I think you're wrong. We've talked about this in my workplace before and come to the conclusion the release of a new episode of a well-regarded show (whether it's Joe Dickhead on YouTube or a new series of BlackAdder) will be announced by RSS (or its future equivalent) and dled/p2ped automagically before you get home. Then most everyone will watch it at some point on the same evening.
In the morning, at the watercooler and in the playground, the cool kids will still be quoting it. And I'll still be watching it several days later and missing the conversation.
In other news, the Air Force has requested that prostitutes, drug dealers and off-licences refuse money from US Airmen, and tell them to spend it on something moral and all-American instead.
Speaking as a contractor who has worked in dozens of companies, led and built teams and generally blurred the line between geek and management, I would say that:
Management isn't generally a bunch of PHB's who flail around with no idea what they're doing.
is basically wrong. Generally they are exactly that.
Maybe not in a bricks and mortar business, but in IT that's pretty much exactly what they are. IMHO, of course.
Times are changing... when my wife and I got married (nearly two years ago) the wedding photographer charged us a day rate and gave us all the copyright on the images that were decent. He was brills, and if I could remember his name (or find his site) I'd give him a puff in case anyone's getting wed near Winchester (UK). But I can't.
...and power stations aren't powered by coal, right? The coal is just a temporary store for the energy of 100 million year old club forests. Oh, but hang on, they were just temporary stores for solar power. Ooh, coal power stations use solar power!
Or... it's not powered by people, it's powered by food, the people were just temporary stores for the plants' energy.
It's powered by potential energy. How that became potential energy is utterly, utterly irrelevant.
Supposedly he put a pipe from his car to the window of his house in the middle of the night and died of the fumes by noon the next day.
That seems abundantly open to suspicions of foul play. I'd be checking for CCTV in the area (but I live in the UK so there's a good chance you'll find some).
That's really funny. You seem to think that coal-fired power plants are either 'on' or 'off'. I'll pardon your ignorance, as it's expected. It's comments like this and your original reply that illustrate why people think discussion on the internet is a bunch of know-nothings pontificating in public.
If you can't avoid being patronising, try being quiet.
The OP is opining that, instead of cracking CO2, we could just not burn the coal in the first place, and use the electricity gained from solar.
We could then burn the coal during dark periods.
Economics and analysis may suggest one or the other would be better, if we had the figures, but he's not being the blue-sky-or-nothing idiot you think.
Slashdot Mirror
You were younger?!
Sheesh.
Justin.
Or a better algorithm.
Not everyone has the [whatsiteisthis] tag turned on.
Mind you, I think the grandparent poster was being funny. Whoosh!
Just to clarify, are you using the Yank sense of 'angry' or the Brit sense of 'drunk' there? Could be either, or both, as you're Scots! ;-)
Justin.
I think you're wrong. We've talked about this in my workplace before and come to the conclusion the release of a new episode of a well-regarded show (whether it's Joe Dickhead on YouTube or a new series of BlackAdder) will be announced by RSS (or its future equivalent) and dled/p2ped automagically before you get home. Then most everyone will watch it at some point on the same evening.
In the morning, at the watercooler and in the playground, the cool kids will still be quoting it. And I'll still be watching it several days later and missing the conversation.
Justin.
You don't, and this is even commented on at the test: there may be bugs, and this test may change as a result.
Justin.
How do I input my solutions? The chemicals won't go down the little wires!
In other news, the Air Force has requested that prostitutes, drug dealers and off-licences refuse money from US Airmen, and tell them to spend it on something moral and all-American instead.
I am not a Material Scientist (but IAAPhysicist so here's my guess).
The nanotubes are short and straight. Tensile failures will be 'between nanotubes' not 'of nanotubes'.
As the tubes get longer and better aligned, you'll be absolutely right. (You may be absolutely right already of course...)
Justin.
I suggest a pure invite system could be abused even more automatedly.
Justin.
Speaking as a contractor who has worked in dozens of companies, led and built teams and generally blurred the line between geek and management, I would say that:
is basically wrong. Generally they are exactly that.
Maybe not in a bricks and mortar business, but in IT that's pretty much exactly what they are. IMHO, of course.
Cheers,
Justin
And doesn't journal file content writes, only file system metadata writes. Not very enterprisey.
Justin.
Times are changing... when my wife and I got married (nearly two years ago) the wedding photographer charged us a day rate and gave us all the copyright on the images that were decent. He was brills, and if I could remember his name (or find his site) I'd give him a puff in case anyone's getting wed near Winchester (UK). But I can't.
Ahem. Possibly sir is thinking of this. Justin.
Or... it's not powered by people, it's powered by food, the people were just temporary stores for the plants' energy.
It's powered by potential energy. How that became potential energy is utterly, utterly irrelevant.
Justin.
Wow.
Supposedly he put a pipe from his car to the window of his house in the middle of the night and died of the fumes by noon the next day.
That seems abundantly open to suspicions of foul play. I'd be checking for CCTV in the area (but I live in the UK so there's a good chance you'll find some).
Justin.
Which wonderfully translates into modern geek-speak as "grok it".
J.
I'd give up sex for six months if the only option was a four foot two inch transvestite.
I think the hope is that your ISP will already have thrown the email away on your behalf, so you'll not even get to read it.
J.
Unfortunately leaving open the "well, he'd want to be blown as he is gay" rationale...
Well, you were alone, you bastard...
Obama is black.
;-)
Clinton is female.
HTH
Justin.
PS Not in America.
That's really funny. You seem to think that coal-fired power plants are either 'on' or 'off'. I'll pardon your ignorance, as it's expected. It's comments like this and your original reply that illustrate why people think discussion on the internet is a bunch of know-nothings pontificating in public.
If you can't avoid being patronising, try being quiet.
Justin.
I think you are being waaay too harsh.
The OP is opining that, instead of cracking CO2, we could just not burn the coal in the first place, and use the electricity gained from solar.
We could then burn the coal during dark periods.
Economics and analysis may suggest one or the other would be better, if we had the figures, but he's not being the blue-sky-or-nothing idiot you think.
J.
He could have been trying to explain that a double is two adjacent memory addresses that each hold (the equivalent of) one...
Or he could have been thinking of exponent/mantissa...
Or he could have been a berk.
J.