If software development was "chaotic", then it would be overestimated as often as underestimated. But that isn't true. Overruns are way more common.
Here's a way to get better estimates: Instead of asking Bob "How long will it take for you to complete this?", ask Fred "How long will it take Bob to complete this?". By asking a 3rd party, you take away the hubris factor.
One thing I hate about energy star ratings is that it shows a scale based on a range of unspecified other devices
You're doing it wrong. Just ignore the comparison, and instead look at the "annual energy cost". If one item costs $100 more, but costs $20 less in energy use, then you should buy it if you expect to use it for at least five years.
The embedded software has to have a thread that launches every few milliseconds to have the processor check it's own operation.
Regular integrity checks are a normal part of embedded system design. This is a reasonable requirement, although I have never seen it done with actual context-switching "threads", so I am assuming you are using that word loosely. Of course, you still need a separate WDT... which UL also requires in many cases.
The Energy Star program costs almost nothing. There are zero government employees actually testing products. Instead, it is done on the "honor system" where manufacturers can voluntarily test their own products and then use the official label. Compliance is enforced by consumer groups and competitors rather than proactive government action. 3rd party testing has shown that this all works pretty well.
It is cost-effective, non-coercive, and works. So it makes sense to eliminate it since it doesn't fit the right-wing narrative of bloated and ineffective government. We can use the money saved to buy another windshield wiper for the F-35.
No. According to the FTC: "Exclusive dealing or requirements contracts between manufacturers and retailers are common and are generally lawful." The FTC also says: "Most exclusive dealing contracts are beneficial because they encourage marketing support for the manufacturer's brand.", which is, of course, total bullcrap.
Under current law, exclusivity agreements are only illegal in very narrow circumstances, and it falls on their competitor (Sanofi in this case) to sue for relief at their own expense.
It is also about bad laws and poor regulation. They are able to use their near-monopoly position to push their customers into exclusivity agreements, reducing competition, strengthening their market dominance, and unfairly harming consumers. In most cases, exclusivity agreements should be illegal.
Sure. Even if Trump rolls back some regs, no one is going to build a new coal plant with a 50-60 year lifetime. The regs will come roaring back in 2020 or 2024, along with new carbon taxes. The worst that will happen is that a few old dirty coal plants may delay retirement.
Helping coal MINERS makes sense
That depends on the type of "help". Handouts that encourage people to put off hard choices often do more harm than good. Development funds for Appalachia have traditionally been a bottomless pit of waste. There are good reasons that nothing other than resource extraction has been successful there. Transportation is difficult on mountain roads, and the people are poorly educated, close-minded, and unambitious.
By far the best way to help these people is to assist them in MOVING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Eastern Tennessee. I have many relatives there, and all of them are doing poorly. I also have many friends and relatives that, like me, moved away, and they are doing much better.
Seems the only alternative is for them to drive 35
My Tesla already does 70 while auto-driving on the freeway. Computers react faster than humans. There is no reason for them to drive slower. Not now, nor in the future.
Last year, 1.3M people died worldwide in accidents involving human driven cars. Another 20 million were seriously injured. Costs exceeded $1T. So why is it "good" to delay SDC technology?
But since there is no evolution it's a clear sign that god exists and that he just now so created that bacterium for... reasons.
Creationists don't deny that evolution happens and that new characteristics can emerge due to natural selection. They just don't accept that this can lead to the emergence of new species. If you intend to convince anyone, you should at least take the time to understand their position, rather than just attacking strawmen.
The parent is saying that prices will be individual specific. Price watch sites won't help with that.
They might. If the refer link is from a price watch site, then an online merchant could deduce that you are a price sensitive shopper willing to work to find a bargain, and thus offer you a good price to make the sale.
Free advice: Never shop online with a Mac, and especially not with Safari as your browser.
Create an opportunity for energy, and something quickly evolves to take advantage of it
Counter-example: Trees evolved lignin about 360 million years ago, yet for 60 million years no other organism evolved the ability to digest the enormous piles of energy dense material. Most of the world's coal deposits formed during this period. Fungus finally evolved the ability to break down lignin, but the process was not efficient and has been described as "untieing a knot with a flamethrower". The same process is still in use by fungi today.
What is cheaper, a "robot" to drive a car or a human who will work for free?
The robot. It can run 24/7, rather than the DOT requirement of 11/24 for humans, thus doubling the utilization of the vehicle. It will also (likely) be much cheaper to insure, it will require less safety equipment, it is less likely to pilfer the cargo, etc.
Umm... you think "bored" humans will stop reproducing?
Yes. The premise of TFA is that in the future we will have robots that can do anything that humans can do. I don't know how much an anatomically functional interactive sexbot will cost, but it will likely be way cheaper than alimony and child support, and it won't get headaches. If it has a "mute" button and can make sandwiches, that is even better.
My first language was FORTRAN, which was a terrible first language. Then I learned BASIC, which was even worse. Then assembly, then C while unlearning a lot of bad habits from FORTRAN and BASIC. Since learning C in 1982, this is the number of times I have coded in FORTRAN: 0.
If the studies are correct, you can't sue a news reporter for reporting factually correct news.
In America, truth is an absolute defense against libel. In the UK it is not, and you can be found guilty if someone's feelings were hurt. I don't know about Canada.
There are good reasons for using MS Word in many situations.
MS Word may be better for a few. But 99% if users would be better off with something like Google Docs, where there is zero setup time and zero compatibility problems. Plus it is easy to share docs without passing them around as email attachments.
Trump sucks, but does anyone actually care that he hasn't released a document about holding meetings?
I care even less about his wife's immigration status. As for ISIS, he does have a plan: American airpower + Kurdish and Shia ground forces. It is working well. Mosul has been taken, and Raqqa is likely to be taken within a few months.
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If software development was "chaotic", then it would be overestimated as often as underestimated. But that isn't true. Overruns are way more common.
Here's a way to get better estimates: Instead of asking Bob "How long will it take for you to complete this?", ask Fred "How long will it take Bob to complete this?". By asking a 3rd party, you take away the hubris factor.
One thing I hate about energy star ratings is that it shows a scale based on a range of unspecified other devices
You're doing it wrong. Just ignore the comparison, and instead look at the "annual energy cost". If one item costs $100 more, but costs $20 less in energy use, then you should buy it if you expect to use it for at least five years.
you need to measure how much it's costing manufacturers to design to comply with the Energy Star standards.
It is a voluntary program, so if the manufacturers aren't getting their money's worth, they can just decline to participate.
The embedded software has to have a thread that launches every few milliseconds to have the processor check it's own operation.
Regular integrity checks are a normal part of embedded system design. This is a reasonable requirement, although I have never seen it done with actual context-switching "threads", so I am assuming you are using that word loosely. Of course, you still need a separate WDT ... which UL also requires in many cases.
The Energy Star program costs almost nothing. There are zero government employees actually testing products. Instead, it is done on the "honor system" where manufacturers can voluntarily test their own products and then use the official label. Compliance is enforced by consumer groups and competitors rather than proactive government action. 3rd party testing has shown that this all works pretty well.
It is cost-effective, non-coercive, and works. So it makes sense to eliminate it since it doesn't fit the right-wing narrative of bloated and ineffective government. We can use the money saved to buy another windshield wiper for the F-35.
Should be? How about is be?
No. According to the FTC: "Exclusive dealing or requirements contracts between manufacturers and retailers are common and are generally lawful." The FTC also says: "Most exclusive dealing contracts are beneficial because they encourage marketing support for the manufacturer's brand.", which is, of course, total bullcrap.
Under current law, exclusivity agreements are only illegal in very narrow circumstances, and it falls on their competitor (Sanofi in this case) to sue for relief at their own expense.
In other words, it's about greed, right?
It is also about bad laws and poor regulation. They are able to use their near-monopoly position to push their customers into exclusivity agreements, reducing competition, strengthening their market dominance, and unfairly harming consumers. In most cases, exclusivity agreements should be illegal.
Coal is dead.
Sure. Even if Trump rolls back some regs, no one is going to build a new coal plant with a 50-60 year lifetime. The regs will come roaring back in 2020 or 2024, along with new carbon taxes. The worst that will happen is that a few old dirty coal plants may delay retirement.
Helping coal MINERS makes sense
That depends on the type of "help". Handouts that encourage people to put off hard choices often do more harm than good. Development funds for Appalachia have traditionally been a bottomless pit of waste. There are good reasons that nothing other than resource extraction has been successful there. Transportation is difficult on mountain roads, and the people are poorly educated, close-minded, and unambitious.
By far the best way to help these people is to assist them in MOVING SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Disclaimer: I was born and raised in Eastern Tennessee. I have many relatives there, and all of them are doing poorly. I also have many friends and relatives that, like me, moved away, and they are doing much better.
Seems the only alternative is for them to drive 35
My Tesla already does 70 while auto-driving on the freeway.
Computers react faster than humans.
There is no reason for them to drive slower.
Not now, nor in the future.
They really don't rush it, which is good.
Last year, 1.3M people died worldwide in accidents involving human driven cars. Another 20 million were seriously injured. Costs exceeded $1T. So why is it "good" to delay SDC technology?
"but.. can it be eaten?"
Yes. Many wood eating fungi can be eaten. "Mu er" (wood ear) is especially popular in Chinese cuisine.
But since there is no evolution it's a clear sign that god exists and that he just now so created that bacterium for ... reasons.
Creationists don't deny that evolution happens and that new characteristics can emerge due to natural selection. They just don't accept that this can lead to the emergence of new species. If you intend to convince anyone, you should at least take the time to understand their position, rather than just attacking strawmen.
Now it's a numbers game and the well being of the customer doesn't even enter the picture.
When, pray tell, was your mythical golden age when corporations put the "well being" of the customer before profit?
Go read the stories from sales, marketing, and product engineers
Go read The Jungle, Unsafe at Any Speed, or King Leopold's Ghost and perhaps you can disabuse yourself of the notion that greed is a new phenomena.
The parent is saying that prices will be individual specific. Price watch sites won't help with that.
They might. If the refer link is from a price watch site, then an online merchant could deduce that you are a price sensitive shopper willing to work to find a bargain, and thus offer you a good price to make the sale.
Free advice: Never shop online with a Mac, and especially not with Safari as your browser.
Uber would offer better fares to Lyft drivers as an inducement to quit Lyft.
Wouldn't this be an inducement for their other drivers to also work for Lyft?
Create an opportunity for energy, and something quickly evolves to take advantage of it
Counter-example: Trees evolved lignin about 360 million years ago, yet for 60 million years no other organism evolved the ability to digest the enormous piles of energy dense material. Most of the world's coal deposits formed during this period. Fungus finally evolved the ability to break down lignin, but the process was not efficient and has been described as "untieing a knot with a flamethrower". The same process is still in use by fungi today.
What is cheaper, a "robot" to drive a car or a human who will work for free?
The robot. It can run 24/7, rather than the DOT requirement of 11/24 for humans, thus doubling the utilization of the vehicle. It will also (likely) be much cheaper to insure, it will require less safety equipment, it is less likely to pilfer the cargo, etc.
What do we do with people when there's no work for them?
If everyone has a sexbot, then after a generation or so, the "surplus worker problem" will be solved.
Think about it....lots of economic displacement is on the way.
It will be far smaller than the displacement caused by farm automation, and that happened during a time when the population was growing rapidly.
Umm... you think "bored" humans will stop reproducing?
Yes. The premise of TFA is that in the future we will have robots that can do anything that humans can do. I don't know how much an anatomically functional interactive sexbot will cost, but it will likely be way cheaper than alimony and child support, and it won't get headaches. If it has a "mute" button and can make sandwiches, that is even better.
My first language was FORTRAN, which was a terrible first language. Then I learned BASIC, which was even worse. Then assembly, then C while unlearning a lot of bad habits from FORTRAN and BASIC. Since learning C in 1982, this is the number of times I have coded in FORTRAN: 0.
It was like a collection of subject-specific message boards.
So it was like Usenet.
If the studies are correct, you can't sue a news reporter for reporting factually correct news.
In America, truth is an absolute defense against libel. In the UK it is not, and you can be found guilty if someone's feelings were hurt. I don't know about Canada.
Everything you eat passes through an acid bath: Your stomach.
There are good reasons for using MS Word in many situations.
MS Word may be better for a few. But 99% if users would be better off with something like Google Docs, where there is zero setup time and zero compatibility problems. Plus it is easy to share docs without passing them around as email attachments.
Trump sucks, but does anyone actually care that he hasn't released a document about holding meetings?
I care even less about his wife's immigration status. As for ISIS, he does have a plan: American airpower + Kurdish and Shia ground forces. It is working well. Mosul has been taken, and Raqqa is likely to be taken within a few months.