>> Woz: "Here is what I admire about Chinese phones...(but Apple is more good-er)"
How is an iPhone not a "Chinese phone"?
Last time I saw a breakdown, China pretty much just assembled the phone. Besides being designed and built for an American (Irish?) company, most of the parts were built were built in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. More of the money it takes to build an iPhone also went to each of those three nations than China also.
That last bit all sounds familiar. How many IT teams become the workflow experts because they are the only people who ask what the workflow is and try and document it because of system downtime operations or automation?
They're just ENGINES. Just ONE component of the entire car. That'd be like advocating to ban automatic transmissions because you make 5-speeds. The consumers are moving toward electric. Consumers are moving toward reduced pollution.
It's about sales longterm.
Electrical engines will dramatically increase the lifespan of a car.
Still, business lessons of the recent years are that you should try and cannibalize your own market, because if you don't, somebody else will.
If the US public would get over its obsession with spam-in-a-can, we could have a hundred times as many projects like this.
Not really. No money is actually being spent on manned missions to other planets, so if it was all shifted to probe based missions, it still wouldn't be any more. They talk about manned missions a lot but the matter of the fact is that we aren't spending money on the wrong priorities, but just simply aren't spending money.
But there was the Orion program. Sure, he talked a lot about it but he also tried to accomplish the rhetoric and directed NASA toward it. You can argue it was the wrong way for NASA or w/e but to say Bush didn't do anything to try and get NASA further along is wrong. Orion was cancelled by Obama.
It was all just smoke and mirrors. There may have been projects, but even if Orion was a realistic proejct, there was never been any realistic funding. It's pretty much always been like this since Apollo funding was axed, which is why TFA is here, NASA is finally admitting to things we all already knew. Nasa's budget barely does some research, sends a few probes every decade, and keeps the lights on. A Mars mission at best is projected to cost $200 billion and probably two or three times that. Unless Nasa starts getting an additional $20 billion a year, any talk of a Mars mission is just vapor and even then, it won't happen for another decade and we'll see it coming as that decade will be spent actually building stuff. Still, more realistically, we're looking at an additional $20 billion a year and three decades if the government ever wants Nasa to be serious about going to Mars.
We're going to Mars... on a shoestring budget... that gets smaller with each passing year.
Like much of Obama's administration, it was just a continuation of Bush's policies. Bush particularly liked to call out a manned mission to Mars in every State of the Union address.
If there's no air in the tube, how do you breathe? I mean, there is air in the capsule but I assume that is finite. So how do they refresh the air and what do they do if there's a rupture?
It is a valid question, but I think that problem is a minor one and we have already solved it for passenger airplanes that fly at altitudes where humans can't breathe. The more serious risk in this system stems from the need to maintain a vacuum at all times - if there were a catastrophic failure of vacuum when the train travels at a very high speed, then it would be like slamming into a wall.
I don't even think that catastrophic failure will be the big deal. It will be designed and tested to be safer than driving on the highway where catastrophic crashes happen all the time. I'm sure that various failure modes are taken into account and there are methods of both slowing down the capsule as well as repressurizing the tube if need be. Most likely the capsule will break, have air masks like planes, and connect to the next emergency exit gate to lrease passangers, and if things are really bad, they'll just normalize pressure in the tube. They'll make sure that such cases are very rare for the main problem with such a vacuum chamber which is how to get it that evacuated and keep it like that. Last time I checked it was still in the range of mechanical pumps but it will still take time to get down to that desired level. I'll bet that the capsules will just travel slower if the air pressure is higher and be scheduled to be run at a slower than max speed at desired vacuum. There will be a certain amount of slack can be handled and anything but a massive failure will just be worked around, and a massive failure will be something that happens less often than a train wreck.
Is that like the liberal left and their only idea of throw money at it till it goes away?
You have none. Congratulations.
Not true. Conservatives want to cut money to things that aren't their projects, throw even more money at things that are their projects, and cut taxes.
China is playing an open-ended game of Whack-a-Mole with it's citizens, with the global Internet as the venue. It's obvious that Chinese citizens want free and unfettered access to the Internet and all the information on it. The communist Chinese government can keep trying to deny them, but just like with copy protection schemes, DRM, and all other censorship-like things, people will find a way around it.
Memo to Communist Chinese government: You can't stop the signal. You're going to fail; it's inevitable. Why not give up now, and stop oppressing your people? When the revolution comes, are you going to change, or are you going to fight the future, and go the way of Bashar al-Assad and start slaughtering your own people en masse? It's up to you how History will view you, China. Choose wisely.
Sounds like the free internet is China's "War on Drugs".
It doesn't run on the local OS, (like using a Linux share on Windows, Windows doesn't care what filesystem is running on Linux). The same should be true of Onedrive.
It does run on the local OS. That's what they're talking about, the local syncing client and the local repository of the online files. I'm sure the Office 365 and sharepoint links to the One Drive work ok no matter what file system you are using, but here they are talking about the downloaded OneDrive client and where it keeps those synced files.
I have rarely met an engineer who has put in those hours who has "gotten ahead".
There's the Amazon strategy. Get a prestigious job or at least one above what you have now, put in long hours, pad your resume, then jump ship to the better, next job before you burn out.
Law has a scientific and a colloquial usage. Murphy&'s Law is equally not a law...
With usual usage, it's not even a law. Typically, a law is something that can be expressed as mathematical form, e.g. the law of gravitation, the laws of thermodynamics. Murphy's Law should actually be Murphy's Theory.
There's more than a million people in Ahvaz.
For reference, that's about the size of Seattle and Denver combined.
Technically, if you only include people in the specific city limits and not those in the adjacent communities and metro areas. It's more like Tulsa, OK in metro areas as Ahvaz only has one sizable adjacent community.
I grew up with vinyl and was happy to see it go. Same for film photography. I have digital now for both and see no reason to look back. There are tons of physical drawbacks and limitations to both that I never want to have to deal with again. That being said, both have their artistic uses for those that want to deal with it, much like painting instead of taking photos. I have photographer friends that deal with film and they enjoy it and it has certain benefits over digital I just don't care about. Vinyl does also with DJs of which there are probably enough of to maintain production, especially when including all the people who are wanna be DJs. There are digital alternatives but DJing has certain artistic qualities that requires records. I also have some audiophile friends that swear by vinyl (and not a little towards cover artwork also) and like all audiophile discussions, I'll leave them to those that care.
Zillow might not own the copyright of the images, it could still own the right to have full distribution rights on where the images might be shown if they have struck such agreement with the photographer. And as the blogger will not show the images then Zillow seems to have presented such evidence, they could even have a agreement where they are to represent the photographer for copyright issues with third parties and thus be able to claim copyright on the behalf of the photographer.
My understanding of Zillow as explained by my realtor when I was buying a house less than a year ago, is that they pretty much just use the same realty services that realtors use, or at least mine. My realtor would have me look at their website and photos, but I could go to Zillow and see the exact same info. So, it would depend on that service's TOS.
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>> Woz: "Here is what I admire about Chinese phones...(but Apple is more good-er)" How is an iPhone not a "Chinese phone"?
Last time I saw a breakdown, China pretty much just assembled the phone. Besides being designed and built for an American (Irish?) company, most of the parts were built were built in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. More of the money it takes to build an iPhone also went to each of those three nations than China also.
And you think the military is not a stimulus program?
Yes, but for who?
That last bit all sounds familiar. How many IT teams become the workflow experts because they are the only people who ask what the workflow is and try and document it because of system downtime operations or automation?
It's about sales longterm. Electrical engines will dramatically increase the lifespan of a car.
Still, business lessons of the recent years are that you should try and cannibalize your own market, because if you don't, somebody else will.
If the US public would get over its obsession with spam-in-a-can, we could have a hundred times as many projects like this.
Not really. No money is actually being spent on manned missions to other planets, so if it was all shifted to probe based missions, it still wouldn't be any more. They talk about manned missions a lot but the matter of the fact is that we aren't spending money on the wrong priorities, but just simply aren't spending money.
But there was the Orion program. Sure, he talked a lot about it but he also tried to accomplish the rhetoric and directed NASA toward it. You can argue it was the wrong way for NASA or w/e but to say Bush didn't do anything to try and get NASA further along is wrong. Orion was cancelled by Obama.
It was all just smoke and mirrors. There may have been projects, but even if Orion was a realistic proejct, there was never been any realistic funding. It's pretty much always been like this since Apollo funding was axed, which is why TFA is here, NASA is finally admitting to things we all already knew. Nasa's budget barely does some research, sends a few probes every decade, and keeps the lights on. A Mars mission at best is projected to cost $200 billion and probably two or three times that. Unless Nasa starts getting an additional $20 billion a year, any talk of a Mars mission is just vapor and even then, it won't happen for another decade and we'll see it coming as that decade will be spent actually building stuff. Still, more realistically, we're looking at an additional $20 billion a year and three decades if the government ever wants Nasa to be serious about going to Mars.
We're going to Mars... on a shoestring budget... that gets smaller with each passing year.
Like much of Obama's administration, it was just a continuation of Bush's policies. Bush particularly liked to call out a manned mission to Mars in every State of the Union address.
If there's no air in the tube, how do you breathe? I mean, there is air in the capsule but I assume that is finite. So how do they refresh the air and what do they do if there's a rupture?
It is a valid question, but I think that problem is a minor one and we have already solved it for passenger airplanes that fly at altitudes where humans can't breathe. The more serious risk in this system stems from the need to maintain a vacuum at all times - if there were a catastrophic failure of vacuum when the train travels at a very high speed, then it would be like slamming into a wall.
I don't even think that catastrophic failure will be the big deal. It will be designed and tested to be safer than driving on the highway where catastrophic crashes happen all the time. I'm sure that various failure modes are taken into account and there are methods of both slowing down the capsule as well as repressurizing the tube if need be. Most likely the capsule will break, have air masks like planes, and connect to the next emergency exit gate to lrease passangers, and if things are really bad, they'll just normalize pressure in the tube. They'll make sure that such cases are very rare for the main problem with such a vacuum chamber which is how to get it that evacuated and keep it like that. Last time I checked it was still in the range of mechanical pumps but it will still take time to get down to that desired level. I'll bet that the capsules will just travel slower if the air pressure is higher and be scheduled to be run at a slower than max speed at desired vacuum. There will be a certain amount of slack can be handled and anything but a massive failure will just be worked around, and a massive failure will be something that happens less often than a train wreck.
Uh... ??
You can't just say "more than 185,000 people"? Why would race be injected into this reporting?
It's a European study and everybody in Spain would be hispanic.
Is that like the liberal left and their only idea of throw money at it till it goes away?
You have none. Congratulations.
Not true. Conservatives want to cut money to things that aren't their projects, throw even more money at things that are their projects, and cut taxes.
So, if that is your definition of "rich", what do you define Warren Buffet and Bill Gates as?
'Filthy rich', or perhaps 'obscenely rich'.
China is playing an open-ended game of Whack-a-Mole with it's citizens, with the global Internet as the venue. It's obvious that Chinese citizens want free and unfettered access to the Internet and all the information on it. The communist Chinese government can keep trying to deny them, but just like with copy protection schemes, DRM, and all other censorship-like things, people will find a way around it. Memo to Communist Chinese government: You can't stop the signal. You're going to fail; it's inevitable. Why not give up now, and stop oppressing your people? When the revolution comes, are you going to change, or are you going to fight the future, and go the way of Bashar al-Assad and start slaughtering your own people en masse? It's up to you how History will view you, China. Choose wisely.
Sounds like the free internet is China's "War on Drugs".
Turning the region into a resourceless dump of poverty is unlikely to improve things for anyone.
Lifting the Resource Curse probably will improve things in the long run.
Or just turn them into more Afghanistans.
Bringing back the company town.
I prefer to think of it as the rise of the mega-corp arcologies that I was promised in a cyberpunk future.
So... it's batteries all the way down?
No, at the bottom is a cell. From there, it's batteries all the way up.
EDS was running the servers for ETSA in fucking Victoria, apparently over IP by carrier pigeon.
Ah, good 'ol reliable RFC 1149.
It doesn't run on the local OS, (like using a Linux share on Windows, Windows doesn't care what filesystem is running on Linux). The same should be true of Onedrive.
It does run on the local OS. That's what they're talking about, the local syncing client and the local repository of the online files. I'm sure the Office 365 and sharepoint links to the One Drive work ok no matter what file system you are using, but here they are talking about the downloaded OneDrive client and where it keeps those synced files.
I have rarely met an engineer who has put in those hours who has "gotten ahead".
There's the Amazon strategy. Get a prestigious job or at least one above what you have now, put in long hours, pad your resume, then jump ship to the better, next job before you burn out.
Law has a scientific and a colloquial usage. Murphy&'s Law is equally not a law...
With usual usage, it's not even a law. Typically, a law is something that can be expressed as mathematical form, e.g. the law of gravitation, the laws of thermodynamics. Murphy's Law should actually be Murphy's Theory.
Anybody know what the Japanese for hipster is?
Yanki
There's more than a million people in Ahvaz. For reference, that's about the size of Seattle and Denver combined.
Technically, if you only include people in the specific city limits and not those in the adjacent communities and metro areas. It's more like Tulsa, OK in metro areas as Ahvaz only has one sizable adjacent community.
I grew up with vinyl and was happy to see it go. Same for film photography. I have digital now for both and see no reason to look back. There are tons of physical drawbacks and limitations to both that I never want to have to deal with again. That being said, both have their artistic uses for those that want to deal with it, much like painting instead of taking photos. I have photographer friends that deal with film and they enjoy it and it has certain benefits over digital I just don't care about. Vinyl does also with DJs of which there are probably enough of to maintain production, especially when including all the people who are wanna be DJs. There are digital alternatives but DJing has certain artistic qualities that requires records. I also have some audiophile friends that swear by vinyl (and not a little towards cover artwork also) and like all audiophile discussions, I'll leave them to those that care.
Zillow might not own the copyright of the images, it could still own the right to have full distribution rights on where the images might be shown if they have struck such agreement with the photographer. And as the blogger will not show the images then Zillow seems to have presented such evidence, they could even have a agreement where they are to represent the photographer for copyright issues with third parties and thus be able to claim copyright on the behalf of the photographer.
My understanding of Zillow as explained by my realtor when I was buying a house less than a year ago, is that they pretty much just use the same realty services that realtors use, or at least mine. My realtor would have me look at their website and photos, but I could go to Zillow and see the exact same info. So, it would depend on that service's TOS.
I wonder what these tunnels will do?
My guess is that they will provide habitation and transportation for his Mars bases.
Or as is more likely, any business that can will move outside of the city limits and pay the prevailing wage that is lower.
Well, they're doing that anyway as rents continue to skyrocket.