I've got some that take a second or two to warm up to _full_ output, but they're putting out _something_ instantly.
I've never once had a fixture that couldn't fit a bulb here. Sounds like you've got some odd ones...
Hazmat - well, kids couldn't reach my light fittings 8' up on the ceiling...plus the glass seems (informal testing) pretty tough and thicker than normal, and I've broken enough incandescent bulbs by dropping them, at which point you've got little thin shards of broken glass everywhere.
Choosing light levels - if you really wish to do that I'll grant you, you need incandescent bulbs - but it's a very inneficient way to get light. You're still drawing the extra current, it's just going into the resistor.
Apologies if I'm being thick but why do you want any great number of bulbs to light the cold, winter outdoors? This may be a British thing but we don't often have winter barbeques! If it's cold and dark outside, I stay inside unless I'm travelling or well wrapped up.
I had the same basic problem (albeit more in my shoulder than hand) but found what I needed was a keyboard with a built-in pad.
I've now got two lovely ones, with a nice central touchpad, but in the UK they can be rather hard to track down:-( Well worth the effort though, and after the initial adjustment period I find them much, much faster for standard GUI work. Painting and FPSs don't work so well but for pretty much anything else I find touchpads a major bonus.
You mean the same track surface that had been diamond ground recently before (a procedure that caused all sorts of tyre problems for the NASCAR boys elsewhere?) and caused problems for IRL cars?
I pay for my broadband connection (which is currently down so I'm posting on dialup, but that's another matter...).
I work for an Internet-based business. We also pay for our internet connection, paying for speed and total traffic.
Both parties _are_ paying their way. The network _is_ paid for, by both ends of the transaction, for what they wish to do with their part of the connection. If I clear my usage levels I get cut off or throttled, if my company clear ours then we get billed more.
Neither party is getting a free ride, getting rich off the telecoms company's connections without paying properly. Both pay in full for all they require, in proportion to what they require / use.
Were my ISP to elect to throttle traffic between myself and my employer for any reason, this would be nothing more than extortion - charging because they could, not charging because they had delivered goods or service of value that attracted compensation and this compensation had not been delivered.
To say to my employer 'we'll give you a 4Mb/s connection to the world, but AOL want another £1000/mo to get you ping times below 1s and proper bandwidth', or to me 'we'll give you a 1Mb/s connection but if you want to use this VoIP provider or watch online video from the BBC (but not Sky TV) then you'll need to pay us another £10/mo' is absurd, immorral, technically unwarranted and should be illegal.
I shoot a Nikon D70 and it's standard lens has a reputation for being sharp (for a kit lens, that is). I still can't do a major enlargement to 100% pixel size on screen and retain full sharpness without post processing.
Well, yes, the small shops CAN do it, but do you want to see what happens when they try?
The Venturi Fetish.
Really, this would be way too expensive for Simon Saunders to even consider. For one thing, I don't think he's got the engineering capacity from all I know - he's fundamentally an industrial designer not a vehicle engineer, and until recently the factory has been his studio! They're also in the middle of a plant move I believe which wouldn't help.
This guy's only been able to build his electric car because he's poured money into it for whatever reason. It's not going to be commercially realistic any time soon, sorry.
Ariel are a TINY company, who can only do what they do by using modified off-the-shelf components wherever possible. There _aren't_ off-the-shelf electric transmissions they can just run with.
This guy has made this one project his obsession and sunk serious money into it, when there's no historic market for it and when the likely future market isn't strong (a sports car you can drive for 100 miles then park for 4.5 hours, AFTER another $8m worth of development? Get that to 3-400 miles and you've got a sale but...). I wish him luck but I can see exactly why Simon Saunders hasn't already done this himself.
If it was easy enough to be obvious for Ariel, GM would have made EV-1 more successful and have launched the Solstice in electric. Toyota would have an electric MR-2, Honda an electric S2000...
I'd recommend trying VB.Net express for Windows users. Seriously.
* It's free (or was last I heard, anyway) * Clear, relatively readable syntax * OO but not forcibly so
Honestly, I don't think I'd have had any particular problems picking it up in comparison to what I did with Spectrums in the late 80s, aged 8-9. Definitely no harder than when I restarted on Macintosh Pascal in '95, aged 16.
It really is pretty easy to get started in... but it's got the more powerful guts behind it for when you want to do the more complex things as you learn about them.
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Largely due to MS implementing it in proprietary, insecure ActiveX it should be noted...
Actually, I'm someone who normally dislikes MS' update policy but the way they've handled sidebars in Word 2003 and the new slide viewer formats in Powerpoint 2003 are a MAJOR improvement. PP also has more flexible transitions, as I recall, that made my life a lot simpler because I stopped having to split objects all over the place.
Right now, I think this is too big and too expensive.
But not too much of either though, and I can see myself buying one in a few years if they're still around.
What I've wanted for ages is a combination of a PDA and an iPod (and, as a dedicated Psion S5 user on grounds of that marvelous keyboard, if they can get that in too then fantastic!). I want something that I can cart around with me everywhere to capture basic notes and other info. But I would _love_ having my full CD collection on there as MP3 files (which comes in at around 30GB and is why I don't want a Palm LifeDrive) to plug into my car stereo for when I'm driving around, and I want integrated satnav on the thing as well. By putting them in the one box I can have a single interface to poke and not need to worry about the music hitting a noisy patch when the satnav wakes up. Power? Not a major problem, car will be running it anyway.
So, as it stands it's too big, too expensive and needs a bigger HDD for me to be interested. But, bring out a version with a 5-6" screen rather than 7", a 60-80GB HDD, GPS somehow (expansion card is fine by me) and a cradle for me to fit it in my car, and I'd probably pay UKP350-400 for it.
There are some projects where it's interesting to work on something that you're entirely capable of doing everything yourself. For them, it's entirely sensible to want to be the programmer who controls it all yourself.
And there are others where you're having to work with a common toolkit of parts. Which would be more interesting - using the toolkit that someone else has already built, or being the architect who defined the spec for the entier toolkit?
Or alternatively, a really seriously big project. Man years of development. You could be a coder, banging out individual components to the common structure and the common interfaces, or you could be the higher level guy coming up with the grand schema and assisting the coders with components as necessary.
If you want to be the grunt, consuming specs and banging out your small modules of code then fantastic. I enjoy the modules but I also enjoy the big picture, the whole system, and I'm aware there are some systems that are beyond what I can do without assistance. For them, I would much rather be the guy at the top writing and handing out specs than the guy at the bottom blindly consuming them.
Surely it depends what we're calling manager though?
I personally have no interest in doing the tech team manager job at my last place. It's a position for minimal project management, a lot of customer interfacing and zero tech oversight. All you're doing really is watching schedules and pushing numbers around on gantt chart.
On the other hand, you could quite legitimately call a technical architect the team manager. They're interfacing with the client and passing the work around their team, but they're passing the work around based on a self-determined high-level tech plan (potentially developed in conjunction with team members) and acting as a mentor to junior staff. At which point it starts getting more interesting...
I've just left my last job so I can't easily check what I had in my mailbox;-) but, with a combination of 5.5 years of e-mail to a multitude of clients (who had asked funny things often enough that we kept everything) and attachments, I'm sure it was in that sort of magnitude.
I wish the mail server would have let me remove attachments from messages in the mailbox, or designate folders as 'seldom use - compress' or similar. Would have saved loads of space.
Would it be worth pointing out that Springfield in the Simpsons is coastal? And that the only location hints for the coast have it as a west coast?
It's officially supposed to be Anytown, USA, with hints of anywhere, but the few solid geographic hints they've given (more in later episodes and I suspect not entirely deliberately) have made me think of Oregon.
I've developed a lot of data management web applications over the years (primarily training services management of one type or another). Remember, DB apps really are the bread and butter of computer software.
They tend to use technically simple, menu-based interfaces, because they make logical sense to the users.
There are definitely places where the back button isn't the most useful thing (like after you've just added a new database record) but, most of the time, the back button is entirely sensible to use and doesn't cause technical problems. I put extra features in to make sure it's not required to navigate around, but the button is still absolutely useful and in no way causes me technical problems to handle.
No, it's not an online word processor. Guess what? There's a lot more custom databases than custom word processors out there.
* I can read my e-mail, sort photos from my camera, work on software... on the sofa with my girfriend. * I can run all sorts of slideshows and music at my Boys Brigade group. * I can do digital slideshows for friends and family whenever I want * I can catch up on personal projects wherever I am - on holiday, travelling with work... * I can run databases to let me score and manage Boys Brigade competitions wherever and whenevver I want, rather than having to do it all on paper. This weekends' under 11s regional 10 pin bowling competition, 87 bowlers split across 19 teams and I had all the scores to announce as soon as the last scoresheet came in. The limiting factor was how quickly we could get the boys in place!
I will never be withuot a personal use laptop again if I can possibly avoid it.
I'm a web dev. I spent half of yesterday correcting template errors that were down to IE6 misunderstanding entirely valid, correct CSS that other browsers and validators were quite happy with. Having to put in spurious DIVs, extra table cells and periodically spurious content to make it render what it was told to and the spec said i was supposed to.
If they can remove these silly gotchas that probably took up half the build time, I'll be a happy man.
And there are a great many database applications that need to be shared between users, at which point hosting them on the Internet makes a lot more sense than trying to host them on a single PC, or even single network.
The net isn't right for everything but it's not bad for everything either and we've not uncovered that much of its potential yet either.
However, I'm not saying that is bound to happen soon and I'm not saying that's the one saving grace of this deal. I still consider it has many positive outcomes over the previous situation even if the 'Great Firewall of China' is 100% effective and I consider most of the accusations leveled against Google in this somewhat flawed.
Let me restate my position: even if this works as the Chinese government wants, I feel it increases information access to Chinese internet users. That (in the general case) is Google's core mission, and I feel they've achieved the best compromise available and in a way that does not increase the sum total of human suffering in any way.
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I've got some that take a second or two to warm up to _full_ output, but they're putting out _something_ instantly.
I've never once had a fixture that couldn't fit a bulb here. Sounds like you've got some odd ones...
Hazmat - well, kids couldn't reach my light fittings 8' up on the ceiling...plus the glass seems (informal testing) pretty tough and thicker than normal, and I've broken enough incandescent bulbs by dropping them, at which point you've got little thin shards of broken glass everywhere.
Choosing light levels - if you really wish to do that I'll grant you, you need incandescent bulbs - but it's a very inneficient way to get light. You're still drawing the extra current, it's just going into the resistor.
Apologies if I'm being thick but why do you want any great number of bulbs to light the cold, winter outdoors? This may be a British thing but we don't often have winter barbeques! If it's cold and dark outside, I stay inside unless I'm travelling or well wrapped up.
I had the same basic problem (albeit more in my shoulder than hand) but found what I needed was a keyboard with a built-in pad.
:-( Well worth the effort though, and after the initial adjustment period I find them much, much faster for standard GUI work. Painting and FPSs don't work so well but for pretty much anything else I find touchpads a major bonus.
I've now got two lovely ones, with a nice central touchpad, but in the UK they can be rather hard to track down
(Obligatory whinge from an F1 fan)
You mean the same track surface that had been diamond ground recently before (a procedure that caused all sorts of tyre problems for the NASCAR boys elsewhere?) and caused problems for IRL cars?
Why not rip to FLAC? Half the size, same quality.
No, I'm sorry.
I pay for my broadband connection (which is currently down so I'm posting on dialup, but that's another matter...).
I work for an Internet-based business. We also pay for our internet connection, paying for speed and total traffic.
Both parties _are_ paying their way. The network _is_ paid for, by both ends of the transaction, for what they wish to do with their part of the connection. If I clear my usage levels I get cut off or throttled, if my company clear ours then we get billed more.
Neither party is getting a free ride, getting rich off the telecoms company's connections without paying properly. Both pay in full for all they require, in proportion to what they require / use.
Were my ISP to elect to throttle traffic between myself and my employer for any reason, this would be nothing more than extortion - charging because they could, not charging because they had delivered goods or service of value that attracted compensation and this compensation had not been delivered.
To say to my employer 'we'll give you a 4Mb/s connection to the world, but AOL want another £1000/mo to get you ping times below 1s and proper bandwidth', or to me 'we'll give you a 1Mb/s connection but if you want to use this VoIP provider or watch online video from the BBC (but not Sky TV) then you'll need to pay us another £10/mo' is absurd, immorral, technically unwarranted and should be illegal.
Yup, it's the lens.
I shoot a Nikon D70 and it's standard lens has a reputation for being sharp (for a kit lens, that is). I still can't do a major enlargement to 100% pixel size on screen and retain full sharpness without post processing.
Well, yes, the small shops CAN do it, but do you want to see what happens when they try?
The Venturi Fetish.
Really, this would be way too expensive for Simon Saunders to even consider. For one thing, I don't think he's got the engineering capacity from all I know - he's fundamentally an industrial designer not a vehicle engineer, and until recently the factory has been his studio! They're also in the middle of a plant move I believe which wouldn't help.
This guy's only been able to build his electric car because he's poured money into it for whatever reason. It's not going to be commercially realistic any time soon, sorry.
Can't fathom why?
Ariel are a TINY company, who can only do what they do by using modified off-the-shelf components wherever possible. There _aren't_ off-the-shelf electric transmissions they can just run with.
This guy has made this one project his obsession and sunk serious money into it, when there's no historic market for it and when the likely future market isn't strong (a sports car you can drive for 100 miles then park for 4.5 hours, AFTER another $8m worth of development? Get that to 3-400 miles and you've got a sale but...). I wish him luck but I can see exactly why Simon Saunders hasn't already done this himself.
If it was easy enough to be obvious for Ariel, GM would have made EV-1 more successful and have launched the Solstice in electric. Toyota would have an electric MR-2, Honda an electric S2000...
I'd love to see MS bundle the VS express editions with Windows - there's space on installation DVDs and they're quite good enough...
I'd recommend trying VB.Net express for Windows users. Seriously.
* It's free (or was last I heard, anyway)
* Clear, relatively readable syntax
* OO but not forcibly so
Honestly, I don't think I'd have had any particular problems picking it up in comparison to what I did with Spectrums in the late 80s, aged 8-9. Definitely no harder than when I restarted on Macintosh Pascal in '95, aged 16.
It really is pretty easy to get started in... but it's got the more powerful guts behind it for when you want to do the more complex things as you learn about them.
Largely due to MS implementing it in proprietary, insecure ActiveX it should be noted...
Actually, I'm someone who normally dislikes MS' update policy but the way they've handled sidebars in Word 2003 and the new slide viewer formats in Powerpoint 2003 are a MAJOR improvement. PP also has more flexible transitions, as I recall, that made my life a lot simpler because I stopped having to split objects all over the place.
Right now, I think this is too big and too expensive.
But not too much of either though, and I can see myself buying one in a few years if they're still around.
What I've wanted for ages is a combination of a PDA and an iPod (and, as a dedicated Psion S5 user on grounds of that marvelous keyboard, if they can get that in too then fantastic!). I want something that I can cart around with me everywhere to capture basic notes and other info. But I would _love_ having my full CD collection on there as MP3 files (which comes in at around 30GB and is why I don't want a Palm LifeDrive) to plug into my car stereo for when I'm driving around, and I want integrated satnav on the thing as well. By putting them in the one box I can have a single interface to poke and not need to worry about the music hitting a noisy patch when the satnav wakes up. Power? Not a major problem, car will be running it anyway.
So, as it stands it's too big, too expensive and needs a bigger HDD for me to be interested. But, bring out a version with a 5-6" screen rather than 7", a 60-80GB HDD, GPS somehow (expansion card is fine by me) and a cradle for me to fit it in my car, and I'd probably pay UKP350-400 for it.
Not so.
There are some projects where it's interesting to work on something that you're entirely capable of doing everything yourself. For them, it's entirely sensible to want to be the programmer who controls it all yourself.
And there are others where you're having to work with a common toolkit of parts. Which would be more interesting - using the toolkit that someone else has already built, or being the architect who defined the spec for the entier toolkit?
Or alternatively, a really seriously big project. Man years of development. You could be a coder, banging out individual components to the common structure and the common interfaces, or you could be the higher level guy coming up with the grand schema and assisting the coders with components as necessary.
If you want to be the grunt, consuming specs and banging out your small modules of code then fantastic. I enjoy the modules but I also enjoy the big picture, the whole system, and I'm aware there are some systems that are beyond what I can do without assistance. For them, I would much rather be the guy at the top writing and handing out specs than the guy at the bottom blindly consuming them.
Surely it depends what we're calling manager though?
I personally have no interest in doing the tech team manager job at my last place. It's a position for minimal project management, a lot of customer interfacing and zero tech oversight. All you're doing really is watching schedules and pushing numbers around on gantt chart.
On the other hand, you could quite legitimately call a technical architect the team manager. They're interfacing with the client and passing the work around their team, but they're passing the work around based on a self-determined high-level tech plan (potentially developed in conjunction with team members) and acting as a mentor to junior staff. At which point it starts getting more interesting...
I've just left my last job so I can't easily check what I had in my mailbox ;-) but, with a combination of 5.5 years of e-mail to a multitude of clients (who had asked funny things often enough that we kept everything) and attachments, I'm sure it was in that sort of magnitude.
I wish the mail server would have let me remove attachments from messages in the mailbox, or designate folders as 'seldom use - compress' or similar. Would have saved loads of space.
Er...
Would it be worth pointing out that Springfield in the Simpsons is coastal? And that the only location hints for the coast have it as a west coast?
It's officially supposed to be Anytown, USA, with hints of anywhere, but the few solid geographic hints they've given (more in later episodes and I suspect not entirely deliberately) have made me think of Oregon.
(Matt Groening's home state, FWIW...)
No, no, NO!
I've developed a lot of data management web applications over the years (primarily training services management of one type or another). Remember, DB apps really are the bread and butter of computer software.
They tend to use technically simple, menu-based interfaces, because they make logical sense to the users.
There are definitely places where the back button isn't the most useful thing (like after you've just added a new database record) but, most of the time, the back button is entirely sensible to use and doesn't cause technical problems. I put extra features in to make sure it's not required to navigate around, but the button is still absolutely useful and in no way causes me technical problems to handle.
No, it's not an online word processor. Guess what? There's a lot more custom databases than custom word processors out there.
My home laptop means:
* I can read my e-mail, sort photos from my camera, work on software... on the sofa with my girfriend.
* I can run all sorts of slideshows and music at my Boys Brigade group.
* I can do digital slideshows for friends and family whenever I want
* I can catch up on personal projects wherever I am - on holiday, travelling with work...
* I can run databases to let me score and manage Boys Brigade competitions wherever and whenevver I want, rather than having to do it all on paper. This weekends' under 11s regional 10 pin bowling competition, 87 bowlers split across 19 teams and I had all the scores to announce as soon as the last scoresheet came in. The limiting factor was how quickly we could get the boys in place!
I will never be withuot a personal use laptop again if I can possibly avoid it.
I'm a web dev. I spent half of yesterday correcting template errors that were down to IE6 misunderstanding entirely valid, correct CSS that other browsers and validators were quite happy with. Having to put in spurious DIVs, extra table cells and periodically spurious content to make it render what it was told to and the spec said i was supposed to.
If they can remove these silly gotchas that probably took up half the build time, I'll be a happy man.
Favourite over here to show people - search for selection. Instant research on any page!
And there are a great many database applications that need to be shared between users, at which point hosting them on the Internet makes a lot more sense than trying to host them on a single PC, or even single network.
The net isn't right for everything but it's not bad for everything either and we've not uncovered that much of its potential yet either.
Hang on a mo.
I've seen Nikon F mount tilt & shift lenses that will absolutely fit my D70.
And pinhole lenses? I could make my own!
So where's the inherent advantage in your OM-4 from these lenses?
I've never understood why the Nikon D70 gets qoted at 6.1MP.
I shoot one and I _love_ it, it's a fantastic camera for what I need.
It produces files that are 3008*2000 pixels - 6,016,000 pixels.
Agreed.
However, I'm not saying that is bound to happen soon and I'm not saying that's the one saving grace of this deal. I still consider it has many positive outcomes over the previous situation even if the 'Great Firewall of China' is 100% effective and I consider most of the accusations leveled against Google in this somewhat flawed.
Let me restate my position: even if this works as the Chinese government wants, I feel it increases information access to Chinese internet users. That (in the general case) is Google's core mission, and I feel they've achieved the best compromise available and in a way that does not increase the sum total of human suffering in any way.