Well, it looks like organized crime has found its own Etsy and Craigslist. I suppose it just demonstrates how the power of just-in-time communication and office automation can be an assest, even on the black market.
You experience with Dell's graphics cards was similar to mine: about two years ago I needed to buy a new laptop, and I wanted something that might run Civ 5. The reports indicated the processor requirements weren't bad, but you needed at least a mid-range graphics card. Dell had their consumer / business line at $300-400, but had the cheapest integrated graphics possible; or their Alienware line that started about $1200 if I remember correctly. I wound up getting a refurbed Asus laptop for $750 from Newegg, I think I could have gotten a new one for just under $1k. I guess Dell just doesn't want to compete in the mid-range: either its the low-low end mass production and business contracts; or its the high-end, high-margin stuff. Well whatever, I voted with my wallet.
I would like to second the motion that the screw-heads be other than Phillips. I like that that Phillips cruciform shape keeps the drive bit from sliding off the screw, but I feel like I've stripped more screw heads from Phillip's "cam-out" than I've broken screws or drivers from over-tightening.
I agree with the sentiment that people feel like public transportation is for the "poor", especially the bus. I have often felt that you could actually encourage more "rich" people to take the bus for communiting if you changed nothing about the experience but raised the price to, say $5-7 for a one-way trip instead of $1-2. That would serve to exclude the creepy homeless guys, dangerous teenagers, etc. You would still have to run $1-2 busses for the "poor", and all the busses would run on the same routes.
Wow, that was bad. Appearantly "science" consists primarily of makeup, safety goggles, obsolete multi-part distillation appratuses, and "math" on plexiglass marker board.
I agree. I understand how speculation based on short-selling can have negative consequences in the stock market; but I've not heard anyone explain how speculation, especially of the regular "buy low, sell high" type, has negative consequences in the commodities market. I can see how you could occasionally have a commodities "bubble", but that wouldn't be different than in any other market.
I understand your comment. But think of it like this: children get sick with a lot of the same diseases adults get. What if this guy says, "You know what, on my weekends, after my round of banging supermodels after blowing their clothes off with my mind, I'm going to kick cancer's ass. 'Cause what pisses me off more than anything is to have to tell a seven-year-old they probably aren't going to make it to nine." Or what if he comes up with a new surgical procedure that makes it easier to fix some congenital defect that a lot of people get, so now there's a lot more people who can have normal lives. Wouldn't that be awesome for the species?
I'm not sure about QR codes in particular, but the Wikipedia page for the Data Matrix 2D barcode shows the code being engraved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix I'm not sure what kind of reader you would need, but you might be able to get dark ink hard-anodized into the depressions to create a cameral-readable barcode.
Hey, let's use the most inefficient means possible to extract energy from the human body. I'm still waiting for the inductive charger powered by a fuel cell that runs off my blood sugar. You can sit in your chair, talk on the phone, and still lose weight.
I've always preferred UPS for US-Canada shipping (small packages) because their fees are reasonable and they expedite clearing customs. With USPS, it seems like you can get: Global Priority, pay a ridiculous fee, but have the package arrive in a couple of days; or pay a reasonable fee regular parcel post, and have the package get held up for a week or two at the border.
I also had a similar incident in 3rd or 4th grade: one of our tests had asked us how many stars were in the Big Dipper. The expected answer was seven. However, I put a larger number, having already learned that several of the "stars" in the Big Dipper are actually binary or larger families. I was appearently very frustrated that I got the question wrong.
Improved secure smartphones sound like a good thing, but I would be interested to know how Boeing plans to handle the application installation issues associated with a secure platform. If the platform really is to be secure, you probably don't want the end user to just install any random applications on the phone. So you'll need to have a management process to either: develop in-house applications that duplicate existing functionality; or a mechanism of approving outside applications for use in the secure environment (or both).
Developing in-house applications is expensive, and everyone complains about how the government is wasting money duplicating existing capabilities. And since there's only a limited number of approved developers, it takes a long time to get new and improved applications to the end user.
Approving outside applications for use on the phone is expensive and takes a lot of time. You have to fully audit the application looking for "bad stuff", and then you've only approved that specific version of the application. If a new version comes out in a month, you have to start all over. And since there is only a limited number of code-auditors, it takes a long time to get new and improved applications to the end user.
Better yet, install fences that prevent pedestrians from entering the roadway except at expected places. They don't even need to be that high or spikey, just high enough so that any child (or adult) that gets over them is competent enough to not play in the street.
I haven't read the articles; are these the same caves that collapse every time that area gets a strong earthquake, causing a huge humanitarian crisis as all of the occupants are buried under the hill?
The only thing you would probably want to do is make sure any sales come with a mandate that any future data collected on the satellite has to be publicly released or shared freely with NASA (you could even set it up so the private organization gets a year to use the data themselves before they release it). I would hate to see a situation where the Federal government (and the taxpayers) build a satellite (or other technological marvel), and then a senator yanks the funding, and it gets sold at bargin price to a private entitiy in the senator's neighboorhood. I know that sounds fantastical, but we have to prepare for these types of contingencies.
Oh, I see how it works. Sure, you let them clean your clothes, serve your food, teach your children. Heck, you'll even let them represent you politically (I've lived in DC, I've seen Congress). But the minute they display the first inkling of self-respect and self-organization, it's "Neanderthals aren't 'smart' enough", "Neanderthals are another species", "Neanderthals are extinct".
I see how it works, alright. You're afraid. Afraid to come out of your shell and admit your true feelings. It's easy enough to hate, but you're just to afraid... to love.
Wait wait wait... you had 6 million lines of Perl code that you were able to compress into 2 million lines. I think that's a new record for entropic compression algorithms! Have you written a paper or anything yet?
I think you may have it backwards. As near as I can tell, at my organization, changing the group names in the hierarchy is actually a source of income. See, if you can claim that the reorganization will leverage synergies or some other intangible, and get corperate to buy into it; they will give you a bunch of overhead money and secretarial support to implement the change. And free overhead money and secretarial support is like, no, better than gold-plated ponies.
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As much as I hate to feed the trolls: how do you know that Jesus was telling the truth?
Hell, it scares me already, and I don't even know what a "face faggot" is.
Well, it looks like organized crime has found its own Etsy and Craigslist. I suppose it just demonstrates how the power of just-in-time communication and office automation can be an assest, even on the black market.
You experience with Dell's graphics cards was similar to mine: about two years ago I needed to buy a new laptop, and I wanted something that might run Civ 5. The reports indicated the processor requirements weren't bad, but you needed at least a mid-range graphics card. Dell had their consumer / business line at $300-400, but had the cheapest integrated graphics possible; or their Alienware line that started about $1200 if I remember correctly. I wound up getting a refurbed Asus laptop for $750 from Newegg, I think I could have gotten a new one for just under $1k. I guess Dell just doesn't want to compete in the mid-range: either its the low-low end mass production and business contracts; or its the high-end, high-margin stuff. Well whatever, I voted with my wallet.
I would like to second the motion that the screw-heads be other than Phillips. I like that that Phillips cruciform shape keeps the drive bit from sliding off the screw, but I feel like I've stripped more screw heads from Phillip's "cam-out" than I've broken screws or drivers from over-tightening.
I agree with the sentiment that people feel like public transportation is for the "poor", especially the bus. I have often felt that you could actually encourage more "rich" people to take the bus for communiting if you changed nothing about the experience but raised the price to, say $5-7 for a one-way trip instead of $1-2. That would serve to exclude the creepy homeless guys, dangerous teenagers, etc. You would still have to run $1-2 busses for the "poor", and all the busses would run on the same routes.
Wow, that was bad. Appearantly "science" consists primarily of makeup, safety goggles, obsolete multi-part distillation appratuses, and "math" on plexiglass marker board.
Heck, the Devo "Watch Us Work It" video had more real "science" and "engineering" in it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCZcIrSAT7I
I agree. I understand how speculation based on short-selling can have negative consequences in the stock market; but I've not heard anyone explain how speculation, especially of the regular "buy low, sell high" type, has negative consequences in the commodities market. I can see how you could occasionally have a commodities "bubble", but that wouldn't be different than in any other market.
I understand your comment. But think of it like this: children get sick with a lot of the same diseases adults get. What if this guy says, "You know what, on my weekends, after my round of banging supermodels after blowing their clothes off with my mind, I'm going to kick cancer's ass. 'Cause what pisses me off more than anything is to have to tell a seven-year-old they probably aren't going to make it to nine." Or what if he comes up with a new surgical procedure that makes it easier to fix some congenital defect that a lot of people get, so now there's a lot more people who can have normal lives. Wouldn't that be awesome for the species?
Close, but not quite; he was the navigator.
I'm not sure about QR codes in particular, but the Wikipedia page for the Data Matrix 2D barcode shows the code being engraved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix
I'm not sure what kind of reader you would need, but you might be able to get dark ink hard-anodized into the depressions to create a cameral-readable barcode.
Hey, let's use the most inefficient means possible to extract energy from the human body. I'm still waiting for the inductive charger powered by a fuel cell that runs off my blood sugar. You can sit in your chair, talk on the phone, and still lose weight.
I've always preferred UPS for US-Canada shipping (small packages) because their fees are reasonable and they expedite clearing customs. With USPS, it seems like you can get: Global Priority, pay a ridiculous fee, but have the package arrive in a couple of days; or pay a reasonable fee regular parcel post, and have the package get held up for a week or two at the border.
Is there a trick or something I'm missing?
In double-blind trials, differences in the rates of testicular detonation were statistically insignifcant between the male and female trial groups.
I've noted it before, and I'll note it again: "You can't pee into a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice."
I also had a similar incident in 3rd or 4th grade: one of our tests had asked us how many stars were in the Big Dipper. The expected answer was seven. However, I put a larger number, having already learned that several of the "stars" in the Big Dipper are actually binary or larger families. I was appearently very frustrated that I got the question wrong.
Improved secure smartphones sound like a good thing, but I would be interested to know how Boeing plans to handle the application installation issues associated with a secure platform. If the platform really is to be secure, you probably don't want the end user to just install any random applications on the phone. So you'll need to have a management process to either: develop in-house applications that duplicate existing functionality; or a mechanism of approving outside applications for use in the secure environment (or both).
Developing in-house applications is expensive, and everyone complains about how the government is wasting money duplicating existing capabilities. And since there's only a limited number of approved developers, it takes a long time to get new and improved applications to the end user.
Approving outside applications for use on the phone is expensive and takes a lot of time. You have to fully audit the application looking for "bad stuff", and then you've only approved that specific version of the application. If a new version comes out in a month, you have to start all over. And since there is only a limited number of code-auditors, it takes a long time to get new and improved applications to the end user.
Better yet, install fences that prevent pedestrians from entering the roadway except at expected places. They don't even need to be that high or spikey, just high enough so that any child (or adult) that gets over them is competent enough to not play in the street.
I haven't read the articles; are these the same caves that collapse every time that area gets a strong earthquake, causing a huge humanitarian crisis as all of the occupants are buried under the hill?
The only thing you would probably want to do is make sure any sales come with a mandate that any future data collected on the satellite has to be publicly released or shared freely with NASA (you could even set it up so the private organization gets a year to use the data themselves before they release it). I would hate to see a situation where the Federal government (and the taxpayers) build a satellite (or other technological marvel), and then a senator yanks the funding, and it gets sold at bargin price to a private entitiy in the senator's neighboorhood. I know that sounds fantastical, but we have to prepare for these types of contingencies.
Terribly sorry, I'll sack the people responsible immediately. It's like working with a bunch of subhumans around here half the time anyway.
Oh, I see how it works. Sure, you let them clean your clothes, serve your food, teach your children. Heck, you'll even let them represent you politically (I've lived in DC, I've seen Congress). But the minute they display the first inkling of self-respect and self-organization, it's "Neanderthals aren't 'smart' enough", "Neanderthals are another species", "Neanderthals are extinct".
I see how it works, alright. You're afraid. Afraid to come out of your shell and admit your true feelings. It's easy enough to hate, but you're just to afraid... to love.
So how many people are going to be buried in it?
Wait wait wait... you had 6 million lines of Perl code that you were able to compress into 2 million lines. I think that's a new record for entropic compression algorithms! Have you written a paper or anything yet?
I think you may have it backwards. As near as I can tell, at my organization, changing the group names in the hierarchy is actually a source of income. See, if you can claim that the reorganization will leverage synergies or some other intangible, and get corperate to buy into it; they will give you a bunch of overhead money and secretarial support to implement the change. And free overhead money and secretarial support is like, no, better than gold-plated ponies.