If he ever has to grok a medium sized project full of classes with "whimsical" names he may wish for clear, intuitive names.
I read that part of the summary about "getting" to write whatever it was (get.chomped or something like that) and immediately yearned for a computer programming language where you could calculate pi to 300 places using the commands:
One for yourself each time the one you bought for yourself wears out, and one for each of your friends. You aren't so selfish that you'd buy yourself a potato peeler and not buy one for you best buddies, are you? How do you expect them to peel their potatoes? Do you do the peeling for them?
btdubs, does anybody know if this switch failure was a safety feature that worked, or a malfunction of a critical piece that was a lifesaver in this scenario?
Well, if you read TFA, you'll learn that three of the four safeties failed and this simple switch safety worked. Probably why they designed in four redundant safeties, don't you think?
If you do read TFA, you'll also find that the author doesn't know the difference between "broke up in mid-air" and "went into a tailspin", since he claims both happened. And in either case, the bombs were not dropped (a specific action releasing the bombs), they fell out of the sky -- a normal side effect of an aircraft carrying bombs breaking up in mid-air.
Yeah, it would have been bad if they went off, which is why we can be glad that the safety mechanism worked and not worry too much that the Air Force is busy dropping nuclear bombs on the continental US.
And the Howell's brought enough clothes for a month on a 3 hour boat lark.
The Howell's are those awful rich people. They never travel with less than a month's worth of clothes of every kind, because they never know when the Queen will appear and they need to be formally dressed.
In reality land, there's a show called "Below Decks". It follows the life of employees on a relatively small luxury yacht. The main story lines are the overbearing Captain who verbally whips the first mate for being incompetent, the happy-go-lucky chef who continually complains about the food requests from the guests, the bitchy chief steward and her two insubordinate assistants, and the merry sexual/drinking antics of all involved (except the Captain).
On one episode one of the sub-stewards was complaining about being asked to iron a guest's wardrobe after it was unpacked. "Who brings a dozen linen outfits on a three day cruise?" Why, Mrs. Thurston Howell the Third, of course. The steward's name was not, however, Ginger or Mary Anne, it was Sam. Or maybe Kat. I can't remember. One of them was a lush who couldn't handle her liquor and became loud and abusive and lied about drinking on duty when she was drunk, the other was always insubordinate and lied about drinking on duty when she was sober.
So, do you guys have multiple Beagle Boards, Beagle Bones, Ras Pi's, and other sitting on your bench right now? And you have experience using them? I do.
I have nothing Beagle (too expensive), but I have lots of Pis, both on my desk and out in the field doing productive work.
You haven't looked closely at the Minnow.
Considering that the news just got here about the Minnow, no, I haven't "looked closely" at it. I've read the fine article about it, however.
The I/O is much easier to use and much richer than you find on a 'bone or a raspi.
Richer as in "costs more", yes. The Pis I have have the hardware I need to do the job I bought them for. Putting lots of extra stuff on them would only raise the price.
The CPU has more horsepower, and yon don't have porting headaches to get reasonable things running on it.
The Pi appears to be able to be overclocked to 1GHz, although I haven't tried, and have no need to. I've had no problem porting the things I needed to port, I just copied the source code and compiled it. Well, the PC I developed the code on had a real serial port and the Pi doesn't, so I had to change the value of one constant from "/dev/ttyS0" to "/dev/ttyUSB0". Is that what you call "porting headaches"?
On the other hand, the PC didn't have hardware PWM, so if I used the PC I would have to come up with on outboard hardware solution to get the steady PWM signal I need.
You can't compare a raspi to a minnow until you try to hook up a CAN bus and a camera and start doing vision processing and motor control like you need for a robotics application.
I wasn't aware that a CAN bus was a requirement for robotics. I thought servos made use of PWM signals. As for cameras, the Pi has a hardware camera. I haven't used it yet, but that's next on the list of things to do. Other people seem to be doing vision processing with it, so I'm sure that mine will do it eventually, too.
If you're concerned that the Pi has only one (AFAIK) hardware PWM channel (wait, it has two, doesn't it?), well, for the price of one Minnow you can get 6 Pis and they call all dedicate themselves to that one channel and not have to time share or suffer from task switching glitches. Hardware PWM beats the hottest Intel CPU doing bit-banging every day of the week, and twice on Saturday.
The headline on this article and on the Ars one is misleading. From what they quoted of the Intel spokesman, this is not intended to be a Pi competitor. They didn't say that. It's an open source/open hardware solution. But their justification is a tad off, I think. This board is aimed at developers who would pay $1000 for a development system -- and they don't say why anyone would pay $1000 for a development system when you could develop on the board itself.
The most amazing quote is this. This board uses old hardware because "We used an older one to get our feet wet, so to speak, and understand the design." In other words, Intel was not comfortable designing things with their current generation of CPU and glue, even though they are mass producing them and selling them to others. And the bit about this being an "open system"? Interesting that the major closed component on the Pi is the GPU, which is ALSO closed on the Minnow.
eSATA, PCIe, Gig-E? Because the Pi doesn't have that you can't use it as a file server or network appliance? Hmmm. So even though I can hook a few Tb of disk up to the Pi via USB, I can't use that as a file server? I can't hook up a temperature sensor or three to the Pi and hook it to the network and have a network appliance that measures temperature for me? The truth is, the Pi makes a fine file server or network appliance, it just won't be enterprise grade at either one or be really fast. No True Scotsman would have a USB disk on a fileserver, I guess.
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An up-and-coming, self-righteous, loved and respected (pretty much universally except by its indigenous population) economic dynamo with its first Olympics affirming her new stature.
I know Brazilians who are absolutely terrified of how badly Brazil is going to handle the Olympics, and how poorly the incomplete and uncompleted infrastructure is going to perform when scads of people arrive hoping to see sporting events spread out across the entire country.
They are rightly scared that the big O will leave the country with a big black I (eye) in the eyes of the world. It's bad enough that there were mass riots not long ago based, in part, on the money being spent to build Olympic venues instead of on things like bus systems. This "new stature" is very likely to turn out to have scoliosis and club foot.
At least Brazil in this case appears to have some intestinal fortitude.
Brazil, as a whole, seems rather uninterested in the matter. The Brazilian leader is making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes. While the concept is interesting, the truth is that once a packet leaves your own wires you have no real control over where it goes.
This is the same kind of action that Brazil took in response to the US creation of a VISA processing fee. Brazil was quite up-front in admitting that their fee of the same amount was a direct response to the US fee for Brazilian citizens going to the US. Us old folks would say they cut off their nose to spite their face.
I'm particularly worried about the statement that they may require servers to keep data in Brazil. I manage a lot of data from Brazil, and their network infrastructure is so shaky as it is that it would be impossible to manage it remotely.
That's not how this conversation started - it was about food trucks in general.
"Food trucks in general" includes those operated in a shady and illegal manner. I suppose we could go down the "no true Scotsman" path and say they aren't really "food trucks" if they don't obey the laws that food truck operators must obey, but I find that to be rather unproductive.
*That's* what I've been talking about and all you've had to reply on has been some mystery roach coach driving in from the sticks to steal your customers and beat your dog.
Since you've chosen to discuss what we're discussing, I'll point out that "beating dogs" has never been part of the discussion, and is not even a proper subset of "food trucks".
(yes, even brick and mortar restaurants skirt the law and health codes!).
Of course. But when they do, they are stuck in one place so the inspectors that found the problem to start with can trivially find them again. The people who see the violations and report them have a fixed point of reference to report. The owners have a massive investment in property and capital to protect. The Taco Bell down the street can't just pick up stakes and move across town, it has a fixed address and a known appearance, and the franchise fees are huge. The "Buy Tacos 89 cents" truck has a canvas banner on a truck that leaves at 2PM and goes somewhere out of sight, may not come back the next day, and would cost less than $50,000 to abandon completely.
If you want to convince me that the chances of finding a substandard fixed restaurant are the same as finding problems in mobile food vehicles, you'll have a very very hard time and need a lot more evidence. I've been behind the curtain at local events where food trucks serve, and I'd dare say that even in that situation, where the truck is parked in a known location for a week 24/7 and the inspectors can drop in at any time, the health and sanitation regulations are often skirted if not directly broken.
You didn't quite call for a ban but did call them "unfair", which is a more loaded term.
Yes, calling shady operations by mobile vendors "unfair" is not quite a call for an outright ban on all operators or uses.
did you mean they cause externalities in a way that government should address? And if so, how?
Externalities? Do you mean that they can easily operate in a manner that is outside the control of government and avoid the burdens that static businesses face as part of regulation? Yes.
Unfortunately, "government addressing" such a problem doesn't solve the problem. More laws to ignore or that aren't enforceable won't solve the inherent problem. Those who claim that mobile food vendors have regulations to follow and can therefore never be unfair or skirt the law are ignoring reality.
I understand what you are saying but you're splitting hairs at best. Your actual BALLOT (vote) is still anonymous.
No, the contents of your ballot are SECRET, but you voting is not an anonymous process, and cannot be for the reasons already outlined. It does make a difference, and being flippant with the terms only confuses the issues involved, which are different.
When I last voted in person, I had to prove who I was and that I had a right to vote there. They marked down the fact that I was voting. This is not "anonymous" in any definition I know of. I filled out the ballot and handed it back to the poll worker. It was in a folder so they could not see what I had put on the ballot ("secret") but they could clearly identify me and that the ballot I handed them was the same one they had given me a few moments before. This is not "anonymous" by any definition. At that point they maintained the secret by removing the identification from the ballot and putting it in a box. But they still knew who I was and that I had voted.
Now when I vote, I must put my ballot in a "secrecy envelope" which has my name and address printed on the outside, and I must sign the envelope attesting to the fact it was my ballot inside. This is not anonymous by ANY definition. They cannot see how I voted, but they certainly know exactly who voted. Secret, yes. Anonymous, no.
If you truly thought you understood what I am saying and that the difference doesn't matter, why are you arguing so much about it?
Oh I definitely live in a weird place, but from the rest of these comments it seems food trucks really are quite well regulated across the board.
There is a significant difference between "there are regulations" and "enforcing the regulations". I'm saying that mobile food vendors are in a position to avoid those regulations much more easily than any brick and mortar. It takes a lot more money to enforce the rules on taco trucks than on a Taco Bell.
To do business legally in just about any town, you must have a business license for tax purposes.
FTFY.
You can tell me about all the wonderful laws in place to protect the public from less than scrupulous mobile food vendors, but you can't ignore the fact that unscrupulous mobile food vendors have a much easier time avoiding those rules than a restaurant with a fixed location.
Now, this statement here is a real gem:
Every customer I draw from a legit business is lost profit for him
...because it sounds exactly like "Every downloaded song or movie is a lost sale for the music industry."
No, it does not sound "exactly like". "Every customer I draw" means that the customer was going to buy something and wasn't just collecting electrons for free because he could. That was a paying customer who came to me instead of to the legal fixed restaurant. "Every downloaded song" isn't downloaded by someone who was a "customer draw[n]" from a legit seller. I wrote specifically about someone who was going to buy something from someone else and you've tried to paint it as if I were talking about a random passerby who wasn't really going to buy anything at all.
People who go downtown to get lunch are going to buy something, and if they buy it from me in my roach wagon instead of the sandwich shop then that is profit that I've taken away from that sandwich shop. You can try to deny it, but most people would accept that as a fact.
Would you say every cup of coffee bought from Starbucks is a lost sale from the local shop down the road?
It probably is. It's called "competition" in business terms, and businesses face it every day. What they shouldn't have to face is "unfair competition", which is what an unlicensed food truck who parks next to your fixed restaurant to cherry pick the lunch crowd is doing.
Would you say my restaurant is stealing customers that might otherwise go to your food truck across the street?
No, because your restaurant is more likely to be licensed and inspected and complying with all local laws. You'll probably have a lease, and the lessor will have vetted you to some extent. You'll have a loan and the bank will want to see your business plan and that is more vetting. That makes the competition more fair. And that means it isn't stealing.
but I'd say that's more an issue with your town's enforcement than the food trucks.
Right. It's the fault of the people who are spread too thin to enforce all the laws and not the fault of the people who take the chance breaking the laws. "Honest officer, it's your fault I was speeding because there usually isn't anyone here writing tickets..." At least you admit that there is a problem enforcing laws on mobile food vendors that don't exist for fixed ones, so maybe you've heard at least a little bit of what I've been saying.
It's clear you have a bone to pick here, and I'm not going to convince you otherwise.
No, I have no bone to pick, I'm just pointing out that mobile food vendors are not the pristine excellent resource that they're being presented as. And you won't convince me otherwise because you've never actually dealt with the issue, you've just claimed that laws exist which, if followed and enforced, might mitigate the problem. What you haven't recognized is that the diff
You go to the voting center. You show your I.D. so they know you voted.
Which is pretty much how you define "not anonymous". It's public record.
But it's anonymous in the sense that the ballot does not have your name on it,
That's not anonymous, that's secret. There is a difference. We can all find out if you voted or not. We can't find out how you voted.
Anonymous voting means nobody knows who you are when you vote. Secret ballot means they know who you are but not how you voted. I'd try to come up with a car analogy but it's not worth it.
Technological progress "killed" Usenet as a communications platform, not nymshifting trolls.
Yes, the demonstrated technological superiority of Google Groups was the opening salvo, and the beautifully masterful new Neo interface for Yahoo Groups has been the final nail in the coffin.
... a Democratic form of government is not possible without free and anonymous speech, and anonymous voting.
A democracy is impossible with anonymous voting. If you can't determine that the person who is voting has a right to vote, then anyone can walk in and vote. If you can't determine that someone has already voted, then they can vote a dozen or more times. You can't have the concept of "one person one vote" if you can't determine when that one person has cast his one vote.
What you are thinking of is secret ballots, not anonymous voting. It is absolutely imperative that you identify the person who is doing the voting and his right to be there, and only at that point should the origin and content of the actual vote become unidentifiable.
Did Boulder County actually have the ability to approve such a thing in the first place?
No. The text of the NOTAM says "FORT COLLINS DISPATCH CENTER" is in charge of the authorizations through Denver ARTCC. Wikipedia tells us that "Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality in and the county seat of Larimer County, Colorado".
TFRs are issued by the FAA upon the request of civil agencies and the civil agencies are given control. Some are long term (NCAA football game TFRs, for example, under a blanket overarching TFR.)
You'll note that they seem to do the poorest job in areas where people were told to evacuate, but didn't for whatever reason. I think there might be a connection.
I think there is a bigger connection between "FEMA not taking over an incident" and "Governor of state refusing to ask for aide from FEMA when it would have done the most good." You know, like three days before Katrina made landfall and everything could have been staged while the roads were still passable and stuff, instead of several days after and the police of a major city involved fled in panic.
Now, the company who is trying to make themselves look good has claimed that CAP didn't carry cameras or video. Yes, CAP has an entire ES qualification dealing with aerial photography (i.e., they were almost certainly carrying cameras) but are hindered in real time video by managing a data link of sufficient bandwidth. The FCC rules prohibit use of cell phones (and data) while airborne, so it's not just a case of slapping a cell data card in a laptop and firing off the data. That's not to say that GIIEP should be as stupidly complex as it is, however. Forcing all data through one military system with associated military level authentication and sucky bandwidth is a mistake, but the approved cell data cards are not generally available as far as I know.
Hmm. I suppose there would be a market force in that direction as well. But then it would be more expensive to be a racist - and people really like not spending money when they don't have to.
People buy BMWs when they don't have to. They feel they get value for the money. You wouldn't be much of a racist if you didn't think it was worth $10 a night extra so you could sleep in a bed that wasn't slept in by the wrong kinds of people, would you? The entire hospitality industry is based on selling people things they don't really need, isn't it? "Would you like fries with that"? Well, if I needed fries I'd have ordered them to start with. "I can offer you a king-sized bed for just $20 more a night..." Enterprise rent-a-car always asks if I want to upgrade to a luxury car when I rent a compact from them. Comcast repeatedly tries to upsell me to Xfinity voice, even when I'm calling them to report a complete cable outage.
I don't follow - could you rephrase?
I was pointing out as an addition to your statement about the freedom you mentioned that the freedom of free association (1st Amendment) implies a freedom NOT to associate with people you don't want to. Being free to associate with some people I like only if I accept having to associate with ones I don't isn't much of a freedom, is it?
Maybe you live in a weird place... maybe you just don't know how food trucks work. In my town (in wild west Nevada)
Maybe you live in the weird place. Yes, it would seem so.
In fact, the majority of food preparation must be done in an inspected and licensed commercial kitchen - not in the truck itself.
The next time you walk up to a mobile taco truck, remind yourself as you see them making your taco in front of your eyes that they've made the taco in a licensed commercial kitchen. That the sound of the frying hamburger patty coming from inside the burger-mobile is just a tape loop for ambiance and the actual hamburger you're getting was cooked in a licensed commercial kitchen somewhere.
and contrary to what seems to be popular slashdot belief, it is really quite easy to track down a food truck if it's known to be out of compliance.
An inspector comes across a truck parked at location A. (There are so many inspectors this is likely to happen?) He does an inspection, finds problems. (While he's doing this, the other two trucks parked nearby close up and drive away, avoiding the inspector altogether.) "You have 30 days to fix this..." The next day that truck is ten miles away, open for business. You say it's "quite easy" to find the truck after it's driven away. I'd like to know your magic; I am a SAR volunteer and we'd love to know the trick for finding someone who doesn't want to be found. You could probably make a fortune as a repo man, finding the cars that the deadbeats aren't paying the loans on since it is so easy to find vehicles.
They're registered as food service businesses just like a restaurant paying all the same taxes.
Just how do they allocate a share of property taxes to a vehicle that is parked someplace for two hours a day? Economic development district fees?
So sure, you can open a restaurant next door to an existing one,
It costs a LOT of money to open a brick and mortar anything, much less a restaurant. While you're busy opening that operation, the city will be lining up to inspect it. If you forget to have the inspectors (building and health, both) come by, your neighbor will be happy to schedule appointments with the city on your behalf. If you walk away from the site to avoid legal issues, you leave behind the hundred thousand dollars or so in equipment and improvements you've made.
On the other hand, I can buy an old food vendor truck for a LOT less money, keep it in my garage while I outfit it, and then park it someplace and be open for business with zero notice to anyone. Not many people are going to look for a business license or health certification posted anywhere, and if they do they won't be able to detect the ones I have as forgeries. Every customer I draw from a legit business is lost profit for him, and tomorrow I may be a dozen miles away doing the same thing to someone else. And the only thing I lose while avoiding the law is... a tank of gas.
As for the guy who posted the comment about inspectors buying food undercover, I'll just say that it takes a LOT more than buying a taco from a mobile vendor to do a real health inspection on his operation. You may be able to see the sink where employees are required to wash their hands, but you won't know that there is no running water or that the drain is clogged with grease and dead rats. You won't be able to measure the temperature of the hot food containers, or the temperature of the refrigerator.
but they serve a niche and are far from the robber barons you guys are trying to portray them as.
I'm not trying to portray them as robber barons. Unfair and lacking the same kind of controls that a real restaurant has, yes.
The net result is that racists will be less successful at business and eventually be replaced by non-racist business owners.
You are assuming that the business environment is not a mirror of the culture and vice versa. In other words, those racist business owners will exist in a direct proportion to the number of racist clients, and can thus fill the niche market of "housing where you won't sleep in a bed that was slept in by 'those people'". They can, thus, charge more for their product because the clients will pay more for that product. Smart business people will notice a glut in the market of "non-racist" housing and the concomitant lack of racist rooms (with the associated premium price) and begin to offer that product, even if they are normally non-racist. Kind of like people who smoke like a chimney running hotels with non-smoking rooms.
which to me rather seems like a very basic freedom that should not be restricted.
The freedom of free association implies a freedom FROM association, as well.
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If he ever has to grok a medium sized project full of classes with "whimsical" names he may wish for clear, intuitive names.
I read that part of the summary about "getting" to write whatever it was (get.chomped or something like that) and immediately yearned for a computer programming language where you could calculate pi to 300 places using the commands:
Wouldn't you?
How many potato peelers do they expect me to buy?
One for yourself each time the one you bought for yourself wears out, and one for each of your friends. You aren't so selfish that you'd buy yourself a potato peeler and not buy one for you best buddies, are you? How do you expect them to peel their potatoes? Do you do the peeling for them?
btdubs, does anybody know if this switch failure was a safety feature that worked, or a malfunction of a critical piece that was a lifesaver in this scenario?
Well, if you read TFA, you'll learn that three of the four safeties failed and this simple switch safety worked. Probably why they designed in four redundant safeties, don't you think?
If you do read TFA, you'll also find that the author doesn't know the difference between "broke up in mid-air" and "went into a tailspin", since he claims both happened. And in either case, the bombs were not dropped (a specific action releasing the bombs), they fell out of the sky -- a normal side effect of an aircraft carrying bombs breaking up in mid-air.
Yeah, it would have been bad if they went off, which is why we can be glad that the safety mechanism worked and not worry too much that the Air Force is busy dropping nuclear bombs on the continental US.
Where the heck would you find a 3 ohm resister?
At the "3 ohm resistor store" next to the scotch tape store at the mall, of course.
Or maybe between the 2.94 and 3.01 ohm resistors here. They list 85 of them.
And, of course, you can find one in the box with a Minnow, packed next to the burned out LED.
2) The included parts kit has a 3 Ohm resistor instead of 3k Ohm, so the included LED will not light up with what's in the box.
If you use a 3 ohm current limiting resistor instead of a 3 kohm, I would expect your LED to light up very brightly.
Once.
And the Howell's brought enough clothes for a month on a 3 hour boat lark.
The Howell's are those awful rich people. They never travel with less than a month's worth of clothes of every kind, because they never know when the Queen will appear and they need to be formally dressed.
In reality land, there's a show called "Below Decks". It follows the life of employees on a relatively small luxury yacht. The main story lines are the overbearing Captain who verbally whips the first mate for being incompetent, the happy-go-lucky chef who continually complains about the food requests from the guests, the bitchy chief steward and her two insubordinate assistants, and the merry sexual/drinking antics of all involved (except the Captain).
On one episode one of the sub-stewards was complaining about being asked to iron a guest's wardrobe after it was unpacked. "Who brings a dozen linen outfits on a three day cruise?" Why, Mrs. Thurston Howell the Third, of course. The steward's name was not, however, Ginger or Mary Anne, it was Sam. Or maybe Kat. I can't remember. One of them was a lush who couldn't handle her liquor and became loud and abusive and lied about drinking on duty when she was drunk, the other was always insubordinate and lied about drinking on duty when she was sober.
So, do you guys have multiple Beagle Boards, Beagle Bones, Ras Pi's, and other sitting on your bench right now? And you have experience using them? I do.
I have nothing Beagle (too expensive), but I have lots of Pis, both on my desk and out in the field doing productive work.
You haven't looked closely at the Minnow.
Considering that the news just got here about the Minnow, no, I haven't "looked closely" at it. I've read the fine article about it, however.
The I/O is much easier to use and much richer than you find on a 'bone or a raspi.
Richer as in "costs more", yes. The Pis I have have the hardware I need to do the job I bought them for. Putting lots of extra stuff on them would only raise the price.
The CPU has more horsepower, and yon don't have porting headaches to get reasonable things running on it.
The Pi appears to be able to be overclocked to 1GHz, although I haven't tried, and have no need to. I've had no problem porting the things I needed to port, I just copied the source code and compiled it. Well, the PC I developed the code on had a real serial port and the Pi doesn't, so I had to change the value of one constant from "/dev/ttyS0" to "/dev/ttyUSB0". Is that what you call "porting headaches"?
On the other hand, the PC didn't have hardware PWM, so if I used the PC I would have to come up with on outboard hardware solution to get the steady PWM signal I need.
You can't compare a raspi to a minnow until you try to hook up a CAN bus and a camera and start doing vision processing and motor control like you need for a robotics application.
I wasn't aware that a CAN bus was a requirement for robotics. I thought servos made use of PWM signals. As for cameras, the Pi has a hardware camera. I haven't used it yet, but that's next on the list of things to do. Other people seem to be doing vision processing with it, so I'm sure that mine will do it eventually, too.
If you're concerned that the Pi has only one (AFAIK) hardware PWM channel (wait, it has two, doesn't it?), well, for the price of one Minnow you can get 6 Pis and they call all dedicate themselves to that one channel and not have to time share or suffer from task switching glitches. Hardware PWM beats the hottest Intel CPU doing bit-banging every day of the week, and twice on Saturday.
The headline on this article and on the Ars one is misleading. From what they quoted of the Intel spokesman, this is not intended to be a Pi competitor. They didn't say that. It's an open source/open hardware solution. But their justification is a tad off, I think. This board is aimed at developers who would pay $1000 for a development system -- and they don't say why anyone would pay $1000 for a development system when you could develop on the board itself.
The most amazing quote is this. This board uses old hardware because "We used an older one to get our feet wet, so to speak, and understand the design." In other words, Intel was not comfortable designing things with their current generation of CPU and glue, even though they are mass producing them and selling them to others. And the bit about this being an "open system"? Interesting that the major closed component on the Pi is the GPU, which is ALSO closed on the Minnow.
eSATA, PCIe, Gig-E? Because the Pi doesn't have that you can't use it as a file server or network appliance? Hmmm. So even though I can hook a few Tb of disk up to the Pi via USB, I can't use that as a file server? I can't hook up a temperature sensor or three to the Pi and hook it to the network and have a network appliance that measures temperature for me? The truth is, the Pi makes a fine file server or network appliance, it just won't be enterprise grade at either one or be really fast. No True Scotsman would have a USB disk on a fileserver, I guess.
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Lots more international fibre might be a good thing rather that treating the US as a passive hub.
My doctor says I should eats lots more fibre, but the international part kinda violates the greenie mantra of "buy local", doesn't it?
An up-and-coming, self-righteous, loved and respected (pretty much universally except by its indigenous population) economic dynamo with its first Olympics affirming her new stature.
I know Brazilians who are absolutely terrified of how badly Brazil is going to handle the Olympics, and how poorly the incomplete and uncompleted infrastructure is going to perform when scads of people arrive hoping to see sporting events spread out across the entire country.
They are rightly scared that the big O will leave the country with a big black I (eye) in the eyes of the world. It's bad enough that there were mass riots not long ago based, in part, on the money being spent to build Olympic venues instead of on things like bus systems. This "new stature" is very likely to turn out to have scoliosis and club foot.
At least Brazil in this case appears to have some intestinal fortitude.
Brazil, as a whole, seems rather uninterested in the matter. The Brazilian leader is making hay while the sun shines, as the saying goes. While the concept is interesting, the truth is that once a packet leaves your own wires you have no real control over where it goes.
This is the same kind of action that Brazil took in response to the US creation of a VISA processing fee. Brazil was quite up-front in admitting that their fee of the same amount was a direct response to the US fee for Brazilian citizens going to the US. Us old folks would say they cut off their nose to spite their face.
I'm particularly worried about the statement that they may require servers to keep data in Brazil. I manage a lot of data from Brazil, and their network infrastructure is so shaky as it is that it would be impossible to manage it remotely.
That's not how this conversation started - it was about food trucks in general.
"Food trucks in general" includes those operated in a shady and illegal manner. I suppose we could go down the "no true Scotsman" path and say they aren't really "food trucks" if they don't obey the laws that food truck operators must obey, but I find that to be rather unproductive.
*That's* what I've been talking about and all you've had to reply on has been some mystery roach coach driving in from the sticks to steal your customers and beat your dog.
Since you've chosen to discuss what we're discussing, I'll point out that "beating dogs" has never been part of the discussion, and is not even a proper subset of "food trucks".
(yes, even brick and mortar restaurants skirt the law and health codes!).
Of course. But when they do, they are stuck in one place so the inspectors that found the problem to start with can trivially find them again. The people who see the violations and report them have a fixed point of reference to report. The owners have a massive investment in property and capital to protect. The Taco Bell down the street can't just pick up stakes and move across town, it has a fixed address and a known appearance, and the franchise fees are huge. The "Buy Tacos 89 cents" truck has a canvas banner on a truck that leaves at 2PM and goes somewhere out of sight, may not come back the next day, and would cost less than $50,000 to abandon completely.
If you want to convince me that the chances of finding a substandard fixed restaurant are the same as finding problems in mobile food vehicles, you'll have a very very hard time and need a lot more evidence. I've been behind the curtain at local events where food trucks serve, and I'd dare say that even in that situation, where the truck is parked in a known location for a week 24/7 and the inspectors can drop in at any time, the health and sanitation regulations are often skirted if not directly broken.
You didn't quite call for a ban but did call them "unfair", which is a more loaded term.
Yes, calling shady operations by mobile vendors "unfair" is not quite a call for an outright ban on all operators or uses.
did you mean they cause externalities in a way that government should address? And if so, how?
Externalities? Do you mean that they can easily operate in a manner that is outside the control of government and avoid the burdens that static businesses face as part of regulation? Yes. Unfortunately, "government addressing" such a problem doesn't solve the problem. More laws to ignore or that aren't enforceable won't solve the inherent problem. Those who claim that mobile food vendors have regulations to follow and can therefore never be unfair or skirt the law are ignoring reality.
I understand what you are saying but you're splitting hairs at best. Your actual BALLOT (vote) is still anonymous.
No, the contents of your ballot are SECRET, but you voting is not an anonymous process, and cannot be for the reasons already outlined. It does make a difference, and being flippant with the terms only confuses the issues involved, which are different.
When I last voted in person, I had to prove who I was and that I had a right to vote there. They marked down the fact that I was voting. This is not "anonymous" in any definition I know of. I filled out the ballot and handed it back to the poll worker. It was in a folder so they could not see what I had put on the ballot ("secret") but they could clearly identify me and that the ballot I handed them was the same one they had given me a few moments before. This is not "anonymous" by any definition. At that point they maintained the secret by removing the identification from the ballot and putting it in a box. But they still knew who I was and that I had voted.
Now when I vote, I must put my ballot in a "secrecy envelope" which has my name and address printed on the outside, and I must sign the envelope attesting to the fact it was my ballot inside. This is not anonymous by ANY definition. They cannot see how I voted, but they certainly know exactly who voted. Secret, yes. Anonymous, no.
If you truly thought you understood what I am saying and that the difference doesn't matter, why are you arguing so much about it?
Are dumb customers enough of a reason to ban food trucks entirely?
Where have you seen me calling for a ban on food trucks?
Oh I definitely live in a weird place, but from the rest of these comments it seems food trucks really are quite well regulated across the board.
There is a significant difference between "there are regulations" and "enforcing the regulations". I'm saying that mobile food vendors are in a position to avoid those regulations much more easily than any brick and mortar. It takes a lot more money to enforce the rules on taco trucks than on a Taco Bell.
To do business legally in just about any town, you must have a business license for tax purposes.
FTFY.
You can tell me about all the wonderful laws in place to protect the public from less than scrupulous mobile food vendors, but you can't ignore the fact that unscrupulous mobile food vendors have a much easier time avoiding those rules than a restaurant with a fixed location.
Now, this statement here is a real gem:
Every customer I draw from a legit business is lost profit for him
No, it does not sound "exactly like". "Every customer I draw" means that the customer was going to buy something and wasn't just collecting electrons for free because he could. That was a paying customer who came to me instead of to the legal fixed restaurant. "Every downloaded song" isn't downloaded by someone who was a "customer draw[n]" from a legit seller. I wrote specifically about someone who was going to buy something from someone else and you've tried to paint it as if I were talking about a random passerby who wasn't really going to buy anything at all.
People who go downtown to get lunch are going to buy something, and if they buy it from me in my roach wagon instead of the sandwich shop then that is profit that I've taken away from that sandwich shop. You can try to deny it, but most people would accept that as a fact.
Would you say every cup of coffee bought from Starbucks is a lost sale from the local shop down the road?
It probably is. It's called "competition" in business terms, and businesses face it every day. What they shouldn't have to face is "unfair competition", which is what an unlicensed food truck who parks next to your fixed restaurant to cherry pick the lunch crowd is doing.
Would you say my restaurant is stealing customers that might otherwise go to your food truck across the street?
No, because your restaurant is more likely to be licensed and inspected and complying with all local laws. You'll probably have a lease, and the lessor will have vetted you to some extent. You'll have a loan and the bank will want to see your business plan and that is more vetting. That makes the competition more fair. And that means it isn't stealing.
but I'd say that's more an issue with your town's enforcement than the food trucks.
Right. It's the fault of the people who are spread too thin to enforce all the laws and not the fault of the people who take the chance breaking the laws. "Honest officer, it's your fault I was speeding because there usually isn't anyone here writing tickets..." At least you admit that there is a problem enforcing laws on mobile food vendors that don't exist for fixed ones, so maybe you've heard at least a little bit of what I've been saying.
It's clear you have a bone to pick here, and I'm not going to convince you otherwise.
No, I have no bone to pick, I'm just pointing out that mobile food vendors are not the pristine excellent resource that they're being presented as. And you won't convince me otherwise because you've never actually dealt with the issue, you've just claimed that laws exist which, if followed and enforced, might mitigate the problem. What you haven't recognized is that the diff
You go to the voting center. You show your I.D. so they know you voted.
Which is pretty much how you define "not anonymous". It's public record.
But it's anonymous in the sense that the ballot does not have your name on it,
That's not anonymous, that's secret. There is a difference. We can all find out if you voted or not. We can't find out how you voted.
Anonymous voting means nobody knows who you are when you vote. Secret ballot means they know who you are but not how you voted. I'd try to come up with a car analogy but it's not worth it.
Technological progress "killed" Usenet as a communications platform, not nymshifting trolls.
Yes, the demonstrated technological superiority of Google Groups was the opening salvo, and the beautifully masterful new Neo interface for Yahoo Groups has been the final nail in the coffin.
... a Democratic form of government is not possible without free and anonymous speech, and anonymous voting.
A democracy is impossible with anonymous voting. If you can't determine that the person who is voting has a right to vote, then anyone can walk in and vote. If you can't determine that someone has already voted, then they can vote a dozen or more times. You can't have the concept of "one person one vote" if you can't determine when that one person has cast his one vote.
What you are thinking of is secret ballots, not anonymous voting. It is absolutely imperative that you identify the person who is doing the voting and his right to be there, and only at that point should the origin and content of the actual vote become unidentifiable.
Did Boulder County actually have the ability to approve such a thing in the first place?
No. The text of the NOTAM says "FORT COLLINS DISPATCH CENTER" is in charge of the authorizations through Denver ARTCC. Wikipedia tells us that "Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality in and the county seat of Larimer County, Colorado".
TFRs are issued by the FAA upon the request of civil agencies and the civil agencies are given control. Some are long term (NCAA football game TFRs, for example, under a blanket overarching TFR.)
You'll note that they seem to do the poorest job in areas where people were told to evacuate, but didn't for whatever reason. I think there might be a connection.
I think there is a bigger connection between "FEMA not taking over an incident" and "Governor of state refusing to ask for aide from FEMA when it would have done the most good." You know, like three days before Katrina made landfall and everything could have been staged while the roads were still passable and stuff, instead of several days after and the police of a major city involved fled in panic.
Now, the company who is trying to make themselves look good has claimed that CAP didn't carry cameras or video. Yes, CAP has an entire ES qualification dealing with aerial photography (i.e., they were almost certainly carrying cameras) but are hindered in real time video by managing a data link of sufficient bandwidth. The FCC rules prohibit use of cell phones (and data) while airborne, so it's not just a case of slapping a cell data card in a laptop and firing off the data. That's not to say that GIIEP should be as stupidly complex as it is, however. Forcing all data through one military system with associated military level authentication and sucky bandwidth is a mistake, but the approved cell data cards are not generally available as far as I know.
Hmm. I suppose there would be a market force in that direction as well. But then it would be more expensive to be a racist - and people really like not spending money when they don't have to.
People buy BMWs when they don't have to. They feel they get value for the money. You wouldn't be much of a racist if you didn't think it was worth $10 a night extra so you could sleep in a bed that wasn't slept in by the wrong kinds of people, would you? The entire hospitality industry is based on selling people things they don't really need, isn't it? "Would you like fries with that"? Well, if I needed fries I'd have ordered them to start with. "I can offer you a king-sized bed for just $20 more a night..." Enterprise rent-a-car always asks if I want to upgrade to a luxury car when I rent a compact from them. Comcast repeatedly tries to upsell me to Xfinity voice, even when I'm calling them to report a complete cable outage.
I don't follow - could you rephrase?
I was pointing out as an addition to your statement about the freedom you mentioned that the freedom of free association (1st Amendment) implies a freedom NOT to associate with people you don't want to. Being free to associate with some people I like only if I accept having to associate with ones I don't isn't much of a freedom, is it?
Maybe you live in a weird place... maybe you just don't know how food trucks work. In my town (in wild west Nevada)
Maybe you live in the weird place. Yes, it would seem so.
In fact, the majority of food preparation must be done in an inspected and licensed commercial kitchen - not in the truck itself.
The next time you walk up to a mobile taco truck, remind yourself as you see them making your taco in front of your eyes that they've made the taco in a licensed commercial kitchen. That the sound of the frying hamburger patty coming from inside the burger-mobile is just a tape loop for ambiance and the actual hamburger you're getting was cooked in a licensed commercial kitchen somewhere.
and contrary to what seems to be popular slashdot belief, it is really quite easy to track down a food truck if it's known to be out of compliance.
An inspector comes across a truck parked at location A. (There are so many inspectors this is likely to happen?) He does an inspection, finds problems. (While he's doing this, the other two trucks parked nearby close up and drive away, avoiding the inspector altogether.) "You have 30 days to fix this..." The next day that truck is ten miles away, open for business. You say it's "quite easy" to find the truck after it's driven away. I'd like to know your magic; I am a SAR volunteer and we'd love to know the trick for finding someone who doesn't want to be found. You could probably make a fortune as a repo man, finding the cars that the deadbeats aren't paying the loans on since it is so easy to find vehicles.
They're registered as food service businesses just like a restaurant paying all the same taxes.
Just how do they allocate a share of property taxes to a vehicle that is parked someplace for two hours a day? Economic development district fees?
So sure, you can open a restaurant next door to an existing one,
It costs a LOT of money to open a brick and mortar anything, much less a restaurant. While you're busy opening that operation, the city will be lining up to inspect it. If you forget to have the inspectors (building and health, both) come by, your neighbor will be happy to schedule appointments with the city on your behalf. If you walk away from the site to avoid legal issues, you leave behind the hundred thousand dollars or so in equipment and improvements you've made.
On the other hand, I can buy an old food vendor truck for a LOT less money, keep it in my garage while I outfit it, and then park it someplace and be open for business with zero notice to anyone. Not many people are going to look for a business license or health certification posted anywhere, and if they do they won't be able to detect the ones I have as forgeries. Every customer I draw from a legit business is lost profit for him, and tomorrow I may be a dozen miles away doing the same thing to someone else. And the only thing I lose while avoiding the law is ... a tank of gas.
As for the guy who posted the comment about inspectors buying food undercover, I'll just say that it takes a LOT more than buying a taco from a mobile vendor to do a real health inspection on his operation. You may be able to see the sink where employees are required to wash their hands, but you won't know that there is no running water or that the drain is clogged with grease and dead rats. You won't be able to measure the temperature of the hot food containers, or the temperature of the refrigerator.
but they serve a niche and are far from the robber barons you guys are trying to portray them as.
I'm not trying to portray them as robber barons. Unfair and lacking the same kind of controls that a real restaurant has, yes.
The net result is that racists will be less successful at business and eventually be replaced by non-racist business owners.
You are assuming that the business environment is not a mirror of the culture and vice versa. In other words, those racist business owners will exist in a direct proportion to the number of racist clients, and can thus fill the niche market of "housing where you won't sleep in a bed that was slept in by 'those people'". They can, thus, charge more for their product because the clients will pay more for that product. Smart business people will notice a glut in the market of "non-racist" housing and the concomitant lack of racist rooms (with the associated premium price) and begin to offer that product, even if they are normally non-racist. Kind of like people who smoke like a chimney running hotels with non-smoking rooms.
which to me rather seems like a very basic freedom that should not be restricted.
The freedom of free association implies a freedom FROM association, as well.