If you add up and cut all the "less than 1%" garbage that is in a budget, maybe you can spare the biggest programs- the ones that presumably are more important.
I've heard arguments that "all the low hanging fruit is gone", "the easy to cut items have been cut already" etc. More pork is created every day by all members of congress. Recognizing wasteful spending and public backlash should be a continual process.
I have one of these as an HTPC. It doesn't have quite enough power to do the job perfectly, but it has enough power that I can't yet justify replacing it with something else. Extremely frustrating when Youtube runs at a slightly choppy 20fps instead of 24.
I tried to use a service once which accepted various european-only bank transfer methods, or Paysafecard. Seemed ideal. I go to a gas station and buy a prepaid card/code using cash, then give the code to the provider and they credit my account. Unfortunately in both the 2 gas stations (both listed as vendors on (paysafecard.com) I went to, the clerks had no idea what I was talking about. I still don't know if they weren't familiar with this thing, or if the gas stations no longer carry these cards. It just isn't common enough to be usable in my area.
What we need is the return of the DIN standard for car stereos, with some additions....
As much as I love the idea of the DIN standard, car radio theft is a huge problem with DIN style radios. Removing the faceplate every time you leave your car somewhere is a pain in the butt, and doesn't guarantee the radio won't be stolen anyway (radio theives aren't the smartest bunch). Car makers moving to nonstandard radios is the biggest reason car radio thefts have almost disappeared. I would much rather have bluetooth, a USB charging point, and an Aux port. Maybe we won't be using USB and bluetooth as a standard in 15 years, but I guarantee an adapter for USB->future power standard will be available, and you have to try really hard to make something incompatable with an AUX port.
There are plenty of nations that love to poke the US in the eye and don't cooperate with the US. I can name half a dozen, and I've heard that he is in contact with about 20. If he were on Iranian, North Korean, Cuban, Venezuela, Ecuador, etc soil he would be fine. The difficult issue is extracting him from where he is now. Putting somebody in your pocket is one thing. Removing him out of someone else's pocket is quite another.
There are plenty of panoramio photos in the area. It is not the same experience as 360 degree photography, but there are enough photos that it wouldn't be my first choice.
> Created by Henry F. Phillips, the Phillips screw drive was purposely designed to cam out when the screw stalled[citation needed], to prevent the fastener damaging the work or the head, instead damaging the driver. This was caused by the relative difficulty in building torque limiting into the early drivers.
Your statement is akin to blaming violent crimes on guns, or blaming obesity on spoons. Blame the manufacturers who spec phillips head screws and bolts into their assemblies.
I have never, ever, had this happen. I have never damaged a phillips driver- and I use more than my fair share of cheap chinese-made ones. I have had lots of stripped out screws. If Mr. Phillips designed it to damage the tool at the expense of the screw, he has failed utterly. This is not reality and I doubt it ever war.
Also, I don't know the relative pricing of drivers vs screws back in those days, but damaging even a $2 tool to spare a $0.20 piece of hardware is pretty dumb.
It sounds like you are only with one type, chain cuffs. They were popular for a few decades.
They could be opened with a wire while wearing them,especially if not double locked.
Most cuffs before and since don't have the chain in the middle, so if applied correctly it's nearly impossible to TOUCH the keyhole, much less pick it. If you can get the sound your butt and legs, you might be able to learn to pick them while holding the pick in your mouth.
Chain handcuffs still seem to be popular. Maybe they are cheaper. If you're throwing someone in the back of a police cruiser with safety glass between the front seat and backseat, and doors that don't open from the inside, handcuffs are just extra security.
That's exactly what TFA is talking about: when calculating the gain-cost-ratio of any new technologies, you have to always calculate in a) the cost of getting the technology to mature and b) the cost of keeping the technology up-to-date and c) the cost of finally scrapping the technology. Yes, we have several technologies. No, those technologies are not mature (e.g. we have no clue how they will scale, how much fine tuning it will take until they are at their designed power output and for how long they will maintain this output). And we don't know which incidents will happen in the future that force us to retrofit the technologies, and more so, at which point in time it will be cheaper just to scrap the new technologies instead of continous retrofitting.
Retrofitting instead of building a new plant is often strongly related to Permitting and fuel cost. For most practical purposes, it is impossible to build a new coal plant. There have been a couple built (Elm Road in Oak Creek, WI, Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, etc) recently, but because of permitting and the CRAZY LOW cost of natural gas in the US, I don't expect to see more than 5 built in the next 10 years. The air permits are not easy to get for a new coal plant, and the ROI just doesn't favor a huge investment like that given the relative pricing of coal compared to other fuels.
Nuclear has a similar situation, only add in all the uncertainties about Nuclear policy, plus add a plant that costs 4 times as much as a comparable coal plant, plus add the additional financing costs (financing 8 billion dollars isn't cheap), plus add decommissioning costs which could be difficult to define.
Now consider that you could build a natural gas power plant, for around 500 million dollars, natural gas emissions are crystal clear and very clean, the neighbors won't complain nearly as much, and that natural gas cost is less than 1/2 the price that it was 10 years ago**. The choice of what kind of plant to build is almost a no-brainer.
**The price of natural gas in the US is about 1/5 to 1/4 the cost of natural gas in Europe or Asia. Even Russia's natural gas prices are 3.5 times what the US prices are. This makes the US a very special power market right now. It may be a contributing reason as to why US industry is suddenly a lot more competitive globally. I worry about the day when the gas in the US is not so cheap.
Its very possible the broadband itself is still profitable even if you have to string up all the lines yourself. I had absolutely 0 hassle negotiating my (not Google) 30/5 connection down to $35 a month. It made me wonder how much their costs really are if they don't bat an eye at cutting the price by 25%. Google's gigabit line (without TV) is ~$70 a month (construction fee waived). I find it completely reasonable that this is profitable- the bulk of costs are in the physical distribution infrastructure. It may even be wildly profitable. Google doesn't pay others for bandwidth. Google doesn't have national advertising campaigns with TV commercials and massive paper advertising*, which makes up a huge cost for Verizon, ATT, etc. Being an ISP will probably even help to balance their peering agreements a bit.
As for their free plans, if you are running fiber to a paying customer, running fiber to the non-paying customer 50 feet away isn't really adding that much cost over the long term- especially if you make them pay a $300 construction fee. Maybe that person decides the free plan isn't enough speed and becomes a paying customer. You can't look at internet advertising (Google's main business) if you don't have internet. It is like letting a car dealership test drive a car- obviously there are costs involved which you may not recoup, but overall it is something that helps your business more than it hurts. They could ratchet up the spying and data mining to ridiculous levels, any maybe they will, but I don't think they necessarily need to in order to make a decent profit.
When you ask "What's in it for them"?, the answer might just be "Being an ISP is profitable".
*Google might be spending a lot on advertising, but I haven't seen anything. If they have 1000 cities begging for them to come and compete, they probably don't need to advertise.
But only one nation rides around on a high horse openly accusing others of it all the time. And that nation just got caught doing the exact thing it accuses everyone else of doing, and doing it on the scale that many didn't even think possible.
China is well known for violating IP rights. They are well known for seizing and copying any information they want. This is not only the US viewpoint. I have heard this in Japan, in Korea, in the Philippines, in Canada, and in Europe. So when someone accuses them of trying to copy information, not only does the shoe fit, it has CHINA monogrammed all over it and the sole pattern says China as well. When they cried foul, it was laughable based on China's reputation alone.
The US, in comparison, generally respects IP law and until very recently, there was little or no proof or history of hacking anybody. The only well-known incident that I can think of is the sabotage of Iranian centrifuges, which is a very specific and arguably a morally "good" target compared to what is known to have happened now.
He can run, but he cannot hide. South America is American's backyard. There will be no safe harbor there. Any country that shelters Snowden in SA will feel the full diplomatic weight of the great Empire breathing down their neck.
There are plenty of countries that don't care. Most of them may not be a place you would want to live if you are poor. If you have a pile of money, however, almost anywhere on earth can be nice.
Then it may have high compression and no anti knock sensors. My 2005 BMW can run either, but premium is recommended - it has the sensors, so you just lose a little power on regular which just driving around, I've never noticed.
Putting regular in a BMW isn't a brilliant money-saving idea. The couple times I tried it, the MPG dropped by around 20%. The difference between regular gas and premium gas isn't 20%. It might be 10% if they are really screwing the premium-gas purchaser. Buying regular gas in this case is foolish.
In the 60's everybody drove huge V8 powered behemoths. Then gas started getting expensive, and Japanese manufacturers started introducing small 4 cylinder cars. Many, many people said 'those small cars will never be suitable for me - I can't put the whole family and a ton a camping gear in there, they have too little power for my kind of driving, it will be too uncomfortable to drive for long distances, etc'.
What does the road look like today? It seems that an awful lot of people who thought they could not possibly use a small 4 cylinder car are, in fact, using small 4 cylinder cars. So what changed? First, the small cars themselves got better. Second, people realized that their actual driving requirements were not what they had thought they were. They realized they did not need a large car all year just so they could go on vacation once a year - you can rent a large car for that. They realized that you do not need a 400HP car just so they can tow their boat to the lake in spring and back again in fall - you can rent a truck or pay someone to haul the boat for you. In short, they realized that the benefits of a small car outweighed the supposed restrictions it put on their driving habits. And, of course, if you do actually need a large vehicle or truck, you can still buy one.
Electric cars are now pretty much in the same position as small cars were in the 70s. They will improve, and people will make their own decisions on which car is right for them.
I have to disagree here. In my grandmother's era, most V8 engines struggled to break 100hp. Plastics weren't invented/widely used in cars, so they were very heavy. Putting a I4 of the era into an all-steel car of that era is laughable. If anything, expectations for power/weight have increased.
Finding 0-60 times for old unmodified cars isn't all that easy, but the 1962 Lincoln Continental 7.0L V8 had a 0-60 time of 12.4 seconds with 300HP. Perhaps comparing to a new Lincoln would be appropriate, but a new Honda Civic with a not-terribly-exciting engine can do 0-60 in 9 seconds with about 140hp. You have to look pretty hard to find a car these days that takes more than 10 seconds to reach 60MPH. Stopping distances are much shorter, and new cars corner far better than the old ones. Driving requirements have actually gotten much more demanding, but weight and power advances have kept up.
I wonder how the whole thing will be able to move if there's a tsunami?
A tsunami big enough to cause much damage is unlikely to be generated locally, so there would probably be an hour or more of warning.
What would you do with your hour or more of Tsunami warning? The maximum natural elevation of the Maldives is about 8 feet above sea level. Apparently the elevation has been raised artificially in some areas, but I doubt it would be all that safe. I guess you could try to race out to sea (risky) or if you are a very lucky or rich person you could get in a plane and fly around until it passes. If the Tsunami is really bad you might not have a place to land, depending on the size of the plane.
Unpaid internships are used as a class barrier in many industries. It is simply too expensive for any "lower class plebs" to get into fashion or whatever, because they have to pay cost of living in some place like New York for years on no wage to get a foot in the door.
That is a huge clue to me that the job market for that industry is crap and I shouldn't be bothering with it. In certain industries, there will be 10 people standing behind you willing to do your job for less money and while working longer hours. I have a friend who used to work for a car crash-testing company. The hours pushed 80 hours a week, every week, and the pay was crap. But the company never had to look hard to find someone to work for them. That is not a career. That is a human gristmill.
"There are plenty of paid internships out there already"
That's a pretty broad statement that ignores a number of facts, such as: .....
3) Not every location has companies nearby willing to take on interns (think small cities and rural areas)
4) Not every paid internship is flexible enough to be viable
These are one of the biggest advantages of paid internships. The "real" job market doesn't have an XXXX in every podunk town. The "real" job market often is inflexible and not viable for certain careers in certain locations. My university had 2 co-ops as a graduation requirement. I didn't want to stay in Maine anyway, but it forced me to pack my stuff into my car, rent a room for 3 months on Craigslist, and work in a moderate-sized city. It forced me to live independently and handle my own affairs. It eliminated any fear I had about moving cross-country for a job. It reinforced in me the idea that getting a job often has nothing to do with your experience and everything to do with your connections. These are not drawbacks. This is the way the world works. It is invaluable experience.
...AMD went from 65w-95w with Athlon64 to now 140W+ and soon to be 220w and again they, just like netburst, are blinding trying to fix the fundamental flaws with the arch by simply cranking up the clocks.
It is far more likely they are selling the product they have while they try to come up with something better. My company is doing the same thing with one of our flagship products. The product isn't very good compared to the competition, so we apply various hacks and operation limits to try to get to their level. We don't do this because we think our product can be fixed this way. We do it so we can stay in business until we can build something better. You can't sell products that don't exist yet, and you can't stay in business very long without selling anything.
I wonder if that because no one cared or because it was a solid piece of software...
The latter.
I would also argue a third case. With audio/video, accuracy isn't as critical as with other data. You could have a bug which means that a pixel which should have an RGB value of 14C897 instead has a value of 14C896. It is quite possible that nobody would ever notice since the precision of the output is far beyond what any normal person can discern.
As the proud owner of a 3D printer whose parts I am slowly replacing with homemade ones (as a way to learn, mostly) I have to disagree. 3D printed parts do end up being a bit melty, but the difference between printing a gear and sanding it to tolerance, and carving one from scratch is huge.
I honestly can't figure out why you would do that when you could laser-cut, water-jet cut, or CNC* some wood or steel and be done in 1 step. If you're going to all the trouble of having an electronically-positioned tool, why not just hook it up to an electric motor and buy some milling cutters? Water-jet and laser cutting is outside the realm of most hobbyists, but homemade CNC machines are probably simpler than a 3d printer. You don't have to worry about adhesion, bead size, etc. I guess if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
*technically you should cut gears on a hobbing machine, but for hobbyist purposes a CNC should be fine.
People will recycle more when Recycling collection comes 1/week and Garbage collection comes 1/month. I can't speak for the entire US, but in the past 4 cities I have lived in, the calendar looked like this:
City 1 - Recycling program? What recycling program?? ('Merrica!)
City 2- Garbage 1/week, recycling 1/month. A large
City 3- Garbage 1/week, recycling 2/month. A 60-gallon bin, with wheels, machine-emptyable was provided.
City 4- Garbage 1/week, recycling 2/month. At first, an 18 gallon bin was provided. Later, it was changed to the 60-gallon bins.
The problem for us is that we were (and still are) filling up the 60 gallon recycle bin before the end of week 1. For a while we stockpiled the excess materials, hoping next week would have less volume and we could "catch up". It never did. The pickup truck refuses to handle anything that is not in the bin. I don't have the storage capacity to have 2 recycling bins, and even if I did, I'm not going to pay extra or it. Nor am I going to waste my time schlepping all of it to a transfer station (and burning $5 in gasoline to get there). I even tried doing the "garbage bin shuffle" and putting recyclables in my neighbors bins, but they are almost always full too. And I live in a condo community mostly filled with old people.
Well that depends on how you calculate time doesn't it?
I know this is supposed to be funny, but if you change the definition of "completed" to "as large as it is going to get", then the calculation of time gets a lot shorter.
If you think this is ridiculous, just look at ship construction. A ship is "completed" when it is launched, but the time required for fitting the equipment and commissioning can take years.
If you want an authentic Pac Man or Donkey Kong experience you need a 4-way joystick, not an 8 way. Heck even the example game in the article (Joust) used a 2-way in the original arcade cabinet...
Interesting fact, in Brazil, Joust was known as "Bird ass"
Can you be more specific? I thought designs and schematics would detail all of these things to make sure someone else knows what to do. It's a bad idea to let critical information get stuck in the heads of your scientists and engineers in case they, you know, die.
Here's one.
My company sells gas turbines for generating electricity. These are based on a standard design which is analyzed to death and then built full-scale to make sure it performs. There is one main package (the gas turbine) and then small little modules which resemble small shipping containers (10x10ft, 15x20ft, etc) with equipment inside. The piping and electricals is run between the packages and the little modules.
Even if you had all the blueprints and design documents, you could easilly fall into the trap of thinking that "modular" implies a similarity to LEGOs and you can lay out the modules wherever you want, changing the placement to suit the site conditions. Maybe you want to move Module X from the left side of the machine to the right side of the machine, or move Module Y by 20 feet in order to try to hide a noisy piece of equipment from a residential area.
On the surface, this sounds quite easy! Just make sure your pipefitters have a little extra pipe, and the electricians have a little extra wiring so they can connect it up. The problem is that the system is completely and tightly integrated-
The piping has been analyzed in the standard design for friction losses and thermal stress. Move the module without considering this, and maybe the system doesn't get quite the pressure it was expecting. Maybe the pipes crack because of thermal expansion.
The Hazardous area classification has been studied in the standard design. Pressurized, airtight, explosion-proof electrical junction boxes are expensive, so they don't get used if they aren't needed. You use a regular one instead. Not a problem at all if you aren't in a hazardous area. Move that module 20 feet, however, and maybe you have put it in a dangerous location.
The entire layout has been planned for maintenance and construction. There is enough room to take everything apart and put it back together again. If you move a module to the wrong spot, maybe you can't remove Part Y from the machine. Or maybe you don't have enough room to put a wrench on equipment Z, so you can't install it in the first place.
The electricals have been designed as an integrated system too, and optimized to use the smallest wire possible while still being reliable and safe. If you make the length longer, however, maybe the resistance loss is high enough that the signal is unreliable.
As the GP said, if you are stealing plans for complicated equipment, you basically have to get to know the design as well as the original designer. If you don't, it is very easy to make a small change for reasons of improvement or localization which completely breaks the design. This can happen even if you have every drawing and document ever made for the thing. Inevitably you will have to change something, especially if you are stealing from the US since we use imperial measurements. It can be as simple as using 26mm thick steel plate instead of 1 inch thick steel plate.
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If you add up and cut all the "less than 1%" garbage that is in a budget, maybe you can spare the biggest programs- the ones that presumably are more important.
I've heard arguments that "all the low hanging fruit is gone", "the easy to cut items have been cut already" etc. More pork is created every day by all members of congress. Recognizing wasteful spending and public backlash should be a continual process.
AMD Bobcat builds.....
I have one of these as an HTPC. It doesn't have quite enough power to do the job perfectly, but it has enough power that I can't yet justify replacing it with something else. Extremely frustrating when Youtube runs at a slightly choppy 20fps instead of 24.
I tried to use a service once which accepted various european-only bank transfer methods, or Paysafecard. Seemed ideal. I go to a gas station and buy a prepaid card/code using cash, then give the code to the provider and they credit my account. Unfortunately in both the 2 gas stations (both listed as vendors on (paysafecard.com) I went to, the clerks had no idea what I was talking about. I still don't know if they weren't familiar with this thing, or if the gas stations no longer carry these cards. It just isn't common enough to be usable in my area.
1-800-222-1222 is the US national poison control hotline.
1-800-222-2222 is a sex line.
Which one are you more likely to call if you remember "poison control hotline is a 1800 number with a lot of 2's " ?
What we need is the return of the DIN standard for car stereos, with some additions....
As much as I love the idea of the DIN standard, car radio theft is a huge problem with DIN style radios. Removing the faceplate every time you leave your car somewhere is a pain in the butt, and doesn't guarantee the radio won't be stolen anyway (radio theives aren't the smartest bunch). Car makers moving to nonstandard radios is the biggest reason car radio thefts have almost disappeared. I would much rather have bluetooth, a USB charging point, and an Aux port. Maybe we won't be using USB and bluetooth as a standard in 15 years, but I guarantee an adapter for USB->future power standard will be available, and you have to try really hard to make something incompatable with an AUX port.
Can't see many nations wanting him at this time.
There are plenty of nations that love to poke the US in the eye and don't cooperate with the US. I can name half a dozen, and I've heard that he is in contact with about 20. If he were on Iranian, North Korean, Cuban, Venezuela, Ecuador, etc soil he would be fine. The difficult issue is extracting him from where he is now. Putting somebody in your pocket is one thing. Removing him out of someone else's pocket is quite another.
I want to see Chernobyl please.
There are plenty of panoramio photos in the area. It is not the same experience as 360 degree photography, but there are enough photos that it wouldn't be my first choice.
The problem is most industries mis-use phillips heads. They are specifically designed to cam out.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
> Created by Henry F. Phillips, the Phillips screw drive was purposely designed to cam out when the screw stalled[citation needed], to prevent the fastener damaging the work or the head, instead damaging the driver. This was caused by the relative difficulty in building torque limiting into the early drivers.
Your statement is akin to blaming violent crimes on guns, or blaming obesity on spoons. Blame the manufacturers who spec phillips head screws and bolts into their assemblies.
I have never, ever, had this happen. I have never damaged a phillips driver- and I use more than my fair share of cheap chinese-made ones. I have had lots of stripped out screws. If Mr. Phillips designed it to damage the tool at the expense of the screw, he has failed utterly. This is not reality and I doubt it ever war.
Also, I don't know the relative pricing of drivers vs screws back in those days, but damaging even a $2 tool to spare a $0.20 piece of hardware is pretty dumb.
It sounds like you are only with one type, chain cuffs. They were popular for a few decades. They could be opened with a wire while wearing them,especially if not double locked. Most cuffs before and since don't have the chain in the middle, so if applied correctly it's nearly impossible to TOUCH the keyhole, much less pick it. If you can get the sound your butt and legs, you might be able to learn to pick them while holding the pick in your mouth.
Chain handcuffs still seem to be popular. Maybe they are cheaper. If you're throwing someone in the back of a police cruiser with safety glass between the front seat and backseat, and doors that don't open from the inside, handcuffs are just extra security.
That's exactly what TFA is talking about: when calculating the gain-cost-ratio of any new technologies, you have to always calculate in a) the cost of getting the technology to mature and b) the cost of keeping the technology up-to-date and c) the cost of finally scrapping the technology. Yes, we have several technologies. No, those technologies are not mature (e.g. we have no clue how they will scale, how much fine tuning it will take until they are at their designed power output and for how long they will maintain this output). And we don't know which incidents will happen in the future that force us to retrofit the technologies, and more so, at which point in time it will be cheaper just to scrap the new technologies instead of continous retrofitting.
Retrofitting instead of building a new plant is often strongly related to Permitting and fuel cost. For most practical purposes, it is impossible to build a new coal plant. There have been a couple built (Elm Road in Oak Creek, WI, Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center, etc) recently, but because of permitting and the CRAZY LOW cost of natural gas in the US, I don't expect to see more than 5 built in the next 10 years. The air permits are not easy to get for a new coal plant, and the ROI just doesn't favor a huge investment like that given the relative pricing of coal compared to other fuels.
Nuclear has a similar situation, only add in all the uncertainties about Nuclear policy, plus add a plant that costs 4 times as much as a comparable coal plant, plus add the additional financing costs (financing 8 billion dollars isn't cheap), plus add decommissioning costs which could be difficult to define.
Now consider that you could build a natural gas power plant, for around 500 million dollars, natural gas emissions are crystal clear and very clean, the neighbors won't complain nearly as much, and that natural gas cost is less than 1/2 the price that it was 10 years ago**. The choice of what kind of plant to build is almost a no-brainer.
**The price of natural gas in the US is about 1/5 to 1/4 the cost of natural gas in Europe or Asia. Even Russia's natural gas prices are 3.5 times what the US prices are. This makes the US a very special power market right now. It may be a contributing reason as to why US industry is suddenly a lot more competitive globally. I worry about the day when the gas in the US is not so cheap.
Its very possible the broadband itself is still profitable even if you have to string up all the lines yourself. I had absolutely 0 hassle negotiating my (not Google) 30/5 connection down to $35 a month. It made me wonder how much their costs really are if they don't bat an eye at cutting the price by 25%. Google's gigabit line (without TV) is ~$70 a month (construction fee waived). I find it completely reasonable that this is profitable- the bulk of costs are in the physical distribution infrastructure. It may even be wildly profitable. Google doesn't pay others for bandwidth. Google doesn't have national advertising campaigns with TV commercials and massive paper advertising*, which makes up a huge cost for Verizon, ATT, etc. Being an ISP will probably even help to balance their peering agreements a bit.
As for their free plans, if you are running fiber to a paying customer, running fiber to the non-paying customer 50 feet away isn't really adding that much cost over the long term- especially if you make them pay a $300 construction fee. Maybe that person decides the free plan isn't enough speed and becomes a paying customer. You can't look at internet advertising (Google's main business) if you don't have internet. It is like letting a car dealership test drive a car- obviously there are costs involved which you may not recoup, but overall it is something that helps your business more than it hurts. They could ratchet up the spying and data mining to ridiculous levels, any maybe they will, but I don't think they necessarily need to in order to make a decent profit.
When you ask "What's in it for them"?, the answer might just be "Being an ISP is profitable".
*Google might be spending a lot on advertising, but I haven't seen anything. If they have 1000 cities begging for them to come and compete, they probably don't need to advertise.
But only one nation rides around on a high horse openly accusing others of it all the time. And that nation just got caught doing the exact thing it accuses everyone else of doing, and doing it on the scale that many didn't even think possible.
China is well known for violating IP rights. They are well known for seizing and copying any information they want. This is not only the US viewpoint. I have heard this in Japan, in Korea, in the Philippines, in Canada, and in Europe. So when someone accuses them of trying to copy information, not only does the shoe fit, it has CHINA monogrammed all over it and the sole pattern says China as well. When they cried foul, it was laughable based on China's reputation alone.
The US, in comparison, generally respects IP law and until very recently, there was little or no proof or history of hacking anybody. The only well-known incident that I can think of is the sabotage of Iranian centrifuges, which is a very specific and arguably a morally "good" target compared to what is known to have happened now.
He can run, but he cannot hide. South America is American's backyard. There will be no safe harbor there. Any country that shelters Snowden in SA will feel the full diplomatic weight of the great Empire breathing down their neck.
There are plenty of countries that don't care. Most of them may not be a place you would want to live if you are poor. If you have a pile of money, however, almost anywhere on earth can be nice.
Then it may have high compression and no anti knock sensors. My 2005 BMW can run either, but premium is recommended - it has the sensors, so you just lose a little power on regular which just driving around, I've never noticed.
Putting regular in a BMW isn't a brilliant money-saving idea. The couple times I tried it, the MPG dropped by around 20%. The difference between regular gas and premium gas isn't 20%. It might be 10% if they are really screwing the premium-gas purchaser. Buying regular gas in this case is foolish.
In the 60's everybody drove huge V8 powered behemoths. Then gas started getting expensive, and Japanese manufacturers started introducing small 4 cylinder cars. Many, many people said 'those small cars will never be suitable for me - I can't put the whole family and a ton a camping gear in there, they have too little power for my kind of driving, it will be too uncomfortable to drive for long distances, etc'.
What does the road look like today? It seems that an awful lot of people who thought they could not possibly use a small 4 cylinder car are, in fact, using small 4 cylinder cars. So what changed? First, the small cars themselves got better. Second, people realized that their actual driving requirements were not what they had thought they were. They realized they did not need a large car all year just so they could go on vacation once a year - you can rent a large car for that. They realized that you do not need a 400HP car just so they can tow their boat to the lake in spring and back again in fall - you can rent a truck or pay someone to haul the boat for you. In short, they realized that the benefits of a small car outweighed the supposed restrictions it put on their driving habits. And, of course, if you do actually need a large vehicle or truck, you can still buy one.
Electric cars are now pretty much in the same position as small cars were in the 70s. They will improve, and people will make their own decisions on which car is right for them.
I have to disagree here. In my grandmother's era, most V8 engines struggled to break 100hp. Plastics weren't invented/widely used in cars, so they were very heavy. Putting a I4 of the era into an all-steel car of that era is laughable. If anything, expectations for power/weight have increased.
Finding 0-60 times for old unmodified cars isn't all that easy, but the 1962 Lincoln Continental 7.0L V8 had a 0-60 time of 12.4 seconds with 300HP. Perhaps comparing to a new Lincoln would be appropriate, but a new Honda Civic with a not-terribly-exciting engine can do 0-60 in 9 seconds with about 140hp. You have to look pretty hard to find a car these days that takes more than 10 seconds to reach 60MPH. Stopping distances are much shorter, and new cars corner far better than the old ones. Driving requirements have actually gotten much more demanding, but weight and power advances have kept up.
I wonder how the whole thing will be able to move if there's a tsunami?
A tsunami big enough to cause much damage is unlikely to be generated locally, so there would probably be an hour or more of warning.
What would you do with your hour or more of Tsunami warning? The maximum natural elevation of the Maldives is about 8 feet above sea level. Apparently the elevation has been raised artificially in some areas, but I doubt it would be all that safe. I guess you could try to race out to sea (risky) or if you are a very lucky or rich person you could get in a plane and fly around until it passes. If the Tsunami is really bad you might not have a place to land, depending on the size of the plane.
Unpaid internships are used as a class barrier in many industries. It is simply too expensive for any "lower class plebs" to get into fashion or whatever, because they have to pay cost of living in some place like New York for years on no wage to get a foot in the door.
That is a huge clue to me that the job market for that industry is crap and I shouldn't be bothering with it. In certain industries, there will be 10 people standing behind you willing to do your job for less money and while working longer hours. I have a friend who used to work for a car crash-testing company. The hours pushed 80 hours a week, every week, and the pay was crap. But the company never had to look hard to find someone to work for them. That is not a career. That is a human gristmill.
"There are plenty of paid internships out there already"
That's a pretty broad statement that ignores a number of facts, such as:
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3) Not every location has companies nearby willing to take on interns (think small cities and rural areas)
4) Not every paid internship is flexible enough to be viable
These are one of the biggest advantages of paid internships. The "real" job market doesn't have an XXXX in every podunk town. The "real" job market often is inflexible and not viable for certain careers in certain locations. My university had 2 co-ops as a graduation requirement. I didn't want to stay in Maine anyway, but it forced me to pack my stuff into my car, rent a room for 3 months on Craigslist, and work in a moderate-sized city. It forced me to live independently and handle my own affairs. It eliminated any fear I had about moving cross-country for a job. It reinforced in me the idea that getting a job often has nothing to do with your experience and everything to do with your connections. These are not drawbacks. This is the way the world works. It is invaluable experience.
...AMD went from 65w-95w with Athlon64 to now 140W+ and soon to be 220w and again they, just like netburst, are blinding trying to fix the fundamental flaws with the arch by simply cranking up the clocks.
It is far more likely they are selling the product they have while they try to come up with something better. My company is doing the same thing with one of our flagship products. The product isn't very good compared to the competition, so we apply various hacks and operation limits to try to get to their level. We don't do this because we think our product can be fixed this way. We do it so we can stay in business until we can build something better. You can't sell products that don't exist yet, and you can't stay in business very long without selling anything.
I wonder if that because no one cared or because it was a solid piece of software...
The latter.
I would also argue a third case. With audio/video, accuracy isn't as critical as with other data. You could have a bug which means that a pixel which should have an RGB value of 14C897 instead has a value of 14C896. It is quite possible that nobody would ever notice since the precision of the output is far beyond what any normal person can discern.
As the proud owner of a 3D printer whose parts I am slowly replacing with homemade ones (as a way to learn, mostly) I have to disagree. 3D printed parts do end up being a bit melty, but the difference between printing a gear and sanding it to tolerance, and carving one from scratch is huge.
I honestly can't figure out why you would do that when you could laser-cut, water-jet cut, or CNC* some wood or steel and be done in 1 step. If you're going to all the trouble of having an electronically-positioned tool, why not just hook it up to an electric motor and buy some milling cutters? Water-jet and laser cutting is outside the realm of most hobbyists, but homemade CNC machines are probably simpler than a 3d printer. You don't have to worry about adhesion, bead size, etc. I guess if you have a hammer everything looks like a nail.
*technically you should cut gears on a hobbing machine, but for hobbyist purposes a CNC should be fine.
People will recycle more when Recycling collection comes 1/week and Garbage collection comes 1/month. I can't speak for the entire US, but in the past 4 cities I have lived in, the calendar looked like this:
City 1 - Recycling program? What recycling program?? ('Merrica!)
City 2- Garbage 1/week, recycling 1/month. A large
City 3- Garbage 1/week, recycling 2/month. A 60-gallon bin, with wheels, machine-emptyable was provided.
City 4- Garbage 1/week, recycling 2/month. At first, an 18 gallon bin was provided. Later, it was changed to the 60-gallon bins.
The problem for us is that we were (and still are) filling up the 60 gallon recycle bin before the end of week 1. For a while we stockpiled the excess materials, hoping next week would have less volume and we could "catch up". It never did. The pickup truck refuses to handle anything that is not in the bin. I don't have the storage capacity to have 2 recycling bins, and even if I did, I'm not going to pay extra or it. Nor am I going to waste my time schlepping all of it to a transfer station (and burning $5 in gasoline to get there). I even tried doing the "garbage bin shuffle" and putting recyclables in my neighbors bins, but they are almost always full too. And I live in a condo community mostly filled with old people.
Well that depends on how you calculate time doesn't it?
I know this is supposed to be funny, but if you change the definition of "completed" to "as large as it is going to get", then the calculation of time gets a lot shorter.
If you think this is ridiculous, just look at ship construction. A ship is "completed" when it is launched, but the time required for fitting the equipment and commissioning can take years.
If you want an authentic Pac Man or Donkey Kong experience you need a 4-way joystick, not an 8 way. Heck even the example game in the article (Joust) used a 2-way in the original arcade cabinet...
Interesting fact, in Brazil, Joust was known as "Bird ass"
Can you be more specific? I thought designs and schematics would detail all of these things to make sure someone else knows what to do. It's a bad idea to let critical information get stuck in the heads of your scientists and engineers in case they, you know, die.
Here's one.
My company sells gas turbines for generating electricity. These are based on a standard design which is analyzed to death and then built full-scale to make sure it performs. There is one main package (the gas turbine) and then small little modules which resemble small shipping containers (10x10ft, 15x20ft, etc) with equipment inside. The piping and electricals is run between the packages and the little modules.
Even if you had all the blueprints and design documents, you could easilly fall into the trap of thinking that "modular" implies a similarity to LEGOs and you can lay out the modules wherever you want, changing the placement to suit the site conditions. Maybe you want to move Module X from the left side of the machine to the right side of the machine, or move Module Y by 20 feet in order to try to hide a noisy piece of equipment from a residential area.
On the surface, this sounds quite easy! Just make sure your pipefitters have a little extra pipe, and the electricians have a little extra wiring so they can connect it up. The problem is that the system is completely and tightly integrated-
The piping has been analyzed in the standard design for friction losses and thermal stress. Move the module without considering this, and maybe the system doesn't get quite the pressure it was expecting. Maybe the pipes crack because of thermal expansion.
The Hazardous area classification has been studied in the standard design. Pressurized, airtight, explosion-proof electrical junction boxes are expensive, so they don't get used if they aren't needed. You use a regular one instead. Not a problem at all if you aren't in a hazardous area. Move that module 20 feet, however, and maybe you have put it in a dangerous location.
The entire layout has been planned for maintenance and construction. There is enough room to take everything apart and put it back together again. If you move a module to the wrong spot, maybe you can't remove Part Y from the machine. Or maybe you don't have enough room to put a wrench on equipment Z, so you can't install it in the first place.
The electricals have been designed as an integrated system too, and optimized to use the smallest wire possible while still being reliable and safe. If you make the length longer, however, maybe the resistance loss is high enough that the signal is unreliable.
As the GP said, if you are stealing plans for complicated equipment, you basically have to get to know the design as well as the original designer. If you don't, it is very easy to make a small change for reasons of improvement or localization which completely breaks the design. This can happen even if you have every drawing and document ever made for the thing. Inevitably you will have to change something, especially if you are stealing from the US since we use imperial measurements. It can be as simple as using 26mm thick steel plate instead of 1 inch thick steel plate.