I would prefer a router that all things being equal, the one with active cooling would likely get my purchase.
I think that you'd find yourself in the minority, especially when the fans get dirty and start making noise. It'll be even worse for those who ceiling-mount their WAPs since it'll likely be unobstructed by anything that would block the noise.
I've been to SF before, it's a very fun city, especially if you're single and have money. That's what attracts people there. Unfortunately the more people with money that show up, the more expensive it gets and the more money you need in order to qualify.
And the counter-argument to this is that he knows his research, and someone working for a civilian entity he knows the difference between what's been declared sensitive and what's actually sensitive based on cooperation with the ESA, with Russia, etc, so while he makes his objections he does not push them full-bore because he knows that there's nothing truly secret there.
The problem when any one area becomes really hot like the Bay Area has over the last thirty years is that it reaches a point when increasing costs outstrip even the lucrative pay and entertainment options. This becomes especially true as one gets a little older and the demands of family make indulging in those entertainment options impossible or at least difficult.
That's before you even factor in those now-established employers turning to look inward to figure out what they can do to reduce costs, and paying the salaries required to live some place like San Francisco, and paying for the real estate to have operations there will be up for consideration. Datacenters can be just about anywhere, and if operations are established in places that are not so expensive, like Cisco is pursuing with their TAC in Raleigh, NC, then they can reduce corporate costs.
True, currently exotic or unattainable materials may be able to be manufactured in microgravity or vacuum or some combination thereof. Unfortunately only expensive experimentation will establish what can be fabricated in space and at what cost. For all we know, manufacturing foam metals in huge blocks or somewhat amorphous blobs and then cutting them into shapes similarly to how a sawmill reduces trees to boards might be cheaper than producing rolled solid steel. We'll just have to see.
It's not going to. The only chance we have is migrating liberty-minded people to New Hampshire for the purpose of forming a free society. That can only happen in a state like New Hampshire that is small enough population wise to gain an influence politically while having the prosperity and jobs necessary for such a migration to work. These are reasons the Free State Project's participants voted New Hampshire in. This and of course it's one of the best states in terms of various freedom indicators already. From the majority being neither affiliated with democrats nor republicans and of which both democrats and republicans being unlike that of the rest of the country. The other reason being New Hampshire has shown itself to be welcoming to freedom.
Ok, with you so far...
There are no car insurance requirements, no seat belt laws, no general purpose sales taxes, no gun control laws (we just got rid of mandatory concealed carry permitting), among various other laws/factors. The state is low taxes and taxes are a violation of ones rights in that they depend on force to achieve largely social and political objectives. But to do that you must steal other peoples property and otherwise utilize violence to achieve those objectives.
So what you're telling me is that New Hampshire has no models in place to mitigate or prevent abuses and that essentially people can't be held accountable for their actions, so people that abuse others are free to continue to do so without being forced to make amends for the ills they commit.
If you want to nitpick fine, if one can find asteroids with nice solid metal cores then you're right, you don't have to smelt in order to have useful material. You'll still have to use some kind of furnace process to turn that base iron into something besides base iron though, so you still have to get raw materials to the worksite and you still have to work out how exactly to go about consistently formulating steel in that environment, and you have to figure out how to shape that steel as it cools.
Right now we have to overcome a disadvantage in the form of atmospheric contamination when making steel on Earth, but we gain an advantage in using gravity to manipulate materials to transport from one part of the steel mill to another and to create final products. Or do you just propose to manufacture roughly spherical blobs of metal and leave it at that?
Given the timing of the series and the public disclosure of the allegations, I suspect that the episode writer knew of the Pig-gate incident and based the episode on an imagined scenario of it prior to the allegations becoming general knowledge. So this would be art imitating life, not the other way around.
Kind of like the TIna Fey comments in an awards show setting against Bill Cosby years before serious accusations became public and widespread.
Depending on the facility it would probably just be cheaper to construct a building with an integral bridge-crane, with the 'tooling' to collect pollen and redistribute it on the end of a shaft hanging from that bridge crane. The shaft could be repositioned in all three axes, swiveled, and possibly angled depending on what's needed to reach the various flowers.
I can see several other advantages to this too. First, a large production floor could benefit from having a bridge crane anyway, as it allows whole rows of product to be moved around without having to maintain large aisles, so that more product can be present in a given square footage, so the bridge crane does double-duty, sometimes acting for pollination, sometimes acting for materiel handling. Second, it may be possible to use tubing and vacuum to collect pollen to a central point before redistributing, without requiring flying bots to constantly return to their docks. Third, if any other plant maintenance tasks are required, such as soil sample collection or other monitoring, not being limited to the capabilities of a quadcopter or other drone would probably make those tasks easier.
Granted this is assuming that hybridization is taking place out of the elements where the environment is controlled, both to increase yields and to ensure that no cross-contamination from natural or semi-natural pollination happens. If this is being done out in farm fields then that changes the equation.
I've been flamed for pointing out that we've never smelted metal in space and that all of our smelting furnaces are designed to operate in an atmosphere and with gravity, and with large amounts of direct manual labor.
People seem to think that somehow redesigning these processes and equipment for near-vacuum microgravity will be no issue. I strongly suspect these people have no idea what they're talking about or have read far too much of Kim Stanley Robinson's work and assume that it's hard-scifi.
If there were stones present at some point it's possible that subsequent generations found other uses for the raw material and broke them up and carted them off. Archeologists and Paleontologists could probably do the field work to support or refute this.
Also kind of makes you wonder how quickly it would be hard to find evidence of human habitation in Europe if large portions of the continent had suffered population crashes and full abandonment during the Bronze Age. Hell, look at the way thirty years of abandonment in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has progressed, and that's with the presence of relatively modern materials that stand out significantly from the natural environment. Depending on the scale of the earthworks found in South America it'll be interesting to see if this revises historical population numbers.
Your second point is actually the reverse in the United States, the cargo haulers own most of the lines, and the passenger rail services have to work around the cargo schedule and any schedule slippage. There are a few dedicated passenger/commuter lines in the Northeast, but those are the exception rather than the rule.
Fewer than you'd think. Usually it's a 53' wood and aluminum "van" trailer backing up and forklifts or motorized pallet jacks driving in and out of the truck to unload.
Since the appearance of this disruptive technology is not going to appear overnight, when it does start to appear then it's time to reduce the number of new trainees in these fields. You don't have to fire the existing employees if the transition is expensive and time consuming, you just have to slowly replace existing fleets as drivers retire.
My employer has an internal user base of approximately 80,000 and about a hundred sites in a single metro area. Our materiel distribution center, the primary receiving hub for shipping, has a rail-spur right at the side of the warehouse, but it has never been used in the fifteen years I've worked there. It is not worth the effort and cost associated with dealing with boxcars and scheduling when they have a couple-dozen tractor-trailer docks.
You show me a camera with a truck and I'll show you an accident report of a driver texting while operating a Class 8 truck. In a few instances they're one and the same situation, and we know that there was an accident because on review of the logs the offending driver was caught-out. Since no one was checking the video until there was an accident it achieved nothing for prevention, only working as reconstruction.
I am no self-driving fanatic. I see value in it though. I can easily foresee using autonomous vehicles when stuck in heavy traffic or other undesirable traffic conditions such that I can pay attention to something else, or where traveling long distances or in scenic areas where I would rather not pay attention to the road.
There is no cross-traffic on an interstate highway because of the very requirements needed to be an interstate highway. An interstate highway is not allowed to have at-grade crossings, stoplights or traditional intersections or junctions. As such, anything that is on the Interstate in a fashion that it's cross-wise is an abberation, and should be treated as such.
I am well aware of that accident, and that's why I believe that the technology should be developed not that it's ready for prime-time.
For the longest time that's going to mean extensive beta-testing. Drivers are going to have to pay attention as if they're driving through all kinds of conditions while the trucks autonomously operate. Then once confidence is high, drivers are going to have to baby-sit the trucks as they go over the road, until another milestone of confidence is reached. This will probably continue for a decade, and will probably be limited to certain road corridors at various times and even subject to weather conditions until the technology proves itself.
And there are plenty of situations where rail doesn't make a lot of sense. Rail is efficient because of the sheer scale of the tonnage moved on any given train. Three engines are pulling over a hundred cars. Rail makes a great backbone but a lousy regional distribution system. Use rail to move between the huge hubs, but use trucks to distribute within the state or the region, then hand-off to local delivery trucks for the last few miles.
Sure it is. I've got friends that have various classes of CDL, one guy drives those sixteen-wheel heavy-duty dump trucks and another does over-the-road. Hours of operation, conditions of the truck, all that is pretty tightly regulated.
What isn't regulated is keeping the driver attentive on the road if his attention wanders or if he gets tired.
The nature of the equivalent of IQ for computers has been discussed in the context of autonomous vehicles. Following the road itself is easy- there are multiple satellite positioning systems, pre-built maps, plus compass+odometer for dead-reckoning if connections to satellites are temporarily lost. What's hard to deal with are the multitude of situations other than simply following the lane that a truck could encounter. Over-the-road on limited-access interstate highways generally has the fewest of these kinds of situations. Very few pedestrians. No cross-traffic. Fairly wide shoulders in most places. Medians isolating from oncoming traffic. High overhead clearance. Broad, arcing turns with plenty of forward visibility around those turns. Compared to attempting to operate in urban areas, control systems should be unchallenged here as there are simply fewer obstructions.
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I would prefer a router that all things being equal, the one with active cooling would likely get my purchase.
I think that you'd find yourself in the minority, especially when the fans get dirty and start making noise. It'll be even worse for those who ceiling-mount their WAPs since it'll likely be unobstructed by anything that would block the noise.
I've been to SF before, it's a very fun city, especially if you're single and have money. That's what attracts people there. Unfortunately the more people with money that show up, the more expensive it gets and the more money you need in order to qualify.
And the counter-argument to this is that he knows his research, and someone working for a civilian entity he knows the difference between what's been declared sensitive and what's actually sensitive based on cooperation with the ESA, with Russia, etc, so while he makes his objections he does not push them full-bore because he knows that there's nothing truly secret there.
The problem when any one area becomes really hot like the Bay Area has over the last thirty years is that it reaches a point when increasing costs outstrip even the lucrative pay and entertainment options. This becomes especially true as one gets a little older and the demands of family make indulging in those entertainment options impossible or at least difficult.
That's before you even factor in those now-established employers turning to look inward to figure out what they can do to reduce costs, and paying the salaries required to live some place like San Francisco, and paying for the real estate to have operations there will be up for consideration. Datacenters can be just about anywhere, and if operations are established in places that are not so expensive, like Cisco is pursuing with their TAC in Raleigh, NC, then they can reduce corporate costs.
True, currently exotic or unattainable materials may be able to be manufactured in microgravity or vacuum or some combination thereof. Unfortunately only expensive experimentation will establish what can be fabricated in space and at what cost. For all we know, manufacturing foam metals in huge blocks or somewhat amorphous blobs and then cutting them into shapes similarly to how a sawmill reduces trees to boards might be cheaper than producing rolled solid steel. We'll just have to see.
That doesn't make any sense.
It's not going to. The only chance we have is migrating liberty-minded people to New Hampshire for the purpose of forming a free society. That can only happen in a state like New Hampshire that is small enough population wise to gain an influence politically while having the prosperity and jobs necessary for such a migration to work. These are reasons the Free State Project's participants voted New Hampshire in. This and of course it's one of the best states in terms of various freedom indicators already. From the majority being neither affiliated with democrats nor republicans and of which both democrats and republicans being unlike that of the rest of the country. The other reason being New Hampshire has shown itself to be welcoming to freedom.
Ok, with you so far...
There are no car insurance requirements, no seat belt laws, no general purpose sales taxes, no gun control laws (we just got rid of mandatory concealed carry permitting), among various other laws/factors. The state is low taxes and taxes are a violation of ones rights in that they depend on force to achieve largely social and political objectives. But to do that you must steal other peoples property and otherwise utilize violence to achieve those objectives.
So what you're telling me is that New Hampshire has no models in place to mitigate or prevent abuses and that essentially people can't be held accountable for their actions, so people that abuse others are free to continue to do so without being forced to make amends for the ills they commit.
If you want to nitpick fine, if one can find asteroids with nice solid metal cores then you're right, you don't have to smelt in order to have useful material. You'll still have to use some kind of furnace process to turn that base iron into something besides base iron though, so you still have to get raw materials to the worksite and you still have to work out how exactly to go about consistently formulating steel in that environment, and you have to figure out how to shape that steel as it cools.
Right now we have to overcome a disadvantage in the form of atmospheric contamination when making steel on Earth, but we gain an advantage in using gravity to manipulate materials to transport from one part of the steel mill to another and to create final products. Or do you just propose to manufacture roughly spherical blobs of metal and leave it at that?
We can't solve social problems with technology.
That is not entirely true.
Various forms of birth control like the diaphragm, condoms, the pill, and Anime have already been shown to reduce overpopulation problems.
Bots do it... drones do it ...
Even educated phones do it!
Let's do it
Let's bathe them in bloooOOOOoood!
With apologies to the overlords of the robot uprising...
Given the timing of the series and the public disclosure of the allegations, I suspect that the episode writer knew of the Pig-gate incident and based the episode on an imagined scenario of it prior to the allegations becoming general knowledge. So this would be art imitating life, not the other way around.
Kind of like the TIna Fey comments in an awards show setting against Bill Cosby years before serious accusations became public and widespread.
Tastes a lot like AW-32...
Depending on the facility it would probably just be cheaper to construct a building with an integral bridge-crane, with the 'tooling' to collect pollen and redistribute it on the end of a shaft hanging from that bridge crane. The shaft could be repositioned in all three axes, swiveled, and possibly angled depending on what's needed to reach the various flowers.
I can see several other advantages to this too. First, a large production floor could benefit from having a bridge crane anyway, as it allows whole rows of product to be moved around without having to maintain large aisles, so that more product can be present in a given square footage, so the bridge crane does double-duty, sometimes acting for pollination, sometimes acting for materiel handling. Second, it may be possible to use tubing and vacuum to collect pollen to a central point before redistributing, without requiring flying bots to constantly return to their docks. Third, if any other plant maintenance tasks are required, such as soil sample collection or other monitoring, not being limited to the capabilities of a quadcopter or other drone would probably make those tasks easier.
Granted this is assuming that hybridization is taking place out of the elements where the environment is controlled, both to increase yields and to ensure that no cross-contamination from natural or semi-natural pollination happens. If this is being done out in farm fields then that changes the equation.
I've been flamed for pointing out that we've never smelted metal in space and that all of our smelting furnaces are designed to operate in an atmosphere and with gravity, and with large amounts of direct manual labor.
People seem to think that somehow redesigning these processes and equipment for near-vacuum microgravity will be no issue. I strongly suspect these people have no idea what they're talking about or have read far too much of Kim Stanley Robinson's work and assume that it's hard-scifi.
If there were stones present at some point it's possible that subsequent generations found other uses for the raw material and broke them up and carted them off. Archeologists and Paleontologists could probably do the field work to support or refute this.
Also kind of makes you wonder how quickly it would be hard to find evidence of human habitation in Europe if large portions of the continent had suffered population crashes and full abandonment during the Bronze Age. Hell, look at the way thirty years of abandonment in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has progressed, and that's with the presence of relatively modern materials that stand out significantly from the natural environment. Depending on the scale of the earthworks found in South America it'll be interesting to see if this revises historical population numbers.
Your second point is actually the reverse in the United States, the cargo haulers own most of the lines, and the passenger rail services have to work around the cargo schedule and any schedule slippage. There are a few dedicated passenger/commuter lines in the Northeast, but those are the exception rather than the rule.
Fewer than you'd think. Usually it's a 53' wood and aluminum "van" trailer backing up and forklifts or motorized pallet jacks driving in and out of the truck to unload.
For a hundred feet until past the radio-signal obstruction it should work just fine.
...no more "Poke mongo"...
Since the appearance of this disruptive technology is not going to appear overnight, when it does start to appear then it's time to reduce the number of new trainees in these fields. You don't have to fire the existing employees if the transition is expensive and time consuming, you just have to slowly replace existing fleets as drivers retire.
My employer has an internal user base of approximately 80,000 and about a hundred sites in a single metro area. Our materiel distribution center, the primary receiving hub for shipping, has a rail-spur right at the side of the warehouse, but it has never been used in the fifteen years I've worked there. It is not worth the effort and cost associated with dealing with boxcars and scheduling when they have a couple-dozen tractor-trailer docks.
You show me a camera with a truck and I'll show you an accident report of a driver texting while operating a Class 8 truck. In a few instances they're one and the same situation, and we know that there was an accident because on review of the logs the offending driver was caught-out. Since no one was checking the video until there was an accident it achieved nothing for prevention, only working as reconstruction.
I am no self-driving fanatic. I see value in it though. I can easily foresee using autonomous vehicles when stuck in heavy traffic or other undesirable traffic conditions such that I can pay attention to something else, or where traveling long distances or in scenic areas where I would rather not pay attention to the road.
There is no cross-traffic on an interstate highway because of the very requirements needed to be an interstate highway. An interstate highway is not allowed to have at-grade crossings, stoplights or traditional intersections or junctions. As such, anything that is on the Interstate in a fashion that it's cross-wise is an abberation, and should be treated as such.
I am well aware of that accident, and that's why I believe that the technology should be developed not that it's ready for prime-time.
For the longest time that's going to mean extensive beta-testing. Drivers are going to have to pay attention as if they're driving through all kinds of conditions while the trucks autonomously operate. Then once confidence is high, drivers are going to have to baby-sit the trucks as they go over the road, until another milestone of confidence is reached. This will probably continue for a decade, and will probably be limited to certain road corridors at various times and even subject to weather conditions until the technology proves itself.
And there are plenty of situations where rail doesn't make a lot of sense. Rail is efficient because of the sheer scale of the tonnage moved on any given train. Three engines are pulling over a hundred cars. Rail makes a great backbone but a lousy regional distribution system. Use rail to move between the huge hubs, but use trucks to distribute within the state or the region, then hand-off to local delivery trucks for the last few miles.
Sure it is. I've got friends that have various classes of CDL, one guy drives those sixteen-wheel heavy-duty dump trucks and another does over-the-road. Hours of operation, conditions of the truck, all that is pretty tightly regulated.
What isn't regulated is keeping the driver attentive on the road if his attention wanders or if he gets tired.
The nature of the equivalent of IQ for computers has been discussed in the context of autonomous vehicles. Following the road itself is easy- there are multiple satellite positioning systems, pre-built maps, plus compass+odometer for dead-reckoning if connections to satellites are temporarily lost. What's hard to deal with are the multitude of situations other than simply following the lane that a truck could encounter. Over-the-road on limited-access interstate highways generally has the fewest of these kinds of situations. Very few pedestrians. No cross-traffic. Fairly wide shoulders in most places. Medians isolating from oncoming traffic. High overhead clearance. Broad, arcing turns with plenty of forward visibility around those turns. Compared to attempting to operate in urban areas, control systems should be unchallenged here as there are simply fewer obstructions.