Japan's sortof counts because their GPS system is actually an enhancement of the United States GPS system in that Quazizenith will be able to track down to centimeters. Hopefully something the US GPS will never do.
I can tell you from a company that continually recycles their talent that after a while, watching the talent go out the door and having new blood learn how to fix old problems all over again gets really old. A company that treats their engineers like second hand citizens is a company that I won't invest in. They won't have a future.
I really wish this sad trend of minimalism would go away.
In a way, I feel minimalism reflects the decline of our society because let's face it, we aren't putting all that much effort into our designs at this point.
Sadly our current news media is ratings driven drivel. When your news outfits become purely profit driven, your quality doesn't have to be appealing, only your entertainment value. That is probably the largest marker of the decline of the United States. Often we hear about how the bread and circuses had to be maintained to keep the populace of Rome happy. As it turns out, our news media reflects a circus, and we have McDonald's and other fast food venues for our bread. While I support the legalization of marijuana, I feel that cheap thrills obtained by weed will most likely perpetuate this culture of bread and circuses.
Did you not see how ISIS tries to control what is being taught in the schools about mathematics and chemistry?
The Taliban also do the same to keep women and girls out of education because they might learn about other possibilities and lose their dependence on men.
In the US, it was illegal in the early 1800s to teach slaves how to read or write. If a slave were to learn, they would quickly overpower their masters.
Why else do you think there were times when the Catholic church would shun science? Education of the stars took away the geocentric theory and was bound to take away our importance of being the center of the universe.
Authoritarians have throughout history done what they could to control education. An ignorant populace is not a threat. An educated populace is capable of organization and can quickly create problems for the powers that be.
Examples of racism in South Africa were actually greater towards the Indian population than the African population because Indians
I have had the luxury of dealing with the cogs in the wheel. I am thinking about larger pieces of the puzzle when some of my compatriots are thinking of fixing the task at hand. Many times I would have to follow up with their work to fix problems left behind. After years of work, some of this cog mentality has been worked out of them, but we are talking almost a decade a year later.
Yes, I have looked at the problems. These are basic problems that apply to teaching tactics of math that scale. Such tactics come in very handy with dealing with problems of a larger scale. When this is applied to simple problems, these methods are considered bulky, even unnecessary.
Immediately, people are freaking out because simple math is all of a sudden, not so simple. This is a quality example of people complaining about something without seeing a much larger picture. This is no different than the, "OMG, the sky is falling because of environmental requirements will destroy the economy; Obama is the devil," crap that I saw on Facebook every day until a couple of months ago when I decided to stop frequenting there.
Perhaps if people would think of the long term benefits instead of the short term detriments, we as a society would be a bit more advanced than we are presently.
The problem is that we need an accurate measure of a student's creativity instead of a student's talent for memorizing the correct answer. This creates a brain-dead workforce which kills the ability to innovate. The reason this problem has surfaced is that education in general has looked for the easiest metric to measure rather than the most accurate metric to measure. If a student can quote back sections of a science book, to say they are learning is easy. To say that a student is able to map new processes of a protein folding, that's intellect, not retention of knowledge.
Common Core actually addresses some of these ideas in that they address principles of how to learn rather than just facts and figures learning. The system still needs tweaking though and not just because people are complaining about the problem.
Well, we are seeing some 4~5 GHz desktop systems now, but overall, you are pretty much spot on. There are some differences though. Now a GHz doesn't mean nearly as much because the newer and more complex instruction sets are actually able to accomplish more per tic.
I am a bit taken aback by the inclusion of the FJ Cruiser. I see a few younger drivers with them, but they aren't exactly cheap.
Knowing most of the people that drive a Mercury Topaz, I am not surprised by that. I wish I could snag a Supra as they are a bit difficult to get in this day and age.
An intelligent leader does not need to be a scientist, however, an intelligent leader needs to be scientifically literate. I feel that the lack of scientific literacy and statistical literacy as a whole has created a great gap between understanding what is going on and trusting people who have the bests interests of the people at heart. However, some exceptions exist. I honestly feel Pope Francis has been one of the best leaders of the Catholic church in the last century. I don't know if he will exceed Pope John Paul II or not, but in a short time, he has undone a lot of damage that his predecessor did. I feel his scientific background has assisted in this.
On top of that, we have an economy built on short term gains. This has created a lot of negative perceptions on things that need to be done. We can't push alternative energy because we will destroy the economy, but China and Germany have been doing just that and their economies are booming.
Sadly, what we are being told by this study is that our researchers need a PR team. Everyone can imagine what that will do to the cost of research and development. On a positive note, we might now have justification for employing the people who spent all of that time getting marketing degrees.
For starters, I don't think you will be able to successfully employ a rocket scientist for $9,888 or what ever ridiculous wage they worked for. Second MOM weighs in at 15 Kg, while MAVEN weighs in at 65 Kg. These probes function much differently.
MAVEN is there to look at dry river beds and research Mars's Atmosphere as well as serve as a relay for the rovers on the Mars.
MOM is just a proof of concept explorer for India. They threw in a few scientific instruments for kicks.
I am thrilled that India did what they did with MOM, but this in no way justifies that they are accomplishing the task of what NASA is doing for less. I hope China gets in on the action as well. I hope the US gets motivated to try and do more with less as well.
Here we have taxpayer funded technology which the NSA is making a profit off of in order to provide funding for the NSA. The problem is that while they are creating revenue off of something that was initially purchased by the tax payer. Selling such technology or research to companies in a strange way privatizes that research or technology. I firmly believe that these things should be handed over to the populace that developed them. There are some exceptions to this like for example if the NSA contracted an individual company and the individual company patents the tech, then they are trying to secure their contract with the NSA. However, when the NSA makes a discovery should become public domain.
Imagine if NASA only released their data to people who subscribed to the premium NASA network or if our armed services only provided protection to countries or states that rented our services. Imagine if FEMA only brought aid or created a tiered service to which they dispersed aid to those who donated to them.
I understand that this is how the world works, but I feel that allowing the NSA to do this, they can justify their existence by saying they are self-sustaining while other agencies don't have the ability to monetize their research but actually do more for this rocky mass orbiting third in order from Sol.
In summary, cool, you can sustain yourself, bad, you are using that to justify your existence instead of your actual excuse for existence.
If I remember correctly, before and after entering office, Obama vowed to improve government transparency and protecting whistle blowers. While in sections, such as with ARRA, government transparency was increased, the remainder of the government was obscured further.
Anymore I have to tend to race to the register in order to pay for the meal.
Times have changed, but women being on par or having equal opportunities to mean still is not true.
Currently we still use the term, "Manned" Space travel. Prior to 1970, any sentence that started a asexual pronoun usually ended with his or him to describe the asexual person. Wages are still unequal. The US still doesn't have maternity leave, but most companies do allow for that.
The situation has improved in many western countries, but there is still a lot of growth that needs to happen.
I was thinking about Larry Ellison being 70 and still wanting to work and in fact, actually wanting to take a position where he can continue to be creative instead of one handling the day to day business.
At the same time, my Grandfather passed away last year at age ninety-one. He was weeks away from being ninety-two. When asked about how old he wanted to live, he responded, "My dad lived to be ninety-two, and I think that's a good age, so I want to be ninety-two."
Towards the end, he was being despondent and spent most of his days sleeping. There were times where he would be lucid and say some fantastic things, but for the most part, I could tell he was ready to go. He had lived a good life. Many of us in the family felt that he was due as he lived his last year in a nursing home and didn't really want to even do that.
I do think that quality of life should be included in decisions to prolong life. Terry Schaivo was a case where there was nearly zero potential to improve her life. Other times, I sense that some of these hospital administrations are doing what they can to bilk insurance companies in order to extend a person's life regardless of the eventuality of their passing. Not to sound completely inhumane, but if a person is going to continue their existence by suffering, are we being humane by prolonging their existence.
There are some cases, like with Stephen Hawking, where an individual wants so much to contribute to the world that they want to exist. Because of this, there should not be any hard limit put in as far as a person's life to which we should consider ending health care.
My company, while not a fortune 500 company has been known as an engineering training ground. Those who stay behind are generally not skilled enough or too attached to the area to leave.
I am going to go ahead and include myself in not skilled enough column. Then again, they do pay for college courses and I haven't had too much trouble in getting them to allow me to go to training courses, so they aren't entirely evil.
Depends on the subject matter. I spent a couple days at DEFCON and managed to take in more info than I did at my regular job for the entire year. Personally, I consider this to be beneficial.
However, because I did go on my own dime and my own time, I didn't feel obligated to get as much out of the event and didn't think I really harmed anyone or anything other than quite a few brain cells and my liver.
If this were a conference where there were new things to learn and... the conference costs a bit more than out of pocket allows, then I would go to the company and also behave myself a bit more.
Awesome idea. If the site fails, no big loss. If the site is a success, congratulations, there is one stop shopping for exploitation. Congrats you just paid a lot of money to share your data with a bunch of friends only to have it exploited.
Nothing better than creating an easily accessible haven for all of your no-no shots and painting a giant target on it.
Because some states were pushing Ethanol pretty heavily, the price of HFCS actually went up enough to justify the cost of real sugar. The only reason why the price of sugar is so high though is because apparently we have to protect the farmers in Hawaii with tariffs on any imports. Subsidies and Tariffs can be the devil sometimes.
Farm Subsidies also are responsible for keeping the cost of HFCS down below the price of sugar cane.
However, a mission to Mars would require research into food preservation which is one of the largest problems to getting food into remote areas of the world and maintaining nutritional value for the people who need to consume it. For ever argument you can throw at NASA being a waste of money, I can counter that argument with a reason why NASA improves life.
We just had a big article about some key congressmen trying to block and sabotage SpaceX's development process. SpaceX is a young and aggressive company with clear drive and motivation to succeed. While they might have been a risky bet because they were new, they would have backed their development record. Remember this: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
These three tools of Boeing are using congress to hold back our space exploration. We need competition between these companies and giving SpaceX a chance to shine will make Boeing stop screwing over the U.S.
Anyone in Colorado and Alabama care to remove these idiots from office?
When hearing about the cloud, I tend to use the early shore based ocean analogy of what made the early oceans and oceans today cloudy. Clouds in the water were generally masses of spermatozoa looking for an egg to fertilize. So when someone references head in clouds, I can't help but think of this as a potential bukake party.
On a serious note, I have a serious problem with an ISP trying to provide cloud services and vice-versa. This is the same reason I take issue with Google Fiber. I love the speed of Google Fiber and how it shakes up the industry, but I take issue with who is providing the service the same as I take issue with CenturyLink buying up Rackspace.
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Japan's sortof counts because their GPS system is actually an enhancement of the United States GPS system in that Quazizenith will be able to track down to centimeters. Hopefully something the US GPS will never do.
I can tell you from a company that continually recycles their talent that after a while, watching the talent go out the door and having new blood learn how to fix old problems all over again gets really old. A company that treats their engineers like second hand citizens is a company that I won't invest in. They won't have a future.
I really wish this sad trend of minimalism would go away.
In a way, I feel minimalism reflects the decline of our society because let's face it, we aren't putting all that much effort into our designs at this point.
Sadly our current news media is ratings driven drivel. When your news outfits become purely profit driven, your quality doesn't have to be appealing, only your entertainment value. That is probably the largest marker of the decline of the United States. Often we hear about how the bread and circuses had to be maintained to keep the populace of Rome happy. As it turns out, our news media reflects a circus, and we have McDonald's and other fast food venues for our bread. While I support the legalization of marijuana, I feel that cheap thrills obtained by weed will most likely perpetuate this culture of bread and circuses.
Look up Shinto Buddhists
Look up Hindu
Look up Taoists
Look up Buddhists.
Many of these religions had little or no contact with Christianity.
Christianity didn't even handle marriage until after the fall of the Roman Empire. Before that, marriage was tied to the state.
Did you not see how ISIS tries to control what is being taught in the schools about mathematics and chemistry?
The Taliban also do the same to keep women and girls out of education because they might learn about other possibilities and lose their dependence on men.
In the US, it was illegal in the early 1800s to teach slaves how to read or write. If a slave were to learn, they would quickly overpower their masters.
Why else do you think there were times when the Catholic church would shun science? Education of the stars took away the geocentric theory and was bound to take away our importance of being the center of the universe.
Authoritarians have throughout history done what they could to control education. An ignorant populace is not a threat. An educated populace is capable of organization and can quickly create problems for the powers that be.
Examples of racism in South Africa were actually greater towards the Indian population than the African population because Indians
I have had the luxury of dealing with the cogs in the wheel. I am thinking about larger pieces of the puzzle when some of my compatriots are thinking of fixing the task at hand. Many times I would have to follow up with their work to fix problems left behind. After years of work, some of this cog mentality has been worked out of them, but we are talking almost a decade a year later.
Yes, I have looked at the problems. These are basic problems that apply to teaching tactics of math that scale. Such tactics come in very handy with dealing with problems of a larger scale. When this is applied to simple problems, these methods are considered bulky, even unnecessary.
Immediately, people are freaking out because simple math is all of a sudden, not so simple. This is a quality example of people complaining about something without seeing a much larger picture. This is no different than the, "OMG, the sky is falling because of environmental requirements will destroy the economy; Obama is the devil," crap that I saw on Facebook every day until a couple of months ago when I decided to stop frequenting there.
Perhaps if people would think of the long term benefits instead of the short term detriments, we as a society would be a bit more advanced than we are presently.
The problem is that we need an accurate measure of a student's creativity instead of a student's talent for memorizing the correct answer. This creates a brain-dead workforce which kills the ability to innovate. The reason this problem has surfaced is that education in general has looked for the easiest metric to measure rather than the most accurate metric to measure. If a student can quote back sections of a science book, to say they are learning is easy. To say that a student is able to map new processes of a protein folding, that's intellect, not retention of knowledge.
Common Core actually addresses some of these ideas in that they address principles of how to learn rather than just facts and figures learning. The system still needs tweaking though and not just because people are complaining about the problem.
Well, we are seeing some 4~5 GHz desktop systems now, but overall, you are pretty much spot on. There are some differences though. Now a GHz doesn't mean nearly as much because the newer and more complex instruction sets are actually able to accomplish more per tic.
I am a bit taken aback by the inclusion of the FJ Cruiser. I see a few younger drivers with them, but they aren't exactly cheap.
Knowing most of the people that drive a Mercury Topaz, I am not surprised by that. I wish I could snag a Supra as they are a bit difficult to get in this day and age.
An intelligent leader does not need to be a scientist, however, an intelligent leader needs to be scientifically literate. I feel that the lack of scientific literacy and statistical literacy as a whole has created a great gap between understanding what is going on and trusting people who have the bests interests of the people at heart. However, some exceptions exist. I honestly feel Pope Francis has been one of the best leaders of the Catholic church in the last century. I don't know if he will exceed Pope John Paul II or not, but in a short time, he has undone a lot of damage that his predecessor did. I feel his scientific background has assisted in this.
On top of that, we have an economy built on short term gains. This has created a lot of negative perceptions on things that need to be done. We can't push alternative energy because we will destroy the economy, but China and Germany have been doing just that and their economies are booming.
Sadly, what we are being told by this study is that our researchers need a PR team. Everyone can imagine what that will do to the cost of research and development. On a positive note, we might now have justification for employing the people who spent all of that time getting marketing degrees.
MOM vs MAVEN is pretty easy to answer.
For starters, I don't think you will be able to successfully employ a rocket scientist for $9,888 or what ever ridiculous wage they worked for. Second MOM weighs in at 15 Kg, while MAVEN weighs in at 65 Kg. These probes function much differently.
MAVEN is there to look at dry river beds and research Mars's Atmosphere as well as serve as a relay for the rovers on the Mars.
MOM is just a proof of concept explorer for India. They threw in a few scientific instruments for kicks.
I am thrilled that India did what they did with MOM, but this in no way justifies that they are accomplishing the task of what NASA is doing for less. I hope China gets in on the action as well. I hope the US gets motivated to try and do more with less as well.
Well, perhaps if they can get some of the payload contracts, Dream Chaser could possibly become a reality down the road.
I have mixed feelings on this as well.
Here we have taxpayer funded technology which the NSA is making a profit off of in order to provide funding for the NSA. The problem is that while they are creating revenue off of something that was initially purchased by the tax payer. Selling such technology or research to companies in a strange way privatizes that research or technology. I firmly believe that these things should be handed over to the populace that developed them. There are some exceptions to this like for example if the NSA contracted an individual company and the individual company patents the tech, then they are trying to secure their contract with the NSA. However, when the NSA makes a discovery should become public domain.
Imagine if NASA only released their data to people who subscribed to the premium NASA network or if our armed services only provided protection to countries or states that rented our services. Imagine if FEMA only brought aid or created a tiered service to which they dispersed aid to those who donated to them.
I understand that this is how the world works, but I feel that allowing the NSA to do this, they can justify their existence by saying they are self-sustaining while other agencies don't have the ability to monetize their research but actually do more for this rocky mass orbiting third in order from Sol.
In summary, cool, you can sustain yourself, bad, you are using that to justify your existence instead of your actual excuse for existence.
If I remember correctly, before and after entering office, Obama vowed to improve government transparency and protecting whistle blowers. While in sections, such as with ARRA, government transparency was increased, the remainder of the government was obscured further.
Anymore I have to tend to race to the register in order to pay for the meal.
Times have changed, but women being on par or having equal opportunities to mean still is not true.
Currently we still use the term, "Manned" Space travel. Prior to 1970, any sentence that started a asexual pronoun usually ended with his or him to describe the asexual person. Wages are still unequal. The US still doesn't have maternity leave, but most companies do allow for that.
The situation has improved in many western countries, but there is still a lot of growth that needs to happen.
I was thinking about Larry Ellison being 70 and still wanting to work and in fact, actually wanting to take a position where he can continue to be creative instead of one handling the day to day business.
At the same time, my Grandfather passed away last year at age ninety-one. He was weeks away from being ninety-two. When asked about how old he wanted to live, he responded, "My dad lived to be ninety-two, and I think that's a good age, so I want to be ninety-two."
Towards the end, he was being despondent and spent most of his days sleeping. There were times where he would be lucid and say some fantastic things, but for the most part, I could tell he was ready to go. He had lived a good life. Many of us in the family felt that he was due as he lived his last year in a nursing home and didn't really want to even do that.
I do think that quality of life should be included in decisions to prolong life. Terry Schaivo was a case where there was nearly zero potential to improve her life. Other times, I sense that some of these hospital administrations are doing what they can to bilk insurance companies in order to extend a person's life regardless of the eventuality of their passing. Not to sound completely inhumane, but if a person is going to continue their existence by suffering, are we being humane by prolonging their existence.
There are some cases, like with Stephen Hawking, where an individual wants so much to contribute to the world that they want to exist. Because of this, there should not be any hard limit put in as far as a person's life to which we should consider ending health care.
My company, while not a fortune 500 company has been known as an engineering training ground. Those who stay behind are generally not skilled enough or too attached to the area to leave.
I am going to go ahead and include myself in not skilled enough column. Then again, they do pay for college courses and I haven't had too much trouble in getting them to allow me to go to training courses, so they aren't entirely evil.
Depends on the subject matter. I spent a couple days at DEFCON and managed to take in more info than I did at my regular job for the entire year. Personally, I consider this to be beneficial.
However, because I did go on my own dime and my own time, I didn't feel obligated to get as much out of the event and didn't think I really harmed anyone or anything other than quite a few brain cells and my liver.
If this were a conference where there were new things to learn and... the conference costs a bit more than out of pocket allows, then I would go to the company and also behave myself a bit more.
Awesome idea. If the site fails, no big loss. If the site is a success, congratulations, there is one stop shopping for exploitation. Congrats you just paid a lot of money to share your data with a bunch of friends only to have it exploited.
Nothing better than creating an easily accessible haven for all of your no-no shots and painting a giant target on it.
Was cheaper...
Because some states were pushing Ethanol pretty heavily, the price of HFCS actually went up enough to justify the cost of real sugar. The only reason why the price of sugar is so high though is because apparently we have to protect the farmers in Hawaii with tariffs on any imports. Subsidies and Tariffs can be the devil sometimes.
Farm Subsidies also are responsible for keeping the cost of HFCS down below the price of sugar cane.
However, a mission to Mars would require research into food preservation which is one of the largest problems to getting food into remote areas of the world and maintaining nutritional value for the people who need to consume it. For ever argument you can throw at NASA being a waste of money, I can counter that argument with a reason why NASA improves life.
We just had a big article about some key congressmen trying to block and sabotage SpaceX's development process. SpaceX is a young and aggressive company with clear drive and motivation to succeed. While they might have been a risky bet because they were new, they would have backed their development record.
Remember this:
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
These three tools of Boeing are using congress to hold back our space exploration. We need competition between these companies and giving SpaceX a chance to shine will make Boeing stop screwing over the U.S.
Anyone in Colorado and Alabama care to remove these idiots from office?
When hearing about the cloud, I tend to use the early shore based ocean analogy of what made the early oceans and oceans today cloudy. Clouds in the water were generally masses of spermatozoa looking for an egg to fertilize. So when someone references head in clouds, I can't help but think of this as a potential bukake party.
On a serious note, I have a serious problem with an ISP trying to provide cloud services and vice-versa. This is the same reason I take issue with Google Fiber. I love the speed of Google Fiber and how it shakes up the industry, but I take issue with who is providing the service the same as I take issue with CenturyLink buying up Rackspace.