Diesel #2 is what you'll get at a fuel station, regardless. (Except when it's bio-diesel, of course...)
Diesel #1 is kerosene. In colder climates, they're usually blended in the fill station tanks at around 30/80 to 50/50. Diesel #1 is, IIRC, also known as "heating oil". It's a very light fuel and does not gel as readily as #2, but also has a lower cetane rating than #2: it gets blended with the #2 to prevent #2 from freezing up during the winter, but the side effect is it has less power. Winter diesel, as the blend is sometimes called, is more expensive because kerosene is a bit more expensive than #2, historically.
I may be a little off on the factuality, but that's the gist of it.
Adding an insulated battery warmer is also a good idea, in the colder regions. I've got a temperature sensitive relay in my vehicle with a timer: I plug the vehicle in regardless, but the heater elements only activate if it's under a certain temperature (the block heater only activates with the timer and temperature). A couple added dollars per month to my power bill is a small price to pay to not having to replace the battery or have a dead vehicle (from not starting, or cold weather wear/tear).
I fully realize what I do probably wouldn't be feasible in a place like CA or NY where the cost of electricity is much higher, though.
Indeed. I drive a diesel van in South Dakota which was manufactured in Canada in the 1980s. It runs fine during the winter (though I do need the block heater if I'm planning in driving during the 'dangerous cold' periods of weather.) I know people who drive VW TDIs in similar weather without such considerations.
The biggest reason tractors would be left running wasn't so much because they'd not be able to get started, but because it would be hard on the engine, batteries, starter motor, and (specifically) injection pump to do a cold start. Diesels positively sip fuel compared to a gas engine in idle (and, indeed, isn't nearly as hard on the motor as in a gas setup). Due to the compression levels involved and the fact that the wear/tear on things like the batteries/starter motor/injeection pump/etc. all primarily occur during engine turnover, as well as the time to get the engine warm again (running an ICE while cold is very hard on an engine, particularly one relying on the flow of warm fluids for its operation) idling a diesel is often a better decision in terms of cost than turning it off for the 20-odd minutes they may not be using it.
I live in a climate which tends to have colder winters than Minnesota (think: slightly further West and a bit North). I drive a mid-80s diesel which has a non-electronic ignition system, etc. I don't have a tank heater, though I do have a block heater. Barring considerations like wind, I can reliably start it down to around 10F and be at operational temperature in a couple minutes, even without the block heater in use. Using proper dry cell high CA batteries, good glow plugs, and a fuel block heater go a long way to making this possible (as well as HEAT or similar cold weather fuel additives to prevent/inhibit geling of fuel). I suspect that having an on-demand fuel tank intake heater would also help a bit, but I don't have that.
Traffic these days moves much, much faster than it did 10, 20, 30 years ago due to the acceleration of your average vehicle. Can you imagine what the roads would look like if mid-1980s 4-door sedans were driven (with regularity) at the speeds that most people drive their modern cars around corners and the like?
For instance: a road by my grandparents' house was posted at 25 when I was a kid. Today, it's posted at 40 (mph). People drive it at 55. Aside from adding a shoulder, there is little difference in the road, which is a winding, curvy back road (for all intents and purposes). A (for instance) Delta 88 Oldsmobile, like our family car was when I was a kid, is not physically capable of the cornering necessary to drive that road at those speeds, never mind speeding through the intersections to avoid getting blindsided on a curve like a modern cheap 4-door (like a Ford Focus).
What does this have to do with city design, exactly? 30 miles a day is anything if not conservative for a daily drive in today's economy. You realize that not everyone is able to live in the apartment above the family grocery store/restaurant/locksmith/etc. anymore, right?
In contrast, I know someone in the UK who takes the train every day on a 50 mile commute (one way). How is that any more sane? He's got to be traveling for about 4 hours of his day just to get to work. It's not realistic to expect someone to be able to find a job within 10, 20 miles of their house, and suggesting someone rent instead of buy a house once reaching adulthood is an economically preposterous suggestion.
Yet, DailyKos, DU, etc. are the same people who are behind and propelling the movements like Occupy.
There may be more of you, but the verbal ones are the ones controlling your agenda (just like the Ron Paul supporters are in a majority, but you've got the likes of Romney running at the 'front'). Your agenda is being decided for you.
9/11 happened because we had American troops in the Holy Land (Saudi Arabia). That's it. Iran only hates us because we're involved in the middle east.
That's an utterly ignorant point of view.
While "they hate us for our freedom" is a gross simplification of Orwellian proportions, so are your suppositions. Everyone ignores the reality.
Truthfully, both "they hate us for our freedom" and because we're "over there" are true, but only due to being a subset of a much larger issue.
Radical Islamists hate us because we exist. We (in the West) are infidels, an affront to Allah. It's an archaic and "antiquated" mindset, but an increasingly prevalent one worldwide. You will note that there is always a convenient reason for why these nutjobs attack us, but the theme of Islamist extremism is always the same: we're in their country (as supported by their government), we're in their neighbor's country (as supported by their neighbor's government), we support Israel, and so on. Get real, and listen to what their rhetoric is actually saying: they are intent on the destruction of the West, and the United States and Israel in particular (because the US and Israel are the most powerful and most visible/closest representations thereof, respectively).
The "leave our lands", "don't oppress our people" and so on are minor rhetorical points in their diatribes. We are infadels, and they want us dead or subjugated into their worldview. It's a theme in radical Islam as old as the religion itself (which spread through the sword during its early centuries). Just ask the Buddhists of Afghanistan or Pakistan, and the broader communities of Jews, Copts, and Christians of the Middle East or Northern Africa. (You could, if they existed anymore in any significant numbers...)
What makes you think the intention is to catch "terrorists" in the first place?
If you give the terrorists warnings that they'll be caught, sure, all but the stupidest will avoid the checkpoints. Guess what? That still means they are exercising totalitarian control over all transit systems.
Remember when "papers, please" was a tongue-in-cheek response to government overstepping its bounds? Well, it isn't anymore. The action movies from pre-2000 with roving security patrols in Nazi or Soviet transportation terminals are no longer a fictional excitement to the US citizen - an entertaining example of what can't happen at home. It's here, and it looks like it's here to stay, from the looks of it.
Welcome to the authoritarian social globalist United States, where the white man is the new Jew.
So which is more likely, that someone can read minds, or that they're able to think creatively/critically?
The upside of your scenario is that at least the taker would think similarly to the tester, and would likely have an affinity for each other in the work environment - or can fake it. Most people fake it. This is how we get along.
These are a couple I like, due to their variety of answers (it's obvious if someone knows the answer when there is a proper answer, for instance). Some just go through a process as demonstrable by experience.
* How many root DNS servers were there originally, and why? * Schroedinger has a cat in a shoebox. You can not open the box. How would you determine whether the cat is alive? * A user (or manager) comes to you with a problem. What is the first question you ask? * A system has been crashing regularly. Describe what you would do to figure out the root cause. * What is your favorite tool, and why? * What does success mean to you? * What is your favorite/lucky color/number? * You have a bag of grain, a chicken, and a fox. You've got to get them all across the river, but can only take one at a time. You can't leave the chicken with the fox or the chicken with the grain, as one will be eaten. (This has a large variety of answers and approaches and is pretty good at gauging knowledge and experience as well as level of give-a-damn and curiosity.)
As for hiring HR staff, I'm not really sure how to judge them, other than the fact that any good person I've ever encountered in HR didn't stay in the job for long.
You take them to the roof with a rifle and ask them to pick off a couple bystanders. If they shoot people dressed nicely, they're not hired.
I know a gentleman (who is not very gentlemanly and very sales/marketing oriented) who is a fucking rainman when it comes to puzzles of a limited subset. He's very good at seeing patterns in things like simple social-related analogies and things like, oh, a spreadsheet of numbers.
The guy can't piece 1 and 2 together to get 3. He's got to distill everything down to "units" - x manhours, y emails, z servers, and so on. It's so bad that he's unable to see why a 3-server Windows network would take less time to maintain than, say, a 30 non-homogeneous Linux server network.
We've had a chance to use all of these cameras extensively (and have reviewed most of them), so now seems like the ideal time to look at all the cameras and help you decide whether a Mirrorless camera is for you and, if so, which models you should consider.
It's all right there, apparently. I didn't look around, and I don't really know what these mirrorless cameras are (point and shoot cameras that can take lenses? cool), but I'd recommend looking there.
That said, I've always been highly satisfied with the color and image reproduction quality on Canon products. I won't buy another type of camera (whether still or motion). I think it's superior to the others ( eg. Sony). It's a matter of preference, though.
Wouldn't matter anyway. Linux already is able to detect most, if not all hardware, which is the only thing the image would reasonably provide. The caveat is the lack of driver support in Linux. Usually, Linux can't use those. The problem is still that hardware manufacturers fail to release good drivers for Linux for their new equipment.
There are tens of MSPs out there with dipshit MCSEs and people who are better than that who are able to fix your average Windows problem. (If they can't fix it then they probably know a Linux person who can figure it out.:P)
Most consumer hardware shipped in the past year has newer graphics chips which will not work in XP, because there are no supported drivers for it. Same goes for NICs, wireless, and pretty much anything else short of storage.
It all depends on how you define "Center" now, doesn't it?
The defining difference between "Left" and "Right" in America (or at least, was about 10 years ago) is that the further Left you get the more the government wants to control peoples' lives at the Federal level, with the opposite being (again, stereotypically) true for Right.
Left/Right is yet another defining methodology used by governments to move state control away from the people. As you may notice, if you move center field, so does the definition of what Left or Right of that line is. It's positively Orwellian.
In terms of "What the Goverment takes from us and wants to control", Obama is very far left, much more so than your average (say) UK Leftist. He signed in laws allowing himself to involuntarily and indefinitely detain any American he choses just the other day, for instance. What he wants to give us is only what he needs to take more from us, though it initially seems like quite a bit more.
Leftism in the US basically takes the pre-WWII approach of Socialism and Marxism as a broader whole (Germany, Russia). It's much different than the Socialism which developed in Europe.
Yet, a knowledgeable user or an average (I'd hope) administrator would be able to not only leverage but strongly appreciate.
In some ways, I think this is actually what Microsoft attempted to do with PowerShell: some semantic functionality is possible, it's just awkward and kludged. (I believe you can interface GUI with the CLI through eg. a pipe to/from each other, for instance. Correct me if I'm wrong, I've only dabbled with it.)
That's bloody valuable. That's something a recent graduate just can't compete with.
I couldn't agree more. What I'm saying is that employers won't see that value, in most cases. HR are round peg, round hole kind of people: unless it's an exact fit, it doesn't fit.
So accept that you'll get paid no more than a 28yo, or go contracting.
Hey, a 28-year-old in the software industry makes, what... 80 to 100 thousand a year in some places? If you can pull it, great, but I doubt the OP will be able to find any work competing with these young'uns due to managerial bias and intentions (of burning them out). But try the contracting thing, too: it'll ultimately be more satisfying working for yourself.
my main computer is running Leopard (4GB with SSD, XP is there just for old games). *never* used any kind of antimalware on either iOS, 9.x or OS X.
That you know of.
I run an educational network where people are allowed to bring their own laptops, and there is free wireless available to all participants. I have the occasional Windows user come in and complain about the latest Antivirus 20xx slamming his or her screen with popups, but just as frequently I see notifications of some Mac user who has a botted laptop. They're usually not aware, and aside from a slight slowness there is no perceptible effect to the user.
I'd sooner hire an old timer who knows a little bit of a lot than a young pup who knows a lot about a little. An old codger who knows a thing or two about DBs and has written a share of applications for them would be my pick over a young gun who claims to be a "database administrator" or some such thing without some significant backing. I highly doubt someone could get to be a decent DBA (one whom I'd trust my enterprise-wide databases with, at least) before the age of 35-40.
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Diesel #2 is what you'll get at a fuel station, regardless. (Except when it's bio-diesel, of course...)
Diesel #1 is kerosene. In colder climates, they're usually blended in the fill station tanks at around 30/80 to 50/50. Diesel #1 is, IIRC, also known as "heating oil". It's a very light fuel and does not gel as readily as #2, but also has a lower cetane rating than #2: it gets blended with the #2 to prevent #2 from freezing up during the winter, but the side effect is it has less power. Winter diesel, as the blend is sometimes called, is more expensive because kerosene is a bit more expensive than #2, historically.
I may be a little off on the factuality, but that's the gist of it.
Adding an insulated battery warmer is also a good idea, in the colder regions. I've got a temperature sensitive relay in my vehicle with a timer: I plug the vehicle in regardless, but the heater elements only activate if it's under a certain temperature (the block heater only activates with the timer and temperature). A couple added dollars per month to my power bill is a small price to pay to not having to replace the battery or have a dead vehicle (from not starting, or cold weather wear/tear).
I fully realize what I do probably wouldn't be feasible in a place like CA or NY where the cost of electricity is much higher, though.
Indeed. I drive a diesel van in South Dakota which was manufactured in Canada in the 1980s. It runs fine during the winter (though I do need the block heater if I'm planning in driving during the 'dangerous cold' periods of weather.) I know people who drive VW TDIs in similar weather without such considerations.
The biggest reason tractors would be left running wasn't so much because they'd not be able to get started, but because it would be hard on the engine, batteries, starter motor, and (specifically) injection pump to do a cold start. Diesels positively sip fuel compared to a gas engine in idle (and, indeed, isn't nearly as hard on the motor as in a gas setup). Due to the compression levels involved and the fact that the wear/tear on things like the batteries/starter motor/injeection pump/etc. all primarily occur during engine turnover, as well as the time to get the engine warm again (running an ICE while cold is very hard on an engine, particularly one relying on the flow of warm fluids for its operation) idling a diesel is often a better decision in terms of cost than turning it off for the 20-odd minutes they may not be using it.
I live in a climate which tends to have colder winters than Minnesota (think: slightly further West and a bit North). I drive a mid-80s diesel which has a non-electronic ignition system, etc. I don't have a tank heater, though I do have a block heater. Barring considerations like wind, I can reliably start it down to around 10F and be at operational temperature in a couple minutes, even without the block heater in use. Using proper dry cell high CA batteries, good glow plugs, and a fuel block heater go a long way to making this possible (as well as HEAT or similar cold weather fuel additives to prevent/inhibit geling of fuel). I suspect that having an on-demand fuel tank intake heater would also help a bit, but I don't have that.
Exactly.
Traffic these days moves much, much faster than it did 10, 20, 30 years ago due to the acceleration of your average vehicle. Can you imagine what the roads would look like if mid-1980s 4-door sedans were driven (with regularity) at the speeds that most people drive their modern cars around corners and the like?
For instance: a road by my grandparents' house was posted at 25 when I was a kid. Today, it's posted at 40 (mph). People drive it at 55. Aside from adding a shoulder, there is little difference in the road, which is a winding, curvy back road (for all intents and purposes). A (for instance) Delta 88 Oldsmobile, like our family car was when I was a kid, is not physically capable of the cornering necessary to drive that road at those speeds, never mind speeding through the intersections to avoid getting blindsided on a curve like a modern cheap 4-door (like a Ford Focus).
What does this have to do with city design, exactly? 30 miles a day is anything if not conservative for a daily drive in today's economy. You realize that not everyone is able to live in the apartment above the family grocery store/restaurant/locksmith/etc. anymore, right?
In contrast, I know someone in the UK who takes the train every day on a 50 mile commute (one way). How is that any more sane? He's got to be traveling for about 4 hours of his day just to get to work. It's not realistic to expect someone to be able to find a job within 10, 20 miles of their house, and suggesting someone rent instead of buy a house once reaching adulthood is an economically preposterous suggestion.
Yet, DailyKos, DU, etc. are the same people who are behind and propelling the movements like Occupy.
There may be more of you, but the verbal ones are the ones controlling your agenda (just like the Ron Paul supporters are in a majority, but you've got the likes of Romney running at the 'front'). Your agenda is being decided for you.
9/11 happened because we had American troops in the Holy Land (Saudi Arabia). That's it. Iran only hates us because we're involved in the middle east.
That's an utterly ignorant point of view.
While "they hate us for our freedom" is a gross simplification of Orwellian proportions, so are your suppositions. Everyone ignores the reality.
Truthfully, both "they hate us for our freedom" and because we're "over there" are true, but only due to being a subset of a much larger issue.
Radical Islamists hate us because we exist. We (in the West) are infidels, an affront to Allah. It's an archaic and "antiquated" mindset, but an increasingly prevalent one worldwide. You will note that there is always a convenient reason for why these nutjobs attack us, but the theme of Islamist extremism is always the same: we're in their country (as supported by their government), we're in their neighbor's country (as supported by their neighbor's government), we support Israel, and so on. Get real, and listen to what their rhetoric is actually saying: they are intent on the destruction of the West, and the United States and Israel in particular (because the US and Israel are the most powerful and most visible/closest representations thereof, respectively).
The "leave our lands", "don't oppress our people" and so on are minor rhetorical points in their diatribes. We are infadels, and they want us dead or subjugated into their worldview. It's a theme in radical Islam as old as the religion itself (which spread through the sword during its early centuries). Just ask the Buddhists of Afghanistan or Pakistan, and the broader communities of Jews, Copts, and Christians of the Middle East or Northern Africa. (You could, if they existed anymore in any significant numbers...)
What makes you think the intention is to catch "terrorists" in the first place?
If you give the terrorists warnings that they'll be caught, sure, all but the stupidest will avoid the checkpoints. Guess what? That still means they are exercising totalitarian control over all transit systems.
Remember when "papers, please" was a tongue-in-cheek response to government overstepping its bounds? Well, it isn't anymore. The action movies from pre-2000 with roving security patrols in Nazi or Soviet transportation terminals are no longer a fictional excitement to the US citizen - an entertaining example of what can't happen at home. It's here, and it looks like it's here to stay, from the looks of it.
Welcome to the authoritarian social globalist United States, where the white man is the new Jew.
So which is more likely, that someone can read minds, or that they're able to think creatively/critically?
The upside of your scenario is that at least the taker would think similarly to the tester, and would likely have an affinity for each other in the work environment - or can fake it. Most people fake it. This is how we get along.
These are a couple I like, due to their variety of answers (it's obvious if someone knows the answer when there is a proper answer, for instance). Some just go through a process as demonstrable by experience.
* How many root DNS servers were there originally, and why?
* Schroedinger has a cat in a shoebox. You can not open the box. How would you determine whether the cat is alive?
* A user (or manager) comes to you with a problem. What is the first question you ask?
* A system has been crashing regularly. Describe what you would do to figure out the root cause.
* What is your favorite tool, and why?
* What does success mean to you?
* What is your favorite/lucky color/number?
* You have a bag of grain, a chicken, and a fox. You've got to get them all across the river, but can only take one at a time. You can't leave the chicken with the fox or the chicken with the grain, as one will be eaten. (This has a large variety of answers and approaches and is pretty good at gauging knowledge and experience as well as level of give-a-damn and curiosity.)
As for hiring HR staff, I'm not really sure how to judge them, other than the fact that any good person I've ever encountered in HR didn't stay in the job for long.
You take them to the roof with a rifle and ask them to pick off a couple bystanders. If they shoot people dressed nicely, they're not hired.
"How many pigeons are there is Manhattan"
About two day's worth, depending on how many people are able to escape across the bridges, and how many nets and other tools there are to catch them.
I know a gentleman (who is not very gentlemanly and very sales/marketing oriented) who is a fucking rainman when it comes to puzzles of a limited subset. He's very good at seeing patterns in things like simple social-related analogies and things like, oh, a spreadsheet of numbers.
The guy can't piece 1 and 2 together to get 3. He's got to distill everything down to "units" - x manhours, y emails, z servers, and so on. It's so bad that he's unable to see why a 3-server Windows network would take less time to maintain than, say, a 30 non-homogeneous Linux server network.
So, in short: I agree completely.
We've had a chance to use all of these cameras extensively (and have reviewed most of them), so now seems like the ideal time to look at all the cameras and help you decide whether a Mirrorless camera is for you and, if so, which models you should consider.
It's all right there, apparently. I didn't look around, and I don't really know what these mirrorless cameras are (point and shoot cameras that can take lenses? cool), but I'd recommend looking there.
That said, I've always been highly satisfied with the color and image reproduction quality on Canon products. I won't buy another type of camera (whether still or motion). I think it's superior to the others ( eg. Sony). It's a matter of preference, though.
Wouldn't matter anyway. Linux already is able to detect most, if not all hardware, which is the only thing the image would reasonably provide. The caveat is the lack of driver support in Linux. Usually, Linux can't use those. The problem is still that hardware manufacturers fail to release good drivers for Linux for their new equipment.
There are tens of MSPs out there with dipshit MCSEs and people who are better than that who are able to fix your average Windows problem. (If they can't fix it then they probably know a Linux person who can figure it out. :P)
Waiting for things like this to become integrated into your local gang culture like black hoodies and sunglasses in 5, 4, 3....
Wrong.
Most consumer hardware shipped in the past year has newer graphics chips which will not work in XP, because there are no supported drivers for it. Same goes for NICs, wireless, and pretty much anything else short of storage.
It all depends on how you define "Center" now, doesn't it?
The defining difference between "Left" and "Right" in America (or at least, was about 10 years ago) is that the further Left you get the more the government wants to control peoples' lives at the Federal level, with the opposite being (again, stereotypically) true for Right.
Left/Right is yet another defining methodology used by governments to move state control away from the people. As you may notice, if you move center field, so does the definition of what Left or Right of that line is. It's positively Orwellian.
In terms of "What the Goverment takes from us and wants to control", Obama is very far left, much more so than your average (say) UK Leftist. He signed in laws allowing himself to involuntarily and indefinitely detain any American he choses just the other day, for instance. What he wants to give us is only what he needs to take more from us, though it initially seems like quite a bit more.
Leftism in the US basically takes the pre-WWII approach of Socialism and Marxism as a broader whole (Germany, Russia). It's much different than the Socialism which developed in Europe.
Yet, a knowledgeable user or an average (I'd hope) administrator would be able to not only leverage but strongly appreciate.
In some ways, I think this is actually what Microsoft attempted to do with PowerShell: some semantic functionality is possible, it's just awkward and kludged. (I believe you can interface GUI with the CLI through eg. a pipe to/from each other, for instance. Correct me if I'm wrong, I've only dabbled with it.)
You aren't exactly disagreeing with me.
That's bloody valuable. That's something a recent graduate just can't compete with.
I couldn't agree more. What I'm saying is that employers won't see that value, in most cases. HR are round peg, round hole kind of people: unless it's an exact fit, it doesn't fit.
So accept that you'll get paid no more than a 28yo, or go contracting.
Hey, a 28-year-old in the software industry makes, what... 80 to 100 thousand a year in some places? If you can pull it, great, but I doubt the OP will be able to find any work competing with these young'uns due to managerial bias and intentions (of burning them out). But try the contracting thing, too: it'll ultimately be more satisfying working for yourself.
my main computer is running Leopard (4GB with SSD, XP is there just for old games). *never* used any kind of antimalware on either iOS, 9.x or OS X.
That you know of.
I run an educational network where people are allowed to bring their own laptops, and there is free wireless available to all participants. I have the occasional Windows user come in and complain about the latest Antivirus 20xx slamming his or her screen with popups, but just as frequently I see notifications of some Mac user who has a botted laptop. They're usually not aware, and aside from a slight slowness there is no perceptible effect to the user.
You realize that sudo can be set up to give granular permissions to different things, right?
Just goes to show you that the New Orleans variant of Frenchness is vastly superior...
I'd sooner hire an old timer who knows a little bit of a lot than a young pup who knows a lot about a little. An old codger who knows a thing or two about DBs and has written a share of applications for them would be my pick over a young gun who claims to be a "database administrator" or some such thing without some significant backing. I highly doubt someone could get to be a decent DBA (one whom I'd trust my enterprise-wide databases with, at least) before the age of 35-40.