I had a programming job in an open office with the boss on the phone
I once had a job in a cube farm, and my nearest neighbor was a wanna be local politician who was always on the phone talking himself up. You don't need to be in an open office to be annoyed by that shit.
You really need to review your history. The open office has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Mind you back then the Monks weren't allowed to speak. And that doesn't even touch on Dicksian nightmares and the middle of last century. What is new is people not shutting the fuck up and annoying everyone else.
The cube farm was invented as response to the problems of the open office. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way and people wonder why problems are cropping up?
The office cubicle was created by designer Robert Propst for Herman Miller, and released in 1967 under the name "Action Office II". Although cubicles are often seen as being symbolic of work in a modern office setting due to their uniformity and blandness, they afford the employee a greater degree of privacy and personalization than in previous work environments, which often consisted of desks lined up in rows within an open room.
it's also entirely possible that this was just a mistake
I'd go with someone decided that artistically they wanted the song and then assumed that the artist would agree with whatever Sony would negotiate. The artist didn't, but Sony kept the song in anyway. There is a comment above that says Sony listed the artist for the song in the movies credits. TIMHO this is no "mistake".
They could use a PLC. Like they did 20+ years ago...
These days you could run an application as simple as this directly in the camera from someone like Cognex. (of course such a camera is capable of doing way more processing)
The article was buried in the middle of countless technical specifications.
Last year I was working on a Stacker/Reclaimer (Sort of but not like this) and was reading through the 500+ page customer specification. Buried in the middle of the electrical section of the spec was a paragraph that said something along the lines of:
An ashtray shall be welded to the side of the operators control room.
When I saw that I thought it was probably something similar to the M&M clause.
And if you read TFA (which I bet you didn't) on the top of the list of improvements is to ditch the iPhone.
Try to get rid of the whole iPhone / Bluetooth setup. I think to do this you could try using a Raspberry Pi with a high speed (60/120FPS) capable camera directly attached. The Pi probably has the processing power to do the image processing.
The "Lame" blog, mine blog, is one of the main authors of the app ( me ).
And respectfully it is lame. I cannot see any link at all to your software on your blog, and the posted images were deliberately cut in half so they lost a lot of context. In order to find out actual details of the software I had to google the name in order to find the actual website. That is a big fail in my book.
The lack of links, carved up pics and "generalness" of the blog make it and the/. story look like pure click-bait.
So some program with a limited audience has a new release, and not only does this make the front page, TFS doesn't even link to the software itself, but to some lame blog talking about the software.
"...can boost 300 to 400 millivolts power to 3 to 5 volts".
Power? Volts? Boost? Huh???
In common vernacular of an EE you refer to voltage as power with the understanding that there is current being supplied. EG This device is powered by a 9-volt battery. So the the use of power in TFS and TFA is not out of line.
The paragraph form TFA is:
All these ambient energy sources, such as the difference in temperature in a pipe carrying hot water and the outside air, can generate 300 to 400 millivolts, which isn't enough to power anything. TI has built an "ultra-low powered" DC-to-DC switching converter that can boost this power to 3 to 5 volts, which is sufficient to charge a battery, according to Niranjan Pathare, senior marketing development manager at TI.
Also while current is a needed aspect, the level of voltage is a defining factor in electronic design.
"Climate change, ecological crises, and environmental pollution are all changes that this planet is facing, yet seemingly humans do not have a way to correct these problems"
Quote is from TFA, not that I'd expect you to have read it.
The best comment I saw on Ars, was that as a response to these AG tactics by the MPAA and RIAA, Google should remove all references to the MPAA and RIAA from its search results. There doesn't seem any reason that google *has* to index your site.
You could take pretty much any speaker you wanted to, run a jumper to the switch and listen to any phone call you wanted.
Back in the day I had a friend who worked for a phone company. As a part of their QC they had a speaker in their office that was connected to various random landlines in order to keep a check on call quality. (In hindsight the choice of lines is a bit suspect)
He told me a story of one call they heard, about the mother of little johnny calling up a phone sex line (but not knowing it was one) and wanting to know what all these charges were for. The phone sex worker tried to sidestep the issue by saying that little johnny was just talking to "friends". The mother replied "but little johnny has lots of friends". At that point the phone sex worker drop all pretense as to what the calls were about, and the last thing the mother said was "wait until little johnny's father gets home"
Slashdot Mirror
about the boarding process: whip phone out, scan qr-code that's on your lockscreen (using apple's passport)
My phone is a RAZR V3 you insensitive clod
I had a programming job in an open office with the boss on the phone
I once had a job in a cube farm, and my nearest neighbor was a wanna be local politician who was always on the phone talking himself up. You don't need to be in an open office to be annoyed by that shit.
Bad idea, created by "Twitter Generation"
You really need to review your history. The open office has been around for centuries, if not millennia. Mind you back then the Monks weren't allowed to speak. And that doesn't even touch on Dicksian nightmares and the middle of last century. What is new is people not shutting the fuck up and annoying everyone else.
*uninstalls OpenOffice and installs a crazy outdated version of StarOffice*
I might have a copy of wordstar lying around if you want to go more retro, but you'll have to supply the CP/M system to go with it.
The cube farm was invented as response to the problems of the open office. Now the pendulum is swinging the other way and people wonder why problems are cropping up?
The office cubicle was created by designer Robert Propst for Herman Miller, and released in 1967 under the name "Action Office II". Although cubicles are often seen as being symbolic of work in a modern office setting due to their uniformity and blandness, they afford the employee a greater degree of privacy and personalization than in previous work environments, which often consisted of desks lined up in rows within an open room.
Cubicle
Is that like BDSM?
it's also entirely possible that this was just a mistake
I'd go with someone decided that artistically they wanted the song and then assumed that the artist would agree with whatever Sony would negotiate. The artist didn't, but Sony kept the song in anyway. There is a comment above that says Sony listed the artist for the song in the movies credits. TIMHO this is no "mistake".
It's a movie that includes Seth Rogen!
What did you expect? A new Schindler's List?!?
Well at this time of the year you should always check your lists twice.
They could use a PLC. Like they did 20+ years ago...
These days you could run an application as simple as this directly in the camera from someone like Cognex. (of course such a camera is capable of doing way more processing)
The article was buried in the middle of countless technical specifications.
Last year I was working on a Stacker/Reclaimer (Sort of but not like this) and was reading through the 500+ page customer specification. Buried in the middle of the electrical section of the spec was a paragraph that said something along the lines of:
An ashtray shall be welded to the side of the operators control room.
When I saw that I thought it was probably something similar to the M&M clause.
I bet you did not even use an iPhone, pleb.
And if you read TFA (which I bet you didn't) on the top of the list of improvements is to ditch the iPhone.
Try to get rid of the whole iPhone / Bluetooth setup. I think to do this you could try using a Raspberry Pi with a high speed (60/120FPS) capable camera directly attached. The Pi probably has the processing power to do the image processing.
The "Lame" blog, mine blog, is one of the main authors of the app ( me ).
And respectfully it is lame. I cannot see any link at all to your software on your blog, and the posted images were deliberately cut in half so they lost a lot of context. In order to find out actual details of the software I had to google the name in order to find the actual website. That is a big fail in my book.
The lack of links, carved up pics and "generalness" of the blog make it and the /. story look like pure click-bait.
So some program with a limited audience has a new release, and not only does this make the front page, TFS doesn't even link to the software itself, but to some lame blog talking about the software.
FWIW Subsurface
They only update back to Mountain Lion.
Why can't companies just price shit appropriately
In this case the shit is free, and its the disposal that costs money.
I've seen this movie for humans it doesn't end well
So were you like me, and totally avoided the sequels?
"...can boost 300 to 400 millivolts power to 3 to 5 volts".
Power? Volts? Boost? Huh???
In common vernacular of an EE you refer to voltage as power with the understanding that there is current being supplied. EG This device is powered by a 9-volt battery. So the the use of power in TFS and TFA is not out of line.
The paragraph form TFA is:
All these ambient energy sources, such as the difference in temperature in a pipe carrying hot water and the outside air, can generate 300 to 400 millivolts, which isn't enough to power anything. TI has built an "ultra-low powered" DC-to-DC switching converter that can boost this power to 3 to 5 volts, which is sufficient to charge a battery, according to Niranjan Pathare, senior marketing development manager at TI.
Also while current is a needed aspect, the level of voltage is a defining factor in electronic design.
At least link to the actual story, rather than the discussion of the story.
Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation.
Jeez. That was in the second paragraph of TFA.
This is not America where every second grandma has a gun in their purse that they can forget to take out.
And from reports I see in the local news, loaded as well.
"Climate change, ecological crises, and environmental pollution are all changes that this planet is facing, yet seemingly humans do not have a way to correct these problems"
Quote is from TFA, not that I'd expect you to have read it.
but there is some useful information to be gleaned amongst the chaff.
Except that most people don't seem smart enough to discern the wheat from the chaff, and believe 100% what their preferred news source is saying.
Automatically fix the dreaded Vertical Video Syndrome.
You owe me for the last hour I spent watching all their videos.
The best comment I saw on Ars, was that as a response to these AG tactics by the MPAA and RIAA, Google should remove all references to the MPAA and RIAA from its search results. There doesn't seem any reason that google *has* to index your site.
You could take pretty much any speaker you wanted to, run a jumper to the switch and listen to any phone call you wanted.
Back in the day I had a friend who worked for a phone company. As a part of their QC they had a speaker in their office that was connected to various random landlines in order to keep a check on call quality. (In hindsight the choice of lines is a bit suspect)
He told me a story of one call they heard, about the mother of little johnny calling up a phone sex line (but not knowing it was one) and wanting to know what all these charges were for. The phone sex worker tried to sidestep the issue by saying that little johnny was just talking to "friends". The mother replied "but little johnny has lots of friends". At that point the phone sex worker drop all pretense as to what the calls were about, and the last thing the mother said was "wait until little johnny's father gets home"
Damned auto correct. Surprised.