As a professional engineer, accountability starts the moment you have a license number in your state.
Any opinion you give on any project makes you liable.
The difference is obvious. An engineered system is just that -- a system that is fully understood and can have predictable outcomes from known initial conditions. So...it is reasonable to expect engineers to be liable for their work. Predicting earthquakes is not anywhere near as simple. To find criminal accountability from such failures is preposterous.
Yeah, but I wonder what will come of the Italian Catholic priests peddling their false assurances? Will they be jailed? This is an enormous blight on scientific independence and a even larger blight on the reputation of Italy. To my mind, Italy is a backwater joke -- enjoy your irrelevance.
It is true that it is not Apple's job to cure America's ills. But, if you could use some of that famed 'war chest' of cash to at least try, it would make you less of a bunch of dicks.
Proof-of-concept? I think not. This was an actual intrusion. The two satellites are both controlled by the same base station -- there is no real 'concept' to prove.
Ratings are important to many pension funds and the like. Lots of them are precluded, by charter, from obtaining or holding bonds that are not AAA rated. So, the downgrade of US T-Bills could 'lock out' some potential markets.
Not that I think it will make much difference, however...
A friend and I were discussing the cyclic nature of comics the other day and how it relates to movies today. I was a big comics fan in the 80s and 90s 9less so today). Comics then were generally pretty formulaic until Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns cast aside the status quo. The publisher's seemed to think that 'gritty' was what people wanted and the anti-hero was on the rise. Wolverine became huge as well as grim takes on Green Arrow and Daredevil among others. The grom stories were everywhere. The other big thing in comics then was the grand crossover event, starting with Secret Wars.
Now, in movies, the success of the Dark Knight has forced reboots that are grittier and brooding -- like the new Spiderman and Man of Steel. The movie crossover is coming as The Avengers.
I'm a little concerned about the moves in the film. Batman is compelling as a dark, moody prick. Spiderman is not. Some characters are just not suitable. The crossovers can be great, like Secret Wars, or awful, like any of the DC Crises (except Identity Crisis, that was ok).
I fear that the rush for grittiness will wind up with some really bad movies and this will sour the studios on more super hero movies. They seem to think that if a movie does bad its because the genre is stale when often the movie was a huge misstep. If gritty Spiderman and Man of Steel don't work and the Avengers is a mess (which is a very likely scenario) then comic book movies are is for a rough ride.
IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few of years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools
I think that IBM was 'approached' by MS. Gates' mother had contacts through her role as a high ranking official in the United Way. That got Bill a foot in the door and he made good on the opportunity. Major successes are often a convergence of skill, ambition and blind luck, and the MS fortune is, I think, one of those cases.
I am a bit in the dark as to the intricacies of Java and Dalvik, so forgive me if this is a daft question...
When you say Google "create[d] a compatible API", is this similar to what WINE did for the WIN32 API? A re-implementation, through new code, that emulates* the functionality of the precursor?
* I know -- WINE is not an emulator, I use the word in a more metaphoric sense.
It irked me immensely that the white room crew held up a 'God Bless America' sign. Is there not corner of civilization where we can escape the idiotic God-bothering horseshit of "mainstream America".
Seriously -- its a space craft! And as Gagarin said "I don't see any God up here."* Can we please just give that sentimental nonsense a miss and focus on the science and engineering?
*Yeah, I know, he never said it, but it fits well.
Discussions are ongoing but it looks to be longer than 48 hours is the most likely situation. Sadly, my version of the Royal Wedding has been postponed for the day and possibly the whole weekend. Shitty.
SpaceX is planning to make LEO launches profitable. That way companies wanted satellites launched will contact SpaceX, not NASA. Those profits are then spent on R&D for the Mars mission. But you're right, the Mars mission has little profit prospects from the outset (perhaps mineral mining in the future will be profitable, but I doubt it). NASA will need to fund the Mars mission for a large part.
Hopefully the entrenched players will be hamstrung by NASA's new funding paradigm for COTS. However, big companies have made billions from the STS missions and will be contacting politicians to resurrect the old status quo. From an engineering perspective, I like SpaceX's chances. From a political standpoint, they have a tough fight ahead of them.
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As a professional engineer, accountability starts the moment you have a license number in your state.
Any opinion you give on any project makes you liable.
The difference is obvious. An engineered system is just that -- a system that is fully understood and can have predictable outcomes from known initial conditions. So...it is reasonable to expect engineers to be liable for their work. Predicting earthquakes is not anywhere near as simple. To find criminal accountability from such failures is preposterous.
Yeah, but I wonder what will come of the Italian Catholic priests peddling their false assurances? Will they be jailed? This is an enormous blight on scientific independence and a even larger blight on the reputation of Italy. To my mind, Italy is a backwater joke -- enjoy your irrelevance.
At work, I still have to use IE6. It's just dreadful. Practically no websites render correctly and it is painstakingly slow.
Good news...maybe this will herald in the age of cheap Chromium laptops and desktops.
It is true that it is not Apple's job to cure America's ills. But, if you could use some of that famed 'war chest' of cash to at least try, it would make you less of a bunch of dicks.
Yeah, a model I quite like. It's a walled garden with a gate that has a 'Here be Dragons' sign.
Proof-of-concept? I think not. This was an actual intrusion. The two satellites are both controlled by the same base station -- there is no real 'concept' to prove.
Ratings are important to many pension funds and the like. Lots of them are precluded, by charter, from obtaining or holding bonds that are not AAA rated. So, the downgrade of US T-Bills could 'lock out' some potential markets.
Not that I think it will make much difference, however...
Maybe we'll finally get the long promised Ender's Game. Here's hoping...
I'm still hoping we get a two or three movie version of Y: The Last Man. Although, it seems unlikely at this point.
A friend and I were discussing the cyclic nature of comics the other day and how it relates to movies today. I was a big comics fan in the 80s and 90s 9less so today). Comics then were generally pretty formulaic until Watchmen and the Dark Knight Returns cast aside the status quo. The publisher's seemed to think that 'gritty' was what people wanted and the anti-hero was on the rise. Wolverine became huge as well as grim takes on Green Arrow and Daredevil among others. The grom stories were everywhere. The other big thing in comics then was the grand crossover event, starting with Secret Wars.
Now, in movies, the success of the Dark Knight has forced reboots that are grittier and brooding -- like the new Spiderman and Man of Steel. The movie crossover is coming as The Avengers.
I'm a little concerned about the moves in the film. Batman is compelling as a dark, moody prick. Spiderman is not. Some characters are just not suitable. The crossovers can be great, like Secret Wars, or awful, like any of the DC Crises (except Identity Crisis, that was ok).
I fear that the rush for grittiness will wind up with some really bad movies and this will sour the studios on more super hero movies. They seem to think that if a movie does bad its because the genre is stale when often the movie was a huge misstep. If gritty Spiderman and Man of Steel don't work and the Avengers is a mess (which is a very likely scenario) then comic book movies are is for a rough ride.
IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few of years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools
I think that IBM was 'approached' by MS. Gates' mother had contacts through her role as a high ranking official in the United Way. That got Bill a foot in the door and he made good on the opportunity. Major successes are often a convergence of skill, ambition and blind luck, and the MS fortune is, I think, one of those cases.
Hey! Ever hear of a SPOILER ALERT?
I have a G+ account but can't (as of today) get it to load in Chrome. Weird.
I am a bit in the dark as to the intricacies of Java and Dalvik, so forgive me if this is a daft question...
When you say Google "create[d] a compatible API", is this similar to what WINE did for the WIN32 API? A re-implementation, through new code, that emulates* the functionality of the precursor?
* I know -- WINE is not an emulator, I use the word in a more metaphoric sense.
MC
Invite please. Galenlas(at)gmail
Heh. It would be hilarious if athletes blamed God.
But, no, I don't give a shit when athletes give credit to God...but...they are not scientists and engineers. I hold them to a higher standard. ;)
Nothing, because he doesn't exist.
It irked me immensely that the white room crew held up a 'God Bless America' sign. Is there not corner of civilization where we can escape the idiotic God-bothering horseshit of "mainstream America".
Seriously -- its a space craft! And as Gagarin said "I don't see any God up here."* Can we please just give that sentimental nonsense a miss and focus on the science and engineering?
*Yeah, I know, he never said it, but it fits well.
Agreed. The BB has always been and continues to be very well suited for enterprise use. The foreseeable future has a place for BB and RIM.
Dude, you are seriously flirting with tin foil hat territory.
Discussions are ongoing but it looks to be longer than 48 hours is the most likely situation. Sadly, my version of the Royal Wedding has been postponed for the day and possibly the whole weekend. Shitty.
SpaceX is planning to make LEO launches profitable. That way companies wanted satellites launched will contact SpaceX, not NASA. Those profits are then spent on R&D for the Mars mission. But you're right, the Mars mission has little profit prospects from the outset (perhaps mineral mining in the future will be profitable, but I doubt it). NASA will need to fund the Mars mission for a large part.
Hopefully the entrenched players will be hamstrung by NASA's new funding paradigm for COTS. However, big companies have made billions from the STS missions and will be contacting politicians to resurrect the old status quo. From an engineering perspective, I like SpaceX's chances. From a political standpoint, they have a tough fight ahead of them.
MC
It's nice, I may have considered buying one -- except, as far as I can see there is no GPS. What is that about?