A question for the conspiracy theory crowd: If the was so much demand for an electric car back in the 90's, why did GM, Ford, Honda, and Toyota all end production? If there's money to be made selling 100% electric cars, why didn't someone, somewhere on this very large globe make them - thus making a killing being the only supplier?
At the very least, why hasn't someone made a fortune refurbing used cars into electric?
My theory is that it's the same reason my laptop dies after about 60 minutes....
Imagine trying to track down an MFM controller today - you'll have the same problem with SATA & IDE in the future. I expect USB to be supported a lot longer than today's generation of HD interfaces.
Back when I was a kid, Mr. Wizard was showing off a whole bunch of "equal diameter" shapes. Rolls just fine, but since the axis (or axel in this case) moves around you get a rough ride.
It blew my mind, revealing every little inner part of the machine. Ah, the glory days of writing machine code with a software monitor. None of this assember luxury - we figured jump offsets by counting the bytes as we wrote the code!
Re: "No person shall have their property tax increased beyond 3% in any calendar year, nor increased greater then 100% since the time of purchase or transfer of ownership of their primary residence by any goverment agency." (Prevent trying to steal and redistributed land through taxing people out of their homes)
Sounds like a good idea, but without any caps on spending, you end up with things like Michigan's Proposition A. Long time home owners pay much less property tax, newer home owners pay much more. Also results in a large financial penalty to buy & sell real estate. Oh, that and property tax bills that go up when home values are falling.
Out of untold tens (hundreds?) of thousands of nuclear weapons, only 2 have ever been used on people, and that was at war time. Zero have gone off accidentaly.
Out of the dozens (hundreds?) of nuclear power plants that have been build & torn down, there have been 1 major (Chernobyl) and 1 minor (Three Mile Island) accidents.
That's a pretty small sample size to be dividing against a zero.
I too wanna see how he produced that "risk analysis".
... "people" are too dumb to plan for retirement on their own.
I don't want a government based on the premise that some elected official is smarter than I am. I want a government that gets out of my way- and let me succeed or fail on my own. (aka "The American Dream")
I've long suspected that the liberals believe themselves superior to the unwashed masses... now I have proof.
I have a friend who is the same age as me who is perhaps 70 to 100 pounds overweight. He is constantly at the doctor for this ailment and that... Hey, I can play the anecdote game too. The people I know with the most health ailments and most doctor visits are all slim & trim.
Being a hypochondriac and/or going to the doctor for every little thing has nothing to do with how much you weigh.
The people that cost us most are those that see medical care as an unlimited right.
Greetings citizen, this is the Punctuation Police. Do you have any idea how many Quotes Per Minute you were doing back there?
You were doing an Emphasis in a Litteral-or-Figurative only zone. Here, take some <b>'s. Use them next time, and I'm going to let you off with a warning.
I have mod points, but I feel so strongly about this that I'll forgo them to say:
I've had a tankless water heater, and I will never own one again. Ever.
The temperature of the water coming out is highly dependent on the speed of the water flowing through the device. If you have the hot water turned on full blast, you don't notice a difference. If you lower the hot water volume below a specific threshold, the tankless water heater will turn itself off to prevent the water (and itself!) from overheating.
Imagine taking a shower, and bumping the hot water know down a little. And getting a full body blast of ice water.
Repeat this randomly for months on end, until the stupid tankless water header gets removed and beaten to bits with a sledgehammer.
Tankless? I'd rather have no hot water at all than that evil work of the devil!
... as the most successful writer in history. She is the most-translated author in history, and her works in translation are the best selling works ever in many contries.
The Apostle Paul's on line 1 for you. Should I take a message?
Reminds me of the classic Timex Datalink watchs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink I had the original model, the one with the "Listen to the light" printed on binary on the wrist strap.
Both had the problem of good technology with way to small of an interface. Some day watch designers will realize that a watch size is about big enough for an interface for... a watch. And not much more.
In the long view (after 5 or 10 years) - nobody cares where you got a degree. Sometimes they won't even care *what* that degree was. (How many of your co-workers actually have a CS degree?) Once you've got a resume and a track record, the degree is just a yes/no check-box.
Seriously, if you've got any CS employment experience before college, it doesn't matter at all.
I was working full time while going to the local state college, and probably making more than everyone else in the room combined. College is vastly overrated in comparison with actual experience.
(was it Ohio that has unrestricted speed limits during the day - or have they revoked that rule already!)
Montana had the "reasonable speed" limit. It's back to posted limit of 70, IIRC. Ohio is a 65 MPH state, with Columbus noted for being a high enforcement area. Kind of an anti-Montana.
The same argument goes for the new solid-state drives that are finally becoming affordable. What's the point of swapping out RAM to a page file on a high speed flash drive?
I'm thinking that the concept of a page file is going to soon become extinct.
Random memory: Back in the day, I think I once created virtual memory on a RAM drive....
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Exactly.
A question for the conspiracy theory crowd:
If the was so much demand for an electric car back in the 90's, why did GM, Ford, Honda, and Toyota all end production? If there's money to be made selling 100% electric cars, why didn't someone, somewhere on this very large globe make them - thus making a killing being the only supplier?
At the very least, why hasn't someone made a fortune refurbing used cars into electric?
My theory is that it's the same reason my laptop dies after about 60 minutes....
Go low tech, with some thing the kid can't lose.
Use a sharpie marker on the kid's tummy, arm, whatever - "My name is [x]. My daddy's phone number is 555-1212"
Some days I think Idle isn't even trying.
Was this a corporate mandate or something?
Think Geek's dard drive dock sounds good, but it limits you to one hard drive interface standard.
Depending on how long your "long term" backups are, I'd favor something with a wider standard - like USB.
Your MB/$ ratio is going to be a lot worse, and you are limited to 500gb today for USB-powered models. On the plus side you get a platform independent interface that doesn't involve opening up a case. Something like these:
http://freeagent.seagate.com/en-us/hard-drive/Free-Agent.html?showIntro=false
Imagine trying to track down an MFM controller today - you'll have the same problem with SATA & IDE in the future. I expect USB to be supported a lot longer than today's generation of HD interfaces.
Back when I was a kid, Mr. Wizard was showing off a whole bunch of "equal diameter" shapes. Rolls just fine, but since the axis (or axel in this case) moves around you get a rough ride.
For posts like this, +5 just isn't high enough.
Makes me wish for a logarithmic mod scale....
If you want the book that most influenced my IT career (and life in general), you've got to go way back to the 80's.
Mapping the Commodore 64
http://www.scribd.com/doc/40444/MAPPING-THE-Commodore-64
It blew my mind, revealing every little inner part of the machine. Ah, the glory days of writing machine code with a software monitor. None of this assember luxury - we figured jump offsets by counting the bytes as we wrote the code!
Re: "No person shall have their property tax increased beyond 3% in any calendar year, nor increased greater then 100% since the time of purchase or transfer of ownership of their primary residence by any goverment agency." (Prevent trying to steal and redistributed land through taxing people out of their homes)
Sounds like a good idea, but without any caps on spending, you end up with things like Michigan's Proposition A. Long time home owners pay much less property tax, newer home owners pay much more. Also results in a large financial penalty to buy & sell real estate. Oh, that and property tax bills that go up when home values are falling.
For reference:
http://blogpublic.lib.msu.edu/index.php/2008/09/03/tax-analyst-explains-michigan-property-t?blog=5
http://www.oakgov.com/equal/assets/doc/07_01_A_Guide_to_PropA.pdf
http://www.mitchross.com/blog/index.php?itemid=149&catid=6
This article has been posted every day this week, then deleted at the end of day!
What, you don't remember that? Hummm.....
Strange risk analysis.
Out of untold tens (hundreds?) of thousands of nuclear weapons, only 2 have ever been used on people, and that was at war time. Zero have gone off accidentaly.
Out of the dozens (hundreds?) of nuclear power plants that have been build & torn down, there have been 1 major (Chernobyl) and 1 minor (Three Mile Island) accidents.
That's a pretty small sample size to be dividing against a zero.
I too wanna see how he produced that "risk analysis".
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... "people" are too dumb to plan for retirement on their own.
I don't want a government based on the premise that some elected official is smarter than I am. I want a government that gets out of my way- and let me succeed or fail on my own. (aka "The American Dream")
I've long suspected that the liberals believe themselves superior to the unwashed masses... now I have proof.
So let me get this straight - people can't afford to save, and thus need the government to take money away from them - and give most if it back later.
Great idea!
I've got mod points, but I have to comment in agreement.
If not voting for Obama makes the US racist, then not voting for McCain/Palin (and not electing Hillary) makes the US sexist.
MSNBC is already questioning the limited experience of Palin. Uhmmm... compared to a senator with 1 year of experience announcing a run for president?
Isn't it fun to play the same games MSM uses?
I live in Jackson, Michigan, and I regularly see Captian Jackson.
He's a 50-something old man wearing purple tights, walking around town in a mask & cape, claiming that he's "crime fighting".
He's recently been arrested & done time for a DUI.
I'll stick to actually being a geek, rather than pretending to be batman.
Being a hypochondriac and/or going to the doctor for every little thing has nothing to do with how much you weigh.
The people that cost us most are those that see medical care as an unlimited right.
Greetings citizen, this is the Punctuation Police. Do you have any idea how many Quotes Per Minute you were doing back there?
You were doing an Emphasis in a Litteral-or-Figurative only zone. Here, take some <b>'s. Use them next time, and I'm going to let you off with a warning.
That is all. Move along.
I've had a tankless water heater, and I will never own one again. Ever.
The temperature of the water coming out is highly dependent on the speed of the water flowing through the device. If you have the hot water turned on full blast, you don't notice a difference. If you lower the hot water volume below a specific threshold, the tankless water heater will turn itself off to prevent the water (and itself!) from overheating.
Imagine taking a shower, and bumping the hot water know down a little. And getting a full body blast of ice water.
Repeat this randomly for months on end, until the stupid tankless water header gets removed and beaten to bits with a sledgehammer.
Tankless? I'd rather have no hot water at all than that evil work of the devil!
The Apostle Paul's on line 1 for you. Should I take a message?
OK, but remember that dragons are like puppies. They're not so cute then they grow up.
That and they make the house smell like smoke.
Reminds me of the classic Timex Datalink watchs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Datalink
I had the original model, the one with the "Listen to the light" printed on binary on the wrist strap.
Both had the problem of good technology with way to small of an interface. Some day watch designers will realize that a watch size is about big enough for an interface for... a watch. And not much more.
In the long view (after 5 or 10 years) - nobody cares where you got a degree. Sometimes they won't even care *what* that degree was. (How many of your co-workers actually have a CS degree?) Once you've got a resume and a track record, the degree is just a yes/no check-box.
Seriously, if you've got any CS employment experience before college, it doesn't matter at all.
I was working full time while going to the local state college, and probably making more than everyone else in the room combined. College is vastly overrated in comparison with actual experience.
Redundant RAID? Redundant.
Montana had the "reasonable speed" limit. It's back to posted limit of 70, IIRC. Ohio is a 65 MPH state, with Columbus noted for being a high enforcement area. Kind of an anti-Montana.
The same argument goes for the new solid-state drives that are finally becoming affordable. What's the point of swapping out RAM to a page file on a high speed flash drive?
I'm thinking that the concept of a page file is going to soon become extinct.
Random memory: Back in the day, I think I once created virtual memory on a RAM drive....