I dunno - unions can drive innovation. The primary reason AT&T funded the development of Unix was to break the hold the union had on applying firmware upgrades to telecom components. "Hey, all these boxes already connect to our network, maybe we could use that in some way". Ken claims Unix was "a weak pun on Multics", but it works just as well as Union-X, the union-busting OS.
So unions drive innovation by creating a situation where they are an obstacle that needs to be overcome? The sarcasm is strong with this one.
Yup. The amount of anti-union disinformation being spread here (I live in the East Bay) is insane. Blaming the unions while ignoring the boot of the upper class on your throat isn't going to help anything, folks.
The thing is it's _so_ easy. There are countless examples of unions making the world a better place, and plenty of examples of union corruption making the world a worse place, so it's easy to back up any argument you care to make.
All that said, I wonder how long it will be until cash is done away with altogether, and what the drawbacks to society will be from doing so.
Still a few unsolved problems. Buskers, beggers, doorknocking charity collectors, and the guys who wash your windows at traffic lights for a start. Maybe some might say that losing those is not a drawback to society but better for someone who can afford it to throw a few dollars at someone who needs it than have them try and take the money from elsewhere.
I like my living room a whole lot better than some movie theater. The popcorn is a lot cheaper, too.
3D picture and the awesome sound system is the reason why I go. We've got an old CRT TV with a single speaker at home but it's hardly ever on - any movies get watched on laptops and headphones normally, so I'm not going to spend $500 on a 3D TV (or much more on a big one) I'll almost never watch and probably much more on a sound system when I can spend $100 on movie tickets for the family once or twice a year and go out for a meal etc and make a night of it.
Yeah, quantum effects are directly noticeable in the way it operates. Yeah, yeah, whatever. The whole deal isn't about that. It's about whether those quantum effects are actually useful for something. Like, um, making it usefully faster than classical computers. I would be very happy even if they had shown "just" polynomial running time improvements, say executing an O(N^3) algorithm in O(N^2) time. Even that would be a big deal. Somehow, I'm very skeptical that anything of the sort will ever be shown for this particular architecture. I would so like to be wrong on that.
That's where i'm at right now too. I wonder if the future may see my point of view in the same way as those who said people could never travel fast on a steam train because the air would be sucked out of the cabin...
Are there watchmakers out there with good accuracy/price ratios?
Borrow a pen and write 5pm on your wrist. Now you have a timepiece that is accurate once per day, and costs you nothing. Assuming your desired time granularity is a millisecond, this watch is accurate for 0.000001% of the day. That's actually better than most watches, and when you divide by price the ratio becomes very attractive.
Yep. I guess anyone going to mars will be living in a sealed dome and exploring the surface by remote control robot. Seems a long way to go just to reduce latency.
I've never considered it before, but was this always a backdoor into same sex marriage? Sex change, update database, marry, update database, sex change, update database? Or did the government stop people from getting that 2nd sex change, or automatically cancel the marriage?
Probably varies by country, but I think in Australia if you are born with something that looks like a penis then you are labelled a man and the database can't be changed. So if you identify as a female but are a lesbian it would actually be a win (assuming the fact that the government had labelled you incorrectly didn't bother you) because you could get married. Of course this may be outdated and/or completely wrong... not really my area.
Why does the gubbmint need to know what our parts are? Unless it involves public health or medical care, it's irrelevant unless you live in Big Brother land.
I posted the same question about most other databases. The government is different though - they need to know so they can forbid you from marrying the same gender, and so they can throw you in the right prison when you do.
What I understand even less is that my gender needs to be noted in most databases anyway. There are still rules saying that as a male I can only marry a female (which for me works well), so I guess the government needs to know so that they can stop me pissing off their god by marrying someone of the same sex. And maybe my insurance company needs to know so they can better charge me according to my risk. But the various utility companies don't need to know, and neither does my bank. A title (Mr/Ms/Lord/Lady/Dr/Comrade etc) or something might be required which would hint at gender but that would be about it.
I use firefox on my laptop almost exclusively (I don't drink tea), but on terminal servers i'd much prefer users ran IE than firefox. Memory is cheap but lots of memory is expensive, and the stats of IE vs FF on a terminal server shows IE using hardly any resources while firefox consumes much more memory and cpu.
of course firefox is better so i'd expect it to use more power to better express it's awesomeness...
Asteroid 2013 LR6 came within roughly 65,000 miles of the planet
This is exactly where you need to put some context on the numbers. I don't know offhand if that's come between earth and the moon (just looked it up - much closer to earth than the moon). Maybe everyone but me carries numbers like that around in their head but I don't and something like "about 1/4 the distance to the moon from earth" or "roughly twice as far as geostationary orbit" would have been really useful.
Perhaps you might want to delay spending money on utopian projects with no obvious short term (less then a century?) benefits before you can, for example, provide healthcare to your fellow compatriots? If it indeed doesn't decompose, it's going to be stable for a while. Not dumping more stuff seems like a good proposition, but what you're suggesting would be very costly, time-consuming, and the net result would be...you know...a big pile of trash you would have to put somewhere?
Well actually if you found a place in the ocean where aluminium cans tended to collect you might be on to something... i have heard it said that the mines of the future will be the rubbish dumps of today. If someone came up with a cheap way of reducing plastic bags back to more useful hydrocarbons then suddenly a mass of plastic bags could be really useful... not that there is any shortage of them on land though.
OTOH leaving all that carbon at the bottom of the ocean might be a better option
I'm not sure I can trust a source which says "it has been stated that it would take 100 programmer hours to fix" then quotes a paragraph stating 100 staff days
I think that's 100 programmer hours to fix the problems, and 100 staff days to field calls from a nation whose hobby is complaining about things that don't matter.
I think the OP was referring to the very common 13 A. British fused plugs.
It is on that same island where in 2000 the Voltage was 'standardised' to 230V, until a few years before the continent ran 220V and they also adjusted their output to 230 V.
Yes most electrical equipment will happily run on +/- 10 or even 20% of the nominal Voltage.
I just checked and everything within reach is rated 100-240VAC
Weird how you seem to know about electricity and power yet fail to realise 240 V supply was standardised to 230 V in the year 2000...
Shielding the faulty motor might not work so well, without additional measures the supply cable will happily function as an antenna:)
The actual supply voltage still varies quite wildly, with anything from 220V to 250V fairly unsurprising. Also our standard outlets are 10A, with 15A outlets also being fairly common in server rooms and workshops (eg for >2200VA UPS's) but they have a fatter earth so plugs can't be plugged into a regular 10A outlet without liberal use of a file. I've never seen a 13A socket here so maybe the GP was not from Australia?
Stop mixing OSS with "source available" software...
I'm not sure what you're getting at here... DOSBox is GPLv2, so is OSS by any definition of the TLA. A source available license doesn't necessarily allow you to make changes to the code so obviously I wasn't referring to that.
and an isolated network for them I hope. not much security on devices expecting serial port communication.
It depends on the situation. If your serial port is simply monitoring some sensors then security isn't such a big deal. If your serial port is running a uranium purification centrifuge then I guess you may want to think a little about security:)
Also if your serial port is sitting in a workshop (locked cabinet or not) then internet security probably matters very little.
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No shit, how the hell have we gotten to the point where every accident report is accompanied with that phrase.
Stop and think about what the media will report when the authorities don't mention that they don't believe the incident is related to terrorism...
BTC isn't the answer, it has too many serious flaws
no it doesn't.
They can see who he communicated with, they cant see WHAT he communicated. Thats the best you can possibly expect from public infrastructure.
But they can see that he has something to hide, which is probably enough to get a search warrant these days.
I dunno - unions can drive innovation. The primary reason AT&T funded the development of Unix was to break the hold the union had on applying firmware upgrades to telecom components. "Hey, all these boxes already connect to our network, maybe we could use that in some way". Ken claims Unix was "a weak pun on Multics", but it works just as well as Union-X, the union-busting OS.
So unions drive innovation by creating a situation where they are an obstacle that needs to be overcome? The sarcasm is strong with this one.
Yup. The amount of anti-union disinformation being spread here (I live in the East Bay) is insane. Blaming the unions while ignoring the boot of the upper class on your throat isn't going to help anything, folks.
The thing is it's _so_ easy. There are countless examples of unions making the world a better place, and plenty of examples of union corruption making the world a worse place, so it's easy to back up any argument you care to make.
All that said, I wonder how long it will be until cash is done away with altogether, and what the drawbacks to society will be from doing so.
Still a few unsolved problems. Buskers, beggers, doorknocking charity collectors, and the guys who wash your windows at traffic lights for a start. Maybe some might say that losing those is not a drawback to society but better for someone who can afford it to throw a few dollars at someone who needs it than have them try and take the money from elsewhere.
This is the kind of nonsense that makes you cringe at what bothers people.
Anyone who mentions "first world problem" is setting themselves up for a humiliating game of reductio ad absurdum. A game they won't win.
I like my living room a whole lot better than some movie theater. The popcorn is a lot cheaper, too.
3D picture and the awesome sound system is the reason why I go. We've got an old CRT TV with a single speaker at home but it's hardly ever on - any movies get watched on laptops and headphones normally, so I'm not going to spend $500 on a 3D TV (or much more on a big one) I'll almost never watch and probably much more on a sound system when I can spend $100 on movie tickets for the family once or twice a year and go out for a meal etc and make a night of it.
Yeah, quantum effects are directly noticeable in the way it operates. Yeah, yeah, whatever. The whole deal isn't about that. It's about whether those quantum effects are actually useful for something. Like, um, making it usefully faster than classical computers. I would be very happy even if they had shown "just" polynomial running time improvements, say executing an O(N^3) algorithm in O(N^2) time. Even that would be a big deal. Somehow, I'm very skeptical that anything of the sort will ever be shown for this particular architecture. I would so like to be wrong on that.
That's where i'm at right now too. I wonder if the future may see my point of view in the same way as those who said people could never travel fast on a steam train because the air would be sucked out of the cabin...
Are there watchmakers out there with good accuracy/price ratios?
Borrow a pen and write 5pm on your wrist. Now you have a timepiece that is accurate once per day, and costs you nothing. Assuming your desired time granularity is a millisecond, this watch is accurate for 0.000001% of the day. That's actually better than most watches, and when you divide by price the ratio becomes very attractive.
Yep. I guess anyone going to mars will be living in a sealed dome and exploring the surface by remote control robot. Seems a long way to go just to reduce latency.
I've never considered it before, but was this always a backdoor into same sex marriage? Sex change, update database, marry, update database, sex change, update database? Or did the government stop people from getting that 2nd sex change, or automatically cancel the marriage?
Probably varies by country, but I think in Australia if you are born with something that looks like a penis then you are labelled a man and the database can't be changed. So if you identify as a female but are a lesbian it would actually be a win (assuming the fact that the government had labelled you incorrectly didn't bother you) because you could get married. Of course this may be outdated and/or completely wrong... not really my area.
Why does the gubbmint need to know what our parts are? Unless it involves public health or medical care, it's irrelevant unless you live in Big Brother land.
I posted the same question about most other databases. The government is different though - they need to know so they can forbid you from marrying the same gender, and so they can throw you in the right prison when you do.
What I understand even less is that my gender needs to be noted in most databases anyway. There are still rules saying that as a male I can only marry a female (which for me works well), so I guess the government needs to know so that they can stop me pissing off their god by marrying someone of the same sex. And maybe my insurance company needs to know so they can better charge me according to my risk. But the various utility companies don't need to know, and neither does my bank. A title (Mr/Ms/Lord/Lady/Dr/Comrade etc) or something might be required which would hint at gender but that would be about it.
I use firefox on my laptop almost exclusively (I don't drink tea), but on terminal servers i'd much prefer users ran IE than firefox. Memory is cheap but lots of memory is expensive, and the stats of IE vs FF on a terminal server shows IE using hardly any resources while firefox consumes much more memory and cpu.
of course firefox is better so i'd expect it to use more power to better express it's awesomeness...
If the only good thing about a politician is that "at least he isn't as bad as " then it's possible that you might have a problem.
Asteroid 2013 LR6 came within roughly 65,000 miles of the planet
This is exactly where you need to put some context on the numbers. I don't know offhand if that's come between earth and the moon (just looked it up - much closer to earth than the moon). Maybe everyone but me carries numbers like that around in their head but I don't and something like "about 1/4 the distance to the moon from earth" or "roughly twice as far as geostationary orbit" would have been really useful.
Perhaps you might want to delay spending money on utopian projects with no obvious short term (less then a century?) benefits before you can, for example, provide healthcare to your fellow compatriots? If it indeed doesn't decompose, it's going to be stable for a while. Not dumping more stuff seems like a good proposition, but what you're suggesting would be very costly, time-consuming, and the net result would be...you know...a big pile of trash you would have to put somewhere?
Well actually if you found a place in the ocean where aluminium cans tended to collect you might be on to something... i have heard it said that the mines of the future will be the rubbish dumps of today. If someone came up with a cheap way of reducing plastic bags back to more useful hydrocarbons then suddenly a mass of plastic bags could be really useful... not that there is any shortage of them on land though.
OTOH leaving all that carbon at the bottom of the ocean might be a better option
Well played.
I'm not sure I can trust a source which says "it has been stated that it would take 100 programmer hours to fix" then quotes a paragraph stating 100 staff days
I think that's 100 programmer hours to fix the problems, and 100 staff days to field calls from a nation whose hobby is complaining about things that don't matter.
I think the OP was referring to the very common 13 A. British fused plugs.
It is on that same island where in 2000 the Voltage was 'standardised' to 230V, until a few years before the continent ran 220V and they also adjusted their output to 230 V.
Yes most electrical equipment will happily run on +/- 10 or even 20% of the nominal Voltage.
I just checked and everything within reach is rated 100-240VAC
Weird how you seem to know about electricity and power yet fail to realise 240 V supply was standardised to 230 V in the year 2000...
Shielding the faulty motor might not work so well, without additional measures the supply cable will happily function as an antenna :)
The actual supply voltage still varies quite wildly, with anything from 220V to 250V fairly unsurprising. Also our standard outlets are 10A, with 15A outlets also being fairly common in server rooms and workshops (eg for >2200VA UPS's) but they have a fatter earth so plugs can't be plugged into a regular 10A outlet without liberal use of a file. I've never seen a 13A socket here so maybe the GP was not from Australia?
Stop mixing OSS with "source available" software...
I'm not sure what you're getting at here... DOSBox is GPLv2, so is OSS by any definition of the TLA. A source available license doesn't necessarily allow you to make changes to the code so obviously I wasn't referring to that.
and an isolated network for them I hope. not much security on devices expecting serial port communication.
It depends on the situation. If your serial port is simply monitoring some sensors then security isn't such a big deal. If your serial port is running a uranium purification centrifuge then I guess you may want to think a little about security :)
Also if your serial port is sitting in a workshop (locked cabinet or not) then internet security probably matters very little.
I use Netgear WND3800 + usb serial port for the same thing. It moved the control PC out of a hot dirty workshop and seems to work okay so far.