They never go into detail in the book (I believe... pardon it's been an eternity since I've read it) but my assumption was always Soylent Yellow and Red were some artificially produced edible protein where it's entirely likely yellow came from insects and red maybe even came from real animals (rats?).
The way to get people to eat this stuff is to have it come out in NOT-INSECT-LOOKING form such as a cube of blended worm-meal.. maybe even with some artificial flavoring / coloring added. I mean... people eat Tofu don't they? (I don't... but some people do.;)
Most girls/women I know like Star Wars as well. Even those who aren't big fans I'm not seeing any who would run away from something just because Star Wars they just don't seek it out.
That being said: In my own limited demographic of "girls I know" they would get MUCH better buy in from Dr. Who. The reboot of the series really grabbed the XX side of the gene pool in a big way for whatever reason. I can't blame 'em... I've always liked Dr. Who but the reboot has the ladies swooning. Are the new Doctors that much hotter than the old ones? Are the storylines more relateable to women? Inquiring minds want to know!
So do they count a laser the happens to be shined 'near' a plane or are these all directly aimed at/in the cockpit? They specifically not that none of the over 5k "strikes" caused any injury so if any actually penetrated the cockpit they didn't hit any eyes. I'm picturing pilots reporting a laser that they happen to see nearby. I have an extremely powerful laser that finds itself pointing at the sky all the time. I'd never shine one at a plane anyway but most of the time I have comfort in the fact my laser shining straight upward couldn't hit a pilot's eyes anyway unless they happened to be banking at the wrong time. Only time I'd even have a good angle is on take-off or landing. SO long rambling run-on question later: What do they define as a "Laser Strike" how intentional / directed does it have to be or are the standards for a "strike" fairly low?
Most of the time I love my Gen-1 Moto-X... *except when it's booting it *always takes way longer to start up than I want (haven't measured but it's in the 1-2 minute range) and then at worst when it decides to "Optimize Apps" and I've seen that take upwards of 45 minutes.. no way to cancel just have to wait there until it finishes with a useless phone.
Whichever dev decided that was a good idea: Go fuck yourself and get a new profession.
Yeah depends where you are.. my issue with the description is their idea of cheap. Maybe coming from a $2200 350 square foot apartment in Manhattan $700-$900/month might be a good deal BUT as I recall Syracuse' housing market is WAY more like Minneapolis (where I live) (actually according to Trulia our average home cost at least is quite a bit higher than Syracuse) and $700-$900 for 300 sq ft is pretty overpriced for here. I'm paying roughly $1 / sq ft... not $3. Shared living places are generally cheaper not more expensive (I'm in a solo 2 bedroom apt). Such a place wouldn't necessarily be $300 here but probably no more than $500 w/ utilities included.
In my own personal definitions, there is a big difference between a Programmer and a Software Engineer. A big example of that is you can outsource a Programmer but rarely would you outsource a Software Engineer (unless you're outsourcing the entire project). A Software Engineer gets the *whole job done whereas a Programmer writes the code they've been told to write or maybe with some drive they've determined needs to be written. What I do is engineering and that opinion has not been changed by this article in the slightest although I do agree that there are a lot of Programmers that attempt to wear the name Software Engineer without the ability or knowledge of the difference.
Honestly my biggest beef with the article is the primary reason why Programmers are not Engineers which is that software fails hard and is unpredictable. I'm sorry but a bad engineer is still an engineer. When our infrastructure is crumbling around us you don't hear anyone saying that the hundreds to thousands of what this article considers "legitimate" engineers involved in those projects are really just uppity construction workers. They are Engineers that did their job very poorly. Software is exactly the same way. So sorry that the billions of lines of code we're surrounded by every day are not coded bullet proof perfection but neither are our buildings and bridges, etc.
Plus the "there's nothing we could do about it anyhow" has a bit of truth. I'm all for novel solutions (like what Spock did to the volcano in New Trek 2) but for our current reality the only solutions amount to "Colonizing other planets" or other such relocation efforts (Sky, underground in "safe" parts of the world, etc). We're hopefully already working on #1 albeit at a snail's pace so a couple hundred years year's warning may be just the right amount to actually have some population out there. The reality is even with such solutions a lot of people are going to die here. (Read Billions) it's the civilizations we start elsewhere that will continue.
I typically am opposed to Apple's way of doing business. This action I applaud. As many commenters have already stated, "Impossible" is not possible when it comes to hacking BUT for Apple to rebuke the USGOV in saying they can't is a great example to set.
That being said: It's also entirely likely that they are making a big show of saying no while quietly working with the man behind the scenes. "It's way better for the public to think we can't do this and helps us sell iDevices but here's the magic tool you need to pwn your citizens."
" investigations, audits, litigation or potential litigation regarding matters in which I have been involved "
*If this is the same agreement that was signed by the IT guys (I'm guessing the amount at least was smaller but the terms are probably the same) then this isn't weird at all! They are not asking these employees to help with technical matters. As a severely regulated business will loads of liability their employees are credible witnesses and subject to subpoena or to answer to regulators inquiries. This contract is saying just that quite literally. I'm not saying they won't get any calls of a technical nature but the wording above doesn't even require them to respond to such calls. If the SEC comes calling though they better step to.
Now really hoping one of these employees actually produces the wording of their contract to clarify because if it's the above then this is a lot of fuss over not that much.
It is quite less common that an asteroid of this size passes this close. Yes you can see shooting stars nearly every night but this flyby is maybe worth missing a little sleep if you have the gear and diligence to be able to see it.
There are people out there (many of my friends included) who need protection from such a thing because they can't put the tiniest amount of thought into what they are doing when on their computer. I do not practice safe browsing by any means, torrents and pr0n are just too much fun to leave alone;-), but somehow manage to never get infected without any A/V software protecting me BUT I keep getting calls from friends who's machines have turned into rotting cesspools and want them cleaned. Honestly my answer lately is "Call Geek squad" because it's not worth my time or energy to scrub their waste pond just to have it rot again shortly there after and Geek Squad is cheaper than my time if I were to bill them. So for these people A/V software may be useful but honestly again most of them already have it and it didn't keep them safe anyway.
A/V DOES otoh slow down your machine, interfere with properly running processes and generally behave like the worst of viruses on its own so why willingly go down that path.
I'm curious on the other side of the equation: (Quote from summary... why RTFA?!) "The researchers liken a light beam to a team of cyclists — while the group as a whole moves at a constant speed, individual riders may occasionally drop back or move forward." Dropping back is fine BUT moving forward should be theoretically impossible since that photon would then be traveling above the speed of light SO are they making the claim that individual photons are able to accomplish such a feat?
I was kinda thinking that satisfying whine of a Ferrari myself.
Else: The pod racers from Episode 1 Imperial March The Jaws sound Psycho Sound Batman theme song Chainsaw! Woody Allen mumbling random stuff occasionally including "I'm a car" Barking!
My number one reason that it wasn't for me? Price. $1500 is more than I was willing to spend for what it had to offer.
SO I never got to your list of what was wrong with it. If it needs to have my smart phone around for functionality (can't honestly remember) then I wouldn't spend more than $300 on it. If it can completely operate stand-alone then I'd put it in my high-end smart phone range of maybe a $800 cap assuming it had comparable specs.
After checking out Microsoft's forthcoming (someday) Hololens demo I would be disappointed if anything like Glass didn't have all of the same capabilities as it does. If it can't truly augment my world then it's not where it needs to be to get my $ at this point. Not saying MS's product is perfect either but it has set the concept bar up a notch that I really don't see Glass 1.0 living up to.
Not always... really depends on the quality of management. Expensive people aren't always the best people to lay off anyway since they tend to have significantly higher layoff costs. (severance, etc).
The last company I worked for had some real financial issues (highly profitable company in-general but suffering from a crushing debt load killing all of those profits) we ended up going through 2 rounds of layoffs. The first, dictated by the board but implemented locally, was stellar. It's amazing how much better a company can perform when you can shed a bunch of people who were holding you back. You feel the bite a little bit because a person who was only operating at 20% was still doing 20% work that has to be made up somewhere but you also get rid of some costly bottlenecks leaving you with clearer holes to fill for partial re-hire.
Round 2 was terrible: This one was mandated by a gov't takeover so not only were the numbers MUCH higher but they were based on nationality / new background checks instead of manager input / performance. Honestly the capability of the company was severely neutered.
Honestly a layoff of the first variety every 5-10 years is good for culling the chaff. Unfortunately most larger companies seem to operate more like the second variety when they shed numbers to make the shareholders happy.
1) Confiscate 2) Confiscate 3) "Pretend" that it was never there in the first place and start shopping for a vacation... 4) Watch it drive away unless they are taking the person into custody in which case it goes to impound where the perp can get it back for a healthy Tow/Storage fee.
Honestly (that skill needs to be taught. While reading the novel of a post above where grade by grade counts of incorrect test questions were enumerated. Mention was made about "My 6th grade math and science teacher hated me because I had to point out the errors that she made on her exams." (there were others but that's the best quotable). Response: Well, duh! No one likes to be told they're wrong, especially teachers. I can read someone describing that they gently or respectfully pursued such action but in reality it was probably less than such. I've found plenty of errors on tests over the years and if you present the issue to your teacher correctly you get thanks for helping improve their test not trials of forced humiliation.
It's amazing how much you can accomplish with empathy instead of aggression.
I was a bit behind your curves but even in the 80's/90's computers were still pretty foreign to most educators. I and a few others who ended up in "Computer Lab Assistant" roles became the teachers. My "supervisors" were smart enough to get out of our way and let us explore. They were also smart enough to have the capability to restore each machine to image if things got messed up too much to fix by hand. (Of course we created those images and the process for restoring them)
If a teacher or administrator had issues with their office computers we were the ones they called. When a student had a hard question in computer class we were more likely able to answer it than the teacher and she was not dumb by any means (better at the machines than anyone else in the school save a couple exceptions in the math department) but she knew our value and how to gain from that while letting us gain from "play time"
I wish there were more teachers like that in the world.
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They never go into detail in the book (I believe... pardon it's been an eternity since I've read it) but my assumption was always Soylent Yellow and Red were some artificially produced edible protein where it's entirely likely yellow came from insects and red maybe even came from real animals (rats?).
The way to get people to eat this stuff is to have it come out in NOT-INSECT-LOOKING form such as a cube of blended worm-meal.. maybe even with some artificial flavoring / coloring added. I mean... people eat Tofu don't they? (I don't... but some people do. ;)
Most girls/women I know like Star Wars as well. Even those who aren't big fans I'm not seeing any who would run away from something just because Star Wars they just don't seek it out.
That being said: In my own limited demographic of "girls I know" they would get MUCH better buy in from Dr. Who. The reboot of the series really grabbed the XX side of the gene pool in a big way for whatever reason. I can't blame 'em... I've always liked Dr. Who but the reboot has the ladies swooning. Are the new Doctors that much hotter than the old ones? Are the storylines more relateable to women? Inquiring minds want to know!
So do they count a laser the happens to be shined 'near' a plane or are these all directly aimed at/in the cockpit? They specifically not that none of the over 5k "strikes" caused any injury so if any actually penetrated the cockpit they didn't hit any eyes. I'm picturing pilots reporting a laser that they happen to see nearby. I have an extremely powerful laser that finds itself pointing at the sky all the time. I'd never shine one at a plane anyway but most of the time I have comfort in the fact my laser shining straight upward couldn't hit a pilot's eyes anyway unless they happened to be banking at the wrong time. Only time I'd even have a good angle is on take-off or landing. SO long rambling run-on question later: What do they define as a "Laser Strike" how intentional / directed does it have to be or are the standards for a "strike" fairly low?
Most of the time I love my Gen-1 Moto-X... *except when it's booting it *always takes way longer to start up than I want (haven't measured but it's in the 1-2 minute range) and then at worst when it decides to "Optimize Apps" and I've seen that take upwards of 45 minutes.. no way to cancel just have to wait there until it finishes with a useless phone.
Whichever dev decided that was a good idea: Go fuck yourself and get a new profession.
Yeah depends where you are.. my issue with the description is their idea of cheap. Maybe coming from a $2200 350 square foot apartment in Manhattan $700-$900/month might be a good deal BUT as I recall Syracuse' housing market is WAY more like Minneapolis (where I live) (actually according to Trulia our average home cost at least is quite a bit higher than Syracuse) and $700-$900 for 300 sq ft is pretty overpriced for here. I'm paying roughly $1 / sq ft... not $3. Shared living places are generally cheaper not more expensive (I'm in a solo 2 bedroom apt). Such a place wouldn't necessarily be $300 here but probably no more than $500 w/ utilities included.
^^ 2 Thumbs Up.
In my own personal definitions, there is a big difference between a Programmer and a Software Engineer. A big example of that is you can outsource a Programmer but rarely would you outsource a Software Engineer (unless you're outsourcing the entire project). A Software Engineer gets the *whole job done whereas a Programmer writes the code they've been told to write or maybe with some drive they've determined needs to be written. What I do is engineering and that opinion has not been changed by this article in the slightest although I do agree that there are a lot of Programmers that attempt to wear the name Software Engineer without the ability or knowledge of the difference.
Honestly my biggest beef with the article is the primary reason why Programmers are not Engineers which is that software fails hard and is unpredictable. I'm sorry but a bad engineer is still an engineer. When our infrastructure is crumbling around us you don't hear anyone saying that the hundreds to thousands of what this article considers "legitimate" engineers involved in those projects are really just uppity construction workers. They are Engineers that did their job very poorly. Software is exactly the same way. So sorry that the billions of lines of code we're surrounded by every day are not coded bullet proof perfection but neither are our buildings and bridges, etc.
I thought you could easily identify them by the cool marks on their arms??
...or if you look at the primary definition of the word 'Enterprise' which has nothing to do with capitalism:
"a project or undertaking, typically one that is difficult or requires effort."
Sounds pretty much like a solid definition of the original mission.
Plus the "there's nothing we could do about it anyhow" has a bit of truth. I'm all for novel solutions (like what Spock did to the volcano in New Trek 2) but for our current reality the only solutions amount to "Colonizing other planets" or other such relocation efforts (Sky, underground in "safe" parts of the world, etc). We're hopefully already working on #1 albeit at a snail's pace so a couple hundred years year's warning may be just the right amount to actually have some population out there. The reality is even with such solutions a lot of people are going to die here. (Read Billions) it's the civilizations we start elsewhere that will continue.
I typically am opposed to Apple's way of doing business. This action I applaud. As many commenters have already stated, "Impossible" is not possible when it comes to hacking BUT for Apple to rebuke the USGOV in saying they can't is a great example to set.
That being said: It's also entirely likely that they are making a big show of saying no while quietly working with the man behind the scenes. "It's way better for the public to think we can't do this and helps us sell iDevices but here's the magic tool you need to pwn your citizens."
Anyway..
" investigations, audits, litigation or potential litigation regarding matters in which I have been involved "
*If this is the same agreement that was signed by the IT guys (I'm guessing the amount at least was smaller but the terms are probably the same) then this isn't weird at all! They are not asking these employees to help with technical matters. As a severely regulated business will loads of liability their employees are credible witnesses and subject to subpoena or to answer to regulators inquiries. This contract is saying just that quite literally. I'm not saying they won't get any calls of a technical nature but the wording above doesn't even require them to respond to such calls. If the SEC comes calling though they better step to.
Now really hoping one of these employees actually produces the wording of their contract to clarify because if it's the above then this is a lot of fuss over not that much.
It is quite less common that an asteroid of this size passes this close. Yes you can see shooting stars nearly every night but this flyby is maybe worth missing a little sleep if you have the gear and diligence to be able to see it.
It's just sleep anyway...
My big question is why just have one when you can have a swarm??
Give those martians something to *really be scared about... :-)
Repeat: Best software = None.
There are people out there (many of my friends included) who need protection from such a thing because they can't put the tiniest amount of thought into what they are doing when on their computer. I do not practice safe browsing by any means, torrents and pr0n are just too much fun to leave alone ;-), but somehow manage to never get infected without any A/V software protecting me BUT I keep getting calls from friends who's machines have turned into rotting cesspools and want them cleaned. Honestly my answer lately is "Call Geek squad" because it's not worth my time or energy to scrub their waste pond just to have it rot again shortly there after and Geek Squad is cheaper than my time if I were to bill them. So for these people A/V software may be useful but honestly again most of them already have it and it didn't keep them safe anyway.
A/V DOES otoh slow down your machine, interfere with properly running processes and generally behave like the worst of viruses on its own so why willingly go down that path.
I'm curious on the other side of the equation: (Quote from summary... why RTFA?!) "The researchers liken a light beam to a team of cyclists — while the group as a whole moves at a constant speed, individual riders may occasionally drop back or move forward." Dropping back is fine BUT moving forward should be theoretically impossible since that photon would then be traveling above the speed of light SO are they making the claim that individual photons are able to accomplish such a feat?
Inquiring minds want to know...
I was kinda thinking that satisfying whine of a Ferrari myself.
Else:
The pod racers from Episode 1
Imperial March
The Jaws sound
Psycho Sound
Batman theme song
Chainsaw!
Woody Allen mumbling random stuff occasionally including "I'm a car"
Barking!
Configurable based on mood :-)
My number one reason that it wasn't for me? Price. $1500 is more than I was willing to spend for what it had to offer.
SO I never got to your list of what was wrong with it. If it needs to have my smart phone around for functionality (can't honestly remember) then I wouldn't spend more than $300 on it. If it can completely operate stand-alone then I'd put it in my high-end smart phone range of maybe a $800 cap assuming it had comparable specs.
After checking out Microsoft's forthcoming (someday) Hololens demo I would be disappointed if anything like Glass didn't have all of the same capabilities as it does. If it can't truly augment my world then it's not where it needs to be to get my $ at this point. Not saying MS's product is perfect either but it has set the concept bar up a notch that I really don't see Glass 1.0 living up to.
Not always... really depends on the quality of management. Expensive people aren't always the best people to lay off anyway since they tend to have significantly higher layoff costs. (severance, etc).
The last company I worked for had some real financial issues (highly profitable company in-general but suffering from a crushing debt load killing all of those profits) we ended up going through 2 rounds of layoffs. The first, dictated by the board but implemented locally, was stellar. It's amazing how much better a company can perform when you can shed a bunch of people who were holding you back. You feel the bite a little bit because a person who was only operating at 20% was still doing 20% work that has to be made up somewhere but you also get rid of some costly bottlenecks leaving you with clearer holes to fill for partial re-hire.
Round 2 was terrible: This one was mandated by a gov't takeover so not only were the numbers MUCH higher but they were based on nationality / new background checks instead of manager input / performance. Honestly the capability of the company was severely neutered.
Honestly a layoff of the first variety every 5-10 years is good for culling the chaff. Unfortunately most larger companies seem to operate more like the second variety when they shed numbers to make the shareholders happy.
By far the best usage of the Nintendo Powerglove... :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The glove comes out around 4:30 BUT honestly it's worth watching the whole thing if anything for the self-deprecation :-)
It sounds like with the new rules:
1) Confiscate
2) Confiscate
3) "Pretend" that it was never there in the first place and start shopping for a vacation...
4) Watch it drive away unless they are taking the person into custody in which case it goes to impound where the perp can get it back for a healthy Tow/Storage fee.
Honestly (that skill needs to be taught. While reading the novel of a post above where grade by grade counts of incorrect test questions were enumerated. Mention was made about "My 6th grade math and science teacher hated me because I had to point out the errors that she made on her exams." (there were others but that's the best quotable). Response: Well, duh! No one likes to be told they're wrong, especially teachers. I can read someone describing that they gently or respectfully pursued such action but in reality it was probably less than such. I've found plenty of errors on tests over the years and if you present the issue to your teacher correctly you get thanks for helping improve their test not trials of forced humiliation.
It's amazing how much you can accomplish with empathy instead of aggression.
I was a bit behind your curves but even in the 80's/90's computers were still pretty foreign to most educators. I and a few others who ended up in "Computer Lab Assistant" roles became the teachers. My "supervisors" were smart enough to get out of our way and let us explore. They were also smart enough to have the capability to restore each machine to image if things got messed up too much to fix by hand. (Of course we created those images and the process for restoring them)
If a teacher or administrator had issues with their office computers we were the ones they called. When a student had a hard question in computer class we were more likely able to answer it than the teacher and she was not dumb by any means (better at the machines than anyone else in the school save a couple exceptions in the math department) but she knew our value and how to gain from that while letting us gain from "play time"
I wish there were more teachers like that in the world.
In this case clearly [concept]-Bar!
"your"
Strong moment of geeky pride the day I answered a modem call from a friend of mine and was able to handshake at 9600 baud with my voice :-)