Yes, notonly that, but the air at Google is cleaner and purer and free of pollutants, and they also offer free elixir of life as well as coffee and Mountain Dew. And they have free massages, and there is no crime or disease there, and evryone is always happy. Major difference here in Australia is that Mountain Dew contains no caffiene. So I doubt that it would attain the same level of use.
-A mouse trap has maybe 4 or 5 parts. -A transistor radio has perhaps 100 parts. -A 35 MM camera has maybe 200 parts. -What does a car have? 10,000 - 50,000 parts? -An airplane? 200,000 parts?
I liked your examples, but there is another side to comment on. What about approx. useable life (mostly guesses + personal experience)?
Airplane - 10-20+ years
Car - 5-10+ years
35MM Camera - 3-10 years
Transistor radio 2-5 years
Mouse trap - 1 year
assuming everyday use.
Planes and cars get regular service and preventative maintenance. (my car doesn't) That one thing alone helps them outlast the much simpler devices.
...The only time it doesn't work is when the sender's spam blocker dumps the confirmation request or when the sender doesn't understand what to do.
There is another time when they fail.
I went away last weekend. The last thing that I did before I left on Friday was to send off to my church the files required for the Sunday services seeing as I wouldn't be there.
When I returned from on Tuesday there was the e-mail requesting confirmation before it would forward the messages...
I had sent the e-mail....and didn't know that there needed to be anything else done.
The disease I'd like to complain about today is the "read receipt". I can only imagine how much time people waste looking up whether I've read their message or not. You can turn that off, too, but some people really go crazy if they don't get their read receipts.
This once caused some 'fun' at my workplace.
One of the 'Executive Administrators' asked my why I was deleting her e-mails without reading them.
Turned out that having the preview enabled didn't set the 'message has been read' flag and that outlook would respond to her that I'd deleted the message without reading it even though I'd got the complete message through preview.
Not sure if it is still doing this, perhaps not as my new manager hasn't asked me about that yet.
Okay, I admit, I'm a bit of a bumpkin when it comes to understanding the scale of all this. I was just curious: Would this be visible to the naked eye?
No, the effects of the impact will be much too small, even if favorably placed.
Though that would be one way that you could get the general public interested in the mission. Something that they can actually see would be impressive.
Was just thinking that if you could get a sizable portion of the world's people looking at/united by one thing.
How large an impact/explosion would you really need to be visible, even if only with binoculars?
While I basically understood the grandparent, you've done a much better job.
Have you though about a job as a science journalist - we need people who can dumb down stories for the general populace to understand while still keeping the scientist inside happy.
I was in Futureshop here in Toronto the other day...came face to face with an advertisement for "Bambi 2"... BAMBI 2??!?!? They're making a sequel to a 50 year old movie for crying out loud...
It would be far more likely to fall (fairly) harmlessly into the ocean or some random bit of countryside. Only a fairly small percentage of land is actually covered by stuff that we would consider important.
The language of the net is broken english, but not so broken as to make it too difficult to read, so live with it.
The language of the net?
Slashdot is the major one of multiple web sites that I frequent that doesn't use standard English as normal - though there are occasional posters at other places that don't bother spelling/formatting correctly (or at least with some care). I assume that the people who run their sites want them to be of a professional standard, which sadly Slashdot doesn't appear to be after.
And the only other place where I come across it regularly is MSN conversations with younger teenagers - I've noticed that as they get older their attention to detail appears to improve too.
I take some pride in what I put down on paper or type - after all it's going into a permanent record of who I am. I'd like to one day perhaps; look back over my additions to the internet as a whole and be able to read what I wrote in my youth and still be proud of my contributions.
I'm not admitting that my spelling and grammar are perfect, and I wish that I'd enjoyed English more (and hence paid more attention) in high school, but at least I put effort into getting it essentially correct.
The other thing that you can determine from the typing message is if they are talking with other people.
If you see the typing message and then never get a response then they are talking with somone else.
I have friends that are commonly involved with multiple conversations at the same time and so I see that message often. Then I will get a message from them with no previous typing message at all. I assume that the typing message gets sent to the last person (windoe) that you were talking on, and not the current one.
It doesn't bother me hence I've not tried to find out if that is what it's really doing.
My father brought a huge bottle of Vegemite (australia) home from the school where he worked.
It was 5 years past its 'use-by' date. It had already been opened but don't know when. It smelt normal, had a small bit on a sandwich, and then decided that it was still good.
Did you also realise that it was shown live on the free to air TV channels, 7 9 and ABC all ran with the NASA live feed. But 10 couldn't leave big brother.
I'm just jealous as one of my mates was over there in the states, and was able to go see it for real.
There is no other place to just idle for a while and do something else to forget whatever shit it was that you were suddenly distracted with.
You just mentioned the best place, where you can be nearly assured that no-one will come in and attempt to talk with you.
Go and sit on the toilet for a while, generally the place is quiet as well. Added bonus is that people won't complain if you don't answer the phone because you were in the dunny.
I'd agree, though I'd also add "good ability to research/find information" is a HUGE plus.... You can buy yourself a surprising amount of time to figure out a problem by humoring the customer and keeping up a friendly conversation with them while you work -- but eventually, you still need to provide the solution.
At my work, I tell people that I'm there to press the F1 key.
Though I'd swear that some people will call me over just to have a chat with someone else who isn't one of the people that surround them all day.
Seeing as the original topic was on customer servce, one thing that I enjoy doing when things are a little slow, is going around to the people that I haven't heard from lately, and just seeing if they are having any computer problems that they havn't bothered me with, general conversation too. I call in on the directors as well so they know that I'm about.
If we assume that 1% of them actually do harbor intelligent life (and that figure is probably way too high), that leaves us with 130 million stars, spread out over 11 billion cubic lightyears. Since we have an even distribution of stars, that means intelligent life will happen once every 85 million light years.
Plugging your figures in google calc I get 1 civ every 85 cubic light years. You lost some digits in your calcs, and didn't convert down as was cubic light years not a direction.
This is the query that I sent. what is (11 billion cubic lightyears) divided by 130 million) in cubic lightyears.
Also the actual arms contain nearly all of the stars there are large portions of really empty space even within your small guestimate of volume.
To start with I've had cataracts all my life, and my vision is about as bad as most people would ever have to experience. I don't need glasses for everything, but just to drive as they help with distance.
My ophthalmologist told me when I asked about the suitability of working with computers for someone with poor vision - that generally they are only highlighting problems there already (but undiagnosed), and not generating new problems. People's vision will change as they get older.
Personally, I've never had any problems with quality CRT monitors of any size or type. I need to be about a foot away from the monitor to see it clearly, my favourite is a 17' CRT, as the larger ones I have to move my head around to see it all. I've a 17' LCD at work and if you're only 12-18 inches from the screen, then there is a definite perceived difference in the brightness of the image for me, whereas a CRT image at that distance is smooth.
Fortunatly, none of my jobs have been ones where I have to sit in front of a screen for hours on end - generally they are support roles I can get up and go visit the person at their desk; which gets the bones moving, eyes focussed on different things, and I can also talk with other people too. I would prefer to see and talk to people rather than do everything remotely or via the phone.
And you never know, one day those social skills could really help me in life.
I did a Systems Development type class, where the whole class was split into groups but each was working on the same type of project. At regular times when we submitted when we had and where we were up to with the lecturer.
We were then given another group's project to take over from instead of our own. That really brought home about how well we should be documntating the work.
We can be replaced, but we can also be called in to replace someone else too.
Was that the ones that a Doctor Who episode from many moons ago was set around? From memory there were stones in a vague circular arrangment amongst buildings.
I could also be wrong as this was a looong time ago.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, notonly that, but the air at Google is cleaner and purer and free of pollutants, and they also offer free elixir of life as well as coffee and Mountain Dew. And they have free massages, and there is no crime or disease there, and evryone is always happy.
Major difference here in Australia is that Mountain Dew contains no caffiene. So I doubt that it would attain the same level of use.
-A mouse trap has maybe 4 or 5 parts.
-A transistor radio has perhaps 100 parts.
-A 35 MM camera has maybe 200 parts.
-What does a car have? 10,000 - 50,000 parts?
-An airplane? 200,000 parts?
I liked your examples, but there is another side to comment on.
What about approx. useable life (mostly guesses + personal experience)?
Airplane - 10-20+ years
Car - 5-10+ years
35MM Camera - 3-10 years
Transistor radio 2-5 years
Mouse trap - 1 year
assuming everyday use.
Planes and cars get regular service and preventative maintenance. (my car doesn't)
That one thing alone helps them outlast the much simpler devices.
...The only time it doesn't work is when the sender's spam blocker dumps the confirmation request or when the sender doesn't understand what to do.
There is another time when they fail.
I went away last weekend. The last thing that I did before I left on Friday was to send off to my church the files required for the Sunday services seeing as I wouldn't be there.
When I returned from on Tuesday there was the e-mail requesting confirmation before it would forward the messages...
I had sent the e-mail....and didn't know that there needed to be anything else done.
The disease I'd like to complain about today is the "read receipt". I can only imagine how much time people waste looking up whether I've read their message or not. You can turn that off, too, but some people really go crazy if they don't get their read receipts.
This once caused some 'fun' at my workplace.
One of the 'Executive Administrators' asked my why I was deleting her e-mails without reading them.
Turned out that having the preview enabled didn't set the 'message has been read' flag and that outlook would respond to her that I'd deleted the message without reading it even though I'd got the complete message through preview.
Not sure if it is still doing this, perhaps not as my new manager hasn't asked me about that yet.
Okay, I admit, I'm a bit of a bumpkin when it comes to understanding the scale of all this. I was just curious: Would this be visible to the naked eye?
No, the effects of the impact will be much too small, even if favorably placed.
Though that would be one way that you could get the general public interested in the mission.
Something that they can actually see would be impressive.
Was just thinking that if you could get a sizable portion of the world's people looking at/united by one thing.
How large an impact/explosion would you really need to be visible, even if only with binoculars?
Thank you for that.
While I basically understood the grandparent, you've done a much better job.
Have you though about a job as a science journalist - we need people who can dumb down stories for the general populace to understand while still keeping the scientist inside happy.
I was in Futureshop here in Toronto the other day...came face to face with an advertisement for "Bambi 2"... BAMBI 2??!?!? They're making a sequel to a 50 year old movie for crying out loud...
So... is this set before or after 'Bambi meets Godzilla' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064064/
It would be far more likely to fall (fairly) harmlessly into the ocean or some random bit of countryside. Only a fairly small percentage of land is actually covered by stuff that we would consider important.
The above opinions are subject to change without notice.
And you sig fits right in with your comment too. Well done.
The language of the net is broken english, but not so broken as to make it too difficult to read, so live with it.
The language of the net?
Slashdot is the major one of multiple web sites that I frequent that doesn't use standard English as normal - though there are occasional posters at other places that don't bother spelling/formatting correctly (or at least with some care). I assume that the people who run their sites want them to be of a professional standard, which sadly Slashdot doesn't appear to be after.
And the only other place where I come across it regularly is MSN conversations with younger teenagers - I've noticed that as they get older their attention to detail appears to improve too.
I take some pride in what I put down on paper or type - after all it's going into a permanent record of who I am. I'd like to one day perhaps; look back over my additions to the internet as a whole and be able to read what I wrote in my youth and still be proud of my contributions.
I'm not admitting that my spelling and grammar are perfect, and I wish that I'd enjoyed English more (and hence paid more attention) in high school, but at least I put effort into getting it essentially correct.
The other thing that you can determine from the typing message is if they are talking with other people.
If you see the typing message and then never get a response then they are talking with somone else.
I have friends that are commonly involved with multiple conversations at the same time and so I see that message often. Then I will get a message from them with no previous typing message at all. I assume that the typing message gets sent to the last person (windoe) that you were talking on, and not the current one.
It doesn't bother me hence I've not tried to find out if that is what it's really doing.
...Both Australia and England saw large jumps in violent crime after instituting draconian gun control laws...
Care to back the Australia comment up with some meaningful information? And the England one too.
It doesn't matter really, as no-one ever reads the articles anyway.
The Slashdot effect is just a coincidence.
My father brought a huge bottle of Vegemite (australia) home from the school where he worked.
It was 5 years past its 'use-by' date. It had already been opened but don't know when. It smelt normal, had a small bit on a sandwich, and then decided that it was still good.
Eventually got through it.
So this really means "everybody is travelling at walking pace" which would slow down the traffic and make collisions completely avoidable.
Sounds like Coronation Drive (Brisbane, Australia) between 4-6pm each weekday afternoon.
Takes me 10mins to get to work in the morning, and 40 to get home.
Did you also realise that it was shown live on the free to air TV channels, 7 9 and ABC all ran with the NASA live feed. But 10 couldn't leave big brother.
I'm just jealous as one of my mates was over there in the states, and was able to go see it for real.
There is no other place to just idle for a while and do something else to forget whatever shit it was that you were suddenly distracted with.
You just mentioned the best place, where you can be nearly assured that no-one will come in and attempt to talk with you.
Go and sit on the toilet for a while, generally the place is quiet as well.
Added bonus is that people won't complain if you don't answer the phone because you were in the dunny.
I'd agree, though I'd also add "good ability to research/find information" is a HUGE plus. ...
You can buy yourself a surprising amount of time to figure out a problem by humoring the customer and keeping up a friendly conversation with them while you work -- but eventually, you still need to provide the solution.
At my work, I tell people that I'm there to press the F1 key.
Though I'd swear that some people will call me over just to have a chat with someone else who isn't one of the people that surround them all day.
Seeing as the original topic was on customer servce, one thing that I enjoy doing when things are a little slow, is going around to the people that I haven't heard from lately, and just seeing if they are having any computer problems that they havn't bothered me with, general conversation too. I call in on the directors as well so they know that I'm about.
Though I thought of a few extras:
the planet killing beam that The Lexx has - and it looks cool too. And most males cannot forget the beam that alters Zev Bellringer.
The Wave Motion Gun from Star Blazers.
The Bat Signal.
I see your schwartz is as big as mine. Well not really a beam, but good none-the-less.
If we assume that 1% of them actually do harbor intelligent life (and that figure is probably way too high), that leaves us with 130 million stars, spread out over 11 billion cubic lightyears. Since we have an even distribution of stars, that means intelligent life will happen once every 85 million light years.
Plugging your figures in google calc I get 1 civ every 85 cubic light years. You lost some digits in your calcs, and didn't convert down as was cubic light years not a direction.
This is the query that I sent.
what is (11 billion cubic lightyears) divided by 130 million) in cubic lightyears.
Also the actual arms contain nearly all of the stars there are large portions of really empty space even within your small guestimate of volume.
I just wish Outlook did better full-text indexing so searches were faster.
Don't need that now with Google's Desktop Search, plus has the side bonus of searching docs too.
To start with I've had cataracts all my life, and my vision is about as bad as most people would ever have to experience. I don't need glasses for everything, but just to drive as they help with distance.
My ophthalmologist told me when I asked about the suitability of working with computers for someone with poor vision - that generally they are only highlighting problems there already (but undiagnosed), and not generating new problems. People's vision will change as they get older.
Personally, I've never had any problems with quality CRT monitors of any size or type. I need to be about a foot away from the monitor to see it clearly, my favourite is a 17' CRT, as the larger ones I have to move my head around to see it all. I've a 17' LCD at work and if you're only 12-18 inches from the screen, then there is a definite perceived difference in the brightness of the image for me, whereas a CRT image at that distance is smooth.
Fortunatly, none of my jobs have been ones where I have to sit in front of a screen for hours on end - generally they are support roles I can get up and go visit the person at their desk; which gets the bones moving, eyes focussed on different things, and I can also talk with other people too. I would prefer to see and talk to people rather than do everything remotely or via the phone.
And you never know, one day those social skills could really help me in life.
Speaking about classes that we remember.
I did a Systems Development type class, where the whole class was split into groups but each was working on the same type of project.
At regular times when we submitted when we had and where we were up to with the lecturer.
We were then given another group's project to take over from instead of our own.
That really brought home about how well we should be documntating the work.
We can be replaced, but we can also be called in to replace someone else too.
I hope that he's patented that, could be worth a pretty penny if that works out.
Was that the ones that a Doctor Who episode from many moons ago was set around? From memory there were stones in a vague circular arrangment amongst buildings.
I could also be wrong as this was a looong time ago.