Same here. The article contained pictures of the supposed chips (that looked like line conditioners ie ferrite beads). Surely it must be possible for some reputable third-party analysis firm here in the U.S. to get its hands on one and do a tear-down?
You're right, of course. Unfortunately, stupid and lazy is the default setting of the human race, hence the need to code up solutions that don't depend on humans actually thinking.
Dolphins are still the preferred choice for bomb-carrying tasks. Far more reliable than drones, Teslas and Samsung phones that all tend to explode prematurely.
Keep in mind that Trump is not promoting tariffs and trade wars--he is simply reacting to tariffs in other countries. The media conveniently forgets to mention that Trump has said he will sign a trade agreement tomorrow with any country that agrees to sign a bilateral agreement where both sides agree to lower tariffs to zero. That's his definition of free market. I disagree with him on a lot of things, but I agree with him on that.
Exactly. Once you get past the "program the LED to blink" or "fetch all the PERSON_IDs with ZIP_CODE" level of programming, you have moved beyond programming into architecture, engineering and domain expertise. Non-trivial applications are called that for a reason. I'm not going to write a new CFD (computational fluid dynamics) engine using some hyped-up version of BASIC. I'm not going to write a media server streaming the World Cup to the world in some hyped-up version of BASIC. I'm not going to be writing the code that scrams the control rods into the nuke reactor with some hyped-up version of BASIC. At some point you have to accept that programming these applications is an exercise no different than any other engineering task, requiring you to put in the significant effort needed to produce a correct result. There is no such thing as a programming language that can make inadequately-trained people capable of performing complicated tasks.
This. Tie AGW to wealth transfer, and solving AGW goes nowhere. Show Exxon and its shareholders how to profit hugely from reducing carbon emissions, and next thing you know there will be massive reductions in carbon emissions.
This is California we're talking about. The excess power should be used to create Dry Ice, thereby trapping carbon dioxide and saving the world from Global Warming.
This is the real issue. Most users are technically illiterate. Yes, they may be in their 20s and can multitask Instagram and Facebook at the same time, but really, they are crazy technically illiterate. When the network connection drops and they don't realize it's because they kicked the CAT6 cable out of its socket, they call the IT department. IT workers that know Linux can only take so much of that before they move on to better jobs for the sake of their sanity. For a Windows IT worker, that's just a normal day on the job. They don't have better jobs to move on to.
No it doesn't matter. Clinton's "impeachment" by Congress for playing cigar-the-intern was political theater that went nowhere and backfired on the Republicans. The same would be true in reverse for any attempt to impeach Trump for banging around, paying off mistresses and lying about it so Melania won't find out (and of course she knew about it anyway). Violations of campaign finance laws are the equivalent of speeding 5 over on the Interstate--everyone does it, hardly anyone gets convicted, and the most you get is a small fine. Congress (and the so-called news media that covers them) should really consider working on more pressing issues, like maybe doing something about out-of-control health care costs, revamping the immigration system, putting social security on solid footing--you know, all the stuff we actually elect them to fix.
I love Pluots as much as the next person, but if you really want to get people (particularly parents) forking over money GMO some strawberry-flavored broccoli.
Obviously you've read TFA, understand the backstory, can think logically without political bias, and can compose a coherent sentence without scatological references. Why are you confusing the regulars?
A decade ago, it was compiling OpenOffice on Gentoo that moved me to Q6600, then Sandy Bridge, then Ivy Bridge. Now it's the Chromium and Webkit build times that are moving me to Ryzen/Threadripper, provided my HVAC can handle the load. What else would you use a computer for?
That's absolutely right in the short term. In the long term, real life doesn't work that way. Very few humans survive long by themselves. Why do you think millenia of humans lived in hunter/gatherer tribes? The best survival strategy when it all hits the fan is having neighbors that look and think like you do.
Not with an Otto cycle ICE...maybe 50% tops. And thermal recovery nets you far less than that. The only way to get close to 50% is to raise the combustion temperatures significantly, and now you're detonating the crappy gas and melting the heads and block.
And even if they were marketable, unless the government plans to build new nuke plants up and down the state there is a limit to the number of electric cars California can feasibly support without crashing the electrical grid.
Not the same. Your statement "I do contract work for many companies..." is the *primary* difference between a contractor and employee. A contractor typically has multiple clients, either back-to-back or at the same time. A contractor is running his own business, and doing so requires a steady stream of customers. A contractor who works for one client for an extended period of time is in danger of being classified as an employee. You're different than an Uber driver because an Uber driver works for only one company. If a driver worked with half-a-dozen different 'Internet Taxi' services in parallel while maintaining their own equipment, insurance, etc., then they'd truly be contractors.
Look up angular resolution on your favorite search engine. Note that resolution = wavelength / baseline, where baseline is ginormous in order to get the fine resolution needed to image an extrasolar planet.
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Same here. The article contained pictures of the supposed chips (that looked like line conditioners ie ferrite beads). Surely it must be possible for some reputable third-party analysis firm here in the U.S. to get its hands on one and do a tear-down?
You're right, of course. Unfortunately, stupid and lazy is the default setting of the human race, hence the need to code up solutions that don't depend on humans actually thinking.
Tell that to Adobe users.
Every time the debate on Slashdot gets political these days it seems the average IQ of the participants drops 50 points.
No, that was the dictionary definition of Communism. Stop deflecting.
Just give me more cores, so I can compile faster.
Dolphins are still the preferred choice for bomb-carrying tasks. Far more reliable than drones, Teslas and Samsung phones that all tend to explode prematurely.
Keep in mind that Trump is not promoting tariffs and trade wars--he is simply reacting to tariffs in other countries. The media conveniently forgets to mention that Trump has said he will sign a trade agreement tomorrow with any country that agrees to sign a bilateral agreement where both sides agree to lower tariffs to zero. That's his definition of free market. I disagree with him on a lot of things, but I agree with him on that.
Exactly. Once you get past the "program the LED to blink" or "fetch all the PERSON_IDs with ZIP_CODE" level of programming, you have moved beyond programming into architecture, engineering and domain expertise. Non-trivial applications are called that for a reason. I'm not going to write a new CFD (computational fluid dynamics) engine using some hyped-up version of BASIC. I'm not going to write a media server streaming the World Cup to the world in some hyped-up version of BASIC. I'm not going to be writing the code that scrams the control rods into the nuke reactor with some hyped-up version of BASIC. At some point you have to accept that programming these applications is an exercise no different than any other engineering task, requiring you to put in the significant effort needed to produce a correct result. There is no such thing as a programming language that can make inadequately-trained people capable of performing complicated tasks.
They should have named them graboids.
This. Tie AGW to wealth transfer, and solving AGW goes nowhere. Show Exxon and its shareholders how to profit hugely from reducing carbon emissions, and next thing you know there will be massive reductions in carbon emissions.
This is California we're talking about. The excess power should be used to create Dry Ice, thereby trapping carbon dioxide and saving the world from Global Warming.
This is the real issue. Most users are technically illiterate. Yes, they may be in their 20s and can multitask Instagram and Facebook at the same time, but really, they are crazy technically illiterate. When the network connection drops and they don't realize it's because they kicked the CAT6 cable out of its socket, they call the IT department. IT workers that know Linux can only take so much of that before they move on to better jobs for the sake of their sanity. For a Windows IT worker, that's just a normal day on the job. They don't have better jobs to move on to.
No it doesn't matter. Clinton's "impeachment" by Congress for playing cigar-the-intern was political theater that went nowhere and backfired on the Republicans. The same would be true in reverse for any attempt to impeach Trump for banging around, paying off mistresses and lying about it so Melania won't find out (and of course she knew about it anyway). Violations of campaign finance laws are the equivalent of speeding 5 over on the Interstate--everyone does it, hardly anyone gets convicted, and the most you get is a small fine. Congress (and the so-called news media that covers them) should really consider working on more pressing issues, like maybe doing something about out-of-control health care costs, revamping the immigration system, putting social security on solid footing--you know, all the stuff we actually elect them to fix.
I love Pluots as much as the next person, but if you really want to get people (particularly parents) forking over money GMO some strawberry-flavored broccoli.
Obviously you've read TFA, understand the backstory, can think logically without political bias, and can compose a coherent sentence without scatological references. Why are you confusing the regulars?
A decade ago, it was compiling OpenOffice on Gentoo that moved me to Q6600, then Sandy Bridge, then Ivy Bridge. Now it's the Chromium and Webkit build times that are moving me to Ryzen/Threadripper, provided my HVAC can handle the load. What else would you use a computer for?
That's absolutely right in the short term. In the long term, real life doesn't work that way. Very few humans survive long by themselves. Why do you think millenia of humans lived in hunter/gatherer tribes? The best survival strategy when it all hits the fan is having neighbors that look and think like you do.
That's what we need. Just make sure it's controlled by musical notes and only one person on the planet is given the knowledge of how to operate it.
Not with an Otto cycle ICE...maybe 50% tops. And thermal recovery nets you far less than that. The only way to get close to 50% is to raise the combustion temperatures significantly, and now you're detonating the crappy gas and melting the heads and block.
And even if they were marketable, unless the government plans to build new nuke plants up and down the state there is a limit to the number of electric cars California can feasibly support without crashing the electrical grid.
Not the same. Your statement "I do contract work for many companies..." is the *primary* difference between a contractor and employee. A contractor typically has multiple clients, either back-to-back or at the same time. A contractor is running his own business, and doing so requires a steady stream of customers. A contractor who works for one client for an extended period of time is in danger of being classified as an employee. You're different than an Uber driver because an Uber driver works for only one company. If a driver worked with half-a-dozen different 'Internet Taxi' services in parallel while maintaining their own equipment, insurance, etc., then they'd truly be contractors.
Look up angular resolution on your favorite search engine. Note that resolution = wavelength / baseline, where baseline is ginormous in order to get the fine resolution needed to image an extrasolar planet.
The GPS said this wormhole was a shortcut!
This drone looks like it was programmed by watching the workers at my Post Office. They have the same effect on packages.