IMHO, schwit1's summary is a typical leftist rant that assumes that every job position in the company is valuable and should be permanent even if the company is bankrupt. To that I say "Should the people who used work on the incandescent light bulb production lines still be allowed to make them?"
Well, technically, pistons without rings. The piston and cylinder are machined precisely enough that they don't need rings. But here's the catch to what the Aussies are talking about as well as lots of other exotic engine designs. If it can't be made for the same or less money than present engine designs, it'll never get off the ground. And if it can't be maintained for the same cost, it'll eventually fade away. Popular Science and Popular mechanics are littered with unusual game-changing engine designs e.g. the 6-stroke engine that has a steam cycle to make use of the wasted heat energy or the Wankel.
The article says that errors in the DNA copying mechanism are eventually degrading the DNA to the point where cells become cancerous. So what if the solution is to improve the copying mechanism? After all, there are people who live well into their 100s and there are populations that have very little cancer. So why not examine the copy mechanism of those people to figure out why theirs works better?
But on the other hand, there are already way too many people around as it is and far too many Ship B people. I think you'd have to figure out interstellar travel before you enable a population explosion.
I was trying to build it with a GNU OABI compiler for an ARM SBC. Sadly, that SBC uses a crappy Cavium processor which doesn't support thumb instructions so I'm stuck with OABI. That said, I've been able to cross-compile Qt 4.8.5 but I couldn't get 5.1 to build. Lots of make/compile/link errors.
One also wonders if the money that's left over is considered taxable ordinary income.
Ultimately, this is the price of big regulatory government that would never get funded if it had to get money from Congress and hence, the taxpayers. So these regulatory bureaucracies pay their employees and pension funds through exorbitant fees. The net result is that the little startups will simply never get off the ground or if they do, they have to charge so much more for their products just to pay for all those Ship B people that they ultimately fail.
My problem with this is how do you build a compiler from sources for a faceless embedded platform. I'm currently seeing this play out in the Qt environment. There are a lot of nice non-GUI features to it but I have yet to be able to cross-compile v5.x of the thing for an embedded ARM platform that has no display, keyboard, or mouse. 4.8.5 works fine but Digia changed a bunch of stuff in 5.x and now I'm SOL.
IMHO, something like drawing should be compartmentalized into a library.
The sub-tag "who-pays-for-all-that-rescuing?" has me wondering if they boat people are planning to pay with carbon credits. I have to say, though, that all climate science debating aside, it's pretty clever to turn one of the most abundant elements in the galaxy into a currency. It reminds me of a plot point in one of Neal Stephenson's books where a character stockpiles shells to use as currency only to find out that nobody else considers them valuable.
What they've done is nothing new. http://wirc.dension.com/ In the immortal words of Sheldon Cooper "If anything, it's a modest leap forward from the technology that gave us Country Bear Jamboree."
So let's see here. One could posit that the tracks or the rolling stock were intentionally damaged to cause the derailment because the environmentalists are hell bent on casting a dark shadow on fossil fuels. One could also posit that the derailment was created by people who are are trying to encourage the completion of the Keystone pipeline. One could also look to see if anyone shorted BNSF stock. One could also posit that sh*t happens no matter who is doing what even though there is plenty of regulation in place with the goal being to create more expensive bureaucracy and paperwork that translates to more people to be employed doing nothing productive.
I'll bet that if you repeal the winner-take-all rule for electoral votes, things would change dramatically.
But there is some basis for some sort of shake up, no pun intended. With raw population density being pretty much the only factor in determining representation levels in Sacramento, you end up with L.A. and San Francisco (and to a lesser extent, San Diego) determining the fate of the rural and suburban areas. I've believed for some time that federal elections and more specifically campaigns would be very different if winner-take-all rules were abolished. If you look at the breakdown of electoral votes by county rather than by state, you'll see that a much different result. Yet presidential candidates usually blow off rural and suburban America. Imagine if they had to spend more time there.
I'll bet that if central California had as much or more of a say over their fate than L.A. does, they'd tell L.A. that no, as a matter of fact, they aren't going to get any more water from the Sierras without paying for it.
When John Knoll (yes, THE John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and VFX wizard extraordinaire) wanted to reproduce the Apollo moon landing in CG he ran into a small problem. He went to NASA to obtain the telemetry data for altitude and orientation but apparently the data had been tossed a long time ago. However, he was able to find physical prints of graphs of the telemetry channels. So he scanned them in, made them an underlay in a 3D modeling program, and painstakingly traced them by hand in order to extract the data. The results can be seen in Magnificent Desolation Apollo 15 landing sequence. And BTW, that's his modeling work for the lander too.
Technically, correct but pedantic. In fact you're reinforcing my point by mentioning the POTS method and the paper application method. This administration was supposed to be the most technically savvy in history yet in the three years they had to put a website together, they botched it. And why does it take so many millions of lines of code to do what it does? And what about the abysmal security of the site?
And since you brought it up, let me know a year from now if you still have your employer coverage let alone the same coverage for the same or, as promised, less in premiums.
Back in the 80s when personal computers began to appear on every desk, the NSA was spending a ton of money to shield every PC they had. So when they built their new main offices at Fort Meade, they decided it was cheaper to shield the entire building.
What's interesting is that Google didn't buy iRobot. They have actual finished product. Boston Dynamics just has DARPA-funded research projects all of which are merely that without the über power source.
What I find fascinating is how the media had us believe that the man was elected because his campaign was the "modern" one, the one that had whole of the Internet dialed in, total control over and support of social media, and everything tech and hip on its side. And yet that same organization can't get a website running properly, particularly one that people don't get to use but have to use. And that same organization wants to deflect criticism and blame for the NSA's current methods.
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IMHO, schwit1's summary is a typical leftist rant that assumes that every job position in the company is valuable and should be permanent even if the company is bankrupt. To that I say "Should the people who used work on the incandescent light bulb production lines still be allowed to make them?"
Out west where cattle roam around in open country, you can often find these grassy vegetation rings that form after they've taken a dump on that spot.
For a robotic, self-extending middle-finger. Gonna make a ton of money on this.
Does anyone have a magneto-optical disk drive? I've got some old files I'd like to retrieve.
Same here. Congrats. And you suck. ;-)
Even though Howard wanted to say "mumbo jumbo"
That's closer to reality than you think. In my own searches, every single woman wanted a guy who was between 5'8" and 6'2". Every...single...one.
Well, technically, pistons without rings. The piston and cylinder are machined precisely enough that they don't need rings. But here's the catch to what the Aussies are talking about as well as lots of other exotic engine designs. If it can't be made for the same or less money than present engine designs, it'll never get off the ground. And if it can't be maintained for the same cost, it'll eventually fade away. Popular Science and Popular mechanics are littered with unusual game-changing engine designs e.g. the 6-stroke engine that has a steam cycle to make use of the wasted heat energy or the Wankel.
The article says that errors in the DNA copying mechanism are eventually degrading the DNA to the point where cells become cancerous. So what if the solution is to improve the copying mechanism? After all, there are people who live well into their 100s and there are populations that have very little cancer. So why not examine the copy mechanism of those people to figure out why theirs works better?
But on the other hand, there are already way too many people around as it is and far too many Ship B people. I think you'd have to figure out interstellar travel before you enable a population explosion.
I was trying to build it with a GNU OABI compiler for an ARM SBC. Sadly, that SBC uses a crappy Cavium processor which doesn't support thumb instructions so I'm stuck with OABI. That said, I've been able to cross-compile Qt 4.8.5 but I couldn't get 5.1 to build. Lots of make/compile/link errors.
One also wonders if the money that's left over is considered taxable ordinary income.
Ultimately, this is the price of big regulatory government that would never get funded if it had to get money from Congress and hence, the taxpayers. So these regulatory bureaucracies pay their employees and pension funds through exorbitant fees. The net result is that the little startups will simply never get off the ground or if they do, they have to charge so much more for their products just to pay for all those Ship B people that they ultimately fail.
My problem with this is how do you build a compiler from sources for a faceless embedded platform. I'm currently seeing this play out in the Qt environment. There are a lot of nice non-GUI features to it but I have yet to be able to cross-compile v5.x of the thing for an embedded ARM platform that has no display, keyboard, or mouse. 4.8.5 works fine but Digia changed a bunch of stuff in 5.x and now I'm SOL.
IMHO, something like drawing should be compartmentalized into a library.
We're building the world's largest bureaucracy and collection of Ship B people.
The sub-tag "who-pays-for-all-that-rescuing?" has me wondering if they boat people are planning to pay with carbon credits. I have to say, though, that all climate science debating aside, it's pretty clever to turn one of the most abundant elements in the galaxy into a currency. It reminds me of a plot point in one of Neal Stephenson's books where a character stockpiles shells to use as currency only to find out that nobody else considers them valuable.
The rolling stock could also be rigged. And long-range wireless transmitters are a dime a dozen these days.
What they've done is nothing new. http://wirc.dension.com/
In the immortal words of Sheldon Cooper "If anything, it's a modest leap forward from the technology that gave us Country Bear Jamboree."
So let's see here. One could posit that the tracks or the rolling stock were intentionally damaged to cause the derailment because the environmentalists are hell bent on casting a dark shadow on fossil fuels. One could also posit that the derailment was created by people who are are trying to encourage the completion of the Keystone pipeline. One could also look to see if anyone shorted BNSF stock. One could also posit that sh*t happens no matter who is doing what even though there is plenty of regulation in place with the goal being to create more expensive bureaucracy and paperwork that translates to more people to be employed doing nothing productive.
Drill local. It's organic and free-range too.
Seriously, Apple, bring back my 17" MBP or I might vote for Carl Ichan's proposal.
I'll bet that if you repeal the winner-take-all rule for electoral votes, things would change dramatically.
But there is some basis for some sort of shake up, no pun intended. With raw population density being pretty much the only factor in determining representation levels in Sacramento, you end up with L.A. and San Francisco (and to a lesser extent, San Diego) determining the fate of the rural and suburban areas. I've believed for some time that federal elections and more specifically campaigns would be very different if winner-take-all rules were abolished. If you look at the breakdown of electoral votes by county rather than by state, you'll see that a much different result. Yet presidential candidates usually blow off rural and suburban America. Imagine if they had to spend more time there.
I'll bet that if central California had as much or more of a say over their fate than L.A. does, they'd tell L.A. that no, as a matter of fact, they aren't going to get any more water from the Sierras without paying for it.
When John Knoll (yes, THE John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and VFX wizard extraordinaire) wanted to reproduce the Apollo moon landing in CG he ran into a small problem. He went to NASA to obtain the telemetry data for altitude and orientation but apparently the data had been tossed a long time ago. However, he was able to find physical prints of graphs of the telemetry channels. So he scanned them in, made them an underlay in a 3D modeling program, and painstakingly traced them by hand in order to extract the data. The results can be seen in Magnificent Desolation Apollo 15 landing sequence. And BTW, that's his modeling work for the lander too.
Technically, correct but pedantic. In fact you're reinforcing my point by mentioning the POTS method and the paper application method. This administration was supposed to be the most technically savvy in history yet in the three years they had to put a website together, they botched it. And why does it take so many millions of lines of code to do what it does? And what about the abysmal security of the site?
And since you brought it up, let me know a year from now if you still have your employer coverage let alone the same coverage for the same or, as promised, less in premiums.
Back in the 80s when personal computers began to appear on every desk, the NSA was spending a ton of money to shield every PC they had. So when they built their new main offices at Fort Meade, they decided it was cheaper to shield the entire building.
What's interesting is that Google didn't buy iRobot. They have actual finished product. Boston Dynamics just has DARPA-funded research projects all of which are merely that without the über power source.
What I find fascinating is how the media had us believe that the man was elected because his campaign was the "modern" one, the one that had whole of the Internet dialed in, total control over and support of social media, and everything tech and hip on its side. And yet that same organization can't get a website running properly, particularly one that people don't get to use but have to use. And that same organization wants to deflect criticism and blame for the NSA's current methods.
Yes, I suppose that's true and Scott Adams would have nothing to write about.