To hell with the engine--if it blows, it blows--they can be replaced, lives can't.
If the engine computer doesn't want the RPMs above 7000 or whatever, it simply shuts off the injectors on any post 80s car. Go ahead, try to overrun the rev limiter. Good luck.
With democracy, there is always the tyranny of the majority: if 50% + 1 want something, everyone must go along by force.
Absolutely no need to make that arbitrary cutoff 50%. Plenty of things in "the system" right now require 2/3 majority, or even consensus such as certain criminal jury trials.
For a quick education, look at the relationship between the legislative branch and the executive branch as regards vetos. Or the strange relationship inside and outside the supreme court w/ regards to constitutionality of laws.
The form of democracy used in most countries is everything but freedom.
Says the guy who has *clearly* never lived under a truly repressive regime...
Go tell the Iranians or the Egyptians just so gosh darn unfree your system is, and see what they have to say.
You're confusing material success with the concept of freedom.
Also you're confusing cultural norms... We are just as repressive against our dissidents as they are, its just that the venn diagram of our dissidents and theirs has approximately zero overlap. Our dissidents are those whom opted out of our legal system and pharmaceutical market and set up their own. Try being an atheist in SLC or pretty much anywhere in the south. Or for that matter its still no picnic being black, at least in "those" states. Try being an arab or god forbid an arab muslim in the USA.
No, the point is FOSS will help us become an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We'll take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more...
eerily similar to how Debian has done it for decades, with some minor differences.
If I could go back and do it all over again I think I would spend my entire life trying to figure out how a mosquito's brain works. There must be research along these lines happening somewhere but you never hear about it - they are always trying to map out mouse brains, or some other small mammal.
If the assumption is once you're done with this project, you'll move on to human brains, then a mosquito has some pretty severe I/O differences compared to a typical mammal human brain.
The point is that if we spent 10 years and billions of dollars developing this technology, then declare it "a dead end" and give up on it, only to turn around and pay other countries to utilize the technology that we ourselves paid to develop
Isn't that basically the story of all heavy industry in the USA? Everything from steel mills to steel trashcans? Automotive industry? Most of the microelectronic industry?
Thats what we're doing now. Anyone on US soil during polling can vote (for that matter, as many times as they want). No citizenship required.
Furthermore the voting doesn't actually matter, its the money paid to election campaigns. And they accept all currency from everyone, pretty much, although mostly major corporations overwhelm all other contributions.
A "fairer" idea: Stop issuing new non-country/U.N. TLDs. Put everyone on notice that if they register a NEW 2nd-level non-country domain name now (foo.com) it will be revoked in 10 years. Give existing domain owners a little longer - say, 15-20 years - to retire existing domains. Reserve.com.us,.edu.us, etc. for anyone with an existing or new.com,.edu, etc. for the next 20 years.
People won't like it but at least it will end the bickering.
Now, as for new 2nd-level.us domains, the USA can do that without stepping on other countries sovereignty and they can make whatever.cc without stepping on America's.
Don't forget multinationals, whom really run the world. Once IBM replaces their last American with someone in India, (probably what, next year?) would they be forced to move from ibm.us to ibm.india or at least not to renew their ibm.us domain, having no employees there anymore?
Anyone who wants to operate a small site already needs to acquire the.net,.org,.com,.us, and.biz versions. The more TLDs exist, the greater the cost for running a single site for one year.
This may be the death of that policy, and thus be good. When its 5 TLDs, eh, you pay the cash. When its 4353 TLDs, "F it, everyone only uses.com anyway".
You do not represent the interests of the world population
They rarely represent the interests of their own population. Do you think they care?
But they always represent the corporations... Especially the ones padding there un-audited re-election campaigns.
Such as the domain registrars. The only people who want 117 new TLDs, so they can resell their entire sales book 117 more times. So... get used to having 117 more TLDs, heck probably 117 more every week. Eventually we'll end up reimplementing the "aol keywords" thing and we'll have domain names like.ford or.governmentmotors
(Long story about poor management as the cause of poor ergonomics in the workspace)... What TI is proposing, here, is an interface...
(Long list of interesting technical possibilities)
Bring it on TI!
The problem is you (probably) don't work for TI, you work for the guys who simply don't care if they destroy your body. And a new technological way to do it, is just going to be a new technological way to destroy your body.
Your management will simply force you to wear extra heavy boxing gloves on your upraised hands. Maybe tie your work metrics to how many times you lift a weight using your back instead of your legs (yes I am well aware that is "wrong"). Maybe to make it sense you better, your boss will shine intense searchlights on you all day long, like the stereotypical movie police station interrogation room. Perhaps to "give you more space to move around" you'll be moved out of the nice quiet semi-private cube and into a cage or padded room, after all no one should expect privacy or a quiet working environment at work, should they, and only executives need to think, not peons, right?
We've long since been freed from the "ergonomic hell of cubicle life". Its just that your boss simply doesn't care, and will probably go on not caring, so your body is being ruined. On the other hand, my boss does care, so frankly after 11 hours at work I go home feeling fine, probably better shape than I'd be in on a day off. Yet based solely on slashdot UIDs, I'm probably old enough to be your father, maybe grandfather.
I expect your workplace will not be turned into a workers paradise merely by flailing your arms around.
Just because it's been in a (shitty) sci-fi film doesn't mean it's a great idea.
If you're going to make tech based on popular films you should really start with the Hoverboard and Mr Fussion first. Once you've got those sorted then you can make dumb arse UIs.
Forget that, my vote is either Cherry2000 (speaking of dumb UIs) or "Weird Science" (apparently robot UIs had improved by that movie)
Had a roommate who had her mail stolen and someone ran up a lot of charges on cards she never registered for.
The neighbor down the street had someone take out a loan from a bank on his house without his knowledge.
Ah, its like that everywhere in the country not just Vegas.
The roommate thing is slightly easier to detect, I used to get exactly two junkmails per week, every week, for many years, from Crapital One, they must have spent hundreds of dollars over the years on postage trying to make me a customer. So if I would only get one ad from Crapital One, I'd get nervous. The neighbor thing is way tougher because I got about one refinance offer per day, but from a different bank each day... how anyone ever know if one went missing?
Our educational system is 19th century organization using 19th century ideals. What should we teach today? How about some analysis: Teach not "what is the right answer?" but "Why is this answer right?"
The real world is : What is the correct term to google? Closely followed by, how do I evaluate and then apply google's results?
Honestly this is how probably about 50% of out in the real world R+D hours are spent. That and soaking up on the stream of consciousness of/. like a sponge.
As a recent engineering graduate, I rarely had to write a report for any of my classes that actually mattered for my education (math, sciences, engineering applications, etc.)
Ah, you should have written "training" not "education". If you had gotten an education, perhaps you'd know the difference. Not that there's anything wrong with that, very few companies indeed want to hire educated people, they almost exclusively want highly trained people. Advanced vo-tech, regardless of what campus its held on, is not by any means an education.
You also missed out on some excellent dating opportunities. In my bachelors of CS era I found the CS classes to be a near 100% sausage-fest, the IT classes to have about ten percent women, but "history of the civil war" or "intro to sociology" now that was a target rich environment. And the class gives you something to talk about past the "whats your sign?" stage. Look at this sample script and try to find the mistake: Cutie: Wanna come over to my place and study together? Engineering guy: Uh, Sorry, I'm just bittorrenting the homework.
As one 19-year-old engineering student put it, "As more and more people are using the Internet illegally (i.e. limewire etc.),"
People still use limewire? Is this a dupe from a decade ago? Either this kid was about 8 when limewire was "cool", or this kid is planning his big 30 year birthday party this year.
As a European recently moved to the Americas I'm frequently baffled by the procedures of identity verification.
How do you allow businesses (whom run the government) to profit by the presence of somewhere in the magnitude of 1e7 illegal aliens, yet not open the system too wide for theft?
Also note that a fraction of the "theft" is actually fraud, and how do you set up procedures to catch at least some of the fraud. Yes thats all very terrible when someone has to spend X hours of their life cleaning up a $Z "theft". Now would you accept $Y in cash, where $Y/X is some multiple of your hourly wage, to...
Given those two datapoints, which you apparently don't have, things will make a little more sense...
Coincidentally, I don't get offers of free credit in the mail from EVERY bank in the United States anymore either. Wonder if that could have anything to do with it.
Check your credit report... did you know you now own three trucks in.MX and a condo in Vegas? Seriously one of the best indications of theft is an unanticipated change in your junkmail.
Yes, you'd be surprised whats out there. The ipad has become the "device of choice" for apps like those sound/word board thingies and speech synths. Not just special ed but old folks whom had strokes, etc.
Basically its "the same" performance as previous specialized hardware except its about 1/10 the cost, COTS, and the superior apple user experience removes most of the headaches. Also the seemingly infinite variety of 3rd party hardware means its pretty easy to figure out how to attach an ipad (in a case) to a wheelchair.
How would you secure something that small? Seems like it has the potential to be damaged/stolen.
As far as damage goes, that strata of society mostly entertains itself with spraypaint from the ground, easier to run when the cops arrive. Not really seeing the point of climbing up there and swinging a hammer.
As far as theft goes, who would you sell it to, and what would they do with it?
It's just as easy to do with the iPad, or any device for that matter. When you hand out the file you change the data in such a way that it's watermarked. It doesn't matter if at that point someone copies it, that's why you watermark it - to identify who it was copied from.
Disagree. There are no off the shelf solutions for that on the ipad. Were you talking about hiring interns to do that manually, by hand? OMG.
iOS also has per-application locking and encryption so the NFL can make their own app and secure the data on it
"secure the data" seems a wee bit optimistic. What, does it use the front facing camera that doesn't exist to do image analysis to blank the screen when the ipad cam that doesn't exist sees what looks like a camera lens taking pics of the screen? or when it sees a guy with an old fashioned pen and paper writing notes while looking at the screen?
Face it, its about as secure and untraceable as hanging posterboards in the locker room. Paper was a little tiny bit more traceable when properly watermarked with off the shelf software.
I'm much more interested in data integrity than performance, much like 99.999999999% of admins. The remainder appear to be folks running web caches.
ZFS folks refuse to discuss that, for some odd reason. All I hear about is features that I don't have, have never had, could otherwise reimplement or work around, or can't implement due to corporate culture / established procedures, yet have made fat stacks of cash in the past without ZFS.
Ubuntu is especially great if you're an older geek and you need to be doing actual work rather than spending two entire weeks figuring out why an obvious LineMode configuration isn't working and your screen resolution is still totally screwed despite it and fighting against countless hurdles to get sound cards working properly with all of your applications, etc.
How does one get to be an "old geek" without learning that 15 seconds of googling before purchase can save "two weeks" of suffering?
Its kind of like training yourself to do cosmetic and orthopedic surgery on yourself, rather than simply not hitting your thumb with the hammer.
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To hell with the engine--if it blows, it blows--they can be replaced, lives can't.
If the engine computer doesn't want the RPMs above 7000 or whatever, it simply shuts off the injectors on any post 80s car. Go ahead, try to overrun the rev limiter. Good luck.
With democracy, there is always the tyranny of the majority: if 50% + 1 want something, everyone must go along by force.
Absolutely no need to make that arbitrary cutoff 50%. Plenty of things in "the system" right now require 2/3 majority, or even consensus such as certain criminal jury trials.
For a quick education, look at the relationship between the legislative branch and the executive branch as regards vetos. Or the strange relationship inside and outside the supreme court w/ regards to constitutionality of laws.
The form of democracy used in most countries is everything but freedom.
Says the guy who has *clearly* never lived under a truly repressive regime...
Go tell the Iranians or the Egyptians just so gosh darn unfree your system is, and see what they have to say.
You're confusing material success with the concept of freedom.
Also you're confusing cultural norms... We are just as repressive against our dissidents as they are, its just that the venn diagram of our dissidents and theirs has approximately zero overlap. Our dissidents are those whom opted out of our legal system and pharmaceutical market and set up their own. Try being an atheist in SLC or pretty much anywhere in the south. Or for that matter its still no picnic being black, at least in "those" states. Try being an arab or god forbid an arab muslim in the USA.
No, the point is FOSS will help us become an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We'll take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more...
eerily similar to how Debian has done it for decades, with some minor differences.
If I could go back and do it all over again I think I would spend my entire life trying to figure out how a mosquito's brain works. There must be research along these lines happening somewhere but you never hear about it - they are always trying to map out mouse brains, or some other small mammal.
If the assumption is once you're done with this project, you'll move on to human brains, then a mosquito has some pretty severe I/O differences compared to a typical mammal human brain.
The point is that if we spent 10 years and billions of dollars developing this technology, then declare it "a dead end" and give up on it, only to turn around and pay other countries to utilize the technology that we ourselves paid to develop
Isn't that basically the story of all heavy industry in the USA? Everything from steel mills to steel trashcans? Automotive industry? Most of the microelectronic industry?
2) Let the entire world vote in US politics.
Thats what we're doing now. Anyone on US soil during polling can vote (for that matter, as many times as they want). No citizenship required.
Furthermore the voting doesn't actually matter, its the money paid to election campaigns. And they accept all currency from everyone, pretty much, although mostly major corporations overwhelm all other contributions.
A "fairer" idea: Stop issuing new non-country/U.N. TLDs. .com.us, .edu.us, etc. for anyone with an existing or new .com, .edu, etc. for the next 20 years.
Put everyone on notice that if they register a NEW 2nd-level non-country domain name now (foo.com) it will be revoked in 10 years. Give existing domain owners a little longer - say, 15-20 years - to retire existing domains. Reserve
People won't like it but at least it will end the bickering.
Now, as for new 2nd-level.us domains, the USA can do that without stepping on other countries sovereignty and they can make whatever.cc without stepping on America's.
Don't forget multinationals, whom really run the world. Once IBM replaces their last American with someone in India, (probably what, next year?) would they be forced to move from ibm.us to ibm.india or at least not to renew their ibm.us domain, having no employees there anymore?
Anyone who wants to operate a small site already needs to acquire the .net, .org, .com, .us, and .biz versions. The more TLDs exist, the greater the cost for running a single site for one year.
This may be the death of that policy, and thus be good. When its 5 TLDs, eh, you pay the cash. When its 4353 TLDs, "F it, everyone only uses .com anyway".
You do not represent the interests of the world population
They rarely represent the interests of their own population. Do you think they care?
But they always represent the corporations... Especially the ones padding there un-audited re-election campaigns.
Such as the domain registrars. The only people who want 117 new TLDs, so they can resell their entire sales book 117 more times. So... get used to having 117 more TLDs, heck probably 117 more every week. Eventually we'll end up reimplementing the "aol keywords" thing and we'll have domain names like .ford or .governmentmotors
(Long story about poor management as the cause of poor ergonomics in the workspace) ... What TI is proposing, here, is an interface ...
(Long list of interesting technical possibilities)
Bring it on TI!
The problem is you (probably) don't work for TI, you work for the guys who simply don't care if they destroy your body. And a new technological way to do it, is just going to be a new technological way to destroy your body.
Your management will simply force you to wear extra heavy boxing gloves on your upraised hands. Maybe tie your work metrics to how many times you lift a weight using your back instead of your legs (yes I am well aware that is "wrong"). Maybe to make it sense you better, your boss will shine intense searchlights on you all day long, like the stereotypical movie police station interrogation room. Perhaps to "give you more space to move around" you'll be moved out of the nice quiet semi-private cube and into a cage or padded room, after all no one should expect privacy or a quiet working environment at work, should they, and only executives need to think, not peons, right?
We've long since been freed from the "ergonomic hell of cubicle life". Its just that your boss simply doesn't care, and will probably go on not caring, so your body is being ruined. On the other hand, my boss does care, so frankly after 11 hours at work I go home feeling fine, probably better shape than I'd be in on a day off. Yet based solely on slashdot UIDs, I'm probably old enough to be your father, maybe grandfather.
I expect your workplace will not be turned into a workers paradise merely by flailing your arms around.
Will this interface also enforce a thirty minute rest period after every thirty seconds of "activity"?
For ages I've been wondering why processor power has increased many times over but input devices have hardly changed at all.
Apparently not many "ages", or your idea of an age is like my idea of a long coffee break.
Dectapes, punchcards, and a "programmers console" forever!
Just because it's been in a (shitty) sci-fi film doesn't mean it's a great idea.
If you're going to make tech based on popular films you should really start with the Hoverboard and Mr Fussion first. Once you've got those sorted then you can make dumb arse UIs.
Forget that, my vote is either Cherry2000 (speaking of dumb UIs) or "Weird Science" (apparently robot UIs had improved by that movie)
Had a roommate who had her mail stolen and someone ran up a lot of charges on cards she never registered for.
The neighbor down the street had someone take out a loan from a bank on his house without his knowledge.
Ah, its like that everywhere in the country not just Vegas.
The roommate thing is slightly easier to detect, I used to get exactly two junkmails per week, every week, for many years, from Crapital One, they must have spent hundreds of dollars over the years on postage trying to make me a customer. So if I would only get one ad from Crapital One, I'd get nervous. The neighbor thing is way tougher because I got about one refinance offer per day, but from a different bank each day... how anyone ever know if one went missing?
Our educational system is 19th century organization using 19th century ideals. What should we teach today? How about some analysis: Teach not "what is the right answer?" but "Why is this answer right?"
The real world is : What is the correct term to google? Closely followed by, how do I evaluate and then apply google's results?
Honestly this is how probably about 50% of out in the real world R+D hours are spent. That and soaking up on the stream of consciousness of /. like a sponge.
As a recent engineering graduate, I rarely had to write a report for any of my classes that actually mattered for my education (math, sciences, engineering applications, etc.)
Ah, you should have written "training" not "education". If you had gotten an education, perhaps you'd know the difference. Not that there's anything wrong with that, very few companies indeed want to hire educated people, they almost exclusively want highly trained people. Advanced vo-tech, regardless of what campus its held on, is not by any means an education.
You also missed out on some excellent dating opportunities. In my bachelors of CS era I found the CS classes to be a near 100% sausage-fest, the IT classes to have about ten percent women, but "history of the civil war" or "intro to sociology" now that was a target rich environment. And the class gives you something to talk about past the "whats your sign?" stage. Look at this sample script and try to find the mistake: Cutie: Wanna come over to my place and study together? Engineering guy: Uh, Sorry, I'm just bittorrenting the homework.
As one 19-year-old engineering student put it, "As more and more people are using the Internet illegally (i.e. limewire etc.),"
People still use limewire? Is this a dupe from a decade ago? Either this kid was about 8 when limewire was "cool", or this kid is planning his big 30 year birthday party this year.
As a European recently moved to the Americas I'm frequently baffled by the procedures of identity verification.
How do you allow businesses (whom run the government) to profit by the presence of somewhere in the magnitude of 1e7 illegal aliens, yet not open the system too wide for theft?
Also note that a fraction of the "theft" is actually fraud, and how do you set up procedures to catch at least some of the fraud. Yes thats all very terrible when someone has to spend X hours of their life cleaning up a $Z "theft". Now would you accept $Y in cash, where $Y/X is some multiple of your hourly wage, to ...
Given those two datapoints, which you apparently don't have, things will make a little more sense...
Coincidentally, I don't get offers of free credit in the mail from EVERY bank in the United States anymore either. Wonder if that could have anything to do with it.
Check your credit report... did you know you now own three trucks in .MX and a condo in Vegas? Seriously one of the best indications of theft is an unanticipated change in your junkmail.
Special Education stuff
That happens to be in the app store?
Yes, you'd be surprised whats out there. The ipad has become the "device of choice" for apps like those sound/word board thingies and speech synths. Not just special ed but old folks whom had strokes, etc.
Basically its "the same" performance as previous specialized hardware except its about 1/10 the cost, COTS, and the superior apple user experience removes most of the headaches. Also the seemingly infinite variety of 3rd party hardware means its pretty easy to figure out how to attach an ipad (in a case) to a wheelchair.
How would you secure something that small? Seems like it has the potential to be damaged/stolen.
As far as damage goes, that strata of society mostly entertains itself with spraypaint from the ground, easier to run when the cops arrive. Not really seeing the point of climbing up there and swinging a hammer.
As far as theft goes, who would you sell it to, and what would they do with it?
It's just as easy to do with the iPad, or any device for that matter. When you hand out the file you change the data in such a way that it's watermarked. It doesn't matter if at that point someone copies it, that's why you watermark it - to identify who it was copied from.
Disagree. There are no off the shelf solutions for that on the ipad. Were you talking about hiring interns to do that manually, by hand? OMG.
iOS also has per-application locking and encryption so the NFL can make their own app and secure the data on it
"secure the data" seems a wee bit optimistic. What, does it use the front facing camera that doesn't exist to do image analysis to blank the screen when the ipad cam that doesn't exist sees what looks like a camera lens taking pics of the screen? or when it sees a guy with an old fashioned pen and paper writing notes while looking at the screen?
Face it, its about as secure and untraceable as hanging posterboards in the locker room. Paper was a little tiny bit more traceable when properly watermarked with off the shelf software.
I'm much more interested in data integrity than performance, much like 99.999999999% of admins. The remainder appear to be folks running web caches.
ZFS folks refuse to discuss that, for some odd reason. All I hear about is features that I don't have, have never had, could otherwise reimplement or work around, or can't implement due to corporate culture / established procedures, yet have made fat stacks of cash in the past without ZFS.
Ubuntu is especially great if you're an older geek and you need to be doing actual work rather than spending two entire weeks figuring out why an obvious LineMode configuration isn't working and your screen resolution is still totally screwed despite it and fighting against countless hurdles to get sound cards working properly with all of your applications, etc.
How does one get to be an "old geek" without learning that 15 seconds of googling before purchase can save "two weeks" of suffering?
Its kind of like training yourself to do cosmetic and orthopedic surgery on yourself, rather than simply not hitting your thumb with the hammer.