Do you understand that there will be economic consequences to the industries that produce these media?
That's pretty much it, isn't it? Economic consequences for those who earn large salaries for doing/creating mostly nothing. Big surprise that there's a class war happening.
Interesting post. I can sympathize with you, having worked in refineries and other facilities (it's not that these places are "unsafe", it's just that many bits are undocumented due to budget runout or perceived job security).
I guess that just goes to prove that things can be hidden in plain sight. Actually though, as-built drawings should have been made of that facility, no matter how embarrassing to the contractor/installer. Everyone always forgets that a construction budget is an estimate, not a wall. At the same time, people who realize that paid work is coming to an end tend to work slower in order to delay the inevitable.
As with most projects, the final 5% usually takes 25% of the time with all the attendant problems. One of those problems tends to be foregoing as-builts and letting things slide as long as the built thing performs as (or near) promised.
previous one was a backhoe someone put thru the fiber north of here
Most underground industrial cable installations I've seen during construction projects (YMMV) have a layer of concrete poured over top. After it dries, it is painted red so that the future backhoe operator knows that he's approaching cable (whether power or signal).
Once you commit a sex crime (or are convicted of ANY felony) you lose the majority of your rights.
Sexually-related crime is different from most other "felonies" (which are mostly related to money).
From my perspective, a crime that is sexually motivated indicates a much deeper psychological problem in the individual than does a simple robbery or similar crime. I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.
Can you locate Karla in Montreal for me? She's quite the babe and I'd like to start stalking her when she gets out. We over-40 divorced dads are pretty pathetic and desperate. Thanks in advance.
HVAC techs aren't the guys that get things to cryogenic temperatures. For that type of extreme you need something other than a plumber and that guy that fixed your air conditioning system.
On the other hand, obtaining liquid nitrogen might not be so difficult. I wonder if LOX is more stringently controlled these days (ref: http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/).
I hate to tell Smith this, but most of the good content isn't put up by his precious corporate patrons, it's put up by hobbyists and amateurs simply because they want it up.
I've really commented too much on this story already, but the above is exactly right (or at least I agree - I don't claim to be right).
Popup ads are nothing like newspaper advertising -- the dynamic is quite different. For example, if there were the capability and there really was a newspaper that had advertising that actually jumped up in front of what you had started reading, or some other intrusive behavior, that paper would be likely shunned by most consumers and the paper would fail.
Another analogy might be magazine advertising.
Today I bought a copy of a car magazine and there were only two of those annoying "blow-in" (so-named for the printing press mechanical device that inserts them) ads. A couple of years ago there were up to 10 of these in each issue. [They are a pain in the ass because they tend to make a magazine flop open to/between more full-page advertising and the perforated, tear-out ones are even more frustrating - both intrusive advertiser tactics]
C&D still has something like 8 straight pages of companies advertising aftermarket wheels, but those are easy to bypass while flipping through to the story you want to actually read.
If I ever want to buy flashy aftermarket wheels, I know where to look, and I can assume that a company that has been advertising for so long is pretty reputable.
Here is a good example of a corporation that has used the web to educate their customers (and anyone else that cares to learn) about engineering in a specific specialty field, and are not just hawking their wares.
Such comprehensive knowledge was not available on the web before larger companies started to figure out that providing good technical information at their sites tended to make visitors (i.e., people who specify and use their products) revisit.
Since I often influence purchasing decisions for industrial installations, companies that are upfront and honest and informative about the technology they provide will always be the first ones I think of when I go looking on the web for a supplier.
Anyone that starts using a new word or phrase because they've learned it from advertising (or hard to pin-down "trendiness" etymology) is a moron. You can add to that list of morons people that use "good to go", "all about the", "boxen" and other cringeworthy, pop culture cliches.
This phenomenon is directly related to one's desire to appear to be part of a 'cool' group and automatically identifies them as fashion followers.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was, now what I'm with isn't it. And whats "it" seems weird and scary to me.
Learn precision drawing on paper with the old tools (T-squares, pencils, compasses - it's techno-Zen) and/or the ability to effectively express a physical thing/abstract concept with a simple hand-drawn sketch. These skills are being lost.
I'm speaking from experience here. I developed the first version of ONElist over a period of 3 months, and that was while working a full-time job.
But ONElist was developed at a time when email discussion lists were relatively new. eGroups got bought out by Yahoogroups after the technology/concept became popular.
The popularization of email-based lists seemed to happen around the same time that spam and trolls started destroying usenet.
A fellow slashdotter told me about the boob mouse a few weeks ago. Since getting two, I haven't left the house. With this new innovation, I may never move from the computer chair.
Since when did the word "model" replace the words "plan", "theory" and "concept"? There's a difference of meaning between the three, and this Slashdot article refers to a theory.
I figure it must have originated from the visual marvel of 3D computer modeling.
Slashdot Mirror
Why aren't we seeing PSA-type TV spots pointing out the evils of spam from big online ISPs?
Is that how Tub Girl got started (no, I'm not going to link to it)?
Do you understand that there will be economic consequences to the industries that produce these media?
That's pretty much it, isn't it? Economic consequences for those who earn large salaries for doing/creating mostly nothing. Big surprise that there's a class war happening.
It's revenge for not having flying cars and a 3 day work week by now.
Interesting post. I can sympathize with you, having worked in refineries and other facilities (it's not that these places are "unsafe", it's just that many bits are undocumented due to budget runout or perceived job security).
I guess that just goes to prove that things can be hidden in plain sight. Actually though, as-built drawings should have been made of that facility, no matter how embarrassing to the contractor/installer. Everyone always forgets that a construction budget is an estimate, not a wall. At the same time, people who realize that paid work is coming to an end tend to work slower in order to delay the inevitable.
As with most projects, the final 5% usually takes 25% of the time with all the attendant problems. One of those problems tends to be foregoing as-builts and letting things slide as long as the built thing performs as (or near) promised.
http://www.inovx.com/solutions/plant_workpr.html
Sorry, I'm just all fired-up on cryogenics recently. Looks like I'll be on an LH2 job soon, so I'm all excited and stuff.
previous one was a backhoe someone put thru the fiber north of here
Most underground industrial cable installations I've seen during construction projects (YMMV) have a layer of concrete poured over top. After it dries, it is painted red so that the future backhoe operator knows that he's approaching cable (whether power or signal).
Hey, I'm a piper - need any help?
Paul
Piping Design Central
Once you commit a sex crime (or are convicted of ANY felony) you lose the majority of your rights.
Sexually-related crime is different from most other "felonies" (which are mostly related to money).
From my perspective, a crime that is sexually motivated indicates a much deeper psychological problem in the individual than does a simple robbery or similar crime. I am not a psychologist or psychiatrist.
For a while now, I've been crawling the Michigan Sex Offender Registry, and plotting the locations on my own little mapping site.
Can you locate Karla in Montreal for me? She's quite the babe and I'd like to start stalking her when she gets out. We over-40 divorced dads are pretty pathetic and desperate. Thanks in advance.
HVAC techs aren't the guys that get things to cryogenic temperatures. For that type of extreme you need something other than a plumber and that guy that fixed your air conditioning system.
On the other hand, obtaining liquid nitrogen might not be so difficult. I wonder if LOX is more stringently controlled these days (ref: http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/).
I hate to tell Smith this, but most of the good content isn't put up by his precious corporate patrons, it's put up by hobbyists and amateurs simply because they want it up.
I've really commented too much on this story already, but the above is exactly right (or at least I agree - I don't claim to be right).
(that is unless they need someone to wipe their ass).
Hey, don't be so negative, Groom of the Stool is a quite high position, hierarchically. Shit still seems to flow downhill though.
{blood spurting and sawing sounds stop}
You mean it's still only in beta? Aaaarghhh!!!
Smith simply isn't getting the hint, and if he doesn't he and the marketers like him will naturally go the way of the dinosaurs.
Perhaps it is time to modify the last part of the old adage; "Those who can't, teach" to "Those who can't, get into advertising".
Popup ads are nothing like newspaper advertising -- the dynamic is quite different. For example, if there were the capability and there really was a newspaper that had advertising that actually jumped up in front of what you had started reading, or some other intrusive behavior, that paper would be likely shunned by most consumers and the paper would fail.
Another analogy might be magazine advertising.
Today I bought a copy of a car magazine and there were only two of those annoying "blow-in" (so-named for the printing press mechanical device that inserts them) ads. A couple of years ago there were up to 10 of these in each issue. [They are a pain in the ass because they tend to make a magazine flop open to/between more full-page advertising and the perforated, tear-out ones are even more frustrating - both intrusive advertiser tactics]
C&D still has something like 8 straight pages of companies advertising aftermarket wheels, but those are easy to bypass while flipping through to the story you want to actually read.
If I ever want to buy flashy aftermarket wheels, I know where to look, and I can assume that a company that has been advertising for so long is pretty reputable.
Here is a good example of a corporation that has used the web to educate their customers (and anyone else that cares to learn) about engineering in a specific specialty field, and are not just hawking their wares.
Such comprehensive knowledge was not available on the web before larger companies started to figure out that providing good technical information at their sites tended to make visitors (i.e., people who specify and use their products) revisit.
Since I often influence purchasing decisions for industrial installations, companies that are upfront and honest and informative about the technology they provide will always be the first ones I think of when I go looking on the web for a supplier.
Anyone that starts using a new word or phrase because they've learned it from advertising (or hard to pin-down "trendiness" etymology) is a moron. You can add to that list of morons people that use "good to go", "all about the", "boxen" and other cringeworthy, pop culture cliches.
This phenomenon is directly related to one's desire to appear to be part of a 'cool' group and automatically identifies them as fashion followers.
I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was, now what I'm with isn't it. And whats "it" seems weird and scary to me.
Overview
Learn precision drawing on paper with the old tools (T-squares, pencils, compasses - it's techno-Zen) and/or the ability to effectively express a physical thing/abstract concept with a simple hand-drawn sketch. These skills are being lost.
I'm speaking from experience here. I developed the first version of ONElist over a period of 3 months, and that was while working a full-time job.
But ONElist was developed at a time when email discussion lists were relatively new. eGroups got bought out by Yahoogroups after the technology/concept became popular.
The popularization of email-based lists seemed to happen around the same time that spam and trolls started destroying usenet.
I dunno, that sounds pretty serious to me. It probably also peed on the floor due to all the excitement (or perhaps in rebellion).
A fellow slashdotter told me about the boob mouse a few weeks ago. Since getting two, I haven't left the house. With this new innovation, I may never move from the computer chair.
Since when did the word "model" replace the words "plan", "theory" and "concept"? There's a difference of meaning between the three, and this Slashdot article refers to a theory.
I figure it must have originated from the visual marvel of 3D computer modeling.
Try replying to a reply to your original post with the exact same wording.