Over the last 20 or so years I have been accumulating digital books from faithlife.com. The total value at this point is not inconsequential. They, however, allow you to leave your collection to an heir when you die. Although, the books are not owned, the licenses to use can be passed on. In short, they have most attributes of ownership. 1) I paid for it. 2) I can use it. 3) I can give it away or pass it on. The one constraint and difference is that this applies to my whole collection, not to individual books.
The sim is simply a tool. Used correctly, it is an exceptional tool. Used incorrectly can lead to results. Other than the complexity, this is no different than using a high precision mill. Using one, doesn't make you a machinist, but with the right training you can create amazing parts.
Assuming adequate ground training, the place the sim and the real world really diverged was when you had to "feel" the airplane. This happens with turbulent air, crosswind landings and the landing itself when you correctly transition from flight to a stalled condition a few inches above the runway. Also, sounds such as the air going by can give you clues such as "oops, I am going too slow around this corner" before the stall horn starts going off and it might be too late.
Other areas that increase your safety margin are having a good understanding weather, aerodynamics and how the instrumentation really works.
Again, with the right instructor, you can cover much of the this in the simulator. The problem is that you don't know that you are doing something wrong until it is so wrong that it is too late. A good instructor will point out those bad habits when they are still harmless.
Even worse--fake numbers. Only real numbers should be allowed on caller ID. At least there you have some chance of blocking and someone who constantly changes their phone number can be identified as a potential spammer/scammer.
I work two days a week from home as a software engineer and find that both work environments are important. I tend do do my deep-thinking work at home while I collaborate while on site. Until we have true telepresence I do not believe the collaboration is as effective remotely as we get in person. There are too many adhoc overheard conversations that lead to fruitful ideas. On the other hand these overheard conversations can also be distracting if you are trying to get some focus work done. Having to wrap my ears in headphones was never a pleasant solution to that problem.
I live outside the city and setting my laptop up on our deck and able to look at the rural view can be very helpful for freeing the mind for idea generation.
In other words, there is value to both environments IF THEY ARE USE APPROPRIATELY. The "lack of trust" reason for working on-site is inheritantly counterproductive because trust ends up working both ways and engagement ultimately is decreased.
The largest cost in a typical standard non-premium bundle is sports. In short it is forcing people to subsidize sports fans. No wonder people are going to cheaper non-sports alternatives where live TV is not that important.
Most of the discussion requires restricting rights or taking something away from somebody and giving to something else. What is often forgotten is this is not a fixed sum equation. Our economy is dynamic and everyone can gain at the same time. Historically, you could get a good paying job without a college degree working the assembly line. Unfortunately, many of these jobs are being outsourced and/or automated. As a result, these blue collar jobs are being eliminated and nothing is coming in to replace them. A $15 an hour job at a restaurant will not provide a solution no matter how better it is compared to the $10 an hour minimum wage. What these "blue collar" people need are opportunities to find fulfulling and good paying jobs. Today there is a huge barrier to this -- the college degree. The time and expense of achieving this are either unobtainable or not a very good investment. Also, many are burdened with huge college related debts afterwards which effectively reduces their wage for many years. I don't often quote articles in the NY Times, but this one was right on and hits close to many of us on Slashdot. How about the "blue collar" coding/programming position. Have companies stop filtering by college degree and start filtering by abilities. Many non-degreed people become excellent programmers. As an experienced software developer I would love to take on interns who are committed, talented and hardworking people and help them learn my trade. They may not get paid as well as me with my formal degree, but they sure will get paid far more than they would at a minimum wage imposed restaurant.
Boeing has had internship openings for blue collar jobs. We should encourage other companies to encourage internships for non-college bound positions. Those of the non-libertarian persuasion may even consider subsidies and/or tax breaks for companies that promote these kinds of jobs.
I do have money to spend and I maxed out my connection with dual 3Mbit connections into a load balancer. That is the best I could get, period. By the way, I only live about 15 miles from Portland, OR. Internet coverage in this country is very uneven.
Ultimately it needs to be converted to analog so that it can instantiate some sort of speaker element. This can then easily be recorded with the right impedance match. This was impractical for video due to the complexity of the signal, but two simple analog signals are very easy to record and reproduce. Of course going from the analog to digital to digital compression (I will assume encryption/decryption is lossless), transmit over lossy Bluetooth and back to analog degrades the music to the point of "why bother". I listen to streaming services to shop around for songs or to play music I am really not listening to(background). Anything over Bluetooth, frankly, sounds bad for certain kinds of music.
The problem is that the road technology keeps changing and the government is not going to be that motivated to spend the money to keep updating these roads unless there is heavy pressure from voters or more likely special interests.
5 phones == $300/mo. with 5.5 GB/phone With Straighttalk (which runs on the ATT network in our area) I pay $41.25/mo == $207/mo with 5Gb/phone and they are all on independent contracts. Also, if you can time it right, you can get it even lower during their specials (I am paying ~$36/mo at the moment). I don't see this new deal as anything but closing a gap partially with the competition but still lagging.
The key thing to remember is in science we build a model based on the evidence. The model does NOT become the actual thing it is modeling, but hopefully as time goes on it does converge. There have been many cases in history when the model was nice, but ultimately wrong in all conditions. Quantum mechanics is an excellent example of showing that newtonian mechanics model was incomplete and was in fact quite earth-shaking when it became accepted. Neither, however, are still 100% accurate, but they make pretty good models.
The big error is when we think the model is the same as the thing it models. Once this is the case, all meaningful discussions are shutdown. The earth is flat model was quite good and considered fact for many years until new evidence broke that model.
If the wages are so high. Why is a pay reduction across the board never mentioned instead of total dislocation by laying off long-time employees. At the worst, these "high priced" people will leave which will allow the company to higher less experienced "lower priced" people -- problem being solved.
I think that this is one of the few times I have EVER seen almost complete agreement here on something. One thing we know for sure is that Carly has plenty of references and I don't think they will help her win.
Music can be obtained from torrents, purchasing online or it can be obtained from legal streaming services. These are all valid if not legal sources of music. If one or more becomes too expensive or unavailable, the others will fill in the gap. This was quite visible when the music industry refused to embrace mp3 music distribution. The illegal sources flourished during this time. Once Apple, Amazon and other started selling mp3's without DRM, these illegal sources became less attractive. Note that all channels still exist but the usage will change as the pricing (risk vs. $'s) shifts between them.
Causing the streaming services to go offline will only cause customers to go to the other channels and I do not believe there will be an appreciable increase to the mp3 sales channel.
We have about 10 years worth of tools in our development environment and we have 2.5, 2.6 and multiple 2.7 installations of Python. This is one of those deals that the old tools aren't broken and we have more important things to do than upgrade/test on the new Python. Not a very satisfying situation but we want to prioritize our 60-70 hour work week appropriately.
It has been admitted that without the voluntary cooperation of these companies, this level of surveilance would not be possilbe. So, are there any heros out there we should support that have NOT been cooperating?
Actually, even today, there are buggy whip manufacturers. The key is to recognize that you have a shrinking market size and that only the best and unique suppliers are going to survive. So, your friend, assuming he wants to stay in this shrinking market and intensifying competition will need to think of how he can outperform downloads. Are there services that are not provided by downloads. How about teaming up with the local pizza joint and delivering a pizza and a movie. Personalize the service and know the customer.
Look at, for example, stores that still sell LP records. How are they staying in business? What do they have that the other, now dead, players didn't have?
If the company developed its network in an open and free marketplace it has a right to its property. A company is a person or group of people that risk their capital to create that network. However, most telecom networks were not developed in a truly free marketplace. Various government regulations, subsidies and monopolies allowed them to effectively dominate and/or monopolize access to the "free speech". If antitrust regulations had applied to telecom providers everyone would have more than one choice for accessing the network. Many of us have only one choice and this is NOT a free marketplace.
So, the question is: If you are granted a monopoly do you forfeit certain rights to your private property?
Slashdot Mirror
Aren't workers oppressed in some countries?
Over the last 20 or so years I have been accumulating digital books from faithlife.com. The total value at this point is not inconsequential. They, however, allow you to leave your collection to an heir when you die. Although, the books are not owned, the licenses to use can be passed on. In short, they have most attributes of ownership. 1) I paid for it. 2) I can use it. 3) I can give it away or pass it on. The one constraint and difference is that this applies to my whole collection, not to individual books.
The sim is simply a tool. Used correctly, it is an exceptional tool. Used incorrectly can lead to results. Other than the complexity, this is no different than using a high precision mill. Using one, doesn't make you a machinist, but with the right training you can create amazing parts.
Assuming adequate ground training, the place the sim and the real world really diverged was when you had to "feel" the airplane. This happens with turbulent air, crosswind landings and the landing itself when you correctly transition from flight to a stalled condition a few inches above the runway. Also, sounds such as the air going by can give you clues such as "oops, I am going too slow around this corner" before the stall horn starts going off and it might be too late.
Other areas that increase your safety margin are having a good understanding weather, aerodynamics and how the instrumentation really works.
Again, with the right instructor, you can cover much of the this in the simulator. The problem is that you don't know that you are doing something wrong until it is so wrong that it is too late. A good instructor will point out those bad habits when they are still harmless.
This kind of sums up the whole conversation...
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/r...
Even worse--fake numbers. Only real numbers should be allowed on caller ID. At least there you have some chance of blocking and someone who constantly changes their phone number can be identified as a potential spammer/scammer.
I work two days a week from home as a software engineer and find that both work environments are important. I tend do do my deep-thinking work at home while I collaborate while on site. Until we have true telepresence I do not believe the collaboration is as effective remotely as we get in person. There are too many adhoc overheard conversations that lead to fruitful ideas. On the other hand these overheard conversations can also be distracting if you are trying to get some focus work done. Having to wrap my ears in headphones was never a pleasant solution to that problem.
I live outside the city and setting my laptop up on our deck and able to look at the rural view can be very helpful for freeing the mind for idea generation.
In other words, there is value to both environments IF THEY ARE USE APPROPRIATELY. The "lack of trust" reason for working on-site is inheritantly counterproductive because trust ends up working both ways and engagement ultimately is decreased.
The largest cost in a typical standard non-premium bundle is sports. In short it is forcing people to subsidize sports fans. No wonder people are going to cheaper non-sports alternatives where live TV is not that important.
Instead of outsourcing 12 hours away in India, try doing it 0-3 hours away to a place with the same language and similar culture. Makes sense to me.
Most of the discussion requires restricting rights or taking something away from somebody and giving to something else. What is often forgotten is this is not a fixed sum equation. Our economy is dynamic and everyone can gain at the same time. Historically, you could get a good paying job without a college degree working the assembly line. Unfortunately, many of these jobs are being outsourced and/or automated. As a result, these blue collar jobs are being eliminated and nothing is coming in to replace them. A $15 an hour job at a restaurant will not provide a solution no matter how better it is compared to the $10 an hour minimum wage. What these "blue collar" people need are opportunities to find fulfulling and good paying jobs. Today there is a huge barrier to this -- the college degree. The time and expense of achieving this are either unobtainable or not a very good investment. Also, many are burdened with huge college related debts afterwards which effectively reduces their wage for many years. I don't often quote articles in the NY Times, but this one was right on and hits close to many of us on Slashdot. How about the "blue collar" coding/programming position. Have companies stop filtering by college degree and start filtering by abilities. Many non-degreed people become excellent programmers. As an experienced software developer I would love to take on interns who are committed, talented and hardworking people and help them learn my trade. They may not get paid as well as me with my formal degree, but they sure will get paid far more than they would at a minimum wage imposed restaurant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0...
Boeing has had internship openings for blue collar jobs. We should encourage other companies to encourage internships for non-college bound positions. Those of the non-libertarian persuasion may even consider subsidies and/or tax breaks for companies that promote these kinds of jobs.
Of course Opera is owned by the Chinese. I feel much better now.
I do have money to spend and I maxed out my connection with dual 3Mbit connections into a load balancer. That is the best I could get, period. By the way, I only live about 15 miles from Portland, OR. Internet coverage in this country is very uneven.
Ultimately it needs to be converted to analog so that it can instantiate some sort of speaker element. This can then easily be recorded with the right impedance match. This was impractical for video due to the complexity of the signal, but two simple analog signals are very easy to record and reproduce. Of course going from the analog to digital to digital compression (I will assume encryption/decryption is lossless), transmit over lossy Bluetooth and back to analog degrades the music to the point of "why bother". I listen to streaming services to shop around for songs or to play music I am really not listening to(background). Anything over Bluetooth, frankly, sounds bad for certain kinds of music.
The problem is that the road technology keeps changing and the government is not going to be that motivated to spend the money to keep updating these roads unless there is heavy pressure from voters or more likely special interests.
On frontier I have two 3.5 Mbps/down .75Mbps/up connections going into a load balancer. Does that count as 7/1.5? Both lines $19+$15
5 phones == $300/mo. with 5.5 GB/phone With Straighttalk (which runs on the ATT network in our area) I pay $41.25/mo == $207/mo with 5Gb/phone and they are all on independent contracts. Also, if you can time it right, you can get it even lower during their specials (I am paying ~$36/mo at the moment). I don't see this new deal as anything but closing a gap partially with the competition but still lagging.
The key thing to remember is in science we build a model based on the evidence. The model does NOT become the actual thing it is modeling, but hopefully as time goes on it does converge. There have been many cases in history when the model was nice, but ultimately wrong in all conditions. Quantum mechanics is an excellent example of showing that newtonian mechanics model was incomplete and was in fact quite earth-shaking when it became accepted. Neither, however, are still 100% accurate, but they make pretty good models.
The big error is when we think the model is the same as the thing it models. Once this is the case, all meaningful discussions are shutdown. The earth is flat model was quite good and considered fact for many years until new evidence broke that model.
If the wages are so high. Why is a pay reduction across the board never mentioned instead of total dislocation by laying off long-time employees. At the worst, these "high priced" people will leave which will allow the company to higher less experienced "lower priced" people -- problem being solved.
At the current typical rates of about $10/gb, the telecoms will be able to rake in huge profits.... or not.
I think that this is one of the few times I have EVER seen almost complete agreement here on something. One thing we know for sure is that Carly has plenty of references and I don't think they will help her win.
http://xkcd.com/378/
Music can be obtained from torrents, purchasing online or it can be obtained from legal streaming services. These are all valid if not legal sources of music. If one or more becomes too expensive or unavailable, the others will fill in the gap. This was quite visible when the music industry refused to embrace mp3 music distribution. The illegal sources flourished during this time. Once Apple, Amazon and other started selling mp3's without DRM, these illegal sources became less attractive. Note that all channels still exist but the usage will change as the pricing (risk vs. $'s) shifts between them.
Causing the streaming services to go offline will only cause customers to go to the other channels and I do not believe there will be an appreciable increase to the mp3 sales channel.
We have about 10 years worth of tools in our development environment and we have 2.5, 2.6 and multiple 2.7 installations of Python. This is one of those deals that the old tools aren't broken and we have more important things to do than upgrade/test on the new Python. Not a very satisfying situation but we want to prioritize our 60-70 hour work week appropriately.
It has been admitted that without the voluntary cooperation of these companies, this level of surveilance would not be possilbe. So, are there any heros out there we should support that have NOT been cooperating?
Actually, even today, there are buggy whip manufacturers. The key is to recognize that you have a shrinking market size and that only the best and unique suppliers are going to survive. So, your friend, assuming he wants to stay in this shrinking market and intensifying competition will need to think of how he can outperform downloads. Are there services that are not provided by downloads. How about teaming up with the local pizza joint and delivering a pizza and a movie. Personalize the service and know the customer.
Look at, for example, stores that still sell LP records. How are they staying in business? What do they have that the other, now dead, players didn't have?
If the company developed its network in an open and free marketplace it has a right to its property. A company is a person or group of people that risk their capital to create that network. However, most telecom networks were not developed in a truly free marketplace. Various government regulations, subsidies and monopolies allowed them to effectively dominate and/or monopolize access to the "free speech". If antitrust regulations had applied to telecom providers everyone would have more than one choice for accessing the network. Many of us have only one choice and this is NOT a free marketplace.
So, the question is: If you are granted a monopoly do you forfeit certain rights to your private property?