I don't know what speed they lay it here but it's quite the automated setup. Looks like a giant chainsaw sticking into the ground at an angle. Big reel of this orange PVC tubing, and small reel of the red streamer. It just slowly goes across the land laying and burying the cable as it moves.
There's another group out here running more pedestrian cable with cooler toys. They park the truck where they want one end. Then you see a guy with what looks like a big remote control slowly walking away from the truck, looking at the device and fiddling with it. 3-5ft below him is the head of the drill. He controls the speed and the depth. If he's approaching a known like a sewer pipe, he can direct it up or down, or to go under say a street or get more clearance on something. When he gets where he's going, it's directed up and breaks surface. No digging required, and much less likely to damage something, he'd have to hit it dead on.
If you want to remove the willies from that memory, just consider the other possible conversation... When arriving at the daycare center, to be told "Your husband picked her up about an hour ago." (and your husband's not even off work yet)
As if the driver, when he/she got to the end of the route, wouldn't have noticed "hey, I've made all my stops and there is STILL a child on the bus. Perhaps I should do something about it".
FWIW, all bus drivers have something they must do at the end of their shift. When they get back to the barn, they are required to walk up and down the entire bus to check for "left-overs". Sometimes it's a kid in the back seat that fell asleep, or a kid that was promised a beating when he got back from school etc.
It's almost unheard of for a kid to for example, spend the night in a bus barn.
Kids don't often learn responsibility if there isn't a combination of a carrot and a stick (I'm not suggesting beating your child with a stick mind you).
For the important stuff they also do a lot more to protect it.
For example, fiber backbones around here are quite the setup. They bury the cable itself at least 4 ft down. It's an armored cable that is designed to be completely undamaged by being run over by a caterpillar on asphalt and nearly impossible to break by stretching. (kevlar cord backbone, PVC spar with six fiber tubes, corrugated steel armor, antivarmint/self-sealing resin, and 1/8" very tough PVC jacket). One foot above that they bury a wide red streamer that's very elastic and hard to cut. If your backhoe gets to that first it's really hard to miss because you'll stretch it out of the ground like a rubber band. And all the dirt they use to fill in the trench is stained red. I don't know how effective the red stain ends up being, but it may be something that a backhoe operator would be much more likely to notice during his work than you or I.
somehow this whole idea of "secret fiber" reminds me of "secret laws", things you can do that will get you arrested that aren't on the open books.
I think in this case they just come out and quickly fix it themselves and tell you not to talk about it, they don't hold you liable or monetarily responsible.
Many cities in the USA have the same thing, a single number you can call, but it usually results in someone coming out to the land with a flag planter. They use different colors for various services - blue for water, yellow for gas, red for electric, and white for other things such as phone, cable tv, and fiber, so even if they came out and marked their secret line with the rest, you'd have no way of distinguishing it from say a buried telephone trunk without actually digging it up.
Part of the problem is they are moving lines. In this case half of the job was digging for construction and the other half was digging up and moving known utilities out of the way of the construction. So if you show them where your "gas lines" are at, they are likely to try to move some of them to get them out of their way. And then they are statistically a lot more likely to be discovered for what they are than if they just don't tell you and hope you don't try to move a line on top of one of theirs or dig a tunnel through it.
Actually I loved it so much (my 16) that I just replaced it with a new 32gb. Syncing that works, doesn't breed duplicate records in my addressbook constantly, contact pictures, can access my notes via www on any computer, can play my music and view my photos, free ssh and vnc clients, it just goes on and on, heck I don't even use 1/2 of the features and it just blows palmos out of the water at every single turn.
Not to mention the stylus targeting on my T2 has been shifted 1/4" up for the last year and nobody has a fix. (it refused to recalibrate)
Perhaps the biggest fear I have with palmos is when someone approaches me and asks for help with their palm. The usual story is it just stopped syncing a year ago for no reason. (this means their palm has a ton of new information entered on it that does not exist on their computer) Of course to help with this courts disaster because sometimes it will sync from palm to computer, sometimes it will sync from computer to palm, deleting whatever's there, and sometimes it will just resync everything and things start doubling. Or occasionally it will nuke an entire thing, on the palm AND the computer. The inability to back up anything on the PP before trying to fix the syncing makes my stomach turn. "OK, we get ONE shot at this. if it goes bad, you're going to lose everything on the palm. All we can do is back up your computer and restore the data if the palm nukes it all." What do you say to that?
They were on the verge because PalmOS is crap and Palm Desktop is steaming crap, and they both look rosey compared to palm's technical support.
I just threw away my T2 and got a touch, and love it. From repeated bad experiences of my own and almost everyone I know with palm, I hope apple reams them good, give them a twist for me while you're at it.
"We're sorry you're not authorized to play DVDs from this region code. Your region code is currently set to 'extraterrestrial' and cannot be changed again."
Too bad with the shuttle going up and down all the time they ran out of region code changes...
If the predecessor does write the passwords down, he deserves to be fired.
You can't always take it for granted. I've been on the cleanup-end more than once. Sometimes it's "engineered job security"/"they don't dare fire me", sometimes it's "I don't have time for that", sometimes it's just plain forgetting about a piece of hardware you set up the first week you started work there, and sometimes it's a legacy password issue. ("nobody's been able to login to that box since Phil left in '05") The rare treat is finding a mystery box that nobody knows what it does nor has any idea how to login to it. Too many managers don't understand the danger and consider it a waste of time or a bad risk to try to fix problems like that.
Sometimes it's an uphill battle when taking over, too. You want to document the settings on all the routers, but two of them are "legacy" password issues, and the router only supports hard reset (clears password, AND all settings) so you can't get the settings from it once you reset it, and you need the settings from it in case it gets reset. That's never fun, but you will find yourself in that catch-22 occasionally, and it's hard to blame someone for not fixing it because it's utterly unpleasant to deal with. (hint: get another router and program it how you think the mystery box is set up. swap. test. immediately swap the mystery back in. adjust the settings on the new one and test. Swap back out. repeat until you get it right, and don't reset the mystery immediately, keep it onhand for at least a month in case some uncommon thing requires a setting you haven't yet discovered)
Occasionally you can get lucky - contact the hardware vendor and see if the box has an undocumented soft reset. ("open it up and short together the two pads left of D-15, and you can login for 5 minutes with no password")
VB6 had a broken val() that returned the wrong values for ASCII characters in the range 160 through 184 (I think),, butthere wasn't realalyy n conssitent pattern. MSDN and the Microsoft KB gavee th official workaround: write your own val()
Because you can't sell bug fixes, only new features!!
I am SO TIRED of dealing with that reality. I just downloaded a new demo of a compiler I stopped using four years ago because they refused to fix bugs and instead just kept adding features. Amazed, several of the bugs I remembered were still present. (with a few new ones to boot!)
Anesthetics like that are continuously applied in a small dosage, which is why they have the equipment monitoring the patient during anesthetic, to make sure they're delivering the right amount and to make adjustments to the flow in response to too much or too little response.
So no, they can't remove the snorkel after the patient is out. Imagine waking up in the middle of having your appendix removed...
Though this will likely be applied through a nasal tube.
in general if you want to store more energy in a smaller space with less weight, it is inevitably going to be more volatile.
I don't know if "volatile" is the word I'd use. Assuming nothing goes wrong with the manufacturing process, one battery would be very much like the next regardless of density. The problem is that when you want to jack up the density, it means the sizes get smaller, and therefore your tolerances become more important This means your manufacturing process has to improve its tolerances, or your failure rate is going to go up.
"Volatile" makes it sound like any such battery is just an accident waiting to happen. I think it's more a case of it being a crapshoot whether a given battery is going to last a week or a year, or be able to survive being dropped five times, or not, depending on where the tolerances landed, determined at birth. "lower consistency in quality" seems to sum it up better.
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But you could take your five years off, AND find work somewhere else, and it's like free money. Work once, paid twice. (well, 1.3x)
I don't know what speed they lay it here but it's quite the automated setup. Looks like a giant chainsaw sticking into the ground at an angle. Big reel of this orange PVC tubing, and small reel of the red streamer. It just slowly goes across the land laying and burying the cable as it moves.
There's another group out here running more pedestrian cable with cooler toys. They park the truck where they want one end. Then you see a guy with what looks like a big remote control slowly walking away from the truck, looking at the device and fiddling with it. 3-5ft below him is the head of the drill. He controls the speed and the depth. If he's approaching a known like a sewer pipe, he can direct it up or down, or to go under say a street or get more clearance on something. When he gets where he's going, it's directed up and breaks surface. No digging required, and much less likely to damage something, he'd have to hit it dead on.
yes I know we all hate these, but this time it's worth it
In Soviet Russia, Monkey Island returns to YOU!
(I can't find a proper link, but there was a VERY old release called "Return To Monkey Island", for the Apple II etc)
At which point I nearly freaked out.
If you want to remove the willies from that memory, just consider the other possible conversation... When arriving at the daycare center, to be told "Your husband picked her up about an hour ago." (and your husband's not even off work yet)
As if the driver, when he/she got to the end of the route, wouldn't have noticed "hey, I've made all my stops and there is STILL a child on the bus. Perhaps I should do something about it".
FWIW, all bus drivers have something they must do at the end of their shift. When they get back to the barn, they are required to walk up and down the entire bus to check for "left-overs". Sometimes it's a kid in the back seat that fell asleep, or a kid that was promised a beating when he got back from school etc.
It's almost unheard of for a kid to for example, spend the night in a bus barn.
Kids don't often learn responsibility if there isn't a combination of a carrot and a stick (I'm not suggesting beating your child with a stick mind you).
But can we at least beat them with the carrot ?
For the important stuff they also do a lot more to protect it.
For example, fiber backbones around here are quite the setup. They bury the cable itself at least 4 ft down. It's an armored cable that is designed to be completely undamaged by being run over by a caterpillar on asphalt and nearly impossible to break by stretching. (kevlar cord backbone, PVC spar with six fiber tubes, corrugated steel armor, antivarmint/self-sealing resin, and 1/8" very tough PVC jacket). One foot above that they bury a wide red streamer that's very elastic and hard to cut. If your backhoe gets to that first it's really hard to miss because you'll stretch it out of the ground like a rubber band. And all the dirt they use to fill in the trench is stained red. I don't know how effective the red stain ends up being, but it may be something that a backhoe operator would be much more likely to notice during his work than you or I.
somehow this whole idea of "secret fiber" reminds me of "secret laws", things you can do that will get you arrested that aren't on the open books.
I think in this case they just come out and quickly fix it themselves and tell you not to talk about it, they don't hold you liable or monetarily responsible.
Many cities in the USA have the same thing, a single number you can call, but it usually results in someone coming out to the land with a flag planter. They use different colors for various services - blue for water, yellow for gas, red for electric, and white for other things such as phone, cable tv, and fiber, so even if they came out and marked their secret line with the rest, you'd have no way of distinguishing it from say a buried telephone trunk without actually digging it up.
ego, of believing they are above the law
Where have YOU been lately? They are above the law.
just put the fiber in a 4" gas line
I'd be willing to bet that's been done before.
Part of the problem is they are moving lines. In this case half of the job was digging for construction and the other half was digging up and moving known utilities out of the way of the construction. So if you show them where your "gas lines" are at, they are likely to try to move some of them to get them out of their way. And then they are statistically a lot more likely to be discovered for what they are than if they just don't tell you and hope you don't try to move a line on top of one of theirs or dig a tunnel through it.
I am sure you are loving it.
Actually I loved it so much (my 16) that I just replaced it with a new 32gb. Syncing that works, doesn't breed duplicate records in my addressbook constantly, contact pictures, can access my notes via www on any computer, can play my music and view my photos, free ssh and vnc clients, it just goes on and on, heck I don't even use 1/2 of the features and it just blows palmos out of the water at every single turn.
Not to mention the stylus targeting on my T2 has been shifted 1/4" up for the last year and nobody has a fix. (it refused to recalibrate)
Perhaps the biggest fear I have with palmos is when someone approaches me and asks for help with their palm. The usual story is it just stopped syncing a year ago for no reason. (this means their palm has a ton of new information entered on it that does not exist on their computer) Of course to help with this courts disaster because sometimes it will sync from palm to computer, sometimes it will sync from computer to palm, deleting whatever's there, and sometimes it will just resync everything and things start doubling. Or occasionally it will nuke an entire thing, on the palm AND the computer. The inability to back up anything on the PP before trying to fix the syncing makes my stomach turn. "OK, we get ONE shot at this. if it goes bad, you're going to lose everything on the palm. All we can do is back up your computer and restore the data if the palm nukes it all." What do you say to that?
One possibility being that rampant paper-ballot-stuffing was curtailed and that the vote count now is closer to real?
They were on the verge because PalmOS is crap and Palm Desktop is steaming crap, and they both look rosey compared to palm's technical support.
I just threw away my T2 and got a touch, and love it. From repeated bad experiences of my own and almost everyone I know with palm, I hope apple reams them good, give them a twist for me while you're at it.
Too little, too late, palm.
"We're sorry you're not authorized to play DVDs from this region code. Your region code is currently set to 'extraterrestrial' and cannot be changed again."
Too bad with the shuttle going up and down all the time they ran out of region code changes...
If the predecessor does write the passwords down, he deserves to be fired.
You can't always take it for granted. I've been on the cleanup-end more than once. Sometimes it's "engineered job security"/"they don't dare fire me", sometimes it's "I don't have time for that", sometimes it's just plain forgetting about a piece of hardware you set up the first week you started work there, and sometimes it's a legacy password issue. ("nobody's been able to login to that box since Phil left in '05") The rare treat is finding a mystery box that nobody knows what it does nor has any idea how to login to it. Too many managers don't understand the danger and consider it a waste of time or a bad risk to try to fix problems like that.
Sometimes it's an uphill battle when taking over, too. You want to document the settings on all the routers, but two of them are "legacy" password issues, and the router only supports hard reset (clears password, AND all settings) so you can't get the settings from it once you reset it, and you need the settings from it in case it gets reset. That's never fun, but you will find yourself in that catch-22 occasionally, and it's hard to blame someone for not fixing it because it's utterly unpleasant to deal with. (hint: get another router and program it how you think the mystery box is set up. swap. test. immediately swap the mystery back in. adjust the settings on the new one and test. Swap back out. repeat until you get it right, and don't reset the mystery immediately, keep it onhand for at least a month in case some uncommon thing requires a setting you haven't yet discovered)
Occasionally you can get lucky - contact the hardware vendor and see if the box has an undocumented soft reset. ("open it up and short together the two pads left of D-15, and you can login for 5 minutes with no password")
VB6 had a broken val() that returned the wrong values for ASCII characters in the range 160 through 184 (I think),, butthere wasn't realalyy n conssitent pattern. MSDN and the Microsoft KB gavee th official workaround: write your own val()
Well if you want something done right,
Because you can't sell bug fixes, only new features!!
I am SO TIRED of dealing with that reality. I just downloaded a new demo of a compiler I stopped using four years ago because they refused to fix bugs and instead just kept adding features. Amazed, several of the bugs I remembered were still present. (with a few new ones to boot!)
every time I watch that I laugh. That must be how you rickroll bill?
Getting closer every day
Anesthetics like that are continuously applied in a small dosage, which is why they have the equipment monitoring the patient during anesthetic, to make sure they're delivering the right amount and to make adjustments to the flow in response to too much or too little response.
So no, they can't remove the snorkel after the patient is out. Imagine waking up in the middle of having your appendix removed...
Though this will likely be applied through a nasal tube.
Sgt: We lost sir! badly!
Gen: What happened?
Sgt: We're still gathering up the details, but it looks like they hacked our network and uploaded Asimov Strain B.
in general if you want to store more energy in a smaller space with less weight, it is inevitably going to be more volatile.
I don't know if "volatile" is the word I'd use. Assuming nothing goes wrong with the manufacturing process, one battery would be very much like the next regardless of density. The problem is that when you want to jack up the density, it means the sizes get smaller, and therefore your tolerances become more important This means your manufacturing process has to improve its tolerances, or your failure rate is going to go up.
"Volatile" makes it sound like any such battery is just an accident waiting to happen. I think it's more a case of it being a crapshoot whether a given battery is going to last a week or a year, or be able to survive being dropped five times, or not, depending on where the tolerances landed, determined at birth. "lower consistency in quality" seems to sum it up better.
But does HP make its own batteries? Sony makes batteries for a lot of people, I doubt HP in-houses' their battery cells.