You'll notice I never said they were not his gloves. In fact in this entire discussion I have maintained that Simpson is guilty.
The prosecution had Simpson try on the gloves. This despite full well knowing that conditions would be poor for such a thing, and he would likely have a difficult time putting them on. This performance destroyed their case, despite it being reasonable that they didn't fit. This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that they were bumbling.
I'm pretty sure that's only for trucks, or at least only for diesels. When you engine brake a gasoline powered car, the only thing you notice is that the engine revs higher than normal. You don't get that tremendously loud jackhammer effect.
If I understand this correctly... engine braking doesn't really save fuel over normal braking, but it's easier to drive a fuel-saving speed profile when you're engine braking, so it can help you save fuel even though it doesn't actually consume less directly. Is that right?
That would be expected if ethanol were driving a corn shortage, though. Foods can substitute for one another fairly well. If corn were going somewhere else, that not only drops the supply of corn but of food in general, which would drive prices up. Not saying that that really is the cause, but the fact that other grains have gone up too isn't proof against it.
Yes, but the simple fact is that I didn't get your meaning at all. It can be read two ways, you saw it one way, I saw it the other way. My way didn't square with the facts, thus I asked the question....
I have an American V6 putting out 200HP and once clocked in at 39MPG. That was unusual, granted, but I routinely get well over 30.
As for people being slow getting on the freeway, it's rarely about engine power. I've driven cars which get kind of stressed and frantic (or that's how they would feel if they were people) when getting on the freeway, but I've never driven anything that actually had trouble getting up to speed on any sane highway entrance ramp. The extra power comes in handy when you somehow fail to anticipate the need to accelerate until well down the ramp, or when you happen to be stuck behind one of these maniac slowpokes who's trying to get you both killed, or other such situations. But normal highway merging doesn't require all that much power. People merge slowly because they're idiots who are afraid of speed but somehow aren't afraid of having people coming up behind them with a 20-30MPH speed difference, not because they need bigger engines.
If true, why have corn prices spiked so much recently? Is it caused by something else, and only coincidentally happening at the same time as the ethanol rush?
I'm a little confused. I understand most of your techniques. But how does engine braking save fuel? Seems to me that you're throwing your kinetic energy away one way or another. Whether it goes through the engine and out the tailpipe and radiator or comes off your brake pads seems like it makes no difference to your fuel consumption. How does engine braking save fuel?
Your phrasing is ambiguous. You can read it as slashdot being especially better than unmoderated forums (as you apparently meant it) or as slashdot being almost uniquely good for an unmoderated forum (as I understood it).
I generally agree with you. However, I feel the need to point out an enormous difference between being a pedophile and using drugs: you have a choice as to whether to use drugs, whereas if you find children sexually attractive there is generally nothing you can do to stop it.
It's true when taken in the context of the national government, though.
No doubt you're correct about local politicians. But someone like that is never going to get elected to national office. (Almost never, anyway.) Essentially by definition, if any person gets into a position where he will have a fighting chance at getting elected President, he will not be worth voting for.
Somebody is striking back with "Underrated", too. This is so funny.
Hey mods, try to get this one +1 Funny and -1 Overrated!
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I also develop professionally (and have only contributed a few patches to open source). I completely fail to understand how an issue tracking program is going to allow a non-technical manager to track the productivity of individual members of his team.
In the projects I've worked on, it's rarely as cut and tried as you make it sound. There is no easy mapping from user-visible features to programmer-written modules. A single user-visible feature will include GUI code, backend code, and mediation code between them, and each one of those pieces could be worked on by several people.
The idea that "pretty reports" are going to be enough for a PHB to understand his team is just scary to me.
I don't, as you xmply, expect my manager to be able to code well. But I expect him to be able to code, at least a bit, even if he's not really good at it. I certainly don't expect him to be as good at it as I am, but he need to understand the basics of what's involved in programming computers in order to properly manage the team, and the only way that's going to happen is if he actually knows how to some extent.
Nice job. You completely misunderstand the gloves example (hint: it was performed by the prosecution, and it should have been clear that they could easily have failed to fit, thus bumbling on their part) and then accused me of being a 9/11 "truther". Well, feel free to get in the last word.
Hint to moderators: "Troll" is not a code word for "I don't like what he says". Even if you could somehow twist things around to justify marking the first post as "Troll", how do you figure that correcting my own mistaken acronym is a Troll?
So all murder trials "of this scope" (whatever that means) involve racist cops who lie on the witness stand, DNA evidence generated from a sample that a trainee carried around in his pocket, no murder weapon, DNA evidence of a fight with an unidentified person, and gloves that don't fit the accused during the trial?
Indeed. It's unfortunate that Simpson almost certainly got away with murder. But the fact of the matter is that the LAPD was a bunch of incompetent bumbling fools in the matter, and hateful fools at that. Their attempts to frame a (probably) guilty man ended up setting him free. The jury's decision was correct in this case.
They are wrong, though. There's nothing wrong with pedophilia. What's wrong is child molestation, rape, and other such things.
There's nothing wrong with being sexually attracted to children. It is wrong to act on those urges in such a way as to actually have sexual relations with children.
It's sad that most people are completely incapable of understanding this distinction.
I'd be really curious to know what he thought of it afterwards, and whether having an MBA really helped him understand this other world. I get the distinct impression that an MBA is the business-world equivalent of an MSCE: it gives you some basic knowledge and impresses the clueless but isn't really very useful.
An insurance company will be happy to give you any deductible you wish to have. Of course you will have to pay for it. I don't know how much it would cost to have a deductible that would be reasonable for small electronics, but from what I've heard from friends it can be reasonable.
Of course the first rule of insurance is that you should never insure something you can afford to pay for yourself. The insurance company is in the game to make money, so in the long term, on average, you'll be paying them more in premiums then you would pay in replacement and repair costs. The exact same goes for extended warranties, of course, which is why I never buy either one for any of my electronics, because I can always afford to replace them.
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You'll notice I never said they were not his gloves. In fact in this entire discussion I have maintained that Simpson is guilty.
The prosecution had Simpson try on the gloves. This despite full well knowing that conditions would be poor for such a thing, and he would likely have a difficult time putting them on. This performance destroyed their case, despite it being reasonable that they didn't fit. This is the sort of thing I mean when I say that they were bumbling.
I'm pretty sure that's only for trucks, or at least only for diesels. When you engine brake a gasoline powered car, the only thing you notice is that the engine revs higher than normal. You don't get that tremendously loud jackhammer effect.
If I understand this correctly... engine braking doesn't really save fuel over normal braking, but it's easier to drive a fuel-saving speed profile when you're engine braking, so it can help you save fuel even though it doesn't actually consume less directly. Is that right?
That seems quite sensible, thanks for responding.
That would be expected if ethanol were driving a corn shortage, though. Foods can substitute for one another fairly well. If corn were going somewhere else, that not only drops the supply of corn but of food in general, which would drive prices up. Not saying that that really is the cause, but the fact that other grains have gone up too isn't proof against it.
Yes, but the simple fact is that I didn't get your meaning at all. It can be read two ways, you saw it one way, I saw it the other way. My way didn't square with the facts, thus I asked the question....
Maybe he's never shifted into neutral at speed and has absolutely no idea what happens when you do so. (Hint: not very much happens.)
I have an American V6 putting out 200HP and once clocked in at 39MPG. That was unusual, granted, but I routinely get well over 30.
As for people being slow getting on the freeway, it's rarely about engine power. I've driven cars which get kind of stressed and frantic (or that's how they would feel if they were people) when getting on the freeway, but I've never driven anything that actually had trouble getting up to speed on any sane highway entrance ramp. The extra power comes in handy when you somehow fail to anticipate the need to accelerate until well down the ramp, or when you happen to be stuck behind one of these maniac slowpokes who's trying to get you both killed, or other such situations. But normal highway merging doesn't require all that much power. People merge slowly because they're idiots who are afraid of speed but somehow aren't afraid of having people coming up behind them with a 20-30MPH speed difference, not because they need bigger engines.
If true, why have corn prices spiked so much recently? Is it caused by something else, and only coincidentally happening at the same time as the ethanol rush?
I'm a little confused. I understand most of your techniques. But how does engine braking save fuel? Seems to me that you're throwing your kinetic energy away one way or another. Whether it goes through the engine and out the tailpipe and radiator or comes off your brake pads seems like it makes no difference to your fuel consumption. How does engine braking save fuel?
Your phrasing is ambiguous. You can read it as slashdot being especially better than unmoderated forums (as you apparently meant it) or as slashdot being almost uniquely good for an unmoderated forum (as I understood it).
I generally agree with you. However, I feel the need to point out an enormous difference between being a pedophile and using drugs: you have a choice as to whether to use drugs, whereas if you find children sexually attractive there is generally nothing you can do to stop it.
It's true when taken in the context of the national government, though.
No doubt you're correct about local politicians. But someone like that is never going to get elected to national office. (Almost never, anyway.) Essentially by definition, if any person gets into a position where he will have a fighting chance at getting elected President, he will not be worth voting for.
Somebody is striking back with "Underrated", too. This is so funny.
Hey mods, try to get this one +1 Funny and -1 Overrated!
I also develop professionally (and have only contributed a few patches to open source). I completely fail to understand how an issue tracking program is going to allow a non-technical manager to track the productivity of individual members of his team.
In the projects I've worked on, it's rarely as cut and tried as you make it sound. There is no easy mapping from user-visible features to programmer-written modules. A single user-visible feature will include GUI code, backend code, and mediation code between them, and each one of those pieces could be worked on by several people.
The idea that "pretty reports" are going to be enough for a PHB to understand his team is just scary to me.
I don't, as you xmply, expect my manager to be able to code well. But I expect him to be able to code, at least a bit, even if he's not really good at it. I certainly don't expect him to be as good at it as I am, but he need to understand the basics of what's involved in programming computers in order to properly manage the team, and the only way that's going to happen is if he actually knows how to some extent.
Nice job. You completely misunderstand the gloves example (hint: it was performed by the prosecution, and it should have been clear that they could easily have failed to fit, thus bumbling on their part) and then accused me of being a 9/11 "truther". Well, feel free to get in the last word.
Hint to moderators: "Troll" is not a code word for "I don't like what he says". Even if you could somehow twist things around to justify marking the first post as "Troll", how do you figure that correcting my own mistaken acronym is a Troll?
Go on, mark this one as a Troll too. I dare you!
Please do tell, exactly what sort of research benefits the rich and not the poor? I'm trying to think of an example and I simply can't.
While I mostly agree, how do you figure that Slashdot browsing at +3 or +4 is "unmoderated"?
So all murder trials "of this scope" (whatever that means) involve racist cops who lie on the witness stand, DNA evidence generated from a sample that a trainee carried around in his pocket, no murder weapon, DNA evidence of a fight with an unidentified person, and gloves that don't fit the accused during the trial?
Indeed. It's unfortunate that Simpson almost certainly got away with murder. But the fact of the matter is that the LAPD was a bunch of incompetent bumbling fools in the matter, and hateful fools at that. Their attempts to frame a (probably) guilty man ended up setting him free. The jury's decision was correct in this case.
They are wrong, though. There's nothing wrong with pedophilia. What's wrong is child molestation, rape, and other such things.
There's nothing wrong with being sexually attracted to children. It is wrong to act on those urges in such a way as to actually have sexual relations with children.
It's sad that most people are completely incapable of understanding this distinction.
And of course I belie my own cluelessness: I meant an MCSE, not an "MSCE", whatever that would be.
I'd be really curious to know what he thought of it afterwards, and whether having an MBA really helped him understand this other world. I get the distinct impression that an MBA is the business-world equivalent of an MSCE: it gives you some basic knowledge and impresses the clueless but isn't really very useful.
An insurance company will be happy to give you any deductible you wish to have. Of course you will have to pay for it. I don't know how much it would cost to have a deductible that would be reasonable for small electronics, but from what I've heard from friends it can be reasonable.
Of course the first rule of insurance is that you should never insure something you can afford to pay for yourself. The insurance company is in the game to make money, so in the long term, on average, you'll be paying them more in premiums then you would pay in replacement and repair costs. The exact same goes for extended warranties, of course, which is why I never buy either one for any of my electronics, because I can always afford to replace them.