I think your diagram might be misleading for the Germans' particular use case.
Presumably, the transport/transfer phase here is where the hydrogen is taken to some kind of "filling station" where fuel cell vehicles will be fitted with fuel cells. It seems to me you can cut out some of these steps/losses when the vehicle you're filling up with hydrogen is itself a train, which is more than powerful enough to transport large volume of hydrogen all by itself. Build a line out to the the electrolysis plant and the hyrdrogen never even needs to leave the railway system.
Furthermore, I haven't bothered to read TFA but the hydrogen train designs I've read about do have batteries, so they are not exempt from the efficiencies of regenerative braking.
There is no compelling interest in keeping plans for primitive 3D printed guns away from anyway, and there is no possible argument that there is.
My read is that the argument is a "slippery slope" one. The lawsuit was intentionally filed with the aim of setting a legal precedent that could potentially apply to other, less primitive weapons.
Actually, if you read TFA past all the sensationalist clickbait, what the report really said was:
Many scientists, philosophers, and business leaders believe that there is a 20-50 per cent probability that humans are already living in a computer-simulated virtual world.
Which is really not that jaw-dropping, since the summary says practically the same thing.
So? People knew instinctively right away that it was a bad thing. Smoke is something that you usually RUN from lest you want to die immediately. The idea that you would use it for recreation is just bizzare.
There's no such instinct. Cigarette companies didn't invent cigarettes, either. Tobacco was brought back to Europe from Mesoamerica. In other words, they saw the indigenous peoples using it, thought, "That seems pretty cool," and started doing it themselves -- "instincts" be damned.
But you're still wrong. "Outselling by revenue" means there is more total revenue in wireless headphones than in wired ones, and that cannot possibly be true. It's like the GP said, the margins are just higher.
Actually, hospitals are full of strains of resistant bacteria that only exist in hospitals. Understand: studies have shown that the same strains exist in hospitals all over the country. They don't come pouring out, though. There are also resistant strains "in the wild" (outside the relatively controlled hospital environments) but they are not the same as the ones in the hospitals.
Nah, it was still inconsistent. Harry Mudd clearly lived within Federation space, even if he considered himself an outlaw, and he was obsessed with money.
And what about the Ferenghi living on Deep Space 9? Didn't they live on a "planet" under Starfleet's control? I guess technically they weren't really obsessed with money, they were obsessed with acquiring material things. But that in itself is a paradox when acquiring material things incurs no monetary cost.
I mean, if you think about it, the idea of the end of scarcity for everything is preposterous, even with Replicator technology. Suppose you have a signed picture of Majel Barret and I want it? I don't want a replica of it, I want the one with her actual signature on it. I might want to trade you something for it. What? With no generally accepted form of money, you're stuck with a barter economy and the Federation is back to the Bronze Age.
I do wonder, were Devry and UoP good at one point? I work with two guys in their late 50s, one went to UoP and the other to Devry, like back in the early 80s. They're good. They're really good. Smart guys, extremely competent. Did those schools just go down hill over the course of 30 years?
They may be good, but they're also experienced. You can't lay it all at the feet of the school they went to. Maybe the school gave them the foundation and the confidence to be able to dive into the workforce, but I'm betting all those years of on-the-job training deserve more of the credit for what you see in them today.
Archaeology maybe your dream and you may passionately love it, definitely pursue it, but have a very viable backup plan of something that will net you a job with high probability and that you can live with.
Can't say I wholly agree. A lot of that "planning" may be what limits you, in the end. I'd say be prepared to be flexible. If the plan's gotta change, pivot. I've had a pretty satisfying career but if you asked me at 17 what I wanted to do with my life, the stuff that's actually made a living for me all these years wouldn't have even made the list.
Believe it or not, in downtown San Francisco -- San Francisco, now -- I know of two small independent bookstores. There is no Barnes & Noble in the entire City, no Borders, no large bookstores of any kind. If you were to say to yourself, "I'm going to head downtown and do my Christmas shopping," books are a gift you probably would not buy, because you would not see any.
Usually the ebooks cost roughly the same as the paperback. In that case, I'd rather own a physical object.
I hear this complaint a lot. But I'm betting you leave the house with your phone way more often than you leave the house with that physical book. Ever ride the bus? Ever go to the DMV? Ever show up early for a movie? Ever have a friend text you that they're going to be late? In those instances, would you rather fish around on the floor for a copy of yesterday's sports section or pick any book you like from your entire library?
Nah, I kinda call bullshit. There's got to be more to this story.
I knew a guy who worked for a major US financial institution. His whole job was correcting for these kinds of errors. Like, money would get transferred to the wrong account all the time, and his job was to call up the other financial institution and say, "Yeah, we made a mistake, we need those millions back." And they would be returned.
Now, mind you, these were errors on the financial institution's part. It wasn't some dumb customer making the error. But come on -- if you're keeping $40M with a bank and it gets defrauded out of you and the bank does absolutely nothing to help you get it back... really? What bank is willing to lose a customer with $40M invested? It doesn't make sense.
Yeah, OK, I get it. Spaces make it easier to cut and paste your code into whatever and have it look the same. But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
This, and the tendency for company leadership to feel outsourcing means they can offload all responsibility for project success.
Something I've seen firsthand is companies that are pathologically incapable of making important decisions internally, and that is why they bring in a consultancy. Consultants go around to the various stakeholders (who can't agree on anything), gather requirements from each, then make recommendations. Despite the fact that the recommendations are basically a micro-model of the stakeholders' existing points of view and the result is the same no-win scenario the company was facing to begin with, the recommendations are acted upon, either in whole or in part. When the result is the same mess that would have inevitably happened even before the consultancy was brought in, at least now it's the consultants' fault that their recommendations didn't work out. Managers can then stir up a big stink when it's time to renegotiate the contract, they win some petty, unimportant concessions from the consultancy, and it's time to rinse and repeat.
It is far worse than AT&T bundling free phones with their service, and that got them split up into multiple companies.
If by AT&T you mean Ma Bell, then free phones? When did that ever happen? Under Ma Bell you leased your phone equipment from the phone company. Ma Bell got split up into multiple companies because it was a massive monopoly that maintained this and other predatory pricing practices.
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I think your diagram might be misleading for the Germans' particular use case.
Presumably, the transport/transfer phase here is where the hydrogen is taken to some kind of "filling station" where fuel cell vehicles will be fitted with fuel cells. It seems to me you can cut out some of these steps/losses when the vehicle you're filling up with hydrogen is itself a train, which is more than powerful enough to transport large volume of hydrogen all by itself. Build a line out to the the electrolysis plant and the hyrdrogen never even needs to leave the railway system.
Furthermore, I haven't bothered to read TFA but the hydrogen train designs I've read about do have batteries, so they are not exempt from the efficiencies of regenerative braking.
There is no compelling interest in keeping plans for primitive 3D printed guns away from anyway, and there is no possible argument that there is.
My read is that the argument is a "slippery slope" one. The lawsuit was intentionally filed with the aim of setting a legal precedent that could potentially apply to other, less primitive weapons.
Actually, if you read TFA past all the sensationalist clickbait, what the report really said was:
Many scientists, philosophers, and business leaders believe that there is a 20-50 per cent probability that humans are already living in a computer-simulated virtual world.
Which is really not that jaw-dropping, since the summary says practically the same thing.
So? People knew instinctively right away that it was a bad thing. Smoke is something that you usually RUN from lest you want to die immediately. The idea that you would use it for recreation is just bizzare.
There's no such instinct. Cigarette companies didn't invent cigarettes, either. Tobacco was brought back to Europe from Mesoamerica. In other words, they saw the indigenous peoples using it, thought, "That seems pretty cool," and started doing it themselves -- "instincts" be damned.
But you're still wrong. "Outselling by revenue" means there is more total revenue in wireless headphones than in wired ones, and that cannot possibly be true. It's like the GP said, the margins are just higher.
Actually, hospitals are full of strains of resistant bacteria that only exist in hospitals. Understand: studies have shown that the same strains exist in hospitals all over the country. They don't come pouring out, though. There are also resistant strains "in the wild" (outside the relatively controlled hospital environments) but they are not the same as the ones in the hospitals.
Nah, it was still inconsistent. Harry Mudd clearly lived within Federation space, even if he considered himself an outlaw, and he was obsessed with money.
And what about the Ferenghi living on Deep Space 9? Didn't they live on a "planet" under Starfleet's control? I guess technically they weren't really obsessed with money, they were obsessed with acquiring material things. But that in itself is a paradox when acquiring material things incurs no monetary cost.
I mean, if you think about it, the idea of the end of scarcity for everything is preposterous, even with Replicator technology. Suppose you have a signed picture of Majel Barret and I want it? I don't want a replica of it, I want the one with her actual signature on it. I might want to trade you something for it. What? With no generally accepted form of money, you're stuck with a barter economy and the Federation is back to the Bronze Age.
I do wonder, were Devry and UoP good at one point? I work with two guys in their late 50s, one went to UoP and the other to Devry, like back in the early 80s. They're good. They're really good. Smart guys, extremely competent. Did those schools just go down hill over the course of 30 years?
They may be good, but they're also experienced. You can't lay it all at the feet of the school they went to. Maybe the school gave them the foundation and the confidence to be able to dive into the workforce, but I'm betting all those years of on-the-job training deserve more of the credit for what you see in them today.
Archaeology maybe your dream and you may passionately love it, definitely pursue it, but have a very viable backup plan of something that will net you a job with high probability and that you can live with.
Can't say I wholly agree. A lot of that "planning" may be what limits you, in the end. I'd say be prepared to be flexible. If the plan's gotta change, pivot. I've had a pretty satisfying career but if you asked me at 17 what I wanted to do with my life, the stuff that's actually made a living for me all these years wouldn't have even made the list.
HUZZAH!
Believe it or not, in downtown San Francisco -- San Francisco, now -- I know of two small independent bookstores. There is no Barnes & Noble in the entire City, no Borders, no large bookstores of any kind. If you were to say to yourself, "I'm going to head downtown and do my Christmas shopping," books are a gift you probably would not buy, because you would not see any.
Usually the ebooks cost roughly the same as the paperback. In that case, I'd rather own a physical object.
I hear this complaint a lot. But I'm betting you leave the house with your phone way more often than you leave the house with that physical book. Ever ride the bus? Ever go to the DMV? Ever show up early for a movie? Ever have a friend text you that they're going to be late? In those instances, would you rather fish around on the floor for a copy of yesterday's sports section or pick any book you like from your entire library?
I just wish I didn't have to put up with iTunes to do it.
Last I heard (no pun intended), Audible works on just about every device imaginable.
Also, please stop moving the goal posts, first you said "text files" and now you suddenly shift to "source code files". Not cool.
Sorry, I forgot about the combination of not reading the stories and the autism spectrum. My bad.
And these are source code files, yes?
Do you really think people using spaces are sitting there tapping the spacebar 12 times for every line?
Well no, so that's kind of my point. It's really tabs for everybody, because nobody has given a shit about the ASCII contents of text files for years.
Due to that situation, where I did very much get my money back, I never use a debit card, only a credit card.
My debit card has a gigantic Visa logo on the front. Doesn't yours?
Nah, I kinda call bullshit. There's got to be more to this story.
I knew a guy who worked for a major US financial institution. His whole job was correcting for these kinds of errors. Like, money would get transferred to the wrong account all the time, and his job was to call up the other financial institution and say, "Yeah, we made a mistake, we need those millions back." And they would be returned.
Now, mind you, these were errors on the financial institution's part. It wasn't some dumb customer making the error. But come on -- if you're keeping $40M with a bank and it gets defrauded out of you and the bank does absolutely nothing to help you get it back ... really? What bank is willing to lose a customer with $40M invested? It doesn't make sense.
Yeah, OK, I get it. Spaces make it easier to cut and paste your code into whatever and have it look the same. But does anybody seriously type all those spaces? You don't just set the Tab key to expand to spaces?
Windows has had its own local search indexing of that kind for ages, which is probably why Google discontinued theirs.
Hey hey! I resemble that article...
You ban regular expressions?
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This, and the tendency for company leadership to feel outsourcing means they can offload all responsibility for project success.
Something I've seen firsthand is companies that are pathologically incapable of making important decisions internally, and that is why they bring in a consultancy. Consultants go around to the various stakeholders (who can't agree on anything), gather requirements from each, then make recommendations. Despite the fact that the recommendations are basically a micro-model of the stakeholders' existing points of view and the result is the same no-win scenario the company was facing to begin with, the recommendations are acted upon, either in whole or in part. When the result is the same mess that would have inevitably happened even before the consultancy was brought in, at least now it's the consultants' fault that their recommendations didn't work out. Managers can then stir up a big stink when it's time to renegotiate the contract, they win some petty, unimportant concessions from the consultancy, and it's time to rinse and repeat.
It is far worse than AT&T bundling free phones with their service, and that got them split up into multiple companies.
If by AT&T you mean Ma Bell, then free phones? When did that ever happen? Under Ma Bell you leased your phone equipment from the phone company. Ma Bell got split up into multiple companies because it was a massive monopoly that maintained this and other predatory pricing practices.