There are "park flier" models that would be suitable for flying in a large and empty double soccer field sized space. However, adding cameras and other equipment can easily double the weight, which affects the flying safety.
Responsible helicopter and airplane modelers go to reserved land areas to do their flying. There are serious injuries due to blunt force and propeller slicing every year. Deaths and permanent disfigurements are not unheard of. When these injuries happen to non-participants, it just invites tougher laws against unlicensed hobby flying.
Sure, it's easy to conclude that teams writing COBOL programs have more development discipline, but there's also something to be said about the overall complexity of the languages. There are huge differences in the range of capability in the core language, the range of different expressions to solve the same problem, and the range of handling different modes of process (serial, concurrent, federated, etc.).
If you'd read the articles instead of just shoot from the hip, you'd know.
Yes, they torture one rat, if you define "trap the rat in a small clear tube long enough that they might pee from the mental stresses of discovering they're trapped" as torture.
You can't study empathy without pain or anguish being involved, by definition. You might be able to study this concept by watching it in nature, but the conditions won't be controlled so conclusions will be weak.
I've commented on this before, but there are GOOD and BAD reasons for outsourcing. All of these stories focus on the BAD (and they're truly horrible). It's easy to have schadenfreude about managerial disasters, especially if said managers fired you for this kind of project.
If you're outsourcing something that is your core competency, you're going to rot away to nothing. They will walk away with your secrets and become the direct solution provider in your space.
If you're outsourcing something that is creative or inventive in nature, you will fail. They are geared to bill hours, want to minimize their own labor by recycling solutions, and don't care so much about success because rework is still work.
If you're outsourcing something that depends on today's level of dedication and problem-solving, that's creative and inventive. But also, you will fail because you don't own those rare dedicated and problem-solving employees. They're predictably terminated by their managers, replaced with cronies or the next batch of diploma-mill graduates. If you get something good out of an outsourced worker, they will quit for a better job tomorrow and you'll have to start over again. And there's usually a no-poaching agreement to make it harder for you to groom and select the gems from their labor pool.
However, if you're outsourcing something that is rote, uninteresting, easily explained, clearly documented, often repeated, and does not rely on motivation or personality, then you have a chance. There's no reason for you to hoard and cultivate a set of employees who are best kept as fungible, as replaceable, as off-the-shelf, carbon-copies of each other as possible. Get them cheap, and get them to turn the repetitive process crank that you don't want to turn.
Offshoring the project is identical to local outsourcing, but all of the challenges of time zone and language and culture are just magnified greatly.
If they're planning on going public, headlines like this are not what Wall Street wants to hear. It sounds all positive on the outside, but doubling in size quickly means a significant increase in costs... with a lag before any of those costs bring new revenue. I hate it when stock prices go up when layoffs happen, but it's a fact of business: people are the bulk of company expenses.
This is why I got my license-- I live within an easy drive (nearly an FPV flight) from the ARRL headquarters, but have really no interest at all in sitting around shooting the breeze with the typical ARRL "Juneau to Johannesburg" or "bounce off the moon" type of HAM enthusiast.
With search and rescue operations, there may be some slim overlap of these two groups, but otherwise, two very different sets of goals. I don't transmit for transmitting's sake-- I transmit to get something else done.
Okay, so what is the reference frame for the universe, in which you can measure angular momentum, spin, or even velocity (or even origin)? We measure the sphere of "the observable universe" as the sphere where light could have reached us since the universe began, but we can't assume that we're the center of the WHOLE universe. Presumably since the Big Bang, all stars have been moving outward from one point, but from our vantage point (or any vantage point), all other stars are generally moving away from us. I guess I haven't come to understand how you can work backwards to determine an X Y Z of the Big Bang, nevermind additional spin or momentum.
Every car can be different, with no retooling, because the robots can do anything. It's just software.
While I love the idea of this, my first thought is Certification. With every change, its safety and other standards-compliance must be demonstrated to certification authorities (NHTSA in US, plus parallel cert authorities in other countries if exporting). Perhaps changing a few styling choices would be simple, but altering seat positions or compartment headroom or custom dashboards for different drivers is not likely to happen as easily as implied. This isn't a Cabbage Patch Doll with seven inconsequential variables like hair and eye colors.
Diginotar was just the beginning of the reports, but truth is, CAs have been broken for a long time and SSL sessions that depend on CA certs are useless. A couple weeks ago, there was a handy how-to page to show how you can go into Mac OS X's keychain to reject Diginotar... one CA entry down, but several hundred others. If you think the NSA, Mossad, MI6, and fifty other countries haven't slipped MitM SSL boxes on various trunks hoping to score a session depending on these CAs, you're deluded.
I've gotten sucked into the Minecraft vortex, and amongst my several major sculptures I've also gotten fairly handy with redstone wiring.
I produced a 50 meter bust of Hatsune Miku (modeled in Blender), and inside the head, a friend of mine collaborated and we made a fully operational "Dance Dance Revolution" game complete with 3 row scrolling step display, a reward/prize dispenser for good "dance" moves, and a programmable music system. Every block and circuit was harvested, traded, and placed legit... no World Edit used at all.
On server.serenitymc.net, guests can log in and issue a "/warp diva" command to check it out, even without signing up for builders rights. Check it out.
Isn't ICE supposed to be dealing with illegal immigrants?
While I decry ICE's decision-making process and think it's reaching beyond its authority, I think it's silly to say that TOR investigation is entirely outside of ICE's domain. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We still live in a USA where some software and data imports and exports are considered unlawful, whether it's controlled technology (cryptology, espionage, classified data) or the more pedestrian types like child pornography.
Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich are regular contributors to CNN - and every single one of their articles are this kind of drivel. A drinking game could involve their weak attempts at inserting every possible hipster keyword in every article. Their idea of snark is including the sentence 'Not.' at the end of a paragraph. Maybe I'm just getting old, but if this is what passes for humor with people their age, I'm not looking forward to the post-hipster generation one bit.
How many Japanese people were home with fully charged cars when the tsunami/quake hit?
Hint: it doesn't have to be YOUR HOUSE that you're supporting. How many cars are in areas of Japan that were unaffected by the tsunami? How many of those owners would have charged up, driven a little closer to the region, and donated the remainder of their charge to help their neighbors? The elders in Japan once scoffed at the current generation of Japanese youth as lazy and disconnected with society-- until they came by the thousands to offer their sweat and tears for the Fukushima region.
I really liked the MagSafe(tm) concept when Apple first came out with it, but Apple has been such a fucking prick about the damned things. They don't offer any significant range of options to use the plug, and they actively stymie all attempts of the marketplace to fill that void.
Want a piggy-back battery to supply power to the laptop? Apple doesn't make one. Want to tie in with a docking station? Apple doesn't make one.
At first, when asked about third party adoption of the plugs, they were "oh, well, I guess they'll start coming out any time now."
Then it was "oh, well, guess nobody's trying to license them."
Then when manufacturers tried to license them, they were refused.
So one manufacturer decided to eat the waste and rely on the doctrine of First Sale. They BOUGHT Apple(tm) adapters, chopped off the white wallwart transformer, and soldered the MagSafe(tm) pigtail to their own battery packs, and they were still attacked by Apple's lawyers.
WTF, Apple. People have varying needs to make use of your products. Step up to offer the solution, or get out of the way.
"Personally liable"? What kind of asshole are you? If it's truly an individual examiner's fault, maybe hold them personally accountable, such as a bad mark on their annual performance evaluation. But extracting financial restitution for multi-million dollar damages between two major corporations, from some mid-level technician doing what they thought was their job, is not reasonable. Hyperbole does not help the discourse.
He's the head of the IMF. He's a big-time shaker, mover and influencer in all things that make the world go around.
Right, so talk about all of those world-affecting issues. The guy's resignation is salient on its own, if someone wants to post a good article on his tenure and the changes this event may effect. The keycard records that play an infinitesimal role in the situation is not salient, or even interesting, but was called out as if some tech shibboleth was required to get coverage here. It's stupid pandering.
He's taking the Slashdot community's helpful behavior for granite. It's not like we're rude individually, but you could say we're rude in the aggregate.
What if there was a language where each block was a character? then you could string them together to form more complex commands, variable names, and flow control! If you wanted to add the values in the A and B blocks, you would just put a + block between them. you could then use the assignment block to put the resulting value into the C block! you'd probably never need to learn more than 50 or so blocks and you could do just about ANYTHING with that!
Your point is well-received. ASCII is very expressive with only a few characters. But you point out that it's really just a slope... and a slippery slope at that. Any Turing-complete language will do any computational task that any other Turing-complete language will do. How about fewer characters than 50? See Brainf*ck.
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Don't fly in parks.
There are "park flier" models that would be suitable for flying in a large and empty double soccer field sized space. However, adding cameras and other equipment can easily double the weight, which affects the flying safety.
Responsible helicopter and airplane modelers go to reserved land areas to do their flying. There are serious injuries due to blunt force and propeller slicing every year. Deaths and permanent disfigurements are not unheard of. When these injuries happen to non-participants, it just invites tougher laws against unlicensed hobby flying.
Sure, it's easy to conclude that teams writing COBOL programs have more development discipline, but there's also something to be said about the overall complexity of the languages. There are huge differences in the range of capability in the core language, the range of different expressions to solve the same problem, and the range of handling different modes of process (serial, concurrent, federated, etc.).
If you'd read the articles instead of just shoot from the hip, you'd know.
Yes, they torture one rat, if you define "trap the rat in a small clear tube long enough that they might pee from the mental stresses of discovering they're trapped" as torture.
You can't study empathy without pain or anguish being involved, by definition. You might be able to study this concept by watching it in nature, but the conditions won't be controlled so conclusions will be weak.
I've commented on this before, but there are GOOD and BAD reasons for outsourcing. All of these stories focus on the BAD (and they're truly horrible). It's easy to have schadenfreude about managerial disasters, especially if said managers fired you for this kind of project.
If you're outsourcing something that is your core competency, you're going to rot away to nothing. They will walk away with your secrets and become the direct solution provider in your space.
If you're outsourcing something that is creative or inventive in nature, you will fail. They are geared to bill hours, want to minimize their own labor by recycling solutions, and don't care so much about success because rework is still work.
If you're outsourcing something that depends on today's level of dedication and problem-solving, that's creative and inventive. But also, you will fail because you don't own those rare dedicated and problem-solving employees. They're predictably terminated by their managers, replaced with cronies or the next batch of diploma-mill graduates. If you get something good out of an outsourced worker, they will quit for a better job tomorrow and you'll have to start over again. And there's usually a no-poaching agreement to make it harder for you to groom and select the gems from their labor pool.
However, if you're outsourcing something that is rote, uninteresting, easily explained, clearly documented, often repeated, and does not rely on motivation or personality, then you have a chance. There's no reason for you to hoard and cultivate a set of employees who are best kept as fungible, as replaceable, as off-the-shelf, carbon-copies of each other as possible. Get them cheap, and get them to turn the repetitive process crank that you don't want to turn.
Offshoring the project is identical to local outsourcing, but all of the challenges of time zone and language and culture are just magnified greatly.
If they're planning on going public, headlines like this are not what Wall Street wants to hear. It sounds all positive on the outside, but doubling in size quickly means a significant increase in costs... with a lag before any of those costs bring new revenue. I hate it when stock prices go up when layoffs happen, but it's a fact of business: people are the bulk of company expenses.
This is why I got my license-- I live within an easy drive (nearly an FPV flight) from the ARRL headquarters, but have really no interest at all in sitting around shooting the breeze with the typical ARRL "Juneau to Johannesburg" or "bounce off the moon" type of HAM enthusiast.
With search and rescue operations, there may be some slim overlap of these two groups, but otherwise, two very different sets of goals. I don't transmit for transmitting's sake-- I transmit to get something else done.
The image with the giant Tesla coil looming over a suburban house reminded me of that horrible Dan Aykroyd / John Belushi movie, Neighbors.
I've been looking forward to that latest game from Mojang-- they sure delivered this latest installment of Scrolls quickly!
Oh, wait....
Okay, so what is the reference frame for the universe, in which you can measure angular momentum, spin, or even velocity (or even origin)? We measure the sphere of "the observable universe" as the sphere where light could have reached us since the universe began, but we can't assume that we're the center of the WHOLE universe. Presumably since the Big Bang, all stars have been moving outward from one point, but from our vantage point (or any vantage point), all other stars are generally moving away from us. I guess I haven't come to understand how you can work backwards to determine an X Y Z of the Big Bang, nevermind additional spin or momentum.
While I love the idea of this, my first thought is Certification. With every change, its safety and other standards-compliance must be demonstrated to certification authorities (NHTSA in US, plus parallel cert authorities in other countries if exporting). Perhaps changing a few styling choices would be simple, but altering seat positions or compartment headroom or custom dashboards for different drivers is not likely to happen as easily as implied. This isn't a Cabbage Patch Doll with seven inconsequential variables like hair and eye colors.
Diginotar was just the beginning of the reports, but truth is, CAs have been broken for a long time and SSL sessions that depend on CA certs are useless. A couple weeks ago, there was a handy how-to page to show how you can go into Mac OS X's keychain to reject Diginotar... one CA entry down, but several hundred others. If you think the NSA, Mossad, MI6, and fifty other countries haven't slipped MitM SSL boxes on various trunks hoping to score a session depending on these CAs, you're deluded.
I've gotten sucked into the Minecraft vortex, and amongst my several major sculptures I've also gotten fairly handy with redstone wiring.
I produced a 50 meter bust of Hatsune Miku (modeled in Blender), and inside the head, a friend of mine collaborated and we made a fully operational "Dance Dance Revolution" game complete with 3 row scrolling step display, a reward/prize dispenser for good "dance" moves, and a programmable music system. Every block and circuit was harvested, traded, and placed legit... no World Edit used at all.
http://www.planetminecraft.com/project/digital-diva-hatsune-miku-exterior/
On server.serenitymc.net, guests can log in and issue a "/warp diva" command to check it out, even without signing up for builders rights. Check it out.
While I decry ICE's decision-making process and think it's reaching beyond its authority, I think it's silly to say that TOR investigation is entirely outside of ICE's domain. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We still live in a USA where some software and data imports and exports are considered unlawful, whether it's controlled technology (cryptology, espionage, classified data) or the more pedestrian types like child pornography.
Andrea Bartz and Brenna Ehrlich are regular contributors to CNN - and every single one of their articles are this kind of drivel. A drinking game could involve their weak attempts at inserting every possible hipster keyword in every article. Their idea of snark is including the sentence 'Not.' at the end of a paragraph. Maybe I'm just getting old, but if this is what passes for humor with people their age, I'm not looking forward to the post-hipster generation one bit.
There's a great discussion in "artificial scarcity" and related topics like DRM in there somewhere.
How about Global Thermonuclear War? --David
This is Unix! I know this! --Lex
All I see now are... Blonde, Brunette, Redhead. --Cypher
Hint: it doesn't have to be YOUR HOUSE that you're supporting. How many cars are in areas of Japan that were unaffected by the tsunami? How many of those owners would have charged up, driven a little closer to the region, and donated the remainder of their charge to help their neighbors? The elders in Japan once scoffed at the current generation of Japanese youth as lazy and disconnected with society-- until they came by the thousands to offer their sweat and tears for the Fukushima region.
Talking points for Republican events are red meat.
I really liked the MagSafe(tm) concept when Apple first came out with it, but Apple has been such a fucking prick about the damned things. They don't offer any significant range of options to use the plug, and they actively stymie all attempts of the marketplace to fill that void. Want a piggy-back battery to supply power to the laptop? Apple doesn't make one. Want to tie in with a docking station? Apple doesn't make one. At first, when asked about third party adoption of the plugs, they were "oh, well, I guess they'll start coming out any time now." Then it was "oh, well, guess nobody's trying to license them." Then when manufacturers tried to license them, they were refused. So one manufacturer decided to eat the waste and rely on the doctrine of First Sale. They BOUGHT Apple(tm) adapters, chopped off the white wallwart transformer, and soldered the MagSafe(tm) pigtail to their own battery packs, and they were still attacked by Apple's lawyers. WTF, Apple. People have varying needs to make use of your products. Step up to offer the solution, or get out of the way.
"Personally liable"? What kind of asshole are you? If it's truly an individual examiner's fault, maybe hold them personally accountable, such as a bad mark on their annual performance evaluation. But extracting financial restitution for multi-million dollar damages between two major corporations, from some mid-level technician doing what they thought was their job, is not reasonable. Hyperbole does not help the discourse.
Right, so talk about all of those world-affecting issues. The guy's resignation is salient on its own, if someone wants to post a good article on his tenure and the changes this event may effect. The keycard records that play an infinitesimal role in the situation is not salient, or even interesting, but was called out as if some tech shibboleth was required to get coverage here. It's stupid pandering.
We're following this tabloid crap on Slashdot just because a door has an electronic sensor on it !? Get real, for fuck's sake.
He's taking the Slashdot community's helpful behavior for granite. It's not like we're rude individually, but you could say we're rude in the aggregate.
I see what you did there.
Your point is well-received. ASCII is very expressive with only a few characters. But you point out that it's really just a slope... and a slippery slope at that. Any Turing-complete language will do any computational task that any other Turing-complete language will do. How about fewer characters than 50? See Brainf*ck.