SO...you think a medical certificate should be required to fly a 20-30 pound drone, but any schlub with a driver's license can pilot a 2 ton UPS truck on public streets to deliver packages? The medical certificate shouldn't be required for general aviation pilots, much less drone pilots - studies show it doesn't make a difference.
I don't wanna live in a world with a tech based series that is worse than Scorpion.
I hate any TV series or movie where there are characters who are supposed to be extremely smart being played by actors who are, to be kind...not extremely smart..
And, since the Republicans are totally incapable of understanding how to select a candidate that anyone will vote for, she will be elected president. And no, I don't think that is a good thing.
With his hands in the pockets of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vat grown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade. The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores; it was tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking, while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry the thing around in your pocket?
"There's plenty of cases of electronics misbehaving due to exposure to strong light"...Around a million years ago, when the earth was young and laser printing hadn't been invented yet, I was an electronics tech working on phototypesetting machines. These machines (Mergenthaler VIPs) had a large zoom lens mechanism in them for producing different size print. One afternoon, a junior tech called me over because, he reports, "the zoom lens on one of the machines is going crazy". I get there and see that the zooms are running back and forth,. full speed, at random. I noticed the tech has a trouble lamp inside the machine. I turned it off and the lenses stopped their manic dance. He hadn't realized that the zoom lens travel was controlled by optical switches - the lamp turned them all on at once, producing the crazy bahavior.
You were lucky - here in Houston, if you pass the roadside breath test, the cops routinely charge you with being intoxicated on drugs, rather than admit you weren't impaired and shouldn't have been pulled over. That's one of the reasons lawyers here recommend that you don't take the breath test at all.
Speeding is far from the biggest contributor to traffic accidents. Illegal and poorly made left turns are far more dangerous and cause far more accidents - yet you never hear fo the cops setting upa left turn trap. Why? It's too hard and doesn't generate the revenue that issuing speeding tickets does.
Legions more people who are getting into programming just because they heard there was money in it...even though they have no talent, interest or passion for it...
If I was running the Chinese space program, I'd put together a mission to the Sea of Tranquility, and bring bak some Apollo 11 souvenirs. It would be the most intense possible statement that there are now two nations on the Earth that have had the technology and will to travel to the Moon, and the USA no longer has a monopoly on it.
HA! I'm an avid sports non-fan. Years back, when they were starting to roll out cable TV service in Houston, they actually had door to door salespeople going around to sign people up. The packages available were clearly designed to extort as much money from the customers as possible. With that goal in mind, the service tiers that included ESPN and other sports channels were really expensive. I selected one of the less expensive service offerings, as I'd rather go to the dentist than watch a stick and ball game played on TV. The salesman was practically frantic, and threatened me that I absolutely wouldn't be able to watch ANY sports with that selection. I laughed in his face and asked if there was any way he could guarantee that no sports would leak into my channels. He left shaking his head - clearly, he'd never met an avid sports non-fan before.
Yah, you're on to something here. I have thousands of hours of music available in digital form (most of it ripped lossless to FLAC). What I really enjoy listening to, though, is my old reel to reel tape deck. Even thought the fidelity is dramatically less than my digital collection, I enjoy thinking about the magnetic domains gliding by, being picked up by a coil and amplified into music. The dance of the VU meters is also hypnotic to watch, in time with the music.
Hmmm...this reminds me of the story about operational analysis of bomber armor in WWII. Briefly, the Allies examined bombers that returned from raids, compiled where they had been hit by flak and machine gun fire, and started a program to armor those spots. Then they realized, that the planes that hadn't returned probably had been damaged in the spots that the returning planes had not been, and that's where the armor was needed. In this case, singling out the people who get arrested over and over, while not a bad idea, is focusing on the incompetent criminals - the people who are good at it will get arrested at much lower rates than the ones who are in and out of the system all the time.
With his hands in the pockets
of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of
vatgrown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade.
The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores; it was
tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous
chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking,
while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry
the thing around in your pocket?
There was a time, a golden age most of you have never even imagined, when, to work in IT, you had to be very smart, well educated, and very dedicated to coding and computers. Sadly, that decades gone Xanadu has been replaced by legions of people just looking for a paycheck, who have never seen any other platform than Windows, and whose main qualification is that they have a certification or two. Makes me sad to look back on it...
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SO...you think a medical certificate should be required to fly a 20-30 pound drone, but any schlub with a driver's license can pilot a 2 ton UPS truck on public streets to deliver packages? The medical certificate shouldn't be required for general aviation pilots, much less drone pilots - studies show it doesn't make a difference.
IE's replacement will provide a more Windows Phone like Internet browsing experience to desktop users. We're all gonna love it.
I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed...
Like William Gibson says, "The strreet finds its own uses for things".
I don't wanna live in a world with a tech based series that is worse than Scorpion. I hate any TV series or movie where there are characters who are supposed to be extremely smart being played by actors who are, to be kind...not extremely smart..
The only place I ever see Windows phones is on TV series as glaringly obvious product placement...never seen one in the wild.
And, since the Republicans are totally incapable of understanding how to select a candidate that anyone will vote for, she will be elected president. And no, I don't think that is a good thing.
Don't worry - the aliens are waiting for us to finish the process of nuclear disarmament - then it will be safe to proceed with their invasion.
With his hands in the pockets of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vat grown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade. The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores; it was tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking, while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry the thing around in your pocket?
"There's plenty of cases of electronics misbehaving due to exposure to strong light"...Around a million years ago, when the earth was young and laser printing hadn't been invented yet, I was an electronics tech working on phototypesetting machines. These machines (Mergenthaler VIPs) had a large zoom lens mechanism in them for producing different size print. One afternoon, a junior tech called me over because, he reports, "the zoom lens on one of the machines is going crazy". I get there and see that the zooms are running back and forth,. full speed, at random. I noticed the tech has a trouble lamp inside the machine. I turned it off and the lenses stopped their manic dance. He hadn't realized that the zoom lens travel was controlled by optical switches - the lamp turned them all on at once, producing the crazy bahavior.
Shoot, a feller could have himself a pretty good weekend in Moscow with all this stuff.
You were lucky - here in Houston, if you pass the roadside breath test, the cops routinely charge you with being intoxicated on drugs, rather than admit you weren't impaired and shouldn't have been pulled over. That's one of the reasons lawyers here recommend that you don't take the breath test at all.
Speeding is far from the biggest contributor to traffic accidents. Illegal and poorly made left turns are far more dangerous and cause far more accidents - yet you never hear fo the cops setting upa left turn trap. Why? It's too hard and doesn't generate the revenue that issuing speeding tickets does.
Legions more people who are getting into programming just because they heard there was money in it...even though they have no talent, interest or passion for it...
Perl went up in the ratings!
If I was running the Chinese space program, I'd put together a mission to the Sea of Tranquility, and bring bak some Apollo 11 souvenirs. It would be the most intense possible statement that there are now two nations on the Earth that have had the technology and will to travel to the Moon, and the USA no longer has a monopoly on it.
HA! I'm an avid sports non-fan. Years back, when they were starting to roll out cable TV service in Houston, they actually had door to door salespeople going around to sign people up. The packages available were clearly designed to extort as much money from the customers as possible. With that goal in mind, the service tiers that included ESPN and other sports channels were really expensive. I selected one of the less expensive service offerings, as I'd rather go to the dentist than watch a stick and ball game played on TV. The salesman was practically frantic, and threatened me that I absolutely wouldn't be able to watch ANY sports with that selection. I laughed in his face and asked if there was any way he could guarantee that no sports would leak into my channels. He left shaking his head - clearly, he'd never met an avid sports non-fan before.
Yah, you're on to something here. I have thousands of hours of music available in digital form (most of it ripped lossless to FLAC). What I really enjoy listening to, though, is my old reel to reel tape deck. Even thought the fidelity is dramatically less than my digital collection, I enjoy thinking about the magnetic domains gliding by, being picked up by a coil and amplified into music. The dance of the VU meters is also hypnotic to watch, in time with the music.
Hmmm...this reminds me of the story about operational analysis of bomber armor in WWII. Briefly, the Allies examined bombers that returned from raids, compiled where they had been hit by flak and machine gun fire, and started a program to armor those spots. Then they realized, that the planes that hadn't returned probably had been damaged in the spots that the returning planes had not been, and that's where the armor was needed. In this case, singling out the people who get arrested over and over, while not a bad idea, is focusing on the incompetent criminals - the people who are good at it will get arrested at much lower rates than the ones who are in and out of the system all the time.
With his hands in the pockets of his jacket, he stared through the glass at a flat lozenge of vatgrown flesh that lay on a carved pedestal of imitation jade. The color of its skin reminded him of Zone's whores; it was tattooed with a luminous digital display wired to a subcutaneous chip. Why bother with the surgery, he found himself thinking, while sweat coursed down his ribs, when you could just carry the thing around in your pocket?
Yah, my tools seem to grow legs and walk off as well,
They're working on the Bolo Mark XV Horrendous.
There was a time, a golden age most of you have never even imagined, when, to work in IT, you had to be very smart, well educated, and very dedicated to coding and computers. Sadly, that decades gone Xanadu has been replaced by legions of people just looking for a paycheck, who have never seen any other platform than Windows, and whose main qualification is that they have a certification or two. Makes me sad to look back on it...
Sinepunk? Cosinepunk? Analogpunk? Fourierpunk?
Cut off a head, and two shall take its place! Hail Hydra!