Other than the FAA,name me one that does NOT support a special interest group or minority? Government should be doing things that help the majority of the population not the minority.
I was at 18 yrs in IT when I did my MBA. All it did was qualify me to be an IT Manager and have MORE headaches of dealing with the idiots on the business side and the dummies from the "Windows generation" who can't program if it's not a GUI and can't analyze if it's not a spreadsheet! I was too far along in IT to change. I'd love to do something else.
Not true. I have an in-law who is drawing from Both. He taught many years and worked for other people during the summer. Health benefits are strange, if you get teachers retirement healthcare you can't get Medicaid or the supplemental either.
Perhaps "Lowly regular folks" can get chips with less degrees of accuracy, just like when GPS was first made available to the public? Using these devices in an RC plane/cruise missile is only ONE use. You can do the same thing with on older gyro unit and some fancy DSP programming and whammo you got a "military device" with remote control or semi-autonomous. You can get the DSP chips on the open market or if you know what you are doing you can scavenge one from a cell phone. There are tons of uses for gyro chips, so I think this cat is out of the bag and soon enough the restrictions will be lifted.
"Microsoft's internet safety enforcement team" seems an Oxymoron as many holes as IE has had to let bad things happen to your PC while on the Internet.
I also wonder if this is a PR stunt by Microsoft to win a few brownie points to offset the otherwise evil image held by a lot of techies? Courts have normally held that unless you own a brand name/company name that someone is squatting on you don't have much standing to sue. It's a free market otherwise. And I don't see M$ needing to sue about anything but THIER name and products.
Thanks for the compliment. Hillary isn't nearly as smart as she seems. I don't think anyone can turn a 10K investment in livestock futures in $1M in six weeks! As for Cheny and the Halliburton asbestos issue, I can't say that he knew there was a liability there. Most CEOs don't get into the guts of mergers, I suspect someone a little lower down the food chain screwed up.
Deferred compensation that was paid AFTER he left, the article makes it seem like he was paid as CEO and as VP AT THE SAME TIME. He earned that money in years before 1999 due to performance incentives in his contract and it was due him by his contract that he was given when he was hired. Halliburton had to pay him whether he was VP or was off playing Golf. If they hadn't paid he could have sued. If YOU had met certain incentives wouldn't you want your money? If your options were in the money wouldn't you exercise them? Get the fuck off this, he earned the compensation, options and the money due him just like anyone else. No one gripes that Bill Clinton makes millions "consulting" and has a wife that is a Senior Senator from NY. Talk about influence!
Cheney has NOT been paid by Halliburton since he began running for VP almost 8 yrs ago.
Politicians normally put any personal assets in blind trusts when they take office. So why don't you ask John Kerry why he didn't do that, instead of hammering Cheney for following protocol.
Corporate interests have dictated or had significant input on Government policy for decades. The hire people called LOBBYISTS to "express their views" to the House and Sentate. Or have you been under a rock the last 35 yrs?
Asking industry "experts" (NOT LOBBYISTS..they are different) for advice is actually good Government. Having worked with Government agencies for many years, I found they often think too highly of thier own knowledge and refuse to get outside help or to listen when advice is given thus making mistakes. Listening and acting on expert information would be a nice change of pace.
I could swear over the last few months I have seen several articles posted that agencies like the NSF are denying funds and ruining scientists who SUPPORT Global Warming. In the article the prof from MIT says the reverse. So who is lying? Both sides? Neither side?
However, I don't doubt the enviro-wackos are after anyone who can present FACTS to debunk the Global Warning religous cult as just that, a cult. Those folks like Earth First and others have done some nasty things in the past to "protect" the Earth.
Trying to hit the warhead AFTER it has re-entered and is using decoys is exactly the WRONG time to hit it. You want to hit it BEFORE it is released from the booster if at all possible. It's a bigger target to hit, you hit it and you got all the warheads. Technology does exist to distinquish decoys from real warheads but it's not 100%. Killing the wrong target can ruin your day. Currently ASATs use several different technologies to find the target, not just the heat (IR) signature. What is used, when it us used and how it is used classified.
For the uninformed, "soft-kill" means to disable the electronics via a huge burst of radidation or heat, or to disable the solar arrays so they have no power source, or to disable communications antenna's or all of the above. Without power, electronics or comms they are just a hunk of space junk. It's a much better way than leaving lots of debris in orbit from using a kinetic kill but a kinetic kill is a lot easier and pretty much 100% successful.
it's called Opportunity Cost. In other words what am I losing by foregoing a better return on my investment. Unless there is some overwhelming reason such as long term opportunity to grow the market and profits (such as R&D costs), gov't regulation, or social reason then the better return should be chosen to maximize profits. Profit Maximization is the ethical mandate of business.
Try going down I-79 in WV from Morganton to Charleston. About 150 miles of no coverage except in Fairmont and one other place where the waves are right. There are towers up but no antennas on them.
Yep, But not a place where someone would hear a good off-label song then start asking for it which would help the genre and the artists. Jack doesn't do requests. They need to be on the top stations by type (Rock, Country, Rap) during peak listener hours (6-10AM and 4-7PM)
A DLP actually does encode, it's either 1 (light on a area) or 0 (light off an area), that is a simple code. DLPs are fast, but certainly not in the GB/Sec range such as a FibreChannel type connection. But those fast connections take special (expensive) hardware.
How will each CPU seperate the data meant for chip X from that meant from Chip Y since it seems to be to be a broadcast bus not a point-to-point connection.(i.e. there has to be a protocol)? Is the decoder on-board the CPU (extra silicon) or is it another chip? Adding another external interconnect to CPU to integrate a laster transmit/receive Chip is not really going to solve the problem. Intel already has issues with off chip I/O speed due to the Northbridge/Southbridge (one place where AMD still wins), and any external laser receiver would have to interface to that standard if it's going to be an X86 CPU. Of course it could be a totally new CPU or a dedicated special purpose CPU (article is unclear).
Prototyped in labs for more than a decade and not yet been deployed into a system? That seems kinda of odd. Most R&D has got to pay back before 10 years.
The context of the article was CPUs, so that was my meaning when I said "chip". Next time I'll say CPU CHIPS. Name me a mainstream CPU with a phototransistor on-board.
Not exactly, it would have to be a sealed unit with shock/vibration isolation. There are similar devices such as a ring-laser gyro that transmit laser pulse w/o fiber. It all adds up to being a nice lab toy, it's far too expensive and impractical for the desktop or server environment.
from TFA to prove my point....
The design is particularly efficient at sending "all-to-all" messages between chips in a system, said Bill Dress, a Lightfleet senior scientist and co-inventor of the technology. Because the system sends light through air, Lightfleet avoids the need for wiring and associated switching circuitry and software, he adds.
Nohing new to see here..move along...the TI chip that is in the DLP TVs does this already.
(from wikipedia) In DLP projectors, the image is created by microscopically small mirrors laid out in a matrix on a semiconductor chip, known as a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD). Each mirror represents one pixel in the projected image. The number of mirrors corresponds to the resolution of the projected image. 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x720, and 1920x1080 (HDTV) matrices are some common DMD sizes. These mirrors can be repositioned rapidly to reflect light either through the lens or on to a heatsink (called a light dump in Barco terminology).
The rapid repositioning of the mirrors (essentially switching between 'on' and 'off') allows the DMD to vary the intensity of the light being reflected out through the lens, creating shades of grey in addition to white (mirror in 'on' position) and black (mirror in 'off' position).
This system is just a new application of a technology invented in the late 1980's. No reason it's groundbreaking and no reason it shouldn't work in theory. Solid state lasers are very reliable and have a long life time. However, I don't know of any chips that have the ability to directly receive laser light pulses from a source and convert them to 1's and 0's. And keeping the lasers, mirrors and receivers aligned might be tough.
I seem to recall the EU "commissioners" can be bought just like gov't officals in Germany and the USA just at a higher price. IIRC, the commissioners represent each nation and have to balance national needs with EU policy. I seem to recall in the recent software patents and Microsoft anti-competition cases in the EU there was some rumors a few EU "commissioners" were "convinced" to vote for patents and for MS.
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Other than the FAA ,name me one that does NOT support a special interest group or minority? Government should be doing things that help the majority of the population not the minority.
FI races are about 200 miles long at best. NASCAR is 400-500 miles but much lower tech.
I was at 18 yrs in IT when I did my MBA. All it did was qualify me to be an IT Manager and have MORE headaches of dealing with the idiots on the business side and the dummies from the "Windows generation" who can't program if it's not a GUI and can't analyze if it's not a spreadsheet! I was too far along in IT to change. I'd love to do something else.
Not true. I have an in-law who is drawing from Both. He taught many years and worked for other people during the summer. Health benefits are strange, if you get teachers retirement healthcare you can't get Medicaid or the supplemental either.
Nights and weekends man! I got my MBA that way. Family life was rough for a while but it paid off.
Perhaps "Lowly regular folks" can get chips with less degrees of accuracy, just like when GPS was first made available to the public? Using these devices in an RC plane/cruise missile is only ONE use. You can do the same thing with on older gyro unit and some fancy DSP programming and whammo you got a "military device" with remote control or semi-autonomous. You can get the DSP chips on the open market or if you know what you are doing you can scavenge one from a cell phone. There are tons of uses for gyro chips, so I think this cat is out of the bag and soon enough the restrictions will be lifted.
"Microsoft's internet safety enforcement team" seems an Oxymoron as many holes as IE has had to let bad things happen to your PC while on the Internet.
I also wonder if this is a PR stunt by Microsoft to win a few brownie points to offset the otherwise evil image held by a lot of techies? Courts have normally held that unless you own a brand name/company name that someone is squatting on you don't have much standing to sue. It's a free market otherwise. And I don't see M$ needing to sue about anything but THIER name and products.
Thanks for the compliment. Hillary isn't nearly as smart as she seems. I don't think anyone can turn a 10K investment in livestock futures in $1M in six weeks! As for Cheny and the Halliburton asbestos issue, I can't say that he knew there was a liability there. Most CEOs don't get into the guts of mergers, I suspect someone a little lower down the food chain screwed up.
Deferred compensation that was paid AFTER he left, the article makes it seem like he was paid as CEO and as VP AT THE SAME TIME. He earned that money in years before 1999 due to performance incentives in his contract and it was due him by his contract that he was given when he was hired. Halliburton had to pay him whether he was VP or was off playing Golf. If they hadn't paid he could have sued. If YOU had met certain incentives wouldn't you want your money? If your options were in the money wouldn't you exercise them? Get the fuck off this, he earned the compensation, options and the money due him just like anyone else. No one gripes that Bill Clinton makes millions "consulting" and has a wife that is a Senior Senator from NY. Talk about influence!
Get your facts staight.
Cheney has NOT been paid by Halliburton since he began running for VP almost 8 yrs ago.
Politicians normally put any personal assets in blind trusts when they take office. So why don't you ask John Kerry why he didn't do that, instead of hammering Cheney for following protocol.
Corporate interests have dictated or had significant input on Government policy for decades. The hire people called LOBBYISTS to "express their views" to the House and Sentate. Or have you been under a rock the last 35 yrs?
Asking industry "experts" (NOT LOBBYISTS..they are different) for advice is actually good Government. Having worked with Government agencies for many years, I found they often think too highly of thier own knowledge and refuse to get outside help or to listen when advice is given thus making mistakes. Listening and acting on expert information would be a nice change of pace.
2 Million hours MTBF means the time to a failure is a lot longer than my lifetime too. Overkill isn't always better.
I don't doubt there are those who are trying!! Scientists can get quite creative to get funding. No funding often equals no job and no income.
I could swear over the last few months I have seen several articles posted that agencies like the NSF are denying funds and ruining scientists who SUPPORT Global Warming. In the article the prof from MIT says the reverse. So who is lying? Both sides? Neither side?
However, I don't doubt the enviro-wackos are after anyone who can present FACTS to debunk the Global Warning religous cult as just that, a cult. Those folks like Earth First and others have done some nasty things in the past to "protect" the Earth.
Trying to hit the warhead AFTER it has re-entered and is using decoys is exactly the WRONG time to hit it. You want to hit it BEFORE it is released from the booster if at all possible. It's a bigger target to hit, you hit it and you got all the warheads. Technology does exist to distinquish decoys from real warheads but it's not 100%. Killing the wrong target can ruin your day. Currently ASATs use several different technologies to find the target, not just the heat (IR) signature. What is used, when it us used and how it is used classified.
For the uninformed, "soft-kill" means to disable the electronics via a huge burst of radidation or heat, or to disable the solar arrays so they have no power source, or to disable communications antenna's or all of the above. Without power, electronics or comms they are just a hunk of space junk. It's a much better way than leaving lots of debris in orbit from using a kinetic kill but a kinetic kill is a lot easier and pretty much 100% successful.
it's called Opportunity Cost. In other words what am I losing by foregoing a better return on my investment. Unless there is some overwhelming reason such as long term opportunity to grow the market and profits (such as R&D costs), gov't regulation, or social reason then the better return should be chosen to maximize profits. Profit Maximization is the ethical mandate of business.
Try going down I-79 in WV from Morganton to Charleston. About 150 miles of no coverage except in Fairmont and one other place where the waves are right. There are towers up but no antennas on them.
Yep, But not a place where someone would hear a good off-label song then start asking for it which would help the genre and the artists. Jack doesn't do requests. They need to be on the top stations by type (Rock, Country, Rap) during peak listener hours (6-10AM and 4-7PM)
A DLP actually does encode, it's either 1 (light on a area) or 0 (light off an area), that is a simple code. DLPs are fast, but certainly not in the GB/Sec range such as a FibreChannel type connection. But those fast connections take special (expensive) hardware.
How will each CPU seperate the data meant for chip X from that meant from Chip Y since it seems to be to be a broadcast bus not a point-to-point connection.(i.e. there has to be a protocol)? Is the decoder on-board the CPU (extra silicon) or is it another chip? Adding another external interconnect to CPU to integrate a laster transmit/receive Chip is not really going to solve the problem. Intel already has issues with off chip I/O speed due to the Northbridge/Southbridge (one place where AMD still wins), and any external laser receiver would have to interface to that standard if it's going to be an X86 CPU. Of course it could be a totally new CPU or a dedicated special purpose CPU (article is unclear).
Prototyped in labs for more than a decade and not yet been deployed into a system? That seems kinda of odd. Most R&D has got to pay back before 10 years.
The context of the article was CPUs, so that was my meaning when I said "chip". Next time I'll say CPU CHIPS. Name me a mainstream CPU with a phototransistor on-board.
Not exactly, it would have to be a sealed unit with shock/vibration isolation. There are similar devices such as a ring-laser gyro that transmit laser pulse w/o fiber. It all adds up to being a nice lab toy, it's far too expensive and impractical for the desktop or server environment.
from TFA to prove my point.... The design is particularly efficient at sending "all-to-all" messages between chips in a system, said Bill Dress, a Lightfleet senior scientist and co-inventor of the technology. Because the system sends light through air, Lightfleet avoids the need for wiring and associated switching circuitry and software, he adds.
I thought this design did away with the fiber connections, that was the benefit.
Nohing new to see here..move along...the TI chip that is in the DLP TVs does this already. (from wikipedia) In DLP projectors, the image is created by microscopically small mirrors laid out in a matrix on a semiconductor chip, known as a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD). Each mirror represents one pixel in the projected image. The number of mirrors corresponds to the resolution of the projected image. 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x720, and 1920x1080 (HDTV) matrices are some common DMD sizes. These mirrors can be repositioned rapidly to reflect light either through the lens or on to a heatsink (called a light dump in Barco terminology). The rapid repositioning of the mirrors (essentially switching between 'on' and 'off') allows the DMD to vary the intensity of the light being reflected out through the lens, creating shades of grey in addition to white (mirror in 'on' position) and black (mirror in 'off' position). This system is just a new application of a technology invented in the late 1980's. No reason it's groundbreaking and no reason it shouldn't work in theory. Solid state lasers are very reliable and have a long life time. However, I don't know of any chips that have the ability to directly receive laser light pulses from a source and convert them to 1's and 0's. And keeping the lasers, mirrors and receivers aligned might be tough.
I seem to recall the EU "commissioners" can be bought just like gov't officals in Germany and the USA just at a higher price. IIRC, the commissioners represent each nation and have to balance national needs with EU policy. I seem to recall in the recent software patents and Microsoft anti-competition cases in the EU there was some rumors a few EU "commissioners" were "convinced" to vote for patents and for MS.