Maybe he didn't use 'large' quantities of dye for sufficiently large values of 'large'. 8-)
I was going to originally propose radioactive fluorescein so that you could compare the isotopic ratios to determine how long it took the sample to traverse the path, but realized that the appearance of the dye would do the same thing. Duh. I like the radioactive tracking, however. If you make it radioactive enough that it's not only radiologically hot but physically hot, it'll melt it's way through any constrictions.
Pour a large quantity of fluorescein into the melt water in question. Observe the ocean surrounding the glacier (perhaps from a satellite) for a bright yellow-green patch.
If you want to trace the flow, introduce a neutrally buoyant, screaming hot but short half-life gamma radiation source into the meltwater. Track it via sensitive correlated gamma detectors in 3 dimensions. Some choices include Sodium-24 with a half-life of 15 hours and gamma energies of 1368 keV and 2754 keV, or Ir-188, or Y-90.
The solution to that problem used to be replace your distributor cap and plug wires. Nowadays, there are coils per plug and all sorts of other nonsense.
That's 1.21 (pronounced one point twenty one) Jigawatts, unless you have the "Ultra Flux Capacitor Plus with Kung Fu Grip (tm)". That takes 3.30 (pronounced 3 point thirty) Jigawatts.
"Jigga" is the supposedly official pronunciation of Giga; the movie folk did their research, but didn't consult anyone in the field. That'd be like pronouncing "forecastle" any way but "folk-sull".
Amen to that. Safety is clearly lesson #0 when I invite anyone over to shoot. I don't care how long they've been shooting - they get firearm safety 101 from me (and learn my range rules) or they don't shoot at my place.
Wow - that's all completely unconscionable, if not downright illegal. They can prohibit you from smoking on their grounds, sure, but they certainly don't have any right to force you to open your car nor can they stop you from leaving the grounds on your time to have a smoke.
Slight search-and-replace yields:
Wow - that's all completely unconscionable, if not downright illegal. They can prohibit you from having a gun on their grounds, sure, but they certainly don't have any right to force you to open your car nor can they stop you from leaving the grounds on your time to have a good time at the firing range.
That situation sounds suspiciously like the fight concealed-carry permit holders are waging against prohibitions of carrying a legally-owned handgun in their car on company property. They're certainly able to prevent me from carrying inside their buildings and while walking around their property, but the state says I can have one legally in my car. The argument is that my car is the same as my house - no searches without probable cause, so the company has no business worrying about things that stay in the car.
I've always thought the same thing. To a lesser extent the 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' folks are guilty of the same sort of excess. They don't know what it is (if anything) but you'll hear statements like 'Dark matter is matter than doesn't generate or reflect light but interacts gravitationally". We have no idea if that's really the case. I'm one to always use more circumspect language - "There is an effect present that mimics a distribution of currently-unseen matter" or some such.
It has been noted that the names "dark matter" and "dark energy" serve mainly as expressions of human ignorance, much as the marking of early maps with "terra incognita."
I second the rifle motion. I'm still amazed at the differential equations that are involved with external ballistics. Did you know that scientists have yet to develop 'closed form' equations for bullet flight? They have excellent approximations, but the formulas rely on empirical measurements of the bullet flight to derive so-called 'ballistic coefficients' for different velocity subranges for each bullet weight and shape. Sierra Bullets has a wonderful section of the equations of flight in their reloading manual that they have released on the web. I recommend it highly to anyone with a mathematics background - check out the 4th edition information starting with section 6.0
If you're able to use a breadboard to prototype your circuits, you're not building interesting stuff! 8-)
Seriously, it's gotten to the point where RF and computer components are either all SMT, or are made using stripline techniques. It's almost impossible to prototype anything with UHF or higher frequencies on a breadboard because the layout and composition of the PCB begin to play a major role. Luckily manufacturers are beginning to bundle related circuits into RF building-blocks-on-chips so that the external connections are not operating at the RF freq which relieves some of the layout angst.
Perhaps you are reading-impaired. I specifically mentioned that the layoffs occurred at corporate HQ, were not the same ones as have resulted from store closures, and were in IT. Firedog is categorically not IT; Senior developers, project managers, etc are, and were the folks laid off last Friday. In Richmond, the IT arena is being flooded with laid-off workers, so it is kinda difficult to find work if you've recently been laid off. There have been many layoffs at many of the area's largest employers, and I'm afraid there are more to come.
10% fiscal losses does not translate into 1 in 10 people shoplifting. I also think you may be conflating shoplifting to what is euphemistically called 'shrinkage' in the business. Shrinkage is when an employee totes a TV out the back door. I must say that having 3 different point-of-sale systems at CC has only helped those employees bent on stealing. If the inventory says there are 5 TVs in stock and the employee counts 6, then it's their duty to take one home to make the inventory come out right.
PS - Your reference says clearly that the person must be "acting in good faith and upon probable cause based upon reasonable grounds therefor" when detaining a customer. It does not say that setting off the alarm constitutes probable cause. IANAL, btw.
In Virginia, at least, most of the so-called theft alarms are nothing more than beep-beeps. I have heard recorded voice on occasion, however. How am I to distinguish "beep-beep we think you're a thief" from "beep-beep the register just scanned an item" from "beep-beep the floor waxer is backing up"?
What seems to have not made it out of the Richmond area is that they laid off 500-800 people last Friday from Corporate in addition to the ones they're laying off from the store closures. That's a lot of people to dump into an already poor IT market.
I do exactly the same thing. If they ask if they can see my receipt, I say "No", and never break stride. Similarly, if the beeper thing goes off, I just keep walking. It annoys my wife to no end because she hates conflict, but I'm not shy about asking the door Nazis why they think all their customers are criminals.
And encourages those with minor illnesses to seek treatment at emergency rooms.
My wife was rushed to the hospital with heart attack symptoms (luckily it wasn't a heart attack). There was a Central-American immigrant mother who didn't speak English with her child who was being treated for a cold. The nurse was very nice to them, but I could tell that she was a little frustrated by the language barrier and wasting her time and expertise to 'treat' an essentially non-treatable* disease in an emergency room setting.
* Aside from antiviral agents, time is the only real treatment for a cold.
...I'd love to see the same sort of thing done from inside the pumpkin (through a hole in the top), without piercing the outside skin on the side. The pumpkin would look unmolested until you illuminated it from the inside. Wooo!!! Scary!!!
...lies in the accentuated non-linear effects of Silicon over glass. As the article states, frequency-shifting and other optical processing feats can be performed in the fiber instead of having to do the photon-electron-photon dance. This makes WDM signal generation/detection much simpler. Imagine doing all the functions of one of these by choosing the right frequency-shifting fiber. The industry could standardize on a single laser frequency (193.10 THz) and insert DWDM signals by using fibers that shift the frequency by multiples of 25/50/100 GHz.
All kidding aside re: your double-parking girlfriend, what's their rationale for sending her a ticket for a double-parking violation when her car wasn't there? Did she drive off while the ticket was being written, or what?
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Maybe he didn't use 'large' quantities of dye for sufficiently large values of 'large'. 8-)
I was going to originally propose radioactive fluorescein so that you could compare the isotopic ratios to determine how long it took the sample to traverse the path, but realized that the appearance of the dye would do the same thing. Duh. I like the radioactive tracking, however. If you make it radioactive enough that it's not only radiologically hot but physically hot, it'll melt it's way through any constrictions.
Pour a large quantity of fluorescein into the melt water in question. Observe the ocean surrounding the glacier (perhaps from a satellite) for a bright yellow-green patch.
If you want to trace the flow, introduce a neutrally buoyant, screaming hot but short half-life gamma radiation source into the meltwater. Track it via sensitive correlated gamma detectors in 3 dimensions. Some choices include Sodium-24 with a half-life of 15 hours and gamma energies of 1368 keV and 2754 keV, or Ir-188, or Y-90.
The solution to that problem used to be replace your distributor cap and plug wires. Nowadays, there are coils per plug and all sorts of other nonsense.
That's 1.21 (pronounced one point twenty one) Jigawatts, unless you have the "Ultra Flux Capacitor Plus with Kung Fu Grip (tm)". That takes 3.30 (pronounced 3 point thirty) Jigawatts.
"Jigga" is the supposedly official pronunciation of Giga; the movie folk did their research, but didn't consult anyone in the field. That'd be like pronouncing "forecastle" any way but "folk-sull".
Amen to that. Safety is clearly lesson #0 when I invite anyone over to shoot. I don't care how long they've been shooting - they get firearm safety 101 from me (and learn my range rules) or they don't shoot at my place.
The timing has a real Obama's-grandmother vibe, you know?
Did Obama's grandmother have wheels? If so, they'd have called her a wagon.
Wow - that's all completely unconscionable, if not downright illegal. They can prohibit you from smoking on their grounds, sure, but they certainly don't have any right to force you to open your car nor can they stop you from leaving the grounds on your time to have a smoke.
Slight search-and-replace yields:
Wow - that's all completely unconscionable, if not downright illegal. They can prohibit you from having a gun on their grounds, sure, but they certainly don't have any right to force you to open your car nor can they stop you from leaving the grounds on your time to have a good time at the firing range.
That situation sounds suspiciously like the fight concealed-carry permit holders are waging against prohibitions of carrying a legally-owned handgun in their car on company property. They're certainly able to prevent me from carrying inside their buildings and while walking around their property, but the state says I can have one legally in my car. The argument is that my car is the same as my house - no searches without probable cause, so the company has no business worrying about things that stay in the car.
I've always thought the same thing. To a lesser extent the 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' folks are guilty of the same sort of excess. They don't know what it is (if anything) but you'll hear statements like 'Dark matter is matter than doesn't generate or reflect light but interacts gravitationally". We have no idea if that's really the case. I'm one to always use more circumspect language - "There is an effect present that mimics a distribution of currently-unseen matter" or some such.
I agree wholeheartedly with this quip from the Wikipedia page on Dark Matter:
Oh that's funny! The shortened URL for your link came out as "[enzyte-mal...cement.com]" aka "Enzyte - bad cement".
I second the rifle motion. I'm still amazed at the differential equations that are involved with external ballistics. Did you know that scientists have yet to develop 'closed form' equations for bullet flight? They have excellent approximations, but the formulas rely on empirical measurements of the bullet flight to derive so-called 'ballistic coefficients' for different velocity subranges for each bullet weight and shape. Sierra Bullets has a wonderful section of the equations of flight in their reloading manual that they have released on the web. I recommend it highly to anyone with a mathematics background - check out the 4th edition information starting with section 6.0
If you're able to use a breadboard to prototype your circuits, you're not building interesting stuff! 8-)
Seriously, it's gotten to the point where RF and computer components are either all SMT, or are made using stripline techniques. It's almost impossible to prototype anything with UHF or higher frequencies on a breadboard because the layout and composition of the PCB begin to play a major role. Luckily manufacturers are beginning to bundle related circuits into RF building-blocks-on-chips so that the external connections are not operating at the RF freq which relieves some of the layout angst.
That's not exactly "acting in good faith", but I don't doubt it happens.
Perhaps you are reading-impaired. I specifically mentioned that the layoffs occurred at corporate HQ, were not the same ones as have resulted from store closures, and were in IT. Firedog is categorically not IT; Senior developers, project managers, etc are, and were the folks laid off last Friday. In Richmond, the IT arena is being flooded with laid-off workers, so it is kinda difficult to find work if you've recently been laid off. There have been many layoffs at many of the area's largest employers, and I'm afraid there are more to come.
10% fiscal losses does not translate into 1 in 10 people shoplifting. I also think you may be conflating shoplifting to what is euphemistically called 'shrinkage' in the business. Shrinkage is when an employee totes a TV out the back door. I must say that having 3 different point-of-sale systems at CC has only helped those employees bent on stealing. If the inventory says there are 5 TVs in stock and the employee counts 6, then it's their duty to take one home to make the inventory come out right.
PS - Your reference says clearly that the person must be "acting in good faith and upon probable cause based upon reasonable grounds therefor" when detaining a customer. It does not say that setting off the alarm constitutes probable cause. IANAL, btw.
In Virginia, at least, most of the so-called theft alarms are nothing more than beep-beeps. I have heard recorded voice on occasion, however. How am I to distinguish "beep-beep we think you're a thief" from "beep-beep the register just scanned an item" from "beep-beep the floor waxer is backing up"?
What seems to have not made it out of the Richmond area is that they laid off 500-800 people last Friday from Corporate in addition to the ones they're laying off from the store closures. That's a lot of people to dump into an already poor IT market.
I do exactly the same thing. If they ask if they can see my receipt, I say "No", and never break stride. Similarly, if the beeper thing goes off, I just keep walking. It annoys my wife to no end because she hates conflict, but I'm not shy about asking the door Nazis why they think all their customers are criminals.
Ease up on the "Blue Velvet", dude. 8-)
And encourages those with minor illnesses to seek treatment at emergency rooms.
My wife was rushed to the hospital with heart attack symptoms (luckily it wasn't a heart attack). There was a Central-American immigrant mother who didn't speak English with her child who was being treated for a cold. The nurse was very nice to them, but I could tell that she was a little frustrated by the language barrier and wasting her time and expertise to 'treat' an essentially non-treatable* disease in an emergency room setting.
* Aside from antiviral agents, time is the only real treatment for a cold.
In my opinion, that would make it all worthwhile. 8-)
...I'd love to see the same sort of thing done from inside the pumpkin (through a hole in the top), without piercing the outside skin on the side. The pumpkin would look unmolested until you illuminated it from the inside. Wooo!!! Scary!!!
...lies in the accentuated non-linear effects of Silicon over glass. As the article states, frequency-shifting and other optical processing feats can be performed in the fiber instead of having to do the photon-electron-photon dance. This makes WDM signal generation/detection much simpler. Imagine doing all the functions of one of these by choosing the right frequency-shifting fiber. The industry could standardize on a single laser frequency (193.10 THz) and insert DWDM signals by using fibers that shift the frequency by multiples of 25/50/100 GHz.
All kidding aside re: your double-parking girlfriend, what's their rationale for sending her a ticket for a double-parking violation when her car wasn't there? Did she drive off while the ticket was being written, or what?
So let me get this straight - your girlfriend is so large she got a ticket for being double-parked?