Google is a huge company. It has over 70,000 employees across dozens of countries. it's quite possible (probably even likely) that there are parts of the organization where just about any viewpoint you can imagine is dominant (except maybe traditional conservatives).
Not sure what you consider a "traditional conservative", but Google is one of the five principle sponsors of the current CPAC raging on in all its wingnut glory.
If Google feels comfortable being a major sponsor of this Trump-fest I'm not so sure that "conservatives" are unwelcome there.
So you are citing a fictional character for what is normal, typical office behavior.
Do you realize the movie was pointing out problems that are known to exist in offices? Nothing that happen in Office Space is normal for a healthy office, though it occurs in some, and if you work in enough offices, you will see some of them.
I don't think you are following along with this subject (though mysteriously you are currently rated "Score:4 Insightful").
It sounds like you think that there is a movement afoot to pass laws to ban people from repairing their own property. That is the opposite of what is happening here. Businesses are trying to take away the ability to repair products through purchase contracts, designing products that can only be repaired by the manufacturer (there are various ways of doing this), and restricting access to spare parts. People are trying to get legislation passed to preserve the ability to repair products, which has up to now been assumed to exist.
The whole point is that corporations are trying to take away the ability of letting consumers decide.
That boat sailed ages ago. The "NRA" opposes (with astonishing absolutist vehemence) the most basic commonsense background check rules that are supported by the majority of its own members.
The "NRA" has been successful in keeping its membership, but not by actually listening to them. It is a top down organization, and its leadership is simply part of the hard right corporatiss. Its only principle is what is to support whatever corporations (gun makers, ISPs) want.
By the way did you know that one of the five biggest sponsors of the right-wing sh!tshow that is this years CPAC is Google? Now thoroughly and totally evil, because there is no such thing as enough money.
The item posted right next to this about how Thiel's successful scheme to shut down Gawker fits into this like a glove.
Call it the Deep Plutocracy.
Thiel of course cared nothing at all about Hulk Hogan. He had a personal vendetta about his coverage by Gawker and so, at the incitation of another party who wanted to shut it down, scoured its history to find a case to pour money into to attack it.
One does not have to defend Gawker's coverage of Hogan to find the practice of multi-billionaires ready to drop huge piles of cash to crush critics (in the manner of SLAPP suits) to be extremely dangerous.
I have tried many desktop Linux distributions over the years, but one thing really stands out. Every time I used Mint is was a positive experience, not so much any of the others. I reinstalled my desktop OS a few months ago, removing Ubuntu (the last time I will ever give it a try I think) and installing Mint Cinnamon.
I think it's using dead reckoning: It's been travelling along this map for this duration at this speed, so it must be at point X. That means it must have a way of determining it's speed: Magnetic and gravity fields, perhaps.
You have it rather backwards, the distance they know accurately from direct measurement using the time signal transmitted. Speed can be obtained as a derived quantity, the distance at two different times. But they can also measure speed directly via the doppler shift (this is probably only done Earthside).
The position in the sky (providing the other two coordinates required for a complete position and velocity solution) is determined from Earth by a combination of time signal differences (just like with GPS) and long baseline interferometry. All of these different measurements are put into a model to calculate the state.
On the subject of accuracy, about that 7 microseconds per decade -- does that assume that all errors accumulate in the same direction? Or might some oscillation errors be in different directions from other errors. (eg, an extra "tick" or a missing "tick".)
All such x number of fractional seconds per mega-fortnight or what-have-you is a way of expression the stability by multiplying the "mega-fortnight" by the stability factor (1E-15, 3E-16 and so on) for public consumption. You are right that these errors are random walks (otherwise they could be compensated for) and that the actual drift with time will be significantly smaller.
Furthermore the NASA article states that this is a prototype mercury ion trap clock that is expected to reach an accuracy of 0.3 nanoseconds a day with some more refinement, which will make it 30 times as precise as GPS satellite clocks.
The stability of this clock is at least 2E-14, and the future version will be 3.5E-15. For comparison the US national standard clocks (NIST-F1 and NIST-F2) has a stability of about 1E-16, so this is pretty darn good for compact, low energy consumption, system for long term unattended space operation. So far the best clock in the world has an precision of 3E-18.
Or close to it. Estimates for Harvey alone are $180 billion. Of course 300 billion is larger than 300 million, but 300 million is not a useful lower bound to offer.
But he is in control of the U.S. government, its military and nuclear weapons. Sometimes alcoholics hit rock bottom, seek help and then get better. Sometimes they get behind the wheel and kill some innocent bystanders, and maybe themselves. MAGA but only if we survive.
Corporations are collections of people which are treated as a person going back to British common law.
You sort of have had an argument, if you understood what you were talking about. Corporations do not exist in common law. They have always been creations by charter from an executive body - monarch or legislature - which are outside of common law. But the personhood of a corporation was always a limited legal fiction for the purposes of transacting business under their charter. It was only in the 1890s that businesses could start incorporating essentially at will, and it was only in the last 20 years in the U.S. that the notion that this "personhood" was actually a general like a real natural person, with now free speech, and freedom of religion rights.
It is a shame then that we are not a well educated nation. Try sorting this this chart by various age cohorts. When it comes to tertiary ("college") education the U.S. is current ranked 7th overall. Not good for a nation of "specialists". But it gets worse. The oldest cohort, nearing retirement is 4th internationally. But the youngest is 12th, and since the ranking gets worse as you get younger, and all signs point to a continuing deterioration in support for higher education, we can expect it to be much worse, rather than better of even the same in another 10 years.
I half feel bad for people that missed out. People yelling down the dorm halls "Did you find out about the facebook?" "Our school has been added to the facebook, do you have an invite?"
College only, you could go to away games or "networking" events and connect with other people that wasn't e-mail.
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Sounds like the Eternal September for Millennials. That was September 1993*. This is a repeat of what happened when the exciting erudite innovative Internet opened up to the public, and corporate exploitation and control.
*Some may know the reference and not know the significance of "September". It was when the new school year started an hordes of clueless freshman newbies logged on to the Internet for the first time.
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Google is a huge company. It has over 70,000 employees across dozens of countries. it's quite possible (probably even likely) that there are parts of the organization where just about any viewpoint you can imagine is dominant (except maybe traditional conservatives).
Not sure what you consider a "traditional conservative", but Google is one of the five principle sponsors of the current CPAC raging on in all its wingnut glory.
If Google feels comfortable being a major sponsor of this Trump-fest I'm not so sure that "conservatives" are unwelcome there.
That type of talk about sex at work is extraordinary and quite unhealthy for any normal office.
Possibly you talk that way, and attack anyone who objects as "prudish"?
So you are citing a fictional character for what is normal, typical office behavior.
Do you realize the movie was pointing out problems that are known to exist in offices? Nothing that happen in Office Space is normal for a healthy office, though it occurs in some, and if you work in enough offices, you will see some of them.
I don't think you are following along with this subject (though mysteriously you are currently rated "Score:4 Insightful").
It sounds like you think that there is a movement afoot to pass laws to ban people from repairing their own property. That is the opposite of what is happening here. Businesses are trying to take away the ability to repair products through purchase contracts, designing products that can only be repaired by the manufacturer (there are various ways of doing this), and restricting access to spare parts. People are trying to get legislation passed to preserve the ability to repair products, which has up to now been assumed to exist.
The whole point is that corporations are trying to take away the ability of letting consumers decide.
And no doubt you believe that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratic republic because those words are in their official name.
Poe's Law.
That boat sailed ages ago. The "NRA" opposes (with astonishing absolutist vehemence) the most basic commonsense background check rules that are supported by the majority of its own members.
The "NRA" has been successful in keeping its membership, but not by actually listening to them. It is a top down organization, and its leadership is simply part of the hard right corporatiss. Its only principle is what is to support whatever corporations (gun makers, ISPs) want.
By the way did you know that one of the five biggest sponsors of the right-wing sh!tshow that is this years CPAC is Google? Now thoroughly and totally evil, because there is no such thing as enough money.
Justice is a social construct - and that is a good thing. Society is real.
The item posted right next to this about how Thiel's successful scheme to shut down Gawker fits into this like a glove.
Call it the Deep Plutocracy.
Thiel of course cared nothing at all about Hulk Hogan. He had a personal vendetta about his coverage by Gawker and so, at the incitation of another party who wanted to shut it down, scoured its history to find a case to pour money into to attack it.
One does not have to defend Gawker's coverage of Hogan to find the practice of multi-billionaires ready to drop huge piles of cash to crush critics (in the manner of SLAPP suits) to be extremely dangerous.
The only real rule here is that they have to disclose if they're doing any of this.
And if they don't? I guessing that then that nothing happens.
I have tried many desktop Linux distributions over the years, but one thing really stands out. Every time I used Mint is was a positive experience, not so much any of the others. I reinstalled my desktop OS a few months ago, removing Ubuntu (the last time I will ever give it a try I think) and installing Mint Cinnamon.
It was the correct thing to do.
I think it's using dead reckoning: It's been travelling along this map for this duration at this speed, so it must be at point X. That means it must have a way of determining it's speed: Magnetic and gravity fields, perhaps.
You have it rather backwards, the distance they know accurately from direct measurement using the time signal transmitted. Speed can be obtained as a derived quantity, the distance at two different times. But they can also measure speed directly via the doppler shift (this is probably only done Earthside).
The position in the sky (providing the other two coordinates required for a complete position and velocity solution) is determined from Earth by a combination of time signal differences (just like with GPS) and long baseline interferometry. All of these different measurements are put into a model to calculate the state.
On the subject of accuracy, about that 7 microseconds per decade -- does that assume that all errors accumulate in the same direction? Or might some oscillation errors be in different directions from other errors. (eg, an extra "tick" or a missing "tick".)
All such x number of fractional seconds per mega-fortnight or what-have-you is a way of expression the stability by multiplying the "mega-fortnight" by the stability factor (1E-15, 3E-16 and so on) for public consumption. You are right that these errors are random walks (otherwise they could be compensated for) and that the actual drift with time will be significantly smaller.
Furthermore the NASA article states that this is a prototype mercury ion trap clock that is expected to reach an accuracy of 0.3 nanoseconds a day with some more refinement, which will make it 30 times as precise as GPS satellite clocks.
The stability of this clock is at least 2E-14, and the future version will be 3.5E-15. For comparison the US national standard clocks (NIST-F1 and NIST-F2) has a stability of about 1E-16, so this is pretty darn good for compact, low energy consumption, system for long term unattended space operation. So far the best clock in the world has an precision of 3E-18.
It would seem that with this clock the probe would receive a time signal from Earth and directly calculate its distance itself.
It is an obvious typo (this is /. after all, can't have summaries with at least one significant flaw). $300 billion in damage would be about right.
Or close to it. Estimates for Harvey alone are $180 billion. Of course 300 billion is larger than 300 million, but 300 million is not a useful lower bound to offer.
But he is in control of the U.S. government, its military and nuclear weapons. Sometimes alcoholics hit rock bottom, seek help and then get better. Sometimes they get behind the wheel and kill some innocent bystanders, and maybe themselves. MAGA but only if we survive.
Now if only he had a valid argument to go with his 'point'.
But the computers are (or rather the computer models are).
You are correct. It would be best if everyone just filters out and ignores the ACs when this topic comes up.
Want to post a denial claim? Then show us your Slashdot identity. What the cowardice?
Corporations are collections of people which are treated as a person going back to British common law.
You sort of have had an argument, if you understood what you were talking about. Corporations do not exist in common law. They have always been creations by charter from an executive body - monarch or legislature - which are outside of common law. But the personhood of a corporation was always a limited legal fiction for the purposes of transacting business under their charter. It was only in the 1890s that businesses could start incorporating essentially at will, and it was only in the last 20 years in the U.S. that the notion that this "personhood" was actually a general like a real natural person, with now free speech, and freedom of religion rights.
It is a shame then that we are not a well educated nation. Try sorting this this chart by various age cohorts. When it comes to tertiary ("college") education the U.S. is current ranked 7th overall. Not good for a nation of "specialists". But it gets worse. The oldest cohort, nearing retirement is 4th internationally. But the youngest is 12th, and since the ranking gets worse as you get younger, and all signs point to a continuing deterioration in support for higher education, we can expect it to be much worse, rather than better of even the same in another 10 years.
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I half feel bad for people that missed out. People yelling down the dorm halls "Did you find out about the facebook?" "Our school has been added to the facebook, do you have an invite?"
College only, you could go to away games or "networking" events and connect with other people that wasn't e-mail.
...
Sounds like the Eternal September for Millennials. That was September 1993*. This is a repeat of what happened when the exciting erudite innovative Internet opened up to the public, and corporate exploitation and control.
*Some may know the reference and not know the significance of "September". It was when the new school year started an hordes of clueless freshman newbies logged on to the Internet for the first time.
Apparently laws aren't meant to be followed, they are meant to be vague guide points to get around in any way possible.
Or to be applied very harshly, as the social status of defendant, and the desires of the prosecutor, dictate.