> Whether fracking is scientifically sound or not, we have just got to stop this desperate scrabbling to dig up any scrap of fossil fuel we can find.
Where precisely is the energy for you to type that comment on your computer, store it, and me reading it is coming from?
Unicorns and magic pixie dust?
The cynical side in me says: Thanks to the Internet, everyone (not just law enforcement) now has wiretap capabilities far far beyond what they could do just 10-20 years ago. ANYONE can now track anything beyond their wildest dreams. Wiretaps are going the way of brick-and-mortar store, print shops, and rotary dial telephones.
Exactly, the differential between CA gas prices is NOT because of extra taxes, it is the result of bill AB32's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
AB32's LCFS mandates a special formulation which will change for the next few years, so refineries will be constantly having to change to accommodate this. There hasn't been any increase in refineries or production on the West coast as far as I know. Therefore, this is a reduction in supply, thus the increase in CA price over other states (such as AZ).
Why are we wasting our time with batteries where (a) from an electrochemical perspective never reach the energy density of hydrocarbons and (b) never be able to transfer the energy electrically nearly at the same rate as we currently do with hydrocarbons? Because we should be looking at either synthetic fuels or bio-fuels such as bio-butanol.
The flaw in taxing sin foods to pay for health care is the tax does not do that, especially in CA. The tax money usually goes towards the general fund where the money is used for teacher's salaries, CA govt employee pension, or a salary for some termed out CA legislator in some obscure "committee". In other words, ANYTHING BUT health care for the rest. Even taxes that were supposed to be put into a separate fund are usually raided and put into the general fund eventually. That is why nobody who follows politics in CA and does not drink the Democrat kool-aid believes taxing sin foods will help health care.
Against state's rights? Then this article explains lays out what you asked for.
When the public got an ear full of "Johnny cant read", No Child Left Behind and the STAR test is EXACTLY what a large faceless federal bureaucracy (aka, President / Department of Education) is going to have for a solution. To expect anything else is living in fantasy land.
Therefore, give back education requirements to a per state basis and get rid of not only No Child Left Behind, but also the Department of Education. If you feel a state's electorate isn't qualified to determine what's good for their kids, tough.
If you expect education to be run by a federal executive branch with no input, you will continue to get these solutions. And for those who love this, don't complain when that same bureaucracy is run by a president you didn't elect.
It is revolutionary from the standpoint that the government didn't lay down the requirements for what they wanted (or just designed the item themselves) in a space vehicle, just ISS interface requirements. SpaceX built what they wanted without NASA or DoD people sticking their noses in. And SpaceX actually completed the project and docked with the space station, instead of just making a ton of Powerpoints and 3D animated videos on what it would look like if they actually did it.
If others follow SpaceX, then instead of Slashdot bitching about the difference between a capsule and a delta winged re-entry vehicle, private companies can actually BUILD it and we'll conclusively see which is better.
THAT is what is revolutionary.
You are ordering blindly if the product has any human interface whatsoever, such as clothes, shoes, gadgets which require lots of human input, etc. No amount of reviews (half which are now astroturfed anyways) is going to allow you to see just how well that shirt looks on you, how well you can jump around menu GUIs, etc etc etc. At this point, instead of a 30 minute drive / pick up the item and look at it / buy it on the spot, NOW it's order it online / wait a few days (and pay for shipping) / open box and find out it wasn't what you expected / get return ID from ordering site / repackage item / drive to place to ship it back (pay for more shipping) / wait x days to get your money back (unless there's a restocking fee).
Totally enjoyed the article.
1) I believe this type of mismanagement is a systemic flaw which occurs today despite all the Challenger / Hubble lessons learned. This seems to happen when any project is driven by unspeakable layers of management and the top layers have goals and metrics far different than the bottom layers
2) Was the Apollo project which put man on the moon any different? How did we get all these people to put a man on the moon while today we cannot even get a rocket off the ground?
> In fact, within the U.S., students in union states are doing better than students in non-union states.
Maybe because those states have parents who care more about learning and have kids who care more about learning (thus higher scoring), and these same parents are willing to shovel out more money to schools and facilitate unions?
In this explanation, unions are not the cause of the kids learning more, unions are merely a by-product of the underlying cause (caring parents).
When people do not have a good attitude towards learning and education, they impress it upon their kids and then that bad attitude towards education is transferred into the classroom. When a large number of kids have bad attitudes towards education, it kind of sinks everyone including the smart kids caught in that school. What is so hard to understand here? I know this from pure personal experience and observation.
Therefore, giving people who don't give a rats ass about education more money is not going to fix the underlying problem, it's just going to waste more money. Go find poor people who hit the lottery and follow up to see how their lives and their kids lives turned out to prove your hypothesis otherwise. I'll bet their kids haven't been better off.
Even TFA states that mastering comes into play very much, and I've noticed that 24/192 music usually is way better mastered than 16/44. It kind of makes sense, since why would you bother releasing 24/192 through a crappy analog chain, while 16/44 is so ubiquitous that resulting CDs run the gamut on mastering quality.
While I agree you will not hear the difference between _perfectly mastered_ 16/44 and 24/192, I think there is a greater point which is missed, and that is mastering tends to run better with higher fidelity formats since crappy mastering is more obvious with 24/192.
Maybe 24 bits will lower the noise floor more so high dynamic instruments (drums, etc) will come across a bit better due to less compression usually applied. Not sure.
I would have maybe a faint, tiny glimmer of interest if we weren't on our fourth XBOX 360 after the others RRDed. And that's only been a couple of years. And that's with the console on a UPS and in open air (no cooling restrictions) in an air conditioned environment.
Hey old timers, if you're a US citizen and clearable, there's plenty of "work" for you in DoD contracting.
Want to be on the cutting edge of 1990s technology? Want to legitimately justify never doing anything? Afraid of new technology? Does the prospect of building a web app got you running scared? Enjoy being bogged down in process? Do you like the Kafka-eske labyrinth of OPSEC? Like being stuck on ancient platforms because of the specter (and paperwork) of "configuration management"? Do you enjoy doing activities like filling out justification forms more than you like design and programming? Do you look forward to having all of your ideas stymied? Is professional sclerosis appealing to you?
Then look no further! You can have all this and more by going to work for a big DoD contractor on a big multi-year contract.
You too can enjoy working in an environment where there are very few technical people under 30 years of age, and where everybody else is pretty much a loser.
I can't wait to get out of this f.cking job. I'd rather be broke and working for a startup. At least I'd be doing something constructive.
LOL Either many of my co-workers or myself could have written the parent post! I am the living embodiment of this post.
To the person who says "it works for me", it REALLY REALLY depends upon the combination of manager / project / funding you're getting. I've worked in cool projects under the "labyrinth" of big DOD contractors, but that was ONLY because the project manager knew "how to work the system". If you don't have the luck of working for someone like that, you WILL work under the environment mentioned above, I guarantee it..
I don't want single-skilled people like programmers
As I always say, if I could have, in addition to my technical skills, all the managerial skills and marketing skills which many supposedly want me to have, screw you. I would open my own company first rather than work for some other clown or sociopath. The whole point of working as a supposed "team" is that various team members blend their unique skills which the other co-workers don't have into a cohesive unit. Watch a football game sometime to visually illustrate what I mean.
I cannot count the number of times I got into a situation where I explicitly told upper management from day one "hey I can do technical, but I don't want to manage or market", yet 1 year later be thrown exactly into that position. That's happening to me right now...
Show me a private company which invested over 3 billion dollars in something with absolutely nothing to show for and afterwards still goes on like nothing happened.
That tablet PC fever is already starting to cool down because, let's face it, the tablet PC is actually a pretty dumb idea. How can we improve the friendliness of computers? I know! Let's take away the keyboard! What next? Take away the screen? That would look cool! I mean, seriously, once you have impressed all of your friends with your new trendy gadget, you have to go back to writing emails, articles, software, books, and good luck with that if you don't even have a keyboard.
Translation: I want to pound this nail in, but instead there are these screwdrivers. I think the screwdriver is a pretty dumb idea. Instead of being able to pound something like I want to, this screwdriver just turns around in circles. I want manufacturers to redo the screwdriver so I can pound this nail in.
Just think if this tech was tied to all the millions of security camera servers out there. These two coupled together would allow someone to be found pretty rapidly in this day and age if they are anywhere near civilization.
Oh, did I forget to mention, yes I did. Norway is the third largest oil exporter in the world. Sure must help your "communist" society when you get a shitload of cash flowing into your country compared to its size.
...if we got back into space one way or the other. I don't care if the people going up are "officially managed" NASA astronauts or not.
Question, is the Atlas rocket man rated for space? Why are we developing new LEO rockets when we already have working ones, aside from payload capacity? Just asking...
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> Whether fracking is scientifically sound or not, we have just got to stop this desperate scrabbling to dig up any scrap of fossil fuel we can find. Where precisely is the energy for you to type that comment on your computer, store it, and me reading it is coming from? Unicorns and magic pixie dust?
The cynical side in me says: Thanks to the Internet, everyone (not just law enforcement) now has wiretap capabilities far far beyond what they could do just 10-20 years ago. ANYONE can now track anything beyond their wildest dreams. Wiretaps are going the way of brick-and-mortar store, print shops, and rotary dial telephones.
Exactly, the differential between CA gas prices is NOT because of extra taxes, it is the result of bill AB32's Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
AB32's LCFS mandates a special formulation which will change for the next few years, so refineries will be constantly having to change to accommodate this. There hasn't been any increase in refineries or production on the West coast as far as I know. Therefore, this is a reduction in supply, thus the increase in CA price over other states (such as AZ).
To continue the streamlining:
Why does it take so long to charge the batteries when you are only a third of the way to your long journey's destination? Because as pointed out in another post, the energy density of hydrocarbons coupled with the delivery mechanism WILL ALWAYS beat electricity and batteries, always.
Why are we wasting our time with batteries where (a) from an electrochemical perspective never reach the energy density of hydrocarbons and (b) never be able to transfer the energy electrically nearly at the same rate as we currently do with hydrocarbons? Because we should be looking at either synthetic fuels or bio-fuels such as bio-butanol.
The flaw in taxing sin foods to pay for health care is the tax does not do that, especially in CA. The tax money usually goes towards the general fund where the money is used for teacher's salaries, CA govt employee pension, or a salary for some termed out CA legislator in some obscure "committee". In other words, ANYTHING BUT health care for the rest. Even taxes that were supposed to be put into a separate fund are usually raided and put into the general fund eventually. That is why nobody who follows politics in CA and does not drink the Democrat kool-aid believes taxing sin foods will help health care.
Against state's rights? Then this article explains lays out what you asked for.
When the public got an ear full of "Johnny cant read", No Child Left Behind and the STAR test is EXACTLY what a large faceless federal bureaucracy (aka, President / Department of Education) is going to have for a solution. To expect anything else is living in fantasy land.
Therefore, give back education requirements to a per state basis and get rid of not only No Child Left Behind, but also the Department of Education. If you feel a state's electorate isn't qualified to determine what's good for their kids, tough.
If you expect education to be run by a federal executive branch with no input, you will continue to get these solutions. And for those who love this, don't complain when that same bureaucracy is run by a president you didn't elect.
It is revolutionary from the standpoint that the government didn't lay down the requirements for what they wanted (or just designed the item themselves) in a space vehicle, just ISS interface requirements. SpaceX built what they wanted without NASA or DoD people sticking their noses in. And SpaceX actually completed the project and docked with the space station, instead of just making a ton of Powerpoints and 3D animated videos on what it would look like if they actually did it. If others follow SpaceX, then instead of Slashdot bitching about the difference between a capsule and a delta winged re-entry vehicle, private companies can actually BUILD it and we'll conclusively see which is better. THAT is what is revolutionary.
There HAS to be some way to exploit this method in a way you cannot do with traditional PCB making methods.
The way the summary was written, I first thought the bees were getting too fat off the HFCS to get off the ground... Then I RTFA
How about less politics and more technology stories? If I want to read about politics, I'll go to a political web site.
You are ordering blindly if the product has any human interface whatsoever, such as clothes, shoes, gadgets which require lots of human input, etc. No amount of reviews (half which are now astroturfed anyways) is going to allow you to see just how well that shirt looks on you, how well you can jump around menu GUIs, etc etc etc. At this point, instead of a 30 minute drive / pick up the item and look at it / buy it on the spot, NOW it's order it online / wait a few days (and pay for shipping) / open box and find out it wasn't what you expected / get return ID from ordering site / repackage item / drive to place to ship it back (pay for more shipping) / wait x days to get your money back (unless there's a restocking fee).
Totally enjoyed the article. 1) I believe this type of mismanagement is a systemic flaw which occurs today despite all the Challenger / Hubble lessons learned. This seems to happen when any project is driven by unspeakable layers of management and the top layers have goals and metrics far different than the bottom layers 2) Was the Apollo project which put man on the moon any different? How did we get all these people to put a man on the moon while today we cannot even get a rocket off the ground?
Yes. He did exactly what he said that FOX News would have done. Ironic, not to mention hypocritical.
Equating Fox News to NPR is _NOT_ the outcome I think the OP had in mind :-)
> In fact, within the U.S., students in union states are doing better than students in non-union states. Maybe because those states have parents who care more about learning and have kids who care more about learning (thus higher scoring), and these same parents are willing to shovel out more money to schools and facilitate unions?
In this explanation, unions are not the cause of the kids learning more, unions are merely a by-product of the underlying cause (caring parents).
When people do not have a good attitude towards learning and education, they impress it upon their kids and then that bad attitude towards education is transferred into the classroom. When a large number of kids have bad attitudes towards education, it kind of sinks everyone including the smart kids caught in that school. What is so hard to understand here? I know this from pure personal experience and observation.
Therefore, giving people who don't give a rats ass about education more money is not going to fix the underlying problem, it's just going to waste more money. Go find poor people who hit the lottery and follow up to see how their lives and their kids lives turned out to prove your hypothesis otherwise. I'll bet their kids haven't been better off.
Even TFA states that mastering comes into play very much, and I've noticed that 24/192 music usually is way better mastered than 16/44. It kind of makes sense, since why would you bother releasing 24/192 through a crappy analog chain, while 16/44 is so ubiquitous that resulting CDs run the gamut on mastering quality. While I agree you will not hear the difference between _perfectly mastered_ 16/44 and 24/192, I think there is a greater point which is missed, and that is mastering tends to run better with higher fidelity formats since crappy mastering is more obvious with 24/192. Maybe 24 bits will lower the noise floor more so high dynamic instruments (drums, etc) will come across a bit better due to less compression usually applied. Not sure.
I would have maybe a faint, tiny glimmer of interest if we weren't on our fourth XBOX 360 after the others RRDed. And that's only been a couple of years. And that's with the console on a UPS and in open air (no cooling restrictions) in an air conditioned environment.
Hey old timers, if you're a US citizen and clearable, there's plenty of "work" for you in DoD contracting. Want to be on the cutting edge of 1990s technology? Want to legitimately justify never doing anything? Afraid of new technology? Does the prospect of building a web app got you running scared? Enjoy being bogged down in process? Do you like the Kafka-eske labyrinth of OPSEC? Like being stuck on ancient platforms because of the specter (and paperwork) of "configuration management"? Do you enjoy doing activities like filling out justification forms more than you like design and programming? Do you look forward to having all of your ideas stymied? Is professional sclerosis appealing to you? Then look no further! You can have all this and more by going to work for a big DoD contractor on a big multi-year contract. You too can enjoy working in an environment where there are very few technical people under 30 years of age, and where everybody else is pretty much a loser. I can't wait to get out of this f.cking job. I'd rather be broke and working for a startup. At least I'd be doing something constructive.
LOL Either many of my co-workers or myself could have written the parent post! I am the living embodiment of this post.
To the person who says "it works for me", it REALLY REALLY depends upon the combination of manager / project / funding you're getting. I've worked in cool projects under the "labyrinth" of big DOD contractors, but that was ONLY because the project manager knew "how to work the system". If you don't have the luck of working for someone like that, you WILL work under the environment mentioned above, I guarantee it..
I don't want single-skilled people like programmers
As I always say, if I could have, in addition to my technical skills, all the managerial skills and marketing skills which many supposedly want me to have, screw you. I would open my own company first rather than work for some other clown or sociopath. The whole point of working as a supposed "team" is that various team members blend their unique skills which the other co-workers don't have into a cohesive unit. Watch a football game sometime to visually illustrate what I mean.
I cannot count the number of times I got into a situation where I explicitly told upper management from day one "hey I can do technical, but I don't want to manage or market", yet 1 year later be thrown exactly into that position. That's happening to me right now...
Show me a private company which invested over 3 billion dollars in something with absolutely nothing to show for and afterwards still goes on like nothing happened.
That tablet PC fever is already starting to cool down because, let's face it, the tablet PC is actually a pretty dumb idea. How can we improve the friendliness of computers? I know! Let's take away the keyboard! What next? Take away the screen? That would look cool! I mean, seriously, once you have impressed all of your friends with your new trendy gadget, you have to go back to writing emails, articles, software, books, and good luck with that if you don't even have a keyboard.
Translation: I want to pound this nail in, but instead there are these screwdrivers. I think the screwdriver is a pretty dumb idea. Instead of being able to pound something like I want to, this screwdriver just turns around in circles. I want manufacturers to redo the screwdriver so I can pound this nail in.
Just think if this tech was tied to all the millions of security camera servers out there. These two coupled together would allow someone to be found pretty rapidly in this day and age if they are anywhere near civilization.
This isn't the first time some federal government facility was built and then promptly discarded... Your efficient taxpayer's dollars at work.
Oh, did I forget to mention, yes I did. Norway is the third largest oil exporter in the world. Sure must help your "communist" society when you get a shitload of cash flowing into your country compared to its size.
...if we got back into space one way or the other. I don't care if the people going up are "officially managed" NASA astronauts or not.
Question, is the Atlas rocket man rated for space? Why are we developing new LEO rockets when we already have working ones, aside from payload capacity? Just asking...