Interestingly, the last 2 times I bought small boxed items at MicroCenter, the STORE, opened the box, showed me the product and cards, then handed me the box to take up front! I didn't even have to ask
actually, it's more a side effect of the fact that the shelter operators need/want it to run the shelter! The has been a lot of work done on "how do we keep email up during disasters" - everything from broadband, to mesh networks, to satcoms, to sending email via ham radio (both on VHF packet networks and long distance HF links) - with the ham links, as soon as the traffic gets nto a radio outside the effected zone, the packets get routed onto the internet
Until your job makes you lock your scooter/bicycle outside, and it gets stolen on week 2. Been a major problem where I work. I know a few people who rode for a while - all gave up when their bicycle got stolen. That said, of the 3, one now walks or roller blades (He lives that close) and the other 2 are taking mass transit.
Me? I've taken mass transit for 10 years, but next month will drive, because my MD said "The standing on the train and subway is hurting your leg - either drive, or stay home" (I have a leg wound, and standing, for even 20 minutes a day is causeing serious health issues - I've been out of work, in bed for 2 weeks to keep it elevated (restricted to bed) - and will be for another 2 weeks. I know I'll actually be glad to get back to Mass transit in December
Yep - about it. The thing is, it was one of the BIG selling points, even in the commercial realm. Everyone was going to design their Sats to either be repaired on orbit, or recovered and returned to earth for repair/rebuild. There was even a NASA standard for how the grapple points would work.
That all went away with Challenger. I can remember watching the couple of sat recovers on TV (Yeah - I'm an older geek - heck, I was writing some code at WORK when I heard Challenger was destroyed). I can remember the classified shuttle launches (everyones guess was one was a KH-7 and the other was a radar sat). I can remember the great talk about Vandenburg being almost ready (all the neat stuff was going to happen there), and about the next gen one piece carbon fibre SRBs. At the company O worked for we had a couple of Ex Perkin Elmer folks (they build the Hubble) and folks who worked for NASA helping build the first batch of shuttles. Heck, I can even remember the first drop test of the Enterprise
Remember the MAIN design goal of the shuttle wasn't JUST to bring "stuff" to orbit, but to be able to bring sats DOWN from orbit - in fact, part of the design criteria was launch from Vandenburg, grab a sat, and LAND in ONE orbit (Military wanted to be able to snach Sats)
They did bring 2 or 3 Sats down from orbit in the early days
I was under the impression (Might be wrong - too early to go searching) that say, the Delta IV Heavy (or the large shroud Atlas) - both of which started development because of Challenger, didn't have THAT much smaller a payload capacity than the shuttle. You just tell the designers of all NEW modules after that point - "design for this"
I think NASA's BIG mistake (pun intended) was designing the modules such that they could ONLY be lifted by the shuttle, instead of the then Titan's, or today's Delta/Atlas heavy lift versions, particularly post Challenger, when all the commercial stuff got moved off the shuttle.
If they had designed the modules for multiple lift modes, if one was NOT operational, the odds are the other would be. THAT is true redundency - 2 totally different systems, each capable of doing the job
I've done a tad of research - aka had a bunch of folks bring over cell phones, and did some research (I'm a ham, and the RFI bugs be)
For some reason, it seems that the "bad" cell phones are ALL GSM, and CDMA phones never interfere, come in on my speakers etc - I can always here my crackberry, but none of the verizon phones in the house do this (the Crackberry is works - hate the darned thing)
I'm going through this right now - but in a very different way. Mom is dieing - we know it, SHE knows it. She called in a family friend who USED to own a funeral parlor - and still has connections, and said "I want to be cremated, after a 2 night wake" She planned it out totally, except for chosing her casket because she is not well enough to go see them - she gave me what the budget was (cheap) and said "spend no more than X" One of the local churches (mom isn't a big church goer) will bury your ashes in the rose garden. That church happens to be where the local AARP meets, so it's pretty much the closest thing to a church she regularly goes to
So, basically, instead of leaving the burden on me (dad has dementia, so..), she planned the who thing out - right down to what she wants in her death notice
I'm glad I'll probably have this Mother's day with her (didn't expect to) and if she makes it to her birthday at the end of the month without suffering, that'll be a bonus
I worked in Military Electronics in the 8Xs too. My story has to do with a backwards BRS - the time a BRS was supposed to trip, but didn't
We were testing some power supplies in the environmental lab, The heaters in the test chamber had a triple redundant cutoff - The were normally controled by a computer via a IEEE-488 bus, there was a bi-metalic thermostat on the fixture, and there was also a thermocouple with an overtemp cutout that dropped the entire 3 phase to the heaters. The original design of the test fixtures used Mercury wetted relays, but they had been replaced by standard contactors due to environmental concerns
Well, one weekend (when the lab was in automated mode) - there was a failure of the computer controlling the IEEE bus. Well, it turns out, there were 2 other problems we didn't know about - the contacts in the bi-metalic thermostat were corroded into place, and the contacts in the (formerly wetted) contactor were welded... Oooops
The good news was that the test chamber was able to control the test fixure temp for MOST of the weekend by dumping LARGE quantities of LN2 through the test fixture - and the control for power to the power supplies itself DID turn off, so we only fried about 1-2 PWBs in each power supply that was being tested - but it was 2-3 weeks of labor to strip the 4 power supplies down, inspect and repair them. The Navy was NOT happy
The welded contactor was replaced with a (duh) Mercury wetted version, a test procedure was put into place to test the thermostat, the reason for the bus failure was investigated (we didn't figure it out - btw never failed again) and we put in a seperate watchdog/phone dialer - if the bus hung, OR there was an overtemp, or.. It would start dialing. Only got called once over the next 5 years - selenoid valve actually cracked and failed. We looked at the rated life - we were well beyond it. Replaced it, and it's twins, and we were fine
We're getting old. Heck,/. is getting old (how long has it been around?)
2YOs were a good Alarm clock - when they get to be 10, they have stopped being good alarm clocks, and have started the teen groggies - My daughter sleeps through an alarm that wakes me in the next room - that said, she will wake up the instant I tap on her door and say "time to get up" - because the knows the next step is me getting a gallon bag of ice cubes and tossing it under her covers...
Been there - done that. Gave notice on a project that was ending - worked a LOT of OT those last 2 weeks, finishing the project and documenting/handing off the project. They appreciated that. Less than a year later, I was back working for the same company, in a higher position. They remembered what I did, and it worked out. I've also worked for a company that when you gave notice - you were escorted from the building - THEY packed your desk for you. You also got paid for those 2 weeks. It was company policy, and it was documented in writing. No big deal is you know. You end up packing most of your stuff BEFORE giving notice
Unless you were given a specific offer in writing, including the details of the relocation offer, your hosed. The verbal agreement is worth exactly the paper it's printed on
Beside the OR error rate that some one else mentioned, I'd say there is a small difference between listening to music while doing a task that is primarly visual/tactile, and WATCHING something while doing a job that is visual. Aka - listening to music is one thing, watching a movie is another. As far as I know, playing music in Vista does NOT lower your screen resolution.
also why seatbelts have a stiched "break away" section - the stitching gives, and slows you before you take the full florce of the belt. Also why you are supposed to replace the seatbelt after a crash (or at least inspect the stiching)
YOU say it's not life critical - tell THAT to the person I know who's cancer was missed for 6 months because the MRI tech MISSED seeing the first time - on review 6 months later, it was clearly there. The difference between operable stage II, and inoperable stage IIIb
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Interestingly, the last 2 times I bought small boxed items at MicroCenter, the STORE, opened the box, showed me the product and cards, then handed me the box to take up front! I didn't even have to ask
actually, it's more a side effect of the fact that the shelter operators need/want it to run the shelter! The has been a lot of work done on "how do we keep email up during disasters" - everything from broadband, to mesh networks, to satcoms, to sending email via ham radio (both on VHF packet networks and long distance HF links) - with the ham links, as soon as the traffic gets nto a radio outside the effected zone, the packets get routed onto the internet
Until your job makes you lock your scooter/bicycle outside, and it gets stolen on week 2. Been a major problem where I work. I know a few people who rode for a while - all gave up when their bicycle got stolen. That said, of the 3, one now walks or roller blades (He lives that close) and the other 2 are taking mass transit.
Me? I've taken mass transit for 10 years, but next month will drive, because my MD said "The standing on the train and subway is hurting your leg - either drive, or stay home" (I have a leg wound, and standing, for even 20 minutes a day is causeing serious health issues - I've been out of work, in bed for 2 weeks to keep it elevated (restricted to bed) - and will be for another 2 weeks. I know I'll actually be glad to get back to Mass transit in December
Yep - about it. The thing is, it was one of the BIG selling points, even in the commercial realm. Everyone was going to design their Sats to either be repaired on orbit, or recovered and returned to earth for repair/rebuild. There was even a NASA standard for how the grapple points would work.
That all went away with Challenger. I can remember watching the couple of sat recovers on TV (Yeah - I'm an older geek - heck, I was writing some code at WORK when I heard Challenger was destroyed). I can remember the classified shuttle launches (everyones guess was one was a KH-7 and the other was a radar sat). I can remember the great talk about Vandenburg being almost ready (all the neat stuff was going to happen there), and about the next gen one piece carbon fibre SRBs. At the company O worked for we had a couple of Ex Perkin Elmer folks (they build the Hubble) and folks who worked for NASA helping build the first batch of shuttles. Heck, I can even remember the first drop test of the Enterprise
Remember the MAIN design goal of the shuttle wasn't JUST to bring "stuff" to orbit, but to be able to bring sats DOWN from orbit - in fact, part of the design criteria was launch from Vandenburg, grab a sat, and LAND in ONE orbit (Military wanted to be able to snach Sats)
They did bring 2 or 3 Sats down from orbit in the early days
I was under the impression (Might be wrong - too early to go searching) that say, the Delta IV Heavy (or the large shroud Atlas) - both of which started development because of Challenger, didn't have THAT much smaller a payload capacity than the shuttle. You just tell the designers of all NEW modules after that point - "design for this"
I think NASA's BIG mistake (pun intended) was designing the modules such that they could ONLY be lifted by the shuttle, instead of the then Titan's, or today's Delta/Atlas heavy lift versions, particularly post Challenger, when all the commercial stuff got moved off the shuttle.
If they had designed the modules for multiple lift modes, if one was NOT operational, the odds are the other would be. THAT is true redundency - 2 totally different systems, each capable of doing the job
Getting a Miranda warning doesn't make much difference if they do NOT intend to use your statements against you
heh - we don't invest in existing infrastructure - anyone want what's left of a bridge? You just have to pull it out of the Mississippi
Ah, there is a 5-1/4 drive in one of the boxes right next to me
No probation in Federal Prision...
I did say "backmarker"
I've done a tad of research - aka had a bunch of folks bring over cell phones, and did some research (I'm a ham, and the RFI bugs be)
For some reason, it seems that the "bad" cell phones are ALL GSM, and CDMA phones never interfere, come in on my speakers etc - I can always here my crackberry, but none of the verizon phones in the house do this (the Crackberry is works - hate the darned thing)
There is a word for this kind of race entry
Backmarker
Nuff said
I'm going through this right now - but in a very different way. Mom is dieing - we know it, SHE knows it. She called in a family friend who USED to own a funeral parlor - and still has connections, and said "I want to be cremated, after a 2 night wake" She planned it out totally, except for chosing her casket because she is not well enough to go see them - she gave me what the budget was (cheap) and said "spend no more than X" One of the local churches (mom isn't a big church goer) will bury your ashes in the rose garden. That church happens to be where the local AARP meets, so it's pretty much the closest thing to a church she regularly goes to
So, basically, instead of leaving the burden on me (dad has dementia, so..), she planned the who thing out - right down to what she wants in her death notice
I'm glad I'll probably have this Mother's day with her (didn't expect to) and if she makes it to her birthday at the end of the month without suffering, that'll be a bonus
OUCH....
I worked in Military Electronics in the 8Xs too. My story has to do with a backwards BRS - the time a BRS was supposed to trip, but didn't
We were testing some power supplies in the environmental lab, The heaters in the test chamber had a triple redundant cutoff - The were normally controled by a computer via a IEEE-488 bus, there was a bi-metalic thermostat on the fixture, and there was also a thermocouple with an overtemp cutout that dropped the entire 3 phase to the heaters. The original design of the test fixtures used Mercury wetted relays, but they had been replaced by standard contactors due to environmental concerns
Well, one weekend (when the lab was in automated mode) - there was a failure of the computer controlling the IEEE bus. Well, it turns out, there were 2 other problems we didn't know about - the contacts in the bi-metalic thermostat were corroded into place, and the contacts in the (formerly wetted) contactor were welded... Oooops
The good news was that the test chamber was able to control the test fixure temp for MOST of the weekend by dumping LARGE quantities of LN2 through the test fixture - and the control for power to the power supplies itself DID turn off, so we only fried about 1-2 PWBs in each power supply that was being tested - but it was 2-3 weeks of labor to strip the 4 power supplies down, inspect and repair them. The Navy was NOT happy
The welded contactor was replaced with a (duh) Mercury wetted version, a test procedure was put into place to test the thermostat, the reason for the bus failure was investigated (we didn't figure it out - btw never failed again) and we put in a seperate watchdog/phone dialer - if the bus hung, OR there was an overtemp, or.. It would start dialing. Only got called once over the next 5 years - selenoid valve actually cracked and failed. We looked at the rated life - we were well beyond it. Replaced it, and it's twins, and we were fine
We're getting old. Heck, /. is getting old (how long has it been around?)
2YOs were a good Alarm clock - when they get to be 10, they have stopped being good alarm clocks, and have started the teen groggies - My daughter sleeps through an alarm that wakes me in the next room - that said, she will wake up the instant I tap on her door and say "time to get up" - because the knows the next step is me getting a gallon bag of ice cubes and tossing it under her covers...
Yep - about 75K lbs of CO2 for that stunt - or the equivilent of driving 3 SUVs for a full year
Been there - done that. Gave notice on a project that was ending - worked a LOT of OT those last 2 weeks, finishing the project and documenting/handing off the project. They appreciated that. Less than a year later, I was back working for the same company, in a higher position. They remembered what I did, and it worked out. I've also worked for a company that when you gave notice - you were escorted from the building - THEY packed your desk for you. You also got paid for those 2 weeks. It was company policy, and it was documented in writing. No big deal is you know. You end up packing most of your stuff BEFORE giving notice
yeah, I make that typo all the time - you're... Gad, I HATE when I do that, and I KNOW better
Unless you were given a specific offer in writing, including the details of the relocation offer, your hosed. The verbal agreement is worth exactly the paper it's printed on
Beside the OR error rate that some one else mentioned, I'd say there is a small difference between listening to music while doing a task that is primarly visual/tactile, and WATCHING something while doing a job that is visual. Aka - listening to music is one thing, watching a movie is another. As far as I know, playing music in Vista does NOT lower your screen resolution.
also why seatbelts have a stiched "break away" section - the stitching gives, and slows you before you take the full florce of the belt. Also why you are supposed to replace the seatbelt after a crash (or at least inspect the stiching)
YOU say it's not life critical - tell THAT to the person I know who's cancer was missed for 6 months because the MRI tech MISSED seeing the first time - on review 6 months later, it was clearly there. The difference between operable stage II, and inoperable stage IIIb
just because they do it, doesn't mean it's RIGHT (and that applies to what Microsoft is doing too, but...)