The delay is rather a bummer. For the amount of money being put into this they could do terrestrial fiber or some other low fast solution rather than satellite.

Is this really a problem or just a ruse to have more regulation?

Consider that most 'drones' are very tiny light weight items more akin to a good old fashion toy R/C model airplane than what people think of as 'DRONES' as in war planes. When a real drone gets hit by a full size airplane, such as the 767 mentioned in the article, the real drone is destroyed and the 767 will not even notice the gnat with the possible exception being if a big drone went through the engine which would possibly cause damage but be unlikely to disable the large aircraft.

Birds, the organic things that flap their wings, are a far greater hazard to aircraft.

This leads to the conclusion that this report is more about justifying more restrictions on 'drones' than anything else. This is more about fees and control by government agencies than about safety.

I would suggest going with Swift.

The problem is not so much learning the language. You need to learn how to solve certain types of problems and there is a lot of background knowledge you will need. You also need a way of thinking, the Tao of the Programmer.

My biggest suggestion is that you do not sit around or even shop around looking for 'gigs' but rather start creating stuff.

Good luck.

The old systems work. The electronic system is too prone to failure and abuse. Paper or pottery shards.

The numbers are actually adjusted for spammers because 90% of the email addresses and blog commenters are spammers, are spammers, are spammers, are spammers...*whack*...

Eggs are one of the most perfect foods. Eggs are something anyone can produce in their own home with a chicken, or better yet, in their yard. Feed it scraps and you get free eggs. We keep about 300 chickens out on pasture. We don't have to buy any feed for them because they eat insects and other pests. The result is we get tens of thousands of nearly free eggs which are rich in protein, healthy fats and other nutrients. Corporations can't improve on eggs - they're just jealous because they can't make enough money on eggs. Accept no substitutes.

Yes, blame America!
How politically correct!
Hate the creators.
Losers.

The EU thinks too much of themselves. Google is not an EU company. The EU doesn't have any control over Google. If the EU doesn't watch out Google may buy the EU and put them down, discontinuing them in an end of life product cycle as they've done with some other annoying things. Bugs get squashed.

I would like the temperature raised by 10ÂF. That would be most pleasant. Oh, wait, we're already making significant progress on that! Bravo! I like.

(If you want to complain about warming please move to Vermont or Maine, or any other northern region this time of year. We'll show you why warming is such a great idea!)

Agents work in the entertainment industry because the talent is switching between gigs frequently so they need someone keeping work lined up for them.

As an employer: In the programming industry a programmer with an agent would be a big "DO NOT HIRE" flag to me because it tells me this programmer is not stable.

As a programmer: I would see an agent as a leach that is siphoning off a percent of my income with no benefit to me. Call it the stupid tax.

When you demand a citation try just Googling. It's faster and right there at your finger tips. It's there even if you're not lazy. I would not want to take the joy of learning and exploration away from you nor encourage your lazy tendencies so consider finding the citations as an exercise for your mind and path to self-improvement.

This is the goal. That will provide the platform, the OS so to speak, for then overlaying the data set which is the user's personality allowing us to transfer ourselves from a dying human organic body to a immortal machine body.

I should say immortal with the slight qualifier of, "until the manufacturers obsolescent you and fail to offer a forward path for your legacy data set." Bummer dude. You're out of date.

This is not a real problem.
Demand goes up.
Supply doesn't match demand.
Prices go up.
Demand adjusts downward to meet prices.
Simple market corrections.
This is not a real problem.

This reminds me of the cases where they used Curare for anesthesia. Turns out all it was doing was paralyzing the motor systems so the still fully conscious patients couldn't scream or otherwise react as the surgeons operated.

Might be a good idea to ask the octopuses afterwards if they remember from during the anesthetized time period. This can be done and would find out if they're really out cold or if they're just locked in.

What you see as random I see deeper causes. It is really not random. There are probability curves, but it's still not random.