Too bad the 250K a year is a myth, only the most senior pilots at the major airlines make that much money.
Which the article already pointed out. You're only making the author's point -- which is that senior pilots making six figures are completely overpaid. The same job is done by plenty of pilots "paying their dues" for $30K a year. You don't see their planes dropping out of the sky left and right.. So what does this $250,000/yr pilot give me for my money?
Aside from the ad-ware, Belkin routers are plain crap. I bought one of their cheap, 4x100Mb models with DHCP and NAT. The router actually crashed twice in the three days I owned it.
Even better: when the router crashed, it managed to disable the 100Mbit switch as well. My machines couldn't even talk to each other any more. Usually the "switch" portion of a product like this is a hardware/embedded solution which runs even if you screw up your router config. Not with Belkin!
Even better: it dropped about 7% of packets. If you know how TCP timeouts work, you can imagine what that does to web browsing.
I returned it and bought a 100Mbit switch. Then I took the time to learn iptables for Linux (was hoping to just pay 60 bucks and not worry about it). Never looked back.
One could imagine, for instance, contact lenses with displays and miniature computers on them, so that you can experience a virtual tour of a new city as you walk around.
One could imagine the decidedly non-virtual experience of getting creamed by a passing truck. Gives whole new meaning to Blue Screen of Death.
If you don't like a billboard, then buy the property on which it is located and tear down the billboard.
Well, it would get expensive to buy enough property to have no billboards in sight. People can see pretty far.
I suppose a bunch of rich people could get together and all agree to buy contiguous property, promising not to erect any billboards. Then each of them could individually live a billboard-free existence.
Of course, if less-rich people try the same thing (by just getting together and passing laws against billboards in the area they live), the free-market types will scream bloody murder, and government interference, and freedom of speech, and so forth.
It always amazes me that 10% of the population can't follow any instruction more complex than waiting in line. You can hand them a paper ballot, you can even have a little PICTURE of how they should fill in their vote, and what happens?
They will circle the candidate's name, mark all the candidates they DON'T want, write a poorly spelled version of the candidates name somewhere on the ballot, or goodness knows what else. Seriously, how do these people manage to get through the day?
Overall, I would say the ATM-style voting machine, printing out a human-readable ballot is the ideal combination of transparency and ease-of-use.
..their acceleration is increasing at a linear rate, so their floating point performance is increasing exponentially!
Sorry to be pedantic, but that would make their performance increase at a quadratic rate. To increase at an exponential rate, the rate of that increase would also have to be exponential, not linear. d/dt exp(t) = exp(t), remember?
ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years.
Just in time for the next Duke Nukem!
Seriously though, I have my doubts about quantum computing ever being practical. This guy has one qubit for ~100 picoseconds. Coherence gets astronomically harder to maintain, as you have more entangled particles.
Quantum computing is not a case of, "Ok, proof of concept, now let the engineers make it better."
[generics are] only in the spec stage here, whereas for Java there is already a technology preview, i.e. a more or less working implementation
Generics in Java will actually box primitive types. This makes them run about as fast as LISP, and forces you to write a "native" implementation -- which pretty much defeats the purpose of having template libraries in the first place.
Goodness no. I always hated that about Java. It's a nightmare on big projects, and doesn't really serve to clarify code. Eventually, a lot of functions just end up with "throws Exception".. Either that or you start just throwing subclasses of RuntimeException. Blech.
I have to hand it to Boeing - they really played NASA and the government like fiddles on this one.
Absolute rubbish. Nothing of the sort. NASA and the government knew exactly what they were getting. To wit:
1. Jobs in as many congressional districts as possible. Preferably all of them.
2. Kickbacks *SORRY* I meant to say, "campaign contributions".
3. For NASA administrators, cushy consulting gigs after they leave the civil service.
Who says his map is a Mercator projection? You know what? Alaska is, in fact, really fucking big. I have an elliptical projection, and it it looks pretty damned huge.
Oh, and the idea that maps which overstate the size of Greenland lead to social inequality is soft-headed hippy tripe.
They're losing programmers to other companies (not unreasonable)
Hahaha.. You think programmers are leaving cushy jobs at Microsoft during this "jobless recovery"? I promise you this: anyone getting a paycheck from a company with 40 billion dollars on hand, isn't going anywhere.
Look, if we could convince every sysadmin on the planet to upgrade their MTA's, we could just implement HashCash and be done with it. And this guy wants us to concurrently update all our DNS maps?
That's true, but at least you can reliably predict repair costs with a car. Personally, I price new cars with a 7 year / 120,000 mile bumper-to-bumper, no-deductible warranty. Even if you don't buy that warranty, by adding its price to the price of the car, you can get an idea of a model's true cost of ownership.
All terrestrial energy sources are really solar anyway; this means we've had a nuclear power industry all along!
Not quite. Terestial nuclear power is not solar in origin. The transuranic elements used in fission reactors are thought to have been created during supernovae (though there's some contreversy about this). In any case, they didn't come from Sol.
By extension, geo-thermal power is not solar. The earth's subsurface is kept piping hot by the slow nuclear reaction of these same heavy elements.
Do we redesign the shuttle to have a safty escape module that can blast loose of the mother ship and safely return to earth?
Yes, definitely. Once we have that, we can dump the shuttle and just keep the "escape module". The only thing space shuttles are good at is getting astronauts killed.
Really though it boils down to this. You have never bought a product from Apple. Being a windows user, you are likely to not buy a product from Apple.
No, I'm not likely to buy a computer from Apple. If Apple didn't try to "link" its consumer products to its computers, I would already own a product from Apple. Apple users often see the rest of the world as "anti-Apple", but that's just their bizarre fantasy world.
Until you become an Apple customer, you are an afterthought.
Again, what a ridiculous way to see the world. People like me certainly have been afterthoughts to Apple, and that's why we aren't Apple customers. That's how it works; a company has to come up with the product first, then they get the customers.
Money talks and bullshit walks. "Soon" doesn't mean jack. Hell, they released software to make the iPod work with PC's. By that time I had already bought a competing product. What the hell am I supposed to do with "soon"?
So Apple abondonning it's customers to serve a community that has no interest or loyalty to Apple is a good business practice?
I have to admit, I've never understood the idea of having "loyalty" to a company. Sounds like a way of talking yourself into otherwise bad purchasing decisions.
As for having no "interest" in Apple, I have had loads of interest in Apple on-and-off, over the years. Apple has never shown any "interest" in having me as a customer, though. Every time I thought I might like one of their products, they managed to come up with a deal-breaker. "Want our cool music player? You have to buy our computer and OS too!". Ummm, how about no?
The only customers Apple "abandoned" are the ones like me, who like Apple's personal music products but don't want their computers. They abandoned all those potential customers to Dell, Compaq, Diamond, etc.. And no, that was not a "good business practice".
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Doubleplus good memory bordering on crimethink.
America has always been at war with Iraq.
Even better: when the router crashed, it managed to disable the 100Mbit switch as well. My machines couldn't even talk to each other any more. Usually the "switch" portion of a product like this is a hardware/embedded solution which runs even if you screw up your router config. Not with Belkin!
Even better: it dropped about 7% of packets. If you know how TCP timeouts work, you can imagine what that does to web browsing.
I returned it and bought a 100Mbit switch. Then I took the time to learn iptables for Linux (was hoping to just pay 60 bucks and not worry about it). Never looked back.
I suppose a bunch of rich people could get together and all agree to buy contiguous property, promising not to erect any billboards. Then each of them could individually live a billboard-free existence.
Of course, if less-rich people try the same thing (by just getting together and passing laws against billboards in the area they live), the free-market types will scream bloody murder, and government interference, and freedom of speech, and so forth.
It always amazes me that 10% of the population can't follow any instruction more complex than waiting in line. You can hand them a paper ballot, you can even have a little PICTURE of how they should fill in their vote, and what happens?
They will circle the candidate's name, mark all the candidates they DON'T want, write a poorly spelled version of the candidates name somewhere on the ballot, or goodness knows what else. Seriously, how do these people manage to get through the day?
Overall, I would say the ATM-style voting machine, printing out a human-readable ballot is the ideal combination of transparency and ease-of-use.
Seriously though, I have my doubts about quantum computing ever being practical. This guy has one qubit for ~100 picoseconds. Coherence gets astronomically harder to maintain, as you have more entangled particles. Quantum computing is not a case of, "Ok, proof of concept, now let the engineers make it better."
It's a dupe.
Goodness no. I always hated that about Java. It's a nightmare on big projects, and doesn't really serve to clarify code. Eventually, a lot of functions just end up with "throws Exception".. Either that or you start just throwing subclasses of RuntimeException. Blech.
1. Jobs in as many congressional districts as possible. Preferably all of them.
2. Kickbacks *SORRY* I meant to say, "campaign contributions".
3. For NASA administrators, cushy consulting gigs after they leave the civil service.
Who says his map is a Mercator projection? You know what? Alaska is, in fact, really fucking big. I have an elliptical projection, and it it looks pretty damned huge.
Oh, and the idea that maps which overstate the size of Greenland lead to social inequality is soft-headed hippy tripe.
Look, if we could convince every sysadmin on the planet to upgrade their MTA's, we could just implement HashCash and be done with it. And this guy wants us to concurrently update all our DNS maps?
That's true, but at least you can reliably predict repair costs with a car. Personally, I price new cars with a 7 year / 120,000 mile bumper-to-bumper, no-deductible warranty. Even if you don't buy that warranty, by adding its price to the price of the car, you can get an idea of a model's true cost of ownership.
Who would moderate this "Informative"? It's a bunch of crap that doesn't mean anything.
By extension, geo-thermal power is not solar. The earth's subsurface is kept piping hot by the slow nuclear reaction of these same heavy elements.
As for having no "interest" in Apple, I have had loads of interest in Apple on-and-off, over the years. Apple has never shown any "interest" in having me as a customer, though. Every time I thought I might like one of their products, they managed to come up with a deal-breaker. "Want our cool music player? You have to buy our computer and OS too!". Ummm, how about no?
The only customers Apple "abandoned" are the ones like me, who like Apple's personal music products but don't want their computers. They abandoned all those potential customers to Dell, Compaq, Diamond, etc.. And no, that was not a "good business practice".