Unless you are worried about the feds recovering your kiddie porn collection, just wipe the files. If you are worried about your kiddie porn collection, then just have a hammer party. Once they are warped and scratch NOBODY will get the crap off their without NSA levels of resources.
WTF?! for the overbearing and brutish NYPD response. We're closer to a police state than a lot of folks want to admit. Non-violent protests should be handled in a non-violent way (i.e. if permits are not in order, make arrests, don't go around pepper spraying). Media coverage of such events MUST be whole heartedly tolerated. We should ALL support unfettered coverage of even yawn worthy protests, even by those we don't agree with (well, especially by those we don't agree with).
Oh well. Back to bobble headed news about Dancing With The Stars...
Having worked with a few guys who either worked remotely (i.e. telecommuted from Wyoming to California), or were just anti-social SOB's I found their work ethic to be above average. I could see their license usage for our simulation software (EM and circuit tools), and they were often working many more hours than me, and were the best engineers I've worked with to date (partially why they were given permission to telecommute).
I know better than to telecommute myself, as the few times I have done so for a day here and they (while dealing with a sick dog, or snowy weather) my work ethic was less than stellar. When the work is good and fun I log on from home and crank through stuff before driving in, after dinner etc. When working on the grind portion of a project however, I keep finding myself playing some version of Quake...
Dump the heat via somehing with a very liw emissivity, something high tech like AIR. If you get the heat out without creating IR light, then nonlaws of physics are broken.
Air has near zero emissivity, so while the exhaust pipe will light up on an IR scope like a christmas tree, the exhuast itself does not. For example the F117 stealth fighter uses exhuast redirection to dramatically reduce its thermal profile even though it is producing tons of heat. The trick is to keep an visible part of the vehicle from showing heat. I imagine that from some angle (above) that the actual exhuast port on this thing will be quite hot, and therefor not hidden, but only from that POV.
It seems to me that this might be a solution. Small things de-orbit much faster. Also, after a collision all the pieces are less likely to be in a nice round orbit, and at least from a pure mass-in-space perspective it seems like a cascade would clear things out relatively quicker than trying to clean stuff up one piece of junk at a time.
Anyone have any idea what sort of time scale we are on for all the close in stuff? Years, decades, centuries?
Very vocal minority are making noise that they want hackable widgets. How about some statistics showing just how many widgets are actually hacked? Is it even 5%?
The real story, much to the chagrin of the FOSS fan boyz is that sometimes closed and functional will sell better than clunky but open.
The ribbon is just awful. Generally it takes me 1-2 weeks to get back to 95+% productivity with a new machine. I am now over 18 months into Office 2007 at work, and still only at 75-80%. Important things were buried or burned to make the ribbon approach fit, so I am constantly having to dig for simple crap like "crop". Ugh, I was hoping it all would go the way of Clippy...
Years back they spun off their fab and semiconductor business to go "all-in" on the high growth of the cell phone world. I thing the top brass underestimated just how brutally competitive and cutthroat it would be. Their old businesses of semiconductors and high end radio systems had high margins, and relatively modest competition. While you can't say Motorola sucks at cell phones, they quickly became second/third tier players.
Same story as HP splitting off their legacy T&M business to concentrate on computers. Abandon a locked in high profit business in favor of higher growth, only to have things peter out with little backup plan. Meanwhile the split T&M business (Agilent) has managed to mostly shoot its golden goose, leaving previously loyal users pissed over low quality and foundering direction.
I'm sure there are many more, just sad to see the heroes of industry that you idolized back in engineering school turn into just another cautionary tale.
GED teacher: Many students are on parole, undocumented, or otherwise at the bottom fringe of society. She (a friend) is very appropriate to not want her full name too easily googlable.
Kids: I'd rather kids NOT use their full real names, as kids are stupid. Stupid things you do as kids should be mostly allowed not to turn into part of their permanent and easily searchable record.
School Teachers and other semi-public people: Being able to easily google your teachers private life is not good (see: Kids are Stupid above). While teachers need to be good moral compasses for their students, they are not paid well enough to have to live in a fish bowl for the world to watch.
So in specific I see these as obvious cases, but the general tenor of wanting to be able to have an online life without having your dirty laundry on very public display applies to almost everyone. We should control the choice as to how public or private we are, not Google or Facebook.
Of all the PhD's I've interviewed for engineering positions, only a couple got my vote. Most are too specialized, too arrogant, and generally too stuck in the clouds.
Master's folks are 50/50'ish. Same story, but there are a lot more mixed in that turn out to be great engineers and simply wanted to know (or earn) more. I still greatly adjust the thrust of my interview questions when I see the advanced degrees, as nothing is worse than a dolt in sheeps clothing, as management is usually too slow to catch onto the real score in time.
Bachelor's folks who slip in and are idiots are SO much easier to get rid of later, or at least much easier to train into someone who can hold the right end of a soldering iron. Generally bachelor's folks realize they have a lot to learn, while the PhD's not only don't know any more, but they adamantly believe they know it all.
Our current system will not ever have more than 2 viable parties. We have a winner take all system that will never result in a proportional representation of the views of the populous.
The best we can do with a third party is weaken an existing one temporarily, or replace it entirely. But everything will still end up with two parties with a huge swath of the population having nobody in congress coming close to sharing their views.
We would need a fresh constitution based on proportional representation in at least one branch of government. Never going to happen in pre-collapse USA.
Till their streaming service approaches the coverage that their DVD service does the analogy is just wrong.
Eliminating the floppy didn't keep people from buying the most popular software, it was already on optical. Backward compatibility with their old software was harmed, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Netflix subscribers are faced with, where only the old and crappy titles will still be accessible with their neutered service.
Am I the only one who has grown cautious of putting chemicals on my skin, in close contact, for many hours of the day? We'll either end up with a super bug or foot cancer...
The plastic content on eyeglass frames represents but a fraction of the petroleum used to go to and from the optometrist. Concentrating on the materials instead of the problem is the basic failing of much of the "Green" movement.
All too often I see folks claiming to be "Green" because they ripped out a perfectly good kitchen counter and replaced with recycled baby wipes or some such. Most of the movement is more of a scavenger hunt gone horribly awry than one that makes a meaningful impact. Most forget that the greenest thing you can do is get a vasectomy before breeding (well, consulting Kevorkian really, but the idea is the same).
These poor fools have their heart in the right place, but constantly show severely flawed math/engineering skills in what they come up with. Often their approach is by far WORSE to the environment than sticking with the status quo. Farmer's Market's are fun, but don't delude yourself that it actually took less petroleum per item to get that stuff to market in the back of an F250 pickup than to long haul trucking it to Safeway.
Board houses CAN do amazing things, however getting straight answers to design rules usually gets a "It depends..." response. Nothing worse for a hardware designer than having to wait until you spit out a GDS file to get surprised about cost of certain process combinations, or incompatibility of certain process options (i.e. getting sold on edge plating or blind vias only to find out the hard way that that results in MUCH worse etch tolerances).
Most the companies I've dealt with consider their design rules to be semi-secret, even to their customers... If you work with them long enough you get it figured out, but in a high mix business like I was in (every board was a very different stackup with very different requirements) it got to be absolutely frustrating to constantly get surprised, then have to dig up email threads to defend yourself against angry project managers now that the price point blew up or the board has to be completely redesigned despite doing pretty thorough due diligence.
Carriers have obscured cell phone (the physical device) payments with cell phone services. How this came about still boggles my mind, almost like bundling a gas card with your car payment and not being able to find out how much the car even costs. The two should be separate, and the current high fee for cancellation should be deemed illegal. You either pay through the nose month-month, or you risk 2 years of hell dealing with a contract for awful service with a $350+ termination fee looming.
Given the rampant and pervasive monopolistic practices of the soon to be 2 carriers, I just can't get that excited about such a small fine. Such intentional fraud should result in jail time for whoever authorized such actions.
now when am I going to stop being charged for people sending me spam SMS messages? I see that issue as a sure sign that the FCC is fully captured by the industry, and small fines like this are just window dressing to keep the irate masses at bay.
Delete it, and create a more unique email for yourself. John.DoeZIPCODE@gmail.com for example Of course that likely means that down the road you'll be stuck wondering who is getting mail meant for you.
Tuition should be based on the value to society, not necessarily the simple cost of the teaching. English major should pay a lot more given that their contribution to the tax base will be much lower than an actual degree.
Why pay $25+ for a Blu-Ray of something when I can get it for 15-20 tops on DVD (though we very rarely spend more than $15 for even a DVD). Simply put the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD battle turned folks off, the DRM issues turned folks off, Apple not adopting it turned that crowd off. It all adds up to just making the simple act of watching a darn movie less and less fun than it used to be.
The Blu-Ray should have had only a short period of price mismatch, then after that it would have been equal to DVD's, only then would the format have taken root. DRM should have been greatly curtailed to make using a movie easier (i.e. make it easy for me to get a lower quality digital copy in the same box for use on my portable iWidget).
Thank's for trying to sell me a disposable $1k phone to be obsoleted in a year and costs $100+ a month in the meantime, but my $35 pay as you go phone works just fine and only costs me $8 a month.
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Unless you are worried about the feds recovering your kiddie porn collection, just wipe the files. If you are worried about your kiddie porn collection, then just have a hammer party. Once they are warped and scratch NOBODY will get the crap off their without NSA levels of resources.
Stupid geek paranoia.
Yawn for the protest.
WTF?! for the overbearing and brutish NYPD response. We're closer to a police state than a lot of folks want to admit. Non-violent protests should be handled in a non-violent way (i.e. if permits are not in order, make arrests, don't go around pepper spraying). Media coverage of such events MUST be whole heartedly tolerated. We should ALL support unfettered coverage of even yawn worthy protests, even by those we don't agree with (well, especially by those we don't agree with).
Oh well. Back to bobble headed news about Dancing With The Stars...
Nuff said.
Having worked with a few guys who either worked remotely (i.e. telecommuted from Wyoming to California), or were just anti-social SOB's I found their work ethic to be above average. I could see their license usage for our simulation software (EM and circuit tools), and they were often working many more hours than me, and were the best engineers I've worked with to date (partially why they were given permission to telecommute).
I know better than to telecommute myself, as the few times I have done so for a day here and they (while dealing with a sick dog, or snowy weather) my work ethic was less than stellar. When the work is good and fun I log on from home and crank through stuff before driving in, after dinner etc. When working on the grind portion of a project however, I keep finding myself playing some version of Quake...
Ribbonization is a non-starter for me. My machine at work is still on XP-64 thanks to our IT just now allowing 7 on new machines.
Dump the heat via somehing with a very liw emissivity, something high tech like AIR. If you get the heat out without creating IR light, then nonlaws of physics are broken.
Air has near zero emissivity, so while the exhaust pipe will light up on an IR scope like a christmas tree, the exhuast itself does not. For example the F117 stealth fighter uses exhuast redirection to dramatically reduce its thermal profile even though it is producing tons of heat. The trick is to keep an visible part of the vehicle from showing heat. I imagine that from some angle (above) that the actual exhuast port on this thing will be quite hot, and therefor not hidden, but only from that POV.
It seems to me that this might be a solution. Small things de-orbit much faster. Also, after a collision all the pieces are less likely to be in a nice round orbit, and at least from a pure mass-in-space perspective it seems like a cascade would clear things out relatively quicker than trying to clean stuff up one piece of junk at a time.
Anyone have any idea what sort of time scale we are on for all the close in stuff? Years, decades, centuries?
Very vocal minority are making noise that they want hackable widgets. How about some statistics showing just how many widgets are actually hacked? Is it even 5%?
The real story, much to the chagrin of the FOSS fan boyz is that sometimes closed and functional will sell better than clunky but open.
The ribbon is just awful. Generally it takes me 1-2 weeks to get back to 95+% productivity with a new machine. I am now over 18 months into Office 2007 at work, and still only at 75-80%. Important things were buried or burned to make the ribbon approach fit, so I am constantly having to dig for simple crap like "crop". Ugh, I was hoping it all would go the way of Clippy...
Years back they spun off their fab and semiconductor business to go "all-in" on the high growth of the cell phone world. I thing the top brass underestimated just how brutally competitive and cutthroat it would be. Their old businesses of semiconductors and high end radio systems had high margins, and relatively modest competition. While you can't say Motorola sucks at cell phones, they quickly became second/third tier players.
Same story as HP splitting off their legacy T&M business to concentrate on computers. Abandon a locked in high profit business in favor of higher growth, only to have things peter out with little backup plan. Meanwhile the split T&M business (Agilent) has managed to mostly shoot its golden goose, leaving previously loyal users pissed over low quality and foundering direction.
I'm sure there are many more, just sad to see the heroes of industry that you idolized back in engineering school turn into just another cautionary tale.
GED teacher: Many students are on parole, undocumented, or otherwise at the bottom fringe of society. She (a friend) is very appropriate to not want her full name too easily googlable.
Kids: I'd rather kids NOT use their full real names, as kids are stupid. Stupid things you do as kids should be mostly allowed not to turn into part of their permanent and easily searchable record.
School Teachers and other semi-public people: Being able to easily google your teachers private life is not good (see: Kids are Stupid above). While teachers need to be good moral compasses for their students, they are not paid well enough to have to live in a fish bowl for the world to watch.
So in specific I see these as obvious cases, but the general tenor of wanting to be able to have an online life without having your dirty laundry on very public display applies to almost everyone. We should control the choice as to how public or private we are, not Google or Facebook.
Of all the PhD's I've interviewed for engineering positions, only a couple got my vote. Most are too specialized, too arrogant, and generally too stuck in the clouds.
Master's folks are 50/50'ish. Same story, but there are a lot more mixed in that turn out to be great engineers and simply wanted to know (or earn) more. I still greatly adjust the thrust of my interview questions when I see the advanced degrees, as nothing is worse than a dolt in sheeps clothing, as management is usually too slow to catch onto the real score in time.
Bachelor's folks who slip in and are idiots are SO much easier to get rid of later, or at least much easier to train into someone who can hold the right end of a soldering iron. Generally bachelor's folks realize they have a lot to learn, while the PhD's not only don't know any more, but they adamantly believe they know it all.
Our current system will not ever have more than 2 viable parties. We have a winner take all system that will never result in a proportional representation of the views of the populous.
The best we can do with a third party is weaken an existing one temporarily, or replace it entirely. But everything will still end up with two parties with a huge swath of the population having nobody in congress coming close to sharing their views.
We would need a fresh constitution based on proportional representation in at least one branch of government. Never going to happen in pre-collapse USA.
Till their streaming service approaches the coverage that their DVD service does the analogy is just wrong.
Eliminating the floppy didn't keep people from buying the most popular software, it was already on optical. Backward compatibility with their old software was harmed, which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Netflix subscribers are faced with, where only the old and crappy titles will still be accessible with their neutered service.
Am I the only one who has grown cautious of putting chemicals on my skin, in close contact, for many hours of the day? We'll either end up with a super bug or foot cancer...
The plastic content on eyeglass frames represents but a fraction of the petroleum used to go to and from the optometrist. Concentrating on the materials instead of the problem is the basic failing of much of the "Green" movement.
All too often I see folks claiming to be "Green" because they ripped out a perfectly good kitchen counter and replaced with recycled baby wipes or some such. Most of the movement is more of a scavenger hunt gone horribly awry than one that makes a meaningful impact. Most forget that the greenest thing you can do is get a vasectomy before breeding (well, consulting Kevorkian really, but the idea is the same).
These poor fools have their heart in the right place, but constantly show severely flawed math/engineering skills in what they come up with. Often their approach is by far WORSE to the environment than sticking with the status quo. Farmer's Market's are fun, but don't delude yourself that it actually took less petroleum per item to get that stuff to market in the back of an F250 pickup than to long haul trucking it to Safeway.
Oh well...
Board houses CAN do amazing things, however getting straight answers to design rules usually gets a "It depends..." response. Nothing worse for a hardware designer than having to wait until you spit out a GDS file to get surprised about cost of certain process combinations, or incompatibility of certain process options (i.e. getting sold on edge plating or blind vias only to find out the hard way that that results in MUCH worse etch tolerances).
Most the companies I've dealt with consider their design rules to be semi-secret, even to their customers... If you work with them long enough you get it figured out, but in a high mix business like I was in (every board was a very different stackup with very different requirements) it got to be absolutely frustrating to constantly get surprised, then have to dig up email threads to defend yourself against angry project managers now that the price point blew up or the board has to be completely redesigned despite doing pretty thorough due diligence.
Carriers have obscured cell phone (the physical device) payments with cell phone services. How this came about still boggles my mind, almost like bundling a gas card with your car payment and not being able to find out how much the car even costs. The two should be separate, and the current high fee for cancellation should be deemed illegal. You either pay through the nose month-month, or you risk 2 years of hell dealing with a contract for awful service with a $350+ termination fee looming.
Given the rampant and pervasive monopolistic practices of the soon to be 2 carriers, I just can't get that excited about such a small fine. Such intentional fraud should result in jail time for whoever authorized such actions.
now when am I going to stop being charged for people sending me spam SMS messages? I see that issue as a sure sign that the FCC is fully captured by the industry, and small fines like this are just window dressing to keep the irate masses at bay.
Delete it, and create a more unique email for yourself. John.DoeZIPCODE@gmail.com for example Of course that likely means that down the road you'll be stuck wondering who is getting mail meant for you.
Simple solution to you impending Social Security/Medicare woes AND the elderly's tech frustrations.
World hunger problem? Solved.
Tuition should be based on the value to society, not necessarily the simple cost of the teaching. English major should pay a lot more given that their contribution to the tax base will be much lower than an actual degree.
Why pay $25+ for a Blu-Ray of something when I can get it for 15-20 tops on DVD (though we very rarely spend more than $15 for even a DVD). Simply put the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD battle turned folks off, the DRM issues turned folks off, Apple not adopting it turned that crowd off. It all adds up to just making the simple act of watching a darn movie less and less fun than it used to be.
The Blu-Ray should have had only a short period of price mismatch, then after that it would have been equal to DVD's, only then would the format have taken root. DRM should have been greatly curtailed to make using a movie easier (i.e. make it easy for me to get a lower quality digital copy in the same box for use on my portable iWidget).
Oh well.
Thank's for trying to sell me a disposable $1k phone to be obsoleted in a year and costs $100+ a month in the meantime, but my $35 pay as you go phone works just fine and only costs me $8 a month.
Sheesh.