In this field there are basically few options. You become a network guy who gets beeped at all hours of the night, a programmer who gets yanked like a puppet by the marketing wanks, or a project manager who kisses ass all day long hoping to get the programmers to actually do some work while lying full time to the marketing wanks.
And if you're really lucky, you get to be all three at once!
You're suggesting that VALIS (it's all caps) doesn't get wrapped up in stuff its author made up? The whole book is about Dick's raging paranoid delusions, innit?
And, oh yes, the bright searing flame you see in the picture? It's the paint. It was basically thermite. Powdered metal. The company wanted pretty silver shiny skin.
The pretty color was not the reason (though it might have been a factor). They needed a lightweight, flexible, airtight coating for the fabric of the gas bag, and that's what they came up with.
I used to build balsa wood structures that would hold over 600 lbs(~270kg), with only 15 grams of balsa wood and glue, with strict rules on how it could be built.
Really what's the advantage here? You're giving up functionality and extra cash to pay for one of these things, and only gaining the clutter of an external PSU, while running parts hotter and less reliably than in a correctly designed case, and there are hundreds of them out there.
Noise. Noise. Noise. I am so sick and tired of computers that sound like vacuum cleaners. Hell it seems that no one can even design a notebook that runs silently.
There is nopt only not an option to get manual gear shifting, but the car doesn't even really shift in the traditional sense, it just moves up along a cone shaped gear.
The Prius uses a planetary gearset as its "CVT", not a pair of cone-shaped pulleys and a belt. This planetary gearset (to which the engine, electric motor, wheels, and generator are attached) also serves as the power management system, sending power from either the engine, the electric motor, or both to the wheels and/or the generator to recharge the batteries. Pretty damn ingenious, actually.
The decibel scale is logarithmic, which means a 70dB sound has 10 times the intensity of a 60dB sound. If you double the intensity, on the decibel scale you only go up 3db. So put 2 30dB case fans in a computer, and the total from them would be 33dB, not 60dB.
This is true, but actual increases in sound pressure do not directly correspond to perceived increases in sound level. IRC it takes a difference of about 8-10 dB increase for a human listener to perceive a doubling in "loudness".
The long term effects of looking at a computer monitor that is running at a different refresh rate than the flourescents causes eyestrain and headaches. Definitely not ideal.
Nonsense. Modern flourescent lamps (especially the replacement ones designed for home use) don't flicker at 60/120 Hz anymore; they use electronic ballasts that run at much higher frequencies.
But is 300 dpi sufficient to accurately reproduce currency? Besides which, 1200 dpi and even higher-resolution printers aren't all that expensive these days...
Since this [the minimum wage of $5.15] is generally the wage we pay our manufacturing line workers
On what planet? The average US manufacturing wage is more like$14-15. In some states (e.g. Michigan) it is as high as $20, and even the lowest state average (South Carolina) is over $11.
It requires an above-average amount of foolish short-sightedness for a person to be willing to buy in a lossy format
Most people don't even know what a "lossy format" is, never mind which ones are better than others, or their relative advantages or disadvantages relative to non- or lossless compression. They will buy what they are sold, for better or for worse.
Commodore: Entered an industry well penetrated by apple, IBM, Tandy (back then) and company and tried to play along, didn't make it...
Huh? Commodore was one of the pioneers of the "non-hobbyist" PC (i.e. computers that you didn't ahve to build by hand). And they had the best-selling single computer model of all time in the C64 (a record which has not been broken to this day, though that's a bit specious because PC models are so diverse and customized these days). They certainly didn't have a problem getting into the market; hell, they helped create it. But then they lost direction after the C64, with too many different models (C128, C16, the B-series, SuperPET, Amiga, etc.) and spread themselves too thin.
European: "I think X is true, because of Y". American: "We saved your ass in WW2. Therefore X is false. QED." Am I the only person in America who can spot the logical error in this exchange??
Is it still a logical error when X equals "America sucks" or "America is evil"?
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Why, haven't had your breasts bitten in a while?
In this field there are basically few options. You become a network guy who gets beeped at all hours of the night, a programmer who gets yanked like a puppet by the marketing wanks, or a project manager who kisses ass all day long hoping to get the programmers to actually do some work while lying full time to the marketing wanks.
And if you're really lucky, you get to be all three at once!
I really hate to be so blunt - but where I'm from we're severely lacking Medical Doctors. Here in Ontario, we really need you people.
Gee, and does he get to tell you what to do for a living, too? Your need for another person doesn't give you the right to control that person.
The name of the new car is simply the Ford GT, no numbers involved.
And obviously the Ford GT36 is probably the finest muscle car in the world.
Do you mean the GT40 perhaps?
Ubik (and/or) Valis
You're suggesting that VALIS (it's all caps) doesn't get wrapped up in stuff its author made up? The whole book is about Dick's raging paranoid delusions, innit?
And, oh yes, the bright searing flame you see in the picture? It's the paint. It was basically thermite. Powdered metal. The company wanted pretty silver shiny skin.
The pretty color was not the reason (though it might have been a factor). They needed a lightweight, flexible, airtight coating for the fabric of the gas bag, and that's what they came up with.
It's 12 miles up. that's well above commercial air traffic, and i suspect (although i'm too lazy to check) most weather problems.
Well, sure, the blimp will be above any bad weather. Meanwhile, the users will be below the aforementioned bad weather. Isn't that a problem?
I used to build balsa wood structures that would hold over 600 lbs(~270kg), with only 15 grams of balsa wood and glue, with strict rules on how it could be built.
Olympics/Odyssey of the Mind? You GEEK! Neener, neener! (Oops, know I have to explain how I know about it...)
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Really what's the advantage here? You're giving up functionality and extra cash to pay for one of these things, and only gaining the clutter of an external PSU, while running parts hotter and less reliably than in a correctly designed case, and there are hundreds of them out there.
Noise. Noise. Noise. I am so sick and tired of computers that sound like vacuum cleaners. Hell it seems that no one can even design a notebook that runs silently.
More like, it's measuring your wang in millimeters to make you feel better. "A whole 178 millimeters!" Woohoo!
Hey now, is that supposed to be some sort of Asian joke?
There is nopt only not an option to get manual gear shifting, but the car doesn't even really shift in the traditional sense, it just moves up along a cone shaped gear.
The Prius uses a planetary gearset as its "CVT", not a pair of cone-shaped pulleys and a belt. This planetary gearset (to which the engine, electric motor, wheels, and generator are attached) also serves as the power management system, sending power from either the engine, the electric motor, or both to the wheels and/or the generator to recharge the batteries. Pretty damn ingenious, actually.
The decibel scale is logarithmic, which means a 70dB sound has 10 times the intensity of a 60dB sound. If you double the intensity, on the decibel scale you only go up 3db. So put 2 30dB case fans in a computer, and the total from them would be 33dB, not 60dB.
This is true, but actual increases in sound pressure do not directly correspond to perceived increases in sound level. IRC it takes a difference of about 8-10 dB increase for a human listener to perceive a doubling in "loudness".
If people can believe we have designed black boxes that survive being slammed into the Pennsylvania crust at 400 mph
Which reminds me - why don't they just make the whole plane out of the black box??
The long term effects of looking at a computer monitor that is running at a different refresh rate than the flourescents causes eyestrain and headaches. Definitely not ideal.
Nonsense. Modern flourescent lamps (especially the replacement ones designed for home use) don't flicker at 60/120 Hz anymore; they use electronic ballasts that run at much higher frequencies.
With Sony coming out with their own format to MP3 called Atrac
Huh? ATRAC has been around for over a decade.
But is 300 dpi sufficient to accurately reproduce currency? Besides which, 1200 dpi and even higher-resolution printers aren't all that expensive these days...
Admit it - you just want higher-fidelity phone sex, dontcha?
Since this [the minimum wage of $5.15] is generally the wage we pay our manufacturing line workers
On what planet? The average US manufacturing wage is more like $14-15. In some states (e.g. Michigan) it is as high as $20, and even the lowest state average (South Carolina) is over $11.
It requires an above-average amount of foolish short-sightedness for a person to be willing to buy in a lossy format
Most people don't even know what a "lossy format" is, never mind which ones are better than others, or their relative advantages or disadvantages relative to non- or lossless compression. They will buy what they are sold, for better or for worse.
Commodore: Entered an industry well penetrated by apple, IBM, Tandy (back then) and company and tried to play along, didn't make it...
Huh? Commodore was one of the pioneers of the "non-hobbyist" PC (i.e. computers that you didn't ahve to build by hand). And they had the best-selling single computer model of all time in the C64 (a record which has not been broken to this day, though that's a bit specious because PC models are so diverse and customized these days). They certainly didn't have a problem getting into the market; hell, they helped create it. But then they lost direction after the C64, with too many different models (C128, C16, the B-series, SuperPET, Amiga, etc.) and spread themselves too thin.
The article starts like this: "For the smoker, nicotine has a positive effect on attention, cognition and mood."
Uh, yeah, and then it goes on to say: "The changes were similar in nature and magnitude in smokers and non-smokers."
Was that the civil war where the French evacuated American expatriates for us?
If they were expatriates, i.e. folks who deliberately turned their backs on the US, then what were the French doing for us in the US, exactly?
European: "I think X is true, because of Y". American: "We saved your ass in WW2. Therefore X is false. QED." Am I the only person in America who can spot the logical error in this exchange??
Is it still a logical error when X equals "America sucks" or "America is evil"?