There were plenty of warnings hand-delivered to the President himself - warnings that never got acted on.
I disagree, he acted on them. His response was to take a month off taking naps on the ranch in Midland.
If he could just convince Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and the rest of his fascist gang to do the same thing the world would be a better place!
The spy's have been able to decode the EMF from a CRT and reconstruct the screen content for some time. I do not imagine LCD's are noisy enough to be a problem though.
If you are worried about this short of working on a highly classified project you better strap on the tinfoil hat.
More likely the wheel is physically linked the steering gear train. The operation would be kind of like the player pianos with moving keys. If someone chose to revert to manual there would not be a reliance on the computer for steering.
The fellow children posts elude to it, but more directly, these sorts of hardware implementation (like NASA Ames big iron etc) are allocated out to various research projects. Some may go to companies doing governement funded research, a lot will be farmed out to PhD candidates and post-doc researchers in academia.
Typically these folks will submit proposals for what they will be doing, and some review board will dole out the cycles. Queues are set up with different processor, run duration and memory allocations.
Back in the mid 90's I was running Computational Fluid Dynamics code for sonic boom propocation/mitigation research on what was then the largest super computer in the unclassified world. They had low priority queues that ran if all the regular ones that burned up your allocation cleared. Over the Easter holiday in '94 I had every processer on that Cray running full tilt on my stuff for about 12 hours. I had trouble getting my data off disk (they limited that too) in CA to Seattle fast enough!
Give researches more horsepower and they will run bigger problems. At the time, boundary layer researchers would set up problems will millions of grid points for flow over a flat plate. This sort if research is a true "build it and they will come" scenario.
Currently too many lawmakers look to areas that are making money and try to tap into them for a revenue stream. This is misguided. There are costs the government incurs to operate and provide infrastructure and services for the common good. Folks can differ in their view of the extent that the government should muddle in our economy, but it is my belief that the government is uniquely situated to extract some of the real costs to society that are often "free".
Additionally, taxes can be used as a tool to influence behavior. To this end if the government wants to increase the efficiency of our economy, taxing "value added" is terrible. A consumption tax would be far more appropriate. Also, consumption taxes can address areas were something is "free" but has a negative impact on society at large. Let me make an somewhat absurd example to illustrate:
1) Widget Co. invents a Mr. Fusion device that costs $10 to manufacture using top secret process using recycled milk jugs and pop cans and it produces 10 zillion kilowatts of electricity before if burns out after 2 years and needs to be recycled. The street price of this little baby might be $10 million dollars which with a typical state would be $600K of sales tax.
2) Now some other dude selling trainloads of high sulphur coal may pay more or less taxes, but someone dug a big hole in the ground, bought a bunch of steel machinery which in turn required digging more holes in the ground to get iron ore and coal to forge etc, heated a bunch of water out of some river, dumped gobs of carbon, nitrous oxide, sulpheric acid that gave a bunch of kids athsma attacks and acidified the soils downwind killing forests and lakes etc etc.
So for the most good to society, tax consumption, and in particular consumption with other costs to society.
In Michigan our roads are crap, mostly due to one of the highest limits in the country on gross weigh and axle loading for trucks hauling steel and gravel. They estimate on average in Detroit drives pay over $400 annual due to damage from bad roads. In effect there is a subsidy supporting a business practice of destroying infrastructure.
If the total costs of consumption were realized, improvements would be made to be more efficient. Maybe use alternative energy sources, maybe seek out different materials or more efficient transportation, maybe be creative in solutions.
For one last example, in the aerospace industry for decades they used real nasty stuff to clean aluminum parts in the manufacturing process. Over time the disposal of the materials increased and superfund sights were an environmental problem. They found a product similar to citrastrip (citric acid) worked just as well and was far less dangerous to employees, groundwater etc. This improvement was motivated when the real cost (pollution, health problems etc) factored into the equation.
Having a record of where people *intend* to be going helps some, because then you know where to start looking. But almost by definition, lost people are usually somewhere other than where they meant to be.
So he would install this system at all the places where people get lost?
A simpler solution may be to post a few more little brown signs.
Rather than a needle in a haystack, this would be a simpler sorting problem. If 11 of 12 tags are at "known" locations and 1 is in a unusual place, that would be the lost person.
I haven't been ripped off because I try really hard to research everything before bidding.
In other words...buyer beware. I have only had one bad experience with printer ink that gummed up my printer (won't do that again/live and learn). I have had a number of great buys due to research a contacting the seller. In one case a seller offhand mentioned (no picture etc) a throw in item (that I wanted more than the headline item). I turned around a sold the purchased item and kept the "freebee" for about 25% of fair market after all the transaction costs. There are plenty of good citizens out there on e-bay.
In particular it is very efficient for:
niche retail (items that would be hard to carry in inventory in a storefront and make money...like SNL's "Spatula City")
connecting buyers and sellers for collectors items (what are the odds that someone interest in your grandfathers straight razor collection will come to your garage sale?)
Maybe this bloatware mess will be the tipping point for some of the other vendors and OS's.
Linux is generally more efficient..OK..MUCH MUCH MUCH more efficient with resources than MS-Bloat
Windows over Mac was historically a $'s and cents thing. The key niche that Macs have done well in is audio/video. Joe consumer has gone for MS by inertia and because Dell, Gateway, Compaq et al were perceived values. Is the next Killer Application videography (one thing that would consume gobs of memory and disk)? If so is Apple situated to be ahead of MS with Longhorn for handling multi-media applications.
Since Longhorn keeps getting delayed. The response should be:
1) Have a strong desktop offering that will run on 2004 vintage HW. For what business needs to do on the desktop there is little motivation today to have much more. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the 87 zillion desktops all flip off MS when they show up at corporate america and tell them to upgrade?
2) Be prepared to do whatever MS wants to do on a 2008 era desktop BETTER.
I mean, really... EACH AND EVERY piece of technology will be used to kill people.
And if it isn't in the first place, someone will find a creative and interesting way to use it to kill people...
Take the "spork" for instance. Downright lethal against a pile of mashed potatoes...or coleslaw.
Right, people can kill people with anything (including bare hands of course), but some inventions are more expeditiously deadly than others. This is an important part of the gun control arguement...Guns don't kill people, people kill people...but it is a lot easier for a 5 year-old to accidentally kill a playmate with a gun than with a knife, brick, rock, stick, or any number of the thousands of other items that have been used as weapons.
Remember that Noble's claim to fame was TNT. A safe and controlled labor saving invention.
MS has a long history of killing off competition pulling from a bag of tricks...including buying the offending company.
Linux presents a rather different challenge. There is not some new niche innovative upstart to go stomp on. It is a decentralized, generally non-corporate entity.
My read is Steve is saying..."Until we leaders and strategists figure out how to defang this threat in the marketplace, get back to work and make sure our stuff works as well as it can." A solid leadership viewpoint really.
So a thermonuclear device or a metric ton of sarin gas released in New York city subway system would REALLY environmentally safe? Consider they evacuate large areas when a tanker car of Anhydrous derails it does need to be used with care.
I wouldn't normally comment on my own parent but the moderation has moved me...
In what way is this insightful? It's a joke. I know. I posted it!
Does the person that moderated this insightful share a concern that scientists will somehow be able to determine that a Walrus floundered off the beast barge after the Thomson's Gazelles?
I was really excited about this technology until they started onto application to cell phones. The track record of that industry to make something useful (a mobile phone with a list of names and numbers) into a convoluted hodge-podge of features hiding the useful features 4 layers down in the menus makes me shudder considering how they would implement this.
In effect for instances were you are looking at something of known shape you get just that!
Suppose you are trying to put a small screw in a small threaded hole..but there are other parts as well as your arm and hand in the way. With this system you could see the hole virtually.
The trick would be having the system generate the geometry for the screw...or your fingers.
"We are not excavating it. We are not taking any artifacts."
I would hope they are careful not to disturb the footprints of all the animals disembarking 2 by 2. They may not be very fresh after 5000 years, but it would be a shame to loose that important scientific evidence forever.
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I have fond memories of my D&D games. One had to have a degree of trust with friends to play the game. It is a completely different dynamic than video games that are not nearly as engaging on a human level.
There is actually an art to generating the rules to make for a more interesting balanced game.
If you are making up your own rules your wizards and sword fights escallate into...I teleport your party to the Andromeda Galaxy and issue a summon black hole spell swallowing the entire galaxy into a space time singularity...that I will put into my bag of holding until I feel like REALLY kicking your butt.
Funny how things come full circle, but my son is now at the age where he may soon take an interest in games like D&D. Of his friends, the biggest pain in the ass is one that makes up rules as he goes along for one of those Pokemon knock-offs.
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To knowledge there is not a direct relationship between LOTR and D&D. There are elements that may be lifted (e.g. Hobbits, Orcs etc)...but then Tolkien lifted many of his ideas from various mythologies.
I think doing wing warping actively may only be viable over small regions of the structure...designers will be faced with a choice of carrying fuel or a mess of servos and other mechanisms. There may be a payoff in tricky areas such as airframe propulsion integration. Or for this application the morphing could be used to clean-up the flow in an inlet across the operating envelope.
As it is for commercial applications, the highspeed configuration team designs a "1-G" wing (i.e. the shape they want the aircraft to be in at its design condition) and the structural engineers work out the shape of the structure they need to build "jig wing" that will end up in the design shape when loaded with cargo, passengers, fuel etc in flight.
It may be of interest to extend this concept to have the structural response change throughout a mission to provide better overall performance. For example if a plane takesoff weighing 300,000 lbs and burns 100,000 lbs of fuel in its mission, the wing loading is much higher during the climb and early cruise than the end of the cruise segment. If the structure would by design be in a "good" shape for the earlier design point and morph (passively) to a different "good" shape for later in the mission that would be an interesting application.
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If he could just convince Ashcroft, Rumsfeld and the rest of his fascist gang to do the same thing the world would be a better place!
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If you are worried about this short of working on a highly classified project you better strap on the tinfoil hat.
USS Yorktown dead in water
More likely the wheel is physically linked the steering gear train. The operation would be kind of like the player pianos with moving keys. If someone chose to revert to manual there would not be a reliance on the computer for steering.
Typically these folks will submit proposals for what they will be doing, and some review board will dole out the cycles. Queues are set up with different processor, run duration and memory allocations.
Back in the mid 90's I was running Computational Fluid Dynamics code for sonic boom propocation/mitigation research on what was then the largest super computer in the unclassified world. They had low priority queues that ran if all the regular ones that burned up your allocation cleared. Over the Easter holiday in '94 I had every processer on that Cray running full tilt on my stuff for about 12 hours. I had trouble getting my data off disk (they limited that too) in CA to Seattle fast enough!
Give researches more horsepower and they will run bigger problems. At the time, boundary layer researchers would set up problems will millions of grid points for flow over a flat plate. This sort if research is a true "build it and they will come" scenario.
Additionally, taxes can be used as a tool to influence behavior. To this end if the government wants to increase the efficiency of our economy, taxing "value added" is terrible. A consumption tax would be far more appropriate. Also, consumption taxes can address areas were something is "free" but has a negative impact on society at large. Let me make an somewhat absurd example to illustrate:
1) Widget Co. invents a Mr. Fusion device that costs $10 to manufacture using top secret process using recycled milk jugs and pop cans and it produces 10 zillion kilowatts of electricity before if burns out after 2 years and needs to be recycled. The street price of this little baby might be $10 million dollars which with a typical state would be $600K of sales tax.
2) Now some other dude selling trainloads of high sulphur coal may pay more or less taxes, but someone dug a big hole in the ground, bought a bunch of steel machinery which in turn required digging more holes in the ground to get iron ore and coal to forge etc, heated a bunch of water out of some river, dumped gobs of carbon, nitrous oxide, sulpheric acid that gave a bunch of kids athsma attacks and acidified the soils downwind killing forests and lakes etc etc.
So for the most good to society, tax consumption, and in particular consumption with other costs to society.
In Michigan our roads are crap, mostly due to one of the highest limits in the country on gross weigh and axle loading for trucks hauling steel and gravel. They estimate on average in Detroit drives pay over $400 annual due to damage from bad roads. In effect there is a subsidy supporting a business practice of destroying infrastructure.
If the total costs of consumption were realized, improvements would be made to be more efficient. Maybe use alternative energy sources, maybe seek out different materials or more efficient transportation, maybe be creative in solutions.
For one last example, in the aerospace industry for decades they used real nasty stuff to clean aluminum parts in the manufacturing process. Over time the disposal of the materials increased and superfund sights were an environmental problem. They found a product similar to citrastrip (citric acid) worked just as well and was far less dangerous to employees, groundwater etc. This improvement was motivated when the real cost (pollution, health problems etc) factored into the equation.
So he would install this system at all the places where people get lost?
A simpler solution may be to post a few more little brown signs.
Moon Lake 2.5 miles ->
Saddle Pass 4.5 miles ^
Rather than a needle in a haystack, this would be a simpler sorting problem. If 11 of 12 tags are at "known" locations and 1 is in a unusual place, that would be the lost person.
In other words...buyer beware. I have only had one bad experience with printer ink that gummed up my printer (won't do that again/live and learn). I have had a number of great buys due to research a contacting the seller. In one case a seller offhand mentioned (no picture etc) a throw in item (that I wanted more than the headline item). I turned around a sold the purchased item and kept the "freebee" for about 25% of fair market after all the transaction costs. There are plenty of good citizens out there on e-bay.
In particular it is very efficient for:
niche retail (items that would be hard to carry in inventory in a storefront and make money ...like SNL's "Spatula City")
connecting buyers and sellers for collectors items (what are the odds that someone interest in your grandfathers straight razor collection will come to your garage sale?)
Linux is generally more efficient..OK..MUCH MUCH MUCH more efficient with resources than MS-Bloat
Windows over Mac was historically a $'s and cents thing. The key niche that Macs have done well in is audio/video. Joe consumer has gone for MS by inertia and because Dell, Gateway, Compaq et al were perceived values. Is the next Killer Application videography (one thing that would consume gobs of memory and disk)? If so is Apple situated to be ahead of MS with Longhorn for handling multi-media applications. Since Longhorn keeps getting delayed. The response should be:
1) Have a strong desktop offering that will run on 2004 vintage HW. For what business needs to do on the desktop there is little motivation today to have much more. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the 87 zillion desktops all flip off MS when they show up at corporate america and tell them to upgrade?
2) Be prepared to do whatever MS wants to do on a 2008 era desktop BETTER.
I wonder if this poster has come to this point yet. I think he is still a bright eyed idealist.
Take the "spork" for instance. Downright lethal against a pile of mashed potatoes...or coleslaw.
Right, people can kill people with anything (including bare hands of course), but some inventions are more expeditiously deadly than others. This is an important part of the gun control arguement...Guns don't kill people, people kill people...but it is a lot easier for a 5 year-old to accidentally kill a playmate with a gun than with a knife, brick, rock, stick, or any number of the thousands of other items that have been used as weapons.
Remember that Noble's claim to fame was TNT. A safe and controlled labor saving invention.
there is no 'center of gravity,'
a bit differently.
MS has a long history of killing off competition pulling from a bag of tricks...including buying the offending company.
Linux presents a rather different challenge. There is not some new niche innovative upstart to go stomp on. It is a decentralized, generally non-corporate entity.
My read is Steve is saying..."Until we leaders and strategists figure out how to defang this threat in the marketplace, get back to work and make sure our stuff works as well as it can." A solid leadership viewpoint really.
Anhydrous ammonia...enviromentally safe
AND
So a thermonuclear device or a metric ton of sarin gas released in New York city subway system would REALLY environmentally safe? Consider they evacuate large areas when a tanker car of Anhydrous derails it does need to be used with care.
In what way is this insightful? It's a joke. I know. I posted it!
Does the person that moderated this insightful share a concern that scientists will somehow be able to determine that a Walrus floundered off the beast barge after the Thomson's Gazelles?
It reminds me of muscle car revving gear heads in high school and there very intelligent Ford vs Chevy debates.
Fords Suck
Chevy Blows
Ford Sucks
Your Chevy can eat my dust
Oh yea?
Yea!
...kids go toe to toe and thump each other in chest...scuffle begins...kid with 1973 Datsun with 247,352 miles on it shakes head and walks away.
I was really excited about this technology until they started onto application to cell phones. The track record of that industry to make something useful (a mobile phone with a list of names and numbers) into a convoluted hodge-podge of features hiding the useful features 4 layers down in the menus makes me shudder considering how they would implement this.
Suppose you are trying to put a small screw in a small threaded hole..but there are other parts as well as your arm and hand in the way. With this system you could see the hole virtually.
The trick would be having the system generate the geometry for the screw...or your fingers.
I would hope they are careful not to disturb the footprints of all the animals disembarking 2 by 2. They may not be very fresh after 5000 years, but it would be a shame to loose that important scientific evidence forever.
I have fond memories of my D&D games. One had to have a degree of trust with friends to play the game. It is a completely different dynamic than video games that are not nearly as engaging on a human level.
Isn't yours the 4" one handed sword?...and haven't you been playing with it enough already?
If you are making up your own rules your wizards and sword fights escallate into...I teleport your party to the Andromeda Galaxy and issue a summon black hole spell swallowing the entire galaxy into a space time singularity...that I will put into my bag of holding until I feel like REALLY kicking your butt.
Funny how things come full circle, but my son is now at the age where he may soon take an interest in games like D&D. Of his friends, the biggest pain in the ass is one that makes up rules as he goes along for one of those Pokemon knock-offs.
To knowledge there is not a direct relationship between LOTR and D&D. There are elements that may be lifted (e.g. Hobbits, Orcs etc)...but then Tolkien lifted many of his ideas from various mythologies.
As it is for commercial applications, the highspeed configuration team designs a "1-G" wing (i.e. the shape they want the aircraft to be in at its design condition) and the structural engineers work out the shape of the structure they need to build "jig wing" that will end up in the design shape when loaded with cargo, passengers, fuel etc in flight.
It may be of interest to extend this concept to have the structural response change throughout a mission to provide better overall performance. For example if a plane takesoff weighing 300,000 lbs and burns 100,000 lbs of fuel in its mission, the wing loading is much higher during the climb and early cruise than the end of the cruise segment. If the structure would by design be in a "good" shape for the earlier design point and morph (passively) to a different "good" shape for later in the mission that would be an interesting application.