There are plenty of reasonable models for scientific publishing other than "reader pays". For instance, "author pays" can work well, so that the cost of publishing the results is part of the research grant. All publicly funded research results should be available to the public. We should just ignore the chicken-littles and their broken business models. The physics community has had arXiv.org for decades, and yet the world continues to turn.
His career was destroyed and then the charges were dropped. So he was punished despite being convicted of nothing. So much for "presumption of innocence".
Meanwhile I heard that Harvey Weinstein is still out on bail.
As he should be. He hasn't been convicted of anything (yet).
We should not complain when rich people are treated fairly. We should complain when people, rich or poor, are treated unfairly.
My $15 Timex still works better for telling the time
A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well). It receives texts, makes phone calls, takes photos, and runs apps. If you are comparing it to a $15 Timex, then you are completely missing the point.
The early Apple Watch was sort of pointless since it didn't do the phone calls or texts without an iPhone within BlueTooth range. But that gaping hole has been fixed, and the latest Apple Watch is a tiny standalone smart phone.
My wife has an Apple Phone and she is very happy with it.
BC mining requires very little internet bandwidth.
Also, if the fans are "buzzing" or even audible at all, then they are wasting energy. Get bigger fans and run them slower. Moving twice the volume of air at half the speed uses half the energy.
(2m)v^2 = 0.5 m(2v)^2
Save energy, and reduce vibrations that can eventually cause failures of RoHS solder.
Though I also wonder, what for, with this limited range.
Static defense would be an obvious application. You have drones hover and circle your base 500 meters out to watch for approaching infiltrators.
Another would be convoy defense. You mount the LPU (laser power unit) on the top of a vehicle and have drones to your front and flanks to watch for ambushes, or soil disturbance that could be mines.
They could provide low cost over-the-horizon views to armor, allowing tanks to avoid bounding overwatch, and move much faster. In defense, tanks could remain in full defilade while the crews watch the video feed from the drone rather than exposing their cupolas.
Provide jobs for defense contractors and pad the resume for whoever is running the project when they are up for their next promotion.
This is a big problem with DoD contracts. The military "contract liaison officer" assigned to the project will spend years of his career working on it, and has a HUGE vested interest in seeing it not fail. Notice that I didn't say "succeed", just "not fail"... continuing indefinitely in limbo is good too, as long as the funding continues.
So the military officer assigned to oversee the project will never recommend that the project be cancelled.
It is not just his promotion at stake, but his "consulting" job with the contractor after he retires from the military. Military retirement is after 20 years of service. So if you sign up at age 18, you can retire with a pension at 38.
If your phone/computer OEM can force you to use only specified firmware, the spooks can force them to modify the firmware in ways that betray the user.
Except that the spooks have no legal authority to compel the tech firms to do that, and the tech firms have a huge incentive to refuse to cooperate and to publicly fight back.
The people will win on this because the corporations are on our side.
You are obviously a non. Otherwise you would have no problem expressing any concept in one syllable (as long as you get the tone right).
Voice input is important in China. In America, you might see 10% of drivers fiddling with their cellphones, but in China it is more like 90%. So they need voice input so they don't have to take their hands off the wheel and steer with their knee.
American traffic deaths per 1B-vehicle-km: 7.1 Chinese traffic deaths per 1B-vehicle-km: 57.2
Does that mean India treats foreign companies worse than China does?
Yes. China requires big foreign businesses to have a local "partner" (and there are ways to weasel out of that, say, by creating a local shell company run by someone you trust), but after that, China is mostly free-wheeling capitalism. There is little bureaucracy, taxes are low, and if you need a favor, the guanxi network makes it clear who you need to bribe. Utilities are rock-solid reliable, cheap, and can be turned on within an hour of your application. Real estate is easy to lease, and building permits are generally approved quickly.
India is far more bureaucratic, you can wait for years for a license, only to find out that you need yet another license. Bribery is less formalized, so a bribe often just begets demands for more. The market is also much more fragmented, with Hindi in the north, Tamil in the south, Bengali in the east, Gujarati in the west, and a dozen more. One good thing that Mao did for China, was force everyone to learn a single standardized language.
GDP per capita in China is 4 times that of India. There are good reasons for that. The Indians need to fix their government.
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There are plenty of reasonable models for scientific publishing other than "reader pays". For instance, "author pays" can work well, so that the cost of publishing the results is part of the research grant. All publicly funded research results should be available to the public. We should just ignore the chicken-littles and their broken business models. The physics community has had arXiv.org for decades, and yet the world continues to turn.
It wasn't just a name. He was saying he raped children.
He did, but not on Twitter. He called Unsworth a "child rapist" in an email. The worst he said on Twitter was "pedo guy".
Also, for what it's worth, Musk later apologized.
to convince rubes that voting against their own interest was a good idea.
Perhaps they think that is better than voting for people that despise their culture and call them "rubes".
I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is a Republican. He has donated money to the Republican party.
He donated to Marco Rubio, but he also donated to Hillary Clinton.
Between 2003 and 2015 he donated $258,350 to Democratic candidates and $261,300 to Republicans.
Do not want. Got a Suunto. Nice looking. Battery last 2 weeks easy.
But it can't make or receive phone calls or texts.
Dick Tracy wouldn't be caught dead wearing one.
He has a hot wife, 19 years his junior, and two young children.
His wife, Zhang Zetian, was well known in China before their marriage, and is a successful businesswoman in her own right.
He may have some 'splaining to do back in Beijing.
Look at what happened to Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
His career was destroyed and then the charges were dropped. So he was punished despite being convicted of nothing. So much for "presumption of innocence".
Meanwhile I heard that Harvey Weinstein is still out on bail.
As he should be. He hasn't been convicted of anything (yet).
We should not complain when rich people are treated fairly. We should complain when people, rich or poor, are treated unfairly.
This does not describe why this should matter to us geeks. JD?
JD.com
It is the world's 3rd biggest ecommerce site, after Alibaba and Amazon.
If Jeff Bezos was arrested, would you still consider it "not news"?
My $15 Timex still works better for telling the time
A smart watch does not just tell time (although it does that well). It receives texts, makes phone calls, takes photos, and runs apps. If you are comparing it to a $15 Timex, then you are completely missing the point.
The early Apple Watch was sort of pointless since it didn't do the phone calls or texts without an iPhone within BlueTooth range. But that gaping hole has been fixed, and the latest Apple Watch is a tiny standalone smart phone.
My wife has an Apple Phone and she is very happy with it.
to be able to just look out at trees gently waving in the breeze is something i truly value.
Can't you get the same experience by running some nature scenes on a 39" monitor?
If the drone never lands how do you re-arm them?
They carry cameras, not weapons.
And reconnaissance drones already have extended time on target capabilities.
Big high altitude recon drones are too expensive to assign one to every outpost, convoy, or patrol.
Every time one crashes some neo-barb gets access to the technology.
The tech is already available on-line to anyone with a credit card: dji.com
For drone tech, the military is trailing the COTS/hobby market.
COTS= Commercial off the shelf (an ERMA)
ERMA= Easily recognizable military acronym
BC mining requires very little internet bandwidth.
Also, if the fans are "buzzing" or even audible at all, then they are wasting energy. Get bigger fans and run them slower. Moving twice the volume of air at half the speed uses half the energy.
(2m)v^2 = 0.5 m(2v)^2
Save energy, and reduce vibrations that can eventually cause failures of RoHS solder.
If it is a military officer like you say, it is unlikely they would be an officer at 18 years old.
It is 20 years total, not 20 years "as an officer".
Plenty of people enlist at 18, and are commissioned later.
With parental consent, you can even enlist at age 17.
Though I also wonder, what for, with this limited range.
Static defense would be an obvious application. You have drones hover and circle your base 500 meters out to watch for approaching infiltrators.
Another would be convoy defense. You mount the LPU (laser power unit) on the top of a vehicle and have drones to your front and flanks to watch for ambushes, or soil disturbance that could be mines.
They could provide low cost over-the-horizon views to armor, allowing tanks to avoid bounding overwatch, and move much faster. In defense, tanks could remain in full defilade while the crews watch the video feed from the drone rather than exposing their cupolas.
Provide jobs for defense contractors and pad the resume for whoever is running the project when they are up for their next promotion.
This is a big problem with DoD contracts. The military "contract liaison officer" assigned to the project will spend years of his career working on it, and has a HUGE vested interest in seeing it not fail. Notice that I didn't say "succeed", just "not fail" ... continuing indefinitely in limbo is good too, as long as the funding continues.
So the military officer assigned to oversee the project will never recommend that the project be cancelled.
It is not just his promotion at stake, but his "consulting" job with the contractor after he retires from the military. Military retirement is after 20 years of service. So if you sign up at age 18, you can retire with a pension at 38.
If your phone/computer OEM can force you to use only specified firmware, the spooks can force them to modify the firmware in ways that betray the user.
Except that the spooks have no legal authority to compel the tech firms to do that, and the tech firms have a huge incentive to refuse to cooperate and to publicly fight back.
The people will win on this because the corporations are on our side.
This was happening long before Snowden.
Sure, but back then authoritarians tried to dismiss the objectors as paranoid. They can't do that anymore.
Plus, you compose characters - either by drawing strokes or picking strokes to generate the character.
You can do that, but 99% of the time Chinese people will use pinyin entry instead. That is much quicker than going by strokes.
Anyway you do it, text entry in Chinese is slower than English (but it is faster to read), hence the demand for voice entry.
A "non"? What's that?
You are obviously a non. Otherwise you would have no problem expressing any concept in one syllable (as long as you get the tone right).
Voice input is important in China. In America, you might see 10% of drivers fiddling with their cellphones, but in China it is more like 90%. So they need voice input so they don't have to take their hands off the wheel and steer with their knee.
American traffic deaths per 1B-vehicle-km: 7.1
Chinese traffic deaths per 1B-vehicle-km: 57.2
Won't the panel break more easily?
No. We are making rapid advances in materials science. Glass is much tougher than it was a few years ago.
Start passing out the MIGA hats!
Too late. India is already run by a demagogue worse than Trump.
Modi helped to instigate, and did nothing to stop, the 2002 Gujarat Riots that killed 2000 people.
Ok, we need to stop elevating Yoda's inability to speak proper English.
He speaks English vocabulary with Japanese grammar.
Japanese grammar makes sense to me because I grew up using an RPN calculator.
Does that mean India treats foreign companies worse than China does?
Yes. China requires big foreign businesses to have a local "partner" (and there are ways to weasel out of that, say, by creating a local shell company run by someone you trust), but after that, China is mostly free-wheeling capitalism. There is little bureaucracy, taxes are low, and if you need a favor, the guanxi network makes it clear who you need to bribe. Utilities are rock-solid reliable, cheap, and can be turned on within an hour of your application. Real estate is easy to lease, and building permits are generally approved quickly.
India is far more bureaucratic, you can wait for years for a license, only to find out that you need yet another license. Bribery is less formalized, so a bribe often just begets demands for more. The market is also much more fragmented, with Hindi in the north, Tamil in the south, Bengali in the east, Gujarati in the west, and a dozen more. One good thing that Mao did for China, was force everyone to learn a single standardized language.
GDP per capita in China is 4 times that of India. There are good reasons for that. The Indians need to fix their government.
Medical technology degrees are very in-demand. The 2017 Forbes list putting Finance at the top.
Those are for advanced degrees, not 4 year bachelors.
Why should I waste time running tests on my machine?
So that you don't commit buggy code.