The "holding it the wrong way" issue referred to the boneheaded decision to put the iPhone 4 antennas on the outside, without any protective covering. It was blown up out of proportion.
It didn't seem to affect all 4s, but the hype was that it did. I could lower the signal strength by a bar by licking my finger and putting it in a to short two antennas. Apple offered free cases, which I happily took advantage of, and of course a case solved the problem completely.
It wasn't Apple's finest hour, but they did fix the problem for free (with cases) and it was easy to avoid the problem.
In 1979, I put down my welding glass to see totality and just stared at it. The corona was so beautiful. Then I missed Bailey's beads because they stabbed my eyes with sunlight and I automatically flinched and closed my eyes. Looking at anything other than a total eclipse during totality is a really bad idea, but most of us will react appropriately.
If you diversify, you can still wind up selling 90% of your stuff through Amazon, because a lot of people buy stuff through Amazon. If Amazon screws you over, you're probably screwed no matter what you did.
That's why I got my time off request in in February. We're not going to close the company down, and I wanted to get it in early and beat the competition. There are places that can shut down.
If you can't get a vacation, find a real job. If your company will go broke if you take a week off, it's doomed anyway, because you're probably going to be out sick that long some time or another.
What happens in peacetime is that people work on basic research, and that goes into applied research, and that goes into development, and we see that as progress. In wartime, people are pulled off basic research and made to work on applied research and development. In the meantime, we're not as fussy about the quality of the new stuff delivered. Obviously, if we have more people working on new stuff, and we're accepting stuff that would otherwise be unacceptable, we're going to get more new stuff.
However, what we're doing in wartime is slowing down basic research, so when we get back to peacetime we have less knowledge to draw on, and so wartime actually slows progress.
In response I'd say let's compare to Physics theories that are "just a hypothesis" that have weaker evidence yet treated as fact.
Huh? The evidence for no other intelligent life is that we haven't seen any, and there are numerous plausible scenarios in which we would have detected other intelligent life. There's also plausible scenarios where they're out there and we haven't detected them for a variety of reasons. I know of no hypotheses treated as fact with such little evidence.
Human beings are fragile? We're large animals, with superb immune systems and healing systems and tremendous endurance. We adapt our environments to suit us. We live almost everywhere outside Antarctica. We'll survive as a species.
Why do you have date of birth showing anywhere? If the application has it, consider filing a complaint with your appropriate state agency, or talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing. They don't need to know it until you're hired, and even asking for it opens them up to lawsuits.
Another reason is that, when there are more jobs than people to fill them, most competent people have a job. When it's easy to find a warm body for a job slot, the headhunters don't need you, and you're quite likely unemployed.
I don't think there was any large WWII warship that could be sunk with one hole in the hull. Remember that warships are designed to function with arbitrary holes in the hull. There are no convenient large but hard-to-get-to compartments that will sink a warship.
Are you aware that warships since the American Civil War have been built to withstand small amounts of explosives exploding in side them? Have you looked at the amount of punishment some smaller carriers in WWII could take and keep operating? If the ship is at sea, it's going to be impossible to be close to it. If it's in dock, there will be dockyard personnel all over. For a simple $1K, you can accomplish nothing except get shot or brought up on felony charges.
How much range do the drones have while carrying explosives? Their controllers will have to be fairly close and fairly obvious and, soon, fairly dead. How are they going to move enough explosive to do more than scratch the paint ("grip it by the husk" is not a correct answer)? How stable will they be with a fairly large jet aircraft flying near them?
People have been working for decades on anti-ship missiles, which are intended to carry enough explosive to damage a ship and still have a chance of making it through the defenses.
Where, on a large aircraft carrier, is two kilos of explosives going to damage the ship, as opposed to possibly take out an aircraft or some people? (Bear in mind that it isn't likely to get any lower than the hangar deck under any circumstances.)
Actually, the main RN carrier advantage was against kamikazes, which are about the optimum case for an armored deck. The armored flight decks didn't usually stop bombs. The USN concentrated on aircraft capacity and operations, and went to armored flight decks in the first carrier class after WWII.
Assuming it's open, of course. Then try to find a place that two kilos of explosive will be dangerous, when the freaking ship is designed to withstand much more powerful attacks.
You do realize that people who design aircraft carriers expect much larger quantities of explosives detonating in inconvenient places, right? They have plans for that.
It's a freaking warship, guys. It's designed to stand up to a lot more damage than you can deliver with a drone. A couple of kilos of Semtex? They don't make bomb or anti-ship missile warheads anywhere near that tiny.
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The "holding it the wrong way" issue referred to the boneheaded decision to put the iPhone 4 antennas on the outside, without any protective covering. It was blown up out of proportion.
It didn't seem to affect all 4s, but the hype was that it did. I could lower the signal strength by a bar by licking my finger and putting it in a to short two antennas. Apple offered free cases, which I happily took advantage of, and of course a case solved the problem completely.
It wasn't Apple's finest hour, but they did fix the problem for free (with cases) and it was easy to avoid the problem.
In 1979, I put down my welding glass to see totality and just stared at it. The corona was so beautiful. Then I missed Bailey's beads because they stabbed my eyes with sunlight and I automatically flinched and closed my eyes. Looking at anything other than a total eclipse during totality is a really bad idea, but most of us will react appropriately.
If you diversify, you can still wind up selling 90% of your stuff through Amazon, because a lot of people buy stuff through Amazon. If Amazon screws you over, you're probably screwed no matter what you did.
An annular eclipse is cool, or a partial, but a total eclipse is fantastic.
Most people can walk off the job for five minutes without disrupting things. There are exceptions.
That's why I got my time off request in in February. We're not going to close the company down, and I wanted to get it in early and beat the competition. There are places that can shut down.
If you can't get a vacation, find a real job. If your company will go broke if you take a week off, it's doomed anyway, because you're probably going to be out sick that long some time or another.
Trees aren't going to save us. They don't work fast enough.
What happens in peacetime is that people work on basic research, and that goes into applied research, and that goes into development, and we see that as progress. In wartime, people are pulled off basic research and made to work on applied research and development. In the meantime, we're not as fussy about the quality of the new stuff delivered. Obviously, if we have more people working on new stuff, and we're accepting stuff that would otherwise be unacceptable, we're going to get more new stuff.
However, what we're doing in wartime is slowing down basic research, so when we get back to peacetime we have less knowledge to draw on, and so wartime actually slows progress.
Huh? The evidence for no other intelligent life is that we haven't seen any, and there are numerous plausible scenarios in which we would have detected other intelligent life. There's also plausible scenarios where they're out there and we haven't detected them for a variety of reasons. I know of no hypotheses treated as fact with such little evidence.
They'd still have economics. We're not beyond economics, and we're fantastically more advanced and richer than any neolithic society.
Human beings are fragile? We're large animals, with superb immune systems and healing systems and tremendous endurance. We adapt our environments to suit us. We live almost everywhere outside Antarctica. We'll survive as a species.
My solution was hair dye. I'm serious about this. It did wonders for turning good interviews into job offers.
Why do you have date of birth showing anywhere? If the application has it, consider filing a complaint with your appropriate state agency, or talk to a lawyer who specializes in this sort of thing. They don't need to know it until you're hired, and even asking for it opens them up to lawsuits.
Another reason is that, when there are more jobs than people to fill them, most competent people have a job. When it's easy to find a warm body for a job slot, the headhunters don't need you, and you're quite likely unemployed.
Older people also know that putting in lots of extra time doesn't make them more productive, particularly in fields like software development.
I don't think there was any large WWII warship that could be sunk with one hole in the hull. Remember that warships are designed to function with arbitrary holes in the hull. There are no convenient large but hard-to-get-to compartments that will sink a warship.
Are you aware that warships since the American Civil War have been built to withstand small amounts of explosives exploding in side them? Have you looked at the amount of punishment some smaller carriers in WWII could take and keep operating? If the ship is at sea, it's going to be impossible to be close to it. If it's in dock, there will be dockyard personnel all over. For a simple $1K, you can accomplish nothing except get shot or brought up on felony charges.
That would be a waste of $400.
How much range do the drones have while carrying explosives? Their controllers will have to be fairly close and fairly obvious and, soon, fairly dead. How are they going to move enough explosive to do more than scratch the paint ("grip it by the husk" is not a correct answer)? How stable will they be with a fairly large jet aircraft flying near them?
People have been working for decades on anti-ship missiles, which are intended to carry enough explosive to damage a ship and still have a chance of making it through the defenses.
Step out of the way? They're not carrying any significant explosive charge, they don't move that fast, and they're not going to chase anyone.
Where, on a large aircraft carrier, is two kilos of explosives going to damage the ship, as opposed to possibly take out an aircraft or some people? (Bear in mind that it isn't likely to get any lower than the hangar deck under any circumstances.)
Actually, the main RN carrier advantage was against kamikazes, which are about the optimum case for an armored deck. The armored flight decks didn't usually stop bombs. The USN concentrated on aircraft capacity and operations, and went to armored flight decks in the first carrier class after WWII.
Assuming it's open, of course. Then try to find a place that two kilos of explosive will be dangerous, when the freaking ship is designed to withstand much more powerful attacks.
Heck, I'm interested in how it's going to open hatches on its way.
You do realize that people who design aircraft carriers expect much larger quantities of explosives detonating in inconvenient places, right? They have plans for that.
It's a freaking warship, guys. It's designed to stand up to a lot more damage than you can deliver with a drone. A couple of kilos of Semtex? They don't make bomb or anti-ship missile warheads anywhere near that tiny.
To throw another anecdote on the pile, for decades now, every year I've gotten the flu shot xor the flu.