To the cracked-out moderators: According to CNN, Iran disappeared the moment Whacko died. The media was covering all the slaughter in Iran up until Whacko died. Then it was Whaco Jacko 24/7, and now it's back to the Emmys or the whatever it is.
Or, for those with the attention span of a gnat:
Hey moderators, I respect your decision and I'll let you finish, but Punto's post is one of the best posts of all time.
Haven't you ever run a test run overnight? For a month? We would often do that when testing the longevity of a battery for extended deployment. You can hook some kinds of multimeter up to a serial port and watch the electrical parameters over time.
To be totally fair, I don't work there anymore and the company's bankrupt.
At a previous job, we fired a cleaning crew because they logged into our computers to check their email while we were out.
We called to tell them why they weren't getting paid or allowed to come back, and the boss said, "they might have pressed some buttons when they were dusting."
We said, "the login we have here is 'john.smith123@hotmail.com'; the odds of that being pressed sequentially are 2.7^15 to 1 against."
If you connect your PLC to the Internet, it can email you when a problem arises. If you haven't coded responses to incoming email, it simply won't respond. I didn't see any incoming email commands on the PLCs I've worked on, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
So, you get error reporting and real-time data from your PLCs when you connect them to the Internet. Apparently that's stupid.
The programming ports on the ones I've used are physically separate from the ones used for communication, and the functions simply cannot be swapped.
There is also -- again, in the cases of all PLCs that I have used, which is not exhaustive of all that are on the market -- a physical toggle switch that switches the PLC from "run" to "program" mode.
I suppose that if the PLC was attached to the Internet, and then you had a guy flip the switch and swap the cables, and then put the cables back and flip the switch back later, then yes, you could reprogram a PLC online.
If you can figure out an easier way, Omron, Koyo, AB, and IEEE would like to have a word with you.
Plumbing and masonry, and all other trades, are certainly looking for females to join the professions. There's a serious labour shortage and it's not the sort of thing that you can farm out to India.
NASCAR, no, I'll grant you that. I haven't heard of employment equity for that.
The problem isn't with a lack of people entering the field; it's that the fields aren't seen as exciting. (Others might note that you can make more money in other fields; for example, I'd be making at least 2x what I make now if I was an electrician instead.)
You then have people who aren't interested in excitement getting into or getting pigeonholed into those fields. "Oh, Beardo is kind of quiet and smart. Perhaps he'll be a good scientist, sitting alone in a lab all day."
That's the problem. Science is exciting, no matter what branch you're getting into. I'm an Engineer -- an applied scientist. I'd like to think that I'm a reasonably exciting guy.
I bike around, I make speeches, I SCUBA dive, I have a house / car / family, I can build a radio with scrap, I've saved thousands of lives, and right now I'm working on a series of billion-dollar vehicles.
There are MILLIONS of people like me, but we don't sell magazines. It's not a matter of comprehension -- I have been able to adequately explain my job to my 5-year-old daughter -- but a matter of the stereotype of the scientist being a dork like Frink or evil like Baltar.
Nobody without decent charisma can do a good job. You have to be able to sell what you do and sell your opinions to you colleagues and supervisors.
bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel
Aw, nuts. I would have pwn3d that. One kid in daycare, one in kindergarten, my wife works at a College, and I bus / bike to work. I get exposed to everything.
Mortal germs just can't survive in here.
Knife eating, though... probably looking at an integumentary breach.
That's the rumour. According to the tinfoil hat brigade; Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US all monitor each other's traffic. That way, when asked, each country can honestly say,
"We do not, and have never, monitored the correspondence of any of our citizens without a warrant. We do occassionally intercept communications of foreigners."
For what it's worth, I've had the same sig since 1998. I joke that someone in the UK is employed full-time just to read my email. Sadly, nobody reads my email except for my sysadmin.
The emails remind me of an old Law and Order episode when they're listening in to a would-be hitman:
Okay, let's take a road. The speed at which traffic can travel depends on the quality of the surface, gradient, camber, zoning, etc. Let's call this the "road conditions", with a lower number being better roads.
The number of cars that want to get through that road is a primary unit, which we can refer to as the "volume of traffic".
The third major criteria is the speed at which the traffic actually flows. This is the "actual flow" of traffic -- in other words, the "influence of other cars" on the traffic congestion.
In other words: volume = influence of traffic * road conditions
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I have saved you an estimated 3 years of your life.
Well, I thought your post was awesome.
To the cracked-out moderators: According to CNN, Iran disappeared the moment Whacko died. The media was covering all the slaughter in Iran up until Whacko died. Then it was Whaco Jacko 24/7, and now it's back to the Emmys or the whatever it is.
Or, for those with the attention span of a gnat:
Hey moderators, I respect your decision and I'll let you finish, but Punto's post is one of the best posts of all time.
Too bad, though. It'd be nice to have a plan.
Nor does he do any work worth any legal standing; if he did, he'd know the use of a bound logbook.
My work will require a written source until I've been dead for 6 years. What computer format will still be in use in the 2070s?
Haven't you ever run a test run overnight? For a month? We would often do that when testing the longevity of a battery for extended deployment. You can hook some kinds of multimeter up to a serial port and watch the electrical parameters over time.
To be totally fair, I don't work there anymore and the company's bankrupt.
At a previous job, we fired a cleaning crew because they logged into our computers to check their email while we were out.
We called to tell them why they weren't getting paid or allowed to come back, and the boss said, "they might have pressed some buttons when they were dusting."
We said, "the login we have here is 'john.smith123@hotmail.com'; the odds of that being pressed sequentially are 2.7^15 to 1 against."
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=watch+as+compass
If you know the time, you know your direction. Normally I wouldn't reply with lmgtfy, but you seem to be someone who'd like to know that url.
If you connect your PLC to the Internet, it can email you when a problem arises. If you haven't coded responses to incoming email, it simply won't respond. I didn't see any incoming email commands on the PLCs I've worked on, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
So, you get error reporting and real-time data from your PLCs when you connect them to the Internet. Apparently that's stupid.
The programming ports on the ones I've used are physically separate from the ones used for communication, and the functions simply cannot be swapped.
There is also -- again, in the cases of all PLCs that I have used, which is not exhaustive of all that are on the market -- a physical toggle switch that switches the PLC from "run" to "program" mode.
I suppose that if the PLC was attached to the Internet, and then you had a guy flip the switch and swap the cables, and then put the cables back and flip the switch back later, then yes, you could reprogram a PLC online.
If you can figure out an easier way, Omron, Koyo, AB, and IEEE would like to have a word with you.
Ah, yes, of course, I had some basic unit confusion there. Thank you for the correction.
Plumbing and masonry, and all other trades, are certainly looking for females to join the professions. There's a serious labour shortage and it's not the sort of thing that you can farm out to India.
NASCAR, no, I'll grant you that. I haven't heard of employment equity for that.
I use 1MW a month at home, so I'm not terribly impressed by wind farms either.
I use electric forced-air heat, and it's running me $120 / month. Cheap cheap cheap!
Yes, you're right -- I don't remember my own life, wikipedia.
So how do you get the girls to flock to science?
The problem isn't with a lack of people entering the field; it's that the fields aren't seen as exciting. (Others might note that you can make more money in other fields; for example, I'd be making at least 2x what I make now if I was an electrician instead.)
You then have people who aren't interested in excitement getting into or getting pigeonholed into those fields. "Oh, Beardo is kind of quiet and smart. Perhaps he'll be a good scientist, sitting alone in a lab all day."
That's the problem. Science is exciting, no matter what branch you're getting into. I'm an Engineer -- an applied scientist. I'd like to think that I'm a reasonably exciting guy.
I bike around, I make speeches, I SCUBA dive, I have a house / car / family, I can build a radio with scrap, I've saved thousands of lives, and right now I'm working on a series of billion-dollar vehicles.
There are MILLIONS of people like me, but we don't sell magazines. It's not a matter of comprehension -- I have been able to adequately explain my job to my 5-year-old daughter -- but a matter of the stereotype of the scientist being a dork like Frink or evil like Baltar.
Nobody without decent charisma can do a good job. You have to be able to sell what you do and sell your opinions to you colleagues and supervisors.
Pfft. A weird hex command can't...
uh...
bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel bah bol bla wa glo wab bla fwa snu wel
Yep. Good apology, politically safe to make it, he's still dead.
Who's white?
I'm a Caucasian-style human; the kind that burns easily, with ancestry going through Ireland and Scotland before settling down in Canada.
I'm pink.
Are you guys colour blind, or have you never owned a box of crayons, or what?
Okay, thanks. I've updated my sig ... a little.
Aw, nuts. I would have pwn3d that. One kid in daycare, one in kindergarten, my wife works at a College, and I bus / bike to work. I get exposed to everything.
Mortal germs just can't survive in here.
Knife eating, though... probably looking at an integumentary breach.
People have been taking fever reducers to get around those. The thermal scanners only worked for about a week or two.
I hope that pun makes it into the strip.
That's the rumour. According to the tinfoil hat brigade; Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US all monitor each other's traffic. That way, when asked, each country can honestly say,
"We do not, and have never, monitored the correspondence of any of our citizens without a warrant. We do occassionally intercept communications of foreigners."
For what it's worth, I've had the same sig since 1998. I joke that someone in the UK is employed full-time just to read my email. Sadly, nobody reads my email except for my sysadmin.
The emails remind me of an old Law and Order episode when they're listening in to a would-be hitman:
"You got the shirt?"
"Yeah."
"You got the bullets for the shirt?"
Do you have any idea how horrifyingly dirty solar cells are to manufacture?
They're semi-conductors, for FSM's sake. They're literally the waste chips that fail QC:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/30/2236220
They produce literally TONS of waste PER CHIP:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/08/0253253
We've also got about 10 years of Indium left. Less now, now that it's used in LCD TVs.
So yeah, solar.
Woo.
No, I use 90210 because I know that's a valid code.
I've given out random birthdays so many times that I have to check my DL before I order a cake.
Okay, let's take a road. The speed at which traffic can travel depends on the quality of the surface, gradient, camber, zoning, etc. Let's call this the "road conditions", with a lower number being better roads.
The number of cars that want to get through that road is a primary unit, which we can refer to as the "volume of traffic".
The third major criteria is the speed at which the traffic actually flows. This is the "actual flow" of traffic -- in other words, the "influence of other cars" on the traffic congestion.
In other words:
volume = influence of traffic * road conditions
or:
V = IR
Not on the iPhone.