I just bought a new thermostat. I really wanted a Nest because of it's cool factor however, I ended up buying a Honeywell. First, the Nest isn't as advanced; for example, the Honeywell has some features that allow me to run the fan periodically throughout the cycles. It also allows me to add an additional "slave" thermostat and average the temperature between my upper and lower levels. While the Nest allows you to view multiple thermostats in a single interface each stat required separate HVAC systems. The Honeywell also comes with a remote control that sense the temperature where you are sitting and will adjust the set point to make you comfortable. The bottom line is that sometimes new and cool isn't as good as tried and true when you actually do some research.
So they have a device to mimic the sea in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland which is next to the sea. It seems to me they could be better served by simply taking a boat out and training with the real thing. This is like having sex with a blow up doll while your wife is in the bed next to you.
According to my employer, workers from overseas that are in the US and want to become citizens require lawyer time which isn't cheap. The article didn't mention whether the person from India was coming permanently or if the position was temporary. If it wasn't an H-1B (temporary) position then the lower wage might have been justified based on the cost of bringing the person over and the subsequent costs associated with sponsorship.
Automakers need to supply an option to turn off connectivity. I think a switch on the dashboard would be adequate. Unless there is a PCI-ish compliance law for my personal data collected by Ford or any other manufacturer, and since I am never sure exactly what or how they are collecting it, what they are collecting is a violation of my personal privacy. Maybe we should be asking our congress for mandates to that affect. Except the government will be the first to subpoena the manufacturers to grab the data. Maybe the ball peen hammer idea is the best.
I'm sorry but you are not exactly correct. In 1975, Kodak invented the device that utilized the CCD chip to ultimately cause its own demise. That device is the digital camera. Kodak was the market leader in digital imaging technology and their position was enhanced by both Apple and Adobe. However, as devices became more prolific and other manufacturer's quality and usability increased, Kodak was unable to capitalize on its own technology. Without a successful next generation product, the decline in the use of film which was their high margin bread and butter is what caused them to seek bankruptcy protection.
So while this researcher's theories are new and different, how does this information help us as humans? Can we now predict the next ice age? Is there something we can do to change Earth's perturbations?
I develop with a MacBook Pro Retina, 15 inch. My biggest concern 90% of the time isn't necessarily with the laptop display itself but with the capabilities of the video card. I routinely connect a 27 inch Thunderbolt display for desktop use and would like to add a second. It seems that the better the laptop display, the bigger external monitor I can connect when at the office. With this reasoning, I am depending on manufacturers to keep upping the ante to make my laptop more functional for normal use. For times when I need it portable, I can change the settings to whatever is comfortable.
I think Netflix puts their data on tape too. Oh wait, no they don't because they have to use it. If the LHC folks are putting the data directly on tape, I am guessing the data isn't really worth much. If it was valuable and needed to be analyzed, it would go directly to a hard disk.
Guns (or gun barrels) are made of metal because modern cartridges are not strong enough to manage the burning of the gun powder. When the primer is hit by the hammer and ignition starts, pressure inside the brass cartridge builds and causes the brass to expand. The cartridge expands to the diameter and length of the chamber. The expansion also releases the bullet which travels into the barrel, a slight force fit, and as pressure builds sends the bullet down the barrel and out of the gun. For a plastic chamber to work, we would need to redesign cartridges to handle the pressure without being encapsulated. However, even by doing that, the barrel of the gun wouldn't last. Jacketed bullets combined with the hot burning powder tend to wear the rifling over many shots. Without a metal chamber or rifled barrel, I don't see how a printed gun could ever be useable long term with today's cartridges.
I disagree with that assessment. I have a long torso and shorter legs. I am big as well. When the seat in front of me is reclined, the back of their seat hits my knees and their hair is directly in front of my face. It's fairly disgusting to have to look at the top of one's head for an entire flight and especially gross when they smell.
That is the current proposal from the GOP. The Senate and president are REFUSING to even talk to them about it.
THE DISCUSSION IS OVER. The senate and president don't *need* to talk to the crazies because IT IS ALREADY A LAW. You've already had this debate.
Or is this up for debate every year? Every time an already existing and passed law needs funding, but some disagree with it, the whole country can be held to ransom by those who disagree?
You people make me sick. You ignore your own system, you are destroying your own government for fringe interests.
You mean like the discussion about abortion or maybe the discussions on gay rights. Or how about DOMA, that was a good one too for about 5 minutes. My favorite is the 18th amendment. Good, ongoing discussions about that one. No discussion is ever over in the USA. That's the whole point of having lawmakers and a flexible document that we govern by.
A panel of experts....They may be experts but appointing them to a panel pretty much tell us the outcome. "The panel will determine.." and no matter if they are right or wrong, they will determine exactly what was asked of them. In this case they could be right or they may be part of the UN bandwagon that wants to control the world. Would the panel ever come back and say that we are lucky we are pumping that CO2 into the air or it would already be another ice age? I bet not or the money would stop flowing to their research.
If I was someone that "invested" in this startup, I would certainly not be happy with PayPal. In fact, if their hold on the cash hinders development, I smell a lawsuit.
I have used Uber and find it to be a convenient service. I recognize the additional fees that go on my card and also tip the driver in cash. From what I read in the article, it sure looks like some sour grapes from the drivers. They agreed to the program and are now complaining that they aren't making enough. Seems like they should find another pimp.
'My prediction is that in the years ahead, we will see more failures than we have been seeing, because people have forgotten what we had to do to get to where we are.'
As long as data center engineers are at risk of being woken up in the middle of the night, they won't forget how to make sure things stay running.
From what my experience Windows 8 is clunky at best. I don't understand why, with such a radical departure from 7, they wouldn't offer options to switch to a traditional view. That would (or should) please everyone.
When I read the article I was harkened back to my days working with an IBM 390 mainframe. Massively parallel blah blah. It seems the pendulum does swing back periodically....
What bugs me about the whole higher education mess is that all public colleges and universities are already heavily subsidized by our government in some way or another. I live in a town with a land-grant university and I can tell you that nothing is more important than sports with increasing enrollment a close second. Nobody seems to realize that education has no economies of scale so budgets are consumed by new construction of better and fancier facilities. What higher education really needs is to be modeled after a business. It should be light on management, heavy on instructors and facilities should be just adequate. Maybe then the subsidies would be enough and insane borrowing by students who are there to learn instead of for the college experience would be minimal.
First, it's mid summer there. Second, there is no mention of the previous record so we have nothing to compare this "record" to. I have a friend who works there every year and his comments, from camp, last month was that they were battling storms and cold and hadn't been able to get too much work done. Finally, we have only been keeping track of temperatures there since 1956 so it's hardly worth getting into a tizzy over 60 years worth of record data.
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I just bought a new thermostat. I really wanted a Nest because of it's cool factor however, I ended up buying a Honeywell. First, the Nest isn't as advanced; for example, the Honeywell has some features that allow me to run the fan periodically throughout the cycles. It also allows me to add an additional "slave" thermostat and average the temperature between my upper and lower levels. While the Nest allows you to view multiple thermostats in a single interface each stat required separate HVAC systems. The Honeywell also comes with a remote control that sense the temperature where you are sitting and will adjust the set point to make you comfortable. The bottom line is that sometimes new and cool isn't as good as tried and true when you actually do some research.
So they have a device to mimic the sea in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland which is next to the sea. It seems to me they could be better served by simply taking a boat out and training with the real thing. This is like having sex with a blow up doll while your wife is in the bed next to you.
According to my employer, workers from overseas that are in the US and want to become citizens require lawyer time which isn't cheap. The article didn't mention whether the person from India was coming permanently or if the position was temporary. If it wasn't an H-1B (temporary) position then the lower wage might have been justified based on the cost of bringing the person over and the subsequent costs associated with sponsorship.
Automakers need to supply an option to turn off connectivity. I think a switch on the dashboard would be adequate. Unless there is a PCI-ish compliance law for my personal data collected by Ford or any other manufacturer, and since I am never sure exactly what or how they are collecting it, what they are collecting is a violation of my personal privacy. Maybe we should be asking our congress for mandates to that affect. Except the government will be the first to subpoena the manufacturers to grab the data. Maybe the ball peen hammer idea is the best.
I'm sorry but you are not exactly correct. In 1975, Kodak invented the device that utilized the CCD chip to ultimately cause its own demise. That device is the digital camera. Kodak was the market leader in digital imaging technology and their position was enhanced by both Apple and Adobe. However, as devices became more prolific and other manufacturer's quality and usability increased, Kodak was unable to capitalize on its own technology. Without a successful next generation product, the decline in the use of film which was their high margin bread and butter is what caused them to seek bankruptcy protection.
So while this researcher's theories are new and different, how does this information help us as humans? Can we now predict the next ice age? Is there something we can do to change Earth's perturbations?
I develop with a MacBook Pro Retina, 15 inch. My biggest concern 90% of the time isn't necessarily with the laptop display itself but with the capabilities of the video card. I routinely connect a 27 inch Thunderbolt display for desktop use and would like to add a second. It seems that the better the laptop display, the bigger external monitor I can connect when at the office. With this reasoning, I am depending on manufacturers to keep upping the ante to make my laptop more functional for normal use. For times when I need it portable, I can change the settings to whatever is comfortable.
I think Netflix puts their data on tape too. Oh wait, no they don't because they have to use it. If the LHC folks are putting the data directly on tape, I am guessing the data isn't really worth much. If it was valuable and needed to be analyzed, it would go directly to a hard disk.
Unplug the TV from the network and us another device for accessing content. Then sue LG for invading your privacy.
Guns (or gun barrels) are made of metal because modern cartridges are not strong enough to manage the burning of the gun powder. When the primer is hit by the hammer and ignition starts, pressure inside the brass cartridge builds and causes the brass to expand. The cartridge expands to the diameter and length of the chamber. The expansion also releases the bullet which travels into the barrel, a slight force fit, and as pressure builds sends the bullet down the barrel and out of the gun. For a plastic chamber to work, we would need to redesign cartridges to handle the pressure without being encapsulated. However, even by doing that, the barrel of the gun wouldn't last. Jacketed bullets combined with the hot burning powder tend to wear the rifling over many shots. Without a metal chamber or rifled barrel, I don't see how a printed gun could ever be useable long term with today's cartridges.
I disagree with that assessment. I have a long torso and shorter legs. I am big as well. When the seat in front of me is reclined, the back of their seat hits my knees and their hair is directly in front of my face. It's fairly disgusting to have to look at the top of one's head for an entire flight and especially gross when they smell.
That is the current proposal from the GOP. The Senate and president are REFUSING to even talk to them about it.
THE DISCUSSION IS OVER. The senate and president don't *need* to talk to the crazies because IT IS ALREADY A LAW. You've already had this debate.
Or is this up for debate every year? Every time an already existing and passed law needs funding, but some disagree with it, the whole country can be held to ransom by those who disagree?
You people make me sick. You ignore your own system, you are destroying your own government for fringe interests.
You mean like the discussion about abortion or maybe the discussions on gay rights. Or how about DOMA, that was a good one too for about 5 minutes. My favorite is the 18th amendment. Good, ongoing discussions about that one. No discussion is ever over in the USA. That's the whole point of having lawmakers and a flexible document that we govern by.
A panel of experts....They may be experts but appointing them to a panel pretty much tell us the outcome. "The panel will determine.." and no matter if they are right or wrong, they will determine exactly what was asked of them. In this case they could be right or they may be part of the UN bandwagon that wants to control the world. Would the panel ever come back and say that we are lucky we are pumping that CO2 into the air or it would already be another ice age? I bet not or the money would stop flowing to their research.
If I was someone that "invested" in this startup, I would certainly not be happy with PayPal. In fact, if their hold on the cash hinders development, I smell a lawsuit.
I have used Uber and find it to be a convenient service. I recognize the additional fees that go on my card and also tip the driver in cash. From what I read in the article, it sure looks like some sour grapes from the drivers. They agreed to the program and are now complaining that they aren't making enough. Seems like they should find another pimp.
A lock will only ever serve to keep an honest man honest.
'My prediction is that in the years ahead, we will see more failures than we have been seeing, because people have forgotten what we had to do to get to where we are.'
As long as data center engineers are at risk of being woken up in the middle of the night, they won't forget how to make sure things stay running.
Soon professors will need talent agents....
From what my experience Windows 8 is clunky at best. I don't understand why, with such a radical departure from 7, they wouldn't offer options to switch to a traditional view. That would (or should) please everyone.
When I read the article I was harkened back to my days working with an IBM 390 mainframe. Massively parallel blah blah. It seems the pendulum does swing back periodically....
Next there will be dinosaurs roaming the earth due to increased carbon.
What bugs me about the whole higher education mess is that all public colleges and universities are already heavily subsidized by our government in some way or another. I live in a town with a land-grant university and I can tell you that nothing is more important than sports with increasing enrollment a close second. Nobody seems to realize that education has no economies of scale so budgets are consumed by new construction of better and fancier facilities.
What higher education really needs is to be modeled after a business. It should be light on management, heavy on instructors and facilities should be just adequate. Maybe then the subsidies would be enough and insane borrowing by students who are there to learn instead of for the college experience would be minimal.
From my personal experience, if the phone does what it needs to do based on current software, the most important thing for me is battery life.
First, it's mid summer there. Second, there is no mention of the previous record so we have nothing to compare this "record" to. I have a friend who works there every year and his comments, from camp, last month was that they were battling storms and cold and hadn't been able to get too much work done. Finally, we have only been keeping track of temperatures there since 1956 so it's hardly worth getting into a tizzy over 60 years worth of record data.
We need to stop funding these kinds of studies. And by that I mean we should get rid of DHS!