A version (to me) indicates a point on a timeline. Version 1 is the first version, then comes version 2, etc.
A different word is needed to distinguish products. Each product can have its own version history. Why people settled on "flavor" is beyond me, but I don't see it as an unreasonable choice.
A flavor called "Warty Warthog" is just plain bad marketing. Of course the most popular Jelly-Belly jelly bean flavor is "Vomit".
People in America are plenty familiar with a kilo. They are smallish bricks that are relatively easy to stash in vehicle cutouts and can be used to negotiate for cash with shady characters at the local strip club.
It is not about hypoxia, but rather the fact that you would have your soft tissue torn away from your stronger skeletal tissue. Most of your organs remain in place as long as the connecting tissue is intact.
but there's no fundamental technical difference as far as I can see
Except that one is changed with a laser and the other is done electrically?
The laser is probably more powerful than it needs to be because it needs to pass through a (relatively) dirty lens, several mm of air, and a layer of plastic before altering the material. in order to do this reliably, they overpower the laser so that it can achieve the effect. The tradeoff is that the excess power wears the material out faster.
Now the material is integrated into a chip and uses simple thermal conduction instead of radiation to achieve the effect. The distances are much smaller and the environment is much more controlled, which means that you do not need to overpower the devices. This results in reduced wear, which means a longer life.
As the GPP said... "It is almost as if it is more important the way the material is used".
but there's no shortage of PC cases - in both full-PC and component guise - that are just as good.
The real trick is getting a case and motherboard to work together. The case can be slicker than snot, but if the motherboard has the sockets in the wrong places, you will still have a spiderweb of wires when you are done.
The problem with The Cobra (AKA "hitting the brakes") is that it bleeds off a lot of speed that can be difficult to recover in a twisting turning dogfight. As such you are often left very vulnerable and unable to pursue any advantage that you might have gained.
All fighter pilots know "speed is life".
When I was working for a simulator company, I bought a book called "Air Combat" from the Naval Press. This was the textbook they used to train their pilots. Very interesting reading.
Yes, the images have been processed but that is quite normal. We are not taking colour photographs, we have to combine the different colour channels which requires processing time. Each of the four colour channels operate with a filter of different wavelength (red, green, blue and infrared) and produce data sets which have to be combined and calculated on to a digital elevation model.
Congress spends the money. The president proposes it and can affect spending with his policies, but Congress will often pass legislation to distribute money.
The budget balanced a while back because both Congress and the President made it happen, not just the president.
That the area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is equal to the product of its three sides divided by four times the circles radius is a physical fact...
Only for perfectly flat space. In reality, all space is curved even if by just a little bit.
We generally discover that what we believe to be a fundamental truth is often dependant on assumptions that we are not aware of. This is where brilliant minds discover more about our world by exposing these hidden assumptions.
Also, we tend to aggregate things for convenience. But the universe does not concern itself with such things. To the universe, 2 apples + 3 apples is simply a lot of quantum particles going about their business. We may have simplified things to 2+3, but that is not what it really is. 2+3 works for most cases, but there will be edges where the simpler math breaks down and if you do not realize that you are dealing with quantum particles instead of a few apples, you may become very frustrated.
We need a "none of the above" choice when we vote. I bet more voters would turn out if they could express their dissatisfaction without being caught in the parent post's dilemna.
A few weeks ago, I started playing with Ubuntu, and I gotta say, there is no reason why it can't replace windows on the desktop. If Dell will start installing it on systems (thus knocking $100 buck off the price of a machine), then it can make some serious in-roads, and knock Windows back.
Dell (or any other PC vendor) has no interest in "knocking Windows back" and they probably only pay in the $20-$30 range for Windows with their volumes.
The reason that non-x86 workstations are expensive is because of the lack of volume. By excluding the architecture popular in business, you have essentially severed off the volume manufacturers that can lower the costs for you. You will never find a low-cost computer that uses an architecture that is not mainstream. There is no incentive for companies to invest in the engineering resources to build a few thousand computers that may or may not be sold.
I looked into building my own computer from the chips up, and decided that it was simpler, and less expensive to just buy one.
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Go to Sparkfun and search for USB. Lots of cheap (less than $30) dohickeys for doing all kinds of electronics projects.
A month ago, I went to a birthday party for a relative...he was turning two years old. Among the presents he got, he was more interested in the boxes and bags than any of the toys. Two years of age might be a bit young to draw any conclusion, but the flashy, loud toys didn't hold his attention.
My kids are 4 and 6 and they would much rather drag each other around the house in a box or laundry basket than play with many of their toys.
Toys that spark the imagination and get integrated into play are much better than toys that function only one way. Legos, figures (dolls), cars and trains all tend to get integrated into my kids' play and I will only buy them toys that will do that.
Single function toys like the HotWheels(TM) car sets are useless because they only do one thing and do not integrate well with other toys. Furthermore, if you loose one piece the entire set often will cease to function. They are just giant Rube Goldberg devices for kids.
Video games are another "toy" that do not integrate well into play. I do have them, but their use is strictly regulated (1/2 hour per day). Video games are good for long trips and stimulating interest in electonics and computers.
Mortgages and Car payments give you the option at signing time. I refinanced and got the insurance (as well as some cash to ride it out). You can also get it from other companies like The Duck (Aflack). They usually have a 30-day waiting period from the time you sign to the engagement of the contract, so beware of your timing.
I'm just guessing he means those little scammy insurances you can get for loans and credit cards, where they cover your monthly payment if you're involuntarily out of work. It's kind of like "pogey" for your debt.
Yup, exactly like that.
I had gone out and did some job hunting at the time and the market then was pretty grim in my area and I did not feel like moving (again). I did the math and figured that if I was laid off for more than 5 months, I would breakeven on the cost of the insurance.
I was out of work for about 9 months. So I still have it, knowing I got more out than I put in, and for the next 12 or so years, I don't have to worry about losing my house to a layoff.
Quitting generally disqualifies you for any kind of unemployment benefits. Only quit if you are given a nice juicy severance package.
Most unemployment benefits are 26 weeks of minimum wage pay (generally about 5k). Understand this when negotiating your severance.
I was laid off after being given "unofficial" notice a full 4 months in advance. I had a chance to restructure my debt, get "layoff" insurance, and all kinds of other stuff that made the transistion much easier. Definitely a good way to go.
Try paying taxes on a million dollar home. He could easily lose his house for failing to pay taxes. I'm betting that if he sold the house to get a more modest one, the gub'ment would be able to sieze the proceeds to pay for the judgement. At least the cash left over after buying the new, smaller house.
I hope he hid his money well. He's going to need it.
This is where the dilution of the word "engineer" rears its ugly head. It has been so overused that most people (especially human resources folks that do the hiring) do not understand the difference between a software engineer and a programmer.
Software Engineers design the system. Programmers write the code.
Designing the system is an engineering role and you should have someone trained in engineering concepts performing this task. Implementing the design can be done by anyone trained in the use of the tools and a good set of dcoumentation produced by the previous step. Engineers can implement the code, but generally not the other way around.
However, for a robot that has to retrieve things from shelves for humans, moving sideways can be an advantage. Think about how a Segway would work in a library with narrow aisles (not very well).
Being able to interact with humans does not mean acting human in every way. If I want a human assistant, I'll hire an intern.
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A version (to me) indicates a point on a timeline. Version 1 is the first version, then comes version 2, etc.
A different word is needed to distinguish products. Each product can have its own version history. Why people settled on "flavor" is beyond me, but I don't see it as an unreasonable choice.
A flavor called "Warty Warthog" is just plain bad marketing. Of course the most popular Jelly-Belly jelly bean flavor is "Vomit".
People in America are plenty familiar with a kilo. They are smallish bricks that are relatively easy to stash in vehicle cutouts and can be used to negotiate for cash with shady characters at the local strip club.
At least that's what the movies tell me.
It is not about hypoxia, but rather the fact that you would have your soft tissue torn away from your stronger skeletal tissue. Most of your organs remain in place as long as the connecting tissue is intact.
but there's no fundamental technical difference as far as I can see
Except that one is changed with a laser and the other is done electrically?
The laser is probably more powerful than it needs to be because it needs to pass through a (relatively) dirty lens, several mm of air, and a layer of plastic before altering the material. in order to do this reliably, they overpower the laser so that it can achieve the effect. The tradeoff is that the excess power wears the material out faster.
Now the material is integrated into a chip and uses simple thermal conduction instead of radiation to achieve the effect. The distances are much smaller and the environment is much more controlled, which means that you do not need to overpower the devices. This results in reduced wear, which means a longer life.
As the GPP said...
"It is almost as if it is more important the way the material is used".
but there's no shortage of PC cases - in both full-PC and component guise - that are just as good.
The real trick is getting a case and motherboard to work together. The case can be slicker than snot, but if the motherboard has the sockets in the wrong places, you will still have a spiderweb of wires when you are done.
The Cobra isn't a great air combat maneuver.
The problem with The Cobra (AKA "hitting the brakes") is that it bleeds off a lot of speed that can be difficult to recover in a twisting turning dogfight. As such you are often left very vulnerable and unable to pursue any advantage that you might have gained.
All fighter pilots know "speed is life".
When I was working for a simulator company, I bought a book called "Air Combat" from the Naval Press. This was the textbook they used to train their pilots. Very interesting reading.
From the FAQ...
Yes, the images have been processed but that is quite normal. We are not taking colour photographs, we have to combine the different colour channels which requires processing time. Each of the four colour channels operate with a filter of different wavelength (red, green, blue and infrared) and produce data sets which have to be combined and calculated on to a digital elevation model.
Congress spends the money. The president proposes it and can affect spending with his policies, but Congress will often pass legislation to distribute money.
The budget balanced a while back because both Congress and the President made it happen, not just the president.
That the area of a triangle inscribed in a circle is equal to the product of its three sides divided by four times the circles radius is a physical fact...
Only for perfectly flat space. In reality, all space is curved even if by just a little bit.
We generally discover that what we believe to be a fundamental truth is often dependant on assumptions that we are not aware of. This is where brilliant minds discover more about our world by exposing these hidden assumptions.
Also, we tend to aggregate things for convenience. But the universe does not concern itself with such things. To the universe, 2 apples + 3 apples is simply a lot of quantum particles going about their business. We may have simplified things to 2+3, but that is not what it really is. 2+3 works for most cases, but there will be edges where the simpler math breaks down and if you do not realize that you are dealing with quantum particles instead of a few apples, you may become very frustrated.
We need a "none of the above" choice when we vote. I bet more voters would turn out if they could express their dissatisfaction without being caught in the parent post's dilemna.
A few weeks ago, I started playing with Ubuntu, and I gotta say, there is no reason why it can't replace windows on the desktop. If Dell will start installing it on systems (thus knocking $100 buck off the price of a machine), then it can make some serious in-roads, and knock Windows back.
Dell (or any other PC vendor) has no interest in "knocking Windows back" and they probably only pay in the $20-$30 range for Windows with their volumes.
Vote the incumbent out of office. Repeat as nessecary.
Nuclear fuels* and geothermal are two non-solar energy sources.
*Nuclear could be considered solar, but not from our present star!
The reason that non-x86 workstations are expensive is because of the lack of volume. By excluding the architecture popular in business, you have essentially severed off the volume manufacturers that can lower the costs for you. You will never find a low-cost computer that uses an architecture that is not mainstream. There is no incentive for companies to invest in the engineering resources to build a few thousand computers that may or may not be sold.
I looked into building my own computer from the chips up, and decided that it was simpler, and less expensive to just buy one.
Go to Sparkfun and search for USB. Lots of cheap (less than $30) dohickeys for doing all kinds of electronics projects.
And it would be nice to recharge the batteries wirelessly as well.
A month ago, I went to a birthday party for a relative...he was turning two years old. Among the presents he got, he was more interested in the boxes and bags than any of the toys. Two years of age might be a bit young to draw any conclusion, but the flashy, loud toys didn't hold his attention.
My kids are 4 and 6 and they would much rather drag each other around the house in a box or laundry basket than play with many of their toys.
Toys that spark the imagination and get integrated into play are much better than toys that function only one way. Legos, figures (dolls), cars and trains all tend to get integrated into my kids' play and I will only buy them toys that will do that.
Single function toys like the HotWheels(TM) car sets are useless because they only do one thing and do not integrate well with other toys. Furthermore, if you loose one piece the entire set often will cease to function. They are just giant Rube Goldberg devices for kids.
Video games are another "toy" that do not integrate well into play. I do have them, but their use is strictly regulated (1/2 hour per day). Video games are good for long trips and stimulating interest in electonics and computers.
Mortgages and Car payments give you the option at signing time. I refinanced and got the insurance (as well as some cash to ride it out). You can also get it from other companies like The Duck (Aflack). They usually have a 30-day waiting period from the time you sign to the engagement of the contract, so beware of your timing.
I'm just guessing he means those little scammy insurances you can get for loans and credit cards, where they cover your monthly payment if you're involuntarily out of work. It's kind of like "pogey" for your debt.
Yup, exactly like that.
I had gone out and did some job hunting at the time and the market then was pretty grim in my area and I did not feel like moving (again). I did the math and figured that if I was laid off for more than 5 months, I would breakeven on the cost of the insurance.
I was out of work for about 9 months. So I still have it, knowing I got more out than I put in, and for the next 12 or so years, I don't have to worry about losing my house to a layoff.
Quitting generally disqualifies you for any kind of unemployment benefits. Only quit if you are given a nice juicy severance package.
Most unemployment benefits are 26 weeks of minimum wage pay (generally about 5k). Understand this when negotiating your severance.
I was laid off after being given "unofficial" notice a full 4 months in advance. I had a chance to restructure my debt, get "layoff" insurance, and all kinds of other stuff that made the transistion much easier. Definitely a good way to go.
Try paying taxes on a million dollar home. He could easily lose his house for failing to pay taxes. I'm betting that if he sold the house to get a more modest one, the gub'ment would be able to sieze the proceeds to pay for the judgement. At least the cash left over after buying the new, smaller house.
I hope he hid his money well. He's going to need it.
I remember a Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert is talking to a salesman about a computer.
Salesman: Our computer is so powerful and smart that it needs only one button to operate.
Dilbert: What happens when you push the button?
Salesman: Woa! I'm in over my head. You'd better call Tech Support.
Submitting without proofreading strikes agian!
And agian!
And agian!
And agian!
(sorry, couldn't resist)
This is where the dilution of the word "engineer" rears its ugly head. It has been so overused that most people (especially human resources folks that do the hiring) do not understand the difference between a software engineer and a programmer.
Software Engineers design the system.
Programmers write the code.
Designing the system is an engineering role and you should have someone trained in engineering concepts performing this task. Implementing the design can be done by anyone trained in the use of the tools and a good set of dcoumentation produced by the previous step. Engineers can implement the code, but generally not the other way around.
However, for a robot that has to retrieve things from shelves for humans, moving sideways can be an advantage. Think about how a Segway would work in a library with narrow aisles (not very well).
Being able to interact with humans does not mean acting human in every way. If I want a human assistant, I'll hire an intern.