It was obvious to me he got it right, actually, and I AM an engineer. And it was most likely caused by some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already and no be messed with in the field in the absence of an engineer....
This is what I see as the problem, too. Those extra two rods were added, apperently to help hold the ends when they decided to put the wheeled trucks in the wrong place. They would have been tensioned -before- the move, and the main rods undeneath loose during the move. When the bridge was placed in position, the lower rods would be tensioned and then the wheeled trucks removed. Then the two extra rods would be -detensioned- (as in loosened), since the diagonal strut would always be in compression after that. It is likely that a mistake was made and the rods that should be lose were instead tightened (tensioned), resulting in twice the normal compressive load on the strut (or more). However, if twice load caused it to crumble then something else was also wrong...
The idea that computerized artificial intellegence will necessarily be better then humans, is purest Superstition. "It's a computer, it has to be perfect!!"
The real name for them is AS (not AI), as in "Artificial Stupid". Letting one drive your car, unmonitored, is _really_ stupid. Those that have tried already, have found out the hard way...
Sounds to me like they are describing movement to a different bubble universe, where you did not exist before. The math is incomplete, though, so it is not includng the bounds of the previous universe. Your history probably still would exist there.
I wonder if their math encountered the square root of minus one? That usually indicates that there are other dimensions/degrees of freedom that were not taken into account.
Hey, Google only notified them in June and maybe they were going to get around to working on it after the holidays. And there are two new variants out this week that aren't considered, so be ready for the next round in a month or so as well.
You can't expect Intel to get these things done immediately, people! (the class action suits are going to love that they didn't fix it with six months' warning).
This sounds very much like the Navy-owned submarine torbedo development facility, at the beginning of WWII. They sounded just the same and showed the same organizational problems, when the torbedoes that the submariners used failed to explode, over and over. Like 8 fired and one worked!
They were later found to have half a dozen serious bugs and defects, which had never been tested. Estimated to have caused a number of our ships to be destroyed and over 800 people to be killed!
And not all computers just run "Office", a hack really can cause people to be killed...
... The current "just leave it on the doorstep" delivery method seems insane to me.)
That's true in a lot of places. But where I live now (VA Mtns) all the packages are left in the doorstep and I have never heard of anyone loosing anything.
Of course, it's a small town, people know their neighbors, and most people own guns. And some people are retired and are home during the day, to watch out for trouble. And, the citizens consider the police to be friends and allies...
A mechanical switch is prone to failure so will need to be tested regularly, and runs the risk of being tested with the system in "live-fire" mode....
True but beside the point, any input will need to be tested. The only reason Not to use a physical switch is cost, which should be insignificant for this application.
The advantage of a physical switch, for actual commands, is that it is a completely different physical movement. That reduces error rate quite significantly.
P.S., Note when using physical switches, use a double-throw switch with three contacts. And use set-reset logic in the electronic input, that will completely debounce the switch. Never use timeouts or delays for debounce, never use single-throw switches! 8-)
("If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization!")
But does it work for (say) the 90 minute bus or train commute that some Slashdot users claim to have?
Not all at once, but using various methods and finding something else when one stops working, yes. It does get easier after practice, and I tend to never get bored anywhere. Of course, it is also called "daydreaming" and "wasting time", so use it with care... 8-)
Could you explain what steps one ought to take in order to avoid doing boredom to oneself? Or were you quoting a movie that I happen not to have seen?
Not a movie, it's real.
Notice that people who complain about being bored, are usually somwewhat young, older people have learned what to do.
The tecniques are about noticing what is around you, and using what is already is in your mind.
The first involves looking carefully at your surroundings to see what might be interesting. If that is not enough, try something like looking for snipers who are trying to get a shot at you. Doesn't matter if it is crazy, you don't have to tell anyone about it.
The second is to think about what you might have forgotten and need to do, or what you might do in the future that is interesting. In other words, strategize and make plans.
That's what I do when I have to wait for someone or something.
If Edge was locked down by group policies, or trust settings, he should have tested his demo before the presentation to get the right permissions set to allow it to work. If that is the case, I'm guessing this guy might be out of job.
Engineers have this unfortunate tendency to assume other people know their jobs. But the guy running the show was in Marketing and Sales, and he had the guys who drove the delivery truck set up the computer... 8-P
I'd be more impressed if the opposition's approach wasn't to define "middle-class", and therefore deserving of punitive taxation, as anybody who was making more than $10,000/year.
For the dems, $10,000 is Rich and needs to be taxed to death. Middle class would be anyone who has a job at all...
A clear tone does not carry much information, but buzzes and squeals have a lot of sideband components and could be carrying a lot of data.
If you have equipment, try manually tuning in a digital signal sometime. It's all buzzes and squeals...;-)
Not to mention old Faximile, Teletype and other tone-keyed signals. You could tell with an HP packet analyzer, or maybe just a good Trigger-sweep Oscilloscope.
This is an example of: "Code will expand to fill all available RAM space."
If users don't complain then coders won't care.
There are very few "software Engineers", but those that exist should care because the largest app gets deleted first. And word spreads fast, particularly these days.
Fight back, check out apps before installing them. Particularly size and speed!;-)
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I see, you mean youre a Clueless right wing nutjob spouting an irrelevant fantasy. Sad.
Making a personal attack on the opposition, is what the left is being accused of these days... ;-)
Are you sure you want to perpetuate the stereotype?
It was obvious to me he got it right, actually, and I AM an engineer. And it was most likely caused by some construction worker tightening something that was supposed to be tight already and no be messed with in the field in the absence of an engineer. ...
This is what I see as the problem, too. Those extra two rods were added, apperently to help hold the ends when they decided to put the wheeled trucks in the wrong place. They would have been tensioned -before- the move, and the main rods undeneath loose during the move. When the bridge was placed in position, the lower rods would be tensioned and then the wheeled trucks removed. Then the two extra rods would be -detensioned- (as in loosened), since the diagonal strut would always be in compression after that. It is likely that a mistake was made and the rods that should be lose were instead tightened (tensioned), resulting in twice the normal compressive load on the strut (or more). However, if twice load caused it to crumble then something else was also wrong...
People that I know, have a laptop for work and a phone for personal email. They don't want both in the same case...
It was not a cable-stayed bridge. It's a truss. See my other posts for details. Hopefully, someone can mod them up for visibility. Thanks in advance!
They claimed it was a struss, and not a suspension bridge. They lied-by-telling-the-truth, it is not a truss. Look at the struts ... carefully!
8-)
The idea that computerized artificial intellegence will necessarily be better then humans, is purest Superstition. "It's a computer, it has to be perfect!!"
The real name for them is AS (not AI), as in "Artificial Stupid". Letting one drive your car, unmonitored, is _really_ stupid. Those that have tried already, have found out the hard way...
If you think everyone else is stupid, you probably have it backward. A lot of that going around these days... 8-)
Sounds to me like they are describing movement to a different bubble universe, where you did not exist before. The math is incomplete, though, so it is not includng the bounds of the previous universe. Your history probably still would exist there.
I wonder if their math encountered the square root of minus one? That usually indicates that there are other dimensions/degrees of freedom that were not taken into account.
Hey, Google only notified them in June and maybe they were going to get around to working on it after the holidays. And there are two new variants out this week that aren't considered, so be ready for the next round in a month or so as well.
You can't expect Intel to get these things done immediately, people! (the class action suits are going to love that they didn't fix it with six months' warning).
This sounds very much like the Navy-owned submarine torbedo development facility, at the beginning of WWII. They sounded just the same and showed the same organizational problems, when the torbedoes that the submariners used failed to explode, over and over. Like 8 fired and one worked!
They were later found to have half a dozen serious bugs and defects, which had never been tested. Estimated to have caused a number of our ships to be destroyed and over 800 people to be killed!
And not all computers just run "Office", a hack really can cause people to be killed...
... The current "just leave it on the doorstep" delivery method seems insane to me.)
That's true in a lot of places. But where I live now (VA Mtns) all the packages are left in the doorstep and I have never heard of anyone loosing anything.
Of course, it's a small town, people know their neighbors, and most people own guns. And some people are retired and are home during the day, to watch out for trouble. And, the citizens consider the police to be friends and allies...
A mechanical switch is prone to failure so will need to be tested regularly, and runs the risk of being tested with the system in "live-fire" mode. ...
True but beside the point, any input will need to be tested. The only reason Not to use a physical switch is cost, which should be insignificant for this application.
The advantage of a physical switch, for actual commands, is that it is a completely different physical movement. That reduces error rate quite significantly.
P.S., Note when using physical switches, use a double-throw switch with three contacts. And use set-reset logic in the electronic input, that will completely debounce the switch. Never use timeouts or delays for debounce, never use single-throw switches! 8-)
("If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization!")
Humans are part of the system. If a human error is made, then the system design has failed.
Blaming it on the operator is a "pointy-haired-boss" excuse, even if it is (partly) true.
This system seems to have been designed by programmers who made a habit of ignoring error conditions, This is called incompetents, I think.
Mistakes made by people are still "error conditions" and should be handled as needed. 8-)
It's mostly because of the hippies in the 1960's and 1970's, who believed security was a government plot and "Data just wants to be Free!!".
Many people were influenced by this attitude and often don't even know it. The result is:
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the firse woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
If you don't always check for error return values, then this is you... 8-}
But does it work for (say) the 90 minute bus or train commute that some Slashdot users claim to have?
Not all at once, but using various methods and finding something else when one stops working, yes.
It does get easier after practice, and I tend to never get bored anywhere.
Of course, it is also called "daydreaming" and "wasting time", so use it with care... 8-)
Could you explain what steps one ought to take in order to avoid doing boredom to oneself? Or were you quoting a movie that I happen not to have seen?
Not a movie, it's real.
Notice that people who complain about being bored, are usually somwewhat young, older people have learned what to do.
The tecniques are about noticing what is around you, and using what is already is in your mind.
The first involves looking carefully at your surroundings to see what might be interesting. If that is not enough, try something like looking for snipers who are trying to get a shot at you. Doesn't matter if it is crazy, you don't have to tell anyone about it.
The second is to think about what you might have forgotten and need to do, or what you might do in the future that is interesting. In other words, strategize and make plans.
That's what I do when I have to wait for someone or something.
HTH,
Customers charge a hell of a lot more to do QA testing than the regular QA people do! Think about it! ;-)
"If Engineers built buildings the way Programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization!"
Then what are you doing to pass the time while riding the bus or train to and from work?
Boredom is not just something that happens to you, it is something that you do to yourself!
Don't do it, and you will not have a problem.
Even the Sioux argued about Daylight Saving Time?
The Sioux are right there to this day...
But that was about 15 years ago.
If Edge was locked down by group policies, or trust settings, he should have tested his demo before the presentation to get the right permissions set to allow it to work. If that is the case, I'm guessing this guy might be out of job.
Engineers have this unfortunate tendency to assume other people know their jobs. But the guy running the show was in Marketing and Sales, and he had the guys who drove the delivery truck set up the computer... 8-P
To use an old Sioux saying:
"Daylight saving time is like cutting a foot off of your blanket and sewing it on to the other end, and thinking you have made it longer!"
This is mostly what has happened. I have a test setup at home with simulators for the big stuff. Driving all over the place every day makes no sense!
Also we work on the commercial and industrial stuff, where people need to believe in Murphy's Law. 8-)
I'd be more impressed if the opposition's approach wasn't to define "middle-class", and therefore deserving of punitive taxation, as anybody who was making more than $10,000/year.
For the dems, $10,000 is Rich and needs to be taxed to death. Middle class would be anyone who has a job at all...
This smells of Class Action Lawsuit !
Or more than one...
A clear tone does not carry much information, but buzzes and squeals have a lot of sideband components and could be carrying a lot of data.
If you have equipment, try manually tuning in a digital signal sometime. It's all buzzes and squeals... ;-)
Not to mention old Faximile, Teletype and other tone-keyed signals. You could tell with an HP packet analyzer, or maybe just a good Trigger-sweep Oscilloscope.
This is an example of: "Code will expand to fill all available RAM space."
If users don't complain then coders won't care.
There are very few "software Engineers", but those that exist should care because the largest app gets deleted first. And word spreads fast, particularly these days.
Fight back, check out apps before installing them. Particularly size and speed! ;-)