Were you at the conference where Balmer did the "developers" bit? I was, and taken IN CONTEXT, it actually made some sense - yeah, he went a BIT overboard, but you have to remember the context - a really hyped up crowd at a - gasp- developers conference
And never found a GOOD way to cure it. You can help it by getting out as often as possible, but it can get bad. It's part of the reason that I say I will NEVER telecommute more than 3 days/week again
They've got them - But they tend not to sit around idle. Let's say there are a dozen of them in the world (probably within an order of magnitude). You now have to get the sub, with it's tender from wherever it is (and it probably has to finish what it's doing first) to the break - now what makes it more fun is that there usually isn't spare cable just sitting around - each cable is custom. Now you have to go to where the make the cable, have some spare cable made and loaded onto your ship (remember, the cable is usually direct loaded - aka, it comes out of the wire factory right into the ship), now you have to go to the area of the break, and go GET the cable, and fix it (probably splicing in a new section).
To make all this worse, the North Atlantic (and off NJ is the North Atlantic as far as this is concerned) in the winter is a nasty place. Today is the 1st day in the last 2 weeks that has not had a gale warning out for the contenental shelf in that area. Not exactly the kind of conditions conducive to working on the cable
Disclaimer - my wife works for a company that does direct mail, and USED to spam, but has given up on "spam"
MOST DMA members are fairly GOOD about not mailing/spamming you if you request off their mailing list. It's just common business sense - don't piss off potential customers
My wife helps "select" the names that get mailed, and they are VERY careful to remove all "Opt out" names from their mailings
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Most diamonds in the US are still shipped by mail. I forget what the cutoff is (something like 250K), but if you insure your mail for above a certain value, it goes "High Value", and will have an armed Postal Police Officer with it!
Way back when, when most/.'er were still in short pants, I went to a programming conference. Up in the lobby of the conference hotel was an ad for "Programmers wanted", come to room XXXX. I went up, and it was two guys in very nice suits, a lot of gold, discussing the plans they had for a computer system - in fact, it was the first time I had heard of the idea of off shore betting. Mind you, this is pre internet boom. They were planning on modem pools and dial up at that time.
It was fairly obvious from the job description, the fact that only first names were used, and the questions that were asked that the folks were the mob. I gave it a thought, and said, "Sir, it's an interesting concept, but I really have no interest in traveling off shore as the job would require. I wish you luck." Shook hands, and left. That was the last I heard of it, except to see what looked like one of the guys in the room doing the perp walk about 15 years later - Something about stolen cars
These guys were a bit higher tech than the folks in the wired article - they were talking N tier distributed architectues in the VERY early 80s
Actually, you ONLY build breaders - Once the process starts, they keep themselves fueled. Part of each fuel load is the raw stock for the next load of fuel!!
I was NOT talking in the reactor - I was thinking more about "the Garbage can" that is in the topic of the message - aka, the waste. Someone said, what happens if the pile gets too big. I was thinking about water leaks of the cask, and water seepage
There are some tricks in the system - remember, the spheres are designed that without a modulator in between, the reaction slows BIG TIME - aka, make your big pile, and keep the water out, there is NO problem. Dump water in, it heats up, turns to steam, now you have now water, it cools down The trick is that the spheres are designed in such a way that the amount of heat that a pile of the spheres makes can't melt the sphere - the built in spacing takes care of that.
Remember, the moderator may slow the neutrons, but makes the pile react MORE.
It's a simple design, and if the spheres are made correctly - fool proof
As a poster above said, the really HOT nuke waste is fairly easy to get rid of - breader reactors. Carter banned them in the US for a few reasons
1)It was just post TMI
and
2)To do them right, you end up with NEAR weapons grade PU in the reactor and in the reproccessing plants. He thought there was too much of a security risk to have this much PU running around
A LOT of the initial assumptions on the cost of Nukes had to do with the fuel being reprocessed - aka, make your waste into fuel again - what is left is low level stuff - LONG half life, but also low radiation
One of the huge problems we have with storage is we keep trying to store "Mixed" waste - It's got high level waste (say, PU) mixed with low level waste.
Close - Biopace. Now thing about your deraileurs - the back is moving back and forth keeping tension, and the front has to be setup to clear the high spots, but still work on the low...
Evidently you don't follow NYC gun law. Recent case - Guy had a LOCKED firearm, in a locked gun "safe". House was broken into, the safe pried open, and the firearm stolen
He was denied a renewal on his permit due to "Negligent storage" - the NYPD has basically ruled that if it was stolen, you did not do a good enough job storing it! (what he was told when he asked why he was turned down)
Never mind your point (which is right) but Bill is actually paid VERY VERY little. The reason he is so rich is that he did not SELL off his stock - remember, he started with 50% of the stock - the company doesn't give him options. Every time they issue stock, he percentage of the cut goes down
He's rich because he MADE the money. By hook or by crook, yes, but his wealth is directly tied to how much the company that he started and OWNED is worth
Folks - start your own company. Take your income, subtract your expenses, and you have your profit. Make enough of that profit, and folks might want to buy part of the company from you. Let's say they are willing to buy half for $100. You sell - Your half is (in theory) worth $100. If they are willing to buy half for $100 billion, in theory, your half is worth another $100 billion - it's all numbers on paper until you sell your half. It's not income - it's increase in the value of the company
Actually, there is a Supreme court ruling (don't ask me to cite case - I'd have to dig it up, but I believe it's one of the Planned Parenthood cases) where the court siad that the word "People" in the 1st 8 amendments means the individual, so that has already been decided
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You can get the freqs the Hams are using to work with the Red Cross and the EOCs from the ARRL Home Page
Actually, what I find interesting is "4 tons" like that is a BIG number
I live on a small plot of land in NY - 50x100, and most of THAT is house
From April till Mid October, I take 10 cubic feet of grass clippings/week off my lawn. Call it 28 weeks. That's 280 cubic feet of grass clippings, at 24 lbs/cu ft, or 6720 lbs (Note only about 1/4 of that property is grass) - then figure in leaves from the trees - another 120 cubic feet, at 14lbs/cu ft. Thats 1680 lbs - so I "raise" a total crop of 8400lbs of clippings/leaves per year, or 4.2 tons. Note, this doesn't count growth of the trees. Maple comes in at about 37lbs/cu ft (DRY - green is MORE) Oak is about 45 lbs/cuft. Think how many cubic feet are in an oak tree - you probably have 10 tons or more in a typical full grwn tree
Yes, and that's how the sysadmins do it. I'm just a code jockey. The overall "system", which has many systems, can't go down. We can reboot sections any time we want
what I was TRYING to do (Unsuccessfully I guess) was make a "funny" about "outside business hours"
My only complaint with this is the concept of "far from Business hours". We run 24x7x52 - of course not all our computer systems, but our product is in front of you all that time. There is NO such thing as "between business hours"
I was looking at the stamping/folding gear - No company in the US would be allowed stamping/folding gear like that! It is possible for someone to get a limb in the press, and get it folded or stamped, or to put fingers ABOVE the working area where things are moving
OSHA would throw a fit - which is why the cases are made in China
I remember a factory that had a die press. It had a metal cage around it, and full safeties - the operator had to close the door, and use a 2 button (one for each hand) activation, as is standard. OSHA still giged them. You see, there was a 3 inch gap at the floor. They said it was possible for a person with really long arms to lay down on the floor, slip their arm under the gates, rotate their arm up, and JUST get their fingertips on the die surface. Then another person could trip the press, crushing their fingers (Like the other person isn't going to see the person laying there?)
Yes, you have to protect workers from ACTIVELY trying to hurt themselves - protection against passive errors or stupidity is not enough. Heck, OSHA would gig the factory for the guy taking of the goggles for the photos! There was recently a case where a subcontractor's employee didn't wear eye proctection eye thought both the subcontractor AND the prime contractor supplied eye proctection and ORDERED the guy not to take them off, and in fact, the prime had suspended the worker a few times for taking them off. Guy gets injured - the sun and the prime's insurance Co's had to pay
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Were you at the conference where Balmer did the "developers" bit? I was, and taken IN CONTEXT, it actually made some sense - yeah, he went a BIT overboard, but you have to remember the context - a really hyped up crowd at a - gasp- developers conference
Also the fact that a lot of ships have 400hz running around (think large grey ships), and a lot of 3 phase DELTA instead of 3 phase WYE
Memories of building power AC and DC power supplies for said large grey ships
And never found a GOOD way to cure it. You can help it by getting out as often as possible, but it can get bad. It's part of the reason that I say I will NEVER telecommute more than 3 days/week again
They've got them - But they tend not to sit around idle. Let's say there are a dozen of them in the world (probably within an order of magnitude). You now have to get the sub, with it's tender from wherever it is (and it probably has to finish what it's doing first) to the break - now what makes it more fun is that there usually isn't spare cable just sitting around - each cable is custom. Now you have to go to where the make the cable, have some spare cable made and loaded onto your ship (remember, the cable is usually direct loaded - aka, it comes out of the wire factory right into the ship), now you have to go to the area of the break, and go GET the cable, and fix it (probably splicing in a new section).
To make all this worse, the North Atlantic (and off NJ is the North Atlantic as far as this is concerned) in the winter is a nasty place. Today is the 1st day in the last 2 weeks that has not had a gale warning out for the contenental shelf in that area. Not exactly the kind of conditions conducive to working on the cable
Disclaimer - my wife works for a company that does direct mail, and USED to spam, but has given up on "spam"
MOST DMA members are fairly GOOD about not mailing/spamming you if you request off their mailing list. It's just common business sense - don't piss off potential customers
My wife helps "select" the names that get mailed, and they are VERY careful to remove all "Opt out" names from their mailings
Most diamonds in the US are still shipped by mail. I forget what the cutoff is (something like 250K), but if you insure your mail for above a certain value, it goes "High Value", and will have an armed Postal Police Officer with it!
Way back when, when most /.'er were still in short pants, I went to a programming conference. Up in the lobby of the conference hotel was an ad for "Programmers wanted", come to room XXXX. I went up, and it was two guys in very nice suits, a lot of gold, discussing the plans they had for a computer system - in fact, it was the first time I had heard of the idea of off shore betting. Mind you, this is pre internet boom. They were planning on modem pools and dial up at that time.
It was fairly obvious from the job description, the fact that only first names were used, and the questions that were asked that the folks were the mob. I gave it a thought, and said, "Sir, it's an interesting concept, but I really have no interest in traveling off shore as the job would require. I wish you luck." Shook hands, and left. That was the last I heard of it, except to see what looked like one of the guys in the room doing the perp walk about 15 years later - Something about stolen cars
These guys were a bit higher tech than the folks in the wired article - they were talking N tier distributed architectues in the VERY early 80s
Actually, you ONLY build breaders - Once the process starts, they keep themselves fueled. Part of each fuel load is the raw stock for the next load of fuel!!
I was NOT talking in the reactor - I was thinking more about "the Garbage can" that is in the topic of the message - aka, the waste. Someone said, what happens if the pile gets too big. I was thinking about water leaks of the cask, and water seepage
Sorry if I didn't make this clear - mea culpa
There are some tricks in the system - remember, the spheres are designed that without a modulator in between, the reaction slows BIG TIME - aka, make your big pile, and keep the water out, there is NO problem. Dump water in, it heats up, turns to steam, now you have now water, it cools down The trick is that the spheres are designed in such a way that the amount of heat that a pile of the spheres makes can't melt the sphere - the built in spacing takes care of that.
Remember, the moderator may slow the neutrons, but makes the pile react MORE.
It's a simple design, and if the spheres are made correctly - fool proof
As a poster above said, the really HOT nuke waste is fairly easy to get rid of - breader reactors. Carter banned them in the US for a few reasons
1)It was just post TMI
and
2)To do them right, you end up with NEAR weapons grade PU in the reactor and in the reproccessing plants. He thought there was too much of a security risk to have this much PU running around
A LOT of the initial assumptions on the cost of Nukes had to do with the fuel being reprocessed - aka, make your waste into fuel again - what is left is low level stuff - LONG half life, but also low radiation
One of the huge problems we have with storage is we keep trying to store "Mixed" waste - It's got high level waste (say, PU) mixed with low level waste.
Close - Biopace. Now thing about your deraileurs - the back is moving back and forth keeping tension, and the front has to be setup to clear the high spots, but still work on the low...
Evidently you don't follow NYC gun law. Recent case - Guy had a LOCKED firearm, in a locked gun "safe". House was broken into, the safe pried open, and the firearm stolen
He was denied a renewal on his permit due to "Negligent storage" - the NYPD has basically ruled that if it was stolen, you did not do a good enough job storing it! (what he was told when he asked why he was turned down)
Never mind your point (which is right) but Bill is actually paid VERY VERY little. The reason he is so rich is that he did not SELL off his stock - remember, he started with 50% of the stock - the company doesn't give him options. Every time they issue stock, he percentage of the cut goes down
He's rich because he MADE the money. By hook or by crook, yes, but his wealth is directly tied to how much the company that he started and OWNED is worth
Folks - start your own company. Take your income, subtract your expenses, and you have your profit. Make enough of that profit, and folks might want to buy part of the company from you. Let's say they are willing to buy half for $100. You sell - Your half is (in theory) worth $100. If they are willing to buy half for $100 billion, in theory, your half is worth another $100 billion - it's all numbers on paper until you sell your half. It's not income - it's increase in the value of the company
Cost almost 0?
How about the 8 year commitment after school, where you can be sent to such lovely spots as Iraq, where folks are shooting at you?
They don't pay in cash, they pay in RISK
WRONG
Your thinking pure nitroglycern, based upong the type of clay item - makes dynamite
TNT is a plastic explosive - VERY VERY stable - not quite in the came league as the "C" type plastic explosives, but...
It is (or was) used in all sorts of military munitions, - today it has often been replaced with better stuff
Or (particularly during the era of the GT-40)
First On Race Day
Actually, there is a Supreme court ruling (don't ask me to cite case - I'd have to dig it up, but I believe it's one of the Planned Parenthood cases) where the court siad that the word "People" in the 1st 8 amendments means the individual, so that has already been decided
You can get the freqs the Hams are using to work with the Red Cross and the EOCs from the ARRL Home Page
www.arrl.org
Actually, what I find interesting is "4 tons" like that is a BIG number
I live on a small plot of land in NY - 50x100, and most of THAT is house
From April till Mid October, I take 10 cubic feet of grass clippings/week off my lawn. Call it 28 weeks. That's 280 cubic feet of grass clippings, at 24 lbs/cu ft, or 6720 lbs (Note only about 1/4 of that property is grass) - then figure in leaves from the trees - another 120 cubic feet, at 14lbs/cu ft. Thats 1680 lbs - so I "raise" a total crop of 8400lbs of clippings/leaves per year, or 4.2 tons. Note, this doesn't count growth of the trees. Maple comes in at about 37lbs/cu ft (DRY - green is MORE) Oak is about 45 lbs/cuft. Think how many cubic feet are in an oak tree - you probably have 10 tons or more in a typical full grwn tree
Yes, and that's how the sysadmins do it. I'm just a code jockey. The overall "system", which has many systems, can't go down. We can reboot sections any time we want
what I was TRYING to do (Unsuccessfully I guess) was make a "funny" about "outside business hours"
sigh
OK, let's rephrase it - 24x365.25
Unless you want to turn off a TV network for a day
My only complaint with this is the concept of "far from Business hours". We run 24x7x52 - of course not all our computer systems, but our product is in front of you all that time. There is NO such thing as "between business hours"
Despite what the article SAYS - look at the picture
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http://www6.tomshardware.com/howto/20031006/ima
Notice the rams ABOVE the tool - that it a potential pinch point, and it has NO guards around it! That would be an OSHA violation
I was looking at the stamping/folding gear - No company in the US would be allowed stamping/folding gear like that! It is possible for someone to get a limb in the press, and get it folded or stamped, or to put fingers ABOVE the working area where things are moving
OSHA would throw a fit - which is why the cases are made in China
I remember a factory that had a die press. It had a metal cage around it, and full safeties - the operator had to close the door, and use a 2 button (one for each hand) activation, as is standard. OSHA still giged them. You see, there was a 3 inch gap at the floor. They said it was possible for a person with really long arms to lay down on the floor, slip their arm under the gates, rotate their arm up, and JUST get their fingertips on the die surface. Then another person could trip the press, crushing their fingers (Like the other person isn't going to see the person laying there?)
Yes, you have to protect workers from ACTIVELY trying to hurt themselves - protection against passive errors or stupidity is not enough. Heck, OSHA would gig the factory for the guy taking of the goggles for the photos! There was recently a case where a subcontractor's employee didn't wear eye proctection eye thought both the subcontractor AND the prime contractor supplied eye proctection and ORDERED the guy not to take them off, and in fact, the prime had suspended the worker a few times for taking them off. Guy gets injured - the sun and the prime's insurance Co's had to pay