Probably because gravity (the gravitational constant) will turn out not to be scale invariant.
Dark matter/dark energy might work as explainers for expansion of the universe and rotational velocities of parts of galaxies. But once that theory is accepted, one will have to explain why dark whatever doesn't seem to affect planetary motions and someone dropping cannon balls off a tower.
... Because they're cowards. When Martin Luther King marched, he marched in the deep south, in the open streets. When Ghandi protested, he sat in plain public view, risking death, to champion non-violent revolution.
Cowards? I dare any pedestrian to step in front of one of our county transit buses. Those people have the balls of the Tienanmen Square tank guy.
There are a few wealthy black people living in my upscale neighborhood. Nothing wrong with that. But the wealthy Asians have practically everyone else outnumbered.
The mathematics governing many physical phenomena is strikingly similar. Its the frequency and wavelength that make them look radically different. Heat dissipation due to day/night cycles through a structure looks a lot like microwave attenuation in a surface. Same math, different time scale.
It also makes one wonder if the eventual form of a galaxy will resemble a planetary disc, with a bunch of large bodies (black holes?) orbiting a really big central one, surrounded by largely empty space.
... but if they want to take advantage of my skill set, the end product will end up looking like what I do at home.
Being in the engineering (electrical) field, most of my software projects have been voluntary. Need something done? I can do that. Oh, you wanted it done on Windows? Sorry, I don't do Windows. I know my way around Linux or some other *nixes. If that's not suitable, find someone else to do it. In some cases, after a few months of playing with point and drool with no progress, they come back.
Most of the challenge in what I build is the domain knowledge. My skill set with tools and environments (the proper ones) is sufficient to get the job done with minimal fussing over those issues. People who agonize over the language, IDE, or O/S of the day are making more trouble for themselves. Since at the end of the day the domain problem is still staring them in the face.
Throughout much of mankind's history, lessons have been handed down from one generation to the next by wrapping them in some fable or fictional tale. You think Aesop was just teaching us about talking animals?
The stories don't have to be true or even plausible (Aesop's Fables, Star Wars, etc.). Just written well to communicate the underlying message.
One significant work of fiction written to communicate moral lessons is the Bible. Too bad so many people miss the messages by taking the hokum and miracles at face value. Perhaps a few phased plasma cannons thrown in could have fixed that.
What can happen when the boss has an ulterior motive of which the staff is unaware. Worse yet, that motive requires that the project, as officially defined, must fail miserably.
I've been on a number of in-house projects where someone up the chain got a call from some outside vendor. If only your project were to fail, we could be brought in to consult/rescue it/sell your company our technology. And you'd get a kickback for that.
Pay no attention to the entrails of your staff splattered about the landscape.
I, like the vast majority of the US, am neither a shareholder nor employee of Boeing. Explain to me how this costs me a lot of money.
Do you have a pension or a 401K invested in a mutual fund? If so, you are almost certainly a shareholder of Boeing.
Beyond that, Boeing is a part of the military industrial good-old-boy club. Much more so after they were taken over by McDonnell-Douglas. In that club, rule #1 is: You will not lose money. If you lose an important sale, Congress will see to it that the Pentagon buys as many $500 hammers and $2000 toilet seats as it takes to make up the difference. Guess who pays for that?
This might change some of Boeing's thinking with regard to relocating their commercial operations. Back when I worked there (before McDonald Douglas took over), Boeing Commercial Aircraft was largely a stand alone enterprise. In fact, there was some talk about spinning off the military and aerospace divisions. That changed after the merger and some of the recent reorganizations have combined commercial and military aircraft engineering groups.
But if the rest of the world perceives Boeing as being a tool of the USA's political/military complex, they might want to reconsider tainting their successful commercial jet business with that reputation. The F/A-18 deal is lost. But the company will really be up a creek if they start losing commercial sales as well.
I'd expect the FBI to use its collection of Bitcoin to engage in a number of sting operations. Buy contraband using their Btc and break up the next Silk Road. I'm sure they are getting set up with their own mining operation which would give them an up to date view of the block chain.
Now this makes sense. I was trying to figure out how a DNA test would reveal drug or alcohol use. But it makes sense if you look at it like a scam distributed by spam e-mail. Poor grammar, misspellings and outlandish claims serve to filter out people with some critical thinking skills. People for who such pleas would be a waste of time.
If you think a police dragnet for DNA is legitimate for "making roads safer", you are just a data point on how much crap an authority figure can dish out with a bullshit story.
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Probably because gravity (the gravitational constant) will turn out not to be scale invariant.
Dark matter/dark energy might work as explainers for expansion of the universe and rotational velocities of parts of galaxies. But once that theory is accepted, one will have to explain why dark whatever doesn't seem to affect planetary motions and someone dropping cannon balls off a tower.
It turns out that a coding error in SSL may have inadvertently(?) disabled the NIST/NSA recommended RNG.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/20/openssl_crypto_bug_beneficial_sorta/
... Because they're cowards. When Martin Luther King marched, he marched in the deep south, in the open streets. When Ghandi protested, he sat in plain public view, risking death, to champion non-violent revolution.
Cowards? I dare any pedestrian to step in front of one of our county transit buses. Those people have the balls of the Tienanmen Square tank guy.
There are a few wealthy black people living in my upscale neighborhood. Nothing wrong with that. But the wealthy Asians have practically everyone else outnumbered.
So you were saying what about white people?
"I'm here to put you back on schedule."
that there seems to been a bit of a disagreement as to whether they should even be snapping that photo.
I can understand that. Film* was a precious commodity and they didn't want to miss a required shot by snapping a bunch of unplanned crap.
*Don't ask, kid. And stay off my lawn!
*He probably jammed his bicycle in Bertha's gears.
All the data and documents you can carry.
This.
The mathematics governing many physical phenomena is strikingly similar. Its the frequency and wavelength that make them look radically different. Heat dissipation due to day/night cycles through a structure looks a lot like microwave attenuation in a surface. Same math, different time scale.
It also makes one wonder if the eventual form of a galaxy will resemble a planetary disc, with a bunch of large bodies (black holes?) orbiting a really big central one, surrounded by largely empty space.
Being in the engineering (electrical) field, most of my software projects have been voluntary. Need something done? I can do that. Oh, you wanted it done on Windows? Sorry, I don't do Windows. I know my way around Linux or some other *nixes. If that's not suitable, find someone else to do it. In some cases, after a few months of playing with point and drool with no progress, they come back.
Most of the challenge in what I build is the domain knowledge. My skill set with tools and environments (the proper ones) is sufficient to get the job done with minimal fussing over those issues. People who agonize over the language, IDE, or O/S of the day are making more trouble for themselves. Since at the end of the day the domain problem is still staring them in the face.
Yeah. Stop eating my motor vehicle fuel additives.
The pitfalls of treating staff as interchangeable resources.
And me without mod points. Where did that requisition form go to?
And there's proper requirements communication: "Bloody typical, they've gone back to metric without telling us."
And District 9.
Learn about mythology and storytelling.
Throughout much of mankind's history, lessons have been handed down from one generation to the next by wrapping them in some fable or fictional tale. You think Aesop was just teaching us about talking animals?
The stories don't have to be true or even plausible (Aesop's Fables, Star Wars, etc.). Just written well to communicate the underlying message.
One significant work of fiction written to communicate moral lessons is the Bible. Too bad so many people miss the messages by taking the hokum and miracles at face value. Perhaps a few phased plasma cannons thrown in could have fixed that.
What can happen when the boss has an ulterior motive of which the staff is unaware. Worse yet, that motive requires that the project, as officially defined, must fail miserably.
I've been on a number of in-house projects where someone up the chain got a call from some outside vendor. If only your project were to fail, we could be brought in to consult/rescue it/sell your company our technology. And you'd get a kickback for that.
Pay no attention to the entrails of your staff splattered about the landscape.
You can't fiddle with your cell phone on a plane anyway. You could cause it to crash.
Good point. But I take my SIM out and change it quite often. A few times a year when I travel. And every couple of years when I upgrade my phone.
I, like the vast majority of the US, am neither a shareholder nor employee of Boeing. Explain to me how this costs me a lot of money.
Do you have a pension or a 401K invested in a mutual fund? If so, you are almost certainly a shareholder of Boeing.
Beyond that, Boeing is a part of the military industrial good-old-boy club. Much more so after they were taken over by McDonnell-Douglas. In that club, rule #1 is: You will not lose money. If you lose an important sale, Congress will see to it that the Pentagon buys as many $500 hammers and $2000 toilet seats as it takes to make up the difference. Guess who pays for that?
This might change some of Boeing's thinking with regard to relocating their commercial operations. Back when I worked there (before McDonald Douglas took over), Boeing Commercial Aircraft was largely a stand alone enterprise. In fact, there was some talk about spinning off the military and aerospace divisions. That changed after the merger and some of the recent reorganizations have combined commercial and military aircraft engineering groups.
But if the rest of the world perceives Boeing as being a tool of the USA's political/military complex, they might want to reconsider tainting their successful commercial jet business with that reputation. The F/A-18 deal is lost. But the company will really be up a creek if they start losing commercial sales as well.
I'd expect the FBI to use its collection of Bitcoin to engage in a number of sting operations. Buy contraband using their Btc and break up the next Silk Road. I'm sure they are getting set up with their own mining operation which would give them an up to date view of the block chain.
Now this makes sense. I was trying to figure out how a DNA test would reveal drug or alcohol use. But it makes sense if you look at it like a scam distributed by spam e-mail. Poor grammar, misspellings and outlandish claims serve to filter out people with some critical thinking skills. People for who such pleas would be a waste of time.
If you think a police dragnet for DNA is legitimate for "making roads safer", you are just a data point on how much crap an authority figure can dish out with a bullshit story.