You obviously didn't read the article with the talk of testing in 'qualified facilities'. It says specifically that six major groups have tested this:
"In 2012, a Chinese team said it had measured a thrust produced by its own version of the EmDrive. In 2014, an American scientist built an EmDrive and persuaded NASA to test it with positive results."
"And last year, NASA conducted its own tests in a vacuum to rule out movement of air as the origin of the force. NASA, too, confirmed that the EmDrive produces a thrust. In total, six independent experiments have backed Shawyer’s original claims."
As for the theory... Well this is one of the possible tests to prove the concept of the theory, the results so far closely match the results the theory predicts. Though the theory creates some other problems that have to be worked out to fit into the larger physics framework.
The problem was that even with all you just said the thrust was higher than they expected. Hence the big issue with the drive and why people said it couldn't work. Yet it kept working in real world tests.
Try the same thing on an Apple phone. Last time I knew you couldn't even use another web browser engine, even their alternatives had to run the same core form the OS. And you sure aren't going to change the 'store' on an Apple phone. It may not be easy on Android, but you can do it.
I'm positive they don't want the costs of keeping an OS up to date. If they fork their own version for their devices, they then take on all the major security issues Google has been handling. Samsung isn't the only Android vendor though and if they fall off the Google bandwagon for their own fork of it they will have quite the uphill battle. It would also give other vendors a much better shot at gaining marketshare. I've heard good things about the HTC 10 for instance...
My Tablet, which is my only 'mobile device', runs Android 4.1.1. I know security-wise I'd be better off upgrading, but my highest continued use of it is as a note taking and book reading device and it does those just fine. I don't get the need to 'upgrade' to a new device just because this one is long in the tooth. I have neither the desire nor monetary resources to do that right now.
I'm positive their are also lots of places in the world outside the US, Europe, and Japan where a device that is more than two years old isn't considered an antique. Vendors, including Google, need to realize this and figure out some way to do long term support for at least five years if not more. Heck I know plenty of companies that run ten year old PCs (or older since I know a few places run DOS still in their machine shops), so five years isn't really asking much and has at least been about the cycle for PC... This need to constantly push 'new' is unsustainable for a large part of their user base.
The county re-evaluated all property about 10 years ago and fixed their values for a certain period of time, not including a very long legal process you could begin to get the value changed if it was completely wrong. Since that ended you can't get the county to change the value until the next time they open it. My house was actually not mine yet then and my parents who owned it at the time did get them to re-evaluate it. Which set it around 40k. Which was down form the 96k the first set it to (when they thought it was the neighbors three story house that had just been renovated). The re-evaluations took some 5 years to finish anyways, so I think another 5 years or so still exists before the next 'open' period.
I swear the county new property values would plummet like a rock and wanted to fix everyone in at higher tax rates. Though values had been falling for over two decades at a very slow rate, so maybe they just wanted to beat the curve and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Locking property values for tax purposes is pretty shit to begin with.
Worse is that I own a house (it used to be my grandmothers), which means I'll be homeless when I can't pay for things like utilities (water, heating, and electricity)... Or my local taxes... Whichever comes first.
But yes, it make far more sense to help me before I become yet another homeless person filling the crowded facilities for them. Facilities that btw don't even exist where I live, but only in the nearest major city. Oh and did I mention the waiting lines to even get in?
It strains my mind about how fucked the system has become that they can't tell real need and when it's best to help, from when they don't need to. You hear about the abusers of the system all the time, and I've seen some, but the attempts to get rid of them seem to fail and the attempts to help people who really need it are a mess.
If I didn't have an ex fiance that was not yet an ex, I would have moved out of this area at the height of my career ~4-5 years ago. Not sure where I would have gone, but I really wish I had. I did have a plan to move down to Pittsburgh at one point, but as my now ex didn't want to move... Well... It never happened.
Well lucky you owned a van and that you moved to Cali. Here it snows and even if I was to live in a camp ground somehow (even that can be expensive) that's only an option part of the year. Not to mention I need gas just to drive my aging car wherever the heck I'm going. I don't walk to the grocery store for my health, I do it because I can't afford to drive my car unless I have to.
Also I'm only a couple years from turning 40. As some recruiters have made pointedly clear lately, I should have 'changed careers' before now as far as companies out your way feel.
I live just outside Erie PA, so I'm about a hundred miles from you (though our weather is equally bad). Unlike Buffalo, Erie wants to be a 'vacation' city now and is failing pretty badly at it. Half of the major companies do their IT out of Buffalo or Pittsburgh and so don't hire at all locally. Others like GE have been 90% H1B Indian workers for as long as I've been working.
I actually have a former coworker (we worked for the same university) who moved out your way because his wife wanted to move closer to her family. He had an IT job there, but last I talked to him he'd become an Uber driver because the job he got didn't work out... I have no idea if he's still doing that, but with all the recent fuss I'm kinda doubting it.
Closest offers I've gotten have all been for Pittsburgh, but with no way to afford to live there and no chance of my car surviving daily 2 hour+ commutes... It's not an option.
I've been unemployed since the end of December in 2014, since over a year now and I'm unemployed for a combination of reasons: Low actual demand for my skills in the region I live and absolutely no way to move somewhere I could actually get a job in short order. I've worked IT as a network admin for a decade and my skills are still up to date. However there are only a handful of jobs per month with several months where even entry level IT jobs aren't available. I interview for lots of them, but they don't want to 'pay for' an experienced worker even when I tell them I'm not looking for a rate anywhere near what I had. So I have heard so many times "HR thinks your overqualified so I can't hire you even though I want to".
I get offers for IT jobs in other states, but I own a house here that I'm almost guaranteed I can't sell for the rate they use to figure my taxes on it. So I have no money to use to get housing somewhere else. So I have even try to get work in other fields, including craptastic jobs in restaurants, retail, factory laborer, etc and they all have 'reasons' not to hire me.
Last year my finances were ok, this year is a disaster made worse because the state literally writes you off after you can no longer qualify for unemployment. So the local job assistance office and even the state assistance office tell me I can't qualify for anything. No job programs, no state medical assistance, no 'food stamps' (they aren't called that now, but I forget what they do call them). I seriously think the government wants to cause homelessness and death as an alternative to giving real information on unemployment.
Retirement doesn't mean you don't need a job. My dad was old enough to retire, and did, but he still works for the regional government agency he'd worked for before he retired... Just for fewer hours. And really after the first year or two were he is forced to work very low numbers of hours he can then work as much as he wants.
My mom is seven years younger than he is, but she is legally disabled and gets SSI. Together they last year they barely pulled in 25k, so him going back to work is a certainty in his cards. Look at every Walmart I've ever seen as well for great examples of retired workers, so my family is not unique.
Among other things I haven't been able to move because I can't afford it. I own a house that is worth maybe 20 or 30k (the housing prices are very low here). Figuring I could sell it (and houses here regularly take multiple years to sell if ever), I certainly can't buy a new home somewhere else. Heck, without managing to sell it I can't even afford an apartment anywhere else.
I get offers for jobs from more than a dozen different states, but I don't know anyone that lives in those places I could bum a room from for a few months... Or have any other means in living in those places so I simply can't take them.
I've been out of work since the end of December 2014. Where I live jobs have been scarce in IT in general. I've had tons of interviews, but so many people are applying that even a second interview means very little.
So I tried going to more 'general' labor jobs like I worked earlier on in my career. 'Restaurants' tell me I lack experience in their industry. Factory jobs tell me I'm to much a risk of quick turn around if I can find a job in my field. Retail wants younger people (or older people) and I'm to 'middle aged' for them with no experience. Everyone and their brother who has job openings is just to fucking picky and come up with a million excuses why I don't 'fit'.
I worked for the state and they didn't pay into unemployment for my type of employee. So I can't claim unemployment. I did claim 'food stamps' and medical. That can to an end recently because now you MUST be a part time employee of a state approved business (ie one that pays into the state) or be in a protected category (pregnant, a woman, have kids, etc) to get benefits. Since I've been doing odd jobs to have just enough to cover the cost of internet and my car, I don't qualify anymore... Even though I make less than 5k a year right now.
Oh more screwed up? I can't even get into most employment programs the state 'unemployment agency' handles because they require me to be on unemployment to be in them. So I can't even get into programs that could get me into fields I don't have experience in...
These numbers the government so wants to quote are a fucking illusion created by bumping up the base requirements to 'qualify' for their specific terms. In the real world the economy is shit.
'your economic benefit' is hardly true. I as a citizen gained diddly squat for all of that. A few people in the 'right' places got a benefit, including the president at the time, but it hardly should be laid at the feet of the average person. I didn't get any more security. I just got a crap load of tax money going to shit that is a stupid waste of money when we have more pressing issues like poverty and unemployment... But no one want sot talk about those. Personally I keep voting against the current establishment as well, but our country is so messed up that's not likely to fix anything.
He um, sold Star Wars. So no, don't blame him (except for originally 'trademarking' those things). The lawyers are Disney's and we know exactly how litigious they are.
It's not a copyright, but a trademark. Which also means it's the only time they technically have to sue to retain their 'brand'. However, I don't think it would hold up in court as a trademark. Usually you get a trademark on a product you produce within a given market. They neither make nor create 'lightsabers', though they do outsource some toy production of what could be called 'lightsabers' and are usually branded as such, and they don't create events utilizing them (that I've ever heard of).
So it seems like classic Disney overreach. I mean Disney sued the media they created their own media from at one point. You really can't get more lawyer sleazy than that.
Even Gamestop used to give $10-15 back for a new game... MS's 10% would be $5 on a $50 game. $5 isn't very tempting, the idea is that you use the money to buy more new games. I don't think MS realizes their $5 won't get someone far in buying a new game to replace the ones they'd have to trade in.
I want to see the fibre cable that can be bent in half on itself and survive intact. It's what makes copper so useful in buildings whether in the walls/ceiling or under a desk (which inevitably gets moved around).
I don't think you could make the RJ-45 connector '1/3rd the height' without redesigning it. Really while the connector does have a bit of 'wasted space', I'd be surprised if you could reduce it even by half getting rid of that space. You probably could get '1/3rd' if you redid the head to make it lay 'flat', but it would not look anything like a current RJ-45 connector except in the most superficial way...
Again you basically end up with a 'easier to DIY' USB cable that people would almost certainly only use form the wall to a system and not anywhere else and you may as well just use the USB cable as it is already supported.
That said... I just don't see management oking replacing even a small number of existing cables or connectors unless this became amazingly popular. I'm almost positive they would say 'use wireless' first.
I have in fact seen some of those rather than the classic 'pinch a tab to release' types. They tend to be more expensive and I've never seen them offered for DIY cable runs.
Not just this, but I can go and cut and make a new cat 5/6 cable in a couple minutes. Anything smaller and I'm certainly not running a length of cable out and crimping my own RJ45 heads on. We could probably come up with something to use 'from the wall', as those 'short' runs to a PC or laptop are the smallest of all runs of the cable itself and if you really want to do that you already can with USB (though it requires an adapter and is therefore expensive).
Any replacement to Cat 5/6 and it's trusty RJ45 connectors needs to be as easy and offer as much bandwidth as the current tech to gain any traction. If it requires premade cables in a variety of lengths I just don't see it gaining any traction in a typical office or business environment. Heck one of the last places I worked for wanted me to make cables for everything because they were to cheap to have a variety of common lengths (7, 10, & 15 foot cables for instance) on hand, when we had a spool of Cat 5e cable for our wall/ceiling wiring needs.
The place in question had retail businesses on both sides of the road. Another nearby location had retail and housing complexes along it. Other areas exist as well, including sections that have nothing more than trees (but just happened to be underdeveloped within the city limits) with warehouses back behind them. The city didn't need to do anything to have sidewalks installed in most cases.
Where I live now requires the land owner to build a sidewalk as part of the building and zoning codes. Even residential houses are required to keep their sidewalks in 'good repair'. That said the city decided to pay to rebuild some of the sidewalks to make them easier to access for the disabled and to 'beautify' them in high traffic areas. So cities have a lot of options when it comes to developing transport for pedestrians.
I personally have no issue with regions with lower incomes paying less for the same content. Heck I think scaled income based payment for services is probably the best way to handle most types of services in general. But then I'm fairly economically progressive.
This was my question as well. Though here in the US everyone regularly forgets pedestrians. I've even lived in a city (Columbus OH), which often omits sidewalks in highly congested areas. So I know how badly they are already treated. This would just make it lots worse.
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You obviously didn't read the article with the talk of testing in 'qualified facilities'. It says specifically that six major groups have tested this:
"In 2012, a Chinese team said it had measured a thrust produced by its own version of the EmDrive. In 2014, an American scientist built an EmDrive and persuaded NASA to test it with positive results."
"And last year, NASA conducted its own tests in a vacuum to rule out movement of air as the origin of the force. NASA, too, confirmed that the EmDrive produces a thrust. In total, six independent experiments have backed Shawyer’s original claims."
As for the theory... Well this is one of the possible tests to prove the concept of the theory, the results so far closely match the results the theory predicts. Though the theory creates some other problems that have to be worked out to fit into the larger physics framework.
The problem was that even with all you just said the thrust was higher than they expected. Hence the big issue with the drive and why people said it couldn't work. Yet it kept working in real world tests.
Try the same thing on an Apple phone. Last time I knew you couldn't even use another web browser engine, even their alternatives had to run the same core form the OS. And you sure aren't going to change the 'store' on an Apple phone. It may not be easy on Android, but you can do it.
I'm positive they don't want the costs of keeping an OS up to date. If they fork their own version for their devices, they then take on all the major security issues Google has been handling. Samsung isn't the only Android vendor though and if they fall off the Google bandwagon for their own fork of it they will have quite the uphill battle. It would also give other vendors a much better shot at gaining marketshare. I've heard good things about the HTC 10 for instance...
My Tablet, which is my only 'mobile device', runs Android 4.1.1. I know security-wise I'd be better off upgrading, but my highest continued use of it is as a note taking and book reading device and it does those just fine. I don't get the need to 'upgrade' to a new device just because this one is long in the tooth. I have neither the desire nor monetary resources to do that right now.
I'm positive their are also lots of places in the world outside the US, Europe, and Japan where a device that is more than two years old isn't considered an antique. Vendors, including Google, need to realize this and figure out some way to do long term support for at least five years if not more. Heck I know plenty of companies that run ten year old PCs (or older since I know a few places run DOS still in their machine shops), so five years isn't really asking much and has at least been about the cycle for PC... This need to constantly push 'new' is unsustainable for a large part of their user base.
The county re-evaluated all property about 10 years ago and fixed their values for a certain period of time, not including a very long legal process you could begin to get the value changed if it was completely wrong. Since that ended you can't get the county to change the value until the next time they open it. My house was actually not mine yet then and my parents who owned it at the time did get them to re-evaluate it. Which set it around 40k. Which was down form the 96k the first set it to (when they thought it was the neighbors three story house that had just been renovated). The re-evaluations took some 5 years to finish anyways, so I think another 5 years or so still exists before the next 'open' period.
I swear the county new property values would plummet like a rock and wanted to fix everyone in at higher tax rates. Though values had been falling for over two decades at a very slow rate, so maybe they just wanted to beat the curve and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. Locking property values for tax purposes is pretty shit to begin with.
Worse is that I own a house (it used to be my grandmothers), which means I'll be homeless when I can't pay for things like utilities (water, heating, and electricity)... Or my local taxes... Whichever comes first.
But yes, it make far more sense to help me before I become yet another homeless person filling the crowded facilities for them. Facilities that btw don't even exist where I live, but only in the nearest major city. Oh and did I mention the waiting lines to even get in?
It strains my mind about how fucked the system has become that they can't tell real need and when it's best to help, from when they don't need to. You hear about the abusers of the system all the time, and I've seen some, but the attempts to get rid of them seem to fail and the attempts to help people who really need it are a mess.
If I didn't have an ex fiance that was not yet an ex, I would have moved out of this area at the height of my career ~4-5 years ago. Not sure where I would have gone, but I really wish I had. I did have a plan to move down to Pittsburgh at one point, but as my now ex didn't want to move... Well... It never happened.
Well lucky you owned a van and that you moved to Cali. Here it snows and even if I was to live in a camp ground somehow (even that can be expensive) that's only an option part of the year. Not to mention I need gas just to drive my aging car wherever the heck I'm going. I don't walk to the grocery store for my health, I do it because I can't afford to drive my car unless I have to.
Also I'm only a couple years from turning 40. As some recruiters have made pointedly clear lately, I should have 'changed careers' before now as far as companies out your way feel.
I live just outside Erie PA, so I'm about a hundred miles from you (though our weather is equally bad). Unlike Buffalo, Erie wants to be a 'vacation' city now and is failing pretty badly at it. Half of the major companies do their IT out of Buffalo or Pittsburgh and so don't hire at all locally. Others like GE have been 90% H1B Indian workers for as long as I've been working.
I actually have a former coworker (we worked for the same university) who moved out your way because his wife wanted to move closer to her family. He had an IT job there, but last I talked to him he'd become an Uber driver because the job he got didn't work out... I have no idea if he's still doing that, but with all the recent fuss I'm kinda doubting it.
Closest offers I've gotten have all been for Pittsburgh, but with no way to afford to live there and no chance of my car surviving daily 2 hour+ commutes... It's not an option.
I've been unemployed since the end of December in 2014, since over a year now and I'm unemployed for a combination of reasons: Low actual demand for my skills in the region I live and absolutely no way to move somewhere I could actually get a job in short order. I've worked IT as a network admin for a decade and my skills are still up to date. However there are only a handful of jobs per month with several months where even entry level IT jobs aren't available. I interview for lots of them, but they don't want to 'pay for' an experienced worker even when I tell them I'm not looking for a rate anywhere near what I had. So I have heard so many times "HR thinks your overqualified so I can't hire you even though I want to".
I get offers for IT jobs in other states, but I own a house here that I'm almost guaranteed I can't sell for the rate they use to figure my taxes on it. So I have no money to use to get housing somewhere else. So I have even try to get work in other fields, including craptastic jobs in restaurants, retail, factory laborer, etc and they all have 'reasons' not to hire me.
Last year my finances were ok, this year is a disaster made worse because the state literally writes you off after you can no longer qualify for unemployment. So the local job assistance office and even the state assistance office tell me I can't qualify for anything. No job programs, no state medical assistance, no 'food stamps' (they aren't called that now, but I forget what they do call them). I seriously think the government wants to cause homelessness and death as an alternative to giving real information on unemployment.
Retirement doesn't mean you don't need a job. My dad was old enough to retire, and did, but he still works for the regional government agency he'd worked for before he retired... Just for fewer hours. And really after the first year or two were he is forced to work very low numbers of hours he can then work as much as he wants.
My mom is seven years younger than he is, but she is legally disabled and gets SSI. Together they last year they barely pulled in 25k, so him going back to work is a certainty in his cards. Look at every Walmart I've ever seen as well for great examples of retired workers, so my family is not unique.
Among other things I haven't been able to move because I can't afford it. I own a house that is worth maybe 20 or 30k (the housing prices are very low here). Figuring I could sell it (and houses here regularly take multiple years to sell if ever), I certainly can't buy a new home somewhere else. Heck, without managing to sell it I can't even afford an apartment anywhere else.
I get offers for jobs from more than a dozen different states, but I don't know anyone that lives in those places I could bum a room from for a few months... Or have any other means in living in those places so I simply can't take them.
I've been out of work since the end of December 2014. Where I live jobs have been scarce in IT in general. I've had tons of interviews, but so many people are applying that even a second interview means very little.
So I tried going to more 'general' labor jobs like I worked earlier on in my career. 'Restaurants' tell me I lack experience in their industry. Factory jobs tell me I'm to much a risk of quick turn around if I can find a job in my field. Retail wants younger people (or older people) and I'm to 'middle aged' for them with no experience. Everyone and their brother who has job openings is just to fucking picky and come up with a million excuses why I don't 'fit'.
I worked for the state and they didn't pay into unemployment for my type of employee. So I can't claim unemployment. I did claim 'food stamps' and medical. That can to an end recently because now you MUST be a part time employee of a state approved business (ie one that pays into the state) or be in a protected category (pregnant, a woman, have kids, etc) to get benefits. Since I've been doing odd jobs to have just enough to cover the cost of internet and my car, I don't qualify anymore... Even though I make less than 5k a year right now.
Oh more screwed up? I can't even get into most employment programs the state 'unemployment agency' handles because they require me to be on unemployment to be in them. So I can't even get into programs that could get me into fields I don't have experience in...
These numbers the government so wants to quote are a fucking illusion created by bumping up the base requirements to 'qualify' for their specific terms. In the real world the economy is shit.
'your economic benefit' is hardly true. I as a citizen gained diddly squat for all of that. A few people in the 'right' places got a benefit, including the president at the time, but it hardly should be laid at the feet of the average person. I didn't get any more security. I just got a crap load of tax money going to shit that is a stupid waste of money when we have more pressing issues like poverty and unemployment... But no one want sot talk about those. Personally I keep voting against the current establishment as well, but our country is so messed up that's not likely to fix anything.
He um, sold Star Wars. So no, don't blame him (except for originally 'trademarking' those things). The lawyers are Disney's and we know exactly how litigious they are.
It's not a copyright, but a trademark. Which also means it's the only time they technically have to sue to retain their 'brand'. However, I don't think it would hold up in court as a trademark. Usually you get a trademark on a product you produce within a given market. They neither make nor create 'lightsabers', though they do outsource some toy production of what could be called 'lightsabers' and are usually branded as such, and they don't create events utilizing them (that I've ever heard of).
So it seems like classic Disney overreach. I mean Disney sued the media they created their own media from at one point. You really can't get more lawyer sleazy than that.
Even Gamestop used to give $10-15 back for a new game... MS's 10% would be $5 on a $50 game. $5 isn't very tempting, the idea is that you use the money to buy more new games. I don't think MS realizes their $5 won't get someone far in buying a new game to replace the ones they'd have to trade in.
I want to see the fibre cable that can be bent in half on itself and survive intact. It's what makes copper so useful in buildings whether in the walls/ceiling or under a desk (which inevitably gets moved around).
I don't think you could make the RJ-45 connector '1/3rd the height' without redesigning it. Really while the connector does have a bit of 'wasted space', I'd be surprised if you could reduce it even by half getting rid of that space. You probably could get '1/3rd' if you redid the head to make it lay 'flat', but it would not look anything like a current RJ-45 connector except in the most superficial way...
Again you basically end up with a 'easier to DIY' USB cable that people would almost certainly only use form the wall to a system and not anywhere else and you may as well just use the USB cable as it is already supported.
That said... I just don't see management oking replacing even a small number of existing cables or connectors unless this became amazingly popular. I'm almost positive they would say 'use wireless' first.
I have in fact seen some of those rather than the classic 'pinch a tab to release' types. They tend to be more expensive and I've never seen them offered for DIY cable runs.
Not just this, but I can go and cut and make a new cat 5/6 cable in a couple minutes. Anything smaller and I'm certainly not running a length of cable out and crimping my own RJ45 heads on. We could probably come up with something to use 'from the wall', as those 'short' runs to a PC or laptop are the smallest of all runs of the cable itself and if you really want to do that you already can with USB (though it requires an adapter and is therefore expensive).
Any replacement to Cat 5/6 and it's trusty RJ45 connectors needs to be as easy and offer as much bandwidth as the current tech to gain any traction. If it requires premade cables in a variety of lengths I just don't see it gaining any traction in a typical office or business environment. Heck one of the last places I worked for wanted me to make cables for everything because they were to cheap to have a variety of common lengths (7, 10, & 15 foot cables for instance) on hand, when we had a spool of Cat 5e cable for our wall/ceiling wiring needs.
The place in question had retail businesses on both sides of the road. Another nearby location had retail and housing complexes along it. Other areas exist as well, including sections that have nothing more than trees (but just happened to be underdeveloped within the city limits) with warehouses back behind them. The city didn't need to do anything to have sidewalks installed in most cases.
Where I live now requires the land owner to build a sidewalk as part of the building and zoning codes. Even residential houses are required to keep their sidewalks in 'good repair'. That said the city decided to pay to rebuild some of the sidewalks to make them easier to access for the disabled and to 'beautify' them in high traffic areas. So cities have a lot of options when it comes to developing transport for pedestrians.
I personally have no issue with regions with lower incomes paying less for the same content. Heck I think scaled income based payment for services is probably the best way to handle most types of services in general. But then I'm fairly economically progressive.
This was my question as well. Though here in the US everyone regularly forgets pedestrians. I've even lived in a city (Columbus OH), which often omits sidewalks in highly congested areas. So I know how badly they are already treated. This would just make it lots worse.