Tell me again who's the real winner when it takes a 5 billion dollar nuclear aircraft carrier to deploy a 20 million dollar plane flown by a pilot with a million dollar education, dropping a ten thousand dollar bomb just to kill some Iraqi kid hiding in a hole with a $20 russian surplus rifle? It wouldn't be so hard, except we aren't allowed to kill anybody except the guy with the rifle (of course he has no cares about who he kills). We could easily get the job done with cheaper technology and firebombing the entire city into a pile of ashes. Ironic, we spend billions on defense to kill less people.
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Uh, have you ever looked at the fat & calorie content in most cheeses?! Most cheeses have high fat & calorie content, but the amount you eat (or can even stand to eat) is small. A couple of little cubes on a stick, maybe a couple crackers and a piece of bread and you're done. As opposed to a couple dozen wings, some nachos, and chili cheese fries. Wine generally has a stronger flavor than your average (American) beer. American beer has flavor?:) And perhaps most importantly, it's not packaged in convenient aluminum containers Boxed wine is always convenient
but in general they're introducing inefficiencies in the system especially farm subsidies I find farm subsidies are misunderstood. They are very important to ensure stability. Food is essential for our country, low margin, unstable (provided by nature), and a slow industry to enter (must enter at specific points during the year, due to seasons). Natural economic forces would provide just enough farms to produce just enough food. However, unpredictable events like a big flood, can wipe out entire businesses. What subsidies do is ensure we have extra "farming capacity" in case something catastrophic happens, so we don't have the scary prospect of food shortages.
Those people are too busy working to visit/.:) I think there has been a fundamental shift in IT, it's no longer.com startups or IT companies providing IT services. IT is now becoming integrated inside all kinds of companies, so now there are IT folks in manufacturing, retail, and other non-IT businesses.
Just because your friends are unemployed doesn't mean that the employment rate is any different. Jobs shift around geographically and shift industries. Maybe there are less IT jobs and more other kinds of jobs. "Now I know 2 people who are having a hard time finding work making the same amount they made back then." is not a very strong arguement about the economy. You can point to consumer confidence indicators being down and shrinking of the labor pool (people looking for jobs). I'm against Bush, because I think he has aliented the international community and does not hold people accountable for failures (ie Nat. Security Advisor, and head of CIA). You don't have catastrophic intelligence failures and turn around and say those people are "doing a good job"/rant
This isn't limited to IT professionals, its part of the real world of engineering. When I graduated in 2000 (peak of the tech bubble), anybody with a CS or EE was picked right up. Myself and some friends of mine weren't CS or EE, and struggled to get jobs. I was lucky I got a good job offer before graduation; but one ChemE friend became a database administrator. Another was a MatSci major and had to accept a contractor position doing material testing until this year, and another was an aerospace engineer who had to get a job doing some mechanical simulations. The IT industry has come back down to earth, and qualified people might not be able to get a job in IT, just as qualified people in other engineering professions can't always get their preferred job.
Technology has always been running the same course, incremental steps. Many times a "groundbreaking" idea or piece of technology has to wait for other technologies to catch up, or because it doesn't make good business sense. Like you said the internet has been building for a long time, but it had to wait for hardware prices to come down and wide scale adoption for it to change our lives. Flip chip packaging was invented by IBM in the 70's, but it didn't make sense to use until chip designs, silicon processes, and assembly equipment could catch up, same with immersion lithography, which is now becoming necessary. Not only do you have to create something you also have to be able to sell it. It doesn't make sense to spend billions of dollars on a new idea, when there is no advantage. What would be the advantage to a company to develop a flying car? How many times have companies failed at the "automated kitchen" There are better architectures than x86, just nobody will buy them Cars get this treatment all the time. The differnce between the new model and the old model is the freakin' plastic brake light reflectors Airbags, fuel injection, quieter interior, anti-lock brakes. It takes time to integrate new technologies into a product. You want the company to stop selling cars for 10 years until the next improvement can be integrated? Just like microchips, you have constant incremental improvement, so it doesn't seem like there were any breakthroughs, but if you look at a chip from 7 years ago, there are many major changes. Technology outside of IT moves unbelievably slowly. I would say medicine is changing just as fast. I think this is a reflection of what we care about as a species. knowledge and our own health.
By in China, Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects are all written using ideographs, where one glyph represents a single word. As a result, it is impossible to form acronyms worker 1: Hey what is this character? worker 2: Oh that is short for spear guy, picnic table, hangman, jumping jack guy. worker 1: I'll never understand all these acronyms
It's more a reflection of poor land line infrastructure. Many "poor" countries have high use of cell phones because it's the only way the people can get service. Pop. Growth.57%.vs..92% How are we ever going to catch up with such a low rate of population growth. I volunteer to do my part in helping improve our numbers,/. hotties contact me.:)
This is the same thing that was said in the 80's about Japan. The US spent too much on the cold war, all manufacturing jobs have gone away, and Japan is going to take over economic and technical leadership of the world. IIRC Japan has been in a recession for the past 10 years I think China certainly has the ability to take over economic and technical leadership. Large, well educated population and natural resources. It will require good management of the economy by the country's leadership. Explosive growth isn't always best, you need monetary stability, and inflation control.
I think CPU comparison vs car engines is a valid one. Engines just like CPUs have a number of different features each of which are important. You can't just choose an engine based on one measurement, there are an assorment of features: horsepower, max RPM, torque, gear ratios, fuel economy; same with CPU you have GHz, cache size, memory controller, power efficiency. A well engineered product will maximize all these features, or emphasize certain features over another depending on application. For example Pentium-M power consumption, or torque in a truck engine. Higher-revving engines, properly engineered, also allow better fuel economy because of their smaller frictional loss. Wouldn't higher revving = higher frictional loss, and less fuel economy? If you are moving something faster against a surface, and increasing the number of times it rubs against I would assume the friction would be higher. Isn't why cars are more fuel efficient at higher gears, since the revs are lower, more power/stroke. I would think in F1 the engines are high revving for faster acceleration I'm not a car guy so was just curious about that.
We have not detected dark matter. We have a set of data that deviates from classical theory so the theory of dark matter was devised to account for this discrepancy. Right now we don't even know the nature of the dark matter (large bodies or small particles), it is possible it could be neither and that what we see is a fundamental problem with our understanding of gravity.
The reason you need a licence to use software is because your CPU makes a copy of the program (in RAM) and this would otherwise violate the programmer's copyright The CPU does not make a copy of the program into RAM, RAM is where the used data (not necessarily the entire program) resides. I think this falls under fair use: 117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs (a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -- Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner. IANAL, but I think this would qualify as an adaption of a computer program for use in conjunction with a machine.
I wonder how much "noise" there is with all the natural seismic activity in Japan (3 large earthquakes in last week). If anybody is interested there is a way to determine if the seismic activity is from an explosion or from an earthquake, or nuclear blast.
Unfortunately, this would kill out some of the already endangered animals such as polar bears. And make the land more habitable for other species. The world changes, species adapt or die, so is life.
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Tell me again who's the real winner when it takes a 5 billion dollar nuclear aircraft carrier to deploy a 20 million dollar plane flown by a pilot with a million dollar education, dropping a ten thousand dollar bomb just to kill some Iraqi kid hiding in a hole with a $20 russian surplus rifle?
It wouldn't be so hard, except we aren't allowed to kill anybody except the guy with the rifle (of course he has no cares about who he kills). We could easily get the job done with cheaper technology and firebombing the entire city into a pile of ashes. Ironic, we spend billions on defense to kill less people.
You can always go to plan B and: /.
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Servo Magazine had a feature last month on the Robosapien.
Nice to see one of the 'bots moving on from MST3k
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Uh, have you ever looked at the fat & calorie content in most cheeses?! :)
Most cheeses have high fat & calorie content, but the amount you eat (or can even stand to eat) is small. A couple of little cubes on a stick, maybe a couple crackers and a piece of bread and you're done. As opposed to a couple dozen wings, some nachos, and chili cheese fries.
Wine generally has a stronger flavor than your average (American) beer.
American beer has flavor?
And perhaps most importantly, it's not packaged in convenient aluminum containers
Boxed wine is always convenient
It also has to do with the food that accompanies the drink. "Beer 'n' wings" vs. "Wine and Cheese"
but in general they're introducing inefficiencies in the system especially farm subsidies
I find farm subsidies are misunderstood. They are very important to ensure stability.
Food is essential for our country, low margin, unstable (provided by nature), and a slow industry to enter (must enter at specific points during the year, due to seasons).
Natural economic forces would provide just enough farms to produce just enough food. However, unpredictable events like a big flood, can wipe out entire businesses. What subsidies do is ensure we have extra "farming capacity" in case something catastrophic happens, so we don't have the scary prospect of food shortages.
Those people are too busy working to visit /. :) .com startups or IT companies providing IT services. IT is now becoming integrated inside all kinds of companies, so now there are IT folks in manufacturing, retail, and other non-IT businesses.
I think there has been a fundamental shift in IT, it's no longer
Just because your friends are unemployed doesn't mean that the employment rate is any different. Jobs shift around geographically and shift industries. Maybe there are less IT jobs and more other kinds of jobs. /rant
"Now I know 2 people who are having a hard time finding work making the same amount they made back then." is not a very strong arguement about the economy. You can point to consumer confidence indicators being down and shrinking of the labor pool (people looking for jobs).
I'm against Bush, because I think he has aliented the international community and does not hold people accountable for failures (ie Nat. Security Advisor, and head of CIA). You don't have catastrophic intelligence failures and turn around and say those people are "doing a good job"
This isn't limited to IT professionals, its part of the real world of engineering.
When I graduated in 2000 (peak of the tech bubble), anybody with a CS or EE was picked right up. Myself and some friends of mine weren't CS or EE, and struggled to get jobs. I was lucky I got a good job offer before graduation; but one ChemE friend became a database administrator. Another was a MatSci major and had to accept a contractor position doing material testing until this year, and another was an aerospace engineer who had to get a job doing some mechanical simulations.
The IT industry has come back down to earth, and qualified people might not be able to get a job in IT, just as qualified people in other engineering professions can't always get their preferred job.
Technology has always been running the same course, incremental steps.
Many times a "groundbreaking" idea or piece of technology has to wait for other technologies to catch up, or because it doesn't make good business sense. Like you said the internet has been building for a long time, but it had to wait for hardware prices to come down and wide scale adoption for it to change our lives. Flip chip packaging was invented by IBM in the 70's, but it didn't make sense to use until chip designs, silicon processes, and assembly equipment could catch up, same with immersion lithography, which is now becoming necessary.
Not only do you have to create something you also have to be able to sell it. It doesn't make sense to spend billions of dollars on a new idea, when there is no advantage. What would be the advantage to a company to develop a flying car? How many times have companies failed at the "automated kitchen" There are better architectures than x86, just nobody will buy them
Cars get this treatment all the time. The differnce between the new model and the old model is the freakin' plastic brake light reflectors
Airbags, fuel injection, quieter interior, anti-lock brakes. It takes time to integrate new technologies into a product. You want the company to stop selling cars for 10 years until the next improvement can be integrated? Just like microchips, you have constant incremental improvement, so it doesn't seem like there were any breakthroughs, but if you look at a chip from 7 years ago, there are many major changes.
Technology outside of IT moves unbelievably slowly.
I would say medicine is changing just as fast. I think this is a reflection of what we care about as a species. knowledge and our own health.
By in China, Mandarin, Cantonese and other dialects are all written using ideographs, where one glyph represents a single word. As a result, it is impossible to form acronyms
worker 1: Hey what is this character?
worker 2: Oh that is short for spear guy, picnic table, hangman, jumping jack guy.
worker 1: I'll never understand all these acronyms
It's more a reflection of poor land line infrastructure. Many "poor" countries have high use of cell phones because it's the only way the people can get service. .57% .vs. .92% /. hotties contact me. :)
Pop. Growth
How are we ever going to catch up with such a low rate of population growth. I volunteer to do my part in helping improve our numbers,
This is the same thing that was said in the 80's about Japan. The US spent too much on the cold war, all manufacturing jobs have gone away, and Japan is going to take over economic and technical leadership of the world. IIRC Japan has been in a recession for the past 10 years
I think China certainly has the ability to take over economic and technical leadership. Large, well educated population and natural resources. It will require good management of the economy by the country's leadership. Explosive growth isn't always best, you need monetary stability, and inflation control.
I think CPU comparison vs car engines is a valid one. Engines just like CPUs have a number of different features each of which are important.
You can't just choose an engine based on one measurement, there are an assorment of features: horsepower, max RPM, torque, gear ratios, fuel economy; same with CPU you have GHz, cache size, memory controller, power efficiency.
A well engineered product will maximize all these features, or emphasize certain features over another depending on application. For example Pentium-M power consumption, or torque in a truck engine.
Higher-revving engines, properly engineered, also allow better fuel economy because of their smaller frictional loss.
Wouldn't higher revving = higher frictional loss, and less fuel economy? If you are moving something faster against a surface, and increasing the number of times it rubs against I would assume the friction would be higher. Isn't why cars are more fuel efficient at higher gears, since the revs are lower, more power/stroke. I would think in F1 the engines are high revving for faster acceleration
I'm not a car guy so was just curious about that.
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We have not detected dark matter. We have a set of data that deviates from classical theory so the theory of dark matter was devised to account for this discrepancy.
Right now we don't even know the nature of the dark matter (large bodies or small particles), it is possible it could be neither and that what we see is a fundamental problem with our understanding of gravity.
The reason you need a licence to use software is because your CPU makes a copy of the program (in RAM) and this would otherwise violate the programmer's copyright
The CPU does not make a copy of the program into RAM, RAM is where the used data (not necessarily the entire program) resides.
I think this falls under fair use:
117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
(a) Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy. -- Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner.
IANAL, but I think this would qualify as an adaption of a computer program for use in conjunction with a machine.
Obviously it's because it's too damn cold to go outside and kill anybody. :)
Smokey the bear says "Only you can prevent international nuclear panic"
I wonder how much "noise" there is with all the natural seismic activity in Japan (3 large earthquakes in last week).
If anybody is interested there is a way to determine if the seismic activity is from an explosion or from an earthquake, or nuclear blast.
Unfortunately, this would kill out some of the already endangered animals such as polar bears.
And make the land more habitable for other species. The world changes, species adapt or die, so is life.
Bah, everybody knows the people will party on New Year's Eve 39,999. All that matters is the parties, not the facts.