Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
I hear that if you say "peer-to-peer design-domain decentralized design" into a mirror three times, an actual coder will appear and write all your software.
No, the 'actual coder' will come up behind you with a baseball bat and rearrange your cranium.
Yes, anyone can code, just as anyone can build a house. Whether or not the house collapses immediately, whether it has any real value, or by any other measure still depends on the skill of the builder, just as in software.
If builders built buildings the way that programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Yeah, we shouldn't name cities after politicians either. We should rename Washington, DC to 'AC' (For Ad Council), then we can abbreviate it to "AC/DC".
These are actually more substantial than renaming the mountain. I'd like to see more things done like this. Again, the window to go through Congress closed quite awhile ago, but I'd still like to see more steps like this to help the Alaskan native people return to their way of life as much as possible.
Ummm, mining and large scale logging are hardly a 'return to their native way of life'. It is simply a sop to the Alaskan Native voting block - which tends to be Democratic in a rabidly Republican state.
oreign countries don't even agree on what to call each other let alone specific places. I know a little "Japanese" (Nihongo) and from what I understand no one from that country would refer to it as "Japan". It is "Nippon" or "Nihon", "Japan" from what I've heard is a really bad 1,500 year old Portuguese pronunciation of a Chinese word referring to the island chain off of China's coast. I think this is far from an isolated situation, anyone know other languages similar craziness?Correction: 500 year old (from roughly 1500s) bad Portuguese pronunciation, Monday morning and my brain isn't completely up and running.
You can start with 'Indians'. 'Ol Columbus was a tad confused at times.
The F-35 IS expensive _per_unit_. The A-10 does one job, and there are several other aircraft that do different jobs. So the A-10 sits on the ground while there is air-to-air taking place, waiting while another aircraft handles that. IF the F-35 does four different roles, replacing four different types of aircraft, that cuts the effective cost by 75%. It wouldn't be parked on the tarmac waiting for a time when CAS in needed with uncontested skies. It could, supposedly, when the skies while also bombing enemy airfields , then do close air support.
Let's see how it actually does in testing before we declare the result.
The astronomical cost of the F-35 means that 1) we won't make that many of them and 2) we won't deploy that many of them. In the event of a free for all fight, having four separate aircraft doing four separate things is a good thing. It allows the pilots and support crews to concentrate on fewer issues. The F35 is going to have to be air support, AWACs and air to ground fighter. The theory behind the F35 is that it is so smart, it can deal with all of the issues from a lot further away. The slow development cycle of the plane means that it won't have all of it's capabilities for another ten years or so.
The idea of having one airframe play multiple roles only works if you make enough to do the job (and that it actually does all of the jobs reasonably well).
I hope everyone realizes that there are plenty of autonomous 'vehicles' out there. Right now. With limited security. Most single engine planes have highly developed autopilots. The hard part is getting one to take off autonomously. That could be solved by parachuting out after you reach level flight. Steal a Cessna 185 with your typical Garmin AP. Land it in some field, fill it up and take off at night. Jump out and off the plane goes. You won't get to the White House or the Capital building but your could probably hit some random oil refinery near a city.
Even little boats now can install sophisticated autopilots that will drive the boat anywhere you can find on a map. And a 20 foot boat could hold a whole bunch of diesel and fertilizer. My 22 footer can drive out of it's slip and wander off 100 miles without any human intervention whatsoever. The only limitation is that the AP doesn't control the throttle. But a very simple hack could since it it has drive-by-wire controls. With essentially no security. Nobody tracks little boats except in a few very congested waterways.
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Not everyone likes living in a basement...
Now stop with this negativeness. Remember, electrons flow from negative to POSITIVE.
LOL, there wouldn't be any phones at all. Some or all of a cellphones parts are from China.
Perhaps he has a point.
The vast majority of cell phone users who don't know the difference between a bootloader and an Army boot.
I would be surprised if malware was an issue in the US or Europe.
This research was done by an American company. I doubt if they flew to South America to get their test samples.
Reporter: "C'mon boss - send me to Rio. I really need to research the cell phone market. Really."
Boss: "You're going to Cleveland."
No, not "voice", but Merkin Muffley.
CRUD - Create, Read, Update, Delete.
I like it! Thanks!
Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
I don't care what it does, or how much you make. If you spend more than $200 for a smartphone, you're not only an idiot, but a sucker as well.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
- Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio
And WTF? Software isn't 'industrialized'? The A380, the 787, the LHC, the Internet - these are 'artisanal' products?
I hear that if you say "peer-to-peer design-domain decentralized design" into a mirror three times, an actual coder will appear and write all your software.
No, the 'actual coder' will come up behind you with a baseball bat and rearrange your cranium.
Many extinct species would beg to differ.
How can they do that? They're extinct.
What part of "would" didn't you understand?
The part where you would have missed the joke.
Just store it as plain text. That way you avoid the silly pictures, the 'signatures' that take up a whole screen and a couple of megabytes.
And Comic Sans.
It's way better to get rid of Comic Sans.
My guess is some of that super toxic hydrazine reached the ground from the Russian Soyuz launch failure in May.
Chemistry 101: Abort, Retry, Fail
Many extinct species would beg to differ.
How can they do that? They're extinct.
And what could possibly go wrong?
Dear Aunt ...
Yes, anyone can code, just as anyone can build a house. Whether or not the house collapses immediately, whether it has any real value, or by any other measure still depends on the skill of the builder, just as in software.
If builders built buildings the way that programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Indeed, she thinks that 'script kiddy' = 'coder'.
Possibly true for very small values of 'coder'.
It wasn't quite that complete of an accomplishment for the Right Minded Folk.
It's still the 'John F. Kennedy Space Flight Center'. It's just the physical spit of land it sits on has been dis-named.
Yeah, we shouldn't name cities after politicians either. We should rename Washington, DC to 'AC' (For Ad Council), then we can abbreviate it to "AC/DC".
These are actually more substantial than renaming the mountain. I'd like to see more things done like this. Again, the window to go through Congress closed quite awhile ago, but I'd still like to see more steps like this to help the Alaskan native people return to their way of life as much as possible.
Ummm, mining and large scale logging are hardly a 'return to their native way of life'. It is simply a sop to the Alaskan Native voting block - which tends to be Democratic in a rabidly Republican state.
oreign countries don't even agree on what to call each other let alone specific places. I know a little "Japanese" (Nihongo) and from what I understand no one from that country would refer to it as "Japan". It is "Nippon" or "Nihon", "Japan" from what I've heard is a really bad 1,500 year old Portuguese pronunciation of a Chinese word referring to the island chain off of China's coast. I think this is far from an isolated situation, anyone know other languages similar craziness?Correction: 500 year old (from roughly 1500s) bad Portuguese pronunciation, Monday morning and my brain isn't completely up and running.
You can start with 'Indians'. 'Ol Columbus was a tad confused at times.
Must of been the wine.
Ok, you're hired. You can take Timothy's place.
Are you happy now?
The F-35 IS expensive _per_unit_. The A-10 does one job, and there are several other aircraft that do different jobs. So the A-10 sits on the ground while there is air-to-air taking place, waiting while another aircraft handles that. IF the F-35 does four different roles, replacing four different types of aircraft, that cuts the effective cost by 75%. It wouldn't be parked on the tarmac waiting for a time when CAS in needed with uncontested skies. It could, supposedly, when the skies while also bombing enemy airfields , then do close air support.
Let's see how it actually does in testing before we declare the result.
The astronomical cost of the F-35 means that 1) we won't make that many of them and 2) we won't deploy that many of them. In the event of a free for all fight, having four separate aircraft doing four separate things is a good thing. It allows the pilots and support crews to concentrate on fewer issues. The F35 is going to have to be air support, AWACs and air to ground fighter. The theory behind the F35 is that it is so smart, it can deal with all of the issues from a lot further away. The slow development cycle of the plane means that it won't have all of it's capabilities for another ten years or so.
The idea of having one airframe play multiple roles only works if you make enough to do the job (and that it actually does all of the jobs reasonably well).
I hope everyone realizes that there are plenty of autonomous 'vehicles' out there. Right now. With limited security. Most single engine planes have highly developed autopilots. The hard part is getting one to take off autonomously. That could be solved by parachuting out after you reach level flight. Steal a Cessna 185 with your typical Garmin AP. Land it in some field, fill it up and take off at night. Jump out and off the plane goes. You won't get to the White House or the Capital building but your could probably hit some random oil refinery near a city.
Even little boats now can install sophisticated autopilots that will drive the boat anywhere you can find on a map. And a 20 foot boat could hold a whole bunch of diesel and fertilizer. My 22 footer can drive out of it's slip and wander off 100 miles without any human intervention whatsoever. The only limitation is that the AP doesn't control the throttle. But a very simple hack could since it it has drive-by-wire controls. With essentially no security. Nobody tracks little boats except in a few very congested waterways.