Which significantly tones down the 'omg they will hear what we say in the background of youtube videos' effect.
Not to mention that you need fairly high resolution images to be able to detect the movement too. If you cannot do high resolution at reasonable frame rates you are not going to have anything to hear...
Oh bull..... Why do you need a GPS collar to figure this out?
If you've ever spent any time with a head of cows, this would be pretty obvious. Why it takes a study with GPS tags to determine individual bovines have an affinity for specific other individual ones is beyond me. When we ran the dairy operation, it was pretty obvious to me. Individuals would show up in the milking barn in a pretty consistent order and it seemed to me that they had small groups within the larger group. When we where running beef cows, just watching them graze and seeing where they ended up chewing their cud in the hot afternoons or how they bedded down at night would show this too.
So, why you go though all the trouble to fit cows with GPS and then log their every move is beyond me. Just ask you average group of cattlemen for their observations and I'll bet you can figure it out.
They are trying to cash in on public ignorance and the hype surrounding the Hobby Lobby ruling, for their own purposes (fund raising and PR). There is no legal precedent established by Hobby Lobby that they can use to make their case, but there are people who will swallow their story They won't get anywhere with this.
So this is WAY off topic.... So I'm done on this sub-thread...
So basically, leave it to HR to always adopt a position that is not usually in your best interests.
So, HR isn't looking out for my best interest? Shocker! (not!)
Just in case you don't already know, HR is NOT there to protect you, they are there to protect the company. So be VERY careful when you take a "problem" to them to solve, because you can bet they won't be looking out for your interests.
just pull a hobby lobby and say I'm on a drug that is part of my religion and you can't test me for it.
It is really hard to imagine how that is related to the Hobby Lobby case which was about GOVERNMENT requirements being levied on a company and not drug tests as a condition of employment. I think the law is pretty clear, companies can do drug testing and refuse to employ those who fail said tests.
Excellent advice. I would only add one thing. PRINT said E-mail and any replies you receive from it and put them in a safe place where you can find them when the lawsuit comes up. You might actually get your customer to sign and date your hard copy if you wanted to really make the point.
I haven't a clue what Apple actually stocks in the store, but I'll bet they keep the maxed out version of just about everything for the rare "I don't care what it costs the company is paying for it and we need it NOW!" crowd. A company the size of Apple can afford the inventory, especially given that their "top of the line" system doesn't change on a regular basis, and there are not that many versions of anything out there to sell. Apart from the consumer devices which they sell like hot cakes (iPod, iPhone, iPad etc) they have what, Two other product lines, a laptop and a desktop? That's two big boxes, maybe three with a monitor, so they got space.
Personally, I'd be surprised if they hadn't carried what you where looking for in stock. I'd be willing to bet that if you walked in asking for less than the top of the line configuration, you'd be sent to the website to order it. But when you have to have it *now* you can bet they are going to take advantage of that and be ready to sell you the highest priced system they can, which means the store only carries the top end configurations for buyers like you, plus a pile of consumer products to service the iPod/iPad crowd.
I will point out that Apple's quality has not been as stellar of late, they ARE slipping somewhat, but they are still better than your average company. So, I suppose there are SOME folks who complain about Apple's quality so I must revise my statement.
Most knowledgeable people do not question Apple's hardware quality.
I walked in once... and couldn't figure out how to buy something so I left !
Seriously? So I'm to assume you didn't speak English because every time I've been in an Apple store I've been approached multiple times with "How can I help you?" questions from the staff. I'm sure if I said "I'd like to buy an iPad" they'd know what to do with my credit card..
Surely they don't have all those in the store? Remember this guy had to walk out with hardware in hand because by COB they would figure out they'd been had, so making any special orders would be a no-go option. No, I'm sure he had to buy "in stock" stuff from the store.
Nobody questions their quality, just their price for performance. Apple has always sold lower performance hardware at a premium over other kinds of systems. But they have a totally different business model and they sell the Apple branded way of doing things to users who don't mind paying for it.
It's also nothing whatsoever to do with DIY, this guy was a very skilled gunsmith and was simply showing off a very cool project.
It's also nothing to do with 'hardest to legally import', you can get these parts anywhere you like; of course the reciever is that part that is considered a 'gun' and is controlled and you will need to fill out forms and pass background check, all normal.
And it was the receiver that he hammered out of an old shovel. I got to admit, that was impressive work, but I don't think the builder is extremely skilled or well equipped. A bit above average I suppose. He purchased the rest of the components off the shelf.
Conduct your little experiment if you have to, just keep your mouth shut about it.... At least until you have notified ALL your users that such experiments *might* be taking place (Or if you intend to issue refunds from the resulting class action suit.)
Already banned in New Jersey and D.C., and New York and Connecticut have a 7-band magazine limit.
You are going to put your eye out with that kid.. It's an assault weapon!
Next, they will put limits on the number of rubber bands you can conceal in your pockets without an office supply distribution permit, and federal background checks when you buy more than 7 bands in a box. Remember that selling office supplies in Chicago, Washington DC and most of the north west is illegal now...
Can't argue with that... Personally, I think that funding fusion research is something we should be doing instead of messing around with tax credits for windmills and solar panels. Where I don't figure the "We are almost there!" press is true either, it *could* be if we really put some resources into this research and development and where I'm not foolish enough to think having a working fusion plant would be the end all be all of energy production, it sure would be a step in the right direction.
Driving an EV around town is all well and good, but until they can do big trips, they'll just be a curiosity.
Oh come on.. I'm no EV advocate, but they have their place and driving around town is that place. You just plug it in when you get home each time. For commuters, which is actually the BULK of the miles I put on my cars, and EV that can reliably do 200 miles on a charge in real world conditions and recharge over night would work for me just fine. I own two (soon to be three) vehicles, so why not have an EV in the stable if it was actually cost effective? I wouldn't mind. When hitting the long road, the EV would stay parked at home. I'd just use it as a commuter car.
The problem with EV's is only partially range and recharge times, their real problem is cost. They are REALLY expensive to buy and operate. So much so that a standard gasoline powered car works out to be cheaper for most of us overall.
If this happened (optimistically) 50 years from now, we'd be able to deflect the comet to HIT mars, thus delivering a lot of water and warming things up a bit. (Only, I'm afraid, a little bit of terraforming, it would probably take thousands of such comet strikes to make the planet "habitable").
The problem with doing this to Mars is that it has a very small magnetic field to protect it and radiation pretty much streams in to the surface unfiltered. Where it would help to add water and gases to the atmosphere, without a magnetic field to protect it, these would eventually be stripped away by the solar wind and you'd be back to square one.
Then there is the technical problems involved in figuring out how you can get enough of a push on some unknown constantly changing mass of ice and dust to make the necessary corrections to get the thing to actually impact Mars and not just do a really close flyby. Such things are very difficult, and given the really short time frames between "Oh, I see something coming" and "It's here!" would only make that worse. There's nothing like hurrying rocket science to ruin your day.
We have fusion now... We can start a fusion reaction pretty much whenever we want. The problem is we cannot create a sustained fusion reaction that nets us industrial levels of energy and do it in a cost effective way.
What the fusion problem really becomes is a materials and technique question. How do you safely sustain a fusion reaction long enough in some kind of container so you can collect the excess energy it creates without having to replace the expensive container too often. So we have a containment question which leads to materials questions and a whole lot of complex industrial scale engineering questions.
This applies to all of the southwest and a lot of the plains. Land is useless for anything but energy production without a supply of water, so you drink your whiskey and fight over the water. This has been true for centuries and will continue to be true for many more.
Lots of talk about from that from this Administration , that but it's all very opaque from the President on down.
They DO claim that "This Is The Most Transparent Administration In History." Problem is that it is only enforcing this transparency on others.
Well, to be fair, it's pretty obvious what "transparency" means to them. It's obviously a "You show me yours!" without any "I'll show you mine" kind of transparency. But being obvious what they are up to, it's "transparency" in a opaque sort of way...
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Which significantly tones down the 'omg they will hear what we say in the background of youtube videos' effect.
Not to mention that you need fairly high resolution images to be able to detect the movement too. If you cannot do high resolution at reasonable frame rates you are not going to have anything to hear...
Oh bull..... Why do you need a GPS collar to figure this out?
If you've ever spent any time with a head of cows, this would be pretty obvious. Why it takes a study with GPS tags to determine individual bovines have an affinity for specific other individual ones is beyond me. When we ran the dairy operation, it was pretty obvious to me. Individuals would show up in the milking barn in a pretty consistent order and it seemed to me that they had small groups within the larger group. When we where running beef cows, just watching them graze and seeing where they ended up chewing their cud in the hot afternoons or how they bedded down at night would show this too.
So, why you go though all the trouble to fit cows with GPS and then log their every move is beyond me. Just ask you average group of cattlemen for their observations and I'll bet you can figure it out.
They are trying to cash in on public ignorance and the hype surrounding the Hobby Lobby ruling, for their own purposes (fund raising and PR). There is no legal precedent established by Hobby Lobby that they can use to make their case, but there are people who will swallow their story They won't get anywhere with this.
So this is WAY off topic.... So I'm done on this sub-thread...
So basically, leave it to HR to always adopt a position that is not usually in your best interests.
So, HR isn't looking out for my best interest? Shocker! (not!)
Just in case you don't already know, HR is NOT there to protect you, they are there to protect the company. So be VERY careful when you take a "problem" to them to solve, because you can bet they won't be looking out for your interests.
To be fair, he was only confused about this because the summary was complete and utter crap.
Yea, but if you READ the article, it's pretty clear what the summary means..
Lesson learned? Yep, READ the article before posting comments.....
just pull a hobby lobby and say I'm on a drug that is part of my religion and you can't test me for it.
It is really hard to imagine how that is related to the Hobby Lobby case which was about GOVERNMENT requirements being levied on a company and not drug tests as a condition of employment. I think the law is pretty clear, companies can do drug testing and refuse to employ those who fail said tests.
Excellent advice. I would only add one thing. PRINT said E-mail and any replies you receive from it and put them in a safe place where you can find them when the lawsuit comes up. You might actually get your customer to sign and date your hard copy if you wanted to really make the point.
I haven't a clue what Apple actually stocks in the store, but I'll bet they keep the maxed out version of just about everything for the rare "I don't care what it costs the company is paying for it and we need it NOW!" crowd. A company the size of Apple can afford the inventory, especially given that their "top of the line" system doesn't change on a regular basis, and there are not that many versions of anything out there to sell. Apart from the consumer devices which they sell like hot cakes (iPod, iPhone, iPad etc) they have what, Two other product lines, a laptop and a desktop? That's two big boxes, maybe three with a monitor, so they got space.
Personally, I'd be surprised if they hadn't carried what you where looking for in stock. I'd be willing to bet that if you walked in asking for less than the top of the line configuration, you'd be sent to the website to order it. But when you have to have it *now* you can bet they are going to take advantage of that and be ready to sell you the highest priced system they can, which means the store only carries the top end configurations for buyers like you, plus a pile of consumer products to service the iPod/iPad crowd.
I will point out that Apple's quality has not been as stellar of late, they ARE slipping somewhat, but they are still better than your average company. So, I suppose there are SOME folks who complain about Apple's quality so I must revise my statement.
Most knowledgeable people do not question Apple's hardware quality.
I walked in once ... and couldn't figure out how to buy something so I left !
Seriously? So I'm to assume you didn't speak English because every time I've been in an Apple store I've been approached multiple times with "How can I help you?" questions from the staff. I'm sure if I said "I'd like to buy an iPad" they'd know what to do with my credit card..
Surely they don't have all those in the store? Remember this guy had to walk out with hardware in hand because by COB they would figure out they'd been had, so making any special orders would be a no-go option. No, I'm sure he had to buy "in stock" stuff from the store.
Nobody questions their quality, just their price for performance. Apple has always sold lower performance hardware at a premium over other kinds of systems. But they have a totally different business model and they sell the Apple branded way of doing things to users who don't mind paying for it.
It's called the reciever.
It's also nothing whatsoever to do with DIY, this guy was a very skilled gunsmith and was simply showing off a very cool project.
It's also nothing to do with 'hardest to legally import', you can get these parts anywhere you like; of course the reciever is that part that is considered a 'gun' and is controlled and you will need to fill out forms and pass background check, all normal.
And it was the receiver that he hammered out of an old shovel. I got to admit, that was impressive work, but I don't think the builder is extremely skilled or well equipped. A bit above average I suppose. He purchased the rest of the components off the shelf.
That was STUPID!
Conduct your little experiment if you have to, just keep your mouth shut about it.... At least until you have notified ALL your users that such experiments *might* be taking place (Or if you intend to issue refunds from the resulting class action suit.)
being nerdy and being childish.
Yea? So which is this huh? (sticks tongue out)
Sometimes I wonder if they are generally the same..
Already banned in New Jersey and D.C., and New York and Connecticut have a 7-band magazine limit.
You are going to put your eye out with that kid.. It's an assault weapon!
Next, they will put limits on the number of rubber bands you can conceal in your pockets without an office supply distribution permit, and federal background checks when you buy more than 7 bands in a box. Remember that selling office supplies in Chicago, Washington DC and most of the north west is illegal now...
Office supply closet raids begin... Better tell the admin to order more rubber bands...
Can't argue with that... Personally, I think that funding fusion research is something we should be doing instead of messing around with tax credits for windmills and solar panels. Where I don't figure the "We are almost there!" press is true either, it *could* be if we really put some resources into this research and development and where I'm not foolish enough to think having a working fusion plant would be the end all be all of energy production, it sure would be a step in the right direction.
Driving an EV around town is all well and good, but until they can do big trips, they'll just be a curiosity.
Oh come on.. I'm no EV advocate, but they have their place and driving around town is that place. You just plug it in when you get home each time. For commuters, which is actually the BULK of the miles I put on my cars, and EV that can reliably do 200 miles on a charge in real world conditions and recharge over night would work for me just fine. I own two (soon to be three) vehicles, so why not have an EV in the stable if it was actually cost effective? I wouldn't mind. When hitting the long road, the EV would stay parked at home. I'd just use it as a commuter car.
The problem with EV's is only partially range and recharge times, their real problem is cost. They are REALLY expensive to buy and operate. So much so that a standard gasoline powered car works out to be cheaper for most of us overall.
Yea, you can recharge them quicker... (sarc off)
If this happened (optimistically) 50 years from now, we'd be able to deflect the comet to HIT mars, thus delivering a lot of water and warming things up a bit. (Only, I'm afraid, a little bit of terraforming, it would probably take thousands of such comet strikes to make the planet "habitable").
The problem with doing this to Mars is that it has a very small magnetic field to protect it and radiation pretty much streams in to the surface unfiltered. Where it would help to add water and gases to the atmosphere, without a magnetic field to protect it, these would eventually be stripped away by the solar wind and you'd be back to square one.
Then there is the technical problems involved in figuring out how you can get enough of a push on some unknown constantly changing mass of ice and dust to make the necessary corrections to get the thing to actually impact Mars and not just do a really close flyby. Such things are very difficult, and given the really short time frames between "Oh, I see something coming" and "It's here!" would only make that worse. There's nothing like hurrying rocket science to ruin your day.
We have fusion now... We can start a fusion reaction pretty much whenever we want. The problem is we cannot create a sustained fusion reaction that nets us industrial levels of energy and do it in a cost effective way.
What the fusion problem really becomes is a materials and technique question. How do you safely sustain a fusion reaction long enough in some kind of container so you can collect the excess energy it creates without having to replace the expensive container too often. So we have a containment question which leads to materials questions and a whole lot of complex industrial scale engineering questions.
Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.
This applies to all of the southwest and a lot of the plains. Land is useless for anything but energy production without a supply of water, so you drink your whiskey and fight over the water. This has been true for centuries and will continue to be true for many more.
Lots of talk about from that from this Administration , that but it's all very opaque from the President on down.
They DO claim that "This Is The Most Transparent Administration In History." Problem is that it is only enforcing this transparency on others.
Well, to be fair, it's pretty obvious what "transparency" means to them. It's obviously a "You show me yours!" without any "I'll show you mine" kind of transparency. But being obvious what they are up to, it's "transparency" in a opaque sort of way...
None of those things had a video display....
But I get your point..