the rack is 16 sq ft but bulky stuff hangs over the edge so it probably frees up about 20 sq ft of garage floor space altogether. i took my time on installation (6 hours maybe) to make sure it was really solidly attached. i put some interlocking foam floor pads over the wire rack so smaller stuff doesn't fall through. i have one of the old hand crank ones, but you can get motorized these days.
I overheard one physicist refer to it not as observation or measurement, but rather *amplification*. If the information about the property (position, momentum, spin, whatever) is amplified to a larger scale than the original property (e.g. neurons firing, pencils moving, printer printing, beam of light moving in a different direction), only then does that collapses the uncertainty.
If the information is merely transferred to another particle without amplification (say, by bumping into it) the uncertainty remains and the information can be un-transferred in the usual weird quantum way.
Counterexamples: a steam engine is an engine but it is external combution and often powered by coal or wood. Trebuchets were often powered by rocks hoisted by ropes. It's still an engine.
I would simply read "engine" as a pronoun for whatever energy/motion device the writer happens to be talking about at the time. If the writer asserts that some alternative to 4 stroke petrol/gasoline is not an engine, they are ill-informed and abusing their aforementioned pronoun privileges.
i don't know what kind of irony this is, but about two hours after i made the above post i got a message from one of my employees that her brother had been in an accident caused by a young lady who was texting and driving. one of the other victims of the accident was a motorcyclist who was very, very badly injured.
1. Telephone companies can and do routinely trangulate from towers or use GPS-enabled smartphones to establish the position of a cellular phone. It's not rocket science to integrate those measurements over time and obtain the velocity of a cellular phone.
2. Add some code to phone company messaging servers that disables sending and receiving of text messages while the mobile phone is in motion.
3. New phones should have some code that notices the situation and disables reading old messages and typing new messages in advance. Perhaps they won't allow you to dial anything but 911 or even receive calls unless you have bluetooth.
Yes, this means that we take away some convenience to be safer. Yes, the phone companies won't make as much money. I'm sorry. People are behaving like children and we need to take their toy away.
there really isn't any punishment that will dissuade context-dependent behavior like this. people just aren't smart enough to grasp that it's okay to send texts, and it's okay to drive, but not both at the same time. that just doesn't fit into their heads. hold on a minute i have to make this left.
my personal preference is that we use up foreign oil while it's still relatively cheap. when it hits $500 barrel, then maybe we should tap into offshore wells and sell some back to OPEC for 20x what we paid for most of theirs.
in the mean time we should probably focus on perfecting blow-out preventers.
1. you said apartment so a guard dog is probably not practical. more to the point, the insurance liability for a guard dog is way more expensive than any discount for having an alarm. but, if you're on the ground floor, you might get a leash, water and food bowls, half-empty kibble bag, pooper scooper, some (visibly used) chew toys, and a muzzle, then scatter them around the patio. extra points for getting some fake poop.
2. to be effective, an alarm needs to be monitored by a "central station". two or three false alarms and the neighbors will call 9-1-1 to report you for your noisy alarm instead of reporting a possible burglary; you might be asked to disconnect it. central stations probably won't let you connect your own jury-rigged solution.
3. just get proper insurance. for an apartment this is actually not very expensive, cheaper than basic cable in most cases.
4. don't advertise that you have anything nice. don't poke any antennas out through the apartment windows. if you have a window facing the street or common area, don't put your art collection, 50" plasma, and multiple equipment racks in plain view. if you have assigned parking, don't park your BMW in a spot that is labeled with your apartment number.
5. your car (if you have one) is more likely to be broken into than your apartment. get a top notch alarm for it, and never ever leave anything (valuable or not) visible. some people will break a window to steal $10 sunglasses. a stack of quarters in the coin holder and a GPS mount on the windshield is nearly irrestistable.
6. rather than make a DIY alarm, I'd suggest buying a commercially available alarm product and installing it yourself. you're more likely to end up with a working system and will have the option of connecting to a central station.
7. upgrade the physical security. get the add-on locks for patio doors and slider windows. deadbolts on all doors. double cylinder on doors with or near windows. have the locks rekeyed so prior tenants' copies won't work. get in the habit of closing the windows when you leave, no matter how hot it is. (in fact, it's my opinion that most of the value of the alarm is the feature where it reminds you that you left a window or door open.)
8. consider more mundane measures like an inventory of your stuff, off-site backups of your computers, recording the serial numbers of everything (not just the expensive stuff)
9. take a moment to consider on-line security. you will be way more upset at someone taking over your email account, sending your bank a password reset request, then transferring ALL of your money out of your account. protect your email accounts and all devices including phone with as much password security as they allow.
10. move to a lower-crime area for some peace of mind. taking the attitude that you can solve a deep social problem with improvised technology is naive.
which is an interesting point, if only because the more typical forms of internal corporate currency, barter and favors, are not taxed.
there is a network effect: a larger company has more services in-house and more opportunity to trade or barter them in furtherance of corporate goals. a smaller company has to rely on outside vendors and contractors, at which point the transaction is out in the open to be taxed. i suspect this untaxed internal corporate barter may have a bigger economic impact than economy of scale or access to capital.
it would be an interesting experiment to see if corporate largess and management inertia would survive being taxed at the same real rate as small businesses.
One has a primary focus of MAKING MONEY and a secondary focus on OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SUITES. One has a primary focus of MAKING MONEY and a secondary focus on TELEPHONES.
Given how you and perhaps your organization seems to work, you should just look for developers who are good at going to forums and asking other people for advice on how to do their job.
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I though mythbusters proved that this was impossible.
They even reported their findings to the president.
and VIM should pay interest retroactive to when they incorporated the feature, which will be a lot since that goes back even further than the patent.
i have one of these: http://www.homeorganizershops.com/PHL-1R.html
the rack is 16 sq ft but bulky stuff hangs over the edge so it probably frees up about 20 sq ft of garage floor space altogether. i took my time on installation (6 hours maybe) to make sure it was really solidly attached. i put some interlocking foam floor pads over the wire rack so smaller stuff doesn't fall through. i have one of the old hand crank ones, but you can get motorized these days.
He's ranting about magnetism, but you're ranting about him.
Just an observation.
We should unionize
No thank you, I prefer to remain ionized.
I overheard one physicist refer to it not as observation or measurement, but rather *amplification*. If the information about the property (position, momentum, spin, whatever) is amplified to a larger scale than the original property (e.g. neurons firing, pencils moving, printer printing, beam of light moving in a different direction), only then does that collapses the uncertainty.
If the information is merely transferred to another particle without amplification (say, by bumping into it) the uncertainty remains and the information can be un-transferred in the usual weird quantum way.
the fools who laughed at my patented 17-stroke engine will rue the day!!
bwa hahaha!
Counterexamples: a steam engine is an engine but it is external combution and often powered by coal or wood. Trebuchets were often powered by rocks hoisted by ropes. It's still an engine.
I would simply read "engine" as a pronoun for whatever energy/motion device the writer happens to be talking about at the time. If the writer asserts that some alternative to 4 stroke petrol/gasoline is not an engine, they are ill-informed and abusing their aforementioned pronoun privileges.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine#Terminology
I find your argument very polarizing.
HEY what would be awesome is a 3D color display of the cars, pedestrians and roadway ahead of my vehicle.
that would be awesome!
i don't know what kind of irony this is, but about two hours after i made the above post i got a message from one of my employees that her brother had been in an accident caused by a young lady who was texting and driving. one of the other victims of the accident was a motorcyclist who was very, very badly injured.
sigh.
1. Telephone companies can and do routinely trangulate from towers or use GPS-enabled smartphones to establish the position of a cellular phone. It's not rocket science to integrate those measurements over time and obtain the velocity of a cellular phone.
2. Add some code to phone company messaging servers that disables sending and receiving of text messages while the mobile phone is in motion.
3. New phones should have some code that notices the situation and disables reading old messages and typing new messages in advance. Perhaps they won't allow you to dial anything but 911 or even receive calls unless you have bluetooth.
Yes, this means that we take away some convenience to be safer. Yes, the phone companies won't make as much money. I'm sorry. People are behaving like children and we need to take their toy away.
there really isn't any punishment that will dissuade context-dependent behavior like this. people just aren't smart enough to grasp that it's okay to send texts, and it's okay to drive, but not both at the same time. that just doesn't fit into their heads. hold on a minute i have to make this left.
because the word contains the derisive term "ho".
duh!
my personal preference is that we use up foreign oil while it's still relatively cheap. when it hits $500 barrel, then maybe we should tap into offshore wells and sell some back to OPEC for 20x what we paid for most of theirs.
in the mean time we should probably focus on perfecting blow-out preventers.
just mah opinion.
if they want a shallow gravity well, the moons of mars would make a good target. http://xkcd.com/681_large/
one of my neighbors turned his 10' mesh dish into a sunshade over his outdoor fire pit.
1. you said apartment so a guard dog is probably not practical. more to the point, the insurance liability for a guard dog is way more expensive than any discount for having an alarm. but, if you're on the ground floor, you might get a leash, water and food bowls, half-empty kibble bag, pooper scooper, some (visibly used) chew toys, and a muzzle, then scatter them around the patio. extra points for getting some fake poop.
2. to be effective, an alarm needs to be monitored by a "central station". two or three false alarms and the neighbors will call 9-1-1 to report you for your noisy alarm instead of reporting a possible burglary; you might be asked to disconnect it. central stations probably won't let you connect your own jury-rigged solution.
3. just get proper insurance. for an apartment this is actually not very expensive, cheaper than basic cable in most cases.
4. don't advertise that you have anything nice. don't poke any antennas out through the apartment windows. if you have a window facing the street or common area, don't put your art collection, 50" plasma, and multiple equipment racks in plain view. if you have assigned parking, don't park your BMW in a spot that is labeled with your apartment number.
5. your car (if you have one) is more likely to be broken into than your apartment. get a top notch alarm for it, and never ever leave anything (valuable or not) visible. some people will break a window to steal $10 sunglasses. a stack of quarters in the coin holder and a GPS mount on the windshield is nearly irrestistable.
6. rather than make a DIY alarm, I'd suggest buying a commercially available alarm product and installing it yourself. you're more likely to end up with a working system and will have the option of connecting to a central station.
7. upgrade the physical security. get the add-on locks for patio doors and slider windows. deadbolts on all doors. double cylinder on doors with or near windows. have the locks rekeyed so prior tenants' copies won't work. get in the habit of closing the windows when you leave, no matter how hot it is. (in fact, it's my opinion that most of the value of the alarm is the feature where it reminds you that you left a window or door open.)
8. consider more mundane measures like an inventory of your stuff, off-site backups of your computers, recording the serial numbers of everything (not just the expensive stuff)
9. take a moment to consider on-line security. you will be way more upset at someone taking over your email account, sending your bank a password reset request, then transferring ALL of your money out of your account. protect your email accounts and all devices including phone with as much password security as they allow.
10. move to a lower-crime area for some peace of mind. taking the attitude that you can solve a deep social problem with improvised technology is naive.
pls take a moment to fully evaluate your own signature's potential to offend.
Don't think of it as $360/GB per year, think of it as $360,000/TB per year.
>> sometimes even their own currency internally
which is an interesting point, if only because the more typical forms of internal corporate currency, barter and favors, are not taxed.
there is a network effect: a larger company has more services in-house and more opportunity to trade or barter them in furtherance of corporate goals. a smaller company has to rely on outside vendors and contractors, at which point the transaction is out in the open to be taxed. i suspect this untaxed internal corporate barter may have a bigger economic impact than economy of scale or access to capital.
it would be an interesting experiment to see if corporate largess and management inertia would survive being taxed at the same real rate as small businesses.
One has a primary focus of MAKING MONEY and a secondary focus on OFFICE PRODUCTIVITY SUITES.
One has a primary focus of MAKING MONEY and a secondary focus on TELEPHONES.
Given how you and perhaps your organization seems to work, you should just look for developers who are good at going to forums and asking other people for advice on how to do their job.
commercial airlines fly at 500mph, so a bunch of cameras interfering with aerodynamics is kind of a deal breaker.
you might be interested in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_Observatory_for_Infrared_Astronomy
microsoft has coding tools?