But there certainly is some kind of trade off. Effort and resources directed towards ocotmoms and the idle must come from somewhere.
Again, only two choices? Sensationalizing the most extreme of social contract obligations as the only reason we're not funding more deep space research? Puh-leeze. The reason more deep space probes are not being launched is because people don't give a crap. And CISPA will be passed because (IMHO) the Internet blew its collective social activism wad fighting SOPA and everyone has gone back to Minecraft, WoW and Berk memes because they think their effort as 1's and 0's superheroes for a day crushed the special interests (and at least at this point, no one is telling otherwise). The only reason Apollo made it as far as it did is because NASA hired the best and brightest on Madison Avenue to make it an all-consuming interest for Americans. Not a day would go by without something reminding you we were in a race with the Russians and we had to win. As soon as we got there, everyone lost interest. Why? Because NASA sold the first men on the moon as the goal (Kennedy was a tad short-sighted, apparently), not the continued exploration of the moon. As soon as people give a crap and fight for what they want (or what they're told what they want), and if deep space exploration is what they're told they want, then we'll have more Voyager-like probes than you can shake a stick at.
Not really. There's a big difference between having a dedicated facility to launch a proprietary rocket system, and hooking up a wire to a house or office building to provide service to devices manufactured to a standard.
A good chunk? Ever been to Dallas or Houston? That would have to be a rocket a lot bigger than a Falcon 9 to take out a "good chunk" of any city. This also assumes there's no range safety officer that hits the destruct button before anything untoward occurs.
I also worked for a firm which performed calibration and certification for a variety of test equipment. If you look at the manufacturer's specifications for said equipment, it's going to be +/-10% of indicated (or displayed, depends on the manufacturer; the more expensive, lab-only equipment that can set up and adjusted and remains in place in a controlled environment will perform to very tight tolerances) value. As you know, when you calibrate the equipment, you are calibrating it against a traceable standard. It doesn't matter how accurate your standard is. If the equipment is only rated for +/- 10%, that the closest you can calibrate it. It may indicate a dead-on measurement against your standard, but the equipment is only as good as the manufacturer.
Open protocols don't help when everyone stops making webpages and moves to Facebook, which isn't publicly crawlable. Remember when everyone wanted their OWN website, and websites linked meaningfully to other websites, and there was a whole ecosystem of small, independent webpages with information on a crazy number of niche topics, and everyone's webpage had links to other webpages that they thought were cool? That doesn't really exist anymore. THAT web is dead.
And once upon a time, there was this guy named Steve Case, who thought he owned the future of the internet. What the last 18 years have taught me is that as soon as someone thinks they've created the new standard, someone else decides to improve upon it and make theirs the new standard. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Most instrumentation used for measurements have a +/- 10% error in displayed value, even after calibration and certification. So yeah, 30% is pretty good.
Only the stodgiest and most old fashioned of employers refuse to entertain the possibility. I gather there are some managers that just have to micromanage. Stories like these might have cost-concious companies looking for savings and this could be a way to bring jobs back onshore. Imagine the amounts of money that could go to salaries and benefits if you didn't need a behemouth building. The technology exists to make telecommuting entirely feasible.
When I had three WFH days a week, I was far more productive in that I went ahead and started at 6:30am since I didn't have to dress for the office, nor commute in. I'd usually shower at lunch, and I'd keep email open at least until 6:30pm. My desk phone was forwarded to my cell, so if I had to pick up my daughter, or leave home for any other reason, I could still field client calls. They ended getting a solid 9-10 hours a day out of me on those three. I loved it because it was an opportunity to tie up loose ends or play catchup with no interruptions. Their loss for taking them away when there was a change in management.
It was because people weren't paying attention. Had their been a second set of eyes regarding the specs for the control system, and then a review to make sure the programming was correct (it was the control system that had inaccurate data), there would have been no issue.
There is the misplaced notion that somehow S.I. is more accurate than Imperial. It isn't. You could create anything to be the basis for a standard of measurement. As long as your measurements (and methods thereof) are reproducible, and your instruments of measurement are calibrated to a traceable standard, all is good. While it would be convenient for the US to adopt S.I. wholly, it doesn't make measurements in Imperial units any less accurate. It does make instrument manufacturers richer, though, as companies working with both systems have to buy two sets of instruments, two sets of standards, etc.
Seattle/King County Metro has their ride information available so an app was written with multiple interfaces that allows riders to see real-time arrival and departure information. I love it and use it all the time when I ride.
http://www.onebusaway.org/
Transplant patients routinely get Type 2 as a result of immunosupression. While it's primarily a lifestyle disease, it, like Type 1, can also be an immune disorder.
I really think they will die if they have to become dumb pipes.
There are businesses that run off the "dumb pipe" model. They're called "utilities." Why does every service provider, from internet to cell phones, think we need some kind of value-added content or feature, when in reality all we want is a pipe? My city water department does it. My city electricity utility does it. When I used to have a land line, I could get bare bones service and go with a long distance provider like Credo. It's time Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. become just another Joe Utility.
For one, building my Hackintosh was fun. I've done loads of hardware bashing since I bought my first PC about 17 years ago. When I made the switch to Macs a couple of years ago, I gave up the ability to hot-rod like I could with Windows-based boxes. I know more about OS X and Macs now, thanks to the process.
Secondly, having a Mac-based netbook is great for traveling as I can share my iTunes libraries, season pass shows, etc between my iMac and my Hackintosh.
I've built an Ubuntu-box from an old PC laying around, and while I enjoyed learning hot to configure a new OS, I don't see much more than Ubuntu offers over OS X (given that I was constantly updating the OS as well as apps and dealing with version incompatibilities).
Almost all of the OS/Hardware pairings you reference are necessary because of proprietary hardware solutions (see the references toward the top above to Amiga). Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
Actually, the blower from a vacuum cleaner at a car wash would be more than enough to power a 100mm dia. (4" in the US, which is a standard tube size here for pneumatic tube systems) point-to-point line, and you could move the carrier several hundred meters with a payload up up to a half kilo.
You could use ABS sewage line. The problem is how you would create bends and offsets. The smallest radius for a standard size carrier in a 100mm dia. tube is 60cm. Sealing the system is really not much of an issue. And if you use a piece of 70mm pipe, you'd need to wrap the outside with the fuzzy velcro strips at equadistant points to make your seal in order to allow the pressure/vacuum to propel the carrier.
I used to sell the big systems to hospitals for a living.
Flash does not belong on Information Delivery websites.
No, but Adobe Flex does. Or at least can be a UI solution, depending on the mission.
I've got an iPod Touch, which I love, and it has a YouTube feature built in. Anyone know what they're using to present the video besides Flash, as I have access to every video on the site?
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Again, only two choices? Sensationalizing the most extreme of social contract obligations as the only reason we're not funding more deep space research? Puh-leeze. The reason more deep space probes are not being launched is because people don't give a crap. And CISPA will be passed because (IMHO) the Internet blew its collective social activism wad fighting SOPA and everyone has gone back to Minecraft, WoW and Berk memes because they think their effort as 1's and 0's superheroes for a day crushed the special interests (and at least at this point, no one is telling otherwise). The only reason Apollo made it as far as it did is because NASA hired the best and brightest on Madison Avenue to make it an all-consuming interest for Americans. Not a day would go by without something reminding you we were in a race with the Russians and we had to win. As soon as we got there, everyone lost interest. Why? Because NASA sold the first men on the moon as the goal (Kennedy was a tad short-sighted, apparently), not the continued exploration of the moon. As soon as people give a crap and fight for what they want (or what they're told what they want), and if deep space exploration is what they're told they want, then we'll have more Voyager-like probes than you can shake a stick at.
There is a finite amount of money You can either spend it on space exploration or on welfare for octomoms and other people who don't want to work.
Really? Only those two choices?
Not really. There's a big difference between having a dedicated facility to launch a proprietary rocket system, and hooking up a wire to a house or office building to provide service to devices manufactured to a standard.
A good chunk? Ever been to Dallas or Houston? That would have to be a rocket a lot bigger than a Falcon 9 to take out a "good chunk" of any city. This also assumes there's no range safety officer that hits the destruct button before anything untoward occurs.
I also worked for a firm which performed calibration and certification for a variety of test equipment. If you look at the manufacturer's specifications for said equipment, it's going to be +/-10% of indicated (or displayed, depends on the manufacturer; the more expensive, lab-only equipment that can set up and adjusted and remains in place in a controlled environment will perform to very tight tolerances) value. As you know, when you calibrate the equipment, you are calibrating it against a traceable standard. It doesn't matter how accurate your standard is. If the equipment is only rated for +/- 10%, that the closest you can calibrate it. It may indicate a dead-on measurement against your standard, but the equipment is only as good as the manufacturer.
Open protocols don't help when everyone stops making webpages and moves to Facebook, which isn't publicly crawlable. Remember when everyone wanted their OWN website, and websites linked meaningfully to other websites, and there was a whole ecosystem of small, independent webpages with information on a crazy number of niche topics, and everyone's webpage had links to other webpages that they thought were cool? That doesn't really exist anymore. THAT web is dead.
And once upon a time, there was this guy named Steve Case, who thought he owned the future of the internet. What the last 18 years have taught me is that as soon as someone thinks they've created the new standard, someone else decides to improve upon it and make theirs the new standard. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Most instrumentation used for measurements have a +/- 10% error in displayed value, even after calibration and certification. So yeah, 30% is pretty good.
Only the stodgiest and most old fashioned of employers refuse to entertain the possibility. I gather there are some managers that just have to micromanage. Stories like these might have cost-concious companies looking for savings and this could be a way to bring jobs back onshore. Imagine the amounts of money that could go to salaries and benefits if you didn't need a behemouth building. The technology exists to make telecommuting entirely feasible.
When I had three WFH days a week, I was far more productive in that I went ahead and started at 6:30am since I didn't have to dress for the office, nor commute in. I'd usually shower at lunch, and I'd keep email open at least until 6:30pm. My desk phone was forwarded to my cell, so if I had to pick up my daughter, or leave home for any other reason, I could still field client calls. They ended getting a solid 9-10 hours a day out of me on those three. I loved it because it was an opportunity to tie up loose ends or play catchup with no interruptions. Their loss for taking them away when there was a change in management.
It was because people weren't paying attention. Had their been a second set of eyes regarding the specs for the control system, and then a review to make sure the programming was correct (it was the control system that had inaccurate data), there would have been no issue. There is the misplaced notion that somehow S.I. is more accurate than Imperial. It isn't. You could create anything to be the basis for a standard of measurement. As long as your measurements (and methods thereof) are reproducible, and your instruments of measurement are calibrated to a traceable standard, all is good. While it would be convenient for the US to adopt S.I. wholly, it doesn't make measurements in Imperial units any less accurate. It does make instrument manufacturers richer, though, as companies working with both systems have to buy two sets of instruments, two sets of standards, etc.
I so wish I had mod points now. +5 funny.
Seattle/King County Metro has their ride information available so an app was written with multiple interfaces that allows riders to see real-time arrival and departure information. I love it and use it all the time when I ride. http://www.onebusaway.org/
Transplant patients routinely get Type 2 as a result of immunosupression. While it's primarily a lifestyle disease, it, like Type 1, can also be an immune disorder.
...the Central Services jingle, and then look around for Harry Tuttle to come to our rescue.
Remember: freedom isn't free.
You're right. Freedom costs a $1.09.
If they don't, Stellar Pizza (which is about a 15 minute drive south of the museum) does. Tacoma has Dorky's Bar.
So it was really the Flux Capacitor and not an errant cable.
If it's called "A Modest Proposal", that means it is satire: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_modest_proposal
Admittedly, it seems like every new class of student that reads it has some in it that thing Swift actually wanted to eat babies...
Yes, we call that "the class idiot". It's also why "no child left behind" is a stupid idea.
The same idiots that think "Gulliver's Travels" is Swift-boating.
Why don't you bend over and let me touch you with my noodly appendage?
I guess that proves the old adage that Pastafarian girls are raised, but Pastafarian boys are reared.
I really think they will die if they have to become dumb pipes.
There are businesses that run off the "dumb pipe" model. They're called "utilities." Why does every service provider, from internet to cell phones, think we need some kind of value-added content or feature, when in reality all we want is a pipe? My city water department does it. My city electricity utility does it. When I used to have a land line, I could get bare bones service and go with a long distance provider like Credo. It's time Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc. become just another Joe Utility.
No US citizen is safe from natural disasters.
This is why we need to continue supporting the Koch Brothers' War on Nature!
Is it me, or shouldn't we be thinking about a performance improvement plan to get those UV emissions up by the next solar cycle?
For one, building my Hackintosh was fun. I've done loads of hardware bashing since I bought my first PC about 17 years ago. When I made the switch to Macs a couple of years ago, I gave up the ability to hot-rod like I could with Windows-based boxes. I know more about OS X and Macs now, thanks to the process. Secondly, having a Mac-based netbook is great for traveling as I can share my iTunes libraries, season pass shows, etc between my iMac and my Hackintosh. I've built an Ubuntu-box from an old PC laying around, and while I enjoyed learning hot to configure a new OS, I don't see much more than Ubuntu offers over OS X (given that I was constantly updating the OS as well as apps and dealing with version incompatibilities).
Almost all of the OS/Hardware pairings you reference are necessary because of proprietary hardware solutions (see the references toward the top above to Amiga). Apple's contention that it only be run on Apple-built machines relates to its interpretation of copyright law, which if the Library of Congress' last ruling regarding jailbroken mobiles is any indication, it'll get its brushed aluminum backside handed to it shortly.
Actually, the blower from a vacuum cleaner at a car wash would be more than enough to power a 100mm dia. (4" in the US, which is a standard tube size here for pneumatic tube systems) point-to-point line, and you could move the carrier several hundred meters with a payload up up to a half kilo. You could use ABS sewage line. The problem is how you would create bends and offsets. The smallest radius for a standard size carrier in a 100mm dia. tube is 60cm. Sealing the system is really not much of an issue. And if you use a piece of 70mm pipe, you'd need to wrap the outside with the fuzzy velcro strips at equadistant points to make your seal in order to allow the pressure/vacuum to propel the carrier. I used to sell the big systems to hospitals for a living.
Flash does not belong on Information Delivery websites.
No, but Adobe Flex does. Or at least can be a UI solution, depending on the mission.
I've got an iPod Touch, which I love, and it has a YouTube feature built in. Anyone know what they're using to present the video besides Flash, as I have access to every video on the site?