Well, it was delayed all those years because Lucas kept insisting on putting aliens in the movie, while Spielberg and everyone else refused because aliens in a Indiana Jones movie would be stupid beyond belief.
I guess Lucas can say they were "waiting for the right script to come along" with a straight face, since that can be loosely translated as "I wanted aliens in the script, Steven didn't, so we had to wait for the right script that made both of us happy"
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting, which ignited a firestorm of criticism.
There was no firestorm, just whining from unproductive Yahoo employees and media parasites.
Perhaps they didn't get the memo, but Google (which is what Yahoo wishes it was, and is where every Yahoo employee wishes he/she was working at) doesn't allow telecommuting either. Marissa was just putting in place policies that worked for Google.
a lot of cushy jobs and contracts are gonna be lost due to SpaceX's super low cost launches. I'm surprised there isn't a bigger effort to discredit them and spread FUD, a la Edison electrocuting elephants with AC power.
Constitution doesn't mention slaves. The 3/5th refers to "all other persons".
Slavery was a hot potato even back in 1787, so the Framers decided to avoid the topic altogether and ship a product rather than argue endlessly and come up with nothing. Many of the founding fathers were opposed to slavery, but the southern slaveholding states would've never ratified the Constitution if slavery was banned.
They excluded the word "slave" on purpose. If the clause had read "slaves shall be counted as 3/5th", that would've be an implicit legitimization of slavery. So they basically just kicked the can down the road and the issue didn't get addressed until 1860.
No, he's talking about IQ which is at least partly based on genetics.
Absolute minimum IQ to be a computer programmer is around 110. To be a GOOD programmer you're gonna need 120+. Out of a class of thirty kids, you're only gonna see 3 or 4 who qualify... the smart kids. And if they're really smart, they go on to be doctors or lawyers or wall street somethings and make more money rather than put up with the long hours, deadline pressures and the job insecurity that goes with being a programmer.
Air-to-air (aka A.C.M., air combat maneuvering... dogfighting) is a whole different ballgame than air-to-ground (aka mud pounding, dropping bombs on grunts). Targets on the ground are stationary or very close to it. They're always below you and they do not change position in the 3rd dimension.
When it comes to air-to-air, remotely piloted aircraft (drones) are going to suck due to lag and visibility issues. Lag you all know about. Visibility issues you wouldn't be familiar with unless you've witnessed air combat or some reasonable facsimile thereof (Air Combat USA, etc). When you're in a high-speed jet fighting another high-speed jet, most of the time your adversary is a TINY DOT. It's not like in the movies. There's a reason why excellent eyesight is a requirement for fighter pilots. To enable a drone pilot to see like a regular pilot, you're gonna need to encircle the virtual cockpit 360 degrees with super-high res displays. Think hundreds of retina iPads stitched together. Now think of the bandwidth requirement for transmitting live video feed for all these displays. Wirelessly. Think of the lag.
You mentioned the drone piloting itself (an autonomous vehicle). That's a scarier thought than a remotely piloted vehicle and probably worries a fighter pilot a lot more. I am not familiar with how advanced autonomous robots have gotten, but based on what I've seen in the past (Asimo, etc) I wouldn't lose sleep over it. However Google is said to be close to a functioning autonomous car so we will have to see.
When the day comes that the Google Car can drive itself to the nearest McDonald's, pull into the parking lot and look for an available spot, and if the lot is full, pull out onto the street, drive around and look for a street-parking space, and parallel park itself, and do all this as well as or better than a human driver can, I would say autonomous fighter planes can be done. But not until then.
yes, it would be. And actually, it'd be even MORE better to engineer the plant so that the it automatically detects illegal activity by a poaching farmer and report him directly to Monsanto police via a 4G LTE connection. However in the real world, we must deal with what's feasible vs. what we would really like. And I'm guessing it was easier to engineer the plant to produce sterile seeds (which happens in nature all the time) vs. removing seeds completely.
And also btw, most grains ARE seeds, so if you have a grain with no seed, you have no grain.
No. Gateway invented their "Gateway Country" stores back in 2000. And since Apple copied Gateway (minus the cow motif), Google is copying a copy of a copy.
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it had better be real killer. Otherwise I don't see people spending $1500 to buy this thing when they already own smartphones and desktop computers.
to order a drone strike on Prenda Law and drop a couple of Hellfires. Do it when the owner and key lackeys are present.
I'm against drone strikes in general but I'll make an exception in this case.
Well, it was delayed all those years because Lucas kept insisting on putting aliens in the movie, while Spielberg and everyone else refused because aliens in a Indiana Jones movie would be stupid beyond belief.
I guess Lucas can say they were "waiting for the right script to come along" with a straight face, since that can be loosely translated as "I wanted aliens in the script, Steven didn't, so we had to wait for the right script that made both of us happy"
and surf the web like a man.
A real man, from 1995.
if you have to circle around looking for a place to park at your workplace, it's time for you to either:
-Man up, get a Yamaha YZF-R1, learn how to ride one, and enjoy the 10-second quarter miles.
-Green up, walk or ride a bicycle to work, or use public transportation.
changing a company policy on something is hell of a lot easier than firing large numbers of people, and gives the legal dept. much less worry.
I'm a doctor, not a programmer!
Raspberry Guy: "Programming will make you a better doctor."
You green blooded, inhuman...
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's decision to end telecommuting, which ignited a firestorm of criticism.
There was no firestorm, just whining from unproductive Yahoo employees and media parasites.
Perhaps they didn't get the memo, but Google (which is what Yahoo wishes it was, and is where every Yahoo employee wishes he/she was working at) doesn't allow telecommuting either. Marissa was just putting in place policies that worked for Google.
business apps. There are some free open source business apps out there but nothing compared to paid ones.
Also the bigger firms have a shitload of custom in-house written apps that only run on x86.
that's why NASA requires approaching spacecraft to have triple-redundant thrusters. The Dragon capsule has FOUR sets... quadruple redundancy.
a lot of cushy jobs and contracts are gonna be lost due to SpaceX's super low cost launches. I'm surprised there isn't a bigger effort to discredit them and spread FUD, a la Edison electrocuting elephants with AC power.
the Nintendo Virtualboy.
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Me fail english? That's unpossible!
1. Short it
2. ???
3. Profit!
Constitution doesn't mention slaves. The 3/5th refers to "all other persons".
Slavery was a hot potato even back in 1787, so the Framers decided to avoid the topic altogether and ship a product rather than argue endlessly and come up with nothing. Many of the founding fathers were opposed to slavery, but the southern slaveholding states would've never ratified the Constitution if slavery was banned.
They excluded the word "slave" on purpose. If the clause had read "slaves shall be counted as 3/5th", that would've be an implicit legitimization of slavery. So they basically just kicked the can down the road and the issue didn't get addressed until 1860.
I've heard that it's the seedy underbelly of the east coast. Can any New Yorker confirm?
Wookie and Ewok are not in Greek or Roman mythology and do not qualify under the rules, while Vulcan does.
No, he's talking about IQ which is at least partly based on genetics.
Absolute minimum IQ to be a computer programmer is around 110. To be a GOOD programmer you're gonna need 120+. Out of a class of thirty kids, you're only gonna see 3 or 4 who qualify... the smart kids. And if they're really smart, they go on to be doctors or lawyers or wall street somethings and make more money rather than put up with the long hours, deadline pressures and the job insecurity that goes with being a programmer.
Air-to-air (aka A.C.M., air combat maneuvering... dogfighting) is a whole different ballgame than air-to-ground (aka mud pounding, dropping bombs on grunts). Targets on the ground are stationary or very close to it. They're always below you and they do not change position in the 3rd dimension.
When it comes to air-to-air, remotely piloted aircraft (drones) are going to suck due to lag and visibility issues. Lag you all know about. Visibility issues you wouldn't be familiar with unless you've witnessed air combat or some reasonable facsimile thereof (Air Combat USA, etc). When you're in a high-speed jet fighting another high-speed jet, most of the time your adversary is a TINY DOT. It's not like in the movies. There's a reason why excellent eyesight is a requirement for fighter pilots. To enable a drone pilot to see like a regular pilot, you're gonna need to encircle the virtual cockpit 360 degrees with super-high res displays. Think hundreds of retina iPads stitched together. Now think of the bandwidth requirement for transmitting live video feed for all these displays. Wirelessly. Think of the lag.
You mentioned the drone piloting itself (an autonomous vehicle). That's a scarier thought than a remotely piloted vehicle and probably worries a fighter pilot a lot more. I am not familiar with how advanced autonomous robots have gotten, but based on what I've seen in the past (Asimo, etc) I wouldn't lose sleep over it. However Google is said to be close to a functioning autonomous car so we will have to see.
When the day comes that the Google Car can drive itself to the nearest McDonald's, pull into the parking lot and look for an available spot, and if the lot is full, pull out onto the street, drive around and look for a street-parking space, and parallel park itself, and do all this as well as or better than a human driver can, I would say autonomous fighter planes can be done. But not until then.
it would be hilarious if William Shatner signed up for a course at the Khaaaaaaaaaaaaan academy
problem solved
just build it bigger!
Or if that can't be done economically, just build millions of little ones!
Oh that's not economically feasible either because each one requires a lot of labor to build? Hmm.... *thinks*
Ok let's just forget about the whole thing and go nuclear.
yes, it would be. And actually, it'd be even MORE better to engineer the plant so that the it automatically detects illegal activity by a poaching farmer and report him directly to Monsanto police via a 4G LTE connection. However in the real world, we must deal with what's feasible vs. what we would really like. And I'm guessing it was easier to engineer the plant to produce sterile seeds (which happens in nature all the time) vs. removing seeds completely.
And also btw, most grains ARE seeds, so if you have a grain with no seed, you have no grain.
No. Gateway invented their "Gateway Country" stores back in 2000. And since Apple copied Gateway (minus the cow motif), Google is copying a copy of a copy.
I didn't need sex for Star Wars to lose its cool.... George Lucas did that with his wretched prequels and constant fiddling with the originals.