This deserves to be modded up. The main issue with the news media these days is the complete lack of "what the fuck?!?" when presenting stories on these sorts of issues. While it might make sense to present some news stories in a detached, dispassionate manner, certain behavior, especially of government, where the fourth estate would like to claim an inherent civil duty, needs to be held up and ridiculed when it is this badly debased. People like John Oliver, and Jon Stewart before him, are able to say "look how fucked up this shit is! No, look closer. It is worse than you imagine!" This country needs way more of that.
That's my biggest beef with it. It feels like a learning-computer to me, something for a student to use to study very specific aspects of system design. A physical counterpart to Minix. Yet it seems to be touted as something more capable than that.
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By whom? Certainly not by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They describe it as a tiny and affordable computer for kids.
Anyone pitching anything but the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act as the root cause of our economic trouble is fronting for one party or the other and in order to obfuscate the truth. Glass-Steagall kept us out of trouble for 70 years. It took less than a decade to find every moral hazard which that act opened up. There are a lot of powerful interests doing their utmost to have you look everywhere but there. That's because the fix is rather self-evident.
I used to buy single sided floppy disks and then use a hole punch to create the track index hole and the write tab. This turned it into a double-sided floppy. I'd this with good quality Verbatim disks. You could then take the disk out of the single sided drive and flip it over -- by hand -- to get double the capacity. But that was way before most of you young punks were even born. Now... get off my lawn.
Actually, my best hardware hack was an Arduino device that I turned into a product which has since sold thousands of units. 32kB flash, 2.5kB SRAM. Can send messages via the international space station.
Hiring a specific sub-sect of human because they can be paid less is more than discriminatory. It's unethical.
Multi-national companies are *not* American companies and they have no allegiance to America or its citizens. Their ethics are not your ethics. They see "shareholder value" as the highest ethic. To them, national boundaries are a hindrance to maximizing shareholder value.
While I agree more with your points than the OP you are responding to, there is a world of difference between LEO, inside the protective cocoon of Earth's magnetosphere, and interplanetary space. But IMO the moon is a much more logical place to start. It's a lot warmer and closer to home.
Wow -- why was such an insightful question modded down. There seems to be an organized campaign to downvote all posts raising similar questions. This is a very legitimate question. The terms of service does not seem to imply the the signer needs to be a U.S. citizen or have a right to vote in this country. That's a huge problem.
We're producing less? I'm guessing no and that this is the effects of all that automation I keep hearing isn't happening...
Our manufacturing sector is growing, but slowly. It is far slower than most developing countries. Here is a decent article on manufacturing grown rates: https://www.mapi.net/china-has-dominant-share-world-manufacturing. That said, we are probably dropping in certain sectors, such as computer/electronics manufacturing. The U.S. is either outsourcing or automating a lot of the manufacturing jobs out of existence.
The holes are in the assumptions of 10km/s delta-V, 1000kg craft and 1000km of tether. Make it a 100kg craft using 100km of tether and a much smaller delta-V leads to a much different result. A 1km/s delta-V is nothing to sneeze at. Additionally, half of that energy is transferred into the velocity and angular momentum of the captured object.
It's certainly a better idea than mine: wrapping the probe in a loose wad of double sided sticky tape and aiming directly at the comet.
I've been wondering for a long time now about this Ashley Madison issue. After the hacking has gone down does any one really still give a shit about this story?
Well, they were trying to go public (IPO). *If* they misled investors about the way their business worked, this might land a few folks in hot water.
Surgeons leave tools in patients because they have no process when operating on a patient. Read the Checklist Manifesto sometime and read what the author has to say about best practices in the operating room. Everyone makes mistakes. The process we follow is what allows us to catch those mistakes, and prevent any mistakes from re-occurring.
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negotiate a SLA == Consumer Protection Laws.
However, the telecom industry has done a bang-up job of bribing your negotiating team. So, good luck, America!
Have the students write a paper on the difference between Computer Science and Software Engineering.
It's all Hunky Dory if you ask me...
This deserves to be modded up. The main issue with the news media these days is the complete lack of "what the fuck?!?" when presenting stories on these sorts of issues. While it might make sense to present some news stories in a detached, dispassionate manner, certain behavior, especially of government, where the fourth estate would like to claim an inherent civil duty, needs to be held up and ridiculed when it is this badly debased. People like John Oliver, and Jon Stewart before him, are able to say "look how fucked up this shit is! No, look closer. It is worse than you imagine!" This country needs way more of that.
Oh, look, a Kardashian...
That's my biggest beef with it. It feels like a learning-computer to me, something for a student to use to study very specific aspects of system design. A physical counterpart to Minix. Yet it seems to be touted as something more capable than that.
-- emphasis mine
By whom? Certainly not by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They describe it as a tiny and affordable computer for kids.
Demote the Gnome Shell to "sad historical artifact" and promote the Cinnamon developers to lead Gnome development (cf "egcs").
No. This is a false flag operation to get the public to doubt the real information when it is released. Thanks for playing.
No-one can risk fighting a major war any more.
Said the people who fought in the war to end all wars. And then Germany let one crazy mofo take over...
Anyone pitching anything but the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act as the root cause of our economic trouble is fronting for one party or the other and in order to obfuscate the truth. Glass-Steagall kept us out of trouble for 70 years. It took less than a decade to find every moral hazard which that act opened up. There are a lot of powerful interests doing their utmost to have you look everywhere but there. That's because the fix is rather self-evident.
That single-sided material is what's used to make a bag of holding. Or a Tardis.
I used to buy single sided floppy disks and then use a hole punch to create the track index hole and the write tab. This turned it into a double-sided floppy. I'd this with good quality Verbatim disks. You could then take the disk out of the single sided drive and flip it over -- by hand -- to get double the capacity. But that was way before most of you young punks were even born. Now... get off my lawn.
Actually, my best hardware hack was an Arduino device that I turned into a product which has since sold thousands of units. 32kB flash, 2.5kB SRAM. Can send messages via the international space station.
"Precision manufactured?" The big question is: can it be repaired with duct tape?
Hiring a specific sub-sect of human because they can be paid less is more than discriminatory. It's unethical.
Multi-national companies are *not* American companies and they have no allegiance to America or its citizens. Their ethics are not your ethics. They see "shareholder value" as the highest ethic. To them, national boundaries are a hindrance to maximizing shareholder value.
I like it.
P.S. My UID is also semiprime.
We need to send a Curiosity-class rover to this area. We should have a few on standby for just this sort of thing.
While I agree more with your points than the OP you are responding to, there is a world of difference between LEO, inside the protective cocoon of Earth's magnetosphere, and interplanetary space. But IMO the moon is a much more logical place to start. It's a lot warmer and closer to home.
That "Anonymous Coward" dude is going to be in a world of hurt.
The funny part is where they think they are in control.
It's all fun and games until someone brings a gun to the party.
Here is a link to the political cartoon parent is quoting.
Wow -- why was such an insightful question modded down. There seems to be an organized campaign to downvote all posts raising similar questions. This is a very legitimate question. The terms of service does not seem to imply the the signer needs to be a U.S. citizen or have a right to vote in this country. That's a huge problem.
We're producing less? I'm guessing no and that this is the effects of all that automation I keep hearing isn't happening...
Our manufacturing sector is growing, but slowly. It is far slower than most developing countries. Here is a decent article on manufacturing grown rates: https://www.mapi.net/china-has-dominant-share-world-manufacturing. That said, we are probably dropping in certain sectors, such as computer/electronics manufacturing. The U.S. is either outsourcing or automating a lot of the manufacturing jobs out of existence.
The holes are in the assumptions of 10km/s delta-V, 1000kg craft and 1000km of tether. Make it a 100kg craft using 100km of tether and a much smaller delta-V leads to a much different result. A 1km/s delta-V is nothing to sneeze at. Additionally, half of that energy is transferred into the velocity and angular momentum of the captured object.
It's certainly a better idea than mine: wrapping the probe in a loose wad of double sided sticky tape and aiming directly at the comet.
"No number of cannonballs dropped off of towers will tell you why they fall."
Umm, gravity.
Why does gravity exist?
I've been wondering for a long time now about this Ashley Madison issue. After the hacking has gone down does any one really still give a shit about this story?
Well, they were trying to go public (IPO). *If* they misled investors about the way their business worked, this might land a few folks in hot water.
Surgeons leave tools in patients because they have no process when operating on a patient. Read the Checklist Manifesto sometime and read what the author has to say about best practices in the operating room. Everyone makes mistakes. The process we follow is what allows us to catch those mistakes, and prevent any mistakes from re-occurring.