When you had to wait forever just to see if your thing would even compile, you spent a lot more time ensuring its correctness.
It used to be even worse - when you spent several hours writing a mainframe routine and coding it to punch cards, without knowing whether it would even compile until the next morning after the batch run, you took extra care to make sure you wouldn't have to waste another day because of something stupid.
Who is going to hire someone out of prison with a record as a programmer. It is tough to get hired as a gardener with a record
I have a good friend that makes quite a comfortable living as a senior dev, in spite of being a convicted felon. He got into a bar fight and put a guy into the hospital about 10 years ago, but he's actually quite pleasant to work with and writes solid code. He says it's never been a problem, as he's up-front about it and doesn't try to hide it, along with having a great work record.
Getting a job as a felon with no real work experience is going to be a different story, though.
Speaking under your real name is not always good for one's career, or relations with one's family.
Or for your personal safety or liberty, if you happen to be critical of the mayor or other official with some degree of power. It takes just a phone call to the local chief of police to make your life a mess.
Mine tend to last under 20k miles, and I seem to need new discs every 30-40k.
Yikes. I replaced one of the rotors on the truck when I did the brakes, but that was mostly because it was faster and more convenient for me to replace the rotor than to take it someplace and have it resurfaced. The other three were fine.
What kind of pads do you have? My truck came with semi-metallics and I replaced them with the same, but a lot of cars come with cheap organic pads that don't last very long.
It took me nearly screaming at him to tear everything up before he would give in inch. Still pissed at myself for giving in to the "mandatory" processing fee and agreeing to 19.2K.
No need to scream. Just say, "the agreement was 19K out the door. Not a penny more.", and walk the moment they refuse to honor that. For bonus points (and because I'm a horrible human being), tell the closer that it makes you smile thinking about him explaining to the sales manager how he let you get away that late in the deal.
The one thing limiting the transition to plug in electric cars is the infrastructure of charging stations or battery exchange locations allowing long distance travel.
And charging time. Unless you've got a Tesla, you're going to be waiting a few hours to recharge your car. Even if you *do* have a Tesla, it's still far longer to charge than it is to fill up a gas tank.
The factory pads on my 2002 GMC Sierra half-ton pickup lasted 10 years - a little over 105,000 miles. My 2007 Elantra (87,000 miles) still has the original pads with plenty of meat left on them.
These companies don't publish sales numbers but I'm willing to bet he's taken at least 1/4 of their business by how quickly they are trying to respond to a market they all said was pointless two years ago
Yes, the companies do publish sales numbers. You just have to know where to look.
Here's a taxi firm [speakev.com] who's oldest EV is still on it's first set of brake pads at 100k miles.
I didn't have to put new pads on my half-ton pickup until 105,000 miles either. A lot of it comes down to how you drive, but the regenerative braking on EVs definitely helps.
It has been a long time, many years, since I purchased a car in person, the last few were via e-mail.
Same here. I decided which car I wanted, and determined exactly how much I wanted to pay, out the door. I emailed a number of dealers and explained that this was my price, and if they were willing to deal they should fax me a quote for my amount, with the key text "out the door". After doing this about six times, I got a quote from a dealer, drove down, and had the car a half hour later. They weren't real happy when they found out I already had the financing in place, but a quote is a quote.:-D
Natalie Portman is an award winning actor and quite good in other movies.
The parent poster wasn't saying she was bad, and was pointing out that even she couldn't save Hayden's performance. The other obnoxious, annoying, incompetently-acting individual he was talking about was Jake Lloyd. Part of my disappointment was due to Christensen's performance, but a lot of it was due to the awful script and having to deal with Lucas's idea that Darth Vader was a whiny little bitch most of the time.
As for my part, I felt it was quite disrespectful to Sebastian Shaw's memory and career that he was replaced in the ending scene for no good reason. It doesn't make sense either - Obi-Wan's ghost was still old, as was Yoda's, so why is Anakin magically returned to his 20-something self when no one else is? And if you're going to replace Shaw with Christensen, why not also replace Alec Guinness with Ewan McGregor?
It's usually a little more subtle than that. Once the evidence is discovered via illegal means, the information is forwarded on to the local law enforcement folks, who then might tail the suspect until they do something *provably* illegal (tail light out, improper lane change, loitering, etc.). Once they have an excuse to detain the suspect, they can use dogs (also questionable, IMO) or whatever other *actual, documented* means (as opposed to "theoretical" means) to get the evidence that will then stand up to scrutiny in court. I imagine it often happens that the arresting officers themselves aren't even let in on the secret by their bosses. They're just told to look for a specific person or make/model of car with this license plate number, and find a reason to pull it over.
Your basic premise is sound though - it's still nothing more than a near-bulletproof means of gaining evidence illegally and keeping the true means by which it was discovered from the court. Lies of omission are still lies.
I photograph auroras for fun, and in learning about them... and as I am both a ham and an engineer... it does tend to provoke some paranoia. And as for the neighbors... this is Montana.:)
What are the auroras looking like lately? I'll be spending a week a little north of you in Lethbridge, AB, and it'd be awesome if that's far enough north to see anything.
Mature professionals are not swayed by the latest coolness. In contrast they are strongly aware of risk and liability, and working with an uncooperative supplier introduces both, as well as unpleasantness and annoyance at work.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of places where mature professionals are not the ones calling the shots. The "system architect" where I work is an example. He's very much "rah-rah" about open source, which isn't necessarily bad in and of itself, but he has a tendency to design around whatever he thinks is cool that day without regard to the particular technology's track record, how it will be supported, whether it scales, and whether it's appropriate for the project at hand. He tries to shout down any opposition during the rare meetings he actually attends, and management doesn't listen to anyone else (even though most of us have far more experience in many more disparate systems).
You can - Populous is available here (with the permission of the publisher), and a number of Amiga emulators are also available there. If you don't have a legal set of ROMs and Kickstart/Workbench disks, I would recommend Amiga Forever, which is not expensive and will have everything you need.
Slap some explosives and shrapnel on a drone, fly it into a press conference
So what keeps any other conventional RC aircraft operator from doing the same, with the advantage that one has been able for years to build large aircraft that can fly at 200 mph and carry 20-30 pounds of payload? The engines for such aircraft are rather expensive, but any decently-funded organization wouldn't have an issue with that.
What's so special about a 3 pound quadcopter? Traditional RC helicopters are much faster and much more maneuverable.
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When you had to wait forever just to see if your thing would even compile, you spent a lot more time ensuring its correctness.
It used to be even worse - when you spent several hours writing a mainframe routine and coding it to punch cards, without knowing whether it would even compile until the next morning after the batch run, you took extra care to make sure you wouldn't have to waste another day because of something stupid.
Who is going to hire someone out of prison with a record as a programmer. It is tough to get hired as a gardener with a record
I have a good friend that makes quite a comfortable living as a senior dev, in spite of being a convicted felon. He got into a bar fight and put a guy into the hospital about 10 years ago, but he's actually quite pleasant to work with and writes solid code. He says it's never been a problem, as he's up-front about it and doesn't try to hide it, along with having a great work record.
Getting a job as a felon with no real work experience is going to be a different story, though.
Speaking under your real name is not always good for one's career, or relations with one's family.
Or for your personal safety or liberty, if you happen to be critical of the mayor or other official with some degree of power. It takes just a phone call to the local chief of police to make your life a mess.
But bear in mind my driving occasionally includes a 12 mile stretch of twisty country lanes that leave the brakes smoking.
;-) And I'm guessing your Mercedes didn't come with cheap crappy pads.
That could factor into things a bit.
Mine tend to last under 20k miles, and I seem to need new discs every 30-40k.
Yikes. I replaced one of the rotors on the truck when I did the brakes, but that was mostly because it was faster and more convenient for me to replace the rotor than to take it someplace and have it resurfaced. The other three were fine.
What kind of pads do you have? My truck came with semi-metallics and I replaced them with the same, but a lot of cars come with cheap organic pads that don't last very long.
It took me nearly screaming at him to tear everything up before he would give in inch. Still pissed at myself for giving in to the "mandatory" processing fee and agreeing to 19.2K.
No need to scream. Just say, "the agreement was 19K out the door. Not a penny more.", and walk the moment they refuse to honor that. For bonus points (and because I'm a horrible human being), tell the closer that it makes you smile thinking about him explaining to the sales manager how he let you get away that late in the deal.
The one thing limiting the transition to plug in electric cars is the infrastructure of charging stations or battery exchange locations allowing long distance travel.
And charging time. Unless you've got a Tesla, you're going to be waiting a few hours to recharge your car. Even if you *do* have a Tesla, it's still far longer to charge than it is to fill up a gas tank.
Yes, of course I drove the car before signing.
The factory pads on my 2002 GMC Sierra half-ton pickup lasted 10 years - a little over 105,000 miles. My 2007 Elantra (87,000 miles) still has the original pads with plenty of meat left on them.
These companies don't publish sales numbers but I'm willing to bet he's taken at least 1/4 of their business by how quickly they are trying to respond to a market they all said was pointless two years ago
Yes, the companies do publish sales numbers. You just have to know where to look.
According to Elon Musk, Tesla sold a little over 33,000 cars by the end of Q3 this year. Cadillac sells more than that in less than two months. Lexus and Mercedes are at 249,956 and 249,890 respectively for the year through Q3.
1/4 of their business? Hardly.
Okay, that's *one* OEM, and they sell only electric cars. What about the Big Three and the other manufacturers that primarily build IC cars?
Here's a taxi firm [speakev.com] who's oldest EV is still on it's first set of brake pads at 100k miles.
I didn't have to put new pads on my half-ton pickup until 105,000 miles either. A lot of it comes down to how you drive, but the regenerative braking on EVs definitely helps.
It has been a long time, many years, since I purchased a car in person, the last few were via e-mail.
:-D
Same here. I decided which car I wanted, and determined exactly how much I wanted to pay, out the door. I emailed a number of dealers and explained that this was my price, and if they were willing to deal they should fax me a quote for my amount, with the key text "out the door". After doing this about six times, I got a quote from a dealer, drove down, and had the car a half hour later. They weren't real happy when they found out I already had the financing in place, but a quote is a quote.
Natalie Portman is an award winning actor and quite good in other movies.
The parent poster wasn't saying she was bad, and was pointing out that even she couldn't save Hayden's performance. The other obnoxious, annoying, incompetently-acting individual he was talking about was Jake Lloyd. Part of my disappointment was due to Christensen's performance, but a lot of it was due to the awful script and having to deal with Lucas's idea that Darth Vader was a whiny little bitch most of the time.
As for my part, I felt it was quite disrespectful to Sebastian Shaw's memory and career that he was replaced in the ending scene for no good reason. It doesn't make sense either - Obi-Wan's ghost was still old, as was Yoda's, so why is Anakin magically returned to his 20-something self when no one else is? And if you're going to replace Shaw with Christensen, why not also replace Alec Guinness with Ewan McGregor?
I think he was referring to Gary Oldman since he had already played Dr. Smith in the 1998 movie.
It's usually a little more subtle than that. Once the evidence is discovered via illegal means, the information is forwarded on to the local law enforcement folks, who then might tail the suspect until they do something *provably* illegal (tail light out, improper lane change, loitering, etc.). Once they have an excuse to detain the suspect, they can use dogs (also questionable, IMO) or whatever other *actual, documented* means (as opposed to "theoretical" means) to get the evidence that will then stand up to scrutiny in court. I imagine it often happens that the arresting officers themselves aren't even let in on the secret by their bosses. They're just told to look for a specific person or make/model of car with this license plate number, and find a reason to pull it over.
Your basic premise is sound though - it's still nothing more than a near-bulletproof means of gaining evidence illegally and keeping the true means by which it was discovered from the court. Lies of omission are still lies.
Thanks for the link.
I photograph auroras for fun, and in learning about them... and as I am both a ham and an engineer... it does tend to provoke some paranoia. And as for the neighbors... this is Montana. :)
What are the auroras looking like lately? I'll be spending a week a little north of you in Lethbridge, AB, and it'd be awesome if that's far enough north to see anything.
Mature professionals are not swayed by the latest coolness. In contrast they are strongly aware of risk and liability, and working with an uncooperative supplier introduces both, as well as unpleasantness and annoyance at work.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of places where mature professionals are not the ones calling the shots. The "system architect" where I work is an example. He's very much "rah-rah" about open source, which isn't necessarily bad in and of itself, but he has a tendency to design around whatever he thinks is cool that day without regard to the particular technology's track record, how it will be supported, whether it scales, and whether it's appropriate for the project at hand. He tries to shout down any opposition during the rare meetings he actually attends, and management doesn't listen to anyone else (even though most of us have far more experience in many more disparate systems).
Yeah, I've already put my notice in.
I can adjust my radio by resting my hand on the stick shift.
On my '99 Regal GS I could adjust the radio or cruise control with my thumbs without having to look, and without taking my hands off the wheel.
You can - Populous is available here (with the permission of the publisher), and a number of Amiga emulators are also available there. If you don't have a legal set of ROMs and Kickstart/Workbench disks, I would recommend Amiga Forever, which is not expensive and will have everything you need.
Slap some explosives and shrapnel on a drone, fly it into a press conference
So what keeps any other conventional RC aircraft operator from doing the same, with the advantage that one has been able for years to build large aircraft that can fly at 200 mph and carry 20-30 pounds of payload? The engines for such aircraft are rather expensive, but any decently-funded organization wouldn't have an issue with that.
What's so special about a 3 pound quadcopter? Traditional RC helicopters are much faster and much more maneuverable.
Or a marked stick for each paddy, and a pair of binoculars.
That was damned eloquent.
But I'd also imagine those people don't need cars to get to work.
The size of the parking lots at most apartment complexes in the U.S. would tend to argue the opposite.