If you have to work more than 40 hours a week, then you are either incompetent or poorly managed. If the only way to meet deadlines is to work insane amounts of overtime, then you have to hire more people or do less work. (i.e. have fewer customers or looser deadlines). You only have so many productive hours in a day. Thinking that you can work more than that is a fallacy. Your code will be junk. Your designs will be shitty. You will have no life. And frankly, you fucking incompetent meatbags who have to take twice as long give managers absurd expectations about human performance. Further, if you're spending 6 of your so-called 10 hour days read/., fark, and going to meetings, then you're really just working for 4 hours and the rest of your time could be replaced by a mannequin.
I am an Engineer. (A real one.) I am married with two kids. I am salaried. I meet all my goals (I've actually been told to stop working so fast!) and I go home on time.
My day starts when I get home. So should yours. If your boss won't accept that you are not a machine, then tell him to fuck off. He is a sociopathic homewrecker. Use those words. Be unkind.
You're right. Nothing lasts forever. I didn't say that LCD is better. In my OP, I was going to comment about the "Oh, you might have to change a lightbulb" sales tactic for LCD and projection TVs but I thought it didn't fit.
Lightbulbs are 4/$1, right? Right? That's what normal lightbulbs cost. The bloody things are $800+ each, plus installation.
If it takes 60k hours for the screen to be unusable, that does not mean that it magically switches to "suck" after that time. It means the screen degrades from the moment you start using it. And you are wrong. Switching is always harder on a device than leaving it on.
It's not your fault. Your managers don't tell you the truth because it's easy to lie when you believe it.
The whole planet is covered in uranium, but that doesn't matter. You have to remember that people tend to panic when they hear "uranium". It's got nothing to do with science. Anything with uranium is a deadly poison that is killing our planet and making our kids into five-headed mutants with autism.
By the way, mutations are healthy for a species. It's why we're not all single-celled yeast polyps.
No, they mean that there's still "a picture" after 60k hours.
It does NOT mean that it's a good picture. Just that it exists.
Also, switching any device on and off is harder on it than just leaving it on. I'd be quite surprised if any plasma TV would still have a good picture after 3-4 years.
Lithium batteries, while volatile, deliver more power for less weight. You can get a "D" form factor Lithium battery with these specs:
20 AH life, 2A pulse, 250mA continuous drain.
Yes, they're explosive. Yes, they're restricted from travelling in aircraft. Yes, they can overheat and cause a chain reaction which can blow apart cinderblocks.
Yes, those batteries come with fuses to prevent short-circuiting.
The purpose of a battery is to store energy. If that energy is converted to heat at an unsafe rate, the battery will catch fire or explode. If you want to minimize that risk, you can decrease the energy density. Then you get a bigger battery.
Building a range sensor into the RCX is not really that difficult. I built one for the older version (2.0) as part of my final project at university in 2004. The biggest problem was (and perhaps is) that the schematics included with a few of the books simply don't work. Before you say, "Hey, maybe you read them wrong," I'll simply say that I'm an Electrical Engineer and I know how to read a schematic.
Anyway, it used IR, not lasers, but it had a ranged temperature and distance sensor. It used that information to navigate an obstacle course.
We packaged the sensors in spare bricks so they looked (almost) like official LEGO(tm)(c)(r) parts. Ironically, the judges thought we didn't do much work because they couldn't see the sensors.
If I'd known the project was/. worthy, I'd have submitted it. It would have been nice to see it up on here for the five minutes it would take for my host to burst into flames.
What if your link goes to bank0famerica.com? If you're not wearing your trifocals, you might not know that's a 0 instead of a o. If the website is designed to look like the legit site, then people could get phished. The 0/o is a simple example. There are recently patched exploits using non-romantic characters.
Remember that not everyone is tech savvy. Some people can't use a microwave.
That's the easiest way I can put that to you - you're fucked.
Watching other cheat in school and getting away with it is just prepping you for what's going to happen after you graduate. You peers are going to take credit for your ideas, put their names on work you do, and lie to your managers and bosses about how they're working all the time. You'll do the work and they'll take the credit.
Merit is absolutely useless. All that matters is whether you look good.
I'm also not saying that you guys suck at democracy.
I am saying that you suck at capitalism.
Let's assume that you want to get at the card or whatever is behind the panel.
Why isn't this panel made out of glass that you have to shatter with a little hammer or teflon paper that you have to cut? That way, there's obvious proof of access. The vendor can repair the windows for the next election - it's a revenue stream for them. If the replacement costs $500 or so to install (due to all the fancy features like holograms, RFID, and seals, etc.) then fakes would be prohibitively difficult to get. It would be better physical security than a "Bic" lock.
I think Diebold was lazy, not conspiring. The rest of you were lazy by allowing these lazily built machines to run your election.
If it was a military facility, you would want to be able to "scuttle" it, so that The Enemy could not capture it. It's common practice. So the button should exist somewhere.
I agree that you wouldn't put it in the middle of the console next to the "pay employees" button. It should be a custom-built, voice-coded droid that recognized either the command to scuttle or the presence of non-authourized personnel with blasters.
The point is, you have the ability to get information about your choice. You can look at the pros and cons of a capitalist republic, constitutional monarchy, military dictatorship, socialist regime, or whatever, and look at the various options available to you.
You also have a myriad of news sources available to you. You can watch CNN, read Drudge, read the paper, and spend half the day on/., fark, and digg.(Read them all, and you might get a glimpse of The Truth.)
I don't know if China would be happier under the US system. The point is, the people living there don't even get to KNOW about other systems......or how people had to die to overthrow the government at the time in order to change the system.
The biggest problem with nuclear power is that people freak out about it. The moment you say, "Hey, nuclear power." The response is always, "But, that's like Chernoybl. There will be a meltdown and everyone in 100 miles will get cancer. Why do you have children so much?"
Then, once you explain the design flaws in the Chernoybl accident, they say, "But, terrorists will get the waste killonium. Those dirt farmers - they could build a fusion bomb that would wipe out western civilization using only a goat, three grams of killonium from the Russian black market, and one centrifuge!"
So the biggest problem facing nuclear power is PR. If you get enough people demandin nuclear reactors, then the funding to solve the logistic problems will appear. Then, remember the formula:
Slashdot Mirror
Idiots.
/., fark, and going to meetings, then you're really just working for 4 hours and the rest of your time could be replaced by a mannequin.
Everywhere I go, I see idiots.
You are one of them.
If you have to work more than 40 hours a week, then you are either incompetent or poorly managed. If the only way to meet deadlines is to work insane amounts of overtime, then you have to hire more people or do less work. (i.e. have fewer customers or looser deadlines). You only have so many productive hours in a day. Thinking that you can work more than that is a fallacy. Your code will be junk. Your designs will be shitty. You will have no life. And frankly, you fucking incompetent meatbags who have to take twice as long give managers absurd expectations about human performance. Further, if you're spending 6 of your so-called 10 hour days read
I am an Engineer. (A real one.) I am married with two kids. I am salaried. I meet all my goals (I've actually been told to stop working so fast!) and I go home on time.
My day starts when I get home. So should yours. If your boss won't accept that you are not a machine, then tell him to fuck off. He is a sociopathic homewrecker. Use those words. Be unkind.
And for fuck's sake, stop being a fucking idiot.
Why not just use "Geddy Lee" instead of having to explain Rush to the Americans?
I guess you're a big girl today. Congratulations.
You're right. Nothing lasts forever. I didn't say that LCD is better. In my OP, I was going to comment about the "Oh, you might have to change a lightbulb" sales tactic for LCD and projection TVs but I thought it didn't fit.
Lightbulbs are 4/$1, right? Right? That's what normal lightbulbs cost. The bloody things are $800+ each, plus installation.
Mr. Best Buy:
If it takes 60k hours for the screen to be unusable, that does not mean that it magically switches to "suck" after that time. It means the screen degrades from the moment you start using it. And you are wrong. Switching is always harder on a device than leaving it on.
It's not your fault. Your managers don't tell you the truth because it's easy to lie when you believe it.
The whole planet is covered in uranium, but that doesn't matter. You have to remember that people tend to panic when they hear "uranium". It's got nothing to do with science. Anything with uranium is a deadly poison that is killing our planet and making our kids into five-headed mutants with autism.
By the way, mutations are healthy for a species. It's why we're not all single-celled yeast polyps.
No, they mean that there's still "a picture" after 60k hours.
It does NOT mean that it's a good picture. Just that it exists.
Also, switching any device on and off is harder on it than just leaving it on. I'd be quite surprised if any plasma TV would still have a good picture after 3-4 years.
Don't worry. By the time this becomes affordable, your plasma TV will be worn out and due to be replaced anyway.
Do they still have the ads for other movies, ads for products, and the warnings that you should always buy your DVDs because they want you to?
Those are extra I could certainly do without.
Lithium batteries, while volatile, deliver more power for less weight. You can get a "D" form factor Lithium battery with these specs:
20 AH life, 2A pulse, 250mA continuous drain.
Yes, they're explosive. Yes, they're restricted from travelling in aircraft. Yes, they can overheat and cause a chain reaction which can blow apart cinderblocks.
Yes, those batteries come with fuses to prevent short-circuiting.
The purpose of a battery is to store energy. If that energy is converted to heat at an unsafe rate, the battery will catch fire or explode. If you want to minimize that risk, you can decrease the energy density. Then you get a bigger battery.
Building a range sensor into the RCX is not really that difficult. I built one for the older version (2.0) as part of my final project at university in 2004. The biggest problem was (and perhaps is) that the schematics included with a few of the books simply don't work. Before you say, "Hey, maybe you read them wrong," I'll simply say that I'm an Electrical Engineer and I know how to read a schematic.
/. worthy, I'd have submitted it. It would have been nice to see it up on here for the five minutes it would take for my host to burst into flames.
Anyway, it used IR, not lasers, but it had a ranged temperature and distance sensor. It used that information to navigate an obstacle course.
We packaged the sensors in spare bricks so they looked (almost) like official LEGO(tm)(c)(r) parts. Ironically, the judges thought we didn't do much work because they couldn't see the sensors.
If I'd known the project was
What if your link goes to bank0famerica.com? If you're not wearing your trifocals, you might not know that's a 0 instead of a o. If the website is designed to look like the legit site, then people could get phished. The 0/o is a simple example. There are recently patched exploits using non-romantic characters.
Remember that not everyone is tech savvy. Some people can't use a microwave.
How can you tell if a politician is lying?
His lips are moving.
I got the following:
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.1
MOBILITY 0
SHELTER 1.1
GOODS/SERVICES 1.1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.3
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.8 PLANETS.
And we're both pretty good. I guess we'll have to start colonizing other planets before we starve to death.
Iraq's kicking your ass, and you want to invade China?
I'm sure that if China was flying spy satellites over the US, it would be no problem.
My sig hasn't changed in ... wow, almost a decade.
I like to think that it's someone's full-time job to read my email.
Hi Phil.
You're fucked.
That's the easiest way I can put that to you - you're fucked.
Watching other cheat in school and getting away with it is just prepping you for what's going to happen after you graduate. You peers are going to take credit for your ideas, put their names on work you do, and lie to your managers and bosses about how they're working all the time. You'll do the work and they'll take the credit.
Merit is absolutely useless. All that matters is whether you look good.
It's lunchtime. I'm not going to proofread this.
Apple-boner
When did they start selling those?
It's called an iWang. It costs just 99 cents per use and seamlessly integrates with the new iPr0n site.
And yes, it does have a "shuffle" version.
Ahr matey.
Thar be less than a million o' us.
And som' o' us be havin' wives and children back aport.
If ye be havin' trouble findin' a lass te walk yer plank, don't assume we're all adrift.
I'm not saying your last election was a fraud.
I'm also not saying that you guys suck at democracy.
I am saying that you suck at capitalism.
Let's assume that you want to get at the card or whatever is behind the panel.
Why isn't this panel made out of glass that you have to shatter with a little hammer or teflon paper that you have to cut? That way, there's obvious proof of access. The vendor can repair the windows for the next election - it's a revenue stream for them. If the replacement costs $500 or so to install (due to all the fancy features like holograms, RFID, and seals, etc.) then fakes would be prohibitively difficult to get. It would be better physical security than a "Bic" lock.
I think Diebold was lazy, not conspiring. The rest of you were lazy by allowing these lazily built machines to run your election.
No, it doesn't bother me. Jedi are fantasy escapism.
Sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. End of story.
If it was a military facility, you would want to be able to "scuttle" it, so that The Enemy could not capture it. It's common practice. So the button should exist somewhere.
I agree that you wouldn't put it in the middle of the console next to the "pay employees" button. It should be a custom-built, voice-coded droid that recognized either the command to scuttle or the presence of non-authourized personnel with blasters.
My biggest peeve is the sounds in space.
The point is, you have the ability to get information about your choice. You can look at the pros and cons of a capitalist republic, constitutional monarchy, military dictatorship, socialist regime, or whatever, and look at the various options available to you.
/., fark, and digg.(Read them all, and you might get a glimpse of The Truth.)
...or how people had to die to overthrow the government at the time in order to change the system.
You also have a myriad of news sources available to you. You can watch CNN, read Drudge, read the paper, and spend half the day on
I don't know if China would be happier under the US system. The point is, the people living there don't even get to KNOW about other systems...
The biggest problem with nuclear power is that people freak out about it. The moment you say, "Hey, nuclear power." The response is always, "But, that's like Chernoybl. There will be a meltdown and everyone in 100 miles will get cancer. Why do you have children so much?"
Then, once you explain the design flaws in the Chernoybl accident, they say, "But, terrorists will get the waste killonium. Those dirt farmers - they could build a fusion bomb that would wipe out western civilization using only a goat, three grams of killonium from the Russian black market, and one centrifuge!"
So the biggest problem facing nuclear power is PR. If you get enough people demandin nuclear reactors, then the funding to solve the logistic problems will appear. Then, remember the formula:
money + example + determination + time = success.