I worked for a while in Logistics shipping stuff from a fulfillment warehouse all over the country, setting up full truck routes with the proper drops, etc. We looked into rail. The delivery times and routing is really quite terrible compared to trucking (especially with team divers), not to mention you end up having to cross-load it back onto a truck at the other end which adds yet more possibility for mistakes and damage, as well as pretty much eating up most of any gain in shipping costs. Rail is great for bulk goods, but not so good for getting stuff to the local Walmart / Best Buy, etc.
You might be suprised. The northwoods of Wisconsin is a great place, mostly northern european decent. The northern parts are great and you will find old fashioned farming people there that are kinda old fashioned. I appreciate that you are not trying to be insulting / flaming anyone:). I just think that you might have missed out on a real great place to visit in the US. I was in Europe as an exchange student myself, so I can agree with some of what you have to say as well.
Cheers.
I moved away from WI just a short time away. Just because they do not conceal carry, does not mean that the people there are not raised with firearms as standard operating procedure. I was taught and raised (like many others) about and around guns. Assuming a WI citizen is not armed, and that you could take advantage of that is not a good idea.
FIB refers to F** Illinois Bitch or F** Illinois Bastard. It comes from seeing 80% Illinois automobile license plates up in the North Woods of Wisconsin in the middle of summer and them buying up all the property. (Sorry if that was meant to be funny and my sarchasm-meter is broken today.)
The discussion is about Wisconsin, yet you mention "US" cheese. Have you ever been to Wisconsin (Hint: we keep the good stuff for ourselves)? Did you just eat Kraft cheese? You are not being very clear in your definition of "US Cheese". I don't hope to come off harsh, but I think that it is possible that you may be judging an entire country based on unfounded circumstances.
Replying to you since there does not seem to be a better place to make a post:p.
I've got a crappy 'Dynex' router. I have not needed to power it down in 18 months. It refuses to talk with the cable modem so I plugged directly into my computer NIC, and got all the info needed (including NIC UID). I then set it to be static for DNS, gateway, etc etc. I realize that if my IP changes I would have to re-set all of that, but I leave my computer online 24/7 so my IP address keeps renewing itself to the same one. Might not work for everyone, but seems to be working well enough for me. Cheers.
Good point, but I would have concerns about how anything like that would hold up under the hard radiation and magnetic fields of space. I'd love to see it, but I'd think it would have a tendency to rip / short with material as thin as solar sails. Cheers.
I appreciate your comment and did not mean to come off like that. I'm pretty much a dreamer whenever possible, but given the laws of physics I can't see this one being true within any reasonable time frame (several lifetimes) which I presumed the OP was talking about.
Solar sails are nothing but gossamer (light weight) sails. If it was that easy to get something like that to generate electricity with something as thin as standard garbage-bag plastic I'm sure we would have done it before. Solar panels are pretty much a similar process related to CPU/microchip fab == silicon chip == expensive and heavy.
Don't know where else to post this, so guess this is as good as any, here's my bone-head:
In the SQL Server Managment Studion (version 6?), if you had a table highlighted, the "D" key was the hot key for, you guessed it, -delete-. Unfortunately the confirmation dialog defaulted to 'Yes', and any key would confirm it. One day I was at my desk logged in as SA and my hand got a bit lazy... Within about 3 seconds I had accidentally deleted about 30 tables on a live database. Thank god our backups were in operable condition, unlike your story. I also notice that this particular behavior has not been continued in later versions of Management Studio. Oops:)
I'm not a physics person, but probably ablation (consumable) of the heated material would be an issue, as well all "energy" in a system like this is really just using the difference between hot and cold. Not sure how you could maintain that since you are only allowed radiative heat (non consumable) vs. another consumable (?water) in a device like that. When using consumables you have maintenance & longevity problems. Trying to outshine the sun would also be problematic as you point out. You bring up an interesting concept, but it seems like there isn't too much wiggle room. Certainly interesting and anyone is welcome to correct me if I have something wrong.
Agreed. I've seen some fairly 'hostile' exchanges here and in other forums... funny thing is that it usually turns out to be interesting in that seeing both sides and thinking about what was said I usually learn something. For me at least that is the value in reading the opposing comments. So if 1 poster hurts another poster's feelings we cannot make a posting? This needs law needs to be very very carefully written, and of course it will not be, or it is going to drag a lot of nonsense, needless, and otherwise interesting debates down with it. Debating with someone (and maybe offending them) is not the same as stalking and threatening someone. I have my doubts that our congress critters will make that differentiation.
I was poking around on the Expression Studio site earlier today (creates Silverlight content / apps) out of curiosity. From the demo videos I saw that it was up to the content creator to choose for themselves which codec etc they want to use, so no, the tools aren't forcing it (wisely so). They want to sell software, therefore they are supporting what they believe the market (read: content creators) wants.
This BTW is all from the seller's perspective. For the buyer, you pay nothing, the seller is the one paying the realtor's fees. At least in theory. What actually happens is that the realtor's fees end up being built into the asking price for the house.
Thank You. I've read the 'seller pays all fees' several times in this thread and your post is the first one I've seen that acknowledges that the seller is not simply doing it out of the goodness of their heart. Someone pays. The buyer of your house and the purchaser (you) when they replace the house with the next one is going to pay the extra expense. (I'm sitting out for a while myself, just think you should get an +1 insightful for that last part).
My work computer and home computer are set to "Classic". I played around with WindowBlinds and other stuff for a little while, and my hardware handled it quite well / snappy. I found out that I was more interested in content and information retrieval than pretty stuff. I like to tinker and look at new technologies, but in the end I usually find out that the standard desktop metaphor works well enough for what I need, no fancy graphics needed. The "cool" visual factor wears thin rather quickly for me, but if others like it, more power to them.
You are correct. There some question of the optic nerve handling the extra information. I was just recalling a rather long article in SciAm and thought it might be a good contribution to the discussion.
Actually, some women are "tetrachromats". They have 4 cones, the additional one somewhere in the orange range. Our regular vision is also not strictly RGB, but our brains compensate by using the differences so it works out the same.
Putting up a section on the tech that your trucks use might get more hits than you would imagine. Even a picture of the dash instrumentation would be interesting to people simply because they have never seen it. I was suprised by it, but immediately understood the usefulness for fuel-efficiency and preventative maintenance. Hadn't heard of the cameras before, thanks.
My last neighbor (still keep in touch) was a big rig driver. He would park the corporate truck out by our small apartment complex sometimes, and let me have a look from the driver's seat. I was amazed at all of the controls and dials for every little thing: 4 exhaust temp sensors can tell you health of engine or proper gear, axle temps + oil levels, wheel pressures etc etc. This was all recorded and uploaded to corp HQ as well. Little things add up to big money when you run a trucking company, and it is really worth the little extra to purchase the extra sensors and avoid wasted fuel and prevent unneeded repairs when maintenance would do. This was 10 years ago when fuel was cheaper. Old news.
I think I read the same article. It looked more like 1 group proclaiming 'victory' without even review. I'm not a proponent of either, I just think it is an interesting subject. I read an article (derived from) here http://nam2008.qub.ac.uk/press/2008-09-release/ just last month, which is why I posted.
This is not quite true. The MOND hypothesis (they are both hypothesis, since neither gives a true method of testing) suggests that our understanding of gravity may be wrong. It doesn't matter if you or I agree with it, there certainly is a lively debate about whether 'dark matter' exists.
I've written touch screen stuff for factories (keyboards got full of powder and metal bits and did not last, same for mice. It actually worked very well and would pop-up a number pad next to the currently selected input box (to reduce screen touch fatigue). It always flashed the on-screen button that had been depressed for user feed-back. I always got amused when going back to my office after testing out new software out on the shop floor: I would find myself touching my office CRT screens for the next 1/2 hour or so:). Doing that all day would probably get tiring, but it was perfect out on a dirty shop floor when people are only entering work order number + quantity every half hour or so.
I'm also thinking that some of our manufacturing has gotten *much* better in the last 30 years. The touch interface probably was mushy, and maybe even had visible cross-wires on the screen, as well as flat screens back then being black-and-white LCD as opposed to the full color, fast response available today. It became popular and available when the time was right, nothing more.
All good with me, seems like we agree, (at least in this arena) Agree with your politician thinking as well. Looking forward to see you on other/. subjects and have some more exchanges.
I certainly agree that expanding DL suspension beyond the scope of driving enforcement is a bad direction. I vaguely remember the Michigan thing now, thanks for reminding me. The proper punishment in that case is garnishment, I cannot see how disabling / hampering one from getting to work is going to somehow enable collecting money from them. Pretty short-sighted law IMHO.
I wasn't meaning that I think removing internet is a good idea either, since downloading is a civil matter. I just didn't think that driver licenses were the best comparison, That's all. Later.
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I worked for a while in Logistics shipping stuff from a fulfillment warehouse all over the country, setting up full truck routes with the proper drops, etc. We looked into rail. The delivery times and routing is really quite terrible compared to trucking (especially with team divers), not to mention you end up having to cross-load it back onto a truck at the other end which adds yet more possibility for mistakes and damage, as well as pretty much eating up most of any gain in shipping costs. Rail is great for bulk goods, but not so good for getting stuff to the local Walmart / Best Buy, etc.
You might be suprised. The northwoods of Wisconsin is a great place, mostly northern european decent. The northern parts are great and you will find old fashioned farming people there that are kinda old fashioned. I appreciate that you are not trying to be insulting / flaming anyone :). I just think that you might have missed out on a real great place to visit in the US. I was in Europe as an exchange student myself, so I can agree with some of what you have to say as well.
Cheers.
I moved away from WI just a short time away. Just because they do not conceal carry, does not mean that the people there are not raised with firearms as standard operating procedure. I was taught and raised (like many others) about and around guns. Assuming a WI citizen is not armed, and that you could take advantage of that is not a good idea.
FIB refers to F** Illinois Bitch or F** Illinois Bastard. It comes from seeing 80% Illinois automobile license plates up in the North Woods of Wisconsin in the middle of summer and them buying up all the property. (Sorry if that was meant to be funny and my sarchasm-meter is broken today.)
The discussion is about Wisconsin, yet you mention "US" cheese. Have you ever been to Wisconsin (Hint: we keep the good stuff for ourselves)? Did you just eat Kraft cheese? You are not being very clear in your definition of "US Cheese". I don't hope to come off harsh, but I think that it is possible that you may be judging an entire country based on unfounded circumstances.
Replying to you since there does not seem to be a better place to make a post :p.
I've got a crappy 'Dynex' router. I have not needed to power it down in 18 months. It refuses to talk with the cable modem so I plugged directly into my computer NIC, and got all the info needed (including NIC UID). I then set it to be static for DNS, gateway, etc etc. I realize that if my IP changes I would have to re-set all of that, but I leave my computer online 24/7 so my IP address keeps renewing itself to the same one. Might not work for everyone, but seems to be working well enough for me. Cheers.
Good point, but I would have concerns about how anything like that would hold up under the hard radiation and magnetic fields of space. I'd love to see it, but I'd think it would have a tendency to rip / short with material as thin as solar sails. Cheers.
I appreciate your comment and did not mean to come off like that. I'm pretty much a dreamer whenever possible, but given the laws of physics I can't see this one being true within any reasonable time frame (several lifetimes) which I presumed the OP was talking about.
Solar sails are nothing but gossamer (light weight) sails. If it was that easy to get something like that to generate electricity with something as thin as standard garbage-bag plastic I'm sure we would have done it before. Solar panels are pretty much a similar process related to CPU/microchip fab == silicon chip == expensive and heavy.
Don't know where else to post this, so guess this is as good as any, here's my bone-head: In the SQL Server Managment Studion (version 6?), if you had a table highlighted, the "D" key was the hot key for, you guessed it, -delete-. Unfortunately the confirmation dialog defaulted to 'Yes', and any key would confirm it. One day I was at my desk logged in as SA and my hand got a bit lazy... Within about 3 seconds I had accidentally deleted about 30 tables on a live database. Thank god our backups were in operable condition, unlike your story. I also notice that this particular behavior has not been continued in later versions of Management Studio. Oops :)
I'm not a physics person, but probably ablation (consumable) of the heated material would be an issue, as well all "energy" in a system like this is really just using the difference between hot and cold. Not sure how you could maintain that since you are only allowed radiative heat (non consumable) vs. another consumable (?water) in a device like that. When using consumables you have maintenance & longevity problems. Trying to outshine the sun would also be problematic as you point out. You bring up an interesting concept, but it seems like there isn't too much wiggle room. Certainly interesting and anyone is welcome to correct me if I have something wrong.
Agreed. I've seen some fairly 'hostile' exchanges here and in other forums... funny thing is that it usually turns out to be interesting in that seeing both sides and thinking about what was said I usually learn something. For me at least that is the value in reading the opposing comments. So if 1 poster hurts another poster's feelings we cannot make a posting? This needs law needs to be very very carefully written, and of course it will not be, or it is going to drag a lot of nonsense, needless, and otherwise interesting debates down with it. Debating with someone (and maybe offending them) is not the same as stalking and threatening someone. I have my doubts that our congress critters will make that differentiation.
I was poking around on the Expression Studio site earlier today (creates Silverlight content / apps) out of curiosity. From the demo videos I saw that it was up to the content creator to choose for themselves which codec etc they want to use, so no, the tools aren't forcing it (wisely so). They want to sell software, therefore they are supporting what they believe the market (read: content creators) wants.
My work computer and home computer are set to "Classic". I played around with WindowBlinds and other stuff for a little while, and my hardware handled it quite well / snappy. I found out that I was more interested in content and information retrieval than pretty stuff. I like to tinker and look at new technologies, but in the end I usually find out that the standard desktop metaphor works well enough for what I need, no fancy graphics needed. The "cool" visual factor wears thin rather quickly for me, but if others like it, more power to them.
You are correct. There some question of the optic nerve handling the extra information. I was just recalling a rather long article in SciAm and thought it might be a good contribution to the discussion.
Actually, some women are "tetrachromats". They have 4 cones, the additional one somewhere in the orange range. Our regular vision is also not strictly RGB, but our brains compensate by using the differences so it works out the same.
Putting up a section on the tech that your trucks use might get more hits than you would imagine. Even a picture of the dash instrumentation would be interesting to people simply because they have never seen it. I was suprised by it, but immediately understood the usefulness for fuel-efficiency and preventative maintenance. Hadn't heard of the cameras before, thanks.
My last neighbor (still keep in touch) was a big rig driver. He would park the corporate truck out by our small apartment complex sometimes, and let me have a look from the driver's seat. I was amazed at all of the controls and dials for every little thing: 4 exhaust temp sensors can tell you health of engine or proper gear, axle temps + oil levels, wheel pressures etc etc. This was all recorded and uploaded to corp HQ as well. Little things add up to big money when you run a trucking company, and it is really worth the little extra to purchase the extra sensors and avoid wasted fuel and prevent unneeded repairs when maintenance would do. This was 10 years ago when fuel was cheaper. Old news.
I think I read the same article. It looked more like 1 group proclaiming 'victory' without even review. I'm not a proponent of either, I just think it is an interesting subject. I read an article (derived from) here http://nam2008.qub.ac.uk/press/2008-09-release/ just last month, which is why I posted.
This is not quite true. The MOND hypothesis (they are both hypothesis, since neither gives a true method of testing) suggests that our understanding of gravity may be wrong. It doesn't matter if you or I agree with it, there certainly is a lively debate about whether 'dark matter' exists.
I've written touch screen stuff for factories (keyboards got full of powder and metal bits and did not last, same for mice. It actually worked very well and would pop-up a number pad next to the currently selected input box (to reduce screen touch fatigue). It always flashed the on-screen button that had been depressed for user feed-back. I always got amused when going back to my office after testing out new software out on the shop floor: I would find myself touching my office CRT screens for the next 1/2 hour or so :). Doing that all day would probably get tiring, but it was perfect out on a dirty shop floor when people are only entering work order number + quantity every half hour or so.
I'm also thinking that some of our manufacturing has gotten *much* better in the last 30 years. The touch interface probably was mushy, and maybe even had visible cross-wires on the screen, as well as flat screens back then being black-and-white LCD as opposed to the full color, fast response available today. It became popular and available when the time was right, nothing more.
All good with me, seems like we agree, (at least in this arena) Agree with your politician thinking as well. Looking forward to see you on other /. subjects and have some more exchanges.
I certainly agree that expanding DL suspension beyond the scope of driving enforcement is a bad direction. I vaguely remember the Michigan thing now, thanks for reminding me. The proper punishment in that case is garnishment, I cannot see how disabling / hampering one from getting to work is going to somehow enable collecting money from them. Pretty short-sighted law IMHO. I wasn't meaning that I think removing internet is a good idea either, since downloading is a civil matter. I just didn't think that driver licenses were the best comparison, That's all. Later.