Oh right! (I do remember slime...:P ) But I think I also remember seeing something where they applied a liquid like "rot stopper" into the original wood, too - and in conjunction with this 2-part putty, it stopped the rot and the hardened putty was harder than the original wood.
Thanks for reminding me about that stuff. I'll have to see how it works out when the ground dries out over the next couple of months.
I agree, but I have to ask... since I am a (relatively) new home owner.
How does one learn the "tricks of the trade" without asking? I can read a million books on sill repair, but I can get a lot more information from the friends I have, and people I work with who have gone through this in the past... to realize that yeah, using the lollie columns in my basement may jack the house up and I only really need to move it up 3/8ths of an inch and repair the rotted section... but still, talking to someone who's -done- it is worth a lot, too.
I think that "thought process" or attitude is where the same technology questions come from.
Just my two cents.
(Oh and do you know how I can stop the sill rot without having to replace it? The house is 130+ years old, etc...):P
To be honest, the only reason the Japanese researchers want more robotics driving is because they all look damn hot. I think it's a Japanese thing - we have real-dolls, they have robotic women who can cook, clean, and apparently drive.:P
I mentioned no such nonsense... I was reiterating that it was shown, mathematically... and my reply stated that "omg I enjoy it when math backs up real life. btw here is the physorg link." I didn't really bitch about/. reprinting a story, or "old news" and all of that.
Frankly, I think the only reason one could do this experiment is for the excuse to drive little cars in the name of science.
So, quityerbitchin' and realize that I was backing up the experiment with math.
It's already been done here, on Slashdot - already solved by the math guys, outlined on physorg.
But really any time I can see math at work in my day-to-day commute, is a good day to me. Also, it's fun to reach out and "touch" the asshole 200 yards behind you...
That's awesome! Thanks! Right now, he's nine and still working up the typing skills... but at the same time really wanting to program. So I've made little modules for things like "Hangman" games, and printed "recipes" he can use that utilize those modules... keeping the dirty dirty work hidden, but at the same time helping him LearnCamelTyping and other great skills.
Having just started with Ruby, after Perl and Java and the usual collection of others... I must say that Ruby is a total relief. I actually have this "child like" joy with Ruby programming for simple things, complex things, and things in between. On that note, my oldest is working on his first program, in Ruby, and it's coming alone nicely...
Hopefully this will work well, and spin off some thought on breast cancer and other types. My wife had (or has depending on who you ask) breast cancer and any steps toward a cure are good steps, in my opinion.
You almost missed the point - Yes, indeed, I would much rather there be no fires and no car accidents...
However, when we (emergency personnel) go out on calls we put ourselves in danger by simply going on the call. That ladder truck isn't the easiest thing to drive, especially in the snow with tirechains on it... That was the point - if I go out and get hurt or someone I am in charge of goes out and gets hurt... I'd hate to think it was for a prank call - or really, I'd hate to think of how bad the kid making the call would feel. Should feel.
Having toyed with the telephone networks, back when it was "cool" to do when you were bored with irc... I know the difference between learning something new about the latest release of audix and making prank phone calls.
A decade later, as a volunteer fireman; looking at the weather report for tonight - forecast 10inches... I would like to think that the calls I go out on tonight are legit and not some punk kid making prank calls. Yes, my fridge is running. As a lieutenant, too, I would like to think that my men (and one manly woman) are rolling for legit reasons, too.
You're kidding, right? You do realize that "time to display in the browser" is a function of the amount of data transmitted, no? Also, I'd rather spend the cpu time, and therefore electricity, on rendering crap I want to read.
When did this site become fark? This was on _that_ page yesterday, and to top it off, did not involve an embedded flash movie.
That's two posts in one day that have those flash movies in them. One of the reasons I read/. is because there is little network traffic during the visit. I suppose that's not very true anymore, unless I go to the text only theme.
That is almost exactly how I would imagine the "perfect Union" to be. The thing in my life that is my highest priority is a paycheck - you will see me as one of those completely willing to scab if I do not agree with what the union is striking about. The point of not agreeing is that, at least in this day and age: there is no union that will help me change employers if I feel like I am being (legally) screwed over, right? So that would always be my first line of defense. I'll just leave the employer for another. If I am being illegally screwed over, the union should perform the job of "a lawyer with a lot of arms", so to speak.
I didn't say I ever refused work, I have always said, when needed, "not right now." I too work for a non profit, actually a not -for- profit. Management could shovel enough work to make me have no life outside of work, but they get honest communication from me; I tell them when I'm swamped, when I'm doing great and can take on a new project, or when they really need something - I tell them what they really "needed" yesterday is going to have to wait now.
I think communication and honesty solves any of those "workload" issues.
I don't get it. If you are exempt and feel you are being worked too much, simply: don't. I'm exempt and I tell my management "I can't work on that right now" more often than I'd like to - I treat the exempt idea as if I'm simply "contracted" so to speak, for 40 hours a week. If I work more I work more, if I work less I work less.
Maybe the IBM folks (didn't rtfa much) aren't making par with their peers in other places. That would be an issue, I suspect.
But going to hourly is only going to get them "watched" more, and to boot, it got their pay cut. Why? Probably because management is the same at IBM as it is everywhere: Exempt people are paid more than nonexempt because they are "on call" 24/7, etc.
Which is the exact reason my management here tells us that when we *are* on call, we do not get differential pay, etc. It's "built into our salary."
Indeed, it is not a basic human right, nor is it anything other than a state granted privilege. That is the good thing behind all of this, on the side of the toll roads and those wanting to make prices variable.
However, the reality is, as mentioned in an earlier reply, that I will simply take my car around back roads. I do that normally, actually. It's almost like the GPS issues we are starting to face today where your Garmin may tell you to drive through the state forest in Granville when coming from 57 in MA to Winsted, CT... however the park rangers may not want that much traffic working on the roads like that. (In my defense, I kind of wanted to drive through the forest, too.)
If this was truly applied only to cities, it would work, in my opinion. If you need to go into the city and cannot take mass transit, then pay the toll and be on with your trip. If you are going *through* NYC on the way to say DC somewhere... why not simply drive *around* the city. It'll probably be faster, anyway.
Because maybe they'll get the clue and make a weapon much like the vampire scent in his Ringworld series and people will simply start screwing everywhere they can....I'd so have one of those weapons in my basement.:P
To be honest, that's how I was exposed to shows like Northern Exposure, and other shows that were on when I was a child, but I didn't really have a chance to catch on a regular basis. (I was a kid that played outside.)
Did you re-read his post? He does not watch broadcast television; I read it as any antenna he utilizes would be a _new_ antenna. Any television his wife watches (one a day) is via Netflix.
In that case, he should stick with netflix. Hell, I am personally thinking of dumping cable, getting the cheapest high speed inter-tubes I can find and just going with that; using netflix for everything else. My wife is a Law and Order addict and I love the Simpsons. That works.
Right. They could use the lanside mac and hell, we've all seen the admin page that already knows the mac address - so we know there is API written for that side.
On the other hand, adding another PLC to simply return a code isn't a bad idea either. Like those bank websites that hand out a keyfob... there could be a rotating number on the front of the router and the PLC could be programming to recognize the same number (the number on the front is synonymous with the keyfob) and _that_ is the admin password of the hour/day, etc.
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I don't think it was a false positive, no? Wasn't it detecting exactly what it was meant to detect, on some broad spectrum; pun intended, I suppose.
I guess, the false part comes into play with the concept of explosive/dirty bombs... however, in reality, the detector detected what it was meant to.
Oh right! (I do remember slime... :P ) But I think I also remember seeing something where they applied a liquid like "rot stopper" into the original wood, too - and in conjunction with this 2-part putty, it stopped the rot and the hardened putty was harder than the original wood.
Thanks for reminding me about that stuff. I'll have to see how it works out when the ground dries out over the next couple of months.
I agree, but I have to ask... since I am a (relatively) new home owner.
:P
How does one learn the "tricks of the trade" without asking? I can read a million books on sill repair, but I can get a lot more information from the friends I have, and people I work with who have gone through this in the past... to realize that yeah, using the lollie columns in my basement may jack the house up and I only really need to move it up 3/8ths of an inch and repair the rotted section... but still, talking to someone who's -done- it is worth a lot, too.
I think that "thought process" or attitude is where the same technology questions come from.
Just my two cents.
(Oh and do you know how I can stop the sill rot without having to replace it? The house is 130+ years old, etc...)
To be honest, the only reason the Japanese researchers want more robotics driving is because they all look damn hot. I think it's a Japanese thing - we have real-dolls, they have robotic women who can cook, clean, and apparently drive. :P
I mentioned no such nonsense... I was reiterating that it was shown, mathematically... and my reply stated that "omg I enjoy it when math backs up real life. btw here is the physorg link." I didn't really bitch about /. reprinting a story, or "old news" and all of that.
Frankly, I think the only reason one could do this experiment is for the excuse to drive little cars in the name of science.
So, quityerbitchin' and realize that I was backing up the experiment with math.
It's already been done here, on Slashdot - already solved by the math guys, outlined on physorg.
But really any time I can see math at work in my day-to-day commute, is a good day to me. Also, it's fun to reach out and "touch" the asshole 200 yards behind you...
That's awesome! Thanks! Right now, he's nine and still working up the typing skills... but at the same time really wanting to program. So I've made little modules for things like "Hangman" games, and printed "recipes" he can use that utilize those modules... keeping the dirty dirty work hidden, but at the same time helping him LearnCamelTyping and other great skills.
Having just started with Ruby, after Perl and Java and the usual collection of others... I must say that Ruby is a total relief. I actually have this "child like" joy with Ruby programming for simple things, complex things, and things in between. On that note, my oldest is working on his first program, in Ruby, and it's coming alone nicely...
Hopefully this will work well, and spin off some thought on breast cancer and other types. My wife had (or has depending on who you ask) breast cancer and any steps toward a cure are good steps, in my opinion.
You almost missed the point - Yes, indeed, I would much rather there be no fires and no car accidents...
However, when we (emergency personnel) go out on calls we put ourselves in danger by simply going on the call. That ladder truck isn't the easiest thing to drive, especially in the snow with tirechains on it... That was the point - if I go out and get hurt or someone I am in charge of goes out and gets hurt... I'd hate to think it was for a prank call - or really, I'd hate to think of how bad the kid making the call would feel. Should feel.
Please mod the parent up as high as it can go.
Having toyed with the telephone networks, back when it was "cool" to do when you were bored with irc... I know the difference between learning something new about the latest release of audix and making prank phone calls.
A decade later, as a volunteer fireman; looking at the weather report for tonight - forecast 10inches... I would like to think that the calls I go out on tonight are legit and not some punk kid making prank calls. Yes, my fridge is running. As a lieutenant, too, I would like to think that my men (and one manly woman) are rolling for legit reasons, too.
You're kidding, right? You do realize that "time to display in the browser" is a function of the amount of data transmitted, no? Also, I'd rather spend the cpu time, and therefore electricity, on rendering crap I want to read.
When did this site become fark? This was on _that_ page yesterday, and to top it off, did not involve an embedded flash movie.
/. is because there is little network traffic during the visit. I suppose that's not very true anymore, unless I go to the text only theme.
That's two posts in one day that have those flash movies in them. One of the reasons I read
That is almost exactly how I would imagine the "perfect Union" to be. The thing in my life that is my highest priority is a paycheck - you will see me as one of those completely willing to scab if I do not agree with what the union is striking about. The point of not agreeing is that, at least in this day and age: there is no union that will help me change employers if I feel like I am being (legally) screwed over, right? So that would always be my first line of defense. I'll just leave the employer for another. If I am being illegally screwed over, the union should perform the job of "a lawyer with a lot of arms", so to speak.
Wow, that's awesome. The first thing I thought of was, "wow, that was a lot of rep to farm to switch from scryer to aldor."
I'm a sad sad man.
Oh yes, I agree. I've worked for places just like that, too. Never fun.
"Laws were broken."
I wish I had mod points to mod your reply up. Someone should.
I didn't say I ever refused work, I have always said, when needed, "not right now." I too work for a non profit, actually a not -for- profit. Management could shovel enough work to make me have no life outside of work, but they get honest communication from me; I tell them when I'm swamped, when I'm doing great and can take on a new project, or when they really need something - I tell them what they really "needed" yesterday is going to have to wait now.
I think communication and honesty solves any of those "workload" issues.
I don't get it. If you are exempt and feel you are being worked too much, simply: don't. I'm exempt and I tell my management "I can't work on that right now" more often than I'd like to - I treat the exempt idea as if I'm simply "contracted" so to speak, for 40 hours a week. If I work more I work more, if I work less I work less.
Maybe the IBM folks (didn't rtfa much) aren't making par with their peers in other places. That would be an issue, I suspect.
But going to hourly is only going to get them "watched" more, and to boot, it got their pay cut. Why? Probably because management is the same at IBM as it is everywhere: Exempt people are paid more than nonexempt because they are "on call" 24/7, etc.
Which is the exact reason my management here tells us that when we *are* on call, we do not get differential pay, etc. It's "built into our salary."
"I don't think that you'll see this system on roads that aren't already toll roads."
That's a good point. I don't think I can get over any of the bridges into NYC proper without paying a toll, come to think of it.
Indeed, it is not a basic human right, nor is it anything other than a state granted privilege. That is the good thing behind all of this, on the side of the toll roads and those wanting to make prices variable.
However, the reality is, as mentioned in an earlier reply, that I will simply take my car around back roads. I do that normally, actually. It's almost like the GPS issues we are starting to face today where your Garmin may tell you to drive through the state forest in Granville when coming from 57 in MA to Winsted, CT... however the park rangers may not want that much traffic working on the roads like that. (In my defense, I kind of wanted to drive through the forest, too.)
If this was truly applied only to cities, it would work, in my opinion. If you need to go into the city and cannot take mass transit, then pay the toll and be on with your trip. If you are going *through* NYC on the way to say DC somewhere... why not simply drive *around* the city. It'll probably be faster, anyway.
Because maybe they'll get the clue and make a weapon much like the vampire scent in his Ringworld series and people will simply start screwing everywhere they can. ...I'd so have one of those weapons in my basement. :P
To be honest, that's how I was exposed to shows like Northern Exposure, and other shows that were on when I was a child, but I didn't really have a chance to catch on a regular basis. (I was a kid that played outside.)
Did you re-read his post? He does not watch broadcast television; I read it as any antenna he utilizes would be a _new_ antenna. Any television his wife watches (one a day) is via Netflix.
In that case, he should stick with netflix. Hell, I am personally thinking of dumping cable, getting the cheapest high speed inter-tubes I can find and just going with that; using netflix for everything else. My wife is a Law and Order addict and I love the Simpsons. That works.
Right. They could use the lanside mac and hell, we've all seen the admin page that already knows the mac address - so we know there is API written for that side.
On the other hand, adding another PLC to simply return a code isn't a bad idea either. Like those bank websites that hand out a keyfob... there could be a rotating number on the front of the router and the PLC could be programming to recognize the same number (the number on the front is synonymous with the keyfob) and _that_ is the admin password of the hour/day, etc.