Does the mechanic disconnect the battery? I bet that would reset the trip. Perhaps some of the diagnostics also reset it. I use the trip to track how far I've gone on the current tank of gas, so it's not _totally_ useless. You'd also hate the Nissan X-Trail (at least in the configuration I rented down here). It resets the trip every time you turn it off!
Can't you just put $25 from your checking account in savings and use the credit card to buy groceries? I hate the MIR dance as much as anyone does, but you win if you get the rebate.
It would be interesting to see if you preferentially dropped the letters that are typed by your non-writing hand. Perhaps your brain is assuming that the other hand will supply those letters, but you're only writing with one.
My funny writing story is that when I took the GRE, they made us write a statement in cursive. I hadn't written anything in cursive since middle school at least, so I ended up having to ask the proctor how to form certain letters. She mentioned, while rolling her eyes, that it was a fairly common request. I have no idea what use it could possibly be to ETS. I heard that they use it as a handwriting sample to ensure that you are who you say you are, but I doubt I could have matched it if approached later.
I found that the Sprint voicemail menu has an option to turn off the instructions for your phone. It's pretty easy to do, but not an obvious feature. Perhaps if all of us geeks did it, people would notice and ask how to do it too.
This is for the Roadster, but I'd guess that the Model S has similar or greater battery life:
We limit how fast this aging and loss of range happens by working very hard to select the best cells, design the best cooling systems, and carefully manage charge states. By doing all of this we expect more than 100,000 miles of driving range and more than five years of useful life.
Yes! Tampa is so much better than Orlando. Hopefully, I'll never have to go back to Florida ever again, but while we were there, it was the go-to airport. Cheaper than JAX, not busy at all, no stupid vacationing families.
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Yes, but that's just to be polite. He doesn't have to, which protected him from Coolio when he proceeded with 'Amish Paradise' even though Coolio claimed that he had not granted permission for the parody.
Which is weird, because I would think that having a deadly disease come from pigs would lend credence to the claim that pigs are filthy animals and should be anathema.
But who said that religion had anything to do with logic...
I have seen precrimped cables for less than the cost of the bulk cable from the same retailer. I'd still have had to buy the ends and pay myself to have done it myself.
I think it's handy to have the tools, ends, and knowhow to crimp your own, but it's too much of a pain in the ass, and in many cases just not economically viable to do it yourself.
Okay, I'm interested. Does it present a list of remote machines or do I have to come up with one? I never liked the idea of US-only stuff, but now that I live in Chile it's affecting me directly. Stupid media companies. Thanks!
Check out ICF (insulating concrete forms) construction. You can have a house that's made out of poured concrete that looks pretty much like a "normal" house. Certain systems go up to R50 insulation value in the walls.
My wrt56g sucked so hard out of the box (5-10 seconds per domain lookup, and it happened _every time_ I loaded a page) that I put DD-WRT on it. I have always had it on the UPS, so I can't comment on any additional stability.
DD-WRT is awesome. It fixed my router and made it better than it was before!
Dogs are somewhat omnivorous--good dog food should have some vegetable matter as well as meat. Cats, on the other hand are obligate carnivores and require an all-meat diet. Smack people who try to feed cats veggie diets. If you're so worried about killing animals for food, don't get a carnivore as a companion.
I started making food for my cat after the melamine scare in pet food. Ground chicken, liver, and a supplement mix from felinefuture. He was 7 at the time of the switch and he started acting like he was 3 or 4. Awesome.
Well, that's an interesting question - but I know I'm not an exception merely by the make-up of my department.
When I first came here, 60% of the 30 graduate students were women, which was pretty impressive for a hard-science (astrophysics, actually). However, out of 10 postdocs (the immediate "next step" in the career path after earning a Ph.D.) only 1 was a women. As far as the faculty went, out of 20 active professesors only 2 were women. Then, in the last 7 years, we've hired 6 new tenure-track faculty, ALL have been men and ALL have finished their Ph.D. in the last 12 years. Can you honestly tell me that not a single women was qualified for any of those positions? These are not senior faculty spots - so the complete absence of women in the field 30 - 40 years ago makes absolutely no dfference.
All of the very driven (male) young faculty have now decided to be "more selective" when it comest to admitting graduate students. One outcome was to place more emphasis on the physics GRE, even though study after study has pretty much said that success in graduate school in astrophysics is not correlated at all to Physics GRE score (the exception is theoretical astrophysics - there is a slight correlation there. Note that my department does not focus on theoretical astrophysics) The result - in the last three years, out of 15 new graduate students, we've admitted only three women. In this case, "selective" seems to have meant "male". Honestly, as a senior student who works closely with many of these guys, I don't see a huge difference in intelligence.
The only ray of hope is that we now have more postdocs in general and more of them are women, but if the percentages between students and postdocs are finally balancing out it's because we admit fewer female students!
This isn't just at my institution, there have been all sorts of investigations about whether this "leaky pipeline" is a real effect. The answers aren't particularly clear, mostly because women are reported to leave over "other reasons". I want to know what those "other reasons" are. Is it like MIT, where the female scientists had notably smaller offices, were offered fewer resources and made less money? Is it because women have to exist on soft money for so long after watching plum tenure track jobs go to their male colleagues again and again? Is it the poor timing of a career in science - that grad school, a post-doc, and assitant professorships can leave a woman in her early 40s with no kids?
In the end, what I know is that if one of the seven hires HAD to be female, we'd probably now have a very driven, talented woman faculty member. At the top, the actual difference between the people they hire and the people they don't hire is miniscule and my point in the original post was that "other factors" come into play. One of those is whether the current faculty believe you will succeed enough in the long run to be worth a tenured position and I really believe that being in the "boys club" is going to give you a leg up.
This is Mrs. Carnivore here - well actually, not, I kept my name, but you get the point:) My husband pointed this article out to me and thought I could comment. I'm about one week away from getting my Ph.D. in a hard-science field and you know what, I'm all for some kind of quota. Sorry to say it, but science is still a boys club. Do you know where most of the best science ideas develop? At a conference, in the hotel bar, following a long day of talks, over a round of drinks and a cigar, either before or after the dirty jokes and futbol/football discussions. I happen to be an occassional cigar smoker, love my scotch, and appreciate the finer points of most sports - I have survived OK. However, for as much experience and respect as I've earned from being "one of the boys", I know that if a male scientist in my subfield comes along, he could easily become the new go-to "guy" for my area of expertise and his name (not mine) will be on the papers. I also know that younger (usually cocky) male scientists in my group will go to other male scientists with their questions even though I am more expert. The point is, unless I fight to place myself "in the loop" I find myself standing on the outside of major science discussions and projects. I don't think it's malicious - it's just easier for gusy to go to their "drinking buddies". Not to mention that some men in science are just walking disasters when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex to begin with.
I think it is true that once you make it in the field, MOST male scientists would never give a thought to your gender. The problem is getting the foot in the door. And at the end of the day when Dr. Joe Blow sitting on a faculty selection committee interviews Dr. XY and sees himself, 25 years younger and then interviews Dr. XX and sees a slightly different animal, who do you think he'll hire? Faculty members are long term investments; if both candidates are of equal competence, Dr. Joe Blow's job is to hire the one HE FEELS is the MOST LIKELY to succeed - ADVANTAGE Dr. XY. If Dr. Joe is forced to overrule this very real and subconcious bias toward what he sees as a "sure" bet, we might finally see some change. Otherwise, its turtles all the way down (i.e. more of the same).
Will some male scientists bash their female colleagues over the head with quotas if we institute them? Sure. And you know what, they are the SAME ONES that don't think we belong in science NOW. Most male scientists will judge as they always have - by the quality of the results, quantity of refereed papers, and general sharpness. And honestly, there are plenty of corrupt and incompentent male scientists - no matter what, you end up with a few duds. I'd rather have more gender balance and risk a few female counterparts to the male idiots that are already around (and who by the way ARE found out and generally ignored) then continue to exclude ~ 50% of the brain power available in our population. And honestly, at least in my field, with so many few jobs and so many qualified people, my guess is that you could easily find several very competent women to fill the spots.
Professors tend to have gone to school when textbooks were much more reasonable in cost. One of my physics professors was shocked when we told him that the book he had picked was $110. He said that he had paid ~$10 for books when he was in college.
It turns out that the publishers just send a lot of books to the professors without telling them how much they cost. The naive ones don't check and the students get screwed.
It seems to me that the only justification for such high prices is the limited print runs that textbooks get compared to mass-marked fiction. If we went to all-digital distribution, costs should be able to be slashed and the "change one sentence and it's a new edition" thing goes away.
Yeah, this drive tray scam is all over now. IBM and Gateway do it. I'm very happy with the Promise Vtrak units that come with all of the trays. The other guys give you the line that they only use "approved" drives. Drives that are approved by sales to make them a metric shit ton of cash.
Well, most cars will be officially totaled if the airbags go off. In a car with head curtain airbags, the replacement cost is too much to justify fixing the car, even if there's little other damage.
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Does the mechanic disconnect the battery? I bet that would reset the trip. Perhaps some of the diagnostics also reset it. I use the trip to track how far I've gone on the current tank of gas, so it's not _totally_ useless. You'd also hate the Nissan X-Trail (at least in the configuration I rented down here). It resets the trip every time you turn it off!
I run SuSE 11.1 64-bit, and it does. Perhaps they changed something for the 11.x release?
Can't you just put $25 from your checking account in savings and use the credit card to buy groceries? I hate the MIR dance as much as anyone does, but you win if you get the rebate.
It would be interesting to see if you preferentially dropped the letters that are typed by your non-writing hand. Perhaps your brain is assuming that the other hand will supply those letters, but you're only writing with one.
My funny writing story is that when I took the GRE, they made us write a statement in cursive. I hadn't written anything in cursive since middle school at least, so I ended up having to ask the proctor how to form certain letters. She mentioned, while rolling her eyes, that it was a fairly common request. I have no idea what use it could possibly be to ETS. I heard that they use it as a handwriting sample to ensure that you are who you say you are, but I doubt I could have matched it if approached later.
I found that the Sprint voicemail menu has an option to turn off the instructions for your phone. It's pretty easy to do, but not an obvious feature. Perhaps if all of us geeks did it, people would notice and ask how to do it too.
This is for the Roadster, but I'd guess that the Model S has similar or greater battery life:
We limit how fast this aging and loss of range happens by working very hard to select the best cells, design the best cooling systems, and carefully manage charge states. By doing all of this we expect more than 100,000 miles of driving range and more than five years of useful life.
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Yes! Tampa is so much better than Orlando. Hopefully, I'll never have to go back to Florida ever again, but while we were there, it was the go-to airport. Cheaper than JAX, not busy at all, no stupid vacationing families.
This may not be of immediate help, but there was a hacked firmware for certain Canon P&S cameras that allowed you to save the raw image.
Here's the first article I found about it:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Supercharge_Your_Camera_with_Open-Source_CHDK_Firmware#How_To_Use_It
Note: I have not used this and cannot vouch for it.
Good luck!
Yes, but that's just to be polite. He doesn't have to, which protected him from Coolio when he proceeded with 'Amish Paradise' even though Coolio claimed that he had not granted permission for the parody.
Which is weird, because I would think that having a deadly disease come from pigs would lend credence to the claim that pigs are filthy animals and should be anathema.
But who said that religion had anything to do with logic...
Many video cards have S-Video ports. If you need it, you can get an S-Video to composite adapter.
If the TV is really that large, it's likely to have at least one S-Video port.
I have seen precrimped cables for less than the cost of the bulk cable from the same retailer. I'd still have had to buy the ends and pay myself to have done it myself.
I think it's handy to have the tools, ends, and knowhow to crimp your own, but it's too much of a pain in the ass, and in many cases just not economically viable to do it yourself.
A Tesla wouldn't be affordable even if it wasn't electric. It's a Lotus Elise with the engine replaced.
In addition to the parent to my post, this isn't true. According to this post the two share few parts, such as the windshield and the softtop.
Okay, I'm interested.
Does it present a list of remote machines or do I have to come up with one? I never liked the idea of US-only stuff, but now that I live in Chile it's affecting me directly. Stupid media companies.
Thanks!
Check out ICF (insulating concrete forms) construction. You can have a house that's made out of poured concrete that looks pretty much like a "normal" house. Certain systems go up to R50 insulation value in the walls.
My wrt56g sucked so hard out of the box (5-10 seconds per domain lookup, and it happened _every time_ I loaded a page) that I put DD-WRT on it. I have always had it on the UPS, so I can't comment on any additional stability.
DD-WRT is awesome. It fixed my router and made it better than it was before!
That sucks. Here in Chile, it's all sugar.
That's true, but how many people on Slashdot, especially the upgrade-happy mac fans, only have one computer? My wife and I have five:
Any one of those other four would be fine for troubleshooting the problem.
Dogs are somewhat omnivorous--good dog food should have some vegetable matter as well as meat. Cats, on the other hand are obligate carnivores and require an all-meat diet. Smack people who try to feed cats veggie diets. If you're so worried about killing animals for food, don't get a carnivore as a companion.
I started making food for my cat after the melamine scare in pet food. Ground chicken, liver, and a supplement mix from felinefuture. He was 7 at the time of the switch and he started acting like he was 3 or 4. Awesome.
They make a dog food mix, too.
This one is quite good, especially for rock climbing and hiking.
Well, that's an interesting question - but I know I'm not an exception merely by the make-up of my department.
When I first came here, 60% of the 30 graduate students were women, which was pretty impressive for a hard-science (astrophysics, actually). However, out of 10 postdocs (the immediate "next step" in the career path after earning a Ph.D.) only 1 was a women. As far as the faculty went, out of 20 active professesors only 2 were women. Then, in the last 7 years, we've hired 6 new tenure-track faculty, ALL have been men and ALL have finished their Ph.D. in the last 12 years. Can you honestly tell me that not a single women was qualified for any of those positions? These are not senior faculty spots - so the complete absence of women in the field 30 - 40 years ago makes absolutely no dfference.
All of the very driven (male) young faculty have now decided to be "more selective" when it comest to admitting graduate students. One outcome was to place more emphasis on the physics GRE, even though study after study has pretty much said that success in graduate school in astrophysics is not correlated at all to Physics GRE score (the exception is theoretical astrophysics - there is a slight correlation there. Note that my department does not focus on theoretical astrophysics) The result - in the last three years, out of 15 new graduate students, we've admitted only three women. In this case, "selective" seems to have meant "male". Honestly, as a senior student who works closely with many of these guys, I don't see a huge difference in intelligence.
The only ray of hope is that we now have more postdocs in general and more of them are women, but if the percentages between students and postdocs are finally balancing out it's because we admit fewer female students!
This isn't just at my institution, there have been all sorts of investigations about whether this "leaky pipeline" is a real effect. The answers aren't particularly clear, mostly because women are reported to leave over "other reasons". I want to know what those "other reasons" are. Is it like MIT, where the female scientists had notably smaller offices, were offered fewer resources and made less money? Is it because women have to exist on soft money for so long after watching plum tenure track jobs go to their male colleagues again and again? Is it the poor timing of a career in science - that grad school, a post-doc, and assitant professorships can leave a woman in her early 40s with no kids?
In the end, what I know is that if one of the seven hires HAD to be female, we'd probably now have a very driven, talented woman faculty member. At the top, the actual difference between the people they hire and the people they don't hire is miniscule and my point in the original post was that "other factors" come into play. One of those is whether the current faculty believe you will succeed enough in the long run to be worth a tenured position and I really believe that being in the "boys club" is going to give you a leg up.
This is Mrs. Carnivore here - well actually, not, I kept my name, but you get the point :) My husband pointed this article out to me and thought I could comment. I'm about one week away from getting my Ph.D. in a hard-science field and you know what, I'm all for some kind of quota. Sorry to say it, but science is still a boys club. Do you know where most of the best science ideas develop? At a conference, in the hotel bar, following a long day of talks, over a round of drinks and a cigar, either before or after the dirty jokes and futbol/football discussions. I happen to be an occassional cigar smoker, love my scotch, and appreciate the finer points of most sports - I have survived OK. However, for as much experience and respect as I've earned from being "one of the boys", I know that if a male scientist in my subfield comes along, he could easily become the new go-to "guy" for my area of expertise and his name (not mine) will be on the papers. I also know that younger (usually cocky) male scientists in my group will go to other male scientists with their questions even though I am more expert. The point is, unless I fight to place myself "in the loop" I find myself standing on the outside of major science discussions and projects. I don't think it's malicious - it's just easier for gusy to go to their "drinking buddies". Not to mention that some men in science are just walking disasters when it comes to interacting with the opposite sex to begin with.
I think it is true that once you make it in the field, MOST male scientists would never give a thought to your gender. The problem is getting the foot in the door. And at the end of the day when Dr. Joe Blow sitting on a faculty selection committee interviews Dr. XY and sees himself, 25 years younger and then interviews Dr. XX and sees a slightly different animal, who do you think he'll hire? Faculty members are long term investments; if both candidates are of equal competence, Dr. Joe Blow's job is to hire the one HE FEELS is the MOST LIKELY to succeed - ADVANTAGE Dr. XY. If Dr. Joe is forced to overrule this very real and subconcious bias toward what he sees as a "sure" bet, we might finally see some change. Otherwise, its turtles all the way down (i.e. more of the same).
Will some male scientists bash their female colleagues over the head with quotas if we institute them? Sure. And you know what, they are the SAME ONES that don't think we belong in science NOW. Most male scientists will judge as they always have - by the quality of the results, quantity of refereed papers, and general sharpness. And honestly, there are plenty of corrupt and incompentent male scientists - no matter what, you end up with a few duds. I'd rather have more gender balance and risk a few female counterparts to the male idiots that are already around (and who by the way ARE found out and generally ignored) then continue to exclude ~ 50% of the brain power available in our population. And honestly, at least in my field, with so many few jobs and so many qualified people, my guess is that you could easily find several very competent women to fill the spots.
Professors tend to have gone to school when textbooks were much more reasonable in cost. One of my physics professors was shocked when we told him that the book he had picked was $110. He said that he had paid ~$10 for books when he was in college.
It turns out that the publishers just send a lot of books to the professors without telling them how much they cost. The naive ones don't check and the students get screwed.
It seems to me that the only justification for such high prices is the limited print runs that textbooks get compared to mass-marked fiction. If we went to all-digital distribution, costs should be able to be slashed and the "change one sentence and it's a new edition" thing goes away.
Yeah, this drive tray scam is all over now. IBM and Gateway do it. I'm very happy with the Promise Vtrak units that come with all of the trays. The other guys give you the line that they only use "approved" drives. Drives that are approved by sales to make them a metric shit ton of cash.
Well, most cars will be officially totaled if the airbags go off. In a car with head curtain airbags, the replacement cost is too much to justify fixing the car, even if there's little other damage.