You know, those Hokey spokes look pretty cool (especially in the video if you haven't checked it out yet) but didja notice the weight? 6 ounces (170 grams) once you put the batteries in.
To quote: 2 Blades/Wheel look good, 3 Blades/Wheel look great, and more than three look amazing.
After figuring the marketing-speak you would need -- per wheel -- US$90 and 510 grams of rotating weight to get a good looking setup. Not a problem on farm roads in Kansas but I sure wouldn't want that kilo of rotating weight during my stop-and-go city commute. Which, incidentally, is otherwise the best opportunity to show those babies off.
I wonder if you could eliminate the batteries by powering them from some of that rotational energy. There would still be a performance cost, but maybe not so steep.
BTW if you are interested in bicycle lighting, check out these hub generators. I don't have or sell them, but they're neat.
The previous reply is wrong. The poster is correct -- a short sale will effectively "lock in" the profits that you will realize on exercising your options. This is true for upside as well as downside risk, BTW, as you also forego potential profits should the stock go up further in value.
It's worth noting that there are quite a number of circumstances in which a short sale by an employee is not permitted (e.g. if you are an "officer" of the company). Check before doing this!
This talk of Access and Postgres reminds me...how do you get past the problem where you try to link Access to Postgres, and Access 2K complains something like "The size of a field was too long"? I gave up on the linking because of this.
It's not the ODBC driver, as Excel does a data import of the same view with no problem!
To all you people babbling about films not making profits, and how Stan Lee should have negotiated for a percentage of the gross, let me make it simple: 1. Stan Lee's contract is with Marvel, and 2. Marvel licensed the intellectual property to the movie studio. 3. Marvel's lawyers knew enough to negotiate for gross points, therefore 4. Marvel made a profit, and 5. Stan Lee is therefore entitled by contract to 10% of Marvel's profits.
The contract dispute is not with the movie studios who, however evil, have done nothing particularly wrong by Lee. This is all about Marvel trying to redefine those profits.
I still remember seeing that movie -- I was sitting behind some tall guy, and missed "it". Of course I didn't know I had missed anything and found the next five minutes very confusing (until I asked my wife what was going on).
I see a lot of recommendations for excellent books that are essentially popularizations of physics. That's fine if all you want to do is feel like you understand the science. I would argue (and some may disagree) that you don't understand it if you're unable to actually apply your knowledge to actual problems.
The only way to test and develop this skill is to work problems. It's slow and painful, but essential. No one (except in movies like Good Will Hunting) learns real science or math without working problems.
My recommendations: quantum physics texts by J.J. Sakurai. Mechanics by Goldstein. I wish I knew a good statistical physics book with problems.
The webpage was put up by grieving parents. The kid has no right to feel sorry for his dead self, but the parents aren't the ones who shook the machine.
Why not a photovoltaic cell?
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Why not just use the sunlight for powering a laser via solar cells instead? You get just the wavelength you want, and could conceivably have a battery backup.
I want to second the advice to parcel your project out into different languages. You would be a masochist to do your I/O routines in FORTRAN (file numbers, anyone?). But try, for example, finding decent optimization algorithms, linear algebra routines (Cholesky decomposition, etc.), and other serious code in C. [Num. Recipes, BTW, is not serious]
Sure, there are CBLAS and CLAPACK -- both hideous automatic translations of the FORTRAN code!
So in addition writing to your own code, you'll be able to scrounge *and adapt* useful routines from the literature.
I think newer artists already realize the promotional value of music online. I read a complementary review of a performance by Norah Jones in the Chicago Reader. I looked on the internet for more info, found out she had samples on her website, and, liking what I heard, bought the CD.
Of course, as an artist, that only works for you of you are good. Maybe that's the problem the RIAA has...it'll never work for promoting manufactured dreck.
Actually, it makes good statistical/economic sense to concentrate caution on periods of higher risk.
Let's say that AT&T has two modes: careful (C) and reckless (R). Now clearly it costs more in terms of employee time to be careful than reckless. (Say it costs C=$10 and R=$1 respectively. ) Assume Careful catches a proportion q_c of social engineering attempts while Reckless lets a proportion q_r succeed.
Now assume that at a given time there is probability p that someone on the line is trying to social engineer them. Assume also the costs of being hacked (in embarassment or whatever) are uncorrelated, and average $H. Assume the benefits of a legit phone call are $B.
We can now compute the payoff from being careful versus reckless.
V_C = B (1-p) - H p q_c - C
V_R = B (1-p) - H p q_r - R
It's clearly quite possible for either V_C or V_R to be larger depending on the coefficients.
If you could make a function giving q as a function of cost, you could solve for V=0. This would tell you exactly how careful to be, given a particular present level of riskiness p.
Has BBEdit ever fixed the backwards search? Last few times I tried it, hitting Command-E got the selected text into the find buffer just fine, and Command-G would search forward as it should. But BBEdit hangs on Command-D to reverse search, which I use all the time. Very annoying.
(This is probably not an issue for old Mac hands, but for an OpenStep junkie it can be crucial)
And (boy what a love-fest:-) ) I agree with your kinder view of Jr.
I especially like Jr because of his bicycling advocacy, without which we would not have, say,
cycling on Lake Shore Drive or all the new cycling lanes on city streets.
Overall, I think that having a political system like Chicago's that lends itself to dictatorship works pretty well when the dictator is benevolent, and cares about the city. I fear it could turn ugly if we end up with a malevolent dictator. I'm not sure if the system would admit such a beast or not, though. Certainly the machine is weaker than before, so it is hard to see how the system would support a true reprobate.
BTW, a surprisingly gripping account of Daley Sr and Chicago is available in American Pharoah.
The poster is right. Chicago natives can tell you Divine is not really a tech company. Originally called Divine Interventures, it was begun, I believe, as a VC company right around the time of the dot-bomb.
Flip F managed to sweet talk some stupid VC wannabes out of their money, and even (as I recall) talked our Mayor-Emporer Daley into planning some kind of tech incubator building downtown. I don't know if that's on ice now or not.
As an aside, the interesting thing about both the current Daley and his father is they both care(d) a lot about Chicago. No one could accuse them of tech sophistication, but they try hard to keep business in the city so that it stays vital (as opposed, say, to the fate of Detroit). They allow corruption to fester about them (especially Daley senior) but as a means to an end. It's hard to say with certainty the city would be - or would have been - better off without it.
I have to concur. The Atron is really *more* functional than this monstrosity because it plays so nicely with a network share (from OSX in my case).
I don't understand why all these manufacturers are putting HD's (at premium prices) in MP3 hardware. It's chaos! I'm annoyed enough just syncing my iPod. Owning 2 or 3 of these things and keeping them in sync would be a $3000+ headache I *don't* need...
...especially since I have 2 Audiotrons. They rock. And yes, they have digital out so I can use a real DAC.
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All I want for christmas is... ....an angry mob!
I live in Chicago, and (as the parent writes) the law is intended to discourage the sale of stolen collections.
You know, those Hokey spokes look pretty cool (especially in the video if you haven't checked it out yet) but didja notice the weight? 6 ounces (170 grams) once you put the batteries in.
To quote: 2 Blades/Wheel look good, 3 Blades/Wheel look great, and more than three look amazing.
After figuring the marketing-speak you would need -- per wheel -- US$90 and 510 grams of rotating weight to get a good looking setup. Not a problem on farm roads in Kansas but I sure wouldn't want that kilo of rotating weight during my stop-and-go city commute. Which, incidentally, is otherwise the best opportunity to show those babies off.
I wonder if you could eliminate the batteries by powering them from some of that rotational energy. There would still be a performance cost, but maybe not so steep.
BTW if you are interested in bicycle lighting, check out these hub generators. I don't have or sell them, but they're neat.
I note those are battery powered. You would think they could make it use some of that plentiful motion to power the lights.
The previous reply is wrong. The poster is correct -- a short sale will effectively "lock in" the profits that you will realize on exercising your options. This is true for upside as well as downside risk, BTW, as you also forego potential profits should the stock go up further in value.
It's worth noting that there are quite a number of circumstances in which a short sale by an employee is not permitted (e.g. if you are an "officer" of the company). Check before doing this!
This talk of Access and Postgres reminds me...how do you get past the problem where you try to link Access to Postgres, and Access 2K complains something like "The size of a field was too long"? I gave up on the linking because of this.
It's not the ODBC driver, as Excel does a data import of the same view with no problem!
To all you people babbling about films not making profits, and how Stan Lee should have negotiated for a percentage of the gross, let me make it simple:
1. Stan Lee's contract is with Marvel, and
2. Marvel licensed the intellectual property to the movie studio.
3. Marvel's lawyers knew enough to negotiate for gross points, therefore
4. Marvel made a profit, and
5. Stan Lee is therefore entitled by contract to 10% of Marvel's profits.
The contract dispute is not with the movie studios who, however evil, have done nothing particularly wrong by Lee. This is all about Marvel trying to redefine those profits.
For those who may have missed it (as I did the first time)...the article title itself is a bit playful.
I still remember seeing that movie -- I was sitting behind some tall guy, and missed "it". Of course I didn't know I had missed anything and found the next five minutes very confusing (until I asked my wife what was going on).
Plus you can get the Zen with a multi-button mouse!
(/me ducks, runs)
Why is this rated Insightful? Zillions of peple work in offices with
(a) good web access, and
(b) no television.
Most companies don't give you paid vacation to go home and watch television during Major News Events.
Somebody has never held a real job....
I see a lot of recommendations for excellent books that are essentially popularizations of physics. That's fine if all you want to do is feel like you understand the science. I would argue (and some may disagree) that you don't understand it if you're unable to actually apply your knowledge to actual problems.
The only way to test and develop this skill is to work problems. It's slow and painful, but essential. No one (except in movies like Good Will Hunting) learns real science or math without working problems.
My recommendations: quantum physics texts by J.J. Sakurai. Mechanics by Goldstein. I wish I knew a good statistical physics book with problems.
The webpage was put up by grieving parents. The kid has no right to feel sorry for his dead self, but the parents aren't the ones who shook the machine.
Why not just use the sunlight for powering a laser via solar cells instead? You get just the wavelength you want, and could conceivably have a battery backup.
I want to second the advice to parcel your project out into different languages. You would be a masochist to do your I/O routines in FORTRAN (file numbers, anyone?). But try, for example, finding decent optimization algorithms, linear algebra routines (Cholesky decomposition, etc.), and other serious code in C. [Num. Recipes, BTW, is not serious]
Sure, there are CBLAS and CLAPACK -- both hideous automatic translations of the FORTRAN code!
So in addition writing to your own code, you'll be able to scrounge *and adapt* useful routines from the literature.
I think newer artists already realize the promotional value of music online. I read a complementary review of a performance by Norah Jones in the Chicago Reader. I looked on the internet for more info, found out she had samples on her website, and, liking what I heard, bought the CD.
Of course, as an artist, that only works for you of you are good. Maybe that's the problem the RIAA has...it'll never work for promoting manufactured dreck.
As a friend of mine asks, what mad comic genius conceived that WWII P.O.W. camp would be a hilarious location for a sitcom?
I guess that wasn't really Bayesian, was it? Oh, well.
Actually, it makes good statistical/economic sense to concentrate caution on periods of higher risk.
Let's say that AT&T has two modes: careful (C) and reckless (R). Now clearly it costs more in terms of employee time to be careful than reckless. (Say it costs C=$10 and R=$1 respectively. ) Assume Careful catches a proportion q_c of social engineering attempts while Reckless lets a proportion q_r succeed.
Now assume that at a given time there is probability p that someone on the line is trying to social engineer them. Assume also the costs of being hacked (in embarassment or whatever) are uncorrelated, and average $H. Assume the benefits of a legit phone call are $B.
We can now compute the payoff from being careful versus reckless.
V_C = B (1-p) - H p q_c - C
V_R = B (1-p) - H p q_r - R
It's clearly quite possible for either V_C or V_R to be larger depending on the coefficients.
If you could make a function giving q as a function of cost, you could solve for V=0. This would tell you exactly how careful to be, given a particular present level of riskiness p.
Has BBEdit ever fixed the backwards search? Last few times I tried it, hitting Command-E got the selected text into the find buffer just fine, and Command-G would search forward as it should. But BBEdit hangs on Command-D to reverse search, which I use all the time. Very annoying.
(This is probably not an issue for old Mac hands, but for an OpenStep junkie it can be crucial)
Actually, as a cyclist, I rather like it when the cars gridlock, as I can usually fit between them and go on my merry way!
And (boy what a love-fest :-) ) I agree with your kinder view of Jr.
I especially like Jr because of his bicycling advocacy, without which we would not have, say, cycling on Lake Shore Drive or all the new cycling lanes on city streets.
Overall, I think that having a political system like Chicago's that lends itself to dictatorship works pretty well when the dictator is benevolent, and cares about the city. I fear it could turn ugly if we end up with a malevolent dictator. I'm not sure if the system would admit such a beast or not, though. Certainly the machine is weaker than before, so it is hard to see how the system would support a true reprobate.
BTW, a surprisingly gripping account of Daley Sr and Chicago is available in American Pharoah.
The poster is right. Chicago natives can tell you Divine is not really a tech company. Originally called Divine Interventures, it was begun, I believe, as a VC company right around the time of the dot-bomb.
Flip F managed to sweet talk some stupid VC wannabes out of their money, and even (as I recall) talked our Mayor-Emporer Daley into planning some kind of tech incubator building downtown. I don't know if that's on ice now or not.
As an aside, the interesting thing about both the current Daley and his father is they both care(d) a lot about Chicago. No one could accuse them of tech sophistication, but they try hard to keep business in the city so that it stays vital (as opposed, say, to the fate of Detroit). They allow corruption to fester about them (especially Daley senior) but as a means to an end. It's hard to say with certainty the city would be - or would have been - better off without it.
- Brian
Wow. That makes any analysis tough, when performance measures fail to satisfy the Reflexive Property!
Brian
I have to concur. The Atron is really *more* functional than this monstrosity because it plays so nicely with a network share (from OSX in my case).
I don't understand why all these manufacturers are putting HD's (at premium prices) in MP3 hardware. It's chaos! I'm annoyed enough just syncing my iPod. Owning 2 or 3 of these things and keeping them in sync would be a $3000+ headache I *don't* need...
...especially since I have 2 Audiotrons. They rock. And yes, they have digital out so I can use a real DAC.
/me sells 100 shares of SonicBlue short