Then perhaps companies should keep their research internal to employees rather than outsource to open universities.
All the company direct employees want to move into management. As such, they become pretty useless when it's time to get actual work out of them. So, send it out to universities or consultants.
rather than getting it 'on the cheap'
Some time ago, one of the regulars on Usenet electronics design board was discussing a consulting job he did for Boeing. It involved the development of a Spice model for a relatively simple electrical component. Good job, well documented. But it was something that an EE intern could have done in-house. I have an idea whet this guy charges. It's not inexpensive, even compared to top tier engineering employees. So 'cheap' isn't the motivation.
By 1994, Mosaic would build pretty easily on a Slackware distribution. I had that, NCSA httpd and a few other goodies installed on a Dell PC that Boeing was good enough to drop on my desk a few months before the Windows install crew could get around with their box-o-floppies. By the time they did stop by, I just told them "Never mind."
Engineering was responsible for providing documents to the factory floor. Which was done with a convoluted combination of an index database (accessible via 3270 terminals), some notes scribbled on a piece of paper and then a manual search for a file on some server share. Along with all the possible fat-finger errors imaginable. So one day I was goofing around with httpd and managed to get a read-only link to the mainframe to select datasets applicable to a particular plane. And then format a link to the document server. Two clicks and you're done. I showed it to my boss who showed it to some factory managers. Boss came back from meeting and said, "The shop wants this web thingy in production in two weeks." So we got an actual server (Sun), built the pieces and made the schedule. Factory loved it. Boeing computer services* hated it. They figured that this kind of development could have earned them a few tens of millions of dollars and a fully staffed program for a year or two.
*One of their IT guys asked me how I (the sole maintainer of the entire web system) managed to build the HTML index pages from a database dump to keep the web data up to date. They didn't understand dynamic pages back then.
How do you know he's a stereotypical nerd? Just because he knows his way around a computer? We've got a pretty good developer on staff that could pass for Vin Diesel.
... the gender of the authors? Or the characters? Because I thought The Martian was a pretty good book/movie. And it represented a fair cross section of genders and races in its cast. In spite of the fact that the book was written by a dude. So, not so 'stale, pale and male'.
Actually, reading TFA, it appears that Foxconn and the city of Racine (who made the request) are meeting the requirements of the water agreement. And if you search on-line for other Lake Michigan water requests, quite a few have been approved since the latest regulations have been put in place.
Arguments over the 'spirit' of the water compact are pretty meaningless when communities make permit applications for more swimming pools, golf courses and rich people's developments. And get no push back from the greenies.
Looks like Microsoft was pushing the definition of counterfeit. And they got what they wanted, a precedent set.
Now, IANAL, but I suspect that there are advantages to winning a case of counterfeit vs copyright. There may be an entirely different federal law enforcement squad that handles each type of case. And the counterfeit cops have more automatic weapons and armored vehicles at their disposal.
And if you drained 1000' from Lake Michigan, it would be gone. Why not use an argument that even remotely resembles the actual situation? Drawing off 3.3 million gallons of water will reduce the lake level by less than a wavelength of visible light. What is a legitimate argument is that there are rules and processes that have to be followed to make such a draw. And so far, it appears that Foxconn followed the proper procedures. And even if you extrapolate this precedent to some ridiculous level, it still isn't that big a deal.
Very little. Go into a forest that's been growing for the last 20,000 years, since the last glacial retreat. You can dig through the organic layers* of the soil pretty easily with a hand shovel. So, where did that 20,000 years of carbon accumulation go? When the trees died, fell down and rotted? Some was taken back up by new growth. Not all of the carbon in live trees was pulled out of the atmosphere. The rest was eaten by microbes and expelled back into the atmosphere as CO2.
*Peat bogs are a notable exception to this. But the anaerobic conditions required to form bogs are rare.
But plants, by themselves have a finite life. They grow, absorbing CO2. And then they die, rotting and releasing it. So plants are carbon neutral over a long term. What we need to to is to interrupt this cycle and remove the sequestered carbon before it is returned as CO2.
Trees make an excellent carbon sink, as long as you can remove them with logging trucks before they die.
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We were going to use it to charge your car. But it was reallocated to concrete production. I hope you didn't trade in that diesel bro-truck.
An electrochemical process? Thank goodness we have unlimited supplies of CO2-free electricity available.
And it looks like practically every western city just before its historical Big Fire.
The average side street in most American cities is 25-35mph.
20 mph in Seattle. Because stoned hobos wandering in streets.
Why not Carousel?
In true form for British humor, this URL works as well (SFW):
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/02/cambridge_anal_plugged/
Sorry. I forgot the <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags.
Then perhaps companies should keep their research internal to employees rather than outsource to open universities.
All the company direct employees want to move into management. As such, they become pretty useless when it's time to get actual work out of them. So, send it out to universities or consultants.
rather than getting it 'on the cheap'
Some time ago, one of the regulars on Usenet electronics design board was discussing a consulting job he did for Boeing. It involved the development of a Spice model for a relatively simple electrical component. Good job, well documented. But it was something that an EE intern could have done in-house. I have an idea whet this guy charges. It's not inexpensive, even compared to top tier engineering employees. So 'cheap' isn't the motivation.
By 1994, Mosaic would build pretty easily on a Slackware distribution. I had that, NCSA httpd and a few other goodies installed on a Dell PC that Boeing was good enough to drop on my desk a few months before the Windows install crew could get around with their box-o-floppies. By the time they did stop by, I just told them "Never mind."
Engineering was responsible for providing documents to the factory floor. Which was done with a convoluted combination of an index database (accessible via 3270 terminals), some notes scribbled on a piece of paper and then a manual search for a file on some server share. Along with all the possible fat-finger errors imaginable. So one day I was goofing around with httpd and managed to get a read-only link to the mainframe to select datasets applicable to a particular plane. And then format a link to the document server. Two clicks and you're done. I showed it to my boss who showed it to some factory managers. Boss came back from meeting and said, "The shop wants this web thingy in production in two weeks." So we got an actual server (Sun), built the pieces and made the schedule. Factory loved it. Boeing computer services* hated it. They figured that this kind of development could have earned them a few tens of millions of dollars and a fully staffed program for a year or two.
*One of their IT guys asked me how I (the sole maintainer of the entire web system) managed to build the HTML index pages from a database dump to keep the web data up to date. They didn't understand dynamic pages back then.
Nope. Even then, it was pretty clear that it's primary application would be to replace teletype ASCII porn.
and dialing-up with a 14.4 modem. Changed my life.
Correction: It will change your life. When that page finishes loading.
middle-eastern-ethnicity protagonist
Muslim?
she was from the Moon
That could be a problem. How can you worship by a lunar calendar when (for you) the moon never rises, sets or changes phases?
audiobook voiced by Rosario Dawson
Rosario is hot. I'll have to check that out. [Aw shit! There go all my SJW points with that 'hot' comment.]
Just climb that pole with your extension cord and hook yourself up.
nerds in prison?
How do you know he's a stereotypical nerd? Just because he knows his way around a computer? We've got a pretty good developer on staff that could pass for Vin Diesel.
Oh yeah. And then there's Alien.
Actually, reading TFA, it appears that Foxconn and the city of Racine (who made the request) are meeting the requirements of the water agreement. And if you search on-line for other Lake Michigan water requests, quite a few have been approved since the latest regulations have been put in place.
Arguments over the 'spirit' of the water compact are pretty meaningless when communities make permit applications for more swimming pools, golf courses and rich people's developments. And get no push back from the greenies.
Looks like Microsoft was pushing the definition of counterfeit. And they got what they wanted, a precedent set.
Now, IANAL, but I suspect that there are advantages to winning a case of counterfeit vs copyright. There may be an entirely different federal law enforcement squad that handles each type of case. And the counterfeit cops have more automatic weapons and armored vehicles at their disposal.
If you drain 10' of water
Reductio ad absurdum.
And if you drained 1000' from Lake Michigan, it would be gone. Why not use an argument that even remotely resembles the actual situation? Drawing off 3.3 million gallons of water will reduce the lake level by less than a wavelength of visible light. What is a legitimate argument is that there are rules and processes that have to be followed to make such a draw. And so far, it appears that Foxconn followed the proper procedures. And even if you extrapolate this precedent to some ridiculous level, it still isn't that big a deal.
Some of it turns into soil.
Very little. Go into a forest that's been growing for the last 20,000 years, since the last glacial retreat. You can dig through the organic layers* of the soil pretty easily with a hand shovel. So, where did that 20,000 years of carbon accumulation go? When the trees died, fell down and rotted? Some was taken back up by new growth. Not all of the carbon in live trees was pulled out of the atmosphere. The rest was eaten by microbes and expelled back into the atmosphere as CO2.
*Peat bogs are a notable exception to this. But the anaerobic conditions required to form bogs are rare.
But plants, by themselves have a finite life. They grow, absorbing CO2. And then they die, rotting and releasing it. So plants are carbon neutral over a long term. What we need to to is to interrupt this cycle and remove the sequestered carbon before it is returned as CO2.
Trees make an excellent carbon sink, as long as you can remove them with logging trucks before they die.