A drone-finding unit that combined radar (to detect small airborne objects), with auditory recognition of drone-propeller noise signatures (using microphones distributed over the prison boundary) would be cheap and perform quite well.
The auditory component prevent false positives caused by birds, flying debris, etc.Radar could help detect helium balloon drones, or even the 'ballistic' lobbing of contraband over prison boundaries (either manually, or using catapults). The only thing it'd miss is carrier-pigeons or a new generation of flapping-wing drones in development. However, pigeons are unlikely to land in prison yards. That is, unless a creative prisoner raised pigeons in the prison. Of course, he'd have to arrange to have the pigeons smuggled out or somehow trapped outside so contraband could be 'attached' to them (perhaps by tracking them by radio transmitter foot-band previously smuggled into prison).
You can't bequeath your ITunes account - it goes when you do.
Most of the big digital providers are very clear on the subject of ownership - it doesn’t belong to you. Purchasing electronic media doesn’t give you the same rights as buying the equivalent books, DVDs and CDs - because you’re buying a lifetime licence to use these digital files rather than a hard, tangible asset.
Er, not really. The real reason is not 'shit happens' but the cozy arrangements that boards and management have put in place; traditions solidified by mutually-beneficial remuneration contracts. Members of the board used to be 'management' in their previous life, and management aim to be board members in the next.
> Here's the thing: dollar-for-dollar, most senior executives are better off quitting ("retiring"), > unless some divorce, gambling addition or coke habit has eaten away all their savings.
How true, I am not sure. Maybe you are right about older CEOs. But most CEOs are not willing to retire. MBA schools meanwhile, pump out dozens of whippersnappers. With pay differences being huge between CEO and 'CEO-2' levels , there are ample alternatives to highly paid CEOs -- 'cheaper' CEOs (as in the past), governing councils instead of CEOs, co-CEOs, even rotating CEOs. Now to be sure, not all these are good ideas for all companies. But one - 'cheaper CEOs' - for certain is an idea that worked quite well in the decades past.
Good. My favourite is a human failsafe -- a Russian officer who refused to classify radar anomalies as an American ICBM launches, hence preventing WWIII.
Now I ask - are these really 'great towering achievements'? Or rather, are these just accounts of near-disasters narrowly averted by the failsafes that they sorely needed.
My point is simple - when the incremental risk is out of all proportion to incremental benefit, its best to scrap that technology.
In my book, that includes nuclear power (with the failsafes on offer now), nuclear weapons, and now... 'laser headlights' on cars. The reasons:
incremental benefit = 30% off on the small fraction of gas which powers headlamps, doubling the range of headlights.
incremental risk: dazzling other drivers, blinding accidents (when lenses break), ubiquitous availability of technology that can be used to permanently blind large crowds of people
Repeat that to the first person blinded by these headlights.
The dangers of this have aready been taken into consideration, being a lot of safeguards and cut offs that fail safe.
Hmmm... Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. Your turn now -- tell me three great towering achievements of "safeguards and cutoffs that fail safe.":)
Your response has been used against anything possibly dangerous that has ever existed or been created. You must be a conservative.
Pleased to meet you! You must the laissez-faire capitalist.:)
And besides all this... I'm tired of all the rich kids with ultra-bright headlights making it unsafe for the rest of us to drive at night.
And people had been trying to build better buildings, keep secrets more secure, create deadlier weapons, for millennia, not just 60 years. There are have been a bunch of great and beautiful (and ugly) solutions found all through this time.
Yes, there are benefits unique to text representation.
But if you look at the context, I'm not arguing against the written word (see note here: "Perhaps, a printed executive summary of bullet points in your hand.")
I'm saying is text is just _one_ mode of interaction - it shouldn't be the only one. Effective multi-mode interaction is always better than single mode. We are full-spectrum creatures.
A better representation would be me speaking these phrases to you in person
So, essentially the same TEXT in audio format? Doesn't that simply proved the point that the TEXT is already the, conceivably, most concise and precise representation of your idea?
No. First, there are benefits unique to audio interaction (immediacy, tonal emphasis, emotion); next up, benefits to physical presence (enhances interaction - e.g. pointing, gestures, a wider visual canvas), and finally you skipped this last bit with the pretty pictures...:) "...code editors open in front of us, trying to demonstrate certain use-cases where visual coding is superior."
Regarding your comment "Good luck trying to debug a program from its visual representation.", do you remember savePipelineToFile and restorePipelineFromFile?:D Those features make it trivial to debug and replicate errors between environments.
On and off, I've programmed in both Java and Perl since the mid-nineties. I still use both in my 'webMethods' job when Flow js unsuitable. But for core integration work, webMethods Flow programming beats text-mode programming hands down. It wouldn't survive so long (neither would my job), if this wasn't the case. In fact, my personal view is the only reason for webMethods to thrive is Flow makes even average coders (like me), way much more productive then they ever would be CTRL+SPACEBAR-ing away in Eclipse.
Sadly, Software AG (and webMethods Inc. before them) have let webMethods Flow wither on the vine. There's so much they could have added to it by now - both in terms of visual language enhancements and visual tools. For example, diff and merge tools, environment comparison tools, code metrics and estimation tools, temporal debugging, automated test case generation (by using the input pipeline persisted on error), automatic documentation, some form of AoP...
> show us a "better" visual depiction of your own post above without using text?
A better representation of my post? A better representation would be me speaking these phrases to you in person, code editors open in front of us, trying to demonstrate certain use-cases where visual coding is superior. Perhaps, a printed executive summary of bullet points in your hand.
Note, I'm not against text. I'm saying that's just _one_ mode of interaction - and it shouldn't be the only one.
As for me, I've work in visual coding for over a decade (in an integration middleware product line named 'webMethods', that uses a graphical language named 'Flow', Owner: 'Software AG'). Its based on Java, its been successful for the almost the last 2 decades. I've had a job in it for 13 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Nah, I'm actually with the poster. I get text-based traditional coding too, but find the ROI (time and effort) quite poor and the work dreary. You have to be either well disciplined, or get the sort of joy banging out code that running get when pushing their body through the next mile.
So one can get 'coding', or get 'running', but find themselves searching for something better. (visual coding/visual abstractions swimming)
Talk about missing the point. He (and every other customer) had to wear the hardware cost of the extra RAM, and then have Agilent nickel-and-dime them to activate it . Consider this the next time your car charges you to get past 60mph. Or use more than 3 cylinders. Or heat your seat in winter. Cars manufacturers don't do this (*)
At the same time, I don't think what Netflix did was evil - all I know is that it wasn't good. And the HBR piece trumpeting such behaviour is just plain silly.
Slashdot Mirror
he thinks upto 180% is reasonable
'Better engineered' != 'deserving of patent protection'
A drone-finding unit that combined radar (to detect small airborne objects), with auditory recognition of drone-propeller noise signatures (using microphones distributed over the prison boundary) would be cheap and perform quite well.
The auditory component prevent false positives caused by birds, flying debris, etc.Radar could help detect helium balloon drones, or even the 'ballistic' lobbing of contraband over prison boundaries (either manually, or using catapults). The only thing it'd miss is carrier-pigeons or a new generation of flapping-wing drones in development. However, pigeons are unlikely to land in prison yards. That is, unless a creative prisoner raised pigeons in the prison. Of course, he'd have to arrange to have the pigeons smuggled out or somehow trapped outside so contraband could be 'attached' to them (perhaps by tracking them by radio transmitter foot-band previously smuggled into prison).
The alternative is steel-mesh netting.
Or conscientious prison guards.
Now that I have your attention with my crude joke*, here's the real tip -- coconut oil. virgin. cold pressed.
Greenie article:
http://undergroundhealthreport...
Clinical trial:
http://health.usf.edu/NR/rdonl...
(*My get out of jail card - a family history of dementia)
You can't bequeath your ITunes account - it goes when you do.
Most of the big digital providers are very clear on the subject of ownership - it doesn’t belong to you. Purchasing electronic media doesn’t give you the same rights as buying the equivalent books, DVDs and CDs - because you’re buying a lifetime licence to use these digital files rather than a hard, tangible asset.
Read more: http://www.theweek.co.uk/prosp...
Er, not really. The real reason is not 'shit happens' but the cozy arrangements that boards and management have put in place; traditions solidified by mutually-beneficial remuneration contracts. Members of the board used to be 'management' in their previous life, and management aim to be board members in the next.
> Here's the thing: dollar-for-dollar, most senior executives are better off quitting ("retiring"),
> unless some divorce, gambling addition or coke habit has eaten away all their savings.
How true, I am not sure. Maybe you are right about older CEOs. But most CEOs are not willing to retire. MBA schools meanwhile, pump out dozens of whippersnappers. With pay differences being huge between CEO and 'CEO-2' levels , there are ample alternatives to highly paid CEOs -- 'cheaper' CEOs (as in the past), governing councils instead of CEOs, co-CEOs, even rotating CEOs. Now to be sure, not all these are good ideas for all companies. But one - 'cheaper CEOs' - for certain is an idea that worked quite well in the decades past.
Not really, you give the toddler a walker. Giving a newbie a modern IDE is akin to giving a toddler a small Ferrari.
Where there is fire, there is smoke. Where there is smoke from an oil well fire, there are carcinogens in the air
Good. My favourite is a human failsafe -- a Russian officer who refused to classify radar anomalies as an American ICBM launches, hence preventing WWIII.
Now I ask - are these really 'great towering achievements'? Or rather, are these just accounts of near-disasters narrowly averted by the failsafes that they sorely needed.
My point is simple - when the incremental risk is out of all proportion to incremental benefit, its best to scrap that technology.
In my book, that includes nuclear power (with the failsafes on offer now), nuclear weapons, and now... 'laser headlights' on cars.
The reasons:
incremental benefit = 30% off on the small fraction of gas which powers headlamps, doubling the range of headlights.
incremental risk: dazzling other drivers, blinding accidents (when lenses break), ubiquitous availability of technology that can be used to permanently blind large crowds of people
The sun doesn't tailgate you at night.
What a stupid riposte to a cool new technology.
Repeat that to the first person blinded by these headlights.
The dangers of this have aready been taken into consideration, being a lot of safeguards and cut offs that fail safe.
Hmmm... Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island. Your turn now -- tell me three great towering achievements of "safeguards and cutoffs that fail safe." :)
Your response has been used against anything possibly dangerous that has ever existed or been created. You must be a conservative.
Pleased to meet you! You must the laissez-faire capitalist. :)
And besides all this... I'm tired of all the rich kids with ultra-bright headlights making it unsafe for the rest of us to drive at night.
For the Audi system:
"The lighting system works by using a blue laser beam to back-light a yellow phosphorous crystal lens;"
And what happens in an accident... when the lens is smashed open, when the blue laser beam accidentally shines into a first responder's eyes?
This is an accident waiting to happen.
Thanks!
And people had been trying to build better buildings, keep secrets more secure, create deadlier weapons, for millennia, not just 60 years. There are have been a bunch of great and beautiful (and ugly) solutions found all through this time.
Yes, there are benefits unique to text representation.
But if you look at the context, I'm not arguing against the written word (see note here: "Perhaps, a printed executive summary of bullet points in your hand.")
I'm saying is text is just _one_ mode of interaction - it shouldn't be the only one. Effective multi-mode interaction is always better than single mode. We are full-spectrum creatures.
A better representation would be me speaking these phrases to you in person
So, essentially the same TEXT in audio format? Doesn't that simply proved the point that the TEXT is already the, conceivably, most concise and precise representation of your idea?
No. First, there are benefits unique to audio interaction (immediacy, tonal emphasis, emotion); next up, benefits to physical presence (enhances interaction - e.g. pointing, gestures, a wider visual canvas), and finally you skipped this last bit with the pretty pictures... :)
"...code editors open in front of us, trying to demonstrate certain use-cases where visual coding is superior."
Regarding your comment "Good luck trying to debug a program from its visual representation.", do you remember savePipelineToFile and restorePipelineFromFile? :D Those features make it trivial to debug and replicate errors between environments.
On and off, I've programmed in both Java and Perl since the mid-nineties. I still use both in my 'webMethods' job when Flow js unsuitable. But for core integration work, webMethods Flow programming beats text-mode programming hands down. It wouldn't survive so long (neither would my job), if this wasn't the case. In fact, my personal view is the only reason for webMethods to thrive is Flow makes even average coders (like me), way much more productive then they ever would be CTRL+SPACEBAR-ing away in Eclipse.
Sadly, Software AG (and webMethods Inc. before them) have let webMethods Flow wither on the vine. There's so much they could have added to it by now - both in terms of visual language enhancements and visual tools. For example, diff and merge tools, environment comparison tools, code metrics and estimation tools, temporal debugging, automated test case generation (by using the input pipeline persisted on error), automatic documentation, some form of AoP...
> show us a "better" visual depiction of your own post above without using text?
A better representation of my post? A better representation would be me speaking these phrases to you in person, code editors open in front of us, trying to demonstrate certain use-cases where visual coding is superior. Perhaps, a printed executive summary of bullet points in your hand.
Note, I'm not against text. I'm saying that's just _one_ mode of interaction - and it shouldn't be the only one.
As for me, I've work in visual coding for over a decade (in an integration middleware product line named 'webMethods', that uses a graphical language named 'Flow', Owner: 'Software AG'). Its based on Java, its been successful for the almost the last 2 decades. I've had a job in it for 13 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...
Nah, I'm actually with the poster. I get text-based traditional coding too, but find the ROI (time and effort) quite poor and the work dreary. You have to be either well disciplined, or get the sort of joy banging out code that running get when pushing their body through the next mile.
So one can get 'coding', or get 'running', but find themselves searching for something better. (visual coding/visual abstractions swimming)
Eh? A whine? Not to the 'rest-of-us' world.
Talk about missing the point. He (and every other customer) had to wear the hardware cost of the extra RAM, and then have Agilent nickel-and-dime them to activate it . Consider this the next time your car charges you to get past 60mph. Or use more than 3 cylinders. Or heat your seat in winter. Cars manufacturers don't do this (*)
(*=not yet... but see http://tech.slashdot.org/story...).
There's a good reason for that - the rest of us consider such behavior greedy and trashy!
Range anxiety is normal. Redefining "normal" only works right up until your competitor goes undoes it for you.
(Competitor... Whether electric or non-electric)
Like a Prius has a battery backup, the tesla needs a petrol backup.
> I don't share her atheism, but I certainly share her ideals on capitalism.
In other words, you share her atheism. Else that, or you share her God.
http://caimbhriainmyrddin.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/hal-crowther-alarming-revival-of-ayn.html
I also suggest the books of Genesis, Daniel and Revelation.
It look to me that you will benefit reading this paper:
http://www.math.utep.edu/Faculty/sewell/AML_3497.pdf
Yes, Laura would be a great hire for any company.
At the same time, I don't think what Netflix did was evil - all I know is that it wasn't good. And the HBR piece trumpeting such behaviour is just plain silly.
Thanks - great post!
What's the disassociation being put into law about?