When it touches down, the plane needs to abruptly swivel so the nose is pointed down the runway, as now it is being directed by wheels rather than wind.
Unless it's a B-52.;-) Your point is still valid, of course.
And the elitism and derision aimed towards "idiot end users" betrays a lack of understanding that, while they may not have amazing computer skills, they still have needs to be met and their money is just as good as ours. And there are a LOT more of them than us computer geeks. You can't expect an overwhelming acceptance of your efforts by the general public when you constantly make it clear you have nothing but contempt for them and actively resist efforts to accommodate them because they're "too stupid to use computers". Computers are tools and a means to an end, not an end unto themselves, and far too many in the tech community obviously do not have a handle on that concept.
You can get full auto, but requires a lot more paperwork. It's reasonable.
Reasonable except for the whole "can't have been manufactured after May 19, 1986" thing, which in turn means the police can buy a brand-new full-auto MP5 for $1,500, while you get to pay about $30,000 for a 35-year old used gun, which of course is "working as intended" as far as the legislation's authors are concerned. This is assuming you're talking about the U.S.
For sure. Stronger blocks/heads/etc. certainly factor into things, and there's also the fact that diesels tend to develop maximum torque at a substantially lower RPM than gas engines. It wears an engine less to run it at 1800 RPM all the time instead of 4000.
Not to mention that diesels generally have much greater longevity between overhauls if they're cared for properly. A truck that's in the shop is a truck that's burning money.
If he's doing online school (read as assisted home school) he won't be that far behind if any and he'll have a nice no strings $400,000 scholarship ready for him.
On what basis? Doubtful that he'd get a full ride for scholastic achievement, and if he can brag about a $200K income he'll almost certainly fail any means-based test.
it's Instacart that is having trouble, not the economy.
I also suspect that at least part of Instacart's problem is that Walmart is now offering the same service at their stores, but without the significant markup that Instacart imposes.
Instead, what would be nice are full blown service manuals that detail how to dismantle, how to probe, a BOM, and so on.
That's adequate until you need to reflash some device's firmware, and the device won't accept the flash without it having been signed by the manufacturer's private key. Also, repair manuals are easily obtainable from the manufacturer for a lot of things, but they're not cheap. 20 years ago, the service manuals for my car were available from GM for the low, low price of $300. I shudder to think about what the comparable manual for the new model would cost.
Depends on the store brand. Yes, some store-brand stuff is noticeably inferior, but I'll put most of our local grocery chain's stuff up against name-brand any day of the week.
Yeah, ISDN was pretty cool if you were coming from dialup. Only thing I didn't like was being charged per channel, so I usually ran on a single channel and only switched to dual-channel when I really needed it. I had it for about five years, until I discovered that DSL was in fact available where I lived, contrary to what BellSouth's availability site said.
Sure it is. Most U.S.-made vehicles are limited based on the OEM tire rating. My 2002 GMC Sierra is limited to 97 mph (Q-rated tires), and my old '99 Regal GS was limited to 112 (S-rated). Both vehicles have enough power to be able to exceed those speeds by a pretty large margin, and those speeds are a hard limit - you hit them and the fuel pump shuts off.
This would increase your eye's IR sensitivity in any light condition for objects warmer or cooler than ambient.
Not really. 980 nm is near IR, which really doesn't vary much by temperature and is easily blocked. FLIR cameras see medium/far IR (3K nm and up), which punches through obstructions like fog, and is what you need to see something warmer/cooler stand out.
This is because they budget for the acquisition of the equipment and software but somehow it never occurs to anyone to budget for future improvements and upgrades to keep the technology modern on an ongoing basis.
You can't expect to provide a beautiful new quilted maple or cocobolo desk, real leather chair, new curtains, and office redecoration for every new incoming boss if you go spending money on lame stuff like tech. Geez, don't you know *anything*? I'll bet you advocate for other unnecessary stuff like staff raises every 10 years or so too!
I think you misunderstood what he meant. If a company is conducting research under contract to the government, then that's essentially the government doing research - for instance, Newport News Shipbuilding builds aircraft carriers, but it's just as correct to say that the government builds them because NNS wouldn't be building them without the government paying them to do so. Similarly, Apple makes iPhones, even though it's actually Foxconn that performs the physical work.
What the OP meant was it would be far more expensive for a company to go out *on its own* with no government funding and perform the same airfoil research with no immediate guarantee of a successful design, or customers for the new technology, because the financial risk would be so great. It'd also have been proprietary because it'd be foolish to allow potential competitors to leverage their research.
As far as the $500 hammers, I have personal experience with that. Many years ago our office was contracted by the Navy to build plastic anti-static equipment cases. Despite our warnings, they demanded that they be made with an unsuitable polymer that warped horribly after being pulled from the molds, and the only thing those sad things were useful for was, in fact, office trash cans. Amortized over the pre-production run, they worked out to cost $10K each, and about a dozen of them sat proudly beside our desks, collecting various office refuse. We loved our $10,000 trash cans. Another adventure that you'll appreciate as someone involved with contracting - we had to deliver about 450 CD-ROMs to a Navy depot, and for some reason the quartermaster got kinda snippy about the fact that there was only one DD 1149 for the entire shipment. So, for the next shipment of 450 disks, we filled out an 1149 for each and every disk and packaged them all individually. He settled right down after that.
My own experience is that favorable results are usually forthcoming right after telling a difficult vendor/provider that the next phone call will be to the state attorney general's office.
I'll qualify it - he's written embedded code for a number of commercial and military platforms (some of which now live in low earth and geosynchronous orbit) competently enough to to survive the required formal verification and review at multiple levels before approval/implementation. He'll freely tell you that he's not as good as a lot of the dedicated SWEs at the company, but his record and performance reviews tend to argue against that statement.
The problem with this approach is that it requires an interviewer that has been in the trenches long enough to have worked with enough of the moochers.
This helps a great deal. At one place I used to work, about 3-4 of us would be tapped to talk to a candidate based on what our interview style was like so that the applicant would be evaluated under different criteria. I'd had a lot of experience with a lot of different systems/environments, so I focused more on verifying the experience on their resume, and it was usually pretty easy to suss out the posers. My favorite was this one lady that claimed years of experience dating back to the mid-80s. She'd gotten through a couple of our interviewers, but I was getting the sense that she didn't quite have the experience she claimed. So, since she'd mentioned it on her resume, I asked her about some of the C-64 (!) work she'd done. Her answer was that she loved doing C-64 development, and got a real sense of nostalgia every time she saw that "C prompt". Um, no - apparently she was banking on the fact that there aren't very many of us ancient 8-bit coders around. A couple more questions verified to me that her C-64 experience was non-existent (you REALLY don't know what a SID chip is?), and if you're going to misrepresent something like that, I can't trust anything else you've said.
And then there's the arthritis you can get *after* years of having gout. I don't have gout problems anymore, but allopurinol or probenicid isn't going to do jack for the joint damage I've been left with. A good rheumatologist/surgeon is about the only thing that helps that. Hope things improve for you.
I've never been a developer so I don't know why their analysis suggests I'd be a good coder.
You don't necessarily have to be a software engineer to be a decent coder - it's not as hard as some make it out to be. The lead in my group working on embedded stuff is a mechanical engineer, but he's a damned fine coder too, even though that's outside his "official" expertise.
Agreed. The diagnosis takes time away from other work, so I don't have a problem with paying for it. $100 for a diagnosis that I can follow up on myself later is still a bargain if it's something I can fix myself and would cost a substantial amount of my own time otherwise.
Because it's not just about being able to take your item to a local shop. I recently replaced the power steering pump and intercooler in my truck. I paid about $100 in parts, and did the work myself. Forcing the owner to take the vehicle to a factory authorized dealer and have them pay $800 for the same work would matter to me, and I'm quite sure, to a lot others.
These bills force one private entity to do business with another. Whatâ(TM)s right or fair about that
These "private entities" are *corporations*, which do not even exist except through an act of government. If the corporation wants to conduct business by selling an item likely to need service at some point, it's well within the government's purview to make it a requirement that the item be user-serviceable, particularly when it imposes relatively little burden on the corporation.
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When it touches down, the plane needs to abruptly swivel so the nose is pointed down the runway, as now it is being directed by wheels rather than wind.
Unless it's a B-52. ;-) Your point is still valid, of course.
And the elitism and derision aimed towards "idiot end users" betrays a lack of understanding that, while they may not have amazing computer skills, they still have needs to be met and their money is just as good as ours. And there are a LOT more of them than us computer geeks. You can't expect an overwhelming acceptance of your efforts by the general public when you constantly make it clear you have nothing but contempt for them and actively resist efforts to accommodate them because they're "too stupid to use computers". Computers are tools and a means to an end, not an end unto themselves, and far too many in the tech community obviously do not have a handle on that concept.
You can get full auto, but requires a lot more paperwork. It's reasonable.
Reasonable except for the whole "can't have been manufactured after May 19, 1986" thing, which in turn means the police can buy a brand-new full-auto MP5 for $1,500, while you get to pay about $30,000 for a 35-year old used gun, which of course is "working as intended" as far as the legislation's authors are concerned. This is assuming you're talking about the U.S.
For sure. Stronger blocks/heads/etc. certainly factor into things, and there's also the fact that diesels tend to develop maximum torque at a substantially lower RPM than gas engines. It wears an engine less to run it at 1800 RPM all the time instead of 4000.
Not to mention that diesels generally have much greater longevity between overhauls if they're cared for properly. A truck that's in the shop is a truck that's burning money.
Duh....this is what happens when I post early in the morning before I'm fully awake.
If he's doing online school (read as assisted home school) he won't be that far behind if any and he'll have a nice no strings $400,000 scholarship ready for him.
On what basis? Doubtful that he'd get a full ride for scholastic achievement, and if he can brag about a $200K income he'll almost certainly fail any means-based test.
it's Instacart that is having trouble, not the economy.
I also suspect that at least part of Instacart's problem is that Walmart is now offering the same service at their stores, but without the significant markup that Instacart imposes.
Instead, what would be nice are full blown service manuals that detail how to dismantle, how to probe, a BOM, and so on.
That's adequate until you need to reflash some device's firmware, and the device won't accept the flash without it having been signed by the manufacturer's private key. Also, repair manuals are easily obtainable from the manufacturer for a lot of things, but they're not cheap. 20 years ago, the service manuals for my car were available from GM for the low, low price of $300. I shudder to think about what the comparable manual for the new model would cost.
Depends on the store brand. Yes, some store-brand stuff is noticeably inferior, but I'll put most of our local grocery chain's stuff up against name-brand any day of the week.
Otherwise we split into classes and races and sub-groups and fight among ourselves while the wealthy take all our stuff.
"Divide and conquer" worked thousands of years ago, and still works today.
Yeah, ISDN was pretty cool if you were coming from dialup. Only thing I didn't like was being charged per channel, so I usually ran on a single channel and only switched to dual-channel when I really needed it. I had it for about five years, until I discovered that DSL was in fact available where I lived, contrary to what BellSouth's availability site said.
Sure it is. Most U.S.-made vehicles are limited based on the OEM tire rating. My 2002 GMC Sierra is limited to 97 mph (Q-rated tires), and my old '99 Regal GS was limited to 112 (S-rated). Both vehicles have enough power to be able to exceed those speeds by a pretty large margin, and those speeds are a hard limit - you hit them and the fuel pump shuts off.
This would increase your eye's IR sensitivity in any light condition for objects warmer or cooler than ambient.
Not really. 980 nm is near IR, which really doesn't vary much by temperature and is easily blocked. FLIR cameras see medium/far IR (3K nm and up), which punches through obstructions like fog, and is what you need to see something warmer/cooler stand out.
This is because they budget for the acquisition of the equipment and software but somehow it never occurs to anyone to budget for future improvements and upgrades to keep the technology modern on an ongoing basis.
You can't expect to provide a beautiful new quilted maple or cocobolo desk, real leather chair, new curtains, and office redecoration for every new incoming boss if you go spending money on lame stuff like tech. Geez, don't you know *anything*? I'll bet you advocate for other unnecessary stuff like staff raises every 10 years or so too!
I think you misunderstood what he meant. If a company is conducting research under contract to the government, then that's essentially the government doing research - for instance, Newport News Shipbuilding builds aircraft carriers, but it's just as correct to say that the government builds them because NNS wouldn't be building them without the government paying them to do so. Similarly, Apple makes iPhones, even though it's actually Foxconn that performs the physical work.
What the OP meant was it would be far more expensive for a company to go out *on its own* with no government funding and perform the same airfoil research with no immediate guarantee of a successful design, or customers for the new technology, because the financial risk would be so great. It'd also have been proprietary because it'd be foolish to allow potential competitors to leverage their research.
As far as the $500 hammers, I have personal experience with that. Many years ago our office was contracted by the Navy to build plastic anti-static equipment cases. Despite our warnings, they demanded that they be made with an unsuitable polymer that warped horribly after being pulled from the molds, and the only thing those sad things were useful for was, in fact, office trash cans. Amortized over the pre-production run, they worked out to cost $10K each, and about a dozen of them sat proudly beside our desks, collecting various office refuse. We loved our $10,000 trash cans. Another adventure that you'll appreciate as someone involved with contracting - we had to deliver about 450 CD-ROMs to a Navy depot, and for some reason the quartermaster got kinda snippy about the fact that there was only one DD 1149 for the entire shipment. So, for the next shipment of 450 disks, we filled out an 1149 for each and every disk and packaged them all individually. He settled right down after that.
My own experience is that favorable results are usually forthcoming right after telling a difficult vendor/provider that the next phone call will be to the state attorney general's office.
I'll qualify it - he's written embedded code for a number of commercial and military platforms (some of which now live in low earth and geosynchronous orbit) competently enough to to survive the required formal verification and review at multiple levels before approval/implementation. He'll freely tell you that he's not as good as a lot of the dedicated SWEs at the company, but his record and performance reviews tend to argue against that statement.
The problem with this approach is that it requires an interviewer that has been in the trenches long enough to have worked with enough of the moochers.
This helps a great deal. At one place I used to work, about 3-4 of us would be tapped to talk to a candidate based on what our interview style was like so that the applicant would be evaluated under different criteria. I'd had a lot of experience with a lot of different systems/environments, so I focused more on verifying the experience on their resume, and it was usually pretty easy to suss out the posers. My favorite was this one lady that claimed years of experience dating back to the mid-80s. She'd gotten through a couple of our interviewers, but I was getting the sense that she didn't quite have the experience she claimed. So, since she'd mentioned it on her resume, I asked her about some of the C-64 (!) work she'd done. Her answer was that she loved doing C-64 development, and got a real sense of nostalgia every time she saw that "C prompt". Um, no - apparently she was banking on the fact that there aren't very many of us ancient 8-bit coders around. A couple more questions verified to me that her C-64 experience was non-existent (you REALLY don't know what a SID chip is?), and if you're going to misrepresent something like that, I can't trust anything else you've said.
And then there's the arthritis you can get *after* years of having gout. I don't have gout problems anymore, but allopurinol or probenicid isn't going to do jack for the joint damage I've been left with. A good rheumatologist/surgeon is about the only thing that helps that. Hope things improve for you.
I've never been a developer so I don't know why their analysis suggests I'd be a good coder.
You don't necessarily have to be a software engineer to be a decent coder - it's not as hard as some make it out to be. The lead in my group working on embedded stuff is a mechanical engineer, but he's a damned fine coder too, even though that's outside his "official" expertise.
Agreed. The diagnosis takes time away from other work, so I don't have a problem with paying for it. $100 for a diagnosis that I can follow up on myself later is still a bargain if it's something I can fix myself and would cost a substantial amount of my own time otherwise.
Because it's not just about being able to take your item to a local shop. I recently replaced the power steering pump and intercooler in my truck. I paid about $100 in parts, and did the work myself. Forcing the owner to take the vehicle to a factory authorized dealer and have them pay $800 for the same work would matter to me, and I'm quite sure, to a lot others.
These bills force one private entity to do business with another. Whatâ(TM)s right or fair about that
These "private entities" are *corporations*, which do not even exist except through an act of government. If the corporation wants to conduct business by selling an item likely to need service at some point, it's well within the government's purview to make it a requirement that the item be user-serviceable, particularly when it imposes relatively little burden on the corporation.
and cake shaving soap
Or a tube of Proraso cream. That stuff kicks ass.