Gravity waves are a seriously studied (though as yet undetected) phenomenon.
Master... I don't understand. How can something that is not detected be seriously studied? Please explain to me the Zen of study of undetected phenomena! I await your wise reply...
Now, in Mississippi, the contractors who installed the cameras are unhappy, since they received a cut of the ticket revenue generated by the cameras.
Gee, that sounds like a really powerful motivation for them to make sure the cameras never unfairly issue a ticket, doesn't it? How about passing a constitutional amendment that that private individuals or companies are not allowed to have their profit from law enforcement activities in any way tied to arrest or conviction rates? Those behaviors which you reward, you create more of. Give people a strong enough incentive to catch others either fairly or unfairly, and soon almost everybody will be getting fined more than they can pay -- all except for the people in charge of (selectively) collecting the fines.
Someone will find out that rewards are paid to people that turn companies that pirate.
Nobody in their right mind would turn in the company until after they leave the company. So as long as nobody leaves the company, you're fine! Just remind management not to disgruntle anyone.
If someone high up at your company can't see the problem, you don't need to be working there.
Unless you're independently wealthy, then until you find another position, you DO need to be working there. Step number 1 should be: send out resumes.
Just as a matter of curiosity: what happened to the previous guy that installed all the unlicensed software?
Playing video games is a choice Growing up poor in an environment that continuously subjects you to physical and emotional violence usually isn't a choice... most people would choose NOT to grow up in such an environment. Trust me, getting pwned by a 10-year because you made the mistake to challenge him on line is a lot easier to deal with than getting the crap smacked out of you in real life for no reason.
That being said, I don't recommend playing a racing game that rewards smashing into other cars for 8 hours, then immediately getting out and driving down the freeway. To a certain extent your automatic reactions are trained by video games. But not your conscious decision-making processes.
...spelling is representative of the 'average' American. No it isn't! You're spelling is correct, which is certainly not representative! The median American is an idiot... and half of Americans are below that level! Trust me, contestants for "Battle of the Jay-Walking AllStars" are a lot easier to find than physicists that can actually find errors in the engineering math for the Large Hadron Collider.
So perhaps we should reconsider the purpose of anti-trust laws. Instead of just being used to prevent monopolies, wouldn't everybody be much better off if no corporation were allowed to become "too large to fail"? Personally, I think both Microsoft's customers and stockholders would be better off if it were split into multiple companies, like AT&T was in the 80's. Same for GM, but that would require restructuring the entire industry, which is currently geared to rewarding large corporations and keeping start-ups like DeLorean out. Outlaw "too big" companies, then when they fuck up, we can just let nature take its course. Keeping bad companies afloat is NOT a valid function of government.
I believe the Iranians volunteered to monitor our elections in Florida, but they were not well received. I cannot imagine why not! Yes, I do believe we should allow legitimate international organizations to monitor our elections, provided they are not disruptive.
E-voting backed up by an auditable paper trail can be designed to be trusted. I agree that E-voting with no physical audit trail cannot be trusted at all. Your reference to the compiler backdoor scenario pointed out by Ken Thompson 25 years ago is also correct; thorough review of the source code is not sufficient to guarantee security.
I'm much more worried that the Diebold system works exactly as designed, which is much more sinister than a "flaw" unexpectedly creeping into the software. I say the developers should either prove this wasn't intentional or go to jail for conspiracy to commit election fraud.
No thanks, I'd prefer a flying car that actually flies with a human on board! Preferably one designed by somebody that hasn't been charged with fraud by the SEC. After 40 years of development and countless millions in gullible investor money burned through, the Moller Sky Car still has never flown without being attached to a crane, and has never been piloted except by a tether. At what point should one conclude that this is serious snake-oil?
I was under the impression that hydraulics was one of the least efficient methods of transmitting power to the wheels, due to fluid friction. You've got a rotary bio-diesel engine running a compressor to compress fluid in a tank, a hydraulic line to the motor, then a turbine or some other mechanism to convert compressed fluid back into rotary motion to drive the wheels. Any hydraulic engineers want to estimate the losses in this system? Hydraulics is great to use as a force multiplier (just use a much smaller piston to compress the fluid than to release it) but it sucks as an energy storage or energy transmission mechanism, doesn't it? While this would be great if it works, but I still think bio-diesel to generator to battery to wire to electric motor built into the hub of each wheel would be a much better way to go, as far as efficiencies in convert the energy in the oil into forward motion of the vehicle.
So... how did that attempt at renaming the sewage treatment plant in honor of George W. Bush turn out, anyway? Yes, I know so little about SF that I can never find the freeway entrances to go home... I think they hide them intentionally. Also, have you noticed that making a left turn is considered a worse sin than sodomy in SF? Now I suppose you're going to try to convince there is actually more to SF than strip clubs, Herb Caen, Fisherman's Wharf, Cable Cars, Ghiradelli Chocolate and Sour Dough French Bread... oh yeah, there's Rice-a-Roni too!
Never lived there. Had 2 car accidents there. Remember, they don't charge you $4 toll on the Bay Bridge (excuse me "Emperor Norton Bridge") because getting into SF is worth it... they charge you $4 because getting out of Oakland is worth any amount of money! Say hello to all my friends at the O'Farrell Theater... some of the best friends that money can rent!
2. Everyone I know who has done "a little too much LDS" has lived in Utah.
Which is one of the reasons why it is so funny. The question is, was the writer intentionally making fun of Mormons, or was this an unintended coincidence?
And what do people who life in San Francisco and are used to referring to their city as "SF" call it? Granted, living in Frisco is weird enough that most comments about Science Fiction apply equally to the city as well. In fact, one of my all-time favorite SciFi quotes is set there: "Oh, him? He's harmless. Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS."
Agreed; if you are taking panoramic shots of landscape and blowing them up into large prints where people will want to focus in on small details, then you need all the resolution you can get. But then you are also paying tens of thousands of dollars for equipment. 99% of pictures are printed to 4x5 stock and stuck in albums, and the lens systems in a cheap point-and-shoot can't take advantage of the higher resolution anyway, so for the standard digital cameras used by 99% of the population, 12-16 megapixels is quite enough.
You've obviously never been kept awake all night by a mosquito that, every time you start nodding off, buzzes past your ear! I have. Even if there were no threat of malaria, I'd still be saying "Die you annoying little buzzing mother-fuckers! Die! Die! Die!" How 'bout if we set the lasers up over water to fry the little 6-legged bastards and then let fish eat them... don't you think the fish would appreciate a freshly cooked meal for a change?
Yeah, the D-300 sounds sweet and would handle very well anything that I would ever want to do with a camera. But at a minimum of $600 for the camera body plus $600 for each lens -- well, let's just say it's a little out of my budget right now. I know many pro photographers swear by the Nikon, but can't I take as good a quality of picture for less money with a Canon digital camera body and lenses? (I'm talking price/performance here, please no Nikon vs. Canon religious wars.) The problem is, once you choose one manufacturer, you are stuck with them because as far as I know the lenses and other accessories are not interchangeable between manufacturers.
Your wants are self-contradictory. You can't have both pocket-size and interchangeable lenses, which is what you would need to do good telephoto. (There is currently no such thing as single lens that works well for extreme closeups and telephoto, although I suspect it could be done with active optics.) To get good image quality, you've got to pay around $1000 for a Nikon or Canon body that is threaded for standard lenses (I'd go with the Canon because I've heard the lenses are cheaper.) But yes, I think you can take professional-quality digital photos with about a $1000 camera now. (Ok, go ahead and tell me a Canon Rebel is only $329 now; that's only a 6 megapixel CMOS sensor.)
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Gravity waves are a seriously studied (though as yet undetected) phenomenon.
Master... I don't understand. How can something that is not detected be seriously studied? Please explain to me the Zen of study of undetected phenomena! I await your wise reply...
(Checks calendar) Dude... you're a week early!
Now, in Mississippi, the contractors who installed the cameras are unhappy, since they received a cut of the ticket revenue generated by the cameras.
Gee, that sounds like a really powerful motivation for them to make sure the cameras never unfairly issue a ticket, doesn't it? How about passing a constitutional amendment that that private individuals or companies are not allowed to have their profit from law enforcement activities in any way tied to arrest or conviction rates? Those behaviors which you reward, you create more of. Give people a strong enough incentive to catch others either fairly or unfairly, and soon almost everybody will be getting fined more than they can pay -- all except for the people in charge of (selectively) collecting the fines.
Someone will find out that rewards are paid to people that turn companies that pirate.
Nobody in their right mind would turn in the company until after they leave the company. So as long as nobody leaves the company, you're fine! Just remind management not to disgruntle anyone.
If someone high up at your company can't see the problem, you don't need to be working there.
Unless you're independently wealthy, then until you find another position, you DO need to be working there. Step number 1 should be: send out resumes.
Just as a matter of curiosity: what happened to the previous guy that installed all the unlicensed software?
You know what they say: "Guns don't kill people. People that are pissed off because they suck at videogames kill people!"
That being said, I don't recommend playing a racing game that rewards smashing into other cars for 8 hours, then immediately getting out and driving down the freeway. To a certain extent your automatic reactions are trained by video games. But not your conscious decision-making processes.
Oh, and judging from my wife, they're not really good at debugging, they just take great pleasure in pointing out mistakes made by men...
...spelling is representative of the 'average' American. No it isn't! You're spelling is correct, which is certainly not representative! The median American is an idiot... and half of Americans are below that level! Trust me, contestants for "Battle of the Jay-Walking AllStars" are a lot easier to find than physicists that can actually find errors in the engineering math for the Large Hadron Collider.
"Nice tatas!"
So perhaps we should reconsider the purpose of anti-trust laws. Instead of just being used to prevent monopolies, wouldn't everybody be much better off if no corporation were allowed to become "too large to fail"? Personally, I think both Microsoft's customers and stockholders would be better off if it were split into multiple companies, like AT&T was in the 80's. Same for GM, but that would require restructuring the entire industry, which is currently geared to rewarding large corporations and keeping start-ups like DeLorean out. Outlaw "too big" companies, then when they fuck up, we can just let nature take its course. Keeping bad companies afloat is NOT a valid function of government.
As we all know any crime with a computer element is much worse than murder. Only if the computer is connected to the Inter-tubes.
I believe the Iranians volunteered to monitor our elections in Florida, but they were not well received. I cannot imagine why not! Yes, I do believe we should allow legitimate international organizations to monitor our elections, provided they are not disruptive.
E-voting backed up by an auditable paper trail can be designed to be trusted. I agree that E-voting with no physical audit trail cannot be trusted at all. Your reference to the compiler backdoor scenario pointed out by Ken Thompson 25 years ago is also correct; thorough review of the source code is not sufficient to guarantee security.
I'm much more worried that the Diebold system works exactly as designed, which is much more sinister than a "flaw" unexpectedly creeping into the software. I say the developers should either prove this wasn't intentional or go to jail for conspiracy to commit election fraud.
No thanks, I'd prefer a flying car that actually flies with a human on board! Preferably one designed by somebody that hasn't been charged with fraud by the SEC. After 40 years of development and countless millions in gullible investor money burned through, the Moller Sky Car still has never flown without being attached to a crane, and has never been piloted except by a tether. At what point should one conclude that this is serious snake-oil?
I was under the impression that hydraulics was one of the least efficient methods of transmitting power to the wheels, due to fluid friction. You've got a rotary bio-diesel engine running a compressor to compress fluid in a tank, a hydraulic line to the motor, then a turbine or some other mechanism to convert compressed fluid back into rotary motion to drive the wheels. Any hydraulic engineers want to estimate the losses in this system? Hydraulics is great to use as a force multiplier (just use a much smaller piston to compress the fluid than to release it) but it sucks as an energy storage or energy transmission mechanism, doesn't it? While this would be great if it works, but I still think bio-diesel to generator to battery to wire to electric motor built into the hub of each wheel would be a much better way to go, as far as efficiencies in convert the energy in the oil into forward motion of the vehicle.
So... how did that attempt at renaming the sewage treatment plant in honor of George W. Bush turn out, anyway? Yes, I know so little about SF that I can never find the freeway entrances to go home... I think they hide them intentionally. Also, have you noticed that making a left turn is considered a worse sin than sodomy in SF? Now I suppose you're going to try to convince there is actually more to SF than strip clubs, Herb Caen, Fisherman's Wharf, Cable Cars, Ghiradelli Chocolate and Sour Dough French Bread... oh yeah, there's Rice-a-Roni too!
Never lived there. Had 2 car accidents there. Remember, they don't charge you $4 toll on the Bay Bridge (excuse me "Emperor Norton Bridge") because getting into SF is worth it... they charge you $4 because getting out of Oakland is worth any amount of money! Say hello to all my friends at the O'Farrell Theater... some of the best friends that money can rent!
I'll have to ask my wifey about that...
Yes they do.
2. Everyone I know who has done "a little too much LDS" has lived in Utah.
Which is one of the reasons why it is so funny. The question is, was the writer intentionally making fun of Mormons, or was this an unintended coincidence?
And what do people who life in San Francisco and are used to referring to their city as "SF" call it? Granted, living in Frisco is weird enough that most comments about Science Fiction apply equally to the city as well. In fact, one of my all-time favorite SciFi quotes is set there: "Oh, him? He's harmless. Part of the free speech movement at Berkeley in the sixties. I think he did a little too much LDS."
Agreed; if you are taking panoramic shots of landscape and blowing them up into large prints where people will want to focus in on small details, then you need all the resolution you can get. But then you are also paying tens of thousands of dollars for equipment. 99% of pictures are printed to 4x5 stock and stuck in albums, and the lens systems in a cheap point-and-shoot can't take advantage of the higher resolution anyway, so for the standard digital cameras used by 99% of the population, 12-16 megapixels is quite enough.
You've obviously never been kept awake all night by a mosquito that, every time you start nodding off, buzzes past your ear! I have. Even if there were no threat of malaria, I'd still be saying "Die you annoying little buzzing mother-fuckers! Die! Die! Die!" How 'bout if we set the lasers up over water to fry the little 6-legged bastards and then let fish eat them... don't you think the fish would appreciate a freshly cooked meal for a change?
Yeah, the D-300 sounds sweet and would handle very well anything that I would ever want to do with a camera. But at a minimum of $600 for the camera body plus $600 for each lens -- well, let's just say it's a little out of my budget right now. I know many pro photographers swear by the Nikon, but can't I take as good a quality of picture for less money with a Canon digital camera body and lenses? (I'm talking price/performance here, please no Nikon vs. Canon religious wars.) The problem is, once you choose one manufacturer, you are stuck with them because as far as I know the lenses and other accessories are not interchangeable between manufacturers.
Your wants are self-contradictory. You can't have both pocket-size and interchangeable lenses, which is what you would need to do good telephoto. (There is currently no such thing as single lens that works well for extreme closeups and telephoto, although I suspect it could be done with active optics.) To get good image quality, you've got to pay around $1000 for a Nikon or Canon body that is threaded for standard lenses (I'd go with the Canon because I've heard the lenses are cheaper.) But yes, I think you can take professional-quality digital photos with about a $1000 camera now. (Ok, go ahead and tell me a Canon Rebel is only $329 now; that's only a 6 megapixel CMOS sensor.)