"Operating lifetime was estimated at five to seven years per satellite."
Doesn't that seem like a really sort span of time to have to send something into space? That means in like any given year you could be replacing 20% of your satellites? I guess perhaps with the idea that technology would be advancing so a 30 year old satellite might not really support current technology... Anyway still seems a bit crazy...
I vaguely remember Usurper (mostly the name), however I vividly remember playing TW2002 daily... Had to get my turns in! It was amazing how great that game was and how much depth it had. Probably still better than a lot of the prettier games of today. Sand box, be a trader, a pirate, a Fedlaw, a bounty hunter, or a little bit of some or none or something else... Start a planet, build a colony, park extra ships, form factions, war with other guilds, simply explore trading along the way, steal, donate, all sorts of messaging and communities. All with basically a text editor as an interface! I think it was also part of the reason we got a second phone line for BBS use, I recall getting dc and screaming at Mom for picking up the phone lol!
There is a game that deserves a re-make, perhaps even into a web-browser lite or phone game... Only I would be afraid they would ruin it with micro payments, and not get the user based complexity that it had.
Also fraking space mines...
I also thought it funny that the Feds would tow you just outside of protected space to let you get blown to bits lol
Everyone should be singing "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead"!
At least from this Canadian perspective the TPP was a horrible idea from the start, and made worse as time went on. The fact that it is dead should be seen as perhaps an unintentional success of Trump.
I get the general idea of was was essentially a trade pact against China to limit their economic dominance nationally. However because of all the corporate corruption you have to ask at what cost? This thing was basically written by a bunch of the largest most wealthy corporations to further their own interests, not the people in any of the nations involved. Anyway I am glad that it is dead, and I think most people are better off for it.
DNC should have taken a page from Canadian history. We've had a woman Prime Minister. However...
Like you allude to above, in Canada we don't vote for leaders (at all), the Party's do. Should they pick the wrong leader, many voters may decide not to vote for their local candidate in the same party.
Kim Cambell was Prime Minister of Canada for all of 4 months. Basically what happened is that Brian Mulrooney the current Progressive Conservative PM of the day retired/resigned. We don't have a Vice President. In Canada the Queen's representative called the Governor General selects the next PM from the ruling party. Weird right? Tradition I guess. At any rate what really happens is the ruling party tells the GG who to select. In this case the PC Party selected Kim Campbell. 4 months later an election is called and the PC party doubles down on Kim Campbell as their leader, and guess what? They lost. Was that because she was a woman? Was that because the PC party insisted on her? Was it because of a particularly offensive ad making fun of her rivals partially paralyzed face? Who knows...
At any rate the DNC should have consulted with some Canadian political pundits perhaps prior to foisting an unpopular leader onto the populace. Our political system has a lot of experience on that...
I guess what I am saying is if the DNC wanted a woman President so bad, they should have ran Sanders, and had Clinton become VP. Once elected have Sanders retire and BAM woman President! At least for a bit anyway...
The parallel seems to be debt making people miserable and having someone else to blame for it. I'm thinking about America's recent past with Wall Street.
Sort of. In Canada in the last few election cycles, the coalition is never spoken of other than as a dirty word. When the Conservatives has power they tried to convince people that it was actually illegal (as they were afraid of an NDP/Liberal coalition having more power than them.
Canada has a multiparty system, however it has it's own issues. Fundamentally one of the issues is the old first past the post electoral system. It basically throws out the votes of those that didn't come 1st. As a result Canada is really a 2 party system, with a 3rd party that has some influence, and a bunch of party's that are completely meaningless. Like the US, in Canada only the Liberals or the Conservatives (used to be called Progressive Conservatives) have ever held power.
The closest thing to a coalition was the amalgamation of the Progressive Conservative and Reform/Alliance parties prior to an election after the PC's numbers got so abysmally low due to the the far right western Canada moving to the more radical Reform Party which was re-branded the Alliance party. After the joining they just dropped the whole "progressive" part which is a bit telling.
The problem with coalitions is that generally speaking politicians don't want to share power, and are partisan enough to rather screw the nation in hopes of the next election than actually get things done. Also you would be giving the other party ammunition for their next election run as well.
All of this is due to career politicians and partisan politics. Both of which point to a guy like Trump who isn't a politician, nor I suspect really cares for either the republican or democrat parties really. Anyway like many I was surprised at Trump winning, but I predicted it, and I understand why. Something that really got me thinking is that of voter turn out. It was low. I've always heard that when it is low, it benefits the republicans. Curious I looked up some historical examples, of which there is a bunch. One of the worst in recent history was actually Clinton VS Dole interestingly enough. Do a quick google for "Why low voter turn out in 1996?" and read some of the articles. It is funny after the fact to see how the media et al missed on this. As the adage goes, "those that forget history are doomed to repeat it". Yes Clinton was a democrat and won, but the actual reality is deeper than just that.
Trump was quite clear it was against future amalgamations and consolidations as it offers no benefit to consumers. He was clear that he said he would be actively in favor of blocking said consolidations. I'll leave it to your common sense what that means for the average person.
As to other areas of science and technology, it is probably a bit more vague, but in at least that one example it is pretty straight forward what his opinion is. As it relates to technology in general the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is his enforcement of "fixing" the H1b issue for tech workers (if you actually believe him is another matter), and how much of an emphasis of how important the whole "Cyber" thing is (if you actually believe he knows anything about what he is talking about is another matter).
At any rate I don't think any of the "science and technology" really featured in any big way for any candidate really so it is kind of moot. I guess in a round about way Hillary adopting some of Sanders education stance may have enhanced academic science in universities through enrollment. Maybe. I don't think Trump was a big Climate Change guy either so you could probably call it a net loss at least in that respect.
Yes, my first question was "why are these things connected to the internet in the first place?" The only rational reason would mean to operate remotely. Again "Why?" Then the next question is "There is no manual operation/override, that seems a bit dumb?"
I've seen things like this with Wind Turbines, being "controlled" by the manufacture a continent away over the internet, which at first blush seems a bad idea. However as you say there is a default fail safe in place basically a windows safemode, not to mention they can also be controlled locally, as well as individually manually.
I`m simply saying that referring to "settled physics" is a bit disingenuous when talking about Climatology.
Probably is most cases the education for your experts are a Geography degree, which as you might imagine has about zero requirements in actual Physics. I could name a bunch of professions that have physics involved because just about everything has some degree of physics happening. Similarly I could simply say the Math is settled because everything at some level can be described in Mathematics. Chemistry is all Physics also. Lets get rid of all other (with possibly the exception of Math) descriptions of knowledge and henceforth just refer to everything as physics. Having other disciplines is just confusing.
Climatology is more less defined by complex environmental systems, usually in some sort of modelling work, using data from what various sources you have available to you, to try to describe current events and an attempt to predict future ones. Some of the underlying mechanics are made up of physics, however I wouldn't use that terminology at the macro level. Calling things "settled" because of well "physics" seems a bit much. Anyway as I said, not arguing Climate Change, only the rational for getting to that conclusion. Having reasoned arguments as to why a scientific finding is legitimate or not is important, while dismissive statements are unhelpful and counter productive.
Canada had a marketing scheme to combat Blood/Conflict Diamonds... Where a very tiny microscopic polar bear is laser engraved in the diamond. Oddly enough it seems the program ran into licencing and trademark legal issues...
From what I've read people train simply because the company can use severance as a leverage.
As to what drives executives to outsource it is for quarterly profit gains driving CEO bonuses, and the transient nature of CEO's moving on to the next big thing. No one is around to take responsibility for the long term, which is where things go sideways. So long and they can "save" the company millions in the short term, get their millions in bonus money and then bounce to the next gig who cares.
Another similar though somewhat unrelated to outsourcing is that of R&D. There are a lot of large older technology companies that used to spend a lot of R&D to drive the future of their business. Few think that far ahead anymore to justify the expense and pretty much give up on any kind of innovation. The new method seems to be to let newer smaller VC type companies come up with new technology, then once they reach a certain stage simply buy out the company. You never hear about so-and-so developing some feature anymore, it is always "oh that came from company abc when it got acquired"... The new reality I guess.
First off the movie Starship Troopers (1997) wasn't all that true to the book anyway (as mentioned by many), so if the reboot is or not is sort of irrelevant. I enjoyed the movie a lot and have seen it many times. I'd say one of the primary reasons was the over the top nature of political satire which is common for books of that era/genre but sadly missing from pretty much all movies for a number of reasons (most modern movies want to be as middle of the road and PG13 as to not alienate any potential demographic that would get in the way of making money and viewership). Having a movie with the courage to go there these days might be unlikely. Movies like Deadpool might change some peoples minds in that it was widely successful despite limiting itself to an R rating. That said, if it did manage to go there it would be all the more great in that only so few go there these days. I'd say the second thing that was good it that the acting in in what actually pretty good given the context of the movie. The best of which I thought was Michael Ironside as Rasczak. If they can cast the movie well that will also be a big deal. They may have their work cut out for them however as that kind of movie likely won't attract a lot of interest from many actors. In many cases it seems that once some actors get known for that work, they are stuck in that genre forever and it turns out not to be the most successful path an actor might take. Anyway I'd probably check it out no matter what simply to see how it turns out...
"21" in this context represents the number for the Cote d'Or, the French department, or province, where Dijon is located.
I am not sure how obvious that definition of what 21 might mean in France given circumstances, however when I read it the first thing I thought of was:
I of course welcome our moon measuring bumblebee overlords...
Seriously I guess we can get rid of LoC and other forms of measurement including football fields and metric in favor of measuring all lengths of things in terms of moon distances, and volume in terms of bumblebees.
Not always, but sometimes when a manager contacts you over the phone and asks you to do something there is a very specific reason they are asking you over the phone, in that there is no record of them asking you to do it in the first place. If said thing is somewhat questionable, it will be your ass in the fire, not the managers who could simply say that they said nothing or that you must have "misunderstood" what they really asked you to do.
Most times it is just innocent simple things, however sometimes it will be something contentious at which point you have to use your best judgement as to how to respond.
I did have one request that I considered unethical (if not illegal) that I found very suspicious that they would only talk over the phone, or in meetings about, and whenever I sent emails looking for clarification I would get no response other than another phone call or another meeting on the matter. In the end I decided that indeed it would be my ass on the line, and basically told the manager that sure I would do it, however not without an explicit email or other documentation specifically ordering me to do so, otherwise I would not. Not exactly the kind of tack you really want to take with any manager. However I was in the right, and as it turned out that request quickly went away, and the proceeding actions took place exactly as I had foresaw (i.e. possible serious repercussions). It had to do with withholding information from a request that had been made to me using false pretenses to justify the action when they should be legally allowed access. I'm glad I handled it the way I did, however years later I was rather unsurprised when that same manager declined an interview despite having well over a decade more experience and qualifications than the successful candidate. Which is probably for the best anyway all things considered as I'd probably not want to work for them anyway (application was more to prove a point about inequality in the hiring practices more than anything else, where I bet people before hand that I would inexplicably not even get an interview to what is supposed to be a fair and impartial process).
Yeah I recently got a new "workstation" laptop for work this year. The first "blip" I had with it was when I tried to do my first presentation (software demo), using an installed smart board connection in a meeting room. As it turns out my new ThinkPad got rid of all the VGA ports, and I literally had no way to connect to do my presentation. The folks that rolled it out forgot to give me my MiniPort to VGA dongle as it turns out (it also had hdmi). Anyway this is the same position that the macbooks are in, only worse. In the end, we ended up going into someones office and stealing their entire docking station and dragging it into the presentation room as it had a VGA port on the thing. Anyway now I have a dongle and carry it around with me everywhere I might have to do a presentation as all those old projection type machines usually support VGA, some support DVI, but none of them support anything beyond that. Weirdly enough as I mentioned I got the high end "workstation" laptop (workstation lite anyway), however I also have a new base laptop for testing purposes and a few legacy applications and lo and behold it still has a VGA port. Could be the higher end laptops are thought to be too advanced to bother with legacy ports.
As to anything over 16GB draining the laptop battery that is absolute horseshit. It is so wrong on so many levels. The fact that he actually said it publicly tells me he is an idiot, or everyone who feeds him information are idiots, or he firmly believe all his users are idiots to buy that level of bullshit. RAM literally takes so little power to run it is negligible to the length of battery operation. About the only things that do, are the screen and screen size, CPU draw and amount of throttling, any kind of discrete video card should it actually have one, and perhaps some spinning of the HD (if not a SSD). All other factors are really moot. Anyway the amount of either idiocy or contempt is astounding.
Seriously. If you look up "Asshole Move" there should be his picture and the his quote about SD slots being cumbersome. Also unmentioned in the summary is the fact that they are also doing away with the hdmi and USB ports also. So useful. Supposedly it only had Thunderbolt/USB-C which nothing supports.
That said, I'm not sure what the deal is with wanting more than 16GB of RAM. I have 16GB of RAM in my desktop and it's really a complete waste (it made sense at the time as RAM was cheap and I didn't want to have to do an upgrade later). No one really needs anything near that really, and not anytime soon either. If you *DO* legitimately need more than 16GB of RAM for your work, you are undoubtedly not using a mackbook anyway.
While I don't disagree, physics? What does that have to do with anything? I guess at a certain level one could argue that everything is physics, but climatology isn't something I would first associate with the term.
Sounds like they used proper procedure which is good. However considering the change of what was actually taking place the big question is A) Did the police lie to get the warrants from the Judge, or B) Did the Judge make a mistake and overstep? I'm guessing A. They likely made up a bogus reason in order to get at what appears to be whistle blowers. Which if that is the case I expect some heads to roll. I don't see this as something where law enforcement will be "closing ranks" as sometimes happens, as if the above is the case you have a situation where the police are making the judicial system, and a particular Judge look bad, and undermining not only their authority but their reputation which is a pretty big deal when the whole thing really depends on the people having confidence in the system. As such, I suspect if this makes it before a Judge, I expect the reaction to be severe...
As you say in the distant past a mine was worked by a town full of people with pickaxes. That gradually moved to less people and more machines. In case anyone has been keeping track it has also led to economies of scale for those machines.
So if people think the mining companies are going to make a small army of "Minerbots" they are not understanding the trend. What they will automate are massive monster systems of facility and machine to a scale likely unheard of previously. Just like those town full of pickaxe wielding miners couldn't conceive of removing the entire top off a mountain in a short time span, in the future it will be the whole mountain.
What does that really mean. Well scale works a number of different ways, and one of those will inevitably be that of environmental impact. So yeah, there may be less impact on say human workers at a dangerous job, but the landscape will likely be changing at a rate that will have a much larger impact on the environment at again a scale not yet conceived.
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"Operating lifetime was estimated at five to seven years per satellite."
Doesn't that seem like a really sort span of time to have to send something into space? That means in like any given year you could be replacing 20% of your satellites? I guess perhaps with the idea that technology would be advancing so a 30 year old satellite might not really support current technology... Anyway still seems a bit crazy...
Yeah I mentioned in an earlier post I'd love to see a remake of TW2002, but then thought that they would probably ruin it with micropayments...
I vaguely remember Usurper (mostly the name), however I vividly remember playing TW2002 daily... Had to get my turns in! It was amazing how great that game was and how much depth it had. Probably still better than a lot of the prettier games of today. Sand box, be a trader, a pirate, a Fedlaw, a bounty hunter, or a little bit of some or none or something else... Start a planet, build a colony, park extra ships, form factions, war with other guilds, simply explore trading along the way, steal, donate, all sorts of messaging and communities. All with basically a text editor as an interface! I think it was also part of the reason we got a second phone line for BBS use, I recall getting dc and screaming at Mom for picking up the phone lol!
There is a game that deserves a re-make, perhaps even into a web-browser lite or phone game... Only I would be afraid they would ruin it with micro payments, and not get the user based complexity that it had.
Also fraking space mines...
I also thought it funny that the Feds would tow you just outside of protected space to let you get blown to bits lol
Everyone should be singing "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead"!
At least from this Canadian perspective the TPP was a horrible idea from the start, and made worse as time went on. The fact that it is dead should be seen as perhaps an unintentional success of Trump.
I get the general idea of was was essentially a trade pact against China to limit their economic dominance nationally. However because of all the corporate corruption you have to ask at what cost? This thing was basically written by a bunch of the largest most wealthy corporations to further their own interests, not the people in any of the nations involved. Anyway I am glad that it is dead, and I think most people are better off for it.
The argument to end all for all of these like topics.
Globalization and Environmentalism
Basically if you try to be a good environmental steward you put yourself at a disadvantage to places with no such restrictions.
You can apply that to just about anything. Until your market attempts to disadvantage other places for not being good stewards, said issue continues.
We can talk circles around the various topics involved, but unless that discrepancy is addressed little meaningful progress is going to be made.
DNC should have taken a page from Canadian history. We've had a woman Prime Minister. However...
Like you allude to above, in Canada we don't vote for leaders (at all), the Party's do. Should they pick the wrong leader, many voters may decide not to vote for their local candidate in the same party.
Kim Cambell was Prime Minister of Canada for all of 4 months. Basically what happened is that Brian Mulrooney the current Progressive Conservative PM of the day retired/resigned. We don't have a Vice President. In Canada the Queen's representative called the Governor General selects the next PM from the ruling party. Weird right? Tradition I guess. At any rate what really happens is the ruling party tells the GG who to select. In this case the PC Party selected Kim Campbell. 4 months later an election is called and the PC party doubles down on Kim Campbell as their leader, and guess what? They lost. Was that because she was a woman? Was that because the PC party insisted on her? Was it because of a particularly offensive ad making fun of her rivals partially paralyzed face? Who knows...
At any rate the DNC should have consulted with some Canadian political pundits perhaps prior to foisting an unpopular leader onto the populace. Our political system has a lot of experience on that...
I guess what I am saying is if the DNC wanted a woman President so bad, they should have ran Sanders, and had Clinton become VP. Once elected have Sanders retire and BAM woman President! At least for a bit anyway...
The parallel seems to be debt making people miserable and having someone else to blame for it. I'm thinking about America's recent past with Wall Street.
Sort of. In Canada in the last few election cycles, the coalition is never spoken of other than as a dirty word. When the Conservatives has power they tried to convince people that it was actually illegal (as they were afraid of an NDP/Liberal coalition having more power than them.
Canada has a multiparty system, however it has it's own issues. Fundamentally one of the issues is the old first past the post electoral system. It basically throws out the votes of those that didn't come 1st. As a result Canada is really a 2 party system, with a 3rd party that has some influence, and a bunch of party's that are completely meaningless. Like the US, in Canada only the Liberals or the Conservatives (used to be called Progressive Conservatives) have ever held power.
The closest thing to a coalition was the amalgamation of the Progressive Conservative and Reform/Alliance parties prior to an election after the PC's numbers got so abysmally low due to the the far right western Canada moving to the more radical Reform Party which was re-branded the Alliance party. After the joining they just dropped the whole "progressive" part which is a bit telling.
The problem with coalitions is that generally speaking politicians don't want to share power, and are partisan enough to rather screw the nation in hopes of the next election than actually get things done. Also you would be giving the other party ammunition for their next election run as well.
All of this is due to career politicians and partisan politics. Both of which point to a guy like Trump who isn't a politician, nor I suspect really cares for either the republican or democrat parties really. Anyway like many I was surprised at Trump winning, but I predicted it, and I understand why. Something that really got me thinking is that of voter turn out. It was low. I've always heard that when it is low, it benefits the republicans. Curious I looked up some historical examples, of which there is a bunch. One of the worst in recent history was actually Clinton VS Dole interestingly enough. Do a quick google for "Why low voter turn out in 1996?" and read some of the articles. It is funny after the fact to see how the media et al missed on this. As the adage goes, "those that forget history are doomed to repeat it". Yes Clinton was a democrat and won, but the actual reality is deeper than just that.
Lame article and sour grapes bias. I'm no fan of Trump either, but the first example used (future of ISP's) is an easy 5 second google.
http://www.bloomberg.com/polit...
Trump was quite clear it was against future amalgamations and consolidations as it offers no benefit to consumers. He was clear that he said he would be actively in favor of blocking said consolidations. I'll leave it to your common sense what that means for the average person.
As to other areas of science and technology, it is probably a bit more vague, but in at least that one example it is pretty straight forward what his opinion is. As it relates to technology in general the only thing I can think of off the top of my head is his enforcement of "fixing" the H1b issue for tech workers (if you actually believe him is another matter), and how much of an emphasis of how important the whole "Cyber" thing is (if you actually believe he knows anything about what he is talking about is another matter).
At any rate I don't think any of the "science and technology" really featured in any big way for any candidate really so it is kind of moot. I guess in a round about way Hillary adopting some of Sanders education stance may have enhanced academic science in universities through enrollment. Maybe. I don't think Trump was a big Climate Change guy either so you could probably call it a net loss at least in that respect.
Yes, my first question was "why are these things connected to the internet in the first place?" The only rational reason would mean to operate remotely. Again "Why?" Then the next question is "There is no manual operation/override, that seems a bit dumb?"
I've seen things like this with Wind Turbines, being "controlled" by the manufacture a continent away over the internet, which at first blush seems a bad idea. However as you say there is a default fail safe in place basically a windows safemode, not to mention they can also be controlled locally, as well as individually manually.
I`m simply saying that referring to "settled physics" is a bit disingenuous when talking about Climatology.
Probably is most cases the education for your experts are a Geography degree, which as you might imagine has about zero requirements in actual Physics. I could name a bunch of professions that have physics involved because just about everything has some degree of physics happening. Similarly I could simply say the Math is settled because everything at some level can be described in Mathematics. Chemistry is all Physics also. Lets get rid of all other (with possibly the exception of Math) descriptions of knowledge and henceforth just refer to everything as physics. Having other disciplines is just confusing.
Climatology is more less defined by complex environmental systems, usually in some sort of modelling work, using data from what various sources you have available to you, to try to describe current events and an attempt to predict future ones. Some of the underlying mechanics are made up of physics, however I wouldn't use that terminology at the macro level. Calling things "settled" because of well "physics" seems a bit much. Anyway as I said, not arguing Climate Change, only the rational for getting to that conclusion. Having reasoned arguments as to why a scientific finding is legitimate or not is important, while dismissive statements are unhelpful and counter productive.
Already exists to a certain extent.
Canada had a marketing scheme to combat Blood/Conflict Diamonds... Where a very tiny microscopic polar bear is laser engraved in the diamond. Oddly enough it seems the program ran into licencing and trademark legal issues...
From what I've read people train simply because the company can use severance as a leverage.
As to what drives executives to outsource it is for quarterly profit gains driving CEO bonuses, and the transient nature of CEO's moving on to the next big thing. No one is around to take responsibility for the long term, which is where things go sideways. So long and they can "save" the company millions in the short term, get their millions in bonus money and then bounce to the next gig who cares.
Another similar though somewhat unrelated to outsourcing is that of R&D. There are a lot of large older technology companies that used to spend a lot of R&D to drive the future of their business. Few think that far ahead anymore to justify the expense and pretty much give up on any kind of innovation. The new method seems to be to let newer smaller VC type companies come up with new technology, then once they reach a certain stage simply buy out the company. You never hear about so-and-so developing some feature anymore, it is always "oh that came from company abc when it got acquired"... The new reality I guess.
First off the movie Starship Troopers (1997) wasn't all that true to the book anyway (as mentioned by many), so if the reboot is or not is sort of irrelevant. I enjoyed the movie a lot and have seen it many times. I'd say one of the primary reasons was the over the top nature of political satire which is common for books of that era/genre but sadly missing from pretty much all movies for a number of reasons (most modern movies want to be as middle of the road and PG13 as to not alienate any potential demographic that would get in the way of making money and viewership). Having a movie with the courage to go there these days might be unlikely. Movies like Deadpool might change some peoples minds in that it was widely successful despite limiting itself to an R rating. That said, if it did manage to go there it would be all the more great in that only so few go there these days. I'd say the second thing that was good it that the acting in in what actually pretty good given the context of the movie. The best of which I thought was Michael Ironside as Rasczak. If they can cast the movie well that will also be a big deal. They may have their work cut out for them however as that kind of movie likely won't attract a lot of interest from many actors. In many cases it seems that once some actors get known for that work, they are stuck in that genre forever and it turns out not to be the most successful path an actor might take. Anyway I'd probably check it out no matter what simply to see how it turns out...
Now prohibiting the use of USB/hdmi/SD ports...
"21" in this context represents the number for the Cote d'Or, the French department, or province, where Dijon is located.
I am not sure how obvious that definition of what 21 might mean in France given circumstances, however when I read it the first thing I thought of was:
"Forever 21" which I thought might just be poking fun at IS...
http://www.forever21.com/ca/de...
"see a bumblebee a moon's distance away"
I of course welcome our moon measuring bumblebee overlords...
Seriously I guess we can get rid of LoC and other forms of measurement including football fields and metric in favor of measuring all lengths of things in terms of moon distances, and volume in terms of bumblebees.
Seems legit.
Somehow I read this as how well North Korea athletes do at the Olympics knowing that if they don't...
I've seen this a number of times.
Not always, but sometimes when a manager contacts you over the phone and asks you to do something there is a very specific reason they are asking you over the phone, in that there is no record of them asking you to do it in the first place. If said thing is somewhat questionable, it will be your ass in the fire, not the managers who could simply say that they said nothing or that you must have "misunderstood" what they really asked you to do.
Most times it is just innocent simple things, however sometimes it will be something contentious at which point you have to use your best judgement as to how to respond.
I did have one request that I considered unethical (if not illegal) that I found very suspicious that they would only talk over the phone, or in meetings about, and whenever I sent emails looking for clarification I would get no response other than another phone call or another meeting on the matter. In the end I decided that indeed it would be my ass on the line, and basically told the manager that sure I would do it, however not without an explicit email or other documentation specifically ordering me to do so, otherwise I would not. Not exactly the kind of tack you really want to take with any manager. However I was in the right, and as it turned out that request quickly went away, and the proceeding actions took place exactly as I had foresaw (i.e. possible serious repercussions). It had to do with withholding information from a request that had been made to me using false pretenses to justify the action when they should be legally allowed access. I'm glad I handled it the way I did, however years later I was rather unsurprised when that same manager declined an interview despite having well over a decade more experience and qualifications than the successful candidate. Which is probably for the best anyway all things considered as I'd probably not want to work for them anyway (application was more to prove a point about inequality in the hiring practices more than anything else, where I bet people before hand that I would inexplicably not even get an interview to what is supposed to be a fair and impartial process).
Yeah I recently got a new "workstation" laptop for work this year. The first "blip" I had with it was when I tried to do my first presentation (software demo), using an installed smart board connection in a meeting room. As it turns out my new ThinkPad got rid of all the VGA ports, and I literally had no way to connect to do my presentation. The folks that rolled it out forgot to give me my MiniPort to VGA dongle as it turns out (it also had hdmi). Anyway this is the same position that the macbooks are in, only worse. In the end, we ended up going into someones office and stealing their entire docking station and dragging it into the presentation room as it had a VGA port on the thing. Anyway now I have a dongle and carry it around with me everywhere I might have to do a presentation as all those old projection type machines usually support VGA, some support DVI, but none of them support anything beyond that. Weirdly enough as I mentioned I got the high end "workstation" laptop (workstation lite anyway), however I also have a new base laptop for testing purposes and a few legacy applications and lo and behold it still has a VGA port. Could be the higher end laptops are thought to be too advanced to bother with legacy ports.
As to anything over 16GB draining the laptop battery that is absolute horseshit. It is so wrong on so many levels. The fact that he actually said it publicly tells me he is an idiot, or everyone who feeds him information are idiots, or he firmly believe all his users are idiots to buy that level of bullshit. RAM literally takes so little power to run it is negligible to the length of battery operation. About the only things that do, are the screen and screen size, CPU draw and amount of throttling, any kind of discrete video card should it actually have one, and perhaps some spinning of the HD (if not a SSD). All other factors are really moot. Anyway the amount of either idiocy or contempt is astounding.
Hope you didn't use USB or hdmi either because they got rid of all those as well.
Apple's mantra seems to involve carrying around a bag full of extra dongles.
Dear Phil Schiller,
Fuck You!
Everyone everywhere
Seriously. If you look up "Asshole Move" there should be his picture and the his quote about SD slots being cumbersome. Also unmentioned in the summary is the fact that they are also doing away with the hdmi and USB ports also. So useful. Supposedly it only had Thunderbolt/USB-C which nothing supports.
That said, I'm not sure what the deal is with wanting more than 16GB of RAM. I have 16GB of RAM in my desktop and it's really a complete waste (it made sense at the time as RAM was cheap and I didn't want to have to do an upgrade later). No one really needs anything near that really, and not anytime soon either. If you *DO* legitimately need more than 16GB of RAM for your work, you are undoubtedly not using a mackbook anyway.
While I don't disagree, physics? What does that have to do with anything? I guess at a certain level one could argue that everything is physics, but climatology isn't something I would first associate with the term.
Sounds like they used proper procedure which is good. However considering the change of what was actually taking place the big question is A) Did the police lie to get the warrants from the Judge, or B) Did the Judge make a mistake and overstep? I'm guessing A. They likely made up a bogus reason in order to get at what appears to be whistle blowers. Which if that is the case I expect some heads to roll. I don't see this as something where law enforcement will be "closing ranks" as sometimes happens, as if the above is the case you have a situation where the police are making the judicial system, and a particular Judge look bad, and undermining not only their authority but their reputation which is a pretty big deal when the whole thing really depends on the people having confidence in the system. As such, I suspect if this makes it before a Judge, I expect the reaction to be severe...
Anyway I guess we'll see.
As you say in the distant past a mine was worked by a town full of people with pickaxes. That gradually moved to less people and more machines. In case anyone has been keeping track it has also led to economies of scale for those machines.
So if people think the mining companies are going to make a small army of "Minerbots" they are not understanding the trend. What they will automate are massive monster systems of facility and machine to a scale likely unheard of previously. Just like those town full of pickaxe wielding miners couldn't conceive of removing the entire top off a mountain in a short time span, in the future it will be the whole mountain.
What does that really mean. Well scale works a number of different ways, and one of those will inevitably be that of environmental impact. So yeah, there may be less impact on say human workers at a dangerous job, but the landscape will likely be changing at a rate that will have a much larger impact on the environment at again a scale not yet conceived.