No, they started the process mimicking birds, but most of those failed spectacularly. How many birds do you know that have internal combustion engines driving propellers and fixed bi-plane wings?
I believe LordWabbit2's comment on monoculture was in regards to the clusterfuck of different software from different vendors that makes BMS systems highly incompatible and hard to write to, unless they conform to one of the few open standards like BACnet or LonTalk (LonTalk is a proprietary protocol, but it is an open interface). On the other hand, that goes against their earlier argument about how bad it is to rely on open source software. It's the proprietary nature of many of the BMS systems out there that makes it so hard to create compatible interfaces and so provides vendor lock-in.
No, $60,000,000 is the budget for buying new scanners.
The requested 2019 budget for the TSA is $7.7 billion
I just hope these are the same type of scanners we designed for last year, I would hate to have to redesign the mechanical/electrical support for new ones for a third time. By the way, that upgrade of the back-of-the house scanners (not the ones you see at the check-in or carry-on lines) for a single airline at a single airport had greater than a $50,000,000 budget. At $300,000 a piece, the cost of buying those 6 scanners would have been a very small part of the cost. The larger part is re-working the baggage handling conveyer system to accommodate the new requirements, along with all the associated electrical, HVAC, fire protection, IT, and even plumbing needed to support the new arrangement.
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CT scanners don't create color images. They create INTENSITY maps, and you can apply pseudo-color colormaps to the intensity images to highlight small variations in density.
But luggage scanners DO create color images (albeit false colors), and many modern scanners combine different types of scans to discriminate different types of materials.
Microsoft tried to fight, paid to get Bush into power (and largely screwed over the USA in the process) without actually winning in the end. Bush made a lot of noise, but could not do anything. Microsoft complied, and the world was better for Microsoft's eventual compliance includng the USA.
If you cheat to win a race, take home the blue ribbon and prize money, are caught, and then agree not to do it again but keep the prizes, you should not get to call that compliance with the rules.
It's been said many times that the USA concentrates on price when litigating anti-trust cases—did prices go up because of monopoly pressure? If yes, then that constitutes damage to the consumer, and that warrants some sort of penalty or correction.
You can mainly blame the Reagan administration for that. They wanted to make it harder to prevent mergers and acquisitions, so they changed the criteria from protecting the small companies from unfair practices of their larger competitors to calculating whether consumers would (theoretically) pay more for goods and services.
The fracking boom in the US is not a refutation of the observation that Saudi Arabia is investing in other fields (no pun intended) because they know they will run out of oil eventually.
Please don't vote Republican in the next election. You have to send a message to the Republicans to get off the Trump train, for the good of the Republican party and, more importantly, for the country.
. . . until it was politically expedient to run as a Republican because he wasn't allowed to run against Clinton.
It was expedient to run as a Republican because the Democrats wouldn't fall for his lies. Oh, and, the Democrats had a black president named Obama - that would be something profitable to run against. Starting with shouting "show your birth certificate" even after it was proven he was born in Hawaii.
If that legal citizen is bonded and insured, you bet I'll pay the extra (assuming they do a good job and are productive with their time.) Chances are, that's not the choice I'd be faced with, though. Most people would deal with companies having more than one employee, and the customer would have no knowledge of the immigration status of those employees.
So, Americans are forced into the suburbs if they value the safety of their family, and so their kids don't step outside to see a wino passed out on their doorstep, or get impaled on a syringe from some crackheads the night before.
Like that can't happen in the suburbs or small towns.
Also, driverless ride sharing will be cheaper than current driven ride sharing, since there is no driver being paid.
According to Esurance research, in the best-case scenario, a family that gives up its car in favor of driverless ridesharing could save $4,100 in annual transportation costs.
I predict the annual costs of driverless ridesharing would in that case increase $3,900 higher than in the best-case scenario.
Sears had the potential to be what Amazon is now. They had the warehouses, delivery network, and order processing capabilities.
All true. Their catalog was the Amazon of the time, 100 years ago. They could have turned it into the internet's first shopping center. But mail order was losing money in the 90's and they didn't see internet shopping coming, so they shut it down.
Instead they cut the quality of their brands, bought Kmart, half assed their online ordering, and maintained over sized anchor spaces in dying malls.
Actually, Kmart bought Sears. That was after Sears, in order to concentrate on its' core competencies, divested itself of all its' most profitable parts - Allstate, Coldwell Banker, Dean Witter Discover Card. If you owned Sears stock, you made a lot of money from those sales, but for Sears itself, it was a loss.
Their mall stores have no significant competitive advantage to Lowe's, Home Depot, and other stores where you can buy tools other than a brand with a destroyed reputation.
Sears hardware was one of the few things that was really worth buying at Sears (and it came with a lifetime guarantee that they actually honored with no questions asked), but alas, not any more.
No, just NO. The last thing I want is multiple documents stuck on top of each other in one window. I need each to be wherever I put them on my screens to facilitate my work.
For example, Microsoft found a bunch of fucking idiots who would only open programs in a particular order so they'd be ordered how they wanted on the taskbar. Thus, they introduced the ability to manually pin and move programs on the taskbar.
You don't need telemetry to come up with that one.
Imagine a group of people from the 21st century hiding in various locations and communicating using tools they have available (e.g. smartphones). Now have people from the 18th century try to detect said communications and see if these 21st century people are there and, if so, where they are. I doubt the 18th century people would have any luck detecting communications from the 21st century people.
You think that 18th century people wouldn't notice a cell tower?
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No, they started the process mimicking birds, but most of those failed spectacularly. How many birds do you know that have internal combustion engines driving propellers and fixed bi-plane wings?
I believe LordWabbit2's comment on monoculture was in regards to the clusterfuck of different software from different vendors that makes BMS systems highly incompatible and hard to write to, unless they conform to one of the few open standards like BACnet or LonTalk (LonTalk is a proprietary protocol, but it is an open interface). On the other hand, that goes against their earlier argument about how bad it is to rely on open source software. It's the proprietary nature of many of the BMS systems out there that makes it so hard to create compatible interfaces and so provides vendor lock-in.
No, $60,000,000 is the budget for buying new scanners.
The requested 2019 budget for the TSA is $7.7 billion
I just hope these are the same type of scanners we designed for last year, I would hate to have to redesign the mechanical/electrical support for new ones for a third time. By the way, that upgrade of the back-of-the house scanners (not the ones you see at the check-in or carry-on lines) for a single airline at a single airport had greater than a $50,000,000 budget. At $300,000 a piece, the cost of buying those 6 scanners would have been a very small part of the cost. The larger part is re-working the baggage handling conveyer system to accommodate the new requirements, along with all the associated electrical, HVAC, fire protection, IT, and even plumbing needed to support the new arrangement. .
But luggage scanners DO create color images (albeit false colors), and many modern scanners combine different types of scans to discriminate different types of materials.
If you don't tax corporations, the investors will incorporate.
If you cheat to win a race, take home the blue ribbon and prize money, are caught, and then agree not to do it again but keep the prizes, you should not get to call that compliance with the rules.
You can mainly blame the Reagan administration for that. They wanted to make it harder to prevent mergers and acquisitions, so they changed the criteria from protecting the small companies from unfair practices of their larger competitors to calculating whether consumers would (theoretically) pay more for goods and services.
Your shower head is not the only thing that goes into providing you with the ability to you take a hot shower.
That's the beauty of it. The gorillas die off in the winter.
China makes it difficult for their citizens to invest outside of China, except in certain industries like energy.
The fracking boom in the US is not a refutation of the observation that Saudi Arabia is investing in other fields (no pun intended) because they know they will run out of oil eventually.
Please don't vote Republican in the next election. You have to send a message to the Republicans to get off the Trump train, for the good of the Republican party and, more importantly, for the country.
It was expedient to run as a Republican because the Democrats wouldn't fall for his lies. Oh, and, the Democrats had a black president named Obama - that would be something profitable to run against. Starting with shouting "show your birth certificate" even after it was proven he was born in Hawaii.
There was already a SCIF in the EPA offices, and Pruitt's "cone of silence" didn't meet the requirements for a SCIF.
If that legal citizen is bonded and insured, you bet I'll pay the extra (assuming they do a good job and are productive with their time.)
Chances are, that's not the choice I'd be faced with, though. Most people would deal with companies having more than one employee, and the customer would have no knowledge of the immigration status of those employees.
Well, she was on the government dole when she wrote her first book. So, obviously, she stole it from the government.
Like that can't happen in the suburbs or small towns.
The factory automatic braking was disabled because they were testing the Uber self-driving system, including its' automatic braking.
I predict the annual costs of driverless ridesharing would in that case increase $3,900 higher than in the best-case scenario.
All true. Their catalog was the Amazon of the time, 100 years ago. They could have turned it into the internet's first shopping center. But mail order was losing money in the 90's and they didn't see internet shopping coming, so they shut it down.
Actually, Kmart bought Sears. That was after Sears, in order to concentrate on its' core competencies, divested itself of all its' most profitable parts - Allstate, Coldwell Banker, Dean Witter Discover Card. If you owned Sears stock, you made a lot of money from those sales, but for Sears itself, it was a loss.
Sears hardware was one of the few things that was really worth buying at Sears (and it came with a lifetime guarantee that they actually honored with no questions asked), but alas, not any more.
No, just NO. The last thing I want is multiple documents stuck on top of each other in one window. I need each to be wherever I put them on my screens to facilitate my work.
You don't need telemetry to come up with that one.
You think that 18th century people wouldn't notice a cell tower?
It does in economically depressed areas of non-union states.
The average computer user is unfamiliar with Steam, let alone its' catalog.