i just looked into this and it looks like tesco has scaled back their rfid plans a lot. for now they're just tagging their internal shipping cages and not the goods themselves. this prevents the occasional mix-up without interfering with the whole supply chain.
I don't think DirectX 10 will achieve any kind of market acceptance until DirectX 11 is released. Then everyone will bitch about DirectX 11's high-end hardware requirements, DRM lockdowns, and poor performance and they'll start clamoring for the good old days of Direct X 10.
The promise was that waste and inefficiency in the inventory and shipping areas can be eliminated (or greatly reduced) by better tracking.
But we're talking wal-mart.
They already were running a really tight ship, keeping every possible cost down, tracking everything with keyboarding and bar codes already, plus any wasted time tracking pallets was mostly blue-vest people at $8 an hour.
At some point, the waste and inefficiency just isn't there anymore and spending billions of dollars to save millions is pure management stupidity.
there's nothing wrong with the ship, it's the captain that's messed up.
OMG I am so bummed I didn't buy a 1st gen zune so I could get free back ports of the wifi and playsforsure capabilities that were crippled in the first place.
macos x uses a bsd/mach kernel because that's what apple bought from Next. the decision to use that in nextstep was probably made back in the early 90's.
i suspect open source wasn't even on microsoft's radar at the time.
I think Microsoft might be missing a very large chunk of income that they expected to get from people purchasing Vista and Office 2007 at the same time.
If you're downgrading to XP you'll just re-install whatever version of office you already have and presto microsoft's gravy train slows down by 50%.
from TFA: > NPD, which collects its data primarily from retail sources and excludes > most online and all direct sales
Given what a large (and qualitatively different) chunk of the market has been excluded from the stats, it doesn't seem like their 1/6 number is necessarily representative of the full state of the laptop market.
Sun and Solaris are great names that have connotations of celestial harmony, duration, and power.
What they should have done (and probably still should) is take the rest of their naming to the same general area. There are names of planets, stars, galaxies, pulsars, quasars, constellations, plenty to choose from and all really great things to name products after.
Okay maybe not pluto or uranus.
Actually, no even those would be better than java.
One thing that effects it is convection. In zero G, the item that is burning gets surrounded by hot CO2 very quickly and this starves the reaction. On the ground the CO2 will convect away (because of gravity) and replenish the oxygen. This doesn't happen on a fairly stable space station. This effect helps, but doesn't really solve the problem.
The decompression effects may be reduced/delayed if the space station uses a 100% oxygen atmosphere at a low pressure, then the pressure delta between what your body is equalized to and the vacuum is reduced so the trauma is delayed a bit.
The ISS uses normal sea-level pressure, but I believe some of the spacecraft used for the moon shots used the low-pressure environment.
I kind of agree, but I think it should be limited to controls you would be forced to use while in motion, and maybe allow for a choice of two configurations for some items.
gear shifter: PRND321 for automatics and H-patterns for manual transmissions. The weird shifters in BMW's 7-series are ridiculous, and manu-matics should all use the same back-is-downshift forward-is-upshift.
wipers and headlight controls should be the same on all cars. these are things you must be able to use whenever the weather changes while driving. the headlight controls on the turn signal stalk is pretty familiar at this point, and wiper controls on stalk on the right of the steering wheel is pretty common too, although what you do with the stalk to make the wipers work isn't always the same.
e-brake is a good one. i would advocate allowing one of two configurations. (1) handbrake inboard of the driver with a button release on the end or (2) foot pedal on left above dead pedal, with pull release just above it, on the lower side of the dash. the electrically operated e-brake on luxury cars is not immediately obvious how to use in an emergency and should be abolished, as should the old pull-and-twist brakes on p/u trucks and some older SUV's.
side mirrors, gas cap, fuel gauge, door locks, cruise control, you lost me on those. you should set the mirrors and check the fuel level before you move the car, and lock the doors at that time too if you like. unless the car is deliberately obtuse, you should be able to find all those controls before you begin your trip and just leave them alone after that. you probably shouldn't use the cruise control on an unfamiliar car.
perhaps i would add foot pedal placement. the geometry of foot pedals should be a little more consistent from car to car. usually it's close enough but it has been indicted in unintended acceleration incidents, and frankly it's just uncomfortable to drive cars that have the pedals off-center or too close or too far from the seat.
front-window defog is another candidate. my car has a large button at the top of the center column, one push and the front window clears in a few seconds. but some other cars require 4 actions to achieve the same effect: turning on the a/c compressor, setting the fan speed, turning off recycled cabin air, and selecting the upper dash vents. A fogged-up windshield is almost an emergency situation and requiring four distinct actions on four different controls is questionable at the least.
It seems like you still need a fear response in childhood and early adulthood in order to properly learn what the reasonable things you should actually be afraid of (falling off of things, snakes, high voltage, busy highways) and to develop instincts to grasp, run, hands off, walk away as appropriate. Once the behaviors are in place, you don't need the fear to protect you, but you may need it to get the behaviors ingrained in the first place, and to assure that the response is immediate rather than slow and deliberate.
My concern would be that adults exposed to danger in new situations (going off to war, new job as hydraulic press operator) would be more likely to become injured if they were medicated or genetically manipulated into having less fear. While we no longer live in jungles with lions and deadly snakes, there is still traffic, industrial machinery, caustic cleaning chemicals, and whatnot to deal with. Whether a primitive fear response is the best way to handle that sort of thing isn't for sure, but for now it may be better than nothing.
In contrast to Minnestota, a warm-climate problem is that while the underground storage tanks are nice and cool so the fuel is dispensed, metered, and delivered at approx 65F year-round, nevertheless the fuel warms up and expands in the tank of the car on hot days. Older cars (early 80's and before?) weren't designed to handle this and just let vapors (and occasionally liquid) escape to the environment.
This is a waste of perfectly good fuel but also it was a minor but measurable source of pollution, confounded by the fact that the greatest vapor loss was in hot weather which is already the smoggiest, and which has the most UV available to convert fuel vapors into the various components of smog.
The problem is mostly solved in that older cars get junked and go away, and the non-junked ones may not be driven as much, hence not filled as much. It also seems like fuel pumps in warm, urban areas are programmed to shut off earlier so the tank isn't ever really full. About 5 years ago I ran out of gas, and I could only get 15.5 gallons into what was supposed to be a 16 gallon tank (and yes I included the gallon from the red plastic jug).
Is there a cause-and-effect relationship between (a) microsoft's unrelenting push to hire inexpensive offshore/H1B coders over the last several years and (b) the missed schedules, dropped features, and lack of market acceptance of vista?
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i just looked into this and it looks like tesco has scaled back their rfid plans a lot. for now they're just tagging their internal shipping cages and not the goods themselves. this prevents the occasional mix-up without interfering with the whole supply chain.
I don't think DirectX 10 will achieve any kind of market acceptance until DirectX 11 is released. Then everyone will bitch about DirectX 11's high-end hardware requirements, DRM lockdowns, and poor performance and they'll start clamoring for the good old days of Direct X 10.
The promise was that waste and inefficiency in the inventory and shipping areas can be eliminated (or greatly reduced) by better tracking.
But we're talking wal-mart.
They already were running a really tight ship, keeping every possible cost down, tracking everything with keyboarding and bar codes already, plus any wasted time tracking pallets was mostly blue-vest people at $8 an hour.
At some point, the waste and inefficiency just isn't there anymore and spending billions of dollars to save millions is pure management stupidity.
there's nothing wrong with the ship, it's the captain that's messed up.
OMG I am so bummed I didn't buy a 1st gen zune so I could get free back ports of the wifi and playsforsure capabilities that were crippled in the first place.
Wasn't the installation of some of the copper phone wiring subsidized, especially in rural areas? If so, it seems like VZ owes the subsidy back.
macos x uses a bsd/mach kernel because that's what apple bought from Next. the decision to use that in nextstep was probably made back in the early 90's.
i suspect open source wasn't even on microsoft's radar at the time.
I think Microsoft might be missing a very large chunk of income that they expected to get from people purchasing Vista and Office 2007 at the same time.
If you're downgrading to XP you'll just re-install whatever version of office you already have and presto microsoft's gravy train slows down by 50%.
>> All they need is an astronaut getting busted having gay bathroom sex.
Oh man, stay the *%# out of the ISS men's room. Everyone knows it's a meat market in there.
from TFA:
> NPD, which collects its data primarily from retail sources and excludes
> most online and all direct sales
Given what a large (and qualitatively different) chunk of the market has been excluded from the stats, it doesn't seem like their 1/6 number is necessarily representative of the full state of the laptop market.
The largest earth-bound collider would be one that circles earth.
Would anyone care to speculate on what kinds of energy levels, and what phenomena, we could investigate with a 7926 mile diameter collider?
One word: TETRIS!
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Sun and Solaris are great names that have connotations of celestial harmony, duration, and power.
What they should have done (and probably still should) is take the rest of their naming to the same general area. There are names of planets, stars, galaxies, pulsars, quasars, constellations, plenty to choose from and all really great things to name products after.
Okay maybe not pluto or uranus.
Actually, no even those would be better than java.
>> or have a glass of red wine with parents at dinner time.
maybe a nice chianti and some fava beans
problem solved.
The brain fills in the blind spots only with very recent images (within 1 second perhaps) or patterns from nearby areas.
It doesn't consult a big archive or do "semantic" matching or anything tricky.
One thing that effects it is convection. In zero G, the item that is burning gets surrounded by hot CO2 very quickly and this starves the reaction. On the ground the CO2 will convect away (because of gravity) and replenish the oxygen. This doesn't happen on a fairly stable space station. This effect helps, but doesn't really solve the problem.
>> if you lower the pressure of the atmosphere, but add more O2 to
>> keep the partial pressure the same, you increase the fire hazard.
AS-204
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1
The decompression effects may be reduced/delayed if the space station uses a 100% oxygen atmosphere at a low pressure, then the pressure delta between what your body is equalized to and the vacuum is reduced so the trauma is delayed a bit.
The ISS uses normal sea-level pressure, but I believe some of the spacecraft used for the moon shots used the low-pressure environment.
I kind of agree, but I think it should be limited to controls you would be forced to use while in motion, and maybe allow for a choice of two configurations for some items.
gear shifter: PRND321 for automatics and H-patterns for manual transmissions. The weird shifters in BMW's 7-series are ridiculous, and manu-matics should all use the same back-is-downshift forward-is-upshift.
wipers and headlight controls should be the same on all cars. these are things you must be able to use whenever the weather changes while driving. the headlight controls on the turn signal stalk is pretty familiar at this point, and wiper controls on stalk on the right of the steering wheel is pretty common too, although what you do with the stalk to make the wipers work isn't always the same.
e-brake is a good one. i would advocate allowing one of two configurations. (1) handbrake inboard of the driver with a button release on the end or (2) foot pedal on left above dead pedal, with pull release just above it, on the lower side of the dash. the electrically operated e-brake on luxury cars is not immediately obvious how to use in an emergency and should be abolished, as should the old pull-and-twist brakes on p/u trucks and some older SUV's.
side mirrors, gas cap, fuel gauge, door locks, cruise control, you lost me on those. you should set the mirrors and check the fuel level before you move the car, and lock the doors at that time too if you like. unless the car is deliberately obtuse, you should be able to find all those controls before you begin your trip and just leave them alone after that. you probably shouldn't use the cruise control on an unfamiliar car.
perhaps i would add foot pedal placement. the geometry of foot pedals should be a little more consistent from car to car. usually it's close enough but it has been indicted in unintended acceleration incidents, and frankly it's just uncomfortable to drive cars that have the pedals off-center or too close or too far from the seat.
front-window defog is another candidate. my car has a large button at the top of the center column, one push and the front window clears in a few seconds. but some other cars require 4 actions to achieve the same effect: turning on the a/c compressor, setting the fan speed, turning off recycled cabin air, and selecting the upper dash vents. A fogged-up windshield is almost an emergency situation and requiring four distinct actions on four different controls is questionable at the least.
Jet engines require oxygen, of which there is very little in the Martian atmosphere.
If you just use the word piracy often enough the government will pass lots and lots of bills to protect us from them thar pirates!
It seems like you still need a fear response in childhood and early adulthood in order to properly learn what the reasonable things you should actually be afraid of (falling off of things, snakes, high voltage, busy highways) and to develop instincts to grasp, run, hands off, walk away as appropriate. Once the behaviors are in place, you don't need the fear to protect you, but you may need it to get the behaviors ingrained in the first place, and to assure that the response is immediate rather than slow and deliberate.
My concern would be that adults exposed to danger in new situations (going off to war, new job as hydraulic press operator) would be more likely to become injured if they were medicated or genetically manipulated into having less fear. While we no longer live in jungles with lions and deadly snakes, there is still traffic, industrial machinery, caustic cleaning chemicals, and whatnot to deal with. Whether a primitive fear response is the best way to handle that sort of thing isn't for sure, but for now it may be better than nothing.
In contrast to Minnestota, a warm-climate problem is that while the underground storage tanks are nice and cool so the fuel is dispensed, metered, and delivered at approx 65F year-round, nevertheless the fuel warms up and expands in the tank of the car on hot days. Older cars (early 80's and before?) weren't designed to handle this and just let vapors (and occasionally liquid) escape to the environment.
This is a waste of perfectly good fuel but also it was a minor but measurable source of pollution, confounded by the fact that the greatest vapor loss was in hot weather which is already the smoggiest, and which has the most UV available to convert fuel vapors into the various components of smog.
The problem is mostly solved in that older cars get junked and go away, and the non-junked ones may not be driven as much, hence not filled as much. It also seems like fuel pumps in warm, urban areas are programmed to shut off earlier so the tank isn't ever really full. About 5 years ago I ran out of gas, and I could only get 15.5 gallons into what was supposed to be a 16 gallon tank (and yes I included the gallon from the red plastic jug).
Is there a cause-and-effect relationship between (a) microsoft's unrelenting push to hire inexpensive offshore/H1B coders over the last several years and (b) the missed schedules, dropped features, and lack of market acceptance of vista?