I remember seeing this concept in Popular Mechanics decades ago. The only difference is a CPU driving the cement layer vs one human doing it. br.And as others have said...this is just the walls. It is all the rest that takes the time.
Pretty sure Nome, Alaska is a city and has motor vehicles.
A city, for various definitions of 'city'. Population of Nome is ~3,500. Any traffic problems are much, much less than NYC, Chicago, LA, London, Paris, Istanbul.
I just wonder why someone would be willing to live in a place that is by all measures a risky place to establish a life. Why? When I think of the polar bear, the weather, the isolation and so on, I fail to see the reason why I would want to live there. Man is surely intriguing.
Yes we are intriguing. Other people might say the same about living in a city.
Noise level, crowding, crime, expense, risk of getting hit by a motor vehicle, etc, etc.
America (I'm addressing you as a whole).
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
Name the country that does not have homeless people. Not saying the US does not have problems (oh hells yes we do!), but there are homeless everywhere.
You could simply say that that particular district is supposed to be covered by another branch.
If pressed, we simply said "There is too much crime in that area. We've had too many robberies. Sorry." It wasn't a matter of distance, that was an area closer to the store than other places we delivered to. Simply too much risk of the driver getting robbed. Even a few specific addresses were blackballed. If I were the manager, it would be the same for an urban crackhouse, or a rural meth lab, if my guys were getting robbed. Sorry, no pizza for you. And yes, there were a few lawsuit attempts. I've never heard of a successful one.
We all know there'll be lawsuits with people complaining that Bing Maps is avoiding minority neighborhoods.
People have tried that for years with pizza delivery services. We had a large map on the wall, with several areas blocked off. If you live in that area..no pizza for you. The store simply says "We don't deliver to that neighborhood." Discrimination, racism, lawsuit ensues. If you're aware of any lawsuits that have been successful, I'd like to hear about them.
1) Average pay at my day job: $50/hr
2) Cost of hiring some other dufus to do the boring parts my day job while he slacks off from his day job: $12/hr
3) PMy net pay for wasting time on the internet instead: $38/hr. PROFIT!
1) Average pay at your day job: $50/hr
2) Cost to your boss of hiring some other dufus to do the job while he slacks off from his day job: $12/hr
3) Your boss's net expense: -$38
4) Your net pay - $0
Rule 1 don't click on URLs to unknown websites ESPECIALLY at work!:)
We have this woman at work that does that. One day, I happened to be helping her with something. She was googling around, and the second link was www.foo.bar.cn. It was kinda what she was looking for, and before I could say 'No', she clicked it. It was blocked by the proxy.
"Um...you probably don't want to go there."
'Why not?'
"It's some random site in China"
'How do you know?'
"ummm...the CN at the end = China"
'Oh, I never pay attention to that'
"Well, seeing as you're on a DoD computer and network, you might want to start paying attention to that stuff"
More than what China has done before or since? Not denigrating the Chinese efforts, but NASA hasn't exactly been sitting on their hands. How many Mars probes, Lunar orbits, or comet flybys has the Chinese space agency done?
Which one did you get him? My ex was hellbent on buying a couple of the cheapo PanDigitals for the grandkids. Tried to talk her out of it, but no dice.
Think my numbers are off by a lot? I'll be happy to read any citations you might find on the subject. But, no matter what numbers we might find, we'll just come back to the fact that in olden days, iron men in wooden ships went out to take a modest number of whales from the sea. Today, men go out in huge iron factory ships to process entire pods of whales.
Won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure that our guns could reach higher than a drone could fly.
Predators and Reapers fly at around 25k feet. Don't think your gun is going to get there accurately, if at all.
What whalers MIGHT get hold of, are some missiles. Shoulder launched SAM missiles, if they can acquire a lock on the drone.
So lets assume a smaller drone, not a Predator. Something the size of your car, at 10k feet. The typical shoulder fired SAM, Strela SA-7. Passive infrared, and with a ceiling of 2.3km (7,500 feet), you're not going to be hitting a little drone anytime soon. Especially since you don't even know its there.
2 dumbphones, on VirginMobile PAYG - $25month total. Maybe 45minutes a month use on mine.
1. We don't go out a whole lot. No need to check email or websites on the go. When we do go out, generally it is with friends, and not dicking around on the phone.
2. Cannot have phones at work. I can't even bring it into the building, lest the screeching box at the entrance rats me out.
3. She can't be on the phone at work (retail)
4. So either I'm at work with full internet access, or I'm at home with full multiscreen, multi device access. She talks a LOT on the landline phone at home
5. Short commutes - 15 minutes each way, spent driving, not checking email.
6. Dedicated GPS in the cars. 1 time fee.
For our usage patterns, smart phones with a data/text/unlimited minutes plans do not work and are far more expensive. I've run all the numbers, and even ditching the landline portion of the Verizon FiOS bundle and going cell only is way more expensive than what we have now.
Sure, but it's easy enough to fix the problem in this case. The city council just needs to pass a bylaw that the minimum time for all yellow lights be X seconds.
The problem is that the company, in many cases, takes a cut of each ticket. Not an annual flat fee to operate, but a specific percentage of each ticket (above and beyond the annual fee). So the company has direct incentive to convince the city to pull in as many tickets as possible. And of course, the city would be cutting off their own revenue stream.
Or how about that Navy surveillance plane that crash landed in China shortly after GWB was elected, and which was eventually returned to the US in pieces.
And was put back together and is still flying today.
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For a while, their SSID was "White Power-Kill Niggers". And yes, dad and eldest son are a couple of racist asshats.
I remember seeing this concept in Popular Mechanics decades ago. The only difference is a CPU driving the cement layer vs one human doing it.
br.And as others have said...this is just the walls. It is all the rest that takes the time.
Pretty sure Nome, Alaska is a city and has motor vehicles.
A city, for various definitions of 'city'.
Population of Nome is ~3,500. Any traffic problems are much, much less than NYC, Chicago, LA, London, Paris, Istanbul.
I just wonder why someone would be willing to live in a place that is by all measures a risky place to establish a life. Why? When I think of the polar bear, the weather, the isolation and so on, I fail to see the reason why I would want to live there. Man is surely intriguing.
Yes we are intriguing. Other people might say the same about living in a city.
Noise level, crowding, crime, expense, risk of getting hit by a motor vehicle, etc, etc.
To each his own.
America (I'm addressing you as a whole).
How is it that you allow young people, let alone whole families, to be homeless, to live in "shelters".
Name the country that does not have homeless people. Not saying the US does not have problems (oh hells yes we do!), but there are homeless everywhere.
You could simply say that that particular district is supposed to be covered by another branch.
If pressed, we simply said "There is too much crime in that area. We've had too many robberies. Sorry." It wasn't a matter of distance, that was an area closer to the store than other places we delivered to. Simply too much risk of the driver getting robbed. Even a few specific addresses were blackballed. If I were the manager, it would be the same for an urban crackhouse, or a rural meth lab, if my guys were getting robbed. Sorry, no pizza for you.
And yes, there were a few lawsuit attempts. I've never heard of a successful one.
We all know there'll be lawsuits with people complaining that Bing Maps is avoiding minority neighborhoods.
People have tried that for years with pizza delivery services. We had a large map on the wall, with several areas blocked off. If you live in that area..no pizza for you. The store simply says "We don't deliver to that neighborhood." Discrimination, racism, lawsuit ensues.
If you're aware of any lawsuits that have been successful, I'd like to hear about them.
Said test should include, as the first question: Does this person top post? ( or in current parlance, Subject-comment)
If yes, fail and eject from the room.
Government auction? That's a lot of computer bits...
Start here
i'm sure the 113 DOD sites are not relocating to illinois.
By coincidence, guess where a major USAF data center is...Scott AFB
1) Average pay at my day job: $50/hr
2) Cost of hiring some other dufus to do the boring parts my day job while he slacks off from his day job: $12/hr
3) PMy net pay for wasting time on the internet instead: $38/hr. PROFIT!
1) Average pay at your day job: $50/hr
2) Cost to your boss of hiring some other dufus to do the job while he slacks off from his day job: $12/hr
3) Your boss's net expense: -$38
4) Your net pay - $0
"If you had an extra three hours today, how many things could you do?"
What, did they change celestial mechanics and the day is now 27 hours?
Rule 1 don't click on URLs to unknown websites ESPECIALLY at work! :)
We have this woman at work that does that. One day, I happened to be helping her with something. She was googling around, and the second link was www.foo.bar.cn. It was kinda what she was looking for, and before I could say 'No', she clicked it. It was blocked by the proxy.
"Um...you probably don't want to go there."
'Why not?'
"It's some random site in China"
'How do you know?'
"ummm...the CN at the end = China"
'Oh, I never pay attention to that'
"Well, seeing as you're on a DoD computer and network, you might want to start paying attention to that stuff"
However, what all has NASA done since then? :)
More than what China has done before or since? Not denigrating the Chinese efforts, but NASA hasn't exactly been sitting on their hands. How many Mars probes, Lunar orbits, or comet flybys has the Chinese space agency done?
Based upon my Christmas mistake
Which one did you get him? My ex was hellbent on buying a couple of the cheapo PanDigitals for the grandkids. Tried to talk her out of it, but no dice.
Think my numbers are off by a lot? I'll be happy to read any citations you might find on the subject. But, no matter what numbers we might find, we'll just come back to the fact that in olden days, iron men in wooden ships went out to take a modest number of whales from the sea. Today, men go out in huge iron factory ships to process entire pods of whales.
By 1500 most of the desirable whales in the Bay of Biscay were gone. The large sailing ships ventured further and further away – as far as Newfoundland.
However, by the early 1600 and 1700s commercial merchant ship owners realized the profits of the whaling trade and a shift began toward large scale whaling by companies.
1500-1800, Europeans (Dutch, English, Basques, etc) were actively fishing the Atlantic, and not just single ships, but fleets of a couple dozen or more.
We have been doing this for a long, long time.
Won't swear to it, but I'm pretty sure that our guns could reach higher than a drone could fly.
Predators and Reapers fly at around 25k feet. Don't think your gun is going to get there accurately, if at all.
What whalers MIGHT get hold of, are some missiles. Shoulder launched SAM missiles, if they can acquire a lock on the drone.
So lets assume a smaller drone, not a Predator. Something the size of your car, at 10k feet. The typical shoulder fired SAM, Strela SA-7. Passive infrared, and with a ceiling of 2.3km (7,500 feet), you're not going to be hitting a little drone anytime soon. Especially since you don't even know its there.
Customers tend to stick with a single domain registrar for decades,
It hasn't been that long since there were multiple places to register a domain.
2 dumbphones, on VirginMobile PAYG - $25month total. Maybe 45minutes a month use on mine.
1. We don't go out a whole lot. No need to check email or websites on the go. When we do go out, generally it is with friends, and not dicking around on the phone.
2. Cannot have phones at work. I can't even bring it into the building, lest the screeching box at the entrance rats me out.
3. She can't be on the phone at work (retail)
4. So either I'm at work with full internet access, or I'm at home with full multiscreen, multi device access. She talks a LOT on the landline phone at home
5. Short commutes - 15 minutes each way, spent driving, not checking email.
6. Dedicated GPS in the cars. 1 time fee.
For our usage patterns, smart phones with a data/text/unlimited minutes plans do not work and are far more expensive. I've run all the numbers, and even ditching the landline portion of the Verizon FiOS bundle and going cell only is way more expensive than what we have now.
YMMV
Sure, but it's easy enough to fix the problem in this case. The city council just needs to pass a bylaw that the minimum time for all yellow lights be X seconds.
The problem is that the company, in many cases, takes a cut of each ticket. Not an annual flat fee to operate, but a specific percentage of each ticket (above and beyond the annual fee). So the company has direct incentive to convince the city to pull in as many tickets as possible.
And of course, the city would be cutting off their own revenue stream.
Or how about that Navy surveillance plane that crash landed in China shortly after GWB was elected, and which was eventually returned to the US in pieces.
And was put back together and is still flying today.
It could of been worse. He could of been forced to watch the movie repeatedly through his 1 year sentence; thankfully the 8th amendment prevents that.
Similarly, he could have been forced to read your tortured sentence structure repeatedly.
No, IT policy is often both foolish and stupid
And often, it is not. Sounds like you have idiot IT managers and practitioners.
They're spies, aka liars, thieves and criminals.
Yes, but they are our liars, thieves and criminals. As opposed to the other guys liars, thieves and criminals.
In my experience, the magnets on toys (such as magnetix) are only a swallowing hazard when the toy is broken.
Kids often use unbreakable toys to break other toys.