figure a few bucks each, screwups included. More than I'd pay.
How much to people pay for pathfinder/DnD/Mech minis? Or small kids toys, or custom/exotic chess set pieces, etc?
I was semi seriously thinking of teaming up with a 3d graphics artsy type to make a service where you send us a couple (preferably clothed) pics and we send you a pathfinder mini who looks like you but with somewhat elvish features wearing wizard clothing... I figured I could sell personalized minis for about the same as mass produced generic minis but surface features "don't work" at this time at that price level. Maybe another factor of 10 on resolution per dollar and I can go for it. The problem is I can buy the res I need off the shelf but the minis would have to cost $300 each, or I can buy the price I need but the res would be poor enough not to bother. Then again the latest pathfinder release of a ultra fancied up adventure path re-release is like $200, so maybe there's a market after all.
Oh even paying 2 to 10 times normal retail for the plastic, there are still uses. I just don't want to overpay by 2 to 10 times.
Ah those are MBA level suggestions right there. I came up with another, create a certain specific color, then patent / copyright / trademark that specific shade of blue or whatever, and sue the heck out of anyone on the internet who dares to speak that specific precise wavelength. 476.242526 nm? You thief, you! File lawsuits against people who sell tee shirts with the number 476.242526 written on them, etc.
There's an oligopoly and its pricing strategy is confuseopoly? There's a first (said in intensely ironic tone of voice)
Find me an oligopoly without a confuseopoly pricing system, if you can. Cell phones? Check. Automobiles? Check. Now that almost all banks are owned by a couple big new york banks... check... Long distance providers (remember those?)... Check...
Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)
Interesting how its the soft sciences and the archaeologists and bio majors who get all the heat from the fundies, but the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.
...and why is everyone trying to get a peek at her bosom?:)
Wrong end. You're thinking of mesons, specifically one made out of two "top" quarks. They follow the anti-heisenberg uncertainty principle where the better you can see their position, perhaps because they're unconfined, then the better you can see the effects on them of momentum and vibration/oscillation. I like high energy/high mass mesons like that, but Higgs is not a meson so it's all rather irrelevant.
Higgs particle, speaking to husband: "Honey, does this Large Hadron Collider make my butt look fat?" They would have been more likely to get a peek if they told her it was the "Petite Hadron Collider", or if they told her there was a shoe sale there.
(plus $50 each for the plastic "print" cartridges)
Filament extruder plastic costs about $35 per kilo (talk about mixed measurements... but that's how its sold. Figure "fifteen bucks per pound")
So a loaded $50 cartridge should weigh at least 4 pounds total. I can't figure out on the website how much a cartridge weighs, but just looking at it it seems like you're paying a pretty high premium for your plastic.
Not quite as bad as "precious metal cost" printer ink, but I bet by the time HP sells a 3-d printer they'll find a way to make the plastic cost more than, say, silver, on a weight basis.
About a decade ago I remember talk of radar via this same technique. AFAIK that never came to fruition.
Talk called bistatic radar or passive radar. Oh, its deployed and in use. The 1950s DEW line had something like this if you want to get all picky. The hilarious part about this whole discussion is the company behind this press release, BAE systems, has been selling a.mil version of passive radar called CELLDAR for about a decade that uses cellphone base stations. Its not a huge conceptual jump between passive radar and passive navigation.
For a good laugh of how it works, although this example is not exactly.mil deployment ready, see:
There's also a bunch of EE / physicist types doing ionospheric research using passive radar from FM or maybe it was analog TV transmissions on the west coast somewhere.
Another good term to research is OTH RADAR over the Horizon radar, and they're not talking about putting a storm chaser dish on the roof of an old Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon.
For a somewhat more recent example, A-GPS is more or less DGPS but over the internet instead of over a radio beacon. Yes this is yet another one of those tiresome "something people have always done... now over the internet!" patents.
I briefly considered becoming a surveyor around the time DGPS was "new". It was expected to replace the microwave based ranging finding systems. I have not kept up to find out how that all turned out. My impression of surveyor training was I'd fit in with the simple arithmetic and trig, but the job progression was staggeringly slow and there were about 10 applicants per position, and the paperwork related to the position was less than inspiring, so I ran from that.
Article was not very clear on how the "radiomaps" are updated to NAVSOP devices. Assuming you can use SDR radios to triangulate your position, you still need to have a database of known stations / frequencies / locations. Given that there are probably over 300M Wifi accesspoints, plus probably millions of radio/TV/other stations on the planet how does this system generate and distribute this kind of "radiomap" database?
A stereotypical semi-advanced microcontroller/DSP lab exercise is building a VOR display like from an aircraft. The protocol for a VOR is simple, I don't remember exactly, but a continuously transmitting narrow beam antenna rotates continuously and transmits a 1000 hz signal and every time it flings past geographic north it transmits a precisely defined pulse of a couple cycles of 2500 hz. Or whatever. It rotates pretty freaking fast like once per second. The point being the algorithm is you play DSP games to sync up to the north and radial pulses, and the phase difference is the radial you're sitting on. Then you compare the radial you're sitting on to the radial you want to sit on, and move the needle on the VOR display. In ye olden days this was done electromechanically using what amounts to multiple PLLs but now its a couple hundred lines of DSP code.
Whats new is using a SDR to sample multiple signals. So taste all the local aviation VORs, then all the ADS-B transponder/radar signals, etc. Yes ADS-B uses a different freq range and a totally different digital protocol, but thats OK, both the radio and the decoder are all software, so just run a different subroutine... Heck use the ancient transit sats around 400 mhz if you've got the time. I haven't listened to a transit sat in probably 20 years but I bet they're still transmitting away.
There are international lists of aviation VORs... ask a real pilot or a guy who stopped at ground school like me. Or a EE who had to implement a VOR display for his DSP class. For maritime there are also interesting navigation systems. Good luck finding someone other than me who knows how to use the ancient transit sats system. On the bright side you don't need to support OMEGA since they shut that down a decade or two ago, along with LORAN (err, for decades LORAN has been "planning on shutting down in 3 years" and it always got delayed... its finally dead, right?)
The overall point being there's at least 7 broadcast navigation systems I can think of other than GPS that are fully freely documented.
This is before you start playing games like relative phase of AM and FM broadcast transmitters. Now you can not assume they're all synced up at the transmitter side, but you can assume they're at least short term stable... measure 20 signals, get 400 relative phase differences, combine with the FCC published lat/long for each transmitter, and by watching changes in relative phase you can assume the receiver is moving and the transmitters are not. Now broadcast audio is not a formal navigation system but it is fully documented. Combine "pretty good" relative movement from broadcast xmitters, with rough positioning from a zillion other services, with maybe short term inertial from accelerometers and mags, and mush it all thru the magic statistical filter, and you can get a decent position fix.
Also by correlation, a 99% accurate database can fine tune the database to perfection if a new signal appears, so it would be important to leave something like this device powered up while stationary. If you have 19 known AM radio stations, and a new one appears, its not too much of a mathematical challenge to analyze a couple hours of stationary and moving data to pinpoint the new station, at which point you've got 20 known signals, waiting to pinpoint the 21st new signal, etc. You need to start with a "decent" set of data, but you can expand that over time given enough storage and processing.
You have a set of internal antennas, that are tenths of a degree apart arrayed in a circle. You get a strongest signal from the set of elements that are orthogonal (at right angles in 3 dimensions) to the source. You can calculate based on signal strengths of two 'strongest' sets of elements the direction (accurate to perhaps 1 second of arc), the direction to one source. Then you switch frequencies and determine the location to a second source (again, accurate to 1 second of arc).
From a EE/optical perspective this doesn't work. Its the same equations for lens and antennas. For a wavelength around 2.4 GHz calculate the antenna/lens size required to resolve to an arcsecond and get back to me on how to install hundreds of them inside a handheld device.
What would/could work, although not as well as you may desire, is an interferometer design, although thats also gonna have serious issues and you're not going to achieve one arcsecond resolution.
Lets just say that resolving one arcsecond at optical wavelengths in a small package is technically challenging... and the device size scales linearly with wavelength so if you wanna do a factor of a million (or whatever) lower frequency you merely have to make the device a million times larger. This is why "animals" use visual wavelengths for high res imaging, or IR for crude scalar datapoints, instead of what amounts to a biological radio telescope around 10 gigs or so, which would admittedly be pretty cool but totally impractical for anything smaller than a elephant.
Use a real GPS unit with no broadcast capabilities and you don't have that problem.
And you also won't have the benefit of having a computer able to access your location data either.
Why? Since I've done it, and its common knowledge how to do it, I'm thinking thats just wrong. Hard to believe its been over a decade since I was experimenting with ham radio APRS using a GPS, simply unplug the transmitter/set the broadcast timer to zero (or a billion) and you're done. Ever since the first NMEA output jack on a GPS in the 90s, people have been hooking them up to laptops and fooling around with big screen navigation displays (like a giant aircraft HSI, but for boats), homemade boat autopilots, automatic fishing trawling autopilots, homemade moving maps, stuff like that. The GPSD daemon has been around for I believe 18 years now, so 18 years ago it changed from a curiosity/hack to a very standardized interface. GPSD is currently maintained by ESR, you may have heard of him over the decades.
The only reason "your" computer aka cell phone broadcasts your GPS position without any control by you is because you bought into a walled garden. Its not your phone, and its not working for you.
Basically, the regular atomic structure of graphene means that you can create holes of any size, for example the size of a single molecule of water. Using this process scientist can desalinate saltwater 1,000 times faster than the Reverse Osmosis technique.
It is a RO membrane, just a really good one? They've described exactly how a RO membrane works. Of course this may have more "holes per sq inch" or whatever, maybe even 1000 times as many.
The most important reason is you'd riot if your laptop couldn't be upgraded, but the carrier business model depends on you signing a new 2 year contract in exchange for a new "free" phone... with upgraded software.
If the vast majority of people were only able to buy laptops via their ISP, their ISP would use upgrades as a lever to force 2 year contracts, just like cell phone operators.
Years ago when the itanic was sinking, I heard shipping estimates as low as 200K processors annually. I'm sure its lower now. But that implies something on the order of $20K damages per processor shipped, which is astounding.
I think you're missing that the embargo is pretty much a US only thing and only the elite can afford the car and the gasoline... the average cuban dude doesn't have a personal american made car from 1950.
The Russians had decades to flood the island with their cars, eighty zillion european and asian countries have normal relations with Cuba.
I stick by my argument, they are just showing off by driving old cars. Plus or minus some confiscatory tax avoidance (like maybe a 100% sales tax, or a 50% annual prop tax on a new import, who knows). If they really wanted to drive something new it would be trivial to drive a fiat or a toyota or "something with a russian name".
Could you please list the companies you applied to that asked this? Because I'm engaged in a job search myself right now, and have interviewed and phone screened with 15-20 different companies. And not a single one has asked me for my Facebook account details. I can't help but think that you're either making shit up because it gives you a reason to complain about Facebook.
Or he's a paid astroturfer employed by FB. I'm calling him out on that, that's my theory why he made up a story like that. Thats why he's posting AC, if we looked him up we'd find current employer listed as media relations or something like that at FB.
Until I got my current job, every previous would-be employer asked what my FB ID was. When I told them I didn't have one, I was told directly that the interview was over, and that someone without FB was a fossil too ignorant/old/stupid to be working there.
I call astroturfing by a FB employee unless your applied for job title was "social media consultant". Everyone in mgmt where I work hates FB with a passion because FB seems to inevitably get the workplace drawn into the middle school girl drama that is FB. "Well coworker A posted on my wall that coworker B's butt looks fat in those jeans on coworker Cs page so I want you to switch her shift times and seating arrangement so I don't have to work with her and coworker D makes me cry because she won't accept my friend requests and its all your fault because you're the boss and you guys act like you're baby sitters half the time anyway so you gotta be baby sitters for the bad parts too". Oh and stupid mandatory corporate wide training videos about not acting like an official corporate representative on FB merely because FB happens to list that you work there, and not even tangentially mentioning internal corporate information on FB, not revealing internal corporate information such as coworkers home addresses and phone numbers or even work numbers on FB "Oh random FB person you're unhappy with our service? Here's our CEO's direct cellphone number". And not posting pics of the inside of our labs and data centers and to a lesser extent offices on FB. The agony of FB goes on and on, and where I work they more or less officially hate it. There's a palpable sense of relief when they hear that I don't have a FB account. At least there's one thing they won't have to yell at me about. Perhaps as a result of all this, only about 1/3 of my coworkers have an account on FB, or at least 2/3 are smart enough to not admit they have an account and completely separate their public/private lives.
And a hotel is responsible for network integrity why?
It's like a state park or a public restroom, "warning there may be stuff out there that may actively try to harm you, use at your own risk."
The complaint was mostly about internal office stuff, their office stores your credit card info digitally, unencrypted, networked, in ready to steal format, that sort of mistake. Not so much about the complimentary wifi for guests.
Oh I got another one. Breeches, those are pants, right? Well Wyndham-style data breeches, those are pants with a "leather chaps" cut, such that the legs are covered and the fun parts are hanging out for all to see. Get it, data breeches?
I'm gonna make a lotta money selling my UEFI boot secret signing key tee shirts and data breeches as a package deal.
There's always witty data beaches jokes, once I tire of breeches jokes. "Stay at the Wyndam, right on the sandy data beaches of the holodeck."
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figure a few bucks each, screwups included. More than I'd pay.
How much to people pay for pathfinder/DnD/Mech minis? Or small kids toys, or custom/exotic chess set pieces, etc?
I was semi seriously thinking of teaming up with a 3d graphics artsy type to make a service where you send us a couple (preferably clothed) pics and we send you a pathfinder mini who looks like you but with somewhat elvish features wearing wizard clothing... I figured I could sell personalized minis for about the same as mass produced generic minis but surface features "don't work" at this time at that price level. Maybe another factor of 10 on resolution per dollar and I can go for it. The problem is I can buy the res I need off the shelf but the minis would have to cost $300 each, or I can buy the price I need but the res would be poor enough not to bother. Then again the latest pathfinder release of a ultra fancied up adventure path re-release is like $200, so maybe there's a market after all.
Oh even paying 2 to 10 times normal retail for the plastic, there are still uses. I just don't want to overpay by 2 to 10 times.
Ah those are MBA level suggestions right there. I came up with another, create a certain specific color, then patent / copyright / trademark that specific shade of blue or whatever, and sue the heck out of anyone on the internet who dares to speak that specific precise wavelength. 476.242526 nm? You thief, you! File lawsuits against people who sell tee shirts with the number 476.242526 written on them, etc.
There's an oligopoly and its pricing strategy is confuseopoly? There's a first (said in intensely ironic tone of voice)
Find me an oligopoly without a confuseopoly pricing system, if you can. Cell phones? Check. Automobiles? Check. Now that almost all banks are owned by a couple big new york banks... check... Long distance providers (remember those?) ... Check...
For 100% certainty you need religion
Or math, the queen of all sciences (ducks from flames)
Interesting how its the soft sciences and the archaeologists and bio majors who get all the heat from the fundies, but the math majors get no heat despite being arrogant WRT possession of the truth in general and their insistence that the value of PI is an unbiblical irrational number instead of gods written truth of exactly three.
...and why is everyone trying to get a peek at her bosom? :)
Wrong end. You're thinking of mesons, specifically one made out of two "top" quarks. They follow the anti-heisenberg uncertainty principle where the better you can see their position, perhaps because they're unconfined, then the better you can see the effects on them of momentum and vibration/oscillation. I like high energy/high mass mesons like that, but Higgs is not a meson so it's all rather irrelevant.
Higgs particle, speaking to husband: "Honey, does this Large Hadron Collider make my butt look fat?" They would have been more likely to get a peek if they told her it was the "Petite Hadron Collider", or if they told her there was a shoe sale there.
Saying a particle has a "job"
We have jobs and we post on /.
The Higgs particle has a job, therefore it must post on /.
So fess up, which of you guys is the Higgs particle? There's probably a tubgirl joke in here somewheres
I wonder if they've "chipped" the cartridges to prevent people from home re filling.
If not if might be an interesting technology to swap different colors in and out of the printer.
Of course they've probably patented the idea of a filament cartridge, and patented the business method of overcharging for consumables, etc etc.
(plus $50 each for the plastic "print" cartridges)
Filament extruder plastic costs about $35 per kilo (talk about mixed measurements... but that's how its sold. Figure "fifteen bucks per pound")
So a loaded $50 cartridge should weigh at least 4 pounds total. I can't figure out on the website how much a cartridge weighs, but just looking at it it seems like you're paying a pretty high premium for your plastic.
Not quite as bad as "precious metal cost" printer ink, but I bet by the time HP sells a 3-d printer they'll find a way to make the plastic cost more than, say, silver, on a weight basis.
About a decade ago I remember talk of radar via this same technique. AFAIK that never came to fruition.
Talk called bistatic radar or passive radar. Oh, its deployed and in use. The 1950s DEW line had something like this if you want to get all picky. The hilarious part about this whole discussion is the company behind this press release, BAE systems, has been selling a .mil version of passive radar called CELLDAR for about a decade that uses cellphone base stations. Its not a huge conceptual jump between passive radar and passive navigation.
For a good laugh of how it works, although this example is not exactly .mil deployment ready, see:
http://www.frisnit.com/radar/
There's also a bunch of EE / physicist types doing ionospheric research using passive radar from FM or maybe it was analog TV transmissions on the west coast somewhere.
Another good term to research is OTH RADAR over the Horizon radar, and they're not talking about putting a storm chaser dish on the roof of an old Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon.
For a somewhat more recent example, A-GPS is more or less DGPS but over the internet instead of over a radio beacon. Yes this is yet another one of those tiresome "something people have always done ... now over the internet!" patents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGPS
I briefly considered becoming a surveyor around the time DGPS was "new". It was expected to replace the microwave based ranging finding systems. I have not kept up to find out how that all turned out. My impression of surveyor training was I'd fit in with the simple arithmetic and trig, but the job progression was staggeringly slow and there were about 10 applicants per position, and the paperwork related to the position was less than inspiring, so I ran from that.
Article was not very clear on how the "radiomaps" are updated to NAVSOP devices. Assuming you can use SDR radios to triangulate your position, you still need to have a database of known stations / frequencies / locations. Given that there are probably over 300M Wifi accesspoints, plus probably millions of radio/TV/other stations on the planet how does this system generate and distribute this kind of "radiomap" database?
A stereotypical semi-advanced microcontroller/DSP lab exercise is building a VOR display like from an aircraft. The protocol for a VOR is simple, I don't remember exactly, but a continuously transmitting narrow beam antenna rotates continuously and transmits a 1000 hz signal and every time it flings past geographic north it transmits a precisely defined pulse of a couple cycles of 2500 hz. Or whatever. It rotates pretty freaking fast like once per second. The point being the algorithm is you play DSP games to sync up to the north and radial pulses, and the phase difference is the radial you're sitting on. Then you compare the radial you're sitting on to the radial you want to sit on, and move the needle on the VOR display. In ye olden days this was done electromechanically using what amounts to multiple PLLs but now its a couple hundred lines of DSP code.
Whats new is using a SDR to sample multiple signals. So taste all the local aviation VORs, then all the ADS-B transponder/radar signals, etc. Yes ADS-B uses a different freq range and a totally different digital protocol, but thats OK, both the radio and the decoder are all software, so just run a different subroutine... Heck use the ancient transit sats around 400 mhz if you've got the time. I haven't listened to a transit sat in probably 20 years but I bet they're still transmitting away.
There are international lists of aviation VORs... ask a real pilot or a guy who stopped at ground school like me. Or a EE who had to implement a VOR display for his DSP class. For maritime there are also interesting navigation systems. Good luck finding someone other than me who knows how to use the ancient transit sats system. On the bright side you don't need to support OMEGA since they shut that down a decade or two ago, along with LORAN (err, for decades LORAN has been "planning on shutting down in 3 years" and it always got delayed... its finally dead, right?)
The overall point being there's at least 7 broadcast navigation systems I can think of other than GPS that are fully freely documented.
This is before you start playing games like relative phase of AM and FM broadcast transmitters. Now you can not assume they're all synced up at the transmitter side, but you can assume they're at least short term stable... measure 20 signals, get 400 relative phase differences, combine with the FCC published lat/long for each transmitter, and by watching changes in relative phase you can assume the receiver is moving and the transmitters are not. Now broadcast audio is not a formal navigation system but it is fully documented. Combine "pretty good" relative movement from broadcast xmitters, with rough positioning from a zillion other services, with maybe short term inertial from accelerometers and mags, and mush it all thru the magic statistical filter, and you can get a decent position fix.
Also by correlation, a 99% accurate database can fine tune the database to perfection if a new signal appears, so it would be important to leave something like this device powered up while stationary. If you have 19 known AM radio stations, and a new one appears, its not too much of a mathematical challenge to analyze a couple hours of stationary and moving data to pinpoint the new station, at which point you've got 20 known signals, waiting to pinpoint the 21st new signal, etc. You need to start with a "decent" set of data, but you can expand that over time given enough storage and processing.
You have a set of internal antennas, that are tenths of a degree apart arrayed in a circle. You get a strongest signal from the set of elements that are orthogonal (at right angles in 3 dimensions) to the source. You can calculate based on signal strengths of two 'strongest' sets of elements the direction (accurate to perhaps 1 second of arc), the direction to one source. Then you switch frequencies and determine the location to a second source (again, accurate to 1 second of arc).
From a EE/optical perspective this doesn't work. Its the same equations for lens and antennas. For a wavelength around 2.4 GHz calculate the antenna/lens size required to resolve to an arcsecond and get back to me on how to install hundreds of them inside a handheld device.
What would/could work, although not as well as you may desire, is an interferometer design, although thats also gonna have serious issues and you're not going to achieve one arcsecond resolution.
Lets just say that resolving one arcsecond at optical wavelengths in a small package is technically challenging... and the device size scales linearly with wavelength so if you wanna do a factor of a million (or whatever) lower frequency you merely have to make the device a million times larger. This is why "animals" use visual wavelengths for high res imaging, or IR for crude scalar datapoints, instead of what amounts to a biological radio telescope around 10 gigs or so, which would admittedly be pretty cool but totally impractical for anything smaller than a elephant.
Use a real GPS unit with no broadcast capabilities and you don't have that problem.
And you also won't have the benefit of having a computer able to access your location data either.
Why? Since I've done it, and its common knowledge how to do it, I'm thinking thats just wrong. Hard to believe its been over a decade since I was experimenting with ham radio APRS using a GPS, simply unplug the transmitter/set the broadcast timer to zero (or a billion) and you're done. Ever since the first NMEA output jack on a GPS in the 90s, people have been hooking them up to laptops and fooling around with big screen navigation displays (like a giant aircraft HSI, but for boats), homemade boat autopilots, automatic fishing trawling autopilots, homemade moving maps, stuff like that. The GPSD daemon has been around for I believe 18 years now, so 18 years ago it changed from a curiosity/hack to a very standardized interface. GPSD is currently maintained by ESR, you may have heard of him over the decades.
The only reason "your" computer aka cell phone broadcasts your GPS position without any control by you is because you bought into a walled garden. Its not your phone, and its not working for you.
Basically, the regular atomic structure of graphene means that you can create holes of any size, for example the size of a single molecule of water. Using this process scientist can desalinate saltwater 1,000 times faster than the Reverse Osmosis technique.
It is a RO membrane, just a really good one? They've described exactly how a RO membrane works. Of course this may have more "holes per sq inch" or whatever, maybe even 1000 times as many.
The most important reason is you'd riot if your laptop couldn't be upgraded, but the carrier business model depends on you signing a new 2 year contract in exchange for a new "free" phone... with upgraded software.
If the vast majority of people were only able to buy laptops via their ISP, their ISP would use upgrades as a lever to force 2 year contracts, just like cell phone operators.
Why didn't anyone ask where they got the amazing models for the promotional pics?
That seems to be the primary interest in the product so far.
Those women don't work at GOOG, do they?
I mean even beer ads and domain registrars don't have women that amazing.
HP seeks up to $4 billion in damages.
Years ago when the itanic was sinking, I heard shipping estimates as low as 200K processors annually. I'm sure its lower now. But that implies something on the order of $20K damages per processor shipped, which is astounding.
Apparently its being sustained by the booming GCOS 8 market. Those two customers must be very happy.
I think you're missing that the embargo is pretty much a US only thing and only the elite can afford the car and the gasoline... the average cuban dude doesn't have a personal american made car from 1950.
The Russians had decades to flood the island with their cars, eighty zillion european and asian countries have normal relations with Cuba.
I stick by my argument, they are just showing off by driving old cars. Plus or minus some confiscatory tax avoidance (like maybe a 100% sales tax, or a 50% annual prop tax on a new import, who knows). If they really wanted to drive something new it would be trivial to drive a fiat or a toyota or "something with a russian name".
Could you please list the companies you applied to that asked this? Because I'm engaged in a job search myself right now, and have interviewed and phone screened with 15-20 different companies. And not a single one has asked me for my Facebook account details. I can't help but think that you're either making shit up because it gives you a reason to complain about Facebook.
Or he's a paid astroturfer employed by FB. I'm calling him out on that, that's my theory why he made up a story like that. Thats why he's posting AC, if we looked him up we'd find current employer listed as media relations or something like that at FB.
Until I got my current job, every previous would-be employer asked what my FB ID was. When I told them I didn't have one, I was told directly that the interview was over, and that someone without FB was a fossil too ignorant/old/stupid to be working there.
I call astroturfing by a FB employee unless your applied for job title was "social media consultant". Everyone in mgmt where I work hates FB with a passion because FB seems to inevitably get the workplace drawn into the middle school girl drama that is FB. "Well coworker A posted on my wall that coworker B's butt looks fat in those jeans on coworker Cs page so I want you to switch her shift times and seating arrangement so I don't have to work with her and coworker D makes me cry because she won't accept my friend requests and its all your fault because you're the boss and you guys act like you're baby sitters half the time anyway so you gotta be baby sitters for the bad parts too". Oh and stupid mandatory corporate wide training videos about not acting like an official corporate representative on FB merely because FB happens to list that you work there, and not even tangentially mentioning internal corporate information on FB, not revealing internal corporate information such as coworkers home addresses and phone numbers or even work numbers on FB "Oh random FB person you're unhappy with our service? Here's our CEO's direct cellphone number". And not posting pics of the inside of our labs and data centers and to a lesser extent offices on FB. The agony of FB goes on and on, and where I work they more or less officially hate it. There's a palpable sense of relief when they hear that I don't have a FB account. At least there's one thing they won't have to yell at me about. Perhaps as a result of all this, only about 1/3 of my coworkers have an account on FB, or at least 2/3 are smart enough to not admit they have an account and completely separate their public/private lives.
Go to your local thrift store and get a used computer for $20.
Power consumption 50 times higher, weighs 20 times more, and approx zero I/O ports. You'd do better arguing cats and dogs are the same.
Ah yes, the weekly Raspberry Pi post.
One post a week is really that bad?
Especially since they seem to have drowned out the ARDWEEEEEENO posts?
And a hotel is responsible for network integrity why?
It's like a state park or a public restroom, "warning there may be stuff out there that may actively try to harm you, use at your own risk."
The complaint was mostly about internal office stuff, their office stores your credit card info digitally, unencrypted, networked, in ready to steal format, that sort of mistake.
Not so much about the complimentary wifi for guests.
Oh I got another one. Breeches, those are pants, right? Well Wyndham-style data breeches, those are pants with a "leather chaps" cut, such that the legs are covered and the fun parts are hanging out for all to see. Get it, data breeches?
I'm gonna make a lotta money selling my UEFI boot secret signing key tee shirts and data breeches as a package deal.
There's always witty data beaches jokes, once I tire of breeches jokes. "Stay at the Wyndam, right on the sandy data beaches of the holodeck."