On Toyota's with this button you have to hold it down for 3 seconds before it turns off the car. In fact the long time hold has been criticized in relation to these accidents. Since you only have to touch to turn on, when you want to turn off in an emergency you also just poke at the button and nothing happens. In the panic of the moment you don't even consider trying again and holding down for a longer time.
It annoys me when they sit down to a PC and the close up is clearly a Mac OS. (Sometimes the opposite happens, but not as often). I recall this in "The Net" and in the American version of "La Femme Nakita" called "Point of No Return" with Bridget Fonda. I would prefer a "made up UI".
I think it is a poor design to have the plane "stand" on its tail. The picture shows the tail is "split" so it can help hold the plane in the upright position. Seems like this is ripe for damage to the tail and that can't be a good thing.
Maybe they could add a "connection quality" meter with the usage meter. Ever since Thanksgiving I have been having very poor quality service which (finally) Comcast agrees is their network problem. But I have to constantly run speedtest.net to verify my speed and terrible latency. I also looked into other software and some of them worked okay. But it would be nice to have a free software that would monitor their system and record the results. They would have to believe the numbers and we could quit bickering about what kind of quality I am getting.
Coming out of grad school I had job interviews with Polaroid. Even to a naive young pup you could see everyone there was working themselves into an early grave. I am glad they took too long to offer me a job and I was employed elsewhere.
Now they are slightly embroiled in the Tom Petters Ponzi scheme, he was a buyer of at least one fragment of Polaroid.
2. Thousands of small publishers and indies have really taken to Kindle and priced their offerings at the $7.00 and lower, many at $0.99 to $2.99. You can download the first three chapters for free to see if you want to "risk" your money on an indie. These people have all tried to get regular publishers to take them on with no success. They realize how broken the middleman to publisher to distributor model of publishing has become. Amazon offers a much higher reward to the author (they get 35% from Amazon) so your dollars are going more to the creator and less to the distribution. Yes some of these indies are examples of bad writing, but Amazon's grading system from readers (like slashdot's scores), their ability to link you to other books like the one you were perusing, can get you to the well written books.
3. Mainstream publishers fighting ebooks to the bitter end. These are the people charging more for ebooks vs paperback. Yes I know this is where many people naturally go to find the well known authors, so I feel your pain about paying more for the ebook. This is not Amazon's fault, they don't set the pricing.
When I first read the comment I thought of an article I read about the poor design of Chernobyl. When I went to find that article, I also found out the Soviets had made multiple copies. I agree that in general you can standardize on a good design if you start with that your goal initially. And as you build them you can make improvements. But in general in the US we are not planning as a nation, each utility is on their own to determine needs. France is probably smart to plan like a nation and look toward building multiple units of a good design.
In industry we are willing to trade money (which we have sometimes) for time (which we are always short of). Since I don't know how to take the sensor and wire it up to a USB port (nor do I know anyone in my lab who can do this) it would take me well over $500 in hourly wages to learn this skill and produce this sensor. As mentioned in another post, academic situations allow for undergrad and grad volunteer (or slightly paid) to spend the time and learn some valuable skills. If anyone at my work needs help with neutron scattering, I can draw upon my grad school experience.
Now I do appreciate others hacking things like the Wii and providing instructions and software to create new sensors.
I would appreciate some more understanding of how the mod system works. Like many that posted, I recently got some, but there was a long dry spell. My karma is excellent. But I did have advertising turned off and wondered if that affected my chances. Recently I made a comment that was pretty funny and was modded up as so, then I got some mod points. So do my mod points depend on my posts being modded up? I post and comment regularly, but as we all know, not every post gets read or commented. But I was also trying an experiment where I did not disable the ads at the same time my post got modded up - so I don't know if either was the key. I looked around for more information about the mod point system but failed to find anything in more in the FAQ (I read the FAQ but it does not answer these types of questions).
Congratulations to/. and I agree the articles are mostly interesting, I have learned quite a bit, and I enjoy each evening going through the stories.
As a graduate student I attended Gordon Conferences and really enjoyed them. At least then these were held at New England boarding schools and you stayed in a dorm room basically (no AC). But the best professors and grad students talked (and presented posters) to intellectually it was great. This was before the electronic revolution and remote enough that evening entertainment was BSing with attendees. They also had afternoons off so you could go play golf, go on a nature hike, so you did not burn out with the conference.
No one has yet mentioned a motivation to fire the guy by the district is the public reaction to all of this. If they don't fire the guy the tax paying public would go nuclear with the board. And bad karma between your taxpayers and your school district is really hard to turn around, it can take years. Meantime any levies you need will be significantly harder or impossible to pass.
In our district we could not pass levies because of ill will from a levy more than 20 years prior. At that time the public was "promised" that a new Sr. High School would not be required and that a second floor could be added to the existing Sr. High if needed (structurally this was actually not possible). I moved in after this event, and no one can show me documentation that his promise was made. Needless to say the district grew in 15 years and they ended up building a new Sr. High (the old Sr. High was turned into a Jr. High School as they needed this capacity as well so it was not wasted).
So a PR fiasco about this SETI issue would be bad enough that this was going on with no educational values (as no one was "teaching" from this expense), it would double the negative effect if you did not fire the person.
I was disappointed when I saw no mention of a Mac version:
The engineer has designed an open-source software program that participants in his A5/1 cracking project can install on their PCs and use to share the task of computing the lookup tables that make up the cryptography system.
Dang. Since I can't sing in tune I thought I could get around the copyright. Obviously when I sing I am not following the notes, but you say the tune is public domain. But I do sing the words correctly, so now I will have to mess those up as badly as I mess up the notes, to get around the copyright.
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On Toyota's with this button you have to hold it down for 3 seconds before it turns off the car. In fact the long time hold has been criticized in relation to these accidents. Since you only have to touch to turn on, when you want to turn off in an emergency you also just poke at the button and nothing happens. In the panic of the moment you don't even consider trying again and holding down for a longer time.
It annoys me when they sit down to a PC and the close up is clearly a Mac OS. (Sometimes the opposite happens, but not as often). I recall this in "The Net" and in the American version of "La Femme Nakita" called "Point of No Return" with Bridget Fonda. I would prefer a "made up UI".
I think it is a poor design to have the plane "stand" on its tail. The picture shows the tail is "split" so it can help hold the plane in the upright position. Seems like this is ripe for damage to the tail and that can't be a good thing.
If this happens we won't have to wait for the Hadron collider to end the universe...
Maybe they could add a "connection quality" meter with the usage meter. Ever since Thanksgiving I have been having very poor quality service which (finally) Comcast agrees is their network problem. But I have to constantly run speedtest.net to verify my speed and terrible latency. I also looked into other software and some of them worked okay. But it would be nice to have a free software that would monitor their system and record the results. They would have to believe the numbers and we could quit bickering about what kind of quality I am getting.
They depended upon you synchronizing two pendulums (one at each end) so often had very poor quality.
Coming out of grad school I had job interviews with Polaroid. Even to a naive young pup you could see everyone there was working themselves into an early grave. I am glad they took too long to offer me a job and I was employed elsewhere.
Now they are slightly embroiled in the Tom Petters Ponzi scheme, he was a buyer of at least one fragment of Polaroid.
Here's the list
On Amazon for the Kindle in ebook format:
1. Thousands of public domain books, for free.
2. Thousands of small publishers and indies have really taken to Kindle and priced their offerings at the $7.00 and lower, many at $0.99 to $2.99. You can download the first three chapters for free to see if you want to "risk" your money on an indie. These people have all tried to get regular publishers to take them on with no success. They realize how broken the middleman to publisher to distributor model of publishing has become. Amazon offers a much higher reward to the author (they get 35% from Amazon) so your dollars are going more to the creator and less to the distribution. Yes some of these indies are examples of bad writing, but Amazon's grading system from readers (like slashdot's scores), their ability to link you to other books like the one you were perusing, can get you to the well written books.
3. Mainstream publishers fighting ebooks to the bitter end. These are the people charging more for ebooks vs paperback. Yes I know this is where many people naturally go to find the well known authors, so I feel your pain about paying more for the ebook. This is not Amazon's fault, they don't set the pricing.
Obviously I suggest you check out indie authors.
I am using Firefox on a Mac and the embedded UTube never showed up on that first page. They show up on other sites.
The original link was not working for me, here is a more direct route
When I first read the comment I thought of an article I read about the poor design of Chernobyl. When I went to find that article, I also found out the Soviets had made multiple copies. I agree that in general you can standardize on a good design if you start with that your goal initially. And as you build them you can make improvements. But in general in the US we are not planning as a nation, each utility is on their own to determine needs. France is probably smart to plan like a nation and look toward building multiple units of a good design.
On the other hand you can get multiple copies of a poor design (Chernobyl), oh, wait, the Soviet Union does have multiple copies of a bad design...
Details of poor design
At least 12 operating in Russia and Lithuania at least they stopped using the design.
Its called a terameter. What is the point of the metric system if you don't use the other scales?
Because then everyone would have to look up teramer and google would crash under the /. rush.
Seems like a Wiimote, like the ones we were reading about the other day would work better than a simple pressure sensor.
In industry we are willing to trade money (which we have sometimes) for time (which we are always short of). Since I don't know how to take the sensor and wire it up to a USB port (nor do I know anyone in my lab who can do this) it would take me well over $500 in hourly wages to learn this skill and produce this sensor. As mentioned in another post, academic situations allow for undergrad and grad volunteer (or slightly paid) to spend the time and learn some valuable skills. If anyone at my work needs help with neutron scattering, I can draw upon my grad school experience.
Now I do appreciate others hacking things like the Wii and providing instructions and software to create new sensors.
I would appreciate some more understanding of how the mod system works. Like many that posted, I recently got some, but there was a long dry spell. My karma is excellent. But I did have advertising turned off and wondered if that affected my chances. Recently I made a comment that was pretty funny and was modded up as so, then I got some mod points. So do my mod points depend on my posts being modded up? I post and comment regularly, but as we all know, not every post gets read or commented. But I was also trying an experiment where I did not disable the ads at the same time my post got modded up - so I don't know if either was the key. I looked around for more information about the mod point system but failed to find anything in more in the FAQ (I read the FAQ but it does not answer these types of questions).
/. and I agree the articles are mostly interesting, I have learned quite a bit, and I enjoy each evening going through the stories.
Congratulations to
As a graduate student I attended Gordon Conferences and really enjoyed them. At least then these were held at New England boarding schools and you stayed in a dorm room basically (no AC). But the best professors and grad students talked (and presented posters) to intellectually it was great. This was before the electronic revolution and remote enough that evening entertainment was BSing with attendees. They also had afternoons off so you could go play golf, go on a nature hike, so you did not burn out with the conference.
I think the tool is not being sold to people wanting to crack into a WiFi network, rather selling to people so that they can test their WiFi network.
Tips...
This link has been deleted.....
No one has yet mentioned a motivation to fire the guy by the district is the public reaction to all of this. If they don't fire the guy the tax paying public would go nuclear with the board. And bad karma between your taxpayers and your school district is really hard to turn around, it can take years. Meantime any levies you need will be significantly harder or impossible to pass.
In our district we could not pass levies because of ill will from a levy more than 20 years prior. At that time the public was "promised" that a new Sr. High School would not be required and that a second floor could be added to the existing Sr. High if needed (structurally this was actually not possible). I moved in after this event, and no one can show me documentation that his promise was made. Needless to say the district grew in 15 years and they ended up building a new Sr. High (the old Sr. High was turned into a Jr. High School as they needed this capacity as well so it was not wasted).
So a PR fiasco about this SETI issue would be bad enough that this was going on with no educational values (as no one was "teaching" from this expense), it would double the negative effect if you did not fire the person.
The engineer has designed an open-source software program that participants in his A5/1 cracking project can install on their PCs and use to share the task of computing the lookup tables that make up the cryptography system.
Dang. Since I can't sing in tune I thought I could get around the copyright. Obviously when I sing I am not following the notes, but you say the tune is public domain. But I do sing the words correctly, so now I will have to mess those up as badly as I mess up the notes, to get around the copyright.
To save money they should us "reload" or used golf balls. They could use the lowest A grade since they don't care about surface imperfections.