Sure a lot of other things are important, but saying there's a shortage is just admitting you're not paying what the job's worth. If a good CEO is worth $1M, then a superb and highly productive engineer is certainly worth that. But you won't be finding many engineers paid better than "well".
If you're looking for individuals with superhero skills, then maybe you're looking for a single person when you should give up and hire several, each with superb skills in a certain area. After all, if a leader is worth the pay, they should be able to get the individuals to function as a team.
Another option is to try to identify those with potential and train them, then do whatever it takes to keep them. Again, pay well and offer those less tangible benefits. Not being willing to train people is just admitting that you don't expect to need them for the long term or don't plan to pay them enough later to stay.
25km? So I can't fly over the Potomac just upstream of DC? That's a bit ridiculous.
A small drone as a significant risk to the White House? Not. A sniper or a rocket attack on Marine One would be more likely. They acknowledge it, but I think they play down the sniper risk to keep from giving more crazy people ideas.
Then the US at least should enact a law saying that US banks can only use any software with source released to Chinese authorities when that source has been released to the public, and that there can be no backdoors whatsoever, and that they can only enter into transactions with banks using software without backdoors. Yeah, right, I can see the NSA going along with that...
I was going to say that scaring the public about eating GMO foods is a way to try to block the other ills related to them, but others beat me to it. Few people who aren't in the industry think further concentration in a few corporate hands of control over food production is a good idea.
Science can guide us very well when analyzing what we've already done (greenhouse gas climate change). It's not so clear where we should go (GMOs). Lumping all these things together is oversimplification.
First, how do you square selling a public good to private parties? Second, it wouldn't be hard to demonstrate that the good to the economy of allocating it without charge intelligently would exceed the auction's proceeds. Third, the proceeds don't come out of thin air. That's money that we'll all be paying the "winners" in the future. So as usual, it's using resources from the future in the present.
Also, it's not the efficiency of the land use, it's the economic efficiency. Is it really cheaper to cover an acre with PVs than to grow crops on 50? An acre of PVs is still pretty expensive.
...because we were doing it wrong? Obviously we should have given up on space exploration because chemical rockets are so inefficient.
Corn and ethanol are used because the people who stand to profit from them have significant political sway, not because they make any sense whatsoever to do. It's too soon to give up on biofuels. Energy crops should be part of an integrated agricultural solution. The idea that not growing crops for fuel means energy production won't increase food prices is ridiculous. Energy is a large part of what we pay for when we buy food. Fertilizer, pesticides, farm machinery, and distribution. What we do need are incentives to put idle agricultural land back into production before using forested land. Also, around me a fair amount of land is still used to grow tobacco. Only good can come from repurposing that.
Given the difficulty and/or unwillingness by MS of bringing SSAS and SSRS capabilities up to a meaningful level, this might be their idea of easing the integration of R with those things. I'd still prefer not to use them, but at least if forced to do so, having a little bit of interoperability with R would make it feasible to create some useful stuff.
Let's see, they promised to provide decent service, pay their fees, etc. but never did. So we PROMISE to bless the merger if you provide decent service, pay your fees, etc.
I don't know all the facts. Which makes me... like almost everyone else here.
It certainly smells like "shoot the messenger" to me. Somebody was upset that their data was leaked, they couldn't or didn't want to attack the leaker, so they went for a convenient scapegoat.
VB, what a horrible idea. And I thought Pascal was bad. It's a conspiracy to increase H-1B, since there won't be any capable programmers who grew up in the US.
So if I put a picture of a phone on some other object, like the cat...... and then program the indoor drone to attack the illuminated object...
Seriously, just agree on a standard dock with conductive contacts that's easy to drop your phone on. How hard is that? The EU effectively made manufacturers agree on compatibility with microUSD.
And they will. But it's harder for them to justify burning more coal and building more plants. And nothing increases costs faster than building more plants.
X10 is lacking in many ways, and I still use some of it, but the biggest problem I've had was with durability. Many of the components were horribly made and just broke. Stanley, GE, Radio Shack, didn't matter. Old Sears parts lasted longer but still just died.
I can't comment on how vulnerable the others are, but X10 is very vulnerableâ"from outside sockets and other units on the same transformer. North Koreans aren't going to hack your house from Pyongyang, but sneaky neighborhood kids can. I think you can filter the signals from the incoming power lines, but that's not commonly done. Also, you need to bridge the two incoming 110V legs so that X10 signals get across, otherwise parts of your house might not talk to other parts.
Still, to play around a bit, there's no cheaper way than X10.
Second that, Snowden for confirming for us that our worst surveillance scenarios have already occurred. And... because he doesn't have some huge character flaw like Assange, which many use to try to detract from Julian's contributions. As far a "running away to Russia" is concerned, where would he go? Only a handful of nations can be expected to refuse to cooperate with the US. China, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar (maybe), Russia... which would you choose?
Absolutely. Too bad there are so many problems with BluRay players. The only reason of which I'm aware that BluRay machines have frequent software updates is so DRM can be frequently changed. We should all just say no to future media that doesn't have unchanging specs.
Huge pixel count. Great. Seriously, I like it. I can view DSLR photos in full resolution.
But it's going to take a long time for bandwidth available to most folks to catch up with the needs of 3840x2160. Hard to imagine the data flow necessary for 7680x4320 being available to most of us for years. In fact, that's about the fastest being rolled out to residences today. Then what? Then there'll have to be sources. Netflix's servers don't provide 1080p for me now, having an ISP that doesn't interfere and 50Mbps bandwidth on DSL, which should be just about enough for even uncompressed video.
Hey, at least the focus is on pixel count instead of idiotic curved screens and 3D. What would be real advances? Holographic 3D and quality programming. Now we have who knows how many TV channels and networks, but only about the same number (very few) of quality shows as we had 50 years ago, not long after the FCC head's "television is a vast wasteland" comment.
Funny, I wouldn't have given Ford the credit for recognizing the wisdom of such a move. Kudos to them. Wish my IPTV provider would ditch the Cisco/Windows set tops for something based on QNX, as they're seriously horrible. Part of what's smart about this move by Ford is that it avoids their cars being associated with the frequent complaint of how bad MS stuff can be, whether correct or not. There's no such conversation among other than geeks about QNX. It has numerous supporters and very few detractors for any reason other than it's not free. The only downside I see (aside from there being used cars out there with Windows) is that others—GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan—are likely to hesitate to move to QNX. There's still quite a bit of NIH syndrome.
I think of hacking as almost anything to alter almost anything about the car, but it sounds like you're thinking mostly interfacing with the electronics to get there. I can't answer who's best, but I know for sure that some manufacturers make accessing and interpreting CAN bus information a lot easier than others. Search for CAN bus interface info for various makes in which you're interested and see how much is out there and how difficult it looks. When I find time (yeah right) I want to grab events from pushing steering wheel buttons and use it to control my own devices. So I'm not really looking to put messages on the CAN bus, just read from it.
In general, models that have cult followings (not just "ricers") will have a lot more info out there that their owners have accumulated and shared. MINIs are not among the easiest cars to interface with (as with other BMWs), but there's a lot of info out there because of the interest among owners. On the other hand, something like a Camry, popular as they are, is unlikely to have been explored as much because they're appliances that people buy to reliably get them where they want to go and not for providing fun or making a statement.
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...NSA? FBI? Do you think TLAs have NOT been doing this?
Sure a lot of other things are important, but saying there's a shortage is just admitting you're not paying what the job's worth. If a good CEO is worth $1M, then a superb and highly productive engineer is certainly worth that. But you won't be finding many engineers paid better than "well".
If you're looking for individuals with superhero skills, then maybe you're looking for a single person when you should give up and hire several, each with superb skills in a certain area. After all, if a leader is worth the pay, they should be able to get the individuals to function as a team.
Another option is to try to identify those with potential and train them, then do whatever it takes to keep them. Again, pay well and offer those less tangible benefits. Not being willing to train people is just admitting that you don't expect to need them for the long term or don't plan to pay them enough later to stay.
25km? So I can't fly over the Potomac just upstream of DC? That's a bit ridiculous.
A small drone as a significant risk to the White House? Not. A sniper or a rocket attack on Marine One would be more likely. They acknowledge it, but I think they play down the sniper risk to keep from giving more crazy people ideas.
Then the US at least should enact a law saying that US banks can only use any software with source released to Chinese authorities when that source has been released to the public, and that there can be no backdoors whatsoever, and that they can only enter into transactions with banks using software without backdoors. Yeah, right, I can see the NSA going along with that...
I was going to say that scaring the public about eating GMO foods is a way to try to block the other ills related to them, but others beat me to it. Few people who aren't in the industry think further concentration in a few corporate hands of control over food production is a good idea.
Science can guide us very well when analyzing what we've already done (greenhouse gas climate change). It's not so clear where we should go (GMOs). Lumping all these things together is oversimplification.
First, how do you square selling a public good to private parties? Second, it wouldn't be hard to demonstrate that the good to the economy of allocating it without charge intelligently would exceed the auction's proceeds. Third, the proceeds don't come out of thin air. That's money that we'll all be paying the "winners" in the future. So as usual, it's using resources from the future in the present.
Yet another good reason to schedule all primaries on the same day.
You nailed it pretty well. Teach a man to fish...
Also, it's not the efficiency of the land use, it's the economic efficiency. Is it really cheaper to cover an acre with PVs than to grow crops on 50? An acre of PVs is still pretty expensive.
...because we were doing it wrong? Obviously we should have given up on space exploration because chemical rockets are so inefficient.
Corn and ethanol are used because the people who stand to profit from them have significant political sway, not because they make any sense whatsoever to do. It's too soon to give up on biofuels. Energy crops should be part of an integrated agricultural solution. The idea that not growing crops for fuel means energy production won't increase food prices is ridiculous. Energy is a large part of what we pay for when we buy food. Fertilizer, pesticides, farm machinery, and distribution. What we do need are incentives to put idle agricultural land back into production before using forested land. Also, around me a fair amount of land is still used to grow tobacco. Only good can come from repurposing that.
Given the difficulty and/or unwillingness by MS of bringing SSAS and SSRS capabilities up to a meaningful level, this might be their idea of easing the integration of R with those things. I'd still prefer not to use them, but at least if forced to do so, having a little bit of interoperability with R would make it feasible to create some useful stuff.
Let's see, they promised to provide decent service, pay their fees, etc. but never did. So we PROMISE to bless the merger if you provide decent service, pay your fees, etc.
I don't know all the facts. Which makes me... like almost everyone else here.
It certainly smells like "shoot the messenger" to me. Somebody was upset that their data was leaked, they couldn't or didn't want to attack the leaker, so they went for a convenient scapegoat.
...if that means the Chinese government gets to look at Apple's source code while Apple's customers do not.
Closing the barn door after the cows are out? Demonstrates the typical wisdom of these people.
VB, what a horrible idea. And I thought Pascal was bad. It's a conspiracy to increase H-1B, since there won't be any capable programmers who grew up in the US.
So if I put a picture of a phone on some other object, like the cat... ... and then program the indoor drone to attack the illuminated object...
Seriously, just agree on a standard dock with conductive contacts that's easy to drop your phone on. How hard is that? The EU effectively made manufacturers agree on compatibility with microUSD.
Many models don't function properly when installed in Mom's basement.
And they will. But it's harder for them to justify burning more coal and building more plants. And nothing increases costs faster than building more plants.
X10 is lacking in many ways, and I still use some of it, but the biggest problem I've had was with durability. Many of the components were horribly made and just broke. Stanley, GE, Radio Shack, didn't matter. Old Sears parts lasted longer but still just died. I can't comment on how vulnerable the others are, but X10 is very vulnerableâ"from outside sockets and other units on the same transformer. North Koreans aren't going to hack your house from Pyongyang, but sneaky neighborhood kids can. I think you can filter the signals from the incoming power lines, but that's not commonly done. Also, you need to bridge the two incoming 110V legs so that X10 signals get across, otherwise parts of your house might not talk to other parts. Still, to play around a bit, there's no cheaper way than X10.
Second that, Snowden for confirming for us that our worst surveillance scenarios have already occurred. And... because he doesn't have some huge character flaw like Assange, which many use to try to detract from Julian's contributions. As far a "running away to Russia" is concerned, where would he go? Only a handful of nations can be expected to refuse to cooperate with the US. China, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar (maybe), Russia... which would you choose?
Absolutely. Too bad there are so many problems with BluRay players. The only reason of which I'm aware that BluRay machines have frequent software updates is so DRM can be frequently changed. We should all just say no to future media that doesn't have unchanging specs.
"Although a 50 inch 8K display on my desk would be a wonderful thing for my work computer."
Agreed, but I'd get more increase in productivity from a decent chair.
Huge pixel count. Great. Seriously, I like it. I can view DSLR photos in full resolution.
But it's going to take a long time for bandwidth available to most folks to catch up with the needs of 3840x2160. Hard to imagine the data flow necessary for 7680x4320 being available to most of us for years. In fact, that's about the fastest being rolled out to residences today. Then what? Then there'll have to be sources. Netflix's servers don't provide 1080p for me now, having an ISP that doesn't interfere and 50Mbps bandwidth on DSL, which should be just about enough for even uncompressed video.
Hey, at least the focus is on pixel count instead of idiotic curved screens and 3D. What would be real advances? Holographic 3D and quality programming. Now we have who knows how many TV channels and networks, but only about the same number (very few) of quality shows as we had 50 years ago, not long after the FCC head's "television is a vast wasteland" comment.
Funny, I wouldn't have given Ford the credit for recognizing the wisdom of such a move. Kudos to them. Wish my IPTV provider would ditch the Cisco/Windows set tops for something based on QNX, as they're seriously horrible. Part of what's smart about this move by Ford is that it avoids their cars being associated with the frequent complaint of how bad MS stuff can be, whether correct or not. There's no such conversation among other than geeks about QNX. It has numerous supporters and very few detractors for any reason other than it's not free. The only downside I see (aside from there being used cars out there with Windows) is that others—GM, Fiat/Chrysler, Toyota, Nissan—are likely to hesitate to move to QNX. There's still quite a bit of NIH syndrome.
I think of hacking as almost anything to alter almost anything about the car, but it sounds like you're thinking mostly interfacing with the electronics to get there. I can't answer who's best, but I know for sure that some manufacturers make accessing and interpreting CAN bus information a lot easier than others. Search for CAN bus interface info for various makes in which you're interested and see how much is out there and how difficult it looks. When I find time (yeah right) I want to grab events from pushing steering wheel buttons and use it to control my own devices. So I'm not really looking to put messages on the CAN bus, just read from it. In general, models that have cult followings (not just "ricers") will have a lot more info out there that their owners have accumulated and shared. MINIs are not among the easiest cars to interface with (as with other BMWs), but there's a lot of info out there because of the interest among owners. On the other hand, something like a Camry, popular as they are, is unlikely to have been explored as much because they're appliances that people buy to reliably get them where they want to go and not for providing fun or making a statement.