my stepson is a "burned into the brain" PSer who bad mouthed GIMP a lot, having both GIMP and Photoshop esentials on my wife's machine I had him show me what he did in PS, after he did a few things, I opened the original image, did the same thing in half the time in PS as he did; in GIMP I learned the short-cut keys and unless you change them they are the same as Photoshop
Dude your karma is shot, here's a mantra to improve it say over and over while pressing the preview button "Most of the world doesn't get sarcastic humor" then post a lot on the back sections that don't get on the front pages, most moderator don't go their so it don't get kicked around as bad. Sooner or later your karma will get back up to 1, if only through repetion. If you ever get up to 2, and your posting something way offtopic like this, check the No Karma Bonus box and it will not hurt your Karma as bad when you get modded offtopic.
4 years RA, stationed in Grafenwhor in a air defense artillery unit, tactical life expectence 18 seconds, then 20 years MIARNG light infantry unit as Squad Leader, Platoon Leader and later as NBC Defense NCO both Company and Battalion level. I agree the MILES and SAW helps push the percentage up a bit, but not as much as you'd imagine. I've seen a lot of soldiers gaming the systems, stolen God guns, filed keys, obstructed sensors. There is a big difference between what we think we'll do when the shit hits the fan, and what we actualy do when it hits, ignoring this often leads to fixing bayonets.
the study can't hurt, and it may provide more useful information; You could end up being surprised. its a congressional study, it'll be a research of published papers, and wouldn't go much farther than paraphrasing the abstracts which probably aren't supported by the data buried deeper in the articles. All of the testimony will be by flashy PR type reading prepared statement coordinated with starburst advertising to support public fund raising campains by advocacy groups whose primary reason for existence is to raise money to pay their officers and do enough complimentary research to ensure their continued existence.
I have increasingly seen laws in US tacking baseless things than the root problems. We've had a lot of sloppy thinking, people just don't get the cause and effect thing, often confusing the two, or worse see similar but unrelated events as related or functional, not just the US either it's rampant in the whole world. This allows a lot of con-artists to take advantage of well meaning people and relieve them of their money in the name of charities, political, social and environmental advocacies.
I think it's high time we took oscam's razor to the stroop, it's getting a bit dull lately.
I'm calling bullshit on that; only 20% of military personnel firing individual weapons actually shoot to kill, of the remaining 80% some will shoot to wound but the majority shoot to suppress. It's been like that as far as they can determine. On civil war battle fields, rifles have been found that had been loaded as many as five times without being fired. Bayonets the statistics are even lower; I went to basic in '73 and there were no 3d bayonet dummies, and we only saw a bayonet in training twice.
Crew served weapons are much more effective than individual weapons because the psycological impact of killing is less than the impact of letting the crew down.
Don't confuse a few aberent beserker situations with a trend.
Data, Information and Knowledge are far different things. Data has to be analysed to become Information and information needs to be understood to become Knowedlge. Google is able to and has gathered vast amounts of data, has indexed it, and presents it to us. using google levels the playing field between joe average and the information elites of this world. the data that google has isn't secret, but a lot it would have been with other companies. We may not like what google has collected about us, but what it has was freely available.
Given the poor service some localities receive from their utilities and near utilities like cable-tv/broadband, perhaps a municipality might seize the poles/and underground copper and fiber via emminent domain and bid it out to a company more aggressive about upgrades and customer service. The power of emminent domain can be a double edged sword!
Comcast owns the nice fancy fiberoptic cables and repeaters that is tacked up on the electric company owned poles, that are planted in the publicly owned property paid for by my tax dollars; all of this is controlled by laws, regulations, and contracts between the companies. Not every company can get access to the pole's and public right-of-ways, so yes it is an effective monopoly. Not everybody can get competing services, I live in a city that has DSL service in it, but can't get DSL because of the distance to the central office, and probably never will.
Actualy it looks like a pretty good commie recipe, it has plenty of malt to give the brew plenty of body and head; a blend of both bitter and armoma hops to give the beer both taste and bouquet. After trying the reciept as is i'd probably decide to cut back the bitter Tetnang hops a bit to balance it to my personal preferences better. If any of my fellow americans would like to by your hand at brewing I can assure you that with a trials, you'll be making a brew that is far better, and better personalized than anything you'll see made by the big conglomerates. The hardest part for use is actualy collecting enough bottle of the proper type; our Modern Screw on lids bottles suck ass for home brewing.
One word of warnning is home brew produces prdigious amounts of very good beer at modest cost, so in order to consume it fast enough to try the modifications to the reciepes, you'll need friends and have to actually scocialize in person.
implimentation is a tad bit touchey, and just about everything patentable about them has been done and expired, they are used in cyrogenics, the stirling has no rotating parts, is driven ala solenoid and can be hermeticaly sealed to reduce maintenance and failures. I have no idea about real world efficencies.
1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane R134 is still ozone depleting but not as bad as the old R12 stuff is. What I can't figure out is given the 1. equilibrium of the Halides in the upper atmosphere in destroying ozone, about 1:35 a BadThing(tm), 2. the tendency of the halides to concentrate over the poles, a GoodThing(tm), 3. the large number of balloons send up to study the "problem" wouldn't it make more sense to just say, we don't know if it will help or not, but if your package doesn't have a chemical pack to sequester atmospheric halides in the upper atmosphere, we're not going to give you any grant money for your study period.
The feeling I got was these people wasn't enrolled in anything that most of us call computer science, it was more likely what we would consider applications specialists, entry level windows admin, or even a few code monkeys. Don't get me wrong these people do an honorable and necessary job, but they are technicians, not scientists or engineers. I don't think that a DeVrey degree has anything to do with computer science and
More importantly, some employers interviewed for the report admitted they did not see a degree from a for-profit school in the same way as one from a four-year college.
neither do some of the more cluefull vampyres in HR either. Personaly I think that a lot of the computer technology skills added as a minor rather than a major is what most people should get, or even as an add-on degree to differentiate your primary degree.
American citizen has no idea where the tax money is coming from I was sitting on the stool at the local burger joint, yacking with a guy I'd never met before and was unlikely to ever see again who was talking about how great President Carter was for upping the income tax rate for those rich fat-cat families who made over $70K a year, a large chunk of change at the time. So naturaly I had to ask him how much he made, and he told me about $40K a year. Next I asked him if his wife worked and about how much; yes she made about $35K a year working. Well I told him it was very refreshing to meet somebody who was both for the tax increase and was one of those rich fat-cat families who more than $70K a year in taxable income. Slowly, very slowly that "Oh Shit" look came over his face as he painfully realized that 35 + 40 is more than 70!
It can be surprising how many people, even smart people, are just plain stupid.
The Linus admin washed his hand before he pissed; no telling what those windows guys caught in their Email. It's just a matter of what's more important!
1.[serious] Diamond companies arn't in the USA, in fact DeBeers is prohibited from doing bussiness in the US except for a new retail store they are test marketing.[/serious]
2. [sarcastic]if the company was powerful enough to do that, they's just do it irregardless if the map showed a village or not; a couple tons of napalm is just clearing uninhabited jungle and scaring away the vermin.[/sarcastic]
3.[serious] canabals are located in burma not africa,[/serious][sarcastic] and they only practise it now-a-days on tasty paranoid white european types like yourself[\sarcastic]
4.[serious] touching base with authority figures, both formal and informal is good advice; ask, get permission, proceed.[/serious]
Maybe I missed something, but I thought the question was about making an map, some villages and roads kind of a thing, not a geodesic survey, and more likely not makeing a map but plotting some points on an existing map representing the present location of a village which will move around over long periods of time, and maybe some roads, two-tracks and trails which unless they are paved, deffinatly will move annualy and sometimes over-night with enough rain, or even dissapear; and the same holds true for rivers, creek and stream beds. 1. he should get a GPS and play with it a while, see how it works and how well before he hits the bush. 2. Get some books on land-navigation, Millitary or Civialian Orrienteering, and practice. 3. get a good compass, the US Army M2 compass is about as good as they get, better than the survey instruments used to survey in the 1800's. 4. learn to declinate the compass, magnetic north isn't geographic north and it does move, depending on where you are, magetnetic north can be 180 degrees from geographic north! 5. Get comfortable with the mill system 6400 mills = 2 pie radians, makes the math much easier. 6. learn to intersect and resect from know points 7. learn dead-reconning as a sanity check on everthing. 8. get GMT, Generic mapping tool, GMT it's about as good as it getts too, GPL runs on about everything.
always remember a stardard wood pencil lead can be 100m wide on a 1:50,000 map!
As soon as more people get over the "I ain't buyin no Jap car!" attitude and realize that "foreign" cars are actually built in the U.S., Toyota and Honda will crush GM, Ford and D-C. A while back the Michigan Lottery Commission desided that they'd give a nice shiney new american can away as one of the prizes, so they offered a nice new corvette as first prize; a few people complained about them giving a way a car made in Bowling Green Ohio rather than a Toyota made in Flat Rock Michigan. Anymore a car physicaly assemebled in Japan may have more "made in the Good 'ol USA" in it than a car physicaly assemebled in the USA does.
my industry has something like that available today for welding and soldering, pour in water, plus a little KOH add electricty and out comes a nice clean 2H2 02 gas to burn at about 7000K, bubble the gas through a little ETOH and the flame drops to a useable temperature; AD or DC doesn't matter.
ethanol is actualy quite a bit safer, usualy done biologicly, the feedstock is normaly cattlefeed (field corn), the main waste product is still cattle-feed, distiller's dried grain.
The problem is they keep make what people want now, given the length of the product to market cycle, most stuff hits the market as the fad dies out. Start making what people will want 2 years from now, and they'll get to work out the production kinks on the early adopters, and have a solid product when the market finaly booms.
4WD Hybrid minivans w/ adjustable ground clearance (call it a Snow setting) will be the thing, tree-hugging liberal soccer mom's will love'em good millage eco-friendlier, hauls the team and a load of groceries; dittoheads will love, good millage tell them OPECers to stick their heads down a well; as well as normal people.
either that or GM gets bought out by Toyota of America 20 years from now, actualy Toyota probably too smart for that.
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my stepson is a "burned into the brain" PSer who bad mouthed GIMP a lot, having both GIMP and Photoshop esentials on my wife's machine I had him show me what he did in PS, after he did a few things, I opened the original image, did the same thing in half the time in PS as he did; in GIMP I learned the short-cut keys and unless you change them they are the same as Photoshop
Dude your karma is shot, here's a mantra to improve it say over and over while pressing the preview button "Most of the world doesn't get sarcastic humor" then post a lot on the back sections that don't get on the front pages, most moderator don't go their so it don't get kicked around as bad. Sooner or later your karma will get back up to 1, if only through repetion. If you ever get up to 2, and your posting something way offtopic like this, check the No Karma Bonus box and it will not hurt your Karma as bad when you get modded offtopic.
4 years RA, stationed in Grafenwhor in a air defense artillery unit, tactical life expectence 18 seconds, then 20 years MIARNG light infantry unit as Squad Leader, Platoon Leader and later as NBC Defense NCO both Company and Battalion level. I agree the MILES and SAW helps push the percentage up a bit, but not as much as you'd imagine. I've seen a lot of soldiers gaming the systems, stolen God guns, filed keys, obstructed sensors. There is a big difference between what we think we'll do when the shit hits the fan, and what we actualy do when it hits, ignoring this often leads to fixing bayonets.
the study can't hurt, and it may provide more useful information; You could end up being surprised.
its a congressional study, it'll be a research of published papers, and wouldn't go much farther than paraphrasing the abstracts which probably aren't supported by the data buried deeper in the articles. All of the testimony will be by flashy PR type reading prepared statement coordinated with starburst advertising to support public fund raising campains by advocacy groups whose primary reason for existence is to raise money to pay their officers and do enough complimentary research to ensure their continued existence.
I have increasingly seen laws in US tacking baseless things than the root problems.
We've had a lot of sloppy thinking, people just don't get the cause and effect thing, often confusing the two, or worse see similar but unrelated events as related or functional, not just the US either it's rampant in the whole world. This allows a lot of con-artists to take advantage of well meaning people and relieve them of their money in the name of charities, political, social and environmental advocacies.
I think it's high time we took oscam's razor to the stroop, it's getting a bit dull lately.
I'm calling bullshit on that; only 20% of military personnel firing individual weapons actually shoot to kill, of the remaining 80% some will shoot to wound but the majority shoot to suppress. It's been like that as far as they can determine. On civil war battle fields, rifles have been found that had been loaded as many as five times without being fired. Bayonets the statistics are even lower; I went to basic in '73 and there were no 3d bayonet dummies, and we only saw a bayonet in training twice.
Crew served weapons are much more effective than individual weapons because the psycological impact of killing is less than the impact of letting the crew down.
Don't confuse a few aberent beserker situations with a trend.
Data, Information and Knowledge are far different things. Data has to be analysed to become Information and information needs to be understood to become Knowedlge. Google is able to and has gathered vast amounts of data, has indexed it, and presents it to us. using google levels the playing field between joe average and the information elites of this world. the data that google has isn't secret, but a lot it would have been with other companies. We may not like what google has collected about us, but what it has was freely available.
Given the poor service some localities receive from their utilities and near utilities like cable-tv/broadband, perhaps a municipality might seize the poles/and underground copper and fiber via emminent domain and bid it out to a company more aggressive about upgrades and customer service. The power of emminent domain can be a double edged sword!
Comcast owns the nice fancy fiberoptic cables and repeaters that is tacked up on the electric company owned poles, that are planted in the publicly owned property paid for by my tax dollars; all of this is controlled by laws, regulations, and contracts between the companies. Not every company can get access to the pole's and public right-of-ways, so yes it is an effective monopoly. Not everybody can get competing services, I live in a city that has DSL service in it, but can't get DSL because of the distance to the central office, and probably never will.
Actualy it looks like a pretty good commie recipe, it has plenty of malt to give the brew plenty of body and head; a blend of both bitter and armoma hops to give the beer both taste and bouquet.
After trying the reciept as is i'd probably decide to cut back the bitter Tetnang hops a bit to balance it to my personal preferences better.
If any of my fellow americans would like to by your hand at brewing I can assure you that with a trials, you'll be making a brew that is far better, and better personalized than anything you'll see made by the big conglomerates. The hardest part for use is actualy collecting enough bottle of the proper type; our Modern Screw on lids bottles suck ass for home brewing.
One word of warnning is home brew produces prdigious amounts of very good beer at modest cost, so in order to consume it fast enough to try the modifications to the reciepes, you'll need friends and have to actually scocialize in person.
implimentation is a tad bit touchey, and just about everything patentable about them has been done and expired, they are used in cyrogenics, the stirling has no rotating parts, is driven ala solenoid and can be hermeticaly sealed to reduce maintenance and failures. I have no idea about real world efficencies.
now that's interesting. I wonder how it compares to geo-thermal heat pump style heating units
1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane R134 is still ozone depleting but not as bad as the old R12 stuff is. What I can't figure out is given the
1. equilibrium of the Halides in the upper atmosphere in destroying ozone, about 1:35 a BadThing(tm),
2. the tendency of the halides to concentrate over the poles, a GoodThing(tm),
3. the large number of balloons send up to study the "problem"
wouldn't it make more sense to just say, we don't know if it will help or not, but if your package doesn't have a chemical pack to sequester atmospheric halides in the upper atmosphere, we're not going to give you any grant money for your study period.
I don't think that a DeVrey degree has anything to do with computer science and neither do some of the more cluefull vampyres in HR either. Personaly I think that a lot of the computer technology skills added as a minor rather than a major is what most people should get, or even as an add-on degree to differentiate your primary degree.
American citizen has no idea where the tax money is coming from
I was sitting on the stool at the local burger joint, yacking with a guy I'd never met before and was unlikely to ever see again who was talking about how great President Carter was for upping the income tax rate for those rich fat-cat families who made over $70K a year, a large chunk of change at the time. So naturaly I had to ask him how much he made, and he told me about $40K a year. Next I asked him if his wife worked and about how much; yes she made about $35K a year working. Well I told him it was very refreshing to meet somebody who was both for the tax increase and was one of those rich fat-cat families who more than $70K a year in taxable income. Slowly, very slowly that "Oh Shit" look came over his face as he painfully realized that 35 + 40 is more than 70!
It can be surprising how many people, even smart people, are just plain stupid.
The Linus admin washed his hand before he pissed; no telling what those windows guys caught in their Email. It's just a matter of what's more important!
I've been tempted to reinstall the 5 1/4 floppy just so people will ask what it is, and I can make a superior geeky reply.
seriously tho isn't diposable PC every geeks dream, and endless supply of cpu cycles to cluster and network.
I'll go real slow;
method 1
1. drive tractor, grow corn,
2. feed corn to cow, grow beef
3. sell beef
4. profit
method 2
1. drive tractor, grow corn,
2. feed corn to ethanol plant
3. feed waste from ethanol plant to cow to grow beef
4. sell beef
5. profit
the bottom line is we going to use the oil anyways, one way gets a little ethanol to add to the gasoline, the present way doesn't.
1.[serious] Diamond companies arn't in the USA, in fact DeBeers is prohibited from doing bussiness in the US except for a new retail store they are test marketing.[/serious]
2. [sarcastic]if the company was powerful enough to do that, they's just do it irregardless if the map showed a village or not; a couple tons of napalm is just clearing uninhabited jungle and scaring away the vermin.[/sarcastic]
3.[serious] canabals are located in burma not africa,[/serious][sarcastic] and they only practise it now-a-days on tasty paranoid white european types like yourself[\sarcastic]
4.[serious] touching base with authority figures, both formal and informal is good advice; ask, get permission, proceed.[/serious]
Maybe I missed something, but I thought the question was about making an map, some villages and roads kind of a thing, not a geodesic survey, and more likely not makeing a map but plotting some points on an existing map representing the present location of a village which will move around over long periods of time, and maybe some roads, two-tracks and trails which unless they are paved, deffinatly will move annualy and sometimes over-night with enough rain, or even dissapear; and the same holds true for rivers, creek and stream beds.
1. he should get a GPS and play with it a while, see how it works and how well before he hits the bush.
2. Get some books on land-navigation, Millitary or Civialian Orrienteering, and practice.
3. get a good compass, the US Army M2 compass is about as good as they get, better than the survey instruments used to survey in the 1800's.
4. learn to declinate the compass, magnetic north isn't geographic north and it does move, depending on where you are, magetnetic north can be 180 degrees from geographic north!
5. Get comfortable with the mill system 6400 mills = 2 pie radians, makes the math much easier.
6. learn to intersect and resect from know points
7. learn dead-reconning as a sanity check on everthing.
8. get GMT, Generic mapping tool, GMT it's about as good as it getts too, GPL runs on about everything.
always remember a stardard wood pencil lead can be 100m wide on a 1:50,000 map!
As soon as more people get over the "I ain't buyin no Jap car!" attitude and realize that "foreign" cars are actually built in the U.S., Toyota and Honda will crush GM, Ford and D-C.
A while back the Michigan Lottery Commission desided that they'd give a nice shiney new american can away as one of the prizes, so they offered a nice new corvette as first prize; a few people complained about them giving a way a car made in Bowling Green Ohio rather than a Toyota made in Flat Rock Michigan. Anymore a car physicaly assemebled in Japan may have more "made in the Good 'ol USA" in it than a car physicaly assemebled in the USA does.
more likely find he local militia might find it desirable.
my industry has something like that available today for welding and soldering, pour in water, plus a little KOH add electricty and out comes a nice clean 2H2 02 gas to burn at about 7000K, bubble the gas through a little ETOH and the flame drops to a useable temperature; AD or DC doesn't matter.
ethanol is actualy quite a bit safer, usualy done biologicly, the feedstock is normaly cattlefeed (field corn), the main waste product is still cattle-feed, distiller's dried grain.
The problem is they keep make what people want now, given the length of the product to market cycle, most stuff hits the market as the fad dies out. Start making what people will want 2 years from now, and they'll get to work out the production kinks on the early adopters, and have a solid product when the market finaly booms.
4WD Hybrid minivans w/ adjustable ground clearance (call it a Snow setting) will be the thing, tree-hugging liberal soccer mom's will love'em good millage eco-friendlier, hauls the team and a load of groceries; dittoheads will love, good millage tell them OPECers to stick their heads down a well; as well as normal people.
either that or GM gets bought out by Toyota of America 20 years from now, actualy Toyota probably too smart for that.