I am a crap programmer. I am at peace with that. However, when I realized that the equipment I bought output data in a way that could not be used (instantaneous values rather than RMS), it didn't take too long to cobble together a perl script that could take the raw data, do RMS calculations for an adjustable window, and reduce the data to something that could be further analyzed in Excel.
Sure, the program was slow ant processing something around 1MB of input data, but it did the job until we could get the right tool... and by slow it took a few minutes rather than a few seconds. These things happen often enough that some quick and dirty programming capability is often useful.
I'm an engineer. I want to remodel my home. I come up with ideas, document them, and give them to an architect to build into a complete design that conveys scope to the general contractor and trades. Me being educated about the process helps me to manage scope and hopefully get the product I want in the most efficient manner possible, while also taking advantage of the expertise of others. A prima donna architect that only wants to create something they find to be beautiful might not solve my problems.
Programming is no different. If I convey something in pseudo code or user interface, I would expect a skilled programmer to be able to provide a critical evaluation of my idea and guide me into the best direction. I might not be able to break down the functions for security the right way, but I would at least be highlighting the need for security as an example.
Arguably, this is not true. Samsung has a vested interest in being the brand consumers associate with mobile products; the more they build up any one OS, the less their individual brand grows. They need to balance the risk that Google poses with Motorola with their association with Android.
However, Microsoft doesn't offer them any improvement over developing their own platform, since they can't create a Samsung "look and feel" on that platform.
Right. Next year he can add wheels to the list... A nice little rollerboard tablet, maybe...
I wish USB was more practical on one hand, but on the other what I really would prefer is more easily supported VPN usage... Without the cloud "look at me, I am an idiot" vpn solutions where a company you shouldn't be trusting will make it easy for you to access all your private information from anywhere in the world...
The reason why maps aren't fully cached is licensing. Idiotic license agreements.
I'll add mine to the list-- virtual SIM cards, so I don't have to go and buy a SIM card when I visit a country for a day, week, or month... Without paying an arm and a leg for data.
The retrofit kits for fluorescent troffers are getting better, they just need to add better control options to make retrofit a logic solution for people who pass operating expenses on and only care about capital expenses.
The hell are you smoking?! A highly directional source is much more desirable to an "A" (as in arbitrary) lamp. Optics for a good point source are much easier to design than a linear source.
At 200 lumens/Watt (assume 160 as a system), this is huge. It makes a whole lot of retrofit applications viable.
Zillow is a hugely effective tool to help prospective home purchasers understand the market value of houses in a neighborhood, disclosing sales history for nearly every property in the US. I can know know exactly what my landlord paid for the property I rent, what he pays in taxes, and comparable data for my neighbors.
Great. Not so much privacy though.
If Brownells sells their customer sales history (which the credit card companies already give, albeit with less detail), is that more of a privacy violation than what Amazon or Walmart, or your grocery store does?
What is surprising is that you can't connect to Amazon or Netflix on some of the units despite being "smart." They have their own video store and other such nonsense.
Most of the TVs I have owned have a recess for cables that has been the home for first and second generation Apple TVs, and a Roku. Keep trying to finish a project with a BeagleBone that would go in the spot on a smaller TV, but it is a low priority project. Raspberry Pi or one of the little USB stick computers would work fine though...
This graphic shows the US Mega Regions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png If you look closely, you can see where problems will arise. The Northeast Corridor is easy to provide high-speed rail for, but you need population growth to make most regions viable. Funny thing about population growth...
The US has 12 super-metro/regional areas. The "Great Lakes" region (when it is extended to include St. Louis) is the only one that lacks the density to fully connect all cities within the region.
If the regions are adequately connected internally, linking all 12 is quite easy. The problem is that first step isn't moving fast enough.
Sure, it can be stolen. But for the effort, there is lower hanging fruit which is what risk management is all about. My little $100 safe that can be opened with a paper clip is quite effective at protecting its contents. If someone stole it and opened it later they would be quite disappointed.
If you have five $2,000 guns and enough ammunition to last you two armaggedons then maybe you need something more than a $500 safe. A quick look shows a 6-12 gun safe at $700 weighs 400 pounds empty. Bolt it to the floor properly with four 5/8" wedge anchors gives you an effective weight of a couple tons.
That failure was based on NASAs protocol to not relight the engine, and it was a secondary payload priced on that possibility. More like designed-in risk.
The difference between many military grade (and grades within the us armed services) and consumer grade is the testing and validation done to make sure it works the first time. A composites supplier told me that if they produced 100 products, two would test to Air Force specs, 10 to Navy specs, 30 to Army specs, and the rest (save 2-3 units found to be defective) would be suitable for other customers. (Branches and exact numbers may be off, but orders of magnitude are right.)
If you need to make the 100 to get two that are up to spec, you are going to have higher costs. Hopefully not 50x cost, but in a well managed system it is at least 3x. The problem comes when everybody makes their specification higher than what they actually need, or when only the people with the highest spec are buying.
SpaceX's opportunity is in offering the value customer a better product designed and tested to meet their needs.
Fundamentally what SpaceX seems to do is produce their systems in an integrated environment and not worry about a lot of the things the traditional players do. No clean rooms, production designed to scale, things like that. They use a startup mentality and...more theatrical lighting truss than I would have thought practical. They buy things that make sense now with an eye to the future, but they don't keep idle capacity around.
Unfortunately, the jetliner parallel would need to eschew FAA certification. I am sure the regulatory burden could be simplified, but I am a little uncomfortable with airplanes having 20% less (safety) margin.
Rebuild time. It takes our hardware raids about 24 hours to rebuild, and software raids about 72 hours. If the disk failure isn't detected immediately, even with RAID-6 you are pushing your luck.
Honestly, it seems more like the OP and manager need to sit down and talk through the project plan and determine manpower needs for the project duration.
Scaling up is hard, and you do need to get the sub-managers on board before you add worker-bees so the project objectives remain clearly communicated. Often the scale-up ramp is uncomfortable.
Once gigabit to the home comes into play nobody really has a major advantage. Verizon has the fiber, and the other players have pathways, but there is still opportunity for a non-entrenched player.
The key is to be able to provide gigabit in the short term and leapfrog competitive offerings at a reasonable price.
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I am a crap programmer. I am at peace with that. However, when I realized that the equipment I bought output data in a way that could not be used (instantaneous values rather than RMS), it didn't take too long to cobble together a perl script that could take the raw data, do RMS calculations for an adjustable window, and reduce the data to something that could be further analyzed in Excel.
Sure, the program was slow ant processing something around 1MB of input data, but it did the job until we could get the right tool... and by slow it took a few minutes rather than a few seconds. These things happen often enough that some quick and dirty programming capability is often useful.
I'm an engineer. I want to remodel my home. I come up with ideas, document them, and give them to an architect to build into a complete design that conveys scope to the general contractor and trades. Me being educated about the process helps me to manage scope and hopefully get the product I want in the most efficient manner possible, while also taking advantage of the expertise of others. A prima donna architect that only wants to create something they find to be beautiful might not solve my problems.
Programming is no different. If I convey something in pseudo code or user interface, I would expect a skilled programmer to be able to provide a critical evaluation of my idea and guide me into the best direction. I might not be able to break down the functions for security the right way, but I would at least be highlighting the need for security as an example.
They don't Include Double?! Kind of a half-assed rundown then...
Also, the article title is much more fun-- Attack of the Telepresence Robots.
Arguably, this is not true. Samsung has a vested interest in being the brand consumers associate with mobile products; the more they build up any one OS, the less their individual brand grows. They need to balance the risk that Google poses with Motorola with their association with Android.
However, Microsoft doesn't offer them any improvement over developing their own platform, since they can't create a Samsung "look and feel" on that platform.
Interestingly (or not) this happens to also be how one of the founders of match.com died...
Right. Next year he can add wheels to the list... A nice little rollerboard tablet, maybe...
I wish USB was more practical on one hand, but on the other what I really would prefer is more easily supported VPN usage... Without the cloud "look at me, I am an idiot" vpn solutions where a company you shouldn't be trusting will make it easy for you to access all your private information from anywhere in the world...
The reason why maps aren't fully cached is licensing. Idiotic license agreements.
I'll add mine to the list-- virtual SIM cards, so I don't have to go and buy a SIM card when I visit a country for a day, week, or month... Without paying an arm and a leg for data.
Cree lists the XM-L at 100 lumens/watt.
The retrofit kits for fluorescent troffers are getting better, they just need to add better control options to make retrofit a logic solution for people who pass operating expenses on and only care about capital expenses.
The hell are you smoking?! A highly directional source is much more desirable to an "A" (as in arbitrary) lamp. Optics for a good point source are much easier to design than a linear source.
At 200 lumens/Watt (assume 160 as a system), this is huge. It makes a whole lot of retrofit applications viable.
Wonder what year OLEDs will hit this level.
Why gun owners and not everybody else?
Zillow is a hugely effective tool to help prospective home purchasers understand the market value of houses in a neighborhood, disclosing sales history for nearly every property in the US. I can know know exactly what my landlord paid for the property I rent, what he pays in taxes, and comparable data for my neighbors.
Great. Not so much privacy though.
If Brownells sells their customer sales history (which the credit card companies already give, albeit with less detail), is that more of a privacy violation than what Amazon or Walmart, or your grocery store does?
What is surprising is that you can't connect to Amazon or Netflix on some of the units despite being "smart." They have their own video store and other such nonsense.
Most of the TVs I have owned have a recess for cables that has been the home for first and second generation Apple TVs, and a Roku. Keep trying to finish a project with a BeagleBone that would go in the spot on a smaller TV, but it is a low priority project. Raspberry Pi or one of the little USB stick computers would work fine though...
This graphic shows the US Mega Regions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MapofEmergingUSMegaregions.png
If you look closely, you can see where problems will arise. The Northeast Corridor is easy to provide high-speed rail for, but you need population growth to make most regions viable. Funny thing about population growth...
The US has 12 super-metro/regional areas. The "Great Lakes" region (when it is extended to include St. Louis) is the only one that lacks the density to fully connect all cities within the region.
If the regions are adequately connected internally, linking all 12 is quite easy. The problem is that first step isn't moving fast enough.
Sure, it can be stolen. But for the effort, there is lower hanging fruit which is what risk management is all about. My little $100 safe that can be opened with a paper clip is quite effective at protecting its contents. If someone stole it and opened it later they would be quite disappointed.
If you have five $2,000 guns and enough ammunition to last you two armaggedons then maybe you need something more than a $500 safe. A quick look shows a 6-12 gun safe at $700 weighs 400 pounds empty. Bolt it to the floor properly with four 5/8" wedge anchors gives you an effective weight of a couple tons.
That failure was based on NASAs protocol to not relight the engine, and it was a secondary payload priced on that possibility. More like designed-in risk.
The difference between many military grade (and grades within the us armed services) and consumer grade is the testing and validation done to make sure it works the first time. A composites supplier told me that if they produced 100 products, two would test to Air Force specs, 10 to Navy specs, 30 to Army specs, and the rest (save 2-3 units found to be defective) would be suitable for other customers. (Branches and exact numbers may be off, but orders of magnitude are right.)
If you need to make the 100 to get two that are up to spec, you are going to have higher costs. Hopefully not 50x cost, but in a well managed system it is at least 3x. The problem comes when everybody makes their specification higher than what they actually need, or when only the people with the highest spec are buying.
SpaceX's opportunity is in offering the value customer a better product designed and tested to meet their needs.
Fundamentally what SpaceX seems to do is produce their systems in an integrated environment and not worry about a lot of the things the traditional players do. No clean rooms, production designed to scale, things like that. They use a startup mentality and ...more theatrical lighting truss than I would have thought practical. They buy things that make sense now with an eye to the future, but they don't keep idle capacity around.
Unfortunately, the jetliner parallel would need to eschew FAA certification. I am sure the regulatory burden could be simplified, but I am a little uncomfortable with airplanes having 20% less (safety) margin.
And if your gun is properly locked up, how is that going to happen?
No written contract. Stark is a moron.
Rebuild time. It takes our hardware raids about 24 hours to rebuild, and software raids about 72 hours. If the disk failure isn't detected immediately, even with RAID-6 you are pushing your luck.
RAID is not backup.
What, like an underground network of rivers in a porous rock, also referred to as a cave?
Honestly, it seems more like the OP and manager need to sit down and talk through the project plan and determine manpower needs for the project duration.
Scaling up is hard, and you do need to get the sub-managers on board before you add worker-bees so the project objectives remain clearly communicated. Often the scale-up ramp is uncomfortable.
Once gigabit to the home comes into play nobody really has a major advantage. Verizon has the fiber, and the other players have pathways, but there is still opportunity for a non-entrenched player.
The key is to be able to provide gigabit in the short term and leapfrog competitive offerings at a reasonable price.
Oooh... handshake via ad network!!
Is there a way to port-knock the handshake? Or perform the handshake through stenography?