I took Calc in HS and found it really helped for about the first 1/2 of Calc I at Uni. After that I was just as lost as the rest of my pre-Engineering and Science buddies in the class. But it did help.
Too bad I hadn't taken PreCalc and Trig for over a year when I came into Uni (and didn't think to review)--I messed up the math entrance exam (which was all Algebra, Trig, w/ some PreCalc) and wallowed in PreCalc my first semester.
>>Carbureuted cars were notorious for failing to start in the winter. 25 years ago, _no one_ started their car in winter and attempted to drive off without first letting the engine warm up - most would stall. While it was possible to tune a carbureuted car for winter starts, doing so resulted in the engine running a little richer than it should, and it had to be done every season.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but isn't that what the choke does? I had a manual choke on my Triumph. I could adjust the amount of choke I needed when I drove it in the winter (yes, in CT. Brrrrr). I always let it warm up a little, but I could zoom off and slowly push the choke cable in as the car got up to temp.
When I was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we had a couple streets that lead to and from downtown. The speed limit was 30 (I think) and if you went 30, you had a green light all the way. If you went over 30, you were likely to get a red at least once.
Oh and there were signs telling drivers this.
It worked great. No one ever sped on those roads. Now the other roads...
>>If recounting is needed because of a dispute, accounting facilities and storage can be hijacked or burnt to ground (it's happened a few times).
What is sad is thes same thing has also happened here in the USA. A few elections ago, several ballot boxes were found floating in the San Francisco Bay.
Just google it! All this information at your fingertips and you rely on your memory for a quote... oh wait. Wasn't that sort of the parent post's point?
Oh well, here is what I found googling on [451 Bradbury digest]:
Beatty goes on to describe how literature was progressively condensed, boiled down, eviscerated to satisfy people able to sit still and concentrate for shorter and shorter periods:
"Speed up the film, Montag, quick.... Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man's mind about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"
>>that kind of difference in the cost of living survives,
Same way I survived on 15K a year living in New Mexico, going from archaeology contract job to contract job. $300 a month apartment, maybe $200-300 a month food, $300 a month gas & car upkeep, and I could still save a little. If it wasn't for my debt burden from school, I would still be doing that. And maybe be able to buy a house right now.
You cut out all the extraneous shit, get rid of your debt, live in a place that costs little money for the basics, and you survive.
But you have to be able to live in the low cost of living places--you need to be creative to keep your sanity (at times) because there often ain't a whole lot to do there.
>>having a mechanical engineering degree sure isn't going to HURT you if you're a professional race car driver.
I absolutely agree.
I guess I interpreted the article to mean you had to have low-level, close to the metal knowledge of race cars--as in how to build them before you could race, like being able to build a spreadsheet program with Assembly, as opposed to using Excel as a 'power user'. Probably not the intention on re-reading it.
I too race cars, not professionally. I also work on my own cars, though I have never had to build a carburetor from a drafting table or CAD program (which is what you seem to be suggesting I need to do before I can race cars. Or work on them). I can, however, make the carburetor run well on a road course at different elevations and with different environmental conditions.
There is very little reason for a professional to know HOW a carburetor works or is built, just that the car is running lean or rich. You don't have to know the physics behind it to understand that the car is running lean. A simple 02 meter on the exhaust header will help a lot with that diagnosis.
What you describe about the pro knowing a lot is probably correct, but the question becomes whether they learned that by talking to the engineers and having them explain it over the course of numerous seasons or they learned if before they ever got on a race course. Talking with kids who go karting and can outrace me on the same course, my guess is they learn this through exposure.
I can guarantee you that Juan Pablo Montoya does not know the details of how to build the carbon fiber tub he sit in, but yes he probably does know that the car seems to have a bit too much lift going into the braking zone for turn 4 or that the toe should be moved out 0.5 degrees. But the reams of telemetry modern F1 cars give to the engineers tells them a lot more than any driver can. The same is true of ALMS. NASCAR, I don't know as I don't follow it, but my guess is they rely on a lot of data for tuning.
>>Ironically, they have also made me a much better driver as I am intimately aware of the workings and how to tune my car's EFI system than most may be.
They make you a better driver or a better car tuner? They are not the same thing. If you are tuning your efi WHILE you are driving, I'd like to see you get around a track without punching a hole in the wall. Driving is being able to hit your apexes, know your braking zones, set up your racing line, and get yourself around the track in less time than the rest of the field. Tuning is getting your car into peak performance so that the driver can concentrate on driving.
At our level of racing, driver and tuner are the same.
At a professional level they are separate, specialized professions.
>>To be a programmer without ever learning assembly language is like being a professional race car driver without understanding how your carburetor works.
A race car driver is a high-level user of the car (more akin to a financial analyst using Excel). Why would a high-level user care about HOW the carburetor works? All he has to tell the pit crew is how the car is behaving. A professional race car driver's job is to drive the car faster than the guy or gal next to him. End of story.
Now the mechanic or race car engineer is a different story...
Very insightful. Wish I had some mod points to give you.
Your whole generalist/specialist is analagous to what Darwin and others were talking about with Natural Selection, just applied to a short time scale, and an economy.
The more specialized a species becomes, the more likely they are to be succesful until the environment changes. Then they are screwed because they can't change fast enough. This environment change is usually characterized in the fossil record by massive extinctions.
I think we are going to see one of those real soon. Time to switch careers again...
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Yeah its not like New Mexico is a state between Texas and Arizona.
Dumbass.
Ah, Cadiz. What a cool photo.
Yeah I guess so. I would think of measuring the pylons as being the 'tallest' bridge, but maybe it was a translation problem?
Sorry but last I checked the Royal Gorge Bridge (in Colorado, USA) is still higher. Built in 1929 too.
1053 feet. Roughly 320.95 meters. Or 50 meters higher.
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Tully's is good. Illy is the best I've had here in the US.
I took Calc in HS and found it really helped for about the first 1/2 of Calc I at Uni. After that I was just as lost as the rest of my pre-Engineering and Science buddies in the class. But it did help.
Too bad I hadn't taken PreCalc and Trig for over a year when I came into Uni (and didn't think to review)--I messed up the math entrance exam (which was all Algebra, Trig, w/ some PreCalc) and wallowed in PreCalc my first semester.
>>I don't know if Sun is violating the letter of the GPL, but it sounds like they might be violating the spirit.
next on PJones radio: "Smells Like Linuxy Spirit"
>>Carbureuted cars were notorious for failing to start in the winter. 25 years ago, _no one_ started their car in winter and attempted to drive off without first letting the engine warm up - most would stall. While it was possible to tune a carbureuted car for winter starts, doing so resulted in the engine running a little richer than it should, and it had to be done every season.
Sorry if this is a silly question, but isn't that what the choke does? I had a manual choke on my Triumph. I could adjust the amount of choke I needed when I drove it in the winter (yes, in CT. Brrrrr). I always let it warm up a little, but I could zoom off and slowly push the choke cable in as the car got up to temp.
No kidding! I'll have to check that out. I've never actually even been our library (sadly).
Do you also have synchronized lights?
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When I was living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we had a couple streets that lead to and from downtown. The speed limit was 30 (I think) and if you went 30, you had a green light all the way. If you went over 30, you were likely to get a red at least once.
Oh and there were signs telling drivers this.
It worked great. No one ever sped on those roads. Now the other roads
Whoops, maybe it is just the lids. I thought they had the whole box in that art work.
Who knows. The story sounds fishy (why are they washing election boxes at a pier? Why would they let them get washed out?).
So if they just found the lids (I know which ones you mean), how come they have a complete election box in their art work in the link I provided?
Oh come on moderators! This is a "Snatch" reference.
It's actually kinda funny.
>>Large numbers of ballots and ballot boxes going missing would throw serious red flags
Really? It doesn't raise too many eyebrows in San Francisco.
>>If recounting is needed because of a dispute, accounting facilities and storage can be hijacked or burnt to ground (it's happened a few times).
What is sad is thes same thing has also happened here in the USA. A few elections ago, several ballot boxes were found floating in the San Francisco Bay.
Just google it! All this information at your fingertips and you rely on your memory for a quote ... oh wait. Wasn't that sort of the parent post's point?
Oh well, here is what I found googling on [451 Bradbury digest]:
Beatty goes on to describe how literature was progressively condensed, boiled down, eviscerated to satisfy people able to sit still and concentrate for shorter and shorter periods:
"Speed up the film, Montag, quick.... Digest-digests, digest-digest-digests. Politics? One column, two sentences, a headline! Then, in mid-air, all vanishes! Whirl man's mind about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!"
from http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/dtw_451.htm
>>that kind of difference in the cost of living survives,
Same way I survived on 15K a year living in New Mexico, going from archaeology contract job to contract job. $300 a month apartment, maybe $200-300 a month food, $300 a month gas & car upkeep, and I could still save a little. If it wasn't for my debt burden from school, I would still be doing that. And maybe be able to buy a house right now.
You cut out all the extraneous shit, get rid of your debt, live in a place that costs little money for the basics, and you survive.
But you have to be able to live in the low cost of living places--you need to be creative to keep your sanity (at times) because there often ain't a whole lot to do there.
>>Now I would like to see you jot down a note on your PDA while you're talking on your phone. Oh, you can't ? Thought not.
You mean you take your hand off the wheel while driving?
I still prefer Camino to Safari because the brushed metal look is crap, IMO.
That and I don't like Safari's implementation of Tabs. Closing a tab loses me browser window real estate in Safari, but not in Camino.
Haven't bothered to try Firefox on OS X yet. Will probably try it out on my debian box.
>>having a mechanical engineering degree sure isn't going to HURT you if you're a professional race car driver.
I absolutely agree.
I guess I interpreted the article to mean you had to have low-level, close to the metal knowledge of race cars--as in how to build them before you could race, like being able to build a spreadsheet program with Assembly, as opposed to using Excel as a 'power user'. Probably not the intention on re-reading it.
I too race cars, not professionally. I also work on my own cars, though I have never had to build a carburetor from a drafting table or CAD program (which is what you seem to be suggesting I need to do before I can race cars. Or work on them). I can, however, make the carburetor run well on a road course at different elevations and with different environmental conditions.
There is very little reason for a professional to know HOW a carburetor works or is built, just that the car is running lean or rich. You don't have to know the physics behind it to understand that the car is running lean. A simple 02 meter on the exhaust header will help a lot with that diagnosis.
What you describe about the pro knowing a lot is probably correct, but the question becomes whether they learned that by talking to the engineers and having them explain it over the course of numerous seasons or they learned if before they ever got on a race course. Talking with kids who go karting and can outrace me on the same course, my guess is they learn this through exposure.
I can guarantee you that Juan Pablo Montoya does not know the details of how to build the carbon fiber tub he sit in, but yes he probably does know that the car seems to have a bit too much lift going into the braking zone for turn 4 or that the toe should be moved out 0.5 degrees. But the reams of telemetry modern F1 cars give to the engineers tells them a lot more than any driver can. The same is true of ALMS. NASCAR, I don't know as I don't follow it, but my guess is they rely on a lot of data for tuning.
>>Ironically, they have also made me a much better driver as I am intimately aware of the workings and how to tune my car's EFI system than most may be.
They make you a better driver or a better car tuner? They are not the same thing. If you are tuning your efi WHILE you are driving, I'd like to see you get around a track without punching a hole in the wall. Driving is being able to hit your apexes, know your braking zones, set up your racing line, and get yourself around the track in less time than the rest of the field. Tuning is getting your car into peak performance so that the driver can concentrate on driving.
At our level of racing, driver and tuner are the same.
At a professional level they are separate, specialized professions.
This is a high ID.
Its like gym class over again, except this time I'm gettin the wedgie.
Damn geek bullies.
From the website
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>>To be a programmer without ever learning assembly language is like being a professional race car driver without understanding how your carburetor works.
A race car driver is a high-level user of the car (more akin to a financial analyst using Excel). Why would a high-level user care about HOW the carburetor works? All he has to tell the pit crew is how the car is behaving. A professional race car driver's job is to drive the car faster than the guy or gal next to him. End of story.
Now the mechanic or race car engineer is a different story
Very insightful. Wish I had some mod points to give you.
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Your whole generalist/specialist is analagous to what Darwin and others were talking about with Natural Selection, just applied to a short time scale, and an economy.
The more specialized a species becomes, the more likely they are to be succesful until the environment changes. Then they are screwed because they can't change fast enough. This environment change is usually characterized in the fossil record by massive extinctions.
I think we are going to see one of those real soon. Time to switch careers again
Well since none of those people live anywhere near SF, I'd have to say no. Placerville is out by Sacramento, and the others are in SoCal.