If you look at the resulting MPEGs from MOPITT, the Canadian project that tracked CO emmisions through the atmosphere, you can clearly see great gobs of CO breaking off of Asia and drifting across the Pacific to North America where they are absorbed. An interesting side note is that you can clearly see the CO being produced by one of the large scale forest fires that occured that year in the Northwest.
Just for the record this did happen . The satellites are still up there, but the initial investors lost their money. The new Iridium is alive and well.
Provided they can outlast the drain on their development dollars and recoup the investment. I think Iridium was a good test for that. The people that bought them out for 10 cents on the dollar are making a killing now.
I was looking to see if anybody else used the muscle memory thing. It works well, but you can't think about it while you are doing it. I thought about it once. And suddenly what I was doing didn't quite feel right and I couldn't access the ATM machine. It was pretty funny me desperately trying to remember the number letter sequence that made up the password. I ultimately remembered it, but not that day, and it was a scare. But a funny scare.
Actually, if you read article or went to the websites, you would see that your comment is extremely mis-directed. People that are truly for a cleaner environment and recycling or reuse should be excited by these developments. Total greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced. People who use the environment as a way to control people or as a method of wealth redistribution do have reason to fear this development and this technology.
The beauty of Thermal Conversion Process is that we seem to have an extremely efficient means of creating a bio-derived fuel that is much more energy dense and useful than any of its competition. The alchohol based competitors in the "alternate fuel" world all revolve around plant matter and the conversion process is specific and of somewhat limited use. The thermal conversion process uses ANY organic matter including existing petrochemical products, and can turn them back into the raw state. This is HUGE.
Don't patents sunset in 17 years? I realize that it is a long time for an individual, but it is a blink of an eye for the race. I watched a TV show recently about the man, Al Gross , who invented the "Dick Tracy" watch and cell phones back in the 40's. He patented the idea, but it had expired by the time it was technologically feasible to implement.
The only US land mines that do not have timers built in are the ones in the DMZ between North and South Korea. All the others, for all the services, have timers.
Spoken like a true Clintonite. "You joined the military so you must be scum, or at least a moron." This bile is wrong on so many levels it is beyond belief. Perhaps that is what you were thinking about as you wrote that reply. I know from the a friend that worked in the White House Communications Center during the early 1990's that that definitely was the attitude of the then new administration.
First, digressing to a slightly earlier post, every single person who has been mobilized since at least Bosnia and Kosovo goes through Law of Land Warfare refresher training as part of that mobilization process. Anybody that says otherwise is playing the victim. I have been mobilized twice, for a year each time, since Oct 2001. I got back from Iraq shortly before Christmas. We were thoroughly briefed on the Law of Land Warfare each time. Furthermore, the regular Law of Land Warfare briefings are an annual requirement for everybody in the military, including Reservists and National Guardsmen (there is a slight difference between the two.)
Second, while Mr. Velauthapill may not know many or any current of former service people that attended "Ivy League" or top ranked schools, that is more a result of the law of averages working against him than the lack of exixtance of the same. As a member of the military, I have known dozens of individuals who have attended these schools. I served with a JAG officer in Baghdad who was a Harvard Law graduate. We have another in my unit who served in Afghanistan, but chose not to go the JAG route. I had NCO's serving under me that were Fordham grads. We had another junior enlisted person who had a Masters degree from Harvard. My unit has had at least two lieutenants that were MIT Grad Students. And the CEO of the company I work for is a former Marine aviator. Military people do not necessarily wear their service on their sleeve. And with less that one third of one percent of the population serving in the military in some capacity, it is very easy to miss knowing a service member. Especially in enlightened areas like parts of the Northeast or Left Coast where it is not popular among the elite. But even then, since 9/11 there has been a rising tide children of the elite joining the military with a desire to serve their nation. A good example of this is Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's son.
Then there is the classic line about colleges and universities as gatherers of knowledge. The reason for the gathering being that incoming freshmen bring a little knowledge with them. The outgoing seniors take none with them. So the knowledge kind of just piles up.
I wasn't actually considering individual women profitting from having an abortion when I made the original statement. I was more thinking of stem cell research being used as one more "good" reason for on demand abortions. I do find the reference to the aborted fetus as "Trash" to be extremely troubling as I am sure was intended. The main point of my post was that fetal and/or non-specific stem cells are available from sources other than the destruction of a human embryo. A point that seems to be glossed over during much of the debate over whether or not the research should be occuring at all. I am very much pro stem cell research. I am just glad to see that there are several sources available that do not stem from a potential loss of life...
The ban can be reviewed in detail here. As you can see, the ban was initiated in 1994, with no superheroes in sight.
Fetal stem cell research is almost irrelevant. The Australians have extracted stem cells from baby teeth. It gives new meaning to why the tooth fairy leaves money. Then there is the process for extracting stem cells from body fat. Stem cell research does not need to be used as a reason for killing off unwanted pregnancies. Fetus's are not the only source of stem cells, they are just one of the first sources discovered.
Requirements are a way to know you are done! If you start with funtional requirements, write a functional spec and then move to a Design Spec then writing the test plan is pretty straightforward. You have an idea of where you are going and you can put a stake in the ground on what needs to be done for the initial release, and if the stuff actually works. This also gives you a baseline to refigure things out when you have to revisit it after two years. One of the biggest problems I have encountered with poorly specified projects (and I have fixed several) is knowing when things are working properly and when you are done.
People who do not believe in software design and specs are either fearful of losing their jobs due to lack of knowledge superiority, or ignorant of the benefits of having a plan. In almost every case I have been involved in, a clearly thought out design plan has resulted in on-time delivery of a product that exceeded the customers expectations. And in every case that the design plan was hatched, the customer was not happy and the delivery was late.
And my golden rule for internal software tools is "If it is useful to you, it is going to be useful to others. Tools all too often become products, so spend some time on the design now."
Because this CODEC uses WAVELETS and Wavelet theory is probably one of the most useful tools for working with time varying signals that has been developed. It is especially useful in high quality compression algorithms. Here is a decent background article on Wavelets.
That is correct, sir! Volkswagen bought the Rolls Royce factory and tooling in Crewe, but much to their chagrin, that did not include the rights to use the Rolls-Royce name on the vehicles, which BMW scoffed up and is now using. It did however include the rights to the Bentley name. So Volkswagen is building "true" Rolls Royces under the Bentley name, and BMW is building a car that is almost totally unrelated to a "true" Rolls under the Rolls-Royce name. And of course, as the former "performance" brand of Rolls-Royce, at least since the 1930's or 40's, Bentley's have always been rebadged Rolls=Royces to a certain extent.
Changing World Technologies with their Thermal Conversion Process seems like a much more effective solution than fermentation and processing into alcohol based fuels. My guess is that ADM and the other huge corn/ethanol agri-businesses are fighting tooth and nail against this technology.
As a 19 year veteran of the Army Reserve who just got back from Iraq, I would like to point out some things. When it comes to drilling Reservists and National Guardsmen, there are several categories of absences from normal "weekend drills" or Inactive Duty for Training as is the proper name. None of these categories constitute being AWOL. The main categories are excused absences, unexcused absences, and away on active duty which covers tours of active duty or schools. When you receive an excused absence, you are allowed to "make up" the drill, but there is no absolute requirement to do so. If you do not make it up, you will not receive those drills points and may not get a good year for retirement, but if the soldier has no intention of retiring it may not matter to them. And if they are otherwise doing a good job, their individual evaluation or fitness report may not indicate the absence.
Unexcused absences can not be made up, and if Bush had received a "U" as we call them, there would be a copy of certified letters to him telling him that he had received a "U".
Another big part of the reason that AWOL does not apply, is that if a reservist or National Guard soldier does not show up for drill, they do not get paid. While not easy, it should be possible to find out if the President got paid during this time period. While a commander may give an "A" for sombody that isn't showing up, they will not code them a "P" and pay them when they aren't showing up.
50% of the American population may not be housewives that use the Internet all day long, but I bet that if a study was done it would be surprising how many of today's housewives are on the internet during the day.
At my last job I was stuck producing MSDK derived bloatware and I hated it. Where I am now, living in the embedded world, code is nice and compact because it has to be. Hopefully it will all begin to move in that direction again.
I ported from Verizon to Nextel and it happened pretty much on schedule once my Verizon service was reactivated. I had had it deactivated while I was working overseas, and when I returned, decided to try what seemed to be a Nextel plan that was a better deal. For whatever reason, a number that is assigned but "inactive" cannot be ported.
Thanks for the suggestions. The thing that has always cracked me up about the Apple / Microsoft user war has been the fact that they both ripped off Xerox PARC. Personally I always felt that killing the clones contributed to Apple's problems by closing off more of the lower entry level Mac users. I know it turned me off at the time. It resulted in my porting the tools I was writing to X86 almost immediately. An equivalent MAC development system to that then current UMAX was twice as much money. The Windows version of Codewarrior made the port a snap. Anyways, thanks for letting me know there is a way out of the proprietary Mac trap.
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If you look at the resulting MPEGs from MOPITT, the Canadian project that tracked CO emmisions through the atmosphere, you can clearly see great gobs of CO breaking off of Asia and drifting across the Pacific to North America where they are absorbed. An interesting side note is that you can clearly see the CO being produced by one of the large scale forest fires that occured that year in the Northwest.
Just for the record this did happen . The satellites are still up there, but the initial investors lost their money. The new Iridium is alive and well.
Provided they can outlast the drain on their development dollars and recoup the investment. I think Iridium was a good test for that. The people that bought them out for 10 cents on the dollar are making a killing now.
I was looking to see if anybody else used the muscle memory thing. It works well, but you can't think about it while you are doing it. I thought about it once. And suddenly what I was doing didn't quite feel right and I couldn't access the ATM machine. It was pretty funny me desperately trying to remember the number letter sequence that made up the password. I ultimately remembered it, but not that day, and it was a scare. But a funny scare.
Actually, if you read article or went to the websites, you would see that your comment is extremely mis-directed. People that are truly for a cleaner environment and recycling or reuse should be excited by these developments. Total greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced. People who use the environment as a way to control people or as a method of wealth redistribution do have reason to fear this development and this technology.
The beauty of Thermal Conversion Process is that we seem to have an extremely efficient means of creating a bio-derived fuel that is much more energy dense and useful than any of its competition. The alchohol based competitors in the "alternate fuel" world all revolve around plant matter and the conversion process is specific and of somewhat limited use. The thermal conversion process uses ANY organic matter including existing petrochemical products, and can turn them back into the raw state. This is HUGE.
Don't patents sunset in 17 years? I realize that it is a long time for an individual, but it is a blink of an eye for the race. I watched a TV show recently about the man, Al Gross , who invented the "Dick Tracy" watch and cell phones back in the 40's. He patented the idea, but it had expired by the time it was technologically feasible to implement.
The only US land mines that do not have timers built in are the ones in the DMZ between North and South Korea. All the others, for all the services, have timers.
I was hoping to get the first shot in on the Focus PZEV, but it was actually nice to be beaten.
It has always seemed to me that Alternative Fueled vehicles are a lot like my favorite rule of statistics, "Figures don't lie, but liars figure."
How clean is clean? Road & Track had a great article about just that topic last year.
We also had to ban DDT and all those other nasty pesiticides because the aliens are big bugs!
Visit www.junkscience.com and get educated.
Spoken like a true Clintonite. "You joined the military so you must be scum, or at least a moron." This bile is wrong on so many levels it is beyond belief. Perhaps that is what you were thinking about as you wrote that reply. I know from the a friend that worked in the White House Communications Center during the early 1990's that that definitely was the attitude of the then new administration.
First, digressing to a slightly earlier post, every single person who has been mobilized since at least Bosnia and Kosovo goes through Law of Land Warfare refresher training as part of that mobilization process. Anybody that says otherwise is playing the victim. I have been mobilized twice, for a year each time, since Oct 2001. I got back from Iraq shortly before Christmas. We were thoroughly briefed on the Law of Land Warfare each time. Furthermore, the regular Law of Land Warfare briefings are an annual requirement for everybody in the military, including Reservists and National Guardsmen (there is a slight difference between the two.)
Second, while Mr. Velauthapill may not know many or any current of former service people that attended "Ivy League" or top ranked schools, that is more a result of the law of averages working against him than the lack of exixtance of the same. As a member of the military, I have known dozens of individuals who have attended these schools. I served with a JAG officer in Baghdad who was a Harvard Law graduate. We have another in my unit who served in Afghanistan, but chose not to go the JAG route. I had NCO's serving under me that were Fordham grads. We had another junior enlisted person who had a Masters degree from Harvard. My unit has had at least two lieutenants that were MIT Grad Students. And the CEO of the company I work for is a former Marine aviator. Military people do not necessarily wear their service on their sleeve. And with less that one third of one percent of the population serving in the military in some capacity, it is very easy to miss knowing a service member. Especially in enlightened areas like parts of the Northeast or Left Coast where it is not popular among the elite. But even then, since 9/11 there has been a rising tide children of the elite joining the military with a desire to serve their nation. A good example of this is Presidential Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin's son.
Then there is the classic line about colleges and universities as gatherers of knowledge. The reason for the gathering being that incoming freshmen bring a little knowledge with them. The outgoing seniors take none with them. So the knowledge kind of just piles up.
I wasn't actually considering individual women profitting from having an abortion when I made the original statement. I was more thinking of stem cell research being used as one more "good" reason for on demand abortions. I do find the reference to the aborted fetus as "Trash" to be extremely troubling as I am sure was intended. The main point of my post was that fetal and/or non-specific stem cells are available from sources other than the destruction of a human embryo. A point that seems to be glossed over during much of the debate over whether or not the research should be occuring at all. I am very much pro stem cell research. I am just glad to see that there are several sources available that do not stem from a potential loss of life...
The ban can be reviewed in detail here. As you can see, the ban was initiated in 1994, with no superheroes in sight.
Fetal stem cell research is almost irrelevant. The Australians have extracted stem cells from baby teeth. It gives new meaning to why the tooth fairy leaves money. Then there is the process for extracting stem cells from body fat. Stem cell research does not need to be used as a reason for killing off unwanted pregnancies. Fetus's are not the only source of stem cells, they are just one of the first sources discovered.
Not usually. I was just excited about this topic. :-{)
Requirements are a way to know you are done! If you start with funtional requirements, write a functional spec and then move to a Design Spec then writing the test plan is pretty straightforward. You have an idea of where you are going and you can put a stake in the ground on what needs to be done for the initial release, and if the stuff actually works. This also gives you a baseline to refigure things out when you have to revisit it after two years. One of the biggest problems I have encountered with poorly specified projects (and I have fixed several) is knowing when things are working properly and when you are done.
People who do not believe in software design and specs are either fearful of losing their jobs due to lack of knowledge superiority, or ignorant of the benefits of having a plan. In almost every case I have been involved in, a clearly thought out design plan has resulted in on-time delivery of a product that exceeded the customers expectations. And in every case that the design plan was hatched, the customer was not happy and the delivery was late.
And my golden rule for internal software tools is "If it is useful to you, it is going to be useful to others. Tools all too often become products, so spend some time on the design now."
Because this CODEC uses WAVELETS and Wavelet theory is probably one of the most useful tools for working with time varying signals that has been developed. It is especially useful in high quality compression algorithms. Here is a decent background article on Wavelets.
That is correct, sir! Volkswagen bought the Rolls Royce factory and tooling in Crewe, but much to their chagrin, that did not include the rights to use the Rolls-Royce name on the vehicles, which BMW scoffed up and is now using. It did however include the rights to the Bentley name. So Volkswagen is building "true" Rolls Royces under the Bentley name, and BMW is building a car that is almost totally unrelated to a "true" Rolls under the Rolls-Royce name. And of course, as the former "performance" brand of Rolls-Royce, at least since the 1930's or 40's, Bentley's have always been rebadged Rolls=Royces to a certain extent.
Changing World Technologies with their Thermal Conversion Process seems like a much more effective solution than fermentation and processing into alcohol based fuels. My guess is that ADM and the other huge corn/ethanol agri-businesses are fighting tooth and nail against this technology.
As a 19 year veteran of the Army Reserve who just got back from Iraq, I would like to point out some things. When it comes to drilling Reservists and National Guardsmen, there are several categories of absences from normal "weekend drills" or Inactive Duty for Training as is the proper name. None of these categories constitute being AWOL. The main categories are excused absences, unexcused absences, and away on active duty which covers tours of active duty or schools. When you receive an excused absence, you are allowed to "make up" the drill, but there is no absolute requirement to do so. If you do not make it up, you will not receive those drills points and may not get a good year for retirement, but if the soldier has no intention of retiring it may not matter to them. And if they are otherwise doing a good job, their individual evaluation or fitness report may not indicate the absence.
Unexcused absences can not be made up, and if Bush had received a "U" as we call them, there would be a copy of certified letters to him telling him that he had received a "U".
Another big part of the reason that AWOL does not apply, is that if a reservist or National Guard soldier does not show up for drill, they do not get paid. While not easy, it should be possible to find out if the President got paid during this time period. While a commander may give an "A" for sombody that isn't showing up, they will not code them a "P" and pay them when they aren't showing up.
But how could I get first post without subscribing?
50% of the American population may not be housewives that use the Internet all day long, but I bet that if a study was done it would be surprising how many of today's housewives are on the internet during the day.
At my last job I was stuck producing MSDK derived bloatware and I hated it. Where I am now, living in the embedded world, code is nice and compact because it has to be. Hopefully it will all begin to move in that direction again.
I ported from Verizon to Nextel and it happened pretty much on schedule once my Verizon service was reactivated. I had had it deactivated while I was working overseas, and when I returned, decided to try what seemed to be a Nextel plan that was a better deal. For whatever reason, a number that is assigned but "inactive" cannot be ported.
Thanks for the suggestions. The thing that has always cracked me up about the Apple / Microsoft user war has been the fact that they both ripped off Xerox PARC. Personally I always felt that killing the clones contributed to Apple's problems by closing off more of the lower entry level Mac users. I know it turned me off at the time. It resulted in my porting the tools I was writing to X86 almost immediately. An equivalent MAC development system to that then current UMAX was twice as much money. The Windows version of Codewarrior made the port a snap. Anyways, thanks for letting me know there is a way out of the proprietary Mac trap.
Gee and when can I get a replacement for my UMAX PowerPC Mac Clone? Or how about upgrading the OS? Uh Never? And why is that?
Thanks Apple.