I have a little experience with CalTrans with this type of compliant. It is all about who is filling the "Official" request for change that gets added to the log of shit for the DOT to get money to fix. Before the DOT can have the guys in trucks show up to do anything, they have to have approval so they can pay for materials and labor and the head engineer's office that has to take responsibility for the repair. It seems overkill but it is the only to manage a project backlog of 100,000 items.
In my case I saw that a protected turn light and a pedestrian walk signal would give cars the right of way to run over anyone in the crosswalk that was crossing when indicated. I went to the DOT office and filed a compliant, but since I did not work for the city's or county's public works office, I didn't have the authority to file an official complaint. So I went to the city's public works office and they went and looked at it and saw that it did not meet code and filed a compliant on behalf of the city. The guy in the article probably skipped this step therefore making the DOT guy look like an Asshat.
For a great technical history read "Copies in Seconds", amazing story about the inventor and great information of the complex physics of what is so taken for granted now.
Here in San Francisco we have the completely ignored "Walk of Game" in the Meteron which was heavily advertised but no one really cared, because its fucking dumb.
Here's the kicker, its within walking distance to Bungie and probably and 4-5 large game publishers like Lucas Arts (well a cab ride anyway).
Here's the Problem...Games are not Hall of Fame material that would dumb, only Gamers could be hall of fame material. (Kinda like the real HOF)
However, gamers are the least interesting people in the world. Reference The Image Comment http://xkcd.com/621/
If you want to make something people would actually give a shit about, make a museum gallery (not historical, more like MOMA style) that goes beyond button mashers and shows the interesting, weird, and beautiful games that never made it to the masses, that would never be seen unless a someone who knew where to find them was and put them on display to play.
Back in the 90's it was a DEC-VAX server that hadn't dropped a packet in 20 years. Contractor thought it was HVAC equipment. I'm not saying it didn't happen at your university, just sayin' this ain't the first.
In my city we have the robo meter maids ($60,000) with cameras that take a picture of every License plate and then roll around again and pings the driver whenever a overdue car is found that matches the picture at the GPS coordinate. Your city probably uses chalk ($0.29) to mark the wheels. A domestic jammer would be useful for my truck when it is parked
Great, when I got mugged before they just wanted my wallet. Now they'll want my left index finger too.
This is another in a long series of laws/policy that servers the "It sounds like we should do this" crowd. Read through the BS and its the insurance (FDIC in the US) behind the banks pushing policy. It does nothing to protect the idenitiy/credit of consumers.
I bow to your 5-digit UID and wise-ass remark, thank you. Your answer has provided no insight and proved you have nothing better to with puny insignificant life. Please stop wasting my O2. Have a great day!
Just to make your point more interesting, it has been observed in higher primates (our cloest relative) for males (most aggressive) to "snap" and kill their prodigy. Experts are always baffeled when it happens in a small community. It's the closest thing to homicide we see in nature.
Well the Da' Dead did it. Remember that the bands signed by Big Labels don't get rich from CD sales--they get cash from touring. The Grateful Dead (IANAGDF) gave away their tapes at concerts and toured like crazy. The thing with doing concerts is that your manger has to sell promotors to invest in your act. i.e. Budwesier concert series, Ozzfest, Radio Stations, etc.. Record labels just make it a thousand times easier to get a venue of 40K+ people to listen.
This same damn question was asked here and I'll give you the same answer here. IMHO the "Ask Slashdot" question thing should more than just filler for a slow news day, I would like it to be more of a once a week feature that you can look forward to reading and responding too. But I understand, I get lazy at work too sometimes.
The one very big and very ignored part of any new durable mass market product is repair. Anyone can build a car from the ground, the trick is to build a car that utilizes fuel cells using parts that are mass produced and easily repaired, fixed, serviced, etc.. For example, GM loves to build cars with very expensive, shiny, weak pieces of plastic for grill covers. When involed in a TA it has to be replaced 95% of the time with a $600 part with $150 labor.
GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment. They are just like many greedy corporations, they will make money of the parts, service and maintance industry for a fuel cell powered car. Remember folks, industrial factories are still the leading pollution and natural resource draining offenders.
So before you get all green and go blow 20K on a honda insight or some other enviromental friendly car, really consider the true impact/benefit of supporting the automotive industry.
The hotel chain "Country Inn Suites" already does this. I really don't get the excitement of swapping books with the promise of leaving them for someone else. My God its almost like a fuckin' library. Imagine a nice cool & quiet place to sit in the middle of the summer and read for FREE! Jesus Christ,/.'ers are somewhat above average in intelligence, but this type of reaction is scarey. PLEASE..PLEASE go rediscover your local library before the gov't decideds to close them!
About 6 years ago, A teacher at my HS told me a bizzare tale of her computer turning by itself all the time. Turns out it was a mac, At the time Apple was shipping "Performa" series macs with an IR port on the front. After disabling the IR control panel it never happened again. I imagine that most laptops come with an IR port, and disabling it or using the black tape method will solve the problem.
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I have a little experience with CalTrans with this type of compliant. It is all about who is filling the "Official" request for change that gets added to the log of shit for the DOT to get money to fix. Before the DOT can have the guys in trucks show up to do anything, they have to have approval so they can pay for materials and labor and the head engineer's office that has to take responsibility for the repair. It seems overkill but it is the only to manage a project backlog of 100,000 items.
In my case I saw that a protected turn light and a pedestrian walk signal would give cars the right of way to run over anyone in the crosswalk that was crossing when indicated. I went to the DOT office and filed a compliant, but since I did not work for the city's or county's public works office, I didn't have the authority to file an official complaint. So I went to the city's public works office and they went and looked at it and saw that it did not meet code and filed a compliant on behalf of the city. The guy in the article probably skipped this step therefore making the DOT guy look like an Asshat.
For a great technical history read "Copies in Seconds", amazing story about the inventor and great information of the complex physics of what is so taken for granted now.
Here in San Francisco we have the completely ignored "Walk of Game" in the Meteron which was heavily advertised but no one really cared, because its fucking dumb.
Here's the kicker, its within walking distance to Bungie and probably and 4-5 large game publishers like Lucas Arts (well a cab ride anyway).
Here's the Problem...Games are not Hall of Fame material that would dumb, only Gamers could be hall of fame material. (Kinda like the real HOF)
However, gamers are the least interesting people in the world. Reference The Image Comment http://xkcd.com/621/
If you want to make something people would actually give a shit about, make a museum gallery (not historical, more like MOMA style) that goes beyond button mashers and shows the interesting, weird, and beautiful games that never made it to the masses, that would never be seen unless a someone who knew where to find them was and put them on display to play.
Back in the 90's it was a DEC-VAX server that hadn't dropped a packet in 20 years. Contractor thought it was HVAC equipment. I'm not saying it didn't happen at your university, just sayin' this ain't the first.
In my city we have the robo meter maids ($60,000) with cameras that take a picture of every License plate and then roll around again and pings the driver whenever a overdue car is found that matches the picture at the GPS coordinate. Your city probably uses chalk ($0.29) to mark the wheels. A domestic jammer would be useful for my truck when it is parked
Great, when I got mugged before they just wanted my wallet. Now they'll want my left index finger too.
This is another in a long series of laws/policy that servers the "It sounds like we should do this" crowd. Read through the BS and its the insurance (FDIC in the US) behind the banks pushing policy. It does nothing to protect the idenitiy/credit of consumers.
to see if the light stays on of course!
I bow to your 5-digit UID and wise-ass remark, thank you. Your answer has provided no insight and proved you have nothing better to with puny insignificant life. Please stop wasting my O2. Have a great day!
If I wanted to get started on BSD where is a good place to begin?
Don't give me that ask Google BS. I already know that they have a linux specifc search, it doesn't really answer my question though.
Just to make your point more interesting, it has been observed in higher primates (our cloest relative) for males (most aggressive) to "snap" and kill their prodigy. Experts are always baffeled when it happens in a small community. It's the closest thing to homicide we see in nature.
How about a link boxer boy! I couldn't find shit about 'RealLight'(tm) bulbs on GE sites or from Google.
Well the Da' Dead did it. Remember that the bands signed by Big Labels don't get rich from CD sales--they get cash from touring. The Grateful Dead (IANAGDF) gave away their tapes at concerts and toured like crazy. The thing with doing concerts is that your manger has to sell promotors to invest in your act. i.e. Budwesier concert series, Ozzfest, Radio Stations, etc.. Record labels just make it a thousand times easier to get a venue of 40K+ people to listen.
4 comments and already toast.
This same damn question was asked here and I'll give you the same answer here. IMHO the "Ask Slashdot" question thing should more than just filler for a slow news day, I would like it to be more of a once a week feature that you can look forward to reading and responding too. But I understand, I get lazy at work too sometimes.
My company publishes cross platform software and we use bugzilla to track bugs and request. With a few simple changes it could suit your purpose well.
They'll probably blow up the earth to make way for the overpass...too bad we almost knew the question of life.
The one very big and very ignored part of any new durable mass market product is repair. Anyone can build a car from the ground, the trick is to build a car that utilizes fuel cells using parts that are mass produced and easily repaired, fixed, serviced, etc.. For example, GM loves to build cars with very expensive, shiny, weak pieces of plastic for grill covers. When involed in a TA it has to be replaced 95% of the time with a $600 part with $150 labor.
GM is not building the next generation of Fuel Cell based cars to help out the enviroment. They are just like many greedy corporations, they will make money of the parts, service and maintance industry for a fuel cell powered car. Remember folks, industrial factories are still the leading pollution and natural resource draining offenders.
So before you get all green and go blow 20K on a honda insight or some other enviromental friendly car, really consider the true impact/benefit of supporting the automotive industry.
Another spoiler trailer...Why go and see the movie if there just going to give it away in the previews?
They already do..
/.'ers are somewhat above average in intelligence, but this type of reaction is scarey. PLEASE..PLEASE go rediscover your local library before the gov't decideds to close them!
The hotel chain "Country Inn Suites" already does this. I really don't get the excitement of swapping books with the promise of leaving them for someone else. My God its almost like a fuckin' library. Imagine a nice cool & quiet place to sit in the middle of the summer and read for FREE! Jesus Christ,
To be added to the Darwin Awards in Real-Time. Maybe we will get streaming video of it too?
"Debian Woody in less than two minutes"
Any woman will tell you waiting more than 90 seconds for a "Debian Woody" is unacceptable. My personal best is nearly 1/3 of that.
Its a joke..get it? No...RTFM
About 6 years ago, A teacher at my HS told me a bizzare tale of her computer turning by itself all the time. Turns out it was a mac, At the time Apple was shipping "Performa" series macs with an IR port on the front. After disabling the IR control panel it never happened again. I imagine that most laptops come with an IR port, and disabling it or using the black tape method will solve the problem.
This website is great for getting a taste of what a good science education could teach you.
200 teraflops != One PetaFlop
1,000 Teraflops = One PeatFlop
100 million dollars for another supercomputer just for bragging rights = One bellyflop
I don't know if you read this, but it appears that our society ,may not be ready for cyborgs..yet