How hard would it be to make a basic two or three channel RC controller that can handle bluetooth 4.0?
I'm a long time RC hobbyist and I lament the accelerating trend of using X hundred dollars worth of touchscreen + tilt sensors for the controller. It's the difference between using a gamepad and a keyboard/mouse.
They began their research with Project Gutenberg, a database of 44,500 books in the public domain. A book was considered successful when it was critically acclaimed and had a high download count. The books chosen for analysis represented all genres of literature, from science fiction to poetry.
Then, they added some books not in the Gutenberg database, including Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities," and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." They also added Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," and books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and other awards.
Nowadays, marketing and signalling has as much to do with sales as anything else. I imagine that if some publisher could make the kind of advertising push that Bill O'Reilley does, they could put anything onto the NYTimes best seller list too.
Eventually everybody will have a 100Mbps+ low latency networks. It may take another decade or two but I'm sure it will happen, at least in the developed world.
but over time (around 8 months) I was forced to set processor affinity for the high-end render apps down to just half the cores, lest it just kick out and shut down the laptop.
Sounds like your heat sink got a bit dusty and the CPU was overheating. Nothing that can't be fixed with a can of compressed air (or even a few good blows into the intake/exhaust vents).
While gold is a scarce resource with incredible value, due to extreme ductility, almost unmatched inertness/luster and near top-of-the-class conductivity.
In 2012, India and China made ~54% of global gold purchases. The vast majority of that 54% was for jewelry or investment.
In 2013, India created some rules to massively restrict gold imports, since it was fucking up their import/export balance and depleting foreign currency reserves. Meanwhile, China's purchasing accelerated and, again, it was mostly in the form of jewelry or investments.
Gold is at least 50% speculation. That's not a good market to be in if you have legitimate industrial needs for a raw material.
Extra fuel efficiency would be nice, but I am most excited about the prospect of the engine itself lasting longer.
Buy a diesel. For a light duty diesel truck engine, 300,000 miles is considered the 50/50 point where you *might* have to fix stuff that's starting to wear out. For industrial/heavy diesels, they can more or less run forever as long as you keep changing the fluids.
My understanding is that gasoline engines are generally not overbuilt for strength, otherwise they'd have the same service life as diesels.
We should be [...], greening the deserts; in short, taking the simple steps to making Earth a little better.
Greening the deserts is not a risk free proposition. You could easily shift local or global weather patterns, depending on how much greening you do and where you do it.
I enjoy discussing economics. Particularly with Randians, but mostly because their laissez faire ideas have been tried, tested, and discarded on the ash heap of history. So it's not really a fair debate when they've already lost before the discussion has begun.
Something leads me to believe, you'd consider "because John Keynes said so" acceptable, if not outright praise-worthy...
All economic theories have something to offer, if only as an example of what not to do. Even Marx turned out to be right about a few things.
But I'd say it's fairly obvious that no one economic theory is 100% right for 100% of circumstances. I'd even say it's dangerous to get stuck in one economic framework (hi Alan Greenspan) and not take reality into account.
As for Keynes, his theory forms the basis of mainstream economics, but it's been extensively modified with ideas from many other theories. Econ 101 even teaches bits from the Austrian school, which has otherwise been marginalized by mainstream economic theory.
If you want real world examples, it's fairly easy to compare what happened to countries that decided austerity was a better idea than stimulating demand. You can also look at the history of America, where a titan of industry and monopolist, Mr. J.P. Morgan, personally stepped in to resolve the financial panic of 1907. He then went on to endorse the Federal Reserve Bank, which has done a decent job of quieting the boom and bust cycles that once caused such chaos.
TLDR: Not really. Keynes wrote his original theory during a crisis and most of what he said is less useful outside that particular type of crisis circumstance.
Generally, the smarter a person gets, the more republican they tend to lean in ideology even if they insist on remaining democrats or liberals. And before anyone marks that down, I said lean as in their positions tend towards but doesn't necessarily hit.
The current Republican party doesn't have much room for people who want to "lean in." Anyone who hasn't gone full retard gets called a RINO and told to GTFO.
But it could be serious income to a small government.
Most of the time these fines get tied up in court for a few years, then negotiated down to some piddling amount. The only time fines actually get paid in full, is when it's part of a settlement that avoids criminal charges/penalties. Everything is negotiable when you're a corporation and have enough lawyers to fend off the regulators.
Right now in Egypt alcohol sale restrictions have increased and stores have even been pressured to close shop by society in general, and we all have heard of the recent chaos as of late there.
Egypt's first revolution started with protests in late January of 2011. Please recompute theory.
as there's no way to prove that a leak originated from Snowden unless the substance of the leak contains information one can verify the NSA never had at that time.
Huh? I'm not really sure what you're getting at.
I'll address what I do understand: All the reporting from the Snowden documents comes from a small number of journalists working with a small number of newspapers. Those journalists and newspapers cite Snowden as the source of their articles. That seems like a decent way to tell if a leak originated with Snowden or not.
And I imagine Glenn Greenwald would kick up a fuss if he read an article citing Snowden's documents that he couldn't find in his cache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP Youtube has split up all video/audio over 720p into separate streams, which makes downloading much more difficult. Some downloaders use ffmpeg to mux the streams together, but other than that, you're SOL for downloading anything better than 720p mp4.
But interviews with current and former law enforcement officials, as well as technology industry representatives, reveal that the [ata Intercept Technology Unit, or DITU] is the FBI's equivalent of the National Security Agency and the primary liaison between the spy agency and many of America's most important technology companies, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Apple.
We know the FBI is intimately wrapped up in all these shenanigans, but it's almost like journalists are intentionally asking the wrong question by only talking about the NSA.
Does Apple deny helping the FBI backdoor the iPhone?
If the Navy SEALS came under the command of the NSA, the NSA would deploy the SEALS everywhere to shoot up everyone. And instruct them to search through the dead bodies, to see if any of the dead were, in fact, terrorists.
That's actually exactly what the Special Forces are regularly sent in to do. Here's a random article that mentions the Seals shooting up a convoy from their helicopter, then landing to take DNA samples. They do a lot more of that than they used to, since drone strikes don't always leave much in the way of faces or dental records.
Sanitation engineering is a real thing (different from driving a truck). Real sanitation engineers are civil engineers who design landfills, wastewater treatment plants and recycling facilities.
Don't forget about the guy who designs the garbage truck! It's a rather unique beast, since no other industry needs a design that's even remotely related.
To the point that it's now an 'infinite' amount of damage caused. One that will, by extension, require an infinite amount of money to fix.
That's probably not what he meant. He's just cranky that most everyone is going to purge the NSA's malware and the USA will have to whip up a new batch of trojans to re-infect the world. It's not going to cost us any more money, since we have all the coders and infrastructure in place. It'll just take time.
Actually, it might cost us money because we won't already know Germany's negotiating positions when we sit down with them at the table. But that's like complaining that the Casino switched out the deck of cards that you had marked.
Read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting There have been numerous lawsuits on behalf of natives peoples to invalidate patents based on local plants and local knowledge. The West has a long history of appropriating plants and knowledge from countries, which is why TFA talks about the permits required for foreigners to do science in Mexico.
Just the other day I was listening to an interview of an artist that had published a well received book on avian anatomy.
Not all science is created equal. There aren't that many laws surrounding the study of avian anatomy, compared to chemistry or the atomic sciences. Most stuff a hobbyist ca not buy and, of the things a hobbyist can buy, a lot of them will put you on the FBI's radar. Hobbyist science ain't what it used to be and neither is the scope of the law.
Hobby chemists who have done nothing illegal are being raided by the police and having their gear seized because it "could be used to make bombs/drugs/fireworks/etc"
Probably as a consequence of people realizing that unions have done all they can for worker rights, and all they're interested in now is keeping their power/income at the expense of workers' and the companies both.
At the expense of the companies? The decline in the fortunes of unions is reflected in the general decline of the average working (wo)man.
The difference is certainly not going to employees. The graph is also slightly deceptive, since it depicts average real wages and not median wages. If you look at median wages, the gap is even bigger, since you no longer have CEOs pulling up the average.
*If you don't like that specific graph, you can find many others that will show the exact same thing in various different ways
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How hard would it be to make a basic two or three channel RC controller that can handle bluetooth 4.0?
I'm a long time RC hobbyist and I lament the accelerating trend of using X hundred dollars worth of touchscreen + tilt sensors for the controller.
It's the difference between using a gamepad and a keyboard/mouse.
They began their research with Project Gutenberg, a database of 44,500 books in the public domain. A book was considered successful when it was critically acclaimed and had a high download count. The books chosen for analysis represented all genres of literature, from science fiction to poetry.
Then, they added some books not in the Gutenberg database, including Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities," and Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." They also added Dan Brown's latest novel, "The Lost Symbol," and books that have won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and other awards.
Nowadays, marketing and signalling has as much to do with sales as anything else.
I imagine that if some publisher could make the kind of advertising push that Bill O'Reilley does,
they could put anything onto the NYTimes best seller list too.
Eventually everybody will have a 100Mbps+ low latency networks. It may take another decade or two but I'm sure it will happen, at least in the developed world.
Everybody, meet Rural America.
Rural America, meet Everybody.
"Everybody," for values of everybody that are less than 100%
but over time (around 8 months) I was forced to set processor affinity for the high-end render apps down to just half the cores, lest it just kick out and shut down the laptop.
Sounds like your heat sink got a bit dusty and the CPU was overheating.
Nothing that can't be fixed with a can of compressed air (or even a few good blows into the intake/exhaust vents).
While gold is a scarce resource with incredible value, due to extreme ductility, almost unmatched inertness/luster and near top-of-the-class conductivity.
In 2012, India and China made ~54% of global gold purchases.
The vast majority of that 54% was for jewelry or investment.
In 2013, India created some rules to massively restrict gold imports,
since it was fucking up their import/export balance and depleting foreign currency reserves.
Meanwhile, China's purchasing accelerated and, again, it was mostly in the form of jewelry or investments.
Gold is at least 50% speculation.
That's not a good market to be in if you have legitimate industrial needs for a raw material.
Extra fuel efficiency would be nice, but I am most excited about the prospect of the engine itself lasting longer.
Buy a diesel.
For a light duty diesel truck engine, 300,000 miles is considered the 50/50 point where you *might* have to fix stuff that's starting to wear out.
For industrial/heavy diesels, they can more or less run forever as long as you keep changing the fluids.
My understanding is that gasoline engines are generally not overbuilt for strength, otherwise they'd have the same service life as diesels.
We should be [...], greening the deserts; in short, taking the simple steps to making Earth a little better.
Greening the deserts is not a risk free proposition.
You could easily shift local or global weather patterns, depending on how much greening you do and where you do it.
Anyways, if you want to see results, you can watch the Chinese try (and so far fail because of poor choices) in their attempts to green the Gobi desert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Program
I enjoy discussing economics.
Particularly with Randians, but mostly because their laissez faire ideas have been tried, tested, and discarded on the ash heap of history.
So it's not really a fair debate when they've already lost before the discussion has begun.
Something leads me to believe, you'd consider "because John Keynes said so" acceptable, if not outright praise-worthy...
All economic theories have something to offer, if only as an example of what not to do.
Even Marx turned out to be right about a few things.
But I'd say it's fairly obvious that no one economic theory is 100% right for 100% of circumstances.
I'd even say it's dangerous to get stuck in one economic framework (hi Alan Greenspan) and not take reality into account.
As for Keynes, his theory forms the basis of mainstream economics, but it's been extensively modified with ideas from many other theories.
Econ 101 even teaches bits from the Austrian school, which has otherwise been marginalized by mainstream economic theory.
If you want real world examples, it's fairly easy to compare what happened to countries that decided austerity was a better idea than stimulating demand.
You can also look at the history of America, where a titan of industry and monopolist, Mr. J.P. Morgan, personally stepped in to resolve the financial panic of 1907.
He then went on to endorse the Federal Reserve Bank, which has done a decent job of quieting the boom and bust cycles that once caused such chaos.
TLDR: Not really. Keynes wrote his original theory during a crisis and most of what he said is less useful outside that particular type of crisis circumstance.
Generally, the smarter a person gets, the more republican they tend to lean in ideology even if they insist on remaining democrats or liberals. And before anyone marks that down, I said lean as in their positions tend towards but doesn't necessarily hit.
The current Republican party doesn't have much room for people who want to "lean in."
Anyone who hasn't gone full retard gets called a RINO and told to GTFO.
It's been a very ugly thing to watch
politics could be different with an educated voter base.
We have an educated voter base.
The problem is that their education is crap.
What you want is an informed voter base.
Preferably one that is informed with factual information and not "because Ayn Rand said so."
But it could be serious income to a small government.
Most of the time these fines get tied up in court for a few years, then negotiated down to some piddling amount.
The only time fines actually get paid in full, is when it's part of a settlement that avoids criminal charges/penalties.
Everything is negotiable when you're a corporation and have enough lawyers to fend off the regulators.
Field tests to study new G.M.O. crops would also be prohibited. Penalties would be $1,000 per day.
What a joke.
That's a rounding error to a multinational corporation.
Right now in Egypt alcohol sale restrictions have increased and stores have even been pressured to close shop by society in general, and we all have heard of the recent chaos as of late there.
Egypt's first revolution started with protests in late January of 2011. Please recompute theory.
FireFox + NoScript replaced my ad-blocker for years
Now, I only find ad-blockers or hosts files to be necessary for handling crap that's embedded in flash files.
/Does Chrome have a proper NoScript equivalent yet?
as there's no way to prove that a leak originated from Snowden unless the substance of the leak contains information one can verify the NSA never had at that time.
Huh? I'm not really sure what you're getting at.
I'll address what I do understand:
All the reporting from the Snowden documents comes from a small number of journalists working with a small number of newspapers.
Those journalists and newspapers cite Snowden as the source of their articles.
That seems like a decent way to tell if a leak originated with Snowden or not.
And I imagine Glenn Greenwald would kick up a fuss if he read an article citing Snowden's documents that he couldn't find in his cache.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Adaptive_Streaming_over_HTTP
Youtube has split up all video/audio over 720p into separate streams, which makes downloading much more difficult.
Some downloaders use ffmpeg to mux the streams together, but other than that, you're SOL for downloading anything better than 720p mp4.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/21/the_obscure_fbi_team_that_does_the_nsa_dirty_work
But interviews with current and former law enforcement officials, as well as technology industry representatives, reveal that the [ata Intercept Technology Unit, or DITU] is the FBI's equivalent of the National Security Agency and the primary liaison between the spy agency and many of America's most important technology companies, including Google, Facebook, YouTube, and Apple.
We know the FBI is intimately wrapped up in all these shenanigans, but it's almost like journalists are intentionally asking the wrong question by only talking about the NSA.
Does Apple deny helping the FBI backdoor the iPhone?
Take a look at the Navy SEALS . . . the best fighting force in the world . . . but the US Army command does not send them off everywhere at a whim.
The Joint Special Operations Command has grown enormously during the Global War on Terror.
There's currently ~20,000 total, with 13,000 of them deployed overseas, and ~9,000 of those in Afghanistan/Iraq (as of 2010).
Keep in mind that most of the Special Operators are guys with guns, support is provided through the CIA & other branches of the military.
About the only non-trigger pullers they have are their specially trained pilots.
If the Navy SEALS came under the command of the NSA, the NSA would deploy the SEALS everywhere to shoot up everyone. And instruct them to search through the dead bodies, to see if any of the dead were, in fact, terrorists.
That's actually exactly what the Special Forces are regularly sent in to do.
Here's a random article that mentions the Seals shooting up a convoy from their helicopter, then landing to take DNA samples.
They do a lot more of that than they used to, since drone strikes don't always leave much in the way of faces or dental records.
Sanitation engineering is a real thing (different from driving a truck).
Real sanitation engineers are civil engineers who design landfills, wastewater treatment plants and recycling facilities.
Don't forget about the guy who designs the garbage truck!
It's a rather unique beast, since no other industry needs a design that's even remotely related.
To the point that it's now an 'infinite' amount of damage caused. One that will, by extension, require an infinite amount of money to fix.
That's probably not what he meant.
He's just cranky that most everyone is going to purge the NSA's malware and the USA will have to whip up a new batch of trojans to re-infect the world.
It's not going to cost us any more money, since we have all the coders and infrastructure in place.
It'll just take time.
Actually, it might cost us money because we won't already know Germany's negotiating positions when we sit down with them at the table.
But that's like complaining that the Casino switched out the deck of cards that you had marked.
The landscape is changing for sure, but the PC market is not even close to 'dying'.
Exactly!
This will be the year of the Beowulf Cluster of Linux Desktops!
Where is this David Lang getting this stuff from?
Read about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioprospecting
There have been numerous lawsuits on behalf of natives peoples to invalidate patents based on local plants and local knowledge.
The West has a long history of appropriating plants and knowledge from countries, which is why TFA talks about the permits required for foreigners to do science in Mexico.
Just the other day I was listening to an interview of an artist that had published a well received book on avian anatomy.
Not all science is created equal.
There aren't that many laws surrounding the study of avian anatomy, compared to chemistry or the atomic sciences.
Most stuff a hobbyist ca not buy and, of the things a hobbyist can buy, a lot of them will put you on the FBI's radar.
Hobbyist science ain't what it used to be and neither is the scope of the law.
Hobby chemists who have done nothing illegal are being raided by the police and having their gear seized because it "could be used to make bombs/drugs/fireworks/etc"
Because scientists were once expected to make their own glassware, someone figured "why not let kids learn too?"
So back in the heyday of science kits, you used to be able to buy a glassblowing kit for your kid.
http://www.thestrong.org/online-collections/images/Z002/Z00244/Z0024483.jpg
Is this going to require new hardware?
Or will this be purely software based?
Probably as a consequence of people realizing that unions have done all they can for worker rights, and all they're interested in now is keeping their power/income at the expense of workers' and the companies both.
At the expense of the companies?
The decline in the fortunes of unions is reflected in the general decline of the average working (wo)man.
Here's a nice *graph showing inflation adjusted wages vs worker productivity:
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/real_wage_productivity_gap.jpg
The difference is certainly not going to employees.
The graph is also slightly deceptive, since it depicts average real wages and not median wages.
If you look at median wages, the gap is even bigger, since you no longer have CEOs pulling up the average.
*If you don't like that specific graph, you can find many others that will show the exact same thing in various different ways