To clarify the above (since I had to as it could be read incorrectly), the manufacturer gets the exemption order on a particular part that is manufactured. Individuals making such modifications do not have to get exemption orders except for custom parts.
Most of the limits in California apply to things like lowering cars below a certain level, exceeding noise or pollution limits, or blatant safety violations. So far as I know, there are few, if any, that require any kind of review before they can be used on the road.
For example, they cannot be driven on public roads unless they have a certain amount of clearance from the road, meaning that air suspension units are allowed as long as they're not lowered completely while driving. But you have to be caught by law enforcement driving a vehicle set too low to be cited for it.
One friend has two cars that have been ongoing projects for ten and six years, respectively. Some of them are very minor -- like adding a multiple CD player to the center console -- and some of them have been more significant -- like rewiring the cruise control to control his radio (he hates cruise control, but it came with the options package). Other changes have included alterations to the exhaust system, new suspensions, new headers (I think), ceramic brakes, and additional changes to the electrical system. One day, he might even complete his projects.
Sometime recently (it's late and I need sleep, so if you want you can look for yourself), I believe Microsoft said that they would charge per socket when it came to multiple-core CPUs. This was an important point that was brought up when AMD announced that it would begin production of dual-core Athlon64 CPUs later this year.
How they would detect multiple cores in a single socket was not discussed. Maybe there will be something in the chipset that will cover that.
What about all the dark fiber that was laid down in the late 90's in anticipation of the big boom? Was that all a myth, or is it just waiting to be used by the creditors that took possession after the crash?
umm, there WAS debris found 8 miles or so from the main impact site, backwards from the line of flight, and roughly near where the eyewitnesses claim they saw the shootdown occur. Of course, you knew that from research, correct, about the debris and the mostly ignored eyewitnesses?
There were also a number of witnesses that said that there was no smoke coming from the plane, and they were as close as a half-mile from the eventual impact site. The one consistent point that the conspiracists seem to be glued to is the 'bang' sound that was heard at least once. Off the top of my head, This could have been from a stalled engine that sent unburnt fuel that then ignited later (similar to a backfire in a car). It could have been the result of the cabin depressurizing as the fuselage was twisted too far. It could have been bulkheads breaking from the stress of flying too fast, too low. Lots of possibilities, and they don't have to be related to it being shot down.
Here's another one. That stewardess who allegedly called her husband had to use a phone built into the plane, because her cellphone was in her purse, which she couldn't get to because the terrorists were in the way and stuff....
She wasn't the only one to have made a call. A number of other passengers placed cell calls and said that they were going to do something to prevent that plane from hitting any targets.
For that to be the case, there would have to be a head-on approach, or an essentially head-on approach. The pilot would have to line up the cockpit, and there would have been sounds on the CVR of the rounds impacting.
How much would it realistically cost to put the Apollo program back in place, as suggested in the Time article from about a year ago? I suspect a lot less than a shuttle replacement, and could lift a LOT more into space (the shuttle is limited to about 29 tons of payload, while the Saturn V could lift some 120 tons).
Families that listened to the cockpit voice recording in April 2002 said that the recording, while not completely clear, did clearly indicate that there was a struggle in the cockpit shortly before the plane crashed. In addition, had the plane been shot down by a missile, there would have been debris scattered for miles before the impact site along the flight path -- Sidewinder, Sparrow, or AMRAAM, those things will blow a lot of pieces off of a large plane.
Gasoline that has not been oxygenated with MTBE or ethanol holds about 115,000 BTUs of energy per gallon, give or take depending on environmental conditions and a few things about the blend. Oxygenates typically reduce that value by about 3% or so.
This is where 802.11i is a bit different, though, in that the new security features are mandatory. Missing small points, no matter how difficult, will fail the certification.
The beam spreads considerably at a distance. This was disconcerting as a child, as it meant that one had to be in close to avoid getting hit sometimes. The Lazer Tag pistols were more like shotguns in that way.
Better beam attenuation would also have the effect of increasing the effective range, making sniping more possible.
Quite a few people who watched TOS, actually, and not just geeks -- my dad knows it, and he's only seen a few TNG eps but has caught most of TOS over the years. It was a pretty significant moment in that episode when they first saw the Romulan commander, and everyone tried not to look at Spock, then the commander, then Spock, then the commander, and on and on for ten minutes, which would have made for pretty bad TV.
Virtually everyone I know upgrades their PC's for one of two reasons:
1. Games 2. Component failure
The vast majority of them are in the first group, and only a few in the second group. Because of the number of people I support (friends, family, etc), I keep a copy of every version of Windows available in VMWare at home because I know someone running pretty much every version, and even the little bits between Win95a and Win95b are worth separating. (I even ran into a problem recently on Win3.11 -- glad I had installed that for kicks!)
A good number of them are still on mid-grade Pentium PCs, and have no intention or really even a reason to upgrade since they're just using them as simple terminals. I make sure they've got their firewalls and AV running, and they keep running smoothly along for the most part until a RAM chip dies or a modem becomes flaky, and then it's a few dollars to replace the component if I don't have an extra one around. It's only on the rarest of occasions that I will advise someone to get a brand-new PC, or to make a significant upgrade of more than two components, and that's usually when kids are reaching game-playing ages or there's a motherboard failure on an old system which would be difficult to replace.
No arguments that using IE can cause harm to the computer......but to the user? Unless you're referring to one of my security colleagues beating a user over the head with an old IBM keyboard for going once again to a spyware-infested site, I've never seen use of IE cause personal harm.
For my part, I want my peers, my community, and the government to know what I read, and what I think. Only then can they know how strong the opposition to their criminal power really is.
That's fine, so long as it's just you, by your choice, and on your terms. But I don't see the reason that the government needs to know what I read. If they want to see how strong opposition is on the basis of who is reading what, they can always consult something like Nielsen Bookscan for a more or less raw sales number count from the point of sale (rather than from the publisher, which counts can be grossly inflated).
This is one of the reasons that I've been seriously considering changing my buying habits for books back to cash. I admit that the lure of plastic is great -- I have about a dozen books in my Amazon cart right now -- but at least if the purchase is in cash and not using a store discount card, I know that the purchase will be a lot harder to link directly to me.
The company contracts to a government agency and runs its network backbone and many of its servers. At the least, some of the problems are major headaches that could result in a slew of harsh words from the government people. At worst, it can cause delays that slow access by the public (because they problems are fixed during working hours instead of when offices are closed) and, potentially, cost the agency government funds that are required to continue operating by not meeting mandated service levels.
How I miss those days... walking towards the time clock, thinking of what I'd do the next day, punching out and moving onto personal things for the evening and not having work come to mind until the next morning just after I punched in.
I'm in those days, and I want out. Here's why.
In my job, we get deadlines, and they're set well above my head. They are met, end of discussion. OK, fine. While this sometimes meant the odd late night, or working on something on the laptop in bed at night for presentation the next day, that's just part of the job sometimes, and the job is good (laptop and cell phone are provided, and Blackberries are given to those that need them). However, the company recently switched us to hourly rates because of some new reading of the law, and since there is exactly zero budget for overtime, we are expected to work our listed shifts exactly as listed. We are not allowed to stay late to make up time from the beginning of the day (though we may take up to a half-hour out of our lunches), even if it's personal time skimming news sites or something. Management goes around the floor checking desks and offices, and harangues those still there after 5pm (the shift end for all but about three people) until they leave. The place feels less like a datacenter and more like a factory.
I appreciate the extra half-hour or so I get out of the evening, but it's usually extra time in traffic, because I used to work a little extra to wait for traffic to die down a bit. The flexibility of being able to stay (sometimes for comp time) was useful for emergency situations, and now OT has to go through several levels of approval, meaning emergencies that happen at 4:55pm sometimes don't get fixed until the next morning.
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That's what I said. Residents do not have to get exemption orders for modifications except for when they custom-make their parts.
To clarify the above (since I had to as it could be read incorrectly), the manufacturer gets the exemption order on a particular part that is manufactured. Individuals making such modifications do not have to get exemption orders except for custom parts.
Most of the limits in California apply to things like lowering cars below a certain level, exceeding noise or pollution limits, or blatant safety violations. So far as I know, there are few, if any, that require any kind of review before they can be used on the road.
For example, they cannot be driven on public roads unless they have a certain amount of clearance from the road, meaning that air suspension units are allowed as long as they're not lowered completely while driving. But you have to be caught by law enforcement driving a vehicle set too low to be cited for it.
One friend has two cars that have been ongoing projects for ten and six years, respectively. Some of them are very minor -- like adding a multiple CD player to the center console -- and some of them have been more significant -- like rewiring the cruise control to control his radio (he hates cruise control, but it came with the options package). Other changes have included alterations to the exhaust system, new suspensions, new headers (I think), ceramic brakes, and additional changes to the electrical system. One day, he might even complete his projects.
Sometime recently (it's late and I need sleep, so if you want you can look for yourself), I believe Microsoft said that they would charge per socket when it came to multiple-core CPUs. This was an important point that was brought up when AMD announced that it would begin production of dual-core Athlon64 CPUs later this year.
How they would detect multiple cores in a single socket was not discussed. Maybe there will be something in the chipset that will cover that.
Right, but the question that I was asking was in reference to the backbone, not the connections to the home.
What about all the dark fiber that was laid down in the late 90's in anticipation of the big boom? Was that all a myth, or is it just waiting to be used by the creditors that took possession after the crash?
umm, there WAS debris found 8 miles or so from the main impact site, backwards from the line of flight, and roughly near where the eyewitnesses claim they saw the shootdown occur. Of course, you knew that from research, correct, about the debris and the mostly ignored eyewitnesses?
There were also a number of witnesses that said that there was no smoke coming from the plane, and they were as close as a half-mile from the eventual impact site. The one consistent point that the conspiracists seem to be glued to is the 'bang' sound that was heard at least once. Off the top of my head, This could have been from a stalled engine that sent unburnt fuel that then ignited later (similar to a backfire in a car). It could have been the result of the cabin depressurizing as the fuselage was twisted too far. It could have been bulkheads breaking from the stress of flying too fast, too low. Lots of possibilities, and they don't have to be related to it being shot down.
Here's another one. That stewardess who allegedly called her husband had to use a phone built into the plane, because her cellphone was in her purse, which she couldn't get to because the terrorists were in the way and stuff....
She wasn't the only one to have made a call. A number of other passengers placed cell calls and said that they were going to do something to prevent that plane from hitting any targets.
For that to be the case, there would have to be a head-on approach, or an essentially head-on approach. The pilot would have to line up the cockpit, and there would have been sounds on the CVR of the rounds impacting.
How much would it realistically cost to put the Apollo program back in place, as suggested in the Time article from about a year ago? I suspect a lot less than a shuttle replacement, and could lift a LOT more into space (the shuttle is limited to about 29 tons of payload, while the Saturn V could lift some 120 tons).
It just doesn't look as sexy.
That's just the overall value. Whether it burns as well in engines... Well, I drive in California, too, and I've seen the numbers.
I wonder how much it would cost to import Oregonian fuel?
Families that listened to the cockpit voice recording in April 2002 said that the recording, while not completely clear, did clearly indicate that there was a struggle in the cockpit shortly before the plane crashed. In addition, had the plane been shot down by a missile, there would have been debris scattered for miles before the impact site along the flight path -- Sidewinder, Sparrow, or AMRAAM, those things will blow a lot of pieces off of a large plane.
Just you wait until BitBoys releases their chip onto the market! It's going to melt everything else out there!
Except that's not combusting.
Gasoline that has not been oxygenated with MTBE or ethanol holds about 115,000 BTUs of energy per gallon, give or take depending on environmental conditions and a few things about the blend. Oxygenates typically reduce that value by about 3% or so.
Dammit... And I was looking to upgrade my computer this month.
Upgrade... or invest in Google?
Someone hates me to make me have to choose between those two.
They're not, but they are traded on the NYSE, so they're included in those market caps.
This is where 802.11i is a bit different, though, in that the new security features are mandatory. Missing small points, no matter how difficult, will fail the certification.
The beam spreads considerably at a distance. This was disconcerting as a child, as it meant that one had to be in close to avoid getting hit sometimes. The Lazer Tag pistols were more like shotguns in that way.
Better beam attenuation would also have the effect of increasing the effective range, making sniping more possible.
Quite a few people who watched TOS, actually, and not just geeks -- my dad knows it, and he's only seen a few TNG eps but has caught most of TOS over the years. It was a pretty significant moment in that episode when they first saw the Romulan commander, and everyone tried not to look at Spock, then the commander, then Spock, then the commander, and on and on for ten minutes, which would have made for pretty bad TV.
Fair enough. I was thinking more along the lines of physical harm. Thought I missed mention of the exploding monitor exploit.
Virtually everyone I know upgrades their PC's for one of two reasons:
1. Games
2. Component failure
The vast majority of them are in the first group, and only a few in the second group. Because of the number of people I support (friends, family, etc), I keep a copy of every version of Windows available in VMWare at home because I know someone running pretty much every version, and even the little bits between Win95a and Win95b are worth separating. (I even ran into a problem recently on Win3.11 -- glad I had installed that for kicks!)
A good number of them are still on mid-grade Pentium PCs, and have no intention or really even a reason to upgrade since they're just using them as simple terminals. I make sure they've got their firewalls and AV running, and they keep running smoothly along for the most part until a RAM chip dies or a modem becomes flaky, and then it's a few dollars to replace the component if I don't have an extra one around. It's only on the rarest of occasions that I will advise someone to get a brand-new PC, or to make a significant upgrade of more than two components, and that's usually when kids are reaching game-playing ages or there's a motherboard failure on an old system which would be difficult to replace.
No arguments that using IE can cause harm to the computer... ...but to the user? Unless you're referring to one of my security colleagues beating a user over the head with an old IBM keyboard for going once again to a spyware-infested site, I've never seen use of IE cause personal harm.
For my part, I want my peers, my community, and the government to know what I read, and what I think. Only then can they know how strong the opposition to their criminal power really is.
That's fine, so long as it's just you, by your choice, and on your terms. But I don't see the reason that the government needs to know what I read. If they want to see how strong opposition is on the basis of who is reading what, they can always consult something like Nielsen Bookscan for a more or less raw sales number count from the point of sale (rather than from the publisher, which counts can be grossly inflated).
This is one of the reasons that I've been seriously considering changing my buying habits for books back to cash. I admit that the lure of plastic is great -- I have about a dozen books in my Amazon cart right now -- but at least if the purchase is in cash and not using a store discount card, I know that the purchase will be a lot harder to link directly to me.
The company contracts to a government agency and runs its network backbone and many of its servers. At the least, some of the problems are major headaches that could result in a slew of harsh words from the government people. At worst, it can cause delays that slow access by the public (because they problems are fixed during working hours instead of when offices are closed) and, potentially, cost the agency government funds that are required to continue operating by not meeting mandated service levels.
Ahh the words of an hourly worker.
How I miss those days... walking towards the time clock, thinking of what I'd do the next day, punching out and moving onto personal things for the evening and not having work come to mind until the next morning just after I punched in.
I'm in those days, and I want out. Here's why.
In my job, we get deadlines, and they're set well above my head. They are met, end of discussion. OK, fine. While this sometimes meant the odd late night, or working on something on the laptop in bed at night for presentation the next day, that's just part of the job sometimes, and the job is good (laptop and cell phone are provided, and Blackberries are given to those that need them). However, the company recently switched us to hourly rates because of some new reading of the law, and since there is exactly zero budget for overtime, we are expected to work our listed shifts exactly as listed. We are not allowed to stay late to make up time from the beginning of the day (though we may take up to a half-hour out of our lunches), even if it's personal time skimming news sites or something. Management goes around the floor checking desks and offices, and harangues those still there after 5pm (the shift end for all but about three people) until they leave. The place feels less like a datacenter and more like a factory.
I appreciate the extra half-hour or so I get out of the evening, but it's usually extra time in traffic, because I used to work a little extra to wait for traffic to die down a bit. The flexibility of being able to stay (sometimes for comp time) was useful for emergency situations, and now OT has to go through several levels of approval, meaning emergencies that happen at 4:55pm sometimes don't get fixed until the next morning.