electronically) for every channel, even multiple simultaneously. Phase-cancel an interfering signal based on its direction. A more complicated system with dynamically-changing phase delays could probably reduce the impact of dynamic multipath.
Abuse? Does Officer Bubbles have bruises as a result? Broken bones?
Nobody abused him. They just jeered at him and called him names. Suggesting that a cop who would arrest someone for blowing bubbles might abuse his authority in other was is NOT abuse.
I love the fact that the complaint includes transcripts of all the offending cartoons. They're hilarious and it saves me the trouble of tracking them down.
But the axiom of choice is the only thing which can save us. We'll just cut up the earth and re-assemble it into two earths of equal volume!
Fat? No, sorry, please try again. No matter how much I ride the bicycle, it doesn't make climbing the hills anything but hard work.
The problem is that bane of human-powered vehicles, the inclined plane... err, the hill. Cheesecake-powered bicycle motors get much slower, leak saline, and emit foul odors when required to provide the motive power to climb them. Electric-powered bicycle motors also become much slower, and greatly drop in range.
(and poor weather doesn't help much either)
If I could afford the plane, I'd own it.
There's a name for the kind of people who want to make the world worse. It is "successful".
You're right, but the type of calories consumed can affect both. Fat and protein make you feel more satiated than carbs, for instance. On the other hand, on a very low carb diet you'll likely find you can't exercise hard; you just "bonk".
As for exercise, it can help lose weight. But to burn calories, you have to work hard. You can putter around on a bike for a long time without using much energy. Or you can do your maximum sustained effort and burn over a thousand calories in an hour. Personally I like to spend as little time exercising as possible, so I exercise as hard as I can.
One minute you're talking about the market supporting DRM, the next about government force doing so. Which is it?
Why there? We need languages meant to run on the bare metal; if nothing else, the virtual machines need to be written. It would be really good to have a language which filled C++'s niche without being C++. The problem is that C++ is too entrenched, and worse, some of C++'s flaws are too entrenched. For instance, IMO, you'd have to discard templates in favor of some more limited generics mechanism to make a reasonable language.
...I think the authors are oversimplifying way too much.
OK, you take your flash, write it until it breaks, and use the resulting cells to determine an identity. How do you read it? Write it, then read back which cells aren't written. Uh, wait, if you read it by writing it, won't you cause more failures?
Furthermore, flash often doesn't fail so cleanly. Some cells will simply not write to 0. However, other times, they will become leaky and read as 0, but then flip back to 1 at some later time. So the apparent device identity may depend on the time between the write and the read, and other factors less controllable.
Also, I'd wonder how uniform the defects are. It's quite possible that defects in a flash memory block may be much more likely to occur in some parts of a block than others.
And, emulating it is easy assuming I can use something much faster than flash (e.g. SRAM) to do the emulation.
The ones from ABC news were clearly balloons -- not weather balloons, just ordinary party balloons. The large object was a bunch of them still stuck together, the many smaller ones were individual balloons.
Fox news had an even sillier film. Against a dark sky, one bright light in the center, two dimmer lights on either side. An airplane viewed from almost head-on.
Ironic Understatement .
Obviously, he understood the purpose of the program and wanted to hire people with a record of success in implementing similar programs. The logic is unassailable, though the morality may be flawed.
MAD isn't going to work with cyberwarfare, because it was mutual assured DESTRUCTION. Not "you shut down our air traffic control system and we shut down your airspace" but "You attack us and we turn you into radioactive dust, knowing full well you'll do the same to us". There's no cyberwarfare equivalent.
Aggressively taking down botnets, even if it means collateral damage to the compromised machines, is a good idea IMO. But it's not MAD.
Unless it's written using J2EE, Struts, Hibernate or any of a number of Java-world things which hide half the logic in a series of configuration files, each more diabolical than the last.
The random sort (blort sort, bogosort, whatever) does terminate with probability 1, so it's a valid probabilistic algorithm.
Having written both, I disagree. I will grant you most of my assembler has NOT been x86.
C++ is a disaster on many levels. Syntactically, it's obviously so; when a simple loop through an STL vector of int is // blah
for (std::vector::const_iterator citer = myvector.begin(); citer != myvector.end(); ++citer)
{
switch (*citer) {
}
}
Semantically it's full of land mines. Copy and conversion constructors called when you least expect it. Temporaries galore. Idioms that work, but would be inefficient if compiler-writers hadn't developed specific work-arounds (RVO, NRVO). Byzantine rules about declaration and definition and scoping. The list goes on.
How hard is it to write a SQL query?
A professional is merely one who is paid for his work. You're simply using it here to mean "have the set of skills I deem important". You've taken some basket of non-technical skills which you find to be important and rationalized them as universal requirements, which, fortunately, they are not.
In case it isn't obvious to you: understanding likely business risks and opportunities is, yes, a business skill. Communicating effectively with customers is a people skill, and in some cases a sales skill. In your OP, you even said you want people who 'can think as businessmen (as opposed to as "engineers")'. So there's very definitely a lack of separation of roles.
Why the hell anyone would want an engineer who thinks like a businessman is anyone's guess; usually people hire engineers precisely because they think like engineers.
Yeah, we got that. That's, IMO, a problem.
Gee, is that all?
It's all about separation of roles, or the lack thereof. You expect your engineers to have business skills and people skills as well as technical skills.
Yeah. And then they added templates.