The amount is limited, but there is so much of this planet's surface that we haven't dug up yet. That doesn't even start to consider the fact we haven't looked deeper in the crust than our usual surface mining, or out in the oceans. While these both seem a little far out there now, eventually mining technology and material cost will drive us to consider such new and innovative solutions for mineral recovery.
Plus, I'm still betting on landfill mining becoming an industry in the next fifty years.
Even assuming he put all 150 gallons in one car, that's about 1.5-2 big road trips (at least by my standards), and I drive a car that makes 40mpg. Just in that car alone I burn through something like 900 gallons a year - around 35k annual miles, mostly on long trips across the western US.
That said, I see nothing wrong with his approach - looking for ways to live smarter would do wonders for many. I've managed to cut my power bills in half in the last five years through conservation, efficiency improvements, new technologies, and sizing stuff closer to what I actually need. I don't really notice any changes to my lifestyle, except for more free cash to play with.
IT guy probably doesn't have the power to force the Beijing branch to do anything. His responsibility is to make sure that his superiors, who do have the power as well as the responsibility, are informed about the situation. The corporation is their charge, and if they fail to act, it's the corporation that will incur the risk.
It'd be a whole different issue to me if the company was doing something that endangered people. In this situation, though, it's merely a calculated economic risk of decreased costs vs. the cost of getting caught.
My first thought exactly - gimme, gimme, gimme, need a new Myth frontend. Let's see - low power, good Linux-supported decompression acceleration, and has an HDMI port. This is exactly what I've been waiting on.
The only problem is if those goons vote, you don't want them pissed at you. Bread and circuses, you know.
Now, I doubt they're ambitious enough to vote. I really do. They probably don't even know when election day is, considering it's less publicized than the DTV switchover.
Actually it's not a bad suggestion. Take it as an opportunity to keep your mind and skills sharp between jobs, plus a chance to build things you can show off to prospective employers.
I know it worked for me. A few projects I built and contributed to on the side in college are what landed me my current job a decade ago. It set me apart from the other applicants, and proved that I was self-motivated and was genuinely interested in what I was doing (ie, not just a code whore).
H1Bs work under duress. Some are happy to have a flushing toilet. Others are working their asses off so they don't lose their job and have to take the next flight out the country.
What duress? They're the ones that sought employment here, and if it clearly was that bad, they'd go elsewhere. Clearly since companies are able to fill their H1B slots with live bodies, they're working at what they're worth.
They're here because they can make more money here than at home. With that sometimes comes some risk and some hardship. Basic economic theory: more risk, less desirable = more $.
No mod points left, so somebody else please mod up the parent. He's got it dead on. History should not be forgotten or covered up. Peace will be accomplished best by not blaming or rewarding the current generation for things they had no part in doing.
4) Gerbils. Awesome backup power source when combined with a small generator, just don't forget to feed them as the extended warranty won't cover their expiration.
No, seriously, they've probably got a supercap or something in there and have optimized the wake-up circuit to draw absolutely next to squat. Much better than running a power supply continuously at a low power draw, where they're typically very inefficient. Much better to draw a minute amount of load on top of the operating load and store it for the off times, if you can tweak your wake up circuit to be that incredibly power efficient.
I'd say that's an even stronger case for it being equally mine as some poor dude. The spectrum belongs to the public, and the FCC is its unfortunately appointed guardian. That means proceeds from its sale belong to us all. Since I can't think of a more equitable way to distribute the proceeds, I'd suggest equally.
The NTIA proposed, originally, that "that consumer eligibility to receive subsidy coupons be constrained to only those consumers who presently rely exclusively, in their entire households, on over-the-air television signals received through an antenna."
The final rule, however, was that every US household was eligible for two. No other test.
Hence why I have two. I have two big LCD HDTVs with tuners, but normally tied into satellite. They don't need them. I also have a small TV in the garage, tied to nothing but the antenna. So I got one for it, and one as a spare in case I ever need another.
Plus it was fun. I figured it was one of the few direct government handouts I'd ever be eligible for, so I might as well get it.
Probably your local stations have started radiating at full power, rather than some trivial output level as many have been during the mixed digital/analog.
If you really think that engineers (or any knowledge worker for that matter) are simply "commodities", then you truly don't understand. Quality varies considerably.
Additionally, I'd add that many of us carry around in our heads the knowledge of how the business actually works, down at the detail level. We know it far better than management, because we're the ones charged with understanding it well enough to fix it when it breaks down and adapt it to new problems.
Management just provides direction - ie, "Wouldn't it be neat if we could..."
"On most older microprocessors, bitwise operations are slightly faster than addition and subtraction operations and usually significantly faster than multiplication and division operations,"
Yeah, but have you stopped to consider how many bit ops and add/subs, along with control instructions (conditional jumps, loads/stores, etc.) are necessary to build mul and div? Quite a few, particularly if your mul/div is significantly wider than your nominal machine width.
Yes, mul/div used to be much slower, but not nearly as slow as building it from other instructions.
Yes, you can implement mul/div in software using shifts, adds, and conditional looping. It's SLOW. I'm not talking snail slow, I'm talking snail-on-valium-at-absolute-zero slow if you have to do any substantial number of them.
Hardware mul/div are invaluable for speed, particularly if you're talking 32-bit math on an 8-bit CPU. I have no idea what this original spreadsheet could handle, but 16-bit math seems a bit constricting, even for those days.
Graphing. CEOs can't understand numbers, they make their brains run out their ears.
While I agree that there is a lot of stupidity in management out there, to some degree CEOs shouldn't be delving into the numbers. That's why they have an army of analysts and such under them - to look at the numbers in every possible way and figure out what the detailed implications of various options are. The CEO should then provide the leadership input they're really paid for and choose amongst the options (or reject them all and propose something else).
This breaks down when a) you can't trust your underlings to give you the straight facts (and worse, usually don't know this), b) force the underlings to make the numbers say what you want to hear (which then puts you back in a), or c) don't have a well-founded vision as to where you want the company to go.
I wonder if there's some way IBM/Novell can put a halt to this, arguing that given rulings against SCO, there's a likely chance they'll have to pay up and thus, they shouldn't be allowed to divest any assets of value.
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The amount is limited, but there is so much of this planet's surface that we haven't dug up yet. That doesn't even start to consider the fact we haven't looked deeper in the crust than our usual surface mining, or out in the oceans. While these both seem a little far out there now, eventually mining technology and material cost will drive us to consider such new and innovative solutions for mineral recovery.
Plus, I'm still betting on landfill mining becoming an industry in the next fifty years.
Even assuming he put all 150 gallons in one car, that's about 1.5-2 big road trips (at least by my standards), and I drive a car that makes 40mpg. Just in that car alone I burn through something like 900 gallons a year - around 35k annual miles, mostly on long trips across the western US.
That said, I see nothing wrong with his approach - looking for ways to live smarter would do wonders for many. I've managed to cut my power bills in half in the last five years through conservation, efficiency improvements, new technologies, and sizing stuff closer to what I actually need. I don't really notice any changes to my lifestyle, except for more free cash to play with.
Okay, I'll argue those ethics.
IT guy probably doesn't have the power to force the Beijing branch to do anything. His responsibility is to make sure that his superiors, who do have the power as well as the responsibility, are informed about the situation. The corporation is their charge, and if they fail to act, it's the corporation that will incur the risk.
It'd be a whole different issue to me if the company was doing something that endangered people. In this situation, though, it's merely a calculated economic risk of decreased costs vs. the cost of getting caught.
My first thought exactly - gimme, gimme, gimme, need a new Myth frontend. Let's see - low power, good Linux-supported decompression acceleration, and has an HDMI port. This is exactly what I've been waiting on.
...USA under Emperor George and Darth Chaney...
FTFY - it is /., after all.
The only problem is if those goons vote, you don't want them pissed at you. Bread and circuses, you know.
Now, I doubt they're ambitious enough to vote. I really do. They probably don't even know when election day is, considering it's less publicized than the DTV switchover.
You clearly mean treadmark. Which may have been left by a Patton, if he ran over your flash drive with his Jeep.
Actually it's not a bad suggestion. Take it as an opportunity to keep your mind and skills sharp between jobs, plus a chance to build things you can show off to prospective employers.
I know it worked for me. A few projects I built and contributed to on the side in college are what landed me my current job a decade ago. It set me apart from the other applicants, and proved that I was self-motivated and was genuinely interested in what I was doing (ie, not just a code whore).
H1Bs work under duress. Some are happy to have a flushing toilet. Others are working their asses off so they don't lose their job and have to take the next flight out the country.
What duress? They're the ones that sought employment here, and if it clearly was that bad, they'd go elsewhere. Clearly since companies are able to fill their H1B slots with live bodies, they're working at what they're worth.
They're here because they can make more money here than at home. With that sometimes comes some risk and some hardship. Basic economic theory: more risk, less desirable = more $.
No mod points left, so somebody else please mod up the parent. He's got it dead on. History should not be forgotten or covered up. Peace will be accomplished best by not blaming or rewarding the current generation for things they had no part in doing.
or...
4) Gerbils. Awesome backup power source when combined with a small generator, just don't forget to feed them as the extended warranty won't cover their expiration.
No, seriously, they've probably got a supercap or something in there and have optimized the wake-up circuit to draw absolutely next to squat. Much better than running a power supply continuously at a low power draw, where they're typically very inefficient. Much better to draw a minute amount of load on top of the operating load and store it for the off times, if you can tweak your wake up circuit to be that incredibly power efficient.
Just don't forget to feed it, or in Soviet Russia... oh wait, nevermind.
Per gallon of what?
Bulls@#$, obviously. :) Or is that measured by the pound these days?
I'd say that's an even stronger case for it being equally mine as some poor dude. The spectrum belongs to the public, and the FCC is its unfortunately appointed guardian. That means proceeds from its sale belong to us all. Since I can't think of a more equitable way to distribute the proceeds, I'd suggest equally.
Well, at the very least, Fark is going to need a "South Carolina" tag to go along with "Florida". Really surprised they haven't needed it before now.
I'm confused as to which word "ass" is attached to. Am I...
a) an "ass whore", implying that I prostitute my ass?
or...
b) a whore with a damned ass?
Please, for the love of damn ass whores everywhere, be more fucking specific.
The NTIA proposed, originally, that "that consumer eligibility to receive subsidy coupons be constrained to only those consumers who presently rely exclusively, in their entire households, on over-the-air television signals received through an antenna."
The final rule, however, was that every US household was eligible for two. No other test.
Hence why I have two. I have two big LCD HDTVs with tuners, but normally tied into satellite. They don't need them. I also have a small TV in the garage, tied to nothing but the antenna. So I got one for it, and one as a spare in case I ever need another.
Plus it was fun. I figured it was one of the few direct government handouts I'd ever be eligible for, so I might as well get it.
Probably your local stations have started radiating at full power, rather than some trivial output level as many have been during the mixed digital/analog.
If you really think that engineers (or any knowledge worker for that matter) are simply "commodities", then you truly don't understand. Quality varies considerably.
Additionally, I'd add that many of us carry around in our heads the knowledge of how the business actually works, down at the detail level. We know it far better than management, because we're the ones charged with understanding it well enough to fix it when it breaks down and adapt it to new problems.
Management just provides direction - ie, "Wouldn't it be neat if we could..."
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"On most older microprocessors, bitwise operations are slightly faster than addition and subtraction operations and usually significantly faster than multiplication and division operations,"
Yeah, but have you stopped to consider how many bit ops and add/subs, along with control instructions (conditional jumps, loads/stores, etc.) are necessary to build mul and div? Quite a few, particularly if your mul/div is significantly wider than your nominal machine width.
Yes, mul/div used to be much slower, but not nearly as slow as building it from other instructions.
Why use MUL/DIV --When you have shifts?
Who the hell modded this insightful?
Yes, you can implement mul/div in software using shifts, adds, and conditional looping. It's SLOW. I'm not talking snail slow, I'm talking snail-on-valium-at-absolute-zero slow if you have to do any substantial number of them.
Hardware mul/div are invaluable for speed, particularly if you're talking 32-bit math on an 8-bit CPU. I have no idea what this original spreadsheet could handle, but 16-bit math seems a bit constricting, even for those days.
Graphing. CEOs can't understand numbers, they make their brains run out their ears.
While I agree that there is a lot of stupidity in management out there, to some degree CEOs shouldn't be delving into the numbers. That's why they have an army of analysts and such under them - to look at the numbers in every possible way and figure out what the detailed implications of various options are. The CEO should then provide the leadership input they're really paid for and choose amongst the options (or reject them all and propose something else).
This breaks down when a) you can't trust your underlings to give you the straight facts (and worse, usually don't know this), b) force the underlings to make the numbers say what you want to hear (which then puts you back in a), or c) don't have a well-founded vision as to where you want the company to go.
Exactly - that was my first thought, too.
I wonder if there's some way IBM/Novell can put a halt to this, arguing that given rulings against SCO, there's a likely chance they'll have to pay up and thus, they shouldn't be allowed to divest any assets of value.
You needed anyone to actually debunk these things? One look at the picture and that was enough to debunk any functionality in my book.
Perhaps I could then just forward the DHS records for my travel expense reports.
That would rock and save me so much time.
DHS, are you listening? Oh wait, of course you are. If you could just forward this post to the "suggestions" bucket, I'd appreciate it.