Chrome's silent, background auto-updates don't hurt either. What? You've already installed a new version and I just need to restart the browser? AWESOME *restarts browser, tabs restore* boom, new, updated Chrome.
Part of its capability is rapid (within 24 hours) reallocation to different Theater (warfare) theaters worldwide, in support of unexpected operations. Command and control of TacSat-4 will be performed at the NRL Satellite Operations Center at Blossom Point, Maryland. Payload tasking will be performed via the SIPRNet based Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC).
TacSat-4 will fly the highly elliptical, 4-hour, orbit (12,050 kilometers at peak) providing typical payload communication periods of two hours per orbit. TacSat-4’s orbit also allows it to cover the high latitudes.
TacSat was launched to allow coverage to existing military radios in locations not served by other satellite constellations.
The PRC-117 radios are the hundreds of thousands of military handheld radios they're referring to. TacSat-4 is just a new relay point (a really, really high altitude relay point).
As if its significantly better to have someone making 5x the median income in the US and who can accept kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies is any better.
You know its only a matter of time before IBM's Watson replaces a substantial amount of doctor consultations (being an expert system that never sleeps and all). This is not a bad thing. Just as the cost of manufacturing and some services have plummeted, so will healthcare with technological progress.
Very true. The only thing that is going to "fix" the problem is due diligence on the public side via constantly coming up with prior art for pathetically generic patent applications.
Would you consider donating your class material and your time to CK-12? (http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/)
What is CK-12? The CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational materials to be used both as core textbooks and as the basis for customized materials. To learn more about our organization, visit http://www.ck12.org/about/
Because, clearly, the only place to be beaten to death by neanderthals who don't agree with your viewpoint is a bar *rolls eyes*
If you are unable to adapt to the world marketplace, you will be unable to provide for yourself. You can do everything right and still have your job taken by someone else. Neither is your fault, but it is what is going to happen. Get used to it.
And frankly, while perhaps you have the right to charge whatever you want, maybe, employers do not have the right to pay whatever they want for labor. The minimum wage laws exist to prevent abuse of the workforce, and ensure a decent chance at self-sufficiency for all citizens. It's nice for you if you don't need the money, but you don't actually have some sort of god-given right to fuck over other people by undercutting the minimum wage.
Yes, yes I do. I'm pretty far to the left when it comes to politics, with regards to social safety nets, employee rights/safety, etc. But I'm also an individual with my own rights, and I have the right to work for free if I want to (and I do, since I can afford to).
The free market is a bitch, but its the only game in town. Don't whine that someone who can do the job better cheaper can and will do so. Its a losing argument, and there is *much* too much momentum behind that train for you to slow it down (i.e. the cost of labor in China, India, Brazil, etc).
You're really damn close to arguing the same way union labor does.
I have the right to charge whatever I want for my labor, all the way down to $0/hr. Is it fair to you if I can do the job better and don't need the money? No. Since when is a free market about fairness and not efficiency?
Free, volunteer labor is never wrong for a for-profit company. Its just wrong to those who would rather get paid while others are willing to do it for free.
Once the oil runs dry you'd better hope they've come up with a viable electric car, otherwise you'll have to knock down and rebuild your entire country.
We're already working on this; see Detroit for an example of teardown/rebuild or just teardown and giving back the land.
Standard leftist silliness. Do you seriously think that things like capital investment, assembly lines, factories, mass production, etc, (which are really only possible with corporations), has led the "race to the bottom" of wages? Without these things your wages would soon be about $500/yr, which is about the level of wages in places where corporations have never arisen or penetrated.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of a regulated economy, and I'm not proposing letting corporations do whatever they want. However it would benefit nobody if corporations would simply "GTFO."
Supporting a reasonable quality of life for your country's citizens is not "leftist". If your company complains that it can't provide goods or services under the current regulatory scheme, get the fuck out and the vacuum will be filled by a competent organization that can.
While we're at it, why don't we eliminate the EPA and the minimum wage?
Government exists to cater to its citizens, not to corporations. Corporations can feel free to GTFO and make room for someone else who won't require us to race to the bottom with regards to our standard of living, environmental regulations and so forth.
If you know how to write firmware, you could probably use the MIMO access points to do some phased-array fun. Write the code to determine the approximate direction of the client (which, you should be able to do with multiple antennas for triangulation), and then increase the power using multiple antennas in said direction.
*goes to do some Googling*
It looks like there already is an access point that does this:
The incredible thing is that chip-based beamforming, like MIMO, has been compatible with 802.11a/b/g for years. In fact, the technology is an optional part of the 802.11n standard. Despite its benefits, though, Cisco is the first to deliver on-chip beamforming to market. The enterprise-oriented AIR-LAP1142N access point is Cisco’s first and so far only product to feature beamforming, which it brands as ClientLink. It arrived in the first quarter of 2009, but the firmware that enables beamforming capability didn’t arrive until July. We tested with this firmware literally within days of its release.
IF you have to go get power, cooling, man hours of maintenance. *Lots* of places already have these as sunk costs, so why go incur costs with Amazon when you're already paying for your own IT overhead?
Wrong. If you don't need the ability to burst computing-wise, cloud computing is always a worse deal (unless done internally).
Once you own your equipment, its yours. You're constantly renting the equipment from Amazon, hour after hour. We did the math in our group that did data taking for the LHC's CMS detector at Fermilab. It just doesn't make sense after 3-6 months, unless you're IT-phobic and don't ever want to manage hardware, AND you have the money to burn.
First, I almost worked at Teza in Chicago (a high frequency trading firm). I think, between the job interview and speaking to people there, I'm qualified to comment on the subject to an extent. Also, while not a professional economist, I have enough knowledge with regards to market liquidity to understand that HFT firms aren't required to provide the liquidity they so often proclaim is such a wonderful function of what they do.
HFT firms provide no value; they are a check valve sucking cash out of whatever market they're interacting within. If you work for an HFT firm, while I can't wish ill against you, I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if you were on the street. I'm not saying they're the only problem, but proclaiming "BUT! BUT! They're are other bad guys too!" is like trying to justify being a rapist because murders still exist.
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I don't use AdScript, but I use Adblock+ on Chrome v. 15.0.874.51 and not having any problems whatsoever with it.
If you're someone who develops any sort of web property for a living, you care. And that happens to be quite a lot of people.
Chrome's silent, background auto-updates don't hurt either. What? You've already installed a new version and I just need to restart the browser? AWESOME *restarts browser, tabs restore* boom, new, updated Chrome.
Also:
Part of its capability is rapid (within 24 hours) reallocation to different Theater (warfare) theaters worldwide, in support of unexpected operations. Command and control of TacSat-4 will be performed at the NRL Satellite Operations Center at Blossom Point, Maryland. Payload tasking will be performed via the SIPRNet based Virtual Mission Operations Center (VMOC).
TacSat isn't in geosync:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TacSat-4#Mission
TacSat-4 will fly the highly elliptical, 4-hour, orbit (12,050 kilometers at peak) providing typical payload communication periods of two hours per orbit. TacSat-4’s orbit also allows it to cover the high latitudes.
TacSat was launched to allow coverage to existing military radios in locations not served by other satellite constellations.
The PRC-117 radios are the hundreds of thousands of military handheld radios they're referring to. TacSat-4 is just a new relay point (a really, really high altitude relay point).
As if its significantly better to have someone making 5x the median income in the US and who can accept kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies is any better.
I'll take Watson thanks.
You know its only a matter of time before IBM's Watson replaces a substantial amount of doctor consultations (being an expert system that never sleeps and all). This is not a bad thing. Just as the cost of manufacturing and some services have plummeted, so will healthcare with technological progress.
Very true. The only thing that is going to "fix" the problem is due diligence on the public side via constantly coming up with prior art for pathetically generic patent applications.
Would you consider donating your class material and your time to CK-12? (http://www.ck12.org/flexbook/)
What is CK-12?
The CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12 market both in the U.S. and worldwide. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational materials to be used both as core textbooks and as the basis for customized materials.
To learn more about our organization, visit http://www.ck12.org/about/
Because, clearly, the only place to be beaten to death by neanderthals who don't agree with your viewpoint is a bar *rolls eyes*
If you are unable to adapt to the world marketplace, you will be unable to provide for yourself. You can do everything right and still have your job taken by someone else. Neither is your fault, but it is what is going to happen. Get used to it.
And frankly, while perhaps you have the right to charge whatever you want, maybe, employers do not have the right to pay whatever they want for labor. The minimum wage laws exist to prevent abuse of the workforce, and ensure a decent chance at self-sufficiency for all citizens. It's nice for you if you don't need the money, but you don't actually have some sort of god-given right to fuck over other people by undercutting the minimum wage.
Yes, yes I do. I'm pretty far to the left when it comes to politics, with regards to social safety nets, employee rights/safety, etc. But I'm also an individual with my own rights, and I have the right to work for free if I want to (and I do, since I can afford to).
The free market is a bitch, but its the only game in town. Don't whine that someone who can do the job better cheaper can and will do so. Its a losing argument, and there is *much* too much momentum behind that train for you to slow it down (i.e. the cost of labor in China, India, Brazil, etc).
Which is a perfect reason Google Translate should be refined to automate the translation process.
You're really damn close to arguing the same way union labor does.
I have the right to charge whatever I want for my labor, all the way down to $0/hr. Is it fair to you if I can do the job better and don't need the money? No. Since when is a free market about fairness and not efficiency?
Free, volunteer labor is never wrong for a for-profit company. Its just wrong to those who would rather get paid while others are willing to do it for free.
Once the oil runs dry you'd better hope they've come up with a viable electric car, otherwise you'll have to knock down and rebuild your entire country.
We're already working on this; see Detroit for an example of teardown/rebuild or just teardown and giving back the land.
I agree on both counts.
Standard leftist silliness. Do you seriously think that things like capital investment, assembly lines, factories, mass production, etc, (which are really only possible with corporations), has led the "race to the bottom" of wages? Without these things your wages would soon be about $500/yr, which is about the level of wages in places where corporations have never arisen or penetrated.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in favor of a regulated economy, and I'm not proposing letting corporations do whatever they want. However it would benefit nobody if corporations would simply "GTFO."
Supporting a reasonable quality of life for your country's citizens is not "leftist". If your company complains that it can't provide goods or services under the current regulatory scheme, get the fuck out and the vacuum will be filled by a competent organization that can.
While we're at it, why don't we eliminate the EPA and the minimum wage?
Government exists to cater to its citizens, not to corporations. Corporations can feel free to GTFO and make room for someone else who won't require us to race to the bottom with regards to our standard of living, environmental regulations and so forth.
If you know how to write firmware, you could probably use the MIMO access points to do some phased-array fun. Write the code to determine the approximate direction of the client (which, you should be able to do with multiple antennas for triangulation), and then increase the power using multiple antennas in said direction.
*goes to do some Googling*
It looks like there already is an access point that does this:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/beamforming-wifi-ruckus,2390-3.html
The incredible thing is that chip-based beamforming, like MIMO, has been compatible with 802.11a/b/g for years. In fact, the technology is an optional part of the 802.11n standard. Despite its benefits, though, Cisco is the first to deliver on-chip beamforming to market. The enterprise-oriented AIR-LAP1142N access point is Cisco’s first and so far only product to feature beamforming, which it brands as ClientLink. It arrived in the first quarter of 2009, but the firmware that enables beamforming capability didn’t arrive until July. We tested with this firmware literally within days of its release.
I don't think you're a small cog when you're offered $320K/year and report directly to the CTO/partner, but heh, that's just me.
The NDA was put in place so we could discuss specific timing advantages they had over competitors.
You have no idea the money that was involved for the position. I easily signed an NDA just to interview.
IF you have to go get power, cooling, man hours of maintenance. *Lots* of places already have these as sunk costs, so why go incur costs with Amazon when you're already paying for your own IT overhead?
Wrong. If you don't need the ability to burst computing-wise, cloud computing is always a worse deal (unless done internally).
Once you own your equipment, its yours. You're constantly renting the equipment from Amazon, hour after hour. We did the math in our group that did data taking for the LHC's CMS detector at Fermilab. It just doesn't make sense after 3-6 months, unless you're IT-phobic and don't ever want to manage hardware, AND you have the money to burn.
NDA
First, I almost worked at Teza in Chicago (a high frequency trading firm). I think, between the job interview and speaking to people there, I'm qualified to comment on the subject to an extent. Also, while not a professional economist, I have enough knowledge with regards to market liquidity to understand that HFT firms aren't required to provide the liquidity they so often proclaim is such a wonderful function of what they do.
HFT firms provide no value; they are a check valve sucking cash out of whatever market they're interacting within. If you work for an HFT firm, while I can't wish ill against you, I wouldn't exactly shed a tear if you were on the street. I'm not saying they're the only problem, but proclaiming "BUT! BUT! They're are other bad guys too!" is like trying to justify being a rapist because murders still exist.
Fuck HFT firms.