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that's because it's not Texas but the FED who is bringing in the FAA to create the drama.
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Thank you for coming out and saying it. Just as I can't play NBA level basketball, nor bear children, some people are NOT mentally structured to code.
Yes, Virginia - some people are better at some things than others. And some people are incapable of doing certain things. There ARE differences and talents in individuals, and not everyone gets every trophy.
Some of us square pegs are gonna seal up the square holes better. throwing money at some skillsets just to be politically correct ain't gonna change that.
Spend your government into the ground all you want, but you're not gonna produce a nation of Hemingways, nor make most people worthy of even typing an El Reg headline.
this will happen with FB too, when the plebes get bored. And the next "big social network" after that..
your data will be theirs to use against you as they see fit. No matter how "permanent" you believe your Current Important Thing really is - it will not last forever, or even very long at all.
Government agencies all abuzz about Cloud services should really think twice about handing over critical client/public data to companies that have been in existence for much less time than that Agency has existed continuously. Remember all the IT juggernauts of the 2Ks that are already forgotten? They were prime, unbreakable, solid as granite. And now their buildings are leased to arcade/pizza places for kids and to fly-by-night importers of grey market Chinese knockoffs.
Ten years, 20 years...very few companies in the computer/information processing services have lasted that long. Many government agencies have run unbroken for nearly a century.
What do you do when your social media tanks with your data? What do you do when your Cloud Service tanks with two decades of your client/citizen data?
it's a gorram "mobile workstation" for those employers who got a BYOD bug up their kiester. You keep it closed until you get to your desk, then open it up, and wait for a completely different set of RSI and posture related pains to begin.
Or you just dock it, then never use the screen or keyboard on it at all.
Only time I saw anyone open one of these behemoths outside of the employer/contractor desk over the years (Dell used to make a rather epic one "back in the day") was at the coffee shop or restaurant trying to get some paperwork done before having to run to the copy shop to find a place to send the files from, or to plug into a phone line and hope the toll free modem number was available :P
Mr. Musk is back to the tried and true "smear the other guy to get ahead" techniques of government contractors of the past.
This disappoints me greatly. I expected "innovate until the opposition begs to be bought up" or at least "innovate until the competition has no choice but to pay billions to acquire us".
Playing skeevy political games (the opening salvo in this whole engine fiasco) is the stuff of those who are *not* brilliant and *cannot* innovate.
We've already got enough companies, private and public, doing this, Colt, lookin' at you.
if these had come along a decade or so sooner, I have family members who couldn't give up the butts who'd still be alive. For them it was the nicotine. Dad switched to e cigs about a month before the spreading lung cancer essentially squeezed his heard to death. Mostly because he had started on oxygen and real cigs would have been explosively risky.
I just wish the 'second hand" smell wasn't the same as radiator antifreeze leaking onto a hot exhaust manifold. I hope that's the next evolution-complete stealthy and stink-free. Somebody's face shouldn't have ppm emissions worse than their arse.
you could airdrop real guns all over Japan and most of them would be turned into the police, with most of the remainder kept as a collectible (ooh! Series 1 original with the Airdrop paint scheme!). Any significant increase in violence would be primarily accidents and small children.
Here you have an ever growing self-limiting "victim class" who is led to believe every failure is "someone else's fault" or an "-ism" which leads to no desire to improve oneself but increasing hatred at those you believe who "held you down". A gun and a million grudges are a dangerous combination.
Different place, different people. Lack of diversity helps keep friction down too.
for the purposes of campaign finance rules:
is the value of the donation counted as the value of BC at the time of the donation or the time it is translated to cash?
Because with the suspiciously controlled volatility of BC, I can see a "donate low, pump high" plan among those politicians with "friends" in high social media circles.
Even this shows the problem with BC. No politician is buying her posters, her airtime, her expensive hotels with BC, her campaign is gonna liquidate it at the best possible price and convert it to USD to stash in the war chest.
aren't the serial numbers of all their inventory known? and cannot be used or activated without calling home to iTunes?
seems simple enough to blacklist the missing merch and wait till complaints come in from "boot sale" suckers. Follow it back to who sold them and Bob's yer uncle.
I love games. I love the Wii. Wife still plays it more than I do. I've 4 different Nintendo home consoles (NES, Super Nintendo, Game Cube, and Wii) and every version of their portables from the original DS up to the 3DSXL.
But I wasn't interested in any of the latest gen consoles, much less the U.
Why pay such a premium for such little improvement? Or the biggest killer of all: No ultimate must have butt kicking games that would make me want to spend a ton of money for a new system,
I bought the wife a 3DS instead last month, and have had a Nvidia Shield for myself for almost a year. We're just not spending that much time in front of the TV playing games anymore.
So basically, if Nintendo can't interest a family of Nintendo Reservation members in the U, I suspect they aren't going to interest new blood either. Hell, I was ready to abandon Nintendo's mobile platform but the wife really wants her latest Cooking and Camping Mama games.
take your 360 camera/sensor view. compress the image horizontally, more so at the edges than center of view. Now with some training and practice, your gunner can see movement behind him and head track to ascertain threat. If targetting is handled by computer, all the gunner needs to do is be aware of targets and give fire or ignore orders to those targets, handling multiple threats simultaneously.
I'm thinking Pournelle's Hammer's Slammers series did it first/best.
its a question of convenience or "what you need"
My problem is, the DSLR (well, micro 4/3rds) is only awesome after I spend a f**kton on extra lenses. Any kit lenses are insufficient, as is any budget flash.
To get adequate range out of any higher end dedicated camera and the satisfaction of getting seriously excellent photos, you need more attachments. Like the bazooka lens in the article.
Cell phones might catch up to a really good point-and-shoot really soon, which is what most of us want. It's when you're getting artsy-f@rtsy that I need the goodies.
Like land speed records, the horsepower to go the first 120 isn't that hard. it's each 10 mph after that. It takes almost takes more money per mph after 200 than it took to get to 200.
is it still being a patent troll if you patent fantasies, never build actual hardware on those patents and are one of a few huge Silicon Valley tech companies who paid for their politicians already and got some nice "no competition" clauses secretly in place with all the big players?
Or is that only reserved for the smaller companies who do it?
I think I see how it works, as long as you have at least one (perceived) valuable product released, everything else is kosher. Even if the patents have nothing to do with your one release.
Or is buying patents and locking them up never to be used the difference?
these came out when I was working my first real job after high school graduation. sadly, minimum wage didn't cover rent and one of these. My stepsister already had one at six years old though. Being #1 son and not in an Asian family sucked LOL
By the time I was making enough to get one, the GB Color was out. And rumors of better systems.
First new handheld I bought was the original DS. then started the "if you wanna play the new game you need the new system" carousel. Which worked at first by me handing down everything after the DSLite to my girlfriend-now-wife until I got the nvidia shield....and her a new 3DSXL since all the new games she wanted would not work on the DSiXL :(
space is engineering - it either works or it does not. if the politicos or spinmasters screw things up, the results are catastrophic.
fighter jets (or electric cars) are about politics and marketing. How well they work is a question of what the public is told, and who benefits from their success or failure.
getting to the moon is getting to the moon, regardless of spin. Like getting to orbit and delivering a payload, vs selling a car. SpaceX vs Tesla.
since when is a complex model, in which EVERY experimental result was nowhere near predicted results, so the complex mode is modified to match experimental observation, considered "reproducable"?
real science is not making observation match hypothesis. Review the scientific method again if you've forgotten. Nowhere does it say "play up for government grant money" or "if it doesn't work, do it until it does".
...for the purpose of this article, "most Americans", don't understand economics either.
But for our foreign counterparts, realize that most surveys are either voluntary, filled out by people whose job it is to fill out surveys, or people who are always home during the business hours in which productive citizenry is either commuting or at work.
sure it's real pretty, but will it crash and burn? is there enough tail authority with the vertical stabs to handle any sort of off center thrust, wind shear, or to correct spin on launch, especially at altitude? If this goes into a flat spin any time after thrust cutoff, can it recover?
Or will it fall mostly flat like PARIS with the glide slope of a whale and a pot of petunias?
The art of flying means actually going forward farther than going down. it's really the landing where you throw yourself at the ground and try to miss most of the impact.
yes, because laws take away the ability of one side to defend itself.
Slavery was legal in your nation and mine. The lack of deaths due to the slaves being unable to reach parity of force with the slave owners was NOT a good thing.
People are so hung up on "peace" and lower statistics that they never bother to realize that the numbers may not be a good truth. A genocide of unarmed people has less body count than one where the other side fights back, and "peace" when all other diversity of belief and opinion has been violently erased, is not a noble ideal.
On the cattle and sheep ranch, there is peace. the horns are removed and one side puts the other to the pneumatic hammer.
this automatic belief that possession of a firearm equals "shooting somebody who appears to be threatening me".
That may be YOUR problem and why YOU should never possess a firearm. But to project that failure of character on everyone else, is rather arrogant of you.
I've been possessing BB guns and firearms since I was 9 years old. Legally carried a concealed weapon for 5 of those years. That still adds up to (next month) 34 years of not shooting ANYBODY regardless of perceived threat status.
Hell, I've only killed two three birds (defending the family pie cherry tree) and one deer (I claimed the kill but Dad fired the same time I did) in all that time.
Interestingly enough, other than the amount of game meat downed, I am NOT unique among firearm owners.
Your fantasies of violence that seem to only be curtailed by the lack of a means to realize them, should be addressed. You might find a firearm someday.
I wish we'd call a spade, a spade.
People get all bent about companies like HP "bribing" officials in Mexico or elsewhere, but here we change the name to "lobbying" and pretend it's somehow different.
A rose by any other name, etcetera. Except our example stinks.
that assumes the staff and all the other expenses are not being utilized by other programs, which I suspect they are. R&D teams are not solely working on Glass but are both working off of other projects before them as well as producing advances that are monetized in other products.
If Google were a small company that was trying to develop HUDs only, then I'd agree with your example completely. But I'd bet my last dollar and yours that advances made by the Glass team are incorporated in other products that already profit and help subsidize the whole thing.
Not like there's that much Google funded development going on that isn't also leveraged elsewhere. Charging people for the privilege to develop the "killer app" and provide the majority of both content and advertising, and at an obscene premium, is the business model all in itself.
It'd be like begging for a chance to pay $1500 USD for a Newton, and waiting for someone in the "user community" to attempt the handwriting recognition software.
and nothing to do but buy elections. And force a city to host his boat race.
I wish Ellison would get into powerboating. Or something like that "rocket racing league" that Xcor wanted to start up.
Something where "buying the fastest there is" is still no guarantee of success, because the field is still trying to find out what "fastest" is. Technology pushed in the sailing regime that had any use outside of billionaire boys' club projects already worked its way into industry years ago.
how many of you regularly wear your bluetooth headset/headphones for hours of the day? Seems even with market penetration that wearables only fantasize about, most people still prefer some sort of speakerphone arrangement.
the killer app will be some method of presenting visual data to the user without a headset, a "visual speakerphone" of sorts. Something all contained in the phone itself and no extra hardware.
damn, that's just vague enough to get by the US patent system, if I was an already rich company. I'll draw pictures and spit the revenues 50/50 to the first person who wants to finance this and play the patent troll game :P
four whole days? Why back when I was a youth we'd have done this in two, with nothing more than some store shelf gelatin and some back copies of "2600"...
But even back then, just like now, people still believe things are "secure" even when the press is open about the problems. Just like locks, only the honest crooks are deterred.
Complacency is the second biggest security threat, next only to the criminal element itself. Never assume you're smarter or "better" than the thieves. The moment you do that, you're only defense is not being a juicy enough fruit to pick. Though with modern bot harvesting methods, simply being on the tree is enough to get nailed for a pittance (to scale) these days.
BC prices have been increasing steadily all week. Barely dropped below the "magic $500 barrier" for a couple days and then back on the rise with no rhyme or reason.
Seems even fishier as the worse the news gets, the higher the price goes. If this worked anywhere else, Enron would be the most valuable shares in the world's history right now.
once again, proof that it IS rocket science, and kinda hard.
Now El Reg SPB can't laugh AT SpaceX, they can only laugh WITH them.
Blown fuse, leaky thrusters-the devil is in the details.
So when do glide tests/ground launches of the airframe start? Gotta make sure it actually flies and can stabilize under boost...don't want it spinning or rolling like the SS1 tried to do.