Don't know what he means in this particular case, but when engineers talks about contaminants in water, they are usually talking about bacterial counts as well as nitrates and other dissolved compounds. Sanitary waste water (in most of US) has to be cleaned to certain standards as far as bacterial counts as well as nitrate levels before it can be released to streams/rivers, or reused as "reclaimed" water, usually for irrigation.
Any water used for water systems (drinking water) must be cleaned to an even higher standard before use. Unless you source is a mountain spring (not a creek!), you are almost certain to have to process it before use. The original poster's point was that often the incoming water is less sanitary than the discharge water of a sewage treatment plant.
Come to think of it, I saw a documentary about the canal/pipe system that supplies LA a few weeks ago. I can readily believe that that water isn't too clean.
Actually that's not true either, their are other modes of transportation that one can use while waiting to save up for the new car (ie, the bus, car pool, a bike, walking, etc). Said person could also down size and get a scooter or motorcycle, they are less than a new can and get better gas mileage.
Several problems with this idea. Using myself as an example. I live in a location that is not near any public transportation. I could walk 4 miles to where the bus stop is, but that is practically on the front door of my work. Then, after work, I would have to walk another 3-4 miles to the hardware store, and won't I look silly carrying a sheet of plywood home on my back (even if I didn't collapse from heatstroke) as I walked 5 - 6 miles home.
I have given thought to the idea of purchasing a moped or similar for those days when I don't have to do any hauling. Two problems: The current technology used in these little bikes cause more pollution than the mature technology used by my truck's engine, defeating the purpose of going with it (yes, I save some gas, but that isn't the main reason to switch). Second, the cost of the bike, even with $5/gal gas, would only be recovered by gas savings for the miles I would use it for after a period of 4 - 5 YEARS.
Yes, there is room for improvement in car gas mileage. My wife drives an Echo and gets something just over 40 MPG. Toyota shut down the production line after a few years and retooled to make the Yaris, which only gets 36 or so. I suspect this is so they could tool back to the higher MPG easily to later make progress on average mileage. But no matter what, there are always going to be "gas guzzlers" of one sort or another that people will want to use for reasons beyond the scope of the mileage argument.
Sure, if one of these super-mileage cars that have been dictated by POTUS will work for you, and you can afford it, by all means, have at it. That said, you can take my pickup truck away when you can pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands.
Actually four wars, including Yemen. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen. Admittedly Iraq is pretty much over, but we've still got a fair number of troops there.
The ATM machines don't hold that much. I know... I did some pick-up work as an ATM messenger (read: guy who stuff's money in and takes deposits out) for a while after the dot.Bomb. Typical bank ATM might hold $200K in $20's if it was full. The little ATMs that you find in a Walmart or 7-11 are maxed out at $60K.
I read the headline and it said 6 or so cups a day of coffee are NORMAL?!?!?! Geez.....I'd be climbing the walls. Do people actually normally drink that much coffee a day?
6 Cups a day is a little heavier than I usually do, especially in summer. Spread out over all waking hours, it isn't that much. A cup with breakfast, a cup mid-morning, a cup with lunch, a cup in the afternoon, a cup with dinner, perhaps a second with dessert. No, I usually stop after lunch, and switch to soda as the caffeine carrier of choice. But 6 cups isn't that extreme...
I call BS. While the group that self identifies as "Tea Party" does want to slash government spending, it is for the most part what they consider waste. Yes, this includes a lot of what NASA does... or did you happen to forget that NASA wants to replace the Shuttle with Orion (another piece of bloat) instead of using one of the much cheaper alternatives (as well as ready sooner, more reliable, etc.) being offered by outfits like SpaceX.
Yes, I self identify with the Tea Party. I am not lower middle class, do not live in a trailer, and am not religeous. Don't currently own a gun (although I'm not against them). I am for the space program (and have been for ~45 years), and only regret that NASA and the politicians in DC screwed it up so badly that practically no one gets to go up.
Am I in favor of this DARPA RFI? Heck yes. I'd write something up myself, but I just don't have time.
At one point, the Smallpox variola virus was almost completely wiped out, surviving only in a few laboratories around the world.
Now, thanks to the efforts of some people who were able to free some of those remaining captive virus, it may someday be possible to reintroduce them into the wild, allowing them to once again freely complete in nature.
Won't that be nice? Another endangered species brought back from the brink of extinction.
My work involves a lot of testing of applications. The big problem seen from this side of the fence is that the tests don't always describe the requirements... as often as not because the requirements change, or they were not clearly stated in the first place. If either of these two things happen, then you can develop to tests all day, but your code won't be any better than if you develop on the fly. If you have solid requirement, it works better either way.
When the day of rage comes, they will tell Big Agro and Big Oil to screw off. You can bet on that!
And they won't tell the environmental folks the same thing by letting Oil start drilling in the US again?
I agree that this may be a better solution than ethonol (What does it do to a car's engine?), but as with anything else, ONE SIZE FITS ALL doesn't work.
When I first read the title of this article, I though it was asking if [software] developers would prefer to use e-readers instead of laptops. I thought... duh! I barely have enough screen real estate with two screens on my desktop, much less a laptop... and you want me to work on a 5 - 9 inch e-reader screen? Then I read a couple of comments and realized what it was really about.
E-readers instead of laptops in developing countries? Makes sense, since in general the laptop will have a lot of unused capability.
The significance of this solar flare is not that it could or will be a danger to Earth... it is that is a sign that the sun is waking back up. Anyone who has been watching for long can tell you that there haven't been any significant sun spots for quite a while. It is possible that this is the reason behind some of the cold weather that the northern hemisphere has been experiencing this winter.
Harnessing wind and other green technologies is great, but I wouldn't bet my life on any of them except hydro. The problem with things like the wind is that when the wind stops blowing (or blows too strong), the wind turbines don't put out electricity. I remember driving by miles of idle windmills in California. Don't know why they weren't turning, but it indicates to me that there is an inherent problem with depending on the technology.
How do you prove software testing saves money? Not going to happen in this case. The place testing saves money is during development. Once the software is deployed, its too late.
This is a pretty much the same place I'm in with my current position. 10-15 year old application that just "grew" into its current state, generally without formal testing. The decision to introduce formal testing into the process was probably made to meet standards of external users in my case. However, as the Software QA analyst who ended up setting testing up, I quickly realized that it would be impossible to set up complete testing in any reasonable time frame. Instead, what needs to be done is to establish a basic framework for testing, and introduce some very high end tests that will run the application's key points. Then, every time a new version is generated, run the tests. Shouldn't take very long. If a bug fix is introduced (other than cosmetic), add a check for that specific item. Do not bother to check everything. As the old axiom goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I graduated from HS over 30 years ago, and I still remember touch typing as one of the two most valuable classes I ever took. Touch typing skill are valuable because it does get one away from hunt and peck. But typing speed has absolutely nothing to do with coding, since when I code, 90% of my time is spent looking at the screen and thinking about the code. Half of the rest is spent copying/moving code segments around. The 10% spent entering text are done a line or two at a time. The speed increase made by touch typing is not significant.
For me, that location is in a password protected Word file buried deep in a directory structure on a USB flash drive that is always in my pocket. That way, I only have to remember one password. The others I may or may not remember (generally do after a few uses), but if I don't I can always recover them.
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Plenty of web pages address this. Here's an example:
http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/conceptual_study_of_a_solar_power_satellite_sps_2000.shtml
Can we say "Flying Cars"?
Don't know what he means in this particular case, but when engineers talks about contaminants in water, they are usually talking about bacterial counts as well as nitrates and other dissolved compounds. Sanitary waste water (in most of US) has to be cleaned to certain standards as far as bacterial counts as well as nitrate levels before it can be released to streams/rivers, or reused as "reclaimed" water, usually for irrigation.
Any water used for water systems (drinking water) must be cleaned to an even higher standard before use. Unless you source is a mountain spring (not a creek!), you are almost certain to have to process it before use. The original poster's point was that often the incoming water is less sanitary than the discharge water of a sewage treatment plant.
Come to think of it, I saw a documentary about the canal/pipe system that supplies LA a few weeks ago. I can readily believe that that water isn't too clean.
Actually that's not true either, their are other modes of transportation that one can use while waiting to save up for the new car (ie, the bus, car pool, a bike, walking, etc). Said person could also down size and get a scooter or motorcycle, they are less than a new can and get better gas mileage.
Several problems with this idea. Using myself as an example. I live in a location that is not near any public transportation. I could walk 4 miles to where the bus stop is, but that is practically on the front door of my work. Then, after work, I would have to walk another 3-4 miles to the hardware store, and won't I look silly carrying a sheet of plywood home on my back (even if I didn't collapse from heatstroke) as I walked 5 - 6 miles home.
I have given thought to the idea of purchasing a moped or similar for those days when I don't have to do any hauling. Two problems: The current technology used in these little bikes cause more pollution than the mature technology used by my truck's engine, defeating the purpose of going with it (yes, I save some gas, but that isn't the main reason to switch). Second, the cost of the bike, even with $5/gal gas, would only be recovered by gas savings for the miles I would use it for after a period of 4 - 5 YEARS.
Yes, there is room for improvement in car gas mileage. My wife drives an Echo and gets something just over 40 MPG. Toyota shut down the production line after a few years and retooled to make the Yaris, which only gets 36 or so. I suspect this is so they could tool back to the higher MPG easily to later make progress on average mileage. But no matter what, there are always going to be "gas guzzlers" of one sort or another that people will want to use for reasons beyond the scope of the mileage argument.
Sure, if one of these super-mileage cars that have been dictated by POTUS will work for you, and you can afford it, by all means, have at it. That said, you can take my pickup truck away when you can pry the steering wheel from my cold, dead hands.
New Virus Jumps From Infected Computers To IT Workers.
"I like-a do the cha-cha"...
Actually four wars, including Yemen. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Yemen. Admittedly Iraq is pretty much over, but we've still got a fair number of troops there.
Don't worry, pretty soon you won't be allowed to embed youtube videos.
The ATM machines don't hold that much. I know... I did some pick-up work as an ATM messenger (read: guy who stuff's money in and takes deposits out) for a while after the dot.Bomb. Typical bank ATM might hold $200K in $20's if it was full. The little ATMs that you find in a Walmart or 7-11 are maxed out at $60K.
I read the headline and it said 6 or so cups a day of coffee are NORMAL?!?!?! Geez.....I'd be climbing the walls. Do people actually normally drink that much coffee a day?
6 Cups a day is a little heavier than I usually do, especially in summer. Spread out over all waking hours, it isn't that much. A cup with breakfast, a cup mid-morning, a cup with lunch, a cup in the afternoon, a cup with dinner, perhaps a second with dessert. No, I usually stop after lunch, and switch to soda as the caffeine carrier of choice. But 6 cups isn't that extreme...
. How many people didn't even try because of airport security?
How many people no longer fly because of airport security?
I call BS. While the group that self identifies as "Tea Party" does want to slash government spending, it is for the most part what they consider waste. Yes, this includes a lot of what NASA does... or did you happen to forget that NASA wants to replace the Shuttle with Orion (another piece of bloat) instead of using one of the much cheaper alternatives (as well as ready sooner, more reliable, etc.) being offered by outfits like SpaceX.
Yes, I self identify with the Tea Party. I am not lower middle class, do not live in a trailer, and am not religeous. Don't currently own a gun (although I'm not against them). I am for the space program (and have been for ~45 years), and only regret that NASA and the politicians in DC screwed it up so badly that practically no one gets to go up.
Am I in favor of this DARPA RFI? Heck yes. I'd write something up myself, but I just don't have time.
At one point, the Smallpox variola virus was almost completely wiped out, surviving only in a few laboratories around the world.
Now, thanks to the efforts of some people who were able to free some of those remaining captive virus, it may someday be possible to reintroduce them into the wild, allowing them to once again freely complete in nature.
Won't that be nice? Another endangered species brought back from the brink of extinction.
My work involves a lot of testing of applications. The big problem seen from this side of the fence is that the tests don't always describe the requirements... as often as not because the requirements change, or they were not clearly stated in the first place. If either of these two things happen, then you can develop to tests all day, but your code won't be any better than if you develop on the fly. If you have solid requirement, it works better either way.
One of the first new rules to be established will be making it illegal to use Quantum Public Key Encryption.
The mission that just ended was the last flight of Discovery. The other two shuttles each have one final flight before they two are sent to museums.
When the day of rage comes, they will tell Big Agro and Big Oil to screw off. You can bet on that!
And they won't tell the environmental folks the same thing by letting Oil start drilling in the US again?
I agree that this may be a better solution than ethonol (What does it do to a car's engine?), but as with anything else, ONE SIZE FITS ALL doesn't work.
When I first read the title of this article, I though it was asking if [software] developers would prefer to use e-readers instead of laptops. I thought... duh! I barely have enough screen real estate with two screens on my desktop, much less a laptop... and you want me to work on a 5 - 9 inch e-reader screen? Then I read a couple of comments and realized what it was really about.
E-readers instead of laptops in developing countries? Makes sense, since in general the laptop will have a lot of unused capability.
The significance of this solar flare is not that it could or will be a danger to Earth... it is that is a sign that the sun is waking back up. Anyone who has been watching for long can tell you that there haven't been any significant sun spots for quite a while. It is possible that this is the reason behind some of the cold weather that the northern hemisphere has been experiencing this winter.
Harnessing wind and other green technologies is great, but I wouldn't bet my life on any of them except hydro. The problem with things like the wind is that when the wind stops blowing (or blows too strong), the wind turbines don't put out electricity. I remember driving by miles of idle windmills in California. Don't know why they weren't turning, but it indicates to me that there is an inherent problem with depending on the technology.
Man I wish I had some mod points! Mod parent up!
How do you prove software testing saves money? Not going to happen in this case. The place testing saves money is during development. Once the software is deployed, its too late.
This is a pretty much the same place I'm in with my current position. 10-15 year old application that just "grew" into its current state, generally without formal testing. The decision to introduce formal testing into the process was probably made to meet standards of external users in my case. However, as the Software QA analyst who ended up setting testing up, I quickly realized that it would be impossible to set up complete testing in any reasonable time frame. Instead, what needs to be done is to establish a basic framework for testing, and introduce some very high end tests that will run the application's key points. Then, every time a new version is generated, run the tests. Shouldn't take very long. If a bug fix is introduced (other than cosmetic), add a check for that specific item. Do not bother to check everything. As the old axiom goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
The sun had shown a few sunspots last week... but it isn't doing anything this week.
Space Weather
I graduated from HS over 30 years ago, and I still remember touch typing as one of the two most valuable classes I ever took. Touch typing skill are valuable because it does get one away from hunt and peck. But typing speed has absolutely nothing to do with coding, since when I code, 90% of my time is spent looking at the screen and thinking about the code. Half of the rest is spent copying/moving code segments around. The 10% spent entering text are done a line or two at a time. The speed increase made by touch typing is not significant.
For me, that location is in a password protected Word file buried deep in a directory structure on a USB flash drive that is always in my pocket. That way, I only have to remember one password. The others I may or may not remember (generally do after a few uses), but if I don't I can always recover them.