Something I've never understood is why so many people I know try to get out of jury duty. It seems like something that would be fascinating to do.
It also seems like having actually educated computer geeks on these juries might actually result in better verdicts.
A) It is fascinating. I've been summoned five times, empaneled twice, been an alternate once. I think it's a blast and I'm disappointed when I call the court and find out that my juror number has been excused. B) The problem is that you'll never get twelve actually educated computer geeks all on the same jury. The lawyers will see to that. Remember, your vote is only 1/12 of the needed vote (for most criminal trials) needed to convict.
... is as smart as all of us. I've seen it attributed to Vince Lombardi, an ancient Japanese proverb, and a few other sources but it's true.
I work for a Fortune 50 company that's doing the same kind of thing but writ large across the enterprise (not just in the science based portion of our business.)
It's in an embryonic state right now, and only time will tell if it works out - but the idea that resonated with me both with our knowledge sharing and with Science 2.0 was the idea that all of our collective expertise and knowledge can be brought to bear on a problem. If only we could rise above the competitiveness we could kick some serious ass in solving problems.
Ah well, it must be late. Time to stop dreaming of everyone singing "Kum Ba Yah." But maybe if a few more people read this... it might work...
I have an acquaintance who was a financial underling at a publicly traded company. The CFO discovered some irregularities with the books and blew the whistle on the shenanigans. Within 6 months he was history, along with anyone else who TPTB determined was in the 'penumbra of blame.' Came damn close to my acquaintance but didn't affect them.
Look at it this way; are you gonna want to keep around the guy who spoiled the ride for the rest of the clowns? If you are one of the beneficiaries of the monkey business you'll never look at the whistleblower the same way again.
ah, hell, what's the name of the gyro-propelled scooter contraption?
Do you mean the Segway? We have a couple of them that I see wheeling around the local shopping centers. Pretty cool things.
I wish I could use a Segway or even this oldfangled car mentioned in TFA in my daily commute... I'm stuck for now with a 60-mile one way commute, however. Solar panels at my employer's end, so at least I can possibly recharge for very little cost, but I need 60 miles at an average speed of 50MPH to make BEV's doable.
Similar thing happened to me recently. My son was 'interviewed' (cough) for some incident that he was not involved in, simply because of some other kids saying that my son hung around the suspects. We're in the detective's room, telling him that not only does he have an airtight alibi for the date in question (he was with me) the suspects -- and the implicators -- were not even people that my son chose to hang around with. This from both me and my son.
Officer Krupke then says "So who ARE your friends?"
I stopped him.
"We've established that my son wasn't involved, my son has no association with anyone you named, and therefore he's not a material part of the investigation. If you insist on knowing my son's friends, who we've also established are not part of this group, I'll have to ask to step out while I discuss the legality of your request with my lawyer."
In a sudden outbreak of common sense, the good gendarme reconsidered his request.
Well, you could always do what we do - we have Deer Park water service, and we order distilled water for our dispenser. Not that we don't drink tap water (which comes from a 300' well) once in a while, but I'd say 97% of the time we're drinking premade distilled water (rather than distilling it on the spot.)
A diesel-electric locomotive doesn't need those wires to travel along the rails. Look sometime at an Amtrak train travelling along NJTransit's railways. You see no connection between the high tension wires and the train, unlike the NJTransit fleet. If you listen quietly to the Amtrak train, you'll hear a loud "thrumthrumthrumthrum." That's a diesel motor supplying electric power to the traction motors.
Before that, it was according to some JD print ads that I recall seeing. Something to the effect of "You can buy our product in our store, but we can't give you free samples, because Lynchburg is in a dry county..."
I know bunches of people still cruising around the net on Win2K because they refuse to use a newer version of Windows. There's a general sentiment that once their PCs die they'll either switch over to a Mac or some Linux distro.
raising my hand I'm running Win2k on my T23. It shows no sign of dying yet, excuse a cracked palm rest over in the corner... and I'm on my second keyboard and probably gonna go for a third.
I'm waiting for the next LTS release of Ubuntu. I'm about 95% there and this new release may tip me over the edge.
Shouldn't be a problem for a BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) that is constantly discharging and recharging. I can understand a self-discharge rate being problematic for something like a flashlight that sits in a drawer, but generally speaking you're either keeping your car plugged in at home or you're driving somewhere with the intent of driving home at some short time later - e.g., a commute to/from work.
I drive 60 miles to work per day. The Gen 2 EV1 would have been perfect for my needs and it uses NiMH technology. Hell, even a flooded lead-acid setup would have worked if I had access to a charging port at work.
Bringing this post back on topic, you're not letting your batteries sit all the time; they're constantly in use, so IMHO the self-discharge argument is a straw man.
Good luck with that. An oil company would buy up the rights and suppress that just like they did with the Ovonic battery.
See the section in the linked article entitled "Patent Encumbrance" and then go to Cobasys and try and buy a rack of Ovonic NiMH batteries to build your own plug-in electric vehicle. Let me know how that works out for you.
How about 'don't log in as administrator?' Another helpful tip to prevent issues. I wonder if this virus would be able to infect a PC if a "lowly" user plugged in the USB?
in Imperial Earth, noted in my comment above, the protagonist noted the dichotomy of the Titan ecosphere versus the Earth ecosphere; on Earth, we ignite a jet of hydrocarbon and burn in the oxygen atmosphere; on Titan, they ignite a jet of oxygen in the hydrocarbon atmosphere and accomplish essentially the same thing.
Of course, it's still all science fiction. For now.
Two dollars per Pallet is a fair price (IMHO) as they have to tag, inventory, and verify each non-RFID pallet that enters this one facility.
I believe that turns out not to be the case. (So much nicer than saying "Bullshit," isn't it?)
My guess is that they receive an ASN - an Advance Ship Notice - for any supplier that they're contemplating hitting with this $2 surcharge (They do from us - I'm trying to remember what hierarchical levels we send, I believe we send Shipment, Order, Tare, Pack and Item level data - called an SOTPI ASN.)
And also from direct knowledge, they get pallet labels - UCC128 format bar code labels - on delivered pallets. So if they really, really wanted to tag these nonconforming pallets with RFID tags, they would only need to key in the BOL number from the truck driver, scan the pallet's license plate, and assign an RFID tag based on the LPN. Inventories of the pack level data is afforded by an occasional audit when they strip unloaded the trailer to keep suppliers honest.
Now, RFID has some benefits, don't get me wrong. No strip unloads, so Sam's can use their staging area for additional warehouse space when they convert the entire warehouse to RFID. However, accuracy - as always - will be dependent on the supplier's DC getting the info right on the ship confirmation. Without that information, the rest of it is just so much garbage. We won't see that until the entire system is converted to RFID at the case level. And I'm not even going to go near the privacy concerns around that, but they are far fewer than RFID at the item level - and it's far cheaper too.
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it would flash at 60 Hz - which is a little nauseating to look at.
:)
Simple solution: Provision your house for 400hz AC.
we should all follow Nintendo, and go with "blocks"
:)
If we're going to go down that road, why don't we measure disk space in tracks and cylinders, like the IBM mainframes I work on?
A) It is fascinating. I've been summoned five times, empaneled twice, been an alternate once. I think it's a blast and I'm disappointed when I call the court and find out that my juror number has been excused.
B) The problem is that you'll never get twelve actually educated computer geeks all on the same jury. The lawyers will see to that. Remember, your vote is only 1/12 of the needed vote (for most criminal trials) needed to convict.
... is as smart as all of us. I've seen it attributed to Vince Lombardi, an ancient Japanese proverb, and a few other sources but it's true.
I work for a Fortune 50 company that's doing the same kind of thing but writ large across the enterprise (not just in the science based portion of our business.)
It's in an embryonic state right now, and only time will tell if it works out - but the idea that resonated with me both with our knowledge sharing and with Science 2.0 was the idea that all of our collective expertise and knowledge can be brought to bear on a problem. If only we could rise above the competitiveness we could kick some serious ass in solving problems.
Ah well, it must be late. Time to stop dreaming of everyone singing "Kum Ba Yah." But maybe if a few more people read this... it might work...
Whistleblower laws are a freaking joke.
I have an acquaintance who was a financial underling at a publicly traded company. The CFO discovered some irregularities with the books and blew the whistle on the shenanigans. Within 6 months he was history, along with anyone else who TPTB determined was in the 'penumbra of blame.' Came damn close to my acquaintance but didn't affect them.
Look at it this way; are you gonna want to keep around the guy who spoiled the ride for the rest of the clowns? If you are one of the beneficiaries of the monkey business you'll never look at the whistleblower the same way again.
In space, no one can hear lawyers scream.
As a matter of fact, Yes.
...in his prediction of intelligence pills.
Either that, or a lot of people I encountered today need to adjust their dosage.
Do you mean the Segway? We have a couple of them that I see wheeling around the local shopping centers. Pretty cool things.
I wish I could use a Segway or even this oldfangled car mentioned in TFA in my daily commute... I'm stuck for now with a 60-mile one way commute, however. Solar panels at my employer's end, so at least I can possibly recharge for very little cost, but I need 60 miles at an average speed of 50MPH to make BEV's doable.
I'm hoping in a couple years.
Similar thing happened to me recently. My son was 'interviewed' (cough) for some incident that he was not involved in, simply because of some other kids saying that my son hung around the suspects. We're in the detective's room, telling him that not only does he have an airtight alibi for the date in question (he was with me) the suspects -- and the implicators -- were not even people that my son chose to hang around with. This from both me and my son.
Officer Krupke then says "So who ARE your friends?"
I stopped him.
"We've established that my son wasn't involved, my son has no association with anyone you named, and therefore he's not a material part of the investigation. If you insist on knowing my son's friends, who we've also established are not part of this group, I'll have to ask to step out while I discuss the legality of your request with my lawyer."
In a sudden outbreak of common sense, the good gendarme reconsidered his request.
yep, that's exactly what TFA said...
Well, you could always do what we do - we have Deer Park water service, and we order distilled water for our dispenser. Not that we don't drink tap water (which comes from a 300' well) once in a while, but I'd say 97% of the time we're drinking premade distilled water (rather than distilling it on the spot.)
Of course it should. Can't decide what kind of affliction that is, so I'll just call it a 'screwup.'
... to see if any computers that aren't on the net are thinking that we should do this. :)
It sure sounds like the plot to Man Plus might be coming true, excuse the bat wings.
Art imitates life once again.
Here's a clue:
A diesel-electric locomotive doesn't need those wires to travel along the rails. Look sometime at an Amtrak train travelling along NJTransit's railways. You see no connection between the high tension wires and the train, unlike the NJTransit fleet. If you listen quietly to the Amtrak train, you'll hear a loud "thrumthrumthrumthrum." That's a diesel motor supplying electric power to the traction motors.
Geez, I don't know what took them so long - locomotives have been doing it this way for years.
:)
Well, it's about damn time.
According to Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs",
Before that, it was according to some JD print ads that I recall seeing. Something to the effect of "You can buy our product in our store, but we can't give you free samples, because Lynchburg is in a dry county..."
raising my hand
I'm running Win2k on my T23. It shows no sign of dying yet, excuse a cracked palm rest over in the corner... and I'm on my second keyboard and probably gonna go for a third.
I'm waiting for the next LTS release of Ubuntu. I'm about 95% there and this new release may tip me over the edge. Why is that funny?
Shouldn't be a problem for a BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) that is constantly discharging and recharging. I can understand a self-discharge rate being problematic for something like a flashlight that sits in a drawer, but generally speaking you're either keeping your car plugged in at home or you're driving somewhere with the intent of driving home at some short time later - e.g., a commute to/from work.
I drive 60 miles to work per day. The Gen 2 EV1 would have been perfect for my needs and it uses NiMH technology. Hell, even a flooded lead-acid setup would have worked if I had access to a charging port at work.
Bringing this post back on topic, you're not letting your batteries sit all the time; they're constantly in use, so IMHO the self-discharge argument is a straw man.
I've seen them for about $3k USD, albeit not continuous-duty. Coninuous duty to fill large storage tanks start around $7 large.
I was researching them for building a paintball field for the local kids; I wanted to offer a HPA (High Pressure Air) as well as a CO2 station.
You can find them in various price tiers here.
Good luck with that. An oil company would buy up the rights and suppress that just like they did with the Ovonic battery.
See the section in the linked article entitled "Patent Encumbrance" and then go to Cobasys and try and buy a rack of Ovonic NiMH batteries to build your own plug-in electric vehicle. Let me know how that works out for you.
How about 'don't log in as administrator?' Another helpful tip to prevent issues. I wonder if this virus would be able to infect a PC if a "lowly" user plugged in the USB?
in Imperial Earth, noted in my comment above, the protagonist noted the dichotomy of the Titan ecosphere versus the Earth ecosphere; on Earth, we ignite a jet of hydrocarbon and burn in the oxygen atmosphere; on Titan, they ignite a jet of oxygen in the hydrocarbon atmosphere and accomplish essentially the same thing.
Of course, it's still all science fiction. For now.
... that Arthur C. Clarke "discovered" that Titan has vast reserves of hydrocarbon way back in 1976.
I believe that turns out not to be the case. (So much nicer than saying "Bullshit," isn't it?)
My guess is that they receive an ASN - an Advance Ship Notice - for any supplier that they're contemplating hitting with this $2 surcharge (They do from us - I'm trying to remember what hierarchical levels we send, I believe we send Shipment, Order, Tare, Pack and Item level data - called an SOTPI ASN.)
And also from direct knowledge, they get pallet labels - UCC128 format bar code labels - on delivered pallets. So if they really, really wanted to tag these nonconforming pallets with RFID tags, they would only need to key in the BOL number from the truck driver, scan the pallet's license plate, and assign an RFID tag based on the LPN. Inventories of the pack level data is afforded by an occasional audit when they strip unloaded the trailer to keep suppliers honest.
Now, RFID has some benefits, don't get me wrong. No strip unloads, so Sam's can use their staging area for additional warehouse space when they convert the entire warehouse to RFID. However, accuracy - as always - will be dependent on the supplier's DC getting the info right on the ship confirmation. Without that information, the rest of it is just so much garbage. We won't see that until the entire system is converted to RFID at the case level. And I'm not even going to go near the privacy concerns around that, but they are far fewer than RFID at the item level - and it's far cheaper too.