No, that isn't it. FireWire charging has been out for years with the lineup. Our portable speakers charge everything but the newest nano just fine. (In airplane mode for the iPhones of course.)
It tends to be the top 10% of people, top 1% of equipment and specifications, and at least the top 10% in terms of pay in the nuclear industry compared to competing industries. While you get flukes everywhere, on average you have very solid people and practices in that industry.
No matter how safe anything is, there will be problems. There are at least 300 nuclear reactors that have operated in the world. I don't have a consoladated list for an exact count, but say that there have been 3 major accidents and 30 minor accidents across all reactors. That comes down to 1% of reactors having a major incident, and 10% having a managed/minor accident, over a presumed average life span of 30 years.
That's about as safe as you will get with anything. Compare to the space program-- shuttle was 2% failure rate on a flight basis, not sure about older systems. Are the problems big when they happen... of course. Would I want to be next door to a plant... not really. Do I think that in my lifetime the risk associated with the three gas-fired plants, the refinery, and the airport in my neighborhood is comparable to nukes... yes.
Risk management isn't voodoo. We just need to design things right from the start, and focus on continuous improvement based on lessons learned.
While parents are the most important reinforcement, the challenge technology has the potential to address is number of students per teacher. Let the honors students self-study while the teacher spends time with the remedial student. Let the remedial student be presented with information in different modes while the teacher works with the average students, etc.
I'm not sure if this will really work, but it seems to be the only hope for public funded education.
Through my former school and the engineering dean, I learned something I would not have guessed: there is actually a lot of politics behind what departments get money at the legislative level. If graduates leave the state, or if they don't go into their field of study as a career then they are seen as having been a poor investment for the state.
If half the engineering grads from Kansas goes into finance in New York, it challenges those who follow, with the university less able to get funds. The businesses that lobbied for the investment lose out, without access to the talent pool that their taxes helped to fund.
Not the end of the world, but it leaves people trying to hire entry-level engineers sorting through 90-95% of the resumes being from Indian nationals who just got their MS in the US.
The theory at the time of accident was that the pitot tubes that sense air speed had iced over or otherwise given false airspeed readings. There are at least three sensors, and I understand they use voting logic to determine a good reading. (There could be significantly more than 3.) Knowing your air speed is essential to know if you are creating too much or too little lift. You regulate lift with the engine thrust and the angle of attack on the flaps.
If you think you are going too slow, you would increase thrust to avoid hitting the stall speed. If the plane still thinks it is going too slow, you need to speed up more. Ultimately, you hit the limits of the airframe and it will break apart in the air.
If you think you are going too fast, you decrease thrust, and keep doing so until you hit your stall speed. Unless you recover, which is difficult because you don't know where to set the flaps or how much thrust you can tolerate, you will drop and break up when you hit the ground.
Gross oversimplification, but it goes back to garbage in-garbage out.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth. The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
What exactly does that mean? If I as a consumer am buying (say) a 20Mbit connection, what percentage of full utilization is reasonable expectation for the service? If my math is right, 250GB is about 4% utilization.
I can see, logically, the argument that the average consumer sleeps 1/3 of the day, and works 1/3 of the day, so they just have 1/3 left at home. That would put you at 11.5% utilization. Cut it in half again to limit to the "couch period" of the day... call it 23% utilization.
Basically, they are saying you can use it all-out 1 hour a day, every day, and that is it. Does that seem like what you are paying for?
One could argue that what they provide is arbitrage, which enhances liquidity. One could also argue that with faster transactions, their percentage gain requirements would go down, so instead of them taking 0.1% off nearly every transaction in profit today, they would drop to 0.01%. You would end up with multiple layers of arbitrageurs given the time delay, but it might still take a bit off in total.
That part of the equation is fairly reasonable. It does provide some semblance of value. What sucks is gaming the market by beating someone to a transaction and then selling the asset on to the original party at a markup. I'm not sure what percentage each case is to be honest, but it doesn't change the way I manage my personal portfolio... although I see the impact in trading less-liquid assets: you have to wait hours or days for a transaction to go through at your price, or you pay/take a premium on the bid/ask spread.
Publishing has amlot of problems. I would think an organization like IEEE would be an advocate for modern, electronic dissemination of knowledge...
Instead, they fleece their members, charging hundreds for a book that is a barely legible copy of a book that was originally written in the 70's, cheaply bound as a paperback, and they don't invest the money they make into developing it as an asset. copyright really needs to get fixed with what is effectively abandon-ware.
Simple directory trees are fine when you have a single person with a consistent style managing everything. It becomes much harder when you add a few OCD people in the mix that work from a few different third-level trees with subtle differences in purpose for their own superimposed top-level logic.
Oh, and they create template trees for everything, so the sub-directories could be empty...
Personal information is pretty easy unless you have a spouse that puts all your music in a directory labeled "crap.". Crap/ is for other stuff!
Um... have you been to California or Hawaii? Both have significant, operating, and expanding wind farms that were commercially viable with a minimum of subsidy/regulation. Hell, at $0.50/kWh in Maui or the Big Island wind and solar have 3 year paybacks!!
Brute forcing the unlock code wouldn't be that much harder if it can be done externally, and you are (practically) limited to a shorter passcode on a phone.
You could have a QR code or something similar that the camera needs to see in order to unlock... but how quickly will that become abused? Any time you go for a stand-alone device, you are going to have compromises.
Merchants are liable for losses, not the banks. The banks have a great scam going.
Bank liability is one part of the equation, but access to credit is the other part. Chip and Pin only solves the actual credit card fraud portion. The liability in Europe's system is actually placed on the consumer, so with Chip and Pin, you don't have recourse to say it wasn't you making the purchase. If they crack that system, you are SOL.
I think your numbers are probabally reasonable for a phishing scam, but the parent's comment was highly targeted attacks on individuals. This seems less likely unless they know they stand to gain at least 10x the average. Random only goes so far.
I'm just optimistic that there is a hair of consumer insight into what is going on, and they are being ever so slightly more careful. I can dream.
They are missing the boat. They should take a page from Apple and push the idea that a tablet supplements a desktop, and tailor solutions to the market. Plenty of room to improve over what is available today.
My laptop made it's last business trip today... Too much to lug for too little benefit.
BTW, I'm really going to be pissed if I actually do get run over by a bus... Let me live in suspense!
Exactly. People don't do engineering in school because they think it is hard. I'll take a candidate with a passion for engineering any day when hiring.
While arguably the exception and not the rule, it is quite possible to make $500k as an engineer. The 85th percentile can easily make $165k after 12-15 years. And this is architectural engineering- other fields can be significantly better!
The biggest challenges are really in pressurizing the hull, as you lose the benefits of a cylendrical shape. Maintenance wise, it shouldn't be any worse than a tri-engine design. Loading and unloading could be resolved gracefully.
Speaking as a licensed electrical engineer that did the network cabling for my office, a matures shouldn't be doing it above the ceiling.
Code issues: You need proper, dedicated support wires for the cables. Do you have Powder activated anchor gun... and proper training? Are you using plenum cables in the ceiling? Are you keeping the cables off the ceiling tiles?
Practical issues: Are you pulling against any MC cable that you could pierce the armor and insulation with enough force? Are you going to cut yourself on any sharp metal? Are you wearing a hard hat and safety glasses above the ceiling so you don't get stabbed by other anchor wires? Can you spot asbestos?
There are even simpler things... do you know how to safely use a ladder?
Unfortunately, between workman's comp, risk of a lawsuit, and even general good practice, it doesn't really make good sense to have non-professionals pull cables. Now, if it wasn't for warranty issues, having your own tech do the terminations would be fine... but then how do you hold the other guy accountable for a pinched cable?
There are rational limits, but those are hard to define at an organization level.
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No, that isn't it. FireWire charging has been out for years with the lineup. Our portable speakers charge everything but the newest nano just fine. (In airplane mode for the iPhones of course.)
It tends to be the top 10% of people, top 1% of equipment and specifications, and at least the top 10% in terms of pay in the nuclear industry compared to competing industries. While you get flukes everywhere, on average you have very solid people and practices in that industry.
No matter how safe anything is, there will be problems. There are at least 300 nuclear reactors that have operated in the world. I don't have a consoladated list for an exact count, but say that there have been 3 major accidents and 30 minor accidents across all reactors. That comes down to 1% of reactors having a major incident, and 10% having a managed/minor accident, over a presumed average life span of 30 years.
That's about as safe as you will get with anything. Compare to the space program-- shuttle was 2% failure rate on a flight basis, not sure about older systems. Are the problems big when they happen... of course. Would I want to be next door to a plant... not really. Do I think that in my lifetime the risk associated with the three gas-fired plants, the refinery, and the airport in my neighborhood is comparable to nukes... yes.
Risk management isn't voodoo. We just need to design things right from the start, and focus on continuous improvement based on lessons learned.
While parents are the most important reinforcement, the challenge technology has the potential to address is number of students per teacher. Let the honors students self-study while the teacher spends time with the remedial student. Let the remedial student be presented with information in different modes while the teacher works with the average students, etc.
I'm not sure if this will really work, but it seems to be the only hope for public funded education.
At $15 per month, it isn't worth complaining about. You have to ration to avoid going over the limit, but you have the flexibility when you need it.
With everybody tethering over wifi, wifi becomes unreliable. It is nice to have options.
With 10% error on something that people really only have an order of magnitude understanding of, which tons doesn't really matter.
Isn't this a fundamental flaw of WebDAV? You authenticate a user, but an authenticated user's permissions are generally cumbersome to enforce.
No, it won't work for IPv6, since the speed of light is so much faster with v6.
Why even use liters at that point... cubic meters is much more descriptive... or Tons if you must!
Through my former school and the engineering dean, I learned something I would not have guessed: there is actually a lot of politics behind what departments get money at the legislative level. If graduates leave the state, or if they don't go into their field of study as a career then they are seen as having been a poor investment for the state.
If half the engineering grads from Kansas goes into finance in New York, it challenges those who follow, with the university less able to get funds. The businesses that lobbied for the investment lose out, without access to the talent pool that their taxes helped to fund.
Not the end of the world, but it leaves people trying to hire entry-level engineers sorting through 90-95% of the resumes being from Indian nationals who just got their MS in the US.
The theory at the time of accident was that the pitot tubes that sense air speed had iced over or otherwise given false airspeed readings. There are at least three sensors, and I understand they use voting logic to determine a good reading. (There could be significantly more than 3.) Knowing your air speed is essential to know if you are creating too much or too little lift. You regulate lift with the engine thrust and the angle of attack on the flaps.
If you think you are going too slow, you would increase thrust to avoid hitting the stall speed. If the plane still thinks it is going too slow, you need to speed up more. Ultimately, you hit the limits of the airframe and it will break apart in the air.
If you think you are going too fast, you decrease thrust, and keep doing so until you hit your stall speed. Unless you recover, which is difficult because you don't know where to set the flaps or how much thrust you can tolerate, you will drop and break up when you hit the ground.
Gross oversimplification, but it goes back to garbage in-garbage out.
What exactly does that mean? If I as a consumer am buying (say) a 20Mbit connection, what percentage of full utilization is reasonable expectation for the service? If my math is right, 250GB is about 4% utilization.
I can see, logically, the argument that the average consumer sleeps 1/3 of the day, and works 1/3 of the day, so they just have 1/3 left at home. That would put you at 11.5% utilization. Cut it in half again to limit to the "couch period" of the day... call it 23% utilization.
Basically, they are saying you can use it all-out 1 hour a day, every day, and that is it. Does that seem like what you are paying for?
One could argue that what they provide is arbitrage, which enhances liquidity. One could also argue that with faster transactions, their percentage gain requirements would go down, so instead of them taking 0.1% off nearly every transaction in profit today, they would drop to 0.01%. You would end up with multiple layers of arbitrageurs given the time delay, but it might still take a bit off in total.
That part of the equation is fairly reasonable. It does provide some semblance of value. What sucks is gaming the market by beating someone to a transaction and then selling the asset on to the original party at a markup. I'm not sure what percentage each case is to be honest, but it doesn't change the way I manage my personal portfolio... although I see the impact in trading less-liquid assets: you have to wait hours or days for a transaction to go through at your price, or you pay/take a premium on the bid/ask spread.
Publishing has amlot of problems. I would think an organization like IEEE would be an advocate for modern, electronic dissemination of knowledge...
Instead, they fleece their members, charging hundreds for a book that is a barely legible copy of a book that was originally written in the 70's, cheaply bound as a paperback, and they don't invest the money they make into developing it as an asset. copyright really needs to get fixed with what is effectively abandon-ware.
Simple directory trees are fine when you have a single person with a consistent style managing everything. It becomes much harder when you add a few OCD people in the mix that work from a few different third-level trees with subtle differences in purpose for their own superimposed top-level logic.
Oh, and they create template trees for everything, so the sub-directories could be empty...
Personal information is pretty easy unless you have a spouse that puts all your music in a directory labeled "crap.". Crap/ is for other stuff!
Um... have you been to California or Hawaii? Both have significant, operating, and expanding wind farms that were commercially viable with a minimum of subsidy/regulation. Hell, at $0.50/kWh in Maui or the Big Island wind and solar have 3 year paybacks!!
Brute forcing the unlock code wouldn't be that much harder if it can be done externally, and you are (practically) limited to a shorter passcode on a phone.
You could have a QR code or something similar that the camera needs to see in order to unlock... but how quickly will that become abused? Any time you go for a stand-alone device, you are going to have compromises.
Merchants are liable for losses, not the banks. The banks have a great scam going.
Bank liability is one part of the equation, but access to credit is the other part. Chip and Pin only solves the actual credit card fraud portion. The liability in Europe's system is actually placed on the consumer, so with Chip and Pin, you don't have recourse to say it wasn't you making the purchase. If they crack that system, you are SOL.
I think your numbers are probabally reasonable for a phishing scam, but the parent's comment was highly targeted attacks on individuals. This seems less likely unless they know they stand to gain at least 10x the average. Random only goes so far.
I'm just optimistic that there is a hair of consumer insight into what is going on, and they are being ever so slightly more careful. I can dream.
They are missing the boat. They should take a page from Apple and push the idea that a tablet supplements a desktop, and tailor solutions to the market. Plenty of room to improve over what is available today.
My laptop made it's last business trip today... Too much to lug for too little benefit.
BTW, I'm really going to be pissed if I actually do get run over by a bus... Let me live in suspense!
Only thing I noticed was the comment slider doesn't work with the iPad. Pretty clean lines, like it.
Exactly. People don't do engineering in school because they think it is hard. I'll take a candidate with a passion for engineering any day when hiring.
While arguably the exception and not the rule, it is quite possible to make $500k as an engineer. The 85th percentile can easily make $165k after 12-15 years. And this is architectural engineering- other fields can be significantly better!
Technically, unless the person has a PE, they are not an engineer.
The biggest challenges are really in pressurizing the hull, as you lose the benefits of a cylendrical shape. Maintenance wise, it shouldn't be any worse than a tri-engine design. Loading and unloading could be resolved gracefully.
Speaking as a licensed electrical engineer that did the network cabling for my office, a matures shouldn't be doing it above the ceiling.
Code issues: You need proper, dedicated support wires for the cables. Do you have Powder activated anchor gun... and proper training? Are you using plenum cables in the ceiling? Are you keeping the cables off the ceiling tiles?
Practical issues: Are you pulling against any MC cable that you could pierce the armor and insulation with enough force? Are you going to cut yourself on any sharp metal? Are you wearing a hard hat and safety glasses above the ceiling so you don't get stabbed by other anchor wires? Can you spot asbestos?
There are even simpler things... do you know how to safely use a ladder?
Unfortunately, between workman's comp, risk of a lawsuit, and even general good practice, it doesn't really make good sense to have non-professionals pull cables. Now, if it wasn't for warranty issues, having your own tech do the terminations would be fine... but then how do you hold the other guy accountable for a pinched cable?
There are rational limits, but those are hard to define at an organization level.