discover that an 800g loaf typically has about 500g of flour and 7g of yeast and may be up to 45% water - we're running out of room for the "chemicals" now.
Not to give you an overly hard time, but you've already listed 867g of "stuff" in a 800g loaf, so...
800*.45+500+7
(I'm guessing they're counting embedded moisture in the 45% water specification?, the alternative is bakers dough formulas which are called "percent" but are really ratios by weight, and typically 100 parts/percent/grams/oz of flour would get about 60-something parts of water... 45 would probably make hardtack?)
C. botulinum _spores_ are ubiquitous, so there's no sense in trying to prevent those.
Err, you missed the crucial "can food" component of his post. I also can food. Not so much because of cost (I think your time has to be worth less than 50 cents/hr to break even) but because I apparently have weird taste in food. For example I love canned brandied apples, peach -n- rum sauce, bourbon cherries... hmm I detect a pattern there. Interesting how tasty food canned with booze is, and how you absolutely cannot buy it retail in the USA. Also for awhile I was making my own mustard for the technical challenge (the exact timing of the reaction is important to the heat level, and balancing/working around the bitterness is also pretty interesting). I enjoy the chemistry of the whole canning activity. Acidity, sugar levels, salt levels, pressure canning is 10x cooler than water bath canning, etc. Aside from novelty and taste, canning also saves time when done right. For example the immense prep, measurement, tasting and fine tuning, and especially cleanup time for my homemade peach barbecue sauce is nearly the same for one piece of chicken or 24 canned halfpints so I'm far better off making 24 times what I currently need and canning the rest for near instant use. In CS notation the overall system of food making scales WAY less than linear with volume.
Anyway the "ball book of canning" and/or the stuff from the USDA will save your life (literally) WRT canning. Granny recipes and stuff you read on the internet will just get you food poisoning or worse (yes, there is worse).
Just defrost the slices you want to consume in the...
... toaster. Not soggy at all if done right and tastes about the same as before freezing. Bread is bad for you so I've stopped eating it, but back when I did, I didn't eat much, so I froze and toasted it. My ancestors have been doing this since WWII, did not know this was uncommon. If it works for waffles, why not toast?
As I understand it some of these emulsions are so sensitive to variables that one merely couldn't take the "recipe" and scale it down to a smaller run
Standard chemical engineering problem. Scaling from lab to plant (and, apparently, back again) is not easy. They earn their salaries...
the stuff you dont learn in chemistry class, or from a masters degree in Photography
Again, above, you want a ChemEng not a chemist or a artist. Probably your best best is the organic coating aka "paint" chem engineers. Note that they spend their time making pigments that DONT alter with exposure to light so you're asking a lot (kinda like the difference between black hat and white hat hackers)
"Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating".
How would you know that?
They sound like extremely stereotypical technology demonstrators. So I wanna show off my new statistical analysis / HBASE backend/AJAX presentation / wiimote controlled scala classes, but I've got no data at work that's non-proprietary to share with the world, so you get... um... a database of movie star height, yeah thats it.. True, they could be "ancient" technology that's not really new anymore, or they could be poorly done demonstrations, but optimistically they could be pretty interesting. Or at least good for a laugh (ha ha ha I was doing that back in 2008, etc)
Then they could develop an app so you can use your phone to control the features in your car, but that would make too much sense.
Then the app can harvest your data, spam your contact list, track you via GPS, spam you about dealer maintenance, post to twitter that you love driving your car every time you start it... no thanks.
Now something with a bluetooth ODB-II so the existing 3rd party "torque" app could work, that might be cool.
You have a religious interpretation of a scientific issue. Science doesn't matter how he "feels" or what he "believes". They are orthogonal. All that matters is what he plans to do. I think he's planning to do the right thing, with right thing defined as causing the least overall human suffering. I really don't care which sky god told him to do it, or what jumbled up mystery bounces around inside his head. Just continue to do the right thing and I'm happy.
It would be "nice" if he was in the community of the rational, but I'll take "doin the right thing" over that any day as a pragmatic outlook.
Careful, careful... the job of his position is to decide how to destroy the middle class: 1) by increasing corp control (R) or 2) by increasing govt control (D)
WRT to global warming the plan for each option, respectively is: 1) Burn more hydrocarbons aka business as usual (R) or 2) "Make a statement" by doing annoying stuff that will have absolutely no measurable result in the end, or go all Pol Pot on the worlds population (D)
Now the PR campaign is he's a supporter of option #1, because of Jesus or whatever irrational man in the sky. Reality is more likely due to campaign contributions. Regardless of why, he's a supporter of option #1, which is likely to cause less human suffering than option #2. So ridiculous imaginary friend rationalization of the irrational or whatever, he's pointed the right direction. Even a blind dog finds a bone once in awhile.
Overall... OK. Find. BAU is better than the alternative.
For better or worse his position has nothing to do with science or reality or truth or whatever, so don't worry about it.
Its VERY popular internally to auto-generate DB diagrams from midnight cron jobs etc. I'm sure there's other ways to do it. But this was easy, fast, and the diagrams look good enough.
It can do a lot more than generate diagrams.
What it needs is a new artist. The dude in a tutu as a logo...
I recommend setting yourself about fixing some of that long list of fundamental flaws in MySQL.
Traditionally, especially in 2012, this amounts to listing stuff like "doesn't have transactions" which was fixed back in Bush the Second's first term. Shoveling thru obsolete FUD to find the truth is a harder job than you'd think, which also shows "good little worker bee" stick-to-it-ive-ness
Nosql DBs suffer pretty bad from Inner platform effect, where the users end up implementing their own classic SQL-RDBMS on top of the nosql. "I don't have joins... well I'll write on in ruby". You could probably do the community a huge service by PROPERLY re implementing at least a API compatible mysql system on top of a variety of various nosql services. That way devs could be buzzword compliant, while not actually having to change anything (well, the sysadmins will throw fits at the change for sake of change, but no one cares about them)
The ones that don't inner-platform aren't really using them as "databases" so much as simple persistent stores. Like dumping data into a CSV file. Maybe persistent stores with advanced parallelization, but just persistent stores.
But if Skylon meets the launch cost estimates I've seen, fuel will still be only a few percent of that cost.
Doesn't matter. Lets say you blow $10B on R+D for a launch platform. Over the life of that platform, no matter how low the fuel cost, you MUST gross more than $10B revenue before you can dream of profit.
Competitor? Traditional tech means $2B in R+D for a launch platform. Over the life of that platform, no matter how low the fuel cost, you MUST gross more than $2B revenue before you can dream of profit.
Normally, in aerospace, you spend more money on R+D than on vehicles. So the vehicle cost doesn't really matter. Maybe the $10B project will actually be $10.5B because they build 5 reusable vehicles each costing $100M delivered, and, the $2B project will actually be $3B delivered because they build 100 disposable rockets each costing $10M delivered. Side by side competition, the disposable rocket platform earns a profit for every penny of revenue after $3B and the reusable gets no profit until after $10.5B
A company's... ahem... "life" would be money. In jail, basically part of your lifespan is given up. It kinda makes sense that criminal charges would result in a fine.
And by "kinda makes sense" I mean in the insane worlds of the judicial system and business.
From a back dated way of looking at the balance sheet, that kinda makes sense. The problem is looking at historical balance sheets for BP I don't think it took them very long to accumulate $1B on the balance sheet, so you're only taking away a small part of the companies life.
Now if you decided a human would go to prison for 10 years, and found a balance sheet from 10 years ago for BP and did the delta... of course this logic doesn't work so well with dying companies, HP or Kodak or places like that would be awarded a negative bill if they killed someone.
You could model it on revenue... plus or minus work release laws a human can't earn raw revenue for 10 years, so take away 10 years of revenue. The problem with that is some companies are so leveraged up that the equivalent of a night in the drunk tank would bankrupt them, then again in that financial state they are the walking dead anyway. Hmm.
So, companies had their rights elevated to the rights of people.. But what would happen if people had their rights elevated to the rights of companies? I mean, manslaughter -> pay $4.5 billion, and walk free.
Must be new, or young. search wikipedia for OJ Simpson
Thats exactly how an oligarchy works. Today, company A would love to raise prices to make more money, but B and C won't play along, so they can't. We now know for certain that company B will raise prices next week by X dollars. Therefore A and C will match and stash away the profit.
Its not entirely bad, because its not so much a fine for BP as a reward via higher profits to all their competitors. If CEO compensation were related to profit (which it is not) then there would be intense pressure to not screw up and miss out on the fine platter of free profit.
I'm willing to bet (if only I lived in a free country where I could go on Intrade to place the bet, but I digress) that someone has a UTF-8 input field with input sanitizing that only looks for one of the bazillion "minus/dash like" glyphs and a UTF-8 to int input routine that understands all or at least most of the "minus/dash like" glyphs. Happened to me once. Of course I didn't crash a world wide financial exchange, or you would have heard about it...
"Similar looking" yet different UTF-8 glyphs are one of the most exciting parts of the standard. "glyph to concept" mapping is not 1:1 any more like the old 7 bit ASCII days.
But that's not the kind of local shop GP was talking about. They were talking about bookshops run by people who love books. Delis run by people who love food. Jewellery shops run by people who love jewellery. And yeah, PC shops run by computer enthusiasts.
Walmart and Best Buy and Circuit City and Compusa all came to my city around 20 years ago. Those places closed a generation ago around here. I'm just saying that geographically its not an option for some people. My parents would remember that era, but its ancient history for me. My kids have not experienced a "shopkeeper" small retail experience, other than maybe watching TV shows or museum dioramas or something. Its gone man, gone, not dying or needs help, at least around here.
Yes I remember I bought qty four 4 meg 30 pin SIMMs for my 486 so I would have plenty of memory for a linux GUI and I could kernel compile without swapping from a "local computer store". That store didn't live long past that era. And now CC and compusa are gone, and best buy doesn't see components anymore, so its all Amazon, tigerdirect, etc, for me.
The last locally owned chain bookshop with about 5 stores did just die about 2 years ago, so its not like they all died out a long time ago.
The deli that I used to eat at work until 2005 closed in 2007, I believe its a Rocky Rococo pizza chain now. There are "family" restaurants around here (think, "big fat greek wedding" type of place)
Yes, our strip malls are pretty boring, because its all the same chain retailers as everywhere else. A starbucks, a nationwide fast food joint, a payday loan money laundering operation, national? haircut operation, nation wide new york based bank, you get the idea.
If you watch(ed) Revolution OS, I imagine his response would be the "whole hack that the Free Software movement is"
Nooooo thats specifically why I now ask something like "I'm looking for code or schematic or at least a description of something made out of source or solder"
Otherwise its just "please name your favorite PR slogan/item"
No I'm looking for something hack-ish not a free commercial.
Do you welcome the personal attacks by folks who disagree with your beliefs? I enjoy seeing them, and imagine a smoke filled room of crooks deciding they can't disagree logically with your position, so they'll make fun of your beard instead. In other words, they have decided you won and its all down to PR damage control and delaying tactics at best. I like this. Well it would be nice if they were more civilized, but I'm content with the winning part anyway.
In a world where all software is distributed under a free software license, how would the development of new video games be financed?
Google for kickstarter GPL and/or just go look for "pissed off penguins", a GPL angry birds clone. A couple grand isn't going to fund a giant programming house, but if you take a giant programming house to do something that simple, ur doin it wrong.
There's a lot of history in the *hack genre and text adventure genre (post infocom, of course) of financing development via the day job. The world seems to be running out of ideas for simple single player games, taking a decade to build the open cathedral for pacman for example might soon be realistic for general use rather than rare today.
Some drunk's automatic transmission in his car has GPLed software and he crashes into a bus full of nuns and orphans. Charge him with copyright violation? Or charge the car mfgr? WTF.
So you have to define a weird license about intent, or something.
Chemotherapy of a terminally ill cancer patient... torture aka license violation or no?
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discover that an 800g loaf typically has about 500g of flour and 7g of yeast and may be up to 45% water - we're running out of room for the "chemicals" now.
Not to give you an overly hard time, but you've already listed 867g of "stuff" in a 800g loaf, so...
800*.45+500+7
(I'm guessing they're counting embedded moisture in the 45% water specification?, the alternative is bakers dough formulas which are called "percent" but are really ratios by weight, and typically 100 parts/percent/grams/oz of flour would get about 60-something parts of water... 45 would probably make hardtack?)
C. botulinum _spores_ are ubiquitous, so there's no sense in trying to prevent those.
Err, you missed the crucial "can food" component of his post. I also can food. Not so much because of cost (I think your time has to be worth less than 50 cents/hr to break even) but because I apparently have weird taste in food. For example I love canned brandied apples, peach -n- rum sauce, bourbon cherries... hmm I detect a pattern there. Interesting how tasty food canned with booze is, and how you absolutely cannot buy it retail in the USA. Also for awhile I was making my own mustard for the technical challenge (the exact timing of the reaction is important to the heat level, and balancing/working around the bitterness is also pretty interesting). I enjoy the chemistry of the whole canning activity. Acidity, sugar levels, salt levels, pressure canning is 10x cooler than water bath canning, etc. Aside from novelty and taste, canning also saves time when done right. For example the immense prep, measurement, tasting and fine tuning, and especially cleanup time for my homemade peach barbecue sauce is nearly the same for one piece of chicken or 24 canned halfpints so I'm far better off making 24 times what I currently need and canning the rest for near instant use. In CS notation the overall system of food making scales WAY less than linear with volume.
Anyway the "ball book of canning" and/or the stuff from the USDA will save your life (literally) WRT canning. Granny recipes and stuff you read on the internet will just get you food poisoning or worse (yes, there is worse).
Just defrost the slices you want to consume in the ...
... toaster. Not soggy at all if done right and tastes about the same as before freezing. Bread is bad for you so I've stopped eating it, but back when I did, I didn't eat much, so I froze and toasted it. My ancestors have been doing this since WWII, did not know this was uncommon. If it works for waffles, why not toast?
As I understand it some of these emulsions are so sensitive to variables that one merely couldn't take the "recipe" and scale it down to a smaller run
Standard chemical engineering problem. Scaling from lab to plant (and, apparently, back again) is not easy. They earn their salaries...
the stuff you dont learn in chemistry class, or from a masters degree in Photography
Again, above, you want a ChemEng not a chemist or a artist. Probably your best best is the organic coating aka "paint" chem engineers. Note that they spend their time making pigments that DONT alter with exposure to light so you're asking a lot (kinda like the difference between black hat and white hat hackers)
"Funny thing is, the talks described actually sound fascinating".
How would you know that?
They sound like extremely stereotypical technology demonstrators. So I wanna show off my new statistical analysis / HBASE backend /AJAX presentation / wiimote controlled scala classes, but I've got no data at work that's non-proprietary to share with the world, so you get ... um ... a database of movie star height, yeah thats it.. True, they could be "ancient" technology that's not really new anymore, or they could be poorly done demonstrations, but optimistically they could be pretty interesting. Or at least good for a laugh (ha ha ha I was doing that back in 2008, etc)
Exactly what I'm not looking for. I want a specific hack. Thats too big. Like Linux saying "linux" or me saying "my house"
Then they could develop an app so you can use your phone to control the features in your car, but that would make too much sense.
Then the app can harvest your data, spam your contact list, track you via GPS, spam you about dealer maintenance, post to twitter that you love driving your car every time you start it... no thanks.
Now something with a bluetooth ODB-II so the existing 3rd party "torque" app could work, that might be cool.
You have a religious interpretation of a scientific issue. Science doesn't matter how he "feels" or what he "believes". They are orthogonal.
All that matters is what he plans to do. I think he's planning to do the right thing, with right thing defined as causing the least overall human suffering.
I really don't care which sky god told him to do it, or what jumbled up mystery bounces around inside his head. Just continue to do the right thing and I'm happy.
It would be "nice" if he was in the community of the rational, but I'll take "doin the right thing" over that any day as a pragmatic outlook.
on a subject he's incompetent at.
Careful, careful... the job of his position is to decide how to destroy the middle class:
1) by increasing corp control (R)
or
2) by increasing govt control (D)
WRT to global warming the plan for each option, respectively is:
1) Burn more hydrocarbons aka business as usual (R)
or
2) "Make a statement" by doing annoying stuff that will have absolutely no measurable result in the end, or go all Pol Pot on the worlds population (D)
Now the PR campaign is he's a supporter of option #1, because of Jesus or whatever irrational man in the sky. Reality is more likely due to campaign contributions. Regardless of why, he's a supporter of option #1, which is likely to cause less human suffering than option #2. So ridiculous imaginary friend rationalization of the irrational or whatever, he's pointed the right direction. Even a blind dog finds a bone once in awhile.
Overall... OK. Find. BAU is better than the alternative.
For better or worse his position has nothing to do with science or reality or truth or whatever, so don't worry about it.
MySQL I have to repair regularly in my MythTV box.
What are you doing, that I'm not? I have a heavily used system for 8 years or something like that and have never had to repair it.
0.11016 was uploaded six weeks ago, its not dead.
Its VERY popular internally to auto-generate DB diagrams from midnight cron jobs etc. I'm sure there's other ways to do it. But this was easy, fast, and the diagrams look good enough.
It can do a lot more than generate diagrams.
What it needs is a new artist. The dude in a tutu as a logo...
I recommend setting yourself about fixing some of that long list of fundamental flaws in MySQL.
Traditionally, especially in 2012, this amounts to listing stuff like "doesn't have transactions" which was fixed back in Bush the Second's first term.
Shoveling thru obsolete FUD to find the truth is a harder job than you'd think, which also shows "good little worker bee" stick-to-it-ive-ness
Nosql DBs suffer pretty bad from Inner platform effect, where the users end up implementing their own classic SQL-RDBMS on top of the nosql. "I don't have joins... well I'll write on in ruby". You could probably do the community a huge service by PROPERLY re implementing at least a API compatible mysql system on top of a variety of various nosql services. That way devs could be buzzword compliant, while not actually having to change anything (well, the sysadmins will throw fits at the change for sake of change, but no one cares about them)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
The ones that don't inner-platform aren't really using them as "databases" so much as simple persistent stores. Like dumping data into a CSV file. Maybe persistent stores with advanced parallelization, but just persistent stores.
But if Skylon meets the launch cost estimates I've seen, fuel will still be only a few percent of that cost.
Doesn't matter. Lets say you blow $10B on R+D for a launch platform. Over the life of that platform, no matter how low the fuel cost, you MUST gross more than $10B revenue before you can dream of profit.
Competitor? Traditional tech means $2B in R+D for a launch platform. Over the life of that platform, no matter how low the fuel cost, you MUST gross more than $2B revenue before you can dream of profit.
Normally, in aerospace, you spend more money on R+D than on vehicles. So the vehicle cost doesn't really matter. Maybe the $10B project will actually be $10.5B because they build 5 reusable vehicles each costing $100M delivered, and, the $2B project will actually be $3B delivered because they build 100 disposable rockets each costing $10M delivered. Side by side competition, the disposable rocket platform earns a profit for every penny of revenue after $3B and the reusable gets no profit until after $10.5B
A company's... ahem... "life" would be money. In jail, basically part of your lifespan is given up. It kinda makes sense that criminal charges would result in a fine.
And by "kinda makes sense" I mean in the insane worlds of the judicial system and business.
From a back dated way of looking at the balance sheet, that kinda makes sense. The problem is looking at historical balance sheets for BP I don't think it took them very long to accumulate $1B on the balance sheet, so you're only taking away a small part of the companies life.
Now if you decided a human would go to prison for 10 years, and found a balance sheet from 10 years ago for BP and did the delta... of course this logic doesn't work so well with dying companies, HP or Kodak or places like that would be awarded a negative bill if they killed someone.
You could model it on revenue... plus or minus work release laws a human can't earn raw revenue for 10 years, so take away 10 years of revenue. The problem with that is some companies are so leveraged up that the equivalent of a night in the drunk tank would bankrupt them, then again in that financial state they are the walking dead anyway. Hmm.
So, companies had their rights elevated to the rights of people.. But what would happen if people had their rights elevated to the rights of companies?
I mean, manslaughter -> pay $4.5 billion, and walk free.
Must be new, or young. search wikipedia for OJ Simpson
Oh how I wish this wasn't posted AC...
Thats exactly how an oligarchy works. Today, company A would love to raise prices to make more money, but B and C won't play along, so they can't. We now know for certain that company B will raise prices next week by X dollars. Therefore A and C will match and stash away the profit.
Its not entirely bad, because its not so much a fine for BP as a reward via higher profits to all their competitors. If CEO compensation were related to profit (which it is not) then there would be intense pressure to not screw up and miss out on the fine platter of free profit.
Since I doubt you can buy -6 shares,
I'm willing to bet (if only I lived in a free country where I could go on Intrade to place the bet, but I digress) that someone has a UTF-8 input field with input sanitizing that only looks for one of the bazillion "minus/dash like" glyphs and a UTF-8 to int input routine that understands all or at least most of the "minus/dash like" glyphs. Happened to me once. Of course I didn't crash a world wide financial exchange, or you would have heard about it...
"Similar looking" yet different UTF-8 glyphs are one of the most exciting parts of the standard. "glyph to concept" mapping is not 1:1 any more like the old 7 bit ASCII days.
This is why you always use dynamic storage like a link list when you potentially have to deal with numbers bigger then the address bus width.
Naah just use a FLOAT. After all, nothing bad could ever happen when doing financial calcs with FLOATs, right?
(note to sarcasm impaired... ahh on 1.9999999nd thought forget about it)
But that's not the kind of local shop GP was talking about. They were talking about bookshops run by people who love books. Delis run by people who love food. Jewellery shops run by people who love jewellery. And yeah, PC shops run by computer enthusiasts.
Walmart and Best Buy and Circuit City and Compusa all came to my city around 20 years ago. Those places closed a generation ago around here. I'm just saying that geographically its not an option for some people. My parents would remember that era, but its ancient history for me. My kids have not experienced a "shopkeeper" small retail experience, other than maybe watching TV shows or museum dioramas or something. Its gone man, gone, not dying or needs help, at least around here.
Yes I remember I bought qty four 4 meg 30 pin SIMMs for my 486 so I would have plenty of memory for a linux GUI and I could kernel compile without swapping from a "local computer store". That store didn't live long past that era. And now CC and compusa are gone, and best buy doesn't see components anymore, so its all Amazon, tigerdirect, etc, for me.
The last locally owned chain bookshop with about 5 stores did just die about 2 years ago, so its not like they all died out a long time ago.
The deli that I used to eat at work until 2005 closed in 2007, I believe its a Rocky Rococo pizza chain now. There are "family" restaurants around here (think, "big fat greek wedding" type of place)
Yes, our strip malls are pretty boring, because its all the same chain retailers as everywhere else. A starbucks, a nationwide fast food joint, a payday loan money laundering operation, national? haircut operation, nation wide new york based bank, you get the idea.
If you watch(ed) Revolution OS, I imagine his response would be the "whole hack that the Free Software movement is"
Nooooo thats specifically why I now ask something like "I'm looking for code or schematic or at least a description of something made out of source or solder"
Otherwise its just "please name your favorite PR slogan/item"
No I'm looking for something hack-ish not a free commercial.
If this goes ahead, travel into orbit from local airports (ideally, those close to the equator) will be possible. And quite cheaply.
Misdirection. Ballistic aka spacex and competitors is always going to be cheaper. This only has .mil purposes. Excellent PR work, guys!
Do you welcome the personal attacks by folks who disagree with your beliefs? I enjoy seeing them, and imagine a smoke filled room of crooks deciding they can't disagree logically with your position, so they'll make fun of your beard instead. In other words, they have decided you won and its all down to PR damage control and delaying tactics at best. I like this. Well it would be nice if they were more civilized, but I'm content with the winning part anyway.
In a world where all software is distributed under a free software license, how would the development of new video games be financed?
Google for kickstarter GPL and/or just go look for "pissed off penguins", a GPL angry birds clone. A couple grand isn't going to fund a giant programming house, but if you take a giant programming house to do something that simple, ur doin it wrong.
There's a lot of history in the *hack genre and text adventure genre (post infocom, of course) of financing development via the day job. The world seems to be running out of ideas for simple single player games, taking a decade to build the open cathedral for pacman for example might soon be realistic for general use rather than rare today.
Too poorly defined.
Some drunk's automatic transmission in his car has GPLed software and he crashes into a bus full of nuns and orphans. Charge him with copyright violation? Or charge the car mfgr? WTF.
So you have to define a weird license about intent, or something.
Chemotherapy of a terminally ill cancer patient... torture aka license violation or no?