The only jobs I've had any responses from were teaching positions for simple English which isn't exactly my first choice.
Wrong bzzzzzt. Thats like a CIA trained chef looking for work and applying at McDonalds (which only hires illegals and non-english speakers, so maybe its a closer analogy than you'd think?). A/. analogy would be hiring a CCIE to pull cable.
The way to roll in dough is to download a large chunk of github, write a very short shell script that parses out comments, and develop a curriculum that trains the natives to understand our crappy comments, and possibly how to write non-crappy english language code.
I always laugh when I "view source" on a web page and see its full of hindi comments, or even worse a pitiful attempt at english language comments.
Position yourself where the natives already had "how to ask where is the bathroom in English" classes and they already know java like you claim to know. Now your carefully designed one day / three day / one week seminar will be hired at the local equivalent of $1000/day to teach Chinese java coders how to read english comments and write english comments. Also touch on the comprehension and creation of vaguely english variable and class/object/file names.
You may only get hired a couple times to teach at a couple shops, but you'll make a couple hundred contacts who hopefully will think you know what you're doing, which leads to coding contracts, coding jobs, etc. Also frankly it looks cool on the resume when/if you come home, cooler than yet another "implemented a shopping cart online" blah blah that everyone locally has done a zillion times.
I am tangentially aware of a military system that does the same thing and the way its engineered is you record to a time stamped ring buffer constantly. Meanwhile you analyze your ring buffer for a shot signature. IF you find a shot signature, then you perform a somewhat more detailed analysis to figure out the exact timestamp of firing (more or less). Then you uplink a really short data burst to central, something like "I'm sensor 23542542 and at 10:41:02.239582 I detected a shot and the local airtemp 73F and local air pressure is 1.0001 bar". Presumably central has a database of sensor locations, but if not a GPS RX on the sensor to generate timestamps works pretty well to report your presumably static location (although the.mil version I've heard about mounts on a movable APC).
Well anyway central optimistically gets about 10 reports, then its mega-triangulation time to pinpoint a location and estimated accuracy of fix.
Now if you dump the ring buffer to disk or something for possible later analysis, and the ring buffer is a minute or two (or an hour?) long, that's how you inadvertently collect street conversations.
This seems the only reasonable way to do this... any other way?
evidence for evolution isn't evidence against a God.
Doesn't this depend pretty strongly on pretending non- judeochristian religions don't exist?
One hidden assumption is that the only opposing viewpoint to scientific evolution is creationism, and another hidden assumption is creationism is fundamentalist christian. Kind of like how its ignorantly assumed in the west that atheism merely equals the opposite of christian.
I've occasionally wondered what zorasterianists, pagans, indigenous people, and Hindus (just for examples) think of this whole carefully crafted circus.
Most religious scientists I actually know are social members. Church is a social club, a family and group tradition. You say you believe because saying you do is a ritual, not a "real belief". Most church attending people I know are like this, not just scientists.
As long as you don't let it influence your life too much, its a fairly harmless hobby or daydream or whatever. Much like DnD or twilight books or WoW or star trek or star wars or whatever. Which is why churches stereotypically hate those things.
Its very much like the tradition of watching TV or the new tradition of "everything on facebook". Why? Well thats just what "we" do. Why don't you?
Some people still believe that humans rode dinosaurs to work. No amount of fossil evidence can change that kind of stupid.
Ah but those people are not politically relevant or culturally influential, other than being laughed at.
Perhaps that's the angle he's aiming at, rather than christian creationism being "owned" as a core of one political party, it'll just be an ignorant fringe belief, much like flat-earth, hollow-earth, alien-visitation, humans-and-dinosaurs living together, etc.
There will always be stupid beliefs, but this individual dumb belief might be sun setting.
Personally I think they're will be a brief burst of non-christian creationism before it sunsets in general, especially after its no longer politically relevant, but that's just a guess.
As a ballpark, for most regions I find calculating the yearly cost of an item on 24/7 to be about $1/watt.
Rephrased, at 8.76 cents per kilowatt hour, one watt year costs about a buck per year. Plus or minus leap years and leap seconds. After endless add on taxes, and fees, and fees disguised as taxes, and taxes disguised as fees, that's probably about what I'm paying when I write a check.
Does he game in a pitch black room? My basement (my basement, not my moms basement) used to be lit by 800 watts of incandescent lights on tracks (which isn't all that bright for 30 x 30 feet), and as they burned out (which took awhile) I replaced then with $50 LEDs that will pay for themselves in saved ecological and energy costs in a mere five million years of operation. Anyway the point is my lighting electrical budget in the basement was an order of magnitude greater than my video card power budget and the capital costs are darn near as bad. Depreciation schedule is much longer however.
Another issue is my property tax is very roughly $2 per square foot of my house, and my desk (which is admittedly pretty luxuriously large) is about 20 sq ft and my elaborate "executive reclining office chair" is probably at least 4 sq ft extra, lets call that 25 sq ft * $2/sq so you're looking at $50/yr rent to the city (aka prop tax) simply to store the machinery, which is about twice the supposed electrical consumption. Now if you want to see high annual average specific power consumption per sq foot, try the 4 sq feet where my clothes dryer resides... Or my furnace, or air conditioner compressor...
Another way to look at it, is I splurged and dumped $200 of environmental and energy degradation into purchasing my last video card a couple years back. The electrical cost will approach the capital cost of the card, assuming the video card is the only consumer of energy (LOL) at $30/yr, in 2017. Of course the card will be functionally obsolete before 2017.
So if you can afford a gaming rig and can afford to upgrade it every five years or so, you can simply ignore the costs of operating it as a rounding error. Or the operational costs only matter if you stole the gear or got it as a gift.
Kind of like, if you can afford to buy a $60K SUV or pickup truck, then $4/gallon gasoline is merely a rounding error to be ignored. Or if you buy a $2M california mcmansion, a $1K month air conditioning bill is a rounding error compared to the mortgage (to say nothing of the decline in property values)
I'd like to read more details about what $100,000 worth of IE-specific development would buy, though
Boring pixel perfect rendering to make the artists happy. Blah. At least I know they're putting most of their effort into how it looks; I will have no use for it, and can avoid it.
There is no TPB license, or at least I can't find one. Surprised they don't have one.
Licenses don't have to suck.. They can actually be good in rare occasions. I wrote this post and I license you to do anything you want with it, republish it, remix it, put it into a new media format, redistribute it, just so long as you make at least a minimally pitiful attempt at avoiding plagiarism and libel by quoting and/or citing properly as appropriate to your use of my post. Also I grant you no guarantee of correctness or right of return or pretty much any obligation on to me.
Now you can perfectly legally include this post in an advertising campaign, or sell tee shirts with it written on it, or quote it in a book, or include it in a movie, and no one can claim they wrote it instead of me and force you to take it down or just sue you. Also I disclaim all obligation toward me, so if you were stupid enough to think I'm providing real legal advice that is your own fault.
There recently were people trying to sell Goldberg Variations audio CDs and charge for rights to use as a movie soundtrack, etc. I suspect that will end pretty soon.
sequencing is to creating a fully synthesized human as taking a picture of a skyscraper is to building it.
how does that affect evolution
LOL a pretty good one line summary of civilization is "replacing evolution with something else" or "civilization is the subversion of evolution" or "evolution and civilization are opposites". If you have laws and hospitals, evolution is pretty much on the way out.
The FAQ above is/.ed. Anyone have a better link? Maybe something at isc.sans.edu or... ? I'm not terribly interested in reading FUD or stuff run thru a journalist filter for 4th graders, a technical link would be appreciated.
Where was this undocumented feature/bug designed in? I see plenty of "I hate China" posts, it would be quite hilarious if the fedgov talked the US mfgr into adding this backdoor, then the Chinese built it as designed. Perhaps the plan all along was to blame the Chinese if they're caught.
These are not military chips. They are FPGAs that happen to be used occasionally for military apps. Most of them are sold for other, more commercially exploitable purposes.
More importantly, the back door was clearly designed to be very difficult to find. That's not standard for a debugging option
Ever do FPGA work? Not thinking so. Sadly I can verify that in the FPGA world everything is all ultra-closed. Patents? Competitive advantage? IP laws? Hide evidence of patent infringement?
In the FPGA world everything from the VHDL text editor to the hardware is marketed and sold as a magic black box. Text that happens to be VHDL squirts in here, a giant mystery binary appears here, tada. No one really knows whats going on.
The micro controller world is much different, much more open. Commercial mass market CPUs somewhat less open than MCs.
There are individual isolated anecdotal outliers, of course on both sides.
I can't imagine them selling fighter planes to Saudi Arabia and not putting in a kill switch.
Its called the spare parts stream. How long did it take Iran's F-14s to completely break down, even with extensive conservation, cannibalization, and duct-tape fixes?
Also the training/support stream. There's a certain small size where you can afford internal low, maybe even mid level operational support, but can't afford to train new techs/mechanics... If you had the internal resources to run a high level training facility, you would be in the arms dealing business making your own aircraft, not buying someone elses airplane.
This is not limited to high tech aviation. Lets say I give you a M-16. Oh, you'd like ammo too, well we can make a separate yearly deal for that. Oh and you say you're not a gunsmith, well we can make a deal for that too. Oh you don't know how to use it, lets make a deal for some instructors. Your cam pin snapped and the highest tech metal working facility you have is a blacksmiths anvil, well we can make a deal for spare parts too. Suddenly that "free" M-16 is terribly expensive.
the mobile app already handles those functions reasonably well
My wife says it crashes all the time and needs to be upgraded all the time, on iOS. You wouldn't think a simple viewer would be this hard to run, but...
A tip for anyone from facebook who's watching - if you want to get into hardware
I could see them selling a "firewall-ish" inline device for retail business owners that squirts out some psuedo-realtime feed of the customers using the complimentary wifi. Maybe spam people using your wifi on facebook? Seems terribly obvious?
The landing page makes you log into FB for free access which also at least temporarily auto-friend / auto-follows whoever is paying for the wifi?
Or a different kind of firewall for businesses that deep inspects each connection to log exactly what each user is reading or posting. Doesn't take much to look at raw data and see whats read and posted, but deep detailed metadata of friends might be helpful... Oh look you have friends at our competitor, so sorry but must downsize. Or "oh look you have 3 FB friends who friended NORML so we have probably cause to drug test you".
Facebook has resumed its stealthy efforts to create a smartphone
OK so they're writing OS code, talking to RF designers about antenna design, selecting the appropriate display technology/hardware, designing yet another hopefully non-patent infringing on-screen keyboard.
Now compare that to:
collaboration with HTC on a phone which will probably be Android-based
Oh they're just picking a winner and slapping their name on it. Not creating a phone at all.
Its the difference between inventing a completely new clothing technology like "the tee shirt" and calling it "the facebook shirt" vs taking a tee shirt off the rack, silk screening the FB logo on it, and calling that "the facebook tee shirt". I believe my wife has a "facebook pen" not sure how she obtained that, anyway FB merely silk screened their logo on an existing pen, they did not invent the technology of the ballpoint pen. Another way to look at it is "creating a baby" means taking pre-natal vitamins for nine months and eventually squirting out a genetically similar copy of mom (more or less), "creating a baby" does not mean the process of legally changing an adopted babies name.
Frankly if my wife wants a "facebook" phone the best solution is to pick out the best phone, then purchase a FB sticker and paste it onto the back.
males MUST get a good job if they want a good life. females CAN get a good job if they want a good life
I think you're operating from the assumption that a "gonna be outsourced and ageism out never to work again after 35, but until then its 24x7 pager with constant threats of being outsourced" is a "good job". Women, as a stereotypical view, just aren't stupid enough to work in IT. "So, you'll be too busy to have a social life and give birth until you're 30, then you'll finally pop out a kid you have to take care of for at least 20 years riiiight as you get perma-downsized outta the industry, hows that gonna work out for you and your kid?" What could possibly attract women more than telling them their kids will grow up in unemployed poverty?
While there are some jobs that require physical strength so a men as a group have a genetic advantage, in residential plumbing, it is incredibly common for the plumber to need to squeeze through small places.
Never happens. Ask my cousin (a skinny dude). Its almost like an informal ADA rule, even if he can squeeze around or thru something, they still saw up / provide big access doors / redesign because by Murphy's Law the next guy is going to be a 24x7 emergency service plumber at $150/hr and he's gonna be 350 pounds. Also he spends a lot more time hauling hundreds of pounds of pipe around than trying to squeeze into a small place. Find a better straw dog.
I suppose its a little late to mention if the 8250 is socketed, 16550's are simply pin compatible. I swapped out quite a few of those in my youth... many people did. If not socketed, a careful hand with a soldering iron fixes that (been there done that too) This explains the weird sight at a hamfest/swapfest of a guy who has no other chips selling a small stack of 8250s (and stereotypically thinking he's gonna get too much money for them so they just sit there)
I don't know that I was lucky- when I broke toys I didn't get new ones.
Sounds like lucky to me... I had a pretty strict and limited new toy budget, but the epoxy/superglue/solder/duct tape budget was pretty much unlimited. That was my "lucky" part.
Grandparent is basically correct, although a little overmotivated. Does make you wonder where he works, even if he is correct.
put minimal work in to the ruleset and made a bunch of cash from it
How much cash are they making off the free reference doc app on my android phone? Negative. The title in the play store is "PFRPG RD". Well I do buy adventures from them, so I guess they make a lot of money, yet indirectly as you say.
Can't make money anymore selling the ideas of "calculus". Can make money selling "calculus" textbooks and workbooks.
The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode
Those two lines don't go together logically. They got savaged because they were not ventilating the overheating pools and reactors, so H2 built up and popped each building like popcorn. There were zerohedge guys (yeah... but where else do we have free media, anyway?) crying to crack the other buildings before they explode, but no, they just kept popping. If they had popped a hole in undamaged roofs, they would not have been able to accumulate H2, leading to an inability to blow up. Management paralysis. Then again conditions were pretty bad... USA people forget than the wave killed a zillion people right there around the plant.
Intentionally blowing a hole in the ceiling is admitting defeat, making it look bad, losing face, whatever. Yet not doing it seemingly inevitably led to explosions blowing the roof off. No more roof means no more H2 means no more explosions.
The other problem is you can run off the shelf H2 combiners given a little electricity and stuff... which they didn't have. I assume they've booted those dudes back up. So you need a total, long term coolant failure, AND the roof needs to be rebuilt airtight, AND the H2 recombiners all have to fail... all three issues at once, any two won't work. Seems unlikely.
I wikipedia'd him and it reads as very PR crankish.
Wiki informed me his most famous scaremongering PR campaigns have revolved around these three "discoveries" passed off as engineering insights we should be terrified of:
1) If the process of rusting a hole in something happens, then, there exists a hole in it and holes are bad. 2) If one liquid leaks out of a hole, then, in theory, another liquid could leak out of a hole, even if only the first previously mentioned liquid has ever leaked out of the hole. 3) If one complicated machine broke down in a complicated way, then, in theory, a different complicated machine could break down in a different complicated way.
I'm not a nukeEng but just using my low cunning and gut instincts as a/.er, but I think those are known problems with known solutions and his primary contribution to the debate Might be fearmongering and making money via PR mostly using his ancient credentials as an "appeal to authority" disinfo campaign.
I'm not feeling the education here. Now to be fair it Might be that the wiki article is awful, and the guy is actually producing insightful work and new results. But, probably not.
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The only jobs I've had any responses from were teaching positions for simple English which isn't exactly my first choice.
Wrong bzzzzzt. Thats like a CIA trained chef looking for work and applying at McDonalds (which only hires illegals and non-english speakers, so maybe its a closer analogy than you'd think?). A /. analogy would be hiring a CCIE to pull cable.
The way to roll in dough is to download a large chunk of github, write a very short shell script that parses out comments, and develop a curriculum that trains the natives to understand our crappy comments, and possibly how to write non-crappy english language code.
I always laugh when I "view source" on a web page and see its full of hindi comments, or even worse a pitiful attempt at english language comments.
Position yourself where the natives already had "how to ask where is the bathroom in English" classes and they already know java like you claim to know. Now your carefully designed one day / three day / one week seminar will be hired at the local equivalent of $1000/day to teach Chinese java coders how to read english comments and write english comments. Also touch on the comprehension and creation of vaguely english variable and class/object/file names.
You may only get hired a couple times to teach at a couple shops, but you'll make a couple hundred contacts who hopefully will think you know what you're doing, which leads to coding contracts, coding jobs, etc. Also frankly it looks cool on the resume when/if you come home, cooler than yet another "implemented a shopping cart online" blah blah that everyone locally has done a zillion times.
I am tangentially aware of a military system that does the same thing and the way its engineered is you record to a time stamped ring buffer constantly. Meanwhile you analyze your ring buffer for a shot signature. IF you find a shot signature, then you perform a somewhat more detailed analysis to figure out the exact timestamp of firing (more or less). Then you uplink a really short data burst to central, something like "I'm sensor 23542542 and at 10:41:02.239582 I detected a shot and the local airtemp 73F and local air pressure is 1.0001 bar". Presumably central has a database of sensor locations, but if not a GPS RX on the sensor to generate timestamps works pretty well to report your presumably static location (although the .mil version I've heard about mounts on a movable APC).
Well anyway central optimistically gets about 10 reports, then its mega-triangulation time to pinpoint a location and estimated accuracy of fix.
Now if you dump the ring buffer to disk or something for possible later analysis, and the ring buffer is a minute or two (or an hour?) long, that's how you inadvertently collect street conversations.
This seems the only reasonable way to do this... any other way?
evidence for evolution isn't evidence against a God.
Doesn't this depend pretty strongly on pretending non- judeochristian religions don't exist?
One hidden assumption is that the only opposing viewpoint to scientific evolution is creationism, and another hidden assumption is creationism is fundamentalist christian. Kind of like how its ignorantly assumed in the west that atheism merely equals the opposite of christian.
I've occasionally wondered what zorasterianists, pagans, indigenous people, and Hindus (just for examples) think of this whole carefully crafted circus.
Most "religious scientists" that I've heard about
Most religious scientists I actually know are social members. Church is a social club, a family and group tradition. You say you believe because saying you do is a ritual, not a "real belief". Most church attending people I know are like this, not just scientists.
As long as you don't let it influence your life too much, its a fairly harmless hobby or daydream or whatever. Much like DnD or twilight books or WoW or star trek or star wars or whatever. Which is why churches stereotypically hate those things.
Its very much like the tradition of watching TV or the new tradition of "everything on facebook". Why? Well thats just what "we" do. Why don't you?
Some people still believe that humans rode dinosaurs to work. No amount of fossil evidence can change that kind of stupid.
Ah but those people are not politically relevant or culturally influential, other than being laughed at.
Perhaps that's the angle he's aiming at, rather than christian creationism being "owned" as a core of one political party, it'll just be an ignorant fringe belief, much like flat-earth, hollow-earth, alien-visitation, humans-and-dinosaurs living together, etc.
There will always be stupid beliefs, but this individual dumb belief might be sun setting.
Personally I think they're will be a brief burst of non-christian creationism before it sunsets in general, especially after its no longer politically relevant, but that's just a guess.
As a ballpark, for most regions I find calculating the yearly cost of an item on 24/7 to be about $1/watt.
Rephrased, at 8.76 cents per kilowatt hour, one watt year costs about a buck per year. Plus or minus leap years and leap seconds. After endless add on taxes, and fees, and fees disguised as taxes, and taxes disguised as fees, that's probably about what I'm paying when I write a check.
Lame as heck.
Does he game in a pitch black room? My basement (my basement, not my moms basement) used to be lit by 800 watts of incandescent lights on tracks (which isn't all that bright for 30 x 30 feet), and as they burned out (which took awhile) I replaced then with $50 LEDs that will pay for themselves in saved ecological and energy costs in a mere five million years of operation. Anyway the point is my lighting electrical budget in the basement was an order of magnitude greater than my video card power budget and the capital costs are darn near as bad. Depreciation schedule is much longer however.
Another issue is my property tax is very roughly $2 per square foot of my house, and my desk (which is admittedly pretty luxuriously large) is about 20 sq ft and my elaborate "executive reclining office chair" is probably at least 4 sq ft extra, lets call that 25 sq ft * $2/sq so you're looking at $50/yr rent to the city (aka prop tax) simply to store the machinery, which is about twice the supposed electrical consumption. Now if you want to see high annual average specific power consumption per sq foot, try the 4 sq feet where my clothes dryer resides... Or my furnace, or air conditioner compressor...
Another way to look at it, is I splurged and dumped $200 of environmental and energy degradation into purchasing my last video card a couple years back. The electrical cost will approach the capital cost of the card, assuming the video card is the only consumer of energy (LOL) at $30/yr, in 2017. Of course the card will be functionally obsolete before 2017.
So if you can afford a gaming rig and can afford to upgrade it every five years or so, you can simply ignore the costs of operating it as a rounding error. Or the operational costs only matter if you stole the gear or got it as a gift.
Kind of like, if you can afford to buy a $60K SUV or pickup truck, then $4/gallon gasoline is merely a rounding error to be ignored. Or if you buy a $2M california mcmansion, a $1K month air conditioning bill is a rounding error compared to the mortgage (to say nothing of the decline in property values)
I'd like to read more details about what $100,000 worth of IE-specific development would buy, though
Boring pixel perfect rendering to make the artists happy. Blah. At least I know they're putting most of their effort into how it looks; I will have no use for it, and can avoid it.
There is no TPB license, or at least I can't find one. Surprised they don't have one.
Licenses don't have to suck.. They can actually be good in rare occasions. I wrote this post and I license you to do anything you want with it, republish it, remix it, put it into a new media format, redistribute it, just so long as you make at least a minimally pitiful attempt at avoiding plagiarism and libel by quoting and/or citing properly as appropriate to your use of my post. Also I grant you no guarantee of correctness or right of return or pretty much any obligation on to me.
Now you can perfectly legally include this post in an advertising campaign, or sell tee shirts with it written on it, or quote it in a book, or include it in a movie, and no one can claim they wrote it instead of me and force you to take it down or just sue you. Also I disclaim all obligation toward me, so if you were stupid enough to think I'm providing real legal advice that is your own fault.
There recently were people trying to sell Goldberg Variations audio CDs and charge for rights to use as a movie soundtrack, etc. I suspect that will end pretty soon.
Real licenses are much better written that mine.
'A $1,000 genome in less than one day was not even on the radar, but will transform the clinical applications of sequencing."
Cheap enough that it'll transform the legal system too. "Guess who's not your daddy?"
sequencing is to creating a fully synthesized human as taking a picture of a skyscraper is to building it.
how does that affect evolution
LOL a pretty good one line summary of civilization is "replacing evolution with something else" or "civilization is the subversion of evolution" or "evolution and civilization are opposites". If you have laws and hospitals, evolution is pretty much on the way out.
The FAQ above is /.ed. Anyone have a better link? Maybe something at isc.sans.edu or ... ? I'm not terribly interested in reading FUD or stuff run thru a journalist filter for 4th graders, a technical link would be appreciated.
Where was this undocumented feature/bug designed in? I see plenty of "I hate China" posts, it would be quite hilarious if the fedgov talked the US mfgr into adding this backdoor, then the Chinese built it as designed. Perhaps the plan all along was to blame the Chinese if they're caught.
These are not military chips. They are FPGAs that happen to be used occasionally for military apps. Most of them are sold for other, more commercially exploitable purposes.
More importantly, the back door was clearly designed to be very difficult to find. That's not standard for a debugging option
Ever do FPGA work? Not thinking so. Sadly I can verify that in the FPGA world everything is all ultra-closed. Patents? Competitive advantage? IP laws? Hide evidence of patent infringement?
In the FPGA world everything from the VHDL text editor to the hardware is marketed and sold as a magic black box. Text that happens to be VHDL squirts in here, a giant mystery binary appears here, tada. No one really knows whats going on.
The micro controller world is much different, much more open. Commercial mass market CPUs somewhat less open than MCs.
There are individual isolated anecdotal outliers, of course on both sides.
I can't imagine them selling fighter planes to Saudi Arabia and not putting in a kill switch.
Its called the spare parts stream. How long did it take Iran's F-14s to completely break down, even with extensive conservation, cannibalization, and duct-tape fixes?
Also the training/support stream. There's a certain small size where you can afford internal low, maybe even mid level operational support, but can't afford to train new techs/mechanics... If you had the internal resources to run a high level training facility, you would be in the arms dealing business making your own aircraft, not buying someone elses airplane.
This is not limited to high tech aviation. Lets say I give you a M-16. Oh, you'd like ammo too, well we can make a separate yearly deal for that. Oh and you say you're not a gunsmith, well we can make a deal for that too. Oh you don't know how to use it, lets make a deal for some instructors. Your cam pin snapped and the highest tech metal working facility you have is a blacksmiths anvil, well we can make a deal for spare parts too. Suddenly that "free" M-16 is terribly expensive.
the mobile app already handles those functions reasonably well
My wife says it crashes all the time and needs to be upgraded all the time, on iOS. You wouldn't think a simple viewer would be this hard to run, but...
A tip for anyone from facebook who's watching - if you want to get into hardware
I could see them selling a "firewall-ish" inline device for retail business owners that squirts out some psuedo-realtime feed of the customers using the complimentary wifi. Maybe spam people using your wifi on facebook? Seems terribly obvious?
The landing page makes you log into FB for free access which also at least temporarily auto-friend / auto-follows whoever is paying for the wifi?
Or a different kind of firewall for businesses that deep inspects each connection to log exactly what each user is reading or posting. Doesn't take much to look at raw data and see whats read and posted, but deep detailed metadata of friends might be helpful... Oh look you have friends at our competitor, so sorry but must downsize. Or "oh look you have 3 FB friends who friended NORML so we have probably cause to drug test you".
Please don't ask about the details because frankly, you don't want to know.
Coming soon to late night TV, infomercials for combination sausage maker and facebook phone (order now for a free solyent green flavor pack!)
Misleading article.
Facebook has resumed its stealthy efforts to create a smartphone
OK so they're writing OS code, talking to RF designers about antenna design, selecting the appropriate display technology/hardware, designing yet another hopefully non-patent infringing on-screen keyboard.
Now compare that to:
collaboration with HTC on a phone which will probably be Android-based
Oh they're just picking a winner and slapping their name on it. Not creating a phone at all.
Its the difference between inventing a completely new clothing technology like "the tee shirt" and calling it "the facebook shirt" vs taking a tee shirt off the rack, silk screening the FB logo on it, and calling that "the facebook tee shirt". I believe my wife has a "facebook pen" not sure how she obtained that, anyway FB merely silk screened their logo on an existing pen, they did not invent the technology of the ballpoint pen. Another way to look at it is "creating a baby" means taking pre-natal vitamins for nine months and eventually squirting out a genetically similar copy of mom (more or less), "creating a baby" does not mean the process of legally changing an adopted babies name.
Frankly if my wife wants a "facebook" phone the best solution is to pick out the best phone, then purchase a FB sticker and paste it onto the back.
males MUST get a good job if they want a good life. females CAN get a good job if they want a good life
I think you're operating from the assumption that a "gonna be outsourced and ageism out never to work again after 35, but until then its 24x7 pager with constant threats of being outsourced" is a "good job". Women, as a stereotypical view, just aren't stupid enough to work in IT. "So, you'll be too busy to have a social life and give birth until you're 30, then you'll finally pop out a kid you have to take care of for at least 20 years riiiight as you get perma-downsized outta the industry, hows that gonna work out for you and your kid?" What could possibly attract women more than telling them their kids will grow up in unemployed poverty?
While there are some jobs that require physical strength so a men as a group have a genetic advantage, in residential plumbing, it is incredibly common for the plumber to need to squeeze through small places.
Never happens. Ask my cousin (a skinny dude). Its almost like an informal ADA rule, even if he can squeeze around or thru something, they still saw up / provide big access doors / redesign because by Murphy's Law the next guy is going to be a 24x7 emergency service plumber at $150/hr and he's gonna be 350 pounds. Also he spends a lot more time hauling hundreds of pounds of pipe around than trying to squeeze into a small place. Find a better straw dog.
I suppose its a little late to mention if the 8250 is socketed, 16550's are simply pin compatible. I swapped out quite a few of those in my youth... many people did.
If not socketed, a careful hand with a soldering iron fixes that (been there done that too)
This explains the weird sight at a hamfest/swapfest of a guy who has no other chips selling a small stack of 8250s (and stereotypically thinking he's gonna get too much money for them so they just sit there)
I don't know that I was lucky- when I broke toys I didn't get new ones.
Sounds like lucky to me... I had a pretty strict and limited new toy budget, but the epoxy/superglue/solder/duct tape budget was pretty much unlimited. That was my "lucky" part.
Grandparent is basically correct, although a little overmotivated. Does make you wonder where he works, even if he is correct.
put minimal work in to the ruleset and made a bunch of cash from it
How much cash are they making off the free reference doc app on my android phone? Negative. The title in the play store is "PFRPG RD". Well I do buy adventures from them, so I guess they make a lot of money, yet indirectly as you say.
Can't make money anymore selling the ideas of "calculus". Can make money selling "calculus" textbooks and workbooks.
The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode
Those two lines don't go together logically. They got savaged because they were not ventilating the overheating pools and reactors, so H2 built up and popped each building like popcorn. There were zerohedge guys (yeah... but where else do we have free media, anyway?) crying to crack the other buildings before they explode, but no, they just kept popping. If they had popped a hole in undamaged roofs, they would not have been able to accumulate H2, leading to an inability to blow up. Management paralysis. Then again conditions were pretty bad... USA people forget than the wave killed a zillion people right there around the plant.
Intentionally blowing a hole in the ceiling is admitting defeat, making it look bad, losing face, whatever. Yet not doing it seemingly inevitably led to explosions blowing the roof off. No more roof means no more H2 means no more explosions.
The other problem is you can run off the shelf H2 combiners given a little electricity and stuff... which they didn't have. I assume they've booted those dudes back up. So you need a total, long term coolant failure, AND the roof needs to be rebuilt airtight, AND the H2 recombiners all have to fail ... all three issues at once, any two won't work. Seems unlikely.
Arnie Gundersen
I wikipedia'd him and it reads as very PR crankish.
Wiki informed me his most famous scaremongering PR campaigns have revolved around these three "discoveries" passed off as engineering insights we should be terrified of:
1) If the process of rusting a hole in something happens, then, there exists a hole in it and holes are bad.
2) If one liquid leaks out of a hole, then, in theory, another liquid could leak out of a hole, even if only the first previously mentioned liquid has ever leaked out of the hole.
3) If one complicated machine broke down in a complicated way, then, in theory, a different complicated machine could break down in a different complicated way.
I'm not a nukeEng but just using my low cunning and gut instincts as a /.er, but I think those are known problems with known solutions and his primary contribution to the debate Might be fearmongering and making money via PR mostly using his ancient credentials as an "appeal to authority" disinfo campaign.
I'm not feeling the education here. Now to be fair it Might be that the wiki article is awful, and the guy is actually producing insightful work and new results. But, probably not.