Well I think the extra clumsy ness of an external numeric pad, isn't really that huge. I use to bring an external keyboard around with my laptop all the time without much issues. The Apple Keyboards are actually nice to type on and they are very thin so they can fit in your bag. The external numeric pads I have seen seem to fit well in a laptop case as well. I think this author is posting because he really wants to keep his desktop but his boss is pushing a laptop. So he is trying to confirm that he cannot do his job without the desktop.
We really need to stop giving Greenpeace press. They just make things worse. I am for more environmental conscious companies. However Greenpeace with its lies and over exaggerations, make it seem companies who are trying to do the right thing are doing nearly enough, or give estimates that a company knows it cannot meet, so may just scrap the whole idea. or because they are being called the environmental bad guys even when they did the good thing, they will not try to improve their press relations much on that topic.
I don't see this as less eye candy, but just a change in style. In terms of User Interfaces you have an Uncanny Valley type effect going on. you can only make it seem to life like until people start to react negatively to it. Microsoft with on Vista and Windows 7 probably reached that limit. So in the new UI, they are cutting back and making things more abstract. But if you pay careful attention in windows 8 you can see a lot of eye candy going on, I had installed the Customer Preview there are a lot of effects going on but they are not designed to be as showy as before, but seem to have more of purpose.
There isn't much of a demand. That is why. When Americans hear diesel we think Puffs of fowl smelling smoke, the loud rumble of the engine, and having to plug your car in during the winter.
Unless we solve the problems of... 1. Range 2. Recharge Time 3. Getting the Grid to handle all the cars. 4. How do we generate all that electricity to do so.
Range and Recharge time. is the biggest issue for me. I travel 30 miles to work and 30 miles back. That is 60 miles. Most electric cars are pushing 100 miles, but that is the ideal range... what is the range going up a mountain? What if the batteries after 8 years are not optimal... Next my parents live 800 miles away. Say I have an electric car that can do 500 miles per run. I drive mostly there, however I need to recharge. Can I recharge in 5-10 minutes or will I need to spend the night charging my car.
I do not have the money for a car to drive to work and a car to drive longer ranges.
So we will still need chemical powered cars, until these issues are fixed. I am happy to see that they are getting a lot more fuel efficient. That is a good sign, because electric cars are not going to solve all the problems.
Well with normal diesel cars, we don't hear about problems like that. For most of these issues, is is more about the gearing then how the fuel spins the cylinders.
Yes the low labor cost debate... However the United States is much better as improving efficiency in the process. So one worker can do the work of many low wage workers. Now if China is selling things below cost then that is bigger issue, because then we are producing optimally, however the Chinese government is producing sub-optimally, in an attempt to monopolize the market.
While Labor cost is a big expense, it isn't the only one, and isn't normally the key factor. We are seeing a lot of In sourcing happening in the market right now. As they found out that this cheap labor is not cheap labor+the high efficiency that they were expecting, but cheap labor and low efficiency, which isn't saving them a lot.
The full Free Market has Huge ups and downs (Where the ups are excellent, and the downs are horrible). Now over our history we have put different amounts of regulations, Regulations tend to limit the Ups and Downs and stabilize the markets, so there is less extremes allows a stable predictable market and everyone is happy... however they are less happy during the upswing (and demand for more free market, which in turn creates a heavier down swing). Now too much regulation will keep everything at a statuesque. And this will hinder a lot of innovation, and new markets from emerging, so in time the economy will degrade as it isn't adaptable enough. There is a careful balance that is needed for the optimal balance. It is like trying to hold the most amount of water in your hand. If you grasp too tightly you squeeze all the water out, if you let you hand be flat the water will then just rush out, you need to cup your hand enough for the optimal amount of water to stay.
However unlike grasping you hand where you can find the optimal range with some basic calculous, the economy isn't so predictable, so you need touchy freely work to get it right, and after you get it right it will change on you so you need to try again. The Lazy Political Motivated peole like to go to extreams of saying No Government or all government, so we just don't need to keep trying. However to stay optimal we always need to keep trying and going back and forth, with no end in sight.
How does knowledge of engineering and science change your views on the level of involvement government should have in a country?
You could argue that the engineers and scientists who support more liberal politics do so because they get paid fat government grants to do their work.
I consider myself a moderate with a little bit of right leaning. I don't really care for the Tea Party I see them as too extreme for my taste. However as someone with significant Science and Engineering training and experience. These disciplines really don't push my political beliefs.
Unless I am going deal with the issues that the real nuts care about such as Evolution (which I hold as the most solid theory) or Global Warming (which does exists and is caused by man) Where my training will form my opinions. However the Argument on how much of a roll Government should have is outside the study of Science and Engineering.
Well the real question on how much is actually "Monkey Work". I found with out source a lot of time, I give them specification like. Create a form with these fields and place them the database table x which is already created... 4 days later, I found out they they haven't created the form or placed the data in the table. Because they decided to take the time to research how to code in C#.NET because I never told them what language to do it in.
Outsource Labor (International) only really works well for data entry.
If you hire US consultants and contractors to do the work by demand, then you get a different story. These guys want return business, so they will will work hard to make sure they do a good job, and think for themselves.
When you say Monkey Work you really get Money Work, anything that requires abstract thought just will not get done.
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea. They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you. -- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of
Lisa Simpson"
Rule #1. Never post anything about yourself, that you don't want your employer or future to know.
Even if it has good privacy issues, and you only share with your friends. It could happen that your Friend becomes a future employer. And he may have changed in the last 10 years but you haven't.
There is a really popular product out there, the big company comes in much to late in the game, offers a product that isn't that much better, and not much cheaper. In hopes that you big name will oust the already well known name.
Well being that we don't have any good theoretical models to stop said asteroids, it is difficult for the market to invest into a defense. It would be like spending billions of dollars to paint a No-Asteroid sign on the United states (Europe and Asia, or Africa might make it bigger), In hope the asteroid will see the sign and decide to not hit the planet.
Well the odds are in our favor that it will hit the ocean... However. If it is a big enough one, it won't help much. And extincion level asteroid well see the ocean as a small film of water. It would be like pouring water over your body to try to stop a bullet.
Well the submitter never stated that he called his ISP and complained/ask for technical support. There could just be a misconfiguration, or a bad piece of equipment. Or your contract had your 3mbs split across other customers. After you call, the problem may be resolved. Also I wouldn't discredit that it could be the submitters fault. I live in a similar area and I can pickup WiFi signals from locations a mile away, with just a standard Think Pad. The submitter may be assuming because he lives so far out his WiFi doesn't need to be secured. Perhaps he has other Internet appliances that do work at that time. Just because you are a techy it doesn't mean you are infallible.
Ok Mr. Sonne, Role you hobby check. [Roles the dice] It lands on a one! Well because you roll a one your chemistry project got the authorities attention, and you did this right during the G-20. You are now in jail... Roll 2d6 to see how many years you are in jail before your court. [Roles the dice] it lands on a 6 and a 5. Ohhh Snap! 11 years, that sucks dude. Ok you now in court you better roll well you need to beet a 15 to get let out. [Roles a D20] It lands on 20! Well you got off with no charges! Because you land on a 20 you can try to counter sue do you want to do that...
Our Canadian Friends to the North are more in common with the United States Culturally then you would like to believe. And it isn't as much from the U.S. Forcing them the Canadians take pride in their differences, as do the Americans.
Both of our Justice Systems are Modeled of the English system. So it isn't to far to expect that the way we handle justice isn't that different.
For the most part if the site is blocked and you need access to it, you can normally request access and the organization will unblock the site.
There are other sites such as eHow can answer some "Dirty Questions".
If you could think back to when you were an adolescent kid, you could get find erotic (to you) material, from non-porn areas.
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Well I think the extra clumsy ness of an external numeric pad, isn't really that huge. I use to bring an external keyboard around with my laptop all the time without much issues. The Apple Keyboards are actually nice to type on and they are very thin so they can fit in your bag. The external numeric pads I have seen seem to fit well in a laptop case as well. I think this author is posting because he really wants to keep his desktop but his boss is pushing a laptop. So he is trying to confirm that he cannot do his job without the desktop.
We really need to stop giving Greenpeace press. They just make things worse.
I am for more environmental conscious companies. However Greenpeace with its lies and over exaggerations, make it seem companies who are trying to do the right thing are doing nearly enough, or give estimates that a company knows it cannot meet, so may just scrap the whole idea. or because they are being called the environmental bad guys even when they did the good thing, they will not try to improve their press relations much on that topic.
I don't see this as less eye candy, but just a change in style. In terms of User Interfaces you have an Uncanny Valley type effect going on. you can only make it seem to life like until people start to react negatively to it. Microsoft with on Vista and Windows 7 probably reached that limit. So in the new UI, they are cutting back and making things more abstract.
But if you pay careful attention in windows 8 you can see a lot of eye candy going on, I had installed the Customer Preview there are a lot of effects going on but they are not designed to be as showy as before, but seem to have more of purpose.
I hope investors have learned their lessons about investing into bubbles. I much rather see a consistent growth in tech companies then a bubble.
I liked the idea of Wine in space above many of the other experiment that made it to the mission. (I bet many of the Astronauts would like it too)
There isn't much of a demand. That is why.
When Americans hear diesel we think Puffs of fowl smelling smoke, the loud rumble of the engine, and having to plug your car in during the winter.
They are going to hit it with a rock.
No I don't see all electric in 20 years.
Unless we solve the problems of...
1. Range
2. Recharge Time
3. Getting the Grid to handle all the cars.
4. How do we generate all that electricity to do so.
Range and Recharge time. is the biggest issue for me. I travel 30 miles to work and 30 miles back. That is 60 miles. Most electric cars are pushing 100 miles, but that is the ideal range... what is the range going up a mountain? What if the batteries after 8 years are not optimal...
Next my parents live 800 miles away. Say I have an electric car that can do 500 miles per run. I drive mostly there, however I need to recharge. Can I recharge in 5-10 minutes or will I need to spend the night charging my car.
I do not have the money for a car to drive to work and a car to drive longer ranges.
So we will still need chemical powered cars, until these issues are fixed. I am happy to see that they are getting a lot more fuel efficient. That is a good sign, because electric cars are not going to solve all the problems.
Well with normal diesel cars, we don't hear about problems like that. For most of these issues, is is more about the gearing then how the fuel spins the cylinders.
Yes the low labor cost debate...
However the United States is much better as improving efficiency in the process. So one worker can do the work of many low wage workers. Now if China is selling things below cost then that is bigger issue, because then we are producing optimally, however the Chinese government is producing sub-optimally, in an attempt to monopolize the market.
While Labor cost is a big expense, it isn't the only one, and isn't normally the key factor. We are seeing a lot of In sourcing happening in the market right now. As they found out that this cheap labor is not cheap labor+the high efficiency that they were expecting, but cheap labor and low efficiency, which isn't saving them a lot.
The full Free Market has Huge ups and downs (Where the ups are excellent, and the downs are horrible). Now over our history we have put different amounts of regulations, Regulations tend to limit the Ups and Downs and stabilize the markets, so there is less extremes allows a stable predictable market and everyone is happy... however they are less happy during the upswing (and demand for more free market, which in turn creates a heavier down swing). Now too much regulation will keep everything at a statuesque. And this will hinder a lot of innovation, and new markets from emerging, so in time the economy will degrade as it isn't adaptable enough.
There is a careful balance that is needed for the optimal balance. It is like trying to hold the most amount of water in your hand. If you grasp too tightly you squeeze all the water out, if you let you hand be flat the water will then just rush out, you need to cup your hand enough for the optimal amount of water to stay.
However unlike grasping you hand where you can find the optimal range with some basic calculous, the economy isn't so predictable, so you need touchy freely work to get it right, and after you get it right it will change on you so you need to try again. The Lazy Political Motivated peole like to go to extreams of saying No Government or all government, so we just don't need to keep trying. However to stay optimal we always need to keep trying and going back and forth, with no end in sight.
How does knowledge of engineering and science change your views on the level of involvement government should have in a country?
You could argue that the engineers and scientists who support more liberal politics do so because they get paid fat government grants to do their work.
I consider myself a moderate with a little bit of right leaning. I don't really care for the Tea Party I see them as too extreme for my taste. However as someone with significant Science and Engineering training and experience. These disciplines really don't push my political beliefs.
Unless I am going deal with the issues that the real nuts care about such as Evolution (which I hold as the most solid theory) or Global Warming (which does exists and is caused by man) Where my training will form my opinions. However the Argument on how much of a roll Government should have is outside the study of Science and Engineering.
Well the real question on how much is actually "Monkey Work". I found with out source a lot of time, I give them specification like.
Create a form with these fields and place them the database table x which is already created... 4 days later, I found out they they haven't created the form or placed the data in the table. Because they decided to take the time to research how to code in C#.NET because I never told them what language to do it in.
Outsource Labor (International) only really works well for data entry.
If you hire US consultants and contractors to do the work by demand, then you get a different story. These guys want return business, so they will will work hard to make sure they do a good job, and think for themselves.
When you say Monkey Work you really get Money Work, anything that requires abstract thought just will not get done.
I never implied that it was a bad product. Just a poorly timed product that didn't differentiate from its competitors
The wars of the future will not be fought on the battlefield or at sea.
They will be fought in space, or possibly on top of a very tall
mountain. In either case, most of the actual fighting will be done by
small robots. And as you go forth today remember always your duty is
clear: To build and maintain those robots. Thank you.
-- Military school Commandant's graduation address, "The Secret War of
Lisa Simpson"
Rule #1. Never post anything about yourself, that you don't want your employer or future to know.
Even if it has good privacy issues, and you only share with your friends. It could happen that your Friend becomes a future employer. And he may have changed in the last 10 years but you haven't.
Google Plus+ the Zune of Social Media.
There is a really popular product out there, the big company comes in much to late in the game, offers a product that isn't that much better, and not much cheaper. In hopes that you big name will oust the already well known name.
Well being that we don't have any good theoretical models to stop said asteroids, it is difficult for the market to invest into a defense.
It would be like spending billions of dollars to paint a No-Asteroid sign on the United states (Europe and Asia, or Africa might make it bigger), In hope the asteroid will see the sign and decide to not hit the planet.
Well the odds are in our favor that it will hit the ocean... However. If it is a big enough one, it won't help much.
And extincion level asteroid well see the ocean as a small film of water. It would be like pouring water over your body to try to stop a bullet.
Well the submitter never stated that he called his ISP and complained/ask for technical support.
There could just be a misconfiguration, or a bad piece of equipment. Or your contract had your 3mbs split across other customers.
After you call, the problem may be resolved.
Also I wouldn't discredit that it could be the submitters fault.
I live in a similar area and I can pickup WiFi signals from locations a mile away, with just a standard Think Pad.
The submitter may be assuming because he lives so far out his WiFi doesn't need to be secured. Perhaps he has other Internet appliances that do work at that time.
Just because you are a techy it doesn't mean you are infallible.
I would like to see them try. IT productive will rise that day.
Super villan rule #1: No monologing.
Ok Mr. Sonne, Role you hobby check.
[Roles the dice] It lands on a one!
Well because you roll a one your chemistry project got the authorities attention, and you did this right during the G-20. You are now in jail...
Roll 2d6 to see how many years you are in jail before your court.
[Roles the dice] it lands on a 6 and a 5. Ohhh Snap! 11 years, that sucks dude.
Ok you now in court you better roll well you need to beet a 15 to get let out.
[Roles a D20] It lands on 20! Well you got off with no charges!
Because you land on a 20 you can try to counter sue do you want to do that...
Probably not as much as you are implying.
Our Canadian Friends to the North are more in common with the United States Culturally then you would like to believe. And it isn't as much from the U.S. Forcing them the Canadians take pride in their differences, as do the Americans.
Both of our Justice Systems are Modeled of the English system. So it isn't to far to expect that the way we handle justice isn't that different.
How About the "Autocompumodualstation" ACMS for short.
For the most part if the site is blocked and you need access to it, you can normally request access and the organization will unblock the site. There are other sites such as eHow can answer some "Dirty Questions". If you could think back to when you were an adolescent kid, you could get find erotic (to you) material, from non-porn areas.